Chapter 307 - 138: Bizarre Creepy Spirit
She crawled back and huddled in the corner, silently shedding tears as she ate half a dirty, dark steamed bun.
Watching this, the finely dressed youths who had mocked and bullied the little female beggar exchanged glances, their interest waning.
They stopped mocking and bullying the little female beggar.
Instead, they turned and left, arms slung over each other’s shoulders.
Xu Lei didn’t go over to help the little female beggar either; he just kept walking.
He arrived at a tavern up ahead and started drinking, snacking on peanuts.
He mulled over what he could possibly do to pinpoint the exact location of Mei Li and Mei Xiong within the Great Marsh.
But after some thought, he still had no leads.
After a while, it started to rain.
Xu Lei stared blankly out the window at the falling drops, sipping his drink.
Suddenly, from the street outside the tavern, Xu Lei heard a somewhat familiar voice.
It was the little female beggar from before.
It seemed she was no longer crying.
In fact, she had grown furious.
But she wasn’t angry at the passersby.
Instead, she was furious with the air all around her.
It was as if she were wrestling with some invisible being.
However, her striking motions had no effect at all.
There was no sign of her strikes landing on any physical object.
Nor did it look like any physical object was attacking her.
She just thrashed at the air and the rain, finally exhausting herself until she collapsed.
The umbrella-toting passersby and the people watching from the surrounding buildings now saw her as even more of a crazed monster.
"I’m not a monster!"
She crawled along the rainy street, screaming in hysterics, "You’re the monsters!"
"I’m not afraid of you!"
She laughed in despair, the smile making her ugly, patch-covered face look even more terrifying. "You monsters!
Eat me!
Go on, eat me!"
The passersby all backed away.
"This weird girl has gone crazy!"
"A monster is a monster, after all!"
"There’s something wrong with her head!"
A few women returning from the market, considering her an ill omen, began to throw eggs and vegetables at her.
Paradoxically, this seemed to reawaken the little female beggar’s survival instinct.
She cupped some broken egg shells and licked them frantically, but most of the liquid egg had been washed away by the rain.
She then crawled on the ground, lowering her head to frantically lick up some egg yolk, ignoring the muddy water.
She also grabbed the vegetables from the ground, stuffed them into her mouth, and chewed furiously.
Unlike the others watching the scene unfold below, Xu Lei felt a jolt and shot up from his seat.
’Wait, could she be—’
A look of delighted surprise appeared in Xu Lei’s eyes as he watched the little girl in the rain.
He had recalled the records in some texts about the Ancient Immortals and Buddhas he had read.
Records about a bizarre type of life-form!
According to legend, a bizarre life-form called the Creep existed in this world.
Some also called them Creepy Spirits!
They were like ghosts and could possibly exist in any corner of the world.
It’s possible that one could be perched right on your head, but you would be unable to see it.
Of course, they couldn’t really affect the physical world much.
The difference between them and ghosts...
...was supposedly that ghosts looked like people, while Creeps did not.
Of course, that was just what some people said.
Others claimed that even ghosts couldn’t see Creepy Spirits!
They were an existence even more bizarre than ghosts.
As for this matter, Xu Lei didn’t know whose account was true.
He had only read about them in various records and had no way of distinguishing truth from falsehood.
But in any case, all the records said that ordinary people, and even Cultivators with Magical Power, were completely unable to see Creepy Spirits!
In a record from the *Ancient Immortal Buddha Wild History*, a Spirit Immortal’s Divine Soul left their body, only to be carelessly devoured by a Creepy Spirit.
Then their entire body was inhabited by the Creepy Spirit.
Of course, there were also some Ancient Immortals who learned to communicate with Creepy Spirits and, with their help, achieved their own goals.
Because many creatures in this world could not see them.
But they, in turn, could see all kinds of creatures in the world.
So, as long as one could communicate with a Creepy Spirit, they could have it help investigate all sorts of things.
Take Xu Lei, for instance.
If he could communicate with a Creepy Spirit and have it scout the situation in the Eastern Wilderness Marsh...
...then he could avoid the Great Demons in the Great Marsh, charge directly inside, and accurately find Mei Li and Mei Xiong.
He could kill them, then take the most optimal route to retreat completely unscathed.
He could return to the vicinity of the Imperial Palace and then slowly die of old age.
However, communicating with Creepy Spirits was impossible for ordinary people. Only a select few with special abilities could do so.
These people were born with a special constitution that allowed them to see these bizarre life-forms!
And now, Xu Lei suspected that the ugly little female beggar down below was one of those very people!