At one o'clock in the morning, the old campus of Yanghuai No. 3 Middle School was silent. The students had already gone back to rest and the campus was empty. Under the pale moonlight, the teaching buildings and trees that looked normal during the day appeared eerie and terrifying.

Suddenly, the sound of running footsteps was heard coming from a teaching building.

The footsteps were extremely hurried and rapid, and along with them, heavy gasps continued to sound.

“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”

Liu Da ran downstairs with a terrified look on his face, looking back behind him, as if something scary was chasing him.

"Hu...Hu...Hu..." Liu Da ran and ran for a long time. Just when he finally had no strength to run anymore, he held onto the wall and looked up at the floor number marked on the stairs.

"Ah!!!" Liu Da used the moonlight to see the floor number marked on the wall clearly. Then he widened his eyes and let out a scream of fear. With an expression of disbelief on his face, he stumbled towards the sign, as if he wanted to see it more clearly.

But before Liu Da could run over, a hand gently placed on his shoulder, a hand...pale, bloodless, and covered with corpse spots.

"What are you running for?"

The owner of the hand leaned close to Liu Da and whispered in Liu Da's ear.

Liu Da didn't reply. His body stiffened when his shoulder was touched. The blush on his face from running quickly faded away, turning as pale as paper, and his legs began to tremble.

"Hehe." The owner of the hand couldn't help laughing when she looked at Liu Da's appearance. Then she reached out and grabbed Liu Da and quickly reached the roof.

Then, a scream resounded throughout the campus.

…

The next morning.

"Hey, did you hear? Someone jumped off the building again at the old campus."

"What another one?"

"Is this the third one this month?"

"Counting the girl at the beginning of last month, this is the fourth one."

"well……"

"..." As soon as Xiang Yan entered the school gate, he heard people around him discussing the same thing. He was silent for a while, then walked towards the classroom with a calm face, but his heart was not as calm as he appeared on the surface.

[System!!!] Xiang Yan called out to the system in his heart.

[Dear, what can I do for you?] The system responded with his unique accent.

[……] Xiang Yan was choked by the tone of the system, which was similar to that of Taobao customer service. He paused for two seconds before continuing, [Did you… sense anything this time?]

The system was silent for a while, and then it made a sound in Xiang Yan's mind, "Dear, a ghost package has arrived for you, please check it."

“…”

Hearing the system's voice, Xiang Yan's originally relaxed steps suddenly paused, and then he became visibly depressed. He walked into the classroom with heavy steps, and then slowly sat down in his seat.

Not long after Xiang Yan sat down in his seat with a frown and a heavy face, a lively and cheerful girl walked in from the seat in front of him.

"Good morning, Xiang Yan." The girl greeted Xiang Yan with a smile.

Xiang Yan came back to his senses from the fact that he had encountered a ghost again, looked at the girl and nodded, "Good morning, classmate Zhu."

Zhu Wenwen put down her schoolbag with a bright smile, then turned around in her seat and looked at Xiang Yan, asking worriedly, "Did Xiang Yan run into any trouble? I just saw you frowning and looking unhappy."

Xiang Yan was a transfer student who had transferred here ten days ago. Because he was good-looking and seemed quite polite, even though he was quiet and a bit aloof, his classmates like Zhu Wenwen had a very good impression of him.

When Zhu Wenwen saw Xiang Yan's look just now, she couldn't help but ask, worried that Xiang Yan might have encountered some trouble at school.

Seeing Zhu Wenwen's worried inquiry, Xiang Yan originally wanted to refuse to answer directly, but the system kept speaking in his mind.

[Dear, please don't refuse yet. You can ask her about the old campus. Maybe you will find something unexpected.]

Xiang Yan thought about it and felt that what the system said made sense. Zhu Wenwen, who had lived in this school for two years, did know more than Xiang Yan, who had only been here for a dozen days.

After organizing his words, Xiang Yan looked at Zhu Wenwen and asked, "I heard that a lot of people died in the old campus recently?"

When Zhu Wenwen heard Xiang Yan mention the old campus, she was stunned. Thinking of the topic she had just heard everyone discussing along the way, she felt that she knew why Xiang Yan asked that.

"Hmm..." Zhu Wenwen hesitated for two seconds, looked around, and then moved closer to Xiang Yan and lowered her voice, "At the beginning of this month, a girl in a red skirt committed suicide by jumping off a building in the old campus. Then, one after another, people also jumped off the building above where the girl jumped off."

"Did it start with the girl in the red dress? There wasn't one before?" Xiang Yan asked.

Zhu Wenwen recalled and said hesitantly, "It seems that more than a decade ago, there were several cases of people jumping from buildings like this one at the old campus. All the people jumped from the same place, but I don't know what happened afterwards."

"More than a decade ago..." Xiang Yan murmured, touching his chin, then looked at Zhu Wenwen, "Thank you."

"Student Xiang Yan, you don't have to be so polite." Zhu Wenwen smiled and waved her hand. When she saw the teacher come in, she quickly turned around, took out the book and started reading.

Xiang Yan also took out a book and placed it on the table. He stared at the book on the surface, but in fact he was discussing with the system in his mind about the recent suicides by jumping from buildings that had occurred in the old campus.

[Is there any connection between what happened more than a decade ago and what is happening now?] Xiang Yanchao asked the system. He had a hunch that the two things were not unrelated, and there must be something hidden between them.

[Dear, maybe, after all, some evil spirits can exist for dozens or even hundreds of years.] The voice of the system Taobao body sounded, and he suggested with great interest: [In order to find out the truth as soon as possible, let's go to the old campus tonight to take a look?]

[You want me to go there at night even though you know there are evil spirits there? ! ! ] Xiang Yan's tone was full of rejection, [Do you think I've lived too long? ]

[Dear, isn't there a blank model in your beginner's gift pack? You can set the data and then let him go.]

[…It’s just a new shell, the consciousness is still mine, right?] Xiang Yan complained, he felt that the system he got didn’t seem to have any effect on him.

Xiang Yan had to collect information by himself, and to find ghosts and catch them by himself. Even if the system could provide the function of creating characters, he was only responsible for the outer shell, and the actual operation still depended on Xiang Yan himself.

The problem is, Xiang Yan is afraid of ghosts!

If you let someone who doesn't even dare to watch horror movies go catch ghosts, I'm afraid that in the end it will turn out to be ghosts catching people.

"I'm really unlucky."

Xiang Yan wiped his face and recalled the scene when he encountered the system with tears in his eyes.

Half a month ago.

Xiang Yan took advantage of the weekend to take his two younger brothers and sisters to the aquarium.

They were having fun, but then some chaos happened. Xiang Yan was pushed against the wall while pulling his brother and sister out. He happened to encounter the system disguised as a decoration on the wall, and then...

Putting aside the fact that the system had to be disguised as a decoration on the wall, which was worthy of complaints, Xiang Yan was extremely desperate when he found out that the system was responsible for collecting information from the supernatural world.

Don’t be fooled by Xiang Yan’s tall stature and handsome looks, but he has a secret that is unknown to others: he is afraid of ghosts.

Because he is an excellent student and appears to be calm and composed, most people are in awe of him. People who are not familiar with him will not ask him out to watch horror movies, and people who are familiar with him think that there is no point in watching horror movies with him and will not invite him because of his calm expression at all times.

Therefore, from childhood to adulthood, except for his family, no one ever knew that Xiang Yan, who had always remained calm in the face of adversity, was actually afraid of ghosts.

When Xiang Yan found out that the system he had accidentally bound to was actually related to horror and the supernatural, his first reaction was to ask if he could unbind it.

No matter how much benefit the system can bring him, just the word "ghost" is enough to make Xiang Yan give up all his thoughts.

Of course the result was no success, and the system also told Xiang Yan to hurry up and prepare, as they were ready to travel through time.

Xiang Yan: Time travel? What about my family?

Although Xiang Yan didn't have much affection for his unreliable parents who lived far away abroad, he had a very good relationship with his twin brother and sister. What would happen to them if he left?

Afterwards, the system and Xiang Yan explained a lot, which can be summarized into two points:

First of all, Xiang Yan's world and that world full of supernatural beings will merge in a while, so he doesn't have to worry about not seeing his younger brothers and sisters.

Secondly, only if Xiang Yan goes to that world full of supernatural events, collects information about those supernatural events in that world, and finds a way to solve the imbalance between the forces of good and evil in that world, will he and his family not live a life of seeing ghosts every day after the worlds merge.

In the end, Xiang Yan came to this world before the system merged with the other worlds.

Not to mention that after the worlds merge, there will definitely be ghosts and monsters, which is something that Xiang Yan cannot avoid no matter how scared he is. Even for the sake of his family, Xiang Yan has to come to this world first to take a look, so as to prevent his younger brothers and sisters from getting into trouble in the future.

However, Xiang Yan's coming to this world does not mean that he has the courage to look for evil spirits late at night!

Xiang Yan sincerely refused the system's suggestion to go to the old campus at night.