Chapter 42

"Different?"

After hearing this, Xia Tianqi subconsciously looked at the watch face and noticed that there was an additional function bar on it. ※％

"Did you give me a broken watch?"

Xia Tianqi suddenly raised his head and said something that almost made the middle-aged man spit blood.

"It's not controlled by touch, but by your consciousness. If you want to view the function bar, you just need to have the intention, and you can directly control the watch to view its function bar."

"I'll try."

Xia Tianqi followed the middle-aged man's instructions and tried to control the watch with his mind. Indeed, as the middle-aged man said, the originally motionless function bar opened, revealing several sub-function bars.

They were:

【Event Reminder】【Honor Points/Rating】【Communicator】【Important Information】【Physical Test】【Staff Support】

He tried to open 【Event Reminder】, but it showed "None."

Next, he opened 【Honor Points/Rating】, and two sub-bars appeared: 【Honor Points】 and 【Rating】. He first opened the 【Honor Points】 bar and was pleasantly surprised to find that there were actually 3 honor points.

After seeing this, he quickly opened the 【Rating】 bar and found that there were two ratings, one being ordinary and the other being excellent.

This instantly made Xia Tianqi ecstatic, thinking that the ordinary rating was from the Xinhua Grand Bookstore, and the excellent rating must have been from Qihé Women's College.

But upon closer reflection, he realized he had no experience of killing a ghost, so how could he have received an excellent rating?

"Is this thing malfunctioning?"

"Of course not."

"But..." Xia Tianqi wanted to mention that he hadn't killed a ghost but still received an excellent rating, but seeing the middle-aged man's impatient tone, he pursed his lips and didn't ask, instead continuing to check the function bar.

He opened the 【Communicator】 and saw a dialing interface on the watch face, clearly indicating that the watch had communication capabilities. After exiting the 【Communicator】 function, he opened the 【Important Information】, but it also showed "None."

"What does this important information mean?"

"Company information."

"Oh." Xia Tianqi nodded in understanding and then said:

"I still don't understand."

After saying this, he ignored the middle-aged man and continued to study the watch, opening the 【Physical Test】.

After opening it, a message appeared:

Do you want to immediately perform a physical test?

Xia Tianqi almost didn't think before clicking "Yes." The next moment, he felt countless electric currents passing through his body. He screamed in pain and then fainted.

In his unconscious state, he had a very strange dream.

In the dream, he saw a pregnant woman in labor, her painful expression clearly visible. It was none other than his mother. The surroundings were blurry, making it impossible to determine the location. It could be in a hospital or in a car on the way to the hospital.

During this process, a half-bodied infant suddenly appeared next to his mother. The infant kept crying in pain, but its face was contorted in a terrifying grin.

Then, dragging its half-bodied form, it slowly... slowly... crawled into his mother's body.

The scene then changed again.

He saw an inverted infant and the umbilical cord connecting it to the mother. Soon, the half-bodied infant appeared again, and its grinning face suddenly revealed sharp teeth, which it used to bite the infant's neck...

Next, it devoured the infant, and during this process, its originally missing body grew back in a bizarre way. It then pressed the umbilical cord to its navel and slowly closed its eyes.

The scene changed again, and a doctor with an unclear face handed the child to his mother, saying with a trembling voice:

"This child... was born smiling!"

The dream began to shake, and Xia Tianqi slowly opened his eyes, finding himself still in the same position. Only a few seconds had passed since he fainted.

Looking at the middle-aged man who was staring at him without blinking, he couldn't help but look at the watch face again. He saw that the watch face was flashing four red words that almost filled the entire screen—Evil Spirit Constitution!

"Evil Spirit Constitution?"

Xia Tianqi's mind was a bit dazed, and he inexplicably recalled the scene of the half-bodied ghost infant devouring the infant.

"You have an Evil Spirit Constitution," the middle-aged man said with a serious expression.

"What does that mean? Can you explain it more clearly? Don't make me fill in the blanks every time!"

Xia Tianqi was a bit anxious, or perhaps he was afraid of something.

"The meaning of Evil Spirit Constitution is—your soul is a ghost!"

"My soul is a ghost? This... This is impossible!" Xia Tianqi immediately countered.

"There's nothing impossible. In fact, every person with a special constitution is more or less influenced by ghosts. It's just that those with an Evil Spirit Constitution are more affected.

I think it's because, during your fetal stage, you were influenced by a ghost infant..."

"Enough!" Xia Tianqi interrupted the middle-aged man, unwilling to hear more. He was very averse to this truth.

Because this undoubtedly meant that the scene he had just seen was a true reflection of his origin. He had devoured the original infant to become who he is now.

"There's nothing you can't accept."

The middle-aged man, perhaps guessing why Xia Tianqi found it hard to accept, said:

"You and the ghost infant are just combined. You are now a single entity. It doesn't mean you are the ghost infant, or that the infant is you. You can no longer be separated."

Hearing this, Xia Tianqi felt a bit more at ease. He thought for a moment and asked:

"Is there anything wrong with this constitution?"

"People with an Evil Spirit Constitution can't learn ghost-exorcising techniques. The only way to improve survival skills is to strengthen yourself. To be precise, you can directly confront ghosts without a medium."

"Is this a good thing or a bad thing?" Xia Tianqi asked, somewhat apprehensively.

"Of course it's a good thing. Not only can you directly confront ghosts, but you also can't be possessed by spirits. Spirits are ghosts that can create small-scale illusions and possess people."

Hearing this, Xia Tianqi suddenly understood why he had received an excellent rating. Because he had an Evil Spirit Constitution, the possessing ghost was eliminated.

"But, it can't all be good, right? I don't believe this constitution has no drawbacks at all!" Xia Tianqi looked at the middle-aged man with suspicion.

In fact, the middle-aged man nodded in agreement and said:

"This constitution does indeed have its drawbacks."