Chapter 84: The Little Girl in the Bookstore

Chapter 84: The Little Girl in the Bookstore

[Congratulations player, you have completely read Grimm’s Fairy Tales]

[Congratulations player, you have completely read Andersen’s Fairy Tales]

[Congratulations player, you have completely read Aesop’s Fables]

[Congratulations player, you have completely read…]

Pei Ye’s efficiency was beyond words. In just one or two hours, she had fully recorded more than forty children’s books.

She opened the Love and Raising a Child APP on her phone, and a chibi style bookshelf had appeared in the corner of the game interface room, with the books she had read neatly arranged on it. Pei Ye sorted these books by different colors, different heights, and different thicknesses.

Looking at it this way felt much more comfortable.

Her obsessive compulsive disorder had just been satisfied, but when she saw the progress bar above Ah Zai, she started feeling uncomfortable again.

[976/1000]

Only 24 Merit points away from evolving and hatching.

Such a small gap could be completed with a simple side task.

But then,

(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

This broken game simply had no pattern for accumulating Merit through tasks.

“Forget it, it is still better than being stuck at 999 points. Being stuck at just one point away from leveling up would really drive someone crazy with obsessive compulsive disorder.”

Pei Ye muttered softly, raising her hand to poke the egg in the game room.

Poke it!

The egg responded with a very happy emoticon.

“So easy to coax.”

Pei Ye chuckled and turned off her phone screen, putting it back into her pocket.

The weather in T City was always poor, and it was rare to see blue skies, white clouds, or bright sunshine.

Even though it was only around three or four in the afternoon, the sky outside already looked somewhat dim.

Pei Ye planned to read a couple more books before going to the basement supermarket to buy some notebooks for drawing talismans.

She just pulled out a picture book of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf when a small head peeked out from the other side of the bookshelf.

It was a little girl wearing a pink doll dress, with twin ponytails, and a pink butterfly hair clip.

Her face had baby fat, round and soft everywhere.

Pei Ye glanced at her and then looked away. The other party also quickly pulled her head back in fright.

After a while, the little girl cautiously peeked out again.

Pei Ye ignored her completely and switched to another picture book.

After about half a minute of stalemate, the little girl clenched her fists to give herself courage and asked in a scared but clear voice,

“Big sister, can you see me?”

Pei Ye flipped a page of the picture book without even lifting her eyelids.

“I can see you.”

After hearing the reply, the little girl quickly crawled out from behind the bookshelf.

“Really? Can you also hear me?”

Pei Ye said, “If I cannot see you or hear you, who am I talking to, a ghost?”

The little girl tilted her head and tugged at her skirt, whispering, “Big sister, Yangyang is a ghost.”

Pei Ye: “…”

She suddenly thought of Xiao Pangzi, that hamster demon.

These days, even simple minded little things liked to complain and stab others in the back?

Pei Ye said coldly, “That is not the point.”

After that, she lowered her head and continued reading the picture book.

The little girl seemed to have something to say but hesitated. Pei Ye did not like making things difficult for children, especially a little ghost of five or six years old.

She said, “Just say what you want to say.”

Pei Ye knew how intimidating she was.

Even if she restrained her killing aura, ordinary ghosts might not notice anything, but they would still feel fear when getting close.

The little ghost in front of her was not very old, and judging by her clothing, she had not been dead for long. Her mentality was probably still very young.

For her to suppress her fear and come here, she must have something important.

“Big sister, my little brother was taken away,” the little girl said, lowering her head and not daring to look at Pei Ye. “Can you help Yangyang?”

Pei Ye said, “Your brother? Also a ghost?”

The little girl shook her head, her neatly tied pigtails swaying like a rattle.

“No, my brother is still alive, but he was taken away by bad people. Dad and mom do not know which car the bad people used, but Yangyang knows,” the little girl said clearly despite her age. She raised her head earnestly and said, “Dad and mom cannot see Yangyang.”

She wanted to tell her parents to get her brother back, but she was already dead.

Pei Ye took out sticky notes and a pen from her backpack.

“Tell me the license plate number. I will write it down and send it to your parents.”

The little girl’s dark eyes seemed to gain a trace of light, and her pale, lifeless face broke into a big smile.

“Thank you, big sister.”

Although the little ghost’s body was not very cute and could even feel eerie if looked at too long, her reaction made Pei Ye quite pleased.

It was just a small effort. If she could help, then she would help.

“Where are your parents?”

Seeing that Pei Ye meant no harm, the little girl gathered courage and moved a little closer.

“My parents are on the first floor. My brother was taken away by bad people on the first floor.”

The little girl sighed.

“They are so stupid. Besides crying, they only make a fuss. For such grown ups, they have not improved at all…”

Before she died, she thought her parents were amazing, but after death she realized her parents also had many flaws.

After her brother was taken away, they only cried and caused chaos, and even needed passersby to remind them to call the police uncle.

She had no choice but to find a way herself.

When Pei Ye went downstairs, the first floor lobby was already in chaos.

A crowd of onlookers, mediators, and people recording videos surrounded the scene.

From afar came the woman’s hysterical crying and the man’s thunderous shouting.

Pei Ye glanced over and noticed that the bookstore manager and security guards were also there.

“Are they your parents?”

The little girl tilted her head and sighed, “They are so embarrassing. When my brother is lost, you are supposed to call the police uncle. They do not even know that.”

Just as Pei Ye was about to step forward, the man, in an agitated state, slapped the woman.