Good Girl, You Can’t Eat This - Chapter 2

The letter had not yet received a reply, but her sect nephew realized that Xie Chi did not even have a phone, so he specially bought one for her. Xie Chi then became obsessed with playing tile-matching games on it.

The person in charge of the livestreaming website came over on the third day after Xie Chi got her phone. Because there were instructions from above, the two sides quickly reached an agreement and could begin work at any time.

However, work would not start that quickly. First, they had to buy equipment, then choose a livestreaming location. Her sect nephew handled all of that, so Xie Chi only needed to wait.

When the time and place for the first livestream were confirmed, Xie Chi was wiping the box. To be honest, the box had only been sitting on the offering table for a couple of days, so it really should not have gathered any dust. But she was just like a new cat or dog owner who always wanted to wash their pet until it was clean and spotless. Every day, she wanted to wipe the box three to five times.

Her sect nephew stood beside her, earnestly advising her, “The location for the first stream has been set, Little Martial Uncle. You absolutely have to remember this: even if the viewers really see a ghost, you must deny it to the death. Insist firmly that there are no ghosts in this world and that everything is feudal superstition. All right?”

Xie Chi tilted her head, not quite understanding why they had to do it this way, but this was a mission assigned by the sect, so she had to do it.

“All right.”

“Since there’s still some time, Little Martial Uncle, watch a few more episodes of Approaching Science and gather some experience.” Her sect nephew deliberately picked a few episodes with especially strong supernatural atmospheres and played them for Xie Chi.

Xie Chi hugged the box and seriously absorbed the experience. As she watched, she asked in confusion, “It was clearly an infant spirit causing trouble, so why did they say there was a catfish crying in the sewer?”

Her sect nephew wiped his sweat. “To prove that there really are no ghosts in this world…”

“Then did they later help that infant spirit move on?”

“Yes. Behind the scenes, that program has people from our side. Usually, they handle it on the same day.”

Xie Chi nodded and continued watching. She could vaguely understand a little. To ensure social harmony, there were always some things that ordinary people could not be allowed to know. But weren’t the excuses this program came up with a little too fake? Would anyone really believe them?

Xie Chi had already learned how to use her phone. During her free time, she even searched online for comments about Approaching Science, then discovered that everyone’s attitude toward the program was basically like this:

“The first half made the supernatural atmosphere so strong that it was scarier than a horror movie, but in the end, you tell me it was wind blowing through cracks in the house?”

“This episode is hilarious too, okay? Blood could be sucked out from someone’s own arm, but there was no wound, and the conclusion was bleeding gums, emmmm…”

“As everyone knows, Approaching Science is a comedy entertainment program.”

“What do you people understand? Approaching Science is actually specially used by the nation’s mysterious department to cover up supernatural phenomena. They explain everything unscientific with science, cover up the truth, then secretly solve it in private so we don’t know. They work very hard too, okay? Sorry, I can’t keep making this up anymore…”

Xie Chi: “…”

You found the truth, you know.

However, considering the original purpose of the program’s establishment, perhaps it could be considered successful?

Then she might as well learn from it. Maybe it would come in useful.

Xie Chi watched Approaching Science for two days and was almost brainwashed by it. On her sect nephew’s side, everything was finally ready, and they could start the first livestream at any time.

The location of the first livestream was a hospital.

At first, this place seemed to have been a maternity and child health hospital. Later, because two or three pregnant women in a row had gone onto the operating table in perfectly normal condition, with the surgeries also going smoothly, yet somehow problems had still occurred and they died on the operating table.

This caused extreme dissatisfaction among the patients’ families. Along with some other issues, the hospital eventually shut down.

Later, this piece of land was bought and turned into an ordinary hospital. At night, people often said they saw strange things there, such as odd bloodstains appearing in the elevator, dark figures standing beside hospital beds late at night, and a woman in red clothes pacing back and forth in the corridor while holding a child.

It was said that some people had also heard strange crying sounds, like those of a baby.

Xie Chi packed up and put the box into her bag. Speaking of preparation, her sect nephew had originally prepared a miniature button camera, but after considering that his martial uncle needed to show her face, he switched it to an ordinary phone.

He even wore an expression that said, “Actually, I wanted to be filial to Martial Uncle,” and looked extremely regretful.

Once everything was ready, Xie Chi was driven to the destination by her sect nephew.

“Martial Uncle, just call me when it’s over. I’ll wait for you outside.”

“Mm.” Xie Chi stood beneath the hospital and looked up. Because the disturbance had been a little serious a few days ago and quite a few people had seen ghosts, the hospital had temporarily closed. It had been nearly a week already. Therefore, the entire hospital had no lights on. It was pitch black, and at a glance, it looked rather eerie.

Xie Chi first adjusted the phone. Following what her sect nephew had taught her, she opened the app used for livestreaming, logged into the account, entered her own livestream channel, gave it a title, and was done.

Her sect nephew had said that it did not matter if she was a little aloof and did not interact with the people in the livestream room. In any case, she was good-looking.

Her sect nephew said that this was a world that judged by faces, and face-lovers could be happy just by admiring someone’s looks.

Although she did not quite understand, she could vaguely grasp a little. For example, the pretty senior sister on the mountain who doted on her the most had a venomous tongue and always spoke with a hint of sarcasm. But because Pretty Sister was beautiful, no one could bear to dislike her.

Xie Chi entered the hospital. The moment she came in, she could feel yin energy flowing through the lobby. It seemed the haunting was real.

The livestream platform had received instructions long ago and had already given her livestream room a very good recommendation spot. It was the particularly conspicuous kind, the sort people could see the moment they entered the website. Because of this, not long after the stream began, quite a few people trickled in.

Just as her sect nephew had expected, the people who came in were all there to admire her looks, with some doubtful comments mixed among the face-lovers.

“When did homepage image recommendations start going to new streamers on their first day?”

“Does anyone know if she’s a big streamer poached from somewhere else?”

“Never seen her before. She looks unfamiliar, but she’s pretty…”

Xie Chi remembered that the information said the haunting was most severe on the third floor. Although the hospital was temporarily closed, the electricity had not been completely cut off, so the elevator could still operate. After strolling around once, she headed straight toward the elevator.

“In horror movies, people who choose the elevator at a time like this all end up dead…”

Xie Chi glanced at the screen, then remembered her sect nephew’s instructions and said seriously, “But there are no ghosts in this world, so that kind of thing only exists in horror movies. Don’t be afraid.”

She probably did not know that saying this made her seem even more like the doomed idiot in a horror movie who was about to die in the next second.

Xie Chi, who always made people feel as if she was about to die in the next second, opened the elevator and casually pressed the button for the third floor. Just as the elevator doors were about to close, on the bright elevator wall beside her—so bright it almost reflected like a mirror—vague facial features faintly appeared.

Her sect nephew had said there could not be ghosts.

Expressionlessly, Xie Chi slapped the wall, smacking the female ghost who was about to crawl out right back in.

Female Ghost: “???”

But many people in the livestream room saw what she had done. Someone vaguely saw the female ghost:

“I think I just saw a face…”

“The elevator was reflecting light,” Xie Chi said solemnly.

Livestream viewers: “…”

The ride from the first floor to the third floor was very quick. After a ding, Xie Chi officially arrived at the third floor, where the haunting was especially severe. For some reason, the windows on the third floor were actually open. When the wind blew, the curtains fluttered in it, adding another layer of gloom to the already dark and deep corridor.

Xie Chi frowned slightly. The yin energy on the third floor was extremely heavy. She could even faintly see a thin layer of something condensed on the floor, like fog, and it was still flowing. It did not look much like a hospital that had only been built and used for a few years. Instead, it looked like a mass grave.

It really was inconvenient not having the Demon-Slaying Sword in her hand. She instinctively wanted to reach back and draw her sword, only to grab empty air.

The feeling of having nothing in her hand was a little uncomfortable, especially with a crowd of ghosts watching from the shadows.

She could feel many pairs of eyes secretly staring at her with ill intentions. To be honest, this feeling was not bad. Xie Chi was too famous back home. Anyone who dared to look at her with this kind of gaze had been pierced straight through by the Demon-Slaying Sword. Over time, wherever she went, gods and ghosts alike avoided her.

This was probably the benefit of coming to an unfamiliar place. The ghosts here did not know her, so they were a little bolder.

Xie Chi’s hands felt a bit itchy. Her eyes, as she stared at the pitch-black corridor, also became bright and sparkling. The box inside her backpack was also becoming restless. Thin strands of black mist, like tentacles, slipped out from the zipper gap and extended along the backpack toward the floor.

Xie Chi quietly caught them and stuffed them back in.

The mist tentacles pitifully wrapped around Xie Chi’s fingers, rubbing against her softly and clingily like a cat begging for food.

Xie Chi’s heart itched from the rubbing. If she had not been under the camera, she definitely would have taken the box out and stroked it properly several times.

After stroking the black mist—which was actually tentacles formed from yin energy—back and forth a few times, Xie Chi continued walking deeper into the corridor. Based on her many years of experience, this hospital was just a tiny bit not right.

She had also seen quite a few lonely spirits and wandering ghosts in the hospital. They were all little ghosts, lingering in the human world but without much ability to harm people. At most, they could scare ordinary people a little. They were the kind that could not even injure anyone.

They truly did not match this dense yin energy.

Yet Xie Chi could not see what the problem was for the moment. Perhaps it was because this was outside her area of expertise. She was only responsible for fighting.

The farther she walked, the heavier the yin energy became. If this went on, even the livestream viewers might discover that something was wrong, which would go against the original purpose of her livestream. Fortunately, this corridor was almost at its end. All the ward doors were shut. When the light from the phone shone over, the livestream room instantly exploded.

“There’s someone there! There’s someone in the corner!”

“Holy crap, shouldn’t you be saying there’s a ghost at a time like this?”

“Is this real? I saw it too! It couldn’t be arranged by the streamer, right?”

“Emmm, landing directly on the homepage plus this kind of stunt… hype, maybe? And it gives the feeling that she has some kind of shady relationship with the website’s higher-ups.”

Their fear and suspicion did not have time to last for long before a hand suddenly reached in through the window beside her!

And it came from outside the window.

Outside the third-floor window!