Teacher's Home

Zhang Chen arrived at the classroom. Having continuously held three adults in place with Telekinesis earlier, he had not reached his limit, but it had still been fairly taxing. His head was reacting a little, so he lay on his desk and immediately fell asleep. At the same time, he received a notification: his Telekinesis proficiency had increased by one percent, from 37% to 38%.

He had no idea how long he slept. In his haze, Zhang Chen felt someone poking his arm with a finger.

"Second Brother, stop bothering me. I want to sleep." Zhang Chen groggily raised his head and glanced over, only to find a pair of huge, sparkling eyes staring at him. Who else could it be but Wang Yizhi?

Zhang Chen shot upright and hurriedly explained, "I thought it was those two guys of mine. They always like messing with me."

Wang Yizhi smiled faintly. "I didn't want to disturb your sleep, but there's no one else in the classroom. I was bored to death and wanted someone to talk to."

Zhang Chen looked around the classroom. There was not a single person there. Then he checked the time and found that he had only slept for forty minutes. It was only 12:50. Classes would not start until two in the afternoon, so naturally no one had arrived yet.

"Why did you come so early?" Zhang Chen carefully sensed Wang Yizhi's physical condition, but found nothing wrong with her.

"My sister said it was my first day at school and I had classes this afternoon, so we ate at a restaurant downstairs from her place before coming over," Wang Yizhi said.

Zhang Chen nodded and asked with a smile, "Have you noticed anything strange about your sister?"

"No. She's still as good to me as when we were little, but..." Wang Yizhi found Zhang Chen's question rather strange.

"But what?" Zhang Chen asked.

"But, um, my sister is prettier than me. Don't you think so too?" Wang Yizhi asked, shooting him a sidelong glance.

"No... I think you're a little prettier than your sister." Zhang Chen was somewhat speechless. So Wang Yizhi had been causing trouble after all.

Wang Yizhi gave a shy smile, and the two continued chatting enthusiastically.

Time passed quickly, and more and more people gradually filled the classroom. Suddenly, Tan Fei rushed in with a shout and happily said to Zhang Chen,

"Brother Chen, did you hear? That bastard Lei Xiaori got beaten half to death this afternoon."

"Really?" Zhang Chen asked, pretending not to know.

"It happened right outside the school gates. Lots of people saw the ambulance arrive at the alley entrance, then they carried a whole bunch of people into it. One of them was Lei Xiaori, while the rest were all street thugs. Who knows who that idiot offended? Hahaha. It really helped older brother vent some anger." Tan Fei apparently still held a grudge over the seven yuan that had been taken from him at the internet café.

Zhang Chen smiled without saying anything. Wang Yizhi, who probably knew who Lei Xiaori was as well, stared at Zhang Chen for quite a while.

That afternoon's chemistry class did not disappoint. Normally, the first lesson of a new subject would be a boring introduction, but the moment Teacher Xie Wen began, she displayed the vast depths of chemistry before everyone. Starting with chemistry's founding, development, breakthroughs, and future, she then connected it to reality and discussed countless applications of chemistry, utterly capturing everyone's attention.

Zhang Chen greatly admired Xie Wen's teaching ability, but the better she taught, the more eloquent she was, and combined with the Mercedes-Benz she drove, the deeper his doubts became. Someone capable of teaching university students in a major city or joining a large company had come to teach middle school in this godforsaken little county town. Was that possible?

Damn it, why does this feel even more troublesome than what happened at my house? And Wang Yizhi got dragged into it too. Zhang Chen felt extremely uncomfortable as he looked at those ten bright red fingernails.

Tonight, I'll take Wang Yizhi home and see whether there's anything wrong with her place. Zhang Chen stopped overthinking it.

Time passed quickly. Once evening self-study ended, everyone packed their bags and left the classroom. Tan Fei and Er Wa even came over specifically to pat Zhang Chen on the shoulder, saying earnestly, "Brother Chen, protect our sister-in-law. We'll be leaving first."

Zhang Chen smiled and shook his head. He looked at Wang Yizhi beside him. She seemed to have grown used to such teasing and merely smiled faintly at him. The two left the classroom together at last.

After getting on their bicycles, Zhang Chen asked,

"Yizhi, did your cousin used to live in the old town?"

"Hm? No. After my sister went to university, her family moved into the city. They've lived there all these years, and we haven't seen each other in eight years. I don't know why she suddenly decided to move back this time," Wang Yizhi replied.

"Then did they move back into their old house?" Zhang Chen continued asking.

"No, they bought a place on Renfu Street."

"Huh? I didn't see any new houses over on Renfu Street. How did your sister buy a new place there?" Zhang Chen asked.

"It should be a secondhand house. It looks pretty nice from the outside," Wang Yizhi said.

Zhang Chen fell silent. Too many questions had piled up, making his head swell. He stopped thinking about it. He would find out once he saw the house.

Yufang Middle School, where Zhang Chen studied, and Zhang Chen's home were both located in Jinxi County's new district. The new and old districts were separated by the Jinxi River, and one had to cross an ancient bridge called Anxin. The bridge was nearly a hundred meters long, far beyond what Jinshui Bridge could compare to.

As Zhang Chen rode up the bridge with Wang Yizhi on the back, she suddenly asked softly,

"Zhang Chen, do you get annoyed having to take me home like this every day? You have less time to study when you get back."

Zhang Chen was stunned. He had not expected Wang Yizhi to say something like that. Right then, he dearly wanted to stop and pat her head, but he could not. He only said softly,

"Dummy, I'd be even more annoyed if I didn't take you home."

Zhang Chen received only one response: two slender arms wrapped around his waist, and her head rested against his sturdy back.

That move was even more powerful than what had happened that morning. Zhang Chen had to focus with all his strength just to keep the bicycle steady.

Th-this is too much... I actually turned things around. Zhang Chen was instantly immersed in happiness, but then shook his head as he thought, This time, even if I have to risk my life, I have to settle this. If anything happens to Wang Yizhi, I'll skin that bastard alive and pull out his tendons.

Zhang Chen softly said to Wang Yizhi, who was leaning against him, "Yizhi, if anything happens, call my phone immediately, okay?"

"Mmm-hmm," Wang Yizhi replied quietly.

After crossing the bridge and taking the turn into Renfu Street, Zhang Chen saw something very familiar by the roadside.

This "thing" had no Hands, as though they had been severed. There was also a huge gash across its throat, and its face had been scraped so badly by something like a blade that its features were unrecognizable. It stood at the roadside, continuously shaking its head, as though warning him about something.

The reason Zhang Chen recognized this Faceless Man was that, two months earlier—just a few days after the previous semester ended—he had gone to the old district that afternoon to help Mother pay the water and electricity bills for the mahjong parlor. After finishing, he had planned to go home, but halfway there he ran into Er Wa and his mother, who forcibly dragged him along for dinner.

After dinner, Er Wa and his mother left first by bus. Zhang Chen was about to ride his bicycle home when he saw this fellow by the road. He still remembered that the Faceless Man had been standing at the entrance of a bank not far from where it stood now. At the time, he had assumed it was waiting there for some unlucky person in order to harm them.

So he slowly rode closer, only to find that the thing stood completely still. Zhang Chen did not sense the slightest dangerous aura from it either. But just as he was about to reach it, the thing suddenly vanished, leaving behind no trace of its presence.

Yet now, Zhang Chen seemed to sense a faint aura from it.

This feeling... why is it so similar to the feeling from Xie Wen's fingernails? There's only a tiny bit of it, but it's definitely the same kind of feeling. Zhang Chen kept staring at it. As he continued riding forward, its head shook even faster. Zhang Chen, who had not consumed "raw meat" for half a year, found his appetite becoming difficult to suppress. Saliva kept flooding his mouth. Damn it, I really want to eat it.

"Zhang Chen, what are you saying? Is there something by the roadside?" Wang Yizhi seemed to hear him muttering to himself. She raised her head and noticed him staring at the roadside.

"It's nothing. We're almost there, right?" Zhang Chen suddenly came back to his senses. He looked at Wang Yizhi behind him and smiled.

"Mmm-hmm, turn left up ahead. We'll be there after passing a flower shop." After meeting Zhang Chen's gaze, Wang Yizhi lowered her head again.

At that moment, when Zhang Chen turned back around, he found that the Faceless Man was gone. What's up with that thing? Zhang Chen could not figure it out either. It was the first time he had encountered a Ghost that neither ran upon seeing him nor displayed any aggression.

Before long, a white nine-story building appeared before Zhang Chen. The old district was generally made up of standalone buildings, with hardly any residential complexes. As Zhang Chen rode around the right side of the building, he discovered that the guardroom next to it was empty.

Apart from a white Mercedes-Benz, the back of the building was filled with electric scooters and bicycles.

"Someone who drives a Mercedes-Benz came here to live. Heh." Zhang Chen could only give a dry laugh to express his feelings.

"Yizhi, which floor does your sister live on? I'll take you up," Zhang Chen asked Wang Yizhi beside him.

"Let's go. My sister lives on the first floor." With that, Zhang Chen followed Wang Yizhi into the stairwell and knocked on the exquisite wooden door in front of them. The sound of slippers soon came from behind it.

Click. The door opened. A sexy woman in Pajamas, holding a towel and drying her freshly washed hair, looked at the two outside and burst into laughter. Seeing that scene, Zhang Chen felt that if his self-control had been any weaker, he would have gotten a nosebleed already.

"Yizhi, why did you bring your little boyfriend home with you? Come in together."

Zhang Chen smiled. Looking at the blushing Wang Yizhi beside him, he hurriedly said, "Teacher Xie, it's pretty dark in the old town. I only escorted Yizhi here."

"Yizhi, Yizhi—what an intimate way to call her. Hahaha." Xie Wen seemed unwilling to let them off. "All right, come in already. Student Zhang, you should come sit for a while too."

Zhang Chen immediately understood. He nodded and followed Wang Yizhi inside.

"This..." The moment Zhang Chen entered, he was dazzled. It was his first time seeing such a large house in the old district. The living room alone was nearly eighty square meters, with dark yellow wooden flooring, a pearl-like chandelier, a massive dining table inlaid with silver, and all sorts of fitness equipment arranged on the huge balcony.

"Teacher, your house is decorated so beautifully. It's my first time seeing an old-town house decorated this nicely." While marveling at the house, Zhang Chen kept searching everywhere for anything unusual.

"Hehe." Xie Wen chuckled softly upon hearing Zhang Chen's praise.

After watching Xie Wen take Wang Yizhi into a room, Zhang Chen found a place to sit. Though the entire house was lavishly decorated and brightly illuminated by the overhead lights, the instant Xie Wen entered the room, a feeling of silence and danger swept over his entire body...

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