98: Chapter 98 Campus

Hanging up Bai Yu's distress call, Lin Ye casually tossed his phone into his pocket.

He raised his head, his gaze passing through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the guesthouse to look straight at the scorching sun hanging high in the sky at noon.

The sunlight was blindingly dazzling, and visible heatwaves rolled across the asphalt road.

Frost Star leaned closer, tilting her face up to look at Lin Ye, her heterochromatic eyes flashing with a murderous glint eager to try.

The dark blue bone knife in the little girl's hand had already been half-drawn.

"Brother-in-law, should we go over right now and chop it into pieces!"

Lin Ye curled his finger and gave the little girl's smooth forehead a flick.

"What's the rush, put away your knife."

He turned and walked towards the sofa, picking up the black jacket draped over the back, his tone exuding absolute control and professional competence.

"That bronze tripod has been buried underground for over a millennium, long saturated by the dead Qi of underground yin veins. No matter how ferocious the evil entity inside is, it wouldn't dare break the seal at noon."

"If it dares to show its head, the true fire of the sun in the sky will instantly roast it into a pile of black ash on the spot."

Lin Ye put on his jacket and straightened his collar.

"If this thing wants to cause trouble, it has to wait until sunset, the bewitching hour when yin and yang alternate. If we rush to the underground laboratory now, apart from sitting there and wasting energy, it's completely useless."

Leng Yue had changed into a new outfit and slowly stepped out from the master bedroom.

She wore a black French wide-brimmed hat, hiding most of her face in shadow.

A form-fitting black waist-cinching trench coat was left open, revealing a wine-red bodycon skirt underneath.

As she walked, her straight, slender, snow-white jade legs were exposed without reservation. On her feet were a pair of black slender-heeled high heels, and every step exuded an extremely strong sense of oppression.

"What are Husband's plans?"

Leng Yue walked to Lin Ye's side, and a cold fragrance of red spider lilies completely enveloped the surrounding air.

Lin Ye reached out with a large hand to embrace her slender waist, pulling her slightly closer into his arms.

"Bai Yu's archaeology department building is right inside Jiangzhou University. Since we have nothing else to do, we might as well take a stroll around the university campus and incidentally figure out the feng shui and terrain around that building."

Half an hour later, the South Gate of Jiangzhou University.

It was lunchtime, and the campus main road was bustling with people.

Both sides of the road were planted with tall ginkgo trees, their early autumn leaves tinted with a layer of golden yellow.

The moment Lin Ye's group of four stepped into the school gate, an eerie silence immediately fell upon the originally noisy tree-lined avenue.

This family combination walking on campus was completely a dimensionality reduction strike.

Leng Yue's supermodel figure coupled with her unapproachable, cold and glamorous aura directly overshadowed the passing female college students, making them look dim.

Frost Star carried a bright yellow little duck backpack, holding a freshly bought brown sugar ciba and gnawing on it with her mouth full of sugar crumbs. Her yandere loli appearance caused countless girls to turn their heads frequently.

Ayugu wore a short T-shirt and ripped jeans, and the Miao Territory silver ornaments on her neck and wrists jingled with her footsteps, exuding an uninhibited, wild exotic charm.

Several boys who had just finished playing basketball walked past carrying their basketballs.

The boy walking in the very front stared straight at Leng Yue's long legs, stumbled under his feet, and fell face down straight into the flowerbed.

The boy following behind loosened his grip, and the basketball rolled far away down the slope.

"Holy crap! Which entertainment company came to our school to scout locations for filming?"

"So top-tier! That royal sister wearing a hat is practically killing me!"

"Who is that guy in the middle? Bringing three top-notch beauties to stroll around the campus all by himself, does his family have a mine or is his dad the school director? He's way too powerful!"

The surrounding whispers constantly reached their ears.

The jealous gazes cast by the male compatriots converged, almost burning a few holes in Lin Ye's back.

Lin Ye walked in the middle of the three women, inwardly complaining frantically.

Bringing these few ancestors out was purely asking for trouble for himself.

This trip of his had completely turned him into a moving hate target.

Mealtime was approaching.

Lin Ye familiarly led the team into Jiangzhou University's first cafeteria.

A rich fragrance of food hit them in the face.

Ayugu had the most sensitive sense of smell. She had long since thrown the restraint of the Miao Territory Saintess to the winds, picked up a stainless-steel tray, and trotted all the way to the stall front of spicy xiangguo.

She ordered a large basin of fiery red xiangguo and carried the tray toward the smart self-service checkout counter at the exit.

Blue data streams jumped across the screen of the checkout machine.

Ayugu had just put down the tray when the machine made a crisp "beep" sound, and an infrared scanning beam suddenly shot out, accurately striking her face.

The voice broadcast was mechanical and cold: "Facial recognition in progress, please keep your face facing the screen."

Ayugu's expression changed drastically, her pupils constricted as she took two steps back, almost overturning the tray in her hand to the ground.

The Miao Territory girl's right hand flashed toward the cloth bag at her waist, pulling out that fiery red highly venomous beetle.

"Demonic arts! This square iron box is extracting my living soul!"

She screamed at the top of her lungs, and the surrounding college students queuing up for food all turned their heads in unison, looking at this peculiarly styled girl with full faces of question marks.

Ayugu exerted force in her fingertips, about to sacrifice her natal Gu insect to completely corrode this checkout machine, which cost tens of thousands of yuan, into a pool of molten iron.

Lin Ye saw this clearly from behind.

He took a stride forward, his figure pressing close to Ayugu's back.

His arms directly crossed over her shoulders, and his large hand firmly grasped her wrist which was about to exert force.

Their bodies produced an extremely close contact at this moment.

The pure yang heat contained in Lin Ye's palm passed through the thin short-sleeved fabric, continuously conducting into Ayugu's meridians.

Ayugu trembled violently all over, her originally vigilant cheeks instantly burning with two patches of rosy clouds, the blush spreading all the way to the roots of her ears, and her struggling movements immediately stiffening in mid-air.

"That's a face-scanning payment terminal, doesn't your place have internet?"

Lin Ye smoothly snatched the beetle from her hand and stuffed it back into the cloth bag.

Then he took out his phone, opened the payment code, and scanned it against the machine.

"Payment successful."

The machine uttered a rigid broadcast.

Ayugu bit her lips, lowered her head, and picked up the tray, dashing towards a distant dining table as if running for her life, not even daring to let the silver rings on her neck make a sound.

The surrounding college students watching the show held back their laughter until their faces turned completely red.

Several boys even gave Lin Ye a thumbs-up, their eyes filled with admiration for this "player"...

In the afternoon, the sunlight gradually softened.

The four of them sat on a wooden bench by the artificial lake to rest.

The slightly cool autumn breeze brushed across the sparkling lake surface, stirring the weeping willows along the shore.

Leng Yue sat quietly beside Lin Ye, her gaze falling on a few white swans swimming on the lake.

A burst of noisy footsteps broke the tranquility of the lakeside.

Several exquisitely dressed students approached.

The leader was a boy in his early twenties, wearing the current season's limited-edition trendy brand, with a reflective Patek Philippe on his wrist.

He held a thick stack of tarot cards in his hand, and a palm-sized brass compass hung conspicuously from his belt.

The boy ignored Lin Ye who was sitting in the middle, walked straight up to Leng Yue, and struck a pose he considered profound and charming.

"This older sister, I am the president of the school's Folklore and Occult Studies Club."

"I see faint purple Qi lingering between your eyebrows, and your destiny palace has unusual astral phenomena. Meeting is fate, why don't I use this out-of-print astrological tarot deck to divine your fortune for free?"

The boy tossed out large chunks of esoteric and awkward astrological terms, trying to use them to show his unfathomable depth and attract the attention of this top-tier iceberg royal sister.

The two pretty female followers behind him looked at him with adoring eyes.

Leng Yue didn't even lift her eyelids, treating the person standing before her as a mass of air.

Lin Ye leaned against the back of the bench, and the system's punchable notification sound rang out on time.

"Ding! "My Lord, Please Behave Yourself" System prompt: Detected that a campus player is attempting to display slight skill before an authentic Heavenly Master. Showing off broadswords before Guan Yu, please host within three minutes to finalize a response plan and give the hothouse flowers in the ivory tower some hardcore shock!"

The light screen unfolded, listing three options:

[Option A: Physical expulsion — Instruct Frost Star to show them the true power of a zombie and tear the tarot cards into pieces on the spot.]

[Reward: Overbearing Wife-Protection Medal. Consequence: The situation goes out of control, The Ninth Bureau enters to clean up the mess, and the rare campus vacation is completely ruined.]

[Option B: Cyber fortune-telling, reverse dimensionality reduction — Smoothly take his props. Utilizing the Iron-Mouth Direct Verdict title and Taoist foundation, expose his player background on the spot and ruin his reputation!]

[Reward: Husband Points +200, obtain magical artifact [Peach Wood Carved Comb].]

[Option C: Keep silent — Let the other party point fingers before two high-tier Corpse Kings and see how long he can put on an act.]

[Reward: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Trial Card. Consequence: Leng Yue loses patience and burns him into charcoal with a strike of Red Lotus Karmic Fire.]

This group of ignorant college students, daring to talk about occultism in front of a Drought Demon and Corpse Kings, was purely like Shou Xing eating arsenic.

"I choose B."

Lin Ye stood up, unceremoniously snatching the tarot cards and compass from the rich second-generation heir's hands and tossing them casually onto the bench.

"Divining fortune?"

Lin Ye sneered, the Iron-Mouth Direct Verdict title instantly activating, radiating a convincing Taoist majesty all over his body.

His gaze was like lightning, sizing up the boy from top to bottom, outputting directly to his face in modern vernacular mixed with feng shui terminology.

"Your destiny palace is darkened, the area under your eyes is swollen and greenish-blue, and your steps when walking are hollow and rootless."

"You stayed in Executive Suite 802 of the downtown Sands Hotel until 3 AM last night, suffering from kidney deficiency and night sweats, and you haven't recovered even after taking two pills. You're talking to me about unusual astral phenomena?"

The rich second-generation boy's face suddenly turned pale, and he took a step back, looking at Lin Ye as if seeing a ghost.

Lin Ye didn't give him a single moment to breathe, pointing at the miscellaneous trinkets on his body and continuing to roast.

"That red string on your left wrist was prayed for you by the finance department beauty at Putuo Temple last week. The tassel hanging from the Maserati car key in your right pants pocket is a safety amulet knitted overnight by a freshman girl from the art department."

"You take these ten-yuan-for-three-books superficial occult fur from street stalls to pick up girls, aren't you afraid of retribution when walking at night one day?"

This precise and frantic output hit every single nail on the head.

The two female followers behind the rich second-generation boy were struck by lightning on the spot.

One of the girls backhanded a slap across the rich second-generation boy's face, tearfully cursed "scum", and turned to run wildly away.

The rich second-generation boy's defense was completely broken. Holding his swollen cheeks, he didn't even bother to pick up the compass on the ground, tucking his tail and fleeing in panic.

The surrounding students watching the commotion burst into earth-shattering laughter.

"Ding! Option task completed, Husband Points +200, current points: 5500."

"Magical artifact [Peach Wood Carved Comb] has been issued to the storage space."

Lin Ye sat back down on the bench and patted the dust off his hands.

The idle people dispersed, and the lakeside returned to tranquility.

A breeze blew past, bringing a slight fishy scent of the lake water.

Lin Ye's wrist flipped, and a wooden comb exuding a faint fragrance appeared out of thin air in his palm.

The surface of the comb was carved with intricate interconnected branch patterns, and the wood texture was warm and delicate.

Leng Yue glanced at him, a trace of soft light welling up in her deep red pupils.

She naturally turned her body sideways, resting her head gently on Lin Ye's sturdy and warm knees.

She raised her hand to take off the black wide-brimmed hat, and her full head of silvery-white long hair poured down like a galaxy, instantly spilling and scattering across Lin Ye's lap and the edge of the wooden chair.

Lin Ye held the wooden comb, his movements light and gentle.

From top to bottom, he combed through that silk-smooth long hair stroke by stroke.

The lake breeze swept past with the chill of autumn.

Leng Yue closed her eyes, her cheeks pressing tightly against Lin Ye's knees.

Her fair and slender back of the neck was completely exposed under the slanted sunlight, exuding the warm and moist luster of top-tier mutton-fat jade.

Lin Ye's fingertips shuttled through the silver hair strands, occasionally touching her slightly cool cervical spine joints.

The scalding heat of pure yang and the icy cold of the Drought Demon produced a strong temperature contrast the moment their skin touched.

This faint yet lingering sensory stimulation went straight through the nerve endings to all limbs and bones...

Until the setting sun descended westward, and the horizon ignited with blood-red sunset glow.

The hustle and bustle in the campus gradually faded away, and the tree-lined avenue was empty.

Lin Ye put away the wooden comb and stood up from the bench.

Leng Yue tidied up her hair strands and put on the wide-brimmed hat again.

Ayugu and Frost Star also stopped frolicking and obediently walked behind Lin Ye.

The four of them walked side by side.

Passing through several dense woods, an old building made of red bricks appeared at the end of their line of sight.

This was Jiangzhou University's archaeology department experimental building.

As the sunlight completely faded away.

The evergreen shrubs planted around the building, the instant they lost sunlight irradiation, saw their branches and leaves droop down in unison, presenting a withered and morbid ashen feeling.

A visible, dense dead Qi was creeping upward along the ivy on the outside of the walls.

Lin Ye walked to the side door of the building.

The wooden door panel was ajar, and not a single ray of light leaked through the crack of the door.

He reached out and pushed open the side door, melting into an impenetrable pitch-black hallway.

Deep in the second basement level, that faint and intermittent dull sound of fingernails scratching against metal echoed endlessly in the deserted corridor.