I started the car and drove toward Liancheng Mountain.
The road leading into the developed part of the city did not run in this direction. Besides, the area was somewhat remote. The road to Liancheng Mountain was difficult to drive, and the place was gloomy and eerie—quite frightening.
I was worried that some filthy thing might appear on the road before I had time to guard against it, so I released the little ghost. After emerging from the Soul Urn, she was very excited. Seeing that no one else was around, she began looking curiously this way and that.
She touched this and that, unable to stay still for even a moment. I was worried her yin aura might cause some part of the car to malfunction. 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 climbed onto my shoulder again like a half-grown child. Although she looked seven or eight years old, she was slender and did not seem heavy. In fact, she had no weight at all.
"What's your name?" Driving was a little boring. I couldn't understand ghost speech, but she could understand what I said. After all the communication we'd had recently, the distance between us had drawn much closer, so I felt I needed to know her name.
Besides, I couldn't shout something like "Pokémon, come out!" at a critical moment the way they did in certain cartoons. That would make people laugh their heads off, and my class would drop straight to the 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 shelf in front of the passenger seat, written in