Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

“Investigate the feathers slowly, mainly the other one.” The girl continued, “Information on people who have been possessed by evil spirits or have experienced it, as well as information on the removal of yin energy and divine consciousness.”

The old bartender still shook his head: "The possessed person either becomes a new anomaly or dies; there's no verifiable information about either."

Jin You clicked his tongue and took another sip of wine.

"Hurry up and help, I'll add another five hundred to the reward... I'm going to die if I don't get any news soon."

"It won't be that fast," Xi Heng glanced at him.

“You don’t understand…” Jin You slowly spoke to the white-haired, book-loving girl sitting beside her:

"Over the past month, I have increasingly felt that my body is rejecting me, as if my mind is a tumor being pushed by something deeper, which is quite awkward."

The cheap liquor made her voice sound incoherent:

"I need to figure out a way to get you out of here quickly."

From the outside, the place where she was having the conversation was an empty seat, with some wine spilled on the surface of the wooden bench; it didn't look like anyone was there at all.

However, famous bounty hunters all have their quirks, and the old bartender who has worked here for several years is used to it.

It's just that I often see her insisting that the seat is taken and not letting others sit down, which always bothers me a bit.

Just as I was putting away the cups and wiping them clean, the voice of the gray-haired girl came again:

"Give me another cup, old man."

"We're not responsible if you get drunk." The old bartender poured another glass.

Jin You took it and simply said, "Respectfully, I'm about to die."

After saying that, he touched the cup to his lips and swallowed half a mouthful.

The bartender in front of me said, "I suggest you pick a better place to die. The body collection team is too busy to keep up with the demand. There are corpses everywhere. People are lining up to jump off buildings because of currency and stock market fluctuations. Everyone is tired of even watching live broadcasts of jumping competitions."

"Then I'll just die at the entrance of the White Pot Medical Worker's office," Jin You said casually.

"If you commit suicide over there, the company will arrest you for vandalizing the city and put you in jail. When you die, you will just rot into bones or be eaten by people, and no one will come to collect your body."

"Even wanting to die is so troublesome," the girl clicked her tongue.

"It's all because of that weird resentment that most people are corrupted and unable to enter the cycle of life and death... The person who caused this is a damned scoundrel." The bartender spat.

Jin You let out a soft chuckle and said nothing more.

Another person on the side said, "Don't say that. With the inner city in ruins, we in the outer city have received a lot of care... Free sustenance pills are being distributed throughout the city. Although they taste disgusting, it's not as difficult to survive as it was before."

"Living a miserable existence on the charity of the company dogs is worse than being dead," the old bartender grumbled, turning to greet the new customer.

The girl sat there, silently drinking her large glass of cheap liquor.

Let the burning, dry alcohol rush to your heart, bringing a strong feeling of dizziness.

After a while, she let her limp body slump onto the table in front of her, her gaze falling on the white-haired girl still reading beside her:

"What can you do?"

Xi Heng glanced sideways at the person trying to survive:

"If I were in my complete state, I might have some options, but I am just a soul and consciousness hidden in your body. I can't even touch external objects on my own, let alone move power."

"Sigh." Jin You continued drinking.

“Your body is too weak to withstand my power, and you will only become weaker in the future.” Xi Heng could only offer a difficult solution: “Either you go and cultivate, and once you achieve the Golden Core stage, you should be able to find a way to solve the problem yourself.”

"I only have six months left to live, how could I possibly reach the Golden Core stage?" Jin You said, propping his head up with his arm and looking up.

"How about we find a Golden Core cultivator who specializes in the realm of spiritual sense?"

"..." Jin You fell silent.

Xi Heng had expected the other party to complain about how she could possibly know a Golden Core cultivator, especially one who specialized in the special field of divine sense.

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this plan, she was deeply disturbed, as if she were experiencing an unbearable inner struggle.

After a long while, the other person calmed down, sighed, and continued drinking.

Xi Heng expressed his doubts: "You don't actually have a way to find a Golden Core cultivator, do you?"

“We might not actually be able to make contact, and that person isn’t reliable.” She shook her head and said, “Let’s see, maybe there are other ways.”

After finishing his last drink, Yoru saw that there was no response to the request he posted at the bar, so he quietly dialed the contact information of several new brokers he had recently met.

The result showed that they had no solution in this regard, and they didn't even have information on other people who had been possessed by strange entities.

Those possessed by the strange entity either didn't realize it at all or died within a short time. She couldn't even find someone in the same situation, let alone anyone who could resolve this kind of thing.

"Or... go to the wilderness outside and find those secluded places. Maybe there will be some extraordinary people who can help." After asking around, only the monk broker she met at the beginning told her this vague idea.

“No one who leaves the city for the wilderness ever comes back alive.” Jin You was unwilling to make such a suicidal choice.

Then, he dialed the Fire Lotus Gang's communication line.

After a burst of music, Hongyang from the Fire Lotus Gang on the other end hung up the call immediately, and the call did not go through.

Jin You ordered another drink, waited a moment, and called again, but there was no answer.

"It seems their troubles are no less than mine," the girl said softly. "An attack has angered the company and Gao Tianren; the Fire Lotus Gang is probably on the verge of extinction..."

"Sure," Xi Heng replied casually, his gaze quietly shifting back to the book in his hands.

Jin You listened to the music in the bar and swirled the drink in her hand.

A moment later, a message was sent to the spirit body on her left arm.

When he casually clicked on it, he was surprised to find a hidden message from the Fire Lotus Gang.

The message began by stating that they were currently being hunted by the company and were trying their best to hide, and could not communicate via the network, but could send some information anonymously—this was how the message was sent.

They then added that they still hadn't found out how to get rid of the strange possession that Jin You had asked about.

However, there has been some information regarding the other white flames and feathers that fell into the company—

When the scourge broke out in the city center, most of the research members of the Ink Control Spiritual Body Organization died instantly, but a few survived because they were on assignment abroad.

The Fire Lotus Gang then contacted one of them and learned that the person had studied extraterrestrial objects, one of which was white flame, and knew where it was.

However, this person was unwilling to reveal the details directly and requested to meet with the inquirer in person, as he also had some questions to ask.

The address listed afterward was the other party's current residence—an abandoned building complex in the Zhuyin District.

"There's no way to save my life, but it seems there's been some news about what you're looking for," Jin You said to Xi Heng beside him after reading the letter.

The white-haired girl glanced at them and said simply, "Then go quickly."

"I'm not very motivated," Jin You pouted.

“Since this person is a researcher at a large company, he must know more than the average person. He may have even studied things related to divine consciousness and could offer some advice on your troubles,” Xi Heng casually urged.

"...It seems right." Jin You mustered her strength, manipulated her alcohol-induced dizziness to stand up, and silently opened the map to let the light draw the path to the target in front of her eyes.

Then, she slowly moved her legs and left the bar.

Along the way, several bounty hunters or brokers she had worked with before greeted her, but she simply waved them off in response.

The bar's wooden door opened and closed, and the girl's figure disappeared.

……

Fifteen minutes later, Jin You, with the oppressive heat of the outside world blowing in his ears and the occasional drizzle falling on his shoulders and hair, finally arrived at the abandoned city where the person he had been in the message was.

The surrounding area is mostly the remains of buildings that have been demolished by explosives, and some buildings that have not been demolished are still occupied by homeless people.

This place used to be quite deserted, but when the city center suffered a calamity, most of the central city was tainted with resentment and yin energy, making it uninhabitable. Many powerless survivors came to the outer city to live together in groups.

The abandoned city before us was the same, occupied by some of the weaker residents of the middle city.

The stronger group, on the other hand, directly seized some of the high-rise buildings in the outer city to continue maintaining their respectable lifestyle.

Rows of small trees with a dim glow stand on both sides of the brownish-yellow road, stretching all the way to the far end.

Jin You crossed over and followed the spiritual light to the foot of the tall building, when suddenly a dark figure fell straight down from the height.

Suddenly, the figure fell two or three meters in front of her and collided with the solid ground.

With a loud thud, the skull shattered like a watermelon falling to the ground, scattering brain matter, flesh, and fragments of skull bone everywhere.

His body then slammed into the ground, producing a dull thud like a drumbeat.

It bounced once on the hard ground and became a silent, lifeless corpse.

Only the blood flowed silently into a pool of blood, falling to the ground.

Jin You stepped to the side expressionlessly, glanced at the sky and saw that it was not raining anymore, and then stepped into the building.

There was a gatekeeper on duty ahead. He saw someone fall to the ground but turned a deaf ear to it, glanced at it, and continued to sit on the stool to kill time with his Lingguang game.

Seeing Jin You approach, he finally came to his senses and asked, "Who are you looking for here?"

"The White Scholar on the twelfth floor."

"Go in, don't cause trouble." The other party nodded, opened the communication and sent a voice message to the Lingguang page: "Bai Jixue, the person you mentioned has arrived."

He gave up and lay back down in his chair to continue playing his game.

The fresh corpses outside lay silently, covered in blood, waiting to rot like the countless other corpses in the city.

Inside the building, the girl stepped onto the crudely constructed stairs, bypassed the collapsed area, and soon reached her target floor.

After passing a corpse that had been stabbed to death in a dimly lit stairwell, I arrived at the door of the so-called researcher mentioned in the intelligence report.

With a light tap, the thin iron door emitted a hollow, drum-like sound.

A moment later, the door opened, revealing a frail man with disheveled hair and a long-unshaven beard.

He coughed twice and spoke weakly, asking Jin You to come inside.

The door creaked open, revealing a room filled with various papers scattered about.

Because there were no bookshelves, all kinds of books were piled up against the wall, and the table was covered with white and yellow papers, so messy that there was nowhere to put anything.

Fortunately, the wooden chairs around the table were relatively clean, and there was a smart screen on the side playing some current events news.

The thin man gestured for him to sit, poured a glass of water and placed it on the table, his first question being:

"You're going to pay money for information about Bai Yan?"

Jin You nodded calmly. The hazy feeling caused by the alcohol had dissipated on her way here, and she entered work mode.

“Aside from the brief time it was outside at the beginning, that thing was in the research institute inside the Ink Control Spirit Body Mechanism... I was in charge of researching it back then, but I didn’t figure anything out.” The other person took a sip of murky cold water and coughed again: “I want to know, what exactly was that extraterrestrial object, and why are you looking for it?”

Xi Heng's illusory figure appeared to the side, drawing the gaze of the gray-haired girl.

It seems that Yoru Ima is also somewhat curious about this.

"The white flames are just the energy source for the airship. The important thing is... there's a friend or colleague of mine inside," Xi Heng replied simply.

"Relatives and friends?" Jin You tilted his head.

"Hmm..." Xi Heng didn't say much: "You can talk slowly. If you find it troublesome, you can arrest him and interrogate him."

"it is good."

Jin Yu responded according to her voice, and the other party then said:

"At that time, the director of the research institute realized that we couldn't detect anything at all, as long as I could find a way to remove the white flames from the airship... This could be done with some complicated disintegration arrays."

"Where is it now?" Jin You asked bluntly.

"The commander sent the white flame to the heavens." The researcher glanced at her a few more times and said:

"You were one of the bounty hunters who stole the Fire Glaze a month ago, right? You should know that a High Celestial was in the building that day."

Jin You nodded; she wasn't surprised that the other party could guess this.

Nowadays, apart from the bounty hunters from back then, only the employer of that job might still be looking for this thing.

And it's not hard to guess that she's also a bounty hunter.

"That celestial being came specifically to guide Bai Yan. He should be high in the heavens now, but I don't know where he is."

"It really is in the tree." Xi Heng's soft voice rang out from the side.

"What do the High Heavenly People look like?" Jin You continued to ask.

"I was fortunate enough to meet her once. She was dressed in a fairy-like, ethereal gown, adorned with beautiful ornaments. Her features seemed strangely familiar... Perhaps some medical clinic specializing in facial reconstruction has created a face that resembles hers," the researcher recalled.

"Familiar?" The girl seemed to suddenly remember something, leaning forward and saying, "Doesn't she look a lot like Qian Qi from Tianxi Art Garden Project?"