Not Even Half as Good as the Ghost of the Republic

After dinner, Qianqian returned to her room to continue working on her homework.

With only a few months left until the college entrance exam, she had quite a lot of daily assignments.

Lin Feng, meanwhile, was in his room slowly doing leg strength training.

After an afternoon of recovery, he could now take a few small steps.

But compared to a normal person, there was still quite a gap.

However, for Lin Feng, this wasn't a big problem.

He was really sick of being in a wheelchair!

As night fell

The moonlight was dim this evening, with only the pale yellow glow of streetlamps filtering through sparse tree leaves into the neighborhood.

Lin Feng was already waiting on the balcony at this time.

The evening's training had shown some results, allowing him to perform brief movement exercises.

His eyes were focused intently on the ancient well in the neighboring yard.

At midnight, a female ghost in red would crawl out.

This ghost was dressed very simply, with a sense of barely being covered.

In the past, when Lin Feng lacked inspiration for his writing, he would wait until midnight.

He would watch this red-robed female ghost to draw some creative inspiration.

There was no helping it, those study materials weren't as authentic...

He didn't have extra money to experience real health clubs...

The meager royalties were almost all used for daily expenses with Qianqian...

Now Lin Feng stared unblinkingly, wanting to see what level this female ghost was.

The system had told him that if his current strength were classified by supernatural ability levels,

It would be around late C-rank, though his lack of combat experience meant actual performance could vary.

"C-rank water ghost, weakness: fire" Lin Feng saw the prompt above the female ghost.

Just within his operational range.

"Hollowfication"

A skull mask appeared on Lin Feng's face.

The mask had an eerie pattern of intertwining red and white stripes, giving it an inexplicably terrifying look.

An all-black Grim Reaper outfit naturally covered his body.

His whole appearance became three times cooler, after all, black is eternally stylish.

He was still waiting for the right moment.

Seeing the female ghost fully crawl out of the well mouth, passing by a nearby pebble in that instant.

"Instant Body Technique"

Lin Feng instantly vanished from the room.

"Ghost Path Technique 42 - Flame Fire"

A ball of blue-green flame appeared in his hand.

The flames flickered, emitting a terrifying aura.

Lin Feng's legs weren't very nimble at the moment, so he couldn't perform many agile maneuvers.

But his hand moved very directly, slapping the palm right onto the red-robed female ghost's back.

"Ghost Path Technique 47 - Netherworld Fire Seal"

Immediately after, another flame seal struck out.

Hitting the weak spot on the back of the female ghost...

"Ah!" The red-robed female ghost let out an agonized scream.

Being hit twice from behind by Lin Feng with no warning.

The cry was spine-chilling, but Lin Feng showed no fear...

"Now that I see her up close, she's really not as attractive as those Republican-era female ghosts,"

Lin Feng thought to himself.

From far away she had looked pretty good before.

But up close, she lacked some of that delicate charm.

Man killing ghost, ghost killing man, Lin Feng adapted very quickly.

Although it was his first time in action, he didn't feel much fear.

It was just like hunting small monsters in a game.

This relatively weak red-robed female ghost was taken out directly by Lin Feng's two-move combo.

She had been too careless, operating in this area for so many years.

Never failing before, but she didn't know that a diligent young man

Had long since seen through her movement patterns...

"Congratulations host on successful kill! Gained 100 experience points and 10 hunting points."

"Host, your fighting style is quite simplistic, it seems to lack a lot of passion"

"You mean I should fight slower next time, battling for fifty rounds first?" Lin Feng asked in confusion.

It was originally something to resolve in a minute, why make it so complicated?

This wasn't like writing a novel where he had to pad it out for several chapters, wasn't it better to finish in one combo?

"You've gained one lottery draw, do you want to use it now?"

"No, wait,"

Lin Feng wasn't in a hurry. After the female ghost dissipated in the flames, he saw

That she had actually dropped a stack of real cash???

"Money is a good thing, this stack must be at least 10,000 yuan"

Lin Feng picked it up directly.

Looking at a pebble nearby, he had a thought.

He canceled the Instant Body Technique.

To eliminate this female ghost, he had put in quite some effort.

Today he had thrown quite a few marked stones around here, before finally one landed in a position close to his ideal.

(PS: Marks can be canceled anytime without consuming spiritual power. Only activating Instant Body consumes power, at Lv1 max 5 places can be marked simultaneously)

"Seems like someone's coming?"

"Instant Body activated again"

Lin Feng vanished from the spot, returning to his room.

"Host, you're quite cautious. Hope you can live a bit longer"

"System, why do you sound so pessimistic? How many hosts died before me exactly?" Lin Feng couldn't help asking.

"Nine!" The system's voice was angry as it spoke. They were all idiots who courted death!

Lin Feng was speechless. It seemed this part-time Grim Reaper job was quite high-risk!

He had thought one was enough, but didn't expect the system had lost nine already.

It appeared that when weak, one had to be cautious with everything. Don't court death, and you won't die.

After putting away the money, Lin Feng leaned out from the balcony to look down again.

Sure enough, two figures appeared.

Remembering he had three chances per day to actively detect supernatural ability users,

He tried it out directly.

"Supernatural ability users: C-rank and A-rank"

"Lei, the supernatural radar detected strong spiritual fluctuations nearby just now, how did they disappear so quickly?"

One of the figures said.

"It must have been eliminated. Who was it, to act so fast?"

"An Awakened? Or a cultivator?"

The man called Lei saw a pile of ashes on the ground.

The ashes were still warm, and he smelled the familiar scent of evil spirits.

"Whoever it is, as long as they're killing ghosts, they're not enemies. Just don't know if they've registered their identity," Lei said slowly.

"Things are getting more and more unstable now, all kinds of ghosts and monsters keep appearing. It's a pity there are still too few of us with awakened supernatural abilities," his partner said.

"I heard the higher-ups are doing special experiments, trying to artificially awaken supernatural abilities in people. Wonder how that's progressing?"

"Heh, who knows. Some things may not be as simple as we imagine.

Maybe the scarcity of Awakened isn't unrelated to the experiments."

The two exchanged a few words in low voices, then quickly headed to other areas.

Their main task now was eliminating ghosts. What the higher-ups were doing wasn't for them to worry about.

After killing that female ghost, Lin Feng turned on his computer again to check the Tomato Web author backend.

This was a habit formed over many years. He felt uneasy if he didn't check reader comments every day.

"What is this author writing... the War God's daughter is sleeping in the cowshed again..."

"Brother above, don't bother reading, this dog author always uses the same tricks... Writes halfway then abandons everything..."

"The War God's family is so damn miserable, this author's writing style sucks, I'm out of here"

"This author is toxic, don't know how much that #1 fan on the popularity list paid to be a shill. Sending so many gifts. I suspect they have some special deal..."

"All of you above can f*ck off, the author is writing well... What's wrong with the War God's daughter living in a cowshed, his whole family should sleep in cowsheds..."

The lone supporter of Lin Feng, Wolf Exterminator, started arguing with everyone.

The comment section was full of abuse.

Lin Feng silently closed the comment section. As a failed author,

He only regretted not reading more nourishing novels on Tomato Web back then, otherwise things wouldn't have come to this.

"Ding: New pop-up on Tomato Web page..."

It was Wolf Exterminator again with 99 "Powered by Love" gifts, along with a message urging updates: Little Car, if you abandon this book again, watch out or I'll find you through the internet!

This put Lin Feng in a difficult position, after all this was his only loyal reader.

Although he now had a more promising career, giving up writing was impossible. Writing was his faith after all.

"No good, this plot is worn out, I need to think of a new book"

After a while, he remembered the story of the previous host that the system had told him.

Suddenly inspiration flooded in.

"Green War God"

"This time, no one should criticize, right?" Lin Feng muttered to himself, rubbing his head.

Inspiration was still gushing forth, like a proper spring.

Just then someone posted a picture

It said:

Parents not home (*σ´∀`)σ

Lonely by myself (๑´∀`๑)

Hot and exciting ╮(‵▽′)╭

Join me in enjoying the pleasure of hands-on work.

Lin Feng didn't say a word and directly joined the other's room number.

Opening the Orange Melon writing software, he began a fierce writing battle!

He started pounding away furiously on the keyboard.

Four hours later, a 20,000-word first draft was completed.

He found the name of editor Hua Tailang in his Qiuqiu Mail inbox.

Click send...

At that moment, editor Hua Tailang, who was working overtime reviewing manuscripts, saw the title of Lin Feng's latest novel.

"Holy crap? This guy has really gone all out against the War God series this time," Hua Tailang said with some exasperation...

As Lin Feng's editor, he had witnessed this guy's persistence.

He had been writing War God stories for four years, each one flopping.

Chen Xi, Shen Ji, and Tang Si, who started writing at the same time as Lin Feng,

Had all become famous authors.

Only he was still failing, making no progress.

However, he heard that Lin Feng's family situation wasn't good, with only a younger sister left.

He had seen her photo too, and she was indeed quite beautiful.

She looked exactly like an anime beauty, with blue hair, long legs, and big eyes.

Flawless in her beauty...

When he first saw Qianqian's photo, he even wanted to call Lin Feng "big brother."

He would have been willing to spend his life taking care of Lin Feng with Qianqian.

Unfortunately, it didn't work out.

Because his wife wasn't willing.

Plus, after becoming an editor, his hair was thinning more and more.

He lost his confidence in life even more, and what little fantasy remained was completely gone.

"Sigh, let's see what he's written this time."

He clicked open with his mouse.

The title was actually

"War God, Turning Green Makes You Stronger"

"Hmm? The beginning is written quite well this time. It's been a while since I received a 'green' story. I didn't expect he had this kind of talent..."

It has that flavor of the Netherworld Goddess (◦˙▽˙◦)

Hua Tailang started reading with great interest.

A while later

"Tailang, I just heated up a bowl of chicken soup for you. Drink it quickly and go to sleep early," said a young woman in pajamas.

She walked towards Hua Tailang carrying a bowl of chicken soup.

"Ah Lian, you're so good to me," Hua Tailang said, touching his already bald head.

He drank the chicken soup in one go...

"This time it's well-written, with both action and detail.

If he had written like this earlier, why would he have flopped for so long!" Hua Tailang thought as he closed his computer.