There was a hint of trembling in Nan Kezhan's voice, making it hard to tell whether it was fear or excitement.
Even he didn't expect that such a strange thing would actually happen in front of his eyes.
Could this faceless young man in front of me really be a ghost?!
Although the young man swatting the ball had no face, Jiang Xiaobei could feel that it seemed to be smiling at him, constantly sending out silent smiles that exploded in his mind.
"Jiejiejie..."
The terrifying laughter made Jiang Xiaobei lose consciousness for a moment, and his eyes seemed to be in a trance. He seemed to see a dark shadow in the young man's body.
His vision was hazy, and Jiang Xiaobei wanted to take a closer look, but the figure suddenly picked up the ball and blended into the shadow of the wall.
"etc!"
Nan Kezhan rushed forward, wanting to catch the young man, but in the end he was still a step too slow, allowing the young man to escape into the wall and disappear. This made Nan Kezhan feel a little regretful and wanted to go again.
I went to look for traces of it, but the sound of hitting the ball no longer sounded.
"Xiao Bei, did you see that boy shooting the ball just now?!" Nan Kezhan said.
"I see it!"
Jiang Xiaobei nodded. When he looked at the blank face just now, he seemed to have seen something else. He was sure that the boy was not a ghost, but an elf with ghost attributes.
"What it was holding in its hand just now must be a shadow ball!" Jiang Xiaobei reminded.
Shadow Ball, a skill with ghost attributes, is formed by the gathering of ghost energy. It does not have a physical body, but in the hands of the boy, it is like a real ball and is flexible. When it hits the ground, it will make a dull sound.
The collision sound will continue to bounce back. To be able to do this, it can only be said that it has a very high degree of control over ghost energy.
And more than that, to make the shadow ball condense into a substance, how much must it be compressed.
That elf must have quite terrifying strength.
After Jiang Xiaobei's reminder, Nan Kezhan immediately reacted, "Yes, that black ball is indeed a shadow ball..."
"So it's not a ghost!"
"But an elf with ghost attributes!"
After coming to this conclusion, Nan Kezhan couldn't help but become more and more excited. As he determined to become a ghost doctor, contacting elves with ghost attributes was naturally the most basic step. Could it be that the faceless boy he met earlier was...
Is there a humanoid Pokémon that hasn’t been discovered yet?!
Pokémon with humanoid appearances are not uncommon. Typical ones are Miss Lip, Gardevoir, and non-typical ones include Mengsong Cactus, Jackrabbit...
Therefore, it is not unacceptable to have a ghost-type Pokémon that really looks like a human boy.
"What new species of ghost-type Pokémon will that be?!" Nan Kezhan muttered to himself.
"New varieties……"
Jiang Xiaobei pondered slightly, but he didn't think so. The faceless boy's body might just be an illusion formed by the elf, and it was a disguise it put on for itself.
This kind of trick shouldn't be difficult for ghost-type Pokémon.
For example, the Guisi family, the dream demon, the cursed doll... they can all transform into faceless teenagers, and they can also learn the skill of Shadow Ball.
However, Jiang Xiaobei had a vague feeling that it was not them.
At that moment, a vague figure appeared in his eyes, and he vaguely seemed to see the outline of a shadow. That appearance was not a ghost dream monster or a cursed doll.
But what kind of elf could it be?!
For a while, Jiang Xiaobei couldn't find a matching partner again!
"It's not necessarily a new species..." Nan Kezhan shook his head, "Most elves with ghost attributes have the ability to confuse human eyes. Maybe the appearance of the faceless boy is just what it wants us to see.
It's just an illusion, what's hidden under that skin is its true body."
"But, what kind of elf could that be?!"
"Ghost? Dream monster? Cursed doll?..." Nan Kezhan said to himself, raising many possibilities and almost reciting all the elves with ghost attributes that he knew.
"It can't be Lunala, can it?!"
Lunala is a Lunar Pokémon with dual attributes of superpower and ghost, and is also one of the legendary Pokémon.
Jiang Xiaobei felt that this possibility was almost zero.
However, it did remind him that among the ghost-type Pokémon, there is also a special phantom beast, Marshado!
A shadow Pokémon with both fighting and ghost attributes.
He is timid by nature and likes to hide his body in inconspicuous shadows and will not show his true appearance in front of others.
Thinking about it this way, Jiang Xiaobei felt that there was a high possibility that the faceless boy from before was Ma Shado.
Jiang Xiaobei told Nan Kezhan his conjecture.
After pondering for a while, Nan Kezhan couldn't help but show an expression of admiration, "Yes! There is also Marshado! How could I forget it!"
"Xiao Bei, after hearing what you said, I think it's really possible that it could be Marshado!"
"I remembered!"
Nan Kezhan suddenly slapped his head and said excitedly: "About the legend of the faceless boy, I seem to have seen similar reports before, but it's been a long time ago. Come with me!"
Nan Kezhan took Jiang Xiaobei to his bedroom on the second floor. He took out a thick octavo notebook from the cabinet and opened it to a page with ancient history.
There was a clipping from an old newspaper on it, which reported a supernatural event.
“Horrifying and super supernatural!”
"A faceless ghost man suddenly appeared in the Bai family's ancient house, and the Bai family's daughter fainted and was hospitalized!" Nan Kezhan read out while looking at the report above.
The content of the report was mainly about the faceless ghost man and the words that the Bai family's daughter kept talking in her sleep when she was in a coma.
The ball...has no face...the boy...
Based on these few words, the media at the time wrote a manuscript based on their own guesses. However, this manuscript was quite interesting. It also raised the conjecture that Bai's daughter encountered a ghost Pokémon.
When Nan Kezhan saw this report, he was envious for a long time. He wished that he was the one who met the faceless boy.
Unexpectedly, until today, he actually met her.
From this point of view, the faceless boy at that time should be the same elf as today.
And its identity is most likely a fantasy beast with dual attributes of ghost and fighting.
Machado!!
Looking at the girl lying unconscious on the hospital bed in the report, Jiang Xiaobei suddenly felt a familiar feeling, as if he had seen her before somewhere.
But all of a sudden I couldn't remember it.
Immediately, Jiang Xiaobei shook his head and stopped thinking about it. At this moment, what he cared about more was, Mashado!
At that moment, he seemed to feel a hint of hostility from its body. This time, it seemed that he was coming for him.
This feeling made Jiang Xiaobei feel a little uneasy in his heart.
However, how could he, an ordinary person, attract the attention of a fantasy beast?!
Come to think of it, he must have thought too much!
Maybe it was just a coincidence that he was chosen by Marshado as a target for teasing, and it just wanted to scare him?!
…
Back in the guest room, Nan Kezhan was still a little excited. He didn't expect that he would see the legendary elf.
Machado!
Maybe even his father has never seen it with his own eyes!
Although he only saw its transformed appearance and did not see its true appearance, it still made Nan Kezhan very excited. He believed that maybe he would see Masha again soon.
Many.
Jiang Xiaobei also feels this way!
However, unlike Nan Kezhan's expectations, Jiang Xiaobei's heart was filled with worry.
The moment they looked at each other, the laughter that echoed in his mind and the images that appeared made Jiang Xiaobei vaguely feel that the Mashad was full of danger and that it must have some unknown purpose.
Hope, this is all just overthinking!
Otherwise, if you are really targeted by such an elf, the days to come will probably be difficult.
After drinking a cup of tea and calming down the turbulent emotions in his heart, Jiang Xiaobei finally set off with Nan Kezhan towards the cinema.
Calculating the time, they should go out, otherwise the movie tickets they finally got will be wasted.
Perhaps it was because of the residual excitement of seeing Ma Shaduo that Nanke kept talking about it all the way. Of course, it was mainly about various supernatural events. It was the information he had collected from various places since he was a child.
He shared it with Jiang Xiaobei without hesitation.
"Xiao Bei, have you heard of Ziyuan Island?"
"It is said that it is a special cemetery for elves. After many elves died, they were buried on that island. As time passed, the remaining resentment of the elves turned into ghosts. Every time at midnight,
He will emerge from the tombstone and float around the island!"
"They are looking for their trainer. It can be said that there is still a chance to see them again!"
"Tell me, is the wind chime in Midnight Bell also a ghost like this..."
“When I think about it, I always feel that these elves’ ghosts are so pitiful!”
"If I have the chance, I would like to take a look at Ziyuan Island. It would be great if I could really see the ghosts of the elves. I have many things to say to them..."
"..."
Listening to Nan Kezhan's words, Jiang Xiaobei didn't feel anything yet, but the driver swallowed hard.
He was working the night shift today and had just started his shift. The first order he took turned out to be so weird.
Especially this little boy who kept talking nonsense and supernatural topics from the moment he got in the car. There was an indescribable low pressure surrounding him, and from the moment he got in the car, he felt waves of coldness.
He always felt like there was something invisible around him, blowing cold air on his neck.
Listening to what he said all the way, it made people panic even more!
Who knows, he got goosebumps all over his body early!
Looking at the time displayed on the car, there were less than ten minutes left before midnight. He couldn't help but take a deep breath, secretly feeling sad in his heart. How could he do it in the middle of the night?
I just took this job, and yet I couldn’t let anyone else take the next order.
At this moment, he just wanted to get these two people to their destination quickly, and then go home and sleep immediately!
No more driving tonight!
However, he had just gone to work, and if he went home immediately from get off work, his income for the day would be wiped out.
The driver of Diche had no choice but to bite the bullet and deliver the two of them to their destination before twelve o'clock.
After the two got off the car, the driver didn't even confirm that the money had arrived, but just stepped on the accelerator and drove off.
He didn't want to stay with the two of them for another minute. At this moment, he naturally wanted to go as far as he could and as fast as he could.
"call!"
"Finally got rid of those two guys!"
The driver of Diche took a long breath and said to himself.
He accidentally glanced at the rearview mirror, and then looked back, but this glance made him break out in cold sweat, and his hands holding the steering wheel began to tremble violently.
The taxi driver swallowed hard, his head stiffened and he did not dare to move at all, but his eyes quietly moved up and glanced at the rearview mirror again.
I saw a faceless young man appearing in the back seat.
In his hands, he also held a ball as black as ink.
"ah--!"
The driver of the car screamed and slammed on the brakes.
The sudden sudden braking and the inertia brought by it caused the figure in the back seat to rush forward unexpectedly, directly penetrated the windshield in front, and then got into the shadow under the car and disappeared.
.
Seeing this scene with his own eyes, the driver of Diche immediately opened the door and fled in panic, shouting loudly.