Chapter 102: Transmigrated as a Fraudulent Male Streamer (26)
Yu Sheng leaned against the desk behind him and adjusted his glasses. “So surprised?”
He looked at Cen Yu with a genial smile. “Remember how completely in control you looked back at He Yongning’s place?”
Cen Yu kept his hand in his pocket, watching Yu Sheng guardedly—now that he thought about it, this character really had been a bit peculiar all along.
Looking at it this way, the real, living version of Pei Hengyun had definitely been their classmate, and had moved away to another city alongside himself. Yu Sheng, on the other hand, had never left this township from start to finish, remaining at Meiman Middle School the entire time.
According to their previous recollections, they had assumed it was simply because Yu Sheng was unwilling to leave his hometown…
Yet even if someone didn’t want to leave their hometown, they could have just lived like Jiang Tuan. But because Yu Sheng’s character persona had always been so wholesome and positive, even Cen Yu—who had read the original novel—had never connected this character to “the ghost.”
He cursed violently in his heart.
He suddenly realized this instance was remarkably adept at misleading people…
No wonder the System’s task for him earlier had been:
Grant “Xinyu’s” wish, rather than grant Pei Hengyun’s wish.
Back then, he had assumed the System was merely keeping him in the dark, but looking at it now, it was entirely because he had guessed the wrong person!
And judging by the situation, the main System had agreed to his request to modify the tasks precisely because it realized his misconception, knowing that updating them this way would drastically ramp up the difficulty…
This made the reason why the rich second-generation heir, Fan Jie, was the first to die make complete sense as well.
Because Fan Jie was staying right at Yu Sheng’s house.
Yet in the original text, no one could have guessed that the ghost haunting the entire novel… was actually the class monitor in their memories?!
Who on earth would believe that if you told them? Had their memories been fake from beginning to end?!
Cen Yu backed up a few paces. He saw that Yu Sheng made no move to approach him… yet an icy hand was slowly caressing his back. Looking at Yu Sheng, even if Cen Yu tried to repeatedly brainwash himself that there were no ghosts in this world, it no longer worked.
Yu Sheng adjusted his glasses once more.
Leaning against the desk behind him, he watched Cen Yu glare at him viciously, his eyes sweeping over the slightly hitched hem of the man’s top.
The snake skeleton crept across the firm, lean muscle of Cen Yu’s lower abdomen, winding its way downward along his muscle lines as if a supple, living snake were slithering over his skin… Though he wore mid-rise shorts, Cen Yu’s hurried running earlier had caused them to ride down slightly, clearly exposing the slender, tapering line of his waist.
Yu Sheng simply stared at Cen Yu, his eyes fixing on the tear-moles beneath Cen Yu’s eye. Walking over slowly, he reached out a hand to stroke those two tear-moles gently. “I told you that you would come back.”
Cen Yu acted decisively the moment he saw his chance. Pulling the claw hammer from his pocket, he swung it straight at Yu Sheng’s head.
He had assumed Yu Sheng would use his extra hands to grab him, but to his surprise, Yu Sheng merely stood there with a smile, watching the hammer swing toward him—
The next second, the hammer smashed a gaping hole right into Yu Sheng’s head.
Yet no blood spilled from the hole—only thick, surging clouds of black mist…
Cen Yu couldn’t care less!
He raised the hammer and frantically struck Yu Sheng several more times before turning on his heel and sprinting away as fast as his legs could carry him—
He knew Yu Sheng wouldn’t chase after him right away; the bastard was playing a game of cat and mouse!
Sure enough, even as Cen Yu bolted, Yu Sheng showed zero inclination to pursue… He simply pulled out his office chair, leaned back against it in the dark, and softly hummed a tuneless melody.
Setting aside his shattered glasses on the desk, the wound on his face began mending at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He didn’t care in the slightest where Cen Yu ran off to.
Because the man couldn’t leave this campus anyway.
Gripping the claw hammer tight, Cen Yu ran toward the old teaching building for all he was worth.
He cursed wildly in his mind, “You son of a bitch!”
He yelled at the fat cat in his head, “Are you out of your mind?!”
“You’re making a living human like me fight a malicious specter?!” He blasted the fat cat, feeling this brain-dead System was beyond absurd!
The fat cat ambled out slowly. “Host, this teaches us a valuable lesson…”
“Spit it out!”
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
After hurling a few more curses at both the fat cat and the main System, Cen Yu finally reached the old teaching building, crashing right into a panicked Fan Jie—
Fan Jie clearly hadn’t expected him to pop out out of nowhere and gasped in fright, “Y-You…”
“You what, ‘you’?!” Cen Yu grabbed Fan Jie’s sleeve. “Hurry up and run with me!”
“Where’s Pei Hengyun?!”
When he had previously deduced that Pei Hengyun was the ghost, he had felt it was strange—if Pei Hengyun were truly the original “protagonist shou,” he shouldn’t have pulled off a scheme like tricking everyone into attending a class reunion just to wipe them out in one go.
After all, according to the laws of fiction, the protagonist shou would never do something like that.
Looking at it now…
He finally understood why Pei Hengyun was set up as a ghost too.
Turns out you couldn’t take down the final boss without it!
Judging by the underlying narrative, the plot of the original book was supposed to be Pei Hengyun uncovering the truth about Yu Sheng deceiving everyone, and then fighting desperately against Yu Sheng to destroy the main villain!
Although Fan Jie didn’t understand why Cen Yu was suddenly so panicked, he was an expert at filling in the blanks in his own head!
And so, as he ran alongside Cen Yu, he screamed at the top of his lungs behind him, “GHOST! AHHHH, THERE’S A GHOST! AHHHH!!”
“Fuck!” Cen Yu realized he hadn’t uttered as many swear words in his entire life as he had today!
“Stop screaming like an idiot!”
Yet whether Fan Jie’s screaming took effect or simply because the old teaching building wasn’t large to begin with, Fan Jie’s chaotic yelling managed to draw the others over.
Jiang Tuan had been wandering around the second floor; he had only stepped away to the restroom for a brief moment, only for Fan Jie to vanish… Who would have thought that when Fan Jie reappeared, he would be fleeing alongside Cen Yu while screaming “There’s a ghost!”?
Jiang Tuan was utterly baffled.
Still, he jogged over to join them—
“What ghost?!”
The moment Cen Yu spotted Jiang Tuan, he let go of Fan Jie. “He’s just screaming nonsense.”
“Where is Pei Hengyun?!”
The initial joy of running into Cen Yu on Jiang Tuan’s face instantly shifted the moment he heard Cen Yu ask for Pei Hengyun.
Glancing at Fan Jie, who was leaning over to catch his breath with his hands on his knees, Jiang Tuan ultimately couldn’t hold back any longer—
“…I never had a classmate named Pei Hengyun at all…”
he said hurriedly.
Just now, as he was wandering aimlessly around the old teaching building, a surge of memories had suddenly flooded his mind.
He remembered going to play basketball with Cen Yu and He Yongning all the time in the past.
It hadn’t been Pei Hengyun at all!
From beginning to end, the person who played basketball with him and He Yongning was Cen Yu alone!
“Pei Hengyun lied to us…” Jiang Tuan added frantically, “He isn’t human at all!”
Fan Jie had still been resting his hands on his knees, panting for air, but upon hearing Jiang Tuan’s words, he nearly choked on his own breath, looking on the verge of fainting dead away.
“Pei Hengyun WAS our classmate!” Cen Yu stated immediately!
Hearing that, Fan Jie managed to catch his breath a little.
“But he died during our sophomore year of high school!” Having seen the assignment notebook and the group photo earlier, Cen Yu already understood the full story.
Glancing at Fan Jie, who was on the verge of passing out again, Cen Yu simply dropped a bombshell—
“Yu Sheng is the real ghost!!”
“Back when you played basketball, didn’t you ever think to invite him?!”
