Chapter 8

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

Upon seeing the water spirit look expressionless, Zhou Kai chuckled and said, “I’m just joking to ease the atmosphere.”

“I don’t like jokes. You said you wanted to help me. Fine, help me kill someone. If you kill him, I will believe you,” the water spirit said coldly. It had disheveled hair and a vicious gaze and it sounded very cold.

Zhou Kai curled his lips. “I won’t kill anyone. I’m a student with good grades, morals, and health. I’m the future pillar of the country.”

“A man.” The water spirit mocked him.

Zhou Kai said, “Your bark is worse than your bite. I said I would help you purely because I have a kind-hearted attitude when I see someone pitiful. If it is within my capability, I can do it easily. Otherwise, there’s no way out. Humans should know their place, and so should spirits.”

Zhou Kai’s last sentence was very meaningful.

As if the water spirit had gone crazy, it bellowed, “What made you say you’d help me? I just want to kill someone.”

Zhou Kai looked deeply at the water spirit for a moment, turned around abruptly, pulled the little loli that was watching the show, and strode away.

The water spirit, which was going crazy, was stunned. Upon seeing that Zhou Kai was really far away, it quickly said, “What are you doing?”

Zhou Kai answered without turning his head back, “I can’t help you kill someone. Just pretend I didn’t say that.”

“No, I was just shouting. How can you just walk away? Let’s talk about it some more. We can do this without killing anyone!” the water spirit quickly shouted.

However, Zhou Kai slowly disappeared into the night, leaving the water spirit to regret it and hesitate to chase after him.

When he was far away, Little Leopard Cat looked at Zhou Kai. “Is it really gone? Aren’t you going to ask what it is obsessed with?”

Zhou Kai replied indifferently, “This female spirit has the potential to be a shrew. Such humans and spirits are not satisfied with small gains. The best way to deal with it is by leading it by the nose and not letting it climb over us.”

Little Leopard Cat thought about the water spirit’s rage earlier. This was indeed the case. Nobody would probably be able to criticize it if it was left on the street after a verbal war!

“Are you still willing to help such a spirit?” Little Leopard Cat asked curiously.

Zhou Kai said calmly, “I’ll help. Why not? When it comes to the fundamentals of being a human being, as long as someone is not an evil person with a black heart, I can extend a hand to help them. After all, in a hundred years of being alive, nobody in this world would probably dare to say that they never made a mistake in their life. Since we are all similar, why should we think that a person is bad when we see them being bad? That would be too hypocritical.”

Little Leopard Cat said in admiration, “Big Brother, you’re a really nice person.”

“A nice person? This is just a deal. We get what we want, so I can’t be considered a nice person.” Zhou Kai smiled slightly.

Little Leopard Cat was startled. “A deal?”

Zhou Kai glanced at Little Leopard Cat, “What? Do you think that I’m Virgin Mary and do things without getting anything in return when I see someone pitiful?”

“Isn’t that the case?” Little Leopard Cat was confused.

Zhou Kai laughed. “Little girl, this society is not composed of good people. It is a society of trade. Giving and receiving is the only truth. Should one give selflessly just because they feel pity? Then who else would be willing to try? Society would be in disarray.”

Little Leopard Cat blinked its big eyes, feeling unable to say anything yet also feeling as if something was wrong with that.

“Alright. You don’t have to care about outsiders. Let’s worry about ourselves. I live at school. None of those animals stay in the dorm on rest days, so you’ll stay in the dorm tonight. I’ll try to rent an apartment tomorrow and make other arrangements.”

Zhou Kai purchased towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and other household items for Little Leopard Cat from a small shop that he passed by.

After all, a deal had been struck and he was getting the information he desired, so he had to give the other party the best treatment he could come up with.

This was Zhou Kai’s outlook on life: strive, get free from debt, and not let anyone owe you anything.

Soon, the two of them arrived at the dorm.

Although it was the dorm of a trashy school, it had been built pretty well. The students of Anyang Institute stayed at a good place, ate well, and played well.

Thanks to those factors, the Anyang Institute of Engineering had become a paradise for bad students and it stood out from the other trashy colleges in Anyang because it admitted many students every year.

After arriving at the dorm, he saw that his few roommates were not there indeed.

Zhou Kai tidied up his bed and told Little Leopard Cat, “You sleep in my bed. I’ll put up with it. If you have any special requests for sleeping at night, you can mention them. Otherwise, get ready to wash up and go to bed.”

Little Leopard Cat quickly said, “I want to hear bedtime stories.”

Zhou Kai frowned.

Was she kidding? She still had to listen to fairy tales before going to sleep?

“What kind of fairy tales do you like to listen to? I’ll search…” Before Zhou Kai could finish, Little Leopard Cat shook her head. “I don’t want to listen to fairy tales. They’re meaningless. I want to listen to Law Online.”

Zhou Kai paused and said while feeling dumbfounded, “What did you say?”

“Law Online. Don’t you know about it? It’s about thrilling stories of the police solving cases and catching criminals. It’s interesting, and my mother used to tell me about it. She said that my father was a detective who was trying to arrest her for a case, and a deeply moving story happened as a result. Then, there was me,” Little Leopard Cat said seriously.

Zhou Kai was speechless.

What kind of little loli is this? Her hobby is pretty unique.

Whatever. His customer’s needs were the most important, so Law Online it was. Wasn’t it just an anthology of stories about the police and criminals? There was a pile of them on Baidu.

Zhou Kai took out his cell phone and was about to search. All of a sudden, he stopped what he was doing and looked at the window.

A human face had appeared before his eyes outside the window. Its hair was fluttering, and it was deathly pale. It was the female water spirit.

If an ordinary person encountered such a thing, they would have been scared right away.

Fortunately, Zhou Kai had experienced three to five battles in a short time and was a spirit buster himself, so he felt no fear.

However, this water spirit had actually caught up to them. Zhou Kai raised his brows and said, “I said that I can’t help you. Why are you here?”

The female water spirit’s figure flashed and appeared in the dorm before the spirit said cowardly, “I’m not killing anyone anymore. You can help me.”

Zhou Kai laughed. “You changed your mind pretty fast, but you were really fierce just now and you scared me. I don’t want to help you anymore.”

“You!” The water spirit stared at Zhou Kai, looking infuriated.

Zhou Kai said calmly, “I was just being nice at the time. I don’t wish to do a good deed now. Can’t I change my mind?”

When the water spirit looked at Zhou Kai, it suddenly said, “I have a house close to a mountain and facing the water in an elegant environment. If you help me, the house will be yours.”

Zhou Kai froze and looked at the water spirit in a daze.

The water spirit seemed to think that Zhou Kai didn’t believe it, so it said, “I can take you to see the house first. After you help me, I’ll transfer the ownership to you.”

Zhou Kai was silent. After a while, he looked at the water spirit and said, “Given the price of the house, are you still not going to kill someone?”

The water spirit’s gaze became resentful and it said with gritted teeth, “I can spare him, but I want to render him unable to take care of himself, and he’d better never touch a woman either.”