[Infinite Survival + Satisfying Story + No CP + Everyone's Favorite + Comedy + Suspenseful Livestream + Mild Horror + Playing Weak to Outsmart the Strong + Gradual Power Progression]
Everyone in the village says Jiang Nanxing is a fake spirit medium whose charms cost two yuan and fifty cents apiece. It isn't until the night the Haunted Ruins System drags her into an instance that the livestream audience finally sees the truth.
She squats beside a rotting corpse, munching on pork belly, and argues with ghosts with a foxtail grass stem in her mouth. She turns the System's word games into her own playground.
She's a freakishly gifted ghost prodigy, and a fighter who charges in with a blade in hand.
At last, this Haunted Ruins game has found an outsider who's ready to flip the table and take charge.
"Night of the Seventh Day: The Haunted Mother in the Shrine":
"M-Miss Jiang," the man's voice suddenly changed, rising to a shrill pitch like a eunuch who'd lost his manhood. Then it turned even more childish, sounding like a seven- or eight-year-old. "You smell just like my mother!"
His collar had flipped outward, and the flesh on his neck was visibly festering and rotting. Rice-white maggots poked their heads out of his collar. He seemed completely unaware, still grinning with an innocence laced with malice, as if a tantrum-throwing child who refused to leave had taken up residence inside him.
Jiang Nanxing spat the foxtail grass into her palm and rolled it leisurely between her fingers. Her smile remained, but she knew all too well: the lodging fee tonight was probably going up.
"Well," she said softly, "it's the seventh night. Your mother is here!"
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