They All Say I've Met a Ghost

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I swear that in that moment I wanted to forget everything and concentrate on responding to Xiao Ning. He was kissing me, never mind why. I should enjoy it while I could.

However, there was a mosquito constantly buzzing by my ear. I searched for the source of the sound, reached out my hand, and slapped Xiao Ning on the face.

Xiao Ning covered the part of his face that I had hit and looked at me, eyes full of shock and heartbreak.

I spread out my hand and showed it to him. "Look at this mosquito. My whole hand is covered in blood. How much of your blood did it suck?"

Xiao Ning's gaze moved numbly from my face to my hand. He saw the blood-stained body of the mosquito.

I touched Xiao Ning's bitten face, my heart aching. Xiao Ning's skin was so white. Tomorrow there would be an ugly bump on his face.

"I'll go to the drugstore to buy some ointment in a while," I said. "There's a kind of ointment that works well. I attract a lot of mosquitoes, so I use it often."

Just then, a steady stream of mosquitoes came to attack me. I had been dealing with mosquitoes for over twenty years and was rich in experience. I didn't need to be able to see to know where they would attack. I slapped a few times, and several dead mosquitoes appeared under my palm.

Looking at the blood on my palm, I shook my head and sighed. "I still got bitten. There are too many mosquitoes. I'm outnumbered."

I performed a visual inspection. There were two or three mosquitoes that had died unsatisfied lying in my palm, full of my blood.

Xiao Ning said nothing. Looking grave, he turned his face towards the apartment’s entrance. "Duan Youlian is out."

A figure in a raincoat walked slowly out of the building. She looked up at the window of the room where her mother lived. Then she stopped looking back, stood in front of the trees where we were hiding and said, "Let's go."

I dusted the mosquitoes' bodies off my hands and came out of the woods. I looked at the time; it had only been ten minutes. "So fast?"

I'd thought that after so many years of not seeing her mother, she would have stayed longer.

"Life and death are two separate worlds. Ten minutes is already a violation." Xiao Ning crawled out and tore the talisman off Duan Youlian. "Have you figured things out?"

Duan Youlian said, "I have. It's enough to see her once."

It was already 4:20. Time was pressing. We quickly left the estate and got on the school bus.

On the school bus, Teacher Liu manifested. He patted his chest and said, "I really was scared to death just now. I was afraid that Teacher Shen would hit the mosquitoes with the notebook. Some of those mosquitoes had sucked Teacher Shen's blood. If they got on my skin... the consequences don't bear thinking about!"

It seemed that Teacher Liu hadn't gotten past the time I'd used the notebook to crush bugs. I felt helpless. In my university dorm, it had been perfectly normal to use books and notebooks to crush bugs.

"You're also afraid of blood sucked by mosquitoes?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Naturally. Mosquitoes and other creatures like that will choose people with strong blood. The blood they ingest is the essence of the human body. It's very powerful," said Teacher Liu, scared after the fact.

I asked Duan Youlian, "Are you afraid?"

"Just now, when you came out of the trees, it was fortunate that you dusted the mosquitoes off your hand first. Otherwise, since I was suppressed by the talisman, if I'd touched your pure Yang blood, I'm afraid my soul and body would have been shaken. I may not have been able to reincarnate." Duan Youlian's face was also full of fear.