Chapter 844 Who is the Ghost
The boy’s home was very simple, almost too simple.
The room was not big, with only a lame wooden bed and a cabinet, which was used as a bed leg and placed at the foot of the bed.
There are two wooden bowls on the cabinet, which seems to also serve as a table.
There was a stove in the corner with a small pile of firewood next to it and a small axe standing next to it.
Next to the stove, there are two tattered jars with lids. I don’t know what is inside them. Apart from that, there is nothing else. The house is truly bare .
The pair of big eyes that had been leaning against the door ran over immediately after seeing the boy come in, hid behind the boy, and looked at Zhang Tuohai and Lilith timidly.
"Is there anything going on at home? Are there any outsiders coming?"
The boy asked Big Eyes.
Big Eyes shook his head.
"That's good. Just wait. There will be something delicious today."
The young man skillfully came to the stove, scooped some water from a jar, took out two flints from the stove, and picked some dry pine branches from the pile of firewood nearby as kindling. After a while, flames rose in the stove.
The boy scooped some bran from another jar and poured it into the pot. He cut the chicks into small pieces, threw some into the pot, and strung the rest together with a rope and hung them on the beam.
The boy did it very skillfully and seemed defenseless, exposing his back to Zhang Tuohai. However , he was always staring at Zhang Tuohai and the other man out of the corner of his eyes.
Zhang Tuohai felt that it was understandable for the young man to be wary. If two unidentified strangers came to his house, he would treat them in the same way. No, if the Heavenly Library was broken into, he would have called on the self-propelled machines, the Book of All Laws, and the Will of the World to take up arms.
"By the way, can I ask a question?"
Seeing that the young man had almost finished his work, Zhang Tuohai spoke.
"You say."
Upon hearing this, the young man immediately turned around and his hand unconsciously reached for the hatchet at his waist.
"When I first arrived in the village, I saw smoke rising from many houses. But when I went to knock on the doors, the smoke from many houses went out. No matter how hard I knocked, no one opened the door. What's going on?"
Zhang Tuohai asked curiously.
Hearing Zhang Tuohai's words, the boy's face instantly turned pale.
"You mean, you saw smoke coming from the house?" the boy asked tremblingly.
"Yeah, what's wrong, is there a problem?"
Zhang Tuohai asked curiously.
"A group of robbers came to the village half a month ago. Just as night fell, they robbed the only remaining food in the village. Not satisfied, they killed all the villagers and dragged them back to use as food. Now, the village has become an empty village. Where did these people come from?"
The boy said this, his voice trembling.
"Fuck!" Zhang Tuohai's heart couldn't help but tremble when he heard the young man's words.
If everything the boy said was true, then what did he see in the village during the day?
Is it a ghost?
Just then, Lilith, who had been looking around the room, suddenly spoke.
"Let me ask you, how did you know all this? Although your house is a bit remote, it is close to the village. If robbers came in, there would be no reason for them to let you go. How did you survive?"
"How did I survive? How did I survive?" After hearing kept muttering to himself, covering his head with his hands, and slowly squatted down. He felt like his brain was about to explode. He tried desperately to recall how he survived, but his memory of that day was a mess. He wanted to see clearly, but he couldn't.
The boy squatted on the ground in pain, hammering his head with both hands.
"Brother, what's wrong with you? Brother!" Seeing this, Big Eyes immediately squatted beside the boy and shouted anxiously.
"I hid my sister in the hole at the bottom of the jar that day, and I hid under the bed. A robber wanted to move the jar to check the situation. I was afraid that he would find out, so I rushed out from under the bed and beat him. I cut off his leg with a knife. His screams attracted other robbers. There were too many of them. Later... I died..."
Having said this, the young man's body suddenly stopped shaking. He slowly raised his head and stared at Zhang Tuohai.
At this moment, his eyes were full of blood red, and a layer of black mist covered his body, floating like black flames.
"Why, why do you have to make me remember all this!"
The boy's body began to fade, literally.
Zhang Tuohai watched with his own eyes as the color on the boy's body slowly faded away and finally turned into pure black.
"roar!"
When the last trace of color on the boy's body faded, the boy's figure changed completely. His body was stretched taller, and his hands turned into sharp claws, and he grabbed towards Zhang Tuohai fiercely.
"What is this? Is it a ghost?"
While thinking about it, Zhang Tuohai pulled out his umbrella and blocked the attack upwards.
Bang!
With a dull thud, Zhang Tuohai directly knocked the ghost that the young man had turned into away.
The ghost hit the wall, then bounced back and fell to the ground.
Looking at the ghost falling to the ground, Zhang Tuohai frowned.
He had just used the properties of quantum crystal, but the ghost was not affected at all and was just knocked away.
This situation becomes troublesome.
"What's going on? Are all the people here quantized, or do the people in the quantum world have special properties that allow them to ignore attacks from quantum crystal properties?"
Zhang Tuohai guessed secretly.
If it is the latter, it is not so bad, but if it is the former, doesn’t it mean that everyone in the quantum world is a born demigod?
Zhang Tuohai felt a little scared.
However, Zhang Tuohai knew that now was not the time to think about these things. The first thing to do now was to destroy the ghost while it was weak.
He raised the black umbrella in his hand and continued to attack the black shadow.
Just when the black umbrella in his hand was about to attack the ghost, the big-eyed little girl who had been hiding behind the boy suddenly rushed out from behind and hugged Zhang Tuohai's black umbrella.
"Please, don't kill my brother, he's a good man, please!"
The girl held Zhang Tuohai's umbrella and spoke loudly.
"He has turned into a ghost. Get out of the way, or he will kill you too."
Zhang Tuohai said with a frown.
"No, don't. He's my brother . He's a good man. He won't do anything to me. Please, give him a chance. I can take him away from here and never let you see him again. Oh, and I'll give you that chick back. We don't want anything."
The big-eyed girl hugged Zhang Tuohai's umbrella and cried.
Zhang Tuohai frowned when he saw this.
Just when he was about to make a move, Lilith beside him suddenly grabbed his sleeve and said, "Dad, don't rush to do anything. It seems that there is still a chance to turn things around."
