Chapter 6: Grinding Experience! Celebrity! The Ghost on the Bus!
In the dormitory, Lin Feng looked at Tongtong and glanced at her stats panel.
[Ghost Spirit: Tongtong]
[Level: Ordinary Grade (Level 1)]
[Potential: Two Stars (5%)]
[Experience: 215/500]
[Ability: Red Dress]
[Ghost Technique: Undefined]
[Bond: 101]
“When Tongtong transforms into the Red Dress, her combat power probably increases by at least one level,” Lin Feng thought.
Tongtong continued to stare at him blankly, expressionless.
Lin Feng reached out, wanting to pat her little head.
But… he couldn’t touch it.
Tongtong had no physical form.
[You patted Tongtong’s head. Ghost Spirit Experience +5, Bond +1,] the system’s voice sounded.
More experience?
So Lin Feng patted her head again.
But this time, the system’s voice didn’t appear.
“Only once,” Lin Feng thought.
It seemed that daily interactions could also increase experience, even if it was just 5 points at a time and possibly only once a day. But it was enough, a slow and steady gain.
“Tongtong, do you want to eat?” Lin Feng asked.
Yes, now that he knew daily activities could increase experience, Lin Feng started thinking of ways to gain more experience.
Tongtong didn’t respond.
Lin Feng wasn’t discouraged and kept trying different things.
In his attempts… Lin Feng discovered something.
Even though Tongtong had no physical form, Lin Feng could still gain a good amount of experience.
For example, watching TV with Tongtong could increase experience by 5 points and the bond by 1.
Telling her a story had the same effect.
Of course, it only gave experience once.
Singing a nursery rhyme also had a similar effect.
This way, after trying for over an hour… Lin Feng managed to gain 50 points of experience and 10 bond points!
50 points of experience was significant. If no new tasks appeared, just gaining experience through daily interactions would be enough to level up Tongtong in a few days.
“Bath and bed,” Lin Feng said.
After trying for over an hour, it was getting late.
So, Lin Feng walked into the bathroom to take a bath.
As soon as he undressed, he noticed that Tongtong had followed him in.
“Tongtong, go back first,” Lin Feng said.
Only then did Tongtong return to the bow tie and disappear.
After a relaxing bath, Lin Feng went to bed.
When going to sleep, Lin Feng placed the bow tie by his pillow.
This was also a way to increase the bond with the ghost spirit. Once someone obtained their ghost spirit object, they had to keep it close at all times.
What if it was lost?
If it was lost and couldn’t be retrieved, that person would have to live as an ordinary human. There wouldn’t be a second chance.
Unless someone was born with the ability to become a ghost controller, but such people were extremely rare.
—
The next day, Lin Feng put the bow tie on and prepared to take a day off.
After going to the outer city tomorrow, Lin Feng would have little chance to return to school, so he decided to walk around the campus.
“Lin Feng, I heard you became a ghost controller, congratulations!” Along the way, several classmates greeted Lin Feng.
“I heard that out of thousands of students from over a dozen schools, only about 300 became ghost controllers yesterday. The ratio is too low.”
“I also heard that more than twenty lost control, and dozens of people died.”
“Really? Did you hear that our school also had three cases of lost control? Two were dealt with by guide ghost controllers, and guess who handled the third one?”
“Who?”
“A student named Lin Feng. I heard he had just awakened his ghost spirit. Amazing, right?”
“Wow, that’s really impressive!”
“I wonder what will happen to us next year.”
“Look, there’s Lin Feng!”
“……”
After walking a bit further, Lin Feng overheard a group of students talking about him.
Instantly, many students around turned to look at him.
Soon, Lin Feng realized that many students knew about him handling the out-of-control ghost spirit. He had become somewhat of a celebrity at school.
[You took Ghost Spirit Tongtong for a one-hour walk. Ghost Spirit Experience +5, Bond +1.]
When Lin Feng returned to the dormitory after walking around the campus, the system’s voice sounded again.
As expected, as long as he did something with Tongtong, he could gain experience.
So Lin Feng used his day off to grind out dozens of experience points.
—
[New task: Go to the outer city and become an official ghost controller. Task reward: 20 experience points, 1 ghost spirit potential.]
The next morning, as soon as Lin Feng woke up, he heard the system’s voice.
“Time to head to the outer city,” Lin Feng thought as he packed his things and headed to the school gate.
At the gate, dozens of students were already gathered.
These were the students from the school who had successfully awakened their ghost spirits the previous day.
“Look, Lin Feng is here.”
Before Lin Feng even got close, the dozens of students had already started watching him.
Clearly, the students knew about Lin Feng handling the out-of-control ghost spirit.
Every student looked at Lin Feng with amazement in their eyes.
Beep beep~
A rundown bus pulled up.
“Get on the bus,” a man cloaked in a hooded robe said in a hoarse voice from the bus.
The students quickly boarded the bus.
“Brother Lin, sit with me,” a voice called out from the bus.
Lin Feng looked and saw that it was the chubby classmate whose ghost spirit object was a severed finger.
Lin Feng glanced at the chubby guy and then casually found an empty seat to sit in.
As soon as he sat down, Lin Feng noticed that Tongtong’s bow tie reacted.
“A ghost?” Lin Feng glanced to his side and saw that the person sitting next to him was extremely eerie… not like a human at all!
“Ah, a ghost!” At that moment, a student at the back of the bus shouted.
“Don’t make a fuss. Ghosts are everywhere in the outer city. These are just daily-grade ghosts without resentment. They’re harmless, so just ignore them. Their presence is to help you adapt to life in the outer city,” the man cloaked in the hooded robe said calmly.