Who says vengeful ghosts can't go on blind dates?

The human world.

Stone City.

Zhang Xuanya yawned and walked into a bar.

then……

"Minors are not allowed to enter."

"Huh?" Zhang Xuanya's dark eyes widened. "I'm an adult!"

"No, minors are not allowed inside."

"Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay."

Zhang Xuanya turned around and walked in the opposite direction.

Afterwards, she went to the bridge, looked down at the river, and then prepared to jump...

"Hey! Why are you trying to commit suicide again?"

Zhang Xuanya's neck was grabbed.

The man who captured Zhang Xuanya had a scar on his face.

If Jiang Xiaowei were here, she would definitely recognize that the scarred-faced man was the lone wolf player she encountered in her first bizarre game.

"What?" she asked impatiently. "You've stopped me from committing suicide seventy-eighth time. Isn't that enough?"

"That's not what I meant. It's that you were in that weird game..."

"Oh? So some of our people are among the surviving players."

"Don't change the subject! Tell me, why did you...?"

"I survived, and I even won the bet," Zhang Xuanya said earnestly.

"Then what does it mean that you and that ghost gambled on game coins, one winning and the other losing?"

"I've been flipping game coins non-stop since I entered that instance, okay?" she continued, elaborating. "Thanks to the delays caused by those people and the ghosts, I flipped them 816 times. Of those, 451 were tails and 365 were heads!"

"And then you—!" The scarred man was so angry he almost couldn't breathe.

Zhang Xuanya frowned: "It's really disappointing. I thought I was going to die, but I actually survived. Tsk."

"You... that's enough, I've really had enough. Here, take this!"

A briefcase was stuffed into Zhang Xuanya's arms.

"What is this?"

"A colleague with an afro came from the next city. I've had contact with him; he seems to be investigating something."

"Then let him investigate?"

"The neighboring city overstepped its authority! The investigative powers belong to Stone City!"

"In this situation, we shouldn't report it to our superiors..."

"If it were useful, we wouldn't be getting any tasks assigned to us."

"Why aren't you going?"

"I still have to go to that..."

"Alright, alright, I'll go and make contact," Zhang Xuanya readily agreed.

Then, taking advantage of Scarface's inattention, she threw the briefcase into the river.

"Holy shit!"

And while Scarface was going crazy over the briefcase in the river, Zhang Xuanya finally managed to jump in herself!

"Holy crap? I'm seriously... speechless!"

……

The human world.

Feldspar Private Bank.

Jiang Tiancheng and Jiang Xiaowei agreed to meet at 4 PM.

However, his day was still very busy.

For example, he might need to deal with an uninvited guest in the morning—

"Mr. Jiang, it's really difficult to see you." The man with the afro started trying to sow discord between Jiang Tiancheng and the man with the bad hair as soon as they met.

"That's true." Jiang Tiancheng surprisingly agreed.

After all, it's quite normal for a player like him, who doesn't know if he'll survive the next bizarre game, to suddenly disappear from sight one day.

He first glanced at the ID the man with the afro presented. But soon, Jiang Tiancheng frowned.

"Well then, sir. Since you're from the neighboring city...aren't you overstepping your authority? Is this large-scale search legal?"

He plans to use the law to pressure the other party.

The man with the afro raised his eyelids and glanced at Jiang Tiancheng:

"Does everyone really ask that? Actually, I don't know either; I'm just following orders."

"Yeah?"

Jiang Tiancheng narrowed his eyes.

The man with the afro maintained this lazy attitude throughout. It has to be said that this was a good disguise, making him think twice before saying anything.

"Alright. I'm here to investigate this person." The man with the afro took out a photo from his person.

The photo shows a young man with a cold and menacing expression. He is wearing an extremely large black trench coat, which completely covers both his hands.

"You mean..." Jiang Tiancheng narrowed his eyes again, not saying the rest of his sentence.

He recognized the person in the photo.

That was a wanted criminal.

He is a very notorious wanted criminal in Shicheng. He claims to be Sun Long, but that's probably an alias.

Most wanted criminals who are still active hide in slums.

But Sun Long is an important member of the Stone City Mafia.

The Stone City Mafia is the most influential criminal organization in Stone City, controlling one-eighth of the city's underworld.

The breeding ground for these criminal elements is the slums that inevitably exist in every city.

Slums are very difficult to govern. For every mayor and councilor, eradicating slums is an extremely costly and unprofitable endeavor.

Since governance is ineffective, many interest groups are simply unwilling to invest in something with zero returns.

We can't leave it unmanageable.

There exists a bizarre game in this world. If left unchecked, players who emerge from the slums may develop strong antisocial and inhumane tendencies.

As a result, various black and gray forces began to emerge.

For those interest groups unwilling to make any effort, it's more practical to support a criminal organization and let them govern on their behalf than to govern.

The upper echelons tacitly approve of the existence of these organizations, and these organizations, in turn, ensure that extremely dangerous terrorists do not emerge at the lowest levels.

A fragile but effective balance was born.

However, this can also create some extremely difficult-to-deal-with entities, such as the Stone City Mafia.

The local police department in Stone City was powerless against this organization. Therefore, even wanted criminals could operate openly in the city as long as they had the protection of the Stone City Mafia.

Jiang Tiancheng glanced at the man with the afro without making a sound.

Is this guy with the afro here to investigate the Rock City Mafia?

"Ah, let's talk then." He smiled.

The Jiang family would not allow him to offend the Stone City Mafia.

So, I might as well just ramble on for the whole morning and get through it.

……

Northbridge University.

Upon hearing "Mr. Jiang," she suddenly became extremely nervous.

Is it the "Mr. Jiang" you met in the eerie game?

Did the other person recognize her?

Could it be such a coincidence?

A city?

Is it really such a coincidence?

She thought about it alone for a long time.

However, in the end, Jiang Xiaowei never met the guy who called himself "Mr. Jiang".

She had originally planned to meet him. But for some reason, he changed his mind and rescheduled for the next morning.

Then, the time was moved to the afternoon of the following day...

Then it was postponed again and again. Now, the time has been postponed until after she participates in the third eerie game.

Ultimately, the other party seemed to feel that dragging it out was not a good idea, so Changshi Private Bank spent money to buy the ghost coins from Jiang Xiaowei.

The value of the ghost banknote is astonishing. Or rather, the value of that fifty-yuan ghost banknote is astonishing.

In short, Jiang Xiaowei's loan has been fully resolved.

Actually, she was thinking of keeping some ghost coins to deal with that "weird delivery".

However, considering that he wasn't even sure he would survive, he decided to simply exchange all the ghost coins for real money and leave it to his family.

Besides her mother, she also has a younger brother.

If she hadn't survived, her younger brother would have taken good care of their mother... no, he would have taken even better care of her.

Because of financial problems, my younger brother was unable to continue his studies and dropped out of school in junior high.

Although she felt very sorry, at the time, she had already been admitted to university and her younger brother was likely to have to pay high tuition fees for the next few years...

There was really no choice.

But since then, my younger brother has become taciturn.

While she was busy running around borrowing money, taking out loans, and earning money to pay off her debts, the siblings saw each other even less.

But the younger brother still cares about the family. Because part of the monthly mortgage payment comes from his family.

The third eerie game will begin in ten minutes. Players, please be prepared.

Although the in-game store's inventory refreshed after completing the second spooky game, she didn't buy any new ghost items. Instead, she sold all her ghost coins to the Longstone Private Bank and exchanged them all for cash.

Jiang Xiaowei took the items belonging to the vengeful ghost with her.

The old radio was at the bottom, the ordinary dagger on top, and the boning knife on the very top.

And... VIP tickets to Sunset Cinema?

She thought about it for a moment, then kept the ticket and found a place to put it.

Thanks to a reminder from Sun Yueyue's family, she didn't carry the ghost-related items with her throughout the seven days in the real world.

Initially, she only wanted to use Sun Yueyue's family connections to pay for the old radio. Unexpectedly, her actions not only solved the problem of the new heart, but also saved her life.

No one on the internet mentioned this, so she was completely unaware of the dangers of ghostly items unless something happened.

"Ten minutes left... what should I do?"

Jiang Xiaowei sat there blankly.

She thought for a moment, then took out her phone.

Write a few wills.

Seeing that the loan has been cleared, my younger brother should react quickly. First, I explained where the money came from, told him to take good care of Mom, and then told him to take care of himself too... Later on, I just said whatever came to mind, even talking about things from my childhood.

But when she got to her mother's side, she remained silent for a long time.

My finger remained on the phone screen, unable to press anything.

In the end, she said nothing, but flipped back to her brother's last words and added on the first line, "Don't tell Mom."

"Ah, ten minutes have almost passed."

Before entering the eerie game, Jiang Xiaowei quickly set the electronic will to be released on a timer.

Let's set the time... to noon three days from now.

It shouldn't be set to nighttime, otherwise it will definitely keep people awake.

After doing all that, she put her phone aside and waited for the third eerie game to begin.

【3…2…】

【1! 】

……

A bizarre world.

Beihuang Hotel.

The executives from Sunset Cinema met with Ren Zhizhe at this hotel.

Ren Zhizhe wasn't particularly surprised by this.

In any case, now that we've become investors in each other, a banquet is definitely in order.

However, he felt that the banquet was coming a little late.

It's been a week, and Sunset Cinema has only just sent out invitations... It seems like the cinema's management isn't very flexible and is too slow to respond to external requests.

The Beihuang Hotel has six floors.

Only powerful ghosts can enter floors four and above. Weaker ghosts can only roam the fourth floor and below.

Whether you are a hotel staff member or a guest, if you violate this rule and enter floors above the fourth floor without authorization, you will bear the consequences yourself.

Yes, it's about bearing the consequences yourself—not necessarily being attacked by the rules of killing.

The banquet for Ren Zhizhe at Sunset Cinema was held on the fourth floor. Unfortunately, Sunset Cinema didn't have any big ghosts, so they had to book rooms on the fourth floor.

But they didn't know if Ren Zhizhe would be satisfied.

They believed that only the highest level was worthy of a vengeful ghost of Ren Zhizhe's caliber.

Therefore, Sunset Cinema has been negotiating with Beihuang Hotel. Beihuang Hotel is willing to allow them to book rooms on the fourth floor and above, but the hotel is unwilling to change the rules between different floors.

In other words, reservations are possible, and you can go upstairs, but once you go upstairs, you are responsible for your own life and death.

The Sunset Cinema team negotiated for almost a week.

Ultimately, it was due to their own lack of strength that they had to compromise and bear the risk of displeasing Ren Zhizhe.

As it turned out, Ren Zhizhe was indeed somewhat dissatisfied. However, his dissatisfaction wasn't with the floor, but rather with the timing of the banquet.

But Ren Zhizhe didn't show it. He did the same when investing in other companies before; even if he was dissatisfied, he wouldn't show it too obviously.

Normally, he would vent this dissatisfaction on subsequent investments.

If you're happy, invest more money; if you're not happy, invest less or even none at all.

Because Beihuang Hotel is not far from Hengjiang Community, Ren Zhizhe did not choose to drive this time.

Ren Zhizhe stepped into the lobby of the Beihuang Hotel.

In this bizarre world, all the active buildings that frequently receive clients seem to have their interiors decorated with extraordinary luxury.

For example, the lobby of the Beihuang Hotel is filled with crystal chandeliers.

One would have been enough, but there were several hanging in the lobby.

"Where are the private boxes at Sunset Cinema?"

Ren Zhizhe directly asked the front desk.

The receptionist was a faceless female ghost; her face was just a smooth sheet of skin.

Unlike the faceless ghost at the pigeon feed supermarket last time, although neither of them had a face, the waiter was clearly a human-shaped vengeful ghost.

The faceless demon's deformity is caused by its forced absorption and assimilation of incompatible killing rules. In this world, many weaker vengeful spirits do the same in order to survive.

Therefore, correspondingly, if it is below the level of a Great Demon, then the strength of a Deformed Demon is actually much stronger than that of a Beast Form or a Human Form.

The female ghost first bent down and searched for a while. After a short while, she took out a list of private room attendants.

"Fourth floor, 'Sunset Glow' private room." The waiter's voice came out muffledly from his abdomen.

"Thank you," Ren Zhizhe said fluently.

He walked straight to the elevator.

The elevator doors opened immediately. The elevator walls were incredibly smooth, like a mirror. Ren Zhizhe stepped inside, and his reflection was mirrored in the mirror.

However, only his body could be seen in the photo.

His face couldn't be seen in the photo.

What was reflected there was not his face, but a face with constantly changing features—as if countless faces were vying for power.