Chapter 69 - You just Have to Eat

What? Contagious? Ruan Jin frowned as he stared at Ye Ling and w.h.i.n.ed. "You never 'told' me anything, Lingling. Also, you should show yourself to my friends because they'd think I'm a psycho talking to air."

True. Wen Taio and Xu Disung were puzzled. Ruan Jin had a ghost girlfriend? Didn't he hate ghosts?

However, when Ye Ling materialized, they were taken aback. A pretty girl—who looked so alive—was sitting next to Ruan Jin, her arms wrapped around his arm. Li Feng noticed that she seemed to appear whole as long as she was near her object of possession... which was Ruan Jin.

Back at Ting University, he and his cousin Li Yunru had come in touch with the hors.e.m.e.n's investigation about this Weeper. However, as Jiang Hou's murder came shortly after that, Li Feng had forgotten about the deal with her.

To think that the cowardly man had let a ghost girl possess a portion of his body just to be able to materialize.

"Shit, isn't that... that girl?" Xu Disung soon remembered about that girl on the rooftop. That night, they didn't know what happened to her after Ruan Jin rejected her claims to take him with her. Now, she's actually next to him and was known as the ghost girlfriend?

Wait, why didn't Ruan Jin tell them anything about this?

"Jin... why do you...?" Wen Taio was more puzzled. How come things became like this? Was this girl the reason why Ruan Jin seemed to have changed ever since that night? Though he could still be crying like an idiot because of his fears, he had never suffered from any panic attacks anymore.

Was this girl looking out for him?

Then again... didn't this girl want him dead?

"Hey, keep your gazes. I don't like it one bit." Ye Ling chuckled, behaving like a living human. She continued to hold onto Ruan Jin's arm. "Ruan Lang, since I'm correct, I should warn you against getting really close to him these days. Guangru's miasma is very strong, and I won't be able to take it in the long run."

"The hell..." Li Feng looked at his body and feared the aftermath of the transfusion. However, when he took a closer look at his hand, he noticed something very amiss. He grabbed the edge of his collar and pulled it to look inside his patient gown. His face grew white like a sheet of paper.

Li Yunru noticed his expression and looked at what he was looking at by leaning closer and pulling on her neck. Well, there was nothing wrong with his c.h.e.s.t... it's not like the accident had left him with lacerations.

Then, it hit her!

She grabbed Li Feng's patient gown from behind and flipped it up, getting a view of his back and side waist. "Feng'er! Your... your..."

The man was surprised when Li Yunru almost ripped his patient gown off of him. He was still not properly dressed. She shouldn't pull on his only layer of clothing like that. "Ahem, Yunru. I noticed... could you not...?"

He pulled down the hem where Li Yunru was holding. He then eyed her as if speaking to her without words. Her hand loosened the hold and then flattened the gown against him.

Seeing the changes, Li Feng was more likely to feel less comfortable baring his skin. If it was before, he didn't mind. Afterward, he was also deep in thought. He reached out and pulled on the blanket slowly, revealing his legs that were on a cast.

"Weeper, what do you mean by healing my legs? Are you saying my legs can heal faster than normal?" He lifted his gaze at the ghost next to Ruan Jin.

"Aiya, I said so clearly, didn't I? Hehe, let's have a spin around the hospital and see if someone was willing." Ye Ling chuckled as she held onto Ruan Jin's arm tighter. "Logically, I shouldn't be getting near you, but I'm worried that Guangru would ask me why I didn't say anything.

"You won't be able to walk for quite a while, and that would make you sad. Well, that made that Chuan girl sad.

"Based on Guangru's understanding, you're part of Liu Xiaodan's family. Since Guangru is his child, he felt a little obliged to help out. Even if Guangru is like a century-old entity, he didn't seem to be very smart."

Ye Ling pressed her fingers against her lips as she giggled. "You're sad because you're hurt. If he lets you keep some things mixed in Liu Xiaodan's blood pact with Guangru, you will be healed in no time...

"Of course, it's considering that you eat someone."

There was it again. Eat someone! Li Feng glanced at Li Yunru's direction before frowning at the weeper. "Why do I have to eat someone?"

Ye Ling only looked at him for a few seconds before looking at Ruan Jin's clueless face. She then spoke, "Ruan Lang, you have to help me. I can't explain it..."

Brows rose on the three hors.e.m.e.n's faces. She's expecting Ruan Jin to explain? What did this idiot know aside from making films and operating complicated machinery? Ruan Jin himself knew that he couldn't explain something he didn't know. However, something seemed to have flashed across his mind.

He then looked at Li Feng. "That afternoon when Xiaodan got rid of Ren Ditian and everyone else, his severe wounds had healed without traces of a scar. Maybe Guangru had the ability to heal... as long as he leeched life from someone else..."

Li Feng's face turned purple. "I can't hurt anyone just to heal myself!"

"No, no, you don't have to. A soul is a soul, living or dead. You just have to eat." Ye Ling chuckled. That was the part she couldn't explain.

How exactly could Guangru heal those afflicted by his miasma? She didn't know, but since Ruan Jin showed an example, it should be good enough. However, it involved live humans.

"A soul is a soul..." Li Yunru murmured before turning to her cousin, "You're going to eat a ghost?"

The expression on Li Feng's face turned awfully ugly that it was affecting his handsomeness. His face had gone so long that people could mistake that he just bit against the bitterest seed in his bitterest fruit. His eyes then landed on Li Yunru's expectant face. "Dammit, Yunru..."

If anything, that's gross. His stomach would get upset as soon as he spotted a ghost. Did he have to have it more upset after eating a ghost? It sounded disgusting even without thinking about the bile that would shoot out of his mouth.

The look on Xu Disung's and Wen Taio's faces was nothing better. They then turned to the other horseman who was now thinking deeply while having a pretty girl keep his arm against her c.h.e.s.t. They didn't know if Ruan Jin was lucky or not.

"Right. Let's ask around about common ghost stories in the hospital. Maybe there's someone Guangru hasn't eaten yet." Ruan Jin finally lifted his face and spoke like it was normal for him to say so. However, Li Feng glared at him so lividly that it made him shudder with a shriek. "What? I'm just..."

"I'm not eating anything!" Li Feng spat out. He's a shaman; he would exorcise ghosts and send their souls to the afterlife... not to his belly! Even if he was clearly misunderstanding the process of feeding on ghosts, he didn't want to be talked into it.

"Feng'er!"

A voice boomed from outside, and a sharp push opened the door widely and even slammed it against the wall. Mian Bingbing ran to the bed and even kneeled on the bed just to check on her son. Her pencil skirt actually ripped at the side, but she didn't really care at all. "Feng'er, baby, you're awake!"

After making sure he was okay and lively, Mian Bingbing sighed and regained her iciness. "Why didn't you call me when he woke up, Yunru? You should..."

She then felt the weight of other people's eyes on her. She turned to the side and saw the three men and one girl. "Guests? No, you're Liu Xiaodan's friends..."

Her eyes then stared at Ye Ling. "You... you're not from here..."

"Bingbing!" Wu Qianqian appeared next and was holding onto her c.h.e.s.t as she leaned on the doorframe. "Please don't run like that; you even broke your heels and disturbed a lot of patients."

She then turned to the side and smiled at the hors.e.m.e.n who waved and smiled awkwardly at her. "Oh, you're here, too.

"Aiya, I'm sorry about..." Her voice trailed off as she noticed Ye Ling's strange aura. She had seen her with Ruan Jin before, but right now, she didn't seem to be anything close to a normal presence. It didn't feel like she was alive.

"I'll head out and scout. Let me know if you're willing to do it." Ye Ling chuckled before vanishing into thin air. Even Ruan Jin was shocked when she did so. "Lingling, you can't just suddenly fade away!"

Everyone was silent aside from Ruan Jin. They had words to say, but none of them would like to go first. However, Ruan Jin got up from his seat and laughed awkwardly. "Im'ma head out, too."

He left first and woke the other two from the daze. They also excused themselves and went past Wu Qianqian. They also fearfully apologize when they almost bumped into Liu Li and another bunch of people in the hallway.

"What are you willing to do?" Mian Bingbing found it strange as she sat down on the edge of the bed. She even removed her shoes because one of her heels was broken. She didn't even look at Liu Li who walked Wu Qianqian to the other side while three more people came inside the room.

"It's nothing. Just some kind of investigation." Li Feng only shook his head. He then smiled like an ashamed child towards his mother. "Mom, I... I didn't mean to run. I didn't even know why I felt so terrified... even if I still am."

He looked at the man who sat on the couch and felt like he had let his grandfather down.

"Don't think about it so much now." Mian Bingbing only sighed and combed her Feng'er's hair. "Your grandpa's here to assess you. No matter what happens, if they find any complications, it's on... it's on your father and me. I ended up being as useless as your father..."

"Mommy..."

"Don't be like that to yourself, Bingbing." Mian Tianyu was also feeling gloomy. He failed to make sure that the demon he sealed was still there. If only he had kept an eye on it, it wouldn't have gotten to Liu Xiaodan and even caused Li Feng to be like this now.

Everything... seemed to be his fault.