Chapter 78 - Ghost Eyes
Translator: Yuzu
“Chen Lulu, Li Jianjun is dead, and your hatred has been served. I beg you to let me go. I was young and ignorant back then when I promised him that I would pretend I didn’t see him hurt you. I beg you, let me go.”
Ma Yang Yu said this while kneeling on the ground burning paper money. He looked withered as the dark circles under his eyes were heavy like a smoky makeup, and his body was trembling.
The night was terribly cold. It was the summer season, but it was a bit chilly, and there was a harsh wind blowing.
Ma Yang Yu was kneeling on the ground with his legs shaking even more. His face was ashen, and the beads of cold sweat on his temples slid down.
Swoosh! There was a certain sound.
Ma Yang Yu turned around with a jerk and looked behind him.
The white-bone-like dead tree stood not far away. There were no other buildings, flowers, and plants around it, not to mention the lights. From a distance, it looked like a person was standing there.
Ma Yang Yu stood up with a scuffle as his legs shook even more.
The night was too thick and dark, like the foul blood flowing from a rotting corpse.
Ma Yang Yu was afraid. He immediately grabbed his phone, turned on the flashlight, and intended to leave the site because he was really panicked. He even stumbled a couple of steps and almost broke his foot.
The breeze ruffled his non-mainstream red hair. Ma Yang Yu fiercely widened his eyes as his feet left the ground, and something like a rope loop suddenly strangled his throat. A moment later, Ma Yang Yu’s facial muscles became hideous, and his two hands tried hard to break free of the rope loop strangling his neck, but no matter what they did, it was to no avail.
No! I am still young! I don’t want to die!
Ma Yang Yu’s mouth was forced to open wide, the tip of his tongue was sticking out, and his eyes were widened, like the eyes of a dead fish.
“Ma Yang Yu! Ma Yang Yu!”
Two yells suddenly came from not far away.
Ma Yang Yu felt the rope binding the neck loosen, and then he fell to the ground with a thud. In a blur, he vaguely saw the figure of a girl in a b.l.o.o.d.y white dress, with damp black hair hanging down on both sides and with only the whites left in both her eyes.
He fell to the ground like a crazed man, struggling for his life. Both his hands grabbed his throat as if he had not yet recovered from the shock.
“Ma Yang Yu!” The flashlight’s thin light shone on Ma Yang Yu’s body, and the visitor shouted out in surprise.
The paper money on the side was still burning with flames, and sparks jumped out from time to time.
Li Qiaoyi saw Ma Yang Yu fell to the ground. With a grim expression, he immediately rushed up to hold him, “What’s wrong with you? What are you doing here alone?”
It was also this moment that Li Qiaoyi smelled the scent of blood drifting in the air, and his face suddenly changed. He twisted his head stiffly to look behind him, and then his heart tightened sharply.
There was a figure standing behind the dead tree.
Her long hair hung to the ground, blocking her face. The wind gently blew her hair, and through the thin moonlight, one could only see a bloodied face with a pair of whitish eyes staring straight at the two.
Li Qiaoyi held his breath. His legs went limp, and he fell to the ground.
But the strange thing is, the next second, the figure disappeared without a trace as if it had never existed. In the blink of an eye, only the lone dead tree was left standing there.
It was just the eerie wind still blowing.
This was the second time Li Qiaoyi encountered a paranormal event. Two days ago, he was nearly hit by a car when he tried to save a ghostly figure, and today he experienced such a thing again. His heart was about to jump out of his chest.
Li Qiaoyi gulped, looking at the side of the fainted Ma Yang Yu. He took the person on his back and prepared to flee the scene.
He did not see that there was a pair of eyes hiding in the darkness, watching his every move.
In the quiet night, there was only the sound of Li Qiaoyi’s footsteps, heartbeat, and breathing. This sound was infinitely amplified and frightening in the night………
“Did you hear that a boy at our school suddenly went crazy last night?”
“What crazy?”
“Shh shh, keep it down! Come closer, I’ll whisper it. I heard them say it’s because they saw a ghost!”
“Ah?”
“You hear me out first, you know the freshman with the red hair, for some reason, he went alone to the grove behind the school yesterday and secretly burned paper money in there. He was found unconscious with a string of strangulation marks on his neck and black palm prints that couldn’t be washed off. When he woke up, he looked like he was stimulated by something and kept shouting, “I was wrong. I’m wrong, I’m wrong, please don’t kill me, this kind of nonsense. Now the school has intervened and arranged a single room for him to take some time off.”
“Black handprint? It must be false rumors from you guys. I don’t believe there are ghosts in this world.”
“No, putting this matter aside, don’t you think that Professor Li jumping from the building is also very weird?” The girl’s voice became smaller and smaller, and she sneakily looked around with an expression like she was a thief and whispered.
Xiao Chen sat alone in his spot by the window, surrounded by the sounds of discussions disturbing his peace.
He glanced at the girl who was firm on the no-ghost argument and withdrew his gaze.
What that girl didn’t know was that she was actually sitting next to what seemed to be an old man ghost. The old ghost looked at the two with a hateful expression as they gossiped. He waited impatiently for the girl to turn the page so that he could continue to read the contents of the book.
“Tick, tick.” The raindrops. .h.i.t the gla.s.s window. At first, there were one or two drops, then there was a violent storm, and the beads of rain fell rapidly.
Xiao Chen’s ear tips moved slightly. He raised his head and looked out the window.
The air flowed with Yin energy. The sky outside the window darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was terribly gloomy and almost black with dark clouds. The original clear and bright sky covered with clouds disappeared in a few moments.
Xiao Chen’s left hand propped up his chin. His phoenix eyes slightly narrowed as he stared firmly into the sky outside the window.
The sky looked like it was disconnected. It was clear to see that the sky above the school was still bright, and the sun was still high in the sky, while only a part of the school was wrapped in a layer of dark clouds. The intensity of the storm was so strong that the contrast was striking.
The surrounding students all exclaimed out loud and then looked out the window.
“Oh my G.o.d, what’s going on!”
“What’s wrong with the weather outside, sh*t!”
Xiao Chen used his right hand to turn the ring he was wearing on his left ring finger and fell into deep thought.
He clearly saw that the school’s Yin energy was like a plague that suddenly erupted and enveloped the entire sky. Even the ghosts from several miles around were like being summoned by something and kept rushing over.
Even the original ghosts around began to be a little restless and started to move around.
“The sky has changed.” Xiao Chen looked at the pendant hanging around his neck and murmured out.
This place is about to turn into a ghostly place filled with evil spirits.
Those fierce ghosts that have cultivated for a hundred years will transform to a certain degree into a more dangerous ghost. The weather where the ghosts are found is always filled with black clouds, and even the plants are untamed.
Xiao Chen’s expression moved, and his eyes flickered slightly.
Even the human desire will also be infinitely magnified.
“Hey, do you not have your own pen? Every time you need something, you ask me for it, f*ck off!”
“You’re f.u.c.king sick. It’s just lending a pen, but you make it sound like it is so rare. I’m telling you, the more you do not want to lend, the more I want to take it. I’m just shameless. What can you do to me!”
“I’ve put up with you for a long time. Are you cheating on me? I saw you walking with a boy yesterday.”
“What do you mean I give you a green hat? Okay, even if it is true, so what? Don’t you look at yourself in the mirror? Look at what you look like. Do you think you are worthy of me? Ridiculous! My mother’s fish pond is not even as bad as you are, a rotten fish!
All the dark thoughts inside the person, upset emotions, complaints, hatred, disgust, all aroused.
Xiao Chen was still sitting in place with a blank expression.
“Believe me or not, I’ll kill you!”
“Come on, who’s afraid of who! What a drag!”
The initially quiet library was now like a vegetable market. Everyone started to explode almost at the same time. Their expressions became hideous and unbearable, and their mouths were spitting out profanities and bickering noises.
At first, it was just a simple argument, but then the quarrel became more and more intense, and within a few minutes, they began to fight each other. After a while, all kinds of hissing screams, curses filled the entire library.
The sound of falling books, the scuffling sound of hitting people, the sound of tables overturned………
The entire place has gone crazy. Everyone’s hostility has been aroused, and their hatred has further aggravated the grievances around them.
There was a fierce storm outside, with the rain splashing on the ground, the leaves, and the windows. One after another, the swooshing gusts of wind almost blew off the trunks of the trees.
And inside was a chaotic fight between people with cursing and arguing. It was ugly to watch.
Li Qiaoyi looked at the surrounding madness of the students. He was almost hit several times, but fortunately, he dodged quickly. He was distracted because of Ma Yang Yu and was completely confused looking at the crowd that erupted suddenly.
What’s going on here?
He looked around, and his eyes lit up.
In the entire library, there was still one person who was not affected by this ghostly weather.
Xiao Chen frowned slightly as he listened to the commotion around him. His expression showed a slight trace of impatience.
And the strange thing was that the surrounding people all seem like they could not see him, or perhaps they were intentionally avoiding him. No one dared to make a scene near where he was sitting. Even when the noise grew more intense, no one ventured to take half a step closer to Xiao Chen’s position.
Li Qiaoyi saw the right moment and rushed to Xiao Chen’s position.
“You’re not affected either, right?”
Xiao Chen did not answer but immediately recognized the boy as the one who was nearly hit by a car before and had ghost eyes.
Few people in the world are born with ghost eyes because ghost eyes will only appear in those humans whose Yin energy can rival that of severe ghosts. Still, not everyone who has the condition of having ghost eyes has been stimulated. Most of them, even until death from old age, have never seen a ghost.
Li Qiaoyi saw that his face did not change, and he seemed to have no wavering feelings or even a bit of concern, so Li Qiaoyi smiled a bit awkwardly.
“The weather will soon change back.” Xiao Chen suddenly spoke out. His tone did not waver in the slightest. It carried a kind of unquestionable certainty that made people who listened to it subconsciously convinced.
When Li Qiaoyi heard these words, there was some suspicion, and he wanted to say something. But in the next second, his eyes dilated, and his entire body paused in place, looking stupidly out the window.
Xiao Chen’s voice had just stopped. The dark clouds outside the window seemed to be splitting, slowly letting out light. The rain and the wind abruptly stopped, and the dense dark clouds all disappeared in a short while. Even the surrounding gloom slowly dispersed.
It was like a more powerful force had reversed and restored things as before.
The sunlight pa.s.sed directly through the gla.s.s into the room, shining on Li Qiaoyi’s shoulders. He froze in place with a stunned expression, and his mouth was open in disbelief.
The noise around the room came to a screeching halt as though someone had pressed the pause b.u.t.ton. They all froze in place as if they didn’t know what they were doing.
Everything was back as it was. The sky was even brighter and clearer than it was at the beginning.
The corners of Xiao Chen’s mouth rose a bit and quickly collected down. The curve was minimal and not that obvious.
It’s him coming.