An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 147 : Tonight It Is

Volume 4: High School Arc - “I” Come to Find You~
All the speculation was already perfect.
In summary, it boiled down to a very simple question.
Last night, during the two hours from 10:00 to 11:59, I had experienced or perhaps witnessed or relived Zhang Yang’s movements on Friday afternoon.
If it was an experience, then it was equivalent to a playback.
That would mean some unknown power replayed Zhang Yang’s Friday afternoon from 4:00 p.m. to midnight, a total of six hours, in my memory and then immediately deleted it.
If it was an actual event, then some mysterious force had distorted time, extracted my consciousness while I was asleep between 10:00 and 11:59 p.m. on Friday night, and projected it eight hours into the past into Zhang Yang’s body at 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon.
Both events occurred on the same day.
However, when I went to sleep, it was already 10:00 p.m.
And based on what happened in the elevator, the time should have been around 4:00 p.m.
Also, from the note I recorded, the time clearly started from 4:00 p.m.
Whether I saw it or experienced it, in any case...
Under the manipulation of some unnameable power, Zhang Yang’s movements on Friday afternoon were recorded by me.
I didn’t know whether it was after I had finished recording or during the process of recording that the memories were deleted, causing my brain to fall into a state of logical confusion.
This indirectly affected my judgment.
I didn’t know how that unknown power did it, but there was no doubt that what I recorded was Zhang Yang’s situation.
As the saying goes, “The onlooker sees clearly, the participant is muddled.”
After my memory was deleted, and I fell into logical chaos, I didn’t rush to make conclusions.
In that state, no one’s brain could judge things clearly.
If I had tried to analyze it myself, the speculation would likely have gone off track.
That was why I had to trouble Lu Haochen with the reasoning.
When my deduction and Lu Haochen’s deduction almost aligned, a small difference emerged between our conclusions.
I believed that I had watched Zhang Yang’s memories, something like a memory playback.
During those two hours of sleep, I watched Zhang Yang’s entire eight-hour afternoon, right up to his death.
Lu Haochen, however, leaned more toward me having experienced or replaced Zhang Yang’s Friday afternoon life.
On this point, we disagreed significantly.
The main reason was because I possessed an Evil Spirit Form.
I believed that no matter how bizarre the game was, it couldn't possibly extract my consciousness.
Lu Haochen wasn’t aware of the Evil Spirit Form, so he didn’t consider that.
He believed I had completely replaced Zhang Yang and lived through his Friday afternoon for eight hours.
The specific reason for this was that he thought if I had only watched, I wouldn’t have remembered such trivial things as the conversation between two people in the elevator discussing Liu Yunyan.
He also felt that if I had merely watched, I wouldn’t have recorded the name Liu Yunyan.
Of course, all of this was speculation and conjecture.
The actual situation would depend on tonight.
Smart people truly were different, using just seven words and a few phone calls.
Whether I was right or he was, in the end, we pieced together what had happened to me last night.
Because of the memory deletion, parts of last night’s time became blank, and many segments turned into fragmented pieces.
At 11:59:50, I was awakened by some eerie presence.
At that moment, this eerie existence placed the phone, originally shut off in the drawer, on the bedside table.
Using a limited form of time reversal, it forced me to answer the call.
Resistance was futile.
In the face of time’s power, everything was powerless.
Even though I thought I had made perfect preparations, I still couldn’t respond to this bizarre event.
I answered the phone and immediately recorded Zhang Yang’s Friday afternoon activity timeline.
What was on the note was a reminder to myself.
The importance of recording was self-evident.
“It looks like these puzzles need to be solved tonight.”
Sitting on the sofa, I casually picked up a bright red strawberry and tossed it into my mouth.
While chewing, I sorted through this afternoon’s gains in my mind.
“Mm, Yunyan, I suggest you get a DV recorder ready for tonight.”
“You mean to quickly record the situation right after I wake up and then judge things based on that?”
“Mm.”
Lu Haochen nodded and also reached out to take a strawberry from the fruit plate and popped it into his mouth.
“Alright! Let’s go!”
I nodded, slapped the armrest, stood up, and walked straight out.
Lu Haochen glanced at me, casually grabbed two apples from the fruit plate, and quickly caught up.
“Catch!”
Catching up to me, Lu Haochen directly tossed one apple over.
Hearing a soft whooshing sound from behind, I lifted my left hand and caught the apple just above my left shoulder.
I rubbed it in my hand.
I had always been a casual person.
Even though I was using Liu Yunyan’s body now, some old habits were still hard to change.
Taking a crisp, juicy bite of the apple, I pushed the door open.
A woman happened to walk past.
At a glance, I recognized who it was.
“Sister Feifei.”
“Yunyan, how do you have time to come today? Are you… leaving already?”
Liu Feifei looked like she had just come from the elevator.
She had just arrived at the door and happened to run into me and Lu Haochen.
Seeing that we were about to leave, Liu Feifei was clearly surprised.
“It’s nothing, Sister Feifei, I just came to check on something. I won’t delay your work.”
“Oh… alright then.”
Liu Feifei nodded.
“Um, Sister Feifei, about what I came to investigate today, I hope you won’t get too involved… and don’t tell my mom...”
Hearing my words, Liu Feifei’s face showed clear confusion.
“Sister Feifei, you’ll understand later. Let’s not worry my mom with this just yet. I might trouble you with a few more things later on.”
Seeing the doubt in her eyes, I knew I couldn’t explain it clearly right now.
Only after the next day or two, when Zhang Yang should be back at work, might she guess what I was looking into.
As far as I knew, Liu Feifei held great respect for Gong Lianyu.
She was very young, only twenty-six, and already the general manager of the provincial capital branch, all thanks to Gong Lianyu’s personal promotion.
So I felt quite reassured that she wouldn’t use this matter to affect Gong Lianyu.
“You… don’t act recklessly.”
“Mm.”
Seeing the concern in her eyes, I knew that what she truly worried about wasn’t me, but Gong Lianyu.
After all, Liu Yunyan used to be a textbook troublemaker, and everyone close to Gong Lianyu knew it.
And no one could predict what such a troublemaker might do.
Especially one who was extremely important to the CEO of a multinational corporation.
Within the company, I was practically a walking disaster.
Many of the higher-ups knew who I was, but in the provincial capital, aside from Liu Feifei, only a few senior executives recognized me.
To the rest, I was a stranger.
Still, seeing how familiar I was with Liu Feifei, people nearby looked our way with surprised expressions.
After all, in this fifty-story building, Liu Feifei practically held real power.
“Alright, Sister Feifei, you get back to work. I’ll head out with my friend.”
I didn’t want her to say too much, so I left quickly after a brief farewell.
Shao He walked behind me, while Lu Haochen directly stepped up to my side.
That detail alone clearly showed the difference in our statuses.
Shao He was always like this with me, which made things a bit awkward, but I couldn’t say much.
After all, it was her job.
Lu Haochen, on the other hand, didn’t bother with such formalities.
He simply walked right next to me.
“So where are we headed next?”
Lu Haochen showed absolutely no shame about freeloading meals and rides, which made me reevaluate the thickness of his skin.
Well, let him freeload, then.
At least, compared to Zhang Yan, Lu Haochen freeloaded with ease.
Zhang Yan freeloaded like a vampire. He’d scrape you down to the bone.
A true master of leeching.
Lu Haochen, though, was natural about it.
At the very least, for this level of shamelessness, I figured he deserved a little freeloading.
“Let’s hit the mall first, buy a few things.”
I remembered smashing my phone last night.
Honestly, money has corrupted me.
The old me would never have been so wasteful, just throwing away a phone worth seven or eight thousand yuan like that.
Back then, I’d be heartbroken.
Now, I didn’t care all that much.
After all, my life was more important.
Still, I had to admit I really liked phones from that brand starting with S.
Even though their software optimization was lacking, their hardware was top-tier.
Only their N-series phones could handle full waterproofing and underwater operation.
Though I was patriotic too, in this globalized age, that brand’s phones used quite a few domestically sourced materials.
I once saw a video of a Japanese person who tried to boycott everything made in China.
The final result?
He had to empty out his entire house and couldn’t even keep his underwear.
So public boycotts didn’t really do much.
In fact, many raw materials in Japanese-imported cars were from China.
Psychological comfort was a whole different story.
After leaving the building, we headed straight for the electronics mall.
As a modern person, nothing thrilled me more than electronics.
All kinds of dazzling gadgets filled my vision.
Still, I went straight for the store I had in mind.
This was the difference between male and female shoppers.
Men preferred decisiveness, women leaned toward comparison.
I walked right into the store for that brand and, without a word, picked up two N10+ models.
One for use, one as backup, just in case I broke another one and ended up phoneless like last night.
Then I went straight to the store for that brand starting with S and bought a high-end DV recorder.
Shao He didn’t understand why I wanted a DV recorder, but she didn’t ask.
She simply followed quietly behind us.
After buying everything I needed, we headed straight to the BBQ restaurant.
Dinner that night was naturally a five-person meal.
As for the conclusions I reached with Lu Haochen, we shared them with the other three.
After that, we returned home.
I set the DV recorder in place, pressed the record button, and let it run on its own.
Looking at the bed and the nightstand next to it, my mood grew heavy.
“Let’s see what happens tonight.”