They hurriedly lit the [Ghost Detection Talisman], and sure enough, it detected a strange possession on the fatty.

However, the possession seemed very short, like the feeling of a newly born [Nascent Ghost].

"A ghost possession! Kill it!"

"No! It's just started possessing him. He can still be saved. We should wake up Vice Captain Ye first!"

"Stop arguing! Stand back, I'll do it!"

Amid the argument, someone had already made a move. It was A-Zhu, the second-in-command of Xiao Hou's team.

A-Zhu drew his waist saber and aimed it at the fatty's neck, where he was kneeling and retching, and slashed down.

The fatty clearly wanted to say something, but couldn't. He just kept retching, spitting out more fingernail clippings, as if his stomach was full of them.

"Fatty, rest assured, I will take good care of your sister!"

With a swing of the blade!

With a swoosh, the head fell straight to the ground.

The fatty's body swayed, then completely collapsed to the ground. The jet-black in his eyes, halfway through its transformation, also stopped spreading.

The others in the team fell silent.

Watching their life-and-death brother, who had just been chatting and laughing with them, lose his life in the blink of an eye due to a ghost possession, they felt a chill run from their spines to the top of their heads.

Even on this hot day, they were shivering slightly.

In the face of ghosts, humans are truly too fragile.

"Burn the body on the spot, and wake up Vice Captain Ye. You guys will testify for me, explaining what happened."

A-Zhu, as the second-in-command, seemed even more like a leader than Xiao Hou. But after saying that, he suddenly couldn't help but cough.

The team members, who were about to do as he said, immediately stared at A-Zhu.

"What are you looking at? I'm fine... Cough! Cough cough cough cough!"

A strong urge to cough surged in his throat. A-Zhu bent over with a gasp, retching and dry heaving, vomiting a pile of fingernail clippings on the ground.

The expressions of Xiao Hou and the others changed instantly. They all distanced themselves from A-Zhu.

"It's an infectious ghost!"

"Everyone, don't touch him!"

"Kill A-Zhu! Burn the body immediately!"

"No! Wait!"

"I can still be saved!"

A-Zhu, hearing his companions' words, widened his eyes in terror.

But he couldn't speak, only retch, constantly retching, as if he wouldn't stop until he vomited out his entire heart, liver, and lungs.

Unconsciously, jet-black spots spread across his eyes, covering the entire whites of his eyes, and black blood oozed out.

"He's starting to transform! Do it now, while he hasn't completely turned into a ghost!"

"I'll do it!"

Xiao Hou's spear directly pierced through A-Zhu's forehead. When he pulled back the spear, A-Zhu was already lying motionless on the ground.

"Wake up Vice Captain Ye, burn the body, and then immediately... Cough!"

Xiao Hou froze.

The remaining three team members all looked at Xiao Hou.

"Have I been infected too?"

Fear welled up in his heart, and Xiao Hou coughed even more violently.

"Leader, he..."

"Kill!"

The three team members were about to send Xiao Hou off with dignity, but just as they made a move, they all coughed at the same time, followed by a series of coughs.

"How could we also..."

"Could it be that we all..."

The four looked at each other, their faces unsightly.

"Wake up Vice Captain Ye, and quickly go to join Captain Lin! Only then will we have a chance to be saved!"

Compared to the previous two, the four of them seemed to have shared the coughs, and weren't deteriorating as quickly.

Xiao Hou immediately suggested the idea, and the team members had no objection.

First, they tried to wake up Fang Yue, even using a small knife to cut a wound on Fang Yue's arm, but Fang Yue was like a corpse, without any reaction.

Helpless, Xiao Hou had someone put Fang Yue on the back of his horse and started galloping towards Lin Ling.

But after riding for a while, the coughs became more and more severe, eventually turning into dry heaves, and he vomited fingernail clippings on the horse's back.

After vomiting, Xiao Hou felt a little better. Looking back, he realized that his team members had separated from him at some point.

"Where did they all go? Could it be that they've already turned into ghosts and are going to kill the villagers..."

Thinking of this, Xiao Hou instantly sobered up a bit. Then he realized that the horse beneath him had long since been running slower and slower, to the point where it was no different from a normal person walking. It seemed like every lift of its hoof required great effort.

Xiao Hou dismounted and took a look, his eyes widening in shock. He saw that the horse's mouth was full of dense fingernail clippings, which it spewed out like a fountain.

After spewing them out, the horse seemed to feel a little better, and collapsed to the side, its breathing gradually weakening, until it slowly stopped breathing.

Only long fingernails drilled out from the horse's belly, wriggling, densely packed like the long legs of a spider, standing upright.

A bizarre scene appeared.

The long fingernails growing out of the horse's belly stood up like legs, supporting the dying horse's corpse.

The horse's corpse was like the strange head of the long fingernails, shaking its 'head' left and right like a newborn infant, looking around in confusion.

The huge shadow, as tall as two stories, covered him, scaring Xiao Hou so much that he trembled all over.

With a shiver, Xiao Hou didn't have time to think, so he picked up Fang Yue, who had fallen to the ground, carried him on his back, and ran for his life.

He didn't know where he was going, he just wanted to get away from that horse, the farther the better!

"After that... Vice Captain Ye woke up."

Saying this, Xiao Hou looked at Fang Yue, waiting for Fang Yue's command.

"Why are you looking at me…"

Fang Yue was a little depressed, scratching his head.

"I just went out to eat something to fill my stomach, how could so many things have happened?"

"Long Fingernail Horse Ghost? Spitting fingernails?"

"Could it be that this ghost has some connection with the [Index Finger Ghost]?"

Suppressing those guesses in his heart, Fang Yue asked, "You said you were already infected by the ghost before, and started spitting out fingernail clippings, right? Why are you completely fine now?"

It was fine if Fang Yue hadn't said anything, but Xiao Hou was startled by the reminder.

"That's right, I was clearly drowsy when I was riding the horse, and couldn't feel any external information, but after spitting it out, I felt refreshed. I've been running with Vice Captain Ye for so long, and there's still no sign of turning into a ghost. Could it be that I'm already healed?"

At this moment, Xiao Hou was not only not turning into a ghost, but he didn't even have any injuries. He was just panting, his face flushed red from the long run.

Fang Yue hesitated for a moment, then said, "Then maybe... the ghost you encountered wasn't an infectious one, but a transfer-type ghost!"

Fang Yue was no longer the naive newbie he was when he first entered the game.

With Han Da Ren as his knowledge base, Fang Yue had also crammed some knowledge about ghosts.

So-called infectious ghosts have infectious characteristics, similar to viruses, spreading from one to ten, ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand, wiping out an entire village overnight.

Transfer-type ghosts, on the other hand, transfer themselves when the possessed body dies, re-experiencing a ghost possession.

The characteristic of these transfer-type ghosts is that their own bodies are weak, and the bodies they amplify are not as powerful as other regular ghosts, but it's just difficult to find and kill their main bodies.

If we were to talk about the commonalities between the above two types of ghosts, there is one, and that is that they are both quite rare.