Beast Taming: Starting From Zero - Chapter 148

Chapter 148: Can you hear me?

“I want to try.” Qiao Sang looked at the aunt and said firmly.

Although the task publisher may be a difficult person, her intention of accepting the task itself is to train the ability of her pet, and the task publisher is not within her consideration.

Aunt shook her head secretly and did not say anything more to dissuade her.

She pointed to the right: “It’s the innermost room. You go over there. I won’t follow you in.”

“Okay.”

Qiao Sang came to the door of the designated room.

The door was ajar. Out of politeness, she still knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside.

She knocked again, but still no one spoke.

Knock again.

“Are you annoying? The door is not closed. I told you it’s the innermost room, and you’re still knocking for a long time.” A strong voice came from the room.

Qiao Sang: “…”

The task publisher seems to be quite difficult to deal with…

Pushing the door in, a strong and unpleasant smell of medicine hit my nose, mixed with a special smell of an old man.

It was a hot summer day, but the room felt damp and cold.

An old lady with silver hair, high cheekbones and wrinkles on her face was half lying on the bedside by the window.

Before Qiao Sang introduced himself, the old lady asked, “Do you have a ghost pet?”

Her eyes were very sharp, and she looked like an old lady with a bad temper.

“Yes, it’s a treasure-hunting ghost.” Qiao Sang came to the bed and answered.

In order to ensure the privacy of both parties, the Beast Taming Center will not disclose the specific information of both parties.

“Xun~”

As if to prove its existence, the little treasure-hunting ghost appeared above Qiao Sang’s head and called out.

The old lady looked at the little treasure-hunting ghost that suddenly appeared and was distracted for a moment. I don’t know what she thought of.

After a moment of silence, she picked up a photo from the bedside and handed it over. Qiao Sang took it and looked at it. The photo showed a girl wearing a floral dress and smiling with two dimples.

The blue light-shaped pet in her arms was the ghost-absorbing lamp.

The old lady only handed over the photo without saying anything.

Qiao Sang felt that he had to ease the atmosphere, so he said, “The girl in the photo is so beautiful, I wonder who she is?”

Under normal circumstances, the photos handed over at this time are the parties themselves.

Although the girl in the photo smiled so sweetly, she didn’t look as difficult to deal with as the old lady now.

But people change a lot when they are young and old.

In addition, it is not difficult to guess that the girl in the photo is the old lady, considering the ghost-absorbing lamp she was holding.

Qiao Sang silently praised her own wit.

She pretended not to know who the person in the photo was. The old lady would definitely be happy to hear the compliment. Women, even when they are old, hope to hear others praise her for her beauty.

At that time, the old lady will say that this is her.

Then she will pretend to be surprised and praise her a few times, so that the old lady’s satisfaction will reach its peak. Are you afraid that she will not give a good review in the end?

“This is my granddaughter.”

Qiao Sang: “???”

Why don’t you follow the normal plot!

“Last month, my granddaughter took the ghost-absorbing lamp out to play, and she never came back.” At this point, the old lady paused and suddenly became sad: “Now my granddaughter is gone, and the ghost-absorbing lamp is gone too.”

Qiao Sang’s heart trembled. Granddaughter is gone? !

What does this mean…

She pondered slowly and asked softly, “Did the police have any clues later?”

The old lady snorted coldly and said, “A bunch of useless guys, if there were any clues, why would I issue the task?”

Qiao Sang felt heavy in his heart. This task actually involved a person…

It’s understandable that the ghost-absorbing lantern went far away and couldn’t be found. It’s a ghost-type pet, and its whereabouts are weird. But if a person disappeared and couldn’t be found, it’s not an ordinary missing case.

After all, surveillance is everywhere in society now, and people can’t be invisible, so how can they disappear alive on the spot.

Could it be…

A ringing sound pulled Qiao Sang out of his thoughts.

It was the old lady’s phone call.

“Hello, Nannan… I took the medicine, grandma is fine…”

Because the room was very quiet, Qiao Sang could vaguely hear the voice coming from the other end of the phone.

It was a girl, and her voice sounded about the same age as the girl in the photo.

After the old lady hung up the phone, Qiao Sang hesitated and asked, “Is it your granddaughter who called?”

“Yes.”

“May I ask how many granddaughters you have?”

“One.”

Qiao Sang was silent. After two seconds, she asked, “So what do you mean when you say your granddaughter is gone?”

The old lady looked over with sharp eyes: “She later went to Lianke area with her parents. What are you thinking about?”

Qiao Sang: “…”

She wants to change the task…

“…”

“The lamp stand on the right side of my ghost-absorbing lamp is missing. It was broken when it saved me when I was 28 years old. There is also a red nail-sized mark on its head. It was left by the inferior dyeing cream I used on it when I was young, and…”

The subsequent conversation was barely smooth.

During the conversation, I don’t know if it was because the old lady had contracted a ghost-type pet, but the little treasure-hunting ghost kept floating around the old lady during the conversation, as if it felt something that attracted it.

…

Qiao Sang walked out of the room and came to the door to put on his shoes.

The aunt who had been in the living room came over and stared at Qiao Sang for a while, then lowered her voice and said, “I think you should change your task.”

Qiao Sang looked up and asked in confusion, “Why?”

She also knew from the conversation with the old lady just now that this aunt was hired by the old lady’s son to take care of her, and they were not related.

But even so, without any special reason, this aunt should be on the side of her employer.

If it was because of the old lady’s strange temper, she remembered that she had already made it clear at the beginning that she didn’t care.

The aunt turned her head and looked at the inner room, and lowered her voice again: “The old lady doesn’t have much time left. When you find the ghost-absorbing lamp, it will be useless. I just think you are still young, so I want to remind you.”

Qiao Sang was a little stunned. Although the old lady looked very old, she spoke with full energy and looked energetic.

And her eyes were also very sharp, and she didn’t look like she was running out of time at all.

Besides, the words the old lady said when she knocked on the door at the beginning were obviously what she heard from the aunt in the living room.

Can a dying old man have such good hearing?

Although her room was filled with the smell of medicine, but…

wait…

Qiao Sang suddenly felt that something was wrong.

The old lady’s room was at the very back, a certain distance away from the living room. The aunt’s voice was still normal and low. The door was ajar at first, but the gap left was negligible.

When she first came, the aunt went inside to find the old lady to confirm her identity.

But she didn’t hear their conversation at all, which was enough to show that the sound insulation effect was still good…

But why could she not hear clearly the old lady at the same distance?

Qiao Sang took a deep breath and asked slowly: “Do you think the old lady can hear what we are talking about now in her room?”

Auntie was stunned for a moment: “How is it possible.”

At the same time, the old lady lay down on the bed and covered herself from head to toe with a quilt.

A faint voice came from inside.

“Do you think I can hear everything I want…”

(End of this chapter)