Chapter 158: Chapter 153: Don’t…
Having experienced so many scenes, Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost knew none of this was real.
It lay on the hospital bed, listening to a human who looked just like its own Beast Tamer talk a lot, most of which ituldn’t understand.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost listened for a while and, feeling peckish, instinctively reached up with its paw to pluck off the ring.
But when it touched, the ring was gone.
“Ghost-absorbing…”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost curled its lips.
“Hungry, huh.” The person who looked like Qiao Sang took a black fruit from the basket beside him and handed it over, “Here, your favorite shadow candle fruit.”
“Ghost-absorbing.”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost untrollably started to eat.
It sighed inwardly; it wanted to drink milk, not this dark and slippery thing.
“You’re so big already, how can you still be so messy?” The person resembling Qiao Sang chuckled, pulled out a tissue from beside him, and wiped therner of Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost’s mouth.
For the first time, Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost noticed a shadow of its own Beast Tamer in this human.
Time in the dream passed quickly; it seemed like the person aged without doing anything.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost looked at the human in front of it, now with a head full of white hair and wrinkled skin, anduldn’t believe this was the same person who used to look just like its Beast Tamer.
She lay quietly on the bed with her eyes slightly closed, her face pale, devoid of any bloodlor, with various tubes inserted into her body.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost felt an inexplicable panic in its heart, a panic that was no longerntrolled by the dream, but its own.
After an unknown amount of time, the person on the bed opened her eyes. She moved her mouth; her voice was very soft, “Genie Lamp, you and Nannan go out for a stroll. She doesn’tme here often; keep hermpany for me.”
“Ghost-absorbing…”
“I’m fine, aren’t there a lot of people here with me?” The person on the bed laughed, seemingly energized all of a sudden.
“Grandma, I won’t go; I’ll stay here with you,” a crisp voice came from behind.
“This place doesn’t smell good. I’ll be up and going home in a bit. You go out for a walk, and when youme back, we’ll leave,” said the person on the bed.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost untrollably turned its head and only then noticed there were several people standing behind, one of whom looked about the same age as its Beast Tamer.
Just as Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost was about to walk out, the person on the bed stopped it, “Wait.”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost turned its head back.
“Have fun out there.” The person on the bed had a tender expression in her eyes.
But Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost felt umfortable.
It once again saw the shadow of its own Beast Tamer on her, but its Beast Tamer wouldn’t look like this, so devoid of energy all the time.
…
The scene changed once again.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost’s eyes lit up at the sight of the bustling night market; it wanted to properly explore, but regretfully, its body wasn’t under itsntrol.
“Genie Lamp, grandma will be fine, right?” the girl beside murmured.
“Ghost-absorbing.”
The girl didn’t understand what it meant, and began to answer herself, “She won’t be unwell, grandma is a Beast Tamer. Everyone says Beast Tamers are amazing, can live very long. My classmate’s grandpa is 133 years old and still in great health, he even came for a parent-teachernference recently.”
“Dad said grandma used tompete and went to secret realms; if it wasn’t for meeting grandpa, she would definitely have gone to regionalmpetitions to bme a renowned Professional Beast Tamer.”
“Ghost-absorbing.”
Suddenly, Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost found itself unable to move on the spot.
The girl didn’t notice andntinued walking with her head down.
“Grandma doesn’t seem like the romantic type, eh. Was grandpa really handsome when he was young? Can’t be. Dad is so ugly and says he inherited that from grandpa. At least I picked the good traits to inherit.”
“This time, it’s also dad’s fault. He came here and started crying; it made me think grandma was about to pass away.”
Her voice got increasingly distant, “But grandma lying in the hospital bed does look quite scary, with so many tubes inserted. But she said we are about to go home, so that should be fine.”
“If something was wrong, you as grandma’s Pet Beast would definitely sense it…”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost stayed where it was.
People wereming and going all around, but they allnsciously left space around it.
Untrollably, it raised its head, and on the screen of a tall building nearby, a Beast Tamingntest was being broadcasted.
Why is it not okay now? Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost thought.
It felt like only a short while before the person aged.
Even if it wasn’t truly bonded to that person as a Pet Beast, ituld still sense it, being an Extraordinary Creature of the Spectral Series, ituld almost smell the scent of death on her.
So intense that she might disappear from this world the next snd.
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