Chapter 146: Tell me, can she hear it?

"I want to try," Qiao Sang looked at the auntie and said firmly.

Although the mission poster might be a difficult existence, her original intention in accepting the mission was to train her own pet beast's abilities. How the mission poster is doesn't fall within her scope of consideration.

The auntie shook her head secretly, not saying any more words of dissuasion.

She pointed to the right with her finger: "It's the room at the very end. You go over, I won't follow you in."

"Okay."

Qiao Sang arrived at the door of the designated room.

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

She knocked again, still no one spoke.

Knocked again.

"Are you annoying or what? The door isn't even closed. I already told you it's the room at the very end, and you're still knocking for half a day," a vigorous voice came from inside the room.

Qiao Sang: "..."

The mission poster feels like she's quite difficult to deal with...

Pushing the door open and entering, a thick, unpleasant medicinal smell rushed into her nose, mixed with a special scent peculiar to elderly people.

Even though it was a hot summer day, there was a damp and chilly feeling inside the room.

Half-lying on the head of the bed by the window was an old lady with a full head of silver hair, high cheekbones, and a face full of wrinkles.

Before Qiao Sang could introduce herself, the old lady asked: "Do you have a ghost-type pet beast?"

Her gaze was very sharp; one look and you could tell she was the type of old person with a bad temper.

"Yes, it's a Treasure-Hunting Ghost," Qiao Sang replied, coming to the bedside.

To ensure the privacy of both parties, the Beast Taming Center does not leak the specific information of either party.

"Xun~"

As if to prove its existence, the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost appeared on Qiao Sang's head and called out.

The old lady was momentarily distracted looking at the suddenly appearing Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost, not knowing what she was thinking of.

After a moment of silence, she picked up a photo from the head of the bed and handed it over. Qiao Sang took it and looked; in the photo was a young girl wearing a floral dress with two dimples when she smiled.

The blue lamp-shaped pet beast held in her arms was exactly the Ghost-Absorbing Lamp.

The old lady just handed over the photo and didn't speak.

Qiao Sang felt she still needed to ease the atmosphere, so she said: "The girl in this photo is really pretty. I wonder who she is?"

Under normal circumstances, the photos handed over at such times are of the person themselves.

Although the girl in the photo smiled so sweetly, she didn't look at all like the old lady who was currently very difficult to deal with.

But people, when they are young compared to when they are old, the changes must be very large.

Coupled with the Ghost-Absorbing Lamp she was holding, it's not hard to infer that the young girl in the photo is the old lady.

Qiao Sang silently praised herself for her wit.

She pretended not to know who the person in the photo was. The old lady would definitely feel secretly pleased upon hearing the praise. Women, even when they are old, all hope to hear others praise them for being pretty.

At that time, the old lady would say it was herself.

Then she would pretend to be surprised and praise her a couple of times, letting the old lady's sense of satisfaction reach its peak. Would she still be afraid of not getting a good review in the end?

"This is my granddaughter."

Qiao Sang: "???"

Why don't you follow the normal plot, old lady!

"Last month, my granddaughter took the Ghost-Absorbing Lamp out to play, and then she never came back." Speaking of this, the old lady paused, suddenly becoming sentimental: "Now my granddaughter is gone, and the Ghost-Absorbing Lamp is also gone."

Qiao Sang's heart tightened. The granddaughter is gone?!

What does this mean...

She slowly deliberated and asked softly: "Did the police have any clues later?"

The old lady snorted coldly: "A bunch of useless guys. If there were clues, why would I still be posting a mission?"

Qiao Sang's heart felt heavy. This mission actually involved a person...

It's understandable if the Ghost-Absorbing Lamp went far away and couldn't be found; it's a ghost-type pet beast, and its whereabouts are naturally eerie. But if a person went missing together and couldn't be found, it's not an ordinary missing person case.

After all, surveillance is everywhere in society now, and people can't turn invisible. How could they disappear from the spot alive?

Could it be...

A ringtone pulled Qiao Sang back from her thoughts.

It was the old lady's phone.

"Hello, Nannan... I drank the medicine, Grandma is fine..."

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

It was a girl, and the voice sounded similar in age to the young girl in the photo.

After the old lady hung up the phone, Qiao Sang hesitated and asked: "Was that your granddaughter calling?"

"Yes."

"May I venture to ask how many granddaughters you have?"

"One."

Qiao Sang was silent. After two seconds, she asked: "Then what did you mean when you said earlier that your granddaughter was gone?"

The old lady looked over with sharp eyes: "She went to the Lianke region with her parents later. What are you thinking about?"

Qiao Sang: "..."

She wanted to change the mission...

"..."

"The lamp stand on the right side of my Ghost-Absorbing Lamp is missing a section. That was broken when it saved me when I was 28. Also, there is a red nail-sized mark on its head. That was left when I used inferior dye on it when I was young. Also..."

The subsequent conversation went barely smoothly.

During this time, I don't know if it was because the old lady had contracted a ghost-type pet beast, but during the conversation, the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost kept floating around the old lady, as if it felt something that attracted it.

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

The auntie who had been staying in the living room walked over, stared at Qiao Sang for a while, lowered her voice, and said: "I think you should change the mission."

Qiao Sang raised her head, puzzled: "Why?"

In the conversation with the old lady just now, she also learned that this auntie was hired by the old lady's son to take care of her, and there was no kinship.

But even so, without any special reason, this auntie should be on the employer's side.

If it was because the old lady had an eccentric temper, she remembered that she had already indicated she didn't care at the beginning.

The auntie turned her head to look at the inner room, and her voice lowered another degree: "The old lady doesn't have much time left. By the time you find the Ghost-Absorbing Lamp, it won't be of any use. I see you're still young, so I'm giving you a heads-up."

Qiao Sang was a bit stunned. Although the old lady looked very old, her voice was vigorous, and her mental state looked okay.

And her gaze was also very sharp; one couldn't tell at all that she didn't have much time left.

Besides, when she knocked on the door at the beginning, the sentence the old lady said was clearly because she heard the conversation between the auntie and her in the living room.

Can an old person on the verge of death have such good hearing?

Although her room was full of medicinal smells, but...

Wait...

Qiao Sang suddenly felt that something was wrong.

The old lady's room was at the very end, a certain distance from the living room. The auntie's speaking voice was still at a normal to low volume. The door was initially ajar, but the gap left was negligible.

When she first arrived, the auntie went inside to find the old lady to confirm her identity.

But she didn't hear any of their conversation, which was enough to show that the soundproofing effect was quite good...

But why could the old lady hear clearly at the same distance while she couldn't?

Qiao Sang took a deep breath and asked slowly: "Tell me, can the old lady hear what we are saying now in her room?"

The auntie paused: "How is that 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.

"You think I want to hear everything..." ===== CHAPTER 147 =====