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Chapter 310: Chapter 310: Suspect Chapter 310: Chapter 310: Suspect “Little bottom… ahem, Liu Fan?”

When I saw the face of the person wandering in the junkyard, I couldn’t help but let out a surprised whisper. At the same time, considering the other person’s face practically had the submissive attribute written all over it in bold, black type, a certain delicate truth almost slipped out of my mouth.

Well, it had actually slipped out…

The sudden voice beside him startled the bespectacled man, who was intently searching for something in the ruins. He jerked violently and jumped to the side. Only after seeing who had approached did he relax and said with a shy smile, “Ah, it’s Brother Chen…”

“What are you doing here?”

Looking at the dirt, rust, and faint scrapes on his body, I couldn’t help but wonder what this timid guy was doing in such a haunted place at night–could it be that he was trying to uncover the secrets of the supernatural incidents?

Facing my question, Liu Fan displayed his signature silly smile, scratching his head as he said, “I guessed that you guys would definitely come to investigate these past few days. I didn’t expect to run into you on the very first day… I wanted to survey the situation here in advance, maybe I could be of help later since Sister Ling has been missing for four days now…”

As he spoke, Liu Fan couldn’t help but glance at the little girl behind me, his eyes showing a hint of curiosity.

Lilina sighed profoundly and shook her head, “If you’re wondering whether this guy is always accompanied by lolis and if he often switches them out, congratulations, you’ve guessed right–ouch!”

Lilina, whom I struck squarely on the forehead with a skillful karate chop, crouched on the ground holding her head, curling up like a wounded little animal trembling and occasionally sneaking peeks at me with tearful, starry eyes.

This insufferably annoying Fake Lolita! Can’t you act a bit more like an adult? Don’t you know if someone who doesn’t know the situation saw this, my reputation would be instantly ruined, you jerk!

“Forget about this dummy,” I said, unhesitatingly ignoring Lilina’s pitiful act and turned to Liu Fan, who was clearly successfully bamboozled by the psychology-savvy Fake Lolita, and waved my hand in front of him, “You’re not telling me you’ve already been fooled by this dangerous person, are you?”

Lilina immediately leapt up and proudly declared, “Of course, this idiot has been tricked by this genius!”

Your nasty personality is giving some Demi Immortals a run for their money.

And before me, Liu Fan, the ordinary creature named, had already turned into an ancient statue in the wind, his pallid body covered with the cracks of time.

I patted his shoulder, bringing the ashen-stricken tragic boy back to life, then asked, “So, found anything? I’m quite surprised you dared to come here to search for clues at this time.”

In fact, my opinion of this guy was beginning to change.

Although he had shown weakness from the beginning, looking like an easy target for anyone to bully, Liu Fan truly had something about him that caught my eye.

Overcoming his timid and weak character for the safety of his girlfriend, he came to this haunted place at night to search for clues. For this uncommon young man, who trembled even at talking with strangers, it probably took an extraordinary amount of courage, right?

And looking at the various fresh and old scratches on his hands, I hadn’t figured out where they came from during the day. Now it seemed they were probably the reason he had been staying here these days?

At the very least, he had raised himself in my heart from the rank of a Paramecium to that of a Coelenterate.

But there were also downsides. If this guy was present, many convenient and straightforward ways of solving problems couldn’t be used, like having Anwina come down to help, for instance.

“This…” Liu Fan showed a smile that was full of the bottom attribute, scratching his head while also bringing his image back down to the level of a Paramecium, “I haven’t made any discoveries. The school has been very quiet these days, and no ghostly disturbances have happened… But, just about a few minutes ago, just before you came, there was suddenly a cold breeze here. Not sure if it’s just in my head…”

“A cold breeze?” I frowned slightly; a cold breeze was quite in line with the usual prelude to ghostly incidents, but looking at his expression, okay, I figured it was all in his head.

“Do these supernatural incidents happen often here?” Lilina bent down, placed her hands on the ground, and while closing her eyes, feeling for something, she asked.

It’s rare–this unpleasant and increasingly brash creature was finally showing the kind of behavior expected of an employee.

Although she looked no more than ten years old, her identity as a “member of a mystic organization” and her current serious tone forced Liu Fan to take on a solemn demeanor as well: “It doesn’t happen every day. Usually, it’s about once every three days, but recently, incidences have become even less frequent. Since Sister Ling disappeared four days ago, there’s been no activity.”

“Oh.” I nodded, indicating I understood.

According to reports from the investigators, the situation was indeed such.

However, the quiet of these past few days certainly didn’t signify the end of the supernatural events. According to reports from Xyrin Agents in charge of the investigation, although the outburst of unexplained energy in the school had died down recently, spectral graphs still showed this place covered under a mystic energy field. Up to now, this weak but real energy field continued to emit regular radiation–of course, such a feeble and mysterious energy fluctuation could only be detected by Xyrin Technology; it was impossible to discover anything with human methods of investigation.

“Master, someone is approaching.”

While I was pondering, Anwina, circling in the air above, suddenly reported; then, we saw a swinging beam of light turning out from behind the distant teaching building.

To avoid trouble, I immediately pulled Liu Fan and Lilina behind a stack of concrete prefabricated panels.

The waving light slowly came over from behind the teaching building. It looked like a teacher out for a nighttime patrol. The person stopped in the open space in front of the building for a while, then headed straight in our direction.

Due to the backlighting, even though the person was only twenty meters away, I couldn’t see their face clearly; I just felt a faint sense of familiarity. However, Liu Fan recognized the figure of the teacher right away, “Teacher Zheng?”

Teacher Zheng?

A vague impression suddenly flashed across my mind, and then that fuzzy image finally pieced together the figure of a young woman whose plain appearance always carried an eerie and bewitching charm.

“How odd… Teacher Zheng has only been transferred to this school for over a week, by the rules, she shouldn’t be in charge of the night patrol…” Beside me, Liu Fan murmured in surprise, while on the other side, Lilina mumbled, “When something is out of the ordinary, there must be a demon at play, when something is out of the ordinary, there must be a demon at play…”

Then, like the most common and effective scenario in many cliched melodramas, the usual pushover, our classmate Liu Fan, once again played the role of troublemaker. With a loud clatter, he knocked over the steel rebars that, heaven knows why, were next to him but which I guessed appeared out of thin air just to serve the plot.

“Who’s there?” the next second, the blindingly bright flashlight was aimed in our direction.

After mentally ridiculing the melodramatic turn of events, I stood up, pulling Lilina with me: “What a beautiful night with clear skies, bright stars, and a moonlit landscape. Hearing of the school’s charming night view, I’ve brought my little sister to admire this wonderful place. What a coincidence to meet… Ouch! Lilina! Why are you biting me!”

“If I didn’t bite you, the whole world might crumble under your ridiculous blabbering.”

The fake lolita let go of my arm, licking the pair of little tiger teeth that had just served as her weapon, and said without hesitation–without even a moment’s thought, damn it!

“Teacher Zheng…”

Following our lead, and knowing there was no point in hiding any longer, Liu Fan also stood up, flashing his typically obliging smile that made one feel as if some historic mission would be incomplete if he wasn’t teased a bit, and scratching his head, he greeted his teacher.

This guy is definitely going to go bald, there’s no doubt he’ll be cleanly bald within the next year or two!

“Liu Fan?”

The young woman with the flashlight let out a sound of surprise, and in the moving beam of light, I thought I saw her expression change a bit–it was as if she had been wearing another expression a second before and now had to forcibly shift to another, causing a stiffness in her muscles.

“When something is out of the ordinary, there must be a demon at play, when something is out of the ordinary, there must be a demon at play…” Lilina continued her rambling, but this time, her mumbles came directly through our spiritual connection.

“What exactly are you trying to say?”

With the constant echo of some fake lolita’s deliberately ghastly muttering in my mind, I couldn’t ignore her and had to ask.

“Hehe,” Lilina chuckled smugly through our spiritual connection, “With the intuition of a genius psychology expert, I’m telling you, this woman’s behavior and subtle actions all indicate she’s up to something.”

…That should be a criminal investigation expert, not a psychologist, right?

Even though I had such a thought in my mind, I still paid attention to Lilina’s words, not because of the lamentable “intuition of a genius psychology expert,” but because as a divine-made creature, the hint of divinity in Lilina did indeed grant her some special intuition.

“Classmate Liu Fan,” after a few seconds of surprise, the young woman before us suddenly spoke up sternly, “You should remember the school rules, right? Leaving the dormitory late at night, and bringing outsiders onto the school campus, that’s going to be marked down as a demerit!”

Oh, so this school actually has something called school rules.

“Teacher Zheng… I…”

The chastised student immediately bowed his head in shame and then continued to scratch his head.

Keep scratching and your hair will fall out, you hopeless victim!

“First, escort these two friends out, then go back and write a three thousand-word self-criticism to hand in tomorrow.”

The female teacher spoke with a firm tone and then slightly stepped aside, gesturing for us to follow her.

Alright, just like Lilina said, when something is out of the ordinary, there must be a demon at play.

At one o’clock in the morning, and in such a secluded place, would a normal teacher drive out two individuals who had merely violated a rule because they were from outside the school?

Even setting aside the fact that there are numerous unused dormitories around, even if there were no vacant dorms, most teachers would probably make another choice, wouldn’t they? At the very least, she should discuss it with other teachers on night duty before making a decision, rather than rashly issuing an expulsion order.

It was as if she was in a hurry to get rid of those uninvolved.

I gently squeezed Lilina’s small hand, then took the initiative before Liu Fan could express any objections: “In that case, we’ll leave first, sorry to cause trouble for the teacher, haha…”

Liu Fan immediately protested, “But…”

“Cough cough,” the female teacher, whom we had already marked as suspicious, coughed to interrupt Liu Fan’s interjection, “If that’s the case, then follow me.” (To be continued. For subsequent developments, please visit www.NovelFire.net. The story continues with more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)