Chapter 22 Haunted House VIP
The coffee shop was noisy, and when Gu Yuan pushed the door open and walked in, he brought in a cool autumn breeze.
He stood at the door, his eyes scanning the room, finally landing on the table of people in the corner.
They sat together, their heads almost touching, their voices hushed, their expressions filled with a mixture of uneasiness and excitement.
Gu Yuan narrowed his eyes. A black mist invisible to ordinary people was slowly rising from each of them, like tiny snakes winding around their necks and wrists.
Yin energy, and not weak.
He frowned subconsciously.
"What happened yesterday was really strange. I heard that there is no such person as Mo Lin among this class of freshmen."
The speaker was Liu Qian, a graceful girl with long wavy hair.
She was wearing a red sweater today, which made her skin look even paler, and the yin energy wrapped around her wrists was the strongest.
Jichen wiped his face and said, "Yes, I am sure I really saw him speak, but many people said they didn't see it. It's strange."
As he spoke, Gu Yuan noticed that the Yin Qi on his neck rose and fell slightly with his breathing.
"I was so scared that I didn't dare to sleep yesterday..."
Xiao Tiantian's real name is Tian Tian, and she may be a little timid.
At this moment, she was huddled in the corner of the sofa, holding a pillow tightly with both hands, her knuckles turning white from the force.
The Yin energy on her body is weaker than that of others, but the location is the most dangerous, entwined around her solar plexus.
Gu Yuan approached them calmly, his ears catching every word.
The shape and position of these Yin Qi told him that the "thing" called Mo Lin had already set its sights on them, and to varying degrees.
Liu Qian was the most seriously injured.
"Hi? Who are you, handsome?"
A clear female voice suddenly interrupted Gu Yuan's thoughts.
He turned around and saw a girl with a ponytail smiling at him.
This greeting seemed to turn on a switch, and the girls around noticed Gu Yuan's presence.
"Wow! This is the most handsome guy I've seen today!"
"Handsome guy, which department are you from? Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Would you like to sit together? We still have room here!"
The sudden enthusiasm caught Gu Yuan off guard.
He took a half step back out of habit.
From childhood to adulthood, because he could see those things, he rarely made close friends and was not used to being the center of attention.
Now surrounded by so many girls, he felt suffocated.
"Don't just stand there like an idiot. They're saying hello to you, handsome boy~"
Ji Yunzhou's playful voice rang out in Gu Yuan's mind, the tone drawn out and with obvious teasing.
Hearing this voice, Gu Yuan's tense nerves relaxed a little.
He rolled his eyes in his mind: "Why? Seeing how popular I am, are you jealous?"
"you!"
Ji Yunzhou's voice suddenly rose, then dropped again: "Humph, I won't argue with a little brat."
Gu Yuan could almost imagine the expression on Ji Yunzhou's incredibly handsome face at that moment.
His brows were furrowed, his lips pressed into a thin line, and his eyes flashed dangerously.
This scene made him curl up the corners of his mouth involuntarily.
"The handsome guy smiled! Oh my god, he looks even better when he smiles!"
The girls' exclamations brought Gu Yuan back to reality.
He coughed lightly and tried to make his voice sound natural: "I am Gu Yuan, a freshman in the Computer Department."
The self-introduction was so brief that it could almost be called cold, but because of that face, the girls were even more excited.
"Hello Gu Yuan, I'm from the Chinese Language Department..."
“I didn’t expect him to be so handsome up close!”
"You have a really special temperament..."
Gu Yuan felt a headache.
He had to find Liu Qian and the others, but now he was trapped here.
"Sorry, I saw a friend."
Gu Yuan hurriedly said goodbye to the enthusiastic girls and walked quickly to Liu Qian's table.
"Hi, I'm Gu Yuan from the Computer Science Department."
He tried to regulate his breathing and make his voice sound more natural.
"Gu Yuan? Are you the 'Yuan' in the group?"
Ji Chen was the first to react, his eyes sparkling, "I didn't expect you to be so handsome! It's over, our department's school idol rankings are going to be reshuffled this year! Man, your looks are a dimensionality reduction attack!"
He was so excited that he was incoherent.
Gu Yuan had no interest in the title of "Department Prince", but the other party's straightforward enthusiasm and harmless praise still made him a little at a loss, and his ears turned red.
He nodded stiffly and sat down in the empty chair at the edge of the table, his movements a little awkward.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous."
Liu Qian noticed his discomfort and smiled to smooth things over: "We are all freshmen in the Computer Science Department. We will be classmates from now on. Relax."
She pointed at the others: "I'm Liu Qian, this is Jichen, the one with the most courage is Xiao Tiantian, and this is Li Yang."
Gu Yuan nodded slightly as she introduced him, his eyes quickly scanning over each person.
"Yeah." He responded softly.
"Tsk, kid, making friends is a good thing, but..."
Ji Yunzhou's lazy voice sounded in his mind again at the right time, with a hint of awkwardness: "It's better to keep a safe distance from these guys who are 'covering the sky with dark clouds'."
Although he rationally understood that Gu Yuan needed normal social interaction, he saw the child surrounded by a group of guys with "dark energy".
They were quite engaged in the conversation (in his opinion), but the unhappiness in his heart felt like being scratched by a cat's claws, itchy and a little sour.
Gu Yuan silently replied in his heart: "Yeah, I understand."
The tone was calm, but the response was quick.
This simple response, with a hint of obedience, soothed the inexplicable irritability in Ji Yunzhou's heart.
The days of bickering with Gu Yuan seemed to be thrown out of the window in an instant.
There was only one thought left in my mind that was infinitely magnified:
Although the child is a bit naughty, he is still quite well-behaved at the critical moment? Well-behaved to the point of being...tsk, likable?
At this time, Li Yang, who had been relatively silent, wearing black-framed glasses and looked a bit bookish, suddenly spoke:
"Gu Yuan, did you see someone named 'Mo Lin' speaking in the freshman group yesterday?"
brush!
In an instant, four pairs of eyes on the table focused on Gu Yuan's face, nervousness, anticipation, fear...all kinds of emotions intertwined.
Even Tian Tian, who was huddled in the corner, temporarily forgot her fear and showed a pair of big wet eyes from behind the pillow.
Gu Yuan paused, met their gazes, and uttered one word clearly: "Yes."
“Hiss…” Jichen gasped.
Liu Qian pursed her red lips.
Tian Tian let out a small whimper and hugged the pillow tighter.
Li Yang pushed his glasses with a serious expression.
“Should…shouldn’t…”
Jichen's voice trembled a little, and his eyes scanned the faces of his companions:
"There are only five of us... Did you see a 'ghost'?"
He said the word with difficulty.
Gu Yuan: "..."
Congratulations on getting the answer right, but there's no prize, only a scare.
"Wow... I, I'm going to transfer schools... I'm going back to pack my bags now..."
Tian Tian's voice was filled with tears.
"What are you afraid of, Sweetie!"
Liu Qian was full of vigor: "What era is it now? Do you still believe in this? You have to believe in science! I'm a VIP customer of the haunted house. I've seen all kinds of monsters and ghosts. Look at me now, I'm still full of life and I enjoy everything I eat."
She looked disdainful.
Gu Yuan was furiously complaining in his mind: Good boy! The case is solved!
No wonder the negative energy on this sister is so thick and heavy, it turns out that she took the initiative to "punch in"!
You deserve the title of "Little Expert in Courting Death"!
"Sister Qian is right!"
Jichen immediately chimed in, "I think it's probably some bored guy who got some hacking skills and is playing tricks in the group! He wants to scare us freshmen!"
We're computer science students! We're good at coding, so who's afraid of who? We can check his IP and find him in no time!
"That's right, it must be a prank!"
"I guess he's trying to attract attention? What a low-level method."
"Maybe it's a 'surprise' from one of the seniors during their welcome party?"
After some self-hypnotic "scientific analysis" and "logical reasoning", several people talked to each other and encouraged each other.
Gu Yuan watched this group of people trying to use the banner of materialism to fight against the supernatural reality, and his heart was filled with the helplessness of "everyone is drunk but I am sober".
"but……"
Li Yang, who had always been relatively calm, pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose. He lowered his voice, with the mysterious feeling that is essential for telling ghost stories:
"I've heard some... rumors about our school. It's said that before the school was built, this land... wasn't very clean."
"Um?"
Gu Yuan was immediately interested.
The others also subconsciously held their breath and pricked up their ears.
Li Yang whispered, "Rumor has it that the land where our school is located used to be... a mass grave, and it was a particularly dangerous one. When the school was being built, strange things kept happening. The foundation couldn't be laid, and the workers had accidents one after another, forcing the project to be stopped again and again.
Later, there was no other way, so the school paid a large sum of money to invite a master from Longhu Mountain to come down the mountain. It is said that he performed a huge ritual, and only then did he barely suppress "those things", and the school was finally built. So...
There are places in the school that have always been uneasy.”
His last few words were full of meaning.
"cut--!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he received several uniform rolls of eyes.
Liu Qian scoffed. "Come on, your story is so old-fashioned! What university doesn't have some 'graveyard legends'? Our school's official website even says 'outstanding people and beautiful scenery'! Your information is not even as credible as the hacker Ji Chen mentioned!"
Jichen nodded immediately. "That's right! Bring us some new information! Like, which dormitory building has red water flowing out of the faucet in the middle of the night? Which laboratory specimen moves on its own? Or... there's a certain floor in the library that never ends?"
He became more and more excited as he spoke.
Li Yang spread his hands helplessly: "Why are you so anxious? I still have more information..."
Gu Yuan looked at his companions who had suddenly become "materialistic" again.
Then he looked at the yin energy on them, which was either thick or thin and in various forms, and sighed silently in his heart.
Cemetery? Rituals? Suppression?
What if this ghost is a newborn ghost?
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