Ning Xiang tried sending messages to Senior Brother and the others, but nothing went through. She had no choice but to ask Yu Tingchao, "Where are we?"
"I don't know either. I've never heard of a place like this in the Eastern Sea." Yu Tingchao pondered intently for a while longer. "Could this be the Thirteenth Island?"
"Hmm?"
"I heard my father mention it a few times when I was little. Four hundred years ago, the Eastern Sea had thirteen islands. Besides the present Twelve Islands, there was another called Ghost-Crying Island."
"Oh, that rings a bell. I remember you were only two then. Uncle Yu scared you by saying that if you kept misbehaving, he'd throw you onto Ghost-Crying Island to feed the wild ghosts. Then you bawled your eyes out. Are there really ghosts on Ghost-Crying Island?"
Yu Tingchao denied it. "I wasn't a one-year-old baby anymore. How could I have cried? The legend of Ghost-Crying Island must be fake. It's all adults tricking..."
"Tingchao, why did you stop talking?"
Ning Xiang had been studying the strange beasts on the wall. When her junior brother's voice abruptly cut off, she asked curiously.
Then she heard Yu Tingchao say, feigning composure, "Senior Sister, there's no such thing as ghosts in this world, right?"
"Of course not."
"But what's behind me, then?"
Ning Xiang turned to look at him, only to see what stood behind Yu Tingchao...
"Ah!!! Tingchao, there's a headless ghost behind you!!! Don't turn around! If you do, he'll bite your neck clean through!!!" Ning Xiang screamed.
"Then hurry and run, Senior Sister! I'll hold him off!" Yu Tingchao hastily summoned the Thunderclap Pearl. He was just about to hurl it behind him when someone effortlessly caught his hand.
"Boy, your senior sister is just messing with