Chapter 25: A Warm Mother and Son

Li Si understood that he was still within Madam Zhang Guo’s memories. Only, he did not quite understand. Had she not already died? Why did she still have memories? Could these be her memories after becoming a ghost?

Just as Li Si was thinking this, a pale bone hand broke through the earth, with remnants of flesh and blood still hanging from it.

Afterward, an arm, a head, a body, thighs, and other parts emerged one after another. A blurry figure with flesh and blood stood in the graveyard. This was precisely Madam Zhang Guo’s appearance after becoming a ghost creature.

The blurry figure looked around, then looked at her own blurry hands. Suddenly, she began howling, “My skin... where is my skin...”

After the figure finished howling, a Human Skin came out from underground and wrapped around her body. She gradually became a refined beauty of a modest household’s daughter.

Only, at this moment, she suddenly seemed to think of something. She touched her belly with her right hand, and the skin on her belly immediately seemed to sense it and revealed an opening.

Her hand reached inside. After groping around for a while, she then smiled sweetly and pulled a dead infant from her belly.

When she saw the dead infant, her hideous face became a little more peaceful. Gently holding the dead infant, she kept stroking it and making soft sounds of comfort, as though the dead infant were still alive.

If one did not pay attention to the black hole in Madam Zhang Guo’s belly and the dead infant, and only listened to the sound, one might think this was a gentle mother doting on her own child.

What surprised Li Si was that as Madam Zhang Guo comforted the infant, her shriveled eyes gradually filled out, becoming an extremely bright pair of eyes.

At this moment, the little foot of the child he had thought was a dead infant suddenly twitched, and a pair of deathly gray eyes slowly opened.

At this moment, Madam Zhang Guo comforted the infant while drifting in one direction. Within the hazy space, that direction faintly showed the appearance of a county town.

Afterward, Li Si witnessed Madam Zhang Guo using Deception in the Zhang Residence to make the people of the Zhang Residence suspect one another and kill one another. She also made Squire Zhang personally kill his wife, then tortured Squire Zhang to death.

After that, she used the Deception ability again to make these people think they were still alive. Thus, in the eyes of outsiders, the Zhang Residence remained the same as before, except that the mistress of the household had changed.

And Madam Zhang Guo seemed to have become addicted to killing. She actually leaked the matter of ghosts in the Zhang Residence, and also bewitched Squire Zhang into offering a heavy reward. As a result, many more people died.

As she killed more and more people, her mind became clearer and clearer. Whether killing people had caused her mind to recover, or whether it was the effect of the Womb Ghost’s Spiritual Light ability, no one knew.

At this moment, Li Si also learned that Zhang Yu in the Zhang Residence had long since been tortured to death by Madam Zhang Guo. Afterward, the Zhang Yu that these servants thought they knew was the Womb Ghost.

They had been deceived by Madam Zhang Guo and had always believed that Squire Zhang’s son was still alive.

Seeing this, Li Si no longer had any interest in continuing. He already knew what had happened afterward, and he did not want to waste more time.

“Detected twenty-three newly dead souls nearby. Let them enter reincarnation?” When Li Si came out of Madam Zhang Guo’s memories, he suddenly received a message.

“What is this?” His heart stirred, and he saw dead souls drifting over one after another from around the Zhang Residence. They were precisely the male and female servants of the residence.

These dead souls floated before Li Si, looking at him with hopeful eyes. They excitedly said something to one another, but not even the slightest sound came out.

Some ghost creatures even wanted to come closer to him, but because they were wary of the Decapitated Ghost and the Womb Ghost beside him, they did not dare make any move.

At this moment, Li Si felt as though something in his palm was stirring restlessly. At the same time, a piece of information appeared in his mind.

Reincarnation: You can deliver dead souls, allowing them to enter reincarnation and begin anew.

Li Si’s heart stirred. He raised his hand toward this group of dead souls, and immediately had a feeling that as long as a thought moved in his mind, these ghost creatures could be absorbed into reincarnation by him.

When the dead souls saw Li Si raise his left hand, joy appeared on all their faces. They immediately all knelt down and kowtowed to him.

Li Si did not hesitate inwardly either. Following the thought in his mind, his hand seemed to produce a force of suction. The dead souls in the courtyard were absorbed by his hand one by one, then vanished.

At the same time, streams of information entered his mind.

“Delivered dead soul Yang Er into reincarnation. Gained 1 soul point.”

“Delivered dead soul Wang Lan into reincarnation. Gained 1 soul point.”

“Delivered dead soul Han Guang into reincarnation. Gained 1 soul point.”

“This delivery gained 23 soul points.”

Li Si was somewhat stunned. This had actually directly given him twenty-three soul points. This was something he had never imagined.

He had not encountered this in the game before, though of course, that was also related to the fact that he had not played it for very long.

After his astonishment came joy. This let him know that in this world, he now had another method of obtaining soul points. Only, this method did not give him many soul points.

Li Si’s heart suddenly trembled. He suddenly thought of an especially quick method of obtaining soul points.

But he immediately threw this thought away. He would rather be killed by something strange than do that. Otherwise, even if he survived, he would be a beast. How would he be any different from Squire Zhang?

At this moment, he also looked toward Squire Zhang, who stood alone in the empty space.

“Wasting one soul point really is a bit of a pity.” A trace of regret appeared in Li Si’s words. Looking at the renewed hope in Squire Zhang’s eyes, a cold look appeared in his own, and he said word by word, “But I would rather make you... never... be... reborn... for... all... eternity!”

The moment his words fell, a deathly bluish tongue shadow flashed past, and the Decapitated Ghost at the side burped.

“Let’s go. It is time for us to clean up as well. I did say I would collect their corpses.” Li Si stretched lazily. At this moment, his mood finally relaxed, and the two ghosts followed behind him.

Li Si began cleaning up in the Zhang Residence courtyard alone. Fortunately, the broken limbs in the Zhang Residence were all in this main hall, so cleaning up was relatively simple. He joined together all the corpses as best he could and placed them in the courtyard of the main hall.

During the process of piecing them together, what made him both happy and sad was that he had already lost his sense of reverence toward corpses.

What made him happy was that without reverence, he would have stronger adaptability when he encountered terrifying things in the future.

But this was also sad. He felt that he was no longer like his former self, and was even growing farther and farther from a normal person.

After arranging them, he also felt that his body was almost completely drained. Then he took the two ghosts into the Dead Jade, dragged his heavy body to the main gate of the Zhang Residence, and prepared to open the door and walk out.

At this moment, he happened to hear a burst of knocking and noisy shouts.

Among the shouts, there was no lack of voices saying things like, “Hand over Scholar Li.”