"Don't look up, don't do anything, and don't disturb them."
Though fear had seized his throat, Bai Yi gritted his teeth and, in a rare show of resolve, quietly warned the Investigators around him who had also noticed something amiss.
The Investigators went rigid as well, instinctively stopping themselves from looking up and staying where they were.
Because Yin Qin had told him.
If there were no karmic ties between you, most departed souls would not bother you. Many simply repeated the patterns of their lives in a daze, and even if something attracted them, they were unlikely to feel any urge to attack.
As long as you did not disturb them, they would not disturb you.
Cold sweat trickled down Bai Yi's back.
His sword hand trembled slightly.
But as though something had caught the scent of the unusual aura on him-
A pale hand.
It slowly reached down from above and settled on his shoulder. An icy chill spread through him, making Bai Yi shudder instinctively.
Strands of long hair slowly drooped over his forehead.
Bai Yi did not dare look up. He kept his gaze fixed straight ahead, knowing that his earlier stare and fear had clearly attracted the attention of some departed souls.
Slowly.
A woman's pale, upside-down face descended past his forehead, inch by inch, into his field of vision.
Staring straight into his eyes.
Bai Yi's heart leaped into his throat. He could even clearly see the cut on the inverted "person's" neck, so deep it exposed bone. That seemed to have been her cause of death: her throat had been slit with a sharp blade. This "person" who had noticed him probably had not died a natural death.
But she did not seem to be a Vengeful Ghost either.
Perhaps she had died