Chapter 204 Jiang Qi, are you... really dead? [8]
Those thugs instinctively looked in the direction Ah Chu was pointing.
It was already completely dark by then, and there were only a few streetlights along the roadside, so the light wasn't particularly bright.
The tall, thin boy walking towards them had pale skin and his hair and clothes were soaked, as if he had crawled out of the water.
When the thugs saw the boy's face clearly, their faces turned pale instantly.
Two particularly timid individuals collapsed to the ground due to their legs giving way.
Thug leader: "No...it's impossible! He's really dead! We threw him in the lake! We clearly..."
"A ghost! It's a ghost!"
"He's become a ghost!"
As Jiang Qi drew closer, the thugs forgot about the money and ran away as fast as they could.
"Huh? You guys..."
Achu watched as the thugs quickly ran away, then turned to look at Jiang Qi.
Jiang Qi was also looking at her, his dark eyes revealing no emotion.
Achu opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something.
The car from the Jiang family that was there to pick her up arrived.
Ah Chu remained silent.
She got into the car and then asked the driver to call Jiang Qi to get in as well.
The two went home together.
Jiang Qi did not come out during dinner.
After dinner, Achu went back to the third floor, made a video call with Jiang's mother, looked at her phone for a while, and then went to sleep.
It's still raining outside, and it's raining quite heavily.
Accompanied by the sound of rain, Achu quickly fell asleep.
Jiang Qi, however, couldn't sleep in the servants' quarters.
Last Thursday, Jiang Chaochao was in a bad mood after school and wouldn't let him ride in the family car.
So he went to the bus stop to wait for the bus.
During this time, several thugs deliberately came to cause trouble.
He ignored them, but they acted as if they had offended him and forcibly took him to an unfinished building in the suburbs.
They punched and kicked him, and verbally abused and threatened him.
One of the thugs said he was good-looking and told the gang leader that he wanted to taste a boy's flesh.
They tore at his clothes, and Jiang Qi resisted violently.
Then, he fell from the unfinished building.
He didn't feel pain at that moment, but after he recovered, he felt as if all the bones in his body were broken.
He lay on the ground, unable to move.
Jiang Qi thought he was about to die, but he didn't want to die; he wanted to live a good life.
He hoped those thugs could help him make an emergency call.
But they didn't.
"Boss... is he going to die?"
"What should we do?! What if someone really dies?"
"What are you afraid of! Didn't Miss Jiang say that killing them would be best? Maybe we can get even more money!"
"Then... should we just leave him here and ignore him?"
"No! Leaving it exposed like this, what if someone sees it!"
"Here's what we'll do: you guys lift him up and throw him into the lake over there!"
Jiang Qi overheard their conversation. He desperately wanted to tell them that he wasn't dead yet, and to ask them to save him...
He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a word.
Jiang Qi tried to move his limbs.
He felt himself being lifted up, and they carried him to the lakeside.
One of the thugs finally sensed Jiang Qi moving and hurriedly shouted to his leader, "Boss! He...he seems to still be alive..."
Jiang Qi seemed to see a glimmer of hope.
Then he heard the gang leader's voice: "Who cares! Throw him down!"
The glimmer of hope was extinguished when Jiang Qi felt himself being thrown into the water.
The lake water submerged him, and a feeling of suffocation enveloped him.
Jiang Qi can swim, but he fell so badly that he was unable to save himself!
He felt himself sinking, and felt as if his ankles were being entangled in seaweed...
Before dawn, Jiang Qi climbed out of the icy lake water.
He was also relieved that he was fine after soaking in the lake all night and that his body pain had subsided.
So... is he dead?
Jiang Qi wasn't quite sure.
He decided to go and take a look at that place!
Before arriving at the destination, Jiang Qi still harbored a glimmer of hope.
He felt he was just lucky to have gotten out of the lake unharmed after spending the night in it.
But when he arrived at the lake, he saw the corpses, bloated from being submerged in water.
Although he was completely unrecognizable, Jiang Qi still recognized him... It was him!
So, he really is dead!
Realizing this, Jiang Qi could no longer maintain his human form.
His skin turned bluish-white, covered with fine black and red lines, his eyes turned scarlet, and he exuded a black aura of resentment.
Because he hated it so much—he hated the world, he hated the thugs who killed him, and he hated Jiang Chaochao!
The resentment grew larger and larger, churning up the surrounding plants like a tornado.
Even some wandering ghosts and spirits around him were unconsciously devoured by Jiang Qi, making him stronger.
If Achu witnessed this scene, she would marvel at how worthy he was of being a Ghost King-level villain who posed a significant challenge to the female lead in the story.
The growth rate is extremely fast.
Jiang Qi pulled his body out of the lake and buried it in a pit.
Then, he returned to the Jiang family.
He floated back, which was much faster than walking here.
When Jiang Qi returned to the Jiang family home, it was already past three in the morning.
After realizing he was a ghost, he automatically learned to become invisible and pass through walls.
Neither the bodyguards nor the servants on duty at the Jiang family's residence saw Jiang Qi.
Only when he passed by them would they feel a sudden gust of cold wind, giving them goosebumps.
Jiang Qi floated directly to the third floor, passed through the wall, and arrived at A Chu's room.
In the room with the eye-protecting lamp on, the girl lay on the soft bed, her eyes peaceful and her breathing even.
Jiang Qi floated to the bedside and looked down at her.
Thinking that this was the culprit who killed him, Jiang Qi's resentment deepened even further!
He stretched out his hand, which had turned black and the nails had become sharp, and grabbed Achu's neck.
Jiang Qi's hand tightened, and A Chu, still asleep, felt difficulty breathing.
Her brows furrowed, and her lips unconsciously parted.
A drop of water fell from Jiang Qi's hair and landed on A Chu's eyelid.
Her eyelashes fluttered, and the next moment she opened her eyes.
Jiang Qi swiftly withdrew his hand from Ah Chu's neck.
Achu opened her eyes blankly and saw Jiang Qi standing by the bed, which startled her awake instantly.
She gasped and hugged the blanket tightly.
Ah Chu seemed to remember what the gang leader had said, and stared at Jiang Qi with wide eyes, filled with suspicion and fear.
"Jiang Qi, are you... are you really dead?"
Achu's voice trembled, sounding weak and pitiful.
At this moment, Jiang Qi's skin had returned to a deathly pale white, but he still didn't look like a living person.
He looked at Achu coldly, once again separating her from Jiang Chaochao into two people.
A thought popped into my head.
If he can still 'live' in this form after death, it proves that ghosts really exist in the world.
Is there another ghost living inside Jiang Chaochao's body?
Jiang Qi wanted to find out what was going on.
As Achu began to tremble involuntarily under his gaze, Jiang Qi finally spoke:
“I didn’t die. I got up on my own. They don’t know that.”
His voice was hoarse, and he didn't show much emotion.
Ah Chu seemed to believe it and breathed a sigh of relief.
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