"A shadow lunged at you?" Luo Chao heard this, and his expression finally showed some tension.

"No...to be precise, it wasn't a person, but rather a human figure..." Tang Tianyi's expression was serious, and from her face, Luo Chao couldn't discern any abnormality.

"A human figure? You mean just a person's shadow?" Luo Chao tentatively asked.

Tang Tianyi didn't speak but nodded gently.

Seeing her like this, Luo Chao had a rough idea of what was going on.

Luo Chao had studied psychology, and he knew that when Tang Tianyi dared not verbally answer his question directly, but instead used a slight nod—a form of body language—to respond, it was a typical display of her own disbelief in the answer she was giving!

Because, if a person uses a nod to answer a question or give an answer, since humans primarily communicate through language, if one resorts to purely body language, instinctively, the other party would find it difficult to adapt to this form of answering questions with body language.

Thus, to make sure the other party clearly understands, people instinctively use somewhat exaggerated gestures to enhance their body language, preventing any misunderstanding.

This means that if Tang Tianyi was 100% confident in her answer and wanted to use nodding as a form of response, she certainly wouldn't just nod lightly.

This simple gesture indicated the uncertainty and even self-doubt in Tang Tianyi's heart at this moment.

Naturally, this subtle change in body language was keenly observed and exaggerated by Luo Chao's sharp eyes, allowing him to grasp Tang Tianyi's current mood at once.

Simply put, it was two words—fear!

"A black figure?" With Tang Tianyi's words, Luo Chao connected it to the ghost in the hospital.

Luo Chao vividly remembered that the ghost in the hospital appeared as a thin cloud of black mist when revealed, not a human figure, whereas what Tang Tianyi referred to as the "Pen Immortal" seemed to be a human figure.

Could it be... the Pen Immortal was not a ghost but a person?

Just as Luo Chao was pondering, his peripheral vision accidentally caught the sight of the super isolator on Tang Tianyi's experiment table.

The black gas in the isolator seemed to recover from the previous electric shock and began to gather slowly again, as if ready to assault the isolator's glass body, looking quite eager.

"Wait a moment." Luo Chao slapped his forehead, then extended a slender finger to point at the super isolator on the experiment table. "Miss Tang, I remember you said earlier that the thing in this isolator is the Pen Immortal, right?"

"Yes." Tang Tianyi nodded.

This time, Tang Tianyi nodded much more confidently than before, indicating she was confident in her answer.

"Strange, strange." Luo Chao muttered to himself.

"Strange? How strange?" Seeing Luo Chao's expression, Tang Tianyi couldn't help but ask Luo Chao.

"You say the thing in this isolator is the Pen Immortal, and also that the thing that lunged at you in that classroom was a human figure. So, could it be the thing in this isolator and what you encountered in the haunted classroom are not the same thing?" Luo Chao questioned in confusion.

"How could that be!" Tang Tianyi was anxious at Luo Chao's words, stomping her feet. "At that time, when the human figure lunged at me, I was so scared that I closed my eyes. Just when I thought the Pen Immortal would kill me, with the scream echoing, I could clearly feel the super isolator in my arms tremble slightly, indicating something was absorbed into the isolator!"

Luo Chao interrupted Tang Tianyi's words, speaking thoughtfully as if to confirm something, "You said... at the moment the human figure lunged at you, you closed your eyes in fear?"

"Yes... when people are scared of something in front of them, they instinctively close or cover their eyes, but since I was holding the isolator in my arms, I couldn't free my hands to cover my eyes, so I just closed them!" Tang Tianyi tilted her head as she spoke.

"If I wasn't holding the isolator, I would have closed my eyes and covered them with my hands for a sense of psychological security, but if I did that, I probably wouldn't have seen the next day's sun." Tang Tianyi answered.

"No, Miss Tang, I think you misunderstood me." Luo Chao coughed awkwardly, "I wasn't saying you shouldn't cover your eyes. What I meant is, since you closed your eyes at that time, you didn't actually see the possible human figure being absorbed into the super isolator with your own eyes?"

"Well... I didn't see it with my own eyes, I just..." Tang Tianyi felt somewhat embarrassed by Luo Chao's question.

"You just relied on your own feeling, feeling that the human figure was absorbed into the isolator?" Luo Chao completed Tang Tianyi's unfinished sentence.

"Yes." Tang Tianyi lowered her head in guilt.

As a seasoned scientist, no one understood better than Tang Tianyi how irresponsible it was to draw conclusions based solely on the experimenter's feelings and experience in scientific experiments.

Even though the situation at that time was very special, and Tang Tianyi was an unparalleled genius scientist with rich experience, don't forget, beneath the identity of a scientific genius, Tang Tianyi was also just a young girl in her early twenties.

Facing such a terrifying experiment, threatening her life, being able to complete the experiment calmly was a feat that surpassed many false scientists who professed willingness to sacrifice their lives for science without hesitation.

For a scientist, Tang Tianyi's actions at that time were indeed flawed.

But for an ordinary girl facing a terrifying supernatural event, Tang Tianyi's performance was simply god-like!

A terrifying classroom, friends dying tragically, a ghost lunging at her...

A girl facing so much horror, not only preserved her young and precious life but also completed the experiment, capturing a "Pen Immortal," simply put, it was two words—perfect!

Luo Chao even thought, in front of Tang Tianyi, the female heroes in those Hollywood popcorn action movies were practically as powerful as a bunch of weaklings!

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