From Lei Aoyang's roommate Xiaowan, he learned of a ridiculous legend of the Die Immortal. Perhaps it was because of this legend that he led the crowd to the basement to summon the Die Immortal, which resulted in a tragedy of five deaths and three madness. Besides, I also found a copy of the school newspaper before Seventeen in his bed, which mentioned that similar tragedies had happened before, maybe we can get clues from it.
We came to the library, where we could browse the recent issues of the school newspaper at will, but we had to trouble the administrator to find the earlier school newspaper. The administrator on duty was a talkative middle-aged woman. When she put a stack of dusty school newspapers in front of us, she said casually: "No one reads the new school newspaper, so let the worms eat it. It's gone, but someone is always looking for it."
"Did anyone look for these old school newspapers before? Was it him?" I took out a photo of Lei Aoyang and showed her. I found this photo from Ray's bed.
"Isn't this Lei Aoyang?" The administrator could recognize him at a glance.
"Do you know him?" I was slightly surprised.
"I'm afraid there is no girl in the school who doesn't know him. He is the prince charming in the hearts of many little girls! Unfortunately, I'm already married, otherwise I'd watch him play basketball every day." She said jokingly. It seems that the school's secrecy work is not bad, at least most of the school staff still don't know about last night's tragedy.
"Is he the one who looked for the old school newspaper?" I'm still more interested in this question.
"No, I seem to be a boy, but I can't remember who it was, but it's definitely not him." Since the administrator can recognize Lei Aoyang at a glance, if he came to the old school newspaper, he would definitely have an impression.
"When did it happen?"
She thought for a moment: "I don't remember very clearly. It should have been about half a year ago. Anyway, it has been a long time since no one wanted to turn over this old thing. You can also see the dust on it."
When I was talking with the administrator, Zhen Zhen who was reading the old school newspaper suddenly interjected: "Why isn't the issue we are looking for?" The newspapers were all turned out, but the school newspaper on the copy was not found.
"How can this happen, the others are all there, that is, the issue you are looking for is gone." The administrator showed a confused expression.
"Could it be that the person who read it before stole it?" Zhen Zhen's guess is very likely.
"Maybe it is. The old school newspaper is not a valuable thing. If someone is looking for it, I will take it out and let them turn it over by themselves. Besides, there is a copier here. Who would be so immoral that they even stole the original." The administrator seemed to A little pissed off.
The school newspaper is really not a valuable thing, even if it has decades of history, it is still worthless, let alone only seventeen years. If you need the information on the school newspaper, you can use a copier to copy it, which is only a matter of a few cents. Apart from being greedy for convenience, I really can't think of why the other party would steal the original.
It doesn't matter if you can't find the original, anyway, the key is not the school newspaper itself, but the content of the school newspaper. I handed the copy to the administrator and asked her if she knew about the tragedy seventeen years ago. After she read it carefully, her reaction was quite big: "So terrible things happened in the school! Why haven't I heard of it." She said that she had worked here for five years, but she had never heard of this tragic incident. . Maybe we should ask someone with more seniority about this, but as far as she knows, there don't seem to be many people in the school who are more than seventeen years old.
It is more troublesome to understand the tragedy of seventeen years ago. Anyway, the most urgent task is the tragedy of last night, so I have to leave it alone. After asking several of Lei Aoyang's classmates, the most noteworthy information was that he was very addicted to oriental mysticism, and often fantasized about obtaining so-called "magic powers", which seemed out of tune with his sunny appearance. One of the classmates, Liu Qingzhi, told us: "Aoyang's biggest hobby, apart from playing basketball, is to read books on strange powers. Could it be that he took the risk of leading the crowd to the basement to summon Dixian in order to obtain the so-called supernatural power
What is the "magic power" that people often talk about, I am afraid not many people have seriously thought about it. To put it simply, the so-called supernatural powers are not necessarily supernatural powers, but perhaps just some principles that cannot be explained by modern technology. For example, if I pull out a lighter and light a bunch of twigs in front of primitive people who can't make a fire themselves, then I've got magical powers for them. However, if I want to explain to them the principle of the lighter, I am afraid it is not an easy task.
Just like the allusion to Nianhua's smile, when the Buddha taught the Dharma, he suddenly shut up and stood up holding a flower. Among the disciples, only Venerable Maha Kasyapa broke his face and smiled. In this way, the Buddha imparted great wisdom to Venerable Maha Kasyapa in the way of "Buddha's Heart Initiating Heart" without everyone knowing what was going on. This allusion illustrates the truth that true great wisdom cannot be expressed in words or words, but can only be "understood". Just like I can't explain the principle of lighters to primitive people, because they will only think that lighters are a magic weapon. However, for them, a lighter is indeed a magic weapon, just as modern people get an ordinary object in the future world.
Speaking of Buddha, I can't help but think that many legends mention that he has supernatural powers, and modern people may be deeply suspicious of this. But from another point of view, Buddha is a saint with great wisdom, and he must have comprehended a lot of truths unknown to mankind. If he applied these truths in daily life, wouldn't it be a supernatural power
As the Buddha said, the world is always deceived by appearances. As long as you can penetrate the essence under the surface and know how to use it, then you have magical powers. To give a simple example, someone on the Internet once said that "the lighter was invented earlier than the match", many people would find it incredible, and even think that it was a nonsense made by netizens. In fact, this sentence is correct. The lighter was indeed invented earlier than the match. It is only the reader who is confused by the appearance that will find it incredible. If you think about it carefully and understand its essence, you can understand that this sentence is actually very common - the "lighter" used by primitive people to make fire by drilling wood was invented earlier than matches.
Therefore, to obtain supernatural powers is actually very simple, as long as you think carefully, you don't have to indulge in some strange and chaotic things. It's a pity that Lei Aoyang didn't understand this truth, otherwise he wouldn't take the risk to summon Die Immortal.
After walking around the school for a long time, apart from learning that a similar incident had occurred in the seventeen years and Lei Aoyang was addicted to supernatural powers, he didn't find anything special, so he had to start with the tragedy before the seventeenth. Through the person in charge of the school, we asked Xie Weiguo, the language teacher with the longest working experience in the school, and asked him if he knew about the tragedy 17 years ago, and we got this answer: "What's the matter, I've been here for more than 20 years. , I've never heard of any skeletons at work."
If the school blocked the news like this time, it would not be unusual for Teacher Xie to not know about this matter, but since the school newspaper can publish this matter, it means that this matter must be known to everyone. In order to prevent him from forgetting this because of his old age and his memory decline, I took out a copy of the school newspaper and showed it to him.
"This school newspaper is fake!" He gave us an astonishing answer after he put on his glasses and read it carefully.
"Why?" I asked in confusion.
"Look here..." He drew a circle on the copy with a red pen, enclosing a word in the report of the tragedy - sturdy.
"Is there any problem?" Zhen Zhen interrupted while scratching her head.
"If this school newspaper was written now, there would be no problem. If it was 17 years ago, it would have been a big problem, because there is no word for 'sturdy' in Cihai. , but will never write 'sturdy'." Teacher Xie wrote these four words on a piece of white paper and gave us a Chinese class.
He is a language teacher, and it can be said that he is an occupational disease, but why he identified the school newspaper as a fake based on just one word, I am puzzled. Moreover, the word "sturdy" is also very common on the Internet. When I expressed my doubts in my heart, he smiled and said, "Young man, let me tell you how 'sturdy' came from..."
In an interview with a young writer surnamed Guo, his fans dedicated him to the phrase "a sturdy life needs no explanation". This sentence comes from Luo Yonghao's quotations. The original words are "Pius's life does not need explanation." The reason why book fans changed "Pu" to "Biao" is because the writer was suspected of plagiarizing other people's works, and "Pu" and "Pu" "Plagiarism" is the most taboo word for this writer.
However, the good intentions of book fans turned out to be self-defeating, and the word "sturdy" became an instant hit and became a slightly ironic word. Later, more and more people used this word, but many young people used it to replace the original "strong". Now, "sturdy" and "sturdy" are basically regarded as generic, but strictly speaking "sturdy" is not a word.
After listening to Teacher Xie's teaching, my cultural knowledge has improved slightly, but I still don't understand why he thinks the school newspaper is fake. He smiled and said, "Young man, this happened in recent years. How could people from seventeen years ago use this word? Even if it is wrong for a while, the proofreader will correct it."
One word awakens the dreamer. Although the word "sturdy" is very common now, this word did not exist seventeen years ago, which means that this school newspaper was written in recent years, not seventeen years ago. And the editor is probably the one who stole the school newspaper. He first stole the real school newspaper, then forged a copy of the fake school newspaper of the same period, and then destroyed the real school newspaper, so it would be difficult for Lei Aoyang to distinguish the authenticity from the fake. But why would he do this? Could it be that he summoned Die Immortal in order to lure thunder into the basement? Maybe, I should investigate from the direction of Vendetta.
Anyway, after chatting with Teacher Xie, I asked about the basement, because it seemed to be vacant for a long time. He told me that there used to be debris, but about ten years ago, a male student took a female student there. After that, the school locked the basement, and it has not been used until now.
The new Science Museum was built five years ago, and the old Science Museum was left vacant. Originally, the leaders of the school planned to demolish it and build a teaching building on the original site, but after doing the calculations, they felt that it would be more cost-effective to build it in other unused parts of the campus, so they did not demolish it, and it has been delayed until now.
"Is the old science museum still managed?" I asked.
"It's been idle for several years, and the location is far from the current teaching area and dormitory area. Usually, no one will go in except for the guards who occasionally go in for inspections." Teacher Xie's answer is the truth, otherwise yesterday Five people died late, and the school will not know it until now, and only some guards and senior leaders know about it.
So, I can't help but have another question in my mind - why is the lock on the basement door new? Of course, brand-new door locks do not appear for no reason. It must be that someone broke the old door lock before and then replaced it with a new one. However, since Lei Aoyang and the others were about to open the door lock, they must not have replaced it.
It seemed that someone deliberately set a trap for Lei Aoyang.
By the time I finished chatting with Teacher Xie, the sky had already started to get dark. The guy in the school doctor called and told the three survivors that they had woken up, but the situation of Lei Aoyang and Mai Xiaoqiao was still the same as in the morning. It's really crazy. Fortunately, Hun Sen's situation has improved slightly and may provide us with some information.
"The skeleton monster, it's the skeleton monster that killed everyone, it's the skeleton monster..." Hun Sen, who weighed no less than 80 kilograms, sat on the hospital bed and hugged the quilt like a little girl, shaking his body endlessly. Similar words were repeated over and over again.
I wanted to guide him to talk about the situation last night, but it seemed that it was not yet time, and he was afraid to cover his head with a quilt when he mentioned it a little. I had to induce him to tell something about the eight of them first.