Hearing an older custor narrating the story of a murdered female university student, the atmosphere in the small shop beca sowhat eerie for a mont.
However, everyone seed to be captivated by the story, gradually stopping their activities to listen attentively. No one interrupted him because of the eerie atmosphere.
"The female student was killed in the sumr, but her body wasn't found until winter. They say that when she died, she was wearing her favorite pink dress." The older custor's eyes showed a trace of sorrow and nostalgia as he ntioned the girl, as if he had known the victim. He still harbored a bit of unrequited affection for her.
Chen Yu noticed the emotion in his words and couldn't help but ask, "Did you know the murdered female university student?"
"We were in the sa club at university, and I really liked her back then, but I felt like I couldn't compete with older n," the older custor said with a wistful smile. Despite the many years that had passed, the girl was gone, and his feelings remained unresolved: "If spirits really do exist in this world, I'd even settle for seeing her spirit, just to see her one more ti!"
"See her? To tell her you liked her?" Chen Yu looked at the older custor, his eyes flickering with curiosity as he took the initiative to ask.
The older custor, however, chuckled and shook his head, denying that was his intention: "It's not that I want to tell her I liked her. It's just that having once been fond of her, I can't co to terms with such an end."
As he spoke, the older custor poured himself another drink and offered one to Chen Yu: "Thank you for listening to this old man ramble about the past, stirring up your al. I'm sorry."
"It's nothing, sotis listening to old stories like these can be quite the accompanint to a drink," Chen Yu said with a smile, though his gaze at the older custor remained deep and aningful.
While Chen Yu and the older custor were talking, the two university students who had taken offerings ant for the deceased suddenly panicked, switching on their camcorder to review the footage they'd taken, with terror written all over their faces.
Chen Yu's gaze turned towards them, teasingly asking, "What's the matter? Did you two film sothing unclean?"
"It's... it's a pink dress! She really is... is..." The two students looked at what they had captured, their teeth chattering, making a 'clack clack' sound.
One of the students, as if scared by sothing, hurriedly closed the camcorder screen, as if sealing away so terrifying thing inside. After closing the screen and taking a couple of deep breaths to compose himself, he said to his companion, "We really should return the canned food!"
"Yeah! She said she offered canned food at her grave... We really shouldn't have taken it!" The other student, trembling like a frightened quail, agreed, and after a quick glance at each other, they left so money on the table without finishing their al and hurried out of the shop with their belongings.
Watching the students scurry away as if fleeing for their lives, a smirk erged on Chen Yu's face, finding their behavior rather amusing.
The regular custor who had greeted Chen Yu earlier noticed Chen Yu's expression and, snapping out of the story narrated by the older custor, curiously asked him, "Doctor Chen, do you think there are no spirits in this world? Is their behavior funny to you?"
"No, their behavior is indeed funny, but it has nothing to do with whether spirits exist or not. They just scared themselves... no, they were scared by the living," said Chen Yu, who, as a Necromancer, could certainly tell whether they had encountered a spirit. If they had indeed co across a spirit as they claid, they wouldn't be free of Negative Energy.
"How did you figure that out?" The regular custor looked at Chen Yu, puzzled about how he made the judgnt.
"It's nothing, I just happen to be quite experienced with matters related to the supernatural. After all, I once lived next to a Cetery for quite a few years, so you could say I've seen spirits," Chen Yu explained with a smile while taking a sip of his drink.
Perhaps the story told by the older custor had piqued everyone's interest, as the remaining custors in the shop curiously looked at Chen Yu. The regular custor eagerly asked him, "Doctor Chen, have you seen a spirit? What does it look like? How did you manage to see one?"
"It's nothing special, just that I was quite poor while studying, so I rented a Haunted House to save money," Chen Yu explained, just as the waiter brought his ordered dishes and listened intently to his story: "The Cetery was right next to the haunted house, so on the first night I moved in, I saw a bloody figure standing in the living room all night, disappearing only in the morning."
"Unbelievable!" "Doctor Chen, you actually stayed in the sa house as a spirit!" The other custors in the shop couldn't help but express their admiration, while the regular custor asked in astonishnt, "Weren't you scared, Doctor Chen? Did you just continue to stay with that spirit in the sa room?"
"What's there to be scared of? It's just a spirit. If it killed , wouldn't I also beco a spirit? Maybe I might even be stronger than it, right?" Chen Yu said casually, his tone and deanor more joking: "And because of the spirit, the landlord didn't even take a deposit, and the rent was very cheap, so I actually profited from the situation. I should be thanking him."
Chen Yu left out that his way of thanking the spirit involved tornting it to the point of soul dispersion, resulting in it howling throughout the night and scaring the spirits and gods in the neighboring Cetery half to death.
Hearing Chen Yu say this, the older custor sitting beside him beca very interested and asked, "Doctor, have you really seen a spirit? Do you know how I could see a specific spirit? Could you let see one too? I really want to see her again."
"Such matters shouldn't be asked to , since I'm just a doctor, not a Spirit dium," Chen Yu shook his head, indicating his inability to help but also spoke with a layer of deeper aning: "Perhaps she has already appeared, and you just haven't realized it yet?"
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