Quick Transmigration System: Host, Please Calm Down

Upon hearing this, Liu Liu blinked and asked, "What do you mean? Does that mean Chunhua and Miss Song weren't there willingly, but you still hurt them?"

"If you killed that scumbag, we could understand, but you hurt two innocent women?" Qin Yang frowned.

“I didn’t hurt them.” The female ghost took a deep breath. “I can tell you, but you have to do me a favor.”

“This…” Annie was a little hesitant. If the female ghost’s request was too difficult, they might not be able to fulfill it.

“Okay.” Zhou Yang thought for a few seconds, looked at the female ghost with no emotion in his eyes, and spoke in a flat voice.

"Huh? Isn't this too quick to agree? What if we..." Liu Liu opened her mouth.

“I have the strength.” Pan Yang grasped Zhou Yang’s hand and looked at the female ghost: “Speak.”

The female ghost looked at the two of them and took a deep breath: "The family that Chunhua married just wanted to take her away because she was pretty. Her family was poor and her life was difficult. The county magistrate didn't care about forced marriages at all. As for Miss Song, that scoundrel was completely fickle. He kept saying he loved Miss Song, but he went to brothels many times and kept other women outside."

"After Miss Song found out, he started admitting his mistakes and apologizing. When he saw that Miss Song was unwilling to marry him, he began to threaten her, saying that if she didn't marry him, he would ruin her reputation. Don't you all deserve to die?!"

"As for why they went crazy or became sick, it's probably all psychological. I never intended to hurt them."

The female ghost lowered her head as she spoke, seemingly saddened: "I hope you can retrieve my child's body from the river in town. After I died, that scoundrel drowned my newborn child in the river."

"No problem." Qin Yang nodded. This was very simple for them; it was just a matter of retrieving a corpse.

“Of course!” Liu Liu immediately replied, patting her chest. “Don’t worry! But you just said the county magistrate doesn’t handle these things? But he seems like a very nice person to me.”

"Ha, he's a good person?" The female ghost said sarcastically, "He deserves to die! If I could, I would have killed him long ago!" As soon as she finished speaking, the female ghost vanished.

"You haven't finished speaking yet!" Liu Liu exclaimed, looking at the others: "What do we do next?"

"Go to sleep." Pan Yang pulled Xiao Yao off the wall and shook off the dust.

"It's too dark now, and we can't see anything in the river," Zhou Yang's cold voice rang out. "Tomorrow morning, retrieve the body."

"That's right, everyone should go and rest." Qin Yang nodded in agreement. Everyone had been busy all day and deserved a break.

After everyone left the room, Pan Yang and Zhou Yang simply changed out of their wedding clothes, washed their faces, and went to sleep.

The next day, just as dawn broke, I heard a commotion outside.

"The river god is angry again!"

"What kind of karma did I create? Waaaaah!"

Zhou Yang and Pan Yang came out of the room and saw Liu Liu rushing over, panting: "You're awake? Something bad has happened! Qin Yang and Sister Annie went to the river to check the situation first, and then the river suddenly started to surge. The county magistrate wants to sacrifice young boys and girls to the river god."

"Qin Yang and Sister Annie can't stop them any longer. They sent me to call you over. Hurry, hurry, or the child will die!"

Upon hearing this, Pan Yang and Zhou Yang followed Liu Liu to the riverbank, where they saw several yamen runners blocking Qin Yang and Annie, while the surrounding villagers just stood there watching.

A couple knelt there, pleading with the county magistrate, who was holding a baby and about to throw it into the river.

Pan Yang flung Xiao Yao away, who slashed the arms of two constables before swinging halfway around and slashing straight at the county magistrate. The county magistrate fell to the ground, and Annie immediately rushed over to catch the baby.

"The river god is about to be enraged! What are you doing!" The county magistrate looked at the group with displeasure. "Do you know how many people will die if the river rises?"

Upon hearing this, the surrounding villagers looked at each other and began to speak.

"Yes, yes, if the river god is unhappy, people will definitely die again, and this time it's his family's turn."

"That's right, we agreed to take turns, but we don't have any children in our family."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Liu Liu was furious. Looking at the villagers, her face was displeased. "What kind of river god needs to sacrifice children? This is clearly a demon! You are so foolish to treat a demon as a god!"

"What do you know, you outsider! If the river god is angry, you can run away, but what about us? Our houses and possessions are all here, where can we run to!"

Seeing the villagers who were starting to lose control, Qin Yang took a deep breath: "We're here to solve these problems! Leave it to us, and we can help you resolve the river god issue!"

The magistrate stood up from the ground, turned his eyes, and suddenly snatched the child from Annie's arms and threw him into the river.

Zhou Yang rushed out almost instantly, jumped into the river, grabbed the child, and stared blankly at the scene at the bottom of the river.

The entire riverbed was covered with skeletons, all of them appearing to be quite young. The skeletons were shrouded in wisps of black energy, and then a group of infant spirits emerged from the corpses.

Are you here to play with us?

"Come play with us! Play with us! Play with us!"

"Stay! Stay!"

At this moment, Zhou Yang realized that he couldn't move at all, and a spirit of an infant touched his ankle.

The next second, a sword plunged into the water, slicing the infant spirit apart. Then, Zhou Yang landed in Pan Yang's arms, and the two emerged from the river. The child's parents rushed over and took the child away.

The county magistrate was already being held by the neck by Qin Yang and dared not move. Liu Liu and Annie breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the two of them come out of the water.

“The riverbed is full of infant skeletons,” Zhou Yang said slowly after coughing up water.

In an instant, Liu Liu felt a chill run down her spine. Looking at the county magistrate, she now understood what the female ghost had said; this county magistrate was simply not human.

But before she could even accuse them, the river began to churn and rise wildly, and then she saw one infant spirit after another crawling out of the river.

Their bodies were pale and swollen from being soaked in water; their eyes were completely white, and cries could be heard.

"We don't want to die, we don't want to die."

"Kill him, brothers and sisters, please help us kill them, okay?"

Qin Yang felt goosebumps rise on his skin when he saw this scene, and he suddenly pushed the county magistrate away.

"Are they seeking revenge?" Liu Liu unconsciously took a few steps back.

“Yes.” Zhou Yang nodded: “When we were in the river, we saw their memories.”

“When the county magistrate first arrived, he caused a flood. He lied and claimed that the river god was angry and was sacrificing children to make money from the sacrifices. Some people also paid money because they didn’t want their children to be sacrificed. As more and more children were sacrificed, they became resentful, and the river began to flood frequently.” Pan Yang continued, “They wanted revenge.”

"Wouldn't that mean half the people in the town would die..." Annie felt her legs go weak.

“They deserved it.” Pan Yang’s tone was devoid of any emotion.