Volume Two: The Anbei Consortium Chapter Twenty-One: Kids These Days Are Truly Remarkable

Knowing that the commotion was caused by the Chang ghost, Li Yu no longer felt so anxious and hailed a taxi to the scene.

“Driver, please, could you go a bit faster?”

Li Yu blinked, not too worried since Huang Xiu was unlikely to be in real danger, but still, if she’d been frightened, he needed to hurry. After five or six minutes, he arrived at his destination. Stretching lazily, and seeing no one around, he vaulted over the two-meter-high fence in a single leap and dashed swiftly toward where the Chang ghost was.

At this hour, the main entrance was simply too troublesome—if he got caught and had to register, he’d be tied up for ten minutes or more. Li Yu’s figure soon vanished around the corner.

What he didn’t know was that behind him, a brown-haired girl stood wide-eyed, glancing from the height of the fence to where he disappeared.

“My god!” she whispered.

…

After weaving through several turns, Li Yu quickly reached the site. Even before entering, he could hear two girls sobbing inside. It was simply bad luck for Huang Xiu—the neighboring class was absent, and otherwise, with only a wall between them, their commotion would surely have been noticed.

The two boys had chosen this spot precisely because of that, but their actual target was the short-haired girl beside Huang Xiu. It just so happened that there wasn’t enough space in the restroom, so Huang Xiu came this way and stumbled upon what was happening in the classroom.

She immediately stepped in to help, but both girls ended up falling into their hands…

Then the Chang ghost, obeying Li Yu’s command, intervened to protect Huang Xiu.

To the two girls, the boys appeared not just bizarre but terrifying—accompanied by the sound of bones cracking, sometimes hovering eerily in mid-air.

This was clearly a supernatural event.

Peering through the window, Li Yu saw the Chang ghost standing behind the two boys, controlling them to perform all manner of inhuman actions.

“Brother Yu, save me!” Huang Xiu cried out, catching sight of Li Yu at the window.

Li Yu nodded, “I’m here, I’m here,” and with a wave of his hand, the Chang ghost sank back into the earth.

The two boys, freed from its control, collapsed to the floor. Li Yu checked them over and breathed a sigh of relief—they had only suffered ligament strains, nothing serious.

As Li Yu opened the door and entered, the two girls visibly relaxed, seeing the boys who had menaced them now lying motionless on the floor.

Huang Xiu threw herself onto Li Yu, “Brother Yu…”

She was truly shaken.

Once Huang Xiu had calmed a little, Li Yu said to Na Yu, “What’s going on with you lately? Your life is certainly eventful.”

Kidnapped one day, haunted by ghosts the next.

“…,” Huang Xiu wiped her tears, retorting, “What do you mean ‘what’s going on’? Didn’t you see them performing some ritual before you came in?”

In a few sentences, she explained everything. The short-haired girl was Suo Yanni, a classmate of Huang Xiu, tricked into the classroom by those two boys. The ringleader confessed and, failing, tried something else. Huang Xiu happened to pass by, couldn’t find anyone to help, and in desperation, broke in.

The boys, thinking they’d been exposed, were startled at first, but then, seeing an opportunity, decided to target Huang Xiu as well.

This crossed the Chang ghost’s line. As Li Yu had instructed, the Chang ghost intervened invisibly, and the girls believed they were experiencing some supernatural phenomenon.

The girls were trapped at the back of the classroom; the rear door had been deliberately damaged by the boys, and they didn’t dare go out the front, so they cowered in the back, trembling.

“Kids these days are something else,” Li Yu remarked, noticing that the short-haired girl’s clothes were disheveled.

Huang Xiu reminded him, “Brother Yu, we’re all about the same age.”

They were all seniors in high school. If Li Yu hadn’t been blessed by the gods of learning, he might still be in the same class as them.

“…,” Li Yu paused. “You talk too much. Let’s go, let’s go. I checked—there’s nothing supernatural here. Must’ve been some kind of illness, scared you two silly.”

He looked up and saw that the surveillance cameras had been covered ahead of time, saving him the trouble of having to erase any footage.

After coaxing the girls out, Huang Xiu asked, “Brother Yu, what about those two?”

“What can we do? Leave them there and see when they wake up from the cold,” Li Yu shrugged, unconcerned.

His gaze lingered nearby—the Chang ghost was lurking underground, never leaving Huang Xiu’s side.

Li Yu’s only instruction to the Chang ghost was to save Huang Xiu at all costs if anything happened to her. At night, this was easy, but during the day, the Chang ghost had severe limitations—afraid of sunlight, its intervention meant its own destruction.

Thankfully, it could be restored within the system, and more importantly, if anything happened to the Chang ghost, Li Yu would know something was wrong with Huang Xiu.

What surprised him was that the Chang ghost could act during the day without issue, losing barely any ghostly energy.

“Many schools are built on old graves—could that be why?” Li Yu wondered, but the Chang ghost was too simple-minded for proper communication, so he let it go.

It didn’t affect him anyway.

…

After confirming everything was fine, Li Yu left.

…

“I’m telling you, I really saw it—some guy leaped right over!”

“Oh please, who could do that? Not even an athlete, and you’re saying he jumped out of nowhere?”

“I swear, why would I lie?”

“Let’s check the surveillance. That’ll settle it.”

“There aren’t any cameras along that stretch…”

“…”

Li Yu glanced up in surprise—the conversation in the nearby pavilion seemed to be about him.

But hearing there was no surveillance, he relaxed, retraced his steps to the fence, and this time was extra careful, making sure no one was around before leaping onto the street.

He calmly hailed a taxi.

“There, Huihui, look! Look!” The brown-haired girl’s vantage point let her see over the fence. She’d just glanced up and caught Li Yu’s silhouette. “He jumped out again!”

Her friend, Huihui, turned back, but her view was blocked—she saw nothing.

“I’m serious, I’m not lying!” The girl pulled Huihui over to the fence.

Could it really be true? Otherwise, her friend wouldn’t be so excited.

Huihui grew more interested and together they looked around for a long time, only spotting a few sparse cars, one with a taxi’s rear visible.

Other than that, there wasn’t a single pedestrian.

She was tempted to believe her friend, but…!

Huihui sighed, “My dear, you’re obsessed with martial arts lately! Where is he?”

“…I really saw him!” The girl’s disappointment was palpable. She didn’t think she’d made a mistake, but the street was empty—maybe she really was going crazy?

Li Yu, unaware of the commotion behind him, leaned back comfortably in the taxi…