Weird Cards: I've Become a Ghost

As night fell, a loud knocking sound suddenly rang out on the quiet, deserted street.

In the dim light, you can see a woman dressed in black casual clothes knocking on the door of a flower shop, holding a pot of rare and unusual flowers.

Seeing that no one answered, the woman then shouted even louder.

Is anyone home?

After saying that, she raised her hand again and knocked heavily on the door.

Boom boom boom!

After the three rings, she stood quietly at the door, holding the flowerpot, as if waiting for the door to be opened.

A few seconds later, as the roller shutter was pulled up, a man slowly poked his head out from inside.

What do you need?

Xiao He looked at the woman with a puzzled expression.

"Excuse me for bothering you, do you sell this kind of flower in your shop?" the woman asked politely, her large, watery eyes looking at Xiao He with a hint of helplessness.

"This kind of flower?"

Xiao He glanced at the flowerpot in the woman's arms, his eyes thoughtful.

This flower looks a bit like a rose, but it looks much more peculiar. Its petals have unusual shapes, one side like a rose petal, while the other side is incredibly bizarre, like a butterfly flying up from flames. It is both beautiful and ferocious. However, the flower seems to be malnourished now, and many of its leaves are wilting.

After Xiao He possessed Xu Yuan's body, he also gained Xu Yuan's memories. Although Xu Yuan was a psychopathic killer, as a florist, he naturally knew many types of flowers. However, Xiao He could not find any record of this type of flower in Xu Yuan's memories.

"Sorry, we don't sell this type of flower in our store."

Hearing Xiao He's words, the woman looked somewhat disappointed, but still politely said thank you.

Just when Xiao He thought the woman would leave, she said again, "Um, could I come into your shop to buy some fertilizer and water? I've already been to several flower shops tonight..."

The woman's expression was somewhat sorrowful.

"this......"

Xiao He didn't answer for a moment, but just silently watched the woman holding the pot of wilted, strange flowers, her face showing hesitation, as if he was considering whether or not to let her in.

After all, knocking on doors late at night to buy flowers or fertilizer just doesn't seem right.

The woman seemed to sense Xiao He's concerns, so she smiled and said to him, "Don't worry, I mean no harm."

The smile on the other person's face seemed to carry a kind of goodwill that made people feel very comfortable.

Xiao He was taken aback and couldn't bring himself to refuse, so he could only nod.

"OK."

Hearing this, the woman smiled even more warmly, said thank you again, and then picked up the flowerpot and went into the flower shop.

"The fertilizer is over there, and the watering tools are also nearby. Just go and get them yourself."

Xiao He pointed to the pile of miscellaneous items on the side, which he had tidied up yesterday. The remaining fertilizer and some planting tools from the shop were also placed there.

"Thanks."

The woman still wore a kind smile, but after learning where what she wanted was, she seemed to have no intention of going there.

Seeing this, Xiao He, out of politeness, returned a friendly smile to the other party, and then...

Click, click!

Xiao He pulled down the roller shutter door of the flower shop again.

After closing the door, Xiao He turned around, his eyes fixed on the woman, and his smile grew even brighter.

......

"Someone has gone into the target store!"

Meanwhile, in an old building some distance from the flower shop, a young man named "Xiao Wang," who was observing Xiao He's movements through binoculars, picked up his walkie-talkie to report the situation, while Xiao Zhao, the staff member assisting him, was also recording this sudden event.

Soon, the door behind the two was opened, and the team leader in charge of this patrol operation, the middle-aged man from before, and the short-haired woman named Xiaowen, hurriedly walked in.

"Are you sure that the woman who just appeared isn't the same person as the man in black who disappeared last night?" the middle-aged man asked in a heavy tone.

"Sure."

Xiao Wang nodded: "Although we couldn't see the face of the person who disappeared last night, we could roughly deduce from their build that they were a man, but today's person is a woman."

The middle-aged man frowned and asked again, "Have you found out this woman's identity?"

At this moment, he was also inexplicably annoyed. Why did someone have to appear at this time to cause trouble?

If this woman is in cahoots with the target, then it's fine; at most, we'll just arrest one more person. But if the other party is an innocent citizen, then tonight's situation will be much more difficult.

What Xiao Wang said next made the middle-aged man's mood sink immediately.

"No, there's no information about this woman in the Alliance's surveillance system, but..."

"But what?" The middle-aged man frowned, a sense of foreboding creeping into his heart for some reason.

Staring blankly at the monitor, Xiao Wang swallowed hard and replied in a trembling voice, "According to the Alliance's population death system, this woman died decades ago."

Upon hearing this, everyone in the room was instantly stunned.

They know best what it means when someone who has been dead for decades suddenly reappears.

Even the middle-aged man, who was the highest-ranking person in the room, showed moments of confusion, shock, and unease, but he quickly composed himself.

Then he issued a new order.

"Tonight's mission is canceled. Everyone evacuate immediately."

After speaking, the middle-aged man pondered for a moment and then issued another order: "The armed team members will remain in place until reinforcements arrive. Their duties will remain unchanged. The rest of you, quickly arrange for the evacuation of the surrounding crowd."

At this moment, on the rooftop of an old building not far from where the middle-aged man was, a dozen patrol team members had set up various instruments to monitor the surrounding situation. Meanwhile, in some hidden places downstairs, some fully armed patrol team members were nervously watching their surroundings.

The next second, the group received the middle-aged man's order and began to carry out their respective tasks in an orderly manner.

Meanwhile, inside the flower shop.

The woman calmly asked Xiao He, "Boss, what do you want to do?"

However, her voice carried a hint of sobbing, as if a naive lamb had been tricked into a pit of fire by a big bad wolf.

"Stop pretending."

At this point, Xiao He was too lazy to waste words with the other party and laid his cards on the table, saying, "Even if you disguise yourself as a seemingly weak woman, but..."

Xiao He looked at the flowerpot in the woman's arms: "Have you ever seen a weak woman carrying such a heavy flowerpot around at night, and... without even seeming to exert any effort?"

"I thought my acting was already pretty exaggerated, but I didn't expect your acting to be even worse than mine. You should go back and practice for a few more years before you come out and fool people again."

Seeing Xiao He's disdainful expression, the woman's face stiffened, but she quickly recovered. Then she looked at Xiao He, her lips slowly parting into a wide grin, and her voice suddenly became unusually eerie: "I'm not a liar."

Just then, the peculiar flower in the flowerpot in the woman's arms suddenly opened its petals wide, revealing sharp thorns hidden inside, resembling canine teeth. Then, a dozen small flowers intertwined and crisscrossed, instantly forming a monster that looked like butterfly wings. After the petals intertwined, a pair of eyes that shimmered with iridescent light appeared on the wings.

next second.

The monster, which seemed to be made entirely of flowers and grew to the size of a gate, lunged at Xiao He and tried to devour him.

Upon seeing this, the woman's smile deepened.

If she could just eat this clueless florist in front of her, she could live a little longer.

"You're unlucky to have met me."

The woman's smile became even more sinister.

The woman was actually dead.

She couldn't quite remember how long she had been dead, and she had even completely forgotten her own name.

Anyway, when she crawled out of her grave, the grass on the grave was almost taller than her, and the tombstone, buried by weeds, was dilapidated and had almost turned into a pile of broken stones.

The reason she was able to come back to life was because of the peculiar flower that grew near her grave, which she held in her arms.

She didn't know when this strange flower appeared on her grave. One day, after this strange flower ate a passing wild beast, she, who had been buried in the ground for who knows how many years, opened her somewhat dazed eyes. After crawling out of the ground, she realized that she seemed to have become one with this strange flower.

Since then, she has needed to feed the flower with her own flesh and blood every now and then in order to prolong her life.

Initially, to avoid being discovered, the woman only targeted homeless people who were nameless, had no relatives, and whose deaths would go unnoticed. However, for some reason, the number of homeless people in Binhai City has decreased significantly in recent years, which has forced the woman to take risks and specifically choose secluded places at night to find prey.

So today, she set her sights on the owner of a flower shop in a remote area.

However, just as the woman was preparing to enjoy the florist's agonizing screams that seemed to come from the depths of despair, something unexpected happened.

Swish!

With the sound of a sharp blade slicing through the air, the monster's wings, composed of countless petals, were cut in two in the blink of an eye.

A pool of bluish-green liquid, resembling fresh blood, splattered directly from the break, followed by a painful howl from the monster.

"What?"

Upon seeing this, the woman's expression immediately changed, and her heart trembled involuntarily.

What exactly happened?

at the same time.

Opposite the monster that was howling in agony, Xiao He was smiling as he looked at the monster, which he had almost cleaved in two, and the woman behind it. He could clearly see the disbelief on her face.

"You delivered yourself right to my door."

Xiao He carefully examined the other party, and after sensing the extremely familiar power emanating from him, his eyes shone brightly: "I was originally planning to rest at home for a few days before going to the city to see if I could encounter one or two strange creatures. Now, it's all good, I'm just sitting at home and good fortune has come my way."

At first, when Xiao He saw the woman carrying a flowerpot knocking on the door in the surveillance footage, he thought it was just a "fishing" incident. He thought that after he opened the door, several burly men hiding in the shadows would jump out, rob him of everything, and then leave.

But just as Xiao He was about to open the door to teach the other party a lesson, he keenly sensed that the flowerpot in the woman's hand was emitting a deeply hidden aura—an eerie aura.

In an instant, Xiao He realized what was happening.

This is like a lamb walking into a wolf's den!

Although the strange creature disguised as a flowerpot seemed to possess the ability to conceal its presence, Xiao He happened to have a talent for disguise as well, which allowed him to detect its eerie aura.

However, since Xiao He knew that someone was watching him from outside, he put on this act, going along with the other party's wishes to bring them in. After all, the principle of "closing the door to beat the dog" has been around since ancient times.

"However, this monster is much weaker than I imagined."

Xiao He looked at the strange creature that had stopped wailing in pain with a hint of excitement. The reason he was able to injure it with a single blow was solely due to his right hand.

At this moment, his right hand could no longer be called a hand; it had transformed into a sharp blade of flesh and blood.

......

[Short-lived and mysterious]

Category: Mysterious

Rating: One Star

Quality: Excellent

Talents: Possession, Disguise, Body Enhancement

Skills: Soul Possession, Flesh and Blood Incarnation

Equipment: None

......

Shortly after Xiao He emerged from that mysterious, misty world, his flesh-and-blood parasitism skill was upgraded, transforming into a flesh-and-blood avatar.

The skill "Flesh and Blood Incarnation" adds an extra ability to the original skill "Flesh and Blood Parasite". This ability can transform the body that Xiao He sheds after possession into a weapon and then integrate it into the new body after possession.

Therefore, after possessing Xu Yuan's body, Xiao He turned Chen Wu's body into a sharp blade and integrated it into his right hand.

From then on, with just a thought, his right hand could instantly transform into a deadly blade of flesh and blood. Although the body Chen Wu had replaced was just an ordinary person, under the strange power of Xiao He, the blade of flesh and blood formed from Chen Wu's body was strong enough to easily break through the defenses of enemies of the same level. Of course, this only applied to ordinary enemies of the same level; those with abnormal strength were not included in this category.

Thus, Xiao He was able to deal with some not-so-powerful monsters without using his trump cards, such as the monster in front of him.

Looking at the fleshy, sharp arm gleaming with a steely light under the lamplight, Xiao He couldn't help but think of a story he had read in his previous life about the protagonist's right hand being parasitized by an alien creature.

"They do look quite alike."

Xiao He raised his right hand, and a writhing mass of flesh and blood transformed into a sharp blade of flesh and blood. His right hand swiftly extended forward, slashing at the strange creature once more.

next moment.

The eerie creature let out a low roar, and countless dark green tentacles extended from its body, flailing wildly as they attacked Xiao He's flesh-and-blood blade.

"it's useless."

Xiao He's eyes gleamed with a fanatical and excited light, a confidence in his own power.

*Sizzle*

Xiao He's outstretched flesh-and-blood blade, like a rapidly spinning top, sliced ​​off the attacking tentacles one by one.

In just a few seconds, the tentacles extending from the eerie body became fewer and fewer, and its iridescent eyes revealed a beastly rage and fear.

Seemingly influenced by the magician he encountered in the eerie fog, Xiao He felt that he could also see things through the eyes. For example, he could see some things through those strange eyes.

It wanted to escape!

Meanwhile, the woman standing behind the eerie figure was frozen in place.

She didn't know why her usually successful "hunt" had turned out like this, nor did she know why the florist's right hand had become a sharp blade. She only knew one thing: she had to escape.

Just then, a thought appeared in the woman's mind.

She was not unfamiliar with this idea, so she was not surprised.

This thought would appear in her mind whenever the peculiar flower felt "hungry".

However, this time was different. She didn't feel the "hunger" she used to feel in this thought, but rather the fear. Not only that, she also sensed a thought in this thought that was the same as hers, which was... to escape!

"Trying to escape?"