I Never Keep My Word
As a human being who is still alive, Yu Xing almost laughed when he heard these words.
I laughed in anger.
He did chuckle, and asked in a normal tone, "Oh, so making the living feel fear and experience death is how you escape oppression... Is that your idea, or the idea of Sheqing Ghost?"
The discouraged Ghost didn't think it had said anything wrong. It assumed Yu Xing agreed, so it grew a little bolder. "This... this is our discouraged Ghost's idea. However, the Sheqing Ghost Boss later agreed with our point of view... The carnival wasn't held every day before. Later, the Sheqing Ghost Boss heard that we liked it, so it's been held every day now."
"This big boss is really good to you guys," Yu Xing said quietly.
The discouraged Ghost couldn't detect the sarcastic tone. "Hmm! Many ghosts like Boss Sheqing. It even said it wanted to do something interesting."
"Something interesting..."
The interesting thing is, are they capturing living people and using their lives to amuse these ghosts?
The discouraged Ghost even explained, "The Boss Sheqing has lived too long; he gets really bored if he doesn't find something interesting to do."
Living too long gets boring.
Yu Xing's fingers trembled almost imperceptibly, and his brows furrowed slightly behind his mask.
That's a good point. If he hadn't been bored, how could he have developed such a dramatic personality?
Testing others' reactions with various actions can also be a kind of fun.
People are fickle; three years can change a person, and even the transition from high school to university can completely overturn a person's worldview.
Yu Xing had been timid and hesitant, serious and unsmiling, gentle and kind, and cold and aloof.
These true aspects of his personality have all faded into the past with time, at most remaining only in his memories that he might forget at any moment.
It was indeed boring, so they wanted to find some fun. From that perspective, the Sheqing Ghost wasn't wrong.
But from a human perspective, the Sheqing Ghost is completely wrong; it is using a cloth covered in errors to plug a hole that will never stop expanding.
This is why Yu Xing directed Zhao Yijiu to slaughter the ghosts, and even killed the girlfriend of this discouraged Ghost himself, yet felt no remorse whatsoever.
The perspectives of the living and the ghosts are different. Perhaps in this Absurd World, the ghosts view the living as the living view livestock.
Who will feel sorry for the dead livestock?
The fact that the ghosts who stayed here to participate in the event did so voluntarily indicates that they all agree with the rhetoric of the discouraged Ghost.
They had long forgotten their past as living beings, placing themselves entirely in opposition to the living. So, once these ghosts vanished, don't expect Yu Xing to feel a single second of remorse.
"Alright, since you've been here so many times, do you know what's in the vending machine?"
He got back to the main topic and glanced sideways at the discouraged Ghost.
The discouraged Ghost's praise of the Sheqing Ghost was interrupted, but it didn't dare to be angry. After hearing Yu Xing's question, it was stunned for a moment. "Vending machine? An automatic vending machine?"
"Are you asking me that?" Yu Xing asked impatiently.
"Ah, no, no, no, I'm sorry!" The discouraged Ghost was so frightened it almost cried again. After thinking carefully for a moment, it hesitated and said, "This vending machine is useless to us. I heard that it was specially set up for the living by the owner of the Sheqing Ghost to give them a chance to resist."
"I came here a few times out of curiosity and took a look, but I couldn't understand it. There were many strange little things inside. The compasses were the most normal ones, but the rest of the objects were very strange. I didn't recognize them at all."
The vending machine that the Sheqing Ghost placed in the Yellow Springs Disco Hall is giving the living a chance to rebel?
Yu Xing remained noncommittal.
"Ha, I see so many ghosts staring at the vending machine. Is this giving the living a chance? Or is it letting the living walk into a trap?"
The discouraged Ghost shook his head. "No, no! The boss, the Sheqing Ghost, said that only by finding the correct way can one safely purchase items. Since the carnival started, occasionally a living person has successfully found the way to purchase them and then survived."
Very good.
It turns out that to use vending machines safely, a special method needs to be found.
This was the clue Yu Xing needed. He always felt that the way the vending machine existed was strange. If it was meant to sell things, it shouldn't be placed in a location where ghosts could be watching it at any time.
They're either using the gimmick of vending machines to lure people into revealing themselves, or they have other methods.
After all, this vending machine was something the system recognized. Compared to ghosts, Yu Xing had a much higher level of trust in the system, and he was already inclined to believe the latter possibility.
There is a method that a living person could do, but it's not so easy to think of...
Yu Xing mentally reviewed everything that had happened inside the bar, and after a long while, as the discouraged Ghost retreated uneasily, she let out a knowing chuckle.
"The solution has always been right in front of us."
"Gurgle..."
The overturned empty trash can was bumped by the discouraged Ghost and rolled in an arc on the ground.
Yu Xing looked at the discouraged Ghost that had been pasted back onto the wall, reached out and pulled it in front of her.
He drew out a wisp of curse power, intending to imprint it on the discouraged Ghost.
"You... you said you wouldn't kill me!" Feeling the terrifying power in Yu Xing's hand, the discouraged Ghost struggled violently, his voice filled with a renewed panic and despair. "I answered everything! Everything I said was true! You said..."
Yu Xing's smile was chilling, not at all like a positive character. "Don't expect to see me keep my word. I never keep my promises when it comes to things I don't like."
He moved closer to the discouraged Ghost, and since he couldn't see the discouraged Ghost's expression, he wanted to remove the discouraged Ghost's mask.
Yu Xing pinched the edge of the mask and lifted it up. "You've clearly seen so much despair in the eyes of so many living people, and now that you've shown the same emotion in your own eyes, is that retribution? Hmm? Just think of it as... me, the one in red, bullying you."
The skin behind the mask was very white, not the pale white that Yu Xing usually wore, but a cold white.
However, before Yu Xing could see anything, cheers erupted from outside the restroom. "We caught them!"
"We've caught that waiter! Hahahaha... Eat him, eat him! After killing so many ghosts, he deserves to experience being torn apart by them too!"
Yu Xing's attention was diverted for a moment, and the discouraged Ghost took advantage of this moment to turn into a gray mist. Although it returned to its physical form after only a second or two, it was enough to slip away from Yu Xing's grasp.
As it ran out of the toilet, it yelled, "Let me go!"
"..." Yu Xing narrowed her eyes, surprisingly not chasing after him, and just stood there until the discouraged Ghost opened the toilet door and blended into the lively atmosphere of the Yellow Springs Hall.
He tucked his fingers together, then walked towards the circle of ghosts, where the man shouting for the dismemberment of the servant was in the center.