By the time Cheng Tian returned to the dorm, it was almost midnight.
Cheng Tian carefully controlled the sound of his footsteps to avoid waking anyone who was asleep. But when he cautiously opened the door, he discovered that they were not asleep at all.
The other two in the dorm sat on their beds and turned to look at him in unison. Cheng Tian had not expected them to still be awake at this hour. Yu Fei was even holding a small desk lamp.
"Fellow Daoist Cheng Tian, where did you go?" Yu Fei asked. "It's been so long since lights-out, and you're only just getting back. We thought you'd gotten lost."
"Yeah, yeah." Yu Fei nodded. "And Bai Yun, where did he go? Anyway, what happened to your face?"
At that, Cheng Tian reached up to touch his face. A stab of pain made him suck in a breath, and his fingers were already stained with blood. This was a wound left by the doorframe exploding earlier.
"It's a long story." Cheng Tian quickly recounted everything he had encountered that evening, leaving both of them astonished. They had never imagined that Ghost-type Pokémon on Training Island would actually band together to scare people.
"They probably weren't scaring people on purpose," Shen Gun said calmly. "Ghost-type Pokémon have two food sources: absorbing life energy and absorbing fear. These Pokémon weren't doing evil by absorbing life energy, so they could still be considered kindhearted."
"Speaking of food, Cheng Tian, are you hungry?" As he spoke, Yu Fei pulled a bag of milk and a packet of beef jerky out from under his pillow. "I've got some food here. Want something to tide you over?"
Cheng Tian was actually still very hungry. Something he had eaten that evening had upset his