Chapter 1 The Night

Night blurred the edges of things. In the bedroom, the Lin doctor, who had just been weeping alone, lay on her side in bed, her willow eyebrows slightly furrowed. She had already fallen asleep, but a black halo seemed to envelop her brow.

She didn't want to sleep, but she had to.

Her sister didn't want the events that followed to disturb her.

In the bathroom, just a wall away, Zhou Ze continued to hold the towel.

His sister-in-law tilted her head, standing ramrod straight, and continued to stare at him.

The style of the scene seemed to freeze at this moment, heavy as ink bleeding from a heavily-inked painting.

Zhou Ze never thought it would be her. He really never thought of it.

In Zhou Ze's view, she was just an inexperienced child, a bit spoiled, a bit innocent. Plus, she had previously been in this bathroom when she opened the door and ran into him suffering the backlash from saving someone at the hospital, and she had been so scared that she peed herself.

If this was also a kind of acting,

it was going too far.

Moreover, the reason she gave sounded plausible, but in reality, it was far-fetched. Of course, some people's thought processes might just be that strange and unique.

She had her own individual worldview, only cared about her own feelings, only experienced the right and wrong she perceived.

To her,

whether there were seven billion people in the world or just one, it made no difference.

His sister-in-law began to walk forward.

Zhou Ze was a gift she had given to her sister, a gift to make her happy. But now, this gift was making her sister even sadder.

As a gift, he was unqualified.

Unqualified things

had to be discarded,

had to be destroyed.

He no longer needed to exist.

Zhou Ze put down the towel, and black fingernails slowly grew out between his fingers.

"Buzz!"

A tremor sounded, and Zhou Ze felt a sharp pain in his eardrums, and his vision blurred. Then, the face with the tilted head was right in front of him.

She looked at him with her head tilted, with a girlish innocence and a childlike purity.

"Pa!"

The clothes on his chest ripped open, and Zhou Ze flew backward, smashing the mirror behind him. A bloody wound appeared on his chest, and blood gurgled out.

"Why can't we just live a good life?"

His sister-in-law murmured to herself.

Then,

another crisp sound came from Zhou Ze's body. If Zhou Ze hadn't subconsciously turned his body, his neck might have been broken. But even so, a clear cut appeared on his neck.

"Why can't we just be together?"

His sister-in-law smiled.

She seemed to be asking Zhou Ze,

and she seemed to be asking herself.

But in essence, it was the same.

She wasn't prepared to receive any answers at all.

"Are you a ghost messenger (guicha)?" Zhou Ze couldn't understand. "If you are a ghost messenger, how can you kill so many people at will?"

His sister-in-law ignored him, and the smile on her lips grew even stronger.

Zhou Ze's pupils shrank, and his body rolled forward. The sink and all the glass in the bathroom shattered at this moment.

"Pa!"

Sharp shards of glass flew everywhere, making this narrow bathroom suddenly beautiful.

Strands of blood danced,

colored glass flashed,

it was a perfect location for wedding photos,

as long as the bride wasn't afraid of being disfigured.

"Why do you people have so many problems?"

His sister-in-law raised her hand.

At this moment,

Zhou Ze's hand also stretched over.

Sharp black fingernails stabbed directly at his sister-in-law's palm.

However, the originally sharp fingernails suddenly turned into "tenderness around the fingers." His sister-in-law's palm skin was soft and delicate, but Zhou Ze's fingernails couldn't pierce it at all.

"Can't you guys let me worry less?"

His sister-in-law grabbed his fingers, and to outsiders, it looked like she was holding Zhou Ze's hand.

Then,

Zhou Ze experienced a heart-wrenching pain.

The ten fingers were connected to the heart,

and now Zhou Ze's fingernails were slowly peeling off, as if someone was using a pair of pliers to pull out his fingernails. The pain that was connected to the depths of his soul was even more desperate, completely beyond the limits of physical torture.

For Zhou Ze, the fingernails that had always been invincible completely lost their former power in front of his sister-in-law.

His sister-in-law's smile grew even stronger.

"You're actually using what I gave you to deal with me?"

The next moment,

black fingernails also grew out of his sister-in-law's fingertips and pierced directly into Zhou Ze's palm.

First, the pain of his fingernails being separated from his body, and then the torture of being pierced by fingernails,

this kind of punishment that he had previously inflicted on others was now falling on Zhou Ze himself for the first time.

"I'm not wrong. You're the ones who are wrong."

His sister-in-law continued to murmur to herself, and then pushed Zhou Ze forward.

"Why don't you just live a good life?"

"Buzz!"

Zhou Ze was sent flying again, crashing into the wall. There was blood and gore on the five fingers of his right hand, and there were five shocking fingernail holes.

"I put in so much effort, why can't you guys just live…a good life?"

His sister-in-law kept asking herself,

like a curious baby,

but her image at this time was really not cute at all.

"Crack…………"

His sister-in-law raised her arm.

She was still half a meter away from Zhou Ze,

but Zhou Ze felt as if a hand had already grabbed his neck and lifted him up. The stinging and burning sensation in his neck was so clear, and he couldn't breathe.

His feet had left the ground, and he was like a prisoner on a stake, waiting for the judgment of fate in front of him.

Tilting her head,

smiling,

"Who gave you the courage to come and question me even after knowing the shadow behind things?

You're just a puppet I control in my palm.

Who gave you the illusion that you could resist?"

"Ugh…ugh…"

Zhou Ze wanted to make some noise, wanted to speak, but because his neck was tightly stuck, Zhou Ze couldn't make any clear syllables.

As a death row prisoner,

you have even been deprived of the right to make a final statement.

His sister-in-law was asking questions, but she didn't give him the right to answer.

"Lin Yi, I tried my best, but this game is really not that fun."

His sister-in-law muttered to herself.

Then,

she changed to another direction.

Continuing,

tilting her head.

"Your sister is still unhappy. Your sister is so annoying."

Then,

she tilted her head in another direction again.

"After we kill him, we'll kill your sister too, and then we won't have any worries,

right?"

Zhou Ze only felt the force on his neck suddenly increase.

That terrifying feeling of suffocation swept over him,

and his lungs were burning, almost exploding.

His eyes began to turn white, and the spasms in his body could no longer be restrained. This was a sign of death, a warning that his body was completely dying.

And the sister-in-law in front of him kept tilting her head ninety degrees in different directions, talking to herself, as if she was communicating with another person.

It was like two little girls with Peppa Pig backpacks standing in front of a claw machine,

discussing which doll to grab,

which doll was easier to grab,

and which doll looked cuter.

"Cough, cough…"

A cough came.

His sister-in-law looked up in surprise and looked at Zhou Ze above.

She was a little surprised.

He wasn't dead yet?

Then,

the smile on her face slowly became serious.

"What's going on with you?"

Yes,

what's going on with you?

Zhou Ze's eyes began to glow green, and a bronze luster began to slowly spread out from his body. The fingernails that had been broken off his right hand had actually grown back.

This time, they weren't as black as before, but they showed a weathered color up and down.

Zhou Ze's lips opened,

and two fangs slowly emerged,

a green face with fangs,

sinister and terrifying, with an aura that was hated by both humans and ghosts.

The force that had been restraining Zhou Ze's neck suddenly disappeared. Zhou Ze slowly landed, squatted down, supported himself on the broken tiles with one hand, and then slowly raised his head.

Those eerie green eyes stared fixedly at the tilting sister-in-law in front of him.

"What does this mean?"

"What's going on?"

She was confused,

because the toy she created, or the gift she personally chose and packaged for her sister, had undergone an unexpected change.

A change that she hadn't expected.

"Ah…"

A hoarse voice came from Zhou Ze's throat. He slowly spread his arms and slowly stood up.

Very slow,

but very firm.

Like last time,

half of Zhou Ze's skin was bronze, and the other half began to break and crack, and blood began to slowly flow out.

The sister-in-law with her head tilted watched Zhou Ze walk towards her step by step.

She was a little confused,

and a little at a loss.

"Are you Zhou Ze?"

This time, his sister-in-law needed Zhou Ze to answer.

But now, Zhou Ze didn't bother to give her any answer.

His sister-in-law stretched out her hand, but this time Zhou Ze wasn't sent flying. He still walked steadily step by step.

Just like that,

he walked in front of her.

His sister-in-law's fingernails pierced into Zhou Ze's body.

"Pfft!"

The fingernails pierced in.

However,

just as the fingernails pierced into his skin, the muscles at the wound instantly contracted, firmly fixing his sister-in-law's fingernails in his body.

She wanted to pull them out,

but she couldn't pull them out at all.

It was as if countless small mouths were sucking on her fingernails inside,

very tight,

very suppressed.

His sister-in-law looked at Zhou Ze, at those green eyes. A look of understanding appeared on her face, and she murmured:

"You…you were already dead before…"

And Zhou Ze stretched out his hand,

and grabbed his sister-in-law's head.

His sister-in-law wanted to resist, but she couldn't resist.

"Crack, crack…"

It sounded like the rubbing sound of bones slowly moving.

Zhou Ze's hand grabbed his sister-in-law's head,

but he didn't crush it,

or pierce it.

Instead, he slowly straightened

her tilted face.

Phew,

her face was straight now.

It looked

much more comfortable.