Make Fear Feel Fear

After Xin Yang entered the trial space.

What greeted his eyes was a crooked little shop built from red bricks.

The entire space was only about two hundred square meters.

There was nothing in the space except that little shop and a dilapidated cement road that had fallen into disrepair over the years.

Under the dim lights of the little shop stood a rat covered from head to toe in rotting pustules... It was tidying the shelves as it paced back and forth through the shop. Calling it a ratman seemed more fitting!

The pustules on the ratman's black fur occasionally oozed thick yellowish-white fluid.

An emotion called fear surged into Xin Yang's heart.

His legs immediately went weak.

After a bang!!!

Xin Yang dropped onto the ground on his butt.

Sitting there, his legs began to tremble slightly.

The ratman inside the little shop seemed not to have heard the commotion outside.

It turned a deaf ear to the sound Xin Yang had made when he fell outside the shop.

It continued organizing the shelves before it!

What sat on those shelves were not ordinary goods.

They were bloody, mangled limbs and chunks of flesh, along with all manner of bizarrely shaped heads. Unknown maggots crawled over the meat and heads.

Like a deranged artist intoxicated by his own collection, the ratman carefully used a bloodstained piece of human skin, one that still bore a visible face, to wipe down those stomach-turning goods.

That disgusting, horrifying sight finally woke Xin Yang from his fantasies of returning to twenty-first-century Earth.

—This world had truly changed!!!

Just as Xin Yang's mouth turned bitter and a wave of acid rose in his stomach, as though he was about to vomit up the small-pot rice noodles he had eaten that morning.

A huge stream of information surfaced in his mind.

After a while, he gradually understood.

The standard cheat ability for transmigrators had finally arrived...

It was an ability that allowed him to revive completely and infinitely after being killed by a ghost. Even if his hands or legs had been severed before revival, they would be restored perfectly afterward. It would also randomly plunder one of the ghost's lifespan, attributes, ghostly power, curse ability, or ghost skill.

Each type of ghost could only be plundered three times! After being killed by the same type of ghost more than three times, being killed by another ghost of that same type would no longer grant a plundering reward.

At first, Xin Yang wondered whether this meant he was now undying and indestructible, about to begin an invincible path, like Brother Long, taking on heaven, earth, and even the air.

But the cheat ability sent information into his mind and ruthlessly slapped him awake.

His cheat ability only allowed him to revive after being killed by ghosts. He could still die suddenly, die of old age when his lifespan ran out, or drown and choke to death.

If a human killed him, he would still die!!!

Even worse, if a high-level ghost discovered his weakness, it only needed to bind him with a high-level ghost skill and let him starve to death. Xin Yang's cheat ability still would not be able to revive him.

"I still can't be reckless in this world!"

While Xin Yang weighed the pros and cons of his cheat ability in his mind.

A childish, crisp voice pulled him back to reality!

"Big brother, can you buy me a piece of candy?"

Xin Yang looked up!

A boy of about ten was staring at him from right in front of him.

The boy wore a dark-red cartoon T-shirt.

His eyes darted left and right, looking extremely eerie.

Only when Xin Yang looked closely did he realize that the child... had no whites in his eyes. His eye sockets were completely black.

He also had no nose. From beneath his eyes to above his mouth was a smooth patch of deathly pale skin. Not only was there no nose, there were not even nostrils.

Xin Yang sat on the ground and swallowed with difficulty. Cold sweat poured from his forehead and back, and the fear in his heart spiked as a sense of danger washed over him.

He wanted to stand and run, only to find that every step was a struggle.

His body had become painfully slow from fear, like a machine abandoned for years, stiff beyond belief from lacking care and maintenance!!!

The ghost child looked at Xin Yang's forehead and gave a mischievous smile. "Big brother, are you hot? You're sweating so much!"

Xin Yang could not help feeling deeply embarrassed.

"Not hot... Oh, no... a little... a little hot."

Xin Yang's sluggish movements and stammering voice both revealed just how frightened he was at that moment.

Before this morning, he had merely been a standard stay-at-home nerd living on twenty-first-century Earth. How had he ever seen something like this!

Fear also made him temporarily forget the cheat ability he had just received.

"Cheng Chen, leave the rest to me!"

A cold voice surfaced in Xin Yang's mind.

That familiar voice was like a lifesaving straw, bringing hope to Xin Yang at this moment.

"Brother, you're finally awake."

Amid his panic, Xin Yang felt a trace of delight as he asked in his mind.

"Mm! Let me come out. You sleep for a while," his brother replied in his mind.

"Foolish little brother..."

"You need to understand."

"The best way to eliminate fear is..."

"To make fear feel fear!"

After saying that, his brother instantly came out and took control of the body. At the same time, he blocked all of his younger brother's senses!

Within mere seconds of coming out, his brother understood the use of that cheat ability.

Then he stood, dusted off his butt, and looked at the ghost child before him.

The Candy-Buying Ghost looked at the man before him, who had suddenly risen to his feet. He began twisting his neck to loosen his body while cracking his finger joints, bending his fingers to angles no normal person could achieve.

Just moments ago, the Candy-Buying Ghost had felt the man's aura of fear practically overflowing into the heavens.

Yet now, not only had that aura of fear vanished from the man, he was staring at him with a strange smile.

A smile so creepy that it made even him bristle!

The Candy-Buying Ghost suddenly felt as though the air around them had frozen solid.

"Hiss~ Little friend, do you want some candy?"

Xin Yang's brother reached out and stroked the Candy-Buying Ghost's head!

That chilling smile hung on his face.

The Candy-Buying Ghost instinctively took half a step back.

Only after freezing for a moment did he realize that he was the real ghost!

"Yes, big brother. Can you buy me candy?"

The Candy-Buying Ghost grinned, revealing a mouthful of ink-black teeth.

Xin Yang's brother vigorously rubbed the Candy-Buying Ghost's head.

"Sure! Big brother will buy you some. What kind of candy do you want?"

As he spoke, Xin Yang's brother took the Candy-Buying Ghost's little hand and led him toward that eerie little shop.

Xin Yang's brother even scolded him in the tone of a parent:

"Look at you. Your teeth turned black because you ate too much candy."

"After big brother buys you candy, I'll help treat your teeth."

When they arrived at the entrance of the little shop.

Xin Yang's brother shouted loudly:

"Boss, I'm buying candy!"

The ratman inside the little shop looked surprised.

Then a standard smile formed on its rotting face. "What kind of candy would you like, customer? My Gallbladder Candy and Liver Candy are specialties, both made from fresh living creatures' gallbladders and livers through more than ten processes."

Xin Yang's brother lowered his head and asked the Candy-Buying Ghost.

"What kind of candy do you want?"

The Candy-Buying Ghost said happily:

"Boss, do you have Heart Candy?"

"Yes, little customer! How many would you like?"

At that moment, Xin Yang's brother spoke first:

"I'll buy three!"

"Certainly, customer. This shop offers flexible payment methods. Your total purchase is nine ghost coins. Will you pay with ghost coins or lifespan?" The ratman rubbed its hands together with a fawning expression.

Xin Yang's brother smiled and said:

"Lifespan. I don't have ghost coins."

"Certainly, customer. The price of three Heart Candies is nine days of lifespan, which has been automatically deducted. Please take your goods!"

After receiving the Heart Candies, Xin Yang's brother curiously observed the Heart Candy still beating thump-thump in his hand, then handed one to the Candy-Buying Ghost.

The Candy-Buying Ghost took the Heart Candy and eagerly devoured it.

In an instant, Xin Yang's brother felt his vision blur before gradually turning dark.

At the final moment before Xin Yang's brother completely lost consciousness!

A message surfaced in his mind!

[You have been killed by the Candy-Buying Ghost. Drawing a random reward from the target.]

[Lifespan increased: one month.]

Who knew how much time passed.

It might have been seconds, or it might have been minutes.

Xin Yang's brother felt as though he were drifting through chaos.

His consciousness slowly began to return.

The ratman was scolding the Candy-Buying Ghost.

"Brat, if you want to eat, go eat somewhere else. Don't dirty the entrance to my shop."

Xin Yang's brother felt himself being dragged in another direction. But his mind was still muddled, and he could not open his eyes.

A faint pain began to pulse in Xin Yang's brother's left hand.

After a while longer, Xin Yang's consciousness finally returned completely.

When he opened his eyes, he found the Candy-Buying Ghost gnawing on the little finger of his left hand.

Xin Yang's brother smiled happily.

"Is it tasty?"

The Candy-Buying Ghost stared at the man before him in shock.

Wasn't he dead?

Before the Candy-Buying Ghost could think it through.

The man spoke again:

"Wait for big brother a moment."

Xin Yang's brother stood and once again headed toward the little shop.

Soon, he arrived at its entrance.

"Boss, do you have a knife here? Lend it to me for a while."

The ratman inside the little shop looked at the human before it with a puzzled expression.

"Customer, weren't you..."

"Boss, are you trying to say that I was already dead?"

"But right now, I'm asking whether you have a knife. Lend it to me for a while."

Xin Yang's brother continued asking the ratman with a smile.

If not for the sinister environment around them, Xin Yang's smile would have been enough to make people feel as though they were bathing in a spring breeze.

Yet when the ratman saw the smile on Xin Yang's brother's face, it felt as though it had fallen into an endless ice cellar, freezing to the bone.

"Certainly, customer. Please wait a moment."

After saying that, the ratman turned and walked into the little shop. Reaching the third shelf, it casually pulled out a knife and headed back toward the entrance.

The ratman handed the knife to Xin Yang at the shop entrance with both hands.

"Thank you, Boss. I'll return the knife later."

With that, Xin Yang's brother carried the knife over to the Candy-Buying Ghost.

He vigorously rubbed the Candy-Buying Ghost's head again and said with a smile:

"Big brother is back."

Then he gripped the knife in his right hand and chopped down toward his own left palm.

With one slash, Xin Yang's brother's left palm was severed and dropped to the ground.

Scarlet blood poured from Xin Yang's brother's wrist and splashed across the ground.

The pink flesh and nerves at his wrist twitched from the pain!

Xin Yang's brother's face instantly turned pale, and beads of cold sweat the size of soybeans formed across his forehead, but he still smiled and remarked:

"This knife is really sharp. Little friend, don't you like eating big brother's hand? Big brother cut it off for you. Hurry and eat."

"Oh, right!"

"Before you eat, tell big brother, 'Can you buy me candy, big brother?'"

The Candy-Buying Ghost was frightened speechless by the ruthless spectacle before him.

When Xin Yang's brother saw that the Candy-Buying Ghost remained silent for so long, the smile on his face slowly vanished. Suddenly, his expression turned grim.

He viciously gripped the Candy-Buying Ghost's neck with his right hand, veins bulging across his arm, and said in a dark tone:

"Children need to be obedient..."

"If you don't behave, you'll be punished!"

"Hurry up and ask big brother if he can buy you some candy."

Candy-Buying Ghost looked at the handsome yet sinister and terrifying man before him. At once, he had the illusion that he was the normal person, while this man was the truly bizarre one.

Candy-Buying Ghost could only nod weakly.

Then Xin Yang released his hand. That "spring-breeze smile" appeared on his face once more.

"Big brother, can you buy me some candy?"

Big brother said delightedly, "Of course!"

Xin Yang picked up his own left palm from the ground.

With a sickly expression, he forcefully stuffed his palm into Candy-Buying Ghost's mouth.

The rat-man inside the convenience store watched the scene outside, and goosebumps erupted all over his body.

Before long, Candy-Buying Ghost finished eating Xin Yang's left hand.

Xin Yang's consciousness grew hazy once again.

He sensed himself collapsing.

[You have been killed by Candy-Buying Ghost. Drawing a random reward from the opponent.]

[Attribute obtained: Ghost Energy +1]

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