Chapter 93: Named Tianshu

Senior Sister Mo was indeed quick-witted and experienced, able to think of this possibility so quickly.
After I asked the question she wanted me to ask, the two female ghosts indeed reached a consensus.
The pencil moved towards “Yes.”

A person and a ghost colluded to kill the former Safety Consultant.
Such a horrifying thing had actually happened four years ago.
Just then, I suddenly thought of someone, someone who should have still been in school at that time.

Mo Qingyan thought the same thing I did.
She opened her mouth and asked, “Was it Liang Tianshu?”

Liang Tianshu?
Was that Senior Brother Liang’s full name?
To be named after the last star of the Big Dipper felt so imposing.

The two female ghosts hesitated for a moment, but still pointed to “No.”
I didn’t know if it was because it really had nothing to do with Senior Brother Liang, or if the female ghosts didn’t know if he was involved.

I felt that it probably had nothing to do with him.
After all, Senior Brother Liang should have only been in his first or second year of high school at that time.
To be able to collude with a ghost and kill the Safety Consultant at that age would be truly too vicious.

It was my turn to ask again.
After thinking for a moment, I asked, “Where is the Safety Consultant’s body?”

The red pencil wrote out neat characters: “Field.”

Field?
Jianlong Middle School did have a soccer field, which the boys usually used for playing soccer and for morning exercises.
Besides the grass, there was only the running track.
It was vast and open.
Where could a body possibly be hidden?

Thinking of this, a sudden chill ran down my spine.
Who said a body couldn’t be hidden in a field?
What if it was buried underground?

Finally, it was Mo Qingyan’s turn to ask again.
She thought for a moment and then asked, “What is the new Safety Consultant’s purpose?”

The neat handwriting wrote down two words: “Exorcise evil.”
The information written by the ghosts was always pitifully scarce, but I could roughly guess the meaning they wanted to convey.

I breathed a sigh of relief.
Yi Zhiqiu was not targeting me, nor did he have any special purpose.
If he could really clean up the resentful energy and ghosts buried deep beneath the school, it would be a great thing.

But Mo Qingyan’s brow was tightly furrowed.
She was silent for a moment before her brow relaxed.
She said, “Bixian, Bixian, that’s all for today.”
“Please return.”

The two female ghosts released their hands.
Before leaving, the female ghost who had jumped off the building glanced at me one more time.
Unlike the hanging ghost, whose face was almost completely obscured by her long hair, this jumping ghost’s entire cracked head, and eyes that were almost falling out of their sockets, looked at me.

Cold sweat instantly drenched me, and my stomach churned.
I had the urge to vomit, but I held it back.
I lowered my head so as not to look at the female ghost and did not let go of the pencil, quietly waiting for her to disappear.

When the sinister wind stopped, Mo Qingyan said, “The Bixian has left.”
“You can let go now.”
“Take a moment to catch your breath.”
“Although I can’t see the Bixian directly, you must have seen a rather terrifying sight, right?”

“Phew!”
I let go of the pencil and leaned back in my chair, patting my chest repeatedly, trying to calm my racing heart and churning stomach acid.

Mo Qingyan brought over a brazier.
With a gentle point of her finger, a raging fire ignited in the brazier, instantly dispelling the surrounding coldness.
Then, Mo Qingyan threw the paper the Bixian had just written on into the brazier.
The flames quickly burned away the paper, which was already tainted with ominous aura.

Then Mo Qingyan took out a teapot, poured a cup of hot tea, and handed it to me.
“This is tea boiled with red dates and goji berries.”
“Drink more of it to replenish your blood and qi.”

“Thank you,” I took a sip of the hot tea, and immediately felt much better.
Mo Qingyan also poured herself a cup and drank it slowly.

“Very good.”
“We now know where the former Safety Consultant went.”
“Now, how are you going to tell Yi Zhiqiu?” Mo Qingyan asked while sipping her tea.

“How to tell Yi Zhiqiu?”
“How about I just tell him I heard it from a classmate?”
I hadn’t thought about this problem before.

“He would then ask you which classmates you heard it from, and how they knew the whereabouts of the former Safety Consultant.”
“You have to know, this was an unsolved case back then,” Mo Qingyan immediately rejected my idea.

“Oh, right.”
“Then what should I do?”
“Tell him the former Safety Consultant told me in a dream?” I asked.
I had seen a news story on the computer earlier about a murdered girl who appeared in her sister’s dream, leading to the discovery of where her body was dumped.

“A clumsy excuse.”
“Let’s not even talk about how that Safety Consultant is not related to you in any way and would have no reason to appear in your dream.”
“And why would he appear in your dream right after Yi Zhiqiu started investigating, after being dead for four years?” Mo Qingyan said.

“That’s true too.”
“Then how can I tell Yi Zhiqiu this news naturally?” I asked in frustration.
It seemed that no matter how I put it, it would sound suspicious.

“It’s simple.”
“Just tell Yi Zhiqiu that we told you,” Mo Qingyan said.
I was stunned for a moment.
“Huh?”
“We?”

“Yes, just say you heard it from the Supernatural Events Department.”
“Say that many students in the school have seen a middle-aged man with a scar on his face haunting the field,” Mo Qingyan said.

“Huh?”
“Isn’t that just a campus urban legend then?”
“What if Yi Zhiqiu comes to the Supernatural Events Department to verify it with you later?” I asked worriedly.

“How to explain?”
“Of course, we’ll stick to the same story.”
“We also heard the rumors from other students.”
“The Supernatural Events Department has a club activity of collecting and organizing campus rumors, so it’s natural for us to know these things.”
“As for how he verifies it, that’s his business,” Mo Qingyan said.

I understood at once.
As long as she said she didn’t know which students she heard the rumors from, Yi Zhiqiu wouldn’t be able to prove the authenticity of the source.
And I was only providing a rumor, not concrete information.
Yi Zhiqiu would have to verify its truthfulness himself.

But this clue pointed in the right direction.
If he could find the former Safety Consultant’s body, Yi Zhiqiu would naturally believe the rumor to be true.
And since the source was a suspected ghost sighting, there was even less need for verification.

“I understand.”
“I’ll go and tell Yi Zhiqiu tomorrow,” I said, taking another large gulp of tea.

“By the way, Luo Xiao, have you enshrined Xia Yubing’s parents yet?” Mo Qingyan suddenly remembered something and reminded me.

“Ah, not yet.”
“I completely forgot to buy an incense holder.”
“Right now, I’ve just temporarily placed two candles and some offerings like fruit and glutinous rice,” I said.

“It’s good that you didn’t forget the offerings, just haven’t set up the incense holder yet.”
“If those two are not satisfied, you might be in trouble again.”
“But you should hurry up and place them in the incense holder.”
“Ask Xiao Qing to go with you to buy one after school,” Mo Qingyan said.

“I know.”
“I’ll buy one today.”
“The more high-end, the better, right?” I thought for a moment.
As long as those two old folks were comfortable and didn’t come to trouble me, it didn’t matter if I spent a little more money.
After all, that money was originally theirs.

“Mm, after enshrining them in the incense holder, you should also insert these soul-pacifying incense sticks in front of the paper figures.”
“It will make them more peaceful,” Mo Qingyan said, handing me a bundle of incense sticks.