# 484
Chapter 484 – The Ghost Girl
The deep-blue Han robe fluttered in the fist wind.
“You’re not Lin Qiye.” Jialan gripped the black fist, her eyes locked on Lin Qiye’s as she spoke seriously, “Who are you?”
Lin Qiye’s brows knitted; he reached into the air and summoned a snow-white long blade into his palm.
【White Slash】swept forward lightly. The snowy edge sliced the air with a clear ring and slashed straight at Jialan’s neck.
Jialan stood quietly in place, staring into Lin Qiye’s eyes, motionless.
The instant the blade was about to touch her skin, the muscles along Lin Qiye’s arm contracted, forcing the weapon to a halt mid-air. His body shook violently.
Surprise flashed in his eyes.
“This is…” he muttered.
Then faint golden light rose from those eyes, like a newly-kindled bonfire burning brighter and brighter. A surging Seraph’s divine might gushed out!
Lin Qiye’s eyes blazed like golden furnaces, his expression shifting rapidly—calm, furious, bewildered…
“Get… out of my body.”
He snarled.
Boom—!!
A domineering aura erupted outward!
A white phantom was ejected from his body, hung in the air for an instant, then whirled and shot toward Baili Pangpang!
Jialan swiftly unslung the bow from her back, aimed at the space in front of Baili Pangpang, and loosed an arrow!
Whoosh—!
The feathered shaft and the white shadow arrived almost together. The arrowhead passed through the phantom without the slightest resistance, as though it had struck nothing.
Jialan froze.
Beside her, An Qingyu—who had been continuously analyzing the white shadow with【Only Correct Answer】—suddenly spoke:
“She has no body; she’s just a magnetic field. Physical attacks are useless.”
Hearing this, Baili Pangpang seemed to recall something. He brushed the green-jade thumb ring, and jade armor flooded over half his body like a tide.
The white shadow crashed into the jade armor as if hitting a solid wall and was flung back.
Lin Qiye faintly saw the phantom clutch her forehead, stagger a few steps, then spin and rush at Jialan.
“Stop her!!” Lin Qiye’s pupils shrank.
He had personally experienced the phantom’s strangeness—she hadn’t used mental power or invaded his mind; instead she had somehow rewritten the commands his brain sent to his limbs, seizing control of his body. Without the Seraph’s might, he couldn’t have broken free in time.
If she took over Jialan’s【Immortality】body, things would get ugly.
Seeing the white shadow coming straight at her, Jialan raised her brows and didn’t dodge. She inhaled, tilted her head back, then slammed forward—
Forehead against forehead!
The surrounding magnetic field violently distorted.
The next moment the phantom was sent flying by Jialan’s head-butt, flipped mid-air, tottered like she’d drunk fake liquor, then fell flat on her back—
Out cold.
Lin Qiye and the others stepped forward and finally saw the phantom clearly.
A girl who looked barely sixteen or seventeen, aloof of face, dressed in a white gown, black hair cascading like a waterfall. Even unconscious, her brows stayed knitted…
From appearance alone, she was just a cold, pretty girl.
But—
the problem was,
everything below her calves was empty.
Not amputated; from the shins down her body gradually faded into a translucent wisp floating in the air…
“No legs?” Baili Pangpang reached out and waved a hand through the spot where she lay—his palm passed straight through, touching nothing but air.
“Th-this… she’s not human?!” He jerked his hand back in fright.
“I told you, she’s a magnetic field.” An Qingyu adjusted his glasses. “In layman’s terms—she’s a ghost.”
“G-ghost?!” Baili Pangpang was stunned. “Ghosts really exist?”
“…Didn’t you visit Fengdu? You were chased by spirits through several streets—why so shocked now?” Cao Yuan complained.
Lin Qiye seemed to think of something and looked at Jialan in puzzlement.
Since the girl was only a field with no substance, how had Jialan knocked her out?
Jialan felt his gaze, blinked, and said nothing.
“She’s different from the spirits of Fengdu,” An Qingyu explained. “Those were human souls after death; they can’t linger in the living world long and must enter reincarnation quickly or disperse.
But this girl is fundamentally different—she’s a magnetic field, not a soul, has no body, fears no sunlight, can’t enter reincarnation, and has existed for at least ten days.”
“Ten days?” Cao Yuan started, as if recalling something. “That timing…”
“…matches the day Team 008 was wiped out,” Lin Qiye said, eyes complicated. “I think I understand now.”
Everyone looked at him, full of questions.
“She’s no enemy—she’s the deceased… member of Team 008 stationed in Lintang City: Jiang Er.” Lin Qiye gazed down at her face. “I… just saw her corpse.”
He pointed to the corner of the office. Beneath scattered debris lay a mangled body; they couldn’t make out features, but the blood-stained white hem matched the ghost girl’s dress.
Lin Qiye had studied Team 008’s photos before coming; seeing her face, he knew who she was.
“A member of Team 008?” Baili Pangpang exclaimed. “But how did she become a ghost?”
“Probably related to her Forbidden Ruins,” Lin Qiye speculated. “Records list it as【Spiritual Medium Field】, sequence 096, extremely rare. It manipulates surrounding magnetic fields to control electronics, but because so few have possessed it, some abilities remain unclear.
Whether its user can persist as a magnetic field after death is unrecorded. Only she might know.”
Cao Yuan studied the sleeping girl’s furrowed brows. “So… she might be Team 008’s only survivor?”
“She’s not a survivor,” Lin Qiye shook his head.
“She’s a victim.”