Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Wei Xi and his apprentice picked out several locations for the company’s expansion. After much deliberation, they finally chose the Beijing Forest Zoo.
This zoo was very famous and the scenery was said to be quite beautiful. It was also a holy place that many new employees of the agency branch yearned for. More importantly, Wei Xi himself was also very interested in it.
The only downside, however, was that the zoo was closed at night, so the employees could only go out during the day. Although the company’s ghost employees were not afraid of daytime thanks to Taicang Sect’s special methods, going out in broad daylight was still a relatively bad experience for ghosts.
But there was nothing they could do about the large number of ghosts, and there was really nothing fun to do in Beijing at night. They couldn’t have more than 700 ghosts going discoing together.
Fortunately, the day of departure was a lucky cloudy day and the sun was not very strong.
This group of ghost employees in the company had been dead, the shortest for four years and the longest for two hundred years. This was the first time they had the chance to play together after their death, and they were all extremely excited. From the moment they gathered, they kept sharing the offerings they brought for the picnic.
The demons stood woodenly on one side, surrounded by various—
“I brought a white candle. Want to try it?”
“This is the incense I saved from yesterday afternoon. It smells wonderful. You should smell it too.”
Everyone was speechless.
It was really spectacular to see more than seven hundred ghosts standing together in a bustling crowd. Although ordinary humans could not see it, it was still very crowded in Wei Xi’s vision.
The time was perfect, and even without the sun it was still bright, so Uncle Shen suggested to Wei Xi, “Master, why don’t we all take the subway? It would be really painful to go to the zoo in broad daylight.”
Wei Xi: “Subway?”
He had never taken the subway.
He subconsciously sought the opinions of his two disciples. Tuan Tuanyi had come from Fengyang and had never seen a subway before. The only person he had seen was the second disciple of Taicang Sect. He silently looked at the ghosts in front of him who were carrying offerings and were extremely excited: “…”
Let them get on the subway together…
Wei Xi didn’t get an answer, so he turned to Uncle Shen and said, “Let’s go.”
During the day, office workers on the Beijing subway felt that the air in the subway was particularly cold.
Everyone rubbed their arms and complained that the subway department was too stingy and didn’t even want to turn up the heating. Shuo Zong stood aside with Wei Xi in his arms, watching in silence as a few unknown employees in front of them commented on the living people around them.
“Her legs are so thin.”
“This dress is beautiful. It’s much more fashionable than what was popular when I died. I’ll save up a few months’ salary and ask Manager Shen to buy it for me.”
As the subway doors opened, people and ghosts rushed in, filling the entire carriage in an instant. The commuters felt much more comfortable now. The train was heated, and the crowds were stuffy, but once the ghosts squeezed in, their breath felt much cooler.
They remained calm and composed, while the ghosts, not used to the Beijing subway, were stunned. After squeezing onto the carriages to avoid overlapping with others, they all screamed and fluttered overhead: “No room! Don’t get on!”
The demons were beautiful in appearance, so wearing hats and masks, they hid far away from the main group. They deeply felt that this group of abnormal species should now be included in the normal ranks.
It was Wei Xi’s first time taking the subway. He lost his two apprentices as soon as he got on the train. Someone was pushing him from behind, and someone stepped on his shoes, pushing him to the other side of the car. The pushing force from the other side of the crowd continued to surge.
This was a scene that no martial arts master could handle. Wei Xi was completely stunned by the crowd and was pushed against the subway door in a daze.
There were strangers everywhere, cursing and asking why there were so many people.
Wei Xi was squeezed by them and stood still, unable to move. After a long time, he caught a glimpse of a familiar face from the corner of his eye: “Que’er!”
The second disciple was dressed in black, tall and slender, with a handsome face. He stood out in the crowd like a crane among chickens. People around him were secretly looking at him, but he pushed through the crowd with an expressionless face and squeezed towards Wei Xi calmly.
When he got in front of Wei Xi, he stopped, one hand on the railing, and lowered his head to help Wei Xi comb his messy hair: “Are you okay?”
He stood in front, using his back to hold back the crowd, leaving a small area of free space around him.
Wei Xi was still terrified: “Is this the subway?! How can it hold so many people?”
The apprentice looked down at him and suddenly smiled, seeming quite happy to see him in such a rare state of distress: “Most humans also have a hard time… Are you feeling bad?”
Wei Xi stared at his rare smiling face with a confused look in his eyes.
“If you feel uncomfortable, just lean on me.” The apprentice stared at him, his eyes still slightly curved. He loosened his arms and grabbed his hands, wrapping them around his waist. “Stand firm.”
There were people all around. So Wei Xi put his arms around his waist and suddenly had the illusion that it had turned very quiet within a few meters around them.
He slowly tightened his arms and moved closer, and his disciple stretched out his shoulders, leaning against his sides, looking at him quietly with his head lowered.
Wei Xi raised his head, looked into his eyes, then lowered his gaze to stare at his lips.
He kind of wanted to touch it.
The apprentice understood tacitly: “Are you hungry?”
Wei Xi shook his head.
His apprentice didn’t know what was going on, but the corners of his mouth curled up again. He moved closer to him, slid his hands down to support his shoulders, and whispered, “Not here.”
The two of them were now in a posture that looked like they were hugging each other intimately.
Wei Xi leaned against him and asked, “Then where can we go?”
“Wait until we get out.” His apprentice twisted a strand of his hair between his fingers and twisted it intently. “I’ll feed you after we get out.”
Wei Xi hummed lazily and leaned against him without moving. His apprentice then simply put one arm around his waist to prevent him from being shaken.
The office workers around them who had received 10,000 points of damage: “…………………………”
The carriage was shaking, and Wei Xi leaned against his apprentice. As he leaned against him, he heard a discussion coming from the side: “Hey, you know, I heard that someone committed suicide by lying on the tracks on this section of the subway last month, and someone on the forum said they had seen a ghost last week.”
“Wow, is that true? It’s that scary? You can actually run into a ghost while riding the subway?! Can’t we just go to work properly?”
Wei Xi: “…”
Wei Xi glanced at the girl who was speaking, then silently turned his gaze to his own employees who were shouting in the corner of the carriage that there was no room left.
The train passed through a tunnel, and suddenly someone in the carriage screamed, “What is that?”
Wei Xi subconsciously turned his head and instantly saw a blurry floating object outside the subway window. The subway was moving so fast, but it was always following them like a shadow, scaring the office workers in the car and screaming: “Ahhhhhhh!! What on earth is this?!”
Wei Xi narrowed his eyes, and at the same time, he heard his apprentice’s judgment from above his head: “The one who lay on the railway tracks.”
Many ghosts who committed suicide would stay in the same place. Of course, their purposes varied. Some may be looking for a substitute, while others may simply want to scare people.
This ghost chose to appear during the peak period, so it was most likely the latter. It may not have been valued when it was alive, and after its death it became addicted to the pleasure of receiving attention and screams.
In terms of attracting people, it was really successful, because not only did the humans in the carriage see it, but after hearing the shouts, more than 700 employees of Taicang Sect also swarmed over curiously, stepping on people’s heads and climbing on their shoulders: “Ghost?! Where is the ghost!”
Wei Xi: “…”
Shuo Zong: “…”
The little ghost outside the window was very satisfied with the response of the office workers. He thus twisted his body, trying to reveal his bloody face, and then turned his scarlet eyes to secretly peek at the living people in the train car.
Then it came face to face with a bunch of strange-looking creatures of the same kind in the carriage.
More than seven hundred pairs of ghost eyes were staring at it, some with bloody heads, some with ripped open stomachs. In terms of eerie horror, the two sides were not on the same level at all.
Ghost from the railway tracks: “…………………………”
After watching it, the employees of Taicang Sect were somewhat disappointed and gave it a critical review.
“That’s it.”
“Oh, it’s just normal. If I were there it would be much scarier.”
“But it’s running so fast. What’s the speed of the subway? Has anyone checked?”
“It seems the maximum speed is 80 kilometers per hour.”
“That’s not bad.”
“It looks like its waist is broken. Wow, pitiful! How could it be so desperate as to jump onto the railway tracks? It was ugly enough when I jumped off the building. Look at my dented head. Now no matter how hard I knock, I can’t get it back up.”
“Hey, what’s going on? Why isn’t it moving? Hey, hey, hey! Where is it going?!”
The ghost’s crotch felt tight and he ran away quickly: “……………………Excuse me for disturbing you.”
The employees of Taicang Sect were not satisfied even after humiliating it. The subsequent topic evolved into whether the ghost was socially anxious, otherwise why would it run away when it saw other ghosts? This would make it easy for it to lose friends.
Commuters on the subway: “…Huh? Why is it gone again? Was I dazzled?”
Shuo Zong who was hugging Wei Xi: “……”
Wei Xi stayed silent for a while, all the while leaning against Shuo Zong. “…Group activities seem quite fun.”
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