The Otherworldly God I Serve Is Actually a Demon - Chapter 4

[Alright, that was fun being cheeky, but no more jokes. Next, I’ll teach everyone some real methods for dealing with supernatural incidents.]

Perhaps Ruan Jiao’s silent threat had worked, for the tone of the OP’s post took a turn, becoming much more serious.

[First, you should all know that when facing a supernatural incident, the greatest enemy is often not the supernatural entity itself, but ourselves. Humans are fearful when facing the unknown, and because of this, they overlook the fact that every existence has its weakness. For example, a human’s weakness is death. But a ghost has already died once, so its weakness is no longer death, but something else.]

[Every ghost’s weakness is different. Find the ghost’s weakness, and you can survive.]

[So, when facing a ghost, the most important thing is…]

[Stay calm!]

[Find the ghost’s weakness and use it to escape. And only by staying calm can you possibly achieve this.]

Ruan Jiao’s fingers flew as she swiped through the rest of the screenshots, but that was all the content in the post about how to fight ghosts.

Perhaps, just as the post said, only by staying calm could she possibly survive.

A weakness. The idea that a ghost had a weakness was even more bizarre than a ghost appearing before her. Could something so unsolvable really have a weakness?

But she knew nothing about this peeping ghost; today was the first time she had ever seen it. Where was she supposed to find its weakness?

The more critical the situation became, the more abnormally calm Ruan Jiao felt. Perhaps the content of the post had given her strength. It was in this state of clear-headed calm that she noticed something suspicious.

Every time she turned her head to look at the peeping ghost, its position would get closer and closer to her. So, the ghost moved forward when her back was turned, or when it was out of her line of sight.

Ruan Jiao’s heart pounded. She had a bold idea, but facing the unknown, she couldn’t be sure her guess was correct. But in this situation, doing nothing was just waiting to die.

If that was the case, she might as well risk it all.

She took a few deep breaths, then looked straight ahead, meeting the gaze of that pale, ashen woman’s face. That’s right, in the few minutes Ruan Jiao had spent looking at the post on her phone, the other half of the peeping ghost’s face had been revealed.

Ruan Jiao had a premonition that something bad would happen when the peeping ghost’s entire body appeared. She had to escape before it fully manifested.

Staring directly at a ghost was a major sanity-draining event, but Ruan Jiao didn’t look away out of fear. Then, with her body facing the direction of the peeping ghost, she began to slowly back away.

She planned to escape this place by walking backward, ensuring the peeping ghost remained in her line of sight at all times.

Ruan Jiao took a few steps back, and the other party made no move. A jolt of joy went through her. It seemed her guess was correct. This peeping ghost’s weakness was that it had to peep; if it was being watched, it couldn’t move.

The relief of surviving a disaster washed over Ruan Jiao. She desperately wanted to break into a run and flee. But because she was walking backward, her speed was slow, and she had to occasionally feel behind her with her hands to check for obstacles.

After walking a short distance like this, Ruan Jiao finally realized she was doing something stupid. She had a phone; she could totally use the camera to see what was behind her. Wouldn’t that be faster than fumbling with her hands?

The immense pressure of the encounter must have gotten to her, otherwise she would have thought of this sooner.

Ruan Jiao took her phone out of her pocket, unlocked the screen, opened the camera, and raised it to point behind her. But this very action made the blood in her veins freeze.

On the phone screen, just a meter behind her, a woman with a pale, ashen face and a ferocious grin was frozen in the posture of lifting one foot, standing motionless behind her.

Seeing that Ruan Jiao had discovered it, its face even showed a hint of regret that its scheme had not succeeded.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!!!!!

The good upbringing Ruan Jiao had cultivated over the past 18 years shattered in that instant.

Her breathing was ragged, her heart thumping violently. So all this time, what she had been seeing wasn’t the ghost’s true body. Its real self had been following her from behind all along.

If she hadn’t had the sudden idea to turn on her phone camera and point it at herself, given the distance in the frame, the other party would have been having a close encounter with her any second now!

No, that wasn’t right either. The one in front could also be its real body. What if it could freely switch between the two positions?

Ruan Jiao’s thoughts were in turmoil. Ghosts could have doppelgangers. It was a ghost, after all; being a little illogical was perfectly logical. It was she who had been too careless, actually thinking a ghost’s weakness was so easy to find.

Ruan Jiao felt her whole body stiffen, fear pressing down on her heart like a great mountain. This was not a good sign. She was so scared she could barely think, and if she couldn’t think, she would really die here.

Stay calm!

The three sentences from the OP’s post appeared in her mind. Forcibly suppressing the fear in her heart, Ruan Jiao struggled to swallow her scream and blinked.

Then she immediately observed carefully and found that the thing on her phone screen had indeed moved slightly. Now she could be certain: as long as it was out of her line of sight, it would keep getting closer.

Ruan Jiao had finally figured out this ghostly thing’s movement pattern. Her previous guess, that the peeping ghost’s weakness was that it couldn’t be looked at directly, was correct.

However, this creature was cunning. It had two bodies: one to confuse people, and one that was its true self.

And she didn’t know if it had the ability to freely switch between them. Ruan Jiao didn’t dare to gamble. She could only watch the phone screen while also dividing her attention to keep the woman’s face in front of her firmly in her sights.

This tricky use of her eyes made the muscles around her eyelids twitch wildly. She didn’t dare to blink again. Maintaining this strange equilibrium, she slowly backed away. No matter how she retreated, the distance between her and the peeping ghost didn’t change.

When she absolutely couldn’t bear it anymore, she would quickly alternate blinking her left and right eyes, ensuring that at least one eye was always watching.

I hope my phone battery can last until I get home, Ruan Jiao thought miserably. If she had known, she would have played on her phone less at school during the day. When she left school, her phone only had 30% battery left; now it was probably even less.

Moving at a speed slightly faster than a crawling turtle, Ruan Jiao shuffled along and was pleasantly surprised to find she had actually walked out of the area of the ghost wall.

The peeping ghost’s doppelganger in front of her vanished because she had left that area, but the one behind her was still there.

And because it was so late, there were still no pedestrians on the road. Her phone had regained its signal, but she didn’t dare to exit the camera app to call for help. Putting aside whether anyone could save her from a ghost, with the peeping ghost less than a meter away, she absolutely did not dare to let it out of her sight.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t thought of turning around to walk normally, but she was afraid that a rash move would break the balance she had worked so hard to establish with this ghostly thing, so she continued to walk backward.

If anyone were on the street right now, they would see a girl in a JK uniform, an expression of utter despair on her face, holding up her phone as if taking a selfie while walking backward in a bizarre manner, occasionally alternating winks with her left and right eyes as if her eyelids were spasming.

Time slipped by with the sound of Ruan Jiao’s heartbeat. Just as she was about to reach the back gate of her residential community, a large low-battery warning popped up on her phone screen.

Ruan Jiao’s fingers flew as she dismissed the notification. The phone lagged for a moment. When the image reappeared, the peeping ghost’s foot was already on the ground, its entire body leaning forward, reaching a hand toward Ruan Jiao. That hand was less than half a meter away from her.

Looking at the ferocious smile on that dead face, Ruan Jiao felt a wave of despair. Although she was almost home, being home didn’t mean she was safe. She had walked this far without shaking it off; could she really get rid of it by going home?

Moreover, her parents were probably on their way home at this hour. If she went home and happened to run into them, would they be dragged down with her and die at the hands of this ghostly thing too?

Although the peeping ghost was after her, she couldn’t guarantee that it would leave after she died, that it would spare her parents. Since it chose to manifest on the day of the Ghost Festival, it was very likely that its ghostly power was at its strongest today. Would it spare other innocent people?

Ruan Jiao didn’t dare to think about it. How could she, a living person, possibly fathom the thoughts of a ghost?

Her gaze shifted slightly, landing on the hillside not far behind her. Ruan Jiao stood in place for three seconds and made an incredibly painful decision. She resolutely changed her direction and headed for the hill by the back gate.

On that hill, there was a temple that had collapsed years ago.

Ruan Jiao was an atheist, but now, she was entrusting the hope for her life to an unknown god.

Since things like ghosts existed, then perhaps gods existed too.

With a heavy heart, Ruan Jiao stepped onto the hillside. She had a feeling that she wasn’t walking on a path to worship Buddha, but to the executioner’s block.

She had thought walking backward would be difficult, but when she stepped onto this hill, she found the path surprisingly easy to walk on.

A slight change appeared on the ferociously grinning woman’s face on her phone screen. Ruan Jiao didn’t miss this change. Although the ghostly thing was still smiling, there was now a trace of fear in its eyes.

It seemed that where Ruan Jiao was going, there was something terrifying for it.

Didn’t this just prove she had come to the right place? Ruan Jiao excitedly picked up her pace, but she couldn’t go much faster. Climbing a hill backward was a very difficult posture.