Chapter 16: The Sky is Full of Your Blame

Sister Yao was very happy that Liu Shuzhi changed his mind to help her, so she eagerly urged him to leave, saying: “Alright, let’s go quickly. Weren’t you just saying you were very hungry? I’ll treat you to a late-night snack. With your big size now, you must be able to eat a lot, right?”

Chen Fengshi could only let out a long sigh. Yes, he shouldn’t have expected Liu Shuzhi to escape Sister Yao’s clutches. For someone like Sister Yao who had been around for years, it was really not hard to control someone with relatively simple emotions like Liu Shuzhi. Moreover, if Sister Yao’s own account was true, Chen Fengshi was even moved by her emotionally!

However, he had long understood a principle: when facing the vast majority of people, being moved was one thing, but as for words and actions, one must try not to forget to let reason take the lead.

When hanging out outside, those who didn’t understand this point didn’t know how many times they would be used as a tool just by being called “brother” a few times!

Sister Yao certainly understood this principle, but Liu Shuzhi did not. People with simple emotions easily made a mistake: because they were moved emotionally, they felt that the other person was special, and that they themselves were also special in the other person’s heart. Thus, they would pour their hearts out, and even not hesitate to take a stab for them.

Liu Shuzhi and Sister Yao walked far away. The back of the former was almost three times as wide as the latter. Chen Fengshi could already imagine how big of a stir this would cause in the school.

However, for Chen Fengshi right now, his stomach was indeed a problem that needed to be solved. The thickness of the golden mist on his body had been decreasing all along, and now it was just like normal, invisible on the surface of his skin. At the same time, his feeling of hunger grew stronger and stronger.

‘Could maintaining a tense state in the body greatly increase the consumption?’ Chen Fengshi tried to relax his body. When his muscles no longer maintained that particularly tough state, the rate at which the hunger intensified clearly slowed down significantly. This raised another question: when he was in the red mist of the Fungal Demon, fighting with Liu Shuzhi and Sister Yao, why did the golden mist on his body actually get thicker and thicker?

Chen Fengshi couldn’t help but suspect that the phenomenon he saw, where the red mist crazily surged toward the golden mist on his body, could it be that the golden mist was devouring the Fungal Demon?

To get answers to these doubts, there was currently only one way left, which was to seek help from that show-off Little An. But Chen Fengshi didn’t even consider this.

Although he wanted to know all sorts of “whys”, what was most worth worrying about right before him was obviously the situation at the school. The conversation between Sister Yao and Liu Shuzhi forced him to more seriously consider his own situation. There were already many people infected by the Fungal Demon in the school. Whether these people now needed to be driven out one by one was one thing; what was more worth his attention was that if their memories unfavorable to Chen Fengshi had all been modified by the Fungal Demon, then he absolutely could not rashly return to the school!

Because his phone was smashed, and the worst part was that he was completely penniless. The little money he originally had in his pocket was also torn to shreds, not even having enough remaining area to be exchanged at a bank. Chen Fengshi decided to adopt the second plan: first go find Big Guy, because that kid rented a place outside the school.

Chen Fengshi expected he wouldn’t be welcome. Running over at this time was equivalent to being a third wheel. He didn’t expect that when he went there, there was actually no one in Big Guy’s rented room… It was pitch black, and no one answered when he knocked on the door.

“How strange, he still has money to go out on a date at the end of the month?” Chen Fengshi certainly understood Big Guy’s financial situation. He was always broke at the end of the month. Let alone the last few days, he generally had to practice planned economy for the last ten days.

Although there were other friends he could ask for help, a shallower friendship meant more worries, and the explanations and made-up stories would have to be more complex. They also wouldn’t be as willing to let people see his current sorry state. Chen Fengshi thought about it and simply decided to wait. Anyway, Big Guy and his girlfriend had to come back eventually. Maybe they were just taking a walk outside after dinner.

This wait made Chen Fengshi so hungry that his stomach ached.

When he was almost about to switch to the first plan, there were footsteps in the stairwell again. Listening to the sound and rhythm of the walking, it felt familiar.

Chen Fengshi hurriedly stood up and looked down through the handrail.

The one coming up was not Big Guy, but his girlfriend Xiao Fei!

“A beautiful savior!” Chen Fengshi was overjoyed and didn’t care that he was shirtless right now and his pants were full of big and small holes.

“Old Chen?” Xiao Fei saw him, her mouth open wide enough in shock to fit an egg. Her already large eyes were now really staring like apricots. “Big Guy and Skinny are looking everywhere for you! Why aren’t you answering your phone?”

“Looking for me?” Chen Fengshi realized that something had indeed happened at the school, and it was related to him. But right now he just wanted to eat something, so he said: “It’s a long story! Beauty, please feed me!”

He was of course very familiar with Xiao Fei, but he didn’t expect that upon seeing his sorry state, besides being shocked, she didn’t immediately open the door to let him in. Instead, she first called Big Guy, said he was there, and then asked Big Guy: “Old Chen is hungry, should I let him in?”

“I…” Chen Fengshi was dumbfounded, completely unable to understand why Xiao Fei had such a reaction. Fortunately, he heard Big Guy’s answer on the phone was quick and clear. Just as he felt slightly relieved, he saw Xiao Fei glance at his bare upper body with a slightly red face, and said into the phone: “He’s not wearing a shirt, and his pants are full of holes. Let me tell you first, don’t get the wrong idea later.”

Chen Fengshi really wanted to ask, when had he ever been disrespectful to Xiao Fei, that she had to guard against him like this? But what was even more terrifying was that Xiao Fei handed him the phone and said: “You should call Skinny first. Big Guy will be right back, he said he’ll bring you more food. Let’s wait for him to come back before going into the room.”

Chen Fengshi truly experienced what it meant to feel like he was in a dream… Was this Big Guy’s intention?

How could that be?

He, he absolutely didn’t believe it!

He felt a needle-like discomfort in his heart, and he didn’t want to stay silent. And after Xiao Fei handed him the phone, she actually stepped back, standing at the bottom of the stairwell. Separated by a flight of stairs, she stared at him without blinking. Guarding against a thief? No, no, this was simply treating him like a thief!

Chen Fengshi held the phone, feeling very awful in his heart. Suppressing his anger, he asked Xiao Fei as calmly as possible: “Xiao Fei, I haven’t been disrespectful to you, have I? What, what does this mean? You’re simply treating me like a thief!”

Xiao Fei blinked in surprise and asked back: “Old Chen, do you really not know anything about your own situation?”

“…Tell me, what exactly happened?” Chen Fengshi guessed it was related to the changes at the school, but how could this make Big Guy and Xiao Fei guard against him with such an attitude!

“Those secret things you did with twenty-one women have all been exposed. The ones with boyfriends are coming to settle accounts with you, and with their friends they’ve called, there might be more than two hundred people. Skinny and Big Guy couldn’t get through to your phone, and were worried you’d run into them first, so they went out to find you. So tell me, you did all those things, and now you show up looking like this, how could I not explain it clearly to Big Guy? What if he’s worried there’s something going on between us too, that wouldn’t be good.” Xiao Fei spoke with such confidence that it left Chen Fengshi stunned.

Good heavens… could the Fungal Demon have a little creativity?

Using the same trick on so many people, this was using the tactic of “three people make a tiger”, using countless similar blames to crush him! They never even thought of letting him turn things around!

Alright, he understood Xiao Fei’s feelings now…

“Old Chen, how could you do so many bad things behind our backs? How wicked, giving so many people green hats. Don’t you like Shen Ai? Is this how you like her? Let alone how I look down on you now, you have no idea how big a blow this is to Big Guy. At first he absolutely didn’t believe it, but the facts were right in front of him. So many women ruined their own reputations to admit it, and many even had abortions for you, paying for the abortions themselves! Big Guy treats you as his best brother, but he didn’t even know a tiny bit about the things you did. Even though he didn’t say it, he must be so heartbroken…”

Xiao Fei’s words were harsh. If it weren’t Chen Fengshi, and it was someone else, she would have definitely said even harsher things. That was her personality, and in the current situation, without a doubt, Chen Fengshi’s image had taken a 180-degree turn. The fact that she still paid attention to him now was probably only for Big Guy’s sake.

Chen Fengshi listened in silence. Yes, the one who should feel wronged wasn’t him. As the saying goes, “repeated rumors can melt gold”. Moreover, if the situation at the school was as Xiao Fei described, other than himself, even his parents wouldn’t be able to truly believe him. So many people involved were ruining their own reputations, just to frame him?

He wasn’t some rich tycoon. Framing him wouldn’t bring a huge compensation payout. Who would believe that if he told them?

The most wronged people right now were his good brothers Skinny and Big Guy! A friend they thought they knew very well suddenly had these things exposed, while they knew nothing about it. What did that feel like? It felt like they had been treated with hypocrisy all along, like they had never been treated as true good brothers by him.

Chen Fengshi really wished Big Guy would come a little later, so he would have more time to think about how to solve this problem.

However, Big Guy came back very quickly. Skinny came back with him too. The two of them each carried a large bag of instant noodles.

As soon as they met, Skinny said: “There are no sausages, I don’t have much spare food either.”

Chen Fengshi said with great emotion: “Good brothers! How did you know I’d need this much to get full?”

“What do you mean?” Big Guy looked completely confused.

Skinny explained in puzzlement: “We figured you wouldn’t be able to show your face for a while, so we bought you a lot at once! What do you mean? Could you possibly eat it all in one meal?”

“I’ll eat it and show you. After you’re done being shocked, I’ll tell you something even more unbelievable—I promise all three of you won’t be able to believe it!” Chen Fengshi took advantage of the opportunity.

After entering the room, Xiao Fei cooked the noodles. Then Big Guy and Skinny watched dumbfounded as Chen Fengshi ate bowl after bowl. Xiao Fei got annoyed and simply cooked a whole pot. Then, resting her chin in both hands, the three of them watched dumbfounded together as Chen Fengshi ate pot after pot.

“It’s gone…” Xiao Fei said. All forty packs had been cooked.

“It’s, it’s gone?” Big Guy was shocked, but at the same time he no longer felt surprised.

“Forty packs, you ate them all?” Skinny stared in shock at Chen Fengshi’s stomach and couldn’t help but reach out to press it. “This is so unscientific! Is there a black hole in your body?”

Chen Fengshi wiped his mouth clean and said very calmly: “I could finish another forty packs if there were more. Don’t disbelieve it—my suddenly being able to eat so much is related to what you heard happened at school. I was possessed by the God of War, and then I took care of an Evil Ghost. Before the Evil Ghost died, it said I hadn’t won either, and that it had long prepared a big gift for me. Just now I found out, it was probably the Evil Ghost using possession methods to create my current situation for me.”

Chen Fengshi thought to himself, it wasn’t that he wanted to promote superstition! But in the current situation, only superstitious, mystical things were the easiest to explain, and the most likely to be accepted by Big Guy and the other two.

Big Guy, Skinny, and Xiao Fei, all three pairs of eyes were wide open, listening in a daze. It took them a long time to digest it. Suddenly, Skinny slapped his thigh and shouted: “Holy crap! There really are ghosts and gods in the world! I just said Old Chen couldn’t possibly have this kind of ability and keep all the luck with the ladies to himself. He’d definitely have to share it with us, teach a few moves to a single guy like me, there’s no way he could hide it without a single trace!”

“Worldview shattered… worldview shattered… there really are ghosts…” Big Guy muttered to himself. If it were just said like that, he might not believe it right now. But Chen Fengshi had just eaten forty packs of noodles in one breath, proving the unscientific fact that he suddenly had an inhuman appetite first, so he couldn’t help but believe it.

Although, in reality, the unscientific thing Chen Fengshi proved didn’t equal proof for the unscientific story he made up. But human nature being what it was, how could so many people stay perfectly rational all the time? Not to mention there was already the bonus of trust from their long-term friendship as a foundation.