He was horrified to discover that there was someone next to him!
At first, the man thought it was an illusion, but after looking back several times, he realized it wasn't.
There was indeed a girl floating in mid-air beside him, pressing the elevator button, and at that very moment, she was looking directly at him.
Cold sweat broke out all over the man's body, and he began to chant "Amitabha" incessantly.
Qi Yu initially paid no mind to the man's reaction, but after a while, she noticed him staring intently in her direction. That's when she realized something was amiss.
Her powers were fine, her spiritual energy was abundant; by all rights, humans shouldn't be able to see her.
What was going on with this man?
Qi Yu leaned closer, suddenly flying right in front of the man, maintaining a distance of mere inches. She then asked in a chilling tone, "Uncle, can you see me?"
The man, nearly sixty years old, had lived most of his life and had never encountered a ghost before.
Qi Yu looked at him. "Strange, it seems to be an issue with your eyes. Do you naturally possess Yin-Yang eyes, allowing you to see many unclean things?"
The man stared at Qi Yu in disbelief, too afraid to move. His mouth hung open for a long time, unsure how to respond.
Seeing that the man remained silent for so long, Qi Yu couldn't help but frown and urge him on. The man, as if waking from a dream, finally snapped back to reality. He then trembled and retreated to a corner, nodding his head as he tried to hide.
"So, you can truly see me? Do you naturally have Yin-Yang eyes?" Qi Yu's question was quite pointed.
The man regained his composure, shaking his head and nodding, a flurry of activity that left him bewildered as he finally mumbled, "I-I don't know."
Qi Yu rolled her eyes in exasperation. "If you don't know, then why did you say you had Yin-Yang eyes earlier? But judging by your situation, you likely do possess them naturally. Do you often see unclean things?"
The man dared not utter a sound.
Qi Yu held his chin, carefully prying open his eyelids to examine them.
The man's eyes widened in terror, like a puppet allowing himself to be manipulated.
After a careful examination, Qi Yu suddenly infused a surge of spiritual energy into his eyes.
The man had expected pain, but after opening his eyes and remaining stunned for a long moment, he found there was no pain. Instead, his vision seemed to become clearer.
Qi Yu pinched his chin. "Indeed, you possess innate Yin-Yang eyes. You must see many unclean things in your daily life, then."
Although they hadn't encountered any unclean things since arriving in this world, it didn't prove their complete absence.
Every world had its share of ghosts and spirits, much like cockroaches in the human world.
The reason they hadn't seen any might be because they frequented crowded places, and also because their spiritual energy was so potent that few spirits dared to appear directly before them.
The man stared at Qi Yu, his body stiff. "I don't know. I haven't seen any unclean things, but you... you're the first I've seen. Are you a ghost?"
"You're the ghost. How should I put it... my identity is inconvenient for you to know, but just remember that I am not a ghost. I don't fear sunlight, and I can also manifest a physical form, becoming like you. " Qi Yu stared at the man. "At your age of fifty or sixty, you are considered quite old in the human world, but to me, you are still very young, not even a fraction of my age. In fact, any pet I casually raise would be older than you. So, you should call me 'sister'."
The man felt deeply insulted. This ghost, who looked no older than a teenager, was asking him, a man nearing sixty, to call her sister.
The man straightened his tie, unwilling to engage further.
Regardless, he was human, and she was entirely different. He had no need to accommodate her or pay her much attention.
He would simply pretend the woman beside him didn't exist, that she was mere air.
The man repeatedly told himself this in his mind.
Qi Yu, however, didn't mind. She simply sat cross-legged in mid-air, observing quietly.
In her world, humans with Yin-Yang eyes were not uncommon. This was because spiritual energy was abundant, and many humans lived in hills or at the foot of mountains close to sources of spiritual energy. Nurtured by the spiritual energy daily, their souls were filled with it, and the souls of newborns were exceptionally pure, thus granting them Yin-Yang eyes.
Yin-Yang eyes allowed one to see ghosts and all things beyond human perception.
What Qi Yu found interesting was that this middle-aged man, despite possessing Yin-Yang eyes, seemed to be seeing a ghost for the first time.
Could it be that their earlier guess was correct? That this world truly had no ghosts, rather than them simply hiding when they appeared, as she had initially thought?
Lost in thought, Qi Yu looked up and noticed they had reached the eighth floor, which was the management department.
After the man with Yin-Yang eyes exited the elevator on the eighth floor, he went directly into the CEO's office.
Qi Yu, taking advantage of being unseen, drifted leisurely after him.
To her astonishment, she discovered that this man was the CEO of the building.
Qi Yu was initially shocked, but upon considering his age, it no longer seemed strange.
While novels and TV shows in this world often depicted CEOs as young, in their twenties, she mused that such portrayals were surely fabricated.
Just like the powerful deities in their divine realm couldn't possibly be newly born infants; they were certainly ancient beings who had lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years.
With these thoughts, Qi Yu drifted into the CEO's office and sat directly opposite the man.
The man was in the midst of handling documents.
Qi Yu stared at him, her eyes unblinking.
Finally, after an indeterminate amount of time, the man could no longer bear it. He looked up at Qi Yu, who was about the age of his daughter. "Little one, why have you been staring at me? Weren't you the ghost in the elevator? You should stay in the elevator, why have you come here?"
"I've come to learn about business management from you," Qi Yu said slowly, word by word. "Mainly, I want to learn how to run a company. You seem to be someone with authority in this company, which aligns with my intentions. If that's the case, then teach me how to start a company."
The man: "......?"
Were ghosts this ambitious nowadays?