Chen Ling stood outside the wall and waited. In less than three seconds, a voice came from inside: "Safe."
Wu Weiwei: "Brother Chen, let me carry you up first." After saying that, he turned sideways to the wall, took a horse stance, crossed his hands, and placed his palms upwards.
Chen Ling took two steps back, then suddenly accelerated, stepped on Wu Weiwei's palm, and jumped up.
It took a lot of effort to move his clumsy body to the top of the wall.
He looked back at the leisurely-looking man standing below, then turned back to look at Wu Weiwei below, and stretched his hand downwards as far as he could.
In comparison, Wu Weiwei, who has been in the underworld for a while, is much better at fighting than Chen Ling.
After hooking Chen Ling's hand, he curled up, raised his legs, and easily hooked the top of the wall with his toes. Relying on the strength of his legs and abdomen, he successfully brought his body up.
Two young men were riding on the wall, you looked at me and I looked at you.
Before Chen Ling could catch his breath, he let Wu Weiwei jump down first.
It was more than two meters high, and if one was not careful one would hurt one's ankles and calves. After Wu Weiwei jumped down, he staggered two steps on the ground and buried his head in the bushes, making a rustling sound.
The security guard who was on patrol was alarmed, and the light of the high-beam flashlight swept over before the person arrived.
Chen Ling didn't dare to delay any longer. He rubbed his butt off the wall and fell down with his eyes closed.
Just as the man was about to hit the ground with his buttocks, Jiang Yu suddenly made a move and caught him steadily. Before the young man could react, he had already hidden himself sideways behind a big tree with the man in his arms.
Chen Ling's legs were dangling in the air, and just as she was about to ask the man to put her down, the security guard arrived.
This green belt is next to the small playground and has dense vegetation, which must have been there for many years.
Chen Ling's whole body was as stiff as a log. He covered his mouth with force and tried to close his legs as much as possible, almost curling up into a ball.
Jiang Yu calmly lowered his eyes and glanced at him, then lowered his head, his lips almost touching the young man's cheek as he said, "With me here, they can't find you."
It’s already this late and you still have the mind to talk!
Chen Ling raised his free hand and covered the man's mouth.
The young man's hands were warm and soft. Jiang Yu's lips, which had not yet closed, just fit in the depression of his palm. The tip of his tongue, which was blocked by his teeth, moved, and he suddenly wanted to taste it to see if the taste of the young man's palm was as fresh and sweet as his body.
There were two security guards who came together. One of them stayed where he was, while the other walked over with a high-beam flashlight.
Wu Weiwei was lying on the ground, not daring to move, his muscles almost petrified from fear.
Chen Ling was driven crazy by the wet feeling in his palms. His forehead felt swollen and his head was smoking. He wanted to take his hands away, but he was afraid that the old man would make trouble again and make a noise.
The distant light shone over, just brushing past the tree trunk where Chen Ling and the others were hiding, and fell onto the grass.
Chen Ling became more and more nervous, so he simply closed his eyes, thinking that if he couldn't see anything, his mind would be at peace.
But soon, he felt the air around him change. Something cool and cold was spreading in the air, making this small forest gloomy.
No one knew how much time had passed, but suddenly someone said in the dead silence, "Old Second, let's go. I feel like this place is abnormally cold."
The security guard walking in front of him felt the same way. He cleared his throat and gave himself courage. "Yes, a little bit. Maybe it's because it's cool tonight..."
Before he finished speaking, he turned around quickly and returned to his colleague.
The two figures gradually walked away. Jiang Yu put the young man down, and the sudden feeling of emptiness in his arms made him frown slightly.
Chen Ling patted the dust that had just been rubbed off the wall in front of him, and thinking of the great hero next to him, he gently touched Jiang Yu's arm with his arm, "Good performance."
Jiang Yu's eyes fell on the young man's trembling lips, "No reward?"
Chen Ling couldn't tell whether he was joking or serious.
After thinking about it, she placed the palm that had just been licked on her lips to imprint it, then pressed it against Jiang Yu's lips and forced a seal.
After all, it was an indirect kiss, so the next step was a direct kiss.
"Okay, the reward is over." Chen Ling's mood subtly improved, but he tried to suppress the corners of his lips and commanded seriously, "Let's go."
Wu Weiwei then came out from the bushes where he was lurking, frowned as he picked the leaves off his head, and patted his clothes and pants.
"Brother Chen, where should we go first?" He recalled the location of the strange wall and pointed in a direction. "If we don't check other places and go directly to that wall, we will have to cross almost half of the school."
Chen Ling: "Then put it on and walk through the teaching building."
After evening self-study, every classroom is dark. If there is no light, the security guards rarely go into the corridor to check.
What's more, there was a problem in this school. Chen Ling was almost certain that no one would be willing to look around the school unless it was necessary.
Chen Ling took the lead and entered the nearest junior high school building. In the corridor, the emergency exit sign above the baseboard emitted a faint green light.
The green light pointed a path in the darkness, allowing them to pass through smoothly and leave from another safe exit.
Just as Chen Ling guessed, the two security guards didn't check it carefully at all. They just walked around the school and returned to the security room at the school gate.
After that, the journey became smooth, and in less than ten minutes, they arrived at the strange wall.
Chen Ling’s jumping ability was not good, so he didn’t need to speak, Jiang Yu had already hugged him with both hands and lifted his body up.
There was nothing in the rectangular space enclosed by the wall, but the branches above were rustling and swaying back and forth in the wind.
He closed his eyes, shutting out all the sounds around him, and tried to feel.
The branches were still rustling, and the cool breeze was blowing gently on my face. Something cold was floating up from the ground below, carrying with it a rotten stench, the breath of death.
Chen Ling opened his eyes suddenly, "There is a dead air. Someone has died here."
Jiang Yu put the man back on the ground in tacit agreement, his expression soothing, "Not only that, the corridors we just passed by and the playgrounds we passed by all had abnormal yin energy."
Chen Ling was upset that his business ability was not strong enough: "I didn't feel it."
"You are not capable enough and need to work harder." Jiang Yu commented coldly, like a stern parent.
In a flash, he praised in a low voice, and in front of Wu Weiwei, his big hand fell on the young man's head, "The Yin energy comes from underground, it's very light, it's normal that you didn't notice it."
Chen Ling hummed, then looked up and found Wu Weiwei staring at his head in shock.
Realizing something, he quickly pushed the man's hand away. In order to hide his uncomfortable expression, he deliberately lowered his head to adjust his hair a few times.
Wu Weiwei also felt that his gaze was causing trouble for others, so he turned away and asked, "What should we do now? Should we still accept the order?"
Chen Ling's fluctuating heart calmed down, and he said, "Go ahead, I want to see what's hidden in this school."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was suddenly stunned, and pulled the people on both sides of him back a few steps.
Not far away, a figure ran past, holding something in his hands.
Chen Ling: "Let's go and take a look."
The figure walked very fast and hurriedly, as if something was chasing him from behind. His left and right feet struggled several times and he almost fell down.
He entered the teaching building next door, but the moment he stepped into the corridor, his movements suddenly slowed down and he became cautious.
Chen Ling didn't dare to follow too closely, and followed behind from a distance, standing on the stairwell on the first floor and trying to look up.
After confirming that the person had gone to the third floor, they followed quietly and soon found the person in the middle classroom on the third floor.
He is a thin boy.
After the boy entered the classroom, he didn't dare to turn on the lights. He even turned on the flashlight and put it in his trouser pocket. The fabric blocked most of the light source, leaving only a small faint halo at his feet.
Chen Ling squatted at the bottom of the back door of the classroom, Wu Weiwei lay on his shoulder, and Jiang Yu leaned against the wall, observing other places and keeping watch for the two of them.
The boy squatted on the ground and quietly opened a cloth bag, which was filled with pieces of yellow paper and some paper ingots.
The classroom was dark, and the faint halo seemed particularly prominent. Chen Ling clearly saw the boy take out a letter from his pocket, unfold it, and read it in a low voice.
"Zhou Yuanxin, I know you are sad and feel that I didn't help you. In fact, I am sad too. Why am I so cowardly and timid? I don't know, maybe I was born like this. If you really want to come back for revenge like they said, can you come and see me... I want to say sorry to you..."
The boy's voice was soft, choked with sobs and fear.
Guilt urged him to come and confess, but the unknown, perhaps real, so-called ghosts made him feel scared.
Wu Weiwei poked his brother Chen on the back and asked silently with his mouth: "Go out?"
Chen Ling used the faint moonlight to identify it for a long time before he finally understood and shook his head.
The boy muttered on the ground for a long time. After reading the letter, he stood up and walked to the last row by the window.
There was an empty space there, which looked particularly abrupt, as if a table had been there and had been moved away.
"Zhou Yuanxin, you won't come back?" The boy's voice trembled.
He slowly raised his hand and brushed it across the void, as if he was relying on memories to touch something that no longer existed.
The weather tonight is not very good. On the deep blue sky, clusters of black clouds gather in the night sky, moving quickly and completely blocking the moonlight.
The classroom suddenly became pitch black, with the only light in the corner coming from his pocket.
The boy seemed to be startled and suddenly came to his senses. He staggered two steps in fear and looked around. A table seemed to appear where there was clearly nothing.
He uttered an "ah" and pressed his back against the cold wall, and was startled by the icy temperature.
After making sure there was nothing behind or in front of him, he hurriedly packed up his things and quickly left the classroom.
Chen Ling asked Wu Weiwei to follow and see where the student had gone, then walked into the classroom and carefully observed the ground where the ashes of the paper money were collected.
With the help of the light from his cell phone, he saw black marks left by smoke on the warm ground.
And more than one.
On the left, on the right, in front, there were these black, burn marks everywhere, and on some of them there was still a little wax that had not been scraped off.
Chen Ling looked up at Jiang Yu, the light from his phone making his face pale, "Do you think he did this all by himself?"
Jiang Yu pressed the young man's hand down to prevent the light from making his eyes uncomfortable, "No."
The man said firmly, "You heard it too. The student just said that he is a coward. He has already used up all his courage after coming to the classroom tonight."
Yes, it was just a cloud covering the moon, but the student was frightened.
So besides him, there were other people coming here to burn paper.
Why here? Because the person being worshipped was once a student in this class? Does this have anything to do with the principal asking them to exorcise evil spirits
Chen Ling left the teaching building with Jiang Yu, full of questions.
After waiting for about ten minutes at the place where I initially climbed over the wall, Wu Weiwei arrived. He ran while grabbing his arms in annoyance.
"Brother Chen, that guy lives in the school dormitory, not a day student." He gritted his teeth and scratched a few times, complaining, "There are too many mosquitoes in this school, especially under the dormitory. I squatted there for ten minutes and got bites all over my hands."
Chen Ling didn't feel anything about it. Jiang Yu only needed to stand there and release a little bit of terrifying aura, and not only mosquitoes but even people would not dare to get close.
The two security guards came over for patrol again, but before they got close, one of them said it was very cold in that direction and people should not go there.
Chen Ling agreed with this. He was almost frozen by the Yin energy standing nearby, and he had to get close to the man as much as possible.
After coughing lightly, Chen Ling said, "Go back and apply some floral water, and leave here first."
This time, Wu Weiwei was the first to climb out, followed by Chen Ling.
The two young men were in a mess and almost sprained their ankles when they landed. Just as they stood up, a nimble figure flew over the high wall and landed in front of them.
Chen Ling stared at the man's legs and felt envious. Long legs are good. Not only does it make you taller, but it also gives you an advantage over others when climbing over walls.
Wu Weiwei was also envious, looked at Jiang Yu's back with admiration, and asked: "Brother Chen, did you find anything in the classroom?"
Chen Ling said, "In addition to that boy, there were other people who came to the classroom to burn paper, but it is not certain who they were burned for."
"I also discovered it." Wu Weiwei said, "The student lived in the dormitory on the first floor. After he went in, I hid under their window and heard the people inside asking him if he went to burn paper for the unlucky ghost."
Chen Ling disagreed and said, "Death is the greatest thing. Aren't you afraid of being blamed?"
He asked, “And then?”
"The student seemed a little afraid of others, and his voice was very low. I had to strain to hear him clearly, 'It was burned, and I spoke up for you, saying that you had nothing to do with his death.'..." Wu Weiwei paused to think carefully, and added, "By the way, the student also mentioned something about the desk. He said he felt that the desk had returned by itself."
Chen Ling suddenly stopped and said, "So someone really died in the school, and it has something to do with these students."
Wu Weiwei hesitated and asked, "Could it be related to school violence?"
Chen Ling did not answer. He would not make any comments until the truth of the matter came out. He just asked, "Do you want to take this order?"
Wu Weiwei didn't expect to be asked for his opinion. He carefully looked into his brother Chen's eyes and said softly, "I do."
"Reply to the principal early tomorrow morning and tell him that we have accepted the order." After Chen Ling finished speaking, he looked around. There was a street outside Rongxin Middle School, and 60% of the shops there were engaged in catering.
Students cannot enter and leave the school as they please, but this does not stop them from ordering takeout.
At this moment, there are still a few restaurants left delivering takeout to students from the wall and they have not closed yet.
Chen Ling arrived at a barbecue restaurant. The owner was about to close the stall, but when he saw a new customer arriving, he immediately put the stacked stools back.
"What would you like to eat?" He then took out a menu from the apron in front of him.
After Chen Ling took the menu, he handed it to Wu Weiwei.
Wu Weiwei glanced at Jiang Yu, making sure that the other party had no intention of touching the greasy menu, and then started ordering.
We didn't order much, but the boss didn't seem unhappy. He smiled and said, "Please wait a moment. It will be ready soon."
Because most of the customers do takeout, there are only two tables in the store. Chen Ling and his friends sat at one, while the other was used by the proprietress who was drying skewers.
Chen Ling stood up and sat at the next table.
The proprietress looked up at him with amazement in her eyes, and spoke in a particularly good manner: "Little classmate, are you a day student? Why aren't you going home so late?"
Chen Ling didn't need to draft a lie, so he just said, "Auntie, I'm not from this school. I just wanted to transfer to another school, so I came to see you after self-study."
The lady boss frowned and asked, "What grade are you in? Why are you changing schools when school has already started? It won't affect your studies."
Chen Ling shook his head, looking depressed, as if he had been bullied.
The proprietress felt pity and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with you?"
Chen Ling sniffed and whispered, "I'm always bullied in my current school, so I want to transfer here."
The boss lady's face changed immediately, and she said hurriedly: "No, don't come here, you should transfer to another school. Rongxin School has good teachers, but the students here are really not that good."
At this time, Jiang Yu came over.
He was tall, and when he stood in front of the small table, the ceiling seemed lower than he actually was.
On his serious face, the corners of his lips curled up, the frost melted, and his gentle smile could melt people's hearts. Jiang Yu asked, "My brother has always been very well behaved in school, but he is always targeted by bad students and has been robbed and extorted several times. I heard that Rong Xin's teacher is very responsible and his classmates are very friendly. Isn't that true?"
Wu Weiwei was stunned. To be honest, Brother Jiang really acted like a good brother who loved and cared for his younger brother.
He looks so cold and lonely at ordinary times, but I didn’t expect his acting skills to be so good at critical moments.
I can totally act opposite Brother Chen!
"Have you already consulted the school?" The proprietress stopped picking vegetables, wiped her hands on her apron, and advised earnestly, "There are a lot of bad people in that school. Listen to me, don't transfer here."
Chen Ling suddenly leaned forward, as if to whisper, "Auntie, did one of Rong Xin's students have an accident?"
The proprietress sighed and asked, "How did you know?"
Chen Ling said honestly: "From the school's forum, but when I clicked on it again, the post had been deleted."
The proprietress stood up and took a look outside, then returned to her seat and spoke cautiously, "Yes, a freshman died. He hanged himself on a tree near the wall."
Chen Ling suddenly thought of the land enclosed by the strange wall and the swaying branch above his head.