Chapter 31: Ah! Ghost!
Xie Tingting screamed out loud: “Ah! Ghost!”
She bolted away on her short legs, not daring to stop at all.
The student ghost never expected a newborn soul’s reaction to be so fast; in the blink of an eye, she had dashed three meters away.
“You stop right there!” The student ghost angrily shouted and quickly chased after her. He had finally lured and killed someone; how could he let her go so easily.
As long as he ate her, his soul body injured by that short winter melon talisman could recover, and he would have more power to lure and kill that man with a precious destiny!
“I’m not an idiot! Why would I stop!” Xie Tingting wailed, not daring to slow her steps for a moment.
Just then, Captain Xu arrived with people and collided head-on with Xie Tingting.
Xie Tingting couldn’t brake in time, and her entire soul body passed right through him.
Xie Tingting: “!”
Captain Xu only felt a chill in his body and subconsciously checked the surroundings; there was nothing unusual.
“Captain, what’s wrong?” The accompanying police officer asked.
“Nothing.” Captain Xu shook his head and continued walking forward.
Xie Tingting stood dumbfounded in place, looking at her transparent hands. What had happened to her…?
Behind her, the student ghost chased up with a ferocious expression: “Hmph, let’s see where you can run to now!”
“Good! Finally caught you! Let’s see where you can run this time!” A crisp, childish voice suddenly rang out. The student ghost charging toward Xie Tingting was startled.
He looked in shock at Nan Yuanman charging toward him, holding a copper coin sword: “How is it you again!”
The student ghost was annoyed: “Stinky little ghost! Why do you have to mess with me!”
“Because you harm people, I must take you in!” Nan Yuanman lightly snorted, stomped her foot, and her short figure shot forward like a cannonball straight at the student ghost.
The student ghost eyed the copper coin sword in her hand warily, gritted his teeth, turned, and ran: “An adult doesn’t fight with a kid. You wait for me! I’ll be back!”
His soul body was still injured; a head-on fight wasn’t wise. Moreover, this weird little ghost gave him a dangerous feeling; better to be cautious.
It was just a pity; the fresh soul he had just lured and killed… Damn it! Next time, he’d get revenge on this stinky little ghost!
Nan Yuanman was anxious and chased after him with all her might on her short legs: “I’ll fight you! I’m a kid! So easy to bully! Don’t run!”
So, the people who came over out of curiosity due to the screams saw a delicate and cute-looking child holding a copper coin sword that looked like a toy, running on short legs like a wheel of wind and fire, chasing something ahead with all her effort.
But when they looked ahead, they saw nothing.
Someone couldn’t help laughing: “So chuunibyou at such a young age; she’ll definitely be a prime otaku when she grows up.”
A high school student in uniform next to him spoke faintly: “Didn’t you adults say kids’ eyes are pure and can see things adults can’t? Maybe… she saw something and is chasing it?”
Hearing his words, the adults around them suddenly felt a chill down their spines.
The old woman standing next to the boy raised her hand and flicked his forehead: “What nonsense are you spouting! Keep scaring people and I’ll knock your head crooked!”
The boy: QAQ
Nan Yuanman also wanted to just throw talismans, Xiao Cao, and Zhuang Zhuang, but Grandpa had told her not to reveal her extraordinary abilities in crowded places, as it could cause panic.
So she could only chase with the inconspicuous copper coin sword using her legs.
The student ghost didn’t listen to her; his soul body quickly merged into the surrounding crowd and faded into a phantom.
Just as his soul body was about to completely disappear, Nan Yuanman gritted her teeth, grabbed a triangular-folded talisman from her cloth bag, and flung it out forcefully.
The talisman entered the student ghost’s soul body and disappeared.
That was a tracking talisman she had newly drawn after returning to the Jiang family. With it, even if the student ghost hid at the ends of the earth, she could find him.
The moment the student ghost slipped away, Xie Tingting, who had been standing in place like a statue, broke down and screamed: “Aaaah—! Oh God, I’ve turned into a ghost! I’m dead! I’m dead! Aaaah—!”
Nan Yuanman was startled, her ahoge suddenly standing straight up.
She turned to look at Xie Tingting and saw her pacing back and forth like a headless fly, staring intently at her hands, then opening her mouth wide and stuffing her hand into it.
Nan Yuanman: “!!!”
This sister seemed… not quite mentally stable!
Nan Yuanman hurriedly ran over to stop her: “Sister, sister, calm down. You can’t eat hands.”
Xie Tingting froze for a moment, looked down at Nan Yuanman, and her eyes slowly widened: “You… you can see me?”
All her attention had been on her transparent soul body earlier; she hadn’t seen Nan Yuanman chasing the student ghost.
After asking, she muttered to herself: “Oh right, the old woman said before that kids’ eyes are the purest and can see many things adults can’t.”
She looked at Nan Yuanman, an idea coming to her, and made a terrifying ghost face at her: “Boo—! Little friend, it’s very late now. If you don’t go home, sister will eat you up!”
Nan Yuanman: “…”
She sighed like a little old lady and raised the copper coin sword in her hand: “Sister, what big treasure do you think I have here?”
These adults were so childish! She had stopped playing ghost face games at three.
Xie Tingting glanced over with a smile.
Her smile froze, and she looked at Nan Yuanman in disbelief: “You… Heavenly Master?”
Nan Yuanman nodded, her voice soft: “Mm-hmm.”
Xie Tingting: “!!!”
Who gets it! The little Heavenly Master from the novels, young as she was, actually met her after she died!
Nan Yuanman’s clear, black-and-white eyes stared at Xie Tingting for a moment, then she puzzledly furrowed her little brows: “Sister, do you have any unfinished wishes?”
This sister had an obsession; the Ghost Gate wouldn’t accept her.
Xie Tingting quickly accepted Nan Yuanman’s identity and pointed at herself upon hearing this: “Me?”
She scratched her head: “I don’t have any obsessions.”
She hadn’t been favored by her parents in life; because of their words “you’re the older sister, take good care of your younger sister,” she had lived laboriously for eighteen years.
Now that she was dead, her parents could no longer control her or force her. She was free; from now on, the sky was high and she could fly wherever— what obsession could she have?
Nan Yuanman and Xie Tingting stared wide-eyed at each other. Xie Tingting hesitated and said: “How about… you try to send me off?”
Nan Yuanman furrowed her little brows, her chubby little hands chanting incantations: “I’ll try.”
She recited a reincarnation incantation in her babyish voice.
Nothing happened at the scene.
Not to mention the Ghost Gate; within ten li around, there wasn’t a single other ghost besides Xie Tingting.
Xie Tingting was dumbfounded: “I… really do have an obsession.”
Nan Yuanman nodded, her chubby little baby fat jiggling up and down with the motion: “Definitely.”
“Hey! Aren’t you the kid who reported it earlier?” A loud, vigorous voice suddenly came from behind Nan Yuanman. Then she felt her neck tighten as someone picked her up by the collar from behind.
Nan Yuanman, like a startled little animal, widened her round eyes and looked at the newcomer—a young man in a police uniform.
He exclaimed in surprise: “How are you here? Didn’t Captain Xu put you in the police car earlier?”
Nan Yuanman shrank her little neck and waved her chubby little paws at the young police officer, showing a cute smile: “Hello, police uncle! Yuanman doesn’t know how she got here either. Maybe the car forgot Yuanman.”
Captain Xu, who was arranging for people to seal off the scene, turned his head upon hearing this and locked eyes with that soft little brat.
Nan Yuanman: 0v0
Xu Jingyuan: “…”
He rubbed his forehead: “Take her back.”
He just knew he hated kids the most!
One moment of carelessness and they run off.
The young police officer acknowledged and carefully held Nan Yuanman in his arms, turning to leave with her.
Captain Xu stayed to continue directing order and dispersing the curious onlookers who had gathered.
Xie Tingting hurriedly followed: “Hey hey hey! Wait for me!”
But at that moment, the Xie family members arrived at the scene, notified by the restaurant boss about Xie Tingting’s incident.
A middle-aged woman in a floral shirt wailed and lunged forward: “Tingting! My poor daughter! How could you be so silly! How could you be so despairing as to jump off the building!”
Xie Tingting’s floating motion stopped abruptly, her pupils dilating sharply.
The middle-aged woman didn’t dare lift the white cloth to look at Xie Tingting. After howling a couple times, she charged aggressively at the restaurant boss standing stoically to the side: “Was it you! Did you bully my daughter! Making her so despairing she jumped to her death!”
