186: Pei Yuan suddenly became strange

"Hey wait, kid, could you tell me your name? If Dr. Fuji returns, it would be convenient for me to notify you."

"My name is Consultant." Consultant replied without hiding anything.

Even though people outside were searching for him frantically, in the Emerald Dreamscape, those who had heard the name 'Consultant' were still few.

Besides the people of Weibai City and the Beast Tamer Alliance in Caiyou City, there were only Ruby and some members of the Ocean Team left.

Therefore, Pei Yuan just nodded and noted down the name.

Consultant had intended to leave quickly, tidy up, and take advantage of the daylight to wander around the Golden Sun Forest outside.

But before he could take a step, Pei Yuan behind him raised his hand and grabbed him once again.

"What are you doing..."

Consultant turned his head with some impatience, but after seeing Pei Yuan's expression, his heart tightened!

At this moment, Pei Yuan's expression looked somewhat wooden, as if he lacked any emotion.

His eyes had no focus; he appeared to be looking at Consultant, but it was as if he were looking right through him, at something behind Consultant.

In an instant, Consultant felt a chill down his back, much like the feeling he had watching a horror movie yesterday.

The surrounding air inexplicably turned cold.

Even the voices of the people around him quieted down significantly; only some faint sobbing and mourning sounds reached his ears...

This inexplicable feeling made Consultant shiver involuntarily.

He suppressed the urge to leave the Spirit Pylon Tower immediately, pretended he hadn't noticed anything, frowned at Pei Yuan, and asked with an impatient look:

"Speak, hurry up!"

His tone became somewhat harsh due to the strange fear.

But Pei Yuan did not change because of this; his expression remained somewhere between serious and trance-like.

He looked in Consultant's direction and said:

"Kid, I forgot to tell you, there has always been a rumor about this Spirit Pylon Tower."

"It is said that in this Spirit Pylon Tower, there are many ghosts that will follow those who come here for the first time."

Compared to just a moment ago, Pei Yuan's voice held an extra touch of etherealness and creepiness...

"If you notice anything unusual around you recently, remember..."

"...do not turn around to look at your own shadow!"

"Damn it!"

Consultant cursed inwardly, feeling cold all over, and even goosebumps broke out on his skin.

However, the next moment, a sentence from Pei Yuan made Consultant clench his fists again.

"If you feel that the ghost is affecting your safety, you must come to me; I can... help you perform an exorcism at a low price."

"..."

This sentence made anger flare up in Consultant's eyes again.

This Pei Yuan, unable to push his business for the dead, had switched to using ghost stories to threaten people!

Consultant began to suspect he was just scaring himself.

He curled his lip, pushed Pei Yuan away forcefully, ignored him further, and walked quickly out of the Spirit Pylon Tower.

This time, Pei Yuan did not continue to pester Consultant; he just stood quietly behind him, watching his back, and silently revealed a sinister smile...

After Consultant quickened his pace to leave the Spirit Pylon Tower, he walked for several hundred meters before slowly coming to a stop.

"Damn it, is this Pei Yuan crazy? I really need to find a place to file a complaint about him!"

Consultant cursed incessantly under his breath, panting as he glanced back at the Spirit Pylon Tower.

Even from a hundred meters away, that tall tower still weighed heavily on Consultant's heart like a giant tombstone.

The sky was so overcast it felt like it was about to collapse; drizzling rain accompanied by chilling winds kept falling, making Consultant's body feel even colder.

"What ghosts... and don't look at my own shadow... it must be to scare people, right?"

Consultant kept muttering to himself, but in his mind, he kept recalling Pei Yuan's terrifying and eerie expression from just now.

What was even worse was that the restless system on him actually displayed a message right before his eyes at this very moment, very considerately...

【The rumor is true.】

"Damn it!"

Seeing this message, Consultant couldn't help but curse again.

He shook his head and swiped the system's text aside.

"Gulu?"

The Slime on top of Consultant's head let out a sound full of confusion.

It had to be said, in this situation, the only thing Consultant trusted was the Slime.

He hurriedly took the Slime from his head into his arms, looked at it seriously, rubbed its chubby body, and asked aloud:

"Duen Dwen, you also think it's fake, right?!"

"Gulu... Gulu!"

Of course, the Slime couldn't speak; it just looked at Consultant with its wise eyes and moved bit by bit towards Consultant's back.

"Gulu."

This time, it wasn't a sound from the Slime, but the sound of Consultant swallowing his saliva.

He noticed that the Slime wasn't looking at him, but at his back.

Consultant subconsciously turned his head back, and what he saw was... nothing at all.

Behind him was just an empty street and the Spirit Pylon Tower in the distance.

But this didn't make Consultant relax; instead, he became even more nervous.

Because he noticed that the Slime's eyes were moving downwards bit by bit, looking at... his shadow.

"Gulu?"

"Gulu!"

This time, it was a sound made by both Consultant and the Slime, though the meanings behind these two sounds were different.

The Slime's was confusion, while Consultant's was panic.

Consultant noticed that his shadow, elongated by light coming from who knows where, was twisting!

"Shit!"

Consultant only glanced at it, then hurriedly averted his gaze, cursing inwardly.

He remembered what Pei Yuan had just said and kept comforting himself in his heart.

I didn't see it, I didn't see anything.

How could my shadow move?

It's all just scaring myself, what ghosts could there be?

Consultant kept muttering, yet the pace of his feet grew faster and faster.

In the end, it turned into a sprint, heading towards the inn where he had come from...

To be honest, Consultant was not a timid person.

After coming to this world, he had faced life-threatening dangers many times, but even in those moments, he had not been as panicked as he was now.

Because this fear was not due to his life being threatened.

This time, his fear stemmed mainly from the unknown.

Thump, thump, thump!

Accompanied by a flurry of hurried footsteps, Consultant ran all the way back to the inn, holding the Slime.

After hurriedly taking out his key to open the door, he rushed in with a stride and slammed the door shut behind him!

Bang!

With a dull thud, Consultant finally felt like he had come back to life, gasping for breath.

"Consultant, where did you go?" Du Ruo's voice came from the room.

After hearing her voice, the panic in Consultant's heart was instantly dispelled quite a bit.

But soon, another voice also sounded...

"Kid, why are you so flustered? You look like you've been possessed by a ghost."

This untimely yet very accurate remark naturally came from Black Marsh.

Consultant's mouth twitched, and only then did he look into the room.

Du Ruo was wearing a loose short-sleeved shirt, and on her lower body, a pair of shorts.

She was sitting cross-legged on the bed, holding a large pillow in her arms, her hair disheveled, looking at Consultant with a curious face.