Chapter 119 "I... I'm going to the Heavenly Master's Mansion. Please feel free to do as you please." He greeted the black fog in a low voice. Yao Yaoyao...
"I... I'm going to the Tianshi Mansion, you can do whatever you want." After saying hello to the black fog in a low voice, Yao Yaoyao ran out like a little rabbit, closed the door with a creak, and locked it in the room.
Seeing that the black fog finally stopped chasing her out, Yao Yaoyao slowly breathed a sigh of relief. Her soft legs finally regained some strength, and she went to the Tianshi Mansion.
Squeezing onto the bus, she lowered her head and wondered about the identity of the black fog.
She was born with the ability to see ghosts. She had seen many ghosts since she was a child, but she had never seen a ghost as fierce as this one. The yin energy was so strong that it almost condensed into a solid body. Such a fierce ghost should be at the level of a ghost king. Normally, ghosts of this level would be registered in the Tianshi Mansion.
Mark their general area of activity and their approximate strength. If they are harmful to the mortal world, contact the soul-collector to eliminate them as soon as possible. If they are harmless to the mortal world, the Tianshi Mansion will even send people to establish good relations with them.
Once a fierce ghost commits a crime in its territory, the Tianshi Mansion will greet the Ghost King, enter its territory to arrest it, and if the relationship is good, they can even ask the Ghost King for help.
The Heavenly Master and the Ghost King usually do not interfere with each other. After the Ghost King has been in the human world for a long time, he needs the Heavenly Master's Mansion to burn some fresh offerings for him from time to time to change his taste. Some even need the Heavenly Master's Mansion to help them find their obsessions that linger in the human world.
When she entered the mission hall of Tianshi Mansion, she saw several such bounties.
After all, after death, people will generally go to the underworld under the guidance of the soul-collector, waiting for reincarnation. Only a few ghosts with deep resentment and obsession are unwilling to enter reincarnation. In this case, the soul-collector or the heavenly master who handles the matter will not force it. As long as they do not do anything that harms the world of the living, they can stay in the world of the living after registration.
This is how the position of Heavenly Master came into being. As more and more ghosts voluntarily stayed in the world of the living and did not want to reincarnate, there would always be ghosts causing chaos and disrupting the order of the world of the living. The number of soul-collectors was limited and it was impossible to deal with them immediately. At this time, Heavenly Master was needed to take action.
These are the knowledge that Yao Yaoyao learned after her sister's death when she entered the Tianshi Mansion for training with the help of the Yin-Yang eyes.
The ghost king had been following her before, and she was so scared that her brain almost stopped functioning. Now that she thought about it carefully, she realized something was wrong.
Yao Yaoyao's previous action was the entrance examination of the Tianshi Mansion. If she stayed in the haunted alley for one night or caught a fierce ghost, she would pass the examination and become a formal Tianshi. It was just an entrance examination. The Tianshi Mansion would never send a ghost king to participate.
There was no need. Therefore, they did not know in advance that there was a ghost king in that alley.
But if he was aware of her relationship with her sister and wanted to use the Ghost King to get rid of her, it doesn't seem like that.
The only apparent relationship between her and her sister is that they come from the same welfare home, where there are at least hundreds of children, if not thousands. She and her sister are five years apart in age, so it sounds like they are just neighbors who are not very familiar with each other and have no relationship. Of course, this possibility cannot be ruled out.
If this is true, there must be something fishy about my sister's death. If not, why would they want to get rid of her?
Of course, this reason was relatively minor, so she ruled it out first.
Either her Yin-Yang Vision was wrong, and the black fog did not have the strength of a ghost king, so it was not reported to the Tianshi Mansion. Or the black fog died recently, and the people in the Tianshi Mansion have not discovered it yet.
After thinking for a while, Yao Yaoyao rejected both possibilities. First, her Yin-Yang eyes could not be wrong, that was beyond doubt. Second, she suppressed her fear and secretly observed the black fog for a long time. The curiosity of the black fog when it first arrived on the street was real, and its memory had dissipated a lot, so it was impossible for it to have died recently. If a ghost king-level ghost had just died not long ago, its memory could not have dissipated so quickly.
She thought about the inexplicable killing intent of the black fog towards her. It didn't want to kill her at first, but then suddenly wanted to kill her as if it had sensed her identity.
The identity she revealed at that time was Heavenly Master!
It hated and even resented the Heavenly Master. Even though its memory had almost disappeared, it still wished to tear them to pieces.
She suddenly thought of another possibility, a terrible possibility.
Its identity as the Ghost King is not registered, not because the Tianshi Mansion doesn't want to, but because they dare not.
Because the cause of death of the ghost king could not withstand the scrutiny of the underworld and could not be recorded in the underworld's archives.
If that's the case, then that black fog might be of great use.
"Preparatory host? Preparatory host, are you here? Do you have time to talk to Tongzi now?" Seeing that the fear on Yao Yaoyao's face disappeared without a trace and she looked steady and calm, 10086 called the reserve host in its mind again.
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“Ahhhhh, you…you little devil, get off me. I…I’m going to enter the Tianshi Mansion, and I’ll kill you when the time comes. Why don’t you leave quickly!”
She jumped high at once, her pupils shrank sharply on her pale face, and she waved the peach wood sword vigorously in the air. She looked herself up and down with trembling eyes.
No, she had nothing on her.
Yao Yaoyao did not breathe a sigh of relief. Instead, she became even more frightened. She ran very fast towards the Tianshi Mansion as if there was an evil ghost chasing her.
Even her Yin-Yang eyes couldn't see how terrifying this ghost's cultivation must be.
She doesn't want to die! Why are all the big and small ghosts chasing her!
Seeing its prospective host looking like he was about to faint, 10086 explained anxiously, "Host, 10086 is not a ghost. It is a system affiliated with the Administration. It has a formal business license and system number, which can be found in the Administration. Host, don't be afraid."
System? Is this a new type of rhetoric used by those ghosts in the underworld?
Yao Yaoyao stepped into the gate of the Tianshi Mansion, submitted her task, and was formally granted a position by several respected Tianshis. She also begged them to examine her body. After repeated checks, no Tianshi found any abnormalities, and then she began to believe what 10086 said.
"System? Since you are not a ghost, why are you pestering me? Could it be that the system also covets my flesh and blood?" As she asked, Yao Yaoyao's face turned paler. She silently clenched the larger peach wood sword issued by the Tianshi Mansion to the official Tianshi, intending to hit the air as soon as it answered yes.
"I'm sorry, there might be a mistake on the part of the administration, and they released the weapon into the wrong host. We've reported the mistake, but the notification from above hasn't come down yet. Tongzi can only stay in the spare host's body for now, and it won't do any harm to the host's body." 10086 explained sincerely several times, and only then did Yao Yaoyao put down the peach wood sword with a look of disbelief.
"Don't worry, prospective host. Tongzi will apply for compensation from above. Your stay here will not be in vain." Later, in order to get closer to the prospective host and make her less afraid of it, 10086 roughly explained what this system was used for and the interesting things the host did during the mission.
"Villain cannon fodder?" Yao Yaoyao muttered a few words in a low voice.
If she was talking about the big villain, she looked at the ghost king who was staying in her house now. She was like the cannon fodder NPC who would die at the hands of the big villain. If she hadn't been lucky, she would have been killed by the ghost king that night.
Yao Yaoyao shook her head with a wry smile, amused herself for a while, and put the matter behind her.
She walked home very reluctantly. When she thought of the dark and fierce ghost king staying in her home, she wanted to turn around and stay in the school classroom for a night.
However, when she left home, the ghost king threatened her, saying that if she did not go back, he would hunt her down to the ends of the earth.
Besides, she also needs to use its power to investigate the cause of her sister's death.
Come on, Yao Yaoyao! You can do it! It's just staying in the same room with the ghost king, letting it suck a few mouthfuls of blood, and being in contact with rotten Yin Qi and corpses for a long time...
Woo woo woo, she’s scared.
Her trembling hands rested on the door handle. The more she thought about it, the more scared she became, and her palms became wet.
Suddenly, a pungent smell hit her nose, as if something was burning. Yao Yaoyao was stunned, and the gray smoke floated out through the crack in the door and hit her face.
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She immediately opened the door, and gray smoke rushed in, flooding the small apartment. With blurred vision, she rushed to the blackened pot on the stove. She scooped a spoonful of water and poured it on the jumping flames in the pot. The flames almost burned her white arms, but she didn't react at all, just anxiously putting out the fire.
Heiwu stood there at a loss, watching her bring the raging fire under control bit by bit.
Only after the fire was completely extinguished did Yao Yaoyao cough a few times, her face covered in smoke like a little cat.
She threw the ladle in her hand to the ground, turned around, her almond eyes red with anger, and she wanted to scold it, but shrank back after seeing the gloomy aura.
"You...you, you, are you going to blow up my house?"
"I spent three days and three nights to negotiate for this house. Why are you destroying it? It's so expensive. It almost cost me several months' savings. I can only eat instant noodles every day."
She choked with a sob and looked up at the silent and fierce-looking black fog.
"If it explodes, I won't be able to afford the compensation for the instant noodles I eat for a year."
As she spoke, she began to cry, and a few tears fell uncontrollably.
She sniffed, turned her head and scrubbed the black pot hard.
The black mist followed her silently, watching her angry back but not daring to attack it.
It was originally thinking how could a skinny human have the courage to disrespect it, the ghost king, and it was going to beat her up.
But after hearing those crying words, the feeling called sadness swept over my body again, making me feel very uncomfortable.
It felt so uncomfortable that it wanted to take out its heart and let it be quiet.
But if that happened, the child would be scared and cry again.
After closing its eyes and calming down for a while, it floated in front of Yao Yaoyao and explained softly:
"Since you came back so late, I was worried that you would have nothing to eat."
Yao Yaoyao was stunned for a moment, then lowered her eyes to look at the remnants of instant noodles in the pot, not knowing whether to believe it or not.
She just wiped the tears from her face awkwardly and hummed softly.
"Thank you for your kindness."
"But it doesn't have to be."
“I can’t get used to eating food cooked by others.”
The voice, which usually trembled with panic, sounded particularly disgusted and indifferent at that moment.
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