"Oh my god, that goddess looks pretty young. Which school's campus belle is she?"
"Mom, I think I'm in love again!"
"Get out of here. Why would a goddess ever like you? A cute girl like her needs to be protected by a tough woman like me."
"Come on, there are already so few pretty girls. You scheming lesbians are trying to keep them all to yourselves?"
"If you've got a problem with that, come fight me!"
"Holy crap, kiddo, look! Isn't that a Ferrari 296?" Suddenly, a college student shouted excitedly, grabbing his classmate by the shoulder and shaking him hard.
"Whoa, kiddo, you've got sharp eyes. As far as I know, that really is a Ferrari 296. It costs at least three million yuan," said the student whose shoulder was being shaken, pushing his glasses back up before they fell off.
"Ah, she's not only pretty, she's rich too. Big sis, I could—"
"You could what? Get over here and die!"
"Hey, hey, girls! Have you noticed how handsome that guy is, too?" A college girl suddenly spotted Lu Siye's good looks, her eyes practically turning into hearts.
"He's so handsome~"
"Don't even think about it. Handsome guys go with rich girls. That's called a match made in heaven!"
A crowd of students who had planned to go out while they had no classes—or were skipping class to have some fun—gathered at the school gate, chattering away.
The school gate buzzed with chatter and laughter.
"Ah, to be young!" Lu Siye had naturally heard the students' conversation. He turned to look at them, as if seeing his former self.
"Let's go, Big Brother Lu!" Wang Wenjing had already gotten back into the Ferrari 296 and waved to him.
"Coming!" Lu Siye replied.
He came to the passenger side, braced one hand on the door, and vaulted inside. His showy move earned gasps and shrieks from the students at the school gate.
"I never would've guessed you were a rich heiress!" Lu Siye ran his hand over the luxury car, which cost at least three million yuan. He hadn't had the chance in his past life, but this time, he'd gotten to enjoy the perks of having a rich girl around.
"Hehe!" Wang Wenjing made a cute face, then pressed down on the accelerator.
The students watched the car's taillights disappear, their expressions complicated and their hearts full of envy...
Outside Tianhai City People's Hospital.
Wang Wenjing led Lu Siye through the crowd and inside.
After several turns, they reached the elevators and waited.
Suddenly, Lu Siye seemed to notice something. He went to the nearest corridor entrance and looked down the empty hallway.
"What's wrong?" Wang Wenjing noticed something was off with Lu Siye and came over to ask.
"I can sense a faint trace of Yin energy," Lu Siye said quietly.
"What?" Wang Wenjing immediately tensed up.
A hospital was a place with a huge flow of people. If a ghost were hiding there, even a low-level Evil Ghost could cause a tremendous number of casualties in a short time.
The Town Demon Suppression Division was responsible for maintaining social stability. As members of the Division, they had a duty to eliminate the threat posed by ghosts whenever they encountered one.
"Excuse me, Nurse. Sorry to bother you, but why is this hallway so empty?" Lu Siye spotted a nurse passing by and hurried over to ask.
"Oh, it leads straight to the basement morgue, so not many people come this way," the nurse replied with a cheerful smile.
Being called "Nurse" by this young man had really hit the spot.
"Oh, I see. Thank you, Nurse!" Lu Siye said, looking enlightened.
"No problem!" The nurse walked away with a spring in her step. Her good mood for the day had begun when he called her "Nurse."
"Let's go check it out." Once the nurse had gone and he was sure no one else was nearby, Lu Siye grabbed Wang Wenjing and hurried down the hallway.
They took the spacious elevator downstairs. The moment the doors opened, Lu Siye felt the Yin energy around them grow noticeably stronger.
However, perhaps because Wang Wenjing's cultivation level was too low, she still couldn't sense any Yin energy.
They walked down a bright, white corridor. Lu Siye pushed open the morgue doors, and a rush of cold air hit them.
The Yin energy here was no different from outside.
Wang Wenjing somehow produced a talisman. As she infused it with True Qi, golden ripples spread out in every direction.
Lu Siye also swept through every inch of the morgue with his senses. Every corpse had a faint trace of Yin energy, as if it were natural. He didn't find anything unusual.
"I can't detect anything abnormal," Wang Wenjing said to Lu Siye as she put away the talisman.
"Me neither. Maybe I'm just being too nervous," Lu Siye said.
Then they closed the morgue doors, returned to the elevator, and went back up to the first floor.
When they reached the first floor, a faint thump came from one of the morgue's body-storage freezers.
Not long afterward, Lu Siye arrived at the special hospital room where the young couple had been staying.
From the hospital's earliest days, this room had been set aside for the Town Demon Suppression Division to house ordinary people caught up in paranormal incidents.
The moment he entered the room, surprise appeared on the pale, weak faces of the young couple.
They hadn't expected the person who had saved them from the demon to be the young man they'd seen earlier at the rice noodle roll shop—the one who looked no different from an ordinary person.
"Young man, thank you for saving my wife and child." The couple excitedly climbed out of bed, ready to kneel before Lu Siye on the spot.
"Please, don't!" Lu Siye hurriedly held the man back.
Lu Siye's hands were like iron. No matter how hard the man tried, he couldn't kneel, and in the end, he had no choice but to give up.
The man's wife was weak, and Wang Wenjing supported her before she even got out of bed.
From their conversation, Lu Siye learned why Black Abyss had captured them. It had been pure bad luck.
Their son, the little boy named Lele, had been slower than his peers in developing intellectually from birth, and several kindergartens had already expelled him.
Worried about Lele's education, the couple had visited kindergartens all over Tianhai City. Finally, through an acquaintance, they met a kindergarten director who was willing to accept Lele.
The couple had shown up at the rice noodle roll shop that day with their son in their arms because they were heading early to the North District to meet the kindergarten director their acquaintance had recommended.
The director was a decent person. After learning about Lele's situation, he agreed to take him in.
The couple were so happy about it that they took their son to the amusement park he'd been longing to visit. It was dark by the time they decided to head home.
As they were hailing a taxi, they ran into Black Abyss, who had been hiding all day and had just emerged from a sewer.
Black Abyss had immediately seen that the reason for Lele's delayed intellectual development was that he was a rare case of two souls sharing one body.
To the mature Twin Ghost Infants that had fused with him, someone with two souls in one body was the perfect remedy for his injuries—and his hope of restoring his arm.
Even a severely wounded Night Wanderer Envoy was more than an ordinary person could resist. In their panic, all three of them were easily abducted.
After that, the man had no memory of what happened. He only knew that someone had rescued them, and that they'd been caught up in a paranormal incident.
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