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Chapter 109 An Opportunity
Xu Niannian clearly heard Ji Shanqing say those words.
Just pretend she didn't...?
She didn't know what had happened at the Fourth Middle School, nor did she know how much despair Ji Shanqing felt when she said those words.
Xu Niannian's mind wavered for a brief moment, but she quickly regained her composure, stood up abruptly, pushed open the door of the toilet stall, and ran outside, staggering but with unwavering determination.
She wanted to know what had happened, why Ji Shanqing had become a female ghost after her death, and why Ji Shanqing had said something like, "Just pretend I don't have a granddaughter."
However, Xu Niannian also knew very well that what mattered most now was herself. Rather than investigating the truth, Xu Niannian wanted to live.
Even though Xu Niannian knew she was likely to lose to Ji Shanqing, she still wanted to escape; she didn't want to sit idly by and wait for her doom.
Ji Shanqing didn't chase after her. She watched Xu Niannian stumble and run forward, even though she knew she didn't have much of a chance to escape. She still held her phone in one hand and leaned against the wall with the other as she staggered.
"I'm running outside, Star," she said, panting. "I... I don't know what to do. Should I run towards a crowd?"
"But what if I run towards a crowded place, and she follows me there... won't someone else get hurt?"
She sobbed softly, "Star, tell me, what should I do now?"
Jiang Xingni had already set off when she uttered those words about Grandma Ji Shanqing.
After all, Grandma Ji is already old. Even if she can walk dozens of miles of mountain roads every day, Jiang Xingni can't just rush her to school like that.
At that time, the person targeted by Ji Shanqing was not Xu Niannian, but Jiang Xingni herself.
Therefore, Jiang Xingni and Xiao Jiming exchanged a glance and saw similar expressions in each other's eyes.
"Song Juexiao." Xiao Jiming turned around. "You and Su Yanzhi stay here and take Grandma Ji inside."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Xingni glanced at Xiao Jiming.
"...At least, they should be allowed to meet." Xiao Jiming looked at Jiang Xingni and said softly.
Jiang Xingni did not refute this statement. It wasn't that she couldn't empathize with Xiao Jiming's words; she was simply thinking that perhaps Ji Shanqing didn't want to see her grandmother?
In a sense, she could completely guess what Ji Shanqing was thinking.
She was no longer the good girl expected to have a bright future.
She killed people, and even though those people, in a sense, led to her current situation, she still killed them.
Will Grandma forgive her? Will Grandma love her? Will Grandma be disappointed in her?
Ji Shanqing was unaware of these things.
She didn't even know that her grandmother had always written "granddaughter" on the wall outside the school. She didn't know that even if she forgot everything, her grandmother still vaguely remembered that she had a granddaughter, and was still willing to make the journey again and again for this memory that everyone called "false".
She was just thinking—
Grandma may not even remember that she has a granddaughter. Even if she does, she may not know Ji Shanqing's face or name. Even if they meet, who can guarantee that Grandma's love for her can break through so many strange constraints in the school?
Who can guarantee that Grandma will recognize her granddaughter, who has become non-human, at a glance?
Will this meeting cause Grandma any trouble?
In the end, all my thoughts turned to, "Forget it, just pretend she never had a granddaughter like me."
That way, she won't be sad because of me.
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Jiang Xingni, relying on his extensive experience in scaling walls, jumped onto the top of the wall in just a few steps, and then casually flipped over and jumped down.
Xiao Jiming followed behind Jiang Xingni and briefly introduced her to the information he hadn't had time to tell her before.
—Only after he promised Ji Shanqing that he would deal with Zhao Henshan did Ji Shanqing reveal her true purpose.
She wanted to have Xiao Jiming's body so she could get rid of Zhao Henshan herself.
Then, after everything was over, she wanted to see her parents and grandmother one last time.
She didn't dare to look at them with her true appearance, so she could only choose someone who had no relation to their family and look at them from afar.
Jiang Xingni didn't stop. She figured out her current location and then ran towards the teaching building without hesitation, calmly reassuring Xu Niannian on the other end of the phone as she ran.
"Don't worry, I'm almost there."
"Hide, Niannian, I will find you, believe me."
She even managed to spare the time to respond to Xiao Jiming's information exchange with gestures.
And so Xiao Jiming and Ji Shanqing fought—Jiang Xingni remembered this plot; she had seen this part while reading a comic.
However, because she didn't have the information she needed, Jiang Xingni didn't pay too much attention to the development of the plot.
"Ji Shanqing has the strange object that caused them to become monsters," Xiao Jiming suddenly said.
Jiang Xingni paused noticeably for a moment.
Just like that wordless book, many strange creatures and realms were born from strange objects.
"You want to get that strange object from Ji Shanqing." Jiang Xingni quickly connected these clues in his mind and finally came to a conclusion.
Xiao Jiming did not intend to defend himself.
He nodded calmly.
This time, the monsters they faced were different from those before.
Although the monsters in the shadow puppet show are also monsters transformed from humans, they have clearly lost their human consciousness, and what remains is only pure killing intent.
Even Song Juexiao had no qualms about killing them; they were more like a pack of wild beasts than human beings.
But the strange creatures in the school were different, whether it was Ji Shanqing, Zhao Henshan, or the rest of the strange creatures whose names Xiao Jiming did not know.
From Ji Shanqing's brief narration, it is clear that they are not simply ghosts, but rather the kind of ghosts that Xiao Jiming has read in those horror stories, ghosts that still possess humanity.
Moreover, they were essentially victims, but due to the influence of the strange object and Zhao Henshan, they went from being victims to perpetrators.
They could certainly use their supernatural abilities to attack these monsters, but firstly, they didn't know the conditions for their attacks, and secondly—Xiao Jiming didn't want them to suffer the fate of having their souls scattered after death.
"Ji Shanqing is hiding too well. I don't know where she is, and I can't find a suitable opportunity," Xiao Jiming said calmly.
"But if she cares about her grandmother... perhaps this is an opportunity."