After getting the stuffing beaten out of her, the hunchbacked female ghost finally behaved herself.
After hearing what the hunchbacked female ghost had said, I asked again,
"Why are you so obedient? You guard this place just because you were told to—what's in it for you?"
The hunchbacked female ghost looked aggrieved after hearing that.
"We didn't want to either. It's... it's because Village Chief Lin is too vicious.
He controls all the graveyards around our village.
All of us who died have to listen to him.
After the village chief gave Cheng Xiaohong a betrothal gift, we received his order to follow Cheng Xiaohong's mother here.
Y-young man, I... we were wrong. We were wrong.
We were forced to do it. Forced.
Please spare me! Spare me!"
As she spoke, the hunchbacked female ghost named Li Cuihua dropped to her knees and began kowtowing to me.
But I ignored her. I only felt that the more I dug into Cheng Xiaohong's situation, the bigger it became.
Her dead mother was harming her, and her mother had accepted a betrothal gift from another dead person.
The one who had given the betrothal gift was also extremely powerful in their village, controlling the graveyards and wandering souls around it.
Wasn't that basically a ghostly tyrant?
The hunchbacked ghost before me already had baleful energy around her, and her eyes were beginning to turn from gray to black.
That meant the village chief was most likely an evil spirit, perhaps even an evil ghost.
Now that I had run into something like this, I obviously had to deal with it.
Cheng Xiaohong's mother and that village chief ghost both had to die...
So I asked again,
"How often does Cheng Xiaohong's mother come here? When will she come next?"
The hunchbacked female