An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 108 : Mission Begins!

Volume 3: High School Arc - Mirror Game
"Who!!"
I stood at the entrance of Factory Building No. 7, one foot inside the factory door, the other still behind, and this voice... came from two directions, with completely different tones.
The voice behind me was undoubtedly Jiang Yulong’s.
His voice had a distinctive quality—its unserious tone was hard to mimic.
But the voice coming from in front of me also unexpectedly... felt somewhat familiar.
‘Pa’
The sound of a flashlight switch came from inside the factory.
Immediately after, a beam of light shone on my face, making me instinctively raise my hand to shield my eyes and look through my fingers at the owner of that voice...
"Lu Haochen?"
"Liu Yunyan?"
The surprised voices echoed through the factory almost at the same time.
"You... what are you doing here?"
"Didn't I tell you not to come here recently?"
The overlapping voices again suddenly calmed my originally surprised mood.
Looking at Lu Haochen in front of me, the usual casual joking look in his eyes was gone.
His face was full of seriousness.
"You're a player too?"
Before I could say anything else, Jiang Yulong suddenly walked out from behind, glanced at Lu Haochen, and showed a trace of confusion in his eyes.
"What player? Liu Yunyan, who are these people? Why do they all have yin energy on them? Wait... Liu Yunyan, what are you doing bringing all these people here?"
What?
Yin energy?
Wait... not players?
I...
Wait... wait a second, let me sort this out.
Lu Haochen isn’t a player?
Then how did he see my strange shadow reflection?
Yin energy?
Wait wait wait...
I think I know someone who would say something like that... Could it be...
My left hand instinctively held my jaw, my high-IQ brain spinning wildly, and in the end... came to a conclusion.
"Lu Haochen, are you... a Taoist?"
At this moment, Lu Haochen also realized something was off.
He frowned and walked over, and he seemed to be holding some kind of powder in his hand.
"Didn't you already know that? When we were talking at the hotel that day, you should’ve already reali... wait... you're not a ghost keeper?"
Now Lu Haochen was also dumbfounded.
He looked at the others and eventually circled his gaze back to me.
"You guys... what exactly are you?"
"Alright, if you want to catch up, do it inside. If we wait any longer, it’ll be midnight!"
Before I could say anything, someone suddenly squeezed in from behind.
It was that blond youth named Yaocheng.
Then, the others also followed and walked in.
Lu Haochen frowned, hesitated for a moment, but still stepped aside, then walked up to me.
"Liu Yunyan, who exactly are you people?"
Damn... so that conversation in the hotel that day was actually cross-server chatting?
A Taoist, huh?
Honestly, I used to think that such a profession didn’t exist in the Surface World, or if it did, it was just scammers.
But now...
"Lu Haochen, come here..."
The others had already begun exploring Factory Building No. 7, while I... had even more questions now.
Waved at Jiang Yulong to signal that everything was fine on my end, then brought the thoroughly confused Lu Haochen to a corner of the factory.
Took a deep breath and turned my head back to look at this classmate in front of me.
I had always thought he was a player—who would’ve thought... such a huge misunderstanding?
"Lu Haochen..."
Honestly, with the misunderstanding having gotten to this point, I really didn’t know how to begin.
"Liu Yunyan, since you’re not someone who raises ghosts, then what I saw that day... and them, who are they? Why is the yin energy on them so strong?"
"Lu Haochen, I’m completely lost now. Let me calm down. Let me ask you—are you a Taoist?"
Lu Haochen looked at me, fell silent for a moment, then nodded.
"I'm not a formal Taoist. I just learned a bit when I was a kid..."
"You know Taoist arts? Like those in novels or movies where you wave your hand and summon lightning or something?"
If he really was a Taoist, he might actually be a powerful ally—provided he had that kind of ability!
Lu Haochen shook his head.
"Don't be fooled by that stuff. The so-called Taoist arts are actually just simple tools. Like this..."
As he spoke, Lu Haochen stretched out his hand, pinching a bit of powder.
"This silver powder, and some other tools."
"Wait... let me ask you—what are you doing here tonight?"
"I passed by here a while ago and noticed the yin energy around this factory was really heavy. I originally planned to suppress it tonight... Liu Yunyan, what are you guys doing here?"
Suppress it?
So Lu Haochen actually had the ability to suppress strange entities?
"I..."
"Hold on. You’ve asked enough questions—now it’s my turn."
Just as Lu Haochen was about to interrupt me, I raised my hand and cut him off.
"Lu Haochen, this is a life-or-death situation right now. Your questions can wait. Let me ask—can you suppress strange entities?"
"Strange entities?"
Lu Haochen froze for a moment, then frowned and asked,
"What are strange entities?"
"You don’t understand strange entities? Ghosts and similar things. Like this..."
I hesitated, then revealed my left hand and waved it in front of him.
"Can you see it? Can you exorcise this type of thing? Or at least fight it?"
However, right after I said this, I saw Lu Haochen's eyes filled with astonishment.
"What is this! This... you’re controlling it!? This... this is completely different from the ghosts I usually encounter..."
Completely different?
Wait... I remember that normal souls are just clumps of electromagnetic waves.
With the silver powder he has, maybe it could interfere with them—but this stuff is useless against Evil Spirit Forms.
Hmm... I think I understand a bit now.
"Lu Haochen, one last question... The ghosts you talk about—are they essentially just electromagnetic wave-like entities? And your so-called Taoist arts, they only work on those things?"
Lu Haochen frowned.
It looked like he couldn’t react to that right away.
After a brief silence, he nodded.
"Yes..."
"You’ve been able to see ghosts since you were a child?"
Looks like I was overthinking it.
The ghosts of the Surface World and the strange entities from the APP might be two completely different things.
"...Yes."
Lu Haochen nodded again.
Alright... looks like I went down the wrong path from the start.
Lu Haochen isn’t a player at all.
He’s just someone who has seen ghosts since he was a kid and learned some ways to deal with them—like the silver powder in his hand.
"Lu Haochen, I know you probably won’t believe what I’m about to say, but I still advise you to leave immediately."
I raised my hand and glanced at my watch.
Three minutes to midnight.
Since this guy isn’t a player, I need to get him out of here before he gets caught up in this.
Thinking that, I reached out and grabbed his wrist, turning to pull him outside.
"What are you doing?"