Qi Yu stared at the man.
The man felt a prickle under her gaze.
After a long standoff, the man proactively turned his head away, deciding to pretend he saw nothing.
It was just a ghost, after all. What if he was truly being haunted by it? This was all an illusion.
That's right, it was all just a magnetic field, the man reassured himself. He had lived so long, was he really going to be afraid of a little ghost that had only been dead for less than two years? He sped up his work, determined to finish early and let his subordinates off the hook for overtime tonight.
Seeing that the man was ignoring her, Qi Yu found it amusing. She turned and disappeared, returning to Si Qing and the others.
She told Si Qing and the others about her chance encounter today.
Si Qing was surprised to hear so many things he didn't know from Qi Yu. He then grumbled unhappily, "No wonder you disappeared early this morning. I thought you were off playing somewhere. So you went out to play by yourself and didn't tell anyone. What did that man look like? Was he old? In the human world, no matter how old they are, they wouldn't exceed a few decades."
Si Qing pouted, displeased.
Qi Yu quickly appeased him, "I just happened to run into him. I was actually just planning to walk around nearby. But no matter what, I feel like I'm one step closer to my goal of becoming a female CEO. Do you want to come with me and see? I think that man looks like a successful person in this world."
With the constant binge-watching of modern dramas, Qi Yu was becoming more and more familiar with modern vocabulary.
Si Qing nodded, wanting to go see.
The others waved their hands.
"I'm not curious. I won't go. What's so interesting about a human workplace?" Chen Xi still planned to return to the library and finish reading all the books on the second floor.
Yan Hua wanted to accompany them.
The others followed suit.
Qi Yu and Si Qing decided that since that was the case, everyone would meet at the library that evening.
Thus, everyone agreed and immediately scattered.
Those who wanted to go to the library went to the library. Some who wanted to go shopping along the way went shopping. Qi Yu and Si Qing went to figure out how to start a company.
On the way to see the man with yin-yang eyes, Si Qing looked at Qi Yu, "Actually, we haven't found everyone yet. Shouldn't we find our people first before staying in this world to play?"
"I was also struggling with this issue before. After thinking about it carefully, none of the lost ones are incapable of self-preservation," Qi Yu spread her hands. "This small secret realm is much larger than we imagined. The reason why we can't summon them with laws is likely due to interference from various modern high-tech devices, coupled with the distance.
"So, if you ask me, we might as well play and search at the same time. There's no rush. Perhaps they are also playing and searching."
Qi Yu had completely let go and was even eager to explore this unknown world.
Si Qing was speechless for a moment. Thinking about it, it did make sense. So, he happily followed Qi Yu to the building she had just visited and appeared before the man together.
The man with yin-yang eyes, who had just thought Qi Yu had finally given up and slipped away, was feeling rather pleased and even humming a tune while working.
But he never expected that in the blink of an eye, Qi Yu would return, and even bring a companion with her. The two of them sat on the sofa, staring at him.
The man looked up and almost choked on his water from fright. After a while, he regained his composure and asked in an annoyed tone, "Didn't you leave? Why are you back? Are you following me? I'm this old, you should find someone younger to pester. Besides, the young man next to you looks quite good. Are you both ghosts?"
Qi Yu looked at him with a serious expression, "The person next to me is my younger brother. I'm here to learn how to start a company and be a CEO."
The man put his hand to his forehead, "You really want to learn how to start a company from me? Where will you open it? Ghosts can't start companies. Or are you going to open one in the underworld? But that's not the point. The point is you want to learn how to start a company. Aren't there similar talents in the underworld to teach you?"
It's not like people haven't died in this world. Didn't the business tycoons or investment management talents who died before abound in the underworld? And they were all quite famous figures. It would be better for those people to teach you than for me to.
Qi Yu looked at him, "You make a lot of sense, but I don't know them, and I have no contact with them. Going to the underworld sounds simple, but I don't want to go. The environment there is too bad. So, all in all, I still choose you to teach me. Of course, we won't let you teach us for free. I will give you a lot of compensation."
Qi Yu casually took out five gold ingots and placed them on the table.
The glittering gold ingots hurt the man's eyes. "Do you think I'll believe these things you conjured with illusions?" He knew from those zombie movies that anything good conjured by ghosts was fake, made from paper money.
The man wasn't going to fall for it and pretended not to see the gold ingots.
Qi Yu smiled faintly, "Real or fake? You'll know if you take it to get appraised."
The man paused. Hearing Qi Yu say that, he finally looked at the gold ingots again. He noticed that even after being there for so long, they hadn't disappeared. And…
He reached out and touched one, then bit it. It actually felt somewhat real.
The man stared at the five gold ingots in front of him, finally wavering.
Qi Yu smiled at him, "I have mountains of gold and silver. I have any treasure you want. I just want to have a place in this world. If you can solve the problems I need solved, I can give you any wealth you desire."
The man's heart wavered even more. He had never seen such large gold ingots before, and five of them at once.
Finally, the man picked up one of the gold ingots and stood up, locking the other four in a drawer. "I need to check if this one you gave me is real. If it is, then we can talk about our transaction. If not, I won't teach you anything."
Qi Yu nodded, completely agreeing. Instead, she suggested, "Then take all five gold ingots with you for the inspection. If they can be melted into gold bars after the inspection, that would be perfect. You can melt a few more. If not, you can melt them into gold jewelry yourself."
The man: "..."
He was now beginning to doubt Qi Yu's identity. If this girl was a ghost who had only recently died, how could she have so much money?