??????? started the car, and I drove toward Liancheng Mountain.
The developed part of the city wasn't in this direction. Besides, the road was somewhat desolate, and the path up Liancheng Mountain was difficult to drive. It was gloomy and frightening.
I was worried that I might encounter filthy things on the road and fail to defend myself in time, so I released the little vengeful ghost. After emerging from the Soul Urn, she was very excited. Seeing that no one else was around, she began looking curiously in every direction.
She touched this and that, unable to sit still for even a moment. I worried that her yin energy might cause some part of the car to stop working. If that happened, we might even plunge into the river, so I stopped her from darting around.
She was a little unhappy, but soon she crawled onto my shoulder again like a child halfway grown. Although she looked about seven or eight years old, she was very slender and didn't seem heavy. In fact, she had no weight at all.
"What should I call you?" Driving was a little boring. I couldn't understand ghost speech, but she could understand what I said. After communicating for so long recently, the distance between us had narrowed considerably, so I felt I needed to know her name.
Besides, I couldn't shout something like "Pokémon, come out!" at a critical moment, as they did in certain cartoons. That would make everyone laugh their heads off, and my dignity would hit rock bottom.
She looked left and right, then fixed her gaze on the bottled water beside me. A moment later, the words "Xijun" appeared on the storage rack in front of the passenger seat, written in mineral water.
"Your name is Xijun? It's an