Heimat der Spirituosen

Kapitel 1

Part One

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In this world, there are many ghosts and monsters. Although most people can't see them and therefore don't take them seriously, they still exist regardless. Just like humans, ghosts and monsters can be good or bad. They weren't originally inhabitants of this world, but they've ended up here for various reasons. If they didn't cause trouble, that would be fine, but most ghosts and monsters love to play pranks, and many of their pranks are unbearable for humans—for example, you wake up in the morning and need to use the toilet, and there's a ghost squatting inside.

Are you going to go or not?

Most people only have one option—to faint.

This has led to chaos in human society, especially in recent centuries, with more and more people possessing psychic abilities and the number of people who can see ghosts increasing year by year. Naturally, the probability of heart disease is also 34.156% higher than in the past... In order to prevent this situation from continuing to deteriorate, the government finally began to approve special psychic schools to cultivate outstanding psychic talents in order to maintain the balance between the spirit world and the human world.

What we're about to tell is a story that takes place in one of these psionic schools...

Chapter 1: Enrollment, Meeting, and the Great Melee...

This is the Byte Paranormal Academy, a place teeming with perverts. School starts in September.

From the outside, this place looks no different from any other ordinary school: an ordinary school gate, ordinary teaching buildings, ordinary dormitories, ordinary students...

Like any other school, the first day of school was bustling with activity. However, what caused the "bustling" atmosphere here was something quite unusual...

Lou Lifan appeared in front of the Byte Supernatural Academy, dragging a large suitcase.

He had heard of this school before he arrived. Due to the principal's strange hobby, the school was built deep in the mountains, and it was said to be above the "Ghost Gate"!

The so-called Ghost Gate is the place where the human world and the spirit world connect. It is the place with the heaviest death energy in the human world, while the side of it that opens into the spirit world is called the "Gate of Life," which is the place with the heaviest life energy in the spirit world.

Building a school in such a place is an incredibly bold and perverse decision! Normally, people with weak spiritual senses cannot sense ghosts in other places, while people with strong spiritual senses can sense them easily.

However, near the gates of hell, those with strong spiritual abilities may not feel anything (this is called spiritual paralysis) or may only feel it mildly, while those with weak spiritual abilities are often haunted or chased by ghosts...

Therefore, the students who drop out here because they can't stand it are basically those with too little inspiration. This can be considered a method of eliminating and selecting students!

Lou Lifan looked around at the layout of the school gate and found it somewhat strange. The supernatural academies he had attended before all had barriers at their gates. This was because when too many supernatural beings gathered, a backlash of spiritual energy could occur—their spiritual energies would interfere with each other, causing a chaotic flow of energy, which was detrimental to teaching. This wouldn't be a problem for intermediate or advanced supernatural beings, but most students in the supernatural academies were beginners… To prevent this, they would create a vast barrier system using buildings, trees, or talismans inside and outside the school to regulate the spiritual energy. However, in this school, he couldn't sense any barrier at all.

Could it be the principal's negligence? It might be possible if it were a new school, but this school has been established for over two hundred years. How could this happen?

...However, although this school has a long-standing reputation, I've heard that the principal is a complete pervert, and that kind of chaos might be exactly what he wants to see...

He walked towards the school gate with the other students. He noticed that everyone was very careful when crossing the yellow line on the ground near the gate. He used his spiritual power to probe the area again, but the result still showed that there was no barrier nearby... He walked to the yellow line and was just about to step across it when he suddenly heard someone shout behind him: "Watch out!"

Before he could retract his foot, a powerful barrier suddenly rose up, and with a flash of golden light, he was sent flying backward with a bang.

Sensory barrier...!!

His body bumped into something behind him, and some creature let out a scream before being firmly placed on his back.

A so-called sensory barrier refers to a barrier that can only sense inspiration at a certain level or below. It's generally used in special circumstances to prevent people with excessively high or low levels of inspiration from entering the barrier's interior. How could it appear here?

Judging from that collision, this barrier is a low-level barrier, meaning it's designed to prevent those with low spiritual energy from entering. That explains why there's no barrier to prevent spiritual backlash here! It doesn't allow people who can't control their spiritual energy to enter, so it doesn't need that kind of barrier!

The principal here is truly ingenious... No wonder it's ranked among the top schools in another world ranking.

Lou Lifan rested his chin on his hand, lost in thought...

"I'm...I'm sorry...have you...finded it...?"

A trembling sound came from under Lou Lifan's buttocks, and he then remembered that there was someone underneath him.

He calmly stood up and watched the tall young man he had pinned down struggle to get up from the ground, seemingly able to hear the cracking sound of his back bones from where he had pressed down.

"I'm sorry," he said slowly.

The man was a very handsome young man. Although his face was almost distorted by the weight of the man, he was not angry. He just smiled and replied, "It's okay."

"Just now... was it you who reminded me to be careful?" Lou Lifan asked.

The young man smiled and nodded: "It's a pity I discovered it too late, otherwise you definitely wouldn't have been thrown out."

Lou Lifan glanced at the young man but said nothing.

When psychics are together, they instinctively try to probe the depth and nature of each other's abilities. If the opposite is true or the difference is too great, they generally won't have a deep relationship, though there are exceptions. Just now, when Lou Lifan was speaking, he scanned all the psychic energy on the young man and found that he couldn't even gauge the range of his abilities. If this happens, there are only two explanations—either the person's ability is extremely low, several times lower than an ordinary person, making it undetectable; or his ability is extremely high, so high that it's impossible for him to approach him… Of course, it can't be the former; none of the people here are likely to fall into the former category.

This was a very strange concept for Lou Lifan. On the day he was born, his father, a member of the paranormal community, had held him and exclaimed that the Lou family had produced a paranormal genius. In the years that followed, his psychic abilities had indeed grown more astonishingly than others. Now, even the president of the Paranormal Association was amazed that he was almost no match for him and suggested that his family send him to Byte Paranormal Academy, which was equivalent to a graduate program in a regular university. Therefore, this was the first time he had encountered someone whose psychic abilities were so much higher than his own.

As mentioned earlier, most people wouldn't actively befriend someone who is too different from themselves, but Lou Lifan is different. He is not an "ordinary person," so he took the initiative to extend his hand to the young man: "Lou Lifan. First-year student at Byte Academy."

The young man smiled and extended his hand: "Pei Linhai, you are also a first-year student at Byte Academy. It's nice to meet you."

"I predicted you would grab me..."

A chilling feeling silently crept up from behind. Lou Lifan instinctively turned around, his five fingers reaching for the other's face: "What kind of monster are you... Ah!"

He managed to stop his momentum.

Behind him stood a girl. She was the kind of girl who was exceptionally tall, extremely thin, with an exceptionally long skirt, and exceptionally flowing hair, the kind who would easily cause accidents or injuries if she went out at night. However, although she possessed what ordinary people would call "ghostly" qualities, she actually didn't have any ghostly aura at all; she was just an oddball.

At this moment, she was holding a notebook and writing something down, muttering to herself: "The accuracy rate of the predictions is 81.25% so far... My name is Tian Jin, hello Lou Lifan and Pei Linhai."

Even when I greeted her, she didn't even lift her head.

Pei Linhai responded nonchalantly, "Hello!"

Lou Lifan did not react.

Tian Jin raised her head, her pale face revealing a pair of large, dark eyes that stared at Lou Lifan with a terrifying intensity: "So, your name isn't Lou Lifan...?"

“No, I am,” Lou Lifan answered slowly. But he didn’t like dealing with this kind of strange person.

Lou Lifan has no idea how many more perverts he will have to deal with after entering the Byte Academy, a place teeming with freaks...

Tian Jin lowered her head again to write: "Remote sensing accuracy rate 92.74%..."

After finishing her notes, she silently and eerily drifted to the side of another person, just as she had come.

"I predict that you will..."

"Wow------!! My God!!!"

"…………" Lou Lifan had a bad feeling.

Pei Linhai seemed to be used to this kind of thing and didn't take the girl's matter to heart at all. He looked at Lou Lifan's big suitcase and laughed, "Such big luggage, it must be hard for you to carry it all by yourself. Let me help you."

Before Lou Lifan could speak, he had already bent down and picked up the box, but his expression changed slightly for some reason.

"...So that's how it is..."

Lou Lifan was also quite astonished. This box was specially made for him by his mother, and it seemed to have been enchanted with some kind of magical power or spell. No one could touch it without the owner's permission, yet this person picked it up so casually...

It's a pity he always has that size 101 face, otherwise his expressions would definitely be very interesting.

What he didn't know was that what Mrs. Lou had added wasn't ordinary mental power, but a very special kind of mental power that ordinary people would never use for theft prevention...

"Let's go!" Pei Linhai dragged his suitcase and walked with Lou Lifan toward the yellow barrier.

The reason Lou Lifan was ejected was because he was used to conserving all his spiritual power when not in use. When he came into contact with the yellow line, he was no different from an ordinary person. It would have been strange if he hadn't been ejected.

This time, he unleashed his spiritual power to its maximum limit and easily passed through. Pei Linhai did the same.

After passing through the barrier, he tried to retract his spiritual energy, but Pei Linhai noticed and immediately shouted, "No! Keep releasing it!!"

The spiritual energy that was about to fall asleep suddenly stretched out again.

Lou Lifan looked at him, puzzled: "What?"

Pei Linhai said, "This barrier is unlike other sensing barriers that only limit the vicinity of the barrier line. Instead, it senses the entire area within the enclosure. If your spiritual power falls below a certain limit, you will be thrown out without hesitation no matter where you are..."

"..." That's really insane! If you're constantly releasing your spiritual power, wouldn't that kill you? What if you get sick or fall asleep? Are you going to be thrown out too? Lou Lifan didn't speak, but his eyes revealed his anger. Only a perverted principal would do something like that!

Pei Linhai scratched his head, smiling somewhat puzzledly, "This is really troublesome... Didn't you even read the admission notice?"

Lou Lifan searched through all his pockets and finally pulled out a crumpled piece of paper.

The top half of the notice listed Lou Lifan's name, age, gender, etc., while the bottom half, in the notes section, highlighted the school gate's sensory barrier and the "Ghost Gate" in large red letters.

Pei Linhai pointed out those lines of text to Lou Lifan, who shook his head.

"I haven't seen this kind of thing before. My sister had a premonition about two weeks before the notice came, so I set off as soon as the notice arrived. Do I still need to see this?"

Peilin was silent.

Byte Academy covers a vast area, but only the main gate is enclosed by walls. The sides and rear are entirely surrounded by large forests, and the barriers are set up on the forest trees and streams that serve as the walls, seemingly enclosing the entire mountain range.

As mentioned earlier, this place is the location of the Ghost Gate, and the area affected by the Ghost Gate happens to be within the boundaries of this Byte Academy. Lou Lifan couldn't help but suspect that this school was actually sealing the Ghost Gate...

However, when he met the headmaster of Byte Academy, he changed his mind.

The principal's office at Bitt Academy is located on the top floor of the school's central teaching building—the 147th floor—and there is no elevator.

Walking from the school gate to the center of the school with Pei Linhai was already exhausting, and now we have to climb such a tall building! Isn't that going to kill someone?! If Pei Linhai hadn't helped him store that big box in the designated storage area on the first floor, carrying something that heavy up there would definitely have killed someone! What a crazy principal!

The two of them supported each other and, along with the other registered people, climbed the 147th floor, panting heavily. When they reached the last step, they were not surprised to see about a hundred students lying there, all of them exhausted and unwilling to move. However, in order not to block the people behind them, they still tried their best to move their bodies so as not to crowd at the stairwell.

The two of them managed to avoid collapsing like the others. It didn't seem like a heavy burden for Pei Linhai, so it wasn't surprising that he didn't fall. Lou Lifan, on the other hand, hated lying on the dusty ground with so many people... In short, he was just too proud to admit it.

The 147th floor was a large hall, devoid of any office supplies or furniture. There was only a small room, located far from the stairwell—in a corner on the other side—with a metal sign nailed to it by an iron rod that read "Principal's Office." Next to it was a drawing that looked like a bat, crudely made like a primary school student's drawing.

As he approached, Lou Lifan was slightly taken aback to discover that the iron pole for the sign had been forcibly driven into the concrete floor. Could it be that perverted principal...?

Barely supporting his still trembling legs, Lou Lifan followed Pei Linhai toward the principal's office, but after only a few steps, he was suddenly slammed into Pei Linhai by a powerful force coming from behind.