Volume 2: Living with Ghosts Chapter 028 Xiaoling
Fifteen days passed in a flash. At this moment, in a room somewhere.
A young man with slightly long hair and a fair complexion was concentrating on the computer screen in front of him. On the screen was an open Word document, and black fonts were constantly appearing on the document. The continuous appearance of black fonts lasted for about ten minutes, and then the document returned to normal.
After seeing the contents of the document, the young man frowned and whispered to himself, "Although this document was created based on my ideas and the fonts were generated automatically to complete this novel for me, the details are somewhat different from what I expected! If the plot of Li Xuan and Yun Yun continues, these two people will not be alive at all. Sigh, the performance of this book is not good to begin with. If two women die at once, then who knows how bad the performance will be."
The boy's expression became more and more tense, as if he had made a great decision. He shook his head vigorously: "No! I can't let the plot develop automatically like this. I have to make some changes myself!"
The young man made up his mind and began to stare at the computer screen again, obviously thinking about how to modify the original settings so as to leave a glimmer of hope for Li Xuan and Yun Yun without destroying the entire story.
After thinking for a while, the boy's tense expression suddenly relaxed. He had an idea in his mind, and then he began to type on the keyboard slowly.
After a short modification, the boy breathed a sigh of relief in front of the computer screen: "Okay! Let's modify it like this. I think this way they should have a chance of survival. I just don't know if that setting can be enabled with the current plot trend."
After completing the modification, the boy closed the Word document again with a guilty conscience. After confirming that the computer was completely shut down, he left his seat, picked up the basketball on the ground, and walked out with the basketball in his arms. This magical document was his secret. It was because he had this magical document that he could get some extra pocket money. Although the money was not much, he didn't have to do anything.
At the same time, Women Village.
Zhang Fengyu lay on the bed with empty eyes, looking at the wind chimes swinging back and forth above him. His mind was also in a state of flux.
In the blink of an eye, he had been in this women's village for more than half a month. With the help of Yue Lao Xiaoling, he had met the twenty-five women she had chosen one by one. And the number of times they had met was not just one.
After these days of adaptation, Zhang Fengyu gradually got used to these women who appeared as evil spirits. The fear that had always shrouded his heart gradually faded away with the passage of time. Although he temporarily reduced the erosion of fear on him, as the mission execution period approached, his heart was shrouded by a layer of death shadow.
"These days, under Xiaoling's guidance, I have become familiar with the 25 women. Even after Xiaoling left, I met them privately a few times and talked with them a lot. But why do these women give me the same feeling? They all seem to have a cold and sinister aura. Could it be that I have won the lottery and all the women I picked are ghosts?"
After these days of contact with these women, Zhang Fengyu can now tell each of their names, physical features, and ways of speaking. Even some of their personality traits have been firmly imprinted in his mind by Zhang Fengyu's powerful memory. His powerful memory ability is undoubtedly helpful for him to distinguish these women in some details.
But the reality was far from that. Even though he had approached all of these women one by one, and even asked them some more targeted questions, the effect was not obvious at all. The answers these 25 women gave him were basically the same, with almost no difference.
The emergence of this situation directly disrupted Zhang Fengyu's original plan!
He originally planned to use this method to eliminate suspicious people one by one, and finally choose the one with a higher probability of being human. But judging from the results of his implementation in the past few days , it is obvious that this plan has completely failed.
He did not identify who the ghost hidden in the twenty-five people was, nor did he determine which one of the twenty-five people was the real human being. He did not gain anything from this. However, the blank in the identification did not mean that he had not gained anything in these days.
In other words, this kind of gain was relatively large, but it did not refer to the intelligence he gained, but to the degree of favorability that the twenty-five women had for him.
Zhang Fengyu was not an old hand at this matter of men and women, but he was also ignorant. Ignorance meant that he knew a little bit, including who liked him, who hated him, etc. He could still judge these things, and through his judgment, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the twenty-five women seemed to have a great liking for him.
This conclusion is not Zhang Fengyu's self-righteousness due to his narcissism, but those women have given him certain hints.
When Xiaoling was not with him, Zhang Fengyu also mustered up the courage to meet these women one by one in private. It was during these private chats with them that these women gave him hints that they wanted to date him.
None of these twenty-five people are an exception!
It was still unknown whether these twenty-five women were human or ghosts, but since these women had already given him hints and had a favorable impression of him, it would undoubtedly be of great benefit to him in choosing the target to pursue after he had identified their identities in the future. You have to know that favorable impressions are likes, and likes can come naturally without any need for further investigation.
Compared to the good feelings these people had towards him that made Zhang Fengyu happy, there was one person who made him feel very annoyed. But judging from his recent performance, he was about to reach a point where he could no longer control himself.
This person is the matchmaker Xiaoling they chose!
Of course, he felt that Xiaoling might have some feelings for him, which was also his own feeling. Xiaoling had never given him any hints with words. He was not sure about the truth of this matter, so even though Zhang Fengyu was upset, he could not do anything. But he still hoped from the bottom of his heart that Xiaoling would never have any thoughts about him.
"Zhang Fengyu! Zhang Fengyu! Come out quickly!"
Hearing this eager and excited shout, Zhang Fengyu's face became even more worried. This voice was too familiar to him now. It was the voice of Yue Lao Xiaoling, and Xiaoling came to bother him again.
Xiaoling has called her five times today, but no matter how unwilling Zhang Fengyu is, Xiaoling is the matchmaker after all, and it would not be good if he did not open the door and showed her a cold face. After hesitating for a while, Zhang Fengyu gritted his teeth and finally walked out of the house.
As soon as Zhang Fengyu took down the chain on the door, Xiaoling couldn't wait to open the door and jumped into the yard. Zhang Fengyu looked at Xiaoling's extremely ferocious face, the corners of her mouth twitched constantly, took a deep breath, looked at Xiaoling and asked, "What's wrong? You sound like something urgent, is there something wrong in the village?"
Hearing this, Xiaoling burst out laughing, and then, like a little child, she skipped past Zhang Fengyu, and then, without caring whether Zhang Fengyu agreed or not, she jumped into the house.
Zhang Fengyu curled his lips helplessly and slowly moved into the house with his heavy steps.
After coming in, Xiaoling jumped in front of Zhang Fengyu like a zombie, and then raised her voice and shouted: "I just suddenly wanted to see you, so I ran to you. Isn't this a big deal? As for the other things..."
"That's it! Haha!" Xiaoling said and then started laughing again.
Hearing Xiaoling's answer, Zhang Fengyu smiled bitterly and murmured to himself: "Sure enough!"
Zhang Fengyu was speechless about Xiaoling's almost rogue behavior. He wanted to make things clear to Xiaoling, but he felt it was not a good idea. After all, Xiaoling had never said, "Zhang Fengyu, I like you, Zhang Fengyu, I love you." If Xiaoling was just fooling around with him, then wouldn't he be slapping himself in the face by saying this?
"Let's wait and see!"
This was the solution Zhang Fengyu came up with when he was helpless.
Xiaoling was confirmed to be a human, so Zhang Fengyu shouldn't be afraid of her. But it was precisely because of Xiaoling's identity as a matchmaker that Zhang Fengyu didn't want to have any contact with Xiaoling. Because in his opinion, the matchmaker was no longer within his pursuit, and he had seen all of the 25 women he had chosen, and Xiaoling was not among them.
If she and Xiaoling became husband and wife in the future, wouldn't that mean he violated the customs of this woman's village and the rules in the supplementary tips! The consequences of violating the rules were not something he could bear.
Xiaoling had emphasized this to them in the square before. They were not allowed to select anything beyond the range they had chosen before, otherwise it would be considered a foul and they would be disqualified.
Xiaoling was not at all rude. She lay directly on the wooden bed where Zhang Fengyu slept. This made Zhang Fengyu feel a chill again. He sat on the chair unhappily and asked Xiaoling again: "Xiaoling, didn't you say before that you would only come to me twice a day, but it seems that you have come to me more than twice these days. Especially today, you have come six times. Every time I ask you the reason, you can't give a rough answer. Is it the same this time?"
Hearing Zhang Fengyu bring up the old topic again, Xiaoling climbed up from the wooden bed, glanced at Zhang Fengyu and then fell silent. It seemed like she was looking for a reasonable excuse for herself. After thinking for a moment, Xiaoling replied playfully, "I'm just here to remind you that girls nowadays are not easy to chase. If you don't make up your mind and set your target now, then I'm afraid you won't have enough time after some time."
"Thank you for coming here so many times just to remind me of this kind of thing. I will definitely hurry up and determine the target, but look out the window now, it's getting dark soon. You said it might be a little inconvenient for a man and a woman to stay together, so I won't force you to stay. Let's talk about it tomorrow. I'm a little tired today."
Zhang Fengyu's intention to send the guests away was very obvious. He had just figured it out. He had already adapted to these women with ghost faces. Xiaoling's role as a matchmaker had basically been fulfilled, so at this point, even if he offended Xiaoling, it might not be a big problem. Besides, his words were not too final.
As Xiaoling was the matchmaker, no matter what her purpose was in approaching him, it would not be of any benefit to him. Moreover, he had always suspected that the reason why Xiaoling showed a good impression of him was probably a trap set up specifically to confuse him in this mission!
Therefore, he was even more afraid to accept Xiaoling, as he might fail in this task someday.
Xiaoling heard that Zhang Fengyu had ordered her to leave, but she said nothing and remained the same as before. She twisted her body and stood up. After simply adjusting her clothes, she whispered to Zhang Fengyu: "Okay, I'll come again tomorrow, and you can go to bed early!"
Xiaoling ran out after she finished speaking, as if she didn't care about what Zhang Fengyu had just said. Seeing that Xiaoling was finally willing to leave, Zhang Fengyu breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the bed.
"Finally you're leaving!"
Xiaoling skipped back to the house where she lived. Although no other expression could be seen on her terrified face at the moment, the joy that came from the bottom of her heart could not be concealed.
After closing and locking the doors and windows, Xiaoling did not immediately go to wash up and go to bed, but sat in a chair blankly, recalling everything about Zhang Fengyu. Although she did not know what it felt like to be with Zhang Fengyu, this feeling made her feel comfortable, warm, and also restless.
"Sister, why do I want to see him so much and be with him so much? Is this the feeling of liking someone? I think I'm in love with him."
"This is the same feeling as my sister at that time, I can understand her persistence a little bit now, what do you think, sister?"
Xiaoling kept talking to herself. The room was eerily quiet at the moment, but Xiaoling didn't care at all. She kept talking as if she was chatting with someone.
"Sister, I just want to be with him now. I don't want to go to those three areas anymore, okay? Sister, you can go there for me."
When the dim light in the room passed through the dressing table behind Xiaoling, the mirror on the dressing table clearly reflected Xiaoling's exquisite figure. However, Xiaoling now had two heads, and the extra head was exactly the same as Xiaoling's.
After hearing Xiaoling's request, the other head actually nodded at Xiaoling grimly!
