Free Web NovelAfter hearing Lu Yibei's request, Professor Ma once wanted to kick her out.
The thought of the girl in front of him being Lu Yibei, his student who talked a lot of trash, made him feel uncomfortable all over.
But looking at her face through his fingers, Professor Ma felt it was a bit heartless to just kick her out like that.
Who doesn't like a girl so cute she's pleasing to the eye?
If only she didn't talk.
After pondering for a moment, Professor Ma straightened up and said with a serious expression, "Are you really Lu Yibei? Do you really have the black night disease?"
"Really, Professor, it's all true," Lu Yibei said, nodding her little head like pounding garlic.
"Alright, I can temporarily help you hide it." Staring at Lu Yibei and pondering for a few seconds, Professor Ma conceded, a strange smile appearing at the corner of his mouth as he spoke, "However..."
"However?"
Hearing Professor Ma suddenly change the subject, Lu Yibei's heart skipped a beat. She narrowed her eyes slightly and secretly sized up Professor Ma, feeling that something bad was about to happen. Her hands unconsciously tightened around her collar, pulling her Coat tighter.
Old geezer, he doesn't have some strange idea about me, does he? Like wanting to do something shady?
I absolutely can't agree to this! Lu Yibei thought. There's something Shui Ge said that I especially agree with: a person can have a low moral bottom line, but they can't have no bottom line at all!
...
A few minutes later.
Huacheng Institute of Technology, on a secluded path leading out of the campus.
A young girl walked forward expressionlessly, her eyes looking lost, as if her brain had short-circuited a bit.
She wore a dark blue glazed button oblique-collared shirt on her upper body and linen cropped pants on her lower body. The style of the clothes looked quite characteristic of Southwestern ethnic minorities.
The girl was Lu Yibei. The clothes she was wearing were found for her by Professor Ma. This was something Professor Ma had a student recreate according to the records when he was researching a special text about fabric sizing and dyeing. They had been kept in storage.
When they were made, considering they were only for research and to save material, the student made them a bit small. Unexpectedly, Professor Ma took them out today for Lu Yibei to wear, and they fit surprisingly well.
What made Lu Yibei feel even stronger was whether it was because she had devoured the core of the urban legend entities like Pharaoh and others, causing the power within her body to become more stable.
After transforming into a Strange Tale, when she put on clothes again, although the clothes rubbing against some special areas brought a strange sensation, she still felt ashamed, but her body temperature did not rise uncontrollably.
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It's just...
What exactly was Professor Ma thinking? Lu Yibei thought blankly.
She had made a deal with Professor Ma a few minutes ago, but even now, she hadn't recovered from Professor Ma's incredible move.
...
"You are my student, and it's only natural for me to protect your interests. Don't act spoiled with me, it makes me uncomfortable. I'm old, and my heart can't take it."
Professor Ma said this to Lu Yibei. Lu Yibei was overjoyed, but before she could open her mouth to thank Professor Ma, she froze in place because of his next words.
"Let's not discuss this issue for now. Let me ask you, why haven't you submitted your previous short paper yet?"
"I haven't..."
"Not finished? Then you don't need to rush. Change it to a standard paper and submit it to me next week."
Lu Yibei, "..." It's not a big problem anyway. Jumang is living in my house, no, the real Ju Meng! I'll have her submit an autobiography or something later, and count it as rent.
"After you finish writing, I'll give you a new topic. Don't you love to study? I especially like students who love to study, and I will do my best to help you study well!"
Lu Yibei, "???"
That's it? That's it!
With such a big beautiful girl in front of you, why don't you threaten and entice her, or take advantage? What kind of man adds homework for people?
After hearing Professor Ma say those words, Lu Yibei thought of a joke circulating online.
It said there was a middle school student who, near the start of school, took a large sum of New Year's money to a certain club and ordered five Misses at once, specifically asking for college students working part-time.
After the Misses were called, he did nothing else but directly gave each of them a stack of winter break homework and had them write it all night.
Lu Yibei felt that Professor Ma's behavior was remarkably similar to that of the high school student in the joke; it was simply too twisted. As soon as the strange smile on Professor Ma's face appeared in her mind, she felt a chill down her spine.
She had faced urban legend directly several times before, but she had never felt this scared, really.
...
Huacheng Institute of Technology has a very secluded road, which has no specific name. Because it is close to Gate No. 4, students usually call it Four Gate Main Street.
The geographical location of this Four Gate Main Street is not actually particularly remote. When it was first built, it was one of the convenient paths for many students going to the commercial street outside University City.
And there are many reasons why a road [N O V E L I G H T] becomes deserted, besides being geographically remote and falling into disrepair over time. One of them is being haunted.
Yes, Four Gate Main Street is a haunted road.
One evening two or three years ago, a girl had an argument while attending her boyfriend's birthday party, left the gathering early, and returned to school alone through Four Gate Main Street in heavy rain. Then her head was cut off by something.
It was close to midnight at the time, and there was no one left on the entire road, so no one knew what she had encountered. Only the security Uncle near the guard room heard a mournful scream.
By the time the security Uncle and his colleagues followed the sound to search, they saw a headless female corpse lying in a pool of blood.
Legend says that the reason the girl returned early was because she discovered something indescribable between her best friend and her boyfriend at her boyfriend's birthday party. And because she died tragically, she developed resentment and became a Strange Tale, constantly lingering near Four Gate Main Street.
Every night or on rainy days, someone would see a girl holding a rose-red umbrella, covering half of her body, wandering like a lonely ghost. If she encountered a lone person...
"system, I think with you always following me, that Strange Tale won't come out to attack me!" Gu Qianqian sat on a bench near Four Gate Main Street and complained angrily, "Didn't the rumors say? Only people walking alone will encounter it."
Since Gu Qianqian entered Huacheng Institute of Technology, she would try to use Four Gate Main Street every time she entered or left the campus.
Others were afraid of encountering urban legend, but she wasn't. For urban legend whose strength wasn't top-tier, she wished she could encounter more of them so she could exchange them with the system for campus card credit.
It must be said that, to some extent, Gu Qianqian had become the Guardian of Huacheng Institute of Technology. After all, since her enrollment, the number of Strange Tale incidents had significantly decreased.
"Your complaining is useless," the system said.
What can be done about that? Have you ever seen a system that can act on its own without a host?
Okay, there are indeed some, but those are all the result of the host being incredibly powerful and casually helping the system shape a physical body.
You, Gu Qianqian, a Smelly Girl, won't be able to reach that level for hundreds of years.
Just as the system was secretly complaining, Gu Qianqian saw a faint, almost invisible red thread on her fingertip, which looked like it was growing into her flesh. She mumbled, "system?"
"Hmm?"
"Why did you make me stab the fragments I scraped off the bamboo slip into my flesh? Although I didn't feel any pain, I'm still a bit afraid of infection and pus." Gu Qianqian said.
As a Miss who had been wandering the streets since she was fourteen or fifteen, she was especially worried about things like infection and pus. She had seen many homeless people die because their wounds weren't treated in time.
"What the hell are you worried about! I can tell you with certainty that you won't have a chance to get infected and form pus in this lifetime," the system said loudly in Gu Qianqian's mind. "You only need to let the bamboo slip's fragments enter your body to establish a connection with it. Only then can you go to that place on the night of the full moon."
"Hmm..." Gu Qianqian pouted. "Speaking of which, you said time would be very tight then, so why do you still want me to actively participate in the student union's school anniversary organization work? Isn't that delaying things?"
"What do you know? I'm helping you create an alibi!" the system said somewhat proudly.
"When the time comes, the bamboo slip will inevitably cause strong Spiritual Energy fluctuations. the Night Watch will quickly investigate this matter. If you don't have an alibi, do you want to be invited for tea?"
"Learn from this, Smelly Girl!"
"What you said makes a lot of sense, but if we are seen by others before entering the bamboo slip, wouldn't you have wasted your efforts?" Gu Qianqian asked seriously.
"How could we be... Wait, this aura? How is this possible? Not good! Gu Qianqian, run!"
"Huh? What did you say?" Gu Qianqian was a bit confused by the system's sudden alarm. She tilted her head and saw the girl walking from the other side of Four Gate Main Street.
Gu Qianqian wasn't worried about encountering urban legend on Four Gate Main Street; she even wanted to try her luck and make a fortune, so she often entered and exited the campus through here.
As for Lu Yibei, she thought the same way.
After transforming into a Strange Tale, staying in Professor Ma's research lab wasn't a solution. If she was seen by someone, or if Li Xuan suddenly returned, it would be hard to explain.
Therefore, after discussing briefly with Professor Ma, Lu Yibei chose to leave the campus first, letting Professor Ma handle the relevant matters at school for her.
By the way, when Professor Ma asked her when she would be able to return to normal, she had a flash of inspiration, a light bulb lit up in her mind, and with the phrase "at least three to five days," she successfully postponed the paper submission deadline by a week.
It wasn't that she didn't want to ask for more time, she was just worried about being called in for a talk by the Counselor if it took too long, and that Professor Ma might not believe her.
To avoid being seen by too many people when leaving school, Lu Yibei took a roundabout route and came near Four Gate Main Street, preparing to leave the campus from here.
However, what she didn't expect was to encounter Gu Qianqian here.
Seeing the stunned Gu Qianqian from afar, Lu Yibei frowned slightly.
Why is she here? So she usually enters and exits the campus through here? No wonder I've never seen her at school.
While Lu Yibei was thinking, Gu Qianqian suddenly stood up, turned around, and ran towards the outside of the school. As she ran, she looked panicked and glanced back at Lu Yibei several times.
Lu Yibei, "..." Why does she always run away as soon as she sees me?
No, I have to catch up to her. There are many things I want to ask her!
Thinking this, Lu Yibei opened her mouth and shouted, "Stop, don't run!"
As her voice fell, Gu Qianqian's body trembled slightly, and then she ran even faster.
