Aoba Office

The strange cartoon song continues, the sound echoing through the halls.

The footsteps of those children moved from the second floor to the third floor, making the floor of the third floor and the ceiling above the hall rattle. The sound was like a dense drum beat, and from time to time, children's laughter would come down from upstairs.

The sound slowly faded away. They may have gone to a higher floor.

The animation played on the screen in the lobby also stopped instantly and turned into a black screen again.

Cheng Lin glanced at me. Judging from that look, he probably suspected that it was me who caused the ghosts here to have trouble.

Cheng Lin didn't say anything, he raised his feet and continued walking.

I took one last look at the ceiling and followed Cheng Lin out.

When I walked to the door of the hospital, I felt the yin energy again.

This time the Yin energy was far away, but very active.

I turned my head and didn't see anything. I looked up following the Yin Qi and saw a circle of shadows on the top of the ten-story hospital building. Judging by the size of the shadows, they were a group of children. I'm afraid it's the kid who appeared in the building just now.

They stood on the edge of the roof, watching me as if their gaze had substance.

Cheng Lin asked: "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything." I felt innocent.

My physique is not as special as that of a fat man. Although because I am an esper, I will inevitably encounter many supernatural events, and with the involvement of people from Qingye, the number and frequency of supernatural events I encounter may be higher than those of my "same kind", but this does not mean Meaning I attract ghosts.

Those ghosts were targeting me, but I couldn't figure out why.

I've never seen so many imps. Among the few times I saw a kid, there was nothing special about it.

I looked up at the little ghosts and saw them shrinking their heads one by one and disappearing on the roof of the building.

Cheng Lin pointed the way to me, "The University of Finance and Economics is on the east side. Just go east. It's probably in that direction. If you drive, you'll be there in ten or twenty minutes. I've never been there on foot. Just be careful on your own."

He didn't give me a detailed map, as if he was avoiding it.

If he really showed me the way in detail, I would have to doubt his intentions.

The two of us are still in the stage of strangers, we can exchange some information, but we cannot exchange each other's secrets.

I thanked Cheng Lin, said goodbye and left.

He watched me go away without any pretense. After saying goodbye to me, he turned around and returned to the hospital.

I thought that was the end of my interactions with him.

After walking out of the hospital, I reached the intersection and turned a corner. I couldn't even see the hospital building when I turned around.

I don't know the road here, so I'm looking around as I walk.

Cheng Lin only gave me directions. In that direction, there are many buildings. I didn't see the school buildings, but I saw residential buildings and office buildings.

After passing two more intersections and turning twice, I saw a clock tower in the distance.

By this time, the dark clouds had drifted away and the moon was revealed. The moonlight shines on the bell tower, allowing people to see the big clock inside the building and the dial on the outer wall.

The design of this bell tower is quite unique. It is either intentional or has a bit of history.

There are actually quite a few bell towers in Minqing City, ranging from the church bell tower on Luoqujiang Binjiang Avenue to the small bell tower sculpture in a public square.

I don't know much about architecture, so I don't know if this is a characteristic of a certain school of architecture, or if Party A is relatively uncreative. After thinking about it, I came up with an architectural form like a clock tower.

But when I was in Minqing, I never saw a clock tower with both a big clock and a dial.

I looked at it for a while, but before the bell rang, the minute hand on the dial didn't move at all.

This must be a clock that relies on electricity to function properly. This is not surprising either. Large mechanical clocks or large clocks that are rung by hand are rare. These two kinds of clocks and watches have even become luxuries in a certain sense, and can be charged high fees - whether it is the price of the product, the ticket price of tourist attractions, or the need to queue up to do it without charging any money. The experience activities are all additional costs caused by "handmade".

I withdrew my gaze and continued walking, already guessing that the bell tower was my target.

University buildings are actually somewhat similar to hospital buildings. They are all somewhat out of tune with their surroundings. Universities prefer to be unique than hospitals.

Of course, this refers specifically to wealthy universities.

I have no memory of the University of Finance and Economics, and I don’t know if there is any money in the University of Finance and Economics. But with a name like this, and being located in Minqing, an economically developed metropolis, there should be no shortage of money.

After walking for a while, I looked up at the clock tower to make sure I was not going in the wrong direction.

The direction was correct, but after I turned again, I found that the road I was taking was extremely long.

I originally looked at the clock tower and could see the dial and the big clock. After walking for some distance on this road, all you can see is the dial.

I was tired and hungry, and my pace slowly slowed down.

There is no problem in going around in another direction to the University of Finance and Economics.

It’s just that my current physical strength may not be able to support me through this journey.

I touched the energy bar I had just put in my pocket.

The person who gave me the energy bar was a stranger, Cheng Lin. There was something wrong with this energy bar. It might have been produced in the future world.

I know that the future world will still retain traditional industry and agriculture, and food production and processing industries will also exist. But I'm really not sure whether this energy bar is produced normally.

The brand of this energy bar is quite tacky, just called "Bangbang", and the production factory is called "Zhenxing Food Co., Ltd.", and its address is Nanyuan Road, Hangzhou. I have never heard of the name of the manufacturer or place. Maybe I am ignorant, maybe this company is in a small third- or fourth-tier city, maybe this company is a new company established in the future... It doesn't actually matter. The important thing is, I don’t know which ghost’s territory this Hangzhou is on.

The Guangyuan Mountain Ghost is a powerful and troublesome ghost, full of malice and a slightly weird behavior. But it won't poison food. On the contrary, those who know how to poison food may be targeted by him and put on a good show.

In comparison, the new thing I discovered in Minqing was truly "full of malice." The restaurants it controls directly use rats and cockroaches as raw materials to make food for sale.

I tore the wrapper off and saw a perfectly normal energy bar. With the moonlight, I also saw the oatmeal particles wrapped on it.

My stomach growled, but I didn't dare to eat this thing.

After looking at it for a long time, I sighed, wrapped it up, and stuffed it into my pocket again.

If you really can't hold it any longer, you have to eat what you need.

The premise of drinking poison to quench thirst is that you will die of thirst before being poisoned to death, so you have to drink poison.

I continued to move forward with heavy steps.

Next to it was a closed shop with its rolling shutters open. Some are sealed rolling shutter doors with no view of the scenery inside; others are barbed wire-like rolling shutter doors with a glass door at the back.

I walked through a glass door, suddenly realized something was wrong, and turned around to look over.

It was a children's clothing store, a private store, with children's clothes hanging all over the walls. In the middle are several large boxes filled with clothes with discount signs.

I didn't see anything unusual at first glance, but I found Yin Qi.

There's something wrong with the children's clothes hanging on the wall.

I stared at the clouds of yin energy and suddenly noticed that those children's clothes were bulging. It's not stuffed with plastic dummies, but with little ghosts.

The imp was originally hanging on the wall, motionless. As if sensing my gaze, they all looked at me, suddenly grinned and giggled, and in an instant, they all disappeared again.

I opened and closed my mouth, really not knowing what to say.

They didn't seem to have any intention of attacking me, nor were they hanging on the wall in their pre-death state.

I was a little confused, so I turned around and took two more steps, then turned back sharply again.