The opera performer in red!

"My lord~~"

"Do not leave~~"

An eerie operatic voice began to echo as darkness veiled the sky like a curtain.

White paper drifted slowly down from the dark clouds in place of drizzling rain.

The villagers who had dispersed emerged from corners in every direction and began surrounding the convoy.

On the stage, the woman in red began her floating dance again.

The surrounding temperature plummeted.

"Charge!"

Niu Wudi roared, and his engine thundered like a beast as his vehicle took the lead, charging toward the sides of the stage blocking the road.

Niu Wudi himself leaped straight out of his vehicle, his body rapidly swelling as he charged toward the stage without another word!

The survivors dared not hesitate for even a moment. Every one of them floored the accelerator for all they were worth.

However, the road was only so wide. No matter how anxious they were, it could only accommodate two vehicles at a time.

Niu Wudi first slammed his palm into the stage.

His vehicle followed close behind. While Niu Wudi held the stage occupied, it swept past at tremendous speed and raced toward the village entrance.

Seeing that Niu Wudi's vehicle had encountered no trouble, the survivors breathed sighs of relief while frantically flooring their accelerators.

The battle between Niu Wudi and the opera performer erupted in an instant.

The opera performer continued her floating dance on the stage.

Every time Niu Wudi tried to attack the performer, the stage seemed to have some kind of barrier. Whenever he charged toward it, an inexplicable force knocked him away, sending him crashing heavily to the ground.

To draw the performer's attention and let the convoy escape, Niu Wudi roared and rammed the stage again and again, all to keep her attention on him.

Paper spirit money fluttered down from the dark clouds.

One utterly inconspicuous piece settled on Niu Wudi's shoulder.

He was just about to launch another attack.

But he suddenly discovered that he could not muster any strength in his right arm.

Puzzled, he looked down. His right shoulder was actually transforming into that of a paper effigy, slowly but steadily!

"Fuck!"

Niu Wudi cursed at the sight, realizing how difficult this performer would be to handle.

Still more paper spirit money drifted down from the sky.

Looking at the convoy already speeding into the distance, he did not hesitate. With a few great strides, he passed the stage and sprinted after the convoy...

The convoy escaped the stage's range, but more trouble awaited.

Compared to last time, the dark clouds in the sky now blanketed the entire village!

The whole village was now plunged into darkness.

The village roads were narrow. The survivors who could not get away in time could only watch helplessly as the eerie villagers approached.

Lin Qi surveyed the surrounding villagers from his position in the middle of the convoy when a scream suddenly rang out ahead.

The advancing convoy ground to a halt. He looked up and saw a villager apparition leap down from a high rooftop beside the road. Like a crawling insect, he sprawled over the roof of a vehicle and began tearing at it with black fingernails.

"Scrape, scrape."

The shrill, grating sound echoed through the convoy.

The survivor being held up tried to shake him off, but the villager apparition clung like a stubborn plaster. No matter how hard the survivor tried, he remained firmly stuck to the roof.

The piercing scraping sounded like a countdown to his death.

"Boom!"

While Lin Qi was watching what was happening ahead, a heavy impact struck overhead.

"Lin Qi! There's an apparition on your roof! Get into my vehicle!"

Up ahead, Wang Feng saw the situation on Lin Qi's roof through his rearview mirror. His expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted into the radio.

"Scrape, scrape."

The piercing scratching was right above him. Lin Qi took a deep breath and gripped his machete tightly in his right hand. Barely perceptible electrical arcs clung to it, giving off faint, continuous crackles.

"Scrape, scrape..."

The scratching continued, one scrape after another, until a tearing sound replaced it.

The villager apparition had actually torn a small opening through his roof with his fingernails!

The scratching stopped the moment the opening appeared, and a blood-red eye filled the hole.

Sprawled over the roof, the villager apparition rolled his eye and fixed it on Lin Qi.

"What are you staring at? I Fine You 800 Yuan!"

Lin Qi snorted coldly, and his balance rapidly increased.

"Roar!"

The eerie villager seemed to notice the loss of Ghost Cash and instantly let out a roar whose cause was unclear, yet was laced with fury.

Lin Qi abruptly changed his tone. "Brother, do me a favor."

The eerie villager's roar cut off abruptly, and he froze briefly.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Qi swung his arm, thrusting the machete sharply through the small opening in the roof!

The moment the machete pierced the eerie villager's eye socket, a sensation unlike anything he had ever felt traveled along the blade into his hand. The electrical arcs covering the tip also gave off a faint crackling as the machete struck the eerie villager.

Feeling the sensation transmitted through the machete, Lin Qi's eyes lit up. "It really can hurt apparitions!"

Without the slightest hesitation, he pushed harder.

"Roar!!!"

Whether from anger or pain, the eerie villager screamed even more fiercely than before!

More crackling came from the areas around his eye socket damaged by the electrical arcs.

Clumps of black mist gathered in his eye socket, attempting to repair his eye.

Yet the electrical arcs seemed to possess some kind of power. No matter how much black mist surged forward, his bloody eye could not be repaired.

Unable to see Lin Qi, the eerie villager became intensely agitated.

He immediately switched to his other eye to look.

He seemed to have neither brains nor any ability to learn his lesson.

Just as he peered through with his other eye, another thrust came.

The crackling electrical arcs finally seared his second eye as well.

"Roar!!!"

The eerie villager's roars grew even more agonized.

Lin Qi had thoroughly enraged him, and he chose to burst straight into the vehicle through a window!

Lin Qi listened to the fumbling on the roof. Before long, an old man with electrical arcs flickering in both eyes hung upside down from it. His eyes had been stabbed blind, and he seemed to have lost the ability to see.

His hands fumbled around and soon found the passenger-side window.

Lin Qi held his breath and focused. He, too, had noticed that the apparition before him lost its ability to track him once its eyes were blinded.

The eerie villager finally felt his way to the window, and a trace of humanlike malice even appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"Roar!"

He roared and was about to smash his fist hard into the passenger-side window.

Unexpectedly, Lin Qi reacted swiftly, and the electrical arcs flickering in his hand clung to the passenger-side door.

"Boom!"

He kicked out, the electrical arcs serving as a medium that allowed him to hurt the apparition.

He delivered a vicious kick. Before the upside-down eerie villager could even bring his fist down, the tremendous force sent him crashing into the ditch on the right.

"Roar!!!"

After being thwarted time and again, the eerie villager was furious beyond measure.

Lin Qi gripped his machete tightly, already prepared to keep fighting.

But when he looked out the window at the ditch, he silently put his machete away...

The villager apparition whose eyes had been stabbed blind was so furious he was nearly deranged. But he was an apparition of the lowest rank to begin with, and with neither eye able to see, even getting out of that ditch proved somewhat difficult...