When Did I Become An Artifact Dealer?!
Chapter 92 - 93 Something Is Wrong With The Space Mark

Chapter 92: Chapter 93 Something Is Wrong With The Space Mark

To be honest, that image looked very confusing. It was as if the backwards world were the real world. It felt like the order should be backwards and Cail was the outlier.

"That..." Cail followed Zishi’s image. He took a step back and mimicked what Zishi was doing. Cail tried walking downstairs backwards. Although his first goal was to return to his room, he was curious, so he tried following Zishi’s actions.

Taking a step back, Cail almost tripped, but he was quick to adapt. He started walking backwards. While doing that, he was also looking up... The numbers were increasing.

8... 9... 10...

Then finally, as he was walking backwards, he bumped into someone.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" It was followed by a piercing scream. Cail almost thought he had squashed the other person to death based on how tragic it sounded.

"Calm down, it’s me." He looked back, and sure enough, it was Zishi. He always looked very mentally unstable every time Cail met him.

Seeing that it was a familiar face, Zishi was quick to jump into Cail’s embrace. Cail wanted to push him away, but this guy was gripping his shirt. He was afraid the button would come loose if he used any force.

"You’re gripping me too hard." Cail frowned. Although not a phobia, he didn’t like physical contact that much. This guy was probably the only person who had come this close to him as a stranger. "What’s going on? Why are you wandering around again?"

Zishi was trembling. "There’s someone in my room... My bodyguards don’t believe me."

He recounted what happened. After receiving his wallet, he checked the things inside. It was a coincidence, but he managed to directly reflect the sixth person in the room when he opened his wallet.

At first, he freaked out, but he knew he shouldn’t alarm the sixth person. He whispered to Lira that something felt off. The bodyguards caught on, but when Zishi used the mirror again, the person couldn’t be reflected.

Although all of them were a bit skeptical, they still believed Zishi. They called the sixth person out, and sure enough, something jumped out of the window.

Just to be sure, they booked another room and stayed there. Zishi was still paranoid, so they promised him they would guard him even while he slept. Zishi believed them and closed his eyes. His body was exhausted from all the scares, so he needed to rest.

Zishi sobbed as he recounted, "But when I woke up, I was the only one in the room, and someone was standing beside my bed. It was a black shadow. I didn’t stay long enough to check, I bolted out of the room."

Cail became so absorbed in the story that he forgot to push Zishi away. "Although I’m a bit skeptical about the authenticity of the haunting, why can’t you just leave?" He didn’t forget his role as an ordinary person.

"I want to. Don’t you think I haven’t tried?" Zishi felt miserable. "But wherever I go, I always end up back here." Everything was useless.

Then he remembered that Cail seemed to be an ordinary person. What he was saying now was probably absurd, so he looked at Cail and said, "I—I’m not taking any illegal substances. I just had a drug test a month ago for my college application."

"So you want me to believe that you’re haunted?" Cail couldn’t understand this magical logic.

But he realized this guy was two years older than him, right? He saw his age when looking at his identification card. Sometimes he would forget that, seeing how skittish this guy was.

Zishi felt like his brain was mush. The logical response of a resident from the other side should be to dissuade ordinary people from believing in the supernatural... But Zishi cried, "I want you to help me... not treat me like I’m having delusions."

That didn’t seem right. Cail was speechless. If I’m really an ordinary person, how can I help you? This guy really wants to tear my disguise to shreds.

"I don’t believe you, but you look really unstable." Cail took the task of being discreet into his own hands. "Stand up. We can’t just lie on the ground like this." A man had already passed by and given the two of them a weird look.

To be honest, their posture was a bit ambiguous. The two of them were sitting in the hotel hallway. Zishi was hugging Cail and almost pressing his entire body against him. Adding to the weirdness was his sobbing... This situation... Cail didn’t want any weird rumors to spread, especially now that he wasn’t covering his face.

Zishi tried to move his legs. "My legs... They seem to be numb." He looked at Cail pitifully.

Cail looked down at him. After fixing his crumpled clothes, his mood became a bit better, but not by much. "Want me to drag you?"

Zishi shook his head. He moved his legs again, and although they felt a bit weak, there was no problem standing up.

"Should we go looking for your bodyguards?" Cail looked at the empty corridor. It was quiet. People were probably still asleep in the comfort of their own rooms.

"I—I don’t want to." Zishi frowned. He might look easygoing, but he did have a bit of a temper. Those guys vanishing after he woke up left a strange taste in his mouth. "My brother paid them, so they better come looking for me."

"I’m planning to go back to my room," Cail said. "Where do you plan to wait for them?"

Zishi’s eyes darted around, but he was following every step Cail took. "Can I come with you? Again, I’m just gonna contact them. I won’t bother you anymore..." The last sentence sounded unconfident.

Cail looked at him. "If I say no, will you just follow me and squat outside my door?"

Zishi looked guilty. That was actually his backup plan.

"Then come." Cail resigned himself to his fate.

The two of them used the stairs. Now going up together with Zishi, Cail didn’t experience any issue like the loop that happened earlier.

Zishi felt very happy that he now had company. For some reason, he really felt secure around this guy. His sense of crisis was a bit off... not realizing that Cail’s attitude was a bit too calm for someone who was just an ordinary person.

But that could be blamed on him. He had been living on the other side all his life and had only entered this realm to study for college. He had been homeschooled and isolated, since he couldn’t go to school. On the other side, the primary requirement was being awakened.

While Zishi was starting to feel calm, Cail felt the opposite.

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