Volume 1 Chapter 43: Killing Ghosts

  The bright light was floating in the cemetery, like willow catkins flying in the wind, suddenly front and back, left and right. When Hong Jun pulled Rui Xin around the tomb of one of his unknown ancestors, he still didn't forget to knock a head in his heart and muttered a sentence: "Ancestor bless." As for what blessing, he didn't have time to think about it.

  It's not easy to catch up with the bright lights. After running a few steps, Hong Jun found that these bright lights and himself were like two different magnets of the same pole, repelling each other. No matter how he chased, those bright lights would play hide-and-seek with him, always keeping a certain distance.

  He quickened his pace, fortunately the road under his feet was already familiar to him, he could walk down with his eyes closed, let alone now although it was a dark night, there were still some starlight in the sky and some bright lights around, which didn't reach the darkness of closing his eyes, so he could still chase easily in the cemetery. Only poor Rui Xin beside him, although she used her phone's flashlight function to illuminate, she still stumbled several times.

  Although he had been scared by ghosts a few times, Hong Jun's courage was not small compared to ordinary people. This was fully proven now that he led his girlfriend in the cemetery chasing those eerie lights. Moreover, having seen ghosts before, he had figured out one thing - whether or not there were ghosts and gods in this world, it wasn't something to be feared. If you looked at it dialectically, if there really were ghosts and gods, then when people died they wouldn't "go out like a lamp" but rather become ghosts. From this perspective, human life could only be considered a small part of one's long life, because afterwards he would still have to become a ghost and then reincarnate as a person, repeating the cycle over and over. Therefore, life and death were just two forms of human existence. Having figured this out, Hong Jun felt fearless - no matter what ghosts appeared, even if they killed him, so what? At that point, he could also become a ghost and then be reincarnated again, so what was there to fear between life and death?

  On the other hand, if there were no ghosts in this world, then there would only be one kind of advanced life form on this earth, which is human beings. Everyone would only have one chance to live, and when facing other humans, do they need to be afraid? He felt that his physical strength was enough to deal with the majority of people.

  If this world had ghosts, death would only be a transit station for life, how great that would be, Hong Jun thought. He suddenly couldn't wait for this world to have ghosts.

  With a confused and disordered mind, he finally managed to catch up with a bowl-sized red light in front of him. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the light, only to find that it was just a floating light in the air, like a Kongming lantern floating slightly higher than himself, emitting a faint and blurry red glow.

  However, when he looked down at the red light, a bloody and blurry thing first caught his eye. He felt a chill run down his back. Because he saw something extremely terrifying, if it could be barely defined as a ghost, he believed that this was absolutely an evil spirit. A ghost with a mournful appearance.

  Extremely dismal and desolate.

  Seeing this thing, Rui Xin finally couldn't help but let out a sharp cry. She was frightened.

  Hong Jun tightened his grip on Rui Xin's hand slightly, as a gesture of comfort. Only then did he have the time to carefully observe the things in front of him.

  This thing looks like a human head, but it's incomplete now.

  The top of the head from the eyebrows up was gone, like an apple cut off by a sharp knife, revealing the white and fluffy brain inside, bubbling with bubbles like tofu.

  The remaining face was covered in wounds, with muscles exposed and dripping blood. One eye was gone, leaving only an empty socket. The lower lip hung down, revealing sharp teeth, making it impossible to discern its original appearance. There was no neck under the head, which seemed to be stuck directly onto the shoulders, swaying back and forth as if it might fall off at any moment.

  As for the body, it was just a vague thing, the entire figure was blurry and glowing red under the red light. Even if Hong Jun opened his eyes wide, what he saw was like a 1000-degree myopic person who forgot to wear glasses, extremely blurred, and could only be judged by position and rough shape as a body, two legs, and one right arm. The left arm should not have been there, because Hong Jun did not see it in its supposed place.

  He was observing the strange thing, considering whether to move forward or retreat, but that mass of things didn't give him enough time to think. Just now, Ruixin's scream had already caught his attention.

  The deformed head twisted and turned, saw the two people approaching, and swayed over.

  A chill ran down his spine, and even though he was wearing a long-sleeved shirt, Hong Jun felt a cold sweat all over his body. He wanted to shiver, but found that he was somehow restrained, unable to move even a finger. The shiver was suppressed inside him, unable to be released.

  He couldn't move, but his two eyes didn't idle, now he clearly saw the head with a blurry body, or the blurry body with the head on top, getting closer and closer, but his target wasn't Hong Jun, but Rui Xin.

  Unable to turn his neck, Hong Jun could only anxiously use the corner of his eye to glance at Rui Xin. He found that Rui Xin was either in the same situation and couldn't move, or had been scared stupid, standing beside him without any movement from head to toe.

  That head opened its big mouth, and rows of white teeth bit down on Rui Xin with all their might.

  Under his own eyelids, the beloved woman was about to be humiliated. Hong Jun's anger burst out, "Find you." He cursed in his heart, and a strong air flow with boundless anger rose from his chest and abdomen, rapidly spraying towards his throat.

  "Ah……” He let out a loud cry, feeling his body incredibly light, the restraint that had made him unable to move just now was gone. Before he could think about what had happened, his right hand stretched out and the half skull was pulled back in place, ten centimeters from Rui Xin's neck.

  "Hiss, hiss." The skull made a strange noise as it tried to break free from Hong Jun's hand. But Hong Jun didn't give it the chance, his left hand also reached up and grabbed hold of the blurry body, using a gentle yet firm force, his incredible strength tore the incomplete head off its body in one swift motion, and with a flick, he sent the head flying towards a nearby stone pedestal, where it landed with a splat, smashing into eight pieces like a watermelon.

  A few drops of blood splashed onto Hong Jun's body.

  Having dealt with that guy, Hong Jun hurriedly went to see his girlfriend, Rui Xin, who was still standing there in a daze.

  "Xin'er, Xin'er." Hong Jun urgently shook her shoulders.

  "Ah." Rui Xin let out a breath and regained her vitality. "A Bing." Her voice was trembling with tears, she was really scared to death.

  Hong Jun's lovingly wrapped Rui Xin in his chest, the anger in his heart grew stronger and stronger. His girlfriend was frightened, not knowing whether it was a ghost or a monster that wanted to harm her, and it was right in front of him. In his eyes, this was absolutely unforgivable. His eyes turned red, staring tightly at the light clusters still floating around in the tomb, his heart filled with hatred, ready to eliminate all these light clusters to comfort his girlfriend.

  Soon, the green light and the red light below became the object of his anger, and in a shrill cry, they were crushed into pulp by him with a stone.

  The light mass inside the tomb was panicked and began to flee in all directions. A white light mass flew over in a panic, not caring where it went. Hong Jun was furious, as he had been worried that he couldn't catch these elusive things, but now one of them had actually run into him by itself. This was truly a case of "heaven has a way out, but you don't take it, and hell has no door, yet you still manage to barge in". He didn't even bother to look closely, just reached out and grabbed the throat of the "person" below the white light, gradually increasing his grip, intending to strangle him to death.

  "Ah Bing, wait a minute." Rui Xin suddenly reached out and grabbed Hong Jun's arm, signaling him to stop. Hong Jun turned his head and looked at his girlfriend.

  "Never mind, these things won't harm us. The one who wanted to do evil has already been smashed by you, so let's not hurt the innocent. Even if they are ghosts, they are still lives." She begged for mercy on behalf of the trembling person in white light.

  His anger subsided a little, and Hong Jun, who had always listened to his girlfriend's words, thought about it and felt that he shouldn't take drastic action, so he slowly loosened his clenched fists.

  His mind began to calm down, and Hong Jun's thoughts returned to normal. He first thought that he had killed someone, and his body was immediately covered in a layer of cold sweat, even wanting to collapse to the ground. However, he quickly relaxed because he saw the mangled flesh on the ground that he had crushed, slowly disappearing with a white mist. Now he was 100% certain that those mutilated bodies were not human, they should be the same kind as the female ghost he had seen before, all ghosts.

  He finally put his mind at ease. Murder, in this society governed by law, is an absolute felony. Such a thing was unimaginable for him, a good citizen who abides by the rules and laws.

  He burst out laughing because he had effortlessly crushed two things that might have been ghosts.