Using his memory, Xiao Yanbao quickly arrived at the playground and found the spot where the sparrows had fallen. However, there were no sparrow corpses on the ground, only a few feathers, as if telling Xiao Yanbao that what he had seen before was not an illusion, but a real event.
Xiao Yanbao picked up a few feathers and held them to the tip of his nose. Upon sniffing, a faint smell of blood entered his nostrils.
"What exactly is this?"
Xiao Yanbao still couldn't sense the ghost's presence, and even tried using exorcism spells several times, but the black smoke clinging to the ground didn't react at all.
Could I have misread it? Did those sparrows just fall down and then fly away again when I arrived?
But the faint smell of blood at the base of the feathers was real, and for a moment Xiao Yanbao was at a loss as he looked at the black smoke rolling on the ground.
Xiao Yanbao frowned as he walked across the playground, trying out various exorcism spells. A minute or two later, Xiao Yanbao suddenly turned around and saw several sparrows fluttering up from where the sparrow had just fallen.
Upon seeing this, Xiao Yanbao's pupils constricted sharply. She was certain that there were no sparrows there just now, and the color of the sparrows that had just flown away was different from the ones she had seen in the classroom; these sparrows were black.
Xiao Yanbao glanced down at his watch. There were only a little over ten minutes left before school ended. If he couldn't dispel the black smoke before school ended, he would have to find a way to keep people away from the playground.
Fortunately, most people don't come to the playground after school; they leave the school directly. Only the teachers and high school students might come to the playground to wander around.
"Yanbao?"
Just as Xiao Yanbao was at a loss, he heard his third brother Li Muhao's voice coming from outside the playground. Xiao Yanbao looked up and saw Li Muhao standing at the entrance of the playground, holding a very thick calligraphy brush and looking at him.
"Third brother! Don't come any closer."
Xiao Yanbao didn't know if Li Muhao, who had just started cultivating, could withstand the unknown black smoke, so she spoke up to remind him. However, Li Muhao did not listen to Xiao Yanbao and instead stepped forward quickly. Just as Li Muhao's foot stepped into the black smoke...
A surprised voice rang out from the ground not far from Xiao Yanbao.
"Why does this still smell like the Night Wanderer's lineage? Has this kid discovered me?"
For some reason, Xiao Yanbao felt that this guy's voice was strangely familiar. As Li Muhao ran towards her, that voice rang out again.
"I'm outta here. Luckily, he's a new night watchman. It's best if he shows his face less in the future."
As Xiao Yanbao watched the black smoke thin out, she had no way of finding the guy who had just spoken. Just as Li Muhao came to Xiao Yanbao's side, the black smoke disappeared completely.
"Coo, coo, but sparrows do taste really good. I have to wait until no one is around before I come out to eat."
Eating? Sparrow?
Xiao Yanbao is now certain that something is hidden in the school playground, but it may not be a ghost or monster. Could it be corrupted by a curse like the Dream Eater?
"Yanbao, what's wrong?"
While swirling his calligraphy brush in a showy manner, Li Muhao asked Xiao Yanbao a question. It seemed that Li Muhao did not see the black smoke on the ground.
"Third brother, why are you running around with your magic weapon?"
Li Muhao burst into laughter and proudly flicked his calligraphy brush.
"Only you and Lord Yeming can see this magical artifact in the mortal realm, so it's alright. I just saw you running from the teaching building to the playground, and I thought something had happened to you, so I sneaked out to check on you."
As Li Muhao spoke, he glanced around the playground a few times, and finding nothing there, he looked at Xiao Yanbao with a puzzled expression and spoke again:
"Yanbao, what are you doing on the playground? There's nothing here!"
Xiao Yanbao wanted to ask her third brother, Li Muhao, how he could see her when she was hiding, but then she suddenly remembered that the duty of the Night Wanderer was to see through the illusions of the human world and to record all the deeds of ghosts and monsters in the underworld. She figured that her third brother must be able to see through her magic.
"Nothing much, I just saw a few very unusual sparrows flying by, so I wanted to come and take a look."
Sparrows? Li Muhao was very puzzled. Aren't all sparrows the same? What could be so special about them? But before he could ask, the school bell rang loudly.
"School's out! Yanbao, come with your brother, I'll show you a good show later!"
As he spoke, Li Muhao grabbed Xiao Yanbao's arm and ran towards their parking spot, while also making a phone call to Li Mujun.
"Yanbao is coming home with me, so don't wait for her later."
Before Li Mujun could answer, Li Muhao quickly put Xiao Yanbao in his car. Just as Xiao Yanbao was about to ask what was wrong, she saw her second brother, Li Muchen, also running over in a flash.
"They're here! They're here! Let's go!"
After the second brother, Li Muchen, got into the car, he hurriedly closed the door and told the driver to go home quickly.
"Big brother hasn't come yet! Aren't we going to wait for him?"
Li Muchen and Li Muhao simultaneously turned to look at Xiao Yanbao, then, as if coaxing a child, gently spoke:
"My dear Yanbao, listen to your second and third brothers, let's go home first, and we'll show you a good show later!"
Xiao Yanbao suddenly remembered that the two of them had secretly taken pictures of their older brother Li Muxing at noon. Just as she was about to ask him about it, she saw Sister Su Meng riding her bicycle past the car window.
"Sister Su Meng?"
Li Muhao glanced at Xiao Yanbao with some curiosity, then looked out the car window.
"Who are you calling 'sister'? Did anyone just pass by?"
Li Muchen, who was standing next to her, also looked out the window curiously, but he didn't see anyone either. Just as he was about to ask Xiao Yanbao who she had just seen, his phone suddenly rang.
"Is that your older brother?"
Seeing that Li Muchen had hung up the phone, Li Muhao quickly asked with a smile, and then his own phone rang.
"Hello? What did you say? My signal is too bad here, call me back later!"
When Xiao Yanbao saw his second and third older brothers ganging up on his eldest brother, he immediately and secretly used the camera on his smartwatch to record their sly smiles.
Soon the car arrived at the manor courtyard, and Li Muchen and Li Muhao each grabbed one of Xiao Yanbao's arms and ran quickly towards their home.
"Yanbao, if your older brother beats us up later, you have to stop him!"
Xiao Yanbao couldn't understand why her second and third brothers would do this even though they knew they would be beaten up by her eldest brother, Li Muxing. Her eldest brother could have easily taken a taxi home if he couldn't get on the bus; it wouldn't have been much slower.
End of this chapter
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