Chapter 34: Bizarre Voices

This thing seemed to sense something and stopped. A pair of eyes with narrow pupils under its bumpy skin moved slightly, looking towards Li Si’s home. After looking for a while, it turned its gaze away and continued walking forward.

Although its body was huge and its footsteps heavy, it didn’t make the slightest sound when walking.

As this enormous figure walked further away, Li Si finally felt the pressure lessen. However, he felt as if he had collapsed, his body covered in cold sweat.

“What kind of thing was that?” Li Si muttered in a low voice. He had even felt that the protective charm wouldn’t be able to protect him.

After muttering, he recalled what Liu Qin had said this morning – the City God was returning tonight. He had some guesses in his heart. Since the City God was returning, it was unlikely that any ghost creatures would dare enter the county town now. So the thing that just passed by was likely the City God.

But he still wasn’t entirely certain, because he felt that what had just passed by wasn’t like an immortal deity, but more like a terrifying ghost creature.

“It must have been an illusion,” Li Si licked his dry lips. If what had just passed by was really a ghost creature, this county town would likely become a dead city.

“Teacher, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?” Cao Meng, who had finished bathing, came to the main hall and saw Li Si sitting on the ground looking exhausted. He ran over with concern.

Seeing Cao Meng’s normal appearance, Li Si pondered for a moment, then said, “Go back to sleep, rest early.”

After speaking, he got up and staggered towards the backyard.

Taking off his clothes, Li Si used a gourd ladle to pour a scoop of cold water from his head to his feet. The cold water immediately calmed his uneasy heart.

Since the City God had come, it was a good thing. From the reactions of Xiao Duan and Xiao Yu in the cloth bag earlier to the City God, it could be seen that the City God had a suppressing effect on monsters and ghost creatures.

This way, Li Si wouldn’t have to worry about some demons and ghost creatures reappearing in the county town, and he could live a peaceful life for a while.

But he still felt uneasy, after all, this City God gave him a very strange feeling.

Li Si shuddered and poured another scoop of cold water over his head.

As for other matters, he’d think about them later. There was no use thinking too much now.

After bathing, Li Si washed his clothes and hung them up to dry. Then he went to check the study and found that Cao Meng was already asleep.

Shaking his head slightly, he placed Xiao Duan in the study to protect Cao Meng. Although he guessed that with the City God’s return, most ghost creatures had fled, it was better to be safe than sorry.

Then Li Si walked to his bedroom. After entering, he lay on the bed preparing to sleep.

But for some reason, he tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

His mind kept recalling last night’s dream, the animal corpses under the bed, and the thing that had frightened him tonight.

Taking a deep breath, Li Si looked at the ceiling beam again. Due to the Dismembering Ghost’s warning, he had paid extra attention to the ceiling beam from yesterday to today, but hadn’t discovered anything strange.

Even using the Eight Trigrams mirror showed nothing.

He couldn’t help but doubt if the Dismembering Ghost had deliberately deceived him to make him anxious.

But he pushed this thought aside. Recalling the Dismembering Ghost’s final moments, Li Si chose to believe her.

A ghost who, even after becoming a ghost creature, still wanted to bring her child along, couldn’t be too bad in her final moments.

Moreover, since he was taking care of the Womb Ghost, her son, she had no reason to deceive him.

There must be something strange about this ceiling beam. But with no recent discoveries, perhaps the ghost creature had sensed the City God’s return and fled.

Thinking of this, Li Si put this matter aside. He would pay more attention to it in the future.

Also, he shouldn’t leave the county town for now. He planned to wait for the next system store update to see if there were any good items, especially if there was another protective charm.

As he thought about these things, Li Si drifted off to sleep. Tonight, no liquid dripped from the ceiling beam.

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Meanwhile, in a dark hall.

A man wearing a red leather jacket stood in the center of the hall, trembling violently, shaking like a sieve.

“During the recent period when I was away from the county town, did anything happen?” From above the hall, a muffled voice came from the darkness.

“Ah.” The man in the red leather jacket looked fearfully at the huge figure in the darkness above and opened his mouth to speak: “Have you heard? The Zhang mansion has offered a reward. If someone can help kill that ghost creature for the Zhang family, they can get a thousand taels of silver.”

This voice sounded somewhat deep, seeming out of place coming from the man in the red leather jacket.

“Master Lu, you can’t go there. I heard several people who went to the Zhang mansion have died.”

“Young Master Li is a person with true righteous qi. He scolded the fox spirit so harshly it revealed its true form.”

“I thought that woman didn’t seem like a good person before. Sure enough, she was a monster. Ptui!”

“Hey, have you heard? Young Master Li beheaded a jiangshi today. He’s really formidable, hehe…”

“This Young Master Li is quite something. Let me tell you, but don’t spread it around, the ghost creature in the Zhang mansion was killed by Young Master Li.”

“…”

Then, a series of voices came out of the red leather jacket man’s mouth. There were coquettish female voices, scolding voices of sharp-tongued women, idle chatter of loafers, conversations between women, and so on. The voices were varied and lifelike, as if the owners of these voices were right there speaking.

These words recounted recent events such as the Zhang mansion incident, the fox spirit’s mourning act, and the jiangshi incident.

“So many things happened?” The voice came from the tall seat, then its owner pondered slightly, muttering thoughtfully: “Young Master Li, interesting.”

…

In the seven days that followed, Li Si’s life was very peaceful, so peaceful that he felt it was almost an illusion, as if all the demons and ghost creatures he had encountered before were fake. However, the Black Sword hanging in the study, the death jade on his chest, the “Mystic Tortoise Record” in his mind, and the existence of Xiao Duan and Xiao Yu clearly told him that it was all real.

During these days, he would get up early every morning to do morning exercises with Cao Meng, teach nearby children in the afternoon, and practice the “Mystic Tortoise Record” and read books in his spare time.

As for why he often taught nearby children, it was because this was something the previous owner liked to do, and Li Si happened to enjoy it too. He always felt he should bring something to this world.

Every day he lived very fulfillingly and contentedly. However, Cao Meng’s father still hadn’t returned during these days, which made Li Si somewhat worried.

And today, an unexpected person appeared.