My Family Is Very Odd

The girl with the twin ponytails saw that Shen Chen wasn't saying anything. She suddenly started talking quickly, "This park is a normal park during the day, but at night, it becomes a ghost garden that you can't get out of."

She started making her own deal.

"It's only safe during the day because they don't like the daytime."

Shen Chen's raised hand didn't know whether to go up or down, and his sharp eyes became a little confused. He didn't even plan to ask the twin-tailed girl to talk about these things, but what should he do if she talked about them herself?

Would it be bad if he sealed her now?

Shen Chen: Teenage troubles.

The twin-tailed girl kept looking at Shen Chen. Seeing that his movements had loosened a little, she spoke even more eagerly, "There are two big ghosts in this park. One is a shadow, and the other is a bone picker. The first ghost has a huge body, no eyes, no nose, and no mouth. It likes to devour any spirit it encounters. You must have discovered it when you were looking for them, right? There are actually very few ghosts in the park."

The twin-tailed girl looked at Shen Chen and said, "That's because they were all eaten by it!"

Shen Chen: That's why there are many spirits in the morning, but fewer at night.

Then her eyes looked at Li Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan, "That's why when I saw you two in the park, I hoped you would come with me. It's really dangerous to wander around the park at night."

"But you didn't believe me, I know. Because I'm a ghost, it's normal. Who would believe a ghost?" The twin-tailed girl lowered her eyebrows, her completely black eyes looking at the ground.

"...But I was a human before I died," she murmured.

The night was very quiet. Hearing this, Chen Yuanyuan's expression was a little flustered.

She raised her head, her eyes moving from Shen Chen and Li Xiaogui to Chen Yuanyuan. She looked at Chen Yuanyuan gently and said slowly, "But I was still worried when I saw you two, so I followed you. I originally wanted to leave when it was dawn, or when I saw you two meet up and made sure you were safe..."

Li Xiaogui gently leaned over to Shen Chen's ear and whispered, "She's lying."

Like a leaky milk-flavored balloon, a milky scent carefully seeped out.

Shen Chen nodded calmly.

The twin-tailed girl looked at Chen Yuanyuan intently, "I didn't expect to see you encounter the second big ghost in the park. That's the bone picker. It looks for its own flesh in the park every night. If it sees a person, it will go up and ask, 'Do you know where my flesh went?' If you say you don't know, it will tear off the flesh from your body and press it onto its own body."

"If you say you know but can't find the flesh for it, it will say, 'If you can't find the flesh for me, then give me yours.' Then, it will still tear off your flesh piece by piece and paste it onto its body. It's a very bloody evil ghost."

Chen Yuanyuan was so scared that she grabbed Li Xiaogui's hand.

The twin-tailed girl continued to look at her and said, "So when I saw it find you, I was very worried that something would happen to you, so I rushed out to save you without thinking."

The twin-tailed girl touched her neck.

Chen Yuanyuan suddenly remembered the scene of her being choked by the skeleton and her face full of pain in order to save them. Her expression also became sentimental.

The twin-tailed girl looked at Chen Yuanyuan and Li Xiaogui and said with envy, "Seeing you reminds me of myself. I became a ghost because I got lost in the park and couldn't find my way home. I don't want you to become like me."

"I miss my mother so much." The twin-tailed girl paused for a moment and said slowly. Her small figure, coupled with the cold night, looked even more isolated and helpless.

She looked over.

Shen Chen: Expressionless.jpg

Li Xiaogui: Blinking.jpg

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Shen Chen was indifferent and silently turned around to return Li Xiaogui's schoolbag to her.

Li Xiaogui took the schoolbag and whispered her thanks to Shen Chen.

Twin-tailed girl: "..."

She really couldn't understand Shen Chen and Li Xiaogui, but it seemed that they were temporarily safe. She looked at Chen Yuanyuan.

Li Xiaogui squeezed Chen Yuanyuan's hand and whispered, "Yuanyuan, don't go too far away from me. Hold my hand the whole time, okay?"

"Okay." Chen Yuanyuan was already scared. She was much more timid than Li Xiaogui, so how could she possibly leave Li Xiaogui?

She lowered her eyes gloomily, then raised them and said with a smile, "Forget it, let's not talk about it. Come with me, I'll take you away. I'm familiar with this park."

She raised her neck and said, "This time, you should believe me, right? If I wanted to harm you, I wouldn't have risked my life to save you just now. I'm really a good ghost."

She turned and walked in front.

The twin-tailed girl felt that she had been sincere and weak enough. The spirit caller had also given up on sealing her just now. She was full of confidence, but she felt a scorching white light coming from behind her.

She turned around in disbelief, her eyes widening as she looked at the golden cage in Shen Chen's hand.

Shen Chen's fingertips pointed forward, his hair fluttering without wind. He watched the twin-tailed girl turn around and said slowly, "Divine Number, Seal."

The golden square flew towards the twin-tailed girl and swallowed her.

Chen Yuanyuan was also stunned by this sudden development.

The twin-tailed girl screamed, unable to accept it, "Why!"

"If you're really a good ghost, why didn't you tell me when you knew I was looking for Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan?"

The twin-tailed girl was stunned and said in a panic, "Th-That's because you're a spirit caller, and I'm a ghost. I was afraid you wouldn't believe me. Please let me go, I really haven't done anything bad."

Because of the tearing pain, like being burned by fire, and fear, the twin-tailed girl knelt on the ground and looked at Shen Chen pleadingly, reaching out her hand to explain.

"You're lying." Shen Chen said softly, his face expressionless, "Since you're dead, rest in peace."

"Ah!!! It hurts, it hurts!" The square wall of light trapped her. She kept beating on it, making banging sounds, and finally turned into a piece of light in her cries, "Save me! Mom --"

Chen Yuanyuan squeezed into Li Xiaogui's arms and hugged her tightly, like a turtle retreating into its shell, her face full of helplessness, bewilderment, and helplessness.

Shen Chen said, "The teacher told us a story about a ghost who deceived a human with a reason. It asked to borrow the human's body for a day to fulfill its wish in the human world, and promised to return the body to the human as long as it fulfilled its wish after borrowing it for a day, and would also give the human a lot of rewards. The human agreed because of their soft heart and greed, but later, the ghost did not return the body to the human."

Chen Yuanyuan, who had been momentarily shocked and softened by the twin-tailed girl's cry of "Mom", was stunned.

"Don't you think she's been playing the victim, confessing, and trying to get sympathy?"

Shen Chen looked at Chen Yuanyuan, "I guess she's that kind of ghost, and she seemed to have taken a liking to you just now."

["Seeing you reminds me of myself. I became a ghost because I got lost in the park and couldn't find my way home. I don't want you to become like me."]

["I miss my mother so much."]

Thinking of her words, Chen Yuanyuan shivered in Li Xiaogui's arms.

She really felt sorry for her at that time.

Li Xiaogui nodded and continued after Shen Chen, "Remember the road that girl told me to take? After the illusion disappeared, that road became the entrance to the back mountain forest. She said she wanted to take us to a safe place, so she told us to follow her, but it might not be safe there."

"The path is lit, but the forest is not. The shadow monster likes darkness and dislikes light. Why did she want to take me to the back mountain? And remember, the shadow monster left when it reached the edge of the streetlight. It wouldn't come to the path at all."

Chen Yuanyuan's heart was pounding as she listened.

So everything she said about their safety and being worried about them was a lie.

Shen Chen said, "I saw that monster when I was looking for you. That's a filth spawn. Filth spawn can't create illusions, it can only devour."

And only the twin-tailed girl was there.

Chen Yuanyuan was given a clear answer.

Chen Yuanyuan suddenly felt a little sad: It felt like she was the only fool here.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuanyuan hugged Li Xiaogui even tighter.

Li Xiaogui patted her head, "That's why Daddy is right, you can't go with strangers."

Shen Chen said, "Okay, let's go home."

Chen Yuanyuan nodded quickly.

Li Xiaogui: "Which way do we go?"

There was a fork in the road by the swing, with many directions.

Shen Chen pointed in the opposite direction to the one the female ghost had pointed in, "This way, we came in from here, right?"

Li Xiaogui shook her head honestly, her light brown eyes looking at him, "It's too dark, I don't recognize it."

Shen Chen: "..."

He looked at the intersection with an expressionless face and was silent for two seconds. Just as he was about to say with certainty that this was the right way...

At this time, Chen Yuanyuan raised her hand and pointed to the other side, to the right of the direction Shen Chen was pointing, and said, "That, it should be this way. I remember the way."

Shen Chen immediately changed his words, "Then this way."

Shen Chen even secretly breathed a sigh of relief that he didn't have to recognize the way.

Just as they were about to leave, Chen Yuanyuan was suddenly startled by a black shadow beside her and jumped up, "Ah!"

Li Xiaogui: "What's wrong?"

Chen Yuanyuan looked over and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's nothing, I was startled by the shadow of the leaves."

Li Xiaogui followed Chen Yuanyuan's gaze and felt that there was something strange about it, "That doesn't look like the shadow of leaves?"

Shen Chen narrowed his eyes, "That's a filth spawn."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and effortlessly removed it.

Shen Chen said, "Let's go."

Li Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan nodded.

After they left, a smaller black shadow quietly slipped out and quickly flowed to the place where the twin-tailed girl had been sealed. It rummaged around for something, and finally found a black soul fragment, which it swallowed. After swallowing it, it flowed to the place where the black shadow had been removed and searched in the same way, devouring.

After swallowing it, it quickly flowed towards Li Xiaogui, like a small shadow on the ground.

And behind the shadow, a huge black shadow slowly appeared. Its size was very large, but it moved very quickly when it squirmed, and it seemed to have a target, moving forward very clearly. It even stopped abruptly every time it reached an uncertain place, splattering many small black pieces that flew away in all directions.

After carefully confirming, it continued to squirm quickly, as if something was attracting it...

...

Shen Chen would find a small filth spawn every time he walked a certain distance, but filth spawn were born out of thin air all the time, just like dust and garbage. It was very common. He would clean up the garbage when he had time, but now was not the time to do cleaning. He didn't stop to clean up every time he saw a filth spawn because the most important thing was to take Li Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan out of the park.

"Shua, shua, shua"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk"

"Hoo -- hoo --"

Li Xiaogui: "Did you hear any strange noises?"

"It's the wind, right?" Chen Yuanyuan held Li Xiaogui's hand and turned her head, then her eyes widened as if she had seen something terrifying, "...Ah, ah --"

A huge black shadow was rapidly approaching behind them.

"It's that monster!"

In an instant, the monster caught up to them and loomed over them.

The black shadow arched its body and swooped down towards them as Chen Yuanyuan's pupils continued to dilate.

Shen Chen reacted quickly and stood in front of Li Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan, his palm drawing a huge circle clockwise.

"Bang!"

The black monster hit the circular golden light shield, making a huge sound. Shen Chen frowned, his body forced back two steps by the huge impact.

"Bang, bang, bang!" The black shadow kept hitting forward, and the golden light shone on the side of the monster's face and the three children's faces, printing a layer of golden light on them.

"Crack!" A spiderweb-like crack snaked out from the center of the light shield, and then it shattered in an instant.

The black shadow took advantage of the situation and charged at them again. Shen Chen's face didn't change, and his hands were quick. He immediately put up another light shield, bigger than the previous one, to block it.

Shen Chen's hands kept pushing forward, his ten fingers stretched straight, pushing the black shadow back with a bang.

The black shadow was knocked back by the reaction force and fell heavily to the ground.

Shen Chen withdrew his hand and chased after it. His fingertips quickly formed a square, reflecting on the huge body of the black shadow.

"Divine Number, Seal!"

White light emitted from the monster's body. The monster twisted and struggled in the light prison, and the golden light flowed in Shen Chen's black pupils.

Li Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan both swallowed.

Li Xiaogui's right hand flickered, and black particles appeared and disappeared at the edge of her palm.

"Bang!"

The entire golden square exploded, and the black shadow rushed out from the golden fragments towards Shen Chen.

Shen Chen was as small as an ant in front of its huge body, the visual difference was stark.

"Eat, eat, I want to eat!" A low, heavy voice came from the black shadow's body.

Chen Yuanyuan: "It, it doesn't have a mouth, does it? How is it talking! Ah! Th-That's... its mouth?"

As she spoke, she saw a large gash split open in the center of the black shadow's body. Shen Chen also saw it, and he frowned, "It seems to have mutated and evolved. You guys go first!"

As Shen Chen spoke, he stretched out his palm towards it, and a huge golden flame burst out of his palm, knocking it back. Shen Chen ran towards it, his figure agilely circling the black shadow.

But Li Xiaogui and Chen Yuanyuan didn't listen. Instead, they started to panic.

With the last blow, Shen Chen's hand was bitten by the black shadow. His body suddenly froze, and his face changed slightly, "Spirit Devouring?"

Shen Chen gritted his teeth, trying to pull his hand out, but he couldn't.

His spiritual power was constantly being absorbed by the monster.

He pursed his lips, his face a little pale.

Li Xiaogui couldn't help but want to rush out. She moved her shoulder, then suddenly seemed to remember something. She took off her schoolbag and squatted on the ground, quickly rummaging through it.

Her small hands rustled through the messy bag, quickly picking things out. Soon she found what she was looking for. Her eyes lit up, and she took out the small yellow duck bag from her schoolbag, pinched the zipper, and pulled it open with a swoosh. She pulled out a cell phone from inside.

The phone seemed a bit big for her palm. She stood up with the phone and stuffed it into Chen Yuanyuan's hand, "Call my dad!"

Then, without thinking, she dashed towards Shen Chen.

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