Chapter 019 Visiting Neighbors
Shen Sangning, who was held by Lin Xi, looked back at Lin Xi pitifully, which probably meant: she was not allowed to eat just now, and she is not allowed to eat now.
Lin Xi then coaxed Shen Sang Ning: "Be good, eating this kind of thing will upset your stomach." Shen Sang Ning was quite obedient. When Lin Xi said she didn't want to eat it, she really didn't rush over. The wretched old man wanted to run away, obviously realizing that the ghost next to Lin Xi was not easy to deal with.
But could Lin Xi let him escape? She took a deep breath, bent down to put down the garbage bag, and picked up the ball from the ground. Lin Xi moved quickly, and the ball suddenly hit the head of the wretched old man - or male ghost.
The old male ghost cried out in pain. The ball was really elastic and bounced back towards Lin Xi. But there was something wrong with its strength. Lin Xi wanted to catch it, but when he saw the strength of its rebound, he knew that if he caught it, half of his hand would be crippled.
Lin Xi dodged to the side, but Shen Sang Ning stretched out her hand and caught the ball. In Lin Xi's opinion, the ball that would have crippled half of her hand was obedient in Shen Sang Ning's hand, just like an ordinary small ball.
Lin Xi gave a thumbs-up, praising Chen Sangning for her impressive performance. Chen Sangning gave a shy smile. Her smile was faint, but a hint of embarrassment could still be seen in her features. Back then, when they had just ended their online romance and met at the university gate, Lin Xi had praised Chen Sangning for her beauty, and she had given him the same shy smile.
It's just that they have been dating for too long, and it's rare to see such a shy Chen Sang Ning. Seeing this smile, Lin Xi was dazed for a moment, and she couldn't help thinking: Even if she turned into a ghost, Chen Sang Ning is still Chen Sang Ning.
When Lin Xi was in a trance, the old male ghost's scream of pain brought Lin Xi back to her senses. She pulled Shen Sang Ning and taught her: "There are many bad people in this world... and bad ghosts. If you encounter a guy like this who has bad intentions but will upset your stomach if you eat him, just like I did just now, hit him hard!"
Shen Sangning heard it and nodded, squeezing the ball in her hand, eager to try. The old male ghost on the third floor also heard it, and his voice suddenly became distant, clearly trying to escape. Shen Sangning picked up the ball, assumed the same stance as Lin Xi just now, and threw it out.
She threw the ball so fast and with such force that it penetrated the door to the secret channel on the third floor, creating a huge hole in it, and then smashed into the old male ghost who was trying to escape behind the door. A loud scream erupted from inside, making Lin Xi's ears hurt a little, but after a moment, the sound died down.
Lin Xi paused, and after making sure there was nothing unusual, she took Shen Sang Ning downstairs. When she passed the third floor, she closed the door that had been opened a little. She still remembered that the corridor rules required closing the door at will, and she did it.
There was a big hole in the gate, and she really couldn't do anything about it.
Anyway, the corridor rules don't say that the corridor door cannot be damaged. Even though the door was broken, the broken wood debris all went to the corridor on the third floor. There was nothing in the stairwell, so it can't be considered that they were littering or piling up miscellaneous items.
After passing the third floor and reaching the second floor halfway up the stairs, Lin Xi saw another female ghost lying on top, crawling up from the second floor. The female ghost was wearing a blood-red dress, with blood dripping from her body, staining the rest of the stairs red.
Shen Sangning tilted her head, her eyes filled with longing. But she still looked back at Lin Xi. This time, Lin Xi understood what she meant: Can I eat this time?
Lin Xi nodded, and even took the initiative to let go of Chen Sang Ning's hand: "Wife, go and eat." After Lin Xi finished speaking, Chen Sang Ning took a few steps forward.
She was wearing slippers, and it was a bit awkward to wear them outside and then put them back on later, but Lin Xi couldn't bear to see her walking outside barefoot, so she had no choice but to wear slippers like this.
Perhaps because she wasn't used to wearing slippers, her walking posture was a little strange and slow. It was fine before when Lin Xi was holding her hand, but when she wasn't, her gait looked strange. The crawling female ghost also noticed something was amiss and realized she should run away, but she was pinned to the spot by an invisible force in the air.
The ghost girl struggled for a while but couldn't get free. When she looked up again, she found Shen Sangning, who was wearing soft slippers and a white dress, squatting in front of her. Her long black hair cascaded down, and her black and even somewhat chaotic eyes stared at the ghost girl blankly.
The female ghost forgot her movements at this moment, and when she came to her senses, she had been pressed into a black ball by Shen Sang Ning. When Shen Sang Ning picked up the black ball from the ground, Lin Xi felt that this black ball seemed to be slightly smaller than the one he had seen before.
Shen Sangning opened her mouth and swallowed the black ball in one breath.
Lin Xi walked down from the second floor and a half, looking downstairs, the blood-covered stairs had returned to their original state, Lin Xi took Shen Sang Ning's hand: "Are you still hungry?"
Shen Sangning nodded: "Hungry."
When Shen Sang Ning was alive, she didn't eat much. Even when she exercised with Lin Xi, she ate a little less than Lin Xi.
I didn't expect that after becoming a ghost, I could keep eating. Lin Xi thought for a moment and replied to Shen Sang Ning: "There should be another ghost on the first floor, go eat it."
"Um!"
Hand in hand, they soon reached the first floor. Sure enough, a woman stood in front of the staircase door, her back to the door. Lin Xi could only see her long, dark hair and bare feet. Judging by her appearance, she looked like a ghost of the same type as Shen Sangning.
But Shen Sang Ning was still stronger, because Lin Xi had said before that she could eat it, so Shen Sang Ning had almost no scruples, and rushed down to make it into a black ball and swallowed it. Lin Xi asked again: "Are you still hungry?"
"Hungry."
Lin Xi was a little troubled. Shen Sangning's appetite was no longer just ordinary, it was simply a bottomless pit.
I wonder… can the garbage collector fill Shen Sang Ning's stomach? Now that we're out, it would be a bit too much not to let Shen Sang Ning eat a little. Lin Xi carried the garbage bag and walked out of the corridor door. It was cloudy outside. It was clearly around nine o'clock in the morning, but there was no sun in the sky. The whole sky was light gray, and the clouds covered the entire sky, only a little bit of sunlight could be seen.
There was no wind, and the trees that served as greenery in the community did not move at all.
There were three large trash cans on the road to the west of the building. Lin Xi approached and saw that they still needed to be sorted, but the signs were incomprehensible. The two signs were identical, and the trash cans were also identical in shape. There was also a smaller trash can with a strange sign that looked like a goat's horn.
Hmm…it could also be a croissant.
Lin Xi didn't know how to sort the garbage, but when she saw her mother going out yesterday, she only carried a garbage bag and didn't sort the garbage in advance. She could only take a gamble and guess that their family probably didn't have any garbage that needed to be sorted separately, such as the croissant.
Lin Xi raised her hand and threw the trash directly into the large trash can. She waited a while, hoping to see if there were any neighbors passing by or garbage collectors, so that she could at least fill her wife's stomach. But the neighborhood was quiet, and no one came. After waiting for a while, Lin Xi decided that she couldn't just sit there and wait for death, so she turned around and looked at her own building.
She stood in front of the building and looked up to count.
"One, two, three, four... fifteen, sixteen, seventeen." There are seventeen floors in total. Because this is a large apartment with five rooms in each house, there are only two families on each floor. In other words, there are thirty-four households in total. Excluding my house, there are thirty-three households in total.
As Lin Xi looked upward, she saw a few faint figures, which meant that there were definitely people living in this building. Lin Xi wasn't sure if they were real people or ghosts. What if she ran into a streamer like herself, or a human who had been inexplicably captured?
But she was also sure that there was definitely a lot of weirdness in it.
These weird things... should be able to feed my wife, right? Even if they don't, there's still Unit 1. Lin Xi's house is 403, and the one next door is 404, which means their house should be Unit 2. Then there must be Unit 1 where 401 and 402 are.
In addition, there are several buildings in this community, and with so many households, it will definitely not be a problem to find some ghosts to feed Shen Sang Ning.
With an idea in mind, Lin Xi was no longer so panicked. She stood outside the building and looked at the two small courtyards on the first floor. She didn't know if there was anyone inside, but judging by the layout, it seemed that someone was living there.
Lin Xi stood at the door and shouted: "103, is anyone home?"
No one answered at 103, so Lin Xi turned to 104 and called out, but the same situation occurred.
But don't worry, someone will answer the door. Lin Xi took Shen Sangning by the hand and went to take the elevator again. She pressed 2 and waited for the elevator door to open. When they came out, Shen Sangning was already chewing on two black balls in her hands. There was indeed a ghost in the elevator, and it became Shen Sangning's rations without exception.
She stopped between 203 and 204 and rang the doorbell one by one.
Lin Xi took Chen Sangning to spend the entire morning visiting the entire building and "cordially" comforting their neighbors. Some neighbors were not at home, so they could only regretfully say that they would come next time, while some neighbors were "hospitable" and opened the door to invite them to their homes.
Some neighbors were clearly at home but didn't respond. Lin Xi couldn't break in, so she could only say at the door: "We are a young couple living in 403. If you encounter any trouble, you can come and discuss it with us." Lin Xi learned her lesson. Next time when she went to the building in front to play with the neighbors, she would not let Chen Sang Ning come out, and would just go and knock on the door herself.
It was noon and Lin Xi should go home to cook, but she didn't give up and knocked on the door of room 404.
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