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Chapter 8 Lost Myself in the Sound of Teacher
Although it was said to be the early autumn season, the temperature did not seem to drop. Just walking around in the sun could make one sweat profusely.
After returning to the place he rented to take a bath, Bai Zhi came to the table with the chemical he had taken from the laboratory, intending to use these things to make a small improvement on the gadgets he had made earlier. It was just that the moment he just sat down at the table, a knock came from outside the door.
"Huh? Come here to collect the rent so soon?"
Frowning slightly, Bai Zhi carefully put down the dangerous items in his hands, tiptoed to the door, and looked out through the peephole on the door.
And when he saw the person, he couldn't help but be shocked.
Outside his door, a tall, middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and black-rimmed glasses was standing there.
Bai Zhi recognized the other party. The other party was Mr. Chen, his chemistry teacher.
But this was not the point, the point was... Mr. Chen was his teacher in his previous life; the teacher he sent to ICU for half a month because of the accident he caused in the school lab; the teacher who not only wasn't angry at him because of the accident, but also jokingly said that he would one day be on the news.
So... Mr. Chen also transmigrated?
Bai Zhi was unable to respond for a while.
Everything that Mr. Chen showed outside the door perfectly matched Bai Zhi's impression of this good teacher. He was also calm and steady, elegant and easy-going, and the glasses... uh...
He reached out and stroke his chin. After thinking for a while, Bai Zhi, who realized what he might have encountered, quietly retreated to the table. He then reached out and grabbed the towel that he had put on the back of the chair and put it on his head, pretending to have just finished taking a shower. Wiping his hair with the towel in his hand, he walked towards the door again.
"Who is it? It's all... uh, Mr. Chen?"
Opening the door, the expression on Bai Zhi's face first changed from initial impatience to surprise, and then this surprise quickly changed to joy.
"Mr. Chen, did you already receive my living expenses for this month? Thank you for coming all the way here."
"Of course, otherwise what do you think I'm here for?"
The expression on Mr. Chen's face was very natural. He laughed and said to Bai Zhi in front of him.
"What? I came all the way here, but you don't want to invite me in for a cup of tea?"
"How can that be? Mr. Chen, please come in. I'll go make you some tea, and after I get the living expenses, I'll go downstairs to buy some small dishes, so we can have a good drink together."
Smiling, and Bai Zhi let the door open.
"You're really a troublemaker. It's great that you have this kind of intention. But I'm not here to scrounge a free meal and drink specially."
After pointing at his head and joking a few words, Mr. Chen walked past him and entered his home quite naturally.
Immediately after closing the door, Bai Zhi followed. He poured a cup of tea for the other party quite diligently, and then stood in front of the other party and scratched his hair with his hands, seemingly embarrassed.
"Uh... Mr. Chen, about my living expenses… Where is it?"
"Don't worry, I won't forget it.."
Putting down the teacup in his hand, Mr. Chen took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it over, and at the same time he deliberately warned.
"Remember, don't waste money. If you have any difficulties, just come to me first, understand?"
After taking the envelope and secretly weighing the weight and thickness, Bai Zhi nodded honestly.
So far, he couldn't see anything unusual about the "Mr. Chen" in front of him. If it wasn't for the fact that people from his previous world would never appear in this world, he might really treat him as Mr. Chen who waay very good to him.
It's just that he didn't know if the money could be used in the end...
"Okay, Student Bai Zhi, let's talk about business now."
Reaching out and pushing the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, Mr. Chen smiled.
"You also know that I..."
"By the way, Mr. Chen, you came just at the right time. I have some questions that I don't know how to solve here."
Before Mr. Chen finished speaking, Bai Zhi first patted his head, and then quickly picked up the textbook on the desk. He placed it in front of the other party, with a look of eagerness to learn.
"Like these questions that I don't quite understand, can I ask Mr. Chen to give me a little guidance?"
"Uh……"
Looking at the exercise book in front of him, for some reason, it suddenly felt that the development of things seemed to have faintly exceeded its expectations.
"Mr. Chen, like the solution to this problem..."
"Oh, I see. By the way, Mr. Chen, can you explain the principle of this experiment to me?"
"Ah, I'm sorry, my room hasn't been cleaned for a long time. It's a bit messy... I haven't had time to tidy up..."
Two hours later, after giving the living expenses, solving all the exercises for his students, and helping him to clean up the room, Mr. Chen, who left with two big bags of garbage, was lost in Bai Zhi's sincere thanks, standing at the entrance of the corridor with a bewildered face in the cold night wind.
Looking down at the two garbage bags in his hands, it fell into a deep silence.
Didn't I come here to hunt its prey? So why did things end up like this in the end...
[Face-borrowing Spirit] as a rare existence, is the only Resentful Spirit that can spy on the human mind nowadays. But as the saying goes, gains always accompany losses. Its strength fluctuations can be said to be quite large, and it depends on the fear of it in the heart of the prey. If the prey does not have any fear of it, its combat effectiveness will not even be as good as that of a few-year-old child.
It was certain that its disguise, which was the image stolen from the prey's mind, was absolutely foolproof and impossible to be seen through, and the other party was just an ordinary person, but why did this action completely fail?
All it needed was to successfully raise the first trace of fear in the other party's heart, and then everything would go smoothly just like what it did to the previous prey. However, when it wanted to scare the other party, not only did it not raise any fear in the other party's heart, but the other party kept staring at it enthusiastically, making it feel very nervous...
It felt that something wasn't right. But it couldn't tell what it was.
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