Unfortunately, Su Yu wouldn't give Lin Zhenzhen that kind of face. She was pushed away and staggered back two steps.

Lin Zhenzhen awkwardly touched her nose: "Okay, as long as you agree to let Yan Rui accompany me down the mountain, I'll pretend this never happened."

She knew that Su Yu was cold on the outside but kind on the inside. Besides, she still had a little bit of dirt on him and Yan Rui, so he wouldn't really make things difficult for her.

Everything went smoothly as Lin Zhenzhen had predicted. The day before the Ghost Market opened arrived quickly, and the two set off down the mountain as agreed.

The so-called ghost market is not only for the activities of the ghost race.

Rather, it refers more generally to markets that open at night and whose locations are not fixed.

Long ago, humans could also enter the Ghost Market, and some cultivators even camped out there specifically to hunt down novel trinkets from other races.

However, the relationship between humans and the three races of demons and monsters became increasingly strained. After the great war decades ago, it became even more impossible for human cultivators to appear in the Ghost Market.

Are you sure we won't be recognized like this?

Lin Zhenzhen was wearing a mask with a blue face and fangs, so her voice was muffled and somewhat indistinct.

"I'm not sure, because I've never worn it before." Yan Rui has demon blood in his body, so he can enter the Ghost Market without any hindrance, unlike Lin Zhenzhen who has to go to great lengths to conceal his human aura.

Lin Zhenzhen was still a little worried: "If they find out I'm human, will I get ganged up on?"

Yan Rui raised her head: "Scared? You still have a chance to back out."

"No regrets, no regrets, how can a hero turn back?"

According to the original plot, Yan Feichen will stand out in this ghost market and become the new lord of the demon race.

While silently stacking layers of aura-shielding talismans on her back, Lin Zhenzhen prayed in her heart that this time she would definitely make her hate value reach the maximum.

Yan Rui took her to an abandoned village.

"I'll go scout ahead. You stay here and don't wander off. I'll be back soon."

After saying this, Yan Rui left in a hurry.

Lin Zhenzhen was left standing there, staring at the clusters of leaping, emerald-green will-o'-the-wisps.

"This place is so eerie, it really fits the atmosphere of a ghost market."

In her imagination, the ghost market was a large-scale horror movie set, gathering all the demons and monsters in the world.

Lin Zhenzhen found a stone stool to sit on, her eyes fixed on the grove of trees in front of her.

The forest was dark and quiet, so quiet that not a single insect chirped, and even the air itself was eerily quiet.

At first, Lin Zhenzhen still had the strength to stay alert, but her eyelids grew heavier and heavier, her head became more and more dizzy, and the familiar feeling of drowsiness came over her again.

Just as she was about to drift off to sleep, Lin Zhenzhen suddenly felt a faint coolness, as if something was gently scraping her arm.

Lin Zhenzhen's goosebumps appeared instantly, as if in response to stress.

She opened her eyes and found that a thick white mist had drifted in before her, almost completely isolating her from the outside world.

Lin Zhenzhen has always prided herself on being quite brave. When faced with horror movies from Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea, she would simply stuff popcorn into her mouth without even blinking.

But when faced with Chinese-style horror, Lin Zhenzhen falters.

She crushed the communication jade pendant in her pocket and said in a trembling voice, "Hey, Yan Rui, are you back yet?"

But all that answered her was a deathly silence.

...A swear word got stuck in my throat, and I didn't know whether I should say it or not.

Is Cangyan Mountain running out of funds lately? How could they cut corners on this communication jade tablet? It could be a lifesaver in a critical moment!

Lin Zhenzhen's vision was completely obscured by the thick fog, and in order to conceal her identity, she could not summon Zhuiyue.

Helpless, Lin Zhenzhen could only remain still and wait for Yan Rui to finish his business and come back to her.

She rubbed her arms and jumped up and down twice, mentally hypnotizing herself: It's normal for there to be demons and monsters in a fictional world. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. All living beings are equal. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Just as she was thinking this, Lin Zhenzhen heard a clear bell sound.

The sound came from afar and seemed to be coming towards me...

Lin Zhenzhen looked in the direction of the sound and saw a small bell with colorful tassels slowly rolling and coming to a stop right at her feet.

Lin Zhenzhen's body stiffened.

She was standing on a steep slope, but this thing not only had eyes, it knew to move closer to her.

It even grew legs and learned to brake suddenly.

At the same time, a sinister chuckle came from the thick fog.

"Ding-dong, where's my bell?"

Wow, they found it in less than two seconds.

Even when you're trying to stage an accident, you don't have to be this blatant!

A pale, swollen baby hand tore through the thick fog and slammed heavily onto the ground.

The eerie laughter grew clearer: "Who took my bell?"

Lin Zhenzhen said coldly, "No one took it. You lost it yourself, didn't you?"

The monster seemed not to understand human speech: "Hehehe, who took my bell?"

It crawled slowly on the ground, leaving a trail of clear bloody handprints behind it.

"Okay, stop, stop!" Lin Zhenzhen's scalp tingled, and she even started speaking in English in her anxiety, "Don't move, I'll kick it over for you, okay?"

But the little monster had already come up to her, its overly full back of head bulging out in a large lump, and upon closer inspection, it seemed as if something was wriggling inside.

It slowly raised its head, and two streams of blood slowly slid down from its eye sockets, which were filled with white pupils.

The little monster moved its neck and tilted its head slackly ninety degrees: "The person who secretly took my bell will be punished."

A bead of cold sweat trickled down Lin Zhenzhen's forehead: "How should I punish you?"

The monster's mouth, splitting open to the back of its ears, slowly opened, revealing two rows of densely packed, tiny, cone-shaped teeth: "Why don't you stay and be my mother?"

As it spoke, it began to call out to itself, "Mama, Mama!"

“I’m sorry,” Lin Zhenzhen interrupted coldly. “I can’t accept having such an ugly child.”

"You said I'm ugly?!" The little monster was completely enraged. Its head split open from the middle, and countless bright red and hideous fleshy buds emerged from the crack.

Lin Zhenzhen had no time to investigate what that thing was. She called out to Zhuiyue in her heart, preparing to give it a direct blow.

But what she didn't expect was that her connection with Zhuiyue was also severed!

"If you won't be my mother, then become my food!"

Those originally slender fleshy buds suddenly swelled up, baring their fangs and flying wildly in all directions, before suddenly heading straight for Lin Zhenzhen's forehead.

However, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse the next second.

"puff!"

A black leather boot slammed heavily onto the little monster's forehead.

In an instant, juices gushed out.