I'm Investigating妖怪Cases in the Human Realm

As a fake half-demon, Yue Jiuling feels that living in the human realm is actually pretty good. However, this is only true if she can retrieve her original body and separated soul. There's no c...

Chapter 202 The Ghost Market

As soon as Ya Zi saw the Ghost Market, he immediately headed towards it with great interest. He pulled Yue Jiu Ling and said, "Jiu Ling, come on, let's go take a look."

The father and son following behind them were also a little excited. The younger man, who was probably only a teenager, looked at the older man and said, "Dad, is that the Ghost Market? Let's go and take a look."

The older man said, "Yes, it's the Ghost Market. Be careful. Although the Ghost Realm welcomes us to enter during festivals, we still need to follow the rules."

"Okay, Dad, let's go find the things quickly."

Soon, the father and son walked one after the other to the ghost market.

Although Yue Jiuling hadn't been to the Ghost Market for only a year, she felt that not much had changed. The coffin sellers were still selling coffins, and the chicken porridge sellers were still selling chicken porridge. Moreover, a year had passed, and they were still in the same place.

She shook her head as she looked around, thinking that it was one thing for them to always sell the same things, but why didn't they even change the location?

Ya Zi was quite interested in these things. Although he also thought they were strange, it didn't stop his curiosity from growing.

He said, "I've been to the human world a few times before, but I've only been there. I've never been to the ghost world because I heard that the environment there is terrible. I never thought that after so many years, the ghost world would be so much fun."

When Yue Jiuling saw Ya Zi pick up a human skin mask and play with it, she reminded him, "Take it easy. We don't have much time. We can only look around casually. We'll be leaving soon."

Ya Zi nodded to indicate that he understood: "Okay, I'll see if there are any suitable ones first, and if there are, I'll buy them."

Yue Jiuling and her companion were strolling around when the father and son followed behind them. Unlike Ya Zi and his companion, who were just casually browsing, the father and son seemed to be searching for something with a specific purpose.

Yue Jiuling walked around the market, stopping occasionally to observe the surroundings. She found that although the items inside were strange and messy, she didn't see anything she liked, nor did she want to buy anything.

However, she stopped when she saw a stall selling exotic flowers and plants, because the flowers and plants there were so unusual that they piqued her interest.

The stall displayed many strange flowers and plants. There was a flower with a baby's face that looked like a large sunflower. There was also a plant that was about two meters tall with a thick stem and buds, but a row of sharp teeth grew on the outside of the buds, making it look like the kind of man-eating flower that appears on TV. There was also a red plant that emitted a sinister aura. And there was a plant that looked like a small tree, but it was covered with fruits that looked like little people. Both the fruits and the small tree were emitting a faint aura of yin.

Yue Jiuling was very interested in the small tree covered with tiny human-shaped fruits. She pulled Ya Zi, who was about to walk further, and said, "Hey, look at that little tree, it's so strange~"

Ya Zi originally wanted to continue walking forward, but Yue Jiuling pulled him back. He also looked at the small tree and asked, "Huh, what's that?"

The flower and plant stall owner was a female ghost. She looked young and pretty, and she was wearing a red cheongsam. She looked just like an ordinary living person. If you didn't know that the people setting up stalls here weren't alive, you would think she was a normal person.

When the stall owner saw that someone was interested in her goods, she smiled and picked up a round fan embroidered with patterns, saying, "Oh my, you have such good taste! You've taken a liking to those little man fruits. But those little man fruits can't be bought in a whole pot. You can only buy them one by one."

"What are 'little man fruits'? Why can we only buy them one at a time?"

Yue Jiuling looked at the small tree emanating yin energy and asked.

"Hehe~ Well, this Little Man Fruit is actually a fruit full of yin energy, suitable for some ghost cultivators to eat or use. Oh, and I'll tell you a secret," the stall owner suddenly became mysterious when talking about the uses of the Little Man Fruit. She said mysteriously, "I heard that if you have a child who has died young, you can put the child inside the Little Man Fruit to raise it~"

Originally, Yue Jiuling wasn't interested in the Little Man Fruit after hearing that it was suitable for some ghost cultivators to eat or use. After all, she cultivated the demon path, and this fruit was of no use to her. However, when she heard the stall owner say that this fruit could actually be used to raise little ghosts, her expression immediately changed.

Yue Jiuling raised an eyebrow at Ya Zi and gestured to him with her eyes. Ya Zi had overheard the stall owner's words and immediately understood when he saw Yue Jiuling's look. He looked at the sapling with a surprised expression and said, "Really? That's amazing! How do I buy this fruit?"

When the stall owner saw that they wanted to buy, he immediately revealed the price: "My Little Man Fruit is quite rare, so the price is a bit higher. But I can tell you are not ordinary demon cultivators. How about this, one price, each of you leave me a trace of demon power."

Buying things in the Ghost Market isn't like buying things in the human world where you can just use money. The transactions here are strange, since this isn't the human world, so the payment methods are different.

There are many ways to pay in the ghost market. Some ghosts will ask for a part of your body or something else as payment, while others will ask for ritual implements or other strange items. In short, you can't do business with them in the usual way.

Therefore, Yue Jiuling and Ya Zi were not surprised to hear such a payment request.