An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 155 : Could It Be That?

Volume 4: High School Arc - “I” Come to Find You~
What exactly was the commonality between these two people?
Aside from the time and manner of death, there didn’t seem to be anything else, right?
Time of death could basically be confirmed as between 11:30 and 12:00.
As for the manner of death… although I hadn’t seen Zhang Yang’s corpse, I believed it should be more or less the same as Bai Yao’s.
Right, Zhang Yang’s corpse still hadn’t turned up.
Zhang Yang wasn’t an important employee, and since the company followed a rotation system, even though today was Sunday, he was still supposed to be working.
But Zhang Yang should already be dead by now, so it was impossible for him to show up at work.
His supervisor would definitely try to contact him.
If Zhang Yang was unreachable, would that supervisor it to the police?
At this thought, I couldn’t help but frown.
Although I wanted to go check out Zhang Yang’s place, given how blatant my investigation had been the other day, going there now would definitely attract official attention.
That would be real trouble.
However… even though I couldn’t go, I could still ask someone else to.
After all, I was part of an organization now.
I picked up my phone.
I didn’t call Jiang Yulong or Xu Han.
Instead, I called Uncle Shan Xuelin directly.
Uncle Shan didn’t know too much about my situation, but he still agreed without much hesitation and said he’d send someone to take a look.
Lu Haochen didn’t say anything, just quietly watched me finish the call.
He must have figured out what I was doing.
After that, there wasn’t much left to say.
We finished the morning breakfast in silence.
This guy really had thick skin, not even caring that I was footing the bill.
Emmm… should I say this guy had no concept of money?
Or was he just trying to take advantage of a free meal?
That whole morning, we didn’t figure out much.
The information we had was just too little.
If it took six people’s information to form a complete clue, then what we had now was barely one and a half sixths.
Zhang Yang’s info wasn’t even complete.
After that experience, only seven short phrases had been recorded.
They couldn’t form any major clues at all.
Which meant we’d need to go through at least one or two more experiences to extract a real lead.
But if we didn’t get anything tonight, the situation would get even worse.
God knows what’s coming next.
This game was just too bizarre.
We couldn’t even use any props.
Lu Haochen agreed with my theory that “the monster only becomes powerful between 11:30 and 12:00.”
And right now, what Lu Haochen and I were focusing on was…
The five words: “I’m behind you.”
Looking at the monster’s pattern, whether it was “I’ll come find you someday,” “I found you,” or “I’m behind you,” these three lines seemed to be something the monster had to say.
So, did these three phrases have some special meaning?
“I’ll come find you someday” could be interpreted like this—
A “death notice.”
Then “I found you” might indicate the time of death.
But the final phrase “I’m behind you” was really worth studying.
Why behind?
Whether it was the sticky note that said “It’s behind” or the DV camera that recorded the word “I,” both indicated that the monster was behind.
But while “behind” was possible, why did it have to be behind?
Why not in front?
Why not on the left?
Why not on the right?
Why must it be behind?
Was there a special significance to this phrase?
Or… did this monster have to be behind?
Why behind?
Was the monster following people?
Could it be… a shadow?
But a shadow wasn’t always behind.
With the light source changing, a shadow could shift direction at any time.
So a shadow… probably wasn’t the monster.
Then what else was always fixed behind a person?
Clothes?
Clothes had a front and back; they weren’t exactly fixed in place.
If we were to say what was the only thing fixed on the body and not directly visible to the naked eye…
Hair?
Heh, is that even possible?
Leaving others aside, at least in my case, there’s no way the monster is my hair.
Because I myself am…
Wait, that doesn’t sound right either.
My soul is the monster, but my body is an ordinary person.
But if it really were the hair…
Thinking that, I couldn’t help but lower my head to glance at my long hair.
I casually grabbed a strand and held it before my eyes, scrutinizing it up and down.
It didn’t… seem to have anything unusual.
This monster… what exactly is it?
It eats people—at the very least, it can interfere with the real world.
That much was clear from the condition of Lili and Bai Yao’s corpses.
Parts of their bodies had disappeared, and it was true, physical disappearance.
The total mass of the body had been reduced.
Then where had that missing part… gone?
Wait… I think I’ve… experienced something like this before?
Right!!
The Mirror World!!
That butcher!
That’s right!
I remember, in the Mirror World, that butcher… that three-meter-tall giant—it ate human flesh!
Could it… be that thing!?
But it was in the Mirror World.
How could it have escaped from the Mirror World?
Through me?
No… I remember I’d completely shaken it off back then.
Besides, there was also that invisible thing and that spider-like monster.
That butcher shouldn’t have been able to find me.
“Monster… monster… Lu Haochen, I just remembered something.”
Lu Haochen paused slightly, then frowned.
“What is it?”
“Do you remember… what I went through in the Mirror World?”
Back then, when I was inside the Mirror World, Lu Haochen had used the mirror shard I’d entered through to keep tracking my position.
So he should have some memory of it.
“Sorry… I could only see where you were. I couldn’t see what actually happened.”
Lu Haochen shook his head without even thinking, which showed… this guy must have a really good memory.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have answered so quickly and decisively.
“I see… well, then, just listen.”
I nodded.
Since Lu Haochen didn’t remember, I’d explain it slowly.
But sitting here and talking didn’t feel quite right.
After all, this was a restaurant and they still needed to make money.
Even if I could pay, it was still boring to just sit here.
When I didn’t have money, I was always thinking about how to make it.
Now… I could just sit at home doing nothing and get what most people would consider an astronomical allowance from my parents.
I hardly even had to worry about the future.
Whether it was Liu Wanqian’s real estate company or Gong Lianyu’s multinational corporation, they both represented massive wealth.
Even if it were mountain beasts and cloud swallows every day, cattle and sheep from the land, seafood from the sea, monkey heads, bird’s nest, shark fin, bear paws, dried scallops, and deer tails—I still wouldn’t be able to eat it all in several lifetimes.
But with that came the boredom.
If I weren’t Liu Yunyan right now, but Zhang Yiwei instead, if I suddenly got this kind of money, I swear I’d be out hooking up with girls every day.
Countless girls.
Let that freeloading darling who never worked a day in his life finally experience what it meant to be busy.
But I was Liu Yunyan.
The moral compass in my heart would absolutely never allow me to do something trashy like that.
I shook my head helplessly and let out a sigh.
Under Lu Haochen’s puzzled gaze, I stood up and paid the bill.
Then I turned around and looked at Lu Haochen, smiling slightly.
“Let’s go. We’re bored anyway, come shopping with me.”