Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 47 Part 1

Chapter 47: Courting Death Value is Like Water in a Sponge

Waiting.

Xu Turan had always remembered this.

Shortly after Ghost House No. 71 revealed itself, Pu Han, who had just arrived at this house, unconsciously read it—at that time he mentioned the word “waiting”.

From what he said, Ghost House No. 71 had been lurking in this house, and although it had controlled her adopted brother, it had delayed harming people because it was “waiting”.

As for what exactly it was waiting for, because Pu Han’s mind was in a daze afterwards, they didn’t get an answer. And from what Pu Han said, this didn’t seem to be something he could directly “read” either.

And now, the answer to this matter was most likely hidden in this bead.

Yang Buqi finished cleaning and left on his own. Xu Turan wanted to look at the contents of the bead as soon as he left, but then remembered that her current state wasn’t good, and her brain wasn’t functioning well. This bead was also a one-time use item. If she missed any key information, it would be too late to regret.

So she had to forcefully suppress her curiosity until two days later when her body had mostly recovered. Only then did she take out the bead again, poured a glass of water, and threw it in.

The black bead was like an effervescent tablet, sinking to the bottom with bubbles as soon as it entered the water. Xu Turan waited for it to completely dissolve, then drank it all in one gulp.

The taste wasn’t particularly special, a bit like diluted sour plum juice. What surprised Xu Turan was her state after drinking it—her vision blurred for a moment, light and shadow swaying, her body seemed to float up, finally fixing at a certain height. The perception of her limbs was gradually disappearing, until finally, she seemed to be left with just a head…

Or rather, an eye.

Xu Turan curiously turned her gaze, and after a good deal of effort, finally figured out her state—she had turned into an eye, a large yellow eyeball, embedded in layers of black lines, coldly looking outwards.

With black lines obstructing her vision, her field of view was limited. She could only vaguely make out that the scene outside was unfamiliar, like an old, dilapidated house. Ghost House No. 71 was perched on the roof of this old house, and sitting diagonally below it was a human figure, looking tall and thin.

Due to the angle, Xu Turan could only see the side of the man. He was wearing a baseball cap, the brim pressed very low, revealing an extremely pale chin. He wore a ginger yellow shirt, and his jeans were already very worn.

“You’re too impatient,” Xu Turan heard him say, seemingly talking to Ghost House No. 71, “Didn’t I tell you to just wait in Star Park? Why are you so restless? Coming to find me now, I don’t have anything to feed you either.”

Ghost House No. 71 didn’t make a sound, only rhythmically pulsating its chest and abdomen a few times. Perhaps because she was currently embodying its perspective, Xu Turan naturally understood its meaning.

【Boring… waiting is boring…】

【I saw the person you talked about. She doesn’t look tasty at all.】

【And she’s already someone else’s believer… I smelled the scent on her… she’s food I can’t touch…】

【Can’t eat. Not tasty. You lied to me. Angry. You lied to me.】

“…Someone else’s believer?” The man seemed to be stunned for a moment upon hearing this, then chuckled, “Interesting. Apart from me, there are others who have their eyes on ‘her’?”

Ghost House No. 71 didn’t respond to his soliloquy. Its chest and abdomen continued to pulsate, repeating only one meaning over and over.

【Angry. So angry. So mad. So mad.】

Xu Turan: …

She hadn’t noticed during their previous encounter. This big fish… was it actually this silly?

The sitting man seemed to have the same thought. Xu Turan heard him laugh again: “Don’t be angry. There’s nothing worth getting angry about.”

“The one you saw is not the ‘food’ I told you to wait for. The person I mentioned, she hasn’t come yet. Just wait a bit longer, when you see the real ‘her’, you’ll know that I didn’t lie to you at all.”

His words were unhurried, seemingly carrying some strange power. No. 71, which was originally so angry it was about to turn into a pufferfish, actually gradually calmed down upon hearing this, its anger gradually dissipating into nothingness.

“But I have to remind you again. This time when you go back to Star Park, don’t leave randomly anymore. It will attract their attention. Big fish, you need to learn to have some patience, understand?”

【Patience. Patience. Troublesome. Hungry.】

Xu Turan heard No. 71 “respond” like this.

“Trust me, once you really eat ‘her’, you won’t be hungry anymore. She’s different from others…”

The man said, suddenly pressing down his cap brim: “But you need to be careful. Even if you see ‘her’, don’t rush to make a move. Learn to lie low—don’t let her notice you before you have absolute certainty.”

“That fellow, is a cake that bites back. Looks very delicious. But if you’re not careful, you’ll be the one getting bitten back.”

The man spoke casually, standing up and brushing the dust off his jeans. Xu Turan saw that he seemed to be preparing to leave, her heart tightened involuntarily, and she hurriedly adjusted her angle, trying to see his full face. After several unsuccessful attempts, the man seemed to sense something, suddenly turned around, and looked towards her—

Their gazes met, and Xu Turan felt a sharp pain strike her eyes. The next second, it was as if something had pushed her hard, and she fell backwards violently!

A crisp “crack” brought back Xu Turan’s consciousness.

She opened her eyes and found that she had somehow already fallen sitting on the floor, the glass in her hand had fallen to the ground and shattered into pieces.

Her vision was a bit blurry, everything had double images. The prompt for the Courting Death Value still lingered in her mind. Xu Turan checked the interface and found that it had inexplicably increased by 200 again. Just as she was pondering this, her phone rang.

Xu Turan shook her head and picked up the phone, only to see that it was a text message from Pu Han, but she couldn’t make out the small text at all. The content on the screen was all overlapped, with blurry edges.

Xu Turan’s first reaction was that her consciousness was still unclear, but after a while, she realized that there might be a problem with her eyes. She felt her way along the wall to the bathroom, pressed up to the mirror, and only then discovered that both her eyes were bright red, so bloodshot they looked like two red beads, as if they were about to drip blood tears at any moment.

Xu Turan: “…”

Damn.

Now she knew where those 200 Courting Death Value points came from.

“…So, when you were reading the memory yesterday, you made eye contact with that person. Then your eyes started having problems?”

The next day, in a private room on the second floor of Ciji Institute’s internal cafeteria.

Pu Han was digesting the information he had received while observing Xu Turan’s eyes.

“How is it now? Is it better?”

“Mm. I took some medicine Yang Buqi gave me. There’s only a bit of red bloodshot left,” Xu Turan said, then clicked her tongue: “What I’m more concerned about is, how did that guy manage to hurt me?”

That feeling was just like watching “The Ring” and Sadako really crawling out of the TV to scratch people. A holographic movie suddenly turning into an interactive image. Xu Turan wasn’t afraid, she just felt puzzled.

“The only possibility is that his level is much higher than yours,” Pu Han pondered, “When you looked at him, he also saw you. And he consciously rejected your visit…”

Xu Turan: “…”

If he wanted to reject the visit, fine, but why did he have to hit my eyes?

Feifei unhappily patted Pu Han, who sighed and looked over: “I’m sorry. This was my oversight.”

Xu Turan quickly waved her hand: “It’s fine, it’s fine, I didn’t lose out anyway.” After all, she earned 200 points of Courting Death Value.

And the intelligence gained this time was obviously very valuable… Xu Turan silently pondered, her gaze sinking.

From the scene she saw, it was clearly that man in the ginger yellow shirt who instructed Ghost House No. 71 to hide in Star Park and lay in ambush. What concerned Xu Turan were the words he and Ghost House No. 71 said—

【I saw the person you mentioned… She has already become someone else’s believer.】

【The one you saw is not the ‘food’ I told you to wait for. The person I mentioned, she hasn’t come yet.】