The Days of a Player-Character in a Bizarre World - Chapter 12

The system’s annoying voice was teasing her.

Fu You rolled her eyes and said, “Stop it. What’s the next dungeon?”

[Don’t be so angry~ I really admire your proactive personality~]

The system seemed to sense that Fu You had something else to say, so it immediately started to give her the next dungeon’s information, blocking Fu You’s mouth.

[Dungeon Name: The Bizarre Campus

Danger Level: Two Stars

Dungeon Description: It is rumored that the youthful yang energy of young people can suppress all evil. That’s why many schools are built on mass graves… Chengchun University, located next to a private cemetery, has a school forum that archives many supernatural events, and curious young students who are looking for trouble…

Dungeon Boss: No information available

Conditions for Completion: Win over the Boss and get their happiness value to 99%.

Rewards: 1 random dungeon item, 500,000 “salty fish” coins, 1 revival card

Current Happiness Value: 0%

Special Item: None available]

“Why does it say ‘no information available’ for the Dungeon Boss?”

Fu You didn’t understand. In the first dungeon, she found the Boss right away. But in the second one, it wouldn’t tell her who the Boss was?

[Host, you need to use your “salty fish” coins to purchase information about the Boss. This is a hint. By the way, Host, you currently have 150,000 “salty fish” coins, which is only enough to unlock one piece of information. Would you like to use it?]

Fu You thought for a moment and made her decision. “Then I’ll take one piece of information about the Boss.”

[Dungeon Boss: He has always had a “white moonlight” in his heart. No one can bear his love.]

Fu You waited for a long time, but the system didn’t continue. She spread her hands and shrugged her shoulders, asking in disbelief, “That… that’s it?”

[Yes~]

Fu You: “…”

For a moment, she felt like she had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on game coins, only for the game to glitch out and use the money on something completely useless.

She didn’t see a thing, and she didn’t get a thing.

Fu You didn’t even want to complain. She quietly waited for the countdown to end. She blinked, adjusted to the sudden light, and opened her eyes to find herself in a classroom.

She instinctively scanned her surroundings. The classroom curtains were all closed, completely blocking out the sunlight.

She was sitting at a desk. She looked down and saw a white piece of paper filled with letters and a burning white candle on the desk. On her left and right, two girls in school uniforms were also sitting.

The three of them were holding a sharpened pencil together. The tip of the pencil was in the center of the paper. The other two girls were staring intently at the pencil, muttering to themselves:

“Spirit, spirit, you are my past life, and I am your present life. If you want to continue our bond, please draw a circle on the paper…”

They were playing the planchette game, which was said to summon ghosts and spirits. Fu You had no desire to continue.

But she knew the rules of the game: once it started, you couldn’t quit in the middle.

However, the rules didn’t say she had to chant the spell.

Fu You looked around, surveying her surroundings, calculating over and over again in her mind how to escape. The front door, the back door, or even jumping out of the window—she was planning which route suited her best.

If something really happened in a moment…

Boom—

Suddenly, an old-fashioned radio near the podium let out a loud bang. A dull, heavy sound appeared, scaring the two girls in front of her into a shiver.

She didn’t know who used too much force, but the tip of the pencil suddenly broke, leaving a deep black-gray mark on the white paper.

“What’s going on?”

The girl on Fu You’s left had a student haircut. Her short hair reached her chin. She had a pure look, but the only flaw was a large black-red birthmark on her right cheek.

Her name was Suo Xianglu.

She looked panicked, staring intently at the old-fashioned radio that was making the sound. Her wide eyes didn’t dare to blink.

“Could it… could it really be that the spirit… came…?”

The girl on her right had two pigtails and a side-swept fringe. Her cheeks had some baby fat, making her look chubby and cute.

Her name was Wu Ledan.

The two of them were Fu You’s best friends from elementary school to college. They were also lucky enough to be assigned to the same dorm in college, which was a great coincidence.

Fu You’s family was much better off than theirs. She was also pretty and had a great personality. From elementary school to college, Fu You was always the goddess and “campus beauty” in the eyes of all the students. Almost everyone, regardless of gender, liked her.

Suo Xianglu and Wu Ledan’s families were average, but both had great personalities. The friendship between the three of them had never wavered.

They always took care of each other, and even when they fought, there would always be someone to act as a peacemaker.

Just then, the pencil in their hands began to shake uncontrollably.

The two of them were terrified. They widened their eyes and shifted their attention back to the paper and pencil. They didn’t dare to blink.

Wu Ledan instinctively swallowed. She asked Suo Xianglu and Fu You, “That… it’s not you… moving it, is it?”

Suo Xianglu shook her head like a rattle. “I swear, I’m not!”

“Fu You, what about you?”

Seeing that the two of them were about to cry, Fu You slowly shook her head. “I’m not either.”

If none of the three of them were moving the pencil, then that meant…

Whoosh… whoosh…

In the classroom with the doors and windows tightly shut, the three of them felt a cool breeze blow by, from behind them to their feet, and then from their feet to their upper bodies.

At that moment, a very slow music came from the podium.

The sound was very hoarse, so hoarse that it had some static. It complemented the slow tune, giving people a feeling of instinctive creepiness.

Goosebumps instantly covered their bodies.

Fu You listened carefully to the song being played on the old-fashioned radio. The more she listened, the more familiar it sounded. Fu You could even confirm that it was a very classic song.

But she couldn’t remember the name for a moment.

At that moment, the pencil in their hands finally stopped moving.

Wu Ledan drew a line under the letters the pencil had marked and circled them. She then combined the letters and read out the answer with a trembling voice:

“Yes—”

The two-letter answer was clearly the spirit’s response to Suo Xianglu’s question, “Could it really be that the spirit came?”

Suo Xianglu and Wu Ledan did their best to calm themselves down. They took several deep breaths and finally calmed down. Suo Xianglu began to ask her a question:

“Spirit, spirit, if you’re really here, I’d like to ask if I can accept He Hongwei’s confession. He confessed to me last week.”

On Friday night, Suo Xianglu was in the library looking up information when she met He Hongwei and received a small note from him that read, “I like you. Will you be my girlfriend?”

This made Suo Xianglu very happy. After all, she had had a crush on him ever since she entered the school.

But because of the birthmark on her face, the very insecure Suo Xianglu didn’t dare to believe that someone would actually like her. Even though Wu Ledan and Fu You had always encouraged her, she was still hesitant to accept.

She was afraid that it was all a lie.

So, on the weekend, she found He Hongwei and rejected him.

However, He Hongwei didn’t give up and continued to pursue her.

Suo Xianglu was both touched by He Hongwei’s feelings and worried that he might be playing a joke on her. What if it was true…?

When she got back to the dorm, she was bored and scrolling through the school forum when she suddenly saw a post from a student about a supernatural event in an abandoned classroom.

The original post said that in the abandoned music classroom at Chunxi University, there lived a ghost spirit that could answer all of a student’s questions. The poster recounted their personal experience and said that they had summoned the ghost spirit in that classroom and had been given guidance.

So, Suo Xianglu proposed to Wu Ledan and Fu You that they go into the abandoned classroom to summon the spirit to help her decide whether or not to accept He Hongwei’s confession.

But in reality, Wu Ledan didn’t believe in ghosts. She and Fu You just wanted to use this so-called ghost spirit to help Suo Xianglu be more confident. They hoped she wouldn’t be so insecure.

So, they were originally planning to create a supernatural event to help Suo Xianglu be more confident.

But who would have known that soon after the game started, the radio that wasn’t even plugged in and had been broken for a long time would suddenly make a sound, and then a cool breeze would appear in the sealed room?

But now, all three of them had denied moving the pencil. The pencil moved on its own and even answered the white paper.

At this moment, they felt their scalps tingle. But then they remembered what the blogger on the forum had said: as long as they didn’t offend the ghost spirit and didn’t ask it any offensive questions, then after the normal Q&A was over, they could just follow the procedure to send the ghost spirit away, and everything would be fine…

They didn’t know what had gone wrong, or maybe the extremely slow music had affected them, but Suo Xianglu and Wu Ledan gradually calmed down.

Then, they looked at the pencil in their hands. The pencil had returned to the starting point.

The next second, the pencil that was at the starting point began to move again.

“N-O—”

This time, it only gave two letters.

Seeing the spirit’s answer, the three of them instinctively looked up and at each other.

Suo Xianglu visibly looked disappointed and slowly lowered her head. Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something, or maybe she just didn’t want Wu Ledan and Fu You to worry. She forced a bitter smile onto her face.

“It’s just as I thought. He Hongwei probably lost a game of truth or dare with his friends and was given me as his target.

He just had to confess to me and then dump me once I accepted. I went through this kind of prank in high school. I didn’t think I’d still encounter it in college, hahaha—”

“Lu Lu…” Wu Ledan looked at her with some heartache. She wanted to comfort her but didn’t know what to say. She was afraid that anything she said would make Suo Xianglu feel like she was being pitied or something else. In the end, she stopped herself.

However, Fu You said, “He’s just a man. Why get sad and blame yourself? If you ask me, you should just accept him and then dump him before he dumps you. Let’s see what he does then!”

Suo Xianglu just smiled weakly. She then looked at Fu You and Wu Ledan and said, “Do you have anything you want to ask? Let’s finish up early and go back to sleep.”

Wu Ledan nodded. She closed her eyes and asked, “Spirit, spirit, I want to know if my true love will be at Chengchun University?”

The pencil slowly moved again, and the answer was still “N-O.”

Wu Ledan instinctively pouted. “Ah, no way. There isn’t one…” But she quickly got excited again. She didn’t know what she was thinking, but she opened her mouth and continued to ask:

“Spirit, spirit, will Fu You’s true love appear?”