Chapter 23: Abandoned Railway Line – Get Off the Train at the Abandoned Station (2)

Xu Shenxing’s new part-time job was working in the convenience store.

Mainly, he only needed to do two things – receive money and supplement the goods.

As for the former, he needed to use the barcode scanner to scan the barcode of goods, then count the amount of money; As for the latter, it was also simple work. He only needed to check the shelves and fill them with goods.

However, no matter which one, the prerequisite to do them was that there were guests coming to buy something.

Because this convenience store was in a remote area, there were not many guests. In that case, his work was pretty easy… To be honest, Xu Shenxing had begun to worry if the daily revenue of this convenience store could maintain its operation.

Xu Shenxing carried a basket and checked the shelves again. After making sure he needn’t to supplement any good on the shelves, he drowsily laid on the cash desk.

He could hear the sounds of a whistle come from outside. He didn’t feel it was too noisy. In the afternoon of summer, these sounds made him sleepy.

“Should I lower the temperature of the air conditioner?” Xu Shenxing rubbed his eyes.

Originally, he lacked a little sleep today. His eyelids were getting heavy; it was bad if he really fell asleep.

At this time, he suddenly saw a person lingering outside the convenience store.

It was a very cute girl. She had beautiful black hair, wearing a Gothic style black uniform. Because Xu Shenxing wasn’t a uniformholic, he didn’t know what the career the uniform meant. However, from her big lipped cap and her whistle-like hairpin, Xu Shenxing thought that her uniform was a railway uniform.

Almost at the first moment Xu Shenxing saw the girl, he was sure that the girl was a “supernatural being”.

Because her height was only about 1.2 m; it was even less than a Pandora [1]…

It seemed that she was more like a doll than a girl.

Not only that. She wore such a thick uniform under the summer sun, but still remained calm – even both of the hero and the evil overlord couldn’t bear the summer sun! – by Xu Shenxing

“Too bad… without Xingyanemon [2], I have no way to distinguish if she is harmful or not…”

Xu Shenxing whispered as he  laid on the cash desk.

Before he met with Qin Xingyan, in order to determine if a supernatural creature was good or bad, he needed to observe them for a long period of time (For example, he observed Qin Xingyan for half a term).

However, the mutation of Spirit Qi hadn’t yet happened in Jiangjin city at that time. There weren’t too many supernatural beings in Jiangjin city; so it didn’t hurt even he observed them for quite a long time.

However, it was impossible to take too much time to determine the character of a supernatural being under this situation… because before he could confirm one of them, there were already hundreds of supernatural creatures coming into this city.

If he let Moli deal with it, perhaps after the girl found any supernatural creatures, she would give them two choices: surrender to her, or be walloped till they surrender to her.

The problem was if it was Moli walloping them, at the best, they would be completely paralyzed. However, if it was himself punching them, they would surely die from their bodies to their souls…

Even if it was Xu Shenxing, he was unable to do this with his mind at ease…

Finally, he sighed for his laborious life. Afterwards, he opened the door to greet the rolling summer heat.

“I don’t know what are you going to do, but, do you want to come in and rest for a while?” Xu Shenxing tried to invite her.

“Ah, can you see me?”

Apparently, she was scared by Xu Shenxing’s suddenly invitation. She opened her claret eyes wide and looked very cute.

Well, it seemed that ordinary people couldn’t see this girl.

Normally, these kinds of supernatural beings were ghosts or G.o.ds. Both of them were quite troublesome.

By contrast, he preferred to deal with tangible supernatural creatures like youkai… because they had good feel when he punched their bodies.

“Well, you can say that…” Xu Shenxing answered vaguely.

“Great! No one can see me from the railway station to here. I was almost going to despair…” The girl folded her hands as she gave a pure and sweet smile.

“The railway station… So you are a supernatural being related with railways.” Xu Shenxing showed a look of “As I expected” on his face. “It’s a bit rude to ask, but you are aware of your situation, that you are not human, right?”

“Yes.” The girl nodded. It seemed she didn’t feel angry or sad after she heard Xu Shenxing’s words, so Xu Shenxing thought that she should be an “easy to communicate” type.  “I’m a pa.s.senger locomotive, belonging to the JS series. My name is Jiangyue. [3]”

“Oh, I see. You’re that old train.” Xu Shenxing suddenly saw the light. He smiled and tried to find the useful part of the knowledge Qin Xingyan taught him. “You are the so-called… Well, ‘turned into a spirit creature,’ right?”

“Eh? It’s weird to hear you call me like that…”

If Qin Xingyan was here, perhaps she would tease him like this ,”Turned into spirit creature? It’s not ‘turned into spirit creature’! You should say ‘opened her own gnosis’ or ‘turned into Tsuk.u.mogami’!”

“Never mind, it’s not something important…” Xu Shenxing finally gave up explaining it by using his poor knowledge. He pointed to the convenience store behind him and said, “If you don’t mind, come inside?”

“Thank you.” The girl timidly bowed towards Xu Shenxing.

She was pretty polite; she should not be a harmful type of supernatural being.

Xu Shenxing evaluated in his heart silently.

After entering the convenience store, the girl went to the air conditioner, squinting her eyes and enjoying the cool breeze.

Though the air conditioner couldn’t be compared with Moli’s magic, but the air conditioner in the convenience store was also not bad…

“Never used the air conditioner?” Xu Shenxing took a bottle of c.o.ke from the freezer. He thought for a while, changing it into the mineral water, then handed over it to the girl.

“Thank you.” The girl took the mineral water, giving him a shy smile. “Because my design is old, there is no extra s.p.a.ce to install an air-conditioning system… In fact, I’ve wanted to try it since a long time ago.”

“I see.” Xu Shenxing sat back at the cash desk. He drew out a coin and put it into the cash register, then continued, “You can ask me anything you want to know. However, in exchange, please don’t do anything strange which might draw ordinary people’s attention during your stay in the mortal world.”

“What’s on that shelf?” The girl pointed to a certain shelf.

“It’s hair pilatory… Why do you ask this?”

“Because I saw you stood in front of the shelf stood for a long time when I was outside.”

“…”

Xu Shenxing considered if he needed to murder her to prevent divulgence of his secret.

[1] Pandora: one of the female main characters in the light novel called “The Xiling Empire”. Her height is 120 cm and used as the standard unit of measure of the empire.

[2] Xingyanemon: It’s a spoof of Doraemon.

[3] Jiangyue: It means “The moon’s reflection in the river” in Chinese.