Volume 1, Chapter 181: The Occult Club (5)

"Damn, streamer, please don't smile. I'm scared."
"I'm already sweating bullets, bro."
"Darling, what are you smiling at? /Crying/ What on earth are you smiling at?"
"Is there any translator here who can tell me what's going on? I want to know."

Watching "Chen Xiaoxue" enter the experimental building, Qin Yu lifted her foot and chased after her.
However, the moment she stepped inside, she noticed that the surrounding scenery had begun to blur, feeling as if a layer of mist had been smeared across her vision.

"Why is it automatically censoring now?"
"Seriously, isn't this censorship a bit too intense this time? I can't see anything at all!"
"If you ask me, the streamer is definitely just putting on a mysterious act! Only idiots like you would get fooled!"
"To the user above, you are already the Nth person I've seen saying something like that..."
"There are actually people in this livestream as smart as me? Who is it? Tag them so I can have a look."
"Just open the viewer list in the top right corner; three of them are in the top ten of the leaderboard."
"???"
"Don't question it, brother. I've been through this. I just hope the upcoming scenes won't shatter your worldview."

Qin Yu ignored the barrage of comments because she caught a glimmer of light amidst the foggy surroundings.
She followed the light, reached out, and a faint illumination fell upon her fingers. Even though ten years had passed, a trace of residual spiritual energy still lingered in that light.

Sure enough, a practitioner had dealt with the scene.
No wonder these four individuals remembered nothing about what happened back then; someone must have extracted their memories from when they were alive, leaving them trapped in a quest for revenge without ever finding their target.
As time passed, the seals left here gradually weakened, allowing them to finally influence the students coming here for anatomy classes.

Having understood the situation, lingering here any longer served little purpose. Qin Yu waved her hand, and the next second, she returned to reality.
Although it felt like two months had passed for Qin Yu within the four ghosts' memories, only two hours had elapsed in real life.

"Huh? Why did she come out already? What just happened in that building? I didn't get to see anything!"
"Exactly, isn't this ripping off the consumers?"

Qin Yu cast a cold glance at the screen, and the style of the chat room instantly shifted—
"I'm sorry, Master Dianqiu. I spoke out of turn."

Having just replayed their memories, the four ghosts before her recalled quite a few scattered details from when they were alive, and all of them wore complex expressions.
Zhang Wei bit his lip in embarrassment, not daring to look at Ke Li beside him. His mind was filled with sheer disbelief: *I actually cheated?*
Ke Li stealthily tried to pull at Zhang Wei's sleeve, but he completely ignored her, making her feel deeply wronged.

Meanwhile, watching Ke Li tug at Zhang Wei's clothes, Liu Yingyong felt a suffocating tightness in his chest.
In contrast, Guo Pei remained very quiet.

Qin Yu had no time to ponder the emotional turmoil of these four ghosts. She stared straight at Zhang Wei and cut right to the point, "Does Chen Xiaoxue have any siblings?"
The name "Chen Xiaoxue" made Zhang Wei's nerves twitch.
He first shook his head, then immediately explained, "I don't know."

"You don't know??? She was your girlfriend, after all! You don't even know her family?"
"Such a scumbag! Pui!"

Qin Yu thought for a moment and asked again, "Then where is she from?"
Zhang Wei shook his head once more.
"???"
"Are you sure Chen Xiaoxue was your girlfriend?"
"Good grief! Chen Xiaoxue was so pretty, what on earth did she ever see in this guy?"
"I really feel it wasn't worth it for Chen Xiaoxue. Men like this are absolute trash."

Watching the chat stream, Qin Yu silently agreed that Chen Xiaoxue deserved much better, but she kept her thoughts to herself.
"Then what *do* you know about her?"
In this tragic incident, Chen Xiaoxue was the key figure who knew the truth of what happened back then.
Find her, and all the mysteries could be resolved.

After pondering for a long time, Zhang Wei stammered, "Xiaoxue was very low-key; she refused to tell me anything. She said that when the time was right, she would confess everything to me naturally."
Qin Yu: ?

Realizing perhaps that his understanding of Chen Xiaoxue was painfully shallow, Zhang Wei quickly added, "But I do know her family must have some sort of background. Once, when she was on the phone with her mother while I was right beside her, I vaguely heard words like 'investment' and 'can't wait'..."
"What on earth did you guys talk about when you were dating? Studying?"
Hearing this, Qin Yu couldn't help but voice a question from the depths of her soul.

Zhang Wei's face instantly turned as red as a beet, unable to squeeze out a single syllable for the longest time.
Seeing this, Ke Li immediately stepped up to defend him, "Can you blame Brother Zhang Wei? It was clearly Chen Xiaoxue who refused to tell Brother Zhang Wei a single thing!"

Qin Yu let out a cold scoff from her nose. "You seducing someone else's boyfriend and you think you're in the right?"
With an angry wave of her hand, Ke Li instantly vanished from the scene.

"Holy shit? Wifey is mighty!"
"I've been sick of listening to that old green tea talk for ages. Finally, my ears are at peace."
"Send the scumbag away too, listening to him talk makes my whole body uncomfortable."

To be honest, Qin Yu very much wanted to banish Zhang Wei as well, but keeping him around had other uses.
Just as Qin Yu was about to think of an alternative method, Guo Pei, standing in the corner, raised his hand.
Perhaps intimidated by how Qin Yu had just dealt with Ke Li, Guo Pei looked timid and jittery, his eyes filled with awe and fear as he looked at her.

"Master, I... I know something about Chen Xiaoxue."
Qin Yu's eyes lit up. "Speak."
"Once, when I was dining at a hotel, I saw her with the school principal. She saw me too, and afterward, she came and begged me to keep it a secret."

"Ah? Does that mean Chen Xiaoxue isn't such a good person either?"
"No way?"
"I'm dizzy. What kind of tangled relationships are these?"

Seeing that Guo Pei was still holding back, Qin Yu shot him a fierce look. "And?"
This unwarranted pressure instantly broke Guo Pei out in a dense cold sweat.
"I promised her that unless I died, I wouldn't tell a soul."
"Aren't you dead now?"

The reminder clicked in his mind. Alternating between crying and laughing, Guo Pei felt the moral burden vanish instantly. "Oh, right! I'm dead! I can talk now! Hahaha!"
Qin Yu: ...
"She told me the principal is her father."

At those words, Zhang Wei wore a look of sudden realization. "No wonder! Whenever I said I couldn't get a scholarship, Chen Xiaoxue would say 'not necessarily,' and the very next day I got it! So that was why!"
He had known Chen Xiaoxue's family background wasn't simple, but he had never connected the dots in that direction. Thinking back now, Chen Xiaoxue really did look quite a bit like the principal at the time.

Qin Yu rolled her eyes so hard at Zhang Wei that they almost went backward.
She genuinely had no idea what Chen Xiaoxue ever saw in this guy.
"What's the principal's name?"
"Chen Jianguo."

Without another word, Qin Yu pulled out her phone and searched for "Medical College Chen Jianguo." Sure enough, numerous relevant entries popped up immediately.
Finding the one she needed, Qin Yu clicked on it, revealing a photograph of Chen Jianguo.
Looking at the picture, Qin Yu understood everything in an instant.