"Hey...those students over there...what are you doing?" A deep voice called out fiercely.
It was iron rooster! The school's vice president.
Shen Yu almost stumbled in his steps, but he managed to hold back. Sprinting out of the school gate with all of his strength. One hand dragging Tang Mo along.
The chase now comprises of three groups.
Two at the forefront, five at the middle and one elderly but fit man at the tail waving his fist in the air.
"You students running. Stop now. I can see you He Qiao! Bao Lo! Don't even think of running." Iron rooster yelled in a sternly and both boys whose names were mentioned cursed under their breaths.
Today was not a good day.
Shen Yu for what seemed to be twenty minutes, taking turns in alleys after alleys until he managed to throw off the people after them.
After which they collapsed by the side of a small bakery. Both breathing heavily.
Both hands propped on his knee, Shen Yu eyes the class monitor whose uniform was soaked with sweat. His face was puffed and tinged with cheeks a shade of red from breathless.
Unlike him, Shen Yu became fairly stable quickly.
It seems i have been running alot lately. He thought wrly.
Adjusting the straps of his bag on his back, he shot the other boy a look. "Stop following me." He then turned to walk away.
"Wait...Shen Yu let's talk." Tang Mo quickly pushed himself up from the ground. He tried to catch up with him.
"Go home." Shen Yu refused.
No matter what it was he didn't want to hear it and he also didn't care.
He reached the gate of his neighborhood before he realised that he was forgetting something.
Something important....
"Shit. The system mission!" Shen Yu checked the time and it was some minutes past five.
I can't believe I almost forgot.
He took out the little paper where he jotted the district building address and turned around.
"New Layout street." Shen Yu knew the place. It wasn't that close but still within a walking distance.
On his way, he passed by Chang'an road where the bridge was
The police had already set up a barricade and isolated the scene. They were many police officer but he couldn't exactly see what they were doing.
He just hoped they were able to find the water ghost and catch whoever killed her.
To think that such a person was still on the loose. Shen Yu looked over his shoulder, trembling.
Sometimes humans were even way worse than ghost.
Shen Yu thought it'd take him a bit of difficulty to find the district building. But he was treated to a surprise.
It was standing right there. Just besides the busy intersection.
But he could swear he had never seen the two story building before, even tho he had walked right past it a thousand times.
How come he never noticed?
It was as if a sort of concealment was placed around it that made people to completely ignore it's existence.
The doors and windows were closed with no signs of anyone. An oppressive air loomed above it. And the sunlight can't seem to disperse the shadows that crept along the cracks between the walls.
"We are here." Shen Yu said to himself. He took out the key 23 gave him from his pocket and tried to open the door.
The moment the lock opened he felt the vibration of the note in his bag.
Shen Yu stepped in before bringing it out.
(CONGRATULATIONS DISTRICT 23 SHEN YU.
DAILY MISSION COMPLETION RATE: 100%
REWARD: 2 POINTS.
ACCUMULATED POINTS: 12)
The number was so pitifully small.
(PROCEED TO THE EXHANCE MARKET TO CLAIM YOUR POINTS)
Underneath was a barcode.
"Uhh..." Shen brought out his phone to scan it and it actually took him to done kind of forum.
"Ghost, ghoul and demon slaying heroes." He read the forum name outline.
It sounded cringy no matter how you looked at it.
The person who choose the name clearly has a bad taste.
An account was already created for him and the profile name was just 'district 23'
They were many posts that were pinned up and Shen Yu started by reading those.
The first thing that caught his eyes was information regarding the door.
Shen Yu scrolled through while looking around the district building.
First there were four types of doors.
Brown, maroon, red, blood red and black.
The one he has presently was a brown door. It was connected to the card he had and he could use it to send souls to the underworld.
So that's how it works. Shen Yu thought.
He tried to search more on it but was blocked.
(ACESS DENIED. DISTRICT USER'S AUTHORITY IS TOO LOW)
But he was able to find how to upgrade his brown door to a maroon one.
"1000 points!" Shen Yu almost yelled.
Isn't that too much?
Then wouldn't an upgrade to a blood door be higher. Maybe in the hundred thousands? Then the black door...
No wonder nobody has succeeded before.
This system was built to be unbeatable.
Shen Yu felt cheated on.
He checked the market and saw stuffs like; Talismans, peach wood, Buddhist bead, paper money, coins...and many stuffs on sells. Not costing more than ten points. They were many things, even some he couldn't recognize.
Like the Zzooi, the Fulu and many others.
It seems that one can posts things to sell and also buy too in the market place.
He wasn't going to buy anything for now. His main focus was on the upgrade.
It took Shen Yu not more than ten minutes to look around the building and it didn't seem anything out of the ordinary.
Just that the temperature was lower that that of outside.
The objects in the room were covered with white clothes. A bit brownish from the accumulation of dust.
What he didn't know was that after he stepped out and locked the door, one of the clothes fluttered and drifted from its position although there was no sign of any wind blowing.