Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 118: Solved? (Third Update)

"Oh, so that’s how you injured the previous master?" Jiang Yuan didn’t move, but the Immortal Crane beside him acted first.

With a flap of its wings and a cry, it bit the Black Silk above, tugged it with its long beak, and simultaneously used its right foot to grab the Yin Fiend energy below. It proudly swallowed it in two gulps, raised its head, and circled its master with pride.

"What happened?" Cai Changming looked bewildered, watching Mr. Jiang talking to himself on the surveillance, while the elevator lights flickered eerily for no reason.

Chuci whispered, "Maybe they’ve already had a confrontation. Wasn’t it the same with the previous master? He hadn’t even made contact yet and was dragged and thrown downstairs by something invisible!"

"Right, right, Mr. Jiang is amazing, isn’t he?"

"Did you see the incense in his hand? That’s some good stuff! Uncle, to be honest, even if he can’t solve the female ghost problem, you should try Brother Yuan’s incense; it’s on par with Divine Pills!"

Cai Changming was mesmerized and asked, "Does Mr. Jiang accept offerings?"

"I’ll ask him when I get a chance, but the raw materials for his incense are all wild herbs with enough years. I’m helping him find a Medicine Gatherer right now. If you want, you should place your order early."

The two people in the car were chatting casually, while Jiang Yuan had already made his way to the entrance of the former advertising company. Seeing the ghost of a woman with scattered Yin energy due to the paper oxen trampling her, he frowned and said, "It was your lover who killed you. A grievance has a head and a debt has an owner, so why harm others? If you have the guts, go to Jia Zongliang’s place of confinement and kill him!"

Wu Xiaolan’s ghost was unmoved, her eerie gaze fixed on him, as if she couldn’t understand human speech.

No wonder the previous one got so badly hurt before they even saw each other; there was simply no way to communicate. Compared to when she first turned into a ghost, she had drastically changed. Could it be that after killing someone and devouring souls, she ate herself silly?

"My heart feels empty; I just need a heart to fill it... A warm, beating heart..."

Her vacant eyes flickered as she mumbled and moved closer, suddenly and unexpectedly reaching for Jiang Yuan’s chest, saying, "It’s mine!"

In the past, only imagining seeing a ghost would have terrified him, but after experiencing the Tian Changgui storyline in the Wilderness World, Jiang Yuan was calm in such situations now. As she reached out, he sidestepped slightly to dodge the attack and instinctively threw a small flame.

"Bang!"

Originally planning to use paper-made human figures for a war of attrition, Jiang Yuan never expected that his casual retaliation with a tiny Heaven-Burning Flame could be so powerful!

Centered on Wu Xiaolan, the Yin Fiend energy on her body ignited, turning her into a fire figure that quickly spread. Any place in the air with Yin energy was scorched by the extending flames.

As a result, the surveillance screen suddenly brightened, causing the two people in the car to look up in shock towards the opposite office building.

From the eleventh floor down to the sixth or seventh, all the windows burst with orange flames, then dimmed again as if nothing had happened.

"Is it resolved?" Cai Changming asked with a face full of question marks.

Chuci quickly switched signals, as that camera seemed ruined and only showed a blank space. They needed to find another way to see what happened.

The Heaven-Burning Flame came suddenly, burned cleanly, and extinguished quickly. Before Jiang Yuan could react, he saw his skills bar advance significantly, with the Heaven-Burning Flame skill breaking through the Level Five threshold.

"Are you okay?" The paper horses and men beside him were burned away, leaving only Wu Xiaolan, now without any harmful energy, standing bewildered in her place of death, still in ragged clothes and drenched in blood, yet restored to her tragic state just after dying.

"Why did I die? I was young and beautiful, and hadn’t lived a few good days..." she cried while crouching on the ground. Listening closely, it was still the same words she used when she first turned into a ghost. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

After crying for a while, Wu Xiaolan looked up belatedly at the handsome man in front of her and cautiously asked, "Can you see me?"

With her harmful energy gone, her eyes sparkled, and even her voice showed normal modulation. Jiang Yuan asked further, "Do you remember what happened before?"

"Ah, I remember that bastard Jia Zongliang..." she said, her face blank as she recalled, vaguely recalling the events before the killing, making Wu Xiaolan’s face turn pale as she collapsed to the ground.

Touching her empty heart’s location, she realized she seemed to have done something terrifying involuntarily and immediately wailed, "Why is my life so miserable! Alive, I never lived a few good days, even in death there’s no peace, and even as a ghost I killed people! What should I do!"

Jiang Yuan thought, the reason for your murder was your infidelity, and you took four more lives with you when you died, yet you cry? The ones you harmed should be the ones crying, shouldn’t they?

But this point was moot now, so he simply sat on the ground and comforted her, "You keep saying your heart feels empty. Even if stabbed, you’d only be hurt or in pain, not empty, right?"

Wu Xiaolan looked a bit confused, holding her chest a moment as confusion washed over her, "No! It’s not an injury; it’s gone! My heart is gone, it’s empty and cold, I want to find it back..."

Sure enough, the guess was correct!

"I think you becoming a ghost and turning into a malicious ghost to harm others wasn’t your intention. Someone possibly removed your heart from your corpse to manipulate you with an Evil Technique. You might want to think carefully to provide some clues. What about the souls of those you harmed?"

"I don’t know... I can’t remember much. I vaguely recall not being able to get out no matter what, trapped here without a heart. Later, a voice said if I found a heart, I’d be able to go downstairs..."

It seemed the speculation was right, Jiang Yuan realized. The removal of her heart from her corpse and her sudden powerful killing abilities were somehow connected.

The Yin Mountain female corpse once remarked even after death, the body was important, hence the saying ’rest in peace in burial.’ But during their hasty encounter, there was no detailed explanation, and this was as far as he could deduce.

"It must have been Liu Qiang!" Wu Xiaolan’s mind clicked, and she stood up, wiping tears from her face, sniffing, "I know you look down on me, seeing me as a mistress that everyone despises. But I... I had no other choice!

My mother died young, my grandmother and father were both gamblers. They angered my grandfather to death and lost all our property and shops to gambling, and also borrowed a pile of debts from Liu Qiang’s loan sharks. Unable to repay, they married me off to Liu Qiang to cover the debt. He’s older than my father! Boohoo...

Jia Zongliang is no good either, at least he made me feel like a woman, not a debt-covering object, but with Liu Qiang so inviolate, I couldn’t meet other men, ah.

When I cheated, I thought, well, I’d rather die than live a miserable life forever.

It must have been Liu Qiang, he had many connections in the underworld, people who gambled and practiced dark arts, people who worshiped idols and spirits. Liu Qiang often tampered with mystical things.

Eat this powder, drink that soup, with an acrid stench and no idea what it was, claiming it could enhance vitality, but it never worked! The hospital said he had problems, yet Liu Qiang thought he could use strange remedies to have a child. If he used an Evil Technique, it’s surely him!"

Wu Xiaolan, indeed a very beautiful woman with resources, though she didn’t die gracefully, was so pitiful crying. Truly difficult to muster anger towards her.

"What do you plan to do next?" With a fire that burned the Yin Fiend energy clean, Jiang Yuan, facing an unobstructive ghost tied to her death site, lacked experience and didn’t know how to proceed.

In haste, the small amount of grave soil that met the requirement was exhausted. How to guide her way?