Chapter 240 : Petty Ghosts are Hard to Deal With 22 (2/2)
‘Wut? What pieces of memory?’
[Find Ning Ying’s memories.] System very ‘considerately’ gave her a hint.
‘Ning Ying’s memories… Fuck! How the hell am I supposed to look for that? Memories can’t just be scattered around, can they? Fucking hell!
#Always being trolled by the System#’
Shi Sheng worked her hardly-used brain to link all the clues together at lightning speed.
‘Hidden quests only appear when the target is nearby.
And side quests appear when relevant information presents itself. We were just talking about this mansion so…Ning Ying probably had something to do with this place?
Just how long has she been dead? The Qing Dynasty! That’s more than a century already!’
“What’re you thinking so hard about?” Feng Jin pressed Shi Sheng’s head. He was unused to her being this quiet for so long.
“Where’d you pick me up from?”
‘This part’s missing from Ning Ying’s memories… It’s as if…she was with Feng Jin ever since she could remember.’
At the beginning of Ning Ying’s memories, Feng Jin had been 18 years old and had just moved out from the Feng Clan. There were occasions where he wouldn’t speak for an entire month, and he’d always have this dark and gloomy expression. If he wasn’t locked up in his room, he was bringing her out to catch ghosts.
Feng Jin frowned. “Why’d you ask all of a sudden?”
“Just wanted to know how we met.” Shi Sheng’s expression was exaggeratedly sentimental.
“We—” Feng Jin was just about to speak when someone in the crowd shouted. “The time has come! The rules are same as always. If there are no objections, then let’s enter!”
The people around them ceased their conversations and lowered their heads to quickly inspect themselves. They then put on a strange badge before swiftly entering the mansion in an orderly manner.
Feng Jin ruffled Shi Sheng’s hair and headed to the entrance. “Let’s go in first.”
Seeing that there were a few people remaining outside, An Su immediately raised her hand. “Er, Gh… jiejie, I’ll just stay out here.”
She didn’t want to experience a second time in there.
Feng Jin hadn’t wanted to bring An Su along in the first place, so he was perfectly fine with her choice of not entering.
……
The mansion was even gloomier than Shi Sheng imagined. The doors and windows were in a dilapidated state, and the entire place was covered with dust and cobwebs. It was so dark, one wouldn’t have seen their own fingers even if they had stretched their hand out.
Shi Sheng tore off her charm the moment they entered.
The mansion was also ridiculously big. Although around 30 to 40 exorcists had entered, they hadn’t encountered a single one.
“What’re we looking for here? And what’s the point of the Exorcist Gathering?” Shi Sheng openly expressed her uncertainty about what was going on.
Feng Jin’s heart shook when he heard her refer to them as ‘we’. ‘She said it so naturally…’
“Exorcist Gatherings are held triennially…” As he began his explanation, it occurred to Feng Jin that Shi Sheng would soon run out of patience if he tried to explain it to her in detail. “In your words, they’re a group of people with too much free time, so they decided to have a big contest to see who’s the best.”
“They really do have too much free time.” Shi Sheng nodded her head with certainty.
Feng Jin was helpless.
The whole purpose of this competition was to let other exorcists know exactly who they could not afford to offend, and who they could bully by stealing business from.
After all, exorcists were people too. Apart from having the ability to catch ghosts, they were just like normal people. They held ambition and greed in their hearts. Without these, pretty much no one would be willing to take on the dangers of being an exorcist.
“So, why enter this place in particular?” ‘If we’re just fighting to show off, why even bother entering this shitty house?’