Chapter 66: Flyers (2/2)

Bai Yan immediately raised his head to look at the mascot. In real life, the mascot’s shadow was always under his foot, its depth and size were very appropriate.

Bai Yan then lowered his head to take another look at the photo again. The people who walked past the mascot all had shadows inside the picture, only the mascot… its shadow seemed to be missing.

On a hot day such as this, seeing this photo made Bai Yan feel a bit prickly.

The mascot stood not too far away from the door and was near them.

It was the first time he had been with a ghost for so long without knowing.

Fortunately, this ghost was merely handing out flyers and didn’t have any other movements, not even pouncing on him to tear him alive.

The ghost impersonating a mascot was still going about its business by handing out flyers.

Afraid that this ghost would target him, Bai Yan swiftly moved his finger and deleted the poorly taken photo, to not let it find out the fact that he stole a photo of it.

After deleting the photo, Bai Yan moved away from its line of sight, as if nothing happened. He casually looked at the sky, then the ground, and then the trees lining the path, not putting his gaze at the mascot giving out flyers at all.

However, his heart also started to waver. This cautious yet diligent ghost was outright standing by the mall’s entrance to distribute flyers, could it be connected to this level?

The mascot ghost’s work was to hand out flyers. Bai Yan thought of Cai Yu, and how her skirt’s pockets were too shallow to carry this sort of flyer. But as for Cai Yu’s mom… She most likely also had a bag. It was too bad that at that time, he was too preoccupied in passively watching the endearing scene. Other than telling Cai Yu to climb into the freezer and nothing else, he didn’t examine the items on the body of Cai Yu’s dead mom.

Perhaps, Cai Yu’s mother had with her this particular flyer.

Brooding up until this point, Bai Yan was a bit glad that this mascot acted gently and seemed to take it easy about its work.

Fortunately, this ghost that loved handing out flyers didn’t force one upon anyone to receive it. Even if people didn’t get one, it still won’t get angry.

Otherwise, if the ghost was determined to force it onto the passersby. He was afraid that no human would be able to manage a ghost.

As he turned his head, he saw that Chu Fu was still single-handedly massaging her tummy as well as feeble-mindedly staring at the mascot while her mouth mumbled off how this person was so stupid.

Bai Yan fixed his gaze on her for a full minute and nevertheless, decided to inform her about this matter in case she was bored out of her mind and rushed up to the ghost, remarking how to hand them out.

Although this ghost’s temperament was good, if a random person pointed out the faults in its working style, what would happen when it got angry?

Bai Yan could imagine it. If this girl certainly couldn’t run away from it, then she would bring this ghost to his direction!

So, Bai Yan opened his phone and typed down some words, holding it up to Chu Fu’s front and hinting for her to come to look at her phone.

After she finished reading the message, she immediately looked at the mascot with alarm and fear in her eyes while recoiling back by a few steps.

“I-I-It… How did you find out?”

Remembering how she wanted to educate the mascot on how to properly distribute flyers, a sense of fear lingered in Chu Fu’s mind.

With Bai Yan’s hint, Chu Fu also moved away from its line of sight, not daring to even look at the flyer-distributing ghost.

Still feeling uneasy from head to toe, they stood at the entrance until it was 11. The second NPC had finally arrived.

Chu Fu knew that the mall had ghosts, but she was already itching to go in.

And, as he saw the red text above the NPC’s head, Bai Yan approached him to have a little chat.

The new NPC’s name was Hu Chen. His brows were locked up tightly while his back slouched in an unsightly manner, giving him a haggard look, and his face was also filled with worry.

He saw the nearing Bai Yan and promptly said, “You two are the detectives that will help me, right? My girlfriend is counting on you!”

“Oh right, this is a photo of my girlfriend. Please take a look. She mysteriously disappeared yesterday afternoon! I already reported it to the police, but she’s a living person. Even in this mall where people come and go, there’s no way she would just go missing like this!”

The moment Hu Chen opened his mouth, a loud and sticky string of words came with it, and after his opening statements, Bai Yan calmly said, “Sir, please slow down. How did your girlfriend disappear? Could you give me a detailed account of what happened?”

“Fine, let me start from the beginning!” Hu Chen sighed deeply, and then he anxiously stated, “Yesterday afternoon, I was with Yuan Yuan in the mall to do some shopping. After buying some clothes, I carried the shopping bags and went down the escalator with her. When we reached the floor, Yuan Yuan’s shoes became a little crooked, so she crouched down to fix them and let me carry my things down first. I rode the escalator and Yuan Yuan was behind me, but who knew that when I got off and turned my head to look over, Yuan Yuan was nowhere to be seen!”

“I was looking for her all over the mall all night, but I still didn’t find Yuan Yuan. I kept this on for a short while, but there’s no way she’d just run off by herself! I contemplated on it even more when I got back. Right now, there were a lot of human traffickers targeting women. Could it be that Yuan Yuan was abducted by these people? But, there are a lot of people in the mall. With loads of people going around, if someone had made a move on Yuan Yuan, there’s no way there won’t be any struggle!”

“You’ve already searched here last night. Why did you come back here again today?” Bai Yan suddenly asked.

“This may be a premonition.” Hu Chen spoke as if he was holding something back, “Actually, last night, I dreamt of Yuan Yuan. She said that she was trapped in the mall and that she’s in an extremely narrow and crowded place. She’s suffering terribly and was asking me to quickly come and save her.”