The villain and I have eight hundred minds combined

Buddha said that everything is empty, except cause and effect.

The "natural disasters and man-made disasters" caused by the female devil back then were now blamed on her. She had to take responsibility for any problems in the town. Besides, she was able to fall into the East China Sea and be saved by Duoli. She should at least solve this haunted thing for her and the townspeople, right? Just consider it as her repayment. Moreover, her cultivation was not enough now. How could she return to Fuyue City to regain sovereignty without killing monsters and leveling up?

Thinking of this, her eyes lit up, and she quickly asked Duoli in detail: "Where is the haunted place? When did it happen? What happened specifically?"

Seeing that she was not afraid but rather interested, with her eyes brighter than before, Duo Li could not help but admire her even more, but she was still worried: "Eh? Fairy sister, you are not going to exorcise ghosts, are you? It's very dangerous."

"It's not like I haven't done this kind of thing before. I have some experience. Why don't you tell me about it?" Mu Hanxing said confidently.

Dolly pulled a small wooden stool and sat next to her, her brows furrowed, her face nervous, and she swallowed before telling her the story.

"It's fine in our Huaiyu Town during the day, but at night, if you stay outside for something, you might run into strange... things that look like humans but are not human..." Duoli said, her face looking pale.

"Something that looks like a human but is not?" Mu Hanxing became even more curious.

"Before, there was one time when my father was delivering fish to a customer outside the town. He came back late without realizing it. That night... my father said that he saw a woman with disheveled hair crawling on the ground and moving by the river... but she seemed to have only the upper body... no legs..." Duoli said, shuddering all over.

"Ah?" Mu Hanxing's eyes widened. "Is it really a female ghost without legs? Did you see it clearly?"

"It was almost midnight that night, and it was pitch black all around. If it weren't for the moonlight shining by the river, my father wouldn't have been able to see clearly that it was a woman... Anyway, the woman was lying on the ground, using her hands to move forward... step by step... walking very slowly... no, she was crawling very slowly. My father was so scared that he didn't dare to look any longer and hurried back home." When Duoli thought of this, she broke out in a cold sweat.

Mu Hanxing frowned and thought for a while. If this female ghost had no legs, would she have some chance of winning? She was injured and the other party was unable to move. If we calculated the combat power, it should be about the same, right?

"Then the 'rustling' sound you just mentioned is the sound of this legless female ghost crawling on the ground?" Mu Hanxing quickly thought of it.

Duo Li frowned and shook her head: "I don't think so. If it was just the sound of a person crawling on the ground... it should be very clear, and the frequency shouldn't be that high... But the townspeople all said that the sounds they occasionally heard at night... were dense... It was like there were tens of millions of centipedes crawling on the ground..."

After saying that, Mu Hanxing shuddered behind his back. It wasn’t because he was afraid, but he was really disgusted.

An idea suddenly occurred to her, and she half-jokingly said to Duo Li: "That can't be... millions of legless female ghosts crawling on the ground..."

Who would have thought that after saying this, Duoli fell silent. Her face turned pale and solemn, her whole body tensed up, and her shoulders shrank unconsciously.

Realizing that he might have scared the little girl, Mu Hanxing quickly laughed and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, I was just teasing you, it's all made up."

Seeing her relaxed expression, Duo Li finally relaxed, drooped her shoulders, and exhaled: "I was scared to death... I thought the fairy sister knew about this kind of ghost and had seen it before."

"No, no, I just said it out loud." Mu Hanxing continued to ask, "Besides your father, has anyone else seen this female ghost?"

"Yes." Duo Li nodded, "But I also heard from some townspeople that the ghosts they saw were not female ghosts, but male ghosts."

"Are there male ghosts too?" Mu Hanxing's eyes widened again.

One against two... This is not a good idea. She shuddered inwardly.

"However, in recent years, there have been many people in this town who have been talking nonsense all the time. They say that any little disturbance is caused by ghosts. Over time, everyone has become numb to these weird things. It was not until I heard my father talk about seeing a female ghost by the river with his own eyes that I began to believe that our Huaiyu Town might really be haunted by evil spirits." Duoli said worriedly.

Although it sounds mysterious, fantasy novels are full of wonders, and there are all kinds of people in the human world. She just happened to encounter him as soon as she fell into the mortal world. I don’t know whether she should be grateful for the opportunity to upgrade, or sad that it came at the wrong time. After all, she was still seriously injured.

Everything she saw seemed to be hearsay, and the amount of information was still insufficient. She was injured now, and if she went out late at night, she might be attacked by a combination of male and female ghosts, which would be disadvantageous to her.

She crossed her arms and was thinking seriously about what to do. Dolly advised her, "Fairy sister, even if you are a fairy from heaven, it is not good to take risks now that you are injured. Why don't you stay at my house to recover first and talk about it after you are well? In short, don't go out at night. If you need to buy anything, go to town during the day and I will buy it for you."

"Okay, I understand. Thank you very much. But where is your father? It's so late, he hasn't come back yet?" Mu Hanxing looked around and found that the room next door was empty.

"Don't mention it. He's been acting like a possessed man these days, insisting on finding some townspeople to hold a Dragon King sacrificial ceremony at the beach. He says that as long as the Dragon King is happy, the town won't be haunted anymore." Dolly said, standing up and looking out the window at the beach not far away.

"But, won't you encounter a ghost with a broken leg if you go out in the middle of the night? Isn't your father afraid?" Mu Hanxing asked again.

"Because the beach is very close to the residence of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, the townspeople are not afraid. In addition, the mayor has used most of his money to build a Dragon King Temple by the beach in recent years. To show their sincerity in worshipping the god, many townspeople have decided to follow their father and go to the temple to worship at night." Duoli explained, "What they say is that in order to worship the Dragon King, they are not afraid of losing their lives if something happens accidentally... Oh, anyway, they are talking about superstitions all day long."

What kind of perverse logic is this... Isn't it to save lives that people worship the Dragon King? Isn't this putting the cart before the horse? She said she couldn't understand the ancients.

As the two were chatting, there was a noise coming from the beach not far away. It seemed that many people had gathered together to prepare for the sacrificial ceremony.

Mu Hanxing listened to the commotion and thought that the momentum should be quite strong. He also wondered which Dragon Lord the townspeople of Huaiyu Town were worshipping... It couldn't be Long Jin, right?

It can’t be such a coincidence, right?

"Okay, I'll go out and take a look, you stay at home and don't go out." Mu Hanxing said as he got up from the couch and prepared to go to the beach.

Duo Li was startled, and seeing that she was in a hurry, she hurriedly followed her out of the house and said anxiously behind her: "No, fairy sister, you are still injured, I have to take care of you."

Seeing Duoli followed without hesitation, with a worried look on her face, it must be that the doctor is kind-hearted and can't control himself. Mu Hanxing could only turn back and say, "Then you follow me closely. It's dark outside. I don't know if the male and female ghosts are still out. I'm going to the beach to take a look."

"Okay, anyway, I want to ask Dad to go home quickly." Although Duoli was a little scared, she was still determined to go out with her.

"Don't worry, I will definitely protect you." Mu Hanxing said, and hurriedly followed the sound towards the beach.