Xyrin Empire

Chapter 180: Chapter 180: There’s a Ghost!!!

Ding Ling, Lin Feng, and a girl named Sally, who was inexplicably terrified by Pandora, were now walking together on the way to Chen Jun’s house.

A few days ago, after completing a mission, Ding Ling went to report to Mr. Lin (even now, she still found it quite unbelievable that the most mystic and powerful leader in the organization turned out to be Lin Xue’s grandfather). There, she accidentally overheard Mr. Lin mention Lin Xue taking a trip with a few friends, and at that time, he even said that despite the organization’s power, they had no clue about who Lin Xue was traveling with or where she had gone. This uncertainty made the old man uneasy; although he didn’t want to use the organization’s resources to interfere in Lin Xue’s private life, the situation was nearly akin to her disappearance, which really disturbed him.

At that time, to reassure Mr. Lin, Ding Ling lied by saying she knew Lin Xue was safe and since it was a secret trip among close friends, even she didn’t know where exactly Lin Xue had gone. As for the organization’s inability to find Lin Xue’s whereabouts, Ding Ling attributed it to Lin Xue’s special abilities.

Although Mr. Lin was reassured, Ding Ling started to feel something was off…

Lin Xue going on a trip with close friends?

Impossible, right?!

Ding Ling and Lin Xue had been best friends since childhood, how could it be that Lin Xue took off with friends without Ding Ling having any clue about it?! And to think, it was only now that Ding Ling had just received a hint from Mr. Lin about Lin Xue’s sudden disappearance!

Could something have happened to Lin Xue?

Given that Lin Xue had just recently experienced a disappearance in the desert, Ding Ling was now a bit neurotic about Lin Xue vanishing out of the blue. Therefore, faced with the current situation, Ding Ling was naturally very anxious, but she was clear-headed enough to understand that if even the Superpower Team couldn’t find Lin Xue, it was even less likely that she could on her own, let alone that using the full force of the Superpower Team to locate Lin Xue would definitely alert Mr. Lin to the possibility that something might have happened to her.

In the end, Ding Ling thought of an alternative.

Another Superpower Organization with considerable strength.

Even though that organization repeatedly claimed to be nothing more than a “leisure group” akin to a club, and she herself doubted that their power could compare to the Superpower Team’s, it was still a force comprised of Superpower Users. Having them help would be better than searching aimlessly on her own, right? Plus, the leader of that organization seemed to be on good terms with Lin Xue…

Thus, Ding Ling set out early in the morning to hurry and seek help from Chen Jun and his group.

On the road, she ran into Lin Feng, who was heading the same way, along with his girlfriend Sally. They both completely believed the claim that Lin Xue was traveling with friends. Firstly, Lin Feng always trusted his sister’s words and never suspected Lin Xue of deceiving him. Secondly, while Lin Feng was close to his sister, he couldn’t interact with Lin Xue as carefreely as Ding Ling could, so in a way, Lin Feng, despite being a relative, didn’t understand Lin Xue as well as Ding Ling did.

Lin Feng’s visit to Chen Jun’s today had nothing to do with Lin Xue; he just remembered how his girlfriend had inexplicably been frightened by Pan Lili, resulting in a very rude behavior, and how embarrassing that was. Having nothing better to do today, and Sally seeming to have shaken off that strange shadow of fear, Lin Feng planned to bring Sally along to apologize and improve the relationship between his girlfriend and Lili—after all, they were friends, and considering how good Lin Xue’s relationship was with Chen Jun and his group, it was very likely that Sally and Pan Lili would meet again. They couldn’t have one of them avoiding the other every time, could they?

Although their reasons differed, Ding Ling joined Lin Feng and Sally on their walk, each preoccupied with their own worries—Ding Ling was particularly concerned about how to sidestep Lin Feng and Sally later to request Chen Jun’s assistance…

However, it seemed that today was not going their way; Chen Jun’s house appeared to be empty…

They rang the doorbell repeatedly at the entrance, but there was no response inside (even though a Ghost Maid was at home, could you really expect that creature to answer the door?). Then, after waiting outside for quite some time and still seeing no sign of Chen Jun and his family returning, Ding Ling couldn’t help feeling frustrated.

“That playboy, who knows where he’s gone off to with those girls now…”

“Sister Ding Ling, Brother Chen really isn’t that bad, is he?”

“Mind your own business! Seriously… that guy… when he gets back, I’m going to extort him good!” Under the urge to take advantage of the situation, Ding Ling seemed to forget that she had come today to ask for help, and that she wasn’t very familiar with the other party. Why on earth would she extort him…

“Huh? It sounds like there’s noise inside!” Just then, Sally apparently discovered something and pricked up her ears to listen carefully before speaking.

“You have sharp ears…” Ding Ling said, but she too quieted down, then put her ear against the door, listening intently to the sounds inside.

“It seems… there really is some noise…” Ding Ling murmured to herself. Then she took a few steps back and assumed a charging posture.

“Hey, hey, hey! Sister Ding Ling, you’re not planning to…”

Although she knew that this senior with an eternally youthful appearance had a personality as headache-inducing as her own sister’s, this approach—blindly charging at someone’s door—was a bit too much, wasn’t it?

Ding Ling, of course, wouldn’t listen to Lin Feng’s warning. Her mind was in turmoil worrying about Lin Xue’s safety, and she was irritated that there clearly were people inside who ignored her. The rest, naturally, was the destructive personality she shared with Lin Xue at play…

Thus, with a loud shout, amid Lin Feng’s speechless sigh as he covered his eyes and Sally’s surprised screams, accompanied by a cartoonishly exaggerated cloud of dust, Ding Ling rammed headfirst into the robust-looking door—of course, to ensure her petite frame could break through the door, Ding Ling took advantage of Sally being distracted by her loud shout to secretly launch an ultrasonic attack on the door…

Wordlessly following Ding Ling as she broke through the door and entered the living room, Lin Feng was incessantly calculating how much compensation would be needed to offset the uncharacteristically impulsive actions of the perennial Loli and to appease the potential anger of the homeowners. However, he suddenly saw that Ding Ling, leading the way, came to an abrupt halt.

“Cleaning! Cleaning! Cleaning!”

In the empty, cavernous house, this eerie, hollow echo kept resonating, the tone reminiscent of the ghosts in horror movies that endlessly murmur “Come to collect… Come to collect…” in the deserted corridors. Of course, in reality, such a ghostly girl’s voice wasn’t that terrifying, but… matched with a broom floating in midair in the living room… the scene became quite frightening. If someone with a vivid imagination witnessed it, they would probably imagine a story of a pitiful maid, forced to labor excessively by her master, who ultimately died of exhaustion while cleaning, becoming a ghost fixated on the unfinished cleaning of the great hall—the preceding sentence, dear readers in front of the screen, please add punctuation…

It seemed that the outsider-induced commotion finally attracted attention, as the broom floating in the air and moving back and forth came to a sudden stop. Then, along with the appearance of ripples in the air like waves of water, a girl wearing a standard black lace maid costume, with chestnut hair and clutching the broom while floating midair, gradually materialized in the air and gazed at the group with a look of slight surprise and bewilderment.

Upon closer inspection, the maid-like girl wasn’t just floating in midair; her body even appeared slightly translucent, and she was… emitting a faint white halo…

Not only that, but around the girl, whether it was an illusion or not, there seemed to be white light balls that resembled will-o’-the-wisps drifting around…

In fact, that was Anwina practicing her control of Holy Light Energy while cleaning, but clearly, the sacred light balls were mistaken for ghostly flames by the already somewhat muddled trio…

Ding Ling was stunned for a full ten seconds before finally opening her mouth wide…

“There’s a ghost!!!”

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