Chapter 43: Covert ghosts, Suspicion (1/2)

TL: flarewk

1st of April, Saturday.

Because of the series of holidays due to Qing Ming, there's still school as per normal today.

The things that occurred just now had too great of an impact to me already, which made me wide awake before I had even washed my face.

After having a hard time getting Xin Ran out of the washroom, I very tiredly gave off a sigh, and casually locked up the door as well.

Looks like from now on, no matter if it's rinsing or using the toilet, I'll have to lock the doors already...........Mm, I'll lock the bedroom door and the windows too, just in case.

Just when I wanted to wash my face, I once again discovered a few things that sent chills down my spine.

My toothbrush had disappeared, my towel is wet, plus inside my cup there's water collected into it, as if that there's already someone who used my toiletries before me...........don't tell me that I really had something ominous possessing onto me already?

Xin Ran said that she didn't climb onto my bed last night, and she definitely wasn't lying.

It should be said that us siblings were people that wouldn't lie at all, as we usually speak rather crassly. Hence, about Xin Ran lying towards me, her gege, it was even more of an impossibility already.

However, last night I definitely was hugging onto someone............something and slept, and that absolutely wasn't a dream at all!

That puddle of liquid on the bedding was the best proof already!

I definitely must have been possessed by a ghost, or stuff like spirits, those ominous kinds of things.

What exorcises a ghost again? Salt, garlic, a cross etc? Err, no wait, those are things that were used to face off against a vampire...........how do we deal against a normal spirit?

The eastern and western methods of dealing with ghosts seem to have a bit of difference between them, there's chicken blood talisman papers, and there's even devices using 'science' to exorcise ghosts, but I don't know too whether those messed up methods would really work or not, and dared not anyhow try it as well. As for asking people to help...........rather than hiring those daoists or exorcists that weren't reliable at all, I'd rather directly find a person that I trust.

Pouring away the unknown liquid in my cup; even the toothbrush was being washed together quite a few times later, while I brushed my teeth, I kept thinking of a few ways to deal with the situation.

(TL: Jun Cheng probably found/ replaced his missing toothbrush)

I suddenly had a bright idea, and thought of a person whom I recently didn't see at all.

Wasn't Li Li also a succubus, she should know on how to deal with those unscientific existences.

Those unscientific existences should be handed over to those unscientific existence to be dealt with, and I believe that Teacher would definitely be willing to help me out.

If she doesn't help, I'll directly issue a command then..........heh heh heh...........

Eeh, no, no, why did my thoughts suddenly become so malicious already?

I, who's an upright person, how could I be using such a threatening method?

Tch, looks like I really am being possessed by a ghost, as even my thoughts had also became malicious already. It's bad this way, it's bad...........

Shaking my head and spitting out the water in my mouth afterwards, I walked out of the washroom, changed my clothes and went downstairs.

Even though the time right now was just 6 am in the morning, the living room actually already had four people gathered within.

Other than Xin Ran whom I had brushed her away just now, there's still Ke Ling, Xue Li-xiaojie, plus a man...........

Just when I wanted to walk over, Ke Ling noticed onto me and walked over to my side first, unveiling a sunny radiant smiling face as she pounced over on me.

”Good moorning~ gege! Did you have a good sleep last night?”

Hugging onto Ke Ling who had pounced over and circling a round to steady myself, I placed Ke Ling down and said.

”Oh, Ke Ling, you're up rather early today.”

”Yes, it's all thanks to Xue Li~”

Xue Li-xiaojie too walked over as she bowed her head in a sign of respectful greeting and afterwards asked.

”Jun Cheng-shàoye, good morning*, may I ask what do you want to have this morning?”

(TL: There isn't any such vocab in EN to describe a very polite form of g'morning in chinese, 贵安 (gui an), so just note that she's always speaking very politely, when in maid form)

”Anything will do............Mm, I'll have sandwiches then.”

Xue Li-xiaojie elegantly smiled, and once again slightly bowed respectfully towards me before going on to prepare breakfast for me.

As expected, when she was wearing her maid outfit, the feeling that she gave was completely different from yesterday.

But today, the maid outfit that Xue Li-xiaojie was wearing seemed to have its skirt's length slightly shorter?

The skirt previously would always reach to below her knees, but today, her maid outfit could only barely cover half of her kneecaps.

The feeling it gave was that she was comparatively more vitally energetic than usual.

Suddenly changing a skirt, was it because of the weather recently becoming better? But only just changing such a short length of the skirt also seemed to be a little strange too...........

With my arms being hugged by Ke Ling, I walked towards the dining table and sat by Xin Ran's side. The man who was sitting opposite of me..........my Laobà raised his head to look at me.

A man who looked to be roughly 40 years old, his hair had already almost entirely turned white, and on his forehead reflected out experiences of various life turbulence displayed a few frowns. His expression looked to be still rather fatigued, but his two eyes sparkled with life instead. Although he was sitting down, his back was raised up straightly.

I remembered that when I was young, at this time he would always be reading the newspapers. His figure that was being covered by newspapers had some sort of mysterious sternish feel to it.

Recently, he was instead using a smartphone to read about the current times and news, and after the sternness had disappeared I then suddenly understood, that this was my dad...........

[Ultra Persisting Knife]

[An Yong Kang]

Wah, I recently hadn't seen Laobà, hence I didn't know about Laobà's title, and right now after I've seen it...........should I say that it's as expected? It's the same as Laomā, having a career-oriented type of title, plus it's similarly chuuni too.

Fufu, from this point alone, they were really a match for each other, eyy.

”Yo, Laobà, morning.”

When Xue Li-xiaojie said that she obtained Laobà's permission yesterday morning, it looked to be that it wasn't just a perfunctory excuse, and it looks like Laobà's workload had finally ended, as he's able to return home to rest already.

”Oh, Jun Cheng, good morning.”

”You actually had the time to return, it's really such a rarity, eyy..........where's Laomā? Have she returned already?”

”She's still sleeping, as she returned at around 3 plus early in the morning yesterday. I'm finally able to have a short break, but she still needs to continue being busy for a while, having no idea too when it'll be finished...........recently, those people getting injured had become lesser, but instead, corpses became more already.”

After hearing Laobà saying those words, I unresistingly frowned my eyebrows. Corpses became more already? I wanted to ask about it ever since last weekend, what exactly happened?

Just when I wanted to ask, Ke Ling enquired in my stead, as she used a slightly unnerved tone as she asked.

”Uuu...........what's exactly going on? Daddy.”

”Have you all seen the news recently? It already caused a chaotic uproar, and the secretary of the provincial committee even personally issued out a warrant too. As long as a slight amount of useful information is provided, there will be reward given.”

As Laobà spoke, he handed over the smartphone to me, with Ke Ling and Xin Ran both gathering their heads over to read the news together.

The hottest sensational news title was 'Corpse splitting homicidal maniac that exceeded Jack the Ripper?! The 7th victim appears, the craziness still continues!', and the content was speaking about the recently occurring murders.

It mentioned about a homicidal maniac who specializes in murdering people at midnight, and 7 victims had already fallen prey, with every victim's death appearance being horrifyingly gruesome, as their corpse had been sliced up into many different pieces.

Seeing onto this piece of article, I suddenly thought about Lian Bing...........don't tell me...........no, it can't be. She did tell me before that she hadn't killed anyone yet, and I don't think that it was a lie. Plus, Lian Bing's also a perfectionist, in order to be certain onto the complete preservation of my corpse, she didn't even use any sort of weapons when she went to hunt me that time, but only strangled onto my neck. Also, such acts of corpse splitting also doesn't suit her way of aesthetics.

Finding numerous reasons within my heart to prove onto Lian Bing's innocence, I myself also don't even know why I must be like this onto helping to absolve her. Despite the fact that she wanted to kill me, even almost murdering me as well, that which was an undeniable truth, I still couldn't hate her at all...........

And thus, the haze within my heart wasn't dispersed still............what if it's really her who did it...........can I even go peach on her then?

I glanced up to look towards Xue Li-xiaojie, she also turned around to look at me in coincidence, and after she noticed onto my eye expression, she gently shook her head and placed her hand onto her chest and unveiled a warm soothing smile towards me.

That's telling me; this matter have nothing to do with Ji Lian Bing, rest assured.

Phew..........although I understood within myself that this matter shouldn't be involved with Lian Bing in any way, but after attaining Xue Li-xiaojie's confirmation, I still heaved a huge sigh of relief within my heart.

”Gege?”

Ke Ling heard my voice, as she confusedly tilted her head and looked at me.

”Ah, I'm fine. But Laobà, it can't be that Laomā's recent overtime was due to her sewing up these corpses that had already turned to meat pieces?”

I originally thought that the dead people had increased already, but now it looks like it wasn't that simple at all...........

”Mm, she's the best seamstress in the entire city. Not only does the deceased's family wish for her to restore back the body, the police also hoped to borrow her assistance onto confirming the identity of the deceased.”