"No."
After confirming that there was really no one, Gong Siyu answered in a slightly low voice. However, Ji Younai refused to believe him.
Impossible!
She would never sense the feeling of being tailed by someone and an overwhelming chilliness wrongly!
She was full of suspicion and simply turned around to take a look indifferently!
In the next instant, Ji Younai struggled to pull her hand out of Gong Siyu's. She then held her head in her hands and dodged like a rat.
Mumbling like she had seen a ghost, she looked like she was extremely horrified.
She had really seen a ghost!
"Don't chase me! Don't chase me! Don't follow me!"
Sobbing, Ji Younai scurried away while dodging, only to trip over a rock that was protruding from the ground, after which she fell straight down.
Feeling as if her heart had missed a beat, Ji Younai bit her lip to stop herself from screaming. She was so petrified that she began shuddering continuously.
She had just seen it!
It was right behind her.
There was a ghost in red, which had no eyeballs and had black, empty eye sockets, behind her. There was also a bald male ghost who had his bloodstained mouth sewn up and was smiling wryly at her!
In the grass that was not too far away, there was another girl who was clad in white with her long hair covering her face. However, her face was as pale and grayish as that of a dead person.
Seeing how frightened Ji Younai was—she had fallen to the ground and refused to get up, and was convulsing with her head in her hands—he knew that she must have seen a ghost near them!
All of a sudden, he similarly felt a cold chill down his back which made his hair stand on ends. However, he could not see anything at all.
He quickly removed the lab coat from his body and covered Ji Younai's upper body.
Gong Siyu squatted down, frowned, patted her on her back lightly, and coaxed her gently.
"Don't be afraid, Ji Younai, I'm still here."
"I'm sorry, I saw a ghost. Do I seem like a lunatic? It is really scary..."
Ji Younai wanted to bawl, but she felt that it would be embarrassing to do so. Hence, she had no choice but to bear with it, bite her lip, and burst into tears.
She had begun to sound incoherent.
"Look, if you cover your clothes over your head, you won't see anything."
He coaxed her gently and tenderly with patience in his magnetic voice, which was like medicine that calmed one's soul. A warm sense of security flowed into her heart unknowingly, making Ji Younai calm down slightly.
It was true, covering her head with the lab coat would block her vision, and thus, she would not see anything.
"Be good, stand up, and see if you've cut yourself while falling."
He slowly lifted Ji Younai up from the ground, only to discover that her body was still convulsing uncontrollably. Gong Siyu sighed, gently pulled her into his arms, hugged her for a while, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
After he finished speaking, he squatted down again and pulled up the hem of Ji Younai's pants to see the abrasions that she had sustained.
Ji Younai shivered and stood rooted to the ground with the lab coat covering her head. She looked rather amusing.
She had merely sustained some abrasions.
After confirming that she was alright, Gong Siyu pulled Ji Younai's tiny hand and turned around in front of her while still squatting. "Okay, little boss, this is the first time in my life that I'll be piggybacking someone. I'll give you the honor, come up and let me carry you!"
Extremely touched and trembling slightly, she sobbed again.
"Thank you so much..."
"Say thank you again and I'll leave you here."
Ji Younai's response was to nimbly climb up onto Gong Siyu's lean but strong back.
She pressed her tiny face against the side of his face, and exhaled into his ear, tickling him provocatively.
"Hold on tight, I won't be responsible if you fall off."
"Yes, okay!" she replied extremely obediently.
While walking, Ji Younai would raise her hand from time to time to tug on the lab coat that was covering her head to adjust it. However, she accidentally covered Gong Siyu's eye and caused him to flare up for a while.
"Ji Younai! How am I supposed to walk if you're covering my eyes?"
"Sorry... I'm sorry, okay..."
"If you say sorry again, I'll throw you off."
"Okay... okay! I won't say it anymore, but you're so nice."
"Who else has been so nice to you before?" he asked in a slightly deep and alluring voice with some indignation.
She muttered gently in a nasal voice, "My parents..."
'But they're gone.'
"Okay, how about an extra person from now on? Me."
"Well… let me think about it."
Gong Siyu was displeased, and he pretended like he was going to throw Ji Younai onto the ground.
However, he suddenly heard Ji Younai sighing and speaking in a sorrowful voice that was full of helplessness.
"Because we are different..."
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Gong Siyu carried Ji Younai on his back for a long time, and it was almost four in the morning when he took out his cellphone to check the time.
He realized he was lost.
He had been going around in circles in the woods.
He did not dare to tell Ji Younai that he had a bad sense of direction.
After placing Ji Younai, whose head was covered by the lab coat, on a boulder to rest… he secretly unlocked his cellphone.
He finally remembered that there was something called a navigation system.
However, with the cold light of the cellphone screen as the light source, Gong Siyu accidentally discovered that not far ahead from them, there seemed to be a white figure that was lying down far ahead in the bush... He looked at its body shape and felt that it looked like a person.
Thinking that his eyes had been playing tricks on him, he squinted and scrutinized.
After observing for a moment, he suddenly raised his eyebrows. It was really a person!
'Why would anyone be lying there in this place?'
Gong Siyu was not afraid, but he suddenly thought of something.
With a malicious smile on his lips, he gazed deeply at Ji Younai whose face was covered and pretended to be greatly alarmed.
Covering his mouth, he said, "Ji Younai, there seems to be someone lying in the bushes in front, should we go take a look?"
"No, no! I'm scared!"
Without saying a word, Ji Younai simply gripped Gong Siyu's arm tightly.
He had successfully managed to frighten Ji Younai.
'How could there be anyone other than us in this place?'
'The person is lying down too!'
'Is he or she dead?'
Not daring to think about it, she simply wrapped one hand around Gong Siyu's arm tightly while holding onto his slender fingers with her other hand.
"If you're afraid, just keep holding my hand, you hear me?"
There was a gleam of light that flashed through his narrow, fox-like, soulful yet devilishly enchanting eyes.
Ji Younai, who did not even see the evil grin on Gong Siyu's lips, simply tightened her grip on his arm with her small hand.
"Okay, I'll hold it."
"Don't let go at all, okay?"
"Okay, I'll be good, I won't let go."
Seeing that Ji Younai had agreed obediently, Gong Siyu sighed with satisfaction.
'How can she be so obedient?'
'My heart is melting.'
'What should I do?'
He suddenly discovered that he really liked the way Ji Younai was behaving.
Gong Siyu wanted to carry Ji Younai again.
However, Ji Younai vehemently refused to get back on his broad, majestic back. She simply held onto his arm tightly and placed it in front of her chest, allowing the lab coat to cover her head. She looked down at her feet and continued walking.
Not far away in the grass, there was really a person lying down.
He seemed to be wearing a lab coat, but his figure was blurry.
In order to avoid scaring Ji Younai again, Gong Siyu took light footsteps and looked at the navigation system on his cellphone. He deliberately moved further away to avoid the strange figure.
However, a robotic female voice suddenly sounded from the cellphone navigation system, breaking the silence of the dark woods in the early morning.
"Turn right 300 meters ahead, and then go straight."
Immediately afterward, Gong Siyu saw the white figure in the bushes moving. Along with the rustling sound made by the bushes, a slender figure in a lab coat that was similar to theirs slowly stood up. There were numerous withered leaves sticking to his short, messy hair.
The figure had a pair of dark, red eyes that resembled blood-red rubies in the night. They were as red as blood, emitting a devious, bizarre glow.
In an instant, Gong Siyu's evil, gloomy, and cold narrow eyes met with that pair of red eyes.
They were both extremely wary.
The two almost spoke in unison.
"Who are you?"
"Is the one whose head is being covered a ghost?"