Chapter 6: Splitting The Profits
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Han Yu cursed his luck. "Of all places to lose it, I lost it to a corpse!"
The magnet he had kept in his pocket had been torn away when the corpse suddenly moved and grabbed him. At that time, he had been too terrified to notice, but now he was regretting it deeply.
"Damn it! Do I really need to go back there?" Han Yu questioned himself. "What if that ghost eats me?" He shivered.
He had heard too many stories of people dying with regrets and coming back as vengeful spirits.
'If the man died from a gambling debt and haunts me because I scammed people, I'm definitely screwed,' Han Yu thought. 'Wait... ghosts can read minds, right?!' A new wave of panic hit him.
After much deliberation, he decided against going back right away.
"Maybe Fat Kui and Dan Hu know where to get another one of those stones," Han Yu thought.
The magnet he used wasn't just any ordinary magnet. It was strong enough to pull a coin through a cup despite being tiny and inconspicuous. If he just needed any magnet, he could have pulled one from a compass or found one in a pile of junk.
Lodestones were common enough, and he might even find one in the wild, but the problem was that those were usually way too big. If his trick got exposed, he'd be lucky to get away with only a beating.
'Maybe the junk shop has another one. I found the first one there anyway,' Han Yu still held onto hope.
With that plan in mind, he got up and immediately set off to find his companions.