Having completed the basic trading rules, the girl felt a little more at ease.
Incidentally, I also found the kimono-clad girl in front of me much more pleasing to the eye.
"Thank you."
Although she was wary of the strange kimono-clad girl who had offered to make the deal, she still expressed her heartfelt gratitude.
"You're welcome, just call me Bamboo Cutter Boy." The girl who called herself Bamboo Cutter Boy smiled and winked at her. "Don't blame me for not telling you my real name. Here, you can't just say your name casually."
Bamboo Cutter? A child who comes out of bamboo?
The girl didn't know why she was talking so much, but her intuition told her that this was a crucial piece of information.
She offered both trade and information, and combined with her name, the girl thought of the mischievous but friendly Zashiki-warashi from mythology, and quickly nodded, saying, "Just call me Mei-hime."
She also came up with a code name in a moment of inspiration.
Seeing that the girl understood her meaning, the Bamboo Cutter felt that she had done her best, and the rest was up to Mei-hime. So, she pointed to the large white cat demon in the distance: "Then I'll go home with Neko-maru first, and I hope to have the opportunity to meet you again."
Well...we don't need to do that, right?
Mei Ji smiled stiffly, said goodbye to Yin Zhu, and once again thought about the rules.
5. If you encounter a man in a white shirt with a bamboo pattern, you can ask him for help without speaking; he may be able to offer some assistance.
White shirt with bamboo pattern...help...
Could it be that he can return to his original world?
With no other hope at the moment, Maggie clenched her fists to encourage herself, placing all her hopes on the person mentioned in the diary.
She completely overlooked one problem—
If the person who wrote the diary really did return to the real world smoothly through the man in the white shirt with bamboo patterns, then why would her diary be posted next to the market rules of the ghost realm?
...
What were you doing just now?
The cat looked at Yin Zhu, who was carrying the hem of her kimono and running back, panting heavily when she reached her.
Yin Zhu steadied her breathing, held up the bracelet she had received in exchange, and gave a sincere and warm smile: "I traded something I always carry with me for a beautiful piece of jewelry, and I'm giving it to you!"
"...Don't do such dangerous things again."
The cat scolded Yin Zhu verbally, but its body language betrayed its true intentions as it accepted the gift. Yin Zhu didn't know which person had given her a gift, but there was no doubt that the cat looked very happy; even though it was just a cat's face, it always felt like it was smiling.
"Just lucky."
Yin Zhu seemed to be smiling foolishly.
However, she wasn't referring to herself, but rather to Maggie, who was unlucky but not completely unlucky.
Let's rewind to a dozen minutes earlier.
After Yin Zhu and Mao You heard the screams, the entire Ghost Market was clearly agitated, with many lazy stall owners starting to hope that more people would fall in.
However, this had little to do with Yin Zhu; they were already preparing to go back.
At this moment, Yin Zhu noticed a couple with unusual expressions. No, compared to their somewhat nervous body language, the presence of a couple here was even more unusual!
At least when Yin Zhu was cramming on the mythology of the Cherry Blossom Kingdom on Blue Star, she remembered that there weren't many couples among the goblins.
Later, in the dungeon, while chatting with the cat demon over rice cakes, Yin Zhu learned from her that the emotions of ghosts are basically related to love. They are either yandere and infatuated female ghosts, resentful female ghosts who have been betrayed, or jealous female ghosts like Bai Banruo.
Simply put, most people who can turn into ghosts or monsters don't have a smooth love life.
Yin Zhu was confident that with such bad luck, how could she possibly happen to encounter a loving couple of ghosts? Something was definitely amiss! Although this process of elimination had a lot of problems, Yin Zhu's guess wasn't entirely accidental.
She also saw that several ghosts were sneaking around the couple.
The couple was supporting each other, using each other as a source of courage to move forward. They had only come to buy something for each other as an anniversary gift, but after walking a few steps, they found that it had suddenly gotten dark.
They must have arrived at the market this morning... right?
What exactly happened?
Then they discovered that another aunt who had fallen in had been eaten by a ghost.
The girl in the couple turned pale and didn't dare to speak. She instinctively covered the boy's mouth with her hand and met his equally terrified eyes.
For a moment, they were even relieved that the aunt had drawn the attention of the other ghosts, giving them time to recover. The aunt couldn't hold out for long; soon the ghosts dispersed, leaving only bloodstains and bits of flesh on the ground.
A grotesque, twisted creature lay on the ground, seemingly trying to lick the remaining blood; the scene was utterly disgusting.
The man in the couple could no longer hold back and turned to look to the side, only to find that the stall that originally had some daily necessities now had a human leg attached to its foot, with a dark gray cloth shoe for the elderly on its foot.
Noticing the boy looking over, the monster at the stall thought he had a customer and, while picking his teeth, introduced, "Young man, I just robbed this, fresh human flesh, 10,000 gold coins, want some?"
The boy shook his head repeatedly, not daring to say a word, and pulled his lover away from there.
The couple's unusual behavior also caught the attention of other ghosts. After noticing each other's abnormalities, several ghosts tacitly followed the couple, secretly observing whether their suspicions were true.
In the ghost market, recklessly attacking other ghosts is considered an act that disrupts the normal order of the market.
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