Chapter 14: Appearance

"Sir, she doesn't want to negotiate at all, she wants to possess our bodies." Earth Knight's face changed dramatically as he felt the hairs on his body gradually shrink. Hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth as if to use some highly costly [Skill].

Meanwhile, on the other side.

"I've seen monsters in Journey to the West that spit fire and water, but I've never seen one that spits fragrance." Li Changhe was still lamenting the curse of the ghosts, "It's just a few lines back and forth. Not only is the nature of humans like a tape recorder, but the nature of ghosts and goblins is the same too, huh?"

"Can you please stop provoking her?" Earth Knight cried out in his heart. He considered himself unfortunate to have met such a teammate. He was about to lose his life, and yet Li Changhe was still lamenting the fact that the other party had limited cursing vocabulary.

Compared to Li Changhe, Earth Knight was wrapped in countless hairs. Even with his high base attributes, he was on the verge of losing his life at any moment.

As for the surroundings of Li Changhe, they were quiet. Perhaps the ghosts still wanted to hear him say something more. He sat comfortably on a foldable chair he had brought with him, posing like a commander.

"It's all just for revenge." Li Changhe's voice was filled with a sense of detachment and regret as if he were an old monk who had entered Buddhism, sighing, "You only have this small obsession left. Do you still remember what your original intention was?"

"Shut up!" A cold voice echoed through the room.

The hairs on Earth Knight tightened sharply, and he cursed in his heart, struggling to let out a hoarse voice, "Tell him to shut up, why are you tying me up?"

Seeing that Li Changhe still wasn't tied up by the hairs, Earth Knight felt a sense of injustice in his heart. Why was it that he was the one suffering when it was Li who was speaking?

Nobody paid him any attention.

Li Changhe's heart brightened up. The ghost, or rather, the female ghost wanted to deny Li's views and conclusions. Perhaps to a vengeful spirit who needed to take revenge even after death, obsession seemed more important.

It was also possible that she was planning to take over Li Changhe's body. After all, compared to Earth Knight, Li Changhe was much weaker. It might be easier for her to take control of him.

Both were possibilities.

Although Li Changhe seemed as steady as an old dog right now, he was actually panicking in his heart.

The Lv4 Earth Knight was tied up like a dumpling and had no ability to fight back. Li Changhe couldn't afford to panic either, at least not on the surface.

Buying time was what he had been doing all along.

"You say you want to avenge your lover and make those traitors pay, but have you... forgotten the priorities?" Li Changhe's voice was low, and he faintly noticed something different.

The air around them...became even colder. It wasn't the physiological disgust experienced when the ghost first appeared but an ongoing physical temperature drop.

Carefully activating his [Eagle Eye], he looked at Earth Knight's pale face and saw a mist forming at the tip of his nose.

The mist was formed from the warm breath meeting the cold air due to the body temperature being higher than the outside environment. This meant that the air around them was indeed getting colder, not an illusion!

And this wasn't the ghost's ability.

There was only one possibility.

[Player]

A [Player] who had just finished a [Task] nearby had already arrived and might even be watching, ready to unleash a fatal blow. Was the gradually dropping temperature due to the release of some [Skill]?

"I finally managed to stall until they arrived. Now I just have to create an opportunity for them, huh?" Li Changhe's heart lightened up.

His tone didn't change as he looked at the room, "You can't even remember what your teacher looked like."

In the direct view, the teacher's face was indeed blurred.

"Shut up! What do you know? What can you understand? How could I forget her? How could I..." The female voice sounded furious and authoritative.

After she had said this, silence followed for a few seconds. Even the hair on Earth Knight's body loosened up slightly.

"Indeed... I can no longer remember what she looked like." The previously majestic female voice now sounded a bit lost, "No matter how much I try to recall our past, her face keeps fading away. And it's not just her; even those traitors I hate so much are fading from my memory. Maybe soon, I'll become a ghost without self-awareness. Or perhaps I'll be devoured by that thing underground."

This was true. After the old Yanyun campus was sealed, the ghosts had been silent for a long time. They had been silent so long that even their own consciousness began to blur. It wasn't until the old campus was reopened that they regained some strength.

"But there's still a chance. Now there are many people in Yanyun Middle School." The female ghost murmured, "If it wasn't for you dragging us into this space, I would have been able to recover my strength quickly. I could have left this place and taken my revenge soon!"

Wow! There's quite a bit of information. Li Changhe got several clues.

Firstly, the ghosts didn't know about the [Evolution Game]. They believed that it was the [Players] who had pulled them into this world.

Secondly, the ghosts needed humans to recover their strength. This was more or less in line with the information on the forum. Supernatural creatures rely on human fear or devouring flesh and blood to grow stronger. The only question was which type the female ghost in front of him belonged to.

The third point was noticing what the female ghost had said about the thing underground... Referring to the ghost in the basement? Were they hostile to each other? From her words, it sounded dangerous, even the female ghost who had casually suppressed the two seemed somewhat fearful.

Li Changhe's eyes flashed, getting clues meant that he had plans. Whether he used the [Evolution Game] as an excuse or made the female ghost afraid of other ghosts, he could stall for some time.

But just as he was about to say something, a girl's figure suddenly appeared in the room.

It was the same girl who had passed through Earth Knight's body before.

Her beautiful face was unnaturally pale, and her large eyes had no sparkle. The beautiful long hair she had in her memories was now casually sprawled on the floor. Her black dress emanated black mist, and the hair twisting around as if it had a mind of its own confirmed that this girl was not human.

The female ghost...had revealed her True Body!

Li Changhe's heart tightened. Had he made a mistake in his actions? His right hand slightly dropped, ready to take out the [Blood-stained lead ball] from his [Player Backpack] at any time, while his other hand was also prepared to throw the homemade gasoline bottle.

He didn't have a [Great Wall] kind of ability to get state support and have heavy weapons for self-defense. However, making a few Molotov cocktails for self-protection was still possible. But its effectiveness against ghosts was another question.

"Miss, we can talk about it. It's hard for us to deal with you if you don't follow the rules."

Li Changhe thought that this wasn't part of the plan. If it was about stalling for time, he was a pro. In a single class, if the teacher called on him, he could babble on until the class was over.

He had reached the level of a skilled oil peddler. But when the oil peddler was selling oil, his gourd didn't turn into a gourd baby causing trouble for him.

You revealed your True Body halfway through my speech. Did you doubt my ability to talk nonsense?!