Mysterious Resurrection: Becoming a God Starting from a Ghost Post Office

Chapter 18 A Completely Different Village

Sun Rui picked up his phone and glanced at it, confirming that the time was different from before.

This time, he ignored Qin Qiuyun outside the door and let her knock on the door.

When Qin Qiuyun heard that no one responded, she left again.

"Is Qin Qiuyun a ghost? Or is she being influenced by a ghost?" Sun Rui stood up and fastened the body bag to his waist.

The whole village started acting strangely at night. He couldn't just sit in his room and wait to die; finding out the source of the village's abnormality as soon as possible was the priority.

Sun Rui climbed down from the window to the ground floor, where a small courtyard was enclosed by a wooden fence.

As soon as he came down, he noticed something was wrong. There were several chickens in the previously empty yard, but Sun Rui hadn't seen them during the day.

"Let's go to the ancestral hall first. Li Maolin saw the ghost near there." Sun Rui climbed over the fence under the moonlight.

He followed the route he had noted down during the day and headed towards the back of the mountain.

The whole village was very quiet. The barking of dogs had disappeared. Only Sun Rui's footsteps on the soft soil made a crunching sound from time to time.

After walking for five or six minutes, Sun Rui finally found the ancestral hall, and at that moment, the hall's doors were wide open.

"There's someone inside!" Sun Rui looked through the door and saw the firelight in the ancestral hall casting a long shadow of a person who remained motionless, standing quietly in the hall.

Just as he was trying to get a clear look at the person's appearance, the shadow in the ancestral hall suddenly disappeared.

"Should we go in? The ghost might be inside the ancestral hall..." Sun Rui pulled his head back, and at that moment the shadow that had disappeared reappeared.

This time, the figure gradually began to move, as if pacing back and forth inside the ancestral hall, or perhaps searching for something.

But no footsteps came from inside the ancestral hall; Sun Rui could only see a shadow swaying in front of him.

As he tried to see what was inside, he heard creaking footsteps coming from the direction of the path he had come from.

Sun Rui quickly went around to the other side of the ancestral hall and hid.

A pretty figure appeared at the entrance of the ancestral hall; it was Qin Qiuyun.

At this moment, Qin Qiuyun was wearing a thin nightgown and slippers. Because it was a dirt road, her feet were covered in mud. She held half a slice of watermelon in one hand and used a spoon to scoop the watermelon into her mouth with the other.

"What is she doing here at this time?" Sun Rui watched her every move.

Qin Qiuyun lingered at the entrance for a long time, but did not notice Sun Rui's presence. She slowly walked into the ancestral hall.

Sun Rui also arrived near the ancestral hall gate from the side.

"The shadow in the ancestral hall has disappeared," he muttered, looking at the shadow of a woman that remained before him.

At that moment, he felt a gentle pat on his shoulder.

What are you doing here?

"Damn it!" Sun Rui cursed inwardly. How could Qin Qiuyun's voice be behind him? And who was that person who just walked in?

He forced himself to calm down and didn't look back. As far as he knew, some vengeful ghosts would trick people into turning around in this way, thus triggering a pattern of killing.

"Did you open this door?" Qin Qiuyun walked out from behind him.

Sun Rui's expression changed, but he didn't answer her question. He just glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. He was sure that this person was exactly the same as the one who had just walked in, except that she wasn't carrying anything in her hand.

"I'm asking you a question! Are you mute?" Qin Qiuyun was getting angry when he didn't speak.

Sun Rui was getting annoyed: "We'll find out whether it's a person or a ghost by trying!"

He immediately stood up, grabbed her by the neck, and pressed Qin Qiuyun against the wall.

He was preparing to use his supernatural powers at any time, but instead felt warmth in his hand and the throbbing of his carotid artery.

Qin Qiuyun is actually fine.

"Are you crazy?! Let me go!" Qin Qiuyun struggled and said.

Sun Rui only slowly released his grip after confirming that the person was indeed Qin Qiuyun from earlier that day.

"What are you doing here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?" Sun Rui asked.

"Cough cough cough cough, you almost strangled me to death just now! This matter won't be resolved without a huge sum of money." Qin Qiuyun gasped for breath, as Sun Rui had pinched her too hard and she couldn't breathe.

"You haven't answered my question yet." Sun Rui looked at the woman in front of him coldly.

"I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I came over to pick a watermelon to eat. Is that a problem?" Qin Qiuyun said, rubbing her reddened neck. "But you, instead of sleeping, sneaked over to the ancestral hall in the middle of the night and even pried open the door. You weren't planning to steal anything, were you?"

Sun Rui was taken aback. He vaguely remembered that there was indeed a melon field near the ancestral hall. Could what Qin Qiuyun said be true?

Now that things had come to this, and the two were talking loudly, he no longer needed to hide. He turned around and walked into the ancestral hall—the person outside was real, and the Qin Qiuyun inside was very likely a vengeful ghost in disguise!

"Did you hear me? Believe me or not, I'll call for help!" Qin Qiuyun said angrily when Sun Rui ignored her.

At this moment, Sun Rui had no mind to pay attention to her. The ancestral hall was different from what he had expected. There were no stone statues, and no one was there. Only the oil lamp in front of the altar was flickering, just like when he came here during the day.

It was as if everything that had just happened was Sun Rui's hallucination.

"What are you looking at? Did the village chief forget to lock the door today?" Qin Qiuyun saw that the door lock was properly fastened and did not look like it had been pried open.

"It's nothing, but you startled me just now. I just stepped out the door, why did you follow me?" Sun Rui made up a reason, trying to trick the person in front of him.

Qin Qiuyun said, "Are you kidding me? I didn't see you come downstairs, and you were sneaking around the door at the beginning, you obviously weren't up to anything."

Her answer indicated that she had indeed come from home, while Sun Rui had come down from the window, which Qin Qiuyun naturally did not know.

"Get out of here quickly! If the village chief finds out you're an outsider, he'll definitely scold me!" Qin Qiuyun said with relief after checking that nothing was missing from the ancestral hall.

Sun Rui first scanned the entire ancestral hall and, not sensing any eerie atmosphere, decided to leave.

"Let's go." Sun Rui felt that it was probably still early, and the changes in the village might have to wait a little longer. He looked at his phone and saw that it was exactly midnight.

The two walked out of the ancestral hall and went back along the path.

As they walked, a thin mist rose over the village.

"Huh~ Why is it suddenly foggy? It was like this last night too," Qin Qiuyun said, puzzled.

"last night?"

"Yes, the fog filled the house last night, and I was woken up by it. Even if we sealed the cracks in the door tightly, it still wouldn't stop the fog," Qin Qiuyun said helplessly.

Sun Rui looked into her eyes; she didn't seem to be lying. Besides, there was no point in Qin Qiuyun lying to him.

"How can fog be choking? Shouldn't it be smoke that's choking?" Sun Rui pondered in his mind.

The fog in the village was rising rapidly. The fog, which was originally white when seen by moonlight, gradually turned grayish-white as the concentration increased.

"Let's hurry up, or we won't be able to see the road in a bit," Qin Qiuyun urged from the side, but no one responded to her.

Then she realized that Sun Rui, who had been beside her, had vanished...

"What on earth happened? Qin Qiuyun only took a couple of extra steps and then disappeared."

Just now, Sun Rui watched Qin Qiuyun's figure disappear into the thick fog, and he immediately chased after her, but in the blink of an eye, she vanished.

"What exactly is this fog? Is it ghost fog?" Sun Rui stood still, not moving. The fog around him had a chilling aura, and it was not ordinary fog.

The ghost mist he mentioned was a vengeful spirit controlled by a former leader of Dachang City. It possessed the ability to control a ghost domain, which manifested as a white, misty fog.

When ordinary people encounter ghostly fog, the only thing they can do is to do nothing and stand quietly in place waiting for the fog to leave. Otherwise, if they disturb the fog, the evil spirits will target them.

Of course, even if you do nothing, if you are unlucky enough to encounter the true form of the ghost fog in the fog, you will still die.

Sun Rui slowly took out the satellite positioning phone from his waist; he needed to confirm Feng Quan's exact location.

The last time Feng Quan appeared was after he was dismembered by Yang Jian's ghostly figure in Huanggang Village and then traded to headquarters. Sun Rui didn't know what happened after that.