Good Girl, You Can’t Eat This - Chapter 3

Before the viewers in the livestream room could express their own terror, another head popped up right after the hand. He clung to the windowsill and laboriously climbed inside, muttering as he climbed, “Good thing there aren’t any anti-theft bars on the third floor. If this were the fourth or fifth floor, I really wouldn’t have been able to climb up.”

Yes, the first and second floors both had anti-theft bars. There were none from the third floor upward.

Xie Chi looked at him faintly. The young man had just climbed in through the window when he finally saw Xie Chi. He was immediately startled and quickly pulled several talismans out of his pocket. Facing Xie Chi, he began chanting, “May all ghosts retreat! Evil spirits, do not come near!”

Xie Chi said, “I’m alive.”

Young Man: “…”

Xie Chi conveniently used him as a negative example to educate the people in her livestream room. “Many scammers claim they can see ghosts. But as you can see, he can’t even tell whether I’m human or a ghost.”

The young man felt an extreme sense of humiliation. “I’m not! I’m not a scammer! I’m a proper Daoist cultivator! I have certificates!”

He rummaged through his bag and actually pulled out two certificates. One was a Daoist priest certificate, and the other was a Harvard graduation certificate. Mm, the “Harfo” in question was Harbin Buddhist Academy.

Xie Chi remained unmoved. “How much did you pay for each one? They look pretty realistic.”

“I really am one!” The young man felt so wronged he could die. “How do I not look like a Daoist priest?”

In every way.

Even without looking at the comments, Xie Chi knew what the bullet comments were saying right now. Why had she been chosen to livestream in the first place? Wasn’t it because Xie Chi was young and pretty, and instead of looking like someone in this line of work, she looked more like a scammer?

This young man also had delicate, handsome features. He looked to be in his early twenties, no more than twenty-three or twenty-four at most, and he even had a slight bit of baby fat. Saying he looked like an internet celebrity was fine. But saying he looked like a Daoist priest?

Xie Chi said earnestly, “Go home. Don’t wander around outside at night. It isn’t safe. Besides, you climbed up a pipe to the third floor. People who don’t know better might think you came in to steal something.”

“I didn’t. I came here to catch ghosts.” When the young man said this, his expression became serious. “Some time ago, my friend came here to receive treatment and got covered in yin energy. Because of that, he’s been unlucky this whole time. That’s how I traced it here. But you—why are you in this kind of place in the middle of the night?”

Xie Chi showed him her equipment. “I’m a streamer. You should leave. If you don’t, and someone calls the police, you’ll be the unlucky one.”

The young man’s eyes widened. Not only did he show no intention of leaving, he even grabbed Xie Chi and lectured her for a while. The general idea was that even if she did not believe in ghosts and gods, she should still have a heart of reverence. Otherwise, sooner or later, something would happen to her.

Xie Chi could not be bothered with him and walked toward the corner. Earlier, she had vaguely seen a figure there. If this young man had not distracted her, she would not have wasted time here until now.

But by the time she reached the corner, there was nothing there. Only some cardboard boxes remained, piled messily on the ground and covered in dust. They did not look as if anyone had stayed there.

She had already walked through the entire corridor on the third floor and had not discovered anything else abnormal. It was just that the yin energy here was indeed heavier than on the other floors.

Ghosts all carried yin energy on them. Because of this, places like cemeteries and mass graves would make people feel colder even in broad daylight. If a person got a tiny bit of yin energy on them, it would not be a problem. After basking in the sun, that rootless bit of yin energy would disperse.

But if someone often soaked in a place where yin energy overflowed like this, the lighter consequence would be illness. The more serious consequence would be bad luck, a weakened body, and being haunted by ghosts. The result was easy to imagine.

Just this yin energy alone was something that absolutely could not be left alone. But the source of the yin energy was even more important.

Xie Chi observed the ward doors. They were all locked, but she had the keys. Before she came, the hospital’s person in charge had given them to her, and her sect nephew had passed them to her.

That young man was still following behind her and chattering away, advising her to leave quickly, go home, take a bath with pomelo leaves, and sleep properly.

Xie Chi was getting a little annoyed from being nagged, so she turned back and said sincerely, “Then why don’t you find the ghost and catch it? Prove you’re not a scammer. Once you prove it, I’ll leave.”

The young man froze for a moment, then nodded hard. “Then take this! If there really is a fierce ghost, it can keep you safe for a while.”

He handed a peace talisman to Xie Chi, then felt that it was not enough and untied the peachwood sword from his waist. “This is made from lightning-struck wood. It’s a peachwood sword that was offered before a Heavenly Master statue for three years. Take it. Although you won’t be able to bring out its full effect, ordinary little ghosts won’t dare approach you.”

Xie Chi did not use other swords, mainly because the Demon-Slaying Sword at home was very jealous. But since the young man had already shoved it over to her, she did not refuse. She only thought inwardly that this person was not bad, so she should bully him a little less.

“Follow behind me.” The young man took all the keys. “Let me first see where the yin energy is heaviest.”

He pulled out a compass again and lowered his head, chanting under his breath. After a while, he pointed in a direction and said, “The yin energy is heaviest here! Let’s go take a look!”

He was pointing at a room on the left side at the end of the corridor. From the outside, it did not look any different from the other rooms. The young man walked over, and with the light from Xie Chi’s phone, he found the key to that room and opened the door.

Creak—

The sound of the door being pushed open was somewhat grating in the silent corridor. The young man poked his head inside to take a look. His fingertips were still holding two talismans, and his whole body looked especially alert.

Xie Chi was much more casual. She even had time to look at her phone screen. Ever since this young man had appeared, more and more people had begun talking in her livestream room. Most of them regarded the young man as a scammer, laughing and joking as they teased Xie Chi, telling her to scare him or expose him.

Especially after he took out the talismans.

“666, is he a professional scammer? He’s pretty fully prepared! Compass, talismans, peachwood sword—where’s the black dog blood?”

“Haha, that talisman looks so low-quality. It feels like it was printed with a printer.”

“It might also have been bought wholesale from the market. Fifty cents each, no more than that.”

Xie Chi had looked over his peace talisman. It was not drawn especially well, but it was still above the passing line. It definitely had an effect. At the very least, ordinary little ghosts would not be able to approach.

The young man was not very old. To have this level of skill was already not bad.

The path of talismans was not easy. Unless one was especially talented, it depended on accumulated experience. The more talismans one drew, the smoother and better they would naturally become.

Of course, there was no lack of geniuses who could draw top-grade talismans the moment they started, but they were ultimately only a small minority.

“That’s not right. The yin energy here is extremely heavy. How could there be nothing here? Not even a little ghost…” The young man was quite shaken. He muttered to himself as he walked around the room.

When Xie Chi walked in, she also felt it. The yin energy was bone-piercing. A fierce ghost had definitely stayed in this room for a long time. It was even possible that it was still here right now.

Xie Chi followed behind the young man and circled the room twice. She did not feel the yin energy disperse in the slightest, so the chance that the fierce ghost was still here was very high. She vaguely sensed something and quietly raised her head to look upward.

Long black hair hung down like vines, right above her head.

Behind the long hair, a pale ghostly face grinned at her, revealing a strange smile. Xie Chi could even see the placenta and umbilical cord hanging down between its legs. As soon as the blood left its body, it turned into yin energy and scattered.

Xie Chi still remembered her sect nephew’s instructions, so she tilted the camera toward the ground. Otherwise, if she accidentally filmed this ghost, it would be difficult to even make up an explanation afterward.

Leisurely, she crumpled the peace talisman the young man had given her into a ball, then flicked it upward at the female ghost like a marble. The female ghost, who had been grinning eerily, seemed as if she had been flicked hard on the forehead. Her head snapped backward, and her spirit body blurred for an instant. She was completely stunned.

After reacting, she panicked and fled on all fours like a gecko, running faster than anyone else.

There was not much qi attached to the talisman. She had only vaguely sensed another force within it that could make her soul scatter, which was why she hurriedly fled.

By this time, the young man had already searched the room. Holding up his phone and using its built-in flashlight, he began inspecting the ceiling. The more he looked, the more he collapsed mentally. “That shouldn’t be possible! The yin energy is so heavy it’s almost solid. How can there be nothing here?”

“All right, hurry home.” Xie Chi said earnestly, “It’s so late. Don’t you have school tomorrow?”

“I’ve already graduated! No, wait. Do I look that young? I’ve been working for a year already!” The young man argued at first, but probably realized that this would not work and would only make people mistake him for a scammer. So he gritted his teeth and said, “Just you wait! I’ll definitely drag that ghost out and let you see it properly. I wasn’t lying!”

“All right, all right.” Xie Chi nodded perfunctorily. “Then where do we go now?”

“Let’s check next door.” The young man opened the doors on both sides and searched around, but he found nothing. His whole aura visibly wilted, and he kept muttering, “Impossible… how could this happen? I don’t believe it…”

Xie Chi followed behind him and stepped on a ghost head that had just emerged from the ground, pushing it back down with one foot, hiding her achievements and fame.

There were indeed many lonely souls and wandering ghosts in this hospital, but they were all little ghosts. Even the one with the heaviest yin energy was only an ordinary fierce ghost. To Xie Chi, they did not pose any threat at all.

Once she had streamed for a full two hours, she could turn off the livestream and then clear out the entire hospital. After that, she could call her sect nephew over and have him dispel the yin energy here.

So she kindly said, “Why don’t you sit down and rest? Maybe the ghosts saw that you have real skills and are hiding from you. I’ll wander around and see whether I can lure one or two out so you can prove yourself.”

The young man’s baby-fat cheeks instantly turned bright red. He probably thought Xie Chi was mocking him. “There really are ghosts here! I really am not a scammer!”

Xie Chi was just about to speak when she suddenly sensed that the box in her bag was becoming restless. The little tentacles, which had been quiet for a long time, could not help crawling out again.

The tentacles formed from yin energy twisted and writhed, carrying a hint of excitement. They looked exactly like a cat or dog waiting for mealtime. The compass in the young man’s hand spun wildly. He was shocked and tightly clutched the compass, his voice even changing pitch.

“S-such heavy yin energy! Hurry and get behind me!”