"……"

"……"

Jiang Che craned his neck to take a look.

The wooden box seemed empty.

"Where's your pretty head...?" Jiang Che asked.

Since Xiaoman didn't have a head, he couldn't see her expression.

However...

Jiang Che could feel that she was angry, disappointed, and dejected...

Xiaoman said, "He broke his promise."

Jiang Che asked, "Who?"

Xiaoman walked to the corner, squatted down, and hugged her knees in silence.

Even without a head, she still looked pitiful, evoking sympathy.

After a long while, Xiaoman said, "I had someone help me find my head, and I gave him a lot of Spectral Coins. If he hadn't found it, this box wouldn't be here unless... he gave up."

Jiang Che glanced at the empty wooden box and frowned slightly, "Could it be that the money wasn't enough?"

Xiaoman replied, "No, it's not about the money. I gave him a billion."

Jiang Che said, "Hmm, then it shouldn't be about the money..."

"Hmm???"

"Hmm?!"

"A billion?!"

Xiaoman said, "Yes, so it's not a money issue. He abandoned the task and sent the empty box back."

"Whoa!"

"Whoa!!!"

Jiang Che was now extremely excited.

A billion!

A billion!

Ten billion Spectral Coins, damn it!

At this moment, Xiaoman returned to Jiang Che's body, "Let's go. I should have some money left at the Heaven and Earth Trading Company. You can go and get it later; it's all yours."

Xiaoman was very disappointed.

The pretty head she longed for was gone.

Not even a clue was left behind.

If they wanted to continue looking for the head, it would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

Suddenly, Jiang Che said, "Don't worry, we'll find it slowly."

"And that guy who broke his promise."

"Your business is my business, your things are my things."

"I'll make him cough up the money."

Xiaoman: "..."

Favorability increased to 70.

Xiaoman: "Thank you."

Jiang Che sneered inwardly.

Ten billion, could it just go down the drain like that?

Next, Jiang Che went out and retrieved the last bit of Spectral Coins Xiaoman had stored at the Heaven and Earth Trading Company.

Including Jiang Che's own, it totaled just over ten thousand.

It was clear that Xiaoman used to be quite wealthy, but it seemed she was swindled.

Cute, but headless...

After leaving the Heaven and Earth Trading Company, they took another taxi to Fractured Bone High School.

On the way, Jiang Che couldn't help but sigh.

The Mystic World didn't seem as simple as the books described.

In the books, the Mystic World was like a game.

Humans could enter the Mystic World to complete quests and earn various rewards.

Online, there were mostly guides for various challenges.

However, Jiang Che could now feel that the Mystic World was a complete world.

It wasn't just a "game."

It had its own way of operating, even a mysterious civilization system.

Jiang Che was lost in thought, and Xiaoman seemed distracted too.

By the time Jiang Che snapped back to reality, the fog outside had thickened.

Nearly an hour had passed!

"Did we take a wrong turn?" Jiang Che asked.

The ghost driver didn't answer.

Jiang Che said, "I'm not from out of town; I know this place. Don't think you can scam me!"

At this moment, the ghost driver suddenly let out a cold laugh and said, "Not from out of town?"

"That's right, you're not from this world at all, heh heh..."

Not good!

Jiang Che cried out in his heart!

At this moment, the ghost driver's head turned 180 degrees.

A ghastly pale face with two shriveled eyeballs hung there.

"A delivered dinner, I'm so lucky today."

The ghost driver opened his mouth.

It grew larger and larger.

The gaping maw was close enough to swallow Jiang Che's head whole!

Jiang Che's hair stood on end.

The blood-red caregiver uniform was an E-level Taboo Object, even a D-level Uncanny couldn't see through it!

How did this ghost driver see through it?

Could he be above D-level Uncanny?!

This was completely beyond Jiang Che's current capability!

The ghost driver let out a sinister laugh.

A human dared to get in his car.

It was laughable.

"Haha..."

Just as he was about to bite off Jiang Che's head.

"Bang!"

Something slammed hard into his chin!

A surge of immense force burst forth!

His head smashed through the car roof, hanging outside.

His mouthful of sharp teeth was shattered!

Ghost Driver: "???"

Who am I?

Where am I?

What am I doing?

"(((;꒪ꈊ꒪;)))!!!"

"Whoa! My car! My car!"

At this moment.

Jiang Che's right arm turned from its original bronze color to a pale white.

Thanks to Xiaoman's power, his arm now felt very... very...

Very smooth...

Even though Jiang Che didn't know why it manifested this way.

But this overwhelming power.

The feeling of being able to take on a hundred opponents surged within him.

Xiaoman said, "I'm in a bad mood right now!"

At this moment, Jiang Che's right arm was fully controlled by Xiaoman.

Jiang Che pulled the ghost driver down.

Without giving him a chance to react, he slapped him hard!

"Smack!"

Blood and broken teeth flew out.

Ghost Driver: "Damn it..."

"Smack!"

"How dare you!"

"Smack!"

"You!"

"Smack smack smack smack!"

Forward slap, reverse slap, forward slap, reverse slap.

Soon, the ghost driver's head was beaten to a bloody pulp.

"Cough, cough, pfft..."

Ghost Driver: "Big brother, please, stop... stop."

"If you keep hitting, I'll explode."

At this moment, Jiang Che was also shocked.

Such a terrifying Uncanny, beaten into a pulp by Xiaoman, and she seemed so relaxed!

At this moment, Xiaoman leisurely said, "Just a D-level Uncanny, he just has the special ability to see through disguises like the caregiver uniform."

Jiang Che: "..."

Just a D-level Uncanny?

What kind of nonsense is this?

That was a D-level Uncanny.

You know, Zhou Yong from that Uncanny Bureau team had a ghostly spirit at D-level.

Yet a D-level Uncanny, in Xiaoman's hands, was no different from a little brother!

This was Xiaoman's true power.

Simply terrifying!

Jiang Che silently made a decision.

He was going to stick with Xiaoman.

At this moment, even though the ghost driver begged for mercy, Xiaoman had no intention of letting him go.

Xiaoman said, "I'll show you a head explosion."

With one slap, the head burst.

A true head explosion!

Inside the car, it was a mess.

Looking at his gradually recovering arm, Jiang Che asked, "Feeling better?"

Xiaoman: "Yes."

Jiang Che: "So how do we get back to school now?"

Xiaoman: "..."

Xiaoman said, "No worries, we have a car, don't we?"

Jiang Che: "You can drive?"

Xiaoman: "You can't even drive?"

Jiang Che: "???"

And so...

Jiang Che got out of the car and walked back to school.

Calculating the time.

It would be good if he could get to school before ten.

As a boarding student and a disciplinary officer.

He was supposed to be on duty after lights out at nine.

Who knows if the life counselor would be angry for "skipping work"...