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I didn't know where I got the courage to start talking terms with this ghost girl in front of me.

The ghost lady muttered something behind me and stuck out her tongue from my back. I didn't know why her tongue was so long, but she touched my neck with the tip of her tongue and licked the blood that flowed out of my neck. Only then did the ghost people around me return to their original state.

I could feel the skin around my neck changing, and it felt like it was healing.

Just as the ghost lady retracted her tongue, she smacked her lips. At this moment, Shen Tuo saw that the ghost lady was in a trance and immediately took out a rune from his chest pocket.

Shen Tuo raised the hand holding the rune high up and was about to cast the spell when he saw the already dark sky darken. A bolt of lightning struck not far behind us. I felt a flash behind me, followed by a loud noise. The "people" walking on the street also suffered from quite a few shocks. One by one, they scattered with fear written all over their faces.

The ghost lady seemed to be frightened and her hand that was squeezing me trembled. Shen Tuo saw the opportunity and swung his hand, wanting to throw the rune over.

In that moment of life and death, a shriveled and wrinkled hand grabbed onto Shen Tuo's wrist. Shen Tuo's hand loosened and the sigil started to float towards the ground. When the rune landed halfway, it actually flew up and returned into Shen Tuo's pocket in a strange way.

Shen Ta struggled for a long time, but in the end, he was still unable to break free.

When I came back to my senses, a stooped little old man walked out from behind Shen Ta with a smile on his face. With a slight lift of his hand, his arm extended like a piece of rubber, and a twig like hand grabbed onto the ghost lady's wrist. The ghost lady struggled as she pinched me.

"Hey, do you know who this girl is?"

Hearing this, my heart tightened. I thought to myself, this is the end. If this old man were to tell the truth in front of Shen Tuo, how am I going to get along with him in the future!? If he knew I had been lying to him for so long, he would have cut off all ties with me on the spot!

However, this old man seemed to be quite tactful. He smiled at me in his heart and then looked into the ghost's eyes. He didn't speak for a long time, but the ghost finally let out a sigh and released her grip on my hand. Before leaving, he didn't forget to turn back and look at me. His eyes were filled with contempt. "Hmph. I didn't think that it would actually be this kind of trash …"

This kind of stuff

If I can't beat him, I'll chase him and kill him!

Shen Tuo's eyes darkened a little. Immediately after, he couldn't help but laugh out loud after hearing the female ghost's words. I looked at him ruefully. I couldn't save him, but now he still wanted to laugh at me!

It wasn't until the ghost girl had disappeared into the distance that I remembered to turn around and thank the old man in front of me.

However, what I don't understand is, how did he know my identity?

Seemingly seeing through my thoughts, the old man's lips curled up into a confident smile. He hunched his body as he walked forward and said slowly with a hoarse voice, "I know everything you want to know. But it depends on what price you are willing to pay."

I turned around to look at Shen Ta. Shen Ta also gave me a serious look. My intuition told me that this old man could be trusted. Thus, I gave Shen Ta a firm look and followed the old man.

The old man took small steps and walked extremely slowly. I was one step ahead of Shen Tuo, but because I had to follow behind the old man, Shen Tuo quickly caught up to me.

Shen Tuo pulled me behind him and said, "Yan Nuo, have you seen this old man before when he was old?"

I shook my head slightly and said nothing. Somehow, as I followed the old man, I always felt a strong sense of oppression, as if every word I said was a terrible mistake.

It made me think of the inhuman rule in high school that you couldn't look back even if someone said something, and the horrible feeling of being able to see your head teacher staring at you from the door.

It wasn't until the old man took us into an alley that I remembered a lot of the surroundings. To my surprise, it looked very much like the old house where Grandpa Shen Tuo lived. There were green bricks and tiles everywhere. It looked very simple and poetic. However, it was clear that I had no time to worry about these things right now.

I looked left and right as I walked forward, but I accidentally bumped into the old man, causing him to stumble. Finally, I subconsciously reached out my hand and grabbed his arm. An ice-cold sensation instantly came from my palm. That icy feeling seemed to be able to penetrate through my nerves. It flowed through the blood vessels in my body and passed through my entire body.

As if I was provoked, I immediately retracted my hand. I had to endure for a long time before I was able to control myself from screaming out loud. Seeing that I was frightened, Shen Ta put his hand on my shoulder from behind.

I looked back at him and gave him a look that said I was okay.

I turned my head to look at the elder's angry expression. It was only at this moment that I realised that while I was lost in my thoughts, the old man in front of me had already stopped.

I couldn't help but laugh foolishly. I didn't expect that this old man in the underworld would be like the rest of the world. Even when he was old, he couldn't withstand a single blow.

I lowered my head like a child waiting to be reprimanded, but after waiting for a long time and not a single word from him, I could only raise my head in an attempt to look up, only to find that the old man in front of me had already left without a word.

Only now did I realize that apart from me and Shen Tuo, I hadn't heard any footsteps since I came to Yin Street. It occurred to me to look closely at the old man's feet, but when I found him, I saw that he had stopped in front of a large door.

I looked at the door in front of me. It looked like a shop in an ancient costume TV show. On the door, there was a piece of white cloth. On the cloth, there were two words written in large black characters: Pawnshop.

At this time, the pawnshop was so simple and crude that it didn't even have a proper name. It was called the pawnshop.

And look at the doors and windows here, where is it like a proper place to do business! The dark wooden door and the paint on the window were bulging as if they could fall off at any time. The window was also empty, without even a decent piece of paper. Only a few pieces of paper were left fluttering in the wind.

Seeing that the old man was about to push open the door and enter, I hastily stopped him. "Hey, I said, you don't seem to be doing business here. Why are you going in?" I don't have anything of value on me, do you want to pawn me? I'm not worth much money! "

Shen Tuo pulled me behind him, stopping me from continuing.

At this moment, the old man turned his head towards me and gave me a kind smile, but my hair all stood up involuntarily – this old man actually turned his head 180 degrees, his entire body did not move, only looking at me. Although he was still smiling like an ordinary old man, I broke out in a cold sweat.

I thought he would turn his head back, but what made me even more terrified was that he actually turned his head 180 degrees in the direction he turned his head in and returned to his original position! After 360 degrees, he didn't forget to stretch his neck and let out a comfortable moan.

I sucked in a breath of cold air. Just as I was about to speak, the old man spoke first. "Who told you that I'm going in to do business? What? Don't tell me that I have to get your permission to go home? "

This was the old man's home! It was no wonder why this old man was so scrawny. It seemed that he didn't live well under normal circumstances. Looks like he was a poor family on a shady street. I couldn't help but think.

The old man was standing in front of the door. It was unknown what spell he used, but the door opened automatically with a creak. Almost at the same time, a skull suddenly fell from the top of the door, passed by me, and stopped right in front of the old man.

I was so scared that I took a step back and bumped into Shen Tuo who was behind me. Shen Tuo easily supported me and I didn't dare to look back at Shen Tuo. I was afraid that I would be met with his' disappointed in me 'expression.

The old man's hoarse voice sounded again, "Let's go."

As I followed the old man into the house, I was once again startled by the strangeness of the place, but this time I was well-behaved and did not react. Instead, I forced myself to calm down.

For as soon as I entered, I saw an almost transparent barrier, and we followed the old man through it, and watched as he turned from an old man no different from a normal living man into a rotting corpse in a white shroud.

Like a zombie that had crawled out of the earth, the old man's white shroud was full of dirty things. The original white had already turned yellow, indicating that it had been here for a long time.

As I stood at the door, I peeped in a few times, but it was strange. The door was obviously open, and although the light outside was dim, it should at least be able to shine in a few degrees. However, the room was dark, and no matter how hard I peeked inside, I could not see anything except the absolute darkness.

It was only when they had passed through the protective barrier that the view in front of them began to clear up. Everything here wasn't as dilapidated as what I'd seen on the outside. On the contrary, it was just like the pawnshops I'd seen on TV: a huge wooden railing that separated the inside from the outside while a few small square tables were arranged neatly on the outside. There were two chairs on either side of the table.