Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

Explosions and sounds of battle could be heard from the nearby outskirts of the city, accompanied by pure cursing.

"Welcome to Xiping, the freest city in the Western Regions of Senluo." Jin You said to the white-haired girl sitting at the bow of the boat, then said to himself:

"I'm back alive again."

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Volume 1: Chapter 261, Desolate Pouch

Outside Xiping City.

As the square-shaped boat sped along, its rolling wheels kicked up fallen leaves, debris, and dust from the ground.

Xi Heng's illusory figure sat at the bow of the boat, his long hair unaffected by the wind, gazing at the constantly changing advertising projections in the city.

Under the rain, the towering city appeared both real and unreal, like a mirage projected from somewhere.

The area around the city where they were located was filled with scattered abandoned towns with little technological atmosphere. Some of the houses were still in good condition, but they were covered with moss and layers of dust.

When they reached the checkpoint, a gray-haired girl on the boat suddenly moved, grabbed the gunwale, and rolled herself down onto the softer soil beside the road.

Due to the inertia from the high speed, she fell with a thud and rolled several times before coming to a stop.

Jin You coughed twice more, brushed the dirt off his lips with his sleeve, and then slowly stood up.

She was now covered in dirt, and even her prosthetic body looked broken and tattered. Apart from her face, she looked almost exactly like a homeless person.

Xi Heng's figure suddenly appeared in front of her, scanning the surrounding dilapidated and decaying town.

"Aren't you just going into the city with the car?"

"The checkpoint will sweep me out, I'll have to sneak in." The other person slowly walked forward, using their bare, prosthetic leg to step on the damp soil.

"So there's an inspection going on?" The white-haired girl listened to the sounds of fighting and explosions in the distance, but didn't pay any attention to the approaching sirens.

"The city entrance fee is no small sum. As long as it's something that can be paid for, the officials won't be negligent," Jin You said as he walked, keeping an eye on his surroundings.

"Oh." Xi Heng nodded.

As she looked around, she suddenly saw something, her figure blurred for a moment, and the next moment she appeared in front of an abandoned restaurant in the distance.

A faded billboard lay broken at the restaurant entrance, and tiny, earthworm-like insects were crawling under a dark gray square stone slab.

Above the building, broken tiles sway precariously in the wind, while two faded lanterns still hang on either side, dangling precariously.

The signboard is still hanging firmly, with the words "Real Meat and Vegetables" written on it, and a small note below: At least 50% real meat!

The plaque has now faded, leaving only a dark black wooden door tightly closed.

There were also words on the wooden door, written in large, conspicuous red characters—

"Something strange is happening inside!"

The four characters are tilted, like a seal firmly sealing the wooden door.

Xi Heng lightly tapped his chin with his finger, then flashed again, approaching Jin You and asking:

"There's a sign up ahead that says 'There's something strange inside the door.' What does that mean?"

“Literally, it means something sinister.” Jin You said calmly, “The wilderness outside the city is full of sinister things, and there are some scattered in the suburbs as well, but the city is the most stable.”

"sly?"

“Strange.” The gray-haired girl didn’t explain further, and her footsteps had already drawn closer to the restaurant that served real meat dishes.

Before Xi Heng could ask any more questions, there were a few light knocks on the tightly closed, solid wooden door of the restaurant.

Thump, thump

The sound was faint and the source was relatively low, as if a child was knocking.

"Mom?" Then, a girl's soft voice came from inside: "Don't leave me, I'm trapped here..."

"help me……"

Jin You didn't even look, and simply went around to avoid the location of the sound.

Xi Heng then moved closer and gently touched the tightly sealed restaurant door with his finger.

"Please let me out, I'll be good," came a weak and pitiful voice from inside.

"Please, it's so dark in there... I'm afraid of the dark."

The white-haired girl tilted her head, sensing a clear resentment.

"After absorbing flesh and blood and true spirit, is the resentment, as a byproduct, separated in this way?" The girl's figure flashed and she arrived at the top of the entire restaurant, gazing at the gray wasteland opposite the city.

"And then, they were just thrown into the wasteland outside the city like trash?" she guessed.

However, there is no evidence to support this claim, and it is difficult to confirm whether this is indeed the case.

Xi Heng thought for a moment, then his figure flickered away again, walking to Jin You's side as she cautiously crossed the town, and asked:

"What would happen if we released the 'trick' you mentioned?"

"The ghost will kill people and then retreat. Most people who encounter the ghost will die, but a few who have prepared talismans and anti-ghost artifacts in advance may survive... Some ghosts will do things that are hard for people to predict, and there are also cases where they will let people go."

"Can you beat the monster in that restaurant?" Xi Heng asked casually.

"Give me the Yang Iron and Thunderwood Flying Instrument specifically for countering monsters, and maybe that would work, but I don't have the money to buy them right now." The other person shook their head, quickening their pace slightly.

"How much does that thing cost?"

“The lowest-end Yangtie Flying Instrument costs at least 7,500…” Jin You sighed: “I don’t even have 1,000 right now. I can’t even afford the lowest-end ordinary flying instrument. I have to use this money to bribe Zhou Tai to get me into the city and change my identity. The whole set might not even be enough.”

"I vaguely heard that you are actually a pretty good pilot. Pilots are so expensive, you must be quite rich, right?" Xi Heng asked from beside him.

"It's all my fault for taking on such a terrible job." She glanced at Xi Heng beside her and sighed again, "I used to have three thousand spirit bodies, but now all three are ruined, and my flying instruments are all destroyed. Now my strength isn't even as good as a first-level flying instrument master..."

"How tragic," the white-haired girl replied casually.

"But it's all good, at least I died once, so I don't have to return the heart and liver I mortgaged before the operation." The other party smiled bitterly.

"Huh?" Xi Heng blinked, not quite understanding why these things could be used as collateral.

"Wait!" Jin You suddenly stopped in her tracks, her gaze turning serious as she looked ahead.

If this person hadn't yet adopted a fighting stance, and if Xi Heng hadn't glanced around to make sure no one was in front of him, she would have thought he had encountered some formidable enemy, or that his company, which was trying to kill her, had come knocking on her door.

"what happened?"

"It seems I can't cash out the life insurance policy I bought before the operation, which had a coverage of 50,000 yuan?" She lowered her arms, looking somewhat dejected. "It's one thing that my identity can't be used before, but my money..."

Ms. Jin You's previously steady steps suddenly became unsteady.

The resolute expression that had previously made him determined to fight to the death even if he were in hell vanished upon thinking about this matter.

One sigh after another escaped her lips, as if she would jump off a cliff immediately if one stood before her.

Xi Heng casually approached and patted the other person's shoulder to offer some comfort:

"It's just some money. You almost lost your life just now."

"You've never been poor, have you?" The other person glanced at me and said, "Money is life."

"Hmm? You could say I was poor, but I wasn't destitute either." Xi Heng thought for a moment.

"Money is life." Jin You repeated, then sighed again, thinking of his 50,000 yuan, plus the 33,000 yuan reward he should have received for this mission.

"Eighty-three thousand is enough for me to buy a small single-person apartment in the city center."

She looked up at the thick, lingering clouds in the sky and murmured softly.

Fine raindrops fell on my cheeks and slid down my chin.

Her pale purple eyes shimmered slightly as she drifted into memories.

A few seconds later, a voice brought her back to her senses.

Beside him, Xi Heng had somehow produced a blue-green spirit stone, which he was waving around in his hand, asking the other person, "How much is this worth?"

Upon hearing the word "money," Jin You immediately turned his head and stared intently at the other person's hand.

He blinked, and after a moment said, "Spirit Essence Ore? The purity is so high..."

"How much?" Xi Heng waved the flag twice more.

"We need to do some testing to get a clear answer, but the estimate is around seven thousand?" she said after hesitating.

"Aren't you a bounty hunter? I have a commission with this item as payment. Do you want to take it?" Xi Heng asked directly.

"Huh?" Jin You paused for a moment, then immediately switched to work mode and calmly said:

"This is the first time I've been entrusted with a task by someone from outside the world. Tell me about it."

"I need to find a person, or a feather, who came with me on the flying boat to this world, but now I don't know where she is," the white-haired girl said.

"Is it a person or a feather?"

“The person is inside the feathers, which are white phoenix feathers, a high realm with immense energy.” Xi Heng explained, “Since I was found by your company after landing, she might also be in the company.”

"It's the company again... I don't want to take this anymore." The other person sighed.

“I understand that your strength is currently insufficient. In the early stages, you should focus on finding information related to her. As long as the information is not duplicated, you can get one spirit ore as a reward for each piece of information.”

Since Xi Heng realized that he couldn't directly possess this person's body, he would just have her do things for him.

"...Indeed generous. Let me think about it." Jin You reached into the inner pocket of his chest, only to find it empty. He clicked his tongue and pondered.

After a while, she pressed her temples and said, "I didn't have any money to begin with, and I wasn't allowed to pick and choose my work, so I took it."

"Okay, go do it after you settle down." Xi Heng covered his mouth and yawned, his figure flashing for a moment before disappearing from the other person's sight.

"Wait a minute, are you really going to give me a reward in this state?" the other party asked doubtfully.

"I have spatial abilities, don't ask," Xi Heng said at the end, and went to rest by himself.

"Space ability?"

Jin You muttered the words twice more in confusion, but the other person had already vanished without a trace, as if in a hallucination, and stopped speaking.

Looking around, she was all alone in this abandoned town in the rain.

The gray-haired girl shook her head, wandered around the town a couple more times, found a black baseball cap in an abandoned general store and put it on, while also tying her loose, straight gray hair into a ponytail that fell behind her head.

Not satisfied with that, he found a strangely shaped animal tooth mask to cover his face, and put on a gray robe that could also protect him from the rain before continuing his journey out of the dilapidated town.

She had intended to find another sword for protection along the way, but in the end she only found two old daggers of different shapes and tied them around her waist.

He pulled out his weapon twice during the fight, a move she wasn't quite used to.

"My left leg is at level one, and my right leg is at level two... It's really difficult to coordinate them. Having only one right hand makes it even more difficult." Jin You swung the dagger back to his waist and silently estimated his current strength.

"I wasn't originally a melee fighter, and now I can probably only take on three or four thugs... I'll try to avoid conflict with Zhou Tai's gang, and I hope their reputation in the underworld is genuine."

The gray-haired girl concealed the dagger and her withered left arm with her robe, put one hand in her pocket, and quickened her pace.

After leaving this small town outside the city, it's only a few hundred meters away to the Xingzhou Inn, which is controlled by Zhou Tai's gang.

The inn has almost none of the advanced features that should exist in this era; it is still composed of white walls, gray bricks and gray-black tiles, just like in the old days.

Several dusty wooden doors in front of the entrance were open, and the words "Shihe Inn" were engraved on the black wooden plaque in brownish-yellow lettering.

To enter, you need to climb seven steps, behind which is a brick wall with only a few paintings and calligraphy hanging on it, and a few tables and chairs on the first floor.

As for the menu, the signature dishes are fried cockroaches and dried lizards, and roasted rats.

Jin You had no interest in staying there, and upon arriving at the counter, he said, "I want to be introduced to the city."

The thin man sitting behind the counter didn't even glance at her, but simply pointed inside the store: "Let's talk inside."

The gray-haired girl turned around and walked away, passing through two curtains, where she saw a scene of misty clouds.

People dressed in civilian clothes were smoking in various corners, lying on the ground like lumps of corpses, barely moving, at most scratching an itch, or putting more cigarettes and alcohol into their mouths.

"The timing is bad..." she frowned slightly.

A burly man dressed in black saw her by the door and asked in a deep voice, "Are you here to discuss business, or to buy elixirs?"

"I can't afford the Type III Immortal Pill." Jin You coldly looked at the walking corpses around him and said directly, "How much does it cost to get a referral into the city?"

"Five hundred coins."

"Wasn't it 350 last month? What, the price went up?" The gray-haired girl frowned.

The man in black also took a drag of his cigarette, exhaling a weak breath as he said:

"Something big happened in the city recently. A gang blew up the company building, and it's been much stricter to get in and out of the city lately... If you don't believe me, go ask other gangs. Our Zhou Tai gang has raised prices the least."