The shadowy figure was wearing a school uniform and looked like a student about sixteen or seventeen years old. Her long hair obscured her expression, but her shoulders were shaking in fright.
The girl’s voice was very quiet, with a sense of hollowness. “You guys…Why are you guys…bullying me, too?”
Bullying?
Wen Nuan faltered. He didn’t know how to respond.
Baili Wuchang frowned and said nothing. However, the eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang spoke up and said, “Seems like there was something wrong indeed. The ghost behind the school’s haunting problem isn’t her.”
They had arrested her too hastily, and Baili Wuchang didn’t even take a closer look. Now that he looked at it, it was obvious that he must have arrested the wrong person.
There was no need to explain. Wen Nuan also understood.
The ghost haunting the school had to have some spiritual power. Otherwise, it was impossible to come and go as it pleased, appearing freely even during the day.
The female student ghost in front of them seemed to be the new ghost who died not too long ago. Wen Nuan had seen many ghosts at this point, and he could conclude that this girl wasn’t that powerful.
Wen Nuan realized something. “Are you the female student who jumped off a building?”
There had been an incident in the school before where a female student jumped to her death, causing a sensation at the time. Afterwards, there seemed to be frequent cases of hauntings across campus.
People mistakenly believed that there was a direct correlation between the hauntings and the female student who jumped off a building. In actuality, these two things were separate events that happened at the same time.
The girl nodded, paused, and then suddenly shook her head.
Wen Nuan was a little confused. “Did you scare the students downstairs just now?”
The girl shook her head subconsciously, paused, and nodded instead.
Wen Nuan felt dizzy. “I don’t understand. Can you explain what you mean?”
Because of the presence of the two Baili Wuchangs, the female student ghost didn’t dare to refuse, so she could only answer.
She said hesitantly, “Earlier…I—I was on the stairs…”
The girl was dead, but because of resentment, she didn’t want to leave, so she spent her days wandering in the corners of the school.
It was just that the girl’s spiritual power was too weak, so she couldn’t appear during the day. She could only come out at night and move to places that were dark.
It happened to be cloudy today, and it had been gloomy since the afternoon. When the girl saw that the weather was “very good”, she came out wandering again.
“I…” The female student ghost’s body trembled. “I went to the library and saw a shadow rush out. It was so scary!”
“Shadow?” Baili Wuchang grasped onto the key point.
The girl nodded. “I didn’t see its appearance clearly, but…but it felt powerful and scary.”
There was more than one ghost in the school. The female student ghost was not the shadow that Wen Nuan encountered before. Perhaps the shadow that the girl said she encountered was the one who told Wen Nuan he shouldn’t be here.
The girl was still trembling, but she hadn’t finished speaking. “I saw a shadow rush out, and then…then there was blood all over the floor, and someone else…died.”
“Another person died?!” Wen Nuan was shocked. “You said it was in the library?”
The female student ghost nodded.
Even though she had already died, when she saw all that blood on the floor, she was still startled, screaming in fright all the way down the stairs.
Coincidentally, there was a female student at this time who lost a book. She wanted to find it, but when she went into the empty classroom building, she ran into the female student ghost.
Because the female student ghost was scared witless, her body was full of yin energy. Additionally, because it was overcast, the female student who walked in briefly gained all-seeing eyes. She and the female student ghost stared at each other with wide eyes.
That’s where the screams came from, garnering Wen Nuan’s attention.
“Let’s go! Let’s go upstairs!”
Wen Nuan made a prompt decision and quickly ran out of the classroom.
He knew where the library was.
In fact, the library was just another classroom. There were some bookshelves, and it was simply decorated to look like a library. Not many people went in to borrow books, since they were old and uninteresting.
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Wen Nuan took the two Baili Wuchangs and quickly ran to the sixth floor. The library was a room in the corner.
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The door was unlocked, and when it opened, the strong stench of blood assaulted them.
“Ugh—!!!”
Wen Nuan gasped. Although he was somewhat mentally prepared, the bloody scene in front of him still sent shivers up his spine.
The two Baili Wuchangs followed and saw the same scene.
“Huff—”
Baili Wuchang’s breathing grew heavy. He had a “phobia” of seeing blood. He subconsciously reached for the sunglasses in his pocket to block the crimson color that made him agitated.
It was just that Baili Wuchang didn’t have anything in his pocket. He came in such a hurry with Wen Nuan that he hadn’t prepared too many things, so his hands came away empty.
The eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang was already prepared. He had already put black sunglasses on his face. Although his breathing was a little heavy, he seemed to be fine.
The eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang turned to Baili Wuchang and said, “What? You didn’t even bring the necessities? Will I be as lax as you one day?”
“Huff, huff, huff—”
Baili Wuchang’s breathing was heavy. His heart burned, and now that he was provoked again, his eyes turned as red as fire.
He slowly bent over, raising his hands to cover his eyes. His fingers pressed harder and harder, as if he was about to gouge his eyes out.
Wen Nuan took a look and hurried over, anxiously holding Baili Wuchang’s face. “Are you okay? Why don’t you go out first? Baili Wuchang?”
Wen Nuan’s hands were warm, neither cold nor hot, carrying an inexplicable feeling of reassurance.
Baili Wuchang stretched out his arms and buried Wen Nuan into his chest, deeply inhaling the unique smell emanating from Wen Nuan’s body, as if that scent could calm his restlessness.
The eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang saw this and was suddenly filled with a bellyful of vinegar.
After a while, Baili Wuchang was fine.
Wen Nuan led Baili Wuchang outside, wanting him to wait there. “I’ll go and look again.”
Baili Wuchang refused to let go of Wen Nuan’s hand. “Don’t. Let him investigate alone. You’re a kid right now. It’s not suitable for you to see those things.”
Wen Nuan fumed. “I’m not really three!”
As the two were talking, the eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang came out. He took off his sunglasses and said, “I’m done.”
“What’s the situation?” asked Wen Nuan.
Another death suddenly occurred in the school. A classmate was murdered in the library. The scene of the crime was horrific.
Within the pool of blood laid a young male student. His head had suffered serious damage, and it looked like he had been severely beaten by something hard. Not only was blood splattered, but his brains were also spilled all over the floor.
The police car sirens got closer and closer. Since something like this happened, even though the school thought the attention wasn’t good, they had no choice but to report. They could only call the police and ask them to come and investigate.
The sky was completely dark, and the police cars were approaching quickly. In the midst of the sirens, a young man dressed like a gangster seemed unaware of the presence of the police. He was still squatting on the side of the road not far from the school, holding a brick in his hand, ready to rob the students who were outcasts.
By chance, a female student came over alone, carrying a schoolbag.
The little gangster immediately jumped up, holding a brick to block the female student’s path, and spat on the ground with a mouthful of phlegm that was not there at all. He seemed to simply think that this action could enhance his coolness.
The gangster said in a scornful voice, “Lend me some money to spend, or don’t even think about leaving.”
After he finished speaking, he waited for the girl to tremble with fear, but the girl was surprisingly calm. She didn’t even look at him as she continued walking.
“Are you deaf?!” The little gangster yelled in disbelief, growing angry. “I’m talking to you! Give me your money, or I won’t hold back! Let me tell you, I know all the big bros in this area. If you don’t give me money today, I won’t only ask for money tomorrow!”
“Hey!”
The words of the little gangster were once again ignored by the girl. She looked indifferent and continued to move forward without even raising her head.
The little gangster followed her a few steps and raised his hands, about to hit the girl on the head with a brick. “I’m gonna teach you a lesson. You have no idea how serious I am!”
He fiercely threw down the brick, but there was no reaction. Somehow, the brick in the gangster’s hand suddenly disappeared, and the girl wasn’t harmed at all.
The girl continued to ignore him and walked away, minding her own business.
“Don’t waste your breath. She can’t hear you.”
A milky and childish voice spoke up behind the little gangster.
Startled, the little gangster turned around and instantly yelled. “You?!”
The milky and childish voice belonged to Wen Nuan, of course.
Wen Nuan and the two Baili Wuchangs stood in front of the little gangster.
This little gangster was familiar with Wen Nuan and Baili Wuchang, since he was the one both Baili Wuchangs taught a lesson to. He was the very Classmate Cao his homeroom teacher liked so much.
Classmate Cao panicked when he saw the two Baili Wuchangs. He couldn’t beat one, let alone two.
Classmate Cao said, “My boss is nearby. What do you want?”
“We don’t want anything.” Wen Nuan looked at him. “We just want to ask you how you died.”
“What did you say?” Classmate Cao was stunned. “Are you fucking sick? Are you trying to curse me?”
Wen Nuan raised his hand to point and said, “You also saw that the girl just now couldn’t hear you at all, because you were already dead.”
The student who died in the library was Classmate Cao.
When Wen Nuan and the two Baili Wuchangs arrived at the library, they found that only the body of Classmate Cao was left, and his soul was nowhere to be seen.
After Classmate Cao’s soul left his body, it wandered off to who knows where.
The three searched for a while until they found near the school entrance, there was a girl being harassed by Classmate Cao.
However, Classmate Cao was just a spirit. He could only be seen by all-seeing eyes, and normal people wouldn’t be able to notice him.
Classmate Cao was shocked for a while before he shouted, “Fuck you! How could I die?! I’m perfectly alive! Morons! Idiots!”
Classmate Cao seemed to be emotionally unstable. He didn’t remember dying at all, acting as if he were still alive.
Wen Nuan looked at Baili Wuchang strangely and said, “What’s going on with him?”
Baili Wuchang didn’t have the chance to speak before the eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang had already taken the lead.
The eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang said, “Under normal circumstances, many newly deceased ghosts will have mixed up memories. They cannot remember how they died and will mistakenly think that they are still alive.”
Wen Nuan said, “What should we do? The female student ghost said that Classmate Cao was killed by the shadow, but she didn’t see it. Now that we have found Classmate Cao, and he’s like this, it’s even more impossible to tell us what the shadow looks like.”
If Classmate Cao didn’t remember dying, he would be less likely to remember who the murderer was. As a result, who the black shadow was had become a mystery again.
Baili Wuchang frowned and said, “This situation can usually be relieved in two or three days.”
Two or three days?
Wen Nuan said, “In other words, if we can’t find any new clues, we can only wait for Classmate Cao to regain his memory in two or three days?”
Baili Wuchang nodded. “Theoretically, this is true, but there are precedents. Some ghosts can’t remember what happened before for a long time and are always in a state of confusion.”
“This…” Wen Nuan’s head hurt.
No matter what, they had to take Classmate Cao’s soul first. Classmate Cao was a breakthrough in the case at the end of the day.
Because someone died in the school, the school was a mess right now. Various police, reporters, students, and parents were amidst all the chaos.
Wen Nuan and the others planned to leave with the souls of Classmate Cao and the female student ghost first, then come back to investigate after the school calmed down a bit.
Classmate Cao didn’t want to leave with them, but his refusal was for naught. Baili Wuchang forced him into the soul-binding device and took him away.
In comparison, the female student ghost was more cooperative and followed them to the Hell Chain Hotel.
The female student ghost had always been timid and scared. She was especially afraid of Classmate Cao. She seems to have been robbed by Classmate Cao before, and was unwilling to stay with him.
“Boss! You’re back!”
Heibai Wuchang were waiting for them at the door of the hotel. When they saw them appearing, they immediately stepped forward to greet them.
But……
“Your boss is over here.” The eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang said very unhappily.
Bai Wuchang rushed over, not knowing who was who for a second. He thought the eighteen-years-future Baili Wuchang was his oss.
“Haha—” Bai Wuchang scratched his head in embarrassment. “Uh, I…”
Made a big, unforgivable mistake.
Hei Wuchang quickly resolved the tension and spoke up. “Boss, we investigated matters regarding Fan Liangda today.”
Today, while Wen Nuan and the two Baili Wuchangs were at school, Heibai Wuchang were investigating Fan Liangda.
Fan Liangda still didn’t come to work today. He was still on leave, so it was another day without catching hide nor hair of him.
Baili Wuchang was able to find information about the house Fan Liangda once rented in the Hell Chain Hotel employee manual, but after looking, he didn’t see anyone there at all.
The neighbors said that the house had been vacant for a long time and couldn’t be rented out because it was haunted.
Eighteen years ago, housing prices were not high, and houses were not as impacted as they were now. It was indeed normal for some small houses to be unoccupied.
As for Fan Liangda, the neighbors had never heard of him.
Fan Liangda’s name was distinctive. If you heard it once, you would easily remember it. However, the neighbors were strangers to who Fan Liangda was.
Bai Wuchang nodded. “In short, Fan Liangda seems to be an empty existence with no leads. It looks like all relevant clues have been deliberately eliminated, so there’s nowhere to start.”
Wen Nuan sighed and said, “Ai, aren’t we at a dead end?” There was nothing more they could do.
“It’s getting late, let’s rest first.” Baili Wuchang said, “You rested too late yesterday, so you should go to bed early today.”
As a living person, Wen Nuan’s routine and rest were still very important, especially since his body was only three or four years old and could easily be burnt out.
When the eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang heard, he immediately extended an olive branch and said, “Wen Nuan, go to my room to rest. I bought you new clothes and I won’t give you a little dress to wear.”
Little dress. These two words were pointed at Baili Wuchang.
To be honest, Wen Nuan was a little moved. His eyes shone brightly as he looked at the eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang.
Baili Wuchang was unhappy and said, “Yesterday’s dress was a misunderstanding. I didn’t buy it on purpose.”
“Haha—” The eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang sneered and said, “You still don’t dare to admit it? Some people really are all talk.”
To be honest, Wen Nuan didn’t believe Baili Wuchang’s “nonsense”. According to Baili Wuchang’s sullen and unscrupulous character, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance he bought it on purpose.
Wen Nuan felt like right now, he really wanted a new set of clothes. His current ones were uncomfortably small.
Wen Nuan looked at the eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang with bright eyes. He looked convinced, and would nod happily in the next moment.
Baili Wuchang immediately raised his hand to stop Wen Nuan and said, “I’ll buy you new clothes too.”
Wen Nuan looked at him suspiciously, as if he didn’t trust him, thinking that Baili Wuchang might buy another little dress.
Baili Wuchang had no choice but to take out his trump card and said, “If you don’t stay by my side all the time, if I suddenly have something urgent to do and need to return to the real world, and I can’t find you for a while, what would happen if I left you here by yourself?”
A threat!
That was definitely a threat!
Wen Nuan puffed out his cheeks and looked up at Baili Wuchang.
But he had to say, threats were very effective.
Wen Nuan glanced at the eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang and said regretfully, “Well…I’d better sleep in my original room, or I might cause trouble.”
When Baili Wuchang heard this, he raised a victorious smile, hugged Wen Nuan, and gave the eighteen-years-ago Baili Wuchang a provocative glare. Carrying Wen Nuan, he walked away…
Wen Nuan can’t catch a break 😭
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