Chapter 78 - Ghost Stories

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By the time he went out of class, he could no longer see Wu Jia’s figure.

Buzzcut Boy said smilingly: “What’s wrong with you today, why are you being so strange?” 8wfkno

Shen Dongqing replied: “I feel rather strange as well.”

Scratching his head, Buzzcut Boy asked: “Strange in what sense?”

Shen Dongqing could not describe it, but he did feel very strange.

When Buzzcut Boy saw Shen Dongqing being preoccupied, he decided to drag him to the cafeteria. Gi4bSe

It was currently their afternoon break and the cafeteria was packed to the brim with people.

Due to the short delay that Buzzcut Boy and Shen Dongqing had, they reached the cafeteria later than most and they had to queue for a long time before they reached the lunch counter but they were only greeted with the leftovers.

The elderly woman who was dishing out the food was particularly ruthless, since each ladle had to be shaken three times, which meant that there was even less food on the scoop by the time it reached their plates.

Shen Dongqing clipped up something that was trying to pass off a vegetable and took a cautious bite. His face became colourful in an instant: “I finally know what’s wrong…” B2ue43

Buzzcut Boy stopped eating mid-motion. “What is it?”

Shen Dongqing: “It must be this world that’s wrong, the food here tastes absolutely terrible!”

Buzzcut Boy almost spat his food out. “That’s enough from you, the cafeteria food being terrible isn’t something that has been happening for a day or two. If you really can’t choke down, you can make instant cup noodles when we go back later.”

Shen Dongqing had never been picky with food, but the tray of food in front of him was truly intolerable, so he placed his chopsticks done and waited for Buzzcut Boy to finish eating. b2OC7e

Buzzcut Boy was even eating with relish.

Lowering his head, Shen Dongqing felt around his pockets and managed to fish out two cards. One of them had a sketched ice cream in the middle, while the other had a drawing of a large kitchen door.

He stared at the two cards for a long time but he could not remember what it was used for. However, the fact that he carried it on his person meant that It should be important so he kept it again.

Once Buzzcut Bot was done eating, he rubbed his mouth, saying: “Let’s go. We don’t have classes in the afternoon, so we can go back to our dorm and play games.” 9Z5JCD

Everything was normal apart from that particularly disgusting lunch.

Despite the pocket fabric being in the way, Shen Dongqing pinched the two cards and felt like everything in his surroundings had a sense of wrongness.

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It was like… The world was not supposed to be like this.

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His three roommates were sitting in front of the computer fighting bravely as Shen Dongqing huddled in his bed and ate his cup noodles. He retrieved his phone, wanting to search for some useful information from it.

But when he flipped through his communication tools and his social media applications, everything displayed about “Shen Dongqing” showed that he was a student in university and there were no oddities.

Studded Earring Boy found it strange, “Dongqing, you’re not going to game? We’re missing one person from our five-man team, are you coming?”

Without turning his head back, Buzzcut replied: “He’s been incredibly strange today, I don’t know what kind of illness he came down with.” tvlVba

Shen Dongqing lowered his head. He could see the three boys staring at their screens, playing with such frenzy that sweat was emerging on their faces.

Was he the one being overly strange?

Shen Dongqing jumped off his bed bunk and sat in his seat before he opened his computer and asked: “What are you guys playing?”

He should integrate with them and become more normal. xn2R1F

More importantly…. This game looked very fun.

Thus, the people inside the dorm were engrossed in the gaming world and it was the middle of the night before they were even conscious of it. Even their dinners were arbitrarily taken care of by calling for takeout.

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Studded Earring Boy moved his mouse and clicked open a web page to skim through it. All of a sudden, he said: “Shall we play a game?”

“What?” Buzzcut Boy leaned over.

There was a dark-coloured picture on the computer screen, featuring a person with their head lowers as their entire face was obscured by their black hair, which made it difficult to perceive their facial features. In the centre was an upright candle irradiating a ghastly white light, while two blood-soaked words were printed at the bottom— Ghost Stories.

Studded Earring Boy said: “I’m talking about playing this ‘Ghost Stories’. Each of us will tell a ghost story and blow out the white candle in front of us once we’re done. Allegedly, this will invite the ghost over.” Hu67Pr

The other boys were rather audacious, since they immediately agreed to the suggestion as soon as they heard it.

Buzzcut Boy even found a bundle of white candles under the bed and placed it on the table. “Coincidentally, there are still some of the candles we bought during the previous dormitory power outage.”

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Jersey Boy used his elbow to jab Shen Dongqing since he had been silent the entire time. In a small voice, he asked: “Are you afraid or something?”

Shen Dongqing blinked his eyes. “No ah

Shen Dongqing restrained the human figure that was attempting to flee as he landed another punch.

— Although he could not remember anything, he could not be wrong by doing this!

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