Chapter Ninety-Four: There Are Ghosts

  Yang Yunqiu spent three days, fought more than 100 games, with a record of 97 wins and 3 draws, no losses, and successfully passed the preliminary round.

  Of course, the first test is always a novice, and his achievement is quite eye-catching, but it's not really unthinkable. There have been many talented people who have had the opportunity to come into contact with mecha from an early age, and their strength is still good. The examinee passed the driver qualification exam for the first time with high scores.

  It's just hard to have no negative records.

  After all, no matter how advanced your technology is, the battlefield is full of changes and uncertainties, especially on virtual platforms, where many possible dangers are statistically analyzed and released instantly. For example, if you encounter a meteor shower in front of you, with cosmic radiation above and whirlpools below, and a local fleet passing by behind you.

  When something like this happens, it can be said that it's a matter of life and death.

  In reality, it's impossible to be so unlucky, but virtual platforms don't care about reason or unreason. When faced with high-difficulty backgrounds, they give you all sorts of mixed matches. Sometimes even professional mech pilots like to go to virtual platforms to accept challenges, just to better practice their reaction speed.

  Yang Yunqiu passed the preliminary round with a zero-loss record, instantly attracting attention from many people.

  At first, the test for this type of driver's license was not very popular, with only a few examinees and future examinees watching. However, after Yang Yunqiu's overwhelmingly crushing attacks, which usually ended battles within five minutes, news spread like wildfire across the galaxy that a super mech master was disguising himself as a newcomer in the beginner's testing area. Anyone who had seen him fight couldn't help but take a second look.

  The venue of the mech racing competition was packed, and Federal Xinke Corporation, which owned the platform, was naturally very pleased. They even made an exception to send Yang Yunqiu a gold card in advance, which could be used at a discount of 8% for the best training rooms on the platform.

  However, more and more people noticed that the driver on Star Net seemed to be a newcomer, participating in the driving test for the first time. Although he was decisive in action, fast in speed, and neat in style, a true master could still tell that he had the marks of a newcomer on him, occasionally making some rookie mistakes.

  This person's progress was too fast, by the time of the last few rounds of the initial trial, even the veteran commentators couldn't find any flaws in his actions. Many active mech pilots in the military had also heard that a newcomer named Liao Xianyun was extremely excellent and couldn't help but take some time off to go see for themselves.

  Yang Yunqiu usually focuses on his work, but Li Bo and Xiao Zhu occasionally tease him about the comments on StarNet, so he is not completely unaware of the current situation.

  It turns out that after this period of getting along, Yang Yunqiu finally knew why Li Bo liked Xiao Yu.

  He originally thought that Xiao Yu was a cold and ruthless female interstellar pirate, nothing more ordinary. Only after getting familiar with her did he realize that she was still a little kid, with a soft and naive heart hidden beneath her cold face. Although she also had the ruthlessness of a child, she was full of charm.

  The women Yang Yunqiu met, regardless of age, all had good families. Even if they encountered difficulties later in life, they are now doing well. Unlike Xiao Zhuo, who was abandoned on a garbage planet at birth, kidnapped by pirates, and raised on scraps, unable to speak, learning to steal first, yet still managing to develop a unique temperament that wasn't despicable to the point of being unacceptable, which is truly not easy.

  Li Bo reviewed his lessons, and Yang Yunqiu downloaded a copy of the Federal Code, letting Xiao Zhu memorize it. He had to recite ten pages every day, and during meals, he would be tested. If he failed, he could only eat nutrient solution.

  Xiao Zhu's recitation was very fluent, not to mention that he had really grasped it thoroughly, and it was not a superficial understanding. Li Bo thought it was unbelievable, and even believed that if Xiao Zhu continued like this, after one or two years of studying for the lawyer qualification certificate, he would definitely become one of the top lawyers in the country.

  Yang Yunqiu thought for a moment: "Why don't Xiaozu also go to college?"

  Xiao Zhu was stunned.

  "Studying law, and will work with Li Bo in the future, it's also a matter of husband and wife following each other."

  The husband sang and the wife followed, but Xiao Yu pretended not to hear. She lowered her head, but couldn't help shedding tears.

  She was born until now, seventeen years have passed, no one has ever told her that she can also be like a normal girl and have a normal life.

  Yang Yunqiu had decided on a course of action and never delayed or hesitated. Within a day, her file was spotless, and even the application form was filled out - for the Federal University Law School, with a major in criminal law.

  Then, Li Bohao saw with schadenfreude that Xiao Yu also had a large pile of test questions covered, and it was even more miserable than himself. He was smart and knew how to study on his own since he was young, and he knew something about all kinds of knowledge. Xiao Yu, on the other hand, didn't know anything except for fighting and killing. Yang Yunqiu locked him in a small black room, and if he didn't finish the test questions, he wouldn't be allowed to come out even if he guaranteed the correct rate.

  However, Xiaozu seems to be completely unbothered and even happy about it. Her personality is not good, cold and venomous in the eyes of some people, but she seems to prefer living under other people's orders.

  The three of them were all doing well, just as Yang Yunqiu was preparing to make another push and take the intermediate and advanced tests in one breath, obtaining his driver's license and incidentally signing up for a mech pilot course, when his emergency communicator beeped.

  This contact signal is used at a critical juncture when it is absolutely necessary.

  Yang Yunqiu couldn't help but frown as soon as she received it, and only connected after locking herself in her room.

  "Wang Yi's voice trembled with fear, and he sounded like he was about to cry: 'Teacher, there's a ghost! There's a ghost!'"

  Yang Yunqiu was taken aback and said irritably, "Calm down, what's going on?" What ghost, he was a cultivator, of course, he knew that after a person died, there would be residual soul energy, but it would soon disperse. On Earth, he had only seen pure white soul energy enter the body of a pregnant woman through a special channel, and he really hadn't seen any ghosts.

  Only those who have cultivated their spirit and soul can retain consciousness after death. Of course, there is another situation: if a person dies in a place where evil spirits gather, he himself has heavy evil spirits on his body, plus other special conditions, he can also retain consciousness after death.

  There are indeed many evil spirits gathering on Earth recently, but they are still far from being able to produce ghosts. It's not like the world of Yan Guo, where almost everyone's soul is very strong. Except for a few individuals, after death, if the soul doesn't want to return to reincarnation, it can enter the underworld and barely survive.

  Yang Yunqiu didn't listen to Wang Yi's nonsense and simply went back to take a look herself.

  Once again using the power of thought to activate the space-time door, Yang Yunqiu returned to her own room, tidied herself up a bit, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw Wang Yi, Liu Sheng, and Gao Ming, these three guys were all standing in the rest area outside, Wang Yi and Liu Sheng's faces were a bit pale, Gao Ming's face was bright red, his eyes were also bright red, and he seemed to be emitting flames, looking very angry.

  "What's going on?"

  Yang Yunqiu didn't waste any time and followed the three of them on their way, only asking what had happened to the three along the road.

  The three of them hurriedly vied with each other to speak.

  Today, the three of them were on duty at the headquarters of the special operations group of the fire brigade, discussing which students who had recently passed the assessment could go to the lower levels for a tour. Suddenly, they received a task request, saying that there was a continuous explosion at the New City Amusement Park, with three explosions so far, over 300 people injured and 97 deaths confirmed so far, and many more missing.

  Because it happened to be a double rest day, the playground was crowded with people, mostly children, and the road was congested. The fire department was blocked on the road and couldn't get through, only two helicopters were dispatched for rescue.

  Wang Yi immediately called out to inquire if there were any members of the special action group near the playground, and indeed, a 12-person team was doing publicity there. They were all students from cram schools, and they also happened to cut hair and wash clothes for elderly people living nearby. Generally, such activities are organized once every half month. Actually, they originally wanted to do it once a week, but later felt that disturbing the elderly's rest so frequently wasn't very good.

  In the small group composed of students from the cram school, although there were no real doctors, they had all studied first aid knowledge and had relatively rich practical experience. They rushed over in the first time to help organize the crowd at the scene for initial self-rescue. When the firefighters arrived, they found that most of the injured had been well treated, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

  Everything was going smoothly, and these students even received praise from the fire department. Many injured people were grateful beyond words. Unexpectedly, Wang Yi and his group simply rushed over to take a look at the situation and brought their own students back to the cram school. Unexpectedly, in addition to their own students, they also brought back a little tail.

  She was a little girl who looked like she was only five or six years old, dressed in a very rustic way, with no good flesh on her body, all ten fingers were stuck into the silver needle, and one eye was also blind.

  There was a student who, after class, wandered aimlessly in the courtyard with his books. As he strolled to the entrance, he caught sight of a little girl trapped inside the protective barrier. He let out a loud shriek and fainted on the spot. This commotion startled Wang Yi and his two friends. Although they were considered worldly-wise, when they saw the little ghost, who was still incredibly terrifying, they too became flustered and at a loss for what to do.

  At this point, Wang Yi couldn't help but cover his forehead: "Teacher, are there really ghosts?"

  While they were talking, they had already arrived in front of the defensive formation.

  The students hesitated and didn't dare to go over, but when they saw Yang Yunqiu, they felt like they had a backbone.

  Yang Yunqiu smiled and sent the students away before approaching the trapped little girl. Anyone could see that she was a ghost, with her feet floating in the air and mist swirling around her body, looking very ethereal.

  "Teacher, she must have been abused to death. Our village has seen this kind of thing happen many times before. Some old people don't like girls and abuse them every day. Once they grow up a bit, they'll even sell them off."

  Wang Yi and Liu Sheng stared incredulously, although they knew that in some places, especially poor and backward areas, the phenomenon of preferring boys to girls still existed, but selling girls was something they really couldn't believe.

  Yang Yunqiu shook her head, "Just by looking at her clothes, it seems that her family background isn't very good. However, you didn't see the golden pendant around her neck, which has her birth date engraved on it. Just by looking at the craftsmanship and material, we can tell that her family situation shouldn't be too bad."

  The three people were even more shocked upon hearing this.

  Yang Yunqiu didn't bother with them again, he was also seeing a ghost for the first time, but his defensive array could indeed prevent the monks' divine souls from invading, and it could also prevent those non-human, non-immortal, non-demonic ghosts and monsters in the underworld. If there were really ghosts in this world, then naturally they would be able to make the ghosts appear and trap them.

  He thought for a moment, then applied a layer of purification powder to his hand and carefully wiped away the evil energy on the little girl's body. The evil energy weakened somewhat, and he released the most gentle water-based spiritual power to nourish her soul.

  As Yang Yunqiu had expected, in a moment, the little girl's remaining eye sparkled with life.

  "Mommy, I want Mommy... Waaahhh... It hurts so much, Mommy."

  The little girl wailed loudly, and several girls in the class also forgot to be afraid, and came over to comfort her with kind intentions.

  It's actually because there are enough people here, and today is not a school day. Those who live in the garden are all core figures who have passed Yang Yunqiu's test and signed a contract. They have strong willpower, so even if they see a ghost or receive an impact, they can quickly recover.

  Ghosts are something that would scare a person if they encountered them in the dark, but if a large group of people saw one together in broad daylight, it wouldn't be frightening at all.

  Several female students took out their various snacks and trinkets to coax the little girl, but as a result, the little girl couldn't eat or touch anything, and she cried even harder. Yang Yunqiu was at her wit's end, so she reached out and patted the little girl on the forehead. The little girl let out a hiccup and suddenly stopped crying, staring blankly at Yang Yunqiu.

  "Where is your home?"

  Home... Home... Xiangyuan Community.

  "What's your name?"

  "Baby."

  Yang Yunqiu asked for half a day, but couldn't get any specific information. He was even more unwilling to directly use his divine consciousness to search the little girl's memories. Her spiritual body wasn't condensed in the first place, and if he carelessly stirred it up, she might lose her soul at any moment.

  "Let's go, we'll first go to Xiangyuan Community to check out the situation."

  Several students asked to go together.

  "Teacher, I just did volunteer work in Xiangyuan community last month, so I'm familiar with the people and the roads. Take me along too." A boy still wearing his high school uniform ran out and said.

  Yang Yunqiu remembered that he was going to take the college entrance exam this year, and his name seemed to be Jin Xin.

  "You lead the way."

  He has always thought that his students are doing quite well, especially those who have entered the core. Every time they have a holiday, they participate in social public welfare activities. He has also participated twice and met with real volunteer service organization members several times. At first, these students' actions made those volunteers want to laugh, thinking it was just a temporary enthusiasm. Of course, even if it's just a temporary passion, others think it's great.

  It was later discovered that the students were particularly enthusiastic, patient and determined. After a long time of contact, they realized that these students were actually doing good deeds in an organized manner. The members of their organization were not all students, but also included people from various industries, including many wealthy individuals who often went abroad to provide assistance in war-torn areas.

  Many volunteers were shocked, after all these students are very young and don't know how their parents would agree to them doing such things.

  I remember there were also very enthusiastic volunteers who were worried about the students' safety and went to talk to their parents.

  But little did they know, most of these people used to be the kind of kids that their parents wished they could stuff back into their bellies and be reborn. Now they're willing to change their ways and do good deeds. Not to mention there's hardly any danger involved, even if there was, their parents wouldn't object.