Chapter 72: The Transverse Bone in the Throat

Chapter 72: The Transverse Bone in the Throat

“Bai Jia, do you know her?”

The film emperor Bai Jia struggled up from the ground, trying hard to look less disheveled, but he was still suspiciously hunched over.

His balls hurt.

He really was in pain everywhere below the waist.

“I do not know her.”

Bai Jia looked at the female ghost with a disgusted yet frightened expression.

Although he did not know what had happened, judging from the situation, he probably did not need to worry about the female ghost harming him anymore.

Pei Ye then turned to the female ghost and asked, “And you? Do you have anything to say? Bai Jia says he does not know you, but you previously said you were Bai Jia’s girlfriend and that Bai Jia killed you and your child. You should understand, this is your only chance to tell the truth.”

Bai Jia was completely stunned.

“What nonsense is this? When did I date her, have a child with her, and then kill them? I am in a relationship with my wife, she is my first love!”

The two of them had completely opposite reactions, and their statements were entirely different.

The female ghost had originally been terrified of Pei Ye, but upon hearing Bai Jia’s words, her surging ghost energy almost went out of control again as she bared her teeth at him.

She refuted his words.

Her mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out. However, the underworld messenger and Ye Wei outside the window could both understand it.

Pei Ye raised her eyebrows and asked Ye Wei.

“What did she say?”

Before Ye Wei could relay the female ghost’s words, the underworld messenger spoke.

“There is a transverse bone in her throat, so she cannot speak human words you can understand.”

Transverse bone?

Pei Ye knew about this.

It was said that animals cannot speak human language because there is a bone in their throat called the transverse bone.

The most important step for an animal to cultivate into a demon was to shatter this throat bone and refine it, allowing them to speak.

She had only heard of cats and dogs having this bone. Do humans have it too?

Thinking about it, humans are also primates. But that still does not really make sense.

The underworld messenger said, “It should be that someone placed a transverse bone in her while she was alive, preventing her from voicing her grievances even in dreams. If not for this person’s special birth chart, and his strange fortune, this single bone would not only have prevented her from ever speaking again, it could even have caused her intelligence to regress. Tsk, a truly vicious method.”

The female ghost’s crimson eyes almost shed blood tears upon hearing this.

She whimpered something, and both the underworld messenger and Ye Wei’s expressions gradually darkened.

Pei Ye restrained her killing aura and extended two fingers to press at the female ghost’s throat.

The underworld messenger asked, “What are you doing?”

Pei Ye said, “Breaking the transverse bone. I read about something similar in a book before. I will try it.”

The underworld messenger snorted.

“A transverse bone is not something so easily broken, even Lord Black and White Impermanence could not…”

Before he could finish speaking, the female ghost suddenly began coughing violently, clutching her throat and gasping for air.

The underworld messenger: “…”

The transverse bone…

Broken…

So this woman in front of him really was some thousand year old ghost?

Pei Ye crouched down and patted the female ghost’s back, saying to her, “If you have something to say, speak directly.”

No one except Pei Ye knew that while she was patting the female ghost’s back, she quietly took something away.

A piece of bone.

At 23:54, the player (Your Dad) completed the exploration mission “Film Emperor Bai Jia,” Merit +50, Fortune +5.

This mission was completed when Bai Jia was found.

However, after obtaining this bone fragment, another system record appeared.

At 00:03, the player (Your Dad) obtained a mysterious item: mysterious person bone fragment +1, current progress 2/10000.

The moment the transverse bone shattered, the female ghost knew she could speak again.

It had been many years since she last spoke, so she was not very fluent.

She fixed Bai Jia with a gaze full of hatred and complexity, causing his hair to stand on end.

“Miss, I really do not know you. How could I have killed you and your child?”

He finally understood where the scandal rumors came from. It was all this female ghost spreading nonsense.

The female ghost shouted angrily, “Do not know me? How could we not know each other? You made me pregnant, I gave birth to your child, and now you deny everything! Scum!”

Bai Jia: “…”

He suspected the female ghost might have been his extreme fan while alive, and after death her delusions had not been cured.

The female ghost said coldly, “My name is Qin Jie. My parents call me Niuniu. My family lived in a very small and poor village. That place was very poor, and the mindset of valuing sons over daughters was severe. Families without sons would buy children from traffickers. That is when he came.”

Although she was relatively fortunate, and her parents also valued sons over daughters, they did not stop her from going to school.

She successfully left the village and went to junior high school. When she returned, she heard that the childless old Wang family next door had gained a son.

A son who had been burned by fever into confusion, someone who remembered nothing.

At this point it was already clear. Bai Jia was the precious son bought by the old Wang family.

Although this “precious son” was already fourteen and very hard to raise, he had suffered a fever that damaged his mind and erased his memories. The Wang family, hearing this, and seeing that Bai Jia was handsome and well behaved like a refined young man, even better looking than television stars, believed that raising him would improve their family genes. So they spent over ten thousand yuan to buy him.

Bai Jia, who remembered nothing, and the female ghost, who was simple and naive.

Naturally, the two of them became what adults called childhood sweethearts and a perfect match, and marriage followed naturally.

One year later, Old Wang, who had bought Bai Jia to continue the family line, died.

He was hacked into more than a dozen pieces with a wood chopping knife and dumped into a nearby reservoir where his body swelled from soaking.

Villagers suspected Bai Jia, but he had an alibi.

This leads back to the relationship between the female ghost and Bai Jia.

The female ghost opposed the arranged marriage, but was also infatuated with Bai Jia’s appearance.

The two young people resisted each other yet inexplicably fell for each other, much like many youth romance dramas.

When Old Wang died, Bai Jia was secretly with the female ghost, and they had just crossed a forbidden line for the first time.

The first time.

The trigger was that the village head’s son, who ran the village shop, had brought in some rare goods.

These items could temporarily release the desires of long suppressed village men.

When the goods arrived, the village head’s son spoke dirty jokes to Bai Jia, encouraging him to try the pleasures of women, saying that once he tried it, Niuniu would never leave him.

If he did not bind Niuniu now, then when she went to high school and saw the outside world, she would not want to return like other women.

Out of curiosity, Bai Jia and the female ghost stole the items from the shop.

They wanted to see what they were and how to use them.

Why were the older men in the village so obsessed with them?

As they studied it, both of them turned red.

Along with unfamiliar stirring emotions, the two seemed to become magnets, irresistibly drawn to each other.

They fell into a tangled mess, exploring how to create life.

With the female ghost acting as witness for Bai Jia, the villagers believed him.

With no men left in the Wang family and Bai Jia unable to support himself, he eventually married into the female ghost’s family.

Her father grinned so widely that his teeth showed.

A son for free.

One year passed, the female ghost became pregnant and gave birth. To care for the child, she had to suspend school and stay home to farm.

At this time, a couple claiming to be Bai Jia’s parents arrived.