As these thoughts ran through Gu Qing's mind, he said, "I haven't awakened any mind-reading ability. I just dreamed about a mysterious girl like that too, just like you."
He didn't know how to explain to his junior schoolmate that he could see Deity Girl in reality, so he simply claimed he had dreamed about her too.
"You dreamed about her too, Senior?"
Xia Shuran looked astonished. "Is this some special supernatural phenomenon?"
"Possibly."
Gu Qing said, "Maybe the bed in my room was made from some special wood that developed a mysterious effect because of the Spiritual Energy Revival, allowing anyone sleeping on it to dream about that mysterious girl."
The more Xia Shuran listened, the stranger it sounded to her. "That sounds so much like Conch Girl. She wouldn't sneak out and clean your room while you're away, would she?"
As she spoke, she speculated, "Senior, I think your bed might have absorbed spiritual energy and turned into a supernatural item."
"That mysterious girl's lingering obsession has always resided in your bed, but it's been dormant all this time."
"With the arrival of the Spiritual Energy Revival era, her obsession awakened under the nourishment of spiritual energy, and then she became your Bed Girl."
Good grief, you're actually analyzing it. Everything I just told you was made up!
Gu Qing couldn't help inwardly grumbling.
Then he smiled against his conscience and said:
"Maybe. Perhaps that mysterious girl is some legendary tree spirit, but someone cut down the tree she lived in and made it into my bed."
Concern appeared on Xia Shuran's face. "Senior, why don't you replace this bed and take it back to Night Court Headquarters for research? After all, we don't know whether that mysterious girl is good or bad, or whether she might drain