Synopsis: [This is the author's first attempt at infinite stream, there are many shortcomings. The identity reveal happens in the Sea Roulette instance. Thank you for reading.]
Su Yue is ...
Chapter 88 Haunted High School (22)
Just as the player screamed, the brush hovering in the center of the horoscope began to move on its own.
No one was controlling it, no one was asking it questions, but it just started moving.
It seems like the Pen Fairy made the decision on its own.
A lot of single words are written on the horoscope according to the directions of Qimen Bagua. These single words are used for the Pen Fairy to choose the answers to the questions. Since the Pen Fairy has been asked, it would be too offensive to trouble the Pen Fairy to write the words himself.
These characters are densely arranged on the horoscope. Some of the same answers are written in both traditional and variant forms. It is said that the same answer will be different in different directions.
fierce
hurt
die
no
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The brush was filled with ink and heavily drew crosses on these unlucky answers, as if an invisible hand was controlling it.
A chilling wind blew, and the markings on the horoscope grew denser and denser. The shadow of the pen reflected in everyone's eyes. The middle school student and the other player wanted to retreat, but their feet seemed nailed to the ground, unable to move. The player could only close his eyes tightly, because he couldn't stop what was about to happen.
The brush finally drew a heavy cross on the word "death". With a "snap", it finally lost all external support and fell horizontally on the rice paper like an ordinary brush.
When it fell, the pen shaft swayed left and right twice like a compass, and the tip of the pen slowly turned towards the direction of Su Yue.
It looked like someone just casually turned the pen, so it spun around on the table, but just when the pen tip was about to stop pointing at Su Yue, Cang Zhi next to him pushed Su Yue's shoulder.
Logically speaking, Su Yue would not be pushed away by Cang Zhi's touch. After all, he is a god, and Cang Zhi's strength is only about half of his.
However, he was not prepared, because of the current situation and because Cang Zhi was next to him, so he was easily pushed back half a step, and Cang Zhi stood in front of him.
The tip of the brush was pointed right in front of Cangzhi.
All the candle flames shook violently at that moment, and the brush made a crisp "snap" sound, as if it had completed some important mission, and the pen shaft broke in the middle.
Su Yue looked at the cracks that suddenly appeared on the pen, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
The candles popped and went out all at once.
In the last moment before it went out, you can clearly see that all the "X"s drawn with a brush on the horoscope are connected together to form a distorted smiley face.
The world suddenly plunged into darkness.
In the darkness, Su Yue heard heavy, suppressed breathing that sounded like she was in deep fear. Those were probably the voices of the other two players.
The clearest thing in his sight was Cang Zhi's figure standing in front of him.
Su Yue pursed her lips.
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"Master Pen Fairy!" The first person to break the silence was the president of the Fairy Summoning Society. He looked at the broken brush with an extremely shocked expression, but within that shock was a mixture of what seemed to be ecstasy of anticipation.
"Master Pen Fairy?" the president called out, "Are you still here?"
After shouting a few words, he seemed to realize that the language was not communicated, and switched to that weird nonsense.
There was a gust of cold wind in the classroom. The temperature seemed to drop a little after the brush broke. Something seemed to be lingering in the extreme darkness. However, no matter how the president called out, the Pen Fairy did not respond. He tried for a long time and had to light the candle again in disappointment.
According to the rules, even if the ceremony of inviting the Pen Fairy is interrupted, the Pen Fairy must be asked to leave respectfully.
Otherwise, the Pen Fairy will always stay beside the person who invites the fairy.
It's quite strange to say, but Su Yue said that judging from the president's appearance, he seemed to wish the Pen Fairy would follow him around all the time, but he still performed the ritual to summon the fairy, probably out of respect for the Pen Fairy.
After respectfully sending the Pen Fairy away, the president turned on the light. Under the light, the other two players' faces were pale. The middle school student bit his lip tightly and said nothing. The other player looked at Su Yue helplessly, grabbed his sleeve and asked him, "Did you see it? Did you see it just now?"
"What?" Su Yue asked back.
"When the candle went out," the player's voice trembled, "I seemed to see something break free from the pen."
"I didn't see it." Su Yue said calmly, "You must have seen it wrongly."
"I really saw it!" the player said anxiously, "Could it be the Pen Fairy?"
Before Su Yue could say anything, the president interrupted impatiently, "Master Pen Fairy is not here! We have already sent Master Pen Fairy away. Why, do you want to invite Master Pen Fairy back?"
The player was speechless. The club president was still pacing around the room in anger. "Even if I wanted to invite you back now, I can't. Your pen is broken. I need to find a good one before the next club activity..."
In fact, Su Yue knew that the player was right.
At the moment when the brush broke and the candle flame went out, Su Yue clearly saw a black gas shooting out from the pen and rushing straight towards Cang Zhi's face who was standing in front of him.
If that thing possesses Cangzhi, it may be a series of stories about the Pen Fairy being "possessed", and the plot development of the game will enter the next stage.
However, at the critical moment, Su Yue reflexively grabbed Cangzhi's arm, and the protective divine power was transferred to Cangzhi through touch.
Although the God Su Yue and the Pen Fairy in the game are not in the same system, as far as the game is concerned, Su Yue's divine power is basically equivalent to the most powerful purification potion that can be purchased in the rest area store, which can purify any negative effects.
Including the evil power possessed by the Pen Fairy in this game.
Before the black energy touched Cangzhi, it first collided with the divine power transmitted by Suyue. Suyue even felt the "duang" vibration when the black energy hit his fingertips. Then, it seemed to be stunned. It whimpered weakly twice and ran away.
That's why the president's attempt to communicate with the Pen Fairy in the classroom failed.
After all, the Pen Fairy was stunned and scared away.
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If Su Yue was protecting someone else this time, Erding would definitely be jumping around to respond.
However, Cang Zhi is Su Yue's puppet, so even if Su Yue uses his divine power to protect him, he will not be judged as "in danger of exposing his identity as a god." This is how Su Yue escaped the tragic situation of being taught a lesson by Supervisor Z, her ex-boyfriend.
It may not be the ex-boyfriend. Before entering this game, didn’t the Lord God say, "I have something urgent to do recently, so I might need someone to take my place."
Su Yue pondered this sentence carefully and felt that it was just like the "I will notify you if there is any follow-up" after an interview in the human world. It was a standard line of speech.
Not very important.
Thinking about the Lord God is something that should not be done.
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In the classroom, the president was completely dejected because he failed to summon the Pen Fairy. Although he tried hard to hide it, everyone could see it clearly. He hastily put away the horoscope, candles and other things, and screamed at the shaking female ghost face in the PPT on the projection screen, "What are you looking at!", and waved his hand to let Su Yue and others go out quickly.
The space outside the classroom was empty, and Wei Wan was the only one in the corridor, standing there with his arms folded across his chest.
When the middle school student and the other player saw Wei Wan, they remembered the death rumors. Their faces were not very good and they did not dare to talk to Wei Wan.
Wei Wan didn't bother to pay attention to them at all, and said to Su Yue: "Everyone else has left."
"What happened?" Su Yue asked.
"You were just praying to the spirit of the pen inside, and there was a strong wind, and the scene was very evil. Then suddenly there was an explosion." Wei Wan pointed to the top of his head.
Su Yue looked up and saw that the lamp near the classroom door in the corridor had even its lampshade blown out. No wonder it felt a little dark when he pushed the door open.
If this was caused by what happened just now, then this pen fairy is really vicious.
"After the explosion, all those people were scared away." Wei Wan said again.
"Why don't you run?" Su Yue asked.
"It was just a lamp that exploded. It wasn't me that was blown up. Why should I run away?" Wei Wan looked at Su Yue as if he were an idiot.
Su Yue: "..."
The middle school student and the other player seemed to be frightened by the accident just now. Even the lights outside the classroom were broken. They could not bear it at all and left with pale faces.
Su Yue and the others were not in a hurry to leave. After all, they were the God and his puppets and an inexplicably brave NPC. It seemed that this combination could allow them to stay here for a while.
"Do you get a headache outside?" Su Yue asked.
Wei Wan shook his head.
"But was there one when we asked the Pen Fairy yesterday?" Su Yue asked again.
Wei Wan hummed, "Do you think the Pen Fairy has anything to do with me?"
"It's not what I think, it's what you think." Su Yue said, "You are the one who has a headache, not me."
"That's true." Wei Wan said.
Su Yue did not tell Wei Wan that the Pen Fairy had become particularly fierce today.
He intuitively felt that the Pen Fairy's fierceness was related to Wei Wan's absence, because Wei Wan would get a headache when he summoned the Pen Fairy, and the president firmly kicked Wei Wan out of the classroom where the Pen Fairy was summoned. However, he also felt that it would be better not to tell Wei Wan about this kind of thing so quickly.
After all, there is no empirical evidence.
Su Yue was ready to take the initiative to attack tomorrow. Anyway, he had already used his divine power to hit the Pen Fairy on the head today, so the grudge was settled.
But these are things to consider tomorrow. The three of them went back to the dormitory first, because in this school, if you stay outside after curfew, you will be expelled.
Although there is room for improvement with Young Master Wei around, Su Yue does not intend to take the risk.
Su Yue, Cang Zhi and Wei Wan live in the same dormitory building, on the same floor. Wei Wan is in the innermost and quietest dormitory.
When he arrived at the door of Wei Wan's dormitory, Su Yue saw a scene that stunned him.
Wei Wan's dormitory door was wide open. Someone had spray-painted a giant "X" on it with pink paint, along with other colorful obscene words. All of Wei Wan's belongings were scattered across the floor. Even his bed had been violently vandalized. A note was taped to the headboard, scrawled in red pen:
Get out! You're not welcome here!
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At this point, Wei Wan's dorm room was definitely uninhabitable. If he continued, his personal safety might even be at risk. Wei Wan was stunned, having obviously not expected other students to go this far.
"You can come to our dormitory." Cang Zhi saw Wei Wan in a daze and said considerately.
"Is this...appropriate?" Wei Wan hesitated.
"What's the matter?" Su Yue patted Wei Wan's shoulder. "As classmates, we should help each other."
The first thing Su Yue thought of when he saw Wei Wan's dormitory in such a mess was to pull Wei Wan to their dormitory. Of course, he admitted that his idea was a bit utilitarian. Wei Wan was the main NPC, and it would be best to have him by his side. However, Su Yue would not show goodwill to every main NPC. He still admired Wei Wan very much.
I’m just afraid that Wei Wan will refuse.
Fortunately, things went much more smoothly than Su Yue had imagined. Wei Wan didn't refuse. However, as the three of them walked to the dormitory together, he was a little flattered and said, "Is this really okay? Will it cause any trouble for you?"
"No, don't worry." Cang Zhi said gently.
Su Yue: "..."
He suddenly realized.
There seem to be only two beds in that dormitory?