I stood where I was and watched Mao Jing take the Female Ghost, Wang Cui, away.
Once she was gone, I could breathe in fresh air again.
My whole body felt much more at ease.
I knew I had gained another mouthful of Fortune Blessing.
As long as I sent off a ghost or killed one, I would feel like this.
But my heart was filled with countless questions.
Why did Mao Jing call the experimental building the "Nine Corpse Tower"?
He had also said that my master had used some method to lure away the Great Fiend?
And Xiao Yu was clearly inside that building, so why couldn't she meet me? What was threatening her?
The school's experimental building was definitely no good place. It surely held some extraordinary secret.
But Xiao Yu must have had her reasons for doing this.
We had been together for over a year. She had never harmed me, and she had even used a Fortune Coin to extend my life.
Now, she must have run into some kind of trouble.
Something that forced her to separate from me for the time being, and made it impossible for her to see me.
That was all I could make sense of...
Now that I had gotten my first glimpse of this bizarre world,
I knew it was not only dangerous, but mysterious as well.
My abilities were limited. Protecting myself was already difficult enough, let alone helping Xiao Yu.
For a moment, I found myself with a new goal.
Other than learning more ways to gain Fortune Blessing, suppressing the Four Misfortune Qi in my body, and staying alive,
I wanted even more to improve my ghost-hunting abilities. I hoped that one day, when Xiao Yu and I met again, I would be able to