There is definitely something tailing me!
Jiang Nan’s lips curved into a wicked grin as he strolled into an abandoned furniture mall.
He plopped himself down onto a sofa.
From his alternate dimension he pulled out a barbecue grill, skilfully lit the charcoal, and got the fire going.
Chicken wings, big drumsticks, sausages, marshmallows, the lot, all lined up nicely!
“Sizzle~”
The drumstick on the charcoal dripped oil, the fragrance drifting everywhere!
“Slurp~ I haven’t eaten all day! Starving, absolutely starving!”
Jiang Nan glanced around but spotted nothing unusual.
He stretched lazily, then flopped back onto the sofa.
“Mmm~ No idea how long this will take to cook. Might as well nap for a bit!”
With that he closed his eyes and his breathing quickly evened out.
Jiang Nan: (´˃̶⌂◔`)
Lying on his side, Jiang Nan started tactically peeping through a spatial wormhole.
The legendary one-eye-open, one-eye-closed trick!
He instantly switched to God’s perspective.
Three minutes passed, still no movement!
Jiang Nan was starting to get impatient. Could he really have been imagining it?
At that moment the drumstick on the grill began giving off a burnt smell and white smoke started rising!
Right then!
The drumstick flipped over by itself!
Then the sausage, the marshmallows, and the chicken wings all turned over too!
Jiang Nan: ???
Bloody hell? You’re that considerate?
This has to be a person!
Jiang Nan refused to believe a spirit beast would know to flip kebabs!
What’s going on? Invisibility?
One of my Teletubby invisibility cloak customers?
While Jiang Nan was still wondering,
A pearlescent glow shimmered into existence where the follower had been, and the thing that had been tailing him gradually revealed itself!
Heart, nerves, blood vessels, arteries, bones, organs, every structure appeared one by one!
Finally it formed the shape of a smooth, glossy girl!
Her whole body was semi-transparent, radiating a faint pearlescent light!
Two small crystal horns grew from her forehead!
At this moment the semi-transparent girl crouched on the floor, her big eyes focused entirely on the drumstick!
She sneaked a glance upwards at Jiang Nan, as if checking whether he was really asleep!
Then she picked up the chilli powder jar and sprinkled a little onto the drumstick!
Jiang Nan: (๑ŏ﹏ŏ|||)
Oi oi oi!
This definitely isn’t human!
I’ve never heard of humans growing horns!
Semi-transparent? How is she semi-transparent?
This… this can’t be a ghost, right?
And this ghost loves chilli powder!
Jiang Nan’s heart was racing!
What on earth had he lured out?
The semi-transparent girl apparently felt it wasn’t spicy enough, so she lifted the chilli jar again and shook it!
Once! Twice!
Jiang Nan: !!!
You’re a ghost, eating that much chilli isn’t good for you!
Still not spicy enough?
Don’t tell me she’s about to do the same to me in a minute?
The abandoned city was already eerie and terrifying, and now with a semi-transparent girl added to the mix, even Bold Jiang felt his insides quiver!
Third shake!
The lid flew off the chilli powder jar!
Half a jar of chilli powder poured straight onto the drumstick and the charcoal!
The semi-transparent girl froze!
Jiang Nan: …
The next instant, thick white smoke billowed from the grill, carrying a nose-searing spiciness!
The semi-transparent girl was smoked until tears streamed down her face, frantically fanning her nose!
She looked at Jiang Nan in panic!
[Resentment value from ??? +745!]
Jiang Nan exploded!
Even the system couldn’t identify her name?
This absolutely isn’t human!
Right now Jiang Nan lay stiffly on the sofa!
Tears pouring from the smoke!
(*꒦ິ△꒦ີ)
In this situation, should I wake up or not?
If I wake up, it’ll be super awkward, won’t it?
If I don’t wake up?
Charcoal-grilled chilli powder?
It could resurrect the dead, it’s choking me to death!
Do you have to be this unprofessional at sneaking food?
Seeing Jiang Nan still hadn’t moved, the semi-transparent girl let out a sigh of relief!
She glanced at the now pitch-black drumstick…
(•̥́﹏•̀ू)
Clearly inedible!
So she grabbed the nearby sausage and chicken wings, ate them all, and looked blissfully happy!
Then she took the marshmallow skewer and walked right up to Jiang Nan!
Her little face leaned in close!
“Sniff~ sniff~”
Jiang Nan: !!!
As expected!
Since this ghost can’t eat the drumstick, she’s going to eat me instead!
I can’t keep pretending to be asleep!
Otherwise she’ll be sprinkling chilli powder on me next!
A ghost I lured out myself! No matter what, I’ve got to deal with it!
Jiang Nan sprang up from the sofa with a carp-like flip!
“Ha! I saw straight away that you’re not human!”
“Great Might Heavenly Dragon! Earth-Store Bodhisattva!”
“Prajna Buddhas! Great Luo Mantra!”
“I want my mummy!”
“Snap!”
A finger snap! A void black hole appeared!
Terror filled the big eyes of the semi-transparent girl. She hurriedly stuffed the marshmallow into her mouth!
Pearlescent light flared around her body as she rapidly shifted from semi-transparent to fully invisible!
She turned and fled. Jiang Nan was stunned!
Because the suction from the void black hole had no effect on her whatsoever!
“You ate my skewers! And you think you can run?”
“Spirit technique: Spatial Barrier!”
In an instant, space solidified!
Forming a 10m×10m transparent spatial wall!
“BOOM!”
A massive crash, cold air burst outwards!
[Resentment value from ??? +1000!]
The girl was knocked visible for a split second before vanishing again!
Jiang Nan swept his hand!
Six spatial barriers instantly formed!
Creating a 10-metre cube of space, like a bounded field!
The walls were all made of transparent spatial barriers!
“BOOM!”
Another heavy thud. The girl slammed hard into a spatial barrier!
Cracks even appeared on the barrier, white frost spreading across it!
But the cracks quickly repaired themselves!
Jiang Nan planted hands on hips, beaming with pride!
“Haha! Impressive, right?”
This was the diamond-rank spatial spirit technique he had newly acquired!
Spatial Barrier!
Within a 1000-metre range he could instantly deploy six 10m×10m transparent walls made purely of condensed space!
Defensive strength was astonishing. The six walls could be combined freely, even forming a cage!
Right now he had perfectly used the spatial barriers to trap the semi-transparent girl inside!
Jiang Nan grinned, rubbing his hands together, “Sell her, sell her! Sell her for cash!”
At this moment the semi-transparent girl timidly glanced at Jiang Nan and bit her lower lip!
She vanished completely from Jiang Nan’s sight!
“Hehe! You’ve only got this much space, where do you think you’re running to?”
With a snap of his fingers, the barriers on both sides began slowly pushing inwards under his control!
The space was shrinking bit by bit!
Jiang Nan was dying to see exactly what he had caught!
However, at that very moment, red alerts suddenly blared throughout the giant egg hall!
Every researcher’s expression turned grave. Even Han Menglu opened her previously half-lidded eyes!
“Report, team leader! Fifth state of matter detected! Bose–Einstein condensate particles! Strong reaction!”
“What? It appeared? Location?”
“Centre of An City ruins!”
“Quick, quick, quick! Pull up the footage. We absolutely cannot miss it this time!”
Sweat covered Han Menglu’s palms, her face tense!
Even Zhao Dezhu couldn’t stay seated, his expression thrilled!
Xiao Chuohuo swallowed hard, “Can we catch it?”
Han Menglu clenched her teeth, “At any cost! Everyone, prepare for capture!”
Then the feed from An City ruins was brought up on the main screen!
Smoke and dust still lingered faintly in the air!
It looked as if a battle had only just occurred!
In the footage, Jiang Nan stood at the entrance of the mall, hands on hips, looking utterly smug, “Wahahahaha! Call me the Boundary Master!”
Everyone in the hall was dumbfounded!
What on earth is going on?
Jiang Nan?
