Volume 2: Living with Ghosts Chapter 033: Ordinary
This glance almost scared Wang Lin to death, but Wang Lin's character was extraordinary. He suppressed the urge to turn around and run away, and forced himself to look at the woman. It was not until the woman opened her jagged mouth at him that Wang Lin was truly sure of her identity.
At the moment of certainty, the fear that he had suppressed forcefully erupted like a volcano. He screamed in fear, and then ran towards the door without looking back, unleashing his full potential.
After leaving the woman's residence, Wang Lin's heart was still beating wildly, and he felt a breath stuck in his throat, making him feel very uncomfortable. In the moment just now, he clearly felt the threat of death, and he would never mistake the tremor from his soul. If he hadn't run fast enough, he was very sure that the ghost would swallow him in one bite.
Although it was extremely dangerous, Wang Lin was still relieved in his heart, because this method of distinguishing ghosts was indeed feasible. And the woman before was obviously a fierce ghost, because seeing someone in the house in the middle of the night, but there was no sound at all, which was clearly abnormal.
"Is what I just saw not an illusion created by the ghost? If everything that happened just now was an illusion created by the ghost, then I really have no way to survive. I don't think so. After all, this is only a task with 8 health points. If that's the case, I'm afraid no one can survive."
After Wang Lin figured it out, he knocked his chest hard a few times. He was just encouraging himself. Feeling a little calmer, Wang Lin mustered up his courage and walked towards the other woman's residence.
He wants to use this method to find out the real human among the 25 women tonight!
When Wang Lin dragged his tired body back to his residence in the morning, his face was full of numbness and despair. In one night, he went to the residences of all 25 women, but the results were surprisingly consistent. After seeing him, those women did not show any panic, and all the reactions were in line with reality. Although he had thought of this result, he never thought it would come true!
“Hehe… all of them had the same reaction… not one was scared… not one was terribly frightened… not one was frightened enough to scream! Are they all ghosts? Am I, Wang Lin, really so unlucky? Are all the efforts I’ve made so far going to be in vain here? Why!”
At this moment, Wang Lin was on the verge of collapse. After verifying it all night, he was horrified to find that all the women were ghosts!
Although this could be a deliberate arrangement of the mission, or it could be that the ghost had bewitched him, but no matter which point it was, it ruthlessly sentenced him to death! Because he really couldn't think of any other way, he had tried almost everything he could.
Besides, if the ghost could create illusions to confuse them, then he wouldn't even need to struggle. After all, what the eyes see is fake, so the results of the analysis must be unreliable.
Wang Lin collapsed to the ground, his eyes empty, and he was mumbling something. Gradually, his voice became louder and louder, and finally turned into a mournful roar: "I really don't want to die!"
Wang Lin was unwilling to accept this! He had struggled in this curse for so long, just to be able to return to his wife and daughter. This was the strongest belief and spiritual support in his heart. For them, for them who were waiting for him day and night, how could he be willing to die like this? How could he die?
"A mission is definitely not unsolvable. Even if I choose ghosts, there must be a way to survive..."
Wang Lin trembled and talked to himself while punching the ground below. Soon his fists were covered with scars, and the pain of the soil rolling into the wounds made him numb. At this moment, he suddenly regretted it very much. He felt like a fool. In order to fulfill his military duties and for the glorious sense of mission, even though the army had agreed that he could bring his family to live with him in the army, he still chose to give up.
For the responsibility of this shitty executive captain, for the so-called principles in his heart, he clearly had the opportunity to escape this curse, and there was a shortcut, but he chose to give up for the sake of his conscience, and was willing to endure these dangerous tasks. But what did he get in the end for all he did?
He got nothing in return, he gained nothing!
"If I were given another chance to choose, I would definitely be a selfish person!"
Wang Lin struggled to get up from the ground and went to the yard to wash off the mud on his body. After washing, he dried his body and lay on the wooden bed. He needed a good rest. He would not give up! He wanted to try Chen Ping's method. Even if his fate was doomed, he still wanted to go against it!
Wang Lin didn’t talk about this place for now and turned his gaze to Xizhuang.
Zhang Feng's life these days can be said to be very ordinary. He did not make elaborate plans like Chen Ping, Wang Lin and others, and did not say those targeted words to those women, and then racked to identify their identities. Zhang Feng did not use any of these methods. These days, he just lived a simple life in this West Village, almost forgetting that he was carrying out a mission and that there were still vicious ghosts here.
During the day, Zhang Feng would go to the girls' homes, not to talk about love but to help them with work and take care of the farmland. He seemed like an experienced farmer, telling the girls about his farming experience. After all, his parents were also farmers, and before he went out to work, he farmed at home for his parents.
Zhang Feng is actually very talented in farming. The harvest of the land he takes care of is much better than that of others every year. His parents are also very confident in handing the land to him. But although Zhang Feng has a talent for farming, he feels that the identity of a farmer is not very good. He thinks that being a farmer for a lifetime is like being an inferior person for a lifetime.
He is a man with ideals, so for the ideal in his heart, Zhang Feng resolutely chose to leave home and go to the big city to find his own piece of sky, but...
Zhang Feng, with his bare chest, kept swinging the pickaxe in his hand. He wanted to clear a small piece of land and plant something of his own, because he wanted to leave some traces of his existence in this world.
"It's been so long, I guess Captain Wang and the others should have figured out which one is human and which one is a ghost, right? Maybe even Zhang Fengyu has figured it out, and I'm the only one left who still has no clue. Forget it, since you can't tell them apart, then I won't tell them apart. When the time comes, I'll just pick someone and get married. The worst that can happen is that I'll die. Anyway, I'm tired of living now!"
This is Zhang Feng's own idea and plan. He now takes death lightly. Perhaps only when he faces death will he feel the horror of death. But now Zhang Feng doesn't think that far. He just wants to spend the last few days in peace. Of course, in the remaining days, he still wants to choose a woman to marry.
The midday sun was very scorching, and Zhang Feng couldn't stand it anymore. After washing his face, he hung the soaked towel around his neck and went back to the house to rest. But before Zhang Feng lay down, Xiaoling's voice came from outside the door: "Zhang Feng, are you there?"
"Here I come! Here I come. You really know how to pick the time. I was just about to lie down and rest for a while!" Zhang Feng was a rough man and naturally didn't care about Xiaoling's identity as the matchmaker. There was obvious dissatisfaction in his voice.
After hearing Zhang Feng's very dissatisfied voice, Xiao Ling said coldly outside the door: "If you don't want to come out, forget it, but I have to remind you that the period of engagement in our village is 30 days, so you better hurry up!"
Xiao Ling snorted and left. Zhang Feng heard Xiao Ling's almost threatening warning, curled his lips and muttered: "Do I need you to remind me?"
