novelraw Chapter 153: Stop Sending People In
Chapter 153: Stop Sending People In
Lynn: "..."
Severed Head Female Ghost: "..."
For a moment, for some unknown reason, the surroundings fell into a brief silence.
This was actually something Lynn hadn't expected.
And he really hated this version of himself that understood things instantly.
Because during that time at Eldest Sister Bloody Dress's home, there seemed to have been a similar strange experience.
Lynn put away his revolver.
He gave her a faint glance.
"How long have you been in this business?"
The Severed Head Female Ghost dazedly opened her mouth and said, "First time..."Thud—
Her head finally fell off because she had twisted it too far, still connected by thin threads as it rolled to Lynn's feet, looking up at him from below with a pitiful expression.
Lynn stared with dead fish eyes, picked up her head, faced it toward himself, and shook his head:
"Couldn't you learn something proper? Why did you have to copy others and get into this kind of business?"
"To be honest, I'm actually not an unreasonable person. If you hadn't suddenly twisted your head around to scare me earlier, I wouldn't have hit you."
The Severed Head Female Ghost made a crying face o(╥﹏╥)o and said, "I'm sorry, boo hoo."
This person doesn't seem like a normal human!
She remembered that human youth she encountered a few days ago who also came asking for directions—that should be how normal humans behave!
Just a little scare and he went running off pattering away—how adorable!
Why is there such a big difference between people?
Boo hoo.
Lynn calmly reached out, pulled up her body, adjusted its position, and placed her head back on her neck.
With a click-click twist.
He pressed it back into place perfectly.
Lynn patted her shoulder, closed his eyes and said, "No need for compensation. I can tell you don't have much experience anyway—it wouldn't be good if you damaged someone. Just remember from now on not to scare people for no reason."
As he spoke.
Lynn reached into his chest pocket, pulled out a business card, and handed it to her.
The Severed Head Female Ghost said dazedly, "What's this..."
Lynn closed his eyes and said, "This is my business card. If you ever want plastic surgery in the future, you can come to the Bloodsaw Potion Shop in the neighboring Wandering Souls Alley to make an appointment with me."
"And besides your ugliness issue, I noticed your spine seems a bit weak too—your head falls off so easily. If you have time, I can give you a few stitches right now."
Ding—
Lynn pulled out a needle, its tip glinting with a dazzling light.
His expression was serious, not seeming like a joke.
[Severed Head Female Ghost SAN -10]
"N-no need!"
The Severed Head Female Ghost pressed on her head, fearfully shrinking back two steps, covering the slap mark on her face as she cried:
"I'll stitch it myself when I have time!"
"And, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were also a creature of this world! I definitely won't dare scare people next time, I swear, please just let me go, boo hoo."
So distressing.
Really so distressing!
Lynn looked at her with satisfaction, nodded and said, "Knowing your mistake and being able to change makes you a good ghost. Make sure to do more good deeds from now on, engage in proper business, and don't just casually offer that kind of service to people anymore, understand?"
The Severed Head Female Ghost made a crying face o(╥﹏╥)o and said, "Understood, boo hoo."
[Ding! You have enlightened a lost female ghost. You gained 50 basic experience, Happiness +1]
Watching the Severed Head Female Ghost quickly run off into the black fog of the street while holding her head and sobbing, Lynn felt exceptionally satisfied, and his mood became cheerful.
That's right.
Actually, sometimes the creatures of the Dark World are quite adorable.
As long as you enlighten them a little, they're quite willing to reason with you.
Lynn took out the map from his chest pocket again, carefully examined it, picked up his lamp, and walked along the street like an innocent youth.
...
The street filled with rising black fog.
Scrape—
Under the dim streetlights, two tall, slender figures hung their heads, their bodies standing straight like pine trees.
The two figures appeared to be standing side by side, but if you looked closely, you could see that their bodies were actually grown together side by side, like the character "cong," giving people an inexplicably eerie feeling.
Scrape—
The sound of a saw pulling through flesh and bone echoed, especially terrifying in this darkness.
But at this moment, the two of them were feeling somewhat uneasy.
Because they kept feeling.
That something in this darkness seemed to be watching them, and had been watching for over ten minutes.
There was a chilling sensation that made one's heart cold.
"Brother, do you feel it?"
"Little brother, I feel it."
The two slender figures simultaneously lifted their necks with cracking sounds, turned emptily, and looked into the darkness behind them.
And with this look, they noticed something wrong.
Right there on the dark street behind them, under the next broken streetlight, there was actually a human youth sitting there, perched on a small stool with a dim Soul Lamp hanging from the streetlight pole.
That intense feeling of being watched clearly came from here.
Under the dim Soul Lamp, that youth sat motionless on the small stool, chin propped in hand, staring straight in their direction, giving off a bizarre and chilling feeling.
"Brother, I'm a little scared."
"Little brother, I am too."
"He seems to have been watching us for a long time."
"He's been watching us for over ten minutes."
Eerie silence spread unabashedly.
The two slender figures stared emptily and directly at the youth under the distant streetlight, who stared directly back, while they continued using their saws to slowly pull through the flesh at their connection point.
Then gradually.
They both began to feel somewhat creeped out.
Because in the past, it was always them staring directly at passing creatures, and those creatures would quickly leave out of fear.
But this time, it was their first experience of feeling the horror of being mysteriously watched.
He probably isn't human, right?
He probably isn't alive, right?
What is he looking at?
And the more they looked at his gaze, the more wrong it felt, the more eerie it became.
And this feeling was the first time they'd experienced it since they died and fell into this world—the first time they felt this uncomfortable, hair-raising sensation all over.
[Ding! Twin Ghost Shadows SAN -5]
They widened their eyes, their bodies stiffened, and the saws pulling through flesh involuntarily became slow and rigid.
And so on this dark street.
The Twin Ghost Shadows and that youth sitting on a stool under the streetlight stared at each other across the night from afar.
Bizarre.
Chilling.
Uncomfortable.
Their hearts slowly rose to their throats, bodies tense, spines chilled, extremely nervous.
And just at that moment, suddenly, the Soul Lamp lit under that streetlight went out, and the distance immediately plunged into darkness.
Their hearts skipped a beat.
Out?!
Out!
Was that "human" still sitting there?
Or had he already prepared to attack them?
The feeling he gave was very unsettling—he definitely wasn't human, because humans absolutely couldn't do such eerie things.
Where did he go? Could he be...
In an instant.
The two of them turned to look behind them at the fastest speed.