Chapter 678: Chapter 678: The Benedict Beast’s “Gift

One hour later.

Sea University.

After class, Adam Jennings had just walked out of the teaching building when a nearby companion called out to him.

“Adam, is that person… Scarlett Jennings?!”

Adam instinctively wanted to say how could Scarlett possibly be at Sea University, but as he followed their gaze, he indeed saw Scarlett.

At that moment, she was surrounded by several students, being stopped… for signatures and photos.

“Scarlett, have you been busy with courses at the Taoism Academy lately? It’s been a while since we’ve seen you active online!”

“Girl, I’m your metaphysics fan, can I take a photo with you?”

“Scarlett, what brings you to our school? Is there something haunted here?”

Scarlett hadn’t expected that even though “Inspiration” had ended some time ago, she still had fans.

Weren’t they supposed to easily forget about her due to her long absence?

Though she thought this in her heart, facing these people who “liked” her, Scarlett was unusually patient as she cooperated with the photo requests.

Adam watched from afar, wondering if her visit to Sea University had anything to do with the little ghost he had just seen.

Just then, he heard a friend question,

“Adam, Scarlett Jennings is your cousin, right? Can you introduce me to her?”

“Yeah, it’d be great if she could do a reading for me. I just started dating a new girlfriend recently…”

Upon hearing this, Adam glanced indifferently at the person beside him,

“She’s not some fortune teller from the street; why would she need to read your love lines?”

Turning his head, he then looked at another,

“She’s not interested in meeting new friends, so I suggest you don’t get your hopes up.”

He paused, then sternly warned,

“Besides, my cousin already has a fiancé.”

And that fiancé is not someone you want to mess with.

The two people he bluntly retorted to looked a bit embarrassed, but as that was typical of Adam’s character, they did not dare to say anything more.

Adam then handed his books to them to take back to the dorm as he walked towards Scarlett.

Scarlett also noticed Adam approaching, and seeing this, the surrounding students didn’t continue to disturb her.

Adam walked up, first scanning Scarlett’s body for the little ghost, but not seeing it, he then asked,

“Did you come looking for me?”

Scarlett, noticing his gaze, simply replied, “Sort of.”

With that, she got straight to the point and asked him,

“Have you seen the ghost baby I’ve been raising?”

Adam: …

So that thing is called a ghost baby??

“Yes, I’ve seen it.”

Adam had originally planned to ask her about it anyway, so since she approached him proactively, he told her about his recent ability to see ghosts.

Upon hearing this, Scarlett immediately knew he was affected by the Spiritual Aura from the Benedict Beast.

For spiritual objects like the Benedict, being exposed for a long time would naturally allow someone to absorb some Spiritual Energy; in a way, this was his “gift” from nurturing spiritual objects.

Upon hearing that this was a “gift” from the Benedict Jade, Adam was speechless.

He certainly didn’t want such a gift that let him see ghosts.

“Can I refuse it?”

“No,” Scarlett said earnestly, “What is given by a sage can’t be declined.”

Similarly, what is given by a venerable can’t be declined either.

Seeing Adam’s constipated expression, Scarlett kindly suggested,

“If you really don’t want it, you can try negotiating with the Benedict.”

Adam: …

Negotiating with a jade piece that either eats jade or eats him? As if he doesn’t value his life.

Indeed, he still didn’t know that Scarlett’s previous claim of the Benedict eating him after consuming jade was just to scare him.

Scarlett had long forgotten about that; seeing Adam’s dark expression, she went on,

“Your matter is cleared up, now it’s time to handle mine.”

She said, “Take me to where you saw the ghost baby.”

Although the baby ghost said it found Adam through the web domain, Scarlett didn’t think Adam was the reborn soul from another world.

Firstly, Adam’s past behavior didn’t match what someone from another world should be like; moreover, given his character, even if he knew the future, he wouldn’t go through the trouble to find an obscure writer to promote these things.

Secondly, there was a thirty-minute gap between when the message was sent and when the ghost baby found him.

It’s possible Adam simply had a coincidence.

Indeed, when Adam brought her to the computer lab, her suspicion was confirmed.

“Who used this computer before you?”

Adam, hearing she was looking for someone, didn’t expect that she was looking for the person who used the computer and still responded,

“It should be the student from the previous class.”

Saying this, Adam opened his phone to check the lab usage schedule on the campus network,

“It was the class of computing science Class 22-3, but I don’t know who specifically sat here.”

Seeing this, Scarlett leaned over, “Is there a student list?”

Seeing her head suddenly leaning over, Adam slightly tightened his grip on the phone.

Oddly, he felt a bit nervous.

Mainly because this seemed like the first time he and Scarlett were having such a normal interaction.

Setting aside how he had opposed her when she first returned to the Jennings Family, or how she retaliated against him speechlessly.

Even after they “made up,” they only interacted when necessary and didn’t really talk in private.

He was not like Lucas Jennings or Ismeria Jennings, who approached her readily and warmly after getting along.

Moreover, he always felt that Scarlett couldn’t care less about their friendliness.

Well…he got lucky since she made him the Benedict Jade item at least.

Chase Jennings had it worse.

At least, that’s how it seemed to Adam.

So the situation of them communicating normally and peacefully was quite a delicate one for Adam.

“Let me find it.”

He said, quickly operating the phone, soon finding the list for Class 22-3, and glancing at Scarlett, suddenly asked,

“Should I send it to you?”

Scarlett nodded and took out her phone.

Adam coughed lightly, “Then you need to accept my friend request first.”

…

Because of this list, Adam finally was added to Scarlett’s WeChat friend list.

Gazing at the chat window, Adam felt a sense of indescribable emotion, mixed with an oddly relaxed mood,

“I know the instructor for this class, let me take you to ask them, they should know who sat here.”

“No need.”

Scarlett said, “I can investigate this myself now, you go on with your own affairs.”

With that, she pocketed her phone to leave.

Hearing this, Adam suddenly felt as if he was being discarded after being used, his face darkening, he directly said,

“Sea University is my turf, what can you find out on your own? I’m handling this!”

With these words, he didn’t wait for Scarlett’s rejection and headed out.

He led Scarlett directly to a computing science mentor, asking her to wait outside as he went in for inquiries, only to find that the mentor had no idea who sat in which position.

It was one of the few times Scarlett had asked him for help, and he was reluctant to return without any answer.

Walking out of the office, seeing Scarlett, Adam gritted his teeth and said,

“It’s okay if the mentor doesn’t know, I’ll ask around with the seniors in Class 3, maybe someone remembers.”

“No need.” Scarlett said.

Adam thought she didn’t want to trouble him further, just about to speak when she calmly said,

“I already know who it is.”

Adam was stunned, he hadn’t found out anything, how did she know?

As if sensing his puzzlement, Scarlett gestured towards a wandering soul nearby,

“I just asked a ghost from the computing science field.”

Adam: …