To verify his earlier speculation, he tried to speak while walking, “Big Zhuang, were you the one talking just now?”
“Yes.”
“No.”
Two voices simultaneously rang out. After a brief silence, Big Zhuang’s grumbling voice resounded again, “Fuck, it’s starting again. Is it amusing to play tricks on us?”
“Yes.” This was still Big Zhuang’s voice.
Angry questions and calm responses formed a subtle self-interrogation.
But Bai Lixin knew that the latter answer wasn’t Big Zhuang’s; it was the ghost’s.
Could this pattern be exploited?
As he thought about it, he arrived behind the ghost in front of him.
Like before, the ghost was standing quietly.
The little monster’s voice came to his ear again, “How about it, do you want to touch it again? Confirm if it’s truly a Faceless Man?”
Bai Lixin’s gaze slid from the top of the front ghost’s head to its toes, then moved back. Afterward, he responded to the little monster’s suggestion seriously, ”Alright, I’ll follow your advice.”
Amidst the little monster’s eerie laughter that only he could hear, he raised his hand again.
The little monster floated near Bai Lixin’s shoulder, its gaze curious and mocking.
‘So what if he tried again?
Faceless was still faceless.
No one could discover that detail, that crucial yet concealed detail.
This young man was no exception.’
‘When the young man draws this face, it would be the moment eternity unfolded in all directions.
The new round hasn’t begun, but I am already looking forward to it.
He he he he’
The little monster laughed joyfully, its eyes fixed on Bai Lixin’s movements. When it saw what Bai Lixin intended to do, the little monster’s laughter suddenly stopped.
This time, the young man raised his hand, but instead of sweeping the ghost’s hair aside like last time, he placed his fingers at the back of the ghost’s head.
The little monster suddenly raised its voice, “What are you doing!”
But its voice had no effect on the young man’s actions. The young man inserted his fingers into the ghost’s hair, and as he gently moved it, a blood-red eyeball unexpectedly collided into Bai Lixin’s eyes through the gap in the hair.
Beneath the eye was withered and shriveled skin, and chapped lips that looked like blood streaks.
Its face was deathly pale, and as Bai Lixin lifted the hair, that eye stared coldly at him without any warning.
The ghost clearly hadn’t expected Bai Lixin to suddenly lift its hair. The eerie gaze paused for a moment, then reverted to the initial sinister and cold look.
The ghost opened its mouth and made a threatening “hiss.”
“Hi.” Under the ghost’s increasingly crazy gaze, the young man greeted it, even waving with a polite smile.
Ghost: “…”
Little monster: “…”
After greeting it, the young man carefully lowered the half-raised hair, then shifted to the side and lifted the other half of the hair.
The other half of the face was also revealed.
It wasn’t much different from the previous half, almost symmetrical.
“Sorry, my bad,” Under the increasingly crazy gaze of the ghost, Bai Lixin carefully looked at the ghost’s details and finally smiled at the ghost apologetically, “I’m sorry for lifting your hair.”
After that, Bai Lixin quickly let down the hair, patted the ghost’s shoulder heavily, and forcefully pushed it out.
‘Go for it!’
The little monster was dumbfounded.
It stared blankly at the direction the ghost had left, and even saw the ghost stumbling a few steps.
Little monster: “…”
‘Strange.
It’s really strange, something is wrong, something is very wrong!’
The little monster over there was still in a daze, but Bai Lixin had already lowered his head and started to draw.
The sound of the pencil scraping on the paper attracted the little monster’s attention. It blinked, looked down, and found that in just a few strokes, Bai Lixin had drawn the ghost’s hair.
It seemed simple, but it captured the ghost’s features.
His strokes were crisp, smooth, and very professional.
The little monster couldn’t help asking, “Did you study sketching?”
Bai Lixin casually answered the little monster’s question while continuing to draw, “It’s been a long time, and I’ve gotten rusty from not drawing for many years.”
It was a skill he learned during his time of quick-transmigration, something that happened thirty thousand years ago.
Little monster: “…”
‘Could this lottery have brought in some extraordinary character?
Maybe it’s just a coincidence?’
The little monster didn’t give up and continued to ask, “How did you know the ghost’s face was hidden behind its head? Did you guess?”
Bai Lixin: “No, when I was walking forward earlier, I was contemplating the mechanism behind how the ghost speaks. I speculated it might be related to asking questions, so I casually asked to verify. At that moment, I happened to be walking toward the ghost and noticed details I hadn’t seen before.”
“When the ghost made sounds before, I was always stationary, maintaining a constant distance. But this time, I was approaching it, so I suddenly realized the source of its voice seemed to be behind its head.”
The little monster fell silent for two seconds, then spoke through gritted teeth, “You’re really lucky.”
The young man’s hand holding the pen paused slightly at the words. He raised his head and showed a warm smile to the little monster, “Thank you for the blessing.”
Little monster: “…” Angry!
Big Zhuang’s voice echoed in the darkness again, “Bai Lixin, who the hell are you talking to?”
This question led to several seconds of silence in the air.
The ghost didn’t respond to Big Zhuang’s question this time, perhaps because Bai Lixin irritated it, so it couldn’t be bothered to speak.
Bai Lixin wasn’t kind enough to care about the ghost’s mental well-being. He was about to speak when the little monster interrupted him in time, “Dear player, you can’t reveal the game content to the characters in this plot. It’s a game rule. Even if you want to say it, it’s useless. Try it if you don’t believe me.”
Bai Lixin glanced at the little monster and attempted to share the game’s content. Just as the little monster said, he couldn’t transmit the information. So he had to come up with a random excuse: “I was talking to myself to boost my courage.”
How pale this excuse was could be seen from Big Zhuang’s resolute words, “I don’t believe you, you’re lying!”
Bai Lixin: “…It’s true, believe me.”
Da Zhuang: “I believe you are a ghost!”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Brother, saying that in front of a real ghost might hurt its feelings.’
Whether Big Zhuang believed it or not, the words were already spoken. Bai Lixin didn’t dwell on it and continued to lower his head to draw.
On the pure white sketch paper, a new figure appeared. The little monster saw the drawing and exclaimed again, “Why did you draw it like this?”
Bai Lixin: “Because your request was for the front view of the ghost, but it’s difficult to define the ghost’s front view. While I believe the location of the face is the front, I’m not sure if you guys think the same way.”
“I think it shouldn’t be considered wrong to write a few more steps in a problem-solving process, right?”
