Who Has Yellow Urine? Wake Him Up!

Cat Seven had always described Spirit Intelligence as sleazy and shameless, but Jiang Yue had remained only half-convinced.

Seeing this third reward, Jiang Yue gained a whole new understanding of Spirit Intelligence. This thing absolutely needed a super-strength stain remover.

It was simply too filthy.

Not to mention that Jiang Yue had always regarded Xiao Yi as a younger sister and had never entertained any bestial thoughts about her.

Even if he had, he should not have taken advantage of her predicament or demanded repayment for his help.

Besides, abusing a young sprout was far too dishonorable. Jiang Yue was genuinely afraid his ancestors would crawl out of Mount Dajin to argue with him.

Most importantly, Xiao Yi was still a minor!

What was worse, the time limit was tonight.

This...

Caught between being a beast and being worse than a beast, Jiang Yue made his choice through his tears.

"Give up..."

Although Spirit Intelligence provided the choices, it would not choose for Jiang Yue.

He chose to give up the third reward, and Spirit Intelligence did not comment at all.

Fortunately, there were three rewards.

After giving up the third reward, Jiang Yue naturally accepted the first and second rewards with a smile.

What was the point of risking half his life? Wasn't it all for these rewards?

"Skill acquired: Divine Gang Exterminates Ghost Hand, First Form. Against D- and below D-rank ghosts, the success rate is 90%; against D-rank ghosts, the success rate is 70%; against D+-rank ghosts, the success rate is 30%; against C--rank ghosts, the success rate does not exceed 5%."

"Host's physical body enhancement, 50%, begins!"

Almost at the same time, Jiang Yue clearly felt the blood qi inside him surge. The bones and muscles throughout his body seemed to be reassembling, and every cell appeared unusually active.

This state did not last long before his body slowly returned to calm.

Immediately afterward, Jiang Yue clearly sensed that his physical functions had indeed improved dramatically.

Physical enhancement complete!

Spirit Intelligence fell silent again, as if sneering at Jiang Yue for giving up the third reward.

That night, Jiang Yue had slept for less than two hours in total, yet when morning came, he was the most spirited of everyone.

San Gou was second.

The sky was already bright. Jiang Yue's family finally returned home, but it felt as though they had lived through another lifetime.

Jiang Ying was preparing breakfast when her aunt from town called.

"Auntie, good morning."

"Ying, I can't stay in town anymore. Your aunt is going to Star City to join you and your siblings. We're already on the road." His aunt got straight to the point, her voice full of exhaustion and fear.

Jiang Yue had previously asked Jiang Ying to persuade their aunt to come to Star City.

Later, the news reported that everyone buried by the mudslide had been successfully rescued. The atmosphere in town had greatly improved, and there did not seem to be any further strange incidents, so their aunt had never come.

Only one or two days had passed. Why had she changed her mind again?

"Auntie, then I'll take the day off and wait for you at home." When Jiang Ying heard that her aunt's whole family was coming, she naturally welcomed them.

So many unbelievable things had happened. Having the family band together for warmth was undoubtedly the best choice for now.

"Mhm, Ying, someone died in town again yesterday..."

His aunt lowered her voice over the phone and began whispering to Jiang Ying.

After his aunt finished speaking, Jiang Ying's expression was naturally grim, but Jiang Yue's expression was even more troubled.

The death his aunt had described over the phone was almost identical to the cases in Star City over the past few days!

They were both murder cases. The culprit was easily identified, but when arrested, the culprit kept insisting that he was innocent, and someone could even prove that he had not been at the scene when the crime occurred.

Wasn't this a repeat of the case involving Homeroom Teacher Sun Bin?

There had already been several such strange cases in Star City. Who would have thought a similar incident would appear in town as well?

The degree of similarity was so high that Jiang Yue could confirm with his knees that this was definitely no coincidence.

Besides, who knew whether any more cases had occurred in Star City during the past night?

"Sis, the world is getting stranger and stranger. I feel that strange incidents are happening more and more frequently everywhere. You have to be extra careful whenever you go in and out."

"Little Yue, that girl from the Su family in Building Eight of our residential compound—the ghost from last night—was her situation the same as what Auntie described? Your homeroom teacher..."

"Yes. And hers wasn't the only case. There was another one yesterday morning not far from our residential compound. I don't know whether anything new happened last night. I'd say things probably won't settle down."

"Are these people really the culprits?"

"I don't know about the others, but Teacher Sun definitely isn't. We found an eyewitness yesterday evening."

"How is this supposed to be explained? Could even the traces at the scene be fabricated? Could all that DNA evidence be fabricated too?"

"Sis, you've personally experienced ghosts already. Why do you think this couldn't be fabricated?"

"San Gou, remember yesterday evening when we entered the residential compound? You said you saw one person twice within two or three minutes, but the locations didn't match at all?"

"Right!" San Gou's eyes lit up. "Second Brother, are you saying someone disguised himself as another person and committed the crime?"

"If it's a person, then it's manageable. But what if... it isn't a person at all?"

Jiang Ying stared blankly into space and shook her head. "What kind of world is this?"

"San Gou, I'm assigning you a task. Starting today, you're Big Sis's personal bodyguard. Whenever she goes out, you follow wherever she goes. Whether a stranger or an acquaintance approaches, make sure you keep those heaven-gifted Yin Yang Eyes sharp. Don't let anything evil get close. Understand?"

In San Gou's eyes, this task was extremely sacred and honorable.

He thrust out his chest and shouted loudly, like an actor reciting opera lines, "Understood!"

Back at school, campus life continued as usual. It was as though the murder cases and haunting incidents had nothing to do with this place, shut out beyond its walls.

Jiang Yue was not optimistic. This apparent calm could not last long.

Once evil spirits and monsters emerged from hiding, they would eventually seep into every corner.

What could be seen now might merely be the tip of the iceberg of the hidden world.

There might never be a pure land again.

However, that did not affect Jiang Yue's mood when he went to see Xia Xia.

The little girl had been deliberately or unintentionally shunned by her kindergarten classmates and subjected to all kinds of verbal abuse. She clearly had no enthusiasm left for going to kindergarten. Even though several adults accompanied her, she remained depressed.

Only when she saw Brother Jiang Yue did a trace of light return to her tiny face.

"Xia Xia, Big Brother has some incredibly good news to tell you today."

"Really?" Xia Xia's eyes lit up.

"I found powerful evidence proving that your father wasn't at the crime scene at the time."

Jiang Yue immediately took out his phone and played the video of yesterday's exchange with the old man for Xia Xia.

The video was halfway through when Teacher Sun's wife came over as well.

"Little Jiang, is this real? You can't lie to Xia Xia!" Her eyes were filled with distrust.

Her implication was clearly that she suspected Jiang Yue had hired this old man to put on a fake performance.

"Ma'am, this is a serious matter. Do you think I'd joke about it? The one asking the questions was Captain Han from the police station. Do you think he has that kind of free time?" Jiang Yue was polite to her purely because of Sun Bin.

Seeing her attitude toward Sun Bin now, Jiang Yue found it quite distasteful, but he did not want to fall out with her on the spot.

"Can this stuff really help? When will Sun Bin be released?"

"Ma'am, whether it helps or not, it's still a ray of hope. As for when he can get out, that depends on the police handling the case. But I believe that the innocent will be proven innocent. There's definitely no problem with Teacher Sun's innocence."

Jiang Yue did not want to waste more words on this woman. In his view, marrying her had been the greatest failure of Sun Bin's first half of life.

One man's salary had to support not only his wife and daughter but also his parents-in-law.

The most suffocating part was that every day at home, he had to listen to the combined nagging of his wife and mother-in-law.

If not for Xia Xia, Jiang Yue might not have believed Sun Bin had any reason to keep living such a life of supporting four people.

He gently scratched Xia Xia's little nose. "Big Brother is going back to class now. Xia Xia, you have to believe in Daddy. He didn't do anything bad. He'll definitely come home to be with you."

"Mhm, Xia Xia will always believe in Daddy and Little Yue Brother."

The two solemnly hooked fingers before Jiang Yue finally left.

When he returned to his seat, his deskmate Li Yue was as focused and serious as ever, memorizing famous sayings and quotations from the exam syllabus.

Seeing Jiang Yue sit down, her slender body was in no way capable of crossing the boundary between their desks, yet she still unconsciously shifted her elbow and instinctively made more room for him.

"Morning." Jiang Yue had long grown used to Li Yue's style and did not bother with unnecessary words.

A blush flashed across Li Yue's face. "Morning."

They had been deskmates for six years, yet Li Yue still could not say the word "morning" without blushing.

As soon as Jiang Yue sat down, the chubby Tong Di in the row ahead turned around, dark circles under his eyes, and leaned over Jiang Yue's desk.

"Class Monitor, I didn't sleep well last night."

"What, do you want me to sing you a lullaby?"

"I haven't been able to eat for several meals..."

"With your build, going hungry for a few more meals would be a perfect way to lose weight."

Jiang Yue teased Tong Di halfheartedly.

"No, that's not it... Class Monitor, listen to me."

"I think I'm having romantic troubles."

"These past two days, I've always felt that some girl keeps secretly looking at me during class, which has severely affected my studies. I'm so flustered, so scared, and so worried that she'll confess to me. Class Monitor, what should I do? I don't want to date yet. Class Monitor, help me calculate this—have I recently encountered romantic luck?"

"Who is it? Who's so blind?" Tong Di's deskmate, Mao Doudou, leaned over when he heard this.

"Watch what you're saying! What do you mean, blind? That's called having unique vision and being good at discovering truth, goodness, and beauty!" Tong Di protested.

"I just want to know who it is. Whose taste is so awful?" Although Mao Doudou had suffered setbacks in love, he still claimed to be exceptionally gifted, the spear-wielding Mao Shijiu. His deskmate Tong Di, that deadweight fatty, was clearly at the bottom of his contempt list. How could any girl possibly be secretly looking at him?

"Han Jingjing..." Tong Di's greasy, chubby face was overflowing with the air of spring.

"What?" Mao Doudou nearly sprayed out his breakfast.

Jiang Yue could not help wanting to laugh. Tong Di's name really had not been chosen wrongly. Hearing a little wind, he assumed a torrential rain was coming. His thinking had been thoroughly "Di-fied."

"Class Monitor, don't just laugh. Help me calculate it."

"I already calculated it. You're lacking urine in the Five Elements."

"Doudou, your urine is yellow. You're responsible for waking him up."

"Coming right up! Tong Feifei, are we going to the bathroom, or should we do it right here?"

Tong Di was not annoyed. He calmly turned his head and said with a shameless grin, "Mao Shijiu, that's blatant jealousy."

This little interlude livened up the atmosphere considerably.

Just then, Deputy Director Shao, who had temporarily taken over for Sun Bin, walked in with a smug smile.

"The students whose names I call, come outside with me."

"Han Jingjing, Du Yifeng, Wang Shen, Fang Ziyang, Li Yue. The five of you, please come out."

"Everyone else, study on your own for now."