Chapter 635: Chapter 635: His Name Is Greta, and He Doesn’t Eat Children

Night fell.

The nighttime bustle of the city was no less than during the day.

Yet some quiet alleys at the city’s edges were exceptionally calm.

Greta, also known as Undying Bone, had her body once filled with flesh and blood becoming gaunt and gruesome again due to hunger.

Unwittingly, he didn’t want anyone to see him like this, so he slithered into this quiet alley under the cover of night, quickly catching a passing rat and consuming its flesh and blood dry.

The flesh and blood in his body became a little more full, but it was still not enough.

Just as he was preparing to catch another rat to replenish his flesh, he suddenly sensed something and turned swiftly to look towards the alley entrance.

The fierce black eyes, emanating evil qi, suddenly retracted when seeing the person standing at the entrance.

Standing there at the alley entrance was a little girl, about one meter tall.

Her hair braid was somewhat messy, and her jacket seemed old, but her eyes appeared particularly bright in the dark night, staring at him unblinkingly.

Greta retracted his gaze, quickly turning his body to leave.

Yet after taking just two steps, the sound of small footsteps came from behind again.

Greta turned sharply, only to see the little girl had followed him at some point.

Looking up, though at an innocent unafraid age, her expression inexplicably carried some numbness.

Greta did not look good now; even a discerning person could see he wasn’t normal. Yet the little girl showed no sign of fear.

Greta waved his hand stiffly at her, signaling her to leave.

Then, lifting his leg again, the footsteps behind him followed once more.

Greta halted, turned sharply, revealing a fierce manner toward the girl.

Unexpectedly, the girl just slightly stiffened, then continued to look at him steadily, opened her mouth, and directly asked him,

“Uncle, are you an evil ghost too?”

Greta: …

The little girl’s voice was numb, as if telling someone else’s story,

“My dad was an evil ghost, but he died.”

“He ate my mom and grandma.”

“Do you want to eat me?”

Greta understood but seemed to not fully comprehend.

But he knew, he shouldn’t be an evil ghost.

He didn’t eat children.

So, once again, he waved his hand at her, signaling her to leave quickly.

The little girl, Olivia Xalvadora.

She was the daughter of the villain Soren Xalvadora who, for unfilial deeds, struck his mother to death and was then struck by lightning during the second match of the Academy Grand Competition.

She had personally witnessed her lightning-stricken father transform into an evil ghost, kill, and consume her mother’s soul. She was meant to be eaten too but was saved by her grandma’s soul.

Yet her grandma was also consumed.

Though not eaten, Olivia quite wished she had been.

Because once eaten, she would reunite with her mom and grandma.

Though clearly seeing the uncle’s gesture to drive her away, Olivia stubbornly kept following him.

Perhaps irritated by her persistence, Greta could only stiffly voice,

“I don’t eat children.”

Don’t follow me.

“Go home.”

Olivia continued staring at him,

“But I don’t have a home.”

After her dad, mom, and grandma died, a sister from the Security Bureau sent her to Peaceful City, her mom’s old home, and handed her over to her mom’s brother.

But her aunt didn’t like her, saying she had a gloomy disposition, scary.

Her uncle and aunt argued every day.

She found it quite meaningless.

Living was also quite meaningless.

Being eaten seemed preferable.

Greta thought the child in front of him was different from the kids laughing and playing in the square he saw during the day.

Instead, she seemed somewhat like the child from his fuzzy memories.

But he still didn’t want her to follow.

So he instantaneously teleported, vanishing from the spot.

Olivia looked at the suddenly empty alley, her numb little face showed a flash of confusion, yet did not reveal any panic or fear.

She didn’t leave, just crouched down in place feeling somewhat forlorn.

Squatting for quite a while, until her legs became numb, she simply pulled over a cardboard to put on the ground, then sat hugging her knees, unmoving.

Olivia didn’t know how long she had been sitting there, just felt she was about to fall asleep when suddenly a pair of big shoes appeared in front of her.

Looking up, she saw the uncle ghost who had disappeared before standing there again.

He stared straight at her; in his eyes seemed to have a trace of distress, then after a while, silently turned away and started to walk forward.

Olivia looked at his back for a long while before finally standing up quickly, running after him.

…

Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalmers arrived at Peaceful City the next day.

According to information obtained from Brother Jingze, Undying Bone’s recent appearances were in Peaceful City.

Since leaving Lloyd Village, apart from initially ravaging a pig farm, Undying Bone hadn’t caused any widespread calamity.

The Security Bureau could only track him based on the residual aura from the Myriad Corpses Formation.

Yet Undying Bone not only instantaneously teleported but had increasingly mastered hiding aura and appearance, often appearing in another city just as the Security Bureau reached the array-designated location.

So much so that until now, the Security Bureau hadn’t genuinely confronted Undying Bone.

As Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalmers got off the plane, she instinctively glanced at Samuel Chalmers beside her,

“Do you really not need me to help you replenish some Merit Golden Light first?”

These days, although Samuel Chalmers’s golden light was recovering, the rate was barely enough to catch without scrutinizing.

Scarlett Jennings could clearly see his appearance now.

“It’ll recover on its own, don’t worry too much.”

Samuel Chalmers paused, looking at Scarlett Jennings, eyes seemingly meaningful,

“But you, seem not too anxious to find Undying Bone?”

Scarlett Jennings shrugged indifferently upon hearing that,

“Urgent, yet not too urgent.”

As a Mystical Sect member and having personally witnessed the Bone Transformation, Scarlett Jennings was naturally anxious to find it, with Undying Bone’s existence being a great threat.

But since Undying Bone fled, a week had passed.

Scarlett Jennings hadn’t heard any reports from the Security Bureau or elsewhere of anyone infected by corpse poison turning into a living corpse.

“Aside from draining the entire pig farm, the creature hasn’t spread corpse poison anywhere; if it wanted to, chaos would’ve erupted outside long ago, but it hasn’t.”

Scarlett Jennings said,

“I suspect it still retains some of its former human consciousness.”

An imperfect, incomplete Undying Bone.

Yet this “imperfection” induced a moment of hesitation in Scarlett Jennings.

But only a moment.

As long as the creature posed a potential threat to the world, the Mystical Sect couldn’t ignore it.

“No matter what, he must be found first.”

Scarlett Jennings remarked, lowering her head to fiddle with her phone.

Samuel Chalmers watched her actions and asked,

“How do you plan to search?”

Scarlett Jennings looked up, suddenly pointing ahead, “Ask it.”

Samuel Chalmers turned and saw not far ahead, a familiar black-clothed and black-hatted Spiritual Affairs courier approached, holding a black box.

“Spiritual Affairs Express, Miss Stella Gibson’s package has been delivered.”

Scarlett Jennings took the box, waved at the courier, who soon blended into the crowd and disappeared.

Scarlett Jennings then entered the waiting car with Samuel Chalmers.

Opening the box, she saw inside was a small doll resembling Undying Bone…

The next second, the small zombie doll opened its eyes.

Looking at Scarlett Jennings, it slowly grinned, revealing a stiff and eerie smile.