"Um … Uncle, are you also here to attend my parents' funeral?"
Because Xu Shenxing was in a daze, the girl asked curiously.
"Yes, that's right."
Xu Shenxing nodded reflexively.
Then he suddenly realized: What the hell is an uncle?! Do I look like I'm that old?! I'm only five years older than you, okay?!
"Are you a relative on my mother's side or my father's side?"
I'm your brother!
In the end, Xu Shenxing didn't say this sentence out loud. He just answered casually, "I'm on your mother's side, and in terms of blood, I'm quite close …"
"But I've never seen you before."
The girl said with certainty. Her pair of limpid eyes were fixed on Xu Shenxing. Even the latter, whose face was already thick enough to withstand the starship's main cannon, felt a little uncomfortable under her gaze.
"Because I have some conflicts with your mother. Since you were born, I've never seen her again. It's normal that you don't know me."
Xu Shenxing explained dryly, "Just like how I don't know you … By the way, what's your name?"
"Chiyuketsu Yi."
"Isn't your father's surname Cao?"
"I took my mother's surname." The girl's expression said 'You don't even know this? Are you here to freeload?', which made Xu Shenxing very embarrassed.
I'm here for business. The one who wants to freeload is Mo Li, okay?!
Unfortunately, he couldn't say this out loud.
"How's your hand?" So Xu Shenxing tried to change the topic, "I heard that it's fractured."
"Yes, the doctor said that it will take another two months to remove the cast." The girl nodded with a sad expression. Obviously, this topic reminded her of the previous car accident.
Realizing that he had messed up, Xu Shenxing hurriedly changed the topic again.
"Is this a hibiscus tree?" This time, he set his sights on the few hibiscus trees in the parterre that did not fit in with the surrounding environment. "This kind of thing is not common around here."
"My father planted it himself when I was born. He said that before my mother was pregnant with me, he dreamed of a lush hibiscus tree. The next day, my mother found out that I was pregnant with her at the hospital. Initially, he wanted to name me Hibiscus, but the fortune-teller said that my fate wasn't suitable to have too many hibiscus in my name, so he changed it to Chiyuketsu."
"…"
He seemed to have accidentally stepped on a bomb again.
But this way, Xu Shenxing also understood why the girl was staring at the hibiscus trees in a daze. It turned out that there was such a reason behind it.
Compared to the large villa occupied by a group of strangers, it was clear that these few hibiscus trees were more suitable for the girl's longing for her parents.
Just as Xu Shenxing was still hesitating whether he should try to find a new topic, the girl suddenly said softly, "My parents were killed."
"What?"
Although the girl's voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz, Xu Shenxing still heard it with his extraordinary hearing.
This surprised our protagonist, and at the same time, made his heart sink.
Even if he did not have a good impression of his biological mother, and they had not seen each other since he was five years old, no matter what, she was still his biological mother.
If the car accident was just an accident, then it would be fine. But if there was really someone behind it, then at least he had to find the culprit and avenge his biological mother. It could also be considered as repaying his biological mother's kindness for bringing him into this world.
"Do you know anything?" Xu Shenxing asked the girl in a low voice.
"Some time before my parents were killed, a strange thing appeared in our house. It was like a black shadow, and it always disappeared in a flash. Occasionally at night, its footsteps would be heard in the corridor …" The girl seemed to have recalled something terrifying, and her petite body trembled slightly. "I told my parents, and the nanny, but they didn't believe me."
"…"
Children generally had a stronger sense of perception than adults, so most of the time, children were more likely to see supernatural creatures.
Although Xu Shenxing did not do much research in this area, he used to read in various literature books, such as "babies can see ghosts, so most of the time, they will act strangely or suddenly cry", and so on.
Compared to boys of the same age, girls were more likely to encounter ghosts due to their overall yin fate.
"The day before the accident, I was playing in the yard with my father, and then I saw, at the window on the third floor of the north side of the villa, there was a …"
The girl turned her head and pointed at the villa, probably wanting to point out the thing she saw to Xu Shenxing, but she stopped halfway through her words.
Xu Shenxing, who felt strange, glanced at her and found that the girl's face was pale, and her expression was frightened. Her pupils had shrunk as if she had seen something terrifying.
Xu Shenxing looked in the direction her finger was pointing, and he was slightly stunned.
In the window she pointed out, a black shadow with snow-white eyes was looking down at them.
Using the window as a reference, the black shadow's physique was much stronger than a human's. Its shoulder width was more than 1.5 meters, and its height was about 3 meters as high as Jiang Jin. If it was purely seen as a silhouette, although it looked like a human at first glance, it did not have a head upon closer inspection. What Xu Shenxing originally thought was its eyes was actually closer to its chest.
"The curse … is not over …" The girl beside Xu Shenxing's legs went weak and she collapsed to the ground, her whole body trembling uncontrollably. Her small face was frighteningly pale, without a trace of blood, "Its next target … is me?"
Xu Shenxing also came to at this time, and waved his hand, "Mo Li!"
Mo Li, "Meow meow meow?"
"…" Xu Shenxing weakly covered his forehead.
Perhaps feeling that Xu Shenxing's reaction was not right, Mo Li used his hand to make a cat's ear shape on his head, "Meow meow meow?"
I didn't ask you to act cute! Let me see the atmosphere!
Xu Shenxing felt even more exhausted.
Although it was indeed very cute …
"I'm going to investigate that thing, do you want to come with me?"
The deeply sealed Mo Li who had turned into a young girl was temporarily unreliable, so Xu Shenxing decided to personally go. He asked Chiyuketsu.
"L-Investigate?" The girl blinked her eyes, as if she did not understand Xu Shenxing's meaning.
"Investigate: a verb, generally speaking, it refers to conducting an investigation in order to understand the situation," Xu Shenxing said seriously.
"I didn't mean that … Aren't you afraid?!" The girl asked in surprise.
"I've never believed in these supernatural things, I only believe in my own fists." Xu Shenxing continued to answer seriously, and secretly added in his heart, Also my sword and Mo Li's Italian Cannon.
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