Dream Walker: Feng Shui Master Bai Ya

Chicken popped its head out from behind the sofa, startling Shang Muchen and Li Qing.

Its head was already large and round, and its eyes were even larger, with no whites in its dark eye sockets. Its whole head looked like a giant preserved egg. Suddenly, it stretched out in front of Li Qing, startling her so much that she jumped off the other end of the sofa.

Wrapped in a blanket, Li Qing frantically hid beside the vase table by the window, trembling as she cried out, "Shang Muchen! There's a ghost!"

"Sigh..." Shang Muchen scratched his head, feeling utterly overwhelmed, and weakly complained, "It's not a ghost, it's an alien..."

"Aliens!" Li Qing's voice cracked as she excitedly asked, "What on earth is going on?"

"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? What's wrong with you?" Shang Muchen helplessly pressed down on the chicken's large head, pushed it aside, and asked, "Is your phone fun?"

"Fun!"

"Then why don't you go play somewhere else! What are you doing out here scaring people?"

"It's out of power, charging it," Chicken Jump said dismissively. "Besides, she's not human, and I didn't intentionally scare her."

"You're not human!" Li Qing shouted.

"Of course I'm not human!" Chicken retorted stubbornly, "But you're not human either, so stop pretending to be innocent!"

Shang Muchen tapped the big head of the chicken and complained, "Let me correct your wording. There's no such thing as 'I'm a brat'!"

Furthermore, the word "丫" is very vulgar and should be used sparingly.

"Really?" Chicken Jump scratched his head, puzzled. "Why?"

"Let me explain. The slang term 'ya ting de' is a very vulgar swear word. 'Ya' refers to a maid, and 'ting' is an action. The original meaning of this word is 'born of a maid,' which means that one's background is not pure."

This is a very strong insult, roughly equivalent to "son of a bitch".

"So I advise you not to say that," Shang Muchen scolded Chicken Jump.

Chicken Jump scratched his head and asked, "What's wrong with being born to a maid?"

"Of course it's not good," Shang Muchen said seriously.

"What's wrong? Will the baby have a genetic defect? ​​Or will it lead to congenital malformations?"

The question that Ji Libiao asked really stumped Shang Muchen. How could he explain social ethics to this alien?

Shang Muchen asked, "Don't you understand marriage? Doesn't marriage exist on your planet?"

"No," Chicken Jump said, shaking his head. "I was hatched in a jar—on our planet, babies are hatched in jars."

I know your planet has concepts like marriage and family, and I understand what those concepts mean, but we don't have those kinds of problems on our planet.

"Hmm, this really is a cultural gap." Shang Muchen scratched his head and said helplessly, "Anyway, just remember this: don't use the word 'ya' when you speak, it sounds really bad."

"Oh, I understand." Chicken nodded.

Li Qing asked timidly, "It...it's really an alien?"

"It's an alien, and the kind that doesn't bite, so don't worry." Shang Muchen pressed the chicken's very bouncy head, which felt like a basketball, and then asked Li Qing...

"The question comes back to you: how did you get in?"

"How should I know? I clearly just followed you guys and crawled through that hole in the women's restroom..."

Chicken-like voice interrupted, "Oh ho? Shang Muchen, why are you crawling through the hole in the women's restroom?"

"I had no idea you had such unusual tastes!"

"Get lost! What do you know! Shut your mouth!" Shang Muchen angrily slapped the chicken's head and pushed it aside.

Chicken bounced around the sofa, put his hands behind his back in a swagger, blinked his huge eyes, and adopted the posture of a leader on an inspection tour, listening with great interest.

"Where did you go after you went into the hole in the wall?" Shang Muchen asked.

"Where did I go? I'm right here!" Li Qing's emotions calmed down a little, but she was still very agitated. "Call the police! I want to call the police! Where's my phone?"

"I don't know where your phone is. However, I agree to call the police so that I can clear my name as soon as possible."

"You want a cell phone? Here you go." Chicken bounced up to Li Qing, pulled out the old cell phone that Shang Muchen had bought for it from somewhere, and handed it to Li Qing.

Li Qing took the phone and dialed the emergency number. The phone rang for a while before disconnecting.

"What's wrong?" Li Qing asked, her voice trembling with tears. She tried dialing several times, but couldn't get through.

"The situation is very simple," Chicken Jump said. "Your current frequency is at least 20% lower than the actual frequency, so the electromagnetic waves are completely incompatible."

Li Qing didn't understand what "chicken jumping" meant. She wrapped herself tightly in the blanket, huddled in the corner of the table, and shivered.

Chicken Jump, shaking its enormous head with the air of a university professor, earnestly explained, "In your terms, you are currently in a spirit state, not a physical state."

"A spirit?" Shang Muchen and Li Qing asked in surprise at the same time.

"That's right!" Chicken Jump confirmed loudly, "So you're practically a ghost—of course, strictly speaking, you're not a ghost, just a fragment of consciousness, but it's not much different from being a ghost."

"You're lying!" Li Qing shouted excitedly, "You must have drugged me! I'm calling the police! Let me go!"

"Go ahead," Shang Muchen said, pointing to the door. "You should leave as soon as possible."

By the way, you should at least wear some clothes, don't go out naked, otherwise I'll be in real trouble no matter what!

Upon hearing Shang Muchen tell her to leave, Li Qing felt as if she had received a release order. She didn't care about her clothes anymore, wrapped herself in a blanket, and rushed towards the door.

She rushed to the door, opened it, and ran out.

Watching her leave, Shang Muchen felt conflicted, wondering if he should call the police beforehand so that he would have an explanation when the police came to inquire and avoid being misunderstood.

Just as she was about to get up to look for her phone, Li Qing's scream rang out again.

"ah!"

Shang Muchen turned his head and saw that Li Qing had reappeared at the other end of the sofa.

Moreover, the blanket she was wearing was now gone.

Shang Muchen quickly turned his back, and casually reached out to find that the blanket had somehow returned to his side. He then grabbed the blanket and tossed it to Li Qing.

Li Qing didn't care about anything else; she wrapped herself in a blanket and ran away.

I pushed open the door again, escaped outside again, and as expected, returned to the sofa.

After this happened four or five times, Shang Muchen and Li Qing realized at the same time that she couldn't get out; she was trapped in the house.

Li Qing, wrapped in a blanket, huddled in the corner of the sofa, shivering.

Chicken Leap, however, adopted an attitude of "the funeral is more important than the funeral itself," and said with a half-smile, "I told you, but you wouldn't listen. You just keep scaring yourself..."

"What exactly happened? Do you know?" Shang Muchen asked.

"Didn't I tell you? She's just a memory, not even a complete soul," Chicken Jump said, pointing at Li Qing in the corner of the sofa.

"Boss, as you know, your house is the lowest-lying area in the neighborhood. Even I can't escape it, let alone her."

To put it another way, you're the one who brought her in.

As soon as she entered, she was trapped and couldn't get out, much like my situation and that of the other ghosts.

"I brought her back?" Shang Muchen asked in shock. "When did I bring her back?"

At this point, Shang Muchen suddenly thought of the white cat.

Could it be a cat?