Knowing that Yan Junze hadn't eaten yet, his father enthusiastically whipped up a few of his specialty dishes for Junze while Ku Zai went to take a shower and change clothes, hosting the benefactor in a private room.
Xiang Er was not present, as she needed to stay near Ku Zai; otherwise, she couldn't guarantee that the escaped weirdnesses wouldn't take the chance to invade again.
Of course, Junze said this following was only temporary, and he had already thought of other thods.
Before long, Ku Zai, now clean and tidy, appeared in the private room, and Junze finally had a good look at him.
Not to say, aside from being skin and bones, the guy was actually quite fair and clean-looking, with rather delicate features.
It was just that his body was too frail; he couldn't walk far before he began to pant, and it would take a good while sitting down before he could recover.
At the dining table, Ku Zai's father kept apologizing to Junze, looking deeply grateful. Soon, Ku Zai's aunt and uncle brought over his packed luggage and joined them at the table, inevitably leading to another round of thanks.
However, if a mistake is made, there naturally has to be punishnt. Exorcists don't have the right to punish, but security officers do.
Junze made it clear that he would report the incident, and the Exorcist Team would communicate with the Safety Bureau to discipline Ku Zai's family for their actions.
Of course, Junze would not reveal Ku Zai's true situation but would use other reasons to skate by.
In the afternoon, Junze left with Xiang Er and Ku Zai.
Since it was still early, they went to the hotel, checked out of the room from last night, and then headed straight to the airport.
School had been out for several days, and if it weren't for the "takeout" issue delaying matters for so long, Junze would already be lying on the sofa watching TV in his family's ho in the STFH Residential Area by now.
On the way to the airport, Junze, feeling uneasy, made calls to other families that had encountered weirdnesses and which he hadn't had the chance to check on.
Two families said that the weirdnesses would only appear at night, and they didn't know the current situation. The other two families said that just a mont ago, the weirdnesses had suddenly disappeared and since then, there hadn't been any other strange occurrences at ho.
It looked like Ku Zai had indeed cut off the weirdnesses he had sent out, causing these entities to no longer cling to the families ordering takeout, but instead to return and continue pestering Ku Zai.
But because Xiang Er was intimidatingly close by, the overwhelming pressure forced these weirdnesses to instinctively avoid her, and Ku Zai had thus escaped this calamity.
Afterward, Junze called He Yun to inform her that the "takeout" mission was accomplished. While in the cold storage room, he had used the Exorcist badge to collect so residual weirdness aura, storing it inside the badge.
He planned to register and exchange it at the Tianng Exorcist Team when he had ti later. Since he was not an official Exorcist, he didn't have any rit Points, but Junze also wasn't particularly interested in that stuff.
What he cared about was the compensation, as well as the Exorcism items that could be exchanged.
At the airport, while waiting in the departure hall, Ku Zai handed over a bank card to Junze, explaining it was from his dad to be transferred to him, and henceforth, money would be deposited regularly every month as compensation for Junze's care.
Junze didn't refuse and pocketed the card. He then asked Ku Zai, "From the ti you started attracting these weirdnesses until now, have they ever hard you directly?"
Ku Zai was taken aback for a mont, then responded, "Aren't I like this because they've hard ?"
Junze shook his head, "I'm talking about direct harm, like biting you, beating you, or mutilating your body…"
After thinking it over, Ku Zai said with so astonishnt, "No, they've just wanted to get close to , eventually clinging to , preventing from doing anything else or leading a normal life. I couldn't even sleep properly because it was too cold. And so weirdnesses were always wet and clung to no matter what I did."
At this point, Ku Zai lowered his head and let out a bitter smile, "Can you imagine what it felt like to shower with five or six weirdnesses clinging to your back? So… until the mont you all saw , I hadn't bathed in a very long ti."
"I know that feeling," Junze's face revealed a faint smile as if a pleasant mory had suddenly surfaced in his mind.
Ku Zai looked at him with so surprise but didn't speak.
In fact, aside from the tangible weirdnesses, which have a real body, the ordinary weirdnesses are fundantally ethereal entities that don't affect the person they lie upon when taking a shower.
The only effect is the constant sense of carrying various eerie sensations due to the weirdnesses. This requires a person to have significant psychological strength, so clearly, Ku Zai was not one of those people.
Junze speculated that if a Spirit Cultivator like Cheng Jingting or Yan Long had a constitution like Ku Zai's, they would probably wake up laughing in their sleep.
Then they wouldn't have to go around looking for weirdnesses or even considering targeting humans, because vast numbers of weirdnesses would be rushing to offer themselves.
If that were the case, a Spirit Cultivator with such a constitution would be far more dangerous and even more uncontrollable.
Luckily, Ku Zai was a simple soul.
Thinking this, he glanced sideways at Ku Zai.
At this mont, although Ku Zai had escaped the clasp of the strangenesses, the prolonged ntal oppression he endured made him still look like he was in poor shape, perpetually furrowing his brow, his forehead furrowed with gloom. This feeling of oppression was unlikely to diminish in the short term.
In other words, he would need to slowly recover, and this was already a process of psychological trauma and healing.
Yan Junze patted Ku Zai on the shoulder and said, "I must admit, I too was once entangled by a strangeness, but later I ca to live with it in peace. My experience is that you need to open up your mind a little. The strangeness that clings to you always has its reasons, and it's not necessarily after your life. Why not try to look at it in a different way, right?"
Ku Zai asked curiously, "Brother Yan, what was the strangeness that clung to you?"
"A little girl in a red dress," responded Yan Junze.
Ku Zai imdiately looked conflicted: "Brother, you saw what's been clinging to . A man with his limbs perated with holes, a fat man whose rotting flesh keeps falling off, a man without eyeballs spewing pus from the wounds on his skin, and that old lady who always sticks out her black tongue to lick my face. Do you think I can possibly have a broad heart in this situation?"
Yan Junze: "..."
"Not just them, but also that man who's like a clump of clay. I suspect he must have drowned in a swamp," Ku Zai, growing excited, did not notice Yan Junze's awkwardness and continued, "After he crawled into my mouth, he would roam around in my stomach, and during that ti I could feel everything clearly, especially…"
"We've arrived, ti to board, ti to board!" Yan Junze interrupted him, quickly picked up the luggage, and left with Xiang Er.
Ku Zai: ┐(-｡ｰ;)┌
Inside the airplane cabin, the three of them sat in a row.
Yan Junze remained silent, not talking to Ku Zai anymore, and Ku Zai, having the sense to know better, also kept his mouth shut without uttering another word.
Xiang Er, sitting next to Yan Junze, asked quietly after a mont of silence, "When you were in that cold storage room just now, you suddenly seed a bit panicked. What happened?"
Yan Junze, who had been feigning sleep with his eyes closed, opened them and replied, "I've always been in contact with a strangeness I t before, but just now, sothing seed to have happened, and suddenly, the connection was lost."
Having said that, Yan Junze tried to activate his Semi-Spirit Body again but still got no response, unable to communicate with the Back-faced Woman.
Since the connection had been lost, he had felt sowhat absent-minded and realized he was easily irritated, which clearly was due to excessive worry.
Seeing his state, Xiang Er didn't know what to say and maintained her silence.
The plane arrived at Shuntian Airport, and the three of them got off with their luggage and took a taxi straight to FH Community.
He hadn't seen his parents for a whole sester, and at this mont, Yan Junze's attention shifted slightly from his worries about the Back-faced Woman and Ke'er, looking at the buildings and streets that were the most familiar in his eyes since he had been reborn into this world, yet he remained silent.
To Ku Zai, however, it seed that: So Brother Yan is so petty, I'll have to be more careful with my words from now on. Can't afford to make him mad. What if he doesn't want anymore?
Since he had called his parents in advance, informing them that two friends would be coming ho with him.
On this day, Yan Daguo and Li Man had returned ho early, Yan Daguo bustling about, cleaning up, while Li Man was cooking, preparing a sumptuous al.
The taxi stopped at the front entrance of FH Community.
After getting out of the taxi, Yan Junze greeted Grandpa Zheng who was guarding the gate, and Grandpa Zheng responded with joy.
Reaching the apartnt, the front door was open, which was very different from the usual practice of keeping doors shut at all tis before he left ho. This surprised Yan Junze.
He thought sothing might have happened and called out at the door, "Dad? Mom?"
Yan Daguo, with a broom in hand, and Li Man, clutching a bunch of green onions, ca out from the bedroom and kitchen, both beaming with smiles.
"My son, you're back!"
"These must be your classmates, co in, please, don't be shy."
While taking off their shoes upon entering the house, Yan Junze asked, "Dad, what's going on? Both of you were busy inside, yet the door was left open. Aren't you afraid that a strangeness might slip in?"
"Afraid of what?" Yan Daguo said cheerfully, "Our FH Community is very safe now. In the several months since you left, there hasn't been a single disturbance by strangenesses."
"I heard that the communities nearby sotis get troubled by strangenesses every now and then, did you, perhaps, say sothing to the exorcists to ask them to take special care of our place?" Li Man also said, "Now I feel like life is back to the way it was before, except that we need to be more careful once we leave our community."
The couple took turns speaking, almost like giving a report to their son.
But in Yan Junze's mind, an image of an old lady with long limbs and a swollen body, who always wore a smile on her face, surfaced.
All of this must be because of Aunt i.
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