"Ah... well, after the thing with the food, they don't really want to get close to me anymore."

Which is a shame, because if anyone is well equipped to communicate with ghosts, it's Xie Lian. he's been around them for ages, and he's used to treating them just as politely as he does people unless they do something bad. But now ...

"I think a few of them vanished and now they're scared of me."