Chapter 8: Branches

As soon as the morning class ended, Miss Guo Er, who was in a happy mood, took Xie Feichen to the Lingyan Club in a hurry, which was a building at the foot of the mountain behind the campus, where several clubs such as Latin dance, street dance, opera, and guitar occupied this building, and on the fourth floor was the territory of the Lingyan Club.

The living room that the Lingyan Club just entered was a place similar to a reading room, with a few sofas in the middle, and a lot of books sparsely placed on the bookshelves next to it.

At this hour, the living room was very deserted, only a tall and thin boy was reading, and he couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw the two of them come in. The boy named Jin Ji obviously knew Guo Xiaoxiao, and although he was embarrassed when he heard their intentions, he agreed with a bitter face after being pulled to the corner by Guo Xiaoxiao to communicate in a low voice.

"You go in, I'll wait for you outside." Guo Xiaoxiao looked at the door with the storeroom sign and waved her hand in disgust, she was not interested in looking at the uncomfortable pile again.

The storage room occupies an unexpectedly large area, but the windows are all blocked by thick curtains, and the light on the top is not powerful, which fills the whole room with an ambiguous gloom, but it is a very strange atmosphere, especially after combining the various collections that are not very beautiful on the outside.

"The main research direction of our Lingyan Club is the folk legends and psychic culture in various places, especially the part about the supernatural field, which is generally not open to recruitment but relies on the recommendation of members to join, if you are interested, I can mention it to the president."

Even if it looked a little embarrassed just now, I don't know if it was for Guo Xiaoxiao's face, but the boy named Jin Ji was very enthusiastic about Xie Feichen: "Most of the collections here are souvenirs brought back by our consultants from their travels, and some of them are collected by our members themselves. ”

"This wood carving is called Ipaisi, and it is a ritual tool of the indigenous Ezo tribe of Hokkaido, RB, and it is a psychic prop that is sold in souvenir shops in Hokkaido."

Jin Ji pointed to a wooden stick carved with a strange pattern in the glass cabinet and introduced it to Xie Feichen, and then turned his finger to a few cloudy glass-like beads.

"These are relics brought back by a member of the club from a trip to Southeast Asia, and I heard that Thailand exports dozens of tons every year, hoping that there will be enough monks to cremate them."

"This tooth in a glass bottle was brought back by our consultant, and he thinks it may be a vampire's tooth, but although I believe in souls, I don't believe in vampires, and most of the members think it may be some kind of canine tooth."

"I mail-ordered this old-looking parchment book from Amazon, and although the seller claimed it was a medieval alchemy note, I photographed it for eighty dollars, so, ahem, you know."

"Oh, look at that red embroidered shoe, it's the real thing, it's the shoes worn by a female zombie in SX when it was unearthed, I heard that there was a villager who had hidden the funeral goods, and his whole family was dug out at night, and only this shoe was left."

Jin Ji may also feel that these collections are not very reliable, half showing off and half complaining about introducing them to Xie Feichen.

Xie Feichen listened quietly with a smile on his face, echoing his head from time to time, just like an ordinary student who was curious about these mysterious areas, but from time to time a faint green glow flashed in the depths of his pupils.

After scanning the audience with his dark eyes, Xie Feichen was disappointed to find that he had probably come for nothing this time, maybe a certain collection here has a lot of cultural value, but he dared to guarantee that it had nothing to do with supernatural powers.

(It seems that this Lingken Club is just a group of ordinary enthusiasts.) )

Xie Feichen was secretly worried in his heart, and couldn't help but smile dumbly. This is a matter of course, how can there be so many coincidences in the world, and I think that mysterious forces have not yet flooded this world to the extent that they can be encountered in any university.

At this time, there seemed to be some noisy sounds outside the door, Jin Ji's face suddenly tightened, and he hurriedly walked out, and Xie Feichen, who had lost interest in these collections, naturally followed.

Guo Xiaoxiao stood in the living room, her hands on her chest, her delicate eyebrows furrowed, and her face was full of displeasure. And standing opposite her was a short boy who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a pair of tattered jeans with his hands in his pockets, with sparse freckles on both sides of his nose, and his appearance was quite delicate, but the arrogance on his face and the slight disdain and sneer at the corners of his mouth were very eye-catching, and Guo Xiaoxiao's cold eyes were angry, and the atmosphere was obviously not very harmonious.

"Jinji, how come these outsiders are here, and you brought strangers into the storage room?" Seeing Xie Feichen come out of the storeroom, the young man's face sank and he scolded Jin Ji unceremoniously.

Jin Ji's face was a little uncomfortable, and he explained curtly: "This friend of mine is interested in joining the Spirit Research Society, so I brought him in for a visit. ”

"Why didn't I know that you had the power to pull people into the club, and not all cats and dogs in our Lingyan Club could come in." The boy didn't seem to think much of Jinji, and snorted coldly at him.

His attitude made Jin Ji angry, his face was ugly and his tone was blunt: "Hu Kaikang, don't think that the president values you and become arrogant, how can I say that I am also your senior, give me a more respectful attitude." ”

"Senpai, cut!" The young man named Hu Kaikang looked like he was dragging and dragging his voice, and his elongated tone made a contemptuous nasal voice, obviously sneering at Jin Ji's words, raised his chin and said contemptuously to Guo Xiaoxiao and Xie Feichen: "Anyway, no outsiders are welcome here, you should leave quickly." ”

Xie Feichen stood next to him without saying a word, but looked at this conflict with interest, and the gaze that fell on Hu Kaikang was meaningful. Under his dark eyes that pierced through yin and yang, the young man's body exuded a faint light, which was a sign of mana, or, to use another term, spiritual power.

In the Lingyan Society, several people confronted each other, and the atmosphere was very stiff.

"I said Jinji, is this uneducated little kid also from your club, he is not a student of our school, right?" Guo Xiaoxiao glanced at Hu Kaikang and turned her head and asked angrily, although she has a relatively atmospheric personality, she is also in a bad mood when she encounters such a bad attitude, especially the condescending look at the eyes that seem to be looking at ants makes her inexplicably angry, and she doesn't know where the other party has the confidence at all.

"Ignorant woman, watch the tone in which you speak." Hu Kaikang's expression was cold, and he said angrily.

Guo Xiaoxiao snorted and was amused: "Where did you come out of the second disease, did you eat too many NC movies, or did you burn out your brain after watching too many comics?" ”

Jin Ji smiled embarrassedly, he was also unhappy with Hu Kaikang's attitude, but he was still ready to step forward to play a round and ease the atmosphere, but at this time Hu Kaikang made a move that everyone didn't expect.

was ridiculed by Guo Xiaoxiao, this young man with a bad attitude blushed, as if he felt greatly insulted, and suddenly stepped forward to face Guo Xiaoxiao and slapped it away.

"You're crazy!" Jin Ji didn't expect his club members to suddenly make such a move, blurted out but didn't have time to stop it.

Guo Xiaoxiao was also taken aback, and subconsciously accurately grabbed the arm that was fanning him, twisted it fiercely, and suppressed him to his knees in Hu Kaikang's painful cry with the standard action of army capture. Three generations of grandparents and grandchildren have military backgrounds, and even her sister is from the criminal police brigade, although Miss Guo Er does not have a career plan in this area, but the force value of dealing with a thief is still more than enough, let alone a teenager who has not yet fully developed.

After restraining Hu Kaikang under the conditioned reflex, Guo Xiaoxiao reacted to what happened, and suddenly her pretty face was upside down, and she raised her slender ** is kick, and immediately kicked the other party into a rolling gourd, and then the fierce Miss Guo Er refused to give up, rolled up her sleeves and revealed her snow-white arms and was about to go up and smash this hairy boy.

"Sister Guo, Sister Guo, you are angry, angry, don't be like this little child." Jin Ji hurriedly went up and calmed the angry Guo Xiaoxiao with a wry smile, turned his head and scolded sharply: "Hu Kaikang, you are too much, I will report to the president today, now you leave quickly." ”

Hu Kaikang got up from the ground with a disgraced face, turned a deaf ear to Jin Ji's threat, and looked at Guo Xiaoxiao with resentment, as if he wanted to deeply remember her appearance.

Xie Feichen frowned, seemingly inadvertently took two steps forward intentionally or unintentionally to cover his vision, and his pale face showed a cold sarcastic smile at the irritable young man, with a provocative expression of letting the horse go.

"Hey, don't add fuel to the fire." Jin Ji couldn't laugh or cry.

Hu Kaikang snorted coldly, gritted his teeth and turned around and left without saying a word, until he disappeared outside the door, Guo Xiaoxiao was still full of displeasure: "I said Jin Ji, why is this quality of a member of your club, or does he have a holiday with you, and his age is not right?" ”

Jin Ji had a pained expression on his face: "He is not from our school, he is a student of a nearby high school, but he was specially recruited by our consultant to become a member of the Lingyan Society, and the president also admires him." This kid is a donkey, and he has a very short temper, so you don't pay attention to him. ”

"Donkey, I think it's a mad dog." Guo Xiaoxiao muttered in a low voice, obviously still harboring suspicion about Hu Kaikang's sudden move just now.

Interesting!

Xie Feichen squinted his eyes and thought, he didn't care much about Hu Kaikang's attitude, he was just a second-year teenager, after awakening his strength, he thought that he was the protagonist, and looking at the ordinary people around him who didn't know anything, he would naturally have a sense of superiority. After getting the "Ten Thousand Dao Refining Records", Xie Feichen also had this kind of pride that he thought was different, but his mind was relatively mature, and he quickly adjusted his mentality, and he would not be immersed in the self-respecting middle two diseases like this adolescent guy.

It's just that the attitude of the Lingyan Club is very worthy of his amusement, a university club made an exception for a middle school student to participate, is it a pure coincidence or is the consultant discovering the power in this boy's body? Judging from Hu Kaikang's disdain for Jin Ji and his lack of respect for his predecessors, it is obvious that he feels that his status in the club is higher than that of Jin Ji and does not regard him as a companion, so does it mean that there is another secret group in the Lingyan Society, a real Lingyan Society, and Jin Ji's students who have no spiritual power are just peripheral personnel who hide people's eyes and ears?

This speculation flashed in Xie Feichen's heart, although it was a little abrupt, but this Spirit Research Club had already aroused his interest.

Thinking of Hu Kaikang's resentful eyes just before leaving, there was a hint of coldness in the bright smile on Xie Feichen's face, and the ring finger wearing the ring flicked imperceptibly, and a hidden black shadow jumped out of the door and followed Hu Kaikang without the other two people realizing it.

This skirmish occurred, and Guo Xiaoxiao and Xie Feichen couldn't continue to stay, and the two left the Lingyan Club amid Jin Ji's apology.

"I'm causing you trouble this time, classmate Guo Xiaoxiao." Xie Feichen spoke apologetically.

"Whatever it takes to you, it's just that you didn't look at the calendar when you went out and met a mad dog." Guo Xiaoxiao waved her hand indifferently: "Let's talk about a stinky little fart child, the girl is too lazy to see him." ”

Xie Feichen smiled slightly, the trouble he said was substantial, maybe Guo Xiaoxiao thought that the matter was over, but that Hu Kaikang probably wouldn't just give up. A person with spiritual power, even if it is not very powerful, is a great threat to ordinary people. It's just that since it was caused by Xie Feichen asking Guo Xiaoxiao to come here, he would naturally block the follow-up for her, so there was no need to mention it to Guo Xiaoxiao.

"Okay, I'm going back to the Latin Dance Club to have a look, do you want to come and visit, the girls in our club are very enthusiastic, maybe you can meet which girl you see, Lao Xie, you still seem to be single, right?" Guo Xiaoxiao threw the matter just now behind her in a blink of an eye, and asked Xie Feichen half jokingly and half seriously.

"No need, I still have some things, so I'll go back first." Xie Feichen smiled dumbly and turned to leave freely.

"Don't forget to promise my show, prepare well!"

In the loud reminder behind him, Xie Feichen Shi Ran walked out of the club building.