The sky grew darker and darker. With the drizzle blurring everything around her and mist gradually rising in the mountains, the whole world seemed to have turned black and white. The atmosphere was utterly eerie.
After Zhong Xueran finished speaking, she saw the person's face.
Her brows twitched slightly before she immediately regained her composure.
Yet what appeared before her was an utterly hideous, terrifying face!
The terrifying female ghost stood only half a meter away from her. Its eyes were entirely white, and a long knife scar ran from the crown of its head to its chin, splitting its nose, philtrum, and lips cleanly in two. And... the bulging veins throbbing all over its face were horrifying!
There was no obvious strange stench coming from its body, but a chill like some invisible baleful energy, the kind one might find in a morgue, enveloped it.
It seemed to be considering Zhong Xueran's answer.
Its terrifying, all-white eyes stared fixedly at Zhong Xueran as it slowly opened its mouth. Thick blood and saliva stretched into strands throughout its mouth. "All right..."
It had agreed.
Phew...
Deep down, Zhong Xueran let out an enormous sigh of relief.
Strict as her father had been, he had firmly etched those approaches to dealing with such situations into her mind.
In the past, she had sealed them away as painful memories, but when a critical moment truly arrived, they could still play a decisive role in determining whether she lived or died.
When facing a Vengeful Ghost that asked questions like this, it was best to give an answer that left it no way to judge whether it was right or wrong.
Perhaps there were better answers, but this was the only one Zhong Xueran could think of at the moment.
The answer, "I'll