Nightmare Apostle

Chapter 1979: Chapter 1119: It’s You_3

Just when he was in utter despair, suddenly there was a dull "thud" from behind, and a figure leaped up and smashed into his back.

Yang Xiao staggered and almost fell, but a strange force actually helped him keep his balance.

The moment he saw who it was, Yang Xiao was so moved he almost burst into tears.

It was Takagi Reina. At the very last second, she sprang up, lunged to Yang Xiao’s side, swapped out the Ghost Train Ticket, took away the Half Ghost, and became the new "Ghost."

And because of this change of identity, the nearby ghost passengers were like someone had hit their reset button; they all shifted their gazes away and returned to normal.

Having just survived a disaster, Yang Xiao rapidly blinked at Takagi Reina, who’d rushed in to save him, trying to express his gratitude. She just rolled her eyes so hard they almost went white, shot him a massive eye-roll, then turned around and walked off.

It was also at this moment that Xiao Lin Zhengyan finally let out a long sigh of relief. For him, this was no different from surviving a catastrophe.

Mr. Chu Xi and Miss Takagi were both top-notch people. This Miss Takagi might not speak very politely to them most of the time, but at her core she was a very good person too.

After sweeping through the carriage, Takagi Reina quickly locked onto suspicious targets—five in total. That useless guy Chu Xi had already helped her eliminate two, leaving three.

An old man with a bamboo basket on his back, an old woman with a cloth bag over her arm, and a "pregnant woman" standing in the corner.

Takagi Reina took Yang Xiao’s experience and lessons to heart. She first cautiously approached the old woman, then lightly brushed the back of her hand against the cloth bag hanging on the woman’s arm.

Judging by the feel, what she wanted wasn’t inside.

But while she eliminated one suspect, she also drew the attention of the nearby passengers. Now they had their eyes on her.

Luckily her current identity was "Ghost." If she’d been just another passenger mixed in with them, given how things were tonight, a slight turn of the head might have been enough for the other passengers to notice her. free𝑤ebnovel.com

Only the situation now wasn’t exactly great either. A chill kept running through Takagi Reina’s heart; she’d already realized that the passengers’ attention on her was increasing. Even if she did nothing now, she’d still get caught.

Especially that old woman whose cloth bag she’d just touched—the woman’s heavy head was slowly lifting. She was out of time.

At this moment Yang Xiao was desperately signaling her with his eyes, and Takagi Reina understood his hint: he was telling her to grab the old man with the bamboo basket on his back. The thing had to be in the basket, and the old man was not far from her side.

The next second, Takagi Reina stopped hesitating, suddenly spun around, and lunged at the "pregnant woman" hiding in the corner. Under Yang Xiao’s horrified gaze, she slapped the ticket in her hand against the woman’s bulging belly.

As soon as that hard texture surfaced, Takagi Reina knew she’d won the bet.

Sure enough, it was this woman. She’d wrapped the radio fragment in layer after layer of cloth and hidden it under her clothes, pretending to be pregnant.

By now, the train was slowly coming to a stop. The doors opened, and outside was none other than Youjian Mountain Station, shrouded in fog.

Under the control of the Half Ghost, the "pregnant" woman moved with stiff, jerky steps, walking off the train one step at a time. The moment she stepped out of the door, it was like her Life Force had been yanked out; she pitched forward and crashed to the ground, life completely extinguished.

The three of them—Yang Xiao and the others—immediately got off the train and searched the woman’s arms, finding a hard object wrapped layer upon layer in a blanket. It felt square in his hands and had some serious weight to it.

Before Yang Xiao could get happy, he took a slap to the back of the head.

"It’s nothing! It’s nothing! Listen to you... listening to you got us all totally screwed!"

Takagi Reina raised her little hand and kept smacking Yang Xiao while cursing nonstop, finally avenging herself for all the times he’d mocked her before.

Knowing he was in the wrong, Yang Xiao didn’t dare talk back. Out of five targets he’d picked one and still managed to get it wrong three times in a row. Getting smacked for that wasn’t exactly unfair.

"It’s nothing! It’s nothing!" Takagi Reina kept twisting the knife.

At this moment, Xiao Lin Zhengyan’s existence became very awkward. He wanted to step in and break up the fight, but seeing Takagi Reina’s stance, he didn’t dare. He was worried that if he tried, he’d be the one catching those slaps.

Suddenly, Xiao Lin Zhengyan seemed to notice something and stared in horror at the space behind Yang Xiao and Takagi Reina.

Because of the glow from the train, the side of the platform closest to it was still barely visible; the fog there had been dispelled quite a bit. But now, that side was completely empty.

Not a single figure in sight.

At this point Yang Xiao also came to his senses. He caught Takagi Reina’s descending little hand in one swift motion, then turned his deep gaze toward the Ghost Train. In an instant his whole aura shifted, like he’d become a different person:

"Shit, that bitch Yandeta Chiyoda didn’t get off the train!"