Outside Wuzhou City
The Prefectural Office
Dim moonlight bathed the entire courtyard. Thick, sticky blood stretched from the house all the way to the pit behind the yard.
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
A hungry ghost bowed its head and gnawed on half a corpse. It seemed to hear something, and immediately turned to look at the woodpile in the corner of the yard.
Wang Yue was curled up inside the woodpile, both hands clamped tightly over his mouth as he stared in terror at the hungry ghost in the pit!
He couldn't understand why this ghost, whom the other spirits called Brother Qin, had suddenly turned vicious today.
Wang Yue was a transmigrator, but he'd ended up in the body of an orphan. Ever since he could remember, he'd been able to see things other people couldn't. It had turned his whole worldview upside down.
Because Wang Yue was always startled by things no one else could see, people considered him an ill omen.
One day, Wang Yue came across a funeral and wanted to sneak in for a meal. When the family tried to drive him away, the owner of the Prefectural Office took him in instead.
The Prefectural Office dealt with unclaimed corpses and also took on funeral jobs.
After arriving here, Wang Yue had seen even more ghosts. The hungry ghost currently on a rampage was one of them.
A hungry ghost could only fill its belly by eating people, but ever since this one had arrived, it had gone more than six years without attacking anyone.
For some reason, the hungry ghost had suddenly gone on a rampage today. It attacked the owner and ate all nine people at the Prefectural Office, leaving only Wang Yue.
No—
He shouldn't have said "leaving."
The hungry ghost was already carrying