Chapter 500: Middle-Aged Ghost (1/2)

The carriages were different from anything that Xue Wei had seen before, and even Lan was curious as he looked at this foreign vehicle.

As to what type of energy drove it, they did not know, but Xue Wei could sense an eerie atmosphere around the entire caravan. Was this due to them being ghosts and living in the Ghost Realm, or had something happened to this particular caravan causing it to have the gloomy aura?

”Why don't we try to talk with them?” Lan asked, and Xue Wei nodded his head absentmindedly. He was on high alert. Both he and Lan were aware of how dangerous what they planned on doing was, but they also realized that they could not just continue moving forward with no knowledge about the realm they had entered.

They did not know whether or not they looked different from the Ghosts, nor did they know if they would be able to fight their way out of the caravan, in case things went wrong.

Lan did not have his overwhelming power anymore; he was a mere King, while Xue Wei had not even reached this level yet.

Slowly, but without hiding themselves, the two began moving towards the caravan. They had come fairly close when the carriages stopped in their tracks, and a middle-aged man came out from the first of the vehicles.

He looked like any other human, with the exception of his eyes. They were completely black, there was no pupil, and the sight caused Xue Wei to feel a shudder run down his spine.

He was not scared of the differences; he just feared about the fact that he did not look like this man might cause them some problems later.

The ghost looked at Xue Wei and Lan. His brows were furrowed, and he was gripping a sword handle tightly in his hands.

”Foreigners, what are you doing here?” he yelled, and Xue Wei, who was not too sure how to answer, looked at Lan.

”Tell him the truth,” Lan decided. They could not trick anyone and say that they were ghosts, but being honest was also risky.

”The ox-headed man abandoned us on this desolate ground,” Xue Wei said as he looked around. ”We have been walking for days, but you and your caravan is the first sight of... other beings that we have encountered.”

Xue Wei was just about to say that they were the first sight of life, but he had managed to change the wording upon considering their situation.

These ghosts were not alive, but they were not really dead either. They were souls who existed within the Ghost Realm, but as to whether or not they could exist upon leaving, Xue Wei did not know.

The middle-aged ghost narrowed his eyes when he heard that they were dropped there by the ox-headed man.

Everyone knew the ox-headed man. His name was Niu Long, and he was one of the guardians of the Ghost Realm. He was not easy to get along with, and his arrogance made it so that everyone feared and revered him.

Why would he have brought two living beings to the Ghost Realm?