I Hear the Thoughts of All Things at a Haunted School

Li Jiuxing had just said she was socially anxious and didn’t know how to interact with people.

The next second, the supernatural descended. Unluckily, she became a lonely ghost, bound to a System and granted the ability to hear the voices of all things.

Well, that certainly let her skip people and go straight to socializing with ghosts.

*

After a thunderstorm, her university was overrun by the supernatural.

At Dormitory Nine, the dorm matron knocked on the door with a bucket of writhing tentacles. Li Jiuxing heard the hungry shrieks inside and found herself hungry too.

She opened the door, dragged the matron and bucket into the dorm, chatted with her for a while, then flipped the bucket into boiling water and tossed in some salt.

“Since you’re here, Auntie, why not sit down and eat with us?”

The matron scrambled out of the dorm in terror, but Li Jiuxing warmly invited her back in.

At the Experimental Center, a professor brandished chemical reagents and announced that he’d found a way to counter the supernatural.

Li Jiuxing dabbed a little of the reagent on her hand and was sorely disappointed.

The professor comforted her, saying not to lose heart and that everyone would be safe.

But Li Jiuxing heard his thoughts: Which student should I dissolve this time?

At the South Campus Hospital, the bloodthirsty school doctor dropped all pretenses, grabbed a skull saw, and invited the students and staff to play Identity V.

Luoxia Street, the agricultural research plots, the doctoral dormitory, the graduation party...

Li Jiuxing survived her terrifying final days at university and discovered the only way out of the haunted campus.

*

Li Jiuxing had heard many voices at the haunted campus, but only one had ever truly frightened her.

[I want a hug, a hug...]

Li Jiuxing silently backed away.

In the cold moonlight, a cluster of elusive flames seemed to flicker in the eyes of the gloomy, damp young man. His thin lips pressed together. “Li Jiuxing, what are you doing at the door?”

Li Jiuxing: “I’m socially anxious. Mind your own business.”