Lu Lu looked at Xu Kai expressionlessly.
Under her gaze, Xu Kai turned his head away guiltily, but soon turned back to look at Lu Lu firmly. “I feel my feeling is right this time.”
Lu Lu: “Which time did you not say that?”
After speaking, Lu Lu put the peeled walnuts aside and started peeling pecans.
She didn’t quite believe ghosts ate this stuff. As an Awakened, she knew ghosts better than Xu Kai.
Ghosts eating vegetarian food was more unbelievable than tigers eating vegetarian food. It was likely 80% a lie to trick Xu Kai.
But she dared not stop peeling. Maybe “peeling walnuts” was one of Dr. Jiang’s rules? So she peeled quite diligently.
Xu Kai sighed, looking out the door.
The office was well soundproofed; he couldn’t hear any sound from outside at all.
“I really feel…”
Lu Lu looked at him silently. “It’s so dangerous here. Who would be foolish enough to come over?”
Hearing this, Xu Kai was instantly speechless.
Right. Staying here is too comfortable; it almost made me forget this is a ghost hub!
As long as Dr. Jiang doesn’t return, this office is the safest place in this Urban Legend.
Xu Kai began to doubt his sixth sense.
But Lu Lu suddenly stood up, staring straight at the door.
Xu Kai was startled. “What are you looking at?”
Lu Lu narrowed her eyes. “You’re right. There is someone outside.”
It was Bai Qianqiu.
Outside the door, Bai Qianqiu was in a stalemate with the two ghosts.
Cold sweat ran down her back, but she dared not act rashly.
Attracted by the scent of a human, the two missing-limbed ghosts leaned in to smell Bai Qianqiu, saying intoxicately, “Really smells good. Where are you from? Why do you smell so strong?”
“Can I taste your arm? Just one small bite.”
A ghost, dizzy from the scent, couldn’t help asking, “I eat very fast; it won’t hurt.”
The other ghost holding an IV bottle also said, “Then I’ll eat the other one. I eat even faster; I definitely won’t let you have any bad feelings.”
It seemed to know some manners, adding, “Sorry, you really smell too good. I can’t help it at all.”
“We’ll just take one bite.”
One bite?
This one bite would probably cost her life immediately.
Bai Qianqiu wanted to refuse, but seeing their eyes already glowing green, she feared refusing them would be useless and might instead provoke their ferocity.
Dr. Jiang’s office was just ahead. Inside might be another, more powerful ghost.
But if she retreated, she would have to face not only the two ghosts eyeing her now but also a bunch of ghost nurses downstairs.
“I came from the cafeteria. If you want to eat, go check over there,” Bai Qianqiu said with difficulty.
Ghosts had rule restrictions and couldn’t go to other places during times not belonging to them. Bai Qianqiu just said this casually.
“Cafeteria?”
Sure enough, one ghost became suspicious. “How can you go to the cafeteria?”
“Dr. Jiang sent me to get something.” Bai Qianqiu’s heart pounded as she took out a book, indicating this was what Dr. Jiang asked her to get.
Lying for the first time in her life, and to ghosts at that—it was truly heart-stopping!
“Dr. Jiang…”
These words made the two ghosts hesitate. The teeth that almost touched Bai Qianqiu retracted.
In their perception, no ghost dared to use a higher-ranking ghost to deceive others.
So they had to let Bai Qianqiu go unwillingly. “Alright then.”
“Next time Dr. Jiang needs an errand runner, you can call us.”
The two ghosts smiled at Bai Qianqiu, revealing chilling teeth. Their eyeballs dangled from their sockets, visually challenging to look at.
Regardless, these two ghosts finally let her go.
Bai Qianqiu squeezed a handful of sweat for herself and continued forward.
It was only a few meters to Dr. Jiang’s office, but these few meters felt longer to Bai Qianqiu than a hundred-meter race.
She raised her hand to wipe her sweat, but before she could move, a drop of cold liquid fell on her.
Slurp.
Something soft coiled around her wrist and wrapped up her arm.
Bai Qianqiu looked back in fright and met the eyes of a frog-like ghost.
This ghost was incredibly fat. Its eyes were as big as copper bells, and its mouth was as wide as a frog’s, occupying most of its face.
Its nose was also huge. It wore the clothes of a Nurse Station Head, considered a high-ranking ghost.
Her brain buzzed. Without time to think, Bai Qianqiu drew her dagger and swung it hard, cutting off the tongue wrapped around her wrist.
“It hurts! It hurts!”
The Frog Ghost screamed.
Bai Qianqiu temporarily escaped the fate of being eaten in one bite, but she completely angered it.
The Frog Ghost’s body swelled, its mouth becoming a meter wide. Its tongue regenerated, covered in gleaming barbs, and it charged directly at Bai Qianqiu.
It shouted incoherently as it charged.
“Human! Human! Human!”
“Liar!”
The two ghosts standing aside were confused, but Bai Qianqiu knew this ghost had seen through her humanity.
It was obviously certain Bai Qianqiu was human and wanted to swallow this bold intruder without hesitation.
Thick spectral energy enveloped Bai Qianqiu. Unknown liquid dripped down, corroding her clothes and skin piece by piece.
The ghosts on this floor all gathered around.
A cut appeared on Bai Qianqiu’s skin, and the scent of human flesh and blood began to spread.
More and more covetous eyes appeared.
Bai Qianqiu struggled to dodge the Frog Ghost’s pursuit, her head getting dizzy.
Weak spectral energy had no effect on humans, but if it was intense to a certain degree, it would cause hallucinations. If one stayed too long, they might even become crazy.
Bai Qianqiu had seen many Awakened who went mad.
She didn’t expect to become one of them.
Forgotten memories surfaced in her mind. Her hometown was swallowed by an Urban Legend. Her parents didn’t even have time to leave her a few words before dying in the Urban Legend.
Her strength was running out.
Bai Qianqiu closed her eyes.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed Bai Qianqiu’s wrist.
Cold, bony, and a bit rough.
She thought it was some ghost.
“Open your eyes; you’re not dead yet.” Lu Lu spoke with a bad tone. “Person from the Special Abnormalities Administration, why did you come here if you have nothing to do?”
“Seeking death?”
Bai Qianqiu was pulled into Jiang Ning’s office.
Lu Lu stared at her. Xu Kai also looked at her, hesitating to speak.
He looked at Lu Lu, then at Bai Qianqiu.
Bai Qianqiu lowered her head. After a long while, she looked at the tightly closed door. “Won’t they come in?”
Lu Lu crossed her arms disdainfully. “They don’t dare.”
She didn’t look like the weak and easily bullied person from the beginning at all.
Bai Qianqiu said “Oh,” not surprised.
She didn’t even think it was strange that Lu Lu had calluses on her fingertips; she had long seen that Lu Lu wasn’t simple.
She had them too, from practicing with the blade.
But compared to ghosts, her blade skills were still too weak. Toward the end, she couldn’t even cut the Frog Ghost’s outermost skin.
“Is Dr. Jiang not here?”
Lu Lu looked at Bai Qianqiu with a complex gaze. “You don’t know? Dr. Jiang went to the dormitory building.”
Bai Qianqiu was stunned. “How can she go to the dormitory building?”
Bai Qianqiu’s mind was in a mess.
Dr. Jiang belonged to the outpatient building. Going to the cafeteria earlier could be described as an accident, but now she could even go to the dormitory building?
Why does this ghost have such high authority? Don’t other ghosts resist?