Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven

The boy, gazing at Shen Wang's earnest face, hesitated for a long time before asking tentatively, "Are you... a Taoist priest?"

Shen Wang shook his head: "No."

The boy asked again, "A monk?"

Shen Wang continued to shake his head.

Wang Kai was not pleased: "Look at our Brother Shen, with his thick, lustrous hair and handsome face. Does he look like a monk or a priest to you? Let me tell you, Brother Shen is a hermit of the highest order!"

As he spoke, seeing the boy still skeptical, Wang Kai bit the bullet and used his own experience to convince him, animatedly boasting about how Shen Wang caught a scammer with just a few text messages.

To make the story more credible, Wang Kai cleverly started with "I had a friend who was scammed" to add authenticity.

After hearing Wang Kai's story, the boy nodded thoughtfully: "So, the Wang student who was scammed out of a hundred thousand on the banner over that road near our dormitory, that was you."

Wang Kai fell silent for a few seconds, then laughed awkwardly: "Not me, how could it be me? That was just a friend of mine."

Li Pingping and Xu Cheng couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

Wang Kai turned around with a deadpan expression, glaring at the two of them with a deathly stare.

Li Pingping quickly wiped off his smile, saying seriously, "I'm not laughing at you. I just remembered something happy."

Xu Cheng quickly followed, "I also remembered something happy."

Wang Kai: "..." What, did your wives give birth on the same day?

Ignoring the comic trio, Shen Wang looked at the boy who came for help, his expression sincere: "Looking at your face, your roommate has been possessed for a while now. Although the ghost means no harm, humans and ghosts have different paths. Prolonged possession can impact a living person's health."

"Being his roommate and in close contact daily, you'll also be affected."

The boy, who was hesitating, was startled.

"Have you recently experienced a significant decline in sleep quality? Not only is your sleep duration reduced, but you also feel tired and weary after waking up?"

The boy's pupils shrank. He used to fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes, but now he tosses and turns for a long time and is easily awakened by the slightest noise.

"Have you lost your appetite? Not just for food, but a diminished desire in other aspects as well?"

While speaking, Shen Wang's gaze drifted downwards, finally resting on a peculiar spot, giving the boy a 'you know what I mean' look.

The boy inhaled sharply: "Master, save me!"

"Certainly, certainly," Shen Wang smiled and extended his right hand, rubbing his thumb and forefinger together, "You can count on me."

The boy, having never encountered such a situation and unsure of the market rates, looked at Shen Wang's expression and ventured, "Would five hundred... be enough?"

Wang Kai exploded on the spot: "Are you insulting us? Five hundred! That’s like giving alms to a beggar. I spent two..."

"Deal!" Shen Wang finalized decisively.

Wang Kai's remaining words got stuck in his throat as he looked at Shen Wang in shock, his pupils shaking.

After accepting the offer, Shen Wang realized he might have been a bit harsh on his last client. Knowing each other for so long, he explained, "Even a mosquito's leg is meat, after all."

The image of Shen Wang as a sage that Wang Kai had built up in his mind cracked a bit, but he filled the cracks with tears: "Brother Shen is right!"

It's just twenty thousand yuan. Buying an opportunity to get close to Brother Shen and a key to a new world is worth it!

The boy hadn't expected his casually mentioned figure to be accepted so readily, feeling like he had stumbled upon a great deal. He immediately took out his phone and transferred the money to Shen Wang.

Consequently, everyone in the dormitory heard a payment notification.

'Alipay payment received: 250 yuan.'

Hearing this amount, everyone's expressions became subtly odd, their eyes on the boy filled with strangeness.

The boy, shyly touching his hair, said, "This is the deposit. After the job is done, I'll have my roommate pay you the remaining balance... After all, he's the one in trouble. It can't be just me paying."

Shen Wang looked at the figure with mixed feelings, feeling like he had been attacked in some way, but seeing the boy's expression, it seemed not. Finally, he said, "Let's go and see what's going on with your roommate."

After learning that the roommate was possessed by a ghost, the others felt a mix of fear and a peculiar curiosity and urge. They stood crowded together, all following closely behind Shen Wang, not even daring to breathe loudly.

As soon as they opened the dormitory door, a chilling breeze swept through the room.

Li Pingping and Wang Kai shivered in unison, their exposed arms breaking out in goosebumps.

"It's only April, why do you have the air conditioning on so high?" Li Pingping rubbed his arms and asked the boy standing next to him in a low voice.

The boy, scared, said, "Who the hell would set the air conditioning so low at this time?"

At this, everyone fell silent for a few seconds, quickly moving closer to Shen Wang, with Li Pingping grabbing onto the hem of Shen Wang's clothes and holding on tightly.

Shen Wang looked at Li Pingping with disdain and then turned his gaze to the dormitory interior, immediately spotting the roommate furiously writing at the desk.

When the boy talked about how his roommate was studying relentlessly, Wang Kai and the others thought he was exaggerating. But seeing the roommate in person, they were all startled.

The boy, who lived with the roommate, hadn’t noticed, but Wang Kai and the others could tell at a glance.

The roommate was originally a slightly plump typical otaku, often talking about losing weight. However, over the years, instead of slimming down, he had gained even more weight.

But in just a few days of not seeing him, his previously well-fitting clothes now hung loosely, and his whole body had shrunk in size.

The boy also realized belatedly: "Damn, when did he lose so much weight? That’s freaking scary."

Originally, he hadn’t quite believed Shen Wang’s claim about ghost possession, thinking of it as just spending a few hundred yuan for peace of mind. But now, looking at his roommate, he felt a chill down his spine.

What else in this world, aside from liposuction, could make someone lose so much weight so quickly? Especially since he knew the roommate had been reviewing in the dorm all along, with no time for weight loss.

Shen Wang walked straight up to the roommate, casually pulled over a stool and sat down: "What’s your name?"

The others: "!!!"

Brother Shen is so brave!

They didn’t dare get too close, only watching from the doorway, not too far or too close, quickly figuring out a retreat route in case they needed to run.

The roommate's expression was stiff and numb, with dark circles under his eyes and a haggard look. He seemed to not hear Shen Wang, continuing to copy content from the textbook over and over.

Shen Wang leaned back slightly: "You wander among the living; do you have any unresolved attachments?"

The roommate seemed oblivious.

Clicking his tongue, Shen Wang continued: "You are already dead. You should have been reincarnated long ago. Possessing a living person not only harms them but also brings you karmic debt."

Seeing the roommate still unresponsive, Shen Wang snorted coldly, pressing his forefinger on the roommate's temple, a faint spiritual energy flickering at his fingertip. Suddenly, the roommate’s head banged onto the table with a loud thud.

The people in the distance were startled: "Brother Shen! Is everything okay?"

Then, they saw Shen Wang's gaze shift from the roommate to an empty spot on the floor, speaking to the air: "I spoke to you nicely, and you didn’t listen. Do I need to show you some color for you to understand what respect is?"

The onlookers: "!!!"

It might have been inappropriate, but they couldn't help but inwardly exclaim: Damn, he's so cool, so handsome!

From Shen Wang’s perspective, there lay a transparent ghost on the ground. The ghost was shivering, looking at Shen Wang, and suddenly started to sob: "I didn't mean to harm anyone, I just didn't want to fail my exams!"

"To avoid failing, I studied till I died suddenly. Even after death, I kept reading every day. I'm sure, this time I'll pass! I just wanted to borrow his body to take the exam!"

Shen Wang was at a loss for words: "So, you really loved studying, huh?"