Chapter 222 Rain and Cards
Teacher Nie pulled a silver pendant from her bag. It resembled a necklace, a bit like an adjustable bracelet, with a small, coin-sized round tag dangling from the end. As soon as the pendant chain was exposed to the air, N's eyes followed it, fixed on it, like a feline drawn to its prey.
"Bring it here."
N took a step forward. Teacher Nie dodged slightly and looked at him again, mocking him with a hint of bitterness: "Xiao Nan, you're really not a man. This is all you want in life and after death. Is it worth it?"
The swimming pool was eerily quiet. Tu Lanxun huddled under the lifeguard chair, hearing N's oppressive, throaty voice: "It was mine originally, and you took it away. Better not provoke me. I didn't say I'd let it go."
Teacher Nie stared at him and smiled. With a flick of her wrist, she swung the tag chain towards N. She said contemptuously, "Okay, okay, I'll return your parents' belongings to you. They're yours now. I hope your dream comes true and you find them soon. It's a shame, even if you do find them, we'll either be separated by life and death or reunited in the underworld. Now it's your turn to speak."
Her words were like a poisonous dart, but N remained completely calm. His fingers in black leather gloves tightened the silver chain one circle at a time.
He slowly opened his lips, but his cold eyes revealed disgust. "The last news about your sister is within the country. She was in Class 6, Grade 2, Lixian Experimental High School in Tang City. Her name was Song Siyu at the time. I think that was the name that person gave her."
Teacher Nie stared at N with hatred, almost sparking, but the whites of her eyes quickly turned red, tears welling up in her eyes. She gritted her teeth and said, "You really did know, but you just helped them hide it from me... You were only eighteen or nineteen, and you couldn't tell right from wrong. Hahahaha, you little bastard..."
N smiled coldly, shook off the tag chain, lowered his head and hung it around his neck. He looked at her again, his tone surprisingly gentle and pleasant, "The words that Teacher Nie gave me just now, I also give to you now."
He was still not satisfied. "But if you want to find her, I suggest you move faster."
Teacher Nie stood still. Breathing was not essential for ghosts, but her shoulders rose and fell, her hair tangled around her ears, and she wanted to rush over and strangle N. In this competition of cruelty and lung-piercing, N was clearly the winner.
N smiled and added the final blow: "...After all, what I'm talking about happened twelve years ago."
Tu Lanxun intuitively felt that the atmosphere had changed, and the surroundings became even colder. The falling raindrops seemed to be silently urging her, and the shadows hid things around her that she could not see. No, she saw them.
——Two figures suddenly emerged from the shadows of the swimming pool, both men.
These two men, or rather, two ghosts, had pale skin and no injuries on their bodies. Perhaps this was why they were even scarier than the Ripper from the convenience store that night. One of them was tall and strong, like a bodybuilding champion who had been using pesticides for ten years. He was panting heavily, more like a hoofed beast standing on its hind legs than a human.
The other one was of normal human shape, but the terrifying thing was that his wrists were connected to the steel at the base, and his flesh and cylindrical iron sheet were sewn together with black thread, which was disgusting. His left hand was replaced by a pear-shaped hammer head, and his right hand was replaced by several narrow blades shining with cold light.
Teacher Nie's voice became hoarse with hatred, and his figure slowly disappeared. The end of his voice was tinged with a sneer, "Xiao Nan, I met your two friends and came here together. You can treat them yourself."
She disappeared, leaving behind the sneering N, two evil spirits that looked extremely dangerous, and a trembling Tu Lanxun.
The tall and strong ghost and the iron-handed ghost didn't have as many words to say as Teacher Nie. They had only one goal: to kill N. N didn't question this situation at all, and was very used to being hunted and being hunted back.
So the two ghosts appeared behind N without saying a word. The tall and strong ghost grabbed N's arms with his hands like tiger paws, and the iron-hand ghost raised the pear-shaped iron hammer with his wrist and smashed it towards N's solar plexus.
N's figure disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Gao Dazhuang and Tie Shou also disappeared in an instant.
Three figures flashed in the space like playing whack-a-mole. N appeared in the swimming pool one moment and stood upside down on the glass dome the next. Gao Dazhuang and Tie Shou followed closely behind him and attacked him with fatal blows. It was unknown what grudge they had with N.
But it is obvious that they are not from the same group as Teacher Nie.
Although Mr. Nie was dressed in extravagant attire, his every move and gesture resembled a real-world human, and he even looked somewhat familiar. However, the styles of the Tall and Strong Ghost and the Iron Hand Ghost were quite different. They were also humanoid, but with exaggerated, bull-like muscles and unimaginably sutured wrist weapons...
It looks like a game character.
Isn’t N the BOSS ghost that invaded from the game world?
Teacher Nie brought him a pendant from his parents' legacy, and berated him for not being able to find his relatives on Earth, saying he had "learned to not know right from wrong by the age of eighteen or nineteen." Furthermore, the place name N used to retaliate against Teacher Nie, Tangshi Lixian, actually existed in another province, very close to Huangjinzhou.
Why does he seem to have a life experience in this world: suspected to be an orphan, he doesn't know his parents and doesn't know who raised him, he fell into the wrong path at an early age, he is very scheming, and in the end he was killed by gangs like Teacher Nie - he doesn't sound much kinder than Doctor Nightingale.
Do ghosts now have dual identities and work two jobs?
The leaking water in the swimming pool was still dripping, and Tu Lanxun followed N's instructions to "stand still", but her clothes were still wet to the point where they were just not dripping. She couldn't help but tremble, and finally she had to keep her mouth open as if her jaw was dislocated to avoid making any noise.
She was actually still standing there, with no ghosts rushing towards her.
Be it Teacher Nie, Gao Dazhuang or Tie Shou, they all seemed unable to see her, a living person who was with N. It was probably N who concocted the illusion at the bottom of Qingshan Lake.
As long as she didn't move, the ghost wouldn't be able to see Tu Lanxun. She decided to squat like a mushroom, not moving or making any noise. It happened that there was a lot of rain here, which was suitable for mushroom growth.
I wish the mushrooms didn’t feel cold, Tu Lanxun sighed.
N flashed to a corner of the swimming pool, his body was as agile and fierce as a leopard. He was two sizes smaller than the tall and strong man who was over two meters tall, but his ten slender black fingers were terrifyingly powerful in comparison.
His arms, waist, and legs could all be whips, his elbows and knees sharp as drills, his entire body flexible and explosive. N dodged Tieshou's slashing knife, and at the same time, a hammer struck from the side. With no time to dodge, N grabbed Gao Dazhuang's wrist, leveraging his momentum to counter the blow with a punch from Gao Dazhuang.
Amidst the explosion-like sound, N laughed out loud. He was really not afraid of death. If ghosts could die a second time, he didn't seem to be afraid either.
"That's enough. It's raining today, and you can't kill me. Why don't you just beat each other up, get a few injuries, and then leave on your own accord? Anyway, the result will be the same anyway..."
He stood up straight, glanced down at his watch, impatient, and disappeared before the next wave of attacks arrived. "Hey, the mattress I ordered is delivered to your door. I don't have time to play house with you guys."
N suddenly appeared behind the Iron Hand Ghost, lifted his waist in mid-air, and threw him to the ground. The Iron Hand Ghost was spread out on the ground like an egg, and his wrists clanged against the iron objects. He tried to get up, but N kicked him back into a prone position, and the rain poured down on the back of his head like a leaking rain.
N reached out and wet his hand with some rainwater, his face expressionless.
The next second, a tall and strong ghost rushed over from behind, was knocked down by a punch, and rolled twice on the ground, like a bison knocked down by a jaguar.
The two ghosts fell to the ground. N stepped over the spine of the Iron Hand Ghost, walked in front of Gao Dazhuang, and shook his wrist. "I said, it's raining today, you can't kill me."
He walked around to the pillar beside the pool, picked up the bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the three bottles one by one, held them all in his hand and poured them on the two ghosts.
Eleven bottles were poured out in total, soaking Gao Dazhuang and Tieshou. They seemed drunk, their eyes closed, not even moving to get up. They just writhed on the ground for a long time, and then Tieshou blurted out, "Nude, no one will forgive you."
They are indeed not in the same group as Teacher Nie. People in the gaming world call him "N", while Teacher Nie calls him "Little Boy".
His enemies have lined up all the way from other worlds to Earth. How much he is hated? Maybe the unity of all ghosts in the universe depends on him.
N ignored him, her patience seemingly exhausted. She glanced at Tu Lanxun and, knowing the opportunity, ran towards the swimming pool entrance. The moment she moved, the skin on her forehead and behind her ears itched, as if breaking invisible threads. N left the two ghosts behind and followed her, clutching the last bottle of mineral water.
"Why is there only one bottle of water left?" Tu Lanxun asked in a low voice. Speaking of this, he was humble but eager to ask for an explanation. "Also, I kept hearing dripping sounds before. Could it be you who did that?"
Water enhances his abilities and must also restrain the two ghosts. Why not pour them all on him at once to be on the safe side?
N only answered the first question: "Save it for Teacher Nie, if she's still hiding outside."
Fortunately, Teacher Nie had disappeared, so N sneered and continued, "Besides, this isn't water."
Isn't a whole box of unopened mineral water bottles filled with water?
N suddenly grasped a lighter and, twisting the roller, a flame leaped out. It was bright, but Tu Lanxun immediately sensed something was amiss.
The walls were only dyed with warm orange and yellow colors on all sides, and they were empty. Her and N's shadows were not cast on them by the firelight.
The next second, N threw the lighter behind him.
The lighter drew a long arc and landed on the belly of the tall and strong ghost from a distance. It bounced a little and the flames spread when they met "water", turning into a rolling sea of fire.
Gao Dazhuang and Tieshou were like two mountains rising high in the sea of fire. They slowly began to twist, their bodies trembling in the flames.
That's not water, it's oil. The mineral water bottle is filled with transparent oil.
Tu Lanxun didn't know if the ghost needed a fire extinguisher or burn treatment. She calmed herself down and asked, "Won't the swimming pool catch fire as well?"
N: "No, this fire is only for them and will not affect the real world."
The two returned to the car, N went straight to the passenger seat, and the driver switched back to Tu Lanxun.
As they drove off the street, Tu Lanxun said casually, "Why did Teacher Nie call you...ah?"
N closed his eyes, "My original last name was Nan."
Tu Lanxun subconsciously asked: "Which Nan?"
N glared at her: "Go back to Nantian Nan."
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