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There were more than a dozen children playing in the activity room. Jiang Lu greeted the nurse who was taking care of the children.
"Are you busy, Aunt Zhang?"
Aunt Zhang is almost fifty this year. She started working as a caregiver here in her early twenties. In fact, Jiang Lu was raised by her personally, so she is very caring towards him.
Even after Jiang Lu became a caregiver, he still maintained his previous habit of calling Aunt Zhang when he was undecided.
"Xiaolu, why are you here today?"
Aunt Zhang was a little surprised. She handed the children's book to the child to read by himself, then pulled Jiang Lu aside and asked in a low voice: "Did you make the dean unhappy again?"
"I get angry when you say that!"
Jiang Lu pretended to be angry: "Can't I just help you because I think you're having a hard time?"
"Oh, I'm so happy."
With the help of Jiang Lu's charm, even though she knew it was a lie, Aunt Zhang still smiled from ear to ear: "I am satisfied that you have this heart."
When Aunt Zhang smiled, her face was full of wrinkles. Jiang Lu clearly remembered that Aunt Zhang had always been a very beautiful aunt, but he didn't know when she had quietly grown old.
Just when he was feeling a little emotional and was about to let Aunt Zhang take a rest while he took care of the children, Aunt Zhang suddenly started coughing violently.
"what happened?"
Jiang Lu asked with concern.
Aunt Zhang coughed and panted rapidly while waving her hands: "It's okay. The weather has been bad due to the change of seasons. Maybe she has a cold. Xiao Li seems to have caught a cold too. He didn't come to work today. You should also remember to wear more clothes."
At this point, Aunt Zhang's breathing became a little heavy, and Jiang Lu quickly helped her sit down on the chair.
"I'll go get you some cold medicine." Jiang Lu was a little worried when he saw her like this: "I'm afraid it's the flu."
Aunt Zhang nodded, leaning back in the chair with an overworked look on her face: "Okay."
The orphanage is equipped with a special infirmary. Jiang Lu was about to get medicine when he suddenly heard someone laugh strangely.
He stopped and looked in the direction where the laughter came from in surprise.
Except for a few children who noticed that Aunt Zhang was acting strange and came over to show their concern for her, the other children in the activity room were still playing.
But there was only one child who sat obediently in the corner with his hands behind his back, staring at Jiang Lu with a weird smile on his face.
The corners of his mouth almost reached the height of his earlobes, and his eyes were almost curved into slits.
Even Jiang Lu found this expression inexplicably creepy.
Happy Valley Effect?
Jiang Lu narrowed his eyes.
No, it seems to be called the Happy Bean Effect?
After thinking about it, I still feel that it is not right, but I can’t remember the specific word.
That’s what I mean anyway.
This child is clearly not human.
But just to be safe and rule out the possibility that she just looked unique, he still asked:
"Aunt Zhang, who is that?"
Aunt Zhang looked in the direction Jiang Lu pointed, and then complained: "Afeng, don't you know him?"
"Uh..." Jiang Lu finally didn't say, "I'm asking about the child next to Afeng."
Can't ordinary people see it?
The child was quite excited when he found that Jiang Lu seemed to be able to see him. He immediately stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked slowly towards Jiang Lu.
His legs did not bend at all as he walked, as if he was walking on stilts, and he walked closer and closer in a swaying manner, which was indescribably strange.
Jiang Lu watched him walking towards him, looked at Aunt Zhang solemnly, and then walked quickly out of the activity room.
Seeing Jiang Lu retreating, he became even more excited. The amplitude of his shaking became greater and his walking speed became faster and faster.
Jiang Lu quickened his pace, and he also quickened his pace, gradually closing the distance between them.
It was not until Jiang Lu walked to the now empty kitchen, with nowhere to retreat, that the little boy suddenly pounced on him and fell in front of Jiang Lu.
His chin rested on Jiang Lu's stomach, looking up, his smile becoming more and more seductive.
"I caught you, you are the next ghost! Hehehe..."
Jiang Lu looked around and made sure that no one would come over. He then grabbed the boy's neck and gave him an even more ferocious smile:
"We are all orphans, but you are pretending to be an orphan! You want to be special, right?"
Chapter 26 I’m just a child
The little boy struggled and looked at Jiang Lu in horror.
He was shocked that a mere human dared to treat him like this.
But that’s all.
Although he was shocked, he was not afraid because he had an invincible trump card.
He opened his mouth and said in a strange tone:
"Kokoko...I'm just a kid..."
This is his mental attack. Anyone who is attacked by him in this way will be bewitched. No matter how excessive he does or how evil he shows, he will not resist.
For no other reason than that he was just a child.
But he obviously made the wrong calculation!
"What does it have to do with me?" Jiang Lu remained calm.
what? !
The little boy's face froze.
He is not affected?!
Even Jiang Lu didn't expect that the achievement of "Pride and Prejudice" he just obtained would come in handy now.
He is not bound by moral mental attacks!
The little boy suddenly panicked.
Seeing his reaction, Jiang Lu finally realized that what he just said was an attack from him.
"A sneak attack on me? Now it's my turn!"
Although he didn't suffer any loss, Jiang Lu was still very angry at the other party for playing dirty tricks, so he put on the supervisor necklace after seeing the other party's identity as a vengeful spirit, and tried to give an order:
"Tell me the truth, why are you here? What are you going to do?"
The little boy's heart was shocked, and a sense of oppression from the blood surged into his heart, like a mouse seeing a cat, his mind went blank.
"I sneaked in by hiding in the body of a passerby outside the city. I want to curse all the adults here so that I can turn this place into my paradise. Now I have cursed the man I possessed and the woman just now. You were supposed to be next."
Seeing the little boy obey his orders so easily, Jiang Lu knew that the level difference between him and himself should not be big. Within the scope of the supervisor's necklace, he immediately felt relieved and marked him as a weak person:
"It's you, kid! Let me ask you, can the curse be broken?"
"can."
"Then you must solve it right now, and then find a good place to die."
"..." The little boy's expression showed some struggle, as if he was resisting.
Seeing this, Jiang Lu realized that this order that touched upon the other party's core interests might be a bit too much, so he changed his words and said, "Forget it, after the solution, just go back to where you came from."
"it is good."
"Wait a minute." Jiang Lu thought for a moment and stopped the little boy: "Go and remove the curse on the woman you mentioned first."
"it is good."
......
"Old Qu, this is not easy to do."
In the room, an old man with gray hair and a cane shook his head at the dean.
The dean's face changed: "You can't see the source of the curse?"
On the bed in front of them, a young man was flushed all over, half asleep and half awake, his chest heaving violently.
This is the cursed caregiver Xiao Li.
Staring at Xiao Li's painful expression, the old man sighed: "It should be a vengeful spirit, and one with a very deep grudge."
"How could that be?" The dean said with a serious expression, "If it was a vengeful spirit, there is no way I would not have noticed it."
The old man smiled bitterly and said, "How long has it been since you last entered the spirit realm? You know, it's not ten years ago now. We are making progress, and those evil spirits are also making progress. Some spirit realms have been here for so many years, and some terrifying things have already grown there.
These things may not be powerful in themselves, but some of their special abilities are very difficult to deal with. Even experienced exorcists like us can be tricked if we are not careful."
Seeing that the dean's mood had become somewhat depressed because of his words, the old man comforted him, "Don't be too pessimistic. I said it's difficult because it's difficult to find this evil spirit.
As for this curse, although I can't solve it, there are ways to deal with it.
Anyway, I will try to find this evil spirit first. If I can't find it, I can only look for an exorcist who is good at witchcraft in the guild."
The dean breathed a sigh of relief and said a little embarrassedly: "Then I'll trouble you."
"What did you say?" The old man hit the dean's shoulder and pretended to be angry: "You said this to me, do you not regard me as your brother?"
The dean was stunned, a little moved, and smiled with relief: "Haha, that's not what I meant."
"But..." The old man suddenly leaned close to the dean and whispered, "The appearance of evil spirits in the safe zone is no small matter. Before the guild gives you a solution, you must not spread the news, or you may cause panic."
The dean looked at the old man's familiarity and felt something was wrong. He asked curiously, "Look at you...is this not the first time you've done this?"
The old man gave the dean a meaningful look, and he immediately understood.
"I'll try to see if I can trace the ghost first. I think he's still hiding in the orphanage."
The old man called up the panel, took out some props against evil spirits from the inventory, and placed them in front of him one by one.
The dean stood aside and saw at a glance that the compass was a high-quality prop. He said enviously, "You have made a lot of money in these years. Your family is really rich."