The two of us had reached an understanding and could get along peacefully.
But that understanding wasn't much use. We could barely keep ourselves safe as it was, and doing anything was difficult.
My main concern was that once Yuan Xiaomei accepted reality, she might use her status as a ghost to cause trouble. Whether she did it now or waited until Ye Qing or I killed the Guangyuan Mountain Ghost and left, it would be a huge problem.
Yuan Xiaomei had probably argued with me out of a moment of loyalty. She might also have been testing me, but that didn't matter to me.
There wasn't much I could do about Yuan Xiaomei, either. But if I saw what was happening and did nothing, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. It was like seeing a stranger drive drunk: I should say something or call the police. If he got into an accident, it would be one thing if he killed himself, but if he killed someone else, I'd feel guilty as a bystander.
I felt I'd done my duty, so I decided to keep walking into the forest.
Yuan Xiaomei followed me.
I stopped.
"I won't get in your way. You said that after I investigated, I shouldn't rush to make the results public. I agree. But you also have to prove that what you said is true, right? You're trying to find a way out of here, and you want to kill that ghost, too, don't you?" Yuan Xiaomei said.
She seemed determined to stick with me.
Thinking of all the things the Guangyuan Mountain Ghost had done, I didn't put up much resistance.
If we kept walking like this, he might send me somewhere else again.
I turned around and kept walking.
Yuan Xiaomei walked