Chapter 674: Chapter 674: Master Jennings, Help! There’s a Ghost!
The little baby ghost tilted its head, its shiny black eyes filled with confusion.
The person Scarlett asked it to find…
Seems to be a ghost.
An hour later, when the baby ghost had not returned home, Scarlett Jennings followed its energy to this rented apartment.
Upon entering, she saw a female ghost cowering in the corner facing the wall, with the little baby ghost bouncing back and forth on her.
Glancing at the only lit computer screen in the room, Scarlett obviously hadn’t expected that the author she asked to find was actually a shadow spirit.
No wonder the police couldn’t lock down her IP location with their internet tracking abilities.
Because ghost energy can affect the magnetic field of the network, and the female ghost before her, although her ghost energy was weak, it was sufficient to disrupt the police’s tracking.
“Are you that Scarlett Jennings?”
Abigail Bryant saw the suddenly appearing Scarlett Jennings and seemed to see her savior.
With an excited look, she immediately left the corner and floated towards her, while pitifully begging for help,
“Master Jennings, save me! There’s a ghost!”
Who would understand? She was perfectly fine typing words, and suddenly a baby ghost looking like a ginseng doll jumped out of the computer!
Clearly a baby ghost, yet its ghost energy was stronger than hers!
She couldn’t even beat it…
Scarlett Jennings looked at the pitiful female ghost hiding behind her and then at the innocent-looking baby ghost.
She was silent for a moment.
Did she forget that she was also a ghost?
As for the baby ghost, after its resentful energy cleared, it looked like a white, clean, chubby little dumpling, was it really that scary?
Without saying much, Scarlett Jennings simply raised her hand toward the baby ghost.
The baby ghost immediately kicked its chubby little legs and floated towards her, landing above Scarlett Jennings’s palm, and in a childish voice, reported,
“Scarlett, found it, a ghost.”
Abigail Bryant watched the interactions between the human and the ghost, and was completely dumbfounded.
Scarlett Jennings ignored her internal shock, first nodding to the baby ghost, “Mm, very good.”
Praising the little one, she then turned her head to explain to Abigail Bryant,
“Let me introduce, this is my little ghost servant. I asked it to find you through the internet.”
Abigail Bryant: …
What does this mean? A group came to play with her?
Then Scarlett Jennings asked,
“Are you a spirit from the otherworld?”
Scarlett Jennings remembered the system saying that spirits from the otherworld needed a compatible body to survive in this world.
Like Alicia Sharp, she was reborn in her own body.
The condition for the system to seize a body is also to find a compatible body for the spirit from the otherworld.
Abigail Bryant listened to her inquiry, with some confusion on her face, but she still answered seriously,
“I am a ghost from the 21st century…”
Still a ghost only since this year.
Scarlett Jennings saw she didn’t seem to be faking it, slightly furrowing her brows, “You’re not from the otherworld?”
Abigail Bryant was even more confused, “Otherworld… where is that?”
Scarlett Jennings carefully inquired about her ghostly life, then verified it through the security bureau’s system data.
Abigail Bryant, from Mountain City, 26 years old.
After graduation, she came to Sea City, and in life was a standard 996 corporate slave; she loved writing daily and had tried publishing works online, but they were unsuccessful; later due to work reasons, she had to give up her hobby.
The cause of death was her family urging marriage, after arguing with them remotely, feeling upset, and going out alone.
She ended up witnessing a teenage boy trying to bury a little girl alive in a pit; she stepped in to stop it, saving the girl, but earned the boy’s resentment.
When she was caught off guard, the boy maliciously pushed her down a park staircase, causing her head to smash and her to die instantly.
As the boy was under 14, he only received a six-month reeducation sentence.
Logically, someone like Abigail, dying away from home, would have had her soul return home with the interment of her body, but perhaps due to the resentment in her heart and hearing her father say during her funeral, “It’s because she was always single that this happened.”
Abigail Bryant didn’t want to be urged to marry even in death, so her soul returned to this small rented room in Sea City.
Perhaps because someone had died there, the rented room never had any tenants, so Abigail Bryant simply stayed.
She wanted to take revenge on the boy, but her ghost power was too weak to enter the reeducation center; she could only wait for him to be released.
Feeling bored during this period, she thought of fulfilling the regrets she had while alive and started writing novels in the rented room.
Scarlett Jennings listened to her babble about her life; when she spoke of being murdered, Abigail Bryant didn’t actually show much resentment.
Although dying so young was a bit of a regret, at least, she saved a little girl.
Abigail Bryant’s real resentment was that she was clearly murdered, but the killer was not properly punished because of his age.
Because he was underage, the law forgave him for his crime.
The law protected him but did not protect the victim.
Abigail Bryant couldn’t accept this outcome.
And a shadow spirit with unresolved obsessions cannot reincarnate.
Scarlett Jennings didn’t speak and waited until she finished airing her grievances before slowly speaking,
“The Heavenly Dao does allow those who died unjustly to seek retribution, but you’ll pay a corresponding price.”
She said,
“Perhaps you can wait; the murderer will eventually face retribution.”
Karma is inevitable; no one can escape it.
Abigail Bryant smiled bitterly, “Even if I wanted to seek retribution, with my current ghost power, I couldn’t.”
Seeing she was no longer stuck in her cycle of death, Scarlett Jennings didn’t persuade further and instead addressed the main issue,
“Since you’re not from the otherworld, why do you know so many things that haven’t yet occurred in reality? It was you who alerted the Capital Metropolitan police about the indiscriminate murder case last week, wasn’t it?”
Abigail Bryant listened to her mention this, knowing she couldn’t hide it, so she admitted honestly,
“That was indeed me.”
She had also followed up on the online news about that case afterward.
The societal revenge offender was later found to have been impulsively acting due to being laid off without reason and having his severance pay withheld, combined with his wife divorcing him.
Behind the scenes, that unscrupulous company was exposed by netizens, and the company’s boss’s wife, Lance Carew’s sister, is now being fiercely criticized online.
But even if the other party seemed pitiful, Abigail Bryant couldn’t muster any sympathy for him.
Because according to the original trajectory, that man went on a random killing spree, ultimately causing harm to nine people, killing two among students and security, which was why the exact time of his crime was clearly remembered.
Abigail Bryant said,
“Although I made the report call, it was someone else who told me about it.”
She heard those things from that person and incorporated them into her novels.
He said those were things that had already happened.
He just didn’t remember the specific times and places, and often, even the names of people involved were hidden by the authorities.
She couldn’t make precise predictions, so she wrote them into her novels.
Even if there was only a one in ten thousand chance, maybe someone who read her novels could be forewarned.
That person said if one day her novels truly reached the public.
At that time, he would need her help.
Scarlett Jennings listened to Abigail Bryant and after a while, asked her in a deep voice,
“The person you mentioned, who is he?”