An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits

Volume 1. Let the Game Begin

There was a buzzing sound in my head, and my entire body felt a peculiar sense of discomfort.

My vision was nothing like usual—I didn’t know how to describe it.

It was as if the colors had become much more vibrant than before?

The surrounding cold made me want to stand up.

I didn’t want to lie face down in the snowdrift.

But strangely, my senses felt a little different than usual.

I kept feeling... as if my skin had become much more sensitive.

Was it because of fear?

But... I could feel it.

I was still alive?

Then who... who was the one with their neck caught by the window frame, body hanging inside, neck barely clinging by a layer of flesh and skin, internal organs, blood vessels, muscles, and bones clearly visible, their head dangling outside the window, eyes wide open in death, staring at me, unable to rest in peace?

I stumbled to my feet, but as soon as I stood, my legs gave way.

Instinctively lowering my head, what I saw was a completely deformed shoe twisted backward...

But the key wasn’t the direction of the shoe—it was that... these pants seemed like the ones that middle school girl was wearing?

Why... why were her pants on my body, and why did they fit so well?

My brain had completely shut down.

It felt like I had forgotten how to think.

I watched the scene unfold before me, completely unable to grasp what had happened.

Pain... came from my left arm.

But strangely, there was no pain at all from my leg, which had already twisted backward and completely broken?

Barely managing to get up, I limped on the broken leg toward the ‘me’ in front of me.

“Really looks like me... like it’s actually me?”

I blankly stared into those lifeless, unblinking eyes for nearly a minute before my mind suddenly cleared with a loud boom!

Woke up early... paid the electricity bill?

Got on the bus?

Sense of fear?

Eerie feeling?

Sense of dissonance?

I... I saw a grinning face?

Then I died?

Then... then what did I do?

I... I think I ate something?

What did I eat?

Right... that vague memory, and the terrified expression on that girl’s face?

I... I devoured... devoured the girl’s soul?

“Ugh...”

At the moment my mind cleared, a flood of questions surged through my thoughts.

At the same time, an intense shock forcefully took over all my thinking.

A girl’s entire life... played out before my eyes like a movie, from the moment she was born, the moment she was blessed, held in her mother’s arms, took her first sip of milk... all the way until the end...

In her memory, a terrifying and greedy face was opening its mouth toward her...

That face that opened its mouth at her... though already abstract, with a mouth that took up almost 80% of the head, a bizarre proportion that made the head no longer resemble a human one—but those eyes, filled with greed and a strange smile, without a doubt...

It was me—the ‘me’ whose head was now hanging outside the window...

In that instant, all the fear and pain the girl experienced before death were transmitted into my senses as if I had personally endured them.

Tears of terror gushed from my eyes like a faucet turned on full blast.

Despair... fear... helplessness... pain—everything overwhelmed me to the point of madness.

“Uaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Tears blurred my vision.

At that moment, the resentment the girl held before death nearly consumed all my thoughts.

Instinctively, I reached out and touched the face of that upside-down head hanging from the window...

But... the moment I touched that cold cheek, my consciousness took control again, stopping the action of wanting to twist off the head.

Instead, I ended up gently caressing it...

If someone had seen this scene, they would probably have thought... this girl and the person who died with their eyes wide open must have been lovers, right?

The pain-filled, despairing sobs, the tender hand brushing against the cheek, and the complex emotions reflected in those eyes—all of it seemed to confirm it...

“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Something’s happened!!”

“Call an ambulance, quick!!!”

“Ahh!! That girl’s leg! Her leg’s broken!!”

“A human head!! That’s a human head!!!!”

“Get it open!!”

In a daze, I didn’t know how long I had been standing there, until I suddenly heard a chorus of exclamations from people around me.

Then someone rushed over and hugged me.

Before I could say anything, I was laid down on the ground.

“Hurry, hurry! Open the car!”

“Get her to the hospital, this girl’s still alive!”

“Any more survivors!? If you’re alive, respond!!”

Kind-hearted people nearby were trying to pry open the deformed bus door, but unfortunately, the entire bus had been completely crushed beneath a cement truck.

Almost a full tank of cement had poured over the vehicle, warping the doors entirely.

My vision grew darker and darker.

Waves of dizziness assaulted my mind.

A faint sensation gradually returned to my feet—that aching sting was unbearable... no better than a migraine.

At the same time... I felt that inside my sneakers, there was already a warm, slippery liquid...

Was it... blood?

But... I could no longer make a sound.

The dimness gradually consumed my vision, and a sense of weakness seeped through my entire body.

With a hint of unwillingness, I stared at the ‘me’ who died with eyes wide open... then slowly closed my eyes.

Before everything fell completely into darkness, I could still vaguely hear the surrounding good-hearted people shouting loudly.

“This child is a student at LC No.1 High School! Quickly contact the school!”

“This child is still alive! Hurry, the ambulance is here—get her on!”

Then came the sensation of my body being lifted, as if I were floating.

“Heart rate 50, blood pressure 50 over 100.”

“Immediately prepare 1mg of adrenaline, ventilator! Contact surgery, urgent!”

“She’s going into fibrillation!”

“Defibrillator!”

“Oxygen tube, quick…”

After that... I couldn’t hear anything anymore.

I only felt the whole world spinning, and finally fell into unconsciousness...

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“Ugh~”

In a daze, a jolt of pain made me let out a low groan instinctively.

Strange... why did my leg and arm hurt so much?

Did Sha Ha bite me?

But my silly dog never bites anyone!

The pain caused darkness to flash before my eyes, but also instantly jolted me awake.

I abruptly opened my eyes, and after a moment of blurriness, what came into view... wasn’t the unpainted ceiling I’d been familiar with for years, but a clean, polished white porcelain ceiling?

“Where... am I?”

As soon as I spoke, I felt something was off.

My voice was soft and sweet, with a slight hoarseness in its weakness—this... this was definitely not a man’s voice.

“Yanyan, you're awake? You're finally awake~ Oh my God... sob sob~”

Before I could react, a woman’s voice suddenly came from beside me.

Yanyan?

Wait, that sounds familiar?

Me??

No... no, that’s not me—that was the name of that girl?

Oh~ I finally remembered—I died?

I died again?

And then died once more?

I died on the bus... then again in ‘my’ mouth?... and finally, I died again in the ambulance?

Eh?

Why did I say again?

Two sets of memories kept confusing my thoughts, but I couldn’t deal with that now—I seemed to have some guesses.

“Could... you bring me a mirror? Aun~” I was about to say “auntie,” but seeing the woman’s heartache-filled eyes that seemed emotionally connected to mine, I instinctively said, “Mom…”

“Eh~! Eh! Mirror, mirror…”

As soon as she heard me call her that, she hurriedly got up and rummaged through her bag.

Out came a wallet, lipstick, sanitary pads, a mirror, a stack of hundred-yuan bills, another stack of hundred-yuan bills, and another stack, and another stack, and another stack...

She clearly had already pulled out the mirror, but the woman kept wiping tears from her eyes while digging through her LV bag, mumbling, “Mirror, mirror~”

Though she had found the mirror, my eyes were now entirely drawn to the stacks of hundred-yuan bills.

Damn it... I’d lived half my life and had never seen this many stacks of hundred-yuan bills right in front of me...

Wait!

Right, I had seen them before—back when I was working bank transport, I’d carried stacks just like those.

But back then, I knew it was the country's money, the hard-earned sweat of the people, so I never had a single greedy thought.

But this time, it was different!

This woman in front of me... seemed to be this body’s mother.

So this money...

The thought almost made me laugh out loud.

No, no!

A righteous person like me—how could I be greedy for money?

Right, the mirror...

I looked up and saw the woman still frantically rummaging through her LV.

I couldn’t help but smile with a mix of amusement and pity.

Honestly, I didn’t understand this thing called motherly love.

After all, I grew up with my grandfather.

My parents passed away when I was very young, so I had no feelings about fatherly or motherly love.

Or rather...

I had no ability to comprehend it due to never having experienced it.

But seeing this woman’s teary joy and frantic attempts to hide her emotions, I couldn’t help but smile.

I picked up the makeup mirror lying by the bedside and gave it a shake.

“Mom... isn’t the mirror right here?”

“Ah~? Ah! Yes, that’s the mirror. See? Mom’s getting old—didn’t even see such a big mirror.”

“You’re not old. You’re just flustered out of love…”

I said it in my usual tone, but as soon as the words left my mouth, the woman opposite me widened her eyes in surprise?

Uh... I made a mistake I shouldn’t have made.

“Dear! Dear!!! Our daughter... our daughter...”

Just as I was about to explain, thinking the woman had figured something out, she suddenly burst into tears and threw herself into a hug.

“Yanyan, you’ve finally grown up! Sob sob…”

As the woman hugged me and cried uncontrollably, on the other side of the hospital room, from the sofa against the wall, a man suddenly stood up.

The moment he stood, I was startled.

That corner had been so inconspicuous, and the man had made no sound at all the whole time.

If he hadn’t stood up, I wouldn’t have even known he was there!

“All right, stop hugging her. Yanyan’s arm just got reset.”