147: Hooded figure

Hooded figure

" A spirit with conscience," muttered Fang Yanli with a shiver, then she turned to Song Yan and angrily complained, " Why do you always attract weird souls? Is one Zhou Yuan not enough for you?"1

Fang Yanli had an inherent dislike of flirty men because of her father and thus when Gu Yjin caught Zhou Yuan's spirit with the help of Song Yan, Fang Yanli immediately took an instant dislike to Zhou Yuan who could go without eating Yang energy a day but cannot go without flirting with the female spirits in the space ring.

" I did not attract Zhou Yuan if we are logically speaking, it was Mistress Gu who caught him," said Song Yan as she rolled her eyes and looked at Fang Yanli who was complaining to her like a bullied child. " And I did not attract that thing either, she came to me on her own."

" Is that your way of saying that you are just too attractive?" snorted Fang Yanli.

" We are here," Song Yan ignored Fang Yanli's comment and came to a stop at what looked like a festival fair, except this fair was exclusively only for those who walked on the line that separated the mortal realm from the spiritual one. 

Fang Yanli who has never seen anything like this before felt her jaw drop as she looked left and right, front and back —— before raising her hands and rubbing her eyes. Then indignant as a child whose candy was snatched looked at Song Yan and shouted, " Why is it that you know about this spot but I don't? How is that possible?"

" Have you forgotten that Miss Gu used to take me on weekend trips?" asked Song Yan as she stepped inside the fair. " This was where she used to take me."

As another betrayal was added to her top ten betrayals list of hers, Fang Yanli hissed like an angry cat, " I thought that you two were going out for work!"

She sounded very much like an angry girlfriend who found out that her boyfriend was having another affair.

" That was what Miss Gu told you because she knew that you will insist to tag along with us," then she paused and added, " Do you really think that Miss Gu was someone who would spend her weekend working?"

Remembering how much of a free soul that woman was, Fang Yanli gritted her teeth and tugged at her hair as she whispered yell, " Gu Yijinnnnn! I will kill you!"

No, wait. Her master hasn't even been born in this timeline yet.

But that didn't ease the anger she had in her heart after finding out that she was betrayed by these two whom she trusted so much.

Seeing that Fang Yanli's pout was big enough to hang a bucket from it, Song Yan shook her head and lightly coaxed, " Aren't you happy though? I brought you here and left Zhou Yuan alone at the house?"

That did seem to cheer Fang Yanli up, as she returned to her cheery self before slyly adding, " You are not going to bring him here either until the ring selects its new master. Leave that pervert for his new master, got it?"

Song Yan knew that if she didn't agree with her, Fang Yanli will sulk even more so she, nodded and agreed. " I won't bring him here alright?"

Slightly mollified, Fang Yanli hovered up in the air and started to look around. She did that for a while before she finally remembered what she wanted to ask and hurriedly said, " That thing…why was it still rotting? Isn't it dead already?"

" About that …" Song Yan narrowed her eyes as she tilted her head brushing past another fellow spirit master who nodded at her in greeting, he was carrying a sprouted mandrake whose entire body was covered with a bubble wrap. Song Yan nodded back at him and then turned her attention to Fang Yanli. " I am not sure but I believe it's because her corpse is still not buried and is rotting somewhere, in a place where its decay is slowed down to an inhumanly slow speed."

  Fang Yanli gagged, though she was also dead, she didn't like the idea of seeing a corpse that was still decaying. " That spirit was so old already, it looked like it has been dead for more than twenty years and is still decaying, yuck."

Song Yan chuckled, " You didn't pay attention to her at all did you?"

" I was too busy hiding myself lest she gobbled me up," answered Fang Yanli with a sullen voice. " I am afraid I didn't get a chance to check her out, my bad."

" I didn't say that," said Song Yan while looking around the fair, not wanting to miss on that one stall that she was looking for. " I meant that the dark figure despite being completely shrivelled up wasn't dried as a twig. It smelled of stinking water and moss, most probably her corpse is thrown in a place with water, that's why it is still rotting."

" I——" as Fang Yanli began to speak, she noticed that Song Yan has paused. She followed her line of sight expecting to see more of the dark figure but instead her gaze fell on a hooded figure that was standing in front of a stall that was selling gems and then she watched in surprise as that person purchased two red diamonds at once. " That——"

" You wanted to know what a condemned soul was right?" said Song Yan as she swiftly geared up for a battle. " looks like you are in for a treat, you will get a practical lesson instead of a theoretical one."

And then she chased after the hooded figure, Fang Yanli was stunned as she rushed after Song Yan as they ran after the figure who just bought the red diamonds that Song Yan wanted to buy. 

Three minutes out of the fair and the figure vanished, high on alert, Fang Yanli looked around with Song Yan who already had her scythe in hands when ——

BAM!

The hooded figure melt out of the darkness itself and attacked Song Yan with incredible speed.

" SONG YAN!"

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