Chapter 1038 All Prey

Xiao Jihui swallowed hard and asked in a hoarse voice, "How did you die?"

"A car accident. At that time, this commercial street in H City had not yet been planned, and people were not allowed to set up stalls in this area. Occasionally, urban management officers would come to patrol. When he saw the urban management officers coming, he was so scared that he pushed his cart and ran away. In his panic, he crashed into a large truck carrying goods nearby and died on the spot."

"So, he died somewhere in that area?"

"Yes."

After hearing what the stall owner had said in the live stream, Xiao Jihui felt a chill run down his spine.

No wonder, no wonder when Li Jiaming asked the stall owner why he had never seen him on this street in the night market, the owner's answer was to tell him to go back and ask his father and grandfather.

Back when he was setting up his stall, let alone him, even his dad was probably just a little kid!

His reply to Li Jiaming, "I'll wait a bit longer; someone else will come eventually," was probably also full of deeper meaning.

What he meant was, I'll wait a bit longer; some reckless idiot will eventually wander in and become my new prey!

Li Jiaming never expected that he would one day encounter a ghost, a living ghost!

Oh no, this should be called a dead ghost!

"You, you stay away! We were just live-streaming, everyone was watching, someone will come to rescue us soon!" Li Jiaming shouted at the stall owner with a fierce but weak voice, but the tremor in his tone betrayed him.

The stall owner wasn't worried at all when he heard this: "You ate my food, so you should pay for it. If you can't pay, you have to pay with something else. It's only right. Even if those damned Taoist priests come, they can't do anything to me."

"We...we had no idea you were...if we had known, we would never have bought anything from your stall."

As Li Jiaming spoke, his expression changed slightly, as if he had just remembered something.

The others belatedly realized that the owner of the barbecue stall was a ghost, and what about all the food they had just eaten...?

The two girls turned pale, and after trying to hold it in, they couldn't and hid to the side to vomit.

The men's faces also looked pale; although they didn't vomit, they felt a churning in their stomachs.

They ate way more than the two girls!

After hearing Li Jiaming's explanation, the stall owner grinned and said, "Whether you know it or not, it's a fact that you ate the food from my stall without paying. Since you don't have money to pay me, you have to pay another price."

"What...what price?"

"Your lives are at stake." The stall owner had barely finished speaking when he lunged at the group.

"Ahhh!" The group immediately screamed in fright.

Li Jiaming was the first to react, turning around and running away.

Seeing this, the others regained their senses and ran after him.

Seeing that they had all run away, the stall owner's smile deepened, which, combined with his bloodied and mangled head, made him look incredibly eerie.

Li Jiaming and the others ran forward for a while and realized that the stall owner hadn't caught up. Just as they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, they heard a familiar voice coming from ahead: "Are you looking for me?"

Looking up, they saw the stall owner standing in front of them, looking at them with a half-smile.

"Ahhh!"

The group's expressions changed drastically, they screamed again, and once again turned and ran in a panic.

From afar, you could still hear the stall owner's malicious chuckle: "Run, run, you can't escape my grasp, hehehe..."

Like a cat toying with a dying mouse, after teasing Li Jiaming and the others for a few minutes, the stall owner finally revealed his fangs.

"Hunting time! Who should we eat first?"

Everyone who heard this felt a chill run down their spine, and the two girls were so frightened that they burst into tears on the spot.

Seeing a figure chasing after them from afar, everyone was terrified and ran as fast as they could, but how could they outrun a ghost that was no longer human?

The two girls were exhausted, and having just run for so long, they couldn't run anymore.

Before long, the stall owner caught up with her. In the face of life and death, the long-haired girl glanced at her companion and suddenly pushed her.

Caught off guard, the girl lost her balance and fell to the ground. It was too late for her to struggle to get up.

"Was it you, the first one?"

A cold, slightly rotten smell hit her neck, sending shivers down her spine. The girl's face turned deathly pale, and her lips trembled as she pleaded, "No, no, help, help... Ahhhhh..."

With a sharp scream, Li Jiaming and the others heard a cracking sound, like bones breaking, which was especially terrifying in the dark night.

The long-haired girl who survived covered her mouth, running and crying, whether she was trying to suppress the screams she couldn't help but let out out of fear or the urge to vomit rising in her throat.

The sacrifice of the first prey bought the group some time to escape.

But they soon discovered that no amount of time would be of any use to them now, because they couldn't escape.

They were walking through the same street countless times before. Before they came, they were confident that they knew every building in the area like the back of their hand. But now, no matter how hard they ran, they couldn't get out of the street and kept going around in circles!

This realization made everyone uneasy, and just then, the stall owner chased after them again.

This time, no one ran away. The three boys huddled together, watching him warily.

The last remaining girl instinctively tried to hide behind the group, but the three of them avoided her.

The girl stared wide-eyed in surprise, her face filled with disbelief and anger.

Under normal circumstances, they might have taken better care of her because of her family background and the fact that she was a girl.

After what had just happened, they didn't dare stand next to this woman. Who knew if one of them would be the next to be pushed out?

"Hehehehe, someone's out of the loop. Are you next?"

The woman broke out in a cold sweat. She looked at the group of men with panic and anger, and shouted, "What are you doing? Come and save me! Save me now! If anything happens to me today, my parents will never let you get away with this!"

The three remained unmoved, and the stall owner laughed even harder: "No one will come to save you. They're all afraid of dying, and you're afraid of dying too. But it's alright, you'll be free soon, very soon..."

"No, no, ahhhhh..." The woman screamed loudly as she felt the other person's cold hand gripping her neck.

The stall owner seemed to enjoy her reaction and was about to make a move when he suddenly felt something terrifying flying towards him from behind. He quickly pulled the woman aside to dodge.

The next second, a sharp sword light swept past where he had just stood, leaving a deep crack on the wall not far away.

"Who? Who is it?"

(End of this chapter)