"We'll be reaching the Southern Territory in a little while," Xu Youzhi explained.
Upon hearing this, the crew members on the ship couldn't help but stand up and look ahead.
Finally, are we there?
At this moment, Jiang Lin couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation.
Since the prohibition of travel between the Four Territories, information about other Halls in the Underworld gradually became scarce.
What would the Southern Hall be like?
Were the ghost envoys there the same as those in their Eastern Hall? What kind of weapons would they use, and how would they deal with ghosts?
What would they encounter there?
Thinking this way, it felt like an expedition.
Suddenly, Jiang Lin looked down at his side.
He saw a thin ghost soldier, only about a meter tall, cautiously holding onto a corner of his robe.
Jiang Lin: "???"
If he remembered correctly... this ghost soldier's name was 'Xiao Er'?
The second, smaller ghost envoy?
The naming was quite... simple and direct.
Jiang Lin looked up at Qin Zhouzhou and asked confusedly, "Is your ghost soldier...?"
Qin Zhouzhou glanced at Jiang Lin, then at Xiao Er.
She thought for a moment and said,
"He's probably afraid you'll fall off."
Jiang Lin was standing at the edge of the ghost artifact ship, and Xiao Er was holding onto him from behind.
Looking at it this way, it seemed to be the case...
"Bang!"
The ghost artifact ship seemed to have hit something and suddenly jolted.
In an instant, something latched onto Jiang Lin's leg.
He looked down and saw Xiao Er clinging to his leg with all four limbs.
Jiang Lin: "..."
Why did he feel like this little guy was afraid of falling off?
Xiao Er also looked up at Jiang Lin, his bald head and large eyes giving him a somewhat cute appearance amidst the terror.
The next moment, the expressions of the ghost envoys on the ship turned serious.
Xu Youzhi suddenly made a move, and a golden rope shot out from his hand.
The rope penetrated the barrier covering the ghost artifact ship and plunged into the clouds ahead.
A moment later, Xu Youzhi pulled.
The golden rope, carrying a shadow, flew into the ship.
Bang!
The shadow was bound and slammed onto the deck, struggling fiercely a couple of times.
The moment they saw the figure, the ghost envoys on the ship were stunned.
...
The viewers in the live stream, who were discussing 'Xiao Er' a second ago, were now dumbfounded.
The barrage of comments fell silent for a moment, then exploded.
"This thing... it actually exists?"
"Heavens... an angel? Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ"
"Holy crap, don't scare me, what is that thing?!"
"I just went to get takeout, what happened? What did I miss?"
...
In the live stream footage—
The bound figure was over 1.8 meters tall, strongly built, wearing tattered light-colored robes, as if he had just fought someone.
But the most striking feature was the pair of huge wings on his back.
Even bound by the golden rope, they couldn't hide the power of those wings.
Estimating their span when fully opened, they were at least two meters long.
"Let me go! Why did you capture me?!"
The winged 'person' struggled, but no matter how he thrashed, he couldn't break free from the golden rope.
The ghost envoys on the ship didn't answer him, instead surrounding him and examining him.
"Is this a ghost transformed from a dead human? I don't sense any aura of an animal or other species from him," confirmed Yu Baixing of the Sealing Team.
A member of the Ghost Artifact Workshop stepped forward, touched the wings, and examined them curiously.
The wings were generally white, but not as lifelike as real feathers.
He murmured, "This is the first time I've seen wings like these... they seem like ghost artifacts, but not quite. Yet, they can't be said to be pure ghost energy."
"Uh-huh~ Stop it! Who told you to touch them casually!"
After just a couple of touches, the bound winged ghost grunted, looking as if his sensitive spots had been touched.
"You can't just touch wings, you know!"
"Huh?"
The member of the Ghost Artifact Workshop was somewhat surprised, "Not real bird wings, yet it reacts like this?"
Saying that, he reached out and touched them a couple more times.
The winged ghost grunted again, his expression quite strange, "Stop...!"
Liu Buwei, the Black Impermanence, stepped forward, took a look, confirmed he hadn't seen it before, and asked,
"What exactly is this thing?"
A ghost? A bird?
A spirit monster??
"You're the thing! Your whole family is the thing!"
The winged ghost, while enduring the Ghost Artifact Workshop member's prodding, said indignantly.
Liu Buwei: "Oh, so you're not a thing then."
Winged ghost: "..."
It felt like it, but it also didn't.
He felt insulted!
...
"Pfft... is it a thing or not? Ghost Ghost is confused (’∇’)シ"
"I think you're not a thing... you're a ghost!"
"I'm truly... impressed by the person above, speaking like an artist."
The viewers in the live stream found the interaction on the ghost artifact ship amusing.
Of course, they were more eager to know what those wings were.
According to the ghost envoys, it was indeed a ghost, but not an animal...
This...
It wasn't just the ghost envoys who were bewildered; the viewers were too.
"Is this some mythological creature?"
"The ghost envoys said it's a ghost formed from a dead person."
"Bird Bird is confused, is this one of my relatives?"
"Actually, I also want to touch those wings, hehehe... they look like a lot of fun."
"The person above is acting weird! The wheels are running over my face! Stop it!"
Some viewers had already started flipping through ancient texts or opening Baidu.
Baidu search: What's going on when a ghost, transformed from a human, grows wings?
Immediately, a bunch of search results appeared.
[Are you looking for invisible wings?]
[Can humans grow wings? Let's explore science...]
[My bird grew wings! It must not be a real bird!]
[Dragon with wings, only 998, mythical beast delivered to your door!]
Viewers: "..."
What on earth are these?!
What kind of ghost is that on the ship?
...
Some viewers even directly called experts they knew.
With a serious and curious expression, "Hey, cousin, can humans grow wings?"
The cousin on the other end of the phone: "???"
The viewer asked again, "Then, after a person turns into a ghost, is there a possibility of growing wings?"
Cousin: "...?"
Firstly, science told him that ghosts don't exist.
Therefore, this question was invalid.
Putting aside this question, he then looked at the first one.
The cousin began to ponder the origin of this question, deciding to solve the problem from the root.
After hanging up the phone, the cousin called his second aunt.
"Hey, second aunt, has Tong Tong been doing too little homework lately? I think students shouldn't be too idle. We can arrange for him to get 'Five Three' [a popular exam preparation book] first."
"Yes, yes, I'll buy it tomorrow!"
The viewer, listening to their mother answer the phone right after their cousin hung up: "???"
Hey, hey, hey, you can't do this! Aren't you my brother!
...