Chapter 7: Could you be the legendary Yang Wei?

Chapter 7: Could it be that you are the legendary... "Sunny Smile"?

The audience watching the live stream was shocked.

【Holy crap, what’s going on? Everything was fine, why did the rope just snap like that?】

【Are we seeing ghosts? Watching a farming show in the middle of the day, and it’s actually giving me cold sweats.】

【This is too eerie. They should just give up on this task. If they provoke something unclean and run into weird stuff, it won't be good!】

It wasn't just the audience who were shocked; the people on-site were even more terrified, and the onlookers from the village simply ran away.

Jiang Nanxi, however, remained calm and first checked to see if Li Chu was injured.

"I'm fine."

There were no obvious wounds on Li Chu's hands, but her wrists were aching. She didn't have enough strength; she had already done her best to carry the coffin this far.

Jiang Nanxi touched her wrist and said, "Does it hurt a lot here? It’s slightly dislocated. Let me reset it for you first, don't try to lift anything for a while."

"Uh..."

Before Li Chu could say anything, Jiang Nanxi gave it a quick *crack* and reset the joint, causing Li Chu to let out a pig-like shriek.

"Ow, that hurts... wait, why doesn't it hurt anymore? That’s amazing..."

Li Chu looked at her in shock. "Nanxi, you even know how to treat dislocations? That’s so cool!"

Jiang Nanxi didn't say much; she picked up the broken rope from the ground, took a look at it, and then tossed it aside.

She said to the elderly couple, "You two continue carrying the back of the coffin; I’ll carry the front by myself."

The old man said with a pale face, "I tried, but the coffin won't lift again. It must... it must be that something is wrong with the thing inside. I don't think my son wants to leave yet."

The old woman leaned against the coffin and sobbed, "Son, Mom doesn't want you to leave either, but the dead cannot stay in the world of the living. Please, go be reincarnated. If we are fated in the next life, we will be mother and son again."

After the old woman finished crying, the couple burned a pile of paper money next to the coffin, hoping the deceased inside would no longer linger in the mortal realm.

After burning the paper money, they tried to lift the coffin again, but it still wouldn't budge. It felt as heavy as if it were filled with concrete.

"Let's open the coffin and take a look."

Jiang Nanxi’s voice rang out.

The old man said in terror, "What if something is wrong with the corpse inside and it hurts us?"

Even though it was his son's corpse, if something had gone wrong, the eerie thing inside wouldn't recognize him as its father anymore!

The audience was also worried.

【The coffin hasn't been able to be lifted several times; it’s very likely the dead person's soul has returned. It’s better to find a professional to perform an exorcism.】

【Why open the coffin when it's this weird? Is Jiang Nanxi crazy? You don't even know how to perform an exorcism!】

*Bang.*

Jiang Nanxi didn't waste any words; she slammed her palm onto the coffin lid and just like that, pried it open.

A scent of decay wafted from the coffin.

The camera caught the corpse inside. Its face was a bluish-purple, and on its stiff features, there was actually a strange, eerie smile.

The old man screamed on the spot, "He... why is he smiling? I remember when my son died, there was no expression on his face!"

The old man grabbed Jiang Nanxi, who was standing next to the coffin, trying to pull her away. "Run! I’ll go find the old Taoist priest on the mountain to perform an exorcism!"

Jiang Nanxi, however, stood still.

She looked up and noticed a beam of sunlight shining through the tree shade onto the coffin.

Jiang Nanxi couldn't help but remark, "Ah, the beautiful words 'sunlight' and 'smile' appearing on a corpse at the same time... could it be that you are the legendary... 'Sunny Smile'?"

The old man:???

The audience:???

【What is Jiang Nanxi doing? At a time like this, what kind of nonsense is she spouting!】

【This is a corpse transformation! Why aren't you running? Be careful or the corpse will jump up and bite you to death!】

At that moment, the sunlight filtering through the trees disappeared, and the audience could see through the lens that a faint layer of black mist seemed to have appeared on the corpse's blue-grey face.

*Bang.*

The corpse in the coffin suddenly sat up, stared straight at Jiang Nanxi, and reached out its hands, trying to climb out of the coffin.

"Ahhh, it’s a reanimated corpse!"

"Oh my god!"

The old man and the old woman were terrified out of their minds; they completely forgot it was their own son and turned to run for their lives.

Li Chu was also scared out of her wits, but she didn't run.

Because she was too afraid, her legs had turned to jelly, her body was trembling, and she didn't know what to do.

The cameraman had already run off with his camera, but after running for a while, he felt something was off, so he turned his head to look in the direction of the coffin.

"Get out of there!"

Jiang Nanxi’s voice rang out.

She was seen standing next to the coffin, grabbing the corpse by its hands, and tossing it out of the coffin onto the ground nearby.

Jiang Nanxi then kicked the corpse, sending it into the most intense patch of sunlight to be exposed.

"Ahhh!"

A shrill scream came from the corpse.

The audience could clearly see through the lens that waves of strange black mist were rising from the corpse, as if something was drifting out of it, only to dissipate under the intense sunlight.

"Wow, so much smoke. Looks like it’s roasted to perfection. If we had some cumin powder and chili flakes, the kids next door would be crying from jealousy."

Cameraman:?

Audience:?

Before anyone else could react, Jiang Nanxi grabbed the sun-baked corpse and nimbly tossed it back into the coffin.

She shouted in the direction of the old man, "Grandpa, your barbecue... oh wait, your corpse is fine now. Continue with the funeral!"

"Ahhhhh!"

"Ahhh, it’s a reanimated corpse!"

The old man was still sprinting away, not daring to come back. In the end, Jiang Nanxi had to run over and physically drag the old man and the old woman back.

"Your son’s funeral was delayed, and his corpse was occupied by a wandering ghost. But it’s fine now; that ghost has been scattered to the winds."

The old man and the old woman cautiously peeked into the coffin and found that the black mist covering the corpse's face was gone, and the corpse wasn't moving anymore. Only then did they heave a sigh of relief.

"Then... then let's hurry with the funeral!"

They continued carrying the coffin up the mountain.

Because Li Chu’s hand was injured, Jiang Nanxi didn't let her carry it. She grabbed one corner of the coffin by herself with ease and hoisted it onto her shoulder.

As they went up the mountain, Jiang Nanxi walked steadily, as if she were walking on flat ground.

【??? Holy crap, does Jiang Nanxi actually know how to perform exorcisms? The corpse just settled down like that?】

【Ahhh! Does no one else think it was incredibly cool when Jiang Nanxi kicked the corpse?】

【Jiang Nanxi must have just gotten lucky, accidentally scattering the ghost inside the corpse by exposing it to the sun.】

【Regardless of whether it was an accident, Jiang Nanxi’s courage is enough to be admired. Everyone else ran, but she was the only one who didn't. She deserves those points!】

They delivered the coffin to the cemetery, dug a hole, and buried it. No other accidents occurred during the process.

Jiang Nanxi and Li Chu received one hundred points.

"It's lunchtime."

Hearing Jiang Nanxi’s words, Li Chu’s eyes lit up. "We have one hundred points; we can have a big meal! I only had half a bowl of beef noodles this morning; I’m starving to death."

She could have been full, but the events from earlier were too stimulating. People tend to consume energy quickly when under mental stress, and now that she had calmed down, she was absolutely famished.

Jiang Nanxi, however, said, "We can have a big meal without using points. Maybe we can even pack some leftovers to take back."

(End of chapter)