Ghost Catching System

Feng Gao shrieked, ”A ghost!”

Startled, Chu Hao asked, ”What’s going on?”

Li Yin swallowed hard and said, ”Your pupils have turned dark gray.”

Chu Hao said, ”I know. There’s no need to be so scared.”

Teng Jin said nervously, ”The problem is, normal people’s pupils reflect what they see, but there’s no reflection of us in your eyes, just a sparkling layer.”

Chu Hao’s heart tightened. He observed his eyes closely and could indeed see a sparkling layer.

As he scrutinized them further, he suddenly shuddered. The reflection in his pupils was clearly that of the evil hole. The sparkling things within it were the same diamond-like objects he had seen in the evil hole earlier.

Holy crap! Chu Hao was dumbfounded. How could the evil hole appear in my own eyes?

Chu Hao felt anxious. The System couldn’t answer his questions, and when he tried calling Bai Ling, the call couldn’t get through as her line was out of the service area.

The Toad had also disappeared.

I have no choice but to wait for the Toad to show up and ask him what’s going on, he thought.

Teng Jin asked, ”Chu Hao, are you okay?”

The three of them were quite frightened.

Chu Hao waved his hand, indicating that he was alright.

Li Yin held up his phone and said, ”Mouse, you’ve totally blown up! Today’s news is all about Yi Qinglian’s mysterious boyfriend.”

Chu Hao had guessed as much, but when he took out his phone to check Weibo, he was still speechless. The incident from earlier today had garnered thirty million views for a single Weibo post, with countless comments below.

Of course, most of them were abusive, and some people were even organizing teams to find Chu Hao.

Amidst various comments, people started a cyber manhunt for Chu Hao, identifying individuals named Chu Hao from all over the country.

One kid named Chu Hao was particularly unlucky; he got beaten up just for having the name and then posted a video on Weibo, sobbing pitifully.

The fans were frantic, trying all sorts of ways to identify the real Chu Hao. Under one prominent post, they listed fifty-six people named Chu Hao from across the country, complete with photos and captions.

The caption read: ”Everyone, guess which of these fifty-six people is the mysterious Chu Hao?”

Among them, Chu Hao saw a photo of himself from high school, looking like a scruffy loser, a far cry from his current self.

Curious, Chu Hao clicked on his own photo. Below it was a string of comments.

”Loser, confirmed. He can’t possibly be the goddess’s boyfriend.”

”So ugly. If it’s him, I’ll livestream myself eating shit.”

”Yi Qinglian’s taste isn’t that bad.”

Seeing these comments, Chu Hao immediately got annoyed.

What the hell, am I really such a loser?

Chu Hao logged into his Weibo and wrote a reply under the comments:

”Thick eyebrows, a charismatic beard, a gaze both deep and full of spirit—truly a dragon among men, far better than most of the losers commenting above.”

Soon, replies came in.

”You must be blind.”

”High-level trolling, identified.”

”How can you call such a lecherous gaze deep and spirited? The original poster must be blind.”

Chu Hao was furious. My eyes only started having problems today, but I’m not blind!

Chu Hao asked Yi Qinglian to send over a selfie of the two of them.

Yi Qinglian had a bad feeling and asked, ”What are you planning to do?”

Chu Hao replied, ”It’s going to be exposed sooner or later anyway. I’m going to infuriate these keyboard warriors.”

Yi Qinglian sent the photo over.

Chu Hao decided to thoroughly torment these internet trolls. He posted a photo of their faces close together, writing, ”Wishing for a loved one’s heart, never to part till death.”

”Ding… Host has shown off by flaunting your relationship, receiving 3,000 Pretentiousness Points.”

So there are Pretentiousness Points! Not bad, not bad, Chu Hao thought.

Within minutes, Chu Hao’s Weibo exploded. It was nearly midnight, and many people had been feeling sleepy, but now all drowsiness vanished instantly.

”First floor seat taken, renting out the whole building.”

”All major internet trolls, at the ready! Our forces will arrive at the battlefield in 30 seconds.”

”BOOHOO... my goddess!”

”OP, if you dare reveal your location, I’ll come and finish you off.”

All sorts of trolls continued to flood in, and Chu Hao’s Weibo follower count instantly surged by hundreds of thousands.

Chu Hao felt incredibly exhilarated watching them all lose their tempers.

While some raged, others felt dejected.

”Falling in love is impossible, not in this lifetime. I can’t say sweet things, my emotional intelligence is zero. I’m doomed to stay home and watch female celebrities on my phone just to avoid the torment of seeing public displays of affection everywhere. With the internet so pervasive now, holding a smartphone feels even more dangerous than going outside. I’ve grown to dislike my phone and even dread going home because there’s Wi-Fi. I really wish I could find a corner free from phones and worldly disturbances to just die peacefully. How blissful that would be!”

”666...”

”Brother upstairs, hang in there!”

”Bro, look on the bright side. You still have us.”

The commenter above had really poured their heart out.

Reading this comment, Chu Hao wondered, Did I go a bit too far? This round of torment was pretty severe.

However, trolls still constituted the majority. After reading more comments, Chu Hao felt annoyed again and simply turned off his phone to sleep.

In the early morning, Lin Zhou was woken up by someone. His friend said, ”Quick, check Weibo! Something big has happened.”

Lin Zhou, still groggy, asked, ”What big news?”

”Yi Qinglian’s boyfriend has revealed himself and even posted a selfie.”

”What?”

Lin Zhou hastily unlocked his phone and was immediately dumbfounded. The post he’d made earlier was intended to expose Chu Hao’s location, hoping someone would cause trouble for him.

But Chu Hao didn’t seem scared at all; he had even posted a selfie.

Seeing the selfie of the two of them infuriated Lin Zhou.

The thought of Chu Hao’s arrogant face next to his goddess made him burn with anger.

I’d like to see how you die tomorrow, he seethed.

The next day, Chu Hao woke up early to check if his eyes had returned to normal, but they were still deep gray, the evil hole still reflected within them.

What on earth is going on? Chu Hao couldn’t figure it out at all.

In no mood to sleep any longer, he went to a secluded part of the campus sports field to practice his True Qi Breathing Technique.

Early in the morning, the sports field wasn’t crowded; only a few people were out running.

Lin Wan was jogging when she noticed Chu Hao sitting perfectly still, seemingly practicing some sort of breathing exercise, which piqued her curiosity.

Particularly striking were the two streams of white mist exhaling from his nostrils with each breath, so defined they looked as if they were drawn, much like an immortal puffing out clouds and mist.

Lin Wan thought he looked somewhat familiar, and then she remembered: he was the young man who had asked her for directions yesterday.

Her roommate jogged over and asked, ”What are you looking at?”

”Oh, nothing much.”

Lin Wan shook her head and jogged away.

Around half-past seven, as the sky fully brightened, Chu Hao opened his eyes. ”Practicing this breathing technique every morning is even more effective than sleeping,” he murmured to himself.

The True Qi Breathing Technique enters a kind of dormant state during sleep. Practicing it while awake infuses the True Qi with much more vitality. If I persist with this daily, my control over True Qi will improve, and I’ll be able to avoid wasting even a sliver of it. That would be truly impressive.

Where on earth did that Toad go!

He had waited all night for the Toad, but it still hadn’t appeared.