I've Been Pregnant For 10 Years Without Giving Birth Chapter 11-12

"Really?" Zhao Zheng wasn't afraid at all, instead looking very excited.

Tang Yuan looked at him wearing this expression and thought that he was suitable for catching ghosts. He thought why not make Zhao Zheng become a tianshi. But he didn't know whether Zhao Zheng had the qualifications to become a tianshi and if he could even be a first rank one.

Tang Yuan said naughtily, “Hmm, but I'm not going to protect you.”

Zhao Zheng said, “That's okay, Ghost-jiejie will protect me.”

Tang Yuan replied, “Miao wants to protect me.”

Zhao Zheng: “……”

The two went back and continued to observe Wu Chi. They had heard from people previously that Wu Chi was a very good person. Although his girlfriend had died after they had already broken up, he still asked to borrow money from people to give to his girlfriend's parents. So if the ghost really wanted to kill him, a guy who was so good, he had to save this person.

They observed him for a while and then stopped. After all, they had to eat. After dinner, at around 9pm, Tang Yuan took Zhao Zheng to the crash site.

After the afternoon's examination, he had come up with some ideas. Previously, he had suspected that his thought that ​​Wu Chi's girlfriend had become a land-bound spirit was correct,  that she had indeed become a land-bound spirit, but that she obviously wasn't willing to be tied down to one place. Because the obsession with her boyfriend was too strong, she had managed to leave the place where she was bound, so when Tang Yuan and Zhao Zheng went to look for her, they did not see her.

Therefore when the two of them had come earlier, on the route they used in the afternoon, it was no surprise that they didn't see Wu Chi's girlfriend. So when Tang Yuan took Zhao Zheng back, this time they went another route, the one they used to walk back to school that afternoon.

Tang Yuan cast a spell while walking and confirmed that the female ghost had just traveled down this road. As long as they continued to move forward, they would meet the female ghost, so they increased their pace and kept walking, but this time, after walking all the way to the school gate, they still didn't see the female ghost, just a trace of the black qi in the air this time, which seemed to be entering the school.

Seeing this, Tang Yuan understood what was probably going on, so he led Zhao Zheng away.

As they walked, they moved out of the busy, noisy area to where it was quiet and calm all around. Zhao Zheng hugged his jacket around himself. He didn't know if it was just a psychological effect or something, but he felt a little cold.

Just when he was about to speak to Tang Yuan, he heard him say, “Found it.”

Did that mean he found the ghost?

Although Zhao Zheng couldn't see the ghosts, he still looked around by conditional reflex. Doing this, he then saw something in front of them crawling in their direction. It was a little too far away to see clearly, so he thought it was an animal. But who could have guessed what he would see when he walked forward.

It wasn't an animal at all. It was a person with a blood-soaked, twisted body. No, it couldn't still be considered a person. Because of that kind of injury, the average person wouldn't be able to move, but she could still crawl forward.

Terrified to death, Zhao Zheng asked, “Rice Ball, she's not a human, right?”

Tang Yuan said, “She is Wu Chi's girlfriend.”

Zhao Zheng suddenly started shaking uncontrollably. He had only heard that this person was killed by a car, but he didn't expect her to have been hit so badly.

“What do we do?” The female ghost crawled towards them, getting closer and closer, so that they could also see her more and more clearly.

“She isn't hostile towards us,” Tang Yuan said.

Zhao Zheng asked, “You mean that she won't hurt us?”

“Yes.” Tang Yuan looked at Zhao Zheng and said, “I just had Miao communicate with her and found out that she can't speak, but she's not going to hurt anyone for the time being.”

Zhao Zheng nodded. “So, you're going to gather her up?”

“No, I won't collect her for the time being, I want to wait until I can understand something clearly," Tang Yuan said and then explained to Zhao Zheng.

This ghost had a strong obsession, but if this obsession was just to find her boyfriend, it didn't make much sense.

It was natural to understand that a land-bound spirit couldn't leave the place where it was bound, but she had relied on her obsession and managed to break through the binding, crawling a little bit towards what she was clinging to and, even if she was pulled back when she was halfway there, crawling back again.

This was why there were traces of her left on this road and why Tang Yuan hadn't been able to find her along this road, because she had already been forced back to the place where she was bound. This led to Tang Yuan finding her here.

Such a deep obsession, Tang Yuan thought that this probably wasn't love, but hate. The death of this woman might have something to do with Wu Chi.

The next day when he saw Wu Chi and had seen the stronger black qi aura on Wu Chi's body, he had confirmed his theory.

He had looked at Wu Chi's qi aura before, but it wasn't until last night that he found the reason why it was different. A person who was haunted by a ghost would have a black aura on their body the same as that of Zhao Zheng's dad, but if the black aura had purple mixed in, that meant that there was a debt of sin between the person and the ghost.

So it should be that Wu Chi killed his girlfriend, but how did Wu Chi kill his girlfriend? Was it a.s.sa.s.sination? But Wu Chi was very poor, he didn't have the financial resources to pay someone to kill her.

Tang Yuan thought it over for a while, but still couldn't figure it out. It seemed that not everyone could be like Detective Conan, easily reasoning everything out. But he was still going to catch this ghost.

So he stopped watching Wu Chi with Zhao Zheng, but instead ordered Miao keep an eye on him. But since they weren't watching Wu Chi, they missed when he came looking for them instead.

“I heard from my friend that you've been asking about my affairs for the past two days. Would you be so kind to say what you want? Why didn't you just come to me directly?” Wu Chi suddenly said to them, his expression calm, so that Tang Yuan and Zhao Zheng couldn't tell what he was thinking.

Zhao Zheng was about to speak, but Tang Yuan stopped him and said, “Do you know that you're being haunted by a ghost?”

As soon as he spoke this question, Wu Chi's calm expression changed, but he calmed himself down and asked, “What do you mean by that? Don't mess around with me, okay?”

“We're not joking around. You should know that better than we do,” Tang Yuan also spoke calmly, “I'm not wrong, you have been haunted by a ghost for seven or eight days, right?”

Wu Chi's expression changed to surprise and he blurted out, “How do you know that?” He had given a bit away, but it was still hard to tell what he was thinking. He changed his tone as he said, “I don't know what you're talking about.”

After speaking, he turned around and was about to leave, but Tang Yuan said from the shadows behind his back, “Your death is two days away. If you don't want to die, I can help you. I am a tianshi.” Although I'm just a first rank tianshi.

Angry, Wu Chi said, “You're just another psychic faker.”

He ran away after he finished speaking.

Zhao Zheng watched his back and said with disdain, “Running away before I can even say a word?”

Although he hadn't been able to speak, as long as both sides expressed their goals, it was okay.

Tang Yuan didn't seem to care about Wu Chi anymore after that, continuing his studies and living the good life, but Wu Chi wasn't doing very well. He dealt with cla.s.ses and his part-time job during the day and suffered in a nightmare at night, the same nightmare he had been having for days.

He dreamed that he was standing in a circle and that there was something not far away trying desperately to crawl over to him. When he saw the thing, he was completely terrified and his whole body became weak, because that thing was his dead girlfriend.

His girlfriend's appearance was the same as the moment she died. She stared at him with a vicious expression, crawling towards him. At first he was too scared to move, then he desperately tried to run, but found that he couldn't run out of the circle.

Just as he was falling into despair, he realized that the ghost who had been his girlfriend couldn't reach him by crawling, because she seemed to be bound by something and the speed of her crawling slowed. Each little movement forward was a struggle and each time she crawled forward a bit, she'd be dragged back to where she started.

Although Wu Chi didn't understand why, he knew that his girlfriend couldn't reach him, so he wasn't actually in danger and no longer felt afraid.

Waking up the next day, Wu Chi had put this dream behind him. But who could have known that he would have the same dream the next night. He knew that this wasn't right, but he didn't know what to do.

He had the same dream the next few nights. Every night, he watched his dead girlfriend try to crawl to him in his dreams. At first, he was too afraid to watch, but then he found it amusing.

However, on the fifth night he had this dream, he suddenly discovered that his ghost girlfriend seemed to be getting a lot closer to him. This discovery rattled him because he realized that no matter how difficult it was, his girlfriend was obsessed with getting close to him. He could only stay in that circle, watching her getting closer and closer to him.

And in tonight's dream, his dead girlfriend finally reached him and crawled to his feet, but she just couldn't crawl into the circle yet. He believed she'd be able to crawl in tomorrow, and then……

This dream seemed to be a harbinger of something, what was he supposed to do?

Just as Tang Yuan arrived at school the next day, Wu Chi found him and said with a timid, sincere look, “Cla.s.smate, are you really a tianshi? Can you help me?” He took out a card and handed it to Tang Yuan, saying, “I don't know how much you tianshi charge, but this is all my money. So please help me! You were right yesterday, I'm being haunted by a ghost, I'm going to die.”

Tang Yuan seemed to like the sound of those words, giving a short nod. “I can help you, but you have to tell me about your situation. Otherwise if I rush in, it may cause you harm.”

Wu Chi heaved a sigh of relief. “I'll talk, I'll talk.”

So he and Tang Yuan found a place to talk. “The ghost that's haunting me is my girlfriend.” He glanced at Tang Yuan and said, “You should already know about me and my girlfriend?”

“Yeah,” Tang Yuan nodded. “I know that she died eight days ago, but I need to know the reason she's bothering you. Tell me about her and I'll a.n.a.lyze it.”

Wu Chi sighed and said, “Okay, I'll explain.” Seeing Tang Yuan nod, he began to speak, “My girlfriend and I met in high school. We both came to this university together. Other people thought that our relationship was good, but only I knew that since I came to university, our feelings had become worse and worse, because she had changed.

“She became vain and money-obsessed. Every time we went on a date, we had to go to a good restaurant. She often forced me to buy very expensive things for her. But that was nothing. The important thing was that she spent her living expenses quickly and ran out. So she called me when she ran out and made me give her money. I'm just an ordinary college student, how could I have much money for her? So every time that I didn't have money for her, she lost her temper. I finally couldn't stand her anymore and decided to break up with her.

“In order to stay with me, she asked to meet on account of her birthday. But then we had a huge fight again. I was so angry that I left and then later, I was afraid she would be in danger outside alone, so I called her. As a result, as I was talking to her, she was. .h.i.t by a car. When I got there, she was already dead.

“I shouldn't have left her. If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have died, but I know that's wrong. I'm not the sole one responsible for her death. So can't she just let me go?"

Tang Yuan sighed, “Don't worry, if I am there, it will be fine.”

Wu Chi lowered his eyes and his expression seemed to be a bit pained. Tang Yuan looked him up and down and asked, “Your family is very rich, right?”

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Wu Chi smiled bitterly, “An ordinary working family. Actually, if my family had money, I wouldn't have had any problems with her.”

“Don't think about it too much, it's already all over,” Tang Yuan comforted.

He asked something else and then, for the time being, he separated from Wu Chi and would look for him again in the evening.

Zhao Zheng found out that he had talked to Wu Chi, so he caught up to him afterwards and asked about how it went. Tang Yuan told him about Wu Chi and what he said. After listening to it, Zhao Zheng's expression twisted, “Why do I feel that something is wrong?” "

“You feel that too?” Tang Yuan looked at him with a smile.

Zhao Zheng nodded, then he bent his head and thought it over. Suddenly his eyes lit up, “I know.” He looked at Tang Yuan in excitement, “He said that his family isn't rich and that he had to support a girlfriend who spent money like water. But the clothes on his body are all famous brands, the shoes on his feet are two or three thousand yuan alone. Where did the money come from to buy those things? It means that he was lying the whole time.”

Either his family actually had money or his girlfriend wasn't actually wasteful. The most likely one was the second. He had tricked Tang Yuan by saying that his girlfriend was vain, in fact, he was just trying to strike a chord with Tang Yuan, who was also a man, so that he would help get rid of his girlfriend.

Unfortunately, the people who were familiar with the young woman weren't at school this whole time. They had heard that the school had sent them home. Otherwise they could have gone to get testimony from them.

Tang Yuan said, “Tomorrow is Wu Chi's birthday. I'm guessing that the female ghost is going to go after him early in the morning. After all, she has been patient for a long time.”

Zhao Zheng smiled and said, “The female ghost didn't deliberately choose to go after him on his birthday, right?”

Tang Yuan looked at him like he was an idiot, “What did you say?”

Zhao Zheng said, “Uh, I didn't say anything.” He paused and continued, “What are you going to do?”

“Help him out of the circle.” Tang Yuan said.

Wu Chi had told him about his dreams, so Tang Yuan knew that the female ghost had restricted Wu Chi to a “circle” so that she wouldn't have to go around looking for Wu Chi. After all, she was a land-bound spirit, not able to run around like any other ghost.

If Wu Chi was an ordinary person, the female ghost wouldn't have been able to limit his actions at all, but Wu Chi and the female ghost had a debt of sin, so the female ghost could trap him in the circle, because it was what he deserved.

Zhao Zheng was at a loss, “Circle?”

“Mmm, it's the school.” Before Wu Chi had told him that he couldn't leave the school, so the circle was definitely the campus. The female ghost had made a guess that he didn't like the school, so she was using the school as the place to kill Wu Chi.

Tang Yuan explained his plan to Zhao Zheng in detail and then the two began to prepare.

Because of the nature of the female ghost, Tang Yuan couldn't fight the female ghost within the school. So he had to get Wu Chi out of the school, that is, out of the circle.

Although he hated this man, Wu Chi, and thought that he deserved to die, he was a tianshi, so he has to stop the female ghost's actions. Otherwise, the female ghost wouldn't be allowed to reincarnate because she had committed a murder and the law of the living would be treated as nothing more than decoration.

It really wasn't too hard to get Wu Chi out of the school, but as soon as he left, the situation certainly wouldn't be under their control, so he had to be prepared.

In fact, Wu Chi really did, as he expected, run off the moment he was out of the school, abandoning Tang Yuan and Zhao Zheng in mere moments.

Time pa.s.sed slowly and dawn was getting closer and closer. Wu Chi ran wildly down the street. To him, the farther away from school, the better. But he only had limited stamina and couldn't keep running forever, so he was tired before running for long.

He only took a short break and then began to walk, but the more he walked, the more familiar he found the surroundings were. He took a hard look and realized that he was in the place where his girlfriend had been in a car accident. This discovery rattled him, so he pumped his legs and ran with all his strength.

When he thought he had run far enough, he stopped to take some gasping breaths, but when his gaze settled far away, he noticed something in the darkness crawling towards him. He stared at the thing without blinking. Then, a moment later, his eyes stretched wide open and an expression of horror came over his face.

The thing crawling towards him was clearly a person with a twisted body, the girlfriend he had dreamed of every night, no, not his girlfriend, but a ghost.

“Ah!” He turned in fear and ran. He looked back as he ran and saw the slow-moving ghost suddenly speeding up. That twisted body, those fractured limbs, because of the fast crawling, made a “click click” sound and hearing it made his scalp go numb.

Wu Chi watched as the monster quickly crawled behind him, stretching out a broken hand and grabbing his leg, pulling him to the ground.

“Don't kill me, don't kill me.” He lay on the ground, kicking his legs hard and trying to kick her away. However, the hand had latched on to him like a clamp and then, a moment later, yanked hard and his leg was torn off.

Then he watched her grab the leg and eat it with a “kacha kacha”. He stared at his fleshy, torn leg and he almost fainted, but he couldn't, he could only watch her finish eating that leg. Then she crawled over to him again.

Wu Chi struggled forward, trying to stay away from the female ghost. However, he soon found himself unable to move. He was like a fish lying dead on a cutting board.

The female ghost crawled onto him and the cold body made him feel chilled all over. The misaligned bones clicked against each other, the "click click" sound of which made him feel endless despair.

“Help, help me.”

He didn't give up crying out for help, but no one could hear it. Suddenly, the female ghost whispered in his ear, “This birthday present, do you like it?”

This was the only thing the female ghost can say, because that was the last sentence she heard as she was dying.

The scent of urine came from beneath Wu Chi's body. He had been so scared by this sentence that he p.i.s.sed himself, then he finally got his wish and fainted.

The female ghost didn't intend to let him go, she wanted to eat him alive, but just as she was about to continue, she heard a voice saying, “Almost got it all correct.”

The author has something to say: 
Shameless (Wu Chi): Mighty Author, I don't want to be so miserable!
Rice Ball: Then it's time for me to act!

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