Chapter 25: Aren't You Afraid of Me?

  As I was thinking, I heard Dabao running over and saying: "Fengdie, you really are my good brother!" Dabao said to me with a happy face.

  I forced a smile and didn't answer. But he noticed something was wrong, looked at me with concern and asked: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"

  I raised my head and looked into his eyes, although I really didn't want to break the silence, but still steeled myself and said: "I... just saw your parents..." I was a little afraid that after saying this, he would suddenly turn into a bloody figure and pounce on me, but he was stunned, stopped smiling, and asked somewhat despondently: "You know everything?"

  "En." I nodded, but in my heart, I didn't know what to feel. He didn't deny it, he didn't say anything to deny it, did that mean he was admitting that all of this was true?

  He looked at me and hesitated for a moment before asking: "Aren't you afraid of me?"

  "Do you think I should be afraid of you?" I retorted.

  "This isn't like you." Da Bao looked at me, his eyes filled with puzzlement, and slowly said: "In the past, you didn't believe in ghosts." He paused for a moment, then asked me: "Why don't you seem too surprised to see me now?"

  "Maybe I've seen something like that before." The peeled monster in the tomb didn't become a ghost after being beheaded by a lemon, did it? Although I didn't see it at the time, I was still tripped up by it several times. Compared to those evil spirits, Da Bao is simply too kind and lovable.

  Perhaps I didn't expect my reaction to be like this, and Da Bao also fell silent. I stood there not knowing how to comfort him until a passerby looked at me as if I was crazy, then I forced a smile and said to Da Bao: "Let's go to my place first."

  Dabao nodded, and we walked to my home in silence. I didn't turn on the lights, but simply wiped two stools with a cloth and sat down with him. Just as I was thinking about why I could see ghosts after coming out of the grave, Dabao suddenly asked: "Don't you want to know what happened to me?"

  Although I was curious, I calmly raised my head and looked at him saying: "I'm waiting for you to tell me."

  I suddenly find it hilarious, everything that's happening is like a dream. It's as if I, someone who never believed in ghosts, am calmly face-to-face with one right now, and yet I'm so calm and matter-of-fact about it - heaven really knows how to play tricks on people.

  Maybe Dad already knew the true nature of this world, that's why he asked me that question. And now I can finally feel some of it, indeed, the world we see is not what it seems to be...

  "Less than two months after you moved away, I heard people talking inside your house. I thought you guys had come back, but... " Da Bao seemed to fall into deep thought and said: "They were rummaging through your house, it seemed like they found something, and they were extremely happy. At the time, I immediately called the police, but as soon as I hung up, they discovered me. I told them I didn't see anything, but they didn't believe me, no matter what I said, they still didn't believe me, and they even wanted to kill me to silence me. At that time, they had knives and guns, but I didn't have any tools, I was very scared, so I just kept running and running, running for a long time before realizing that everyone seemed to be unable to see me, including my parents, who couldn't see my existence at all. It wasn't until much later that I realized I had already died..."

  "Sorry." Besides sorry, I really don't know what else to say...

  "You don't have to apologize to me, I've come to terms with it over the past year or so. Maybe it was just my fate all along. I've resented heaven and earth, and even more so, I've resented you. But what's done is done, no matter what I do now, nothing can change that."

  Dabao smiled self-deprecatingly: "Actually, I was very happy to see you, really happy. You don't know how long it's been since I've talked to anyone. I'm just a transparent person, doing nothing every day, except occasionally scaring the class teacher and others, and occasionally running into girls' rooms..." Dabao suddenly realized what he had said and coughed awkwardly, asking me in confusion: "They can't see me, why can you?"

  I scratched my head and said in a similarly puzzled tone: "I don't know either."

  "You don't know how to help me either?" Da Bao said dejectedly.

  I was just about to nod when I suddenly thought of someone, and with a surge of excitement, I grabbed Da Bao's shoulders and exclaimed: "I might know someone who can help you!"

  "Really?" Da Bao looked at me hopefully.

  I nodded and told Da Bao about my previous encounter with Qing Ning, especially the part about her. Da Bao listened attentively and finally asked, "From what you've said, he must be really capable, so how can we find him?"

  I thought for a moment, then said: "Actually, finding Qing Ning isn't that difficult. He's just like everyone else, searching for 'immortality', so I believe as long as we find the correct records of the tomb related to immortality, it's very likely we'll meet him again!"

  "What's the likelihood of that?" asked Da Bao.

  "It's huge." I looked at him and smiled, "Whether it's news about my dad or Qing Daoshi, it's all good for us because their destinations are the same. Besides, I can ask Pei Zi and them about it."

  "Great." Dabao nodded excitedly and then asked me: "When are we leaving?"

  I helplessly shrugged and smiled: "You also know the main purpose of my return, so when to leave depends on your performance!"

  "You're really something, you bully me when I'm alive and now that I'm dead, you still want me to help you with things. Whether I'm dead or alive, I'll be taken advantage of by you!" Da Bao pretended to be angry and puffed out his cheeks, so I quickly comforted him a few times before he glared at me and said: "Those people found something like a notebook from your house, it had all sorts of messy lines and symbols on it. It was too far away, I didn't get a good look at the time, but I think I heard them mention 'Ghost Domain', that's all I know."

  "Do you have X-ray eyes? Can you see if there's a secret room or tunnel in my house?" I asked hopefully.

  "Look at you." Da Bao looked at me with disdain and said, "No, nothing, I've been here many times before, and I haven't found anything strange."

  Although I knew the result might be like this, but hearing Da Bao say it out loud, I still felt a bit disappointed, so I asked: "Are there any restrictions on your travel?"

  "Yeah, it seems like I can't go too far away, but if you buy me a house and I stay inside without coming out, maybe nothing will happen." Da Bao said with a smile.

  I chatted with him for a while, until I was so sleepy that I fell asleep on my own. When I woke up, Da Bao was gone, and I knew it wasn't a dream, so I started preparing something. This thing can't be too big or too small, as long as it can hold Da Bao. But before that, I have to take a bath!

  After everything was ready, the mobile phone message arrived. I took a look and it turned out that Pei Zi and others had transferred the money over. Unexpectedly, they had allocated 100,000 yuan to me. No wonder the antique business is so lucrative. I smiled and prepared to call Pei Zi to ask if he knew where Qing Ning was going next, but at this time the phone rang.

  This is an unknown call display. I answered with some doubt and asked: "Hello, I'm Feng Zi, who are you?"

  There was a moment of silence on the other end, then a flat voice came through: "It's me. I'm at Tile-Roof Mountain."