My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit

Hey, he hasn’t come back for a few days, and the folks are thinking of giving him a task, right at his own school.

But he still needs to confirm it.

"So, Uncle Li, you aren’t trying to trick me, right? We’re in Ke University, who’s going to believe this kind of stuff? Did you read it in some ghost story and decide to tell me?" Xue Dili directly used provocation.

"Sigh, I wish it were fake, but at midday I watched the footage all night with the people from the office, didn’t see anything wrong..." Uncle Li took a deep drag on his cigarette, extinguishing the butt in the ashtray.

"Let me tell you kid, back in the military, there was talk of ghosts in the wild zone behind the camp, it was really chaotic, the whole battalion was on edge. You know what happened?" Old Li continued with a laugh, lighting another cigarette.

"Our commander requested a batch of supplies the next day, supposedly from just after liberation, and blasted the whole back mountain overnight, used up five truckloads of goods, and when we went to patrol the back mountain at dawn, there was nothing there, probably even the worms were dead, the ghost talk was immediately dismissed."

He took another drag, saying, "People from my era fear losing, not ghosts. There’s no reason for me to fool you, that thing is really strange."

"Could there be a segment of the surveillance wiped out?" Xue Dili suggested while munching on sunflower seeds.

With the placement of the camera, taking a body from a blind spot to the water room and closing the door probably wouldn’t take more than ten seconds.

Under the stress of checking three months’ footage, would a 10-second cut in the video go unnoticed?

Uncle Li wasn’t pleased, seemingly laughing as he said: "Even if you don’t believe me, you should believe the people from the office, right? Two young folks bought a pack of Red Bull and stayed up all night with me, drank them all, and one of them graduated in computer science from our school, your upperclassman. I’m blind in one eye, not everyone is blind, right?"

Xue Dili: "..."

Confirmed, something strange indeed happened at the school, which led to closing yesterday following the occurrence, they probably used any excuse to close and today they are likely confirming with the office what the problem is, why a corpse could somehow end up in the water room.

Couldn’t be someone fell into the upstream water plant by accident, and was unlucky enough to flush straight to the water room? That doesn’t make sense either, there’s filters there, any corpse would get stuck at the filter and be quickly discovered.

This incident could have a profoundly negative impact, even worse than the whole school suffering lead poisoning.

"By the way, how’s the corpse check going? They should be able to find out how long it’s been dead, right?" Xue Dili continued questioning.

"That’s unclear, the office handled it right away post-incident, also took away the school worker for inquiry, no news since then. I watched surveillance all night, only finished around 7." Uncle Li was unable to provide any additional information, giving Xue Dili a helpless look.

Though they had a good relationship, especially since Xue grew up often visiting the school and knowing him, the rest was unclear to him.

Curiosity took over Xue Dili, wondering what kind of corpse could alert the bureau so greatly? And this corpse should have surfaced within the few days Xue Dili left Earth, otherwise, he’d have noticed something amiss while washing hands during school days, not needed till now.

After all, Cursed Blood is extremely sensitive to this kind of stuff.

At the moment though, this corpse indeed seems problematic, potentially due to supernatural phenomena.

But, in this Earth where Absolute Forbidden Magic prevails, only a few can wield magic power, with Xue Dili’s permission to simply use magic power...

Should magic truly be involved, then Xue Dili would definitely handle the matter.

"Alright, I’ve bought breakfast here, Uncle Li. Your shift’s over!" came another old man’s voice from outside, with Uncle Li finishing his last cigarette cheerfully, saying, "Gotta go, gotta go, no school water today, let the office worry about it, I’m off duty."

Saying that, this old man hurriedly clocked out, while the other old man, Uncle Sun familiar to Xue Dili, didn’t have much info on the school issue.

"Heading home for now, just a stroll." Xue Dili handed half a pack of Huangshan cigarettes to Uncle Sun, leaving the security room.

Xue Dili quickly logged into his mom’s backend, checking the situation around here.

Narrowing the scope to Ke University’s water room was tricky for Xue Dili, yet manageable, he felt as though he had a God’s perspective fast-forwarding the timeline, aware of what appeared in the water room.

Quickly scanning the previous record from when the corpse was found by a school worker yesterday afternoon.