Ghost Type

The bus rolled along steadily. At the same time, the sun was setting, and the golden glow of the sunset reflecting off the skyscrapers was gradually fading.

"Ji Yang Station has arrived. Passengers getting off, please take your belongings and exit through the rear door." The electronic stop announcer suddenly sounded.

At this stop, the number of people on the bus abruptly increased. Not only were all the seats occupied, but five or six people were standing as well.

After the bus had been moving again for three minutes, the Fire Fang Dog suddenly turned its head and barked at the passenger beside it without warning.

Sitting next to Qiao Sang was a female student in the uniform of 37th Pet Beast High School. She had boarded at the same stop as Qiao Sang.

The student glanced at the Fire Fang Dog but said nothing, merely shifting a little farther away.

Qiao Sang turned the Fire Fang Dog toward herself and asked, "What's wrong?"

The Fire Fang Dog looked at the student.

"Fang?"

It tilted its head, seeming confused as well.

"You'll scare people like that, understand?" Qiao Sang said, stroking the Fire Fang Dog's head.

"Fang."

The Fire Fang Dog answered crisply, then looked back out the window to admire the scenery again.

Seeing this, the student smiled kindly at Qiao Sang. "I'm fine."

Qiao Sang glanced at the extra four inches or so that had appeared between them and was just about to say something.

At that moment, the Fire Fang Dog turned around again, bared its sharp teeth at the student, and put on a vicious expression.

The student jumped in fright and instinctively tried to stand.

"Can you put that Fire Fang Dog away? Will you take responsibility if it scares someone?" a man's voice said displeasedly.

The speaker was standing right beside the student.

Qiao Sang looked over. He was a Square-faced Man wearing a gray tank top.

"Exactly. That Fire Fang Dog clearly hasn't been trained properly yet," the Auntie in the neighboring seat added.

"There are so many people on this bus. Hurry up and put it away," another voice chimed in.

Hearing everyone say this, the student also looked at Qiao Sang expectantly, hoping she would put the Fire Fang Dog away.

Qiao Sang frowned and ignored them.

Though she had not been contracted with the Fire Fang Dog for long, she knew what it was like. It was a good kid.

Besides, this was not the Fire Fang Dog's first time riding a bus. Nothing like this had ever happened before.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Sang asked, turning the Fire Fang Dog to face her.

"Fang."

The Fire Fang Dog haughtily turned its head away, choosing not to look at Qiao Sang.

It had heard what the people around them were saying and thought its Beast Master was going to blame it too.

"Fire Fang Dog." Qiao Sang turned its head back, holding it in place with both hands so it had no choice but to look at her.

The Fire Fang Dog's wet eyes were stubborn and aggrieved.

Qiao Sang looked straight into its eyes and said seriously, word by word, "I believe you, and you need to believe me too. If something's wrong, you can tell me. You know I understand what you mean."

Upon hearing its Beast Master's words, the Fire Fang Dog immediately became excited.

"Fang fang fang!"

"Fang, fang."

"Fang fang fang fang, fang!"

As it spoke, the Fire Fang Dog gestured with its little paws.

Qiao Sang confirmed, "You mean something suddenly appeared on her, then suddenly disappeared?"

"Fang!"

The Fire Fang Dog nodded vigorously.

"So it suddenly appeared and scared you, right?" Qiao Sang asked, patting the Fire Fang Dog's head.

"Fang." The Fire Fang Dog buried its head against Qiao Sang and let out an aggrieved cry.

The student sat beside them, watching their interaction in a daze for quite a while.

So this was the Fire Fang Dog's personality...

It was actually pretty cute...

Maybe she could try contracting a Fire Type pet beast for her second contract slot too...

"It's okay, it's okay." After soothing it, Qiao Sang turned to the student. "You heard what it said just now."

The student came back to her senses and asked uncertainly, "You mean something suddenly appeared on me?"

Qiao Sang nodded.

"But..." Before the student could finish, a voice directly interrupted her.

"Why are you listening to her nonsense? She just doesn't want to put away the Fire Fang Dog and is making excuses. I'm warning you, put it away now! If someone gets hurt later, just see how I deal with you!" the Square-faced Man beside the student said viciously.

"Exactly, hurry and put it away. It'll be too late if someone gets hurt," the Auntie beside them agreed.

"Put it away. Nobody feels safe with it out," someone else said.

"She doesn't look like she's lying. Could there be some wild Ghost Type Extraordinary Creature on this bus?" At that moment, a different voice spoke up.

The noisy bus instantly fell silent.

Among Extraordinary Creatures, Ghost Types were the strangest. Any paranormal incident became reasonable once it involved a Ghost Type Extraordinary Creature.

Things vanishing for no reason, a room suddenly losing power and turning cold—those were all minor matters.

Ghost Type Extraordinary Creatures were elusive and temperamental.

Take the Spirit Possession Ghost, for example.

It liked possessing different people. Those it possessed remained conscious, yet could not control their own bodies. They could only watch helplessly as their bodies did all sorts of bizarre things.

Long jumping, dancing, and diving were fine, but encountering a Spirit Possession Ghost that liked streaking was truly a disaster eight lifetimes in the making.

The people who both loved and hated Spirit Possession Ghosts the most were undoubtedly those at the Police Station.

Spirit Possession Ghosts did not only possess living people; they also liked possessing corpses. Two years ago, unidentified bodies would appear out of thin air outside the Police Station in Guang City every few days.

Examinations showed that some had been dead for a day, some for a year, and some for ten years. One of them was even Lu Baiqian, the campus beauty from the missing-person case that had caused a huge uproar three years earlier.

The police checked the surveillance footage and found that a Spirit Possession Ghost had controlled the corpse and brought it to the Police Station entrance.

They had not known at first. Only later, when the Spirit Possession Ghost floated out of the corpse and revealed its own squat body, did they realize it was responsible.

The reason they loved them was that Spirit Possession Ghosts could inexplicably help the police find bodies they had been unable to locate.

The reason they hated them was that they would also possess corpses that had been dead only a day or two and bring them over. Wasn't that simply destroying the primary crime scene of a murder case?

Then there was the Ghost-Sucking Lamp. It would appear beside lost people and guide them in the right direction, but in exchange, it needed to consume a certain amount of their vital essence.

It sounded like a Ghost Type Extraordinary Creature that understood fair trade, but that was not the case.

Not long ago, a woman in Nan Kou City left a bar late at night. After calling a taxi, she waited by the roadside. Perhaps because she was swaying as she walked or because her eyes were unfocused after drinking, the Ghost-Sucking Lamp decided that she was lost...

Before the taxi even arrived, it forcibly escorted her home, then sucked away her vital essence. When the woman woke the next day and looked in the mirror, she thought someone had drained her dry.

The misdeeds of Ghost Type Extraordinary Creatures were simply too numerous to list.

It was one thing to encounter one that merely liked playing pranks, but if they ran into an evil wild Ghost Type Extraordinary Creature, they would not even know how they died.

For a time, everyone on Bus No. 66 feared for their safety.