Quick Transmigration: I Actually Became a System Bug

The old lady happily accepted the melon seeds Shi Shaoyu handed her, then said in a deliberately low voice,

"You don't know yet, do you? Someone died in the village last night!"

Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu feigned surprise, widening their eyes in astonishment.

"What happened? How could someone suddenly die?"

The old lady chuckled.

"What else could it be? It must be because you tourists didn't listen to advice. We told you not to go out at night, but you insisted on going out. Now that something has happened, you've come here to cause trouble at the convenience store."

Shi Shaoyu listened attentively, feigning a look of understanding, then asked with a puzzled expression,

"Grandma, something happened in the village, why aren't they calling the police? Why are they causing trouble at the convenience store instead?"

"You wouldn't believe it, but this little shop in our village is really eerie. It was the only one that survived such a huge disaster. Everyone in the village says that the shop owner is the devil's lover!"

Disaster? Demon?

"Grandma, what was that disaster you just mentioned? And what is that demon?"

As soon as Shi Shaoyu asked this question, the old lady immediately shut her mouth, indicating that she did not want to talk about anything. She even said that she would not watch the excitement at home.

Shi Shaoyu grabbed the old lady's arm and slipped a hundred-yuan ghost coin into her pocket. When the old lady saw such a large ghost coin, her triangular eyes, which usually drooped, widened instantly. She looked around furtively before quickly stuffing the money back in.

The old lady led Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu to a secluded corner, first cautiously looking around before whispering,

"I heard about this too. I happened to be visiting my parents' home the day it happened. It was twenty years ago. Gangzi from the village was getting married that day, but something happened that night. The newlyweds died that very night. After they died, a demon appeared in the village. On a dark night, the demon carried a big machete and started killing people from house to house. It was a bloodbath."

The old woman was so frightened as she talked that she didn't even notice her neck was split open. Ji Han looked at the obvious cut and it matched the cleaver he had seen with his mental power the night before.

After the old lady finished speaking, she was afraid that others would find out what she had said, so she hurriedly told Ji Han and the others and left the corner.

Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu returned to the supermarket entrance. The players and villagers at the entrance all dispersed, and the shopkeeper, annoyed, simply closed the supermarket door, indicating that she wasn't planning to open for business today.

As evening approached, the supermarket, whose doors were tightly shut, had its red lanterns outside lit up at some point. Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu glanced at the figure walking back and forth inside the supermarket, then held hands and returned to Qiao Jin's house.

The front door of Qiao Jin's house was open, and the sound of a girl struggling and crying for help came from inside. Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu ran towards Er Ya's room without thinking. Shi Shaoyu kicked open the half-closed door and then pulled the man off Er Ya.

Ji Han quickly shook off the blanket next to him and covered Er Ya, whose clothes were disheveled. Er Ya was terrified and quickly shrank to the foot of the bed, clutching the blanket.

Shi Shaoyu pinned the man to the ground, first delivering a series of punches, then getting up and unleashing a flurry of kicks, determined to make this beast wish he were dead.

"Ayu, that's enough, if you kick him any further he'll die!"

Just as Ji Han grabbed Shi Shaoyu, Qiao Jin walked in, leaning against the swaying door.

"What's wrong with you... Er Ya? Er Ya? What's wrong with you? What happened to you?"

When Er Ya saw her father arrive, she finally found someone to rely on. She threw herself into Qiao Jin's arms and burst into tears.

Ji Han glanced at the father and daughter over there. He then instructed Shi Shaoyu to drag the man, whose head was swollen like a pig's head, into the yard, tie his hands and feet, and gag him. The rest would depend on how the father and daughter decided to handle things after they came out.

About an hour later, Qiao Jin walked out of Qiao Jing's (Qiao Er Ya's) house. He looked at Qiao Wen in the yard and stood there for a long time. Just when Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu were about to lose their temper, he finally moved.

Qiao Jin untied the ropes on Qiao Wen's feet, then replaced the ropes on his hands with the ones tied in front of him. He then wrapped Qiao Wen in a large coat and carried him out of the courtyard gate.

"Ah Yu, do you think Qiao Jin went to bury a body or...?"

Shi Shaoyu chuckled, recalling the numb look in Qiao Jin's eyes when he walked out, and reached out to ruffle Ji Han's short hair.

"Alright, let him do whatever he wants. It has nothing to do with us. We're just tenants."

Qiao Jin went out for a short while and then quickly came back. Now Ji Han knew without asking where he had taken the person. And from that day on, Qiao Er Ya's door was never opened again. Even on the first day of school, Qiao Er Ya did not open the door to go to school.

Whenever he had time, Qiao Jin would either sit at Qiao Er Ya's door apologizing or secretly check on her through the window. One day, Ji Han even overheard Qiao Er Ya angrily cursing at Qiao Jin through the door.

"Qiao Jin! You're a coward! That beast told me that he was the one who ruined my mother, which is why she hanged herself. Now he's trying to ruin me! You didn't even dare to kill him when he was tied up. You're just like my brother, that coward who's too scared to come back. You're both useless!"

Since that day, whenever Qiao Jin tried to persuade Qiao Er Ya, he would be scolded by her as a coward and a spineless wimp. Gradually, Qiao Jin spoke less and less, spent more and more time sitting in the courtyard in a daze, and even his eyes became more and more numb. Ji Han even suspected that Qiao Jin would not only fail to seek revenge, but one day he might not be able to bear it and commit suicide.

However, when Ji Han told Shi Shaoyu his guess, Shi Shaoyu shook his head with absolute certainty.

"No, a coward like him wouldn't even have the courage to fight his enemies, let alone commit suicide. But his daughter, I feel like something's not right. I've seen her staring at Qiao Jin and the center of the village through the window with a hateful look several times before."

It's unclear whether Shi Shaoyu used up all his luck on his jinx, but that very night, Qiao Erya actually went out. But that's not the point. The point is, that night she... opened the front door!

The gate was opened, and the thick fog that had been blocking the outside like a barrier instantly enveloped the entire courtyard and brought the house inside. Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu sat inside, and the house had changed from a brick house to an adobe house.

"grass!"

It was rare for Shi Shaoyu, the young master, to swear. After Qiao Erya opened the door, she grabbed a kitchen knife and ran towards the village secretary's house without a care in the world. Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu followed closely behind and ran towards the supermarket.

It was another night of slaughter. As usual, the tall, red-clad monster kicked open the flimsy wooden doors and began hacking at the villagers in the courtyard one by one with a machete.

Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu mingled among the villagers, running and dodging their way to the supermarket entrance. The bright red lantern at the entrance still flickered with a faint candlelight, appearing exceptionally warm in the foggy, dark night.

"Knock knock knock! Knock knock knock!"

It was Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu knocking urgently on the door, but there was no sound from inside, as if no one was there. However, through their mental powers, Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu could clearly see the proprietress sitting upright in the darkness.

"Knock knock knock! Boss lady, I know you're in there. Please open the door and we can discuss any conditions you have."

The proprietress remained motionless, sitting there like a statue. Shi Shaoyu gritted his teeth and took out a sphere from his spatial storage.

"Boss lady, we should have tried to be polite first, but time is of the essence. This is a top-tier bomb. If I drop this one, I can guarantee your little supermarket will be razed to the ground. If you don't open the door, you're going to die anyway, so we might as well take someone down with us."

"Oh, there might be more than one, after all, there's half a dog's head hidden by the wall."

After saying that, Shi Shaoyu deliberately tossed the ball in his hand under the lantern to make sure the landlady inside the house was telling the truth.

The proprietress sighed helplessly.

"Ah Huang, come back!"

A candle was lit inside the supermarket, and the owner opened the door a crack. Ji Han, Shi Shaoyu, and half a big yellow dog all squeezed through the crack.

After Shi Shaoyu entered the house, he deliberately handed the round ball in his hand to the landlady to make sure he wasn't lying before putting it away. The landlady was speechless at Shi Shaoyu's provocation, but she couldn't beat him, so she simply ignored Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu and went to feed the half-dog herself.

Shi Shaoyu was very curious about this. Half a dog was not just a joke, but it was really split in two. Other strange creatures would return to normal during the day after being split, but this was the first time Ji Han had seen this... no, this half dog. So he was really curious about how the half dog ate and how it digested. Wouldn't it spill half of what it ate?

Ji Han ignored Shi Shaoyu. Now that he was out of danger, he began to extend his mental energy toward the center of the village. He mainly wanted to see if Qiao Erya had succeeded.

Unfortunately, the village secretary's house had a thick steel door installed at some point. No, it should be said that it had been installed a long time ago, but it was only used at night. Not to mention Qiao Erya, even Qiao Jin, who worked in the fields all year round, couldn't break through this steel door. In addition, the wall of the village chief's house was unusually high, and an electric fence was installed on it.

"Ugh!"

"What's wrong, Ahan? Why are you sighing?"

"It seems Er Ya is in grave danger tonight; what she wants to do probably won't succeed."

Shi Shaoyu seemed unsurprised by this.

"The chances weren't great to begin with. The village secretary's family is the richest in the village. If something strange happens at night, the whole village already knows. How could his family not be on guard?"

The proprietress next to them overheard their conversation and couldn't help but ask a question.

"Er Ya? You mean the girl from Qiao Jin's family?"

Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu nodded in unison as they looked at the proprietress who had suddenly spoken. The proprietress seemed to have lost all her energy.

"What a terrible thing!"

"Boss lady, do you know something?"

The proprietress initially didn't want to speak, but Shi Shaoyu's words immediately made her stay in her seat.

"You are the only living person left in this village."

Yes, in this eerie village, both day and night, the landlady is the only living human. Actually, Ji Han is more interested in the landlady than Qiao Erya.

"Madam, I think you must have a way to leave this place, right? Why don't you leave this village?"

The proprietress stroked the dog's head and murmured softly.

"leave?"

She chuckled and shook her head.

"No, my beloved is here. Nowhere else is as good as staying here with her."

"Her? You mean that strange woman in red outside?"

The proprietress neither confirmed nor denied it.

"I don't know if that was her. I've never seen what it looked like under its hood. I only know that she disappeared after that night. And I'm not as powerful as you think. Once I leave this house, I'll also be attacked by that thing. I've tried it."

As she spoke, the proprietress unconsciously touched the yellow dog's half-head, where the dog's only remaining ear was also missing.

As if in response to the shop owner's words, the tall, eerie creature in red actually came to the front of the supermarket. However, it only stood outside for a while and ultimately did not rush in. Then it turned around and went to the next store.

Watching the red-clad figure mysteriously depart, Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu both breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, even though they were both quite strong, they didn't want to engage in close combat with the dungeon's big boss, since the big boss's limits were different from the human body's.

The shop owner seemed amused by Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu's actions, and the atmosphere in the supermarket improved considerably.

"Since you're so eager to know, I might as well tell you the story from back then."

"Back then, Ah Ying and I were the best of friends."

“When I was very young, my parents died in an accident. My brother and I were always hungry in the village. The worst part was that I was very pretty when I was little, and the villagers would often come to my house to grope me when my brother went out to find food. Luckily, I was too young at the time, otherwise…”

"My brother also discovered this. He was so scared that he simply packed two bags and took me away from here under the cover of darkness."

“We were just two little kids, and we couldn’t have gone far at all. We begged our way to the next town, and I fell ill as soon as we got there. My brother didn’t have a penny to his name and was crying anxiously at the hospital entrance.”