Chapter 79: Official Member

It was Mo Qingyan who answered me.
“She is also one of the true members of the Supernatural Events Department.”
“Her name is Bai Yue.”
“Oh well, since you’ve officially joined the Supernatural Events Department, it’s about time you met the other members.”
“Wait a moment.”

Mo Qingyan took out her phone, sent a group message, and then led us out of the club building to a secluded corner of the school park.
There was a round stone table here with several stone chairs.

Three students were already sitting there waiting, two boys and a girl.
I had seen one of the boys before; he was the one who was organizing the photos in the camera in the Supernatural Events Department clubroom.

“Come and meet the new member.”
“This is our newcomer, Student Xia Yubing.”
“Everyone, welcome her,” Mo Qingyan introduced, using the name Xia Yubing instead of my original name.

“Hehe, there’s no need for you to introduce her, Department Head.”
“Who doesn’t know the famous school beauty?” one of the boys said with a laugh.

“That’s right.”
“The day I saw the great school beauty being brought to our clubroom by Ou Zhiqin, I guessed you might join.”
“I never thought I’d get to be in the same club as the school beauty.”
“I’m truly honored,” said the boy I had seen in the clubroom.

Only the girl remained seated, simply glancing at me and giving a slight nod without speaking.
She must be the Bai Yue that Xiao Qing mentioned.

She was petite and had a very cute and sweet appearance, looking more like a middle school student than a high schooler.
Her skin was extremely fair, and she had a pageboy haircut.
Her bright black eyes seemed to possess a gravitational pull, as if they could suck in a person’s soul.

She was also wearing several very intricate silver ornaments.
Under a carved silver bracelet, a thin silver chain was strung with many small locks.
She wore earrings made of two small, hollow spheres on her ears.
Because she was sitting, I could even see an artistically designed silver leg ring beneath her short skirt.

And every single one of these silver ornaments was an artifact.
The spiritual light from each piece was no less than that of my jade pendant, some even surpassed it.
This caused my vision to be filled with a field of silver light when I looked at her, making it difficult to even see her form clearly.

But I could also tell that there was a faint ominous aura within her body.
These silver artifacts were suppressing this ominous aura.
However, rather than purifying it, it was more like the artifacts were sealing the ominous aura inside her body, preventing it from getting out.

This seemingly adorable young girl was the most dangerous among all these people.
I had such a premonition; just getting close to her felt somewhat dangerous.

“Xia Yubing, let me introduce you.”
“This is Student Jia Cheng.”
“Do you want to learn about demons and ghosts?”
“He’s an expert in the supernatural,” Mo Qingyan said, introducing the boy I’d seen in the clubroom first.

“Welcome.”
“Student Xia, I’m in Year 2, Class B.”
“I used to see you around often,” said the boy named Jia Cheng.

“This is Xu Shan, my classmate.”
“When it comes to the art of spirit channeling, no one can compare to him,” Mo Qingyan said, introducing the other boy.
That meant he was a third-year senior as well.

“Hehe, what spirit channeling?”
“It’s really just a ghost summoning technique.”
“But if Junior Sister Xia needs help, I can assist,” Xu Shan said humbly.

“And lastly, this is Bai Yue.”
“Don’t be fooled by the fact that she’s only a first-year.”
“She… is likely the strongest among us,” Mo Qingyan said, a hint of apprehension in her voice, her tone extremely serious.

“Sister Mo, you’re exaggerating.”
“How could I possibly be stronger than you?” Bai Yue finally spoke, her voice soft and sweet, very cute and pleasant to hear.

“Hehe, it’s no exaggeration.”
“We all know how formidable Xiao Yue is,” Jia Cheng laughed.
Xu Shan also added, “Junior Sister Xia, in the Supernatural Events Department, you can offend the two of us as you please, but you must never offend Xiao Yue, or you’ll die a miserable death.”

Was it really that serious?
I looked at this cute little sister, completely unable to see how she could be such a terrifying existence.
But her strength seemed to be universally acknowledged by everyone.

“You guys, stop joking around with Xiao Yue!”
“Xiao… Sister Xia, don’t listen to their nonsense.”
“Xiao Yue is actually very easy to talk to.”
“If she were really as scary as they say, these two would have been dead without a trace long ago!” Ou Zhiqin said, a little angry.

The two boys admitted it honestly, “Hehe, we were just teasing Xiao Yue.”
“Don’t worry, Xiao Yue is really easy to talk to.”
“If you need anything, she can always solve it.”

A shy, slightly embarrassed expression appeared on Bai Yue’s face.
She said softly, “The seniors aren’t wrong.”
“I am indeed a little bit dangerous.”

Before she could specify what kind of danger, Mo Qingyan clapped her hands and said, “Alright, that’s enough for introductions.”
“Everyone present here can sense auras, which means you are all the true members of the Supernatural Events Department.”

Mo Qingyan’s words revealed the entry requirement for the Supernatural Events Department, or rather, the qualification to be involved with supernatural events.
You didn’t have to be able to see ghosts, but you at least had to be able to sense qi.
If you couldn’t even sense qi, you couldn’t even get your foot in the door.

“The new Safety Consultant hired by the school today is an exorcist who cooperates with the police.”
“He’s most likely here for the resentful energy being suppressed by the school,” Mo Qingyan said again.

“The resentful energy suppressed by the school?” Bai Yue asked in confusion.
I hadn’t expected that she, who was acknowledged as the strongest, would be puzzled by this question.
Or perhaps she had just enrolled not long ago and hadn’t heard the rumors yet.

“Oh, right, Yue’er doesn’t know yet.”
“Then I’ll say it again, and it’ll give all of you a comprehensive understanding as well,” Mo Qingyan said.

“You’ve probably all heard that Jianlong Middle School was once built on a mass grave.”
“In fact, most schools are built on cemeteries.”
“The purpose is to use the vibrant energy of the students to wear away the resentful energy in the burial grounds.”

This was the first time I had heard this explanation.
I had heard similar stories before and always thought they were just urban legends.
I never expected it to be true, and that most schools were built on cemeteries.

My aura observations over the past few days had indeed led me to a similar conclusion.
Young students are at the peak of their vital energy.
It is constantly growing, increasing in both quality and quantity.
A person reaches their peak in their prime, and after that, their vital energy will decline.

And the person I had seen with the strongest vital energy was Yi Zhiqiu.
If other people’s essence was a candle, then his was practically the sun.
Staring at it was blinding.

“However, the original location of Jianlong Middle School, Jianlong Hill, is a place of yin.”
“The ominous aura here is even heavier.”
“On top of that, the process of leveling the mass grave back then was quite crude, and some corpses were damaged, which led to the construction site being haunted, and several workers died,” Mo Qingyan continued.

“To appease the wrath of the malicious ghosts, the boss at that time took several workers who were already entangled by ghosts and whose yang energy was depleted, and while they were still alive, buried them directly into the foundation pillars of the school as human pillars.”
“This is the so-called ‘living sacrifice pillar’.”

“Although this act temporarily pacified the wrath of the malicious ghosts, it caused the resentful energy to grow even stronger.”
“Suppressed for years by the vibrant energy of Jianlong Middle School’s students, it has accumulated to a considerable scale.”