"You saw it too?!" Su Kun asked instinctively. But the next second, he felt it was impossible, because the baby ghost was floating right next to Zhang Fuquan, yet he remained completely unaware. Even when the baby ghost later tried to crash into him, he only turned his head to look at Su Kun in shock, completely ignoring the sinister-looking baby ghost beside him.

Being asked this, Zhang Fuquan, who was originally squatting, gasped and sat on the ground with a thud. He stared at Su Kun for a long time before opening his mouth again to confirm, "You really saw it?"

He swallowed his saliva and gestured with his hands, his whole body shivering slightly from head to fingertips, "Did you see what that... that thing looked like?"

"It looked like an underdeveloped baby. I saw that there was a thin membrane between its fingers, like a frog's—Mr. Zhang, what's wrong with you?" Before Su Kun could finish describing it, he noticed that Zhang Fuquan looked like he was about to faint. He finally realized something was off, "If you didn't see it, how do you know there was such a thing?"

Zhang Fuquan hesitated for a moment and said, "I... I saw that the way you pounced towards the car was very strange, as if someone had hit you from behind. Your waist was caved in, but normally when people pounce, they should arch their back..."

Keep pretending! Keep it up!

Su Kun looked at him and thought to himself: No wonder that little ghost didn't pick anyone else, but crashed into him. Judging from his appearance, there must be a reason!

He could almost be certain that even if Zhang Fuquan had never seen the baby ghost at all, he at least knew of its existence. Otherwise, the more detailed Su Kun's description was, the more terrified his expression became.

Because Su Kun hardly used any horrific adjectives, it would be difficult for a normal person to be so frightened by comparisons like "baby" and "frog".

Just as he was looking at Zhang Fuquan's increasingly suspicious expression, a "buzzing" vibration brought his thoughts back. He looked towards the source of the vibration and only then discovered that the few bags of packaged vegetables had been thrown somewhere unknown, probably dropped when he was controlled by the baby ghost and ran over here.

The bag that had been slung across his body was still there, with the strap still hanging around Su Kun's neck, falling at his waist.

Su Kun fished out his phone from inside, rejoicing that this brand of phone was known for being drop-resistant and shock-resistant, while pressing the answer button.

Geng Zimo's cool voice sounded from the other end, "I'm at the old district. Why is this place made up like a haunted house? You said you'd meet me at the entrance of the alley, may I ask where you are, young master?"

Su Kun turned his head to look at his situation, thought for a long time, and still chose the most concise two words, "Car accident."

Geng Zimo on the other end was obviously confused by his two words full of turtle energy. After a long time, he spoke, "You hit someone? Where did you get a car?"

Su Kun twitched the corner of his mouth, "I was the one who got hit, okay!"

Geng Zimo chuckled and said in a flat tone, "Are you kidding me? Impossible. Have you ever seen someone who got hit by a car and can't come back, yet can still talk on the phone so lively?"

Su Kun: "..."

Five minutes later, Geng Zimo, who finally believed him, took a two-stop bus ride according to the address Su Kun gave, and found his way to the private kitchen.

"When you came from the road over there, did you see the bags I dropped on the ground?" Su Kun asked Geng Zimo without raising his head, while looking at his ankle that had quickly swollen into a bun during this time with a bitter and resentful look.

Geng Zimo snorted, "I seemed to see some bags, but didn't pay attention. Are those yours? What's in them?" He paused, thinking about whether to go back and get those things for Su Kun.

Su Kun raised his face in sorrow, "Packed signature dishes."

"..." Geng Zimo decisively dismissed the idea of going back. He walked over to Su Kun's side and squatted down, pinching Su Kun's right wrist with two fingers, lifting it up to admire for a few seconds, "Tsk tsk, getting more and more capable. Can you tell me how you, who were supposed to be sitting in a car over there, ran over here and pounced on that car's silly head?"

Car owner: "..."

Su Kun withdrew his swollen paw from between his two fingers, hissing a couple of times, "Your pinky is rising up again without you noticing."

Geng Zimo: "..."

"Also, do you think I would pounce on it to seek death on my own?" Su Kun said unhappily.

The car owner angrily said, "If you didn't pounce over on your own, did I invite you over then?!"

Su Kun: "..."

He was helpless for a while, then waved at Geng Zimo, "Help me up, I've been exhibiting on this main road for a long time."

But before Geng Zimo could get up, he saw the car owner explode again, "Don't move!! If you happen to have some internal injuries and moving around carelessly causes any problems, I'll have an even harder time explaining!"

Su Kun: "..."

The sound of an ambulance in the distance finally came over faintly. The car owner glared at him, straightened up, and walked towards the rear of the car to wait for the ambulance to drive over.

Su Kun took the opportunity to point at Zhang Fuquan, who was pale and lost in thought beside him, and described to Geng Zimo very simply, "A baby ghost wanted to push him onto the road and crash into this car, but I pulled him to the side. The baby ghost couldn't brake in time and crashed into me, so I pounced into the middle of the road."

Geng Zimo twitched the corner of his mouth, "Comrade Living Lei Feng*, may I ask how you escaped from under the car wheels?"

*T/N: A soldier who was known for his hard work, humility and devotion to the collective good.

"Speaking of this, I'm also puzzled!" Su Kun raised his head, looked around and saw that Gu Yan hadn't returned yet, so he said, "Our family's little ghost somehow grew bigger and pulled me to the side, narrowly avoiding it, but still scraped off a layer of my skin."

"... Shouldn't the point be, why would that little ghost appear here?" But Geng Zimo still admired Su Kun's ability. In such a short time, that little ghost had gone from shouting and killing whenever it saw him, to how it was now.

Su Kun shrugged, "How would I know."

Geng Zimo: "Congratulations on acquiring a summoned beast."

Su Kun: "..."

Actually, the reason why Gu Yan appeared here was very simple—

As usual, he stayed in that coffin in the bedroom until it was almost dark before coming out, but what he saw was a house full of darkness. Forget about people, there wasn't even half a ghost shadow besides him.

After spending some time with Su Kun, Gu Yan gradually learned about some of his living habits. The most obvious one, which he had mentioned more than once, was to try to get home before dark to avoid encountering things he shouldn't, such as creatures like Gu Yan.

This habit became even more serious after Su Kun encountered that old lady in the alley, without exception. Thinking back, in the past ten days or so, Su Kun would enter his home at the latest when the sun had set but there was still some light. Unlike today, when the lights were on in every household, he should have even finished preparing dinner by now.

Of course, he didn't know that Su Kun, with Geng Zimo accompanying him today, was a little braver and planned to eat out before coming back together with Geng Zimo.

Fortunately, he didn't know. So, after floating around the house a few times, and even accidentally floating into the neighboring home due to a lapse in concentration, startled by the young couple sitting on the sofa French kissing while watching a movie, he decided to go out for a stroll and see where Su Kun was.

The moment he passed through the wall and merged into the night, he felt something in his left chest tremble, giving him a long-lost sense of unease, as if his heart had suddenly sunk. He knew that the jade in his chest should be part of the same piece as the one hanging around Su Kun's neck.

So while he had a slightly uncomfortable premonition, he had already instinctively floated out in a certain direction.

For him, finding Su Kun in this city was a piece of cake. Because the gurgling, faint warm current on Su Kun's body was like a beacon to him, he just had to follow it.

Sensing that Su Kun might be in trouble, Gu Yan went straight to the end point of that warm current, and soon saw Su Kun pouncing towards that private car on the side of a road, and the faceless infant spirit passing through his body.

Gu Yan had never seen such an iron box-like thing made of metal, but he could see that its speed was faster than any carriage he had ever seen. Being hit by a horse would cause serious injury or even death, let alone such a thing. So Gu Yan ignored the infant spirit and rushed straight towards Su Kun.

In that instant, he only felt that the remnant spirits he had absorbed from Su Kun's jade earlier were taking effect. With the fluctuation of emotions, his body became burning hot inside, with a strange sense of expansion instantly intensifying, filling every corner of his body.

He felt that in that extremely short time of approaching Su Kun, his whole body was filled with vigorous strength, from his fingertips to his hair, undergoing some kind of change.

However, he had no time to pay attention to these, because that iron box had already touched Su Kun's body. He instinctively reached out his hand, originally thinking that at that distance, with his shrunken arm length, he would not be able to reach it, and even if he did, it would pass through his body. Who knew that he not only touched Su Kun, but also firmly grasped his wrist.

When he pulled Su Kun over, Gu Yan finally realized in hindsight that he had actually returned to his original adult size. Even when he fell on his back, not only did he not sink into the ground, his spine even felt a dull pain.

Although the pain was still not very obvious, it gave him the illusion of being reborn as a human. And when Su Kun fell on his chest like a dog, he felt his entire chest cavity, along with his long-silent heart inside, tremble.

For a dead person, any feeling that could make him feel the existence of life again was very wonderful.

And the amazing thing was that every time he felt these things, it was because of the person in front of him...

Gu Yan, who had shrunk back to the size of a little ghost and crawled out from behind Su Kun, after scanning for a while, finally found the traces of that infant spirit. As he flashed to chase after it, he thought—

For such a person, he must eliminate all threats and let him live well.