The current atmosphere of the "Lovers" card is very inconsistent, and everyone's expressions are a little subtle.
I don't know which sleepwalker behind me complained: "In general schools don't allow puppy love? Why is the first card a lover..."
"What are you thinking? Do you really think the lover card is about falling in love?" another sleepwalker replied.
"The divination is still going on, please wait for the students to keep quiet, otherwise it may affect the results of the divination!"
The female teacher's gaze crossed Chi Nan's shoulders and swept sharply at the classmates who were whispering behind her, and everyone immediately became nervous.
Chi Nan put the spread out "Lovers" card in front of him and raised his eyelids: "Excuse me, have I completed the divination here?"
"You did very well," the female teacher nodded at him, turning her eyes to Tong Yu: "Please draw the second classmate."
Tong Yu has always acted in a straightforward manner. She quickly chose her own tarot from the remaining twenty-one cards and spread it out. It was Zhang Zhengwei's "The Hanged Man".
"What do you mean?" Tong Yu, who didn't know Tarot at all, was at a loss. He intuited that the man hanging upside down on a wooden shelf with vines wrapped around his ankles on the card had a sad and ominous taste.
Tang Yu frowned slightly: "I remember that the Hanged Man symbolizes sacrifice and sacrifice, or... look at the problem from a different angle."
The female teacher put her index finger to her lips and made a 'shush' gesture: "Please draw the third classmate."
Tang Yu pursed his lips and knelt on the black silk carpet with a particularly pious expression. He removed the distracting thoughts and calmly drew the third tarot, but when he unfolded the card, he gasped: "Upright, God of Death. "
The word "Death" was enough to change the expressions of everyone present. After all, it didn't sound like a good card.
The female teacher's blood-red nails swept over the three tarot cards one by one: "Lovers, Hanged Man, Death, these three cards determine your destiny tonight, please follow the Tarot's guidance and spend a wonderful time. night."
Everyone: "...?"
Tong Yu looked at the female teacher puzzled: "Teacher wait a minute... The dance procedure, rules and difficulties you mentioned have nothing to do with Tarot?"
The female teacher tapped the unfolded cards with her fingernails again: "The answer lies in the taroti, you need to observe, explore, and gain insight."
Tong Yu: "…"
Everyone looked at these three slightly ominous cards at a loss, Chi Nan looked at Tang Yu: "Can you explain the basic meaning of the cards?"
Tang Yu nodded and pointed to the first "lover": "The lover card originated from the story of the Golden Apple, which is the Trojan War as we know it. In addition to the literal love, a more accurate interpretation of the core card meaning should be "combination" ", can also be derived to be understood as choice, cooperation, good relationship and smooth communication. "
Then he pointed to the second "The Hanged Man": "I said just now that the core card of The Hanged Man means sacrifice, which can be derived and understood as accepting tests, encountering difficulties, and endless waiting."
Finally, he looked at the "Death God" that everyone was afraid of, and his face became more and more solemn: "The core card of the orthodox Death God means the end, which can lead to failure, despair, farewell, and a new beginning."
Chi Nan thought about it: "The motto of this boarding school is "Death should not exist as a fear, it is the beginning of beauty". "
"The death card just fits the school motto..." Tang Yu looked at the disturbing death card and bit his lip apologetically, "I'm sorry, I drew such a bad card."
Tong Yu patted him on the shoulder to comfort him: "It's none of your business, I feel that no matter who draws these three cards, the rules have already been set, the so-called divination is just a form, and the more important thing is to pass these three cards. Learn the school rules behind it to avoid death."
That being said, divination itself has a great influence on people's emotions. When people see an unknown card appearing, people will unknowingly give themselves negative hints, and their fear and anxiety are also multiplied. rapid spread of infection.
"According to Tang Yu's interpretation of the card, the frontal lover card has the meaning of combination and choice. Can it be understood as a partner at the dance?" Chi Nan looked at the naked men and women on the card, "It means, let us choose the right one. prom partner."
Tang Yu was inspired by Chi Nan, and immediately enlightened: "Then the Hanged Man in the Upright Position can be understood as one of the partners who participated in the dance party must make sacrifices to meet the next test!"
Chi Nan nodded: "The last card of the God of Death probably hints at the result of sacrifice..."
He paused, "It's death."
The classroom fell into deadly silence, and everyone breathed lightly. After all, no one wanted to be the sacrificed dance partner.
Tong Yu summed it up calmly: "So the rule of tonight's dance is that we must find our own dance partner, and the two dancing people must sacrifice one of them to change the other's way of life, right?"
Shu Yanfan counted the remaining people: "There are ten people left, just five girls and five boys, so we can make up five groups..."
Chi Nan looked at Tang Yu, whose expression changed slightly: "There are six girls and four boys, and there should be no gender restrictions on dance partners."
"I'm sorry," Shu Yanfan looked at Tang Yu and apologized, and continued, "But even so, no one wants to die..."
Her voice was getting lower and lower, and she looked at everyone uncertainly.
The remaining ten of them are Zhao Congnan in 202, Shu Yanfan and Liang Han in 204, Jiang Liang in 205, Donnie Yen and Tao Le in 206, Tong Yu and Guo Yaoyao in 207, Tang Yu in 209, and Chi in 210. South.
Although they supported each other and formed a tacit understanding in the past six days, everyone was strangers who met by chance in the nightmare copy, and no one was willing to risk their lives for the people who had known each other for six days.
Again, there is a sense of silence.
"I don't want to die, it's obviously the 29th after 12 o'clock, maybe my birthday is a turning point..." Liang Han suddenly whimpered, the fear of death for days and the fatal blow that seems to have no bargaining power now , made her emotional collapse instantly, "It's the last night, I really don't want to die..."
Guo Yaoyao was also infected and kept wiping tears: "Hey, who would think..."
Chi Nan was silent for a moment, then suddenly turned to the female teacher who observed them without saying a word: "Excuse me, what are the conditions for participating in the dance tonight?"
The female teacher twisted her neck stiffly: "As long as you are a freshman from this school, you can participate in the dance."
Chi Nan: "Can students who have passed away also participate?"
He remembered that the female teacher emphasized in the morning class that death is not the end, and that the souls of all students will stay in the boarding school forever, to send good luck and shelter to the surviving classmates.
The gray eyes of the female teacher finally lit up: "Of course, they are also one of us."
Chi Nan asked again, "We can invite our classmates who have passed away to dance, right?"
The female teacher looked at him fixedly, splitting her blood-red lips and smiling without answering. After a while, she pulled out ten small rectangular boxes from behind the podium and opened one of them to show everyone: "Each box has red and white two boxes. Bellflower, when you have decided on your favorite dance partner, you can give one of the bellflowers to each other, which is equivalent to inviting the other party to the dance floor."
Tong Yu: "Do red and white have any different meanings?"
The female teacher smiled secretly: "If the teacher gives you the answer directly, then you can't let you solve the problem by yourself, right?"
Tang Yu understood early: "The white bell flower symbolizes death and funerals, and it should be used to invite the deceased as a dance partner. In contrast, the red bell flower is used to invite the living."
Chi Nan confirmed with the teacher again: "Can you invite the same sex?"
Female teacher: "Of course you can."
"Wait a minute, what are you talking about..."
The few newcomers in the back, whose minds turned slowly, were in a fog. They couldn't understand why Chi Nan and Tang Yu suddenly mentioned their dead classmates. Didn't they just discuss who is willing to make sacrifices
Tang Yu explained: "According to the instructions of the tarot cards, one of each group of partners participating in the dance tonight must use death as the price in exchange for the life of the dance partner, that is, the two dancers must die for life."
Everyone here still understands, nodding in unison.
Tang Yu continued: "If when we choose a partner, the living people directly invite the dead person as a dance partner, it is equivalent to avoiding the "sacrifice" link and directly achieving the result of one life and one death. live to the end. "
"Chi Nan also confirmed with the teacher just now that deceased classmates can be invited to the dance, so this method is absolutely feasible."
This is the best solution they can think of, but...
Tang Yu's complexion did not turn clear: "But there is still a problem. The teacher said that those who participate in the dance must be fresh graduates. We still have ten sleepwalkers left, but there are only nine souls to choose from..."
His voice gradually fell, and the best solution did not mean avoiding death completely...
"There is another sleepwalker among us who has no dance partner." Tong Yu bluntly finished Tang Yu halfway through his speech.
"Ah this..." The people who had rekindled their hopes fell into tension and embarrassment again.
Tonight was so special, probably their last night at boarding school, that if they survived the dance, their odds of surviving would greatly increase.
The eve of February 29th is important to all.
As long as one more person is sacrificed... one last sacrifice...
Chi Nan broke the disturbing silence: "I already have my own dance partner. He is not among the nine classmates who have passed away, so the number is just right."
He said it with certainty and calm, and it didn't seem like he was on a whim.
Chi Nan remembers Lao Yu saying that dream makers are not living people, so 229 also belongs to the "dead" part of this world.
"Chi Nan, you..." Tang Yu looked at him worriedly. Although he knew that Chi Nan was not the type to sacrifice blindly for the collective, he couldn't figure out what his plans were and whether it would be dangerous.
Chi Nan blinked, and stared at the white bell flowers in the box that were blooming just right: "It doesn't matter, I will definitely invite him as a dance partner."
After class, the remaining nine sleepwalkers took their own white bell flowers and came to the cemetery behind the school building according to the plan agreed in the class, put the white bell flowers in their hands in front of the corresponding tombstone, and invited the dead sleepwalkers The human soul is the dance partner tonight.
Chi Nan took his little white flower to the school doctor's office.
"Brother Nan, as long as I stay in this nightmare, can I receive the little white flowers from you every day?" The doctor took the flowers that Chi Nan handed him and put them to his nose and sniffed.
Chi Nan thought about it, it seemed that he couldn't send Xiaobaihua anywhere other than the school doctor's office, so he nodded seriously.
The doctor smiled.
Chi Nan: "But the meaning of this white bell flower is different today."
"I know, you want to invite me to be your dance partner tonight, right?" The doctor's voice sounded soft and patient, as if he was the one who sent the invitation, and he was the one who was waiting for the other person to nod in agreement.
Chi Nan looked at him fixedly: "Is it okay?"
What he confirmed was not only the wishes of the other party, but also equivalent to confirming whether 229 really belonged to the "dead person".
"Don't worry, I won't bring you any danger," the doctor's eyes were bent, and he answered very affirmatively, which could be regarded as the final answer for Chi Nan.
After a pause, he smiled and said, "It's not the first time we've been each other's dance partners."
Chi Nan subconsciously looked at the doctor's pocket, looking for traces of the pocket watch.
If the dream maker is a dead person, the pocket watch should be the death birthmark of 229.