Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Sixty seconds passed in a flash.
The muscles in Orange’s tail grew sore, and it was too weak to continue maintaining the high-speed movement.
The ship’s speed visibly dropped.
The distance between the female ghost in embroidered shoes and Chen Changan gradually shortened.
“Damn it, I have to buy some time!” Chen Changan recalled the experience just now. When he screamed, the female ghost’s face revealed happiness that even a dead face couldn’t hide.
The female ghost in embroidered shoes didn’t lie; she was indeed obsessed with the screams of humans.
Chen Changan took out a yellow toy from the market and pressed it hard. The yellow toy let out a strange scream, which made the ghost in embroidered shoes slow down by half a beat.
“You stupid thing! You like screams, right? I’ll give it to you!” Chen Changan pressed down hard and then threw it in another direction in the air.
An intense scream came from the yellow toy. “Ahhhh!”
The female ghost in embroidered shoes instinctively rushed in the direction where the yellow toy had fallen. Her ghost hand suddenly extended several meters and grabbed the source of the scream, but it couldn’t touch any flesh.
While the female ghost in embroidered shoes was still in a daze, The Flying Henan People sailed over 100 meters.
“What is this?” The female ghost in embroidered shoes looked at the yellow toy in her hand in confusion.
Screaming Chicken.
She squeezed.
“Ahhhh!”
She released.
“Ahhhh!”
She was immersed in the cycle of screaming—squeezing, letting go, squeezing again, letting go again…
“Ahhhhh!”
The woman in embroidered shoes accidentally poked a hole in the Screaming Chicken because her claws were too sharp. No matter how she squeezed and let go, the weak Screaming Chicken could no longer satisfy her EXP needs.
She turned her head 180 degrees and leaned her head on her back. She stared at Chen Changan—who had fled more than 1,000 meters away—and shouted angrily, “Die!”
The female ghost in embroidered shoes was as light as a feather as she charged toward the Henan People Ship at an even faster speed.
[Primary Mathematics Application Question]
It was known that Little Chen escaped by boat. The boat’s speed was 15km per hour, and the speed would double every four minutes. The female ghost, Little Red, would chase after him after six minutes. She was moving at a speed of 30km per hour. How long would it take for the female ghost to surpass Little Chen? (12 marks)
Solution: Little Chen’s real speed = 4/5*15km/h+1/5*30km/h = 18km/h
During this period of time, Little Chen’s escape route = 0.1h*18km/h = 1.8km
Therefore, the female ghost Little Hong and Little Chen were 1.8 km apart.
From this, one can deduce that pursuit time = 1.8/(30-18) = 1.8/12 = 0.15 (hour)
Little Red will surpass Little Chen in nine minutes.
The teacher commented: The process is correct, but the results are wrong. Three points deducted.
Analysis of the answer: Because Little Chen can enter a state where his speed will double in the ninth minute, the female ghost, Little Hong, can only surpass Xiao Chen after one minute.
Chen Changan knew very well that the Screaming Chicken could only stall for time. He had to kill the female ghost in embroidered shoes.
That was the best plan.
‘If anyone offends me, I will eliminate them completely! Besides, she’s just a female ghost.’ Chen Changan didn’t have the slightest sympathy. He only wanted the female ghost to die.
Whether it was the treatment between him and the female ghost or the summoning of Orange to escape, neither was in Chen Changan’s real plan.
The trade market!
The moment Chen Changan woke up, he had already put up the remaining 18 liters of drinking water on the market.
There was only one purchase condition: a special item that could kill ghosts.
After waiting bitterly for ten minutes, someone finally placed an order. The item from the other end of the transaction made people hesitate.
[Blood of the Exorcist]
Quality: White
Introduction: After applying Blood of the Exorcist to a weapon, the weapon will have the ability to harm weak ghosts. Duration: 3 minutes.
Evaluation: At least better than being barehanded.
Chen Changan was a little worried. If he smeared the blood on the axe, would it harm the female ghost in embroidered shoes?
Firstly, the description of the exorcist’s blood didn’t indicate that it could kill ghosts directly. Although the seller swore that he used the blood to kill a ghost, Chen Changan only wanted to say, “Really? I don’t believe you.”
Secondly, was the female ghost in embroidered shoes really a weak ghost?
Chen Changan felt that the statue, as a high-value White tool, would only be able to force the female ghost in embroidered shoes back a few meters if it used up a little bit of its divine power every minute.
Could a White-grade tool really deal with ghosts?
Unfortunately, time was limited, and Chen Changan was unable to find another item that could harm ghosts.
After bargaining with the trader several times, Chen Changan could only exchange 18 liters of water and 10kg of fish for the Blood of the Exorcist.
“I’ve been hunting geese all day, but today, I’ve been pecked in the eyes by geese.” Chen Changan monopolized drinking water for several days and finally tasted the feeling of being exploited by a monopolistic person.
Fortunately, the trader seemed to be inexperienced. Chen Changan relied on coaxing and pestering to obtain another item—Tear of the Exorcist.
“Transaction agreed!”
“Congratulations, you have obtained Blood of the Exorcist (Small Bottle).”
“Congratulations, you have obtained Tear of the Exorcist!”
A small bottle containing 200ml of blood landed on Chen Changan’s palm.
“It’s actually still hot.” Chen Changan’s mouth twitched. He suspected that the trader was the exorcist himself and that the blood was released by him.
‘Unreliable!’
Chen Changan held the mineral spring blood bottle with his right hand and said hopefully, “I wonder if this blood can be upgraded by survival points?”
…
It was the ninth minute of the chase between Xiao Chen and the female ghost, Xiao Hong. The tip of her embroidered shoes glided across the deep sea, and she was only 20 to 30 meters away from Chen Changan.
Orange followed Chen Changan’s suggestion and gave up on swimming rapidly.
In Chen Changan’s opinion, one minute more was no different from one minute less.
The battle between him and the female ghost… There was no escape—it was unavoidable!
“Our teachers often taught us not to cheat! Actually, they’re hinting to us not to sit back and do nothing!”
“You damn thing, I’ve prepared myself. I’ll definitely be able to kill you with a single axe strike!” Chen Changan held the Mountain-Beheading Axe in his hand and sneered at the teachers’ teachings.
He treated the battle with the embroidered shoes’ owner as an important test and said sternly, “Either you die, or you die. There won’t be a second possibility.”
The female ghost in embroidered shoes glanced at the mountain axe in his hand and sneered. “That’s it? The blood of a minor exorcist?”
Chen Changan revealed a terrified expression as if his trump card had been seen through, and he spoke with surprise and bewilderment. “H-how did you know?”
The female ghost in embroidered shoes floated over. A pair of ghostly hands came up and almost grabbed Chen Changan’s throat again.
Chen Changan was furious and shouted coldly, “Sharp Spell—activate!”
The axe slashed out! It struck the female ghost’s shoulder and neck!
The moment the axe touched the female ghost’s body, the tip of the axe suddenly burned, turning her pale skin black.
“Ah~” The female ghost in embroidered shoes cried out in pain, but she wasn’t forced back like what happened with light from the statue. Instead, it aroused the female ghost’s ferocious nature.
A pair of ghastly claws suddenly turned scarlet red, and they were even more ferocious than before. In the blink of an eye, they had grabbed Chen Changan’s neck.
“Oran… Gulp gulp~” Before Chen Changan could call out for Orange, his windpipe was blocked by the female ghost in embroidered shoes. The words he was about to say turned into indistinct sounds.