Even hybrid monsters have their day

Chapter 235 Believe

"What do you want from me?" Geng Miaowan sighed helplessly and plopped down next to Chen Ziming. Why couldn't anyone just believe her? Peng Yuxian was like that, Lu Fangtong was like that, and now this couple in front of her was the same.

Only Luan Hao believed her without a doubt the moment she spoke. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but say in her mind, "You're the best."

He received a dismissive "hmm" from Luan Hao.

Chen Jinyue waved his hand and said, "No matter what, we won't believe you."

Sun Xinyi was, after all, a woman. Although she didn't agree with her actions, her attitude wasn't as resolute as Chen Jinyue's. She tugged at Chen Jinyue, then said to Geng Miaowan, "Miss Geng, we really have nothing for you to take. Please let us go back. We promise not to tell anyone about this."

Geng Miaowan turned to look at the side, then turned back to the two of them and said, "Two nights before his birthday, you promised him you would take him to the zoo after his birthday, because he really likes the elephant in the zoo."

As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Jinyue and Sun Xinyi's faces turned deathly pale, as if someone had drained all the blood from their bodies, leaving them only with a layer of white skin.

Sun Xinyi's legs could no longer support her weight and she collapsed to the ground. This time, she couldn't even make a sound. Her trembling mouth couldn't utter a single sound, as if something was blocking her throat.

Chen Jin hurriedly tried to help her up, but he couldn't pull her up from the ground no matter how many times he tried.

Chen Ziming's accident happened the morning after they agreed to his request, and no one else knew about it. Chen Jinyue's face turned fierce as he charged at Geng Miaowan. If Peng Yuxian hadn't stopped him, he probably would have knocked her to the ground.

"Who are you? Did you kidnap our Xiaoming?" He was absolutely certain that Chen Ziming had told her those words. That was the only thing he could think of right now. She must have kidnapped Xiaoming and then tricked him into saying it.

Upon hearing this, Sun Xinyi scrambled over to Geng Miaowan's side, grabbed her feet, and cried, "Girl, how much money do you want? As long as you can give Xiaoming back to me, we'll scrape together every penny we have."

Geng Miaowan suddenly felt a mix of amusement and exasperation. How did things turn out that she was now the one suspected of being a kidnapper?

“I’m telling the truth. I didn’t kidnap Xiaoming. Xiaoming is really dead, and his ghost is standing right in front of you,” she emphasized again.

"Impossible!" Chen Jinyue clearly didn't believe her. "If you don't tell the truth, I'm calling the police."

After saying that, he actually took out his phone, but his expression froze when he saw the phone screen.

"What's wrong?" Seeing him frozen in place, Sun Xinyi leaned closer and then froze as well.

Instead of displaying the usual interface, the screen showed a picture of a distorted tree drawn with red lines.

"How is this possible?" Chen Jinyue pressed the back button. The homepage and other buttons didn't respond at all. Moreover, he was extremely familiar with this painting; it was the first tree he had been taught to draw step by step.

"How could this be?" Sun Xinyi looked at Pingmo, her heart filled with shock.

Chen Jinyue threw the phone at Geng Miaowan, "What exactly did you do to my phone?"

The phone stopped a centimeter away from Geng Miaowan's face, as if blocked by an invisible wall, and slowly slid down into her hand.

The three people in the courtyard were all stunned by this.

Needless to say, Chen Jinyue and Sun Xinyi were also surprised. Even Peng Yuxian, who was already mentally prepared, widened his eyes when he saw this scene, wondering if he was seeing things.

"The phone was in your pocket the whole time, what could I do to it?" Geng Miaowan picked up the phone, looked at it, and then handed it back to Chen Jinyue. "It's none of my business. Xiaoming did it."

Chen Jinyue gave her a cold look, actually because he didn't know how to react to what was happening before him. Only he and Sun Xinyi had seen the painting; even Chen Ziming's grandparents hadn't seen it. That afternoon, after they finished it, Chen Ziming accidentally spilled water on the painting while drinking. He cried bitterly for a whole night because of it.

How could this be?

Chen Jinyue truly didn't know what to do, but Sun Xinyi was even more agitated than him. "Miss Geng, is what you said really true? Is Xiaoming really already..."

She simply couldn't bring herself to utter the words 'dead,' words that carried such despair.

Geng Miaowan nodded and pointed in the direction of Chen Ziming, "He's standing right next to me right now."

Sun Xinyi swayed twice more, tears welling in her eyes, but her face still showed some struggle as she asked, "But if he really is... then why can't the police find his body? Do you know where his body is?"

Geng Miaowan shook her head. "I don't know either. He seemed to only want to talk to you guys. I had no other choice but to come to you. You might not believe it, but he really was standing right next to me."

Chen Jinyue and Sun Xinyi both showed signs of softening, yet they remained skeptical. They found the events of the night strange, even unscientific, but they also wondered how ghosts could exist. If their Xiaoming had truly become a ghost, why hadn't he ever come looking for them?

All of this puzzled them.

As if she could read their minds, Geng Miaowan spoke up again, "He's trapped in this courtyard because he has unresolved issues in his heart, and he can't leave."

"A knot in one's heart?" Both of them were puzzled. What kind of knot could such a young child have in his heart?

Seeing that they were both looking at her at the same time, she quickly said, "Don't ask me, he won't tell me." If he were willing to tell her, none of this would have happened. A single phone call would have been enough to expose the murderer, and then he could have been properly buried.

Since ancient times, burying the dead is considered the greatest respect one can show them.

"Then...can I see him?" Sun Xinyi asked hesitantly. Although she tried her best to remain calm, the tears falling from her eyes betrayed her true feelings.

Just as Geng Miaowan was about to say no, she suddenly remembered that there was a powerful and cunning demon in her mind's eye, and asked him, "Don't you have any way to let them meet with Xiaoming?" (To be continued.)