Feeling a Ghost's Thigh

"Get out of the way! Move!" Wang Ziteng shouted in alarm and anger, shoving aside Zhao Hao, who stood frozen in terror, and running ahead.

As for Fang Xiu, the moment he saw everyone fleeing for their lives, he had already pressed himself against the wall to keep from being caught in the stampede.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

His coworkers, who had once spent their days sitting in an office, now raced past Fang Xiu like athletes, bringing gusts of wind with them.

Poor Zhao Hao was knocked several times and fell to the side.

"W-wait for me! Young Master Wang! Don't leave me behind!" Li Feifei had scrambled up from the floor. She screamed in terror, her rather pretty face already twisted with fear, her makeup streaked by tears.

She was currently in last place, not only because she had been shoved to the ground, but also because she was wearing heels-sky-high ones.

Of course, it might also have had something to do with the physically demanding activities she had engaged in earlier.

It was worth mentioning that she was wearing not just sky-high heels, but a tight pencil skirt as well. It was snug, flattering, and sexy, but its one drawback was that she couldn't run in it. Anyone with experience would know that once you started running, the skirt would creep up on its own...

"Ah!" Li Feifei had barely taken two running steps before she cried out in pain and fell to the ground.

Her pale, slender ankle was red and swollen.

As it turned out, running in high heels was impossible without risking a twisted ankle.

After falling, Li Feifei paid no attention to the burning pain in her ankle and struggled to get up. But the next second, her vision went dark.

Countless strands of thick, pitch-black hair, like little snakes, blocked her view.

They were the strands of hair hanging down from the Female Physician's head.

Li Feifei's delicate body shuddered, and her heart stopped for an instant. Instinctively, she looked up and met a pale face, its eyes nothing but whites, staring straight at her.

She froze completely, as though all her strength had been drained away in an instant, leaving her unable to move.

Only when the Female Physician's hair fell across Li Feifei's face did its cold, slick touch jolt her out of her stupor.

"Ah!"

Li Feifei let out a shrill scream and frantically crawled forward like a reptile. She couldn't even feel her smooth, tender knees scraping bloody marks against the concrete. All she cared about was escaping.

"S-save me!" she pleaded with Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao.

They were the only two people left in the corridor. Everyone else had already reached the end, turned the corner, and vanished from sight.

"I don't want to..."

Before Li Feifei could finish, a silver blade flashed.

Her vision rose, spun, then fell.

Thud!

A dull sound rang out.

It was the sound of Li Feifei's head hitting the ground.

The scalpel in the Female Physician's hand was incredibly sharp, and her limbs, each more than two meters long, gave her a wide reach.

With a single sweep of her hand, the scalpel completed the decapitation.

It happened so quickly that Li Feifei's body remained on its knees in a crawling posture. The cut across her severed, pale neck was smooth and even, a vivid red, with blood gushing out like a fountain.

Some of the blood even splashed onto Zhao Hao. Fang Xiu was behind him, so none reached him.

Zhao Hao, who had only just managed to regain his composure, was once again scared senseless. The only reason this horrifying, bloody scene didn't make him wet himself was that he had already emptied his bladder earlier.

After killing Li Feifei, the Female Physician didn't stop. She continued wielding her scalpel, beginning to dismember the corpse.

She worked with great care, her movements precise and meticulous. Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao were right beside her, yet she didn't even glance at them.

Once she finished dismembering the body, the Female Physician began feeding like a ravenous tiger pouncing on its prey.

Seeing this, Fang Xiu already had a theory.

He had a rough understanding of the Female Physician's killing pattern: she killed whoever was nearest, and only one person at a time.

Otherwise, there was no reason for the Female Physician to ignore him and Zhao Hao.

Her method was to dismember her victim with a scalpel, then eat them.

This killing pattern probably had something to do with the Female Physician's profession when she was alive.

With that scalpel in hand and such precise dismemberment techniques, the Female Physician must have performed plenty of operations in the psychiatric hospital during her lifetime.

Doctors generally operated on only one patient at a time. It was virtually impossible for a doctor to wield a scalpel in each hand and operate on two patients simultaneously.

That was probably why the Female Physician killed only one person at a time and used a scalpel to dismember them. She was conscientious, responsible, and focused.

As for eating people, that was probably an instinct she had developed after becoming a Ghost.

After figuring out her killing pattern, Fang Xiu walked over to the Female Physician and stopped beside her.

The scene was gruesome, but Fang Xiu remained unmoved. He had his wife to thank for that. He had experienced scenes like this many times before-except he had been the one being eaten.

Suddenly, Fang Xiu clenched his fist and punched the Female Physician hard.

Bang!

A dull sound of impact rang out.

Fang Xiu withdrew his fist. Drip, drip. Blood trickled down from it.

He frowned slightly, looking at his injured fist, then at the Female Physician's unscathed cheek.

She was still eating "elegantly," seemingly not disturbed in the slightest by Fang Xiu's rudeness.

Fang Xiu felt as though he had punched solid steel. That punch also made him recognize the gulf between himself and the Female Physician.

It seemed that every Ghost he had encountered so far possessed lethal power that humans were utterly incapable of resisting.

Humans were as weak as ants before Ghosts.

Perhaps becoming a Spirit Tamer was the only way to change that.

Just then, a trembling voice came from behind Fang Xiu.

"X-Xiu, let's get out of here!"

It was Zhao Hao.

Clearly, Zhao Hao had recovered from his extreme terror. Rather than fleeing outright like their coworkers, he intended to take Fang Xiu with him.

But Fang Xiu didn't run. He stood calmly where he was. "This Ghost only eats one person at a time. In other words, while she's eating, we're as safe as we can be."

"B-but she looks like she's almost finished."

"Li Feifei had a good figure. She wasn't one of those skinny beauties. Although her legs looked slim, she had more than generous proportions where it counted. Based on how much meat she had, she should last at least three minutes, maybe even four. There's no hurry."

Fang Xiu spoke those chilling words in a calm voice.

Zhao Hao, whose nerves had already been stretched to their limit, retched and vomited when he heard the words "how much meat."

There were vegetable leaves, instant noodles, wide glass noodles, and enoki mushrooms... Clearly, he had eaten spicy hot pot for dinner.

"Wang Ziteng said earlier that becoming a Spirit Tamer requires letting a Ghost's power seep into your mind. And within this entire Ghost Domain, that power is naturally strongest right beside the Ghost herself. So I'm planning to stay a little longer. If you're scared, you can leave first."

With that, Fang Xiu stopped paying attention to Zhao Hao and reached out to stroke the Female Physician's legs, which were over two meters long and bent like a spider's.

He didn't know how to let a Ghost's power seep into his mind, but he figured physical contact would surely speed things up.

She felt icy cold to the touch, as though he were stroking a corpse.