Chapter 19: The Big Brother's Strange Brain Circuit

The shop owner was obviously stunned when he saw Bai Xiaoxiao, but the pain in his neck made him grimace and unable to speak.

Bai Xiaoxiao glanced at Kui Ming, who stepped forward and pressed a spot on the shopkeeper's neck. The shopkeeper's painful expression instantly eased. "Thank you very much, both of you immortals."

"You're welcome." Bai Xiaoxiao replied, "Let's talk about your sneak attack on me first. You knew we were immortals, yet you still dared to do it. Should I praise you for your courage, or scold you for being stupid?"

"I……"

The shopkeeper hesitated and was at a loss for words: "I recognized the wrong person. I thought you were...so..."

[Sure enough, there's something hidden.]

Bai Xiaoxiao knew from his hesitant words that the situation was not simple. She sat cross-legged on the floor, facing the shop owner. She coughed lightly and said slowly, "Shopkeeper, it's not that we mean to pry into your private affairs, but if you don't tell us the whole story, we won't be able to deal with the faceless corpse, let alone help you."

"Don't you want this to be over soon?"

The shop owner's lower lip trembled.

Bai Xiaoxiao noticed his hesitation and continued, "Besides, my senior brother and I are both immortal cultivators. If even we can't solve it, then there's no point in you hiding it."

The shopkeeper shuddered and said, "I, I do want to tell you, but, but could you two immortals please keep it a secret for me?"

Bai Xiaoxiao assured him, "Okay." She turned her head towards Kui Ming and asked, "What do you think, Brother?"

Kui Ming asked in confusion: "What do you think?"

Bai Xiaoxiao: "...Keep this a secret."

Kui Ming continued to ask: "What secret?"

Bai Xiaoxiao: "...the shopkeeper hasn't said anything yet."

Kui Ming still asked back: "Didn't you say anything?"

Bai Xiaoxiao: "...Actually, you just need to say 'yes'."

Kui Ming: "Okay."

Bai Xiaoxiao: 6...

The shopkeeper was a little stunned watching the conversation between Bai Xiaoxiao and Kui Ming. Bai Xiaoxiao turned around and explained, "It's not a big deal. You'll just get used to it. Shopkeeper, please tell me about your business."

"oh oh."

The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly. His gaze fell on the bound girl. His expression suddenly became gloomy, and tears flickered in the corners of his eyes. "In the beginning, not many people cared about the disappearances in the town because there were so few disappearances and the intervals between disappearances were long. Everyone had forgotten about the previous one before the next one disappeared. Until then, the faceless corpse appeared. The time it appeared was also strange. At first, it appeared once a month, and then it became once every three days. Every time, there were men and women, old and young. There was no pattern at all, but..."

The shop owner swallowed his saliva, looking frightened and hesitant.

"Keep talking." Bai Xiaoxiao encouraged him. "What you said are all clues."

The shopkeeper seemed to have made up his mind. "But then the people in the town discovered that those who became faceless corpses had a common trait: their skin was as rough as old tree bark, with pits all over their faces, and they would itch from time to time. Later, the people in the town decided that anyone with abnormal skin, regardless of gender, age or status, would be thrown into the mass grave in the mountains behind the town. No one would be exempted!"

Bai Xiaoxiao continued to ask: "So does this work?"

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment, then nodded with some difficulty: "Yes... the appearance time of the faceless corpses has become shorter. But! There are still corpses appearing in the town."

Bai Xiaoxiao finally understood why the bound girl's skin was as rough and wrinkled as an old woman's at such a young age. "So she..."

"She's my daughter..." The shopkeeper suddenly turned around and knelt down in front of Bai Xiaoxiao and Kui Ming. "Immortals, I beg you, please! Save my child. Her mother died young, and I raised her little by little. She's more important to me than my own life! She is, she is a little abnormal, but I can't watch the whole town throw her into a mass grave. She can still be saved, she really can still be saved!"

I don’t know what the shop owner said that irritated the girl, but she suddenly struggled violently, and even with a rag stuffed in her mouth, she still made a shrill whimpering sound.

"Nannan, don't! Don't!"

The shop owner tried to calm the girl down by talking incoherently, but she struggled desperately to break free from the ropes.

Bai Xiaoxiao looked at Kui Ming: "Big Brother, do you have a way to calm her down first?"

Upon hearing this, Kui Ming picked up the wooden stick on the ground and threw it away.

"Bang!" It hit the girl right in the head.

"Daughter!" The shop owner was so scared that he ran to the girl, wanting to check her injuries but not daring to touch her.

Bai Xiaoxiao felt a little guilty when she saw the shop owner's angry but unspoken look. She coughed lightly and said, "Big Brother, weren't you too harsh?"

Kui Ming asked, "Didn't you tell her to calm down?"

Bai Xiaoxiao choked.

[It does need to be quiet, but this kind of quiet is not what I imagined.]

Kui Ming was a little confused when he heard the voice. He found that since he went down the mountain with his junior sister, there were many things he didn't understand.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Bai Xiaoxiao changed the subject: "Big Brother, do you know what disease this girl has?"

Kui Ming replied, "She doesn't have an ordinary illness, but a kind of evil spirit, or the evil spirit from an evil spirit."

The shopkeeper was immediately terrified when he heard the word "evil spirit". "Then, what should I do? Two immortals, please save my daughter. I will do anything to save her!"

Bai Xiaoxiao finally felt that things were back on track. She turned around and asked Xiang Kuiming, "Big Brother, do you have any ideas?"

The shop owner also held his breath and listened quietly.

Kui Ming pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes to look at Bai Xiaoxiao and said seriously, "Kill him."

Bai Xiaoxiao:?

Shop owner:!

A black and purple energy condensed in Kui Ming's palm.

"No, no, no!" The shop owner hurriedly protected his daughter.

"Don't!" Bai Xiaoxiao also hurriedly suppressed the palm that Kui Ming was about to strike out.

[Good fellow, he started going all out over a disagreement. Are all immortal cultivators so impulsive and violent?]

Kui Ming explained: "I'm not impulsive, I think everything through carefully."

Bai Xiaoxiao's eyes widened.

[Is your deliberate intention to kill someone? Or is it to deceive ghosts?]

Kui Ming explained seriously, "This girl is suffering from an evil spirit. The only way to eradicate it is to destroy the evil spirit. But now that the evil spirit cannot be destroyed, the girl will only die."

"Most importantly, Junior Sister, I have never lied to a ghost."

"I know, I know. What are you talking about..." Bai Xiaoxiao muttered a few words and put down Kui Ming's raised hand. "Next time, explain clearly before you take action. I thought you really wanted to kill her."

Kui Ming said: "I really want to... um!"

Bai Xiaoxiao covered his mouth with her hand as if prepared.

When the warm and soft little hand touched his lips, Kui Ming's eyelashes trembled unconsciously, and his whole body was stiff and at a loss.