C'mon, come into the room with me

Inside the water valve room, Jiang Chen noticed heavy footsteps rapidly approaching, accompanied by a strong smell of disinfectant. Before long, they reached the fifth-floor corridor.

"Oh, so you hid in here!"

Heavy chopping sounded against the door outside.

Bang! Bang!

Two chops split the security door open.

Jiang Chen's eyelid twitched. With what little strength he had left, this ghost could probably slap him to death with a single blow.

The female ghost entered apartment 502 but found no one.

"Hehehe, so sneaky. I'm going to get your answer!" She suddenly rushed back out and headed straight downstairs.

The two people squeezed into the cramped water valve room let out sighs of relief at the same time.

The woman was relieved because the ghost had left for now.

Jiang Chen was relieved because he could barely keep his boner down anymore.

"My name is Chen Xue. You can think of me as a specialist who handles supernatural incidents, or call us Unusual Persons." Chen Xue removed the hand she had kept over Jiang Chen's mouth. In the darkness, an almost imperceptible blush rose on her pretty face.

"As for being rude earlier, I'm not going to apologize. I did save your life, after all."

"From now on, stay close to me. You still have a chance of surviving!"

As she spoke, she pushed open the wooden door. The talisman paper on it fell off, spontaneously igniting in midair and burning to ash.

"First, let's get out..." Chen Xue stopped halfway through her sentence, her expression darkening.

At the pitch-black turn of the staircase between the fifth and fourth floors, a blood-covered woman carrying a knife was quietly peeking around the corner. Her completely ruined face, stripped of all its features, seemed to be smiling.

"So you were hiding here. You can tell me now, can't you? Am I beautiful?" The cold, hoarse voice sent chills down their spines.

Her expression grim, Chen Xue held two fingers together like a sword and gripped a yellow paper talisman, rapidly chanting, "Mystic source of heaven and earth, root of all vital energy. Through countless eons of cultivation, manifest my divine power."

"Golden Light Talisman!"

Meanwhile, the female ghost had already charged up the stairs with a pointed knife as long as a forearm. "You aren't answering. Do you think I'm not beautiful?"

In a few strides, she reached Chen Xue and hacked down with the knife.

The talisman between Chen Xue's fingers burst with golden light and struck the blade.

Clang!

Metal rang against metal. The knife flew out of the ghost's hand, and she shrieked as she was hurled backward onto the stairs.

"Badass." Jiang Chen's eyes lit up. He hadn't expected Daoist magic to actually exist.

But the next moment, Chen Xue staggered backward and slammed into him. He felt a tremendous force hit him, driving his back into the wall and nearly making him cough up blood.

"Ah..." Chen Xue cried out in pain and clutched her shoulder. That strike had torn her wound open again.

Even worse, she had to divert her true qi to suppress the ghost qi eating away at her. After activating that Golden Light Talisman, she no longer had enough true qi to fight.

"Damn it! An intermediate vicious ghost should have been easy to deal with. Who knew there was another ghost in this damned place!"

Frustration filled Chen Xue's face as she glanced back at Jiang Chen. "My true qi is almost gone. In a moment, I'll hold her back for as long as I can, even if it kills me. Run downstairs, get outside, and contact the Public Security Office. Tell them to send an Unusual Person. Understand?"

Jiang Chen nodded.

By then, the female ghost had climbed back to her feet, retrieved her knife, and advanced on them again. She seemed delighted when she spotted Jiang Chen. "Oh, there's a handsome young man here too. Do you think I'm beautiful?"

Jiang Chen glanced at her. "You're very pretty, miss."

"No!" Chen Xue hadn't managed to stop him in time. Her face fell. "You answered her question. She'll haunt you until you die!"

Sure enough, the ghost's laughter grew colder. "Oh? You really think I look beautiful like this? Then how about I make you look the same?"

As she spoke, the knife in her hand inexplicably began dripping blood-a sign that she was about to attack.

"Why would you do that? Everyone is a unique flower. Ghost girl, that's far too extreme!" Jiang Chen shook his head.

"But if I don't, how can you prove you really think I'm beautiful?" The female ghost sneered.

"Easy!" Jiang Chen's eyes seemed to brighten. He grabbed her icy wrist. "C'mon! Come into the room with me!"

She froze for a moment. When she caught on, even her ghostly face stiffened.

What are we going into the room for? Isn't this moving way too fast? Ghost qi +10.

"Come on, ghost girl. Let me explore your beauty in depth!" Jiang Chen tugged hard at her. His burning gaze left even the disfigured ghost stunned.

Why is he looking at me like that? Does he actually want to fuck me?

I'm a ghost!

Ghost qi +20.

Chen Xue stood to the side, equally dumbfounded.

Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined things would take this turn.

Seeing that the ghost wouldn't move, Jiang Chen stepped forward, wrapped an arm around her, and breathed warmly against her neck. "What's wrong? Feeling shy?"

The disfigured ghost shuddered violently and sprang away like a startled kitten.

Fuck! He's flirting with a ghost? Is he the devil? Ghost qi +30.

Of course, those were merely instinctive reactions born of bewilderment.

Once the female ghost calmed down, she suddenly grabbed Jiang Chen. "Fine, let's go inside. But if your feelings for me aren't sincere, I'll destroy your entire face, little by little!"

The man and the ghost entered the bedroom of apartment 502.

The moment they entered, the ghost seized Jiang Chen and pinned him against the wall. A chilling smile appeared on her mangled face. "Hehehe, I forgot to mention something. Since you love me so much, surely you're willing to look a little more like me?"

"Haah..." Jiang Chen sighed.

This ghost wasn't as easy to fool as the Building-Jumping Ghost. He had only farmed sixty points of ghost qi this time, and he already had to activate a Monster Transformation Card.

"Whatever. There's one last burst of ghost qi when a ghost dies for good, and that's the biggest one."

"Use Monster Transformation Card-"

"Red Python Demon!"

Jiang Chen's body transformed. His muscles swelled, his skin grew as tough as steel, and his blood burned like a blazing furnace as surging demonic power coursed through him.

Ding! Randomly drawn divine ability-Demonic Python Strength!

The female ghost froze. The man before her seemed to have grown taller, and the wrist in her grip had become incredibly hard. Touching it even hurt.

Above all, his gaze had turned razor-sharp in an instant, as though the little rabbit she had been free to toy with had suddenly transformed into an apex predator.

"Heh..." Jiang Chen's lips curled upward as confidence filled him. He stared straight at the female ghost holding her knife aloft. "Ghost girl, why be so obsessed with appearances?"

"Hmph! It's easy for you people to talk! Once you're as ugly as I am, you'll understand how vicious other people's stares can be!" Her body shook uncontrollably as she raised her knife like a madwoman and stabbed at Jiang Chen's face.

"I get it. You're not very confident about your looks." Jiang Chen wore an expression of understanding. "That's easy enough. I'm an extremely amateur doctor, and I can help you solve this problem permanently."

"Theoretically, all it takes is a minor operation to remove the bodily tissue above your neck. Then no one will care about your appearance anymore!"

His words left the ghost stunned.

There's really an operation that amazing?

Wait, removing everything above my neck... isn't that just chopping my fucking head off? You bastard!

Ghost qi +30.

"I'll hack you to death!" The female ghost's face twisted with malice.

Jiang Chen reached out and, with terrifying strength, caught the wrist driving the knife down at him. With almost brutal ease, he crushed her bones in his grip.

The knife fell. He caught it and hacked down.

Roll, roll...

A head hit the floor.