Lu Liangting had always felt that Bai Yu was very unusual. She was the kindest ghostly monster he had ever seen. In his experience, kind-hearted ghostly monsters were always the ones who got bullied.
That made a certain amount of sense. The kinder a ghostly monster, the shallower its obsession. How could a ghost without a deep obsession become powerful? It was bound to be a target. Conversely, the more powerful a ghost, the deeper its obsession. Supported by immense resentment, how could its strength be weak?
So he didn’t understand why it was like this. A ghost so incredibly kind, possessing such formidable combat power.
It was strong to the point of being absurd.
He knew about the thing that had been barricading the door outside. It had effortlessly eliminated those other ghosts. That kind of strength placed it in the upper echelon of all ghosts.
And then the girl in the white dress appeared. In the time it took for her to act, she had nearly beaten this ghost to death.
At most, another two strikes of her blade, and it would be dead.
And that wasn’t even the most critical part. The most critical part was: how long had it taken?
From the moment the Red-Clothed Fierce Ghost stopped knocking until he opened the door, it had been less than three seconds, right?
To beat a Red-Clothed Fierce Ghost into such a state in three seconds was completely unheard of.
Yet, even possessing such immense power, she didn’t go out to harm people. Instead, she helped them everywhere. Take himself, for example. How many times had it been now? At least five, right? Each time, she had pulled him back from the clutches of death.
And then look at Shen Shuyun. Shen Shuyun was clearly a good person, while the Fierce Ghost on the ground was scum.
Shen Shuyun didn’t have the power to take revenge, so the girl in the white dress avenged her.
Lu Liangting suddenly understood why she always kept a cold expression on her face. It was probably a form of self-protection.
Only by appearing strong and unapproachable would others not dare to bother her.
And considering she had possessed such power yet still died at the age of fifteen… it was truly hard to imagine what she had endured in life.
Just thinking about it made his heart ache. Such a clearly kind and gentle girl, yet she had to disguise herself like this.
Could it be that she also really wanted to make friends but was just too afraid?
Lu Liangting felt that, having interacted with many people in similar situations, he should be able to discern a bit of the truth.
He chose to trust his intuition.
Force wouldn’t work. Only time could slowly help her lower her guard.
The prerequisite, of course, was that he could have the chance to stay in contact with her.
Thinking of this, Lu Liangting spoke again. “I… I really don’t have any ill intentions towards you. I just want to be friends, because I think you’re a very, very gentle person. But if you’re not willing right now, then let’s just forget it.”
“Just please believe that I am not a bad person.”
As these words left his mouth, before Bai Yu could even respond, Shen Shuyun, leaning against the wall having laughed herself tired, looked over.
Her gaze at Lu Liangting was filled with deep emotion.
One could only say that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. The male leads were always this kind of character.
If he knew that the so-called gentle girl before him had actually killed a five-digit number of people, what kind of thoughts would go through his mind?
Bai Yu had killed over a thousand game participants. But the majority of the people she had killed were actually NPCs within the storylines.
Yet everyone knew that those NPCs were also living, breathing people. So it wasn’t strange at all that Bai Yu was called the Doctor.
It should be noted that her previous title sounded far more ruthless than her current one.
But it also had to be said, there were people even more ruthless than her, namely the female lead, Zhao Mingyue.
Zhao Mingyue wouldn’t just say that kind of thing directly; she would make decisions outright for the Doctor. And the key point was, the Doctor tacitly agreed.
She wondered if Zhao Mingyue had been eaten by that group of imps over at the Children’s Palace yet.
At the same time, Children’s Palace.
Zhao Mingyue gripped her solid magic staff with both hands, standing inside the dance studio of the Children’s Palace.
The side quest [Red Dancing Shoes] took place right here.
Gazing at this dance studio, Zhao Mingyue furrowed her brow deeply. A school converted from an orphanage, funded by donations from caring members of society—why would it have a dance studio like this?
The studio was on the third floor, covering an area of about one hundred square meters.
“Red Dancing Shoes… where exactly are they?”
The weak beam of the flashlight swept across the room. Inside, there were only stacked chairs, everything covered in thick layers of dust.
The innermost wall was a mirror, equally coated in dust. Combined with the poor lighting, one could only see a blurry reflection of oneself by getting very close to the mirrored surface.
She needed to find the red dancing shoes here and then put them on.
But she had searched a wide area and couldn’t find even a trace of any shoes.
Arriving before the mirror, Zhao Mingyue shone her flashlight onto it. She wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but she felt the person in the mirror wasn’t her. The face was indistinct, the build not quite like hers—a complete stranger.
Whoosh!
A black shadow flickered past in the mirror. Zhao Mingyue whirled around abruptly, but there was nothing behind her.
“An illusion? No, something definitely came!”
Zhao Mingyue turned back. The “self” in the mirror had already transformed into a female ghost wearing a school uniform, her face rotting and crawling with maggots.
The female ghost grinned maliciously and lunged out of the mirror fiercely.
Zhao Mingyue didn’t panic in the slightest. She swung the solid magic staff in her hands viciously down towards the female ghost’s face.
She didn’t know if the object in her hands could harm ghostly monsters; her counterattack was purely instinctual.
She had actually started to regret coming here because she realized she had no effective means of harming ghostly monsters.
However, just as the magic staff struck down, a large amount of blood threads surged from its tip.
The moment the blood threads made contact with the female ghost, they burst apart. The female ghost couldn’t even let out a scream before dissolving into a wisp of black smoke.
Zhao Mingyue was stunned. She blinked, looking at the magic staff in her hands in disbelief.
She knew better than anyone what those blood threads were. Recalling how decisively Bai Yu had left earlier, she suddenly understood everything. A wave of warmth spread through her heart.
“So… she really cares about me this much.”
“Heh, now that I have Sister Yu’s treasure, I don’t have to be afraid anymore.”
Muttering to herself, she smashed the mirror in front of her with a single swing of her hammer-like staff.
In the next moment, she froze.
Behind the mirror was a twisted, dried corpse. And the red dancing shoes she had been searching for were on the feet of that very corpse.
“Burying a body behind a mirror… so the girls who practiced dancing here were facing a corpse the entire time…”
Zhao Mingyue fell silent. She was beginning to realize that the principal of this school might not be as good-natured as she had thought.
“It’s fine. As long as I don’t run into any living people, just ghostly monsters, it’ll be okay!”
At that same moment, outside the Children’s Palace, someone raised their head, looking towards the light on the third floor.
