An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 172 : Wang Ding

Volume 4: High School Arc - “I” Come to Find You~
After all… no one knew what might happen tonight.
And precisely because I didn’t know, I couldn’t afford any negligence…
I slowly closed my eyes, thinking about how to approach Wang Ding tonight as I sank into deep darkness.
When I opened my eyes again, it was already 9:50 p.m.
My first reaction was to glance at my watch, and I couldn’t help but click my tongue.
“Tsk! Didn’t even need the alarm clock.”
Because I had an excellent sense of time, unless I didn’t want to get up, my body would naturally wake up exactly when I intended to.
Normally, I wouldn’t force myself, so I never had a set wake-up time.
But today, I had thought about it before sleeping, so my body automatically woke up before 10.
I raised my hand to grab my phone, canceled the alarm first, then quickly washed up and changed into a newly bought combat suit.
Hmm… the kind that doesn’t puff up.
Most cheap PU leather wasn’t breathable.
Genuine leather was similar to human skin—thin and breathable—so it definitely wouldn’t puff!
But thinking about it, it was actually kind of funny.
After tidying up cleanly and efficiently, it was still the same set of black leather clothes.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t ride a motorcycle right now, or I’d look super cool!
As always, I skillfully climbed over the wall and landed smoothly, pretending to walk away nonchalantly.
Perhaps Shao He might notice something, but I couldn’t worry about that now.
I had to get to the barbecue restaurant first.
I didn’t wait for any vehicle after leaving the house.
The barbecue place wasn’t far; I could get there in ten minutes.
Jiang Yulong would arrive at 10:30, so I still had time.
Nothing strange happened along the way, which was natural—nothing unexpected ever occurred during gameplay.
I didn’t know how the APP managed all this, but from the current situation, its powers weren’t far off from that of a god.
Could it really be something made by a god?
If not, where did it get the power to control those monsters?
And what was the purpose of a god creating this game?
Just to scare people for fun?
But what was the fun in that?
Could this be something like a certain diary, used to choose a god?
But was that even necessary?
If it’s a god, it must be omnipotent.
And if it’s omnipotent, it should already know everything.
There was no need to create something this complicated!
Having the immense power to control monsters meant the creator of this APP probably had the ability to foresee the future.
So if the purpose wasn’t to select a god, and it wasn’t merely to scare people, then what was it for?
Wait… was the APP itself a kind of seal?
Something a great deity used to seal the monsters?
Up until now, since there was no way to trace the origin of the monsters, I could only skip that and guess at the creator’s intentions.
To be able to create such an APP suggested they had immense wisdom—linking the Inner World and the Surface World through one app, and even creating an Interdimensional Space between them, already proved their tremendous power.
A being with such overwhelming intellect and strength—what purpose could they have in creating something purely to frighten and kill?
“Scaring people… I personally don’t see anything fun about it. Could it be… some great being found life boring, created the APP, and then injected their consciousness into someone’s body to play the game for a thrill?”
Hmm… I wouldn’t rule out that possibility.
Being omniscient and omnipotent might mean losing all emotion.
If one stayed emotionless for too long, wouldn’t they be no different from a machine?
As for selecting a god?
That was something I didn’t believe in.
God was omniscient and omnipotent.
If He understood every molecular and neural movement in the human body, He could completely predict a person's responses under all circumstances.
If it were really something like a certain diary used to select gods, there was basically no need to go to such trouble.
But if the purpose was to use the game to achieve a kind of immersive experience, then that seemed possible.
The premise being that the creator had achieved a state of true immortality, temporarily sealed their own memories, and entered the game for the experience.
“Hmm… so now there were only two possibilities that could be inferred.”
One, naturally, was a 'fully immersive holographic experience game'—created to maintain emotional sensitivity over a long period.
The second was to ‘seal the monsters to prevent them from interfering with the normal development of the world’.
The first possibility proved the creator of the APP was unimaginably powerful—worthy of being called a god.
The second implied that the creator was just a powerful life form or some kind of special being who used their abilities to seal the monsters, but couldn’t seal them completely and needed humans to assist?
And based on the second theory, another possibility could also be inferred.
The monsters had indeed been sealed—and it was a perfect seal.
And the APP wasn't created by a god or a great being at all, but by some super powerful entity whose purpose was to return the monsters to the Surface World!
There were many speculations, but I had no clues on hand right now.
Besides, even if I knew everything, I currently had no ability to resist.
In front of such a vast existence, I was nothing more than a tiny ant—easily died at will.
Thinking about all this, time passed bit by bit.
I arrived at the barbecue restaurant, greeted Shan Xuelin, and went straight to the private room on the second floor to wait for Jiang Yulong.
And Jiang Yulong, to his credit, kept his word.
Though a bit frivolous, at least he didn’t go back on the deal.
Otherwise, I would’ve had to face Wang Ding alone.
I got in Jiang Yulong’s car and shared all my thoughts on the way.
Jiang Yulong didn’t say a word the entire time.
He just listened quietly, until the car arrived at our destination and he finally stopped.
“So… what do you plan to do now?”
After hearing my speculations, Jiang Yulong parked the car by the roadside, staring seriously at the building where the monster might appear this time.
“At 11:30, I’ll lose control of my body. I need you to protect me during that time. Now…
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My name is Wang Ding. Hmm… a very ordinary name, and I was also a very ordinary person.
But lately, the things happening around me have become increasingly unusual.
It all… began on Thursday night, four days ago.
“Hehe… hehehe!”
Looking at the list in my hand, I no longer knew if I was still myself.
I raised my head and stared at the twisted, insane smile in the mirror…
Was that… really me?
Maybe it was?
Maybe… it was the explosion of madness that had been suppressed deep inside for years?
But how it all happened—I didn’t know either.
All I knew was that ever since that day, every night at 11:30, my heart would fill with murderous intent.