Don't be a Kept Man

Chapter 97: Come Home with Me

Night was falling, as like an inkstone that had been overturned. The remaining light was being swallowed up at the edges of the sky as Xun Chuan stared at the endless trail of cars below him on the footbridge. Taking the chance when Yan Yu was not paying attention, he poofed into a black cloud. When he did so, the old man in the stall across from them suddenly moved, bending his back to start packing up for home.

Liu Chang Min had just stepped away from a business dinner and was stumbling in a drunken haze, with his driver trying to help him into the car. He was so drunk out of his mind that he never realized that the car was driving somewhere more remote, a road that did not lead to his home at all.

The driver's gaze seemed to be glazed over and he robotically stopped the car,

"Chairman Liu, we have arrived."

"Hmmm......are we there......"

Liu Chang Min fumbled his way out of the car. As he did so, a night breeze blew by and temporarily broke him out of his hazy mind. Blinking out of it, his eyes suddenly took in the empty ghost town of buildings that were set to be demolished and rebuilt before him. At his feet were scattered sprinkles of crushed cement bricks and as he stumbled around in confusion he tripped on some of the debris, rolling around like a ball.

"Tm you know how to drive!"1

Liu Chang Min climbed back up from the ground, about to blow his top off. He was going to rage against his driver, but he was instead shocked by the sight of emptiness all around him. There was no car, only a half demolished building standing in front of him. The wind seemed to be carrying the sounds of a woman's screaming in its breeze, and cold sweat dripped down his back.

He frantically wanted to leave, but his eyes suddenly caught sight of a white shadowy figure by a nearby pile of rubbish slowly crawling towards him. Slowly, slowly, scratching the floor as it crawled as if the footsteps pressing closer were like the god of death's.

A subtle gaze seemed to be silently watching him from beyond and everywhere, and Liu Chang Min was gripped by fear. He didn't even care to look at whatever that white thing was and just ran for his life. He ran and ran while trying to call his driver, but the signal on his phone never seemed to be able to connect. Not a single phone call could be made and in one moment his stomach and legs started to weaken.

The residential buildings around here looked to be about half dismantled, in broken states of themselves. Liu Chang Min ran and ran, for a very long time, but he could not for the life of him find the exit.

If he turned his head around for one second however, he would have found that the white shadowy figure was always right behind him, and it was inching closer and closer. Underneath the moonlight, her corroded and terrifying face could be seen very clearly, accompanied by a low guttural laugh.

"You wait for me......I'm going to be there soon......"

"Wait for me......"

She slowly crawled on the ground, leaving a trail of blood behind. Liu Chang Min was so terrified that fluids were coming out from the lower half of his body. He couldn't even walk and he fell, clumsily crawling backwards on the ground to try and escape,

"What are you! Don't come over! Don't come over! AH AH AH AH AH AH HELP! IS THERE ANYONE!!"

He was overflowing with fluids and no one could tell if it was tears or sweat. Until a sticky rotten hand suddenly grasped his foot and Liu Chang Min woke up from a dream-like trance, snatching a brick off the ground beside him to hit that female ghost's head ruthlessly.

"Pang–!"

Like the sound of a head being cracked open.

"Pang–!"