In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 655: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 27

Ruyi took several days to recuperate from her injuries. During this period, Zhiqiu Yiye had been taking care of Ruyi diligently, so much so that when Ruyi left, she felt embarrassed to part with Zhiqiu Yiye.

That day, the two of them finally decided to leave Guobei County and head to the next county town. Zhiqiu Yiye started packing diligently early in the morning. Due to his greed for money, Zhiqiu Yiye was reluctant to throw away anything. He even tied up the unburned firewood and put it on the outside of the package. So when the two of them set off, the package on Zhiqiu Yiye's back was so heavy that it almost crushed him.

Ruyi hesitated for a few seconds, but finally chose to believe Zhiqiu Yiye. She walked to Zhiqiu Yiye and put the package on Zhiqiu Yiye's back into the space with just a thought.

Zhiqiu Yiye felt a lightness on his back, and immediately looked around with wide eyes: "Senior, our package is missing, did you see who stole it?"

"Don't look for it anymore, the package is with me, let's go!"

Without further explanation, Ruyi shook her head and walked away. Zhiqiu Yiye was completely confused. He thought and thought but still couldn't figure out how the package disappeared from his back. When he heard Ruyi say that the package was with her, he racked his brains but couldn't come up with an answer.

"Senior, wait for me!"

"Hey, Senior, is my package really with you? Where is your place? Is it a secret hidden in your sleeve?"

"But your sleeves are so small, how do you hold the package?"

"Hey, hey, hey, senior, can you teach me this move too......"

"Shut up!" Zhiqiu Yiye kept muttering in Ruyi's ear after catching up. Ruyi endured it again and again but couldn't bear it any longer and had to tell him to shut up. Zhiqiu Yiye's face was full of grievance when Ruyi asked him to shut up, but he still shut his mouth obediently. Seeing that Ruyi was already getting impatient, he even gave Ruyi a flattering smile.

Ruyi was amused by Zhiqiu Yiye's funny look, and his expression eased a lot. Seeing that he was really uncomfortable without an answer, he kindly explained: "The package is with me, not the world up my sleeve, you can't learn this trick."

Seeing that Ruyi was willing to talk to him, Zhiqiu Yiye's mood also relaxed. Seeing Ruyi's expression relaxed, Zhiqiu Yiye looked at Ruyi with a silly smile. He was not disappointed at all even though Ruyi said that he could not learn that trick just now.

"Senior has answered every question I asked seriously. Hehe, senior must like me very much..." Zhiqiu Yiye didn't know what love was. He only knew that he liked to see senior laugh, liked to make senior laugh, and liked to accompany senior to slay demons and monsters everywhere.

"Senior, how about we go to the capital next?"

"I heard that there is a very powerful monster in the capital. If we can kill him, everyone will know how powerful we are. Then many people will come to us because of our reputation. We can receive countless commissions just by lying at home!"

Ruyi shook her head. "Let's not go to the capital. Let's go to Jiangxi."

"Go to Jiangxi?" Zhiqiu Yiye didn't understand why the senior didn't agree to go to the capital with him, but since the senior had already made a decision, Zhiqiu Yiye didn't hesitate, "What's wrong with Jiangxi? Is there any big monster?"

"There is a dilapidated temple in Jiangxi. Inside the temple there is a wall. On the wall..."

Ruyi did not choose Jiangxi randomly, but chose this place after comprehensive consideration of his own and Zhiqiu Yiye's current strength.

The most famous story in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" that takes place in Jiangxi is "The Painted Wall". Unlike ordinary goblins and ghosts, the goblins in "The Painted Wall" are not strong, there are many of them, and their positions are fixed. For Ruyi, it is a perfect place to spawn monsters.

After experiencing the incident with the monsters in Qingshan, Ruyi has an accurate assessment of his own strength. He can deal with as many monsters as possible that are a thousand years old or less. It is not a problem to kill all the monsters that are a thousand years old or less, and it should not be a problem to escape if he cannot defeat the monsters that are between three thousand years old and five thousand years old. As for monsters that are over five thousand years old, with Ruyi's current level, he will risk his life if he meets them.

As for the big monster in the capital that Zhiqiu Yiye has been thinking about - Pudu Cihang, Ruyi said that she doesn't want to die yet. Pudu Cihang in the "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" story from "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" not only has the identity of a national teacher on the surface, and has deceived many people to become his believers, including the current emperor and most of the court officials, but privately he is a thousand-year-old centipede spirit with great magical powers. Not only that, he also has hundreds of descendants, many of whom are small centipede spirits who have been practicing for more than a thousand years.

After listening to Ruyi's story about "Painted Wall", Zhiqiu Yiye also became interested, "Senior, is there really such a magical wall?"

"You'll know when you go and see it." Of course, one has to see it with one's own eyes to know how miraculous it is. Ruyi didn't want to say more. He just wanted to go into the city as soon as possible to ask for directions and then go to Jiangxi.

At this time, Yan Chixia was still tracking the Painted Skin Ghost in the dense forest on the outskirts of the northern county. Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the county town, Yan Chixia couldn't help but become anxious.

"If that Painted Skin ghost sneaks into the crowd, it will be difficult to catch him!"

Yan Chixia was worried that after entering the city, the Painted Skin Ghost would transform into a human and blend into the crowd, so he immediately bit his middle finger and took out the tracking talisman to activate it, "Taishang Laojun, hurry up and give the order, the demon tracking talisman, go!"

The compass can only determine the direction of the monster based on the reaction of the monster's aura, and it cannot track in a certain direction like a tracking talisman. Yan Chixia originally thought that the Painted Skin Ghost was the only monster in this wilderness, and did not plan to use the tracking talisman. However, he did not expect that there were many mountain spirits and wild monsters hiding in the neighboring county to the north.

"Alas, humanity has degenerated and evil has been allowed to flourish! I wonder how many people in this northern county have been eaten by monsters every year.

As soon as the tracking symbol was activated, it rushed towards the west, "Over there!" Yan Chixia immediately followed with his sword, and soon saw the Painted Skin Ghost who had transformed into his original form and was fleeing madly below.

The Painted Skin Ghost had a head of dry white hair and a hunched body like an old woman. His face was covered in blood and flesh, with no trace of skin on his face. The bright red flesh and facial bones were exposed, emitting bursts of foul odor. From time to time, long white worms would crawl in it, and two protruding eyeballs seemed to be hanging in his eye sockets, half-falling out.

"Monster, where are you escaping to!"

"Watch me use the Qiankun sword technique!"

Yan Chixia pointed his sword towards the Painted Skin Ghost, and the sword under his feet flew out with a whoosh. Yan Chixia flipped over and landed on the ground. The flying sword pierced through the Painted Skin Ghost's chest like a flash of lightning, and then flew back to Yan Chixia's hand with a bloody hole and a body covered in blood foam.

The Painted Skin Ghost fell face down on the ground. Yan Chixia snorted, took out a cloth and carefully wiped off the blood foam on the sword. He walked to the fallen Painted Skin Ghost and saw that the Painted Skin Ghost's chest was bulging, as if something was hidden. Yan Chixia carefully kicked the Painted Skin Ghost over with his foot.

"Oh no! It's a hidden weapon!"

However, he didn't expect that what was coming towards him were a sky full of small arrows. Yan Chixia picked up the sword and chopped it a few times, and only then did he get rid of all the small arrows.

Turning to look at the Painted Skin Ghost who was still breathing, Yan Chixia shouted loudly and chopped off the Painted Skin Ghost's head with one step, "Humph, let's see how you can survive now!"