Qin Xin's eyes flowed not with blood, but with clear tears.

This meant that she held resentment in her heart, but not to the point of soaring resentment. There must be another hidden reason why she was a resentful corpse.

Qin Xin touched her face: "I want to leave here and see the outside world. Didn't you come to take me away? I'll go with you!"

Before I could speak, Qin Xin blinked and said, "You've been touched by my tears, so I'll keep缠着 (chan zhe - clinging to) you forever. Now you can't even think about not taking me with you."

"Alright! I'll take you..." Before I could finish, Qin Xin disappeared, but I felt a slight sting on my back.

Instinctively, I wanted to reach behind me, but I heard Qin Xin's voice coming from my back: "I'm clinging to you, it's warmer here. Just take me with you."

I was immediately dumbfounded!

What was this all about?

I did know that once a ghost gave you her tears, it meant she was willing to become a presence secretly guarding you, until the end of both of you.

But I'd never heard of a guardian spirit directly sticking to someone's back!

There was no contract binding me and Qin Xin. I couldn't stop her from appearing. Every time I did something, there was a female ghost watching from behind. How could I stand that?

Should I shake her off?

Now definitely wasn't the time to shake her off. I'd figure out a way after this mission was over.

As I led Zhao Yuezhu down the mountain, the wails of ghosts from the Tianqiao Bridge soared into the sky. The ghosts that had looked human just now turned blood-red and overflowed with baleful aura as I turned around.

The howls of hundreds of ghosts converged together, like the whistling of sharp blades piercing fiercely into my ears.

Caught off guard, I swayed slightly and almost fell to the ground.

The moment I turned around, anger flashed in my eyes: "Courting death!"

Zhao Yuezhu quickly grabbed my hand: "Let them live? Maybe... maybe they have their own hardships!"

I narrowed my eyes and looked towards the top of the mountain. The nine iron rings of the Zhan Ming Dao (Life Severing Blade) were already buzzing on the back of the blade.

Qin Xin said calmly, "They just don't want me to leave. If I leave, they'll be incredibly sad. It's not worth killing them."

I suddenly channeled my inner force and roared from the bottom of my tongue: "Get out—"

The roar was like thunder, shaking the mountains and rivers.

After the wails of the ghosts on the mountaintop were forcibly suppressed by me, the ghosts on the mountaintop merely quieted down for a few seconds before wailing heartrendingly again.

I followed with a long howl towards the sky. The continuous howls, like a dragon roaring in the sea and a tiger roaring in the clouds, were awe-inspiring and unassailable.

My howls suppressed the ghosts on the mountaintop again, and also conveyed waves of killing intent in the howls. I was clearly telling them that if they dared to provoke me again, I would return to the mountain to slaughter ghosts.

The ghosts on the mountain were immediately frightened into silence, and retreated one by one.

I snorted coldly and turned to leave the mountain.

My master taught me that I couldn't be soft-hearted at any time. Those who wanted to kill you wouldn't stop killing you just because you let them go once. As long as they found an opportunity, they would bite you like a snake.

That time, because of Qin Xin and Zhao Yuezhu's obstruction, I let the ghosts on the mountain go, but brought endless trouble upon myself.

Of course, that was something that happened later. I'll tell you about it in detail later.

That day, I took the two girls to the place at the foot of the mountain where we had gotten the props, which was still exactly as it had been when I led the carriage away.

Zhao Yuezhu was also stunned: "Shouldn't there be a clue here? We should continue the game. Where did their clue go?"

I shook my head: "Qin Xin's game is over!"

"Over?" Zhao Yuezhu said, "We haven't taken her back yet. There's still one person missing in the spirit hall classroom. How could it be over so soon!"

I said in a deep voice: "The person missing in the spirit hall classroom is Qin Xin. Taking Qin Xin away from the mountain is equivalent to completing the task."

I looked at Zhao Yuezhu and said, "The other party's purpose is just to get us to bring Qin Xin down."

"If I'm not mistaken, there should be other ghosts sealed up near Wancheng like Qin Xin. That person named Bai Xin is using murder to force the people she's缠住 (chan zhu -缠住 - entangled) to rescue those ghosts! Qin Xin is one of them."

"The spirit hall classroom will appear again, and someone else will definitely be missing inside."

I paused here: "Do you remember that when we walked into the classroom, there were four empty seats besides the coffin?"

"Including Qin Xin in the coffin, there should be five missing in the classroom. I think the following tasks should be to have us find those other people."

"If I'm not mistaken, Ye Yang should have bumped into one of them."

I stopped here and said, "Qin Xin, can I ask, who exactly are you, and why is someone looking for you?"

Qin Xin didn't speak for a long time, as if she was hesitating about something.

After a while, she said, "The one looking for me, is it a human or a ghost?"

I pondered for a moment before answering, "I can't be sure yet. Is there a difference between a human and a ghost?"