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Lady Calico pranced ahead alone with a lively little trot, stopping now and then. Each time she stopped, she would turn back for a quick glance.
Behind her, humans and ghosts walked side by side.
The Daoist asked the ghost beside him, “How many ghosts are there in the city now?”
“Sir, there are over twelve hundred.”
“That many, huh...”
“It’s been this way since last year.”
“Truly fascinating.”
“May I ask... what do you find so fascinating about it?”
“Are they all former garrison soldiers of Yuan’an City?”
“The information you heard, sir, isn’t quite correct,” said the ghost in armor. “Over ten years ago, the northern frontier army invaded southward and indeed captured Yuan’an City. Not only were all the soldiers in the city slaughtered, but many of them were tortured to death. The intense resentment led to some of the three thousand garrison soldiers turning into vengeful spirits and evil ghosts who refused to disperse.
“However, of the current twelve hundred ghosts in the city, the vast majority are not from those original three thousand troops. In fact, only about twenty or thirty of the original garrison became ghosts.”
“Oh?” Song You raised an eyebrow.
“Take us, for example,” the armored ghost said, turning and glancing at the comrades around him. “We died on the northern battlefield over a decade ago and became ghosts. After wandering around for years, we eventually ended up here.”
“I see.” That made much more sense.
Initially, he had thought all the ghosts in Turtle City were transformed from the city’s original garrison. That had genuinely startled him—after...
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