Chapter 79: The Mysterious Female Corpse in the Abandoned Village! Someone, come quickly!

"Ptui."
"Ah... ptui!"
...
Some of the girls almost spat right into Li Chunfeng's face.
There was simply no helping it—Li Chunfeng, after all, was "driving" now.
At a time like this, in a harmonious society where illegal behavior is strictly cracked down upon, he dared to "drive"? Did he not value his own life?
But complaints aside, these girls were still rather bashful.
Especially with Lin Yi nearby, watching like a hawk, radiating an aura of authority so powerful that it made the girls feel they had to be reserved and leave a good impression.
So more and more girls glared at Li Chunfeng with obvious anger.
Li Chunfeng, in their eyes, had tainted the beautiful image they hoped to maintain before Lin Yi.
Now, stained by this yellow-tinted topic, they felt as though their own purity had been sullied.
Lin Yi, for his part, had been sitting up, eager to hear Li Chunfeng's supposedly good ghost story.
In this world, after all, ghost stories weren't always just tales—sometimes they became harsh reality.
If there was an intriguing ghost story to be heard, one with some profit to be gleaned, Lin Yi genuinely wanted to know.
But to his surprise, Li Chunfeng's story was so wild and reckless that it nearly knocked Lin Yi's thoughts askew!
Li Chunfeng's face turned crimson with embarrassment.
"No, I—I wasn't driving at all! With all these beautiful classmates here, how could I... Am I that kind of person? I... I... I was just stating a fact!"
Flushed and flustered, Li Chunfeng tried to defend himself.
But no one believed him.
Some people left quickly.
A few of the girls, fearing their image in Lin Yi's eyes might be tarnished, hurried away to join his roommates instead.
Seeing this, Li Chunfeng grew more anxious.
If he didn't finish his story now, wouldn't the label of "sleaze" stick to him forever?
Especially when he caught sight of the scorn in the eyes of the girls he liked—he could no longer hold back and raised his voice, determined to finish the tale.
"At that moment... I looked and was scared out of my wits! How could Sister Zhang Shuang be buried like that? It was outrageous! I was furious—I shouted at Er Donkey's family, cursing them out!"
"Sister Zhang Shuang is dead; she shouldn't be humiliated like this! I wouldn't stand for it!"
"But... but... as soon as I finished shouting, Er Donkey's family, and all the villagers around, turned their eyes toward the coffin. Everyone was stunned by my outburst and looked over."
"Only then did I realize that what they saw was different from what I saw! Before I arrived, the coffin lid was still closed. No one could have known what was inside. But when I got there, for some reason, the lid fell off, and inside... inside was the naked corpse of Sister Zhang Shuang!"
"People panicked, stumbling back and screaming. My mother grabbed my hand and told me to run..."
"Just then, someone pointed at the coffin and said that wasn't Sister Zhang Shuang!"
"I... I... looked again. The woman did look like Sister Zhang Shuang, but she definitely wasn't! Because Sister Zhang Shuang has a mole on her chin—this one didn't!"
"Cough, cough, cough..."

"This woman... this woman... cough, cough... her figure was actually even better, more... well-proportioned... Better than Sister Zhang Shuang, though I must declare, I never saw Sister Zhang Shuang undressed, but I... well, I know her well enough to have a sense of her figure, cough, cough..."
It was obvious that, as he spoke, Li Chunfeng grew more incoherent, his face flushing ever deeper.
Unconsciously, he had circled back to the very topic that had gotten him in trouble.
Still, this time his ghost story was much more compelling—though people were reluctant to get too close, some pricked up their ears, listening intently.
Even Lin Yi narrowed his eyes in interest.
"In short... that wasn't Sister Zhang Shuang. Her figure was even more striking, her face only somewhat similar to Sister Zhang Shuang's, but this corpse was even more beautiful..."
"The only... the only difference was that this female corpse was even more terrifying... because her body was covered with countless thin white lines, so fine you had to look closely to see them!"
"Her skin was so pale that, without careful scrutiny, you wouldn't notice..."
"Hey, don't look at me like that. I didn't want to look—men and women are different, after all. But she was so close, I couldn't help it, and everyone else saw too. Afterward, everyone was even more scared and ran away—I didn't look closely either, I ran too..."
Li Chunfeng regretted his words more and more. Had he known everyone would see him as a pervert, he wouldn't have told this damned ghost story.
The more he spoke, the more tangled things became—like driving a car at high speed.
Sure enough, the further he went, the more everyone scoffed.
All the boys gave knowing "heh" laughs, while the girls spat in disdain...
As Li Chunfeng blushed in embarrassment, someone unexpectedly gave him encouragement—it was Lin Yi.
When Lin Yi heard about the white lines crisscrossing the corpse, he couldn't help but think of the paper sedan from last night at the Talented Scholars' Residence.
Images of the Tang family from the Central Plain flashed through his mind.
The Tang family were all paper-crafting masters, and the things they made—he had seen for himself last night—were strung with white threads.
Could it be that this female corpse was made of paper too?
That was why Lin Yi stepped forward.
"Go on."
Lin Yi's words gave Li Chunfeng a surge of confidence.
Li Chunfeng felt like weeping. No wonder Lin Yi was known as a master—he really did see things differently.
Brimming with confidence, Li Chunfeng glanced around.
With a snort, he continued, "See? Only Brother Lin Yi gets it. I wasn't driving at all..."
Before he could explain further, someone cut him off with a sarcastic laugh.
"Whether you were driving or not, only you know. Master Lin's got integrity—what about you? Just get on with it, and if your story keeps going like this, just wait—we'll make you regret it. We sisters will scratch your face, you little pervert!"
"Right! If Lin Yi weren't here, you'd already be in trouble! We're pure, innocent girls, and now you've polluted us with your story!"
...
"..."
Li Chunfeng was on the verge of tears.
What a different world this was!
Silently swallowing his emotions, with a sigh, Li Chunfeng continued recounting his experience from the previous day.

"I'm telling the story of a vengeful ghost, all right? Fine, just listen... You have no idea—after everyone realized the corpse wasn't Sister Zhang Shuang, they were terrified and ran. Later, as it was broad daylight, everyone thought there was nothing to fear—surely the corpse wouldn't change, right? So they all went back, only to find the corpse unchanged, still just a body, but definitely not Sister Zhang Shuang. So everyone began to wonder—where had Sister Zhang Shuang gone?"
"Many swore, including Er Donkey and his one-eyed old mother, that Sister Zhang Shuang had always been in the coffin. But the corpse wasn't her, and everyone grew anxious, searching everywhere."
"As the police had already been called... there was little I could do, so I left. Oh, I forgot to mention the most terrifying thing: the female corpse couldn't be moved. Even several strong men couldn't lift her out; it was as if she was fused to the coffin itself..."
"And the only reason everyone saw she wasn't wearing anything was because there were a lot of things piled beneath her in the coffin. She should have been lying on the bottom, but instead, she was in the middle... That's the ghost story. Now Er Donkey's house is surrounded by police..."
With that, Li Chunfeng stopped, finally letting out a sigh of relief.
"That's it? What the hell?"
"And the female corpse? Did the authorities ever say anything?"
"Yeah, your story is so pointless! If not for the female corpse, it wouldn't even rival an elementary school essay!"
"Any random third-rate horror story online is better than yours!"
...
A barrage of complaints left Li Chunfeng feeling numb, wishing he could slap himself for having such a loose tongue.
What was the point of telling all this?
Still, beneath it all, Li Chunfeng was truly worried about the matter of Sister Zhang Shuang.
After all, it was her body. Now that it was missing, who knew if it was still in the coffin, perhaps beneath the female corpse?
But no matter what, Li Chunfeng couldn't stop thinking about what had happened, and how to find out the fate of Sister Zhang Shuang's body.
He wondered if the police could handle such a bizarre supernatural incident.
Perverted little brat.
Lecherous Li Chunfeng.
These labels were now firmly stuck to him.
Tears welled up in his eyes, and Li Chunfeng stamped his foot. "I... Never mind, even if my name is forever tainted, I still had to tell this story. The only reason I came back was because I heard the Ten Major Sects would be coming to Shengjing Academy for their selection. Never mind whether I have any potential, I just want to know—can anyone help me..."
"I... Leave it to me! Heh... A female corpse in an abandoned village—interesting, very interesting."
Whoosh.
Someone arrived.
All eyes turned.
It was a short, small figure.
Though he stood only one meter forty-five, no one who looked at him even considered laughing.
He was short and strikingly ugly, dressed head to toe as an ancient swordsman, with a long, weathered blade at his waist.