Chapter 181
Chapter 181
The owner asked, “How many copies do you need?”
Yun Youyou said, “Ten thousand.”
The owner nearly exploded with excitement.
Good lord, a major customer!
Ten thousand flyers were enough to make the printer smoke.
“What earth-shattering, invincible product are you advertising that needs ten thousand flyers? Are you planning to hand them out to the fish and shrimp in the ocean too?”
Yun Youyou tuned him out as though he were a toad chanting scripture.
She picked up a warm, freshly printed flyer and placed it in Wang Yuanyou’s arms.
He lifted it curiously and read the few lines printed there.
[Forget swimming and fitness. Interested in a part-time job for ghosts?]
[What? Not interested?]
[“Then you die, die, die!”]
Wang Yuanyou thought for a moment. “Are you sure this is a recruitment ad and not an anti-fraud warning?”
Yun Youyou asked in return, “Do you think there’s any difference between the Game and a scam?”
Wang Yuanyou answered without hesitation. “No.”
“Exactly.”
Yun Youyou dumped half the flyers into Wang Yuanyou’s hands, nearly knocking him to the floor.
These things were ridiculously heavy!
One human and one ghost huffed and puffed as they loaded them into the car’s trunk.
Wang Yuanyou gripped the steering wheel. “Where are we going now?”
“The nearest graveyard.”
“A graze-yard? You want to milk cows this late at night?”
Yun Youyou looked at him as though he were an idiot.
“The place has nothing but urns. Where would the cows come from?”
Only then did Wang Yuanyou realize she meant a cemetery, not a pasture.
The thought of going somewhere so dark and terrifying at night immediately made him want to retreat.
“It’s late. Everyone should be asleep. Why don’t we come back tomorrow morning?”
“Why would ghosts sleep? Night is when they’re having the most fun.”
Wang Yuanyou was as timid as a mouse.
“Maybe Ji Lin should go with you. He’s more reliable.”
Yun Youyou said, “I risked a blade to each rib for you twice today. The least you can do is show some loyalty.”
The car fell silent for a moment.
“Fine! Today, I, Wang Yuanyou, will risk my life to accompany a ghost! After tonight, we’ll be comrades who have faced death together!”
Yun Youyou could not be bothered with his nonsense.
“Save your breath and start driving.”
Wang Yuanyou started the car and shouted to bolster his courage, “Charge!”
At first, they traveled along broad roads with plenty of other cars nearby.
Gradually, the car climbed onto a mountain road.
Soon, theirs was the only vehicle left in the darkness.
Tree branches swayed around them, their shadows on the ground black enough to devour a person.
“You have arrived at your destination.”
This time, nothing went wrong with the navigation.
Wang Yuanyou parked with trembling hands.
Yun Youyou looked around. “Parking here is so convenient. Unlike the mall, where you can’t find a space anywhere.”
“Who comes to a cemetery in the middle of the night?”
Normal people could not make detours fast enough.
Worried that a security guard might be stationed at the main gate, Yun Youyou deliberately chose a side path.
Calling it a path was generous. They had to climb directly from the foot of the mountain along a dirt trail barely wide enough for feet.
The side path naturally had no streetlights.
Whenever the wind blew, the backs of their necks turned cold, as if a ghost were breathing behind them.
Sweat poured from Wang Yuanyou in terror. Pride no longer mattered; he immediately shrank behind Yun Youyou.
“Youyou! Don’t you feel like something is wrong here?”
His voice trembled with nerves.
Yun Youyou nodded.
“I feel it too. Why can’t this place offer a map for finding ghosts?”
They had searched forever without spotting a single one. Where were all the ghosts in this cemetery hiding?
Wang Yuanyou stamped his foot in agitation.
“That’s not what I meant! I think we’ve walked into a Ghost Wall!”
He hunched his shoulders and peered around.
He could have sworn they had already passed this tree once. Why had it appeared again?
Law Number One of Ghost Movies: Go out at night, and you will inevitably encounter a Ghost Wall.
Now that Wang Yuanyou mentioned it, Yun Youyou also sensed something wrong.
She had not been paying close attention.
“It’s fine. I brought a treasure.”
Yun Youyou removed the backpack she had carried the whole way.
Wang Yuanyou craned his neck curiously.
She pulled an enormous flashlight from the bag.
“What can one flashlight do?”
Wang Yuanyou was disappointed.
Yun Youyou said, “This isn’t an ordinary flashlight. It’s advertised to illuminate three thousand meters.”
Wang Yuanyou did not believe her.
“You actually believe that merchant’s bragging? If this thing can light up three thousand meters, then you definitely got scammed.”
He snatched the flashlight from Yun Youyou and pressed the switch.
Convinced it was useless, he turned it directly to the highest setting.
Yun Youyou had no time to stop him before the light exploded into life.
At that instant, Wang Yuanyou felt as though an Ultraman had appeared before him and asked, “Do you believe in the light?”
He had not believed before.
Now he did.
Holy shit! The merchant had told the truth!
Angry voices rose nearby.
Yun Youyou pricked up her ears.
“What uncivilized bastard fired an antiaircraft cannon in the middle of the night? I thought the sun came up!”
“Exactly! What are the cemetery managers even doing?”
“A light that bright? Did an immortal descend from heaven?”
Yun Youyou told Wang Yuanyou to turn off the flashlight, then slowly approached the voices.
The ghosts they had searched so long for had been nearby all along.
Wang Yuanyou followed cautiously behind her.
Ever since entering the Game, he had been able to see ghosts.
A thin layer of mist drifted through the mountain at midnight.
Several old men and women sat around a mahjong table, cursing as they played.
Nearby, several child ghosts competed over their possessions.
“Look! My mom burned me these new shoes. They’re the latest design, and limited edition too!”
“That’s nothing. I have the newest iPad! Mine is way more fun than your shoes.”
“Let me play! I want a turn!”
Yun Youyou looked away and beckoned to Wang Yuanyou.
“Come on. Time to hand out flyers.”
Wang Yuanyou: weak, helpless, but thick-skinned.
Yun Youyou walked up to the mahjong-playing elders as though they were lifelong friends and offered them flyers.
“Interested in swimming and fitness…? Oh, wrong pitch! Interested in ghost recruitment?”
The old men were not interested in the flyer, but something else caught their attention.
One looked up. “Granddaughter, you must be new here. Are you single?”
Yun Youyou hesitantly nodded.
The other elders smiled knowingly. “He loved matchmaking when he was alive. Death hasn’t stopped him from tying red threads.”
When Yun Youyou nodded, the old man smiled even more brightly.
“I have a nephew. He’s handsome and extremely quiet. Interested?”
Before Yun Youyou could think of a tactful refusal, an old woman beside him scoffed.
“He’s in a vegetative state. Of course he’s quiet.”