Jiang Wei and Lin Xiao had just paused to take a breath when the shop door was pushed open by Wu Qing and the others. It was Wu Qing who had spoken just now.
“Welcome.” Su Zimo’s expression didn’t change. It was a polite yet distant smile used to greet strangers and customers that made it seem as if he didn’t know the six customers in front of him at all.
“Ayu, I didn’t expect you…” Lin Xiao spoke hesitantly. Obviously, no matter how much Su Zimo pretended not to know them, they couldn’t suddenly lose their memories when they met him again.
Su Zimo tilted his head slightly and smiled. “Sorry, I scared some customers before. As compensation, the new products and old products in the store can be sold to you at the lowest price possible.”
Really, the prices of the goods in the store were already too low.
“If you accept mobile payment, I don’t mind buying things here.” Wu Qing hated the Gan family but enjoyed using their financial resources. What’s more is that buying such things in the empty shop would only be a drop in the bucket even if Wu Qing used his own pocket change.
Su Zimo glanced at Jiang Wei. “I vaguely remember that this customer has a balance remaining.”
He didn’t just vaguely remember; he remembered that he had given Jiang Wei 40 yuan as change. He felt it was deeply impolite for a customer who returned to leave again with change.
“Does anyone here need any help? Perhaps your task has reached a bottleneck?” Su Zimo was still smiling.
“Maybe you actually do know something.” Wu Qing glanced at Lin Xiao and Jiang Wei who were hiding near Shelf No. 2, then spoke to Su Zimo behind the counter. “We… no. I have solved two supernatural events in the teaching building. Of a total of seven supernatural events, six have already been solved.”
“Congratulations.” Su Zimo nodded.
“But we have no clues about the last supernatural event.” Wu Qing continued. “If even one supernatural event isn’t resolved, all of our efforts will be futile. I hope to get the last clue from you.”
Su Zimo shook his head. “This shop sells goods, not clues.”
“……”
Anticipating what Wu Qing wanted to say, Su Zimo spoke first, “Almost all tasks have logic to them, either strong or weak. I believe the clues may have appeared in front of you long ago, but they went unnoticed.”
“We’ve traveled all over the school and found six supernatural events. I don’t think I missed anything.” Wu Qing shook his head.
Su Zimo wasn’t surprised. After all, this guy was never the type to listen to other people’s advice.
Thinking of that, Su Zimo simply sat down behind the counter. Ghost Umbrella stood in front of the cabinet filed with drinks and glasses, then finally poured a cup of water for all of the trainers present in disposable paper cups. He placed a slice of cheesecake and iced green tea in front of Su Zimo.
Such differential treatment, it was visible to the naked eye.
Ghost Umbrella did not like those customers.
Wu Qing was taken aback after seeing Su Zimo’s treatment, but still took a sip to moisten his throat before continuing to speak. “Would this gentleman not help me analyze it?”
“Please.” Su Zimo held his plate with both hands, so he could only nod gently.
“We’ve solved six supernatural events. Each time we clear a task, we learn the name of the supernatural event from our left arms.”
“The first was the scream in the library. The malicious spirit hiding there was a female student who died for unknown reasons. Since then, there have been screams every so often in the quiet library.”
“The second was the sound of skipping rope in the girls dormitory. The sound of skipping rope has been heard from the innermost room of the first floor of the girls dorms. After opening the door, we saw a female ghost hanging herself with a skipping rope.”
“The third was the sound of water in the public bathroom, so it was also an incident involving sound. The water and electricity to the university had been shut down long ago, but the public bathroom next to the dorm was still full of water. The ghost hiding there died from unknown causes.”
“The fourth was people who can’t get out of the school. After leaving the public bathroom, we saw someone running around the teaching building. I thought it was one of the newcomers who left the team, but I quickly discovered it was a malicious spirit, so we followed it. We found that the malicious spirit desperately approached the school gate in hopes of leaving, but in the end just shook his head helplessly and continued running around campus. I didn’t want to waste time, so I didn’t let the malicious spirit run another lap. I solved it immediately.”
“The fifth was the man in the wall on the third floor of the teaching building. The blue and white chalk in the hallway were all his artwork, and he himself was hiding in the chalk drawings on the wall.”
The sixth was in the lecture hall on the second floor of the teaching building. It was called the sound of nails crossing the blackboard. It was a figure that was completely charred and has been writing something completely illegible on the board next to it.”
“That’s all.” Wu Qing nodded to confirm that nothing was missing.
“So most of the causes of death are unknown?” Su Zimo leaned on the counter, tapping the top rhythmically with his hand. “There is significance to human existence, and ghosts as well. Maybe their cause of death is the clue you need to find.”
“All of the malicious spirits are gone, so I can’t get any new clues?” Wu Qing looked disapproving.
“I remember that the ghost on the third floor of the teaching building kept repeating the phrase ‘the sky is blue’. Maybe you can recall if the other ghosts acted like that.” Su Zimo spoke absently, thinking about how to get the trainers to spend their remaining money.
In other words, from the first moment Su Zimo asked Wu Qing, he had already had a plan.
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“……” Wu Qing paused, then spoke hesitantly. “Many of the malicious spirits didn’t have the opportunity to make a sound. However, although the one in the library was screaming, she occasionally yelled something.”
“The noisy ghost seemed to be calling other people out for being too noisy, hoping they would leave and go to where they were supposed to be.” Wu Qing spoke truthfully, but he didn’t know why.
“And the one with the skipping rope in the dorm left a note saying: ‘I can’t stand it anymore, the sound of the ball.’
“It’s really weird. It was obviously malicious spirits who still kept their voices after death, but what they feared most seemed to be the sound of something else.” Jiang Wei whispered while standing distantly away, then looked at Su Zimo with a thoughtful look. “Ayu, did you find something?”
“I think the seventh spiritual event should be…” Su Zimo, who was distracted, suddenly paused, then smiled and walked with his long legs from behind the counter to the front. “I think there are a few products here that should be useful to you.”
That being said, Su Zimo picked up the notebook that was just put on the shelf and introduced it. “This is a notebook that records information about the nightmare world. As an apology, you can now purchase it for only 1 yuan.”
Su Zimo knew all of the information in the text boxes of the products.
[Description: There seems to be something written in the notebook, but there is a force blocking the text. Nothing can be seen.]