LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 912 - 109 Rules-based Wraith_6
Chapter 912: Chapter 109 Rules-based Wraith_6
Moreover, Huang Lin, who was right beside him, didn’t feel any malice.
As a result, the spirit ghost didn’t directly engage him in conversation but instead chose another boy nearby.
The only explanation was that he had a condition that prevented the spirit ghost from initiating a conversation with him at that time.
Since Huang Lin was right by his side and they exchanged a few words,
Zhao Yu deduced that one of the spirit ghost’s conditions for triggering a death was that it must converse one-on-one. If the target was talking to someone else, then it couldn’t choose them.
“Can you give me a set of anime clothes?”
The second sentence!
Zhao Yu pricked up his ears; this was a matter of life and death.
“Me, give you anime clothes?!”
The boy was also somewhat surprised. Who asks for a gift right after meeting?
But after he saw what the spirit ghost looked like, he swallowed hard, “What’s your name? If you can be my girlfriend, not just one set of anime clothes, I’ll give you three or five without a problem!”
Whoosh!
In his peripheral vision, the boy vanished.
Zhao Yu was startled and quickly turned to Huang Lin, asking, “Did you eat today?”
“Huh?”
Huang Lin was still in shock, and when Zhao Yu asked him if he had eaten in such a strange way, it left him somewhat bewildered.
Soon, the angry look on Zhao Yu’s face jolted him awake, and he hurriedly replied, “I ate, I ate. What about you?”
Indeed, at the same time Zhao Yu posed the question, he felt the same wave of ill will.
It was a grudge that seemed to say, why are you still not dead when Cai Siyue died, as if Cai Siyue was questioning why she died and they didn’t.
“What did you eat?!” Zhao Yu asked reflexively.
He was afraid that dragging out the time would allow the spirit ghost to interject.
“I ate… fried rice with eggs!” Huang Lin, though clueless about what was happening, sensed from Zhao Yu’s reactions that they had to pretend not to see the spirit ghost and quickly said so.
“Was it good?”
“Good, what did you have?”
“I also had fried rice with eggs. What will you have for lunch?”
Right as Zhao Yu asked another question, the intense malice aimed at his head suddenly disappeared.
Shortly after, the same question echoed from not too far away.
“Am I beautiful?!”
Hearing this, Zhao Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat from his forehead with a smile on his face.
“I plan to eat instant noodles this afternoon. What about you?” Huang Lin hurriedly said.
But he found Zhao Yu unresponsive, and couldn’t help feeling puzzled.
Zhao Yu didn’t explain but let go of Huang Lin’s arm and continued to observe the spirit ghost’s conversation with others from the corner of his eye.
“Can you give me a set of anime clothes?”
It was the second sentence again.
This time, the person conversing with the spirit ghost was a girl. She hesitated for a moment and then bluntly said, “Are you sick or something?”
The next second, she disappeared.
Zhao Yu then looked at Huang Lin again. “Are you and Yang Xiaoying in a relationship?!”
Huang Lin had also caught on by now; he understood that when Zhao Yu spoke to him, he had to keep the conversation going.
Because he too noticed that people were vanishing.
He even imitated Zhao Yu and observed the spirit ghost out of the corner of his eye.
“Yes, but not really…”
Huang Lin blurted out, “We were high school classmates. I fell for her the moment I saw her, but unfortunately, she never agreed…”
“So, I chased her to this college…”
This time Huang Lin’s response was a bit long, which made Zhao Yu edgy, fearing that he might become the next target.
Fortunately, the malice vanished in a flash.
The spirit ghost had locked onto another target.
A look of confusion appeared on Zhao Yu’s face.
Earlier, the boy who agreed to give anime clothes ended up vanishing.
And the girl who just now refused also disappeared.
Could it be that no matter how one answers, they die?!
No, that’s not right!
Zhao Yu remembered what he had discussed with He Min before about the nature of rule-based spirits.
It was explicitly stated that rule-based spirits strictly adhere to a principle of murder with rules, no matter how covert the killing intent, but there would always be a sliver of a chance to survive, and there would never be a situation where death was certain.
Therefore, the issue was not about agreeing or disagreeing but something else.
…
“What’s the matter, no response yet?!”
After class, Yang Xiaoying noticed that no one in the group had replied, and she started to panic.
“Could they have encountered a spirit invasion?!”
The thought made her hastily pull out her cellphone to call Liang Bei.
“The number you have dialed is currently unavailable, please try again later…”
Then, she called Huang Lin and Zheng Qianqian, but she couldn’t get through to them either.
She didn’t have Zhao Yu’s cell phone number, but she was almost certain that the four people in the school must be facing a Spirit World invasion.
With this thought, Yang Xiaoying hurriedly found the teacher who had just given the lecture and shared her feelings of guilt and regret about someone who had died in a Spirit World invasion, as well as the fact that she couldn’t reach the four people at school.
“They’re in the University Town?!”
“Yes…”
The teacher she had spoken to before gave a slight smile and said, “You don’t need to worry about that…”
“The company has detection equipment in every city, capable of detecting large-scale Spiritual power fluctuations during a Spirit World invasion…”
“Considering their location in University Town, they’re not far from the city’s outpost, it will probably only take one to two hours for the martial staff to arrive…”
Upon hearing this, Yang Xiaoying let out a sigh of relief.
She also understood that the reason they had waited so long for rescue personnel yesterday was purely because White Cloud Mountain scenic area was too far from the city.
…
“Buzz~~!”
A light screen suddenly rose, followed by someone shouting, “Everyone, please leave in an orderly fashion…”
“They’re here, the company’s people have arrived!”
Huang Lin said, elated, having seen the people in company uniforms.
“Mhm!”
Zhao Yu nodded and said, “You go ahead!”
“Okay…”
As soon as Huang Lin finished speaking, he saw Zhao Yu suddenly turn and walk towards the spirit.
This scared him out of his wits.
“Am I beautiful?!”
The familiar phrase rang out; every time someone took over this conversation, they all disappeared without exception.
And this time, the person who responded was Zhao Yu.
“Beautiful!”
Huang Lin shivered, not knowing what madness had possessed Zhao Yu, but he couldn’t worry about him anymore and turned to run.
He sprinted to a staff member and gasped, “Brother, there’s a spirit over there…”
“Hmm?!”
The staff member was stunned for a moment, not expecting someone here to know about spirits.
Huang Lin quickly said, “I’m your colleague, a civil worker, my classmate over there is confronting a spirit…”
The staff member immediately understood and said urgently, “I’m on it, what’s the situation with the spirit there?!”
“It’s a person…” Huang Lin hastily shook his head, “No, no, it’s like a person, she just keeps asking others questions, and everyone who talks to her disappears…”
“What?!”
The staff member slowed his run, his face turning grave.
He turned to the other martial staff members who had come with him and shouted, “It’s a rule-based spirit, seal off the scene, prepare to retreat!”
“Ah?”
Huang Lin was shocked, “But my classmate is still over there?!”
“There’s no saving them, get out of here fast!!” the staff member spoke bluntly.
But just then, the purple light in the sky faded, and the star ring reappeared.
The martial staff member stood there dumbfounded, “The Spirit World invasion is over?”
He then exclaimed in shock, “That rule-based spirit, has it been dealt with?!”