Chapter 04 Chapter 4

The two lonely ghosts who knew the true identity of the figure in front of them from the reaction of the Black and White Impermanence trembled and hugged each other.

Wasn’t it agreed that it was only the Black and White Impermanence?

How could there be a Ghost King!

The Black and White Impermanence also knelt on the ground and dared not breathe.

Weren’t they asked to come to lead the souls of the living?

Why is His Majesty the Ghost King here!

"Here, are you the only ones?"

The Black and White Impermanence claimed that it was, and at the same time realized that the appearance of the Ghost King was not for them, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The two ghosts beside him listened to the general situation and realized that the attitude of this Ghost King was unusual. From his behavior of observing the surroundings and the question just now, it was obvious that he was looking for someone.

It was definitely not them, and it didn’t look like the Black and White Impermanence... Could it be Xi Bai?

The two ghosts looked at each other, and remembered what Xi Bailin said before he left, and they kept silent.

But unexpectedly, the Ghost King asked first.

"What's your answer?"

The male ghost buried his head even lower: "Your Highness, the Ghost King, we... don't know if there are other people."

The female ghost picked up her head hanging behind her waist, put it down with her face facing the ground, and answered repeatedly: "Yes, we don't know."

"You are lying."

The Ghost King's tone was firm, as if he knew the truth clearly.

"He just left."

Just a few words made the two ghosts break out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, the Ghost King didn't seem to want to investigate further.

In the strange silence, the male ghost quietly raised his eyes and saw a wisp of black mist floating out from the ink-colored clouds around him. It turned in the air and floated towards them with a piece of rice paper with cinnabar ink marks.

It was the complaint that Xi Bai had just written to them.

The male ghost saw from the corner of his eye that the ghost king's slender fingers gently pinched a corner of the complaint, and then he actually put the paper to the tip of his nose.

Although his face was not clear, every move he made was filled with a sense of indulgence.

He not only wondered what the identity of the young man who looked very handsome just now was.

Why did he feel that the ghost king's behavior was so... ambiguous?

Gu Chi really didn't have the extra attention to pay attention to his surroundings.

He didn't even look at what was written on it. He just felt that the handwriting was elegant and timeless, with a slightly upturned pen tip, and it was obvious that the owner of the handwriting was a lively person. In the faint fragrance of paper and ink, his keen sense of smell caught a trace of other smells left in the corner of the rice paper.

The smell of Xibai.

The slender and powerful thumb gently rubbed the paper, and the faint cold fragrance of pine wood and the remaining smell on the paper were intertwined.

The deep black pupils that had been staring at the complaint were swept by a few dark lights.

It can be guessed that when people write, they should press the corner of the paper with their hands and write one stroke at a time.

That scene, just thinking about it, feels very well-behaved.

Very cute.

There were a few rustling sounds from the side, and Gu Shi glanced at it.

Bai Wuchang became alert and glared at his companions. Hei Wuchang, who was still whispering, immediately lowered his head deeply.

"What are you talking about?"

Their voices were very low, but Gu Chi still caught a few key words.

Something like "again", "last time" and so on.

The two Wuchang looked at each other, and Bai Wuchang said: "Your Highness, we have received summons from this person several times before to come and extradite living souls or some wild ghosts."

"Do you know him?"

Bai Wuchang answered in an orderly manner: "Because this person often uses this kind of semi-cooked rice paper and cinnabar ink, we can recognize him, but his whereabouts are secretive and we have never seen him before."

"...Hmm."

Hearing the obvious sense of disappointment in the tone of the Ghost King, Bai Wuchang had a sudden inspiration.

"However, we heard that man say something two days ago."

As expected, the ghost king who was about to leave stopped and asked, "What did he say?"

Bai Wuchang was not impressed by the details of the incident, and asked to look at Hei Wuchang beside him.

The latter said very firmly: "Grilled cold noodles, sweet and sour, slightly spicy, with lots of sauce."

The five ghosts at the scene fell into the same silence at the same time.

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Xibai came out of the classroom and turned the corner at the end of the corridor. He felt a flash of white light in front of his eyes, and a sense of clarity all around.

When his eyes focused again, he found that he was already standing in the surging crowd at the end of the class.

"Classmate, please lend me a way."

Xibai made way for the boys behind him, and turned around to find that the other party was the No. 12 from the Sports College in the game two days ago.

The two were very close just now, but Xibai didn't smell anything strange.

Xibai changed his mind at this moment and apologized in his heart. It seemed that he had wronged someone two days ago.

The man obviously recognized him and raised his hand to say hello.

"Hello, classmate." Xu Xiao said warmly.

Xibai nodded. Seeing that he seemed to have just finished class, he asked, "Hello, classmate. I want to ask if you have seen Gu Chi?"

"Gu Chi?" Xu Xiao turned around and looked at his friends. "Have you seen Brother Chi?"

Most of them shook their heads. Only one of them said, "He seemed to have slipped out of the back door when the class was almost over. He left in a hurry."

"Left early?" Xibai was anxious. Shouldn't Gu Chi have left the teaching building a long time ago? "How long has he been gone?"

"Not long."

A voice came from the stairs and accurately drilled into Xibai's ears.

"I'm here."

There was a large window on the side of the stairs, and the sun was shining in from there.

The moment Xibai raised his head, he was completely enveloped by a falling shadow. When he raised his head, he felt that the pine aroma today seemed to be more aggressive than before.

He asked Gu Chi: "Have you decided which restaurant to eat at?"

Unexpectedly, Gu Chi, who had already made an appointment with him, seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then seemed to react.

"So you mean to go to the hotel?"

Xibai blinked, what else?

Gu Chi and Xibai's shoulders were very close, so close that Xibai could vaguely feel his body temperature.

Sure enough, the body of a person who practices sports is very good, and even the body seems to be hotter than that of an ordinary person.

Considering that people who do sports are more concerned about their body shape and nutritional intake, he said, "Let's go to a beef buffet."

Speaking of which... Xibai quickly took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Zhuang Suan, telling him that he had an appointment tonight.

He also emphasized that it was about finding a roommate.

[The God of Calculation: It's okay. I happen to have something to do today. Then we will celebrate for you in two days.]

[The God of Calculation: Did you go out with Gu Chi?]

[The God of Calculation: Come on, take down the handsome guy [licking wildly with tongue]]

Xibai's fingertips felt hot, and he quickly closed the private chat window.

"Brother Chi, you didn't eat with us at noon. It turned out that you were going out with Xibai."

Xu Xiao said with a smile, and the teasing meaning in his expression was very obvious.

As a result, Gu Chi said "yes" very calmly, which made the sports students who wanted to make a few jokes speechless.

The person next to him tilted his head, and a word with warm breath fell lightly in his ear.

"Let's go."

When the two of them left the teaching building, Xi Bai had already set the navigation.

His mind was full of the message he had just sent, and he was considering whether he should buy an anti-penetration film.

After all, although this era is open-minded, there are still many straight men who are homophobic. Zhuang Suan's words are too coquettish, it would be bad if people misunderstood him.

I don't know if Gu Chi saw it just now.

Probably not, Xi Bai analyzed rationally. Although the two were close, if Gu Chi saw it, he might still ask him a question.

"Is it your birthday today?"

The words came one after another as if they were in response.

Xibai: ...

Okay, he saw it.

But Gu Chi did not ask what "taken down" meant, which made Xibai feel a little relieved.

The two walked forward along the flow of the crowd. Many people, like them, went out of school to find food after school.

Many mobile stalls have been set up near the school gate. Many students lined up to buy snacks and the like and took them back to the dormitory as dinner. Xibai would do the same occasionally.

Xibai was very quiet all the way.

It was a little different from his usual appearance.

"What are you thinking about?" Gu Chi suddenly said, pulling Xibai back from his distracted state.

Trying hard to hide his nervousness, Xibai said, "Oh, well, I was thinking about what kind of hot pot base we'll have for the beef buffet later...Haha, they said that the plain hot pot with shacha sauce is delicious, and it seems to be the Cantonese way of eating. Have you heard of it?"

"No."

Gu Chi looked at Xibai's smile and raised the corners of his lips.

"We can try it later."

"Okay." Xibai remembered that there seemed to be a Tom Yum Goong hot pot base that he was also interested in, so he spoke faster than his brain, "We can order two different flavors of hot pot bases, and then switch between them..."

As he spoke, he began to lose confidence.

"...If, you don't mind."

Xibai wanted to take back what he had just said with a sip.

Help, what am I talking about? This is too ambiguous!

Although he and Zhuang Suan always tasted each other's hot pot when they went out to eat hot pot, the situation is obviously different now.

If Gu Chi had just seen the message on WeChat, how could he not think too much when hearing this now?

"Yeah, okay."

Xi Bai looked over in disbelief, only to see Gu Chi nodded calmly.

He was so calm that Xi Bai wondered if Gu Chi only saw the birthday sentence, and didn't see what Zhuang Suan said below about taking the man down, and the [tongue licking] emoticon that looked very perverted.

If so.

That's great!

"Wait for me a moment."

Just after leaving the school gate, Gu Chi suddenly left a message and turned into the crowd at the snack stand next to him.

Xibai was left alone in a daze for a moment, then he came back to his senses and thought again about what Gu Chi had interrupted him from thinking.

To be honest, he is still a little hesitant.

Although Gu Chi is indeed very handsome and gives people a sense of security, finding a roommate is not something that can be decided casually after all.

Finding a roommate you get along with is not much easier than finding a good boyfriend. Living in the same space, there is a high probability that your living habits will conflict.

This is why Xibai applied for single accommodation when he was a freshman.

He has a slight obsession with cleanliness, and Xibai himself feels that he may not be the kind of roommate he can get along with easily.

In addition, his physique is rather special, and he seems to be particularly prone to accidents these days.

First, he encountered a ghost when he turned out of the alley a few days ago, and then he encountered a ghost in the teaching building this afternoon. Xi Bai didn't have any advance perception. Before,

when he helped other ghosts, he always did it on his own initiative. It was rare that he didn't know when he broke into another space.

It was okay for him, Zhuang would help him and bring him some amulets from home.

But Gu Chi is an ordinary person. If he lived with him, it would be bad if some sudden supernatural events appeared in the dormitory uncontrollably and hurt each other.

All kinds of problems popped up one after another like bamboo shoots after rain, and he listed them one by one in his mind.

Tsk, I shouldn't be impulsive.

Xibai felt a little regretful.

Taking a step back, there is one last question.

The only time he had contact with Gu Chi was in the gymnasium bathroom. He had no other experience with him, and he didn't know what kind of person he was in normal times, whether he was good or bad.

He wanted to find out first, but the strange things that happened one after another in the past few days made Xibai forget about it.

How about delaying the invitation to share the house and observe for a while?

Just as he was thinking, a burst of fragrance suddenly penetrated into his nose, interrupting Xibai's train of thought.

When he raised his head, a paper bowl with a familiar print came into his sight. It was in a plastic bag and held by a big hand.

The aroma of carbohydrates made him look subconsciously, and then he heard Gu Chi's voice coming from above.

"I bought grilled cold noodles."

"Sweet and sour, slightly spicy, with lots of sauce. Do you want to eat it?"

Swish!

The last question that I had just listed in my mind was instantly crossed out.

Gu Chi is a good person! ——Xi Bai concluded without hesitation.