Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

"Village chief, we've dug more than 10 meters deep, but there's still no trace of the meteorite. Could it have been taken by someone else?"

Ten meters below the tunnel where Li Lei landed, a villager who was digging downwards said with a bad feeling.

"Don't talk nonsense. How could someone have arrived earlier than our village and taken the meteorite? Our village is the closest to here. If anyone was going to take the meteorite, it would be our village first."

The village chief at the foot of the mountain said with great certainty.

The village chief was so certain because Li Lei's landing point was too close to the village, only a few hundred meters away, just over a mountain away.

Li Lei, standing in the bushes, watched the villagers still digging, unsure whether to tell them the truth.

"Everyone, keep it up! We'll find the meteorite soon, and with it, our village will be rich."

"For a better future, let's all shout together:"

come on!come on!come on!

Keep trying! Keep trying! Keep trying!

We all have a bright future ahead of us!

Matsushita stood among the people digging the pit, constantly stirring up the villagers' emotions.

The villagers shouted: "Go! Go! Go! Work hard! We all have a bright future!"

Matsushita Kankan: Oh yeah!

Everyone: Yay!

Li Lei: ?? ?(?_?)? ??

Li Lei, who was standing to the side, immediately found the scene in front of him quite offensive.

"Forget it, I'd better not disturb their happy time."

Since he couldn't bring himself to ask, Li Lei ultimately decided to follow his heart and not bother them.

With everyone's efforts, the tunnel became deeper. Thinking that they would soon be rich, the villagers danced and sang with joy.

"Haha, our village is going to be rich from now on!"

"I can have new clothes to wear now."

"I can get married now."

……

The villagers happily shared their wishes and imagined their future lives, but they were unaware that a non-human creature had unknowingly appeared among them.

This non-human creature, with its racial advantages, blended perfectly into the villagers, and didn't seem out of place at all.

That is—Li Lei, who is a ghost.

＼（＾?＾）メ（＾?＾）ノ

(′?w?｀)╭(′▽`)╭(′▽`)╯

There was no way around it; Li Lei was still curious about why they possessed ghostly energy. He felt restless and uncomfortable until he found out the reason.

After much effort, Li Lei quietly joined the villagers, wanting to ask them if they had encountered anything unforgettable or seen any creatures they might be afraid of.

"Hey bro, has anyone gone missing in our village lately?"

Li Lei asked the young man in the light green kimono beside him.

"No, the village has always been peaceful. It's just that the village is poor, and we can't keep people here. Many people have left the village because of this."

"And who are you? I've never seen you in the village before!"

After answering Li Lei's question, the young man immediately asked Li Lei a question.

"Brother, have you forgotten? I'm your distant relative, Xiao Lei!"

Li Lei took out a wad of money from his pocket and stuffed it into the young man's hand, replying warmly.

Looking at the money he hadn't earned in two years, the young man's eyes widened. He quickly stuffed it into his pocket, cautiously glanced around to make sure no one was watching, and then relaxed.

"Oh! It's my cousin Xiao Lei! I almost didn't recognize you after all these years. I've missed you so much lately."

Money paves the way, and the young man immediately became very enthusiastic towards Li Lei, showering him with all sorts of concern and care, almost to the point of giving him a hearty hug.

Seeing the young man's attitude change so quickly, Li Lei couldn't help but sigh, "The power of money is truly amazing."

"By the way, brother, has anything bad happened in our village lately? Like someone dying or something?"

Having successfully used the power of money to build a closer relationship with the youth, Li Lei immediately posed his own questions to them.

"No, no, our village has always been very peaceful, it's just too poor to keep people here, and people often leave."

"Now things are great. With this meteorite, our village will become wealthy, and the people won't leave."

The young man answered Li Lei's question very clearly, indicating that apart from being poor and unable to retain people, the village had no other drawbacks.

Seeing that the young man didn't seem to be lying, Li Lei sensed from his tone that he truly loved his village. Every time Li Lei heard the young man say that he couldn't keep people, he could sense a subtle disappointment in his voice.

At this point, Li Lei became even more puzzled. Why couldn't the village that the young man liked so much keep its people? There must be something strange about it.

"Dude, have you ever heard of ghosts?!"

Brother: "A ghost?"

"Yes, it's a ghost, the kind that eats people, you know?" Li Lei continued to ask.

"Never heard of it, don't know anything about it, but this ghost sounds so familiar."

The young man said he didn't know what a ghost was, but it seemed like he'd heard of it somewhere before. He patted his head, but couldn't figure it out.

Li Lei then used the same method to ask several villagers, but the results were the same. Aside from finding faint ghostly energy on all the villagers, Li Lei found nothing else related to ghosts.

This made Li Lei even more puzzled. Could it be that this ghost had overcome its desire to eat people and was now living with the villagers?

But that's impossible. Even the charcoal-selling siblings who will eventually overcome the sunlight will still have the desire to eat people after becoming ghosts, let alone this unknown ghost.

The presence of blood on the villagers further suggests that this ghost is a cannibal.

Li Lei looked up at the villagers around him and made a decision.

"Looks like I'll have to make a trip to their village."

Li Lei then left silently, heading straight for their village.

……

Under the moonlight, the small village at the foot of the mountain was lit with sparse lights, and it was unusually quiet amidst the rustling of the leaves in the mountains. Li Lei couldn't help but feel a little scared as he walked through it. After all, it was a place where people should be, but it was so quiet that there wasn't a sound. That was quite frightening.

Because, along the way into the village, Li Lei didn't see a single person! Yes, there were scattered lights in this small village, but not a single person in sight.