Zhang Xia had no idea about the existence of the yin qi  around them. She just felt that the temperature suddenly seemed to have dropped a few degrees as they approached the dormitory building, making her feel chilly.

She thought it was because the insulation effect of the dormitory building was good, so she didn’t take it too seriously and simply took An Rugu and Shang Yue to Room 201.

As soon as the door opened, two boys with sunny dispositions and handsome looks came into view. They were wearing school uniforms and playing with their mobile phones, which gave off deafening sound effects.

“Hurry up and come to the middle and catch Daji with me!”

“Stop shouting, stop shouting, I’m coming now!”

Zhang Xia saw that her brother, Zhang Jingyuan, was still playing on his mobile phone, and she shouted in anger, “Stop playing games! Is now the time to play games?”

Zhang Jingyuan didn’t even raise his head, his fingers quickly skimming across the screen, finding joy amidst his sorrow, “If we don’t play games now, we will never be able to play games again after we, too, get possessed.”

Zhang Xia: “…”

An Rugu: “…”

This person who was haunted by yin qi was really optimistic ah.

Zhang Jingyuan became impatient because of his sister’s nagging. He raised his head and flicked her a glance. His fingers stopped abruptly, and he froze on the spot.

An Rugu’s skin was flawless, and her eyes were clear, but there was a coldness in her gaze that made people dare not approach her. She was too beautiful to be true.

Zhang Jingyuan’s game character stopped all movement, causing the roommate next to him to yell, “You plan to stand still to lure Daji? Are you that good of an actor?”

The roommate looked at Zhang Jingyuan impatiently, then followed his gaze towards An Rugu. His hands also stopped moving, and now two boys were frozen in place.

The two of them immediately became composed, turned off the game obediently, and stood up from their chairs—as reserved as students undergoing military training.

He said politely, “Older sister, what do you want from me?”

Zhang Xia glared at him and said, “Do you still not want to say what happened? What on earth did your roommates do to cause both of them to fall into a coma?”

Then she introduced An Rugu, “This is my classmate from college, and the person I asked to help. Tell her everything. She is very powerful. Maybe she can help you solve it.”

Zhang Jingyuan’s eyes passed over An Rugu, and he suddenly realized that this must be the goddess of their college that his sister often told him about!

An Rugu’s eyes were as bright as ever, and Zhang Jingyuan somehow couldn’t show the same secretive attitude towards her. He could only scratch his head and replied hesitantly, “Actually, the four of us played a game a few days ago…”

Zhang Xia asked curiously, “What game?”

Zhang Jingyuan exchanged looks with his remaining roommate, a hint of fear in his heart. He gritted his teeth and said, “It’s something we saw on the Internet, that is… ‘Spirit of the Pen’¹.”

… …

The life of students living on campus was a bit boring. In order to find excitement, they usually played games and watched horror movies. There were not many good horror movies playing these days, so they finished them all by now. They then set their sights on something more exciting—playing ‘Spirit of the Pen’.

The more people who play ‘Spirit of the Pen’, the more fun it would be; this was especially suitable for the four people in their dormitory.

So they followed the online method and played the game ‘Spirit of the Pen’ one evening.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Zhang Xia: “???”

She was terribly shocked, “Why on earth would you do this? Are you crazy?!”

Zhang Jingyuan scratched his face and indeed felt very guilty, “I can’t help it, living on campus is too boring.”

“You’re really not busy!” Zhang Xia had heard about the game ‘Spirit of the Pen’ and asked worriedly, “So… your two roommates are in a coma because they encountered a spirit. Didn’t you send it away properly after talking to it?”

In the game, after asking the spirit questions, you needed to send it away. If you don’t follow the rules, it was said that there would be terrible consequences.

“We are not that courageous, how dare we deliberately break the taboo?” Zhang Jingyuan swore, “We really sent the spirit away according to the rules.”

“Then why is this thing happening?” Zhang Xia was frightened and whispered to herself, “Is the stuff on the Internet inaccurate?”

An Rugu kept her gaze on Zhang Jingyuan’s face, always feeling that there was something else he wasn’t saying, so she looked directly into his eyes and said in a cold voice, “Besides the ‘Spirit of the Pen’ game, was there anything else that was out of the usual?”

When he heard this question, Zhang Jingyuan was a little surprised at her keenness. After a little hesitation, he finally nodded. “There was indeed something unusual. We went to bed after playing ‘Spirit of the Pen’. When we got up the next day, we found that there was something on the table where we played the game the previous night. There was an extra exercise book. It was the same style as the exercise book we used for homework, but it looked to be very old, and there was a little reddish-brown stuff on the edges—it vaguely looked like blood.

“I was so scared that I didn’t want to touch the exercise book. My roommate Zhao Siming threw the exercise book into the trash can outside.

“Do you think this is happening because of the exercise book?”

An Rugu was thoughtful after hearing this. “I don’t know, I have to find that exercise book. Can I look for it in your dormitory?”

Logically speaking, this exercise book should be a link between ghosts and humans, and it should still be in this dormitory.

“Sure.”

An Rugu blinked, and her yin and yang eyes opened. At this time, a faint trail of yin qi came into her vision.

With everyone looking expectantly at her, she walked towards the yin qi, raised her hand and opened the drawer—a familiar yellowed exercise book came into view.

Zhang Jingyuan and his roommate: “!!!”

Other people in the room:”!!!”

Zhang Jingyuan was shocked and quickly backed away: “Didn’t Zhao Siming throw away this exercise book? How could it appear in Zhao Siming’s drawer?”

The roommate shook his head like a rattle drum and said in a horrified tone, “I don’t know.”

Zhang Xia was so frightened that she stood timidly with her younger brother, hiding behind him, and not daring to get close to the old exercise book.

Under everyone’s horrified gaze, An Rugu stretched out her hand and quickly took out the yellowed exercise book from the drawer.

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FOOTNOTE:

1. This should be something like a makeshift Quija board, where a spirit is invited to possess the pen and it will answer the questions asked by writing things down, or perhaps pointing to pre-written words like ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.
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