I'm Getting Out to Stretch My Legs!

"Shuhang, you're here." Tubo sat on the bed, rubbing his red eyes—he was so unwilling. He used to be the best drinker in the dormitory, and he could drink Song Shuhang, Gao Moumou, and Yangde under the table one by one.

But at some point, Song Shuhang's alcohol tolerance suddenly skyrocketed, becoming an enormous capacity. From then on, he never saw Song Shuhang pass out drunk. Every time, he was completely drunk, but Song Shuhang still maintained a "I'm the only one sober while everyone else is drunk" attitude.

Song Shuhang, carrying three breakfast items, smiled and said, "Yeah, let's get up early and avoid the peak hours while most students are still sleeping in."

Yangde took the breakfast and replied, "I won't go home yet; I have some things to do here."

He mentioned before that the software he co-developed with others had been successful, and there would be a launch event during the summer. He would need to stay in Jiangnan University Town for a while.

"I'm going to travel to a few places with Mei Yi during summer vacation. We'll head straight to the airport in a bit, and I won't be squeezing onto the subway with you guys." Gao Moumou yawned.

Lately, Zhuge Zhongyang has been following him around like a shadow, leaving him and Mei Yi with absolutely no private time. Now that summer vacation has started, he and Mei Yi secretly booked plane tickets, preparing to fly far away and escape that damned Zhuge Zhongyang.

"Yangde, since you're staying in Jiangnan University Town, why don't you come with me and Shuhang to visit my maternal grandfather? It'll only be a day or two, we can go pick some bayberries or something," Tubo to Yangde.

When visiting my maternal grandfather's house, it's best to bring as many friends as possible. That way, if I accidentally offend him, he might let it slide because his classmates are there. Otherwise, if I only bring Shuhang, my grandfather might slap him in front of Shuhang!

Yangde thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Alright."

"Then Shuhang, Yangde, and I will go to my maternal grandfather's place for a visit. Gao Moumou, you can go and keep your sister company." Tubo laughed and jumped off the bed.

Immediately afterwards, he let out a scream, tears streaming down his face. He quickly lifted the soles of his feet and blew on them frantically.

Song Shuhang asked in confusion, "What happened?"

"When did I get injured on the sole of my foot?" Tubo looked at the sole of his foot, where there was a fresh burn scar.

"Oh, I remember that scar." Gao Moumou pushed up his glasses and said, "Last night, Tubo suddenly got out of bed, climbed barefoot to the table by the window, and lit a cigarette. I thought he had woken up, but he seemed still drunk. After finishing the cigarette, he threw the butt on the ground, and then... I saw him habitually lift his foot to stomp on the cigarette butt. Suddenly, he let out a scream, which startled me. After screaming for a while, he climbed back into bed and went back to sleep. I thought his injury wasn't serious."

"Gao Moumou, you heartless bastard, couldn't you even check my injuries?" Tubo felt like crying.

"Heh." Gao Moumou pushed up his glasses. "Do you think I'd go out in the middle of the night to look at a man's soles? I don't have that kind of hobby!"

Yangde nodded and said earnestly, "Tubo, smoking is harmful to your health. Do you understand now?"

"I understand, my ass!" Tubo said, tears streaming down his face. He was unlucky in life, having made a bunch of terrible friends.

"That means we won't be able to take the subway to your grandfather's house anymore. There are three of us, so why don't we take a taxi from Tubo grandfather's house?" Yangde said.

"That's the only way," Tubo said with a wry smile. "But hiring a taxi is really expensive; it takes five hours to go there."

"It's okay, no need to take a taxi. I borrowed a car from a friend, we'll drive there ourselves." Song Shuhang waved his hand with a smile.

"Friend? Oh, is that the friend who recently came to Jiangnan District to visit you?" Tubo's eyes lit up.

Ten minutes later, the three of them finished tidying up.

Shuhang and Yangde helped Tubo get out of the car, hopping and skipping, and headed towards the parking lot.

"Have a safe trip~" Gao Moumou stood at the dormitory door, smiling and waving to the three of them.

The three of them arrived at the hatchback. Song Shuhang unlocked the car, helped Tubo into the car first, and then put the three of their luggage in the back seat.

As he boarded the bus, Tubo gave Song Shuhang a strange look.

Then, Yangde and Tubo sat together in the back row.

Song Shuhang turned on the car's navigation, set the destination to Luoxin District in J City, stepped on the gas, and set off.

As they drove out of the school gate, Tubo leaned close to Yangde's ear and whispered, "Yangde, is Shuhang's friend a girl?"

"?" Yangde looked puzzled.

"The car he borrowed is called 'XY Yuecat Ladies' Car,' a car specially designed for women by a domestic car company. No man would buy this car. In other words, the reason Song Shuhang has been staying out all night these past few days is because he's been spending time with girls," Tubo chuckled.

Yangde suddenly understood and nodded!

Song Shuhang, who was driving in front, was sweating profusely at the Lushan Waterfall... Although Tubo spoke softly, Song Shuhang's hearing was now so sharp that he could clearly hear every word Tubo said.

This is truly an injustice!

His knowledge of cars was limited to a few well-known brands; who knew that the domestic car he randomly picked would be some kind of "women's car"?

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Jiangnan University Town is about a five-hour drive from Tubo's maternal grandfather's house. Fortunately, the weather was nice today, cloudy turning overcast, without the sun, so it wasn't too hot. Otherwise, after five hours, the sun alone would have dried the three people in the car into dried-out husks.

Originally, Song Shuhang had planned to take turns driving with Tubo, but now that Tubo had injured his foot, Song Shuhang was driving alone.

In the back row Tubo and Yangde had prepared a lot of snacks, and the two chatted and laughed.

Time passed little by little... We took a break once along the way.

More than four and a half hours later, the car finally approached the Luoxin District in J City.

Tubo and Yangde were both starting to doze off.

At this moment, Song Shuhang suddenly braked and pulled the car over to the side of the road.

Tubo rubbed his eyes and asked, "Have we arrived yet?"

But when he turned around, he found that he and his companions were still on a road at the foot of a mountain. This was a road leading to the Luoxin District, which was still more than ten minutes away from Luoxin District.

Haven't arrived yet?

He looked at Song Shuhang with a puzzled expression.

"Yeah, we'll be there soon. You guys keep sleeping, I'm just tired from driving and need to get out and stretch my legs." Song Shuhang turned around and grinned at Tubo.

"That's right, you've been driving for four or five hours straight. Sorry, my foot is injured, otherwise we could have taken turns driving and it wouldn't have been so tiring." Tubo chuckled.

"It's nothing." Song Shuhang shook his arms and twisted his neck.

His gaze fell on a spot about twenty meters ahead of the road.

There, a phantom-like, hazy figure stood in the middle of the road, exuding a sinister, ghostly aura.

It was a burly man dressed in ancient soldier's armor, with a terrifying mask on his face and long, silver-white hair. Thick chains were tied to each of his hands, and at the other end of the chains were two bloodstained cleavers.

Around the man, shards of glass from the vehicle and some plastic parts from the car could still be vaguely seen. These were traces left after the accident and had not yet been cleaned up.

"Is it a ghost?" Song Shuhang murmured.

Because it's cloudy and there's no sun, why would ghosts dare to appear directly on the road even during the day?

As it pondered, the burly monster's gaze swept over Song Shuhang. But it paid no attention to Song Shuhang, turning its attention back to the car parked by the roadside. Its mission seemed to be to cause car accidents on this stretch of road.

It was just a low-level Ghost Soldier. Song Shuhang determined its level by sensing its aura. However, he couldn't rule out the possibility that this Vengeful Ghost was concealing its aura.

Song Shuhang walked straight ahead and came to the Ghost Soldier. The Ghost Soldier was two meters tall, and Song Shuhang was about a head shorter than it.

The Ghost Soldier glanced down at Song Shuhang again, but still made no move.

Low-ranking Ghost Soldier have little intelligence. Once tamed, they only know how to mechanically execute the orders left by their masters and rarely act autonomously.

Vajra Foundation Fist, Part One!

Song Shuhang unleashed a powerful punch with his right fist, channeling the Blood Qi and blood from his Heart Aperture and Eye Aperture into his right fist, delivering a Vengeful Ghost blow to the ghost's chin.

"Whoosh~" The burly Ghost Soldier was blasted into the air, then fell heavily to the ground, letting out a shrill ghostly wail.

The slash was merely a low-level Ghost Soldier, its strength only equivalent to First-Grade cultivator who had just opened their Heart Aperture!

Song Shuhang walked forward step by step, seemingly not fast, but actually moving at a speed like a sprinter—the "Gentleman Travels Ten Thousand Miles" movement technique!

In the blink of an eye, he had already reached the burly Ghost Soldier.

Before the Ghost Soldier could even get up, Song Shuhang swung his fist again, unleashing a barrage of punches towards its head. Each punch landed squarely, while his knee struck the Ghost Soldier's chest, preventing it from rising.

Three breaths later... Song Shuhang smashed the Ghost Soldier's head, and his body turned into a cloud of black smoke.

At this moment, the Spirit Ghost in Song Shuhang's chest Heart Aperture emerged on its own. It revealed half of its body, grabbed the wisp of smoke with one hand, and swallowed it. Then it smacked its lips in satisfaction.

"Huh?" Song Shuhang looked at the Spirit Ghost in confusion. Could it replenish its energy by devouring other ghosts?

He hasn't yet achieved 'synchronization' with the Spirit Ghost, and their 'communication' is still intermittent. Therefore, he cannot know Spirit Ghost is thinking at this moment.

However, now that we know that Spirit Ghost can devour ghosts to recover, this trip to the 'Luoxin District' will surely give it a good meal.

Withdrawing his fist, Song Shuhang slowly exhaled a breath of air.

Sure enough, something's happened in Luoxin District, J City. Ghosts are brazenly causing car accidents on the highway. Is it the work of the 'Altar Master's subordinates'? Or are they wandering ghosts, or perhaps rogue cultivators from the Ghost Gate?

Regardless of their faction, I believe they will soon notice that I have killed this burly Ghost Soldier.

At that time, some of the former subordinates of the 'Altar Master' will definitely come to secretly investigate. Then I can follow the clues and find out who the other party is!

Inside the vehicle, Tubo watched in bewilderment as Song Shuhang threw uppercuts into the air, then took a few steps forward and frantically swung his fists at the ground, as if he were beating someone up, as if he were possessed.

"It's only a five-hour drive, has it really caused this much stress?" Tubo wiped his forehead. Was Shuhang planning to punch him?

At this moment, Song Shuhang hummed a song as he returned to the car. "Alright, let's go!"

Tubo offered a fawning smile, "Shuhang, you've worked hard. I'll call Grandpa and tell him we're almost there."

The car restarted and headed towards the Luoxin District village.

Tubo called his grandfather, "Hey, Grandpa. Shuhang, another classmate Yangde, and I are going home in about ten minutes."

"Did you come by taxi?" Tubo's grandfather's voice came, but his tone lacked the vigor he had two days ago, sounding somewhat weak.

"We drove here ourselves," Tubo replied.

"Then you should be careful when you drive, especially on that mountain road before you enter the village. There have been three traffic accidents there in the last few days," Grandpa Tubo said.

"Don't worry, we've already passed through there," Tubo laughed, glancing at Song Shuhang.

What a coincidence! Song Shuhang stopped at that point on the mountain road and spent quite a while moving around there.

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Ten minutes later, Song Shuhang's car stopped in the yard of Tubo's maternal grandfather's house.

Tubo's maternal grandfather was already waiting for the guests at the door.

After the car door opened, Tubo got out first and gave his grandfather a big hug. Then, Yangde got out of the car, rubbing his eyes; Song Shuhang also got out of the car after parking it.

"Grandpa, let me introduce you. This is my roommate Li Yangde, and this is Song Shuhang, you've met him before," Tubo said with a smile.

"Welcome, welcome!" Tubo's maternal grandfather warmly welcomed Song Shuhang and Li Yangde.

But after Song Shuhang parked the car and locked the doors, Grandpa Tubo glanced at the car again—a sense of disappointment welled up inside him. Where was that mysterious girl?

The reason he immediately thought of Tubo's classmate after all the strange things happened in the village was because he suddenly remembered the mysterious girl who had come with Song Shuhang.

But having finally welcomed Song Shuhang, the girl was nowhere to be seen, so it was inevitable that he felt a little disappointed. Of course, Grandpa Tubo quickly put this disappointment aside.

He himself invited Tubo and his classmates to visit, so he couldn't be impolite.

Song Shuhang gave Tubo's maternal grandfather a warm hug as well. "Grandpa, we've come to visit again!"

Tubo's maternal grandfather laughed heartily; he was very fond of Song Shuhang, this polite junior.

As they embraced, Song Shuhang secretly frowned.

There was a trace of 'ghostly aura' on Tubo's grandfather, which was left over from his recent contact with ghosts.

Looking at the weakness in Tubo's grandfather, it's possible that some of his Blood Qi was drained by a ghost.

After releasing his grandfather Tubo, Song Shuhang looked around... Although he couldn't see, he could sense the eerie ghostly aura around him through his spiritual power.

Traces of ghostly activity lingered in the sky above the entire Luoxin District. These traces would normally vanish when the sun came out. However, today was a cloudy day, and a slight ghostly aura remained...