Boom!
I was so startled that my back slammed into the door. Seeing Qiao Anying up close, I found her face blue and green—the green was her skin, while the blue was the vein-like network beneath it. It was clear that the purity of her energy far surpassed mine. As for her eyes, they were still milky white, and when she stared at me with them wide open, she was truly frightening.
"Why... enter my... household..." Qiao Anying's face was ghastly green. When her mouth opened and closed, that bloody maw split all the way to her earlobes. Row upon row of teeth made me completely certain she could scrape my head clean off with a single bite.
Those eyes gradually sank lower, and my heart rose into my throat. My face kept turning cold. Clearly, Qiao Anying was being very wary of outsiders now and did not like people entering her room.
"Why... enter my... household..." While I hesitated, Qiao Anying asked again. Her face was practically pressed against mine. One of my hands touched a paper talisman, while the other gripped the doorknob. My heart pounded wildly. Could she think I was Yang Zhenglin?
Based on my years of experience raising ghosts, no matter how lucid her memories were, in her current state she could not be that clever. Her resentment must still be lingering from the last time Yang Zhenglin had entered the room while she was alive, causing her to mistake me for Yang Zhenglin and demand to know why I had entered her household.
If I answered incorrectly, she would undoubtedly attack me at once. Then my newly refined immortal body would be the one to suffer.
"Qiao Anying... Sister Ying... I'm Xia Yitian... I'm also with the patrol team, but all the lodging is