An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 148 : Continue

Volume 4: High School Arc - “I” Come to Find You~
During dinner in the afternoon, everything that needed to be said was already said.
Jiang Yulong and Xu Han didn’t have any objections.
Although Xu Han was very worried about me, I couldn’t let her come with me.
Actually, I really did want someone to accompany me—at least in a critical moment, they could lend me a hand.
But in the end, I still didn’t let anyone come along.
Time passed very quickly.
In the blink of an eye, it was already past ten at night.
At this hour, many of the villas in the distance had their lights on.
The streetlights on the roadside illuminated the pond in the yard, the shimmering reflections shining on the front of the villa.
I took a chair and sat on the balcony, looking at the lights in the distance, gazing at the brilliant starlight above, glancing at the shimmering water of the fishpond below.
My mood… was far from relaxed.
Just thinking about receiving another call tonight made me uneasy.
The anxiety left my heart unsettled.
I gently fiddled with the 3.0-sized amber beads in my hand, the soft tapping of each bead helping me stay just below the brink of a breakdown.
I lowered my head and glanced at my watch.
The second hand on the dial was inching closer and closer to midnight.
Tonight, I didn’t plan to sleep.
I wanted to wait directly until 12 o’clock to see if I would still witness other people’s life trajectories.
If I still could, then it meant this was all arranged by the APP, and we were supposed to look for clues.
If…
At that thought, I couldn’t help but shake my head.
Tonight, I had been distracted the entire time.
After all, my mind was filled with speculations about the scene of Zhang Yang’s death.
Without seeing it, I couldn’t come to any conclusions.
What kind of environment was it there now?
What state was the body in?
What was the cause of death?
These… were all unknowns.
In the moments before he died, what exactly did he see?
I didn’t know, because I couldn’t remember.
Nothing else had been left behind.
The only thing that still lingered in my memory was the terror I felt when answering the phone.
I didn’t know the circumstances under which Zhang Yang received that call, but I believed… that when he answered it, he must have been consumed by extreme fear.
Otherwise, the fear I now felt toward the phone made no sense.
After all, the first time I answered the call, although I was a little nervous, I wasn’t the least bit afraid.
But on the second day, when I wrote down the note, I could still feel that overwhelming sense of terror.
At the moment he answered the phone… something must have happened that even made me feel frightened.
As I thought about it, I had no idea how much time had passed.
I remained in a state of high alert, and to avoid getting drowsy, I had even asked Reina to prepare several cups of coffee.
One cup after another, I drank them, and still didn’t feel any sleepiness.
Needing less sleep than most people to begin with, combined with the fear in my heart and the caffeine, I wasn’t the least bit tired.
However, sitting in one place for too long would make even the most novel view seem dull and colorless.
I raised my hand to check the time.
It was almost eleven thirty.
Less than forty minutes remained until midnight.
Thinking it over, I figured sitting here any longer would just be boring.
I might as well grab the tablet and play for a while.
I stood up.
The chill of the night wind made my body feel a bit stiff.
Ever since leaving the Mirror World, my physical condition had gradually returned to that of an ordinary person.
Of course, compared to a sixteen-year-old girl, I was still far stronger.
But if compared to a grown man in his prime, my physical strength no longer seemed extraordinary.
At the very least, carrying two or three hundred pounds in one go wasn’t hard for me.
But tiring?
I still got tired.
My stamina was no longer as strong as it used to be.
I didn’t know what exactly had gone wrong with my body, but… it definitely had something to do with the Mirror World.
As I thought about all this, I stood up.
“Speaking of which… Lu Haochen really got a lot of benefits.”
This afternoon, when I was bored, I asked Lu Haochen about his shadow.
What surprised me was… his shadow not only had some very strange abilities, but more importantly, it also allowed him to conserve energy.
That’s right.
Unlike my physical enhancement, his shadow could move according to his will when he moved at high speed.
It could even assist him in running.
To give an analogy, if a person’s legs were engines, then his shadow would be the turbo.
Because of the shadow’s unique ability to control the body, when Lu Haochen used his body, the shadow would also move, and when the shadow moved, it would enhance Lu Haochen’s movements.
According to Lu Haochen, he didn’t feel any physical enhancement, but when practicing martial arts, he clearly felt that at the moment of exertion, the shadow swung its fist a step faster than his body, and at that moment, his body would suddenly apply greater force.
This was also why, when he saved me that day, he was able to run twenty kilometers in half an hour without stopping.
The shadow assisted his movements, like an invisible exoskeleton armor that added no weight, didn’t affect flexibility, and couldn’t be seen.
When he casually said this with that calm expression, do you know how much I wanted to punch him right in the face?
This guy’s luck was too unreal!
Come on!!
I was the main force that day!
Why did the shadow end up parasitizing him!!
But now there was no point in bringing that up again.
Besides, perhaps because it had controlled a body before, his shadow monster clearly had slightly higher intelligence.
Fine.
So what if he’s lucky?
“Damn you……”
I muttered under my breath as I walked back inside.
Sha Ha, who had been lying at my feet, and Jiaoza, who was standing on the back of the chair, both stood up as soon as they saw me get up.
Still thinking, I stepped into the house.
Only a floor-to-ceiling window separated the balcony from the bedroom, and today I had left that window open.
Inside the room, mugwort incense was burning, so no mosquitoes or bugs would fly in.
Besides, because of my constitution, those bugs didn’t dare come near anyway.
Since it wasn’t yet midnight, I wasn’t feeling the peak of anxiety yet.
Still thinking, I had already stepped one foot into the bedroom.
But at that very moment, my vision suddenly flickered, like being momentarily blinded by a sudden light.
It made me instinctively close my eyes.
When I opened them again…
In front of me was a frame-by-frame scene lit by dazzling neon and flashing lights.
In my ears came the sound of DJ music going "ding dong ding dong," and in front of me, more than a dozen people were moving their bodies to the rhythm— including… me?
Wait… why am I here?
I…
“Yaoyao!”
I’m thinking!
Don’t interrupt me!
Yaoyao?
Who?
“Yaoyao!! What’s wrong with you?”
Yaoyao… right, I’m called… Bai Yao?
“Yaoyao??”
Hearing the voice beside my ear, an image of someone suddenly flashed through my mind.
I instinctively turned my head to look.
“What’s wrong, Lili?”
“Are you okay? You don’t look right. Is it because of that phone call the past couple of days?”
In my sight was a cute-looking girl.