Chapter 55: Mysterious Bone

Chapter 55: Mysterious Bone

Pei Ye followed Professor An to a secluded place.

“What is this thing?”

Pei Ye watched as Professor An extended her right hand and used her black, long, and sharp fingernails to cut open the skin at her left collarbone.

The long thin wound gave off a black sheen, and the flesh that was turned outward carried an ominous dark red color.

With her excellent eyesight, she could even see the shrunken blood vessels beneath the skin.

If this were an ordinary living person, such an injury would have already caused them to scream in agony and roll on the ground, yet Professor An did not even furrow her brows.

She pressed her index and middle fingers together and inserted them into the cut wound. Her slender fingers stirred inside for a moment before pulling out a section of bone covered in clotted black blood.

To living humans, this was a horrifying and disturbing action, but to Professor An it was as casual as opening a shoulder bag.

“Something dropped from the suspicious ghost who infiltrated X University earlier. The aura on it makes me very uncomfortable...”

Professor An spoke slowly as she kept holding the bone between her two fingers and handed it to Pei Ye.

“Uncomfortable?”

Pei Ye took the bone, did not inspect it closely, and wrapped it in a clean tissue before putting it into her pocket.

Seeing Pei Ye handle it so casually, Professor An’s deathly silent eyes seemed to flash with a trace of disapproval.

“This thing has too great and too vile an impact on students!”

Professor An said unhappily, “It makes them lose focus and think about all sorts of messy things.”

“Students should focus on studying!”

Pei Ye agreed, “Professor An is right. A student’s main task should be studying.”

Professor An’s expression softened slightly.

She was very satisfied with Pei Ye. This was a diligent and studious good student.

So she was willing to reveal more about her research on this bone.

No matter what ghost came into contact with this bone, the mysterious power within it would stimulate the deepest obsessions and murderous impulses in their heart.

For example, the previous lustful ghost’s obsession was that he never had a wife when he was alive, so after death he harassed female students in every possible way.

His place of death was close to X University. As an unmarried man who had been single for a long time in life, he had a strange fixation on the words female college students.

Unfortunately, X University had Professor An sitting as a fierce guardian, so he did not dare act recklessly.

No one knew where he obtained such a strange bone fragment, but after acquiring it, his ghostly energy surged and his obsessions and murderous impulses also multiplied.

With the bone’s help, he gained the ability to steal socks, underwear, and undergarments from female dormitories.

Human desire progresses layer by layer, and ghosts, as the form humans take after death, follow the same pattern.

Once the shameful desires from life are satisfied, simple theft of socks, underwear, and undergarments would gradually no longer be enough to fill that emptiness.

The next step might very well be invading female dormitories.

At first, Professor An did not notice this lustful ghost. It was only when she called roll and discovered Zhu Yang was skipping class that she went to catch him. While catching the truant student, she also discovered that one of her students was being bullied and harassed by an outside ghost.

Professor An was very angry, and the lustful ghost’s actions also triggered her own obsession. In a burst of power, she directly took care of him and even ate her fill in passing.

As a powerful Ghost King, Professor An’s obsession was rather special. She would not be easily influenced by a bone like ordinary vengeful spirits.

She discovered the bone, and also discovered its strange nature.

To prevent other vengeful ghosts from obtaining it and harming X University students, she temporarily hid the bone inside her own body.

Watching Pei Ye take the bone, Professor An reminded her again.

“You should keep it safe. It is a poison that can be addictive to ghosts.”

“With me here, no one can take it away.”

Professor An nodded in agreement. “Indeed, you are very strong and very fierce. You are the fiercest Celestial Master I have ever seen.”

Pei Ye: “...”

Why do these people always like to describe someone strong as “fierce”?

Is it so hard to just say “powerful, strong enough to shake the heavens and earth”?

Why use “fierce”?

Saying that word to a harmless student girl face like Xiao Hong’s, does it not hurt at all?

Pei Ye objected, “I am not fierce. I am very gentle.”

Professor An responded with a long silence, as if Pei Ye had just said something shockingly shameless.

She hesitated, “...Being honest is one of the virtues teachers teach students by example.”

Pei Ye: “...”

“Also,” Professor An said with a stern face, “students should not have tattoos or smoke. School rules do not allow it!”

Pei Ye awkwardly held her cigarette between her teeth. Her tattoo-covered right hand subconsciously moved toward her pocket.

“I already graduated.”

Can smoking and tattoos for adults be considered a violation of school rules?

No, this is freedom.

Professor An said, “Lying is also prohibited by school rules. Students should be honest. You are a student from the neighboring nursing school. You cannot hide this from me.”

Pei Ye: “...”

Professor An thought for a moment, then flipped through her course schedule with great seriousness and made a promise to Pei Ye.

“If you have academic problems, you can ask me during free time. I will provide one-on-one free tutoring. Young people should have dreams, study until old age, and enrich their minds and spiritual world with knowledge. A junior college diploma still has too little competitiveness in today’s society...”

Pei Ye: “...”

“When it exceeds five minutes, I need to go teach class. Please excuse me.”

Without waiting for Pei Ye to respond, Professor An adjusted her cracked-lens glasses on the bridge of her nose and walked step by step toward the warehouse like a living person.

Zhu Chun’an, the principal, and Xiao Pangzi were waiting where they were for Pei Ye.

“What did Professor An say to you?”

Xiao Pangzi could not suppress his curiosity.

Pei Ye said, “Nothing. Just some matters regarding that lustful ghost.”

She subconsciously concealed the matter of the bone, planning to study it after returning. Perhaps this thing was even a clue related to that broken game Love and Raising a Child.

Zhu Chun’an and the others did not suspect anything.

Pei Ye suddenly remembered something and asked Zhu Chun’an, “I have a question. Do ghosts that linger in the human world still fall under the control of Fengdu?”

“Fengdu has complete rules and laws. Most ghosts lingering in the human world have Fengdu’s permission. Those without permission are either unable to be guided to Fengdu due to special reasons, or are illegal stowaways.” Zhu Chun’an patiently explained, “Those who have been escorted to Fengdu by underworld messengers and officially registered are like humans having identity cards and legal residence qualifications. If anything happens to them in the human world, Fengdu will send underworld messengers to investigate.”

Pei Ye said, “That is not what I am asking. I want to know if these ghosts commit illegal or disorderly acts.”

“Such as?”

“For example, sneaking into strangers’ homes, peeking at the male or female owners bathing, watching them sleep, or doing indecent acts that should not be seen?”

Ghosts were incorporeal and invisible to ordinary people.

For example, that lustful ghost gained the ability to steal socks, underwear, and undergarments. Before gaining the ability to touch physical objects, could he also peek?

With Professor An stationed at X University, the situation there was probably better, but what about ghosts elsewhere?

The principal was also reminded of something, and his already plump face turned an ugly liver color as he imagined something unknown.

The third chapter will be at six in the evening.