However, after he had taken only two steps, the ghost floating in the snow seemed to sense something and looked back. The next instant, she retreated slightly, and the wind around her suddenly intensified.
Jiang Xia froze. This reaction... why did it look like she was about to run?
She had been floating around in this icy wilderness all this time—didn't she want to come into a spirit medium's warm embrace and live the good life?
Still, some ghosts were born knowing how to find a meal ticket, while others were wary, introverted, and liked to hide. Jiang Xia respected every ghost's personality, so he sent out Spider Lady, Mist Tengu, and Mermaid to help the ghost before them make her choice.
Eight rounded, chibi spider legs sprang out from Spider Lady's back. Holding down the bamboo hat on her head, she raced across the snow, while Mist Tengu and Mermaid swooped down after her.
However, unlike what they had imagined, this unfamiliar Ghost Fetus did not flee on the wind.
—Facing the three ghosts rushing toward her, the cold-faced New Ghost Fetus drew a deep breath. Then she suddenly leaped up and, like a fox hunting rats in the snow, plunged headfirst into the snowdrift.
In the blink of an eye, her figure burrowed into the snow and vanished, leaving only the fierce cold wind whirling in place.
Mist Tengu was blown into two somersaults by the oncoming wind. He grabbed Mermaid's tail to steady himself, then clutched his head amid a flurry of slaps and stared blankly in the direction where the New Ghost had disappeared.
No matter how he looked at her, she had seemed like an ethereal Ghost Fetus who, like him, should have preferred floating through the air... so why had she suddenly tunneled underground