translator: Sora
Mo Gungun was silent.
The atmosphere was stagnant, and the man’s forehead beaded with sweat.
The man shrunk back in horror, “Is, is this difficult to resolve? Don’t scare me.”
Just as Mo Gungun was hesitating, a chalice made a “ding” sound.
The sound was very clear. The man was instantly creeped out, his whole body shivering.
The ghost baby was holding a small, almost transparent widget. He gripped it tightly with both hands, for fear that it would run away.
The ghost child was excited. He urgently called out, “Mom, mom!”
Although he was an ugly child, he was a bit cute when he had that look that was begging for praise.
Mo Gungun was stunned. He looked over.
It was a thing with two tiny wings the size of a human finger. It was struggling hard to escape.
“You villains, release me!” The little guy boldly shouted at the top of his lungs, but his voice was too quiet and tender to have any effect.
Mo Gungun was intently peering at something. The man couldn’t see it, yet he stretched his neck to try and see what was in front of him.
The ghost infant pinched and rubbed the little guy. He was already heavily gasping, as if his breath would cease at any moment.
The ghost baby returned to Sun Xiaoquan’s arms. He still wanted to give this funny doll to his “mother” as a gift.
Mo Gungun questioned, “Who are you?”
The little spirit just wanted to speak, but when he looked up and saw countless red-eyed villains staring at him, he was so scared that he trembled, his face paling.
The spirit shrank into a ball. His voice trembled, “You guys…”
He had just said two words when he cried out, as if he were about to die.
Mo Gungun was spooked by him.
Seeing Mo Gungun’s slightly scared face, the ghost infant fiercely bared his teeth.
The elf didn’t dare to cry anymore. He sniffled, quivering.
“I am a spirit born from a water goblet. I’m not, I’m not a bad person.” His eyes were red, his voice holding traces of his tears.
Mo Gungun’s eyes brightened. “Spirit?”
Mo Gungun took his finger and gently poked him, pushing the spirit to somersault.
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Mo Gungun didn’t expect the spirit to be so flustered. He blanked.
Sun Xiaoquan sneered.
The spirit trembled violently, as he was terrified of Sun Xiaoquan.
Xiao Wen touched his chin, “It seems he knows something, but he doesn’t dare to say it. Let me look through his memories. But, if I look through this newborn, immature widget’s memories, he might dissipate.”
The spirit was frightened. He covered his mouth.
Xiao Wen’s smiling face got closer. He held the spirit’s wings, “Tell us and we will let you go, or don’t tell us and we’ll eat you.”
The whole time he spoke, his voice was completely mild, yet the content was particularly ferocious.
Mo Gungun blinked. Eh?
It seemed that the spirit was greatly stimulated, so stimulated that he started hiccuping. After a few minutes, he recovered.
Mo Gungun scratched his face, “Are you okay?”
The spirit shook his head, then clasped his hands together. “That, if I say, you really won’t hurt me?”
Mo Gungun nodded in pity. “We won’t.”
This little guy was extremely beautiful, but in Mo Gungun’s eyes, he was too ugly. He was inexplicably sympathetic.
The spirit reconfirmed again and again, before finally opening his mouth.
The spirit began, “It’s a terrible monster. It has a huge mouth. Every night at 12 o’clock, it will enter through the window over there and swallow one of the treasures. My friend Xiao Huang used to be here, but was swallowed by it.”
When he mentioned this, the spirit sobbed, “We were born almost at the same time. We were always together, but…..”
The spirit sniffed, “Please, could you save my friend?”
Mo Gungun prompted, “What does the monster look like?”
The spirit tried to recall, “It has green skin, a long tongue that can stretch, and two large eyes.”
Xiao Wen rubbed his chin. “Is it a frog?”
The spirit thought about it, “Oh yeah, that’s its name.”
The fierce ghosts: “…………”
Mo Gungun looked at the spirit, and couldn’t help but poke him again.
The spirit flipped over. His cheeks immediately puffed, “My round face isn’t for poking!”
Mo Gungun’s head tilted askew, “Alright, I’ll just look.”
So Mo Gungun leaned close to the elf with a pure face. He seriously observed it, before shaking his head.
Mo Gungun stated, “No traces.”
The spirit patted his face and chest. He was still a bit afraid, “That’s good, that’s good.”
All of the fierce ghosts: “…………”
When the man saw Mo Gungun staring at something intently, his hands poking at the air. His heart grew fearful.
The man waited for a long time before asking, “Great, great master, what’s the matter?”
Hearing he was called, Mo Gungun turned his head.
Liu Pinfeng was also on edge. He could vaguely see something with his left eye, but he couldn’t see this kind of tiny spirit at all. What he saw was the ghost baby. He could barely see its shape with his greatest effort.
Mo Gungun also wanted to know what the matter was.
Mo Gungun habitually looked towards the professor ghost.
The professor ghost pondered, “It should be a kind of demon called the magic-devouring frog. They specialize in intaking the aura of various objects. Most of them like items that have existed for a long time, such as antiques. After they have devoured the antique’s aura, they will grow.”
Mo Gungun nodded.
The spirit sniffled, staring with wide eyes, “Then, what about my friend?”
The professor remained silent for a few seconds. “The fact that you’re still alive can be considered fate.”
The spirit’s pupils rapidly shrank. “No, no no, I don’t believe it. My friend is stronger than me. He has to be alive!”
The professor sighed, “After eating, antiques will turn into dust. The spirits born from the relics can’t live without them…”
The spirit covered his ears. “Stop, stop talking! Please save him, please!”
His eyes were red and swollen. “If it wasn’t for me, my friend would have escaped. He wouldn’t have been caught if he hadn’t saved me!”
“I’m too weak, too stupid. Wuwu.”
Mo Gungun saw that he was upset and thought of himself and the big monster. If one day the big monster was injured and his life and death were unknown, he wouldn’t accept it. Holding out his hand and patting the spirit, Mo Gungun’s firmly said, “I’ll help you, as long as your friend is still alive!”
The spirit looked up with red eyes. “Really?”
Mo Gungun nodded in affirmation.
Mo Gungun looked at the man, “It should be a kind of magic-devouring frog. Your antiques were eaten by this kind of monster.”
The man inhaled sharply. “Eat, eaten?!”
Mo Gungun nodded, “Antiques have aura. This is their food.”
He fell silent for a few seconds, before adding, “To catch it, you need to tell me where the nearest pond is.”
Predatory frogs were extremely weak during the day, so it was no problem to catch them at noon.
The man thought about it, then his face rapidly changed. He pointed to the fence outside, “There is a pond that was recently built next door.”
Mo Gungun looked out, then his eyes widened in astonishment.
The house next door was filled with faint, black air. If you weren’t looking carefully, you may not notice it.
Mo Gungun squinted his eyes to observe the other villas. Most of them weren’t misty, only one had a bit of light blue, and the one next door was the only one with black air. As for this man’s home, it was infected by the dark air from next door.
If this lasted for a longer time, the man’s family would become more and more unlucky.
Mo Gungun pointed to the house next to them. “What happened to that family?”
The man was caught off-guard. He recalled something, causing his expression to rapidly fluctuate, “They, they had a car accident within the past three months. The man seemed to have received bad news concerning his company. Does it have anything to do with this case?”
Mo Gungun said, “It should be.”
He was taught by the fierce ghosts that the magic-devouring frog would increase bad luck wherever it was.
When the neighbors had fallen into disaster, the bad luck began to spread.
The man was upset, “So it’s because of this frog that I’ve been so unlucky recently! My girlfriend ran away with someone else. I really didn’t expect it… What did they do? Why did this magic-devouring frog come here?”
Mo Gungun was surprised. “Didn’t you attract it?”
The man was stunned. “What? I attracted it?”
Mo Gungun pointed at his antiques. “These are the magic-devouring frog’s food. It came to eat them, but because there was a pond next to your house, they choose to live there and wait until night fell to eat your antiques. In principle, you are indirectly the reason they came.”
The man’s face changed greatly. He muttered, “How, how could that be. So that’s why! Oh heavens!”
He covered his head and squatted on the ground, mumbling something.
Several question marks floated above Mo Gungun’s head.
A few question marks were even above the spirit’s head.
Mo Gungun scratched his face and asked with his eyes, ‘Is he okay?’
The spirit also scratched his face. ‘Maybe.’
The fierce ghosts couldn’t help laughing at how Mo Gungun’s facial expressions were in sync with the little spirit’s expressions.
It had to be said that Mo Gungun had some kind of tacit understanding with the little spirit. They understood the other’s meaning without words.
Mo Gungun and the little spirit hit it off right away, feeling quite a bit of pity that they met each other so late.
🐼 attracting more and more strange beings. 😆
Thank you
Thanks for the Chapter!
Now there’s two little cuties. Thank you for the chapter ❤
The great Master Lu GunGui, he came, he saw, and he solved the problem… with a great help of his ghoastly companions. Thank you for thechapter!!
Thanks for the chapter ❤️💖💞❤️❤️❤️❤️💖💕
Cute little thing. Hope you get your friend back.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
Then what would a museum do? Or a store that sells antiques? :’D
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
My guess is that then talismans and wards would come in handy– Kind of like if you want to keep bugs away from your plants, you don’t throw them away, just stop the bugs from coming near 🤔
Thanks for the chapter! A new friend, how cute, lol.