An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 162 : Idealism

Volume 4: High School Arc - “I” Come to Find You~
However, of course, there's a bit of a complication—if I really asked Second Uncle for help, then the matter I’m investigating might get exposed to Liu Wanqian and Gong Lianyu, so unless absolutely necessary, I wouldn't call Second Uncle.
After all, he's the provincial police chief, and that would attract attention from those with ulterior motives.
It was already quite late today, so I didn’t call Liu Wanqian either.
In fact, just a student applying for leave wouldn’t be approved by the school, since those studying there are either children of high-ranking officials or heirs of wealthy businessmen—any issue with even one of them isn’t something the school could bear responsibility for.
Therefore, for a student to take leave, it must go through the parents.
Thinking of this, I grabbed my phone and sent a message to Liu Wanqian.
I told him I wasn’t feeling well and would take a day off tomorrow.
Liu Wanqian usually wouldn’t argue with me over things like this.
After all, over the past six months, he and I had developed a certain tacit understanding, and his impression of the original “Liu Yunyan is a brat” had also improved significantly.
That gave me a lot more freedom.
“Mm... my period just ended. Come to think of it, I don’t have a good excuse these days. I’ll use a headache—at least that one’s real.”
That was true—this migraine issue, maybe it was caused by the car accident?
Or perhaps due to my soul?
I wasn’t entirely sure what the real reason was.
But the original Liu Yunyan didn’t have migraines.
Only after the bus crash did this body start experiencing them.
Actually, I found it strange too.
What exactly kind of ailment was this?
Was it due to the incompatibility between soul and body?
Or was it the result of head trauma from the car accident?
But pathological examinations showed absolutely no problems.
The body was one hundred percent healthy, so I could only attribute the cause to the soul.
Honestly, realizing that my soul wasn’t human was a huge shock to me.
Even now, mentally, I was far from the calm I wished for.
A lot of people aren’t honest with themselves.
Even if their brain understands, their subconscious still doesn’t.
I looked down at my hand.
Under the moonlight, my already pale hand appeared even whiter, almost ghostly.
My body was healthy, sure, but my skin was growing paler and paler.
I didn’t know the exact reason either, so I could only blame it vaguely on the Evil Spirit Form.
During these days of interacting with Lu Haochen, I learned about some supernatural events in the real world.
Yes, the real world also had supernatural events, but ninety-nine percent of them posed no direct danger to people.
The kinds of things described in paranormal novels or legends basically wouldn’t happen.
Still, no matter how harmless, spirit bodies were still a type of electromagnetic entity.
Short-term contact might be fine, but long-term exposure would cause various effects on a person.
Such as hallucinations and physical decline.
These effects were essentially a kind of invisible radiation.
Lu Haochen had been able to see them since he was a child.
Actually, humans could also sense magnetic field changes, but such information would be filtered out by the subconscious, so the conscious mind wouldn’t notice it.
As for Lu Haochen… maybe his filtering system had a flaw, allowing this information to leak through, and his vision far exceeded that of ordinary people, which could explain it.
“Mm... maybe next time I should go with Lu Haochen and see how he exorcises those spirits.”
Although 99% of spirits weren’t harmful, there was always that one percent.
According to Lu Haochen, in such cases, most people involved in the supernatural would gather a group to perform an exorcism.
But due to the highly developed use of electricity in modern society, it had become very difficult for spirits to affect things.
“Spirit bodies are just electromagnetism…”
If my condition really was caused by electromagnetic influence on the body, then I honestly didn’t know whether this transformation was good or bad.
My pale skin wasn’t something that appeared recently.
In fact, I didn’t notice it at first either.
Only before starting high school, when I found some old photos, did I make the comparison and realize it.
Although the original Liu Yunyan also had fair skin, it was within the normal range.
Just a little fairer than usual.
But now, my complexion had grown so pale it was unsettling.
It wasn’t so bad during the day.
But at night, if I went outside with this pale skin, I could easily scare someone.
Fortunately, it wasn’t a dry chalky white.
There was still some blood color to it.
Leaning against the bed, I reached out to open the bedside drawer and took out a small diode.
Then, I released the Evil Spirit Form and pinched the two terminals of the diode.
What happened next would definitely astonish anyone.
Because that light-emitting diode lit up just like that in my hand.
“Spirit-type monsters are composed of electromagnetic energy, just slightly stronger than usual, so they can light up a diode.”
So what about non-spirit types?
At the very least, Xu Han's parasite definitely wasn’t a pure spirit type.
My Evil Spirit Form belonged to the relatively typical spirit-type category.
“Looks like I need to start organizing this going forward. Even though there's no clear pattern, categorizing them separately might help in some way.”
I picked up the Spen and casually noted this information on the ☆☆☆ sticky notes.
As for whether this time’s monster was a spirit type or not—it was still hard to say.
At least from my point of view, pure spirit types found it difficult to harm people in the Surface World.
Especially in cases like this one, where the flesh and blood of the victim had been torn apart.
I didn’t know what level of spirit-type monster could affect reality, but my Evil Spirit Form could.
And when fully unleashed, my Evil Spirit Form could easily devour the Goat-headed Monster.
“If I assume my Evil Spirit Form is Grade A, then if this monster is spirit-type, it would have to be at least Grade A or above to affect reality.”
I couldn’t share this kind of thing with Lu Haochen—could only speculate by myself.
From what I could see, at this stage, the divisions could only be roughly sorted into a few types.
Spirit-type monsters, Phenomenon-type monsters, Mirror World monsters, and Sourceless monsters.
My Evil Spirit Form, Jiang Yulong’s pouch, and the Goat-headed Monster should all be considered spirit-type.
As for phenomenon-type, so far I had only encountered that old lady in the tunnel.
It was a monster born from a real-world phenomenon.
Mirror World monsters—I had encountered quite a few of those so far, but within the Mirror World, there wasn’t much to say.
In the real world, the only one present was Lu Haochen’s parasite.
Sourceless monsters—take Xu Han’s parasite for example.
Although she had only used it once, I could feel that it was definitely not something this world should have.
There were also the school monsters—those were hard to classify.
I still didn’t know how to categorize them.
“Maybe... they’re something like a manifestation-type monster?”