Chapter 6

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The day was longer today, and the sky was still bright when Aunt Xu closed her stall.

Strangely enough, halfway through, Aunt Xu’s electric tricycle suddenly stopped, and it could no longer be started.

Aunt Xu was puzzled. She had just charged it until it was full in the morning, how could it run out of electricity so quickly? She thought and began to curse, “Ha! These profiteers, the electric batteries they produce are so useless. They are cheating people of their hard-earned money.”

There was no other way. Aunt Xu could only pedal the tricycle and move with difficulty. The sky turned dark very quickly. In a short while, the sky became pitch-black, and it was so dark that the surroundings couldn’t be seen.

Aunt Xu was a little frightened. She remembered that this place was a T-junction, and there was a big old locust tree at the intersection of the road. A small cliff about 10 meters tall was behind the tree. If she remembered correctly, this was the fifth time she had passed by this big locust tree.

After pedaling for such a long time, her calf muscles were trembling. Was she going round in circles? Aunt Xu’s heart skipped a beat. She remembered the myth of what those old people had said. Could it be that she had encountered a ghost blocking her way on purpose according to the legends?

“Bah, I should not scare myself and panic when I encounter something. Let me post it on Moments.”

Thinking of this, Aunt Xu took out her phone from her pocket. To her horror, she found that her phone did not have a signal here!

“How could this be?” Aunt Xu thought. She was only a roasted sweet potatoes seller. How did she catch the attention of the ghosts? Could it be that they also wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes?

Aunt Xu took out two leftover sweet potatoes from the oven trembling and threw them into the dark fog. The night was very dark, soon the sweet potatoes disappeared without a trace.

She couldn’t care less anymore. She had thrown out two sweet potatoes, and she could only brace herself and move on!

The black fog seemed to have solidified. Aunt Xu stepped on the pedals exerting all of her body weight on the tricycle, but it actually stopped moving!

Cold sweat dripped down her back. Aunt Xu was really flustered this time. She pulled on the handbrake and pressed her back tightly against the oven to protect one side of her body from all directions!

However, just protecting her back did not give her enough sense of security. Aunt Xu felt that there were black eyes everywhere in the darkness, and danger was constantly approaching. Just as she was in a daze, a golden light suddenly slashed open a hole in the black fog.

Aunt Xu heard a shrill scream, and a blinding light rushed into the darkness.

Aunt Xu couldn’t see the golden light appearance clearly due to the sudden brightness. She could only vaguely make out that it was a huge bird. When it spread out its wings, the wings were probably as big as her heatable brick bed! The end of its feathers was also dotted with a red light. It looked so stunning.

It was a golden-winged garuda!

Aunt Xu rubbed her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, the black fog had dispersed, and the golden-winged garuda had disappeared without a trace. The sky was still very bright. She was right beside the big locust tree on the edge of the cliff. And half of the front wheel of her tricycle was hanging off the cliff!

Thinking of the scene in which she pedaled hard on the pedals, Aunt Xu could not help but break out in a cold sweat!

She carefully pulled the tricycle back. When she pulled the handlebars, she saw the yellow talisman paper bird that Xiao Bai had given her. When she closed the stall just now, the paper bird was still brand new. At this moment, the paper bird’s body was damaged, and the cinnabar color on the yellow talisman had also faded quite a bit!

The tricycle was fine. There was no sign of a power abnormality, and the cell phone in her pocket had restored full signal. Recalling the golden-winged garuda that she had vaguely seen in the black fog just now, Aunt Xu could not help but think that Xiao Bai might have some special means?

She hurriedly checked the address that Xiao Bai had given her and thought that she had to keep it away carefully when she went back!