Could I Really Have Run Into a Ghost? (Please Bookmark and Follow)

The world before his eyes was sunny and bright, filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

But to Xu Yang, it was a little too bizarre and colorful. Some colors were glaringly vivid, while others were dim to the extreme. They were all jumbled together like a chaotic stew, making his head ache.

Could this be how wolves see the world? I think Animal World mentioned something like this before.

During middle and high school, Xu Yang's parents had been quite strict. Forget playing on his phone—even his TV time was limited... His parents, hoping he would become successful, wanted him to devote all his attention to studying and restricted most of his entertainment. As a result, Xu Yang's life had been like a spring. The harder he had been suppressed during those first six years, the more fiercely he had rebounded over the next four.

For all four years of college, Xu Yang had played to his heart's content. In the end, he had fallen so far as to become a delivery rider. It was rather ironic...

Still, television had been Xu Yang's only form of entertainment throughout those six years of middle and high school. Even now, he still retained blurry impressions of programs like Man and Nature and Great Detective on CGTV7.

Xu Yang had also been somewhat mentally prepared for the fact that wolves were color-blind animals.

"Grrr~~~"

Just as he was about to lazily roll over, Xu Yang's stomach growled.

Damn, I'm hungry again? How is that possible...

Even if Xu Yang was only an Animal World enthusiast, he knew that was impossible. Last night, he had eaten half a deer in one go—at least forty or fifty jin of meat. How could he be hungry after just one night's sleep? That digestive ability was far too contrary to common sense. If all wolves in this world had that kind of appetite and digestion speed, they would probably have gone extinct long ago.

Could that trash system be pulling some ghostly nonsense?

A pixelated panel appeared before Xu Yang. This time, he did not complain, since complaining would be useless anyway...

Very quickly, Xu Yang noticed something different on the system panel from before.

Resources: 1/3

Resources?

Xu Yang had no idea where those resources had come from. The system notification last night had been too quiet, and at the time, he had seemed possessed, wholeheartedly gulping down deer blood. Now, he could not make heads or tails of it.

He focused his consciousness on the newly appeared white question mark beside the Resources box.

Kill living creatures to obtain resources. When sufficient resources have been accumulated, they can help the host level up.

Huh? Is there a limit on what counts as a living creature? Does it work whether they're stronger or weaker than me?

There was no response whatsoever to Xu Yang's question. Clearly, this system was not intelligent. It could only follow the program it had been created with, activating one function whenever one condition was fulfilled.

Although the system had not answered his question, Xu Yang still felt a little relief.

He had just arrived in another world. He was surrounded by wilderness, had no one to talk to, and had become a wolf. The immense pressure on Xu Yang was easy to imagine. But now, having learned through the system that there was a path to advancement, the exhaustion weighing on him abruptly eased. It gave Xu Yang the feeling that a new path had opened where there had seemed to be none.

As long as he could level up, with the system's help, he would be able to protect himself even in this completely unfamiliar other world.

Letting out a long breath, a little light appeared in Xu Yang's eyes.

Since he was here, he might as well make the best of it. His top priority now was to learn about the surrounding environment and kill living creatures to collect resources.

Rolling over and getting to his feet, Xu Yang first relieved his bladder in the grass, then walked to a pond dozens of meters away to drink.

As he drank, Xu Yang recalled the route he had taken last night.

Beyond this small rift valley, to the east lay the wild meadow where he had hunted the wild deer last night. About fifty meters farther east was the forest. The place where he had fought the leopard last night was in that forest. To the south and west, he had only glanced over them while returning. The south seemed to be a relatively open hilly region. Although the vegetation was still dense, compared with the forest's depth and mystery, it appeared brighter and warmer. To the west stretched an endless mountain range, steep and treacherous, shrouded in clouds and mist, connected to the mountain behind him.

There were plenty of fierce beasts in the forest. He would avoid them for now and wait until the system helped him level up.

In the end, Xu Yang decided to explore the hills to the south first.

Xu Yang carefully walked along the edge of the rift valley, making sure he would not fall into unnecessary danger again.

After crossing the wild meadow, the morning sunlight filtered through sparse clouds and fell across his body, bringing a touch of warmth. Xu Yang discovered one advantage: after becoming a wolf, he could run incredibly fast. Even walking leisurely was faster than running at full speed in his previous life.

He soon arrived at the hilly region to the south. The terrain here rose and fell, but it was relatively gentle. Vegetation was dense and trees grew in clusters, yet gaps between them still revealed the distant sky.

Xu Yang took a deep breath of fresh air. When he did not detect the scent of any other fierce beasts, his mood immediately brightened.

Colorful butterflies flitted back and forth among the leaves, and pleasant birdsong occasionally drifted through the air.

The trees in these hills were not as thick as the ones in the forest, where it took five or six people linking arms to encircle a trunk. Here, there were more unknown plants of varying heights, densely packed together, with primitive wilderness seeping from every corner.

Peaceful. Tranquil.

The deeper he went, the more Xu Yang's initially relaxed mood tightened again. It was not because he had discovered a fierce beast, but because something was wrong with these hills!

He had walked for at least half an hour, yet aside from birds and insects, he had not found a single trace of any land animal... This unusual phenomenon made Xu Yang uneasy, and he decided to withdraw for the time being.

However, just as Xu Yang was preparing to turn around, he suddenly felt restless, as though something bad was about to happen. The feeling was like standing atop a skyscraper rooftop without guardrails, his hands and feet sweating.

Could some beast already have its eyes on me?

Xu Yang stopped in the middle of turning around. Sure enough, that faint chill vanished, as though it had never existed at all.

Damn, something really is watching me!

Xu Yang panicked a little. This sense of danger was different from last night's. At least he could see and smell the leopard last night. But now, Xu Yang had pricked his ears straight up, yet he still could not hear any movement, nor could he smell the scent of a predator.

The unknown was the most terrifying. Xu Yang was now even afraid that he had attracted something unclean...

Could this world I transmigrated into be a supernatural world with ghosts?

Xu Yang feared unclean things the most. In his previous life, he had never dared watch supernatural films. In elementary school, a classmate had tricked him into watching one once, and it had scared him into a serious illness. He had nightmares for a full month.

If his blood pressure could be measured now, it would definitely be off the charts!

His heart pounded like a drum, and Xu Yang felt as though his own imagination was about to scare him to death.

Suddenly, a cool sensation rose from his head and spread from his head to his limbs, instantly soothing his terrified heart.

Phew...

After letting out a long breath, clarity returned to Xu Yang's eyes.