After hearing this, An Rugu put down her phone and walked up to Zhang Jingyuan. Others also came over and looked at the phone in Zhang Jingyuan’s hand.

Zhang Jingyuan was able to dig out an old post from the school forum. It was from eight years ago. “I only found this one person who particularly fits his characteristics. It should be him. This news was also published in our local newspaper at the time, and it’s said that it triggered everyone’s concern about the mental health of high school students.”

Title of the post: [Can anyone tell me what happened to the student who jumped from the Wencai Building a few days ago?]

Floor 1¹: [I don’t know. I heard others say that he is a sophomore in high school. It’s really scary. Why couldn’t he think about it first?]

Floor 2: [Did he jump off the building because of too much study pressure? RIP.]

Floor 18: [I know him. His name is Zhou Keyu. He is the monitor of our class. Although he is a nerd, he is quite a good person. He especially loves to study and his grades always rank first in the class. He didn’t get first place in the last monthly exam and only got third place. Maybe he couldn’t accept it, so he committed suicide by jumping off the building.]

Floor 19: [… Is this the world of academic masters??? If I was able to get into the top three in the exam, and my parents would be so excited that they burned incense!]

Floor 24: [You don’t understand the brain circuit of a top student.]

Floor 27: [Let me make a rational analysis. This kind of person often has very high demands on themselves and studies day and night, so they can become top academics. He may have very severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he easily collapsed once he failed to achieve the desired ranking.]

… …

Floor 167: [The incident of Zhou Keyu jumping off the building was reported by the TV station, and the school was interviewed by the Education Bureau. I heard from my mother that there seems to be a new rule. After each monthly exam, students will not be shown their rankings. They are concerned that students will not be able to think about things clearly because they failed in the exam.]

Floor 327: [Holy shit, this is true! Our class teacher also said that the rankings will not be announced in the monthly exams from now on. Only the midterm exams and final exams will have their rankings announced. He said that we should not pay too much attention to scores and rankings.]

Floor 328: [Oh, if only had this rule at that time, Zhou Keyu wouldn’t have overthought things.]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Zhang Jingyuan and his roommate looked at each other. Their school did have a rule not to announce the rankings in the monthly exams, but they didn’t know that the trigger behind this rule was actually Zhou Keyu.

The thought of summoning a spirit through the game and finding out that the person they were chatting with turned out to be a ghost who committed suicide in this way gave them goosebumps all over their bodies.

They were so frightened that they quickly asked An Rugu, now the most reliable person in their eyes, “Master, what should we do?”

“Will he come to us again in the future?”

After reading these posts in the school forum, An Rugu had already made a judgment in her mind. The information about the student named Zhou Keyu matched that of the game planner.

This ghost had stayed in school for eight years. Because he was too bored, he seduced the souls of two people. His motives for what happened were also explained…

The case has now been solved, and it seemed that the person who committed suicide was really Zhou Keyu.

An Rugu thought of the exercise book she had just finished purifying and turned her head to look at Zhang Jingyuan, “Can you call now and ask if your two other roommates are awake?”

“Oh, yes, yes!” Zhang Jingyuan and his roommate quickly took out their mobile phones and called their friends’ parents.

Two high school students fainted in the dormitory for no reason, one after another, which had a great impact. The news had spread throughout the school. Currently, the parents of the two students were accompanying them in the hospital’s ICU.

Zhao Siming’s parents told Zhang Jingyuan in a tone exhausted but tinged with joy, “The doctor just told me that Siming hasn’t woken up yet, but his physical condition is better than before, and he might wake up soon.”

The same news came from Su Kai’s parents.

It seemed that after An Rugu destroyed the exercise book, the situation of the two students suddenly improved.

Seeing everyone’s confusion, An Rugu explained. “They were taken by the ghost in that exercise book. Now that I have destroyed the exercise book, the ghost is seriously injured, and his ability to control the souls that he had taken away was greatly reduced. If we could capture where this ghost truly resides, the two souls would return to their own bodies.”

Zhang Jingyuan was very happy when he heard this and quickly said, “Then let’s go and rescue them quickly.”

He was genuinely happy to think that his two roommates would be back to normal.

They usually fight and argue all day long, calling each other father and sons all day, but they were really good friends.

The name of this game is called ‘Friendly Game’, but it was actually a killing game. They could obviously choose the roommate they disliked the most as a sacrifice, but they did not do so—which moved Zhang Jingyuan deeply.

He silently thought to himself, His two sons were so filial ah!²

… …

“Which building is Wencai Building?”

“That’s this building, the boy’s dormitory.”

“Okay.” An Rugu picked up her bag, stood up, and opened the door. “I’ll go upstairs and take a look.”

Zhang Xia and other ordinary people did not dare to face the ghost directly, but they did not dare to separate from An Rugu either! What if the ghost took advantage of An Rugu’s absence and attacked them?

They thought about it and made the wiser choice: they followed An Rugu step by step to the rooftop.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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FOOTNOTES:

1. ‘Floor’ is how comments are referred to in chats and forum. Floor 1 is the 1st comment, and so on. The metaphor extends to calling it ‘high rise building’ when there are a lot of comments. ↩︎
2. This line is related to the one above where the roommates ‘call each other father and son all day’ because filial piety is very much a thing—whoever is the father gets to ‘bully’ the sons.  ↩︎