Su Ming spoke for a long time, and the Ghost School Belle just listened quietly.
Her pure black eyes reflected his image, but showed no obvious emotional fluctuations.
So he quietly checked the favorability page.
The Ghost School Belle's favorability was still stuck at Unfamiliar (200/200).
This puzzled Su Ming.
Since the favorability hadn't advanced.
Then why didn't she reject his somewhat intimate actions?
As long as it wasn't too excessive, the Ghost School Belle seemed to tacitly allow it.
To be honest.
For a ghost to have such stable emotions was indeed rare.
"School Belle, thanks to you for stepping in this time."
"This guy was fierce, Xiaolou couldn't handle it at all."
While praising the Ghost School Belle, Su Ming also gave a disdainful glance at the Jumper Ghost kneeling nearby.
At this moment, Su Ming turned his gaze to the Human Skin Ghost "Chi Nian."
He beckoned Chi Nian with a finger: "Tell me, why did you target me?"
Chi Nian didn't dare to resist.
Especially when he caught a glimpse of the Ghost School Belle standing like a statue beside Su Ming.
He couldn't muster even the slightest desire to resist.
Following the Jumper Ghost's lead, Chi Nian explained respectfully and urgently: "Great King, it's the human skin."
"I like collecting beautiful human skins."
"Your skin is very beautiful, delicate, with superior bone structure. It's the most perfect specimen I've ever seen, so I targeted you."
Su Ming stroked his chin.
Suddenly, Chi Nian seemed much more agreeable.
No wonder Jiang Qian said Chi Nian frequently dated both men and women.
Each one was handsome or beautiful.
It turned out it was selecting skins that met its aesthetic standards.
Before Su Ming could ask more, Chi Nian confessed everything.
Finding beautiful human skins was its obsession.
The bloody little ghost that rose from the ground earlier was the remnant of the skins it had peeled.
Its method of killing was quite ritualistic: first marking the target, then spending time developing feelings with them.
Only with a certain emotional foundation would it make a move.
The deeper the feelings, the more satisfaction and nourishment it gained from peeling the skin.
This process of building emotions to complete destruction was an ultimate pleasure for it.
Su Ming was one of its targets.
At the time, it had tried to seduce Su Ming.
A lone man and woman in a room, with itself dressed so attractively, plus unintentional intimate touches, often easily stirred a high school student's impulses.
But Su Ming not only didn't react, he directly kicked it out, causing the emotional development stage to be interrupted, and it hadn't acted since.
For it, killing without sufficient emotion was uninteresting and lacked nourishment.
A ghost's perverse tastes were far more twisted than living humans could imagine.
Jiang Qian, listening to this, suppressed her fear and shouted at Chi Nian: "My cousin, is she... is she dead?"
The Human Skin Ghost looked at Jiang Qian, then pointed to its own face: "Her skin is on me, what do you think?"
"I know you, the cousin of this skin's owner."
"If you weren't a handler, I would have acted against you long ago."
This Human Skin Ghost was indeed intelligent.
It even knew how to avoid official forces, actively steering clear of trouble that might attract the Anomaly Management Bureau's attention.
"My cousin... is really dead!" Jiang Qian's body swayed, her expression dazed, seemingly unwilling to believe this answer.
"Yes." The Human Skin Ghost nodded, hooked its finger, and a human face appeared on the ground.
It was a bloody human face.
Then, this human face crawled out, revealing a skinned corpse.
It was Chi Nian's corpse.
Seeing this, Jiang Qian nearly collapsed, her thread of reason completely snapping.
Like a lioness who had lost her cub, she let out a piercing scream, her entire body erupting with astonishing lightning.
"Give me back my sister's skin."
"I want to kill you."
Unfortunately.
The gap in strength was too vast.
In the instant she approached the Human Skin Ghost.
The Human Skin Ghost casually grabbed her, precisely clutching Jiang Qian's neck.
With a twist of its hand, Jiang Qian's skin instantly showed unnatural wrinkles, as if it had become a tight-fitting garment ready to be torn off at any moment.
The only reason it wasn't torn off was because Su Ming frowned in displeasure.
However, the sheer pain of skin about to separate made Jiang Qian's vision go black, and she fainted on the spot.
Casually tossing Jiang Qian aside, the Human Skin Ghost grabbed its own cheeks with both hands, slowly exerting force, and peeled off Chi Nian's human skin like a garment.
It was a lifelike human skin, with even the eyelashes clearly visible.
Beneath the skin was a bloody human body, a pair of scarlet eyes flickering with obsession and greed for human skin.
Then, blood seeped from the ground beneath its feet.
The blood swelled, forming a wardrobe in the blink of an eye.
The wardrobe opened automatically, inside hung various human skins.
Su Ming curiously went in for a look.
From the outside, the wardrobe didn't seem large, but inside it was bigger than Su Ming imagined.
There were at least hundreds of human skins collected inside.
The Ghost School Belle spoke calmly: "It's a nascent Ghost Domain."
The Human Skin Ghost was not far from Disaster Level.
If the Human Skin Wardrobe were complete, it could have its own Ghost Domain, becoming a true Disaster Level.
Unfortunately, it encountered Su Ming.
Given more time to accumulate, it might have become a true Disaster Level.
When Su Ming emerged from the Human Skin Wardrobe, he curiously asked about the operational details.
"How do you make them be recognized as accidental deaths?"
He was very curious.
Jiang Qian had said that all of "Chi Nian's" past boyfriends and girlfriends died in accidents.
If not, it would have long attracted the Anomaly Management Bureau's suspicion.
"Great King, actually, the moment I peel their skin, they are already dead."
The Human Skin Ghost didn't dare hide from Su Ming.
Nor could it.
"But I can let them wear their own skin again."
"Once they wear it, they can walk, talk, and retain all their memories from when they were alive."
"Except they will forget they have died and the process of being skinned."
"However, the duration lasts at most a month."
"There are many accidents in this world, making them die accidentally within a month is very simple."
"And I just need to use different skins to hide my identity."
It paused before continuing.
"I once peeled a handler's skin, so I know about the Anomaly Management Bureau's existence and general operations."
"So I'm very cautious, not wanting to attract the Anomaly Management Bureau's attention."
The ghost's methods truly opened Su Ming's eyes.
It made him realize that the world might hide many similar high-intelligence, camouflaged, and evasive aberrations like the Human Skin Ghost.
They might be the most hidden and deadly threats.
Su Ming even began to suspect that within the Anomaly Management Bureau, there might be similar beings lurking?
"So, you're not a ghost from Pingjiang City, but came from another city?" Su Ming asked, stroking his chin, his thoughts unusually clear.
The Human Skin Ghost nodded.
It told Su Ming that it had revived twenty years ago, initially in a place called Dacang City.
After that, it traveled to many cities, always hunting handsome and beautiful people who met its standards, peeling their beautiful skins.
Until recently, it came to Pingjiang City and set its sights on Chi Nian.
The Human Skin Ghost would even analyze proactively.
It said.
"Great King, among Extreme Danger Level aberrations, I'm actually relatively low in harm."
"Because my hunting conditions are strict, target selection is rigorous, and I require pre-established emotional development."
"Plus, I'm cautious, so it's normal that the Anomaly Bureau hasn't discovered me."
Su Ming found himself unable to refute.
He thought the Human Skin Ghost's analysis made a lot of sense.
In twenty years, it had collected only a few hundred skins.
If it were those that killed indiscriminately and relied on quantity, the number of lives accumulated over twenty years would probably be in the tens of thousands.
"For us ghosts, the world is a vast hunting ground."
Su Ming had seen the term "hunting ground" in official documents.
The stronger the ghost, the stronger its territorial awareness, treating its activity range as an exclusive area.
They even don't allow other ghosts to hunt in their territory.
Once they find intruders, sometimes they don't even need human handlers to act; they will clean house themselves first.
Su Ming couldn't help but marvel.
The world was far more exciting and complex than he had imagined.
It was becoming more and more interesting.