CHAPTER 34: CHAPTER 7: THE LEGENDARY ’POSTGRADUATE EXAM GHOST

It was as if it seeped in from the walls, causing her stomach to churn violently.

"Did you smell it?"

Her urgent and eager eyes looked at the two of them, Mu Yunchu, fearful that they might deny it again.

Fortunately, Yu Lan also pinched her nose, "I smell it too, why is this place so stinky?"

Chen Wanjun inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, thank goodness she wasn’t the only one feeling it.

Otherwise, she might have fainted from fright on the spot.

But the sense of relief didn’t last long, under the gaze of the other two, she suddenly felt a reverse apprehension.

The dormitory building that had been sealed for five years emitted a stench of decay; what was behind the doors of this dormitory...

Just thinking about it made her shiver.

"Yun... Yun... Chu."

Unconsciously, she began to stutter.

She wanted to ask about the possible source of the stench.

But even Mu Yunchu wasn’t quite sure.

So she prepared to go inside and take a look.

The dormitory door was made of iron, and due to years of neglect and lack of lubrication, opening it was accompanied by an extremely unsettling ’creak’.

Very piercing.

As the door opened, a wave of cold air rushed in. Stepping inside was peculiar as the room had no open windows.

Chen Wanjun: "..."

Mu Yunchu glanced around the room, which was decorated in a very old-fashioned way: dusty beds, worn-out tables and chairs, particularly eerie.

"How strange; there’s clearly nothing here."

Chen Wanjun and Yu Lan exchanged a look, obviously thinking the same thing.

There was obviously nothing in this room, yet where did the stench come from?

Only Mu Yunchu was looking in a direction—at the small table in the far corner, there sat a large male ghost deeply engrossed in studying.

He was flipping through a book while muttering under his breath.

Mu Yunchu pondered for a moment.

This was probably the ’graduate exam ghost’ they had talked about.

Sighed silently.

His resentment so profound that even after all these years he lingered in the place he lived before death, reciting books.

Whether due to her gaze being hard to ignore, the ghost—who was studiously reading just a moment ago—suddenly sensed something and turned his head in an eerie manner.

That ghostly face appeared in Mu Yunchu’s vision.

Tangled hair scattered messily across his forehead, faintly emitting a fatigued, rancid smell. His face, pale as paper with no hint of blood, revealing a bluish-gray hue, as if tortured before death. Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark circles that matched his image of death from overwork.

The graduate exam ghost paused for a moment, then his eyes lit up, abruptly flashing to Mu Yunchu’s front, grinning hideously, yet excitedly.

"A living person? A living person?"

He gulped again.

Mu Yunchu subtly shifted her eyes to the side, catching Chen Wanjun and the others still nervously scrutinizing the room with peripheral vision, knowing they couldn’t see the ghost.

"Why are there more and more living people entering these days," the male ghost mumbled, "Should I scare them for some fun?"

Apparently, he hadn’t yet realized that Mu Yunchu could see him.

Just as he planned to suddenly reveal himself with a ghostly face, Mu Yunchu suddenly looked over.

Graduate exam ghost: !!!

Can’t be!

This girl can see him?

No time to recover from the shock, just as Mu Yunchu casually placed her hand into her bag, then naturally took out something.

"Oh my!"

The graduate exam ghost was so startled, he wished he could jump out of the room.

But due to the restriction, he could only curl up in the corner.

Looking at the item in this pretty girl’s hand, he couldn’t help trembling uncontrollably, "Who-who-who are you?"

The panicked Chen Wanjun and Yu Lan watched as Mu Yunchu, expressionless, pulled a deep-brown wooden sword from her backpack.

Seemingly like a toy, but in Mu Yunchu’s hand, it exuded a different kind of aura.

"Is this...?"

Chen Wanjun felt this object looked familiar, but couldn’t name it.

"Peach Wood Sword."

Before they could even ask, Mu Yunchu answered word by word.

Right hand holding the sword, left hand lightly caressing its blade.

Peach: The essence of the five woods, also known as sacred wood with divine powers to ward off evil spirits. When crafted into a sword, it becomes a magic artifact that wards off evil and disasters, affecting ghosts to varying degrees.

For ghosts like the graduate exam ghost, who basically have no mana and can barely form, the deterrent power is considerable.

He had sensed the item just now and shrank into the corner out of fear.

And at this moment, from the angle only the graduate exam ghost could see, that seemingly ordinary peach wood sword seemed to flash golden light for an instant.

Graduate exam ghost: "..."

He sort of wants to cry.

Sort of wants to find his mom.

He trembled for ages, yet found Mu Yunchu apparently didn’t intend to make him vanish. At least she hadn’t acted after such a while.

But just when he completely relaxed, Mu Yunchu suddenly slipped a note over.

She didn’t want the thing to emerge and scare her roommates, so she devised this ’silent’ way of communication.

It’s said the graduate exam ghost had stayed here for a long time, so he should know something about the unusual happenings in this building.

Sure enough, after Mu Yunchu’s questioning, she got very important clues.

He said he died here twenty-two years ago. Because he couldn’t get into graduate school, feeling he failed his family and teachers, he couldn’t think straight and hung himself.

Mu Yunchu was not surprised hearing this; it wasn’t much different from the school’s rumors.

After his death in this building, somehow, he turned to a ghost. He waited a long time but never met the legendary ghost messenger to take him away.

After waiting for so long, he stopped thinking about it, figuring that since he was idle, it was better to read and enrich his knowledge.

Other ghosts would occasionally be present in the building, but they didn’t interact much.

In his third year of death, something remarkable appeared in this building.

According to him, it was a strong, frightening negative aura. Since that night, the dormitory building underwent dramatic changes.

Also from that day, strange occurrences in the dormitory became frequent.

Mu Yunchu wanted to ask more about that ghost, but the other shook his head like a rattle, refusing to say more.

Under her pressure, the graduate exam ghost hesitated and said, "I can only tell you to check room 404; I really don’t know anything else."

She roughly organized the known information in her head, then looked at the other two, suddenly proposing to go see the fourth floor.

...

Mu Yunchu’s steps were much more resolute than before, on the fourth floor no longer searching, heading straight for room 404.

Standing at the door, she felt something was wrong.