Chapter 89: The female ghost and Rover

Rover could feel that Professor Ethan really was seeing him, yet he still turned his head and looked behind him.

After confirming there was no one behind him, Rover finally believed these people from the past truly could see him.

“Y… you can see me?” Rover stammered.

He felt like he was losing his mind, suddenly asking a shadow that existed in the past a question like that.

Professor Ethan froze for a moment. After a while, he said, “It’s not time yet. Rover, the flame of destruction still isn’t enough to eradicate them. You shouldn’t come to this place. However, I can give you the password to this door. It is…”

Tick! Tick!

The image vanished. The space sank back into silence.

Rover: “…”

What the hell?!!

He stared at the [Eye of Truth], really wanting to curse, “Damn it! Are you messing with me? I… I was about to see the password for that door, and you… you…”

Rover shook his head and sighed. He knew that even if he cursed, it would be useless. The [Eye of Truth] was just a normal item. Maybe it had met the right conditions, so it could show him the past.

Still, what he found hardest to believe was… those people in the past had truly seen him.

Rover felt a headache coming on, so he decided not to think about it anymore. If there was no answer, why waste brain cells?

He let out a long breath, pulled the two keys out, put them into his backpack, and went looking for another way.

After all, if this path was blocked, staying here was pointless.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, the white blur of that female ghost from earlier drifted past again, but this time she paused in midair. Even though her hair covered her face, Rover knew she was looking at him.

He even knew she was looking at him like she was saying, “Why are you here?”

Rover grinned. “Where’d you run off to? Don’t worry, I’m a good guy. I won’t hurt you. I only like beauties, not ghost chicks, and I especially don’t like ugly women.”

Female ghost: “….”

If looks could kill, this ghost would’ve killed him a thousand times over.

Rover kept a certain distance from her, not because he was afraid of her, but because he was afraid that if he got too close, the [Eye of Truth] would help her find a path to heaven, or maybe hell.

Cough!

Rover pretended to cough, then asked, “Beauty… ack! No, female ghost, do you know a route that leads to the corridor connecting to the staff building?”

WOO!!

The ghost suddenly shrieked. Rover grimaced, covered his nose, and his face filled with disgust as he frowned. “Damn it! How long has it been since you brushed your teeth? Girls these days are filthy. Ah, no, Nanoe, Selina, Monica, and even Morie aren’t filthy, only you are.”

Female ghost: “…”

She seemed furious to the extreme. Her body trembled violently, and her hair began to grow at a horrifying speed.

When her hair touched the floor, it immediately merged into the darkness, turning into countless shadow-tentacles that crawled across the ground, slowly advancing toward Rover.

But…

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

WOO!!! WOO!!

The moment those shadow-tentacles touched the light boundary of the [Eye of Truth], it was like they’d hit ultra-concentrated acid, igniting instantly.

The ghost wailed miserably, her body lurching backward.

Rover sighed and shook his head, saying softly, “I’m serious… even if you’re a ghost, you should be smarter. If I can get here and my clothes are still clean, you should understand I’m not something you can pick a fight with, got it?”

The ghost trembled. Her rage was at its peak, but she seemed to understand Rover’s words, and her body slowly steadied.

Seeing that, Rover smiled. “Good. Do you know the way to the corridor I mentioned?”

The ghost didn’t speak. She turned around and flew toward the door, but this time she didn’t move too fast, only drifting slowly as if waiting for him to follow.

Rover happily followed her. After they went outside, the ghost suddenly stopped because countless shadows were surrounding them from every direction.

They stood still, their bodies twisted to an extreme. Under the faint light from the ceiling lamps, Rover could see they had no skin, their exposed muscle fibers hanging in the air, already rotted.

The face was grotesquely twisted, its jaw stretched wide like a crocodile’s maw, packed with countless fangs. In its eye sockets were two cloudy-white eyeballs, spinning nonstop like billiard balls.

Rover frowned and glanced at the female ghost, but she didn’t react, only standing there motionless.

He frowned. “Stay a bit farther from me. I’ll deal with them.”

The female ghost rotated her head one hundred eighty degrees backward to look at him, then her body drifted forward, phasing straight through all those aberrant creatures and keeping a fairly wide distance from him.

Seeing that, Rover gave an order: “Expand the light zone to maximum!”

WHOONG!

The moment the light spread, another beam from the [Eye of Truth] swept across the entire swarm.

Pop! Pop! Pop!

The sound of popcorn exploding rang out in rapid succession. Wherever that beam passed, the aberrant creatures disintegrated into ash.

[Ding! Congratulations, you have slain 12 Low-grade monsters and obtained 120 Omni Points.]

“Ah.” Rover felt a little disappointed. If there were more monsters here, that would’ve been perfect.

Suddenly, he thought of something and immediately waved at the female ghost.

After watching him erase that swarm so easily, the female ghost seemed to fall into confusion, not knowing what to do next.

Hearing him call, she floated closer. But this time she didn’t come in front of him, instead circling around him. Her hair twisted together, forming a gigantic mouth made of hair, and began devouring the pile of ash left behind after Rover’s kills.

Rover frowned at the sight, but he didn’t interfere. He simply stared at the female ghost.

After she absorbed all that ash, some of the stains on her white dress suddenly vanished, and her hair became slightly less tangled.

’That female ghost…’ Rover thought. ’Can she absorb the ash of other monsters to evolve? Is that an ability every monster in this mission has, or is it something only she possesses?’

Either way, Rover suddenly felt like keeping her by his side. Yet he had no way to manage her, or imprison her beside him forever.

Still, he wasn’t in a hurry. He wanted to observe a little more. If it was her unique ability, and she had big potential, he could try bringing her along.

“Do you know anywhere ghosts like this gather? Or something stronger would work too.”

The female ghost looked at him, clearly confused. She felt like she was the human here, and he was the devil.

She didn’t say anything. Her body slowly turned toward another direction, then drifted that way at a leisurely pace. Rover smiled and followed behind her.

…

“Damn it! What the hell are we even looking for?”

Right now, inside a room that looked like an archive storage room, ancient and decrepit, the files inside were still neatly arranged in drawers.

Nick frowned, glared at John, and barked in a low voice, “Can you tell me what the hell we’re looking for? If this keeps going, when are we ever getting out of this godforsaken place?”

Unlike Nick, John looked utterly relaxed and indifferent. He pulled open a drawer, slowly searching for anything useful.

He said, “Can you be quiet? We’re already at this point. Getting angry or rushing won’t solve anything. If fate has arranged our deaths, then no matter how much we hurry, we’ll still die in the end.”

“So if you’ve got the energy to scream in here, then help me search around for anything strange or any weird items.”

Nick ground his teeth. “Damn it! If I could use my powers here, none of this would be this hard.”

“If…” John said with disdain. “That’s a good one. Why don’t you try stand-up comedy? The ticket money alone would be enough to let you live easy.”

“You…”

BAM!

Just as Nick was about to say something, the door was suddenly blasted open with brutal force. A huge figure appeared, making them both flinch.

That monster was over two meters tall, its body gaunt. There was a massive hole in both its back and its chest, and from those cavities, countless arms longer than a meter stretched outward.

The creature had no head. Its two arms were encased in magma, shaped like drill bits. It had six legs, long and unnaturally jointed, making them look like a spider’s limbs.

Nick’s face went pale when he saw it, and he shouted, “Damn it! Run!”

But John was different. He rubbed his chin, looked at the bizarre creature that had just appeared, nodded slightly, and said, “This design… it’s really creative, and full of artistic flair.”

Nick: “…”

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