Jiu Ge’s Beloved Spirit

Not far from the laboratory building to the south gate of the school, the two of them walked together. The junior student, who was particularly considerate and gentleman, slightly tilted his umbrella to her side.

It was raining heavily, and the two of them should have been closer together, but he was extraordinarily measured and gave her a more central position, while he stood in the corner——

Even if his sleeves are about to get wet from the rain.

"Senior sister, I heard that you want to continue studying for a Ph.D.?"

Rather than letting silence fall between the two, he began to try to strike up a conversation with her.

Yun Si looked at him, smiled slightly, and nodded, "How do you know?"

He was a little embarrassed, "I just accidentally... I overheard the chat between senior sister you and senior sister Ning Xuan, and I heard what you were talking about about the doctorate... But I didn't mean it - "

As if he was afraid that she would misunderstand, he quickly added an explanation, "I just happened to pass by accidentally and heard it."

"..." Yun Si raised her eyebrows, looked at his obviously nervous face, smiled, and her tone became gentler and more approachable, "Don't be nervous, I can't eat people."

Probably because she was used to being aloof and alone in the laboratory on weekdays, and rarely had contact with these junior students, so they were very afraid of her and were cautious about what she said.

The rain was falling heavily, and she glanced at his body that was about to exit the umbrella, stretched out her hand, and gently pulled him in.

With just a touch, he instantly felt as if he had been burned, "Senior—Senior—"

But at this moment, the senior sister's attention seemed not to be on him anymore.

After just a polite tug, she stopped her hand. She originally wanted to say something, but suddenly, her eyes passed through him and fixed on somewhere in the distance.

"Senior?" the innocent boy under the same umbrella with her whispered.

He followed her gaze - but saw nothing.

It was raining heavily, and there was no one else on the school road except them.

The place where the senior is looking is...

"It's okay." Her calm and gentle voice drew his attention back, as if the moment just now was just her distraction.

"What did you just say?" She didn't listen carefully.

The two of them walked towards the south gate together, one tall and one short, walking slowly.

"Ah, it's okay...it's just...senpai is pretty good, I'm not nervous..."

"..." She laughed, "You're not nervous but you still stutter when you speak?"

"...Ah...are you...are you? Just...I don't stutter now..."

Soon, the two figures disappeared outside the south gate.

Under the hazy heavy rain, the rain washed away the ginkgo trees on the roadside, and the low shrubs were drenched with their heads bowed, "pitter patter", and the branches and leaves were heavy.

It was white and the rain was cold, like mist but not mist.

There was a flash of light and thunder shook the ground.

In the unknown place just now, in the hidden sound of heavy rain, a shadow appeared vaguely.

Humanoid, vaguely humanoid.

With a strong sense of otherworldliness that makes people want to scream and fear, it is cold, quiet and suffocating.

It exists there, like an abyss, like darkness, like a void, a universe that is constantly collapsing and compressing.

It appears, again.

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"Senior, see you tomorrow—"

When she walked to the door of the convenience store, before Yun Si could react, an umbrella was stuffed in her hand.

The junior student who smiled shyly along the way gave her an umbrella and ran away. He was caught in the heavy rain and ran to the bus stop not far away.

"Senior, just return the umbrella to me tomorrow. I'll go now and say goodbye——"

Yun Si: "Hey, you——"

She was confused.

It's not just that he agreed to send her to a convenience store. She could just buy an umbrella herself. Why did he still——