The voice of the female ghost wind chime was dyed with intense fear:

"Mom, Russell please, don't tell horror stories seriously."

Russell disagreed: "It's just a reasonable speculation. Our taste does have similarities with pork. And I'm the main character, and it's not surprising that eating in the cafeteria can happen to trigger key tasks. ”

"You're the main character, what do you mean by that?" Wind Chimes felt that Russell's words were incomprehensible when they were connected together.

Russell explains:

"To put it simply, I have a special physique, and I have an accident wherever I go. For example, before I came into contact with the transcendental, I once saw a neighbor's takeaway placed at the door. The takeaway has not been picked up by anyone, and it stinks. If I were an ordinary person, I guess it was the neighbor's takeaway that stinks, and it's not a big deal. ”

"So what's actually going on?" Wind Chimes are excited and curious, waving small fists in the mental space.

"It's my neighbor who stinks." Russell said while taking a sip of tomato, egg, and coffee soup, smelling the aroma very pleasantly:

"It was an interesting murder, and I can tell you about it later."

"Ahh The wind chimes almost fainted.

She even wondered if Russell had the opposite of her, "scaring ghosts can absorb fear energy and become stronger".

"Actually, you don't have to be afraid when you hear that there are dead people in the story, aren't you a dead person yourself?" Russell kindly comforted, "There is a high probability that this meat is just from some rare and extraordinary creature, such as mermaids, black goat cubs, elves, and the like." ”

"It's easy to verify, just use spiritism to summon the souls of the dead."

Russell looked at the tender steak on the plate, stretched out his right hand and tapped it on the plate, quietly casting a spiritistic spell, using corpse parts as a medium to summon the souls of the dead.

He wanted to see what the ghosts were like.

Nothing happened.

No ghosts have been called.

Russell set his eyes on the same kind of meat steak on Clara and Black Feather's plate, and made several mysterious gestures in the air with his right hand, and continued to try, using the meat of Clara and Black Feather as a medium to summon the ghosts of the dead.

Since Russell's spiritual level reached the late first grade, his psychic skills have also been raised to a notch. He can turn on and off his vision with his will alone, without the need for movement coordination. When using corpses to channel spirits and summon the spirits of the dead, there is no need to touch the corpse, and it can be within a few meters.

Still nothing happened.

"Spiritism failed to summon the souls of the flesh masters, neither animals nor humans. This kind of thing has never happened. Russell said to the wind chime in his mind, still calm on the surface, unnoticed by Clara and Black Feather.

"W-what does this mean? Are you psychic at a good level? "Wind chimes are puzzled, obviously not understanding psychics.

Russell carefully analyzed:

"There are two possibilities.

"The first possibility. The soul of the deceased died completely, and there was not a single fragment of the soul left.

"When a creature dies normally, its soul is damaged and it is difficult to resurrect. The purpose of the Academy's Soul Binding Enchantment is to ensure that the soul of the student is intact within a short period of time after death, so that it can be easily resurrected.

"But even the ghosts that have been dead for tens of thousands of years will not completely dissipate. After killing an enemy, it takes a lot of strength to completely erase their soul without a trace of soul crumbs.

This means that when the owner of the meat is involved in some kind of secret, someone will want to let his soul fly.

"The second possibility. The owner of these 3 pieces of meat that was provided to us is still alive somewhere in the world. This poor man, or animal, was cut off while he was still alive. ”

After listening to the two possibilities, the wind chimes were so frightened that they spoke with a crying tone:

"Well, not really. It's scarier than summoning a human ghost! Is there any way you can figure out what's going on? ”

"Yes," Russell replied in a nonchalant tone of course, "just ask the cafeteria staff." ”

Because of the ghosts of the dead mentioned earlier, as well as the resurrection mechanism of the Academy, Russell diverged his thoughts:

"Speaking of which, wind chimes. Do you really not remember what happened when you were alive? Don't remember the cause of your death? It stands to reason that if you want to really die in the academy, it is still a bit difficult not to be resurrected. ”

Perhaps, when the wind chimes died, the student death alarm in the academy enchantment malfunctioned and failed to be triggered, which made her miss the resurrection time and become a lonely ghost.

Or, Wind Chimes weren't students of the academy at all, but had just floated to the academy as a nightmare.

"I really don't remember." The sound of the wind chimes dimmed slightly.

"I'll check it out for you when I'm free in the future." Russell said.

The name Wind Chime was chosen after she became a ghost, not a name she used before her death, and it lacks direction to look up.

Russell had asked Professor Black Amber to help him find out if any students had died near the tower in the past.

But at least in the available information, there is no match.

……

Russell left 1/3 of the meal on the table, saying goodbye to the other two companions who were slowly tasting, and by the way, blurred their memories.

He first used the "Transfiguration Illusion" to change his appearance, turning himself into another passer-by student, and then found Aunt Martha, who had just delivered the food.

Russell pointed to the wall, the steak in the couple's meal:

"Aunt Martha, what kind of meat is this steak made of?"

Martha's face was slightly surprised: "Uh, it should be pork." ”

"I tested it somehow, no." Russell replied calmly.

Martha's face turned slightly blue, and her expression became more and more ugly.

Russell stared into her eyes, tightening, not wanting to let go of any clues.

After a few seconds, Martha seemed to surrender: "I can show you how this piece of meat is made, but you must promise to keep it secret." Don't preach it to the outside world. ”

"Yes." Russell nodded slightly.

Martha walked in the direction of the kitchen and beckoned Russell to follow.

Russell didn't follow directly.

He first had the wind chimes split into a split soul that overlapped his position so that it could not be seen.

Then let this split soul use the disguise illusion to become his current appearance.

Russell then ordered the left-handed "Hidden One" to make himself invisible and temporarily suffer the side effects of blindness. The split soul that originally overlapped Russell's position and disguised as his current appearance was revealed. From the perspective of others, nothing happens.

After that, he asked the Soul Splitter to follow Aunt Martha, and the main body stood in place invisibly.

In the end, Russell asks the split souls to share vision with the wind chimes, and the wind chimes share vision with him, so that he can see what the split souls see.

The above five steps, done smoothly and in one go, directly without others noticing, turned the real Russell into a ghost distraction, and took the place of the real Russell to bear the danger. Russell had used a similar technique in his previous fight against the Red-robed Cultists.

Although in the academy, near the cafeteria, and in broad daylight, there is a high probability that there is no real danger. But given that the Red Order of Chaos had infiltrated the academy and that something was going wrong, Russell thought it was better to be careful.

"Good high-end operation!" Wind chimes are full of praise.

But there is a feeling that it is not a taste.

It's obviously my magic, but how can I be played by Russell instead.

"It's just a day-to-day operation. Wind Chimes: When you were in the tower before, didn't you also have a sense of operation in the application of extraordinary abilities? Russell didn't look much proud.

He was impressed with the details of the combination of two extraordinary abilities:

First, the wind chimes disguise themselves as two waves of people at the same time, contact the other wave of people respectively, and reply to the other wave of people with the information provided by one wave of people; The second is the split soul of the wind chimes, which uses the effect of changing appearance, clothing, and accessories through the illusion of disguise, and creates the illusion of "holding a blazing sun charm", which successfully misleads the giant bear.

"Oh, the operations in the tower were taught to me by the red-robed and black-robed men who evoked me—they seem to be the Red Order of Chaos you said. Well, it's mostly taught by one of the red-robed girls in a mask. Wind Chimes recalled.

"You didn't think of it yourself." Russell covered his face.

This female ghost doesn't look very smart.

……

The Split followed Aunt Martha to the back kitchen.

The back kitchen of the college cafeteria, which is not big from the outside, but is much larger from the inside, extends in all directions, has many different rooms and inflection points, and must have used some kind of space folding technology.

Martha led the soul to the end of the passage and pushed open a heavy wooden door.

Crunch.

The old, damp brown wooden door slowly opens.

Russell looked inside through the vision of the distracted soul.

Inside the door was the darkness of the secluded forest.

Bang bang bang.

The sound of rapid keyboard tapping was heard in the darkness,

Whew.

There was also heavy breathing, wheezing.

Cooing and growling.

Plus, what seemed to come from the muffled roar of some kind of terrible beast.

There will be a reward at 0:00 in the next few days.

If I see a typo, it's okay to correct it directly at the starting point, and I'll check it from time to time.

(End of chapter)