"This...this is a City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghost?"

Zeng Hu's voice trembled slightly.

He looked up at the mountain-like towering black cat corpse; even though it had already been exorcised, the eerie aura emanating from the Fierce Ghost's body still made him feel uneasy all over.

If it weren't for the man beside him, he would have definitely turned around and fled.

It's unimaginable how such a presence, which makes one unable to even stand firm around it, was exorcised.

Could it really be done by this carefree man beside him?

"You sure are lucky, kid, to catch a moment when the surrounding has been temporarily cleared, otherwise you might have ended up as a snack for those City-annihilating Ghosts before even reaching the place we just passed." The man chuckled.

His gaze didn't linger on the black cat corpse at all and he walked forward on his own.

Only then did Zeng Hu notice that beside the black cat's corpse lay many strangely shaped objects, with quite a few already reduced to fragments, their broken edges presenting an indescribable jagged form.

Considering the strange man's remarks about the sour taste of the City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghost's cat meat...

Could it be that he gnawed all these?

"Uh, what's this pile of junk on the ground?" Zeng Hu couldn't restrain his curiosity and pointed at the approaching ruins to ask.

The man shrugged nonchalantly and said, "Oh, just the remains of other City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghosts, either too disgusting to eat or too large so I was too lazy to digest them, so they're just piled up here."

He motioned towards the blocked view by the black cat's massive body.

Zeng Hu stepped forward quickly, and that's when he noticed several other hill-sized objects behind the black cat's corpse.

There were human-shaped skeletons tens of meters tall, forts made of mud and stone, and even a vague hill of flesh and blood that was nauseatingly sticky and repulsive.

"Digest? You treat these City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghosts as food? Can Fierce Ghosts be eaten?" Zeng Hu felt his entire being was not well, and he instinctively used honorifics in his speech.

His impression of the Fierce Ghosts was still stuck at the second Supernatural Calamity, from the news and videos of the Fierce Dragon Ghost in Chengyang City.

At most, there was the Shadow, known as the official hero and supernatural calamity, who summoned the Mist Giant during the battle with the "Promised Land" organization in Shenhu City, and their sand fortification.

Not only Zeng Hu, but actually the entire nation's impression of the City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghosts stayed with these three.

Today he saw City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghosts beyond those three.

Yet they became food for someone else, all exorcised and only their bodies left to rot.

How terrifying could this strange man be?

"I'm not human, so what's wrong with eating some ghosts? Got a problem with that?" The man complained with some impatience, casually picking up a chainsaw-like iron bar from a logging machine on the ground.

Then, in Zeng Hu's wide-eyed and astonished state, he slowly put it into his mouth, crunching it up.

Some iron shavings slipped from the corner of his mouth, proving that he was truly crushing the chain!

With a body already trembling a bit, Zeng Hu noticed his heart pounding faster and faster.

"Not human? You're not human...then does that mean you're...a ghost...right? Why not eat me?"

Given the situation, whether it was the overwhelming power the man displayed or Zeng Hu's awareness of his escape speed.

He believed even if he turned and ran, he wouldn't survive.

He resigned himself to death, but ironically his trembling legs started to calm down, his head lifted with a determined expression, asking his question in puzzlement.

From his perspective, this exceedingly terrifying Fierce Ghost didn't spare him.

Most likely it was torment and mockery before a meal, since many official cases recorded Fierce Ghosts with a penchant for torture and slaughter.

This guy...most likely was one of them.

By asking the question, he essentially disrupted the man's entertainment, and what awaited him might just be the delayed arrival of his death.

However, the man didn't immediately respond nor did he become enraged as imagined, but stood there with a frown lost in thought.

In the endless tension that made seconds feel like years to Zeng Hu, over a full minute passed before the man spoke, "Bah! This saw still tastes awful, like motor oil, and bits are stuck in my teeth; it took me ages to lick them out with my tongue."

After speaking, the man continued walking forward.

He seemed not to notice Zeng Hu's prior question, or perhaps he couldn't be bothered to explain.

After all, from this Puppet Ghost's point of view, he had already explained from the beginning that if Zeng Hu didn't follow, then life or death was none of his concern.

Wasn't that effectively saying following would guarantee him protection? Why was this kid still whining about it? So annoying!

Seeing the man's complete disregard, Zeng Hu glanced back at the path they had come.

"If I were to turn around and run now...would I escape?"

After a moment of deliberation, with the man's figure already a bit distant, Zeng Hu gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and followed along.

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