Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Inscription II

After the medical oath was read aloud, the entire Medical College became much quieter.

The gray mist still faintly flowed in the air, but it was no longer as restless.

Guo Tianyang pulled out a revealing charm, lit it, and waved it through the air. The flame quickly extinguished, leaving a faint gray trace on the charm paper.

Guo Tianyang nodded, "The Yin energy still exists, but the flow has slowed down a lot."

"And also, it’s more gray than black, that's a good sign."

"Ming Yue, I'll credit this to you."

Ming Yue, with something on her mind, didn't break into a silly grin like a groundhog, just nodded.

Yan Jun looked at her with concern, wanting to ask what was wrong—

But Xu Miaomiao beat him to it.

Xu Miaomiao now looked at Ming Yue like she was a national treasure. She sliced through Ming Yue with surgical precision:

"Awesome, junior! I can see a new career path for ghost hunters through you."

"Come on, tell me more about how you enhanced your Yang energy!"

"And all your unconventional methods!"

Ming Yue: "......"

Should I say it's because I was born with strong Yang energy, and also because my Ming family's ancestral tomb has very few living people?

If I say that, wouldn't it be a disaster for others?

Seeing Xu Miaomiao like this, Yan Jun frowned.

As the class leader, Yan Jun understood the people in the college far better than an average freshman.

He knew that Xu Miaomiao was straightforward, good at researching the impractical, and somewhat lacking in empathy—getting entangled with Xu Miaomiao would definitely bring a lot of trouble.The Ming family in the north of Jinling city, when Yan Jun was young, he once saw it from a distance.

A grand mansion, gray and gloomy, with the yin energy pressing down from the roof, lingering and coiling like a nest of evil spirits exhaling on the beams.

At the time, a frightened young Yan Jun cried loudly, and when his family couldn't calm him, they carried him away.

As time passed, Yan Jun couldn’t remember how old he was when he saw what he saw with his yin-yang eyes at the Ming family residence. He only understood one thing—

The old Ming residence was a place filled with very heavy yin energy.

It was best not to go near it.

And then there was Ming Yue, the peculiar younger brother of the family, the current head of the Ming family.

Last year when he started as a freshman, Yan Jun was genuinely curious when he saw Ming Yue, who had an unusual outlook on life.

She truly didn’t seem like a child raised in the old Ming residence.

But then, when he saw her overwhelming yang energy and her way of using it, he suddenly realized—

This truly did seem like a child raised in the Ming family’s old mansion.

The most striking child in the crowd, with yang energy that burned explosively.

She was nothing like a normal person.

Meanwhile, Xu Miaomiao was still interrogating Ming Yue. Yan Jun observed coldly, and while the others were distracted for a moment, he took out a fire talisman and a wind talisman, overlapping them before throwing them into the air. In the blink of an eye, the wind fueled the fire, burning the yin energy in the air and releasing a foul, corpse-like stench.

Yan Jun said slowly, "Everyone, look. There’s something unusual ahead."

The others were shocked by the foul odor and turned to look.

Guo Tianyang frowned, "No more chatting. We’ll talk later if needed."

"It’s been hard-earned to have a bit of peace after the medical oath, so let’s hurry up and investigate the cold storage matter," he added.

The others agreed.Xu Miaomiao reluctantly glanced at Ming Yue, who gave an awkward smile.

Yan Jun: Plan successful, got it√.

He smiled slightly.

However, the senior sister wasn’t malicious, and Yan Jun mentally calculated how the medical school would resolve this matter.

The power of the oath had cleansed the (evil spirits) in the corridor, and the group quickly reached the cold storage room door.

Guo Tianyang, being responsible, took the lead and prepared to open the door.

Ming Yue quickly took out her phone and started playing a recording, "Senior, wait a moment, I’ll add another layer of protection."

— The recording was the medical student oath from earlier.

Guo Tianyang: "…"

Guo Tianyang: "You recorded it just now?"

Ming Yue nodded, "Reusing it. I put a lot of emotion into it earlier."

Guo Tianyang: "…"

I often feel out of sync with the younger generation because my imagination isn't big enough…

Guo Tianyang held his breath, adjusted his body muscles, and entered a tense state. The moment he opened the cold storage door, he sent out a wind talisman, sticking another talisman to the ceiling. In an instant, golden light erupted inside, as if it were a vast sea of light!

Guo Tianyang pulled a short knife out of his backpack, wiped a storage talisman on the blade, and rushed in first.

The others quickly drew their weapons as well. Ming Yue also pulled out a pitchfork, shouting as she charged in.

The cold storage room had no lights on. The cold storage’s blue light dimly illuminated the space, like short blue snakes crawling in the air. The ghosts, who had come out to play in the middle of the night, were bound by the golden light charm, their bodies covered in golden paint, unable to move. They stood still, resembling large black mushrooms.

Everyone: "…"

Xu Miaomiao poked Guo Tianyang: "Not bad, Class Leader, you can draw the golden light charm now."Guo Tianyang squinted warily, "Bullshit, I only used one talisman a few days ago." But who would have thought, the ghosts in this room were so weak.

The figures stood silently, exchanging glances with the students, without any intent to attack.

Strange. It seems these ghosts are all body donors; otherwise, my yang energy talisman would have stopped them.

Ming Yue thought to herself.

Seeing the seniors unmoving, she assessed the situation for a moment, then stepped forward. She peeled off a layer of gold paint from one of the ghosts' faces and asked:

"Excuse me, senior."

"Are the rabbits in the living specimen lab related to you?"

When the golden light charm was removed, it revealed that this was a middle-aged female ghost.

She appeared kind-faced, glanced at Ming Yue for a moment, and instead of answering, she asked, "A child from the Spirit Institute?"

Suddenly addressed by a junior, Ming Yue: "…"

A bit of sweat appeared on Ming Yue's back. Having lost her parents at a young age and faced constant pressure from relatives, she wasn’t good at dealing with this kind of gentle elder-like demeanor.

Yan Jun stepped forward and pulled her behind him, "Hello, senior. We are students from the Spirit Institute."

"May I ask, were you a professor at the Medical Institute before?"

The female ghost nodded and, with interest, asked, "Little girl, how do you know the rabbits in the living specimen lab are related to me?"

Ming Yue peeked from behind Yan Jun and pointed at her clothes, "I saw rabbit fur. Maybe you were the one who took care of the animals in the living specimen lab." Then she pointed at the other ghosts, "The other ghosts don't have any."

The other students were shocked.

This junior has sharp eyes.

The female ghost: "…"

The female ghost smiled and said, "Why don't you release my colleagues and we can have a nice chat?"Xu Miaomiao clapped her hands excitedly, "Not bad. It's a good time to discuss how a ghost spreads yin energy and forms so many rabbits. Let's research it."

Ming Yue: "No, no discussion."

The two spoke at the same time, interrupting each other, and then both fell silent.

Xu Miaomiao: "…"

Ming Yue: "…"

Ming Yue said seriously, "Senior, the paths of yin and yang are different. We're not on the same road, so it’s not a good idea to let our guard down."

Xu Miaomiao: "But as you said, this is a senior from our Medical Institute, someone who previously raised rabbits in the living specimen lab—professors don’t harm students."

Ming Yue thought to herself, "Am I really going to trip myself up with my own words?"

Then she said straightforwardly, "Since the intention is good, maybe the teacher wouldn’t mind speaking with the golden light charm still on."

Xu Miaomiao: "That’s true."

The female ghost: "…"

Student, how did you switch sides so quickly?

Ming Yue stared at the female ghost’s expression, her suspicion growing.

She didn’t comment on the female ghost's identity as a teacher, but she noticed that the human figures lying on the ground had causal chains wrapped around them in all sorts of colors. Some were tinged with red—though not blood red—while others were a peaceful pale green.

Ming Yue: "…"

The Medical Institute really doesn’t care about who they hire for professors? Do they take anyone?

These red marks all over, who knows how many acts of the yin realm they’ve been involved in.

Unless, not all of them are professors from the Medical Institute.Ming Yue's yin-yang eyes were peculiar. The faces of the ghosts she saw were vague and strange, but when it came to the causal chains, she was much more accurate than others.

After all, distinguishing a causal chain in a colorful oil painting is definitely easier than finding a red flower in a black-and-white drawing.

Ming Yue didn't expect much from her yin-yang eyes, which only barely passed at a 60% level.

As long as she could see the causal chains, that was enough. What else did she need?

Looking at the female ghost chatting happily with Guo Tianyang and the others, Ming Yue noticed that her causal chain was half green, half red—neither right nor wrong—something didn't quite match the charity in her appearance.

Ming Yue pondered for a moment, took out her phone, typed a line of text, and passed it to Yan Jun:

【Class leader, what color is the causal chain on this female ghost?】

Yan Jun covered the phone while reading it, glanced at Ming Yue, and typed on her phone:

【It's all cloudy, I can't see clearly, I saw a few green ones.】

【Can you see the whole thing?】

Ming Yue knew that being honest at this moment could bring allies, so she candidly replied:

【Yes】

【My yin-yang eyes are strange, ghosts all look like Peppa Pig to me, and the causal chains are like seeing a black dog in the snow, 1080p ultra-clear.】

【This female ghost has blood on her hands, something's off.】

Yan Jun: "…"

This unique metaphor truly stunned Yan Jun.

He decided he no longer wanted to talk to Ming Yue and threw a Peppa Pig at her.

The causal chain to a ghost is like the bones and blood to a living person.

Seeing the causal chain directly is like seeing a human with the naked eye.People judge beauty and ugliness, but you—well, you see through the phenomenon and directly look at the internal organs beneath the skin.

Is that your eye, or a scalpel?

The cold air felt like hands, creeping up Yan Jun's spine. He could hardly tell whether Ming Yue or the ghosts in the room were more terrifying.

Yan Jun continued typing: 【Are you sure?】

Ming Yue: 【Why not?】

Yan Jun fell silent, then pulled out a few books from his backpack.

Ming Yue looked closely and saw—hey, it's a textbook on Marxist theory, another on Mao Zedong thought, and a medical textbook on obstetrics and gynecology.

She flipped through the obstetrics and gynecology book: "…"

Ming Yue gave Yan Jun a look, like she was staring at a pervert.

Yan Jun cleared his throat awkwardly and explained: "I borrowed these from the library before coming to the medical school tonight."

"The medical textbooks are too thick, so I got this thinner one. Don’t overthink it."

"I'll give it to you. If you're really not at ease, just toss it forward."

Meanwhile, the female ghost had used her exceptional charm to engage a few students in a lively conversation, while the other "human sticks" were bound by the golden light spell, tied into golden trees, and could only stand as decoration while listening to the conversation.

Guo Tianyang pretended to sigh dramatically: "The history of our medical school is really long. The teachers have truly put in great effort for the school's development."

"Even after passing away, they are willing to donate their bodies for teaching purposes. Truly admirable."

The female ghost smiled: "It’s only natural."

"Though, it's good to leave a name behind."

Guo Tianyang felt guilty: "That's true. The school has gone so many years without carving a body donation plaque. We really haven't done our duty."

"We, the current generation, have let down our predecessors."The female ghost was silent for a moment, then asked with a smile, "So, little student, would you be willing to help us carve a plaque?"

Guo Tianyang: "…"

Guo Tianyang was considering how to answer when someone spoke up: "Wait."

"This matter is suspicious."

Ming Yue raised her hand to speak, staring at the blood-red karmic chain across the female ghost's chest—

The chain pierced through her chest, the flesh and blood mangled, with black, filthy blood oozing out, as though it had tied her now-motionless heart.

The female ghost turned her head towards Ming Yue, her smile still kind and earnest, but it seemed as if her face had been covered with a layer of frozen skin.