In the waiting room
He Mitu’s fingertips caressed the ‘Wealthy Ghost Boy’ on his chest, and his eyes swept back and forth between Mrs. Hao and her son as if listening to something invisible talking.
The mother and son were so confused by that sight that they felt like something in this room was looking at them.
After a while, He Mitu frowned and asked: “What’s your name?”
“…Zhao Heng.”
“Zhao Heng, you are using your body to feed evil spirits.”
Mrs. Hao: “?!!”
The Audience: “?!!”
He Mitu touched the glass surface of the ‘Wealthy Ghost Boy’ and said in a cold tone: “It just told me that it felt the same aura as mine on your body.”
“It feels its own kind.”
Without waiting for others to ask questions, he explained clearly:
“The child I raised is a mutual agreement between us. I worship it and it agree that it will live in the container I carved. This is a harmonious object equivalent to a magic weapon. After hearing this, some of Xia Country’s rusty brains old antique masters will probably jump in anger, but that’s the fact.”
He Mitu sneered and continued: “And there is also an evil spirit in your body. You are willing to be its container and let it live in your body, so its nature has changed.
It is no longer an intruder, but an aborigine who has taken the contract. It is also legal in the power of Taoism. Do you understand?”
“It’s something you and it wishes for. We mystic masters can’t get it out. If I hadn’t brought along my adopted child, I might not even be able to detect the mysteries in your body.”
“So Zhao Heng, you…”
He originally wanted to be venomous, but considering his screen image, he endured it.
[I didn’t feel anything before, but I laughed out loud when I saw Xiao He’s expression. He didn’t say anything but seemed to have said everything.]
[Zhao Heng, are you in your right mind? How can you do this kind of thing?]
[This guy dares to say everything and reveals that he raised a ghost and provoked the Xia Country’s metaphysics community. Although I think what he said is quite right, I see that a certain metaphysics forum has exploded, saying that he is too arrogant and preparing to attack him…]
[Is the dog upstairs a lackey-licking dog? You anxiously leaked the contents of the forum to the outside world. Did you know that the ‘Wealthy Ghost Boy’ can attract people’s luck and goodwill? I think he doesn’t have much ability. There are so many brainless fans in the live broadcast room and can be deceived easily. You poor guy doesn’t even know what he’s doing.]
[…The focus is off. I am now crazy and curious about whether Zhao Xin is a ghost. In the blink of an eye, I find that everyone is quarreling over the contestants.]
At this time, He Mitu continued to ask: “Since you are willing to let it live in your body, you must know its existence. What are you thinking? Why did you agree at that time?”
“And you have such a strong sense of connection with it that you must have offered something to it.”
Host Liu explained to him that Zhao Heng’s diagnosis proved to be a split personality.
He Mitu said: “You were coaxed by it. This lonely wild ghost just wants to live in your body. Which subsidiary personality still needs to pay tribute?”
What he meant was that it was all false that Zhao Xin was a sister and wanted to protect her family.
It was just that a ghost who noticed the young Zhao Heng was eager to be protected and took advantage of it.
Before Zhao Heng could speak, Mrs. Hao on the side had a sad look on her face and spoke hastily:
“It’s all my fault. I didn’t think too much about it before and never suspected that it was a ghost. If I had taken Xiao Heng to see a psychic earlier, maybe none of these things would have happened. This master is right. How could your second personality instigate you to do those things? It’s simply too strange!”
“Master, you don’t know something. Ever since he went to school, the personality in his body has changed drastically. She has told him many times that she wants to get out of his body and become a living person!”
He Mitu: “?!!”
“What do you mean?”
Zhao Heng whispered: “Mom, stop talking! This is my own business!”
Mrs. Hao, who has always respected her son, looked firm and continued to talk.
It turned out that before Zhao Heng entered the campus, Mrs. Hao told his class teacher about his condition, and specifically said that except for occasional changes in temperament and inability to remember some things, Zhao Heng was just like a normal person.
The head teacher was also worried that Zhao Heng’s personality switch would frighten his roommates, so he told the three boys in the same dormitory in advance not to spread rumors.
In the beginning, a few boys occasionally noticed that his personality had changed;
When he was a freshman, the four boys had a good relationship, and their roommates did not exclude or bully Zhao Heng because he had this disease.
It didn’t take long for them to discover that Zhao Heng gradually seemed to be no longer sick, except that sometimes he would murmur in fear when he had nightmares at night as if he hadn’t seen his second personality for a long time.
And he became silent.
Zhao Heng often frowned at first, as if he was troubled by something. When his roommates asked him, he hesitated and refused to talk.
One day, Zhao Heng suddenly and solemnly told them: I have a sister by my side named Zhao Xin.
At that time, his roommates thought he was joking with them and laughed: Where is it? Why didn’t we see it?
Zhao Heng, however, looked serious: She is standing between the two of us now.
This statement startled my roommate. They forced a smile and told him not to scare himself, then shook their head and said nothing.
After this time, Zhao Heng became completely strange.
He seriously told all his roommates that he had a sister beside him, and bought a recliner in the dormitory saying that he wanted to give her sister a rest.
In addition, he also purchased tea cups, rubber bands, bracelets, and other items used by girls online, saying they were for his sister.
He usually ordered takeout and drank milk tea in the dormitory. He ordered five cups. When he eats, he will prepare his sister special bowls and chopsticks…
He began to be alone, but every time his roommate and others were in the school cafeteria, library, or study room, the stool next to him was pulled out, and a pink water glass was placed on the empty seat next to him.
One day, someone from the school posted on the forum.
[Does anyone know this senior? A very handsome guy always appeared alone in the study room. I saw this guy a few times and was attracted to him. But when I saw the handsome guy always carrying a bottle of pink water and occupying the empty seat next to him, I thought it was taken, so I never dared to ask. But I saw him several times, the seats next to him are always empty. So I was wondering if he was trying to block all pickup lines this way.
Now I’m not curious about why. I just want to ask this senior if he can stop occupying seats like this… There are very few vacancies in the study room, and now that it’s the final period, there are many people who don’t have seats. I saw other boys asking for seats, but he said someone was sitting there. No matter what he thinks, some people just want a seat to review!]
As soon as this post was posted, countless students noticed his strange behavior.
Many people have said that this boy has to take up two seats wherever he goes.
But some students replied: [Let me put it bluntly, I am quite afraid of this senior. Don’t you think that every time he says ‘there is someone here’, his expression is very serious? He seemed to feel like there was someone beside him!]
[Did you feel it too, upstairs? I was in the cafeteria last time, and I saw him eating two bowls of rice by himself, and putting the other bowl on the opposite side without touching it. It was late at noon, I am a man, but I was so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat!]
Soon this matter about Zhao Heng spread throughout the campus.
A bold student asked him, and he admitted that there was indeed an invisible ‘person’ beside him.
Even the person’s gender and name were spread in the school, and the matter suddenly reached the ears of the teachers.
Zhao Heng’s head teacher approached him and politely told him not to say that.
But he looked serious and insisted that Zhao Xin was by his side, which made the head teacher feel chilly behind his back.
The school considered his condition and did not dare to criticize or stop him in a too strong tone. However, they regretted admitting Zhao Heng to the school. They thought his condition was stable and considered educational equality.
The incident became a legend on campus.
Even the boys in Zhao Hengtong’s dormitory gradually got used to the fact that there was a ‘person’ in the dormitory.
Originally, all the roommates accommodated Zhao Heng’s condition, and they still felt like they were acting with him.
But after more than half a year, their sense of weirdness became more and more intense.
At that time, Zhao Heng had completely sunk into his own world.
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