176. My Hobby Is Pretending to Be Someone Else (4)

When most of the students had left, Wei Rou dragged her suitcase to the telephone booth outside and called home.

"Mom, it's me."

She held the phone in her hand, her eyes red, and tried to make sure her mother wouldn't hear any clues in her voice.

"I won't go home tonight. The car left too early and I missed it. I'll go home tomorrow morning."

The mother agreed and promised to cook delicious food for her when she came back. It was fine when she called, but as soon as she put down the phone, tears fell from Wei Rou's face.

She came out wiping her tears, and a tissue was handed to her. Wei Rou took it with her eyes downcast, and said softly, "Thank you."

Wei Mingyan looked at her crying face and said, "If you are afraid, don't go."

Wei Rou wiped her tears and shook her head, choking and saying, "I won't be afraid in a while."

"Remember, burn the paper directly after entering, and break the pens they are holding. If those things want to stop you, just pretend you didn't see them. As long as you don't look at them, they can't hurt you."

Wei Rou listened to his words and nodded repeatedly.

Wei Mingyan looked at the girl in front of him, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, but whose face was full of determination. He was silent for a while, and suddenly asked, "Don't you blame me for going with you?"

"Why do you blame me?"

Wei Rou wiped her tears, raised her head and smiled at the boy opposite, "You have nothing to do with us, I can't let you accompany me to die."

Wei Mingyan looked at her, "Go, don't worry, you won't die."

"If something really goes wrong, I will save you."

Wei Rou nodded gratefully.

"Thank you."

She was very grateful to Wei Mingyan. After all, helping others is a favor, and not helping is a duty. If the accident was not two good friends but ordinary classmates, even Wei Rou herself would not take the risk.

Before parting, Wei Rou couldn't help but ask, "Can I ask why the Pen Fairy wants to harm people?"

"That's not the Pen Fairy. People have always thought that the Pen Fairy is actually just some ghosts."

Wei Mingyan didn't hide it and told Wei Rou directly, "People light candles and use pens to summon spirits. If there are ghosts nearby, they will be attracted by the incense of the candles. The legend of the Pen Fairy in the past is just that the ghosts ate the incense and answered some questions to repay the guests. When the incense is eaten up and the questions are asked, the guests are asked to send the ghosts away. The two parties are like completing a transaction. After the questions are asked, the transaction is over."

Wei Rou thought, "Is it really because Momo and the others didn't send the Pen Fairy away?"

"No."

Wei Mingyan shook his head, "There are no ghosts in this school."

Wei Rou was stunned, "But the ones I saw with my own eyes last time..."

"Those are not ghosts, at best they are residual spirits, just like the mentally retarded among humans, they can't think, they just act on instinct."

"These things are attracted by incense, and after eating the incense, they will find a way to kill the people who invited them. When the people who originally invited them die, they have no connection with her, so they will naturally return to the original place to wander until the next guest appears, but last time your two roommates used white candles to summon the spirit of the pen."

"White candles have always been used for the dead. These residual spirits were more or less worshipped by their relatives when they died. When they saw the white candles, they came even if they were not interested. What you saw that day was that the residual spirits of the whole school were attracted."

Wei Rou recalled the scene she saw that day. The dense white shadows filled the corridor with numb faces, and the room was also full.

There are so many in their school...

"In fact, most schools are under the former mass graves."

Wei Mingyan looked at the tall gate of the school from a distance and explained, "Don't worry, the residual spirits need to be triggered before they appear. For example, if your two roommates hadn't summoned the pen fairy first, you wouldn't have gotten into trouble this time."

He looked at Wei Rou as if he was relieved, and then said goodbye to her, watching the girl dragging her suitcase back to school.

Residual spirits really won't appear without triggering conditions, but Wei Rou is not as lucky as others.

The residual spirits provoked by others have nothing to do with her, but as long as she sees them, those mad dog-like idiots will chase the innocent Wei Rou relentlessly.

Until she is scared to death.

It seemed to be getting darker and darker. Wei Mingyan stood outside the school gate, looked in the direction of the teaching building, and walked away.

His footsteps were very light, and there was no sound when he fell on the ground. It seemed that he was just walking a few steps slowly, but he quickly disappeared on the street.

***

Twelve o'clock in the morning

It was very windy tonight. Although the windows and doors were closed, the whistling wind could still be heard outside.

Cai Momo and Zheng Hua sat in silence together.

They sat quietly for a long time. They were so afraid of the dark before, but now they felt that they were going to die, so they were not so afraid.

In the darkness, Cai Momo spoke, "I'm sorry, Zheng Hua, I shouldn't have blamed you before."

"I shouldn't have hit you."

Zheng Hua wiped her tears and whispered, "In fact, I've always been very happy to meet you."

"Me too, if we really die, it would be great if we can still be together in the next life."

"Let's start."

"Yeah."

The two sat in the seats they sat last time and held the pen.

"Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, I am your past life, you are my present life..."

[——]

What they couldn't see was that as the candles lit, the white shadows that were originally wandering in the school all staggered towards the teaching building. Some of them were closer, and even gathered around the two of them, with blood dripping hair dragging on the ground, wetting Cai Momo's shoes.

This seemingly empty classroom was soon filled with greedy and pale faces of residual spirits, they crowded together and stood beside the two girls.

Waiting, they read out the rest of the words.

Cai Momo and Zheng Hua closed their eyes and held the pens tightly in their hands.

"If you want to continue your relationship with me..."

——"Bang!"

The door was pushed open and the lights came on.

Wei Rou silently said to herself, 'I can't see you, I can't see you', and rushed straight to the two of them. Under their surprised gazes, she snatched the pens in their hands and broke them.

[——]

The remaining spirits came forward angrily, howling sharply. Wei Rou turned pale, ignored the long black nails that were about to poke in front of her, snatched the paper on the table, and was about to put it on the candle to light it.

Just as they were about to put it on, the three of them suddenly felt cold all over.

The candle went out without wind.

Cai Momo and Zheng Hua both stood up and looked at her at a loss.

"Wei Rou, you..."

The lights suddenly went out again, and the two screamed in fear and hurriedly gathered around Wei Rou.

Wei Rou gritted her teeth and took out a lighter in the dark.

When the light of the lighter rang, the remaining spirits around them suddenly howled like ghosts and wolves, and all kinds of white shadows and bloodstains appeared in front of Wei Rou.

She is not afraid, she is not afraid, she is not afraid.

Wei Mingyan said, these are all idiots, idiots, idiots!

Wei Rou's hands were shaking so badly that she put the paper on the fire.

[Ah————]

Someone was shouting miserably, as if a sonic weapon exploded beside her ear. Wei Rou's brain was blanked by the shock. She wiped her nose in a trance and actually bled.

As soon as the blood came out, the white shadows who were about to leave because of the destruction of their things stopped.

Hundreds of pale faces stared at Wei Rou.

Finally, the first residual spirit stretched out its hand.

It stood upside down, came to Wei Rou with a fierce look, and turned its neck stiffly.

[Click——Click——]

[You...can see me...]

A gust of wind passed by, the window was blown open by the wind, and the curtains fluttered everywhere.

Under the moonlight, Cai Momo and Zheng Hua also saw the scene in the room clearly.

"Ah!!!"

Under their screams, the upside-down remnant soul grinned at Wei Rou.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

It bent back and stretched out its hand, as if it had just crawled out of the ground, [You... can see me...]

The hand grasped Wei Rou's leg, and its long nails exerted force.

A book smashed hard on its hand.

It was obviously just a book, but the dry and disgusting thin arm was emitting bursts of white smoke.

[Ahhhhhh——]

It screamed miserably, and its eyes stared in resentment at the direction of the book smashing at it.

A young man in a woolen coat came in with a pile of books in his leather shoes.

Regardless of the remnant soul's avoidance, he smashed the books one by one.

"I can see you, what's wrong with you? I can see you! Come on! Hit me!"

"Bang, bang, bang, I can hear you banging from a distance!"

"You didn't jump off the building to die, why are you banging!"

[Ahhhhh——]

The remnant spirit dodged and moved back, but was still hit by books one by one. Where the books hit, the rotten body seemed to be burned by fire, revealing white smoke. Seeing this scene, the white shadows around were afraid.

Wei Mingyan turned around, some jumped off the building, some hid underground, and only the upside-down remnant spirit was left hiding in the corner with white smoke all over his body.

Wei Rou collapsed on the ground and watched the boy take out a milk bottle.

In the dark, he moved the milk bottle towards the upside-down remnant spirit a few times, and then it seemed that it couldn't fit, so he simply grabbed the feet and threw it down from the building.

[Ahhhhhh——]

The howling of the remnant spirit disappeared with the height of the building.

Cai Momo and Zheng Hua were already scared silly.

Wei Rou was almost the same. She looked at the back of the boy in front of her with gratitude, but found that he didn't turn back for a long time. She propped herself up and sat up and called out: "Wei Mingyan..."

Under the moonlight, the boy slowly turned around.

He looked at Wei Rou. Only she could see his face from this angle. On his handsome face, there was a blood-red scar under his right eye. It was not very big, but it looked very scary. It had obviously healed, but now it was dripping blood.

——"Tick, tick..."

Wei Mingyan lowered his head slightly, raised his right hand, and covered his eyes.

Seeing Wei Rou staring at him in a daze, the boy shrugged and pretended not to care, "I didn't want you to see it."

He stretched out his left hand, and the tip of his slender white index finger touched his lips, "Shh, keep it secret."

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