6: Chapter 6 The Loli in the Refrigerator

The next day, at twelve noon.

The autumn rain in Jiangzhou City showed no signs of stopping, and the sky was so gloomy it looked like a black pot had been placed over it.

Lin Ye was startled awake by a rough pounding on the door.

'Bang, bang, bang! Yezi! Open the door, Yezi! Are you still alive?!'

Lin Ye opened his eyes abruptly, feeling sore all over as if someone had hammered his spine all night.

He subconsciously reached out to his side; the left was empty, and the right was empty too.

'Leng Yue? Frost Star?'

He sat up, rubbing his messy hair, and looked around.

The second-floor bedroom was filled with a faint, cold scent of Manjusaka, but the two beautiful female zombies were nowhere to be seen.

'Bang, bang, bang!'

The pounding on the door downstairs grew louder.

'Lin Ye! If you don't open the door, I'm calling the police! What was up with that female ghost on the phone last night who said she wanted to kill me?!'

It was Fatty Wang.

Lin Ye rubbed his temples with a headache.

Fatty was his college roommate, a big-hearted man who was a second-generation rich kid with eight demolished houses back home; he often treated Lin Ye to meals.

After being scared off the phone by Leng Yue last night, he dared to come and pound on the door at noon today; this best friend was certainly loyal enough.

'Coming, coming! Are you trying to rush me to my death?!'

Lin Ye hurriedly put on his pants.

Just as he finished putting on his shoes, his peripheral vision caught sight of the old double-door refrigerator in the corner, with a strange blue cold air faintly seeping through the door gap.

His heart skipped a beat as he walked over and yanked the refrigerator door open.

'Holy crap!'

He saw that all the vegetables and drinks in the refrigerator's cold storage section had been cleared out and tossed to the side.

Frost Star, wearing a black Lolita dress, was curled up into a small ball, sleeping comfortably on the shelf.

Her silver-blue twin tails hung down into the crisper box, and her little face was pressed against a piece of frozen pork, sleeping soundly, even snoring slightly with tiny ice crystals.

What made him laugh and cry even more was that Frost Star was clutching a half-drunk bottle of iced cola tightly in her arms.

Her small hands, with their dark blue nails, were slightly curled from the cold, and the copper bell on her ankle occasionally bumped against the narrow space of the refrigerator, making a dull, eerie 'ding' sound.

Even in her sleep, the extremely cold White Zombie aura radiating from her body had frozen circles of eerie ice flowers on the refrigerator walls.

Lin Ye could feel the refrigerator's compressor running in overload, groaning in pain as if protesting this big shot's forced move-in.

This strange combination of modern home appliances and an ancient evil creature made Lin Ye unable to tell for a moment whether he was raising a zombie or an expensive 'popsicle spirit'.

'Are you treating the fridge as an ice coffin?!' Lin Ye was on the verge of a breakdown.

'Mmm... Husband...'

Frost Star was woken up, her heterochromatic eyes opening in confusion.

Seeing Lin Ye, she instinctively reached out her two cold little hands, wanting a hug.

'Stop! Don't make a sound. A living person is here. You stay inside and absorb the refrigerant; don't come out and scare people!'

Lin Ye shoved her hands back, stuffed a cucumber into her mouth to block it, and then slammed the refrigerator door shut with a 'bang'.

Having settled the little one, where did the big one go?

Lin Ye turned his head and saw Leng Yue in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, which was covered by heavy blackout curtains.

This Thousand-Year Red Hou was currently standing with her back to him, her posture as straight as a pine.

She was still wearing that tattered black ancient dress, with most of her snow-white back exposed to the air, the curve of her shoulder blades breathtakingly perfect.

At this moment, she was holding Lin Ye's smartphone, which had a cracked corner on the screen.

She used a slender finger to stiffly and forcefully poke at the screen, her dark red eyes filled with the gravity of facing a formidable enemy.

'Wife, what... are you doing?'

Leng Yue didn't even turn her head, her voice cold with a hint of rare annoyance:

'Husband, this object is truly strange. I just tried to probe it with my divine sense, but I found that countless little people were sealed inside. They are trapped in a magic formation called 'Pinduoduo', and they keep asking me to help them 'slash a price'.'

Lin Ye's mouth twitched wildly. Big sister, that's a pop-up advertisement for malware, okay!

'Bang, bang, bang! Lin Ye!!'

The fat man's voice downstairs already had a sobbing tone.

'Cough, Wife, that's a modern mechanism. I'll teach you when I have time.'

Lin Ye hurriedly walked over and snatched the phone away.

'I have a brother downstairs right now. A living person has heavy Yang energy. Although you are a Red Hou and don't fear mortal fire or Yang energy, it's easy to scare him. Would you mind hiding in that wardrobe for a bit?'

Leng Yue turned her head, her red eyes slightly narrowed, and a queenly aura that commanded respect without anger instantly spread out:

'Hide? I have roamed for a thousand years; when have I ever feared a mere mortal? If he dares to offend Husband, I will suck his Yang blood dry.'

'No, no, no! That's my brother! You'd need to pay extra... pfft, no, he's a good person!'

Lin Ye coaxed and tricked her, finally promising to 'double the Yang energy transfer' tonight, which barely made this great-aunt snort coldly, turn into a gust of yin wind, and dive into the old wardrobe.

Lin Ye let out a long sigh of relief, rushed downstairs, and pulled open the rolling shutter with a 'clatter'.

Outside the door stood a chubby man holding a peach wood sword.

'Yezi!'

Fatty Wang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lin Ye standing there, safe and sound.

Then he pushed him aside and squeezed into the shop, looking around with shifty eyes.

'Where are the people? What about the female ghost from last night? No, wait, why is your shop colder than a morgue?!'

Fatty shivered exaggeratedly.

Indeed, having just experienced the resurrection of two female zombies, the concentration of Yin energy in this Funeral Shop was already catching up to an extreme Yin corpse-raising ground.

'What female ghost? You heard wrong. Last night I was watching TV, 'The Legend of the White Snake', and Fahai was capturing demons inside.' Lin Ye lied without changing his expression.

'Bullshit! Is Fahai's voice that nice? That voice was so cold it could drop ice crystals, but damn, it was strangely pleasant...'

Fatty muttered, his gaze suddenly locking onto Lin Ye's neck.

He gasped, pointing at the conspicuous hickey on Lin Ye's neck, his face full of indignation:

'Lin Ye! You still dare to say you're not hiding a woman?! This damn bite mark is still there! You kid actually went behind your brother's back to eat alone! Tell me, which little fairy is it?'

Lin Ye subconsciously covered his neck, his old face flushing red.

Frost Star had bitten too hard.

Just as Lin Ye was wondering how to smooth over this, a dull, strange noise suddenly came from the ceiling upstairs.

That was Leng Yue turning over in the wardrobe and accidentally bumping into the door.

This sound was very clear in the silent Funeral Shop.

Fatty's ears instantly perked up, and his eyes became fearful:

'There's movement upstairs! Yezi, are you really hiding a beauty in your golden house on the second floor? I have to go see my sister-in-law!'

Saying this, this fat pig actually burst out with agility that didn't match his body size, lifted his legs, and ran towards the stairs to the second floor.

Lin Ye's soul almost flew away.

If he let him go up, opened the wardrobe to see a top-tier six-foot-tall Red Hou, and then opened the fridge to see a yandere loli, this fatty would definitely not make it out alive today!

'Ding! "My Lord, Please Behave Yourself" System notification: Best friend Fatty Wang is about to trigger 'Unboxing Surprise', please make a choice within three minutes.'

'Option A: Forcible obstruction — Hug the fatty's thigh and cry, 'Inside is my inflatable wife, she can't be seen by others'.'

'Reward: Obtain the title 'Social Death Pioneer'. Consequence: Fatty will look at you with contempt for three years, but the crisis will be resolved.'

'Option B: Confess to be lenient — Generously open the wardrobe and refrigerator, and introduce him to your two female zombies.'

'Reward: Yang energy value + 50. Consequence: Fatty will have a myocardial infarction on the spot, you will need to pay one million in emergency rescue fees, and you will be invited to have tea by the Anomaly Management Bureau.'

'Option C: Divert the disaster — Use the Pure Yang Dao Body to counter, pretend to be a ghost to divert attention. Reward: Husband points + 200, unlock the 'Con Man Great Deceiver' side quest.'