novelraw Chapter 981 517: The Strange Life of the Lantern Wraith
Chapter 981 517: The Strange Life of the Lantern Wraith
"Alright, the child is now in your care."
After the voice outside dropped, Da Tianwei came in with a child. This time, it wasn't a human; it was a lantern ghost. Its true form resembled a floating lantern akin to an eye, but due to the rules, it was disguised to look human.
Clearly, it was using a human body for the first time, so it looked strange, even walking awkwardly.
Da Tianwei didn't nitpick this because it was pointless; the peculiar behavior already had an excuse, diagnosed as polio, which was obviously fake. How could a ghost have polio?
Compared to the previous Yin Fenggui, this lantern ghost was clearly inferior, likely due to its discomfort with a human body, making it unable to respond effectively.
Luckily, it remained relatively calm.
"You've just arrived, so you will handle breakfast today." Da Tianwei brought the lantern ghost in and pointed indifferently at the kitchen.
The lantern ghost hadn't thought of resisting. Instead, it looked at the information sent by the ghosts in the bullet screen, feeling a chill down its spine.
Upon learning that yesterday a Yin Fenggui, after cooking, made mistakes by getting engrossed in a TV plot and shouting, ultimately ending up as a meal for three humans.
'But didn't they say there were three humans? Why is there only one?' The lantern ghost grew more cautious.
Interestingly, not only did the bullet screen mention three humans, but even the human rules it obtained listed three deadly rules.
'Missing the nighttime one, could it appear only at night?' the lantern ghost pondered.
As for the bullet screen's claim that they appeared together, it remained wary. Since the humans weren't visible, it could only proceed with caution.
Practically speaking, it could only use the bullet screen information as a reference, not follow it blindly. The surviving challenge was his, while the keyboard-typing ghosts had no real experience. Trusting them blindly would be akin to suicide.
Arriving in the kitchen, seeing all the pots and pans, the lantern ghost displayed a troubled expression.
It wasn't like the energy type ghost Yin Fenggui; instead, it resembled an object. As a lantern, it didn't have a derivative form like Red Shoes, making it quite uncomfortable with the body.
Cooking and preparing dishes was quite a challenge for it. The physical limitations made even cracking an egg difficult.
Though the ghosts in the bullet screen weren't much help survival-wise, they offered quite a few practical cooking suggestions.
Guidance-wise, though not perfect, it was much better than the clueless ghost it was.
'Will humans interfere?' The lantern ghost noticed a bullet screen predicting humans would provoke it with harsh words. If it made a mistake, it would get troublesome.
However, having completed the work, no humans came, sparking doubts about the bullet screen.
The bullet screen had misjudged the situation twice. Either ghosts were intentionally misleading it, or the harmonious family environment had changed.
It wasn't clear which one.
After arduously placing the food on the table, Da Tianwei's call for dinner went out, and it silently began to eat.
'Don't watch TV, don't… the TV isn't on?' The lantern ghost remembered the bullet screen's warning that the last Yin Fenggui died watching TV.
It was indeed cautious, only to find the TV wasn't even on, making its previous worries pointless.
The meal passed simply, without any danger, yet this brought no joy to the lantern ghost.
The bullet screen could no longer provide any useful information. The last Yin Fenggui didn't even finish eating before meeting its demise, leaving the lantern ghost to rely on itself.
According to one human, it was supposed to read in the study for an hour, followed by free time.
Then it needed to prepare lunch, eat, and take a nap.
To the lantern ghost, each of these agenda items was an extremely dangerous challenge, and this was just the morning schedule. Afternoon and evening still awaited, with this situation continuing for ten days.
'This survival challenge is truly too difficult.'
The lantern ghost was heading towards the study, recalling its rules in its mind.
There weren't many rules, just three.
The first rule was to inspect only one book at a time.
The second rule prohibited destroying any book.
The third rule required a ten-minute break every half hour of reading.
At first glance, the difficulty didn't seem high, but for ghosts, human books were extremely dangerous, especially the knowledge they contained, capable of causing irreversible changes to ghosts.
Forget a thirty-minute read with a ten-minute break; given its current strength, the lantern ghost considered lasting ten minutes impressive.
Thus, the real challenge was managing those ten minutes wisely.
It was certain that the person who instructed it to read would come to check. Thus, it needed to split the ten minutes throughout the hour, ensuring the inspector saw it reading, thereby making it through the hour.