Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Inscription IV

In the dead of night, there was no moon, and dark clouds obscured the sea of stars.

A light rain began to fall, softly and steadily.

Each droplet pierced through the medical school's thick, misty air, splashing onto the concrete floor, failing to cleanse the resentment of the old souls.

In times of exile and turmoil, where one couldn't find enough to eat or warm themselves, even death became a light matter.

Better to be a peaceful dog than a person in chaotic times.

The fall of the old dynasty opened the gates to a new era, but also to the meat grinder of countless lives. Blood pooled into rivers, surging forward relentlessly.

The desolate graves with overgrown grass, the blood-soaked markets of execution.

After all the effort, the axe fell, the head rolled, and yet after death, one could only watch as their corpse was dug up from the ground to make money, reduced to a laboratory tool for the strange and perverse experiments of Western schools.

Considering this from their perspective, the few students from the Spirit Academy felt that the old auntie could still speak politely—her mental fortitude was truly earth-shattering.

"……"

The female ghost coldly stared at the few students, her black pupils as sharp and precise as a surgical knife.

Ming Yue avoided her gaze, scanning the cold storage and the other people with sticks inside. Yan Jun's expression remained calm, showing no sign of wavering.

However, Xu Miaomiao made a mistake. She looked at the female ghost with an expression of sympathy, unable to hide it.

Ming Yue gave her a warning glance, 'That was just speculation, senior.'

'Don't provoke the ghost with emotions like that—'

Before she could finish, the female ghost let out a mocking laugh, quite ridiculous. She pointed at Xu Miaomiao, her black nails frozen at the center of her forehead:

"Are you pitying us?"

Her voice was sharp and piercing, like nails scratching across a blackboard.

Yet, the middle-aged female ghost’s face remained unchanged, her expression still one of kind, loving smiles, as though it had been frozen in place.This bizarre combination sent chills down their spines.

Ming Yue reacted quickly, stepping forward to smooth things over and deflect attention, throwing the dirty water onto herself:

"Not at all, Auntie."

"We just had a private chat, and Senior trusts you now—those eyes weren’t full of pity, they were clearly full of shared hatred."

"I apologize on behalf of everyone here—" Ming Yue’s voice suddenly cut off.

The female ghost abruptly stopped smiling, her irises turning pitch black, like the dilation of pupils after natural death, with her entire eyeball turning dark.

She stared blankly at Ming Yue, her body started to swell, and the surrounding cold wind began to howl, swirling like a storm, gathering around the female ghost—

Ming Yue remained cautious, taking a step forward to shield Yan Jun behind her.

Yan Jun: "……"

Yan Jun subtly realized that their positions seemed reversed now.

Guo Tianyang blurted out, "Damn! She's about to turn into a vengeful ghost!"

Just as quickly as the words left his mouth, the female ghost opened her mouth wide, her jaw stretching to unimaginable proportions, revealing a black, hollow throat.

The ghostly energy roared like a sea, flooding into her mouth like a tidal wave. Her abdomen grew larger and larger, expanding as her spirit turned from black to gray. A pair of red eyes opened and closed, emerging from her belly—

At first glance, it looked as though her stomach was filled with red eyeballs, swelling with the cold wind, and the eyes blinked open and shut, glaring with resentment, anger, and poison at the outside world.

Inside the room, the students: "……"

They were left staring, dumbfounded.

The ghosts on the ground were bound by the golden light spell, unable to move. Thin, ethereal strands of ghostly energy were drawn out of their bodies and absorbed by the female ghost. They screamed like fish pulled from water—

Guo Tianyang shouted, "Untie them! I'll lead the way!" He charged straight into the black storm.Ming Yue stared at the slit-mouthed female ghost, took out the trident, and charged forward, stabbing at the cold storage door.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A series of sounds, each one more urgent than the last.

Yan Jun tore off the last golden light spell on a ghost, watching as it shrank into the cold storage and transformed into green smoke.

The next second, Ming Yue’s face remained cold as she thrust the trident into the cold storage compartment, leaving four holes in the metal surface.

Yan Jun: "……"

Yan Jun stared in shock at the cold storage, the holes glowing with golden sunlight, releasing a bright, eye-catching light like a row of light-filled eyes, amidst the gray-black ghostly wind.

Ming Yue pulled out her phone and sent a voice message to Li Xianzhou, then explained:

"This is the guy from my family’s estate."

"After thousands of people’s sunlight training and refinement, it’s definitely a divine weapon."

"Just poke it in the cold storage, leave some sunlight to guard it, so the ghostly energy doesn’t reabsorb and disappear into dust later."

Yan Jun: "……"

Yan Jun felt the weight of this information.

He rubbed his forehead: "Don’t try to fool me into thinking I can’t tell what this thing is." He immediately grabbed a steel rod from behind the cold storage, lit a sunlight charm, and smeared it onto the rod.

The female ghost opened her mouth and howled, the shrill scream was deafening!

Guo Tianyang could even hear the panicked screams of students who were working late in the lab. He was frantic:

"Looks like this old aunt really ate those rabbits."

"No wonder she’s covered in rabbit fur, no wonder she’s so familiar with the laboratory!"

"Damn! I should’ve brought the Calm Mind spell!" That would have been perfect to deal with these vengeful spirits with twisted minds!The hollow echoes reverberated in the cold storage room, and the female ghost’s voice fluctuated between male and female, old and young:

"Is it really so hard to leave a name?"

"My body has been used by you for decades, is it so hard to fulfill one of my requests?"

Ming Yue took out a purification charm and stuck it on her mouth, cleansing the impurities and focusing her mind as she shouted:

"Of course it’s not hard!"

"But it’s not about scarcity, it’s about fairness!"

"Years have passed, senior, but we currently don’t have the complete records of all your compatriots' names!"

"Some have names, some don’t, and that’s not acceptable! It will lead to deep hatred and heavy grudges!"

Her expression was filled with righteousness, majestic and unyielding.

Yan Jun, taking a different approach, calmly said: "Why don’t you tell us your name yourself, senior? We guarantee we’ll handle this properly."

The female ghost’s whimpering sounds were a mix of ghostly laughter and dog-like barking. The rabbit eyes in her body blinked rapidly, flowing with blood-red light. Her large body howled, with a terrifying lung capacity:

"I’ve forgotten..."

"If I remembered, why would I need you?"

"Practicing false kindness and righteousness, you all are useless!"

"More than a decade ago, they removed the formation of the institute, promising to build a monument for us, but after graduation, they vanished without a trace—"

"Now you all are so sharp-tongued and hypocritically use pity to humiliate me!"

In the last few words, the middle-aged female ghost’s voice grew raspy and hoarse. Her voice blasted through the high-rise buildings of the medical school, echoing through the layers.

Ming Yue, hearing this, was furious:

"Where’s the humiliation coming from?""Wasn't it you who set up the trap and pretended to be a teacher to trick our sympathy?"

She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.

"Auntie, please give us some time. We will do our best to investigate the history, we will clear your name. Please don’t go off in the medical school—there are still students working late on experiments!"

Before Ming Yue could finish her sentence, she was suddenly drowned in the eyeballs that shot out from the female ghost's abdomen.

Ming Yue: "…"

I’ll dodge!

The crimson rabbit-like eyeballs, wet and warm, exploded against the wall as Ming Yue dodged. The dark aura ripped and corroded the wall, forming a black hole.

Ming Yue: "......"

Ming Yue, with a stiff face, said, "It seems Auntie doesn’t intend to let this end peacefully."

With a clank, the trident fell to the ground. Ming Yue pulled off the cloth cover, expressionless, and waved the manure fork.

"Fine, with so many evil ghosts, it’s no better than skinning them when they go to hell."

"Who knows if last time, when you tricked the students into building a monument, you didn’t drag the previous generation into some strange karma."

"Not to mention anything else, I haven’t killed a single rabbit. I’ve been trying to keep them alive, even got bitten by a hanging ghost, and yet you’ve eaten so many—"

"It really makes me uneasy."

Ming Yue sneered.

Guo Tianyang, feeling anxious, took out his life-saving charm and prepared to leave with the others. But he saw his junior sister standing solemnly at the eye of the fierce wind, full of spirit, blocking the others, trying to be the hero. He was desperate, "Junior sister, this is not the time to act on impulse."

Ming Yue, with her back to the seniors, her figure vaguely disappearing into the dark wind, said: "I’m not acting on impulse, senior."

"I’ve seen vengeful ghosts turn fierce since I was little. Documentation, calling for help, on-site responses—don’t worry, I’m very familiar with the procedure."

After saying that, she didn’t turn back, only held her phone screen behind her for the others to see. The screen showed a voice message sent to "King Yan of Hell."King Yan of Hell...?

Guo Tianyang: "..."

Guo Tianyang, in a state of panic, was momentarily stunned, "Who is this?"

Class leader Yan Jun: "..."

Yan Jun coughed once, "Our class advisor, Teacher Li Xianzhou from the 18th batch."

Guo Tianyang, who was really a very caring senior, looked at Yan Jun in disbelief: "Junior, we're both class leaders. While our classmates are risking their lives in the front, you’re as calm as a rock, not even changing your expression. This can’t just be explained by indifference."

"You’re seriously neglecting your duties." Guo Tianyang said seriously.

Yan Jun, knowing that Guo Tianyang meant well, smiled, "Thank you, senior. As for my own class, I know a little more about the situation than others."

Guo Tianyang, feeling choked up, said: "You..."

Before he could finish, the female ghost gathered her strength and rushed toward them. The 30 to 40 square meters of the cold storage room suddenly felt as if she was sprinting at full speed for a hundred meters.

A roar echoed as black smoke shot up. Thousands of hands and claws reached out for Ming Yue. Her belly, filled with eyeballs, flashed with dense red light, sending chills down anyone who looked at it.

Guo Tianyang was about to scream, but the thick aura of yin energy made several of the students from their group retch uncontrollably. Yet, Ming Yue calmly swung her weapon like a broom, with a loud clang as it swept through.

At first, it looked light and unsteady, as if a rolling pin was heading toward the female ghost's stomach.

Duan!

Then, boom, the female ghost, now swollen to a diameter of seven or eight meters, was struck at the waist and flipped over. The black wind followed as she fell. Ming Yue moved gracefully, thrusting the trident’s tip toward the ghost’s waist and abdomen. The holes glowed with golden light, and the yang energy surged like a flame meeting dry grass, unrelenting and eternal.

The female ghost: "........"

"Ahhhhhhhh—!"The female ghost's scream was earth-shattering, causing panic outside the medical school. Students from the medical department frantically knocked on the door, shouting:

"What's happening inside?"

"Open the door! Open the door now!!"

"We're medical students, we can help!"

"Stop knocking! Ah, our medical school has been haunted these past few days!"

Guo Tianyang: "..."

This is a vengeful ghost, what help could we possibly provide?!

Several people rushed to the door, blocking it with forced smiles: "Classmates—there’s nothing wrong! Don’t come in!"

"Whatever you do, don't open the door!!"

"We're in the middle of an exam!"

The medical students outside grew even more anxious: "Forget your exam!"

"Is your exam more important than saving lives?!"

"If you keep shouting like this, the whole school will know the medical school was screaming in the middle of the night!"

Guo Tianyang: "…You make a good point."

With that, he slammed the door with a hammer and said with flair: "Then let them find out! The grandeur of our Spiritual Academy!"

Swift and decisive action.

On the other side, Ming Yue thought to herself.

The female ghost in front of her had consumed a large amount of rabbit souls. While not as nourishing as human souls, it was still stronger than many vengeful spirits—

At least stronger than the old guy from the subway the other day.

Ming Yue quickly assessed the situation. Her right hand unleashed a powerful burst of Vajra force, pinning the female ghost firmly down. The sharp teeth of the ghost gnawed and scraped against the pitchfork's bar, making a clattering noise. With her left hand, she pulled out a small, red, soft, and slightly squishy object from her pocket—She rubbed it a bit, and juice started oozing out.

Yan Jun was helping to absorb the Yin energy with the storage energy talisman.

If these Yin energies weren't properly dealt with, the senior spirits stored in the cold storage might take advantage of it, and in a few days, they could even pop out in the middle of the night to join students in classes, back-to-back. Just then—

"Class Monitor!" Ming Yue called.

"Hey!" Yan Jun responded.

"Catch it!"

Ming Yue made a beautiful arc with her left hand and shouted, "Use the Yang energy talisman to ignite it!"

Yan Jun reached out to catch it. The soft, squishy texture of the object sent a chill down his spine.

This... this is...

He peeled it back to see that the inside was soft, with a layer of skin soaked in black blood. The capillaries were faintly visible.

Yan Jun: "......"

This damn thing is a piece of recently detached human flesh!

Not too big, just the perfect size for a large bite.

Yan Jun's heart rate instantly shot up to maximum: "Where did you get this from?!"

Ming Yue shouted, "I bit it myself!"

"Hurry up!"

The answer nearly choked Yan Jun.He felt a heavy weight in his heart, took out a Yang energy talisman and a fire talisman, wrapped the piece of human flesh, and threw it behind Ming Yue.

Ming Yue instantly dodged, and the female ghost beneath her lost her restraint. She immediately jumped up, intending to leap at the girl in front of her to bite and eat her insides, but she crashed straight into the small piece of meat that had already begun to burn. The fat was ignited, giving off a fragrant, golden aroma like roasted meat.

Female ghost: "……"

It looks delicious.

She opened her mouth.

The clash of extreme Yin and Yang energies caused a thunderous explosion, and the human flesh instantly turned into a golden fireball, merging with the female ghost!

The female ghost let out a blood-curdling scream, her limbs stretching and shrinking in the flames like a dark shadow—

The Yang energy storm exploded, sweeping through the cold storage room, with such force that the windows shattered into pieces. The sound of glass breaking was like a liquefied gas explosion!

As the glass shattered and the Yang energy wind rushed out, it carried the joy of having cleaned up all the Yin energy, leaving only a room full of unused energy talismans.

The meat chunk: "Tap, tap, tap."

The energy talisman: "Bro, don't I deserve some face?"

The night wind, carrying cold rain, blew into the room. The entire group stood in stunned silence.

Quietly, the sound of the departing flute.

Silence is tonight's Medical Academy.

The room was in ruins, the cold storage riddled with holes. The female ghost was burned to ashes, leaving only a pile of black dust. The MVP of the entire scene was Ming Yue, who could be called the human-shaped Yang energy bullet.

Xu Miaomiao swallowed her dry throat: "What... what was that just now?"

Yan Jun coldly said, "Living human flesh."

"Nonsense, it was clearly dead human flesh—no, I didn’t mean that!" Ming Yue waved her hand nonchalantly:

"It was mine, I bit it off this morning when I ran into the old Ling family in the ventilation ducts—didn't want to throw it away, so I kept it in my pocket and warmed it up all day."Everyone in the room: "......"

Everyone had the expression of being choked by a fishbone, their movements in perfect sync as they slapped their chests.

Rotten meat in the pocket.

This move is really crazy enough to make one's head fall off.

Yan Jun said with difficulty: "What were you thinking?"

Ming Yue raised her chin proudly: "Exorcising ghosts is different from killing living people, so naturally, we need to find another way."

A click sound.

The door was opened.

Li Xianzhou, holding the key, walked in, followed by a group of medical students rolling up their sleeves, ready for battle, with mops and brooms in hand.

People inside the room: "......"

People outside: "......"

The most terrifying thing is when the air suddenly falls silent.

Li Xianzhou threw the key to the medical student, his expression cold.

"It looks like it's been dealt with."

"Leave three people behind. One to apologize to the medical school for disturbing their peace, and two to clean up."

"And—"

Li Xianzhou's face was icy, and with a swift motion, he grabbed the mop from a medical student's hand and threw it over.

"Who was the one who was screaming and sending me messages earlier? Step forward."Everyone looked at Ming Yue in unison.

Ming Yue: "......"

I choose to die on the spot.