"Why do you insist on coming up to influence my performance?" Lin Huai said bluntly.
Xu Chi said with a pale face, "I think it's more dangerous to stay down there alone."
Lin Huai said, "I think it would be more dangerous for you to follow me. By the way..."
He stopped suddenly.
"Xu Chi." The young man behind heard the voice of the young man in front of him, "Does Yan Xi like botany?"
"...!"
In the cold building, Lin Huai stopped in her tracks. He turned to Xu Chi and said word by word, "You are very familiar with him."
That is an affirmative sentence, not an interrogative sentence. Xu Chi knew that Lin Huai had already witnessed his reaction after seeing the red color, so he whispered: "Yes..."
"Does he like it?"
Xu Chi shook his head.
"Oh..." Lin Huai thought for a while, then asked again, "Do you like botany?"
"what?"
Xu Chi was completely lost in panic. Lin Huai looked at his reaction and said, "You don't like botany either?"
"Ms. Lin, are you going to teach biology..."
"It's nothing." Lin Huai said briskly, "It's too scary here, let me tell you a joke..."
Xu Chi: ...
Two people walked in the corridor one after the other. The second floor of the small red house has been in disrepair for a long time, and every time a step is stepped on the wooden boards, there will be creaking noises. The yellowed walls were covered with large water stains from the damp, winding around the cracked gaps, like ugly birthmarks on the skin. Due to the narrowness of the room, the walls on both sides are rolling towards the people in the middle of the road, showing the oppressive touch almost like being held by both hands.
It is really hard not to feel depressed when walking in it. The sound of "To Alice" echoed in the corridor, and it came out from its piano room. In addition to the eerie and flowing music sound due to the environment, there is also the sound of "da, da, da, da, da". It was a beat-like sound.
Lin Huai asked Xu Chi to stand behind him, and knocked on the door of the piano room by himself.
Apparently there was no echo in the room.
He tentatively stretched out his right hand and unscrewed the door. At the moment the door was opened, the interior scene also came into view.
A corpse that could once be called a living person hangs high in the air, and his two legs hanging down are hitting the piano cover next to it one after another.
"Ah, ah—"
Xu Chi behind him let out a short cry of surprise. He fell to the ground with a pale face. He was obviously frightened and couldn't even express his usual indifferent face. Lin Huai made a prompt decision, helped up the overturned stool, and stepped on it wearing socks. He took out a tissue from his pocket, used the tissue to pad his fingers, and went to feel the man's pulse.
It turned out that the man didn't have any breath of life.
Lin Huai restored the crime scene to its original state without leaving a single fingerprint or footprint of her own. Only then did he have time to look at the person suspended in the air. He was wearing a blue and white school uniform, with a ferocious face, incontinence, and a long tongue sticking out. It was obvious that he had been tortured in great pain before his death.
… There is no breath of fresh, freshly dead, living souls.
And under his feet, there was a note with a word written in a red pen on it: Invidia.
The piano sound of "To Alice" still reverberated in the room, but the black and white keys did not move at all, shining coldly under the reflection of the full moon.
Lin Huai thought for a while and closed his eyes. Following the flow of music, he came to the cover of the piano and took out a tape recorder playing music from the back with a paper towel.
The moment the stop button was pressed, the music went out.
He was about to turn on the tape recorder to observe the length of the tape, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw a white shadow flashing past in the corridor.
It's Shiro.
Instead of Hongying.
Just as Lin Huai was about to chase him out, Xu Chi who was paralyzed on the door caught his attention. I saw him staring in the direction of the corridor, his eyes were slack, his face was pale, and his body was shaking at a constant speed.
"It's him..." he said in a voice that was half crying and half laughing, "it's him who came back... He hates us and wants to take revenge on us..."
"He hates me, he wants to torture me, it's me...it's me..." he grabbed his face, "he should hate me...he..."
He seemed to be greatly stimulated and lost control, repeating these passages over and over again. Lin Huai watched him fall into the essence of human beings—the performance of a repeater, thinking that he could no longer catch up with that white shadow, so he shook his shoulder and said: "It's gone, sober up."
Under his vigorous shaking, the boy finally stopped repeating the reading. Lin Huai then said: "Now is not the time to cry, our top priority is—"
"Get out of here, yes, get out of here!" the boy murmured, "He will come to me...! He wants me to die too..."
"No," Lin Huai grabbed his hand, "it is to call the police and report this matter to the higher authorities."
Xu Chi: ...
Lin Huai: "Although it didn't respond to my kidnapping of the principal, it may just be because my actions were outside of its plan... Maybe it can get a response by calling based on the murder incident."
After speaking, Lin Huai took the mobile phone and tried to dial, but the signal in the room was so bad that the call could not be made at all, so he had to go down to the first floor. Xu Chi followed behind him, and the sky and night were as cool as water, sitting and watching Altair and Vega.
After dialing out the three numbers "1, 1, 0", Lin Huai held the phone to her ear and waited patiently.
"The user you dialed is out of service area."
He did not give up and dialed five times, each time with the same answer.
"Sure enough, there is no option to report to the police for assistance in the infinite streaming game..." Lin Huaixu thought.
The young man beside him sat on the steps as if he had lost his strength, he hugged his slender self, trembling all over. Seeing his appearance, Lin Huai sat beside him and comforted him: "People die when they are killed. There is nothing to be surprised about."
Xu Chi: ...
"I can't get through the phone." Lin Huai said, "I'll send you back to the dormitory to sleep before the janitors arrive here. Presumably, in a world where the police don't even exist, there are no first witnesses who need to stay and explain their statements Necessary... Speaking of which, do you know the person who died?"
"He..." Xu Chi tremblingly said, "That person is Tang Feng from Class C of the third year..."
In Class C of the third year, new victims appeared after Yan Xi and Shen You. Xu Chi continued, "I saw..."
"The person by the window...is Yan Xi..."
Three hours later.
The teacher's office was brightly lit at three o'clock in the morning when it was supposed to be a pleasant sleep time. The teachers and principal of Minghua Middle School who were called from the teacher's apartment and their own home chose to call the police after a tense and intense discussion.
Unlike Lin Huai who was unable to make a call, the police rushed to the scene on the phone of the school, and concluded that Tang Feng committed suicide two days later.
"...Tang Feng had been prone to depression in the previous month. He often talked to himself in his seat, lost his mind, was afraid of light, and was afraid of the dark. His roommate often heard him screaming in the middle of the night and waking up from nightmares. Come on, say 'don't come kill me'…”
"He often had auditory hallucinations during his lifetime. He often said that he heard the piano sound of "To Alice". By the way, Yan Xi, the first deceased in Minghua Middle School, could play the piano. His favorite piece was "To Alice Alice". By the way, Yan Xi and Tang Feng were at the same table in Class C of the third year, and they were 'best friends' during their lifetime."
"best friend… "
After the math test on the sixth night of the first week, Li Xiaqiu's trio discussed the current investigation situation in the lecture theater.
After a whole week of investigation, they have initially judged the main point of this game - the death of Yan Xi. The next two deaths almost all originated from the death of Yan Xi, a problem student in Class C of the third year.
In the extremely repressed Minghua Middle School, the first death that happened was the death of Yan Xi two months ago. After the school was closed for the three-day long holiday of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he did not know why he came to the fourth floor of the third teaching building and jumped from the roof. A day later, the school janitor found him lying on the ground when he was inspecting in the morning A broken, torn body.
The second death was the death of Shen You a month ago. Shen You died in a small pond in the woods before the player entered the school. She hit her head on a rock at the bottom of the pond, suffered cerebral hemorrhage, and inhaled a large amount of sand and water plants before she died. The school said that Shen You stepped on a smooth stone and fell into the water. However, the reason why she ran to the pond alone and fell into the water was unknown to everyone.
The third death was that of Tang Feng this week. Tang Feng died in the piano room on the second floor of Xiaohongfang. He had suicidal tendencies before his death. The investigation result given by the school is also that he committed suicide.
"The common feature of the three deceased is that they are from Class C of the third year. This class is famous for its unity throughout the year. I tried to enter Class C to inquire about the information of these three people, but they are all like an iron bucket Similarly, he kept his mouth shut about the known things. The only thing he could find out was that Shen You was the propaganda committee member of class C. He was very cheerful and talkative, and he was very popular. Tang Feng was relatively silent and studied very hard. The narrative is that he's a disaster, that as long as he's around, a lot of things are going to be screwed up."
The three exchanged the information they already had one by one. While thinking, Qiu Ran said, "Looking at it this way, the last two dead people seem to have something to do with the first dead..."
Li Fen said: "It's better to say that the bad luck of the first deceased spread to the whole class after his death, causing the whole class C to be unlucky... By the way, what about our teammate? What is he doing recently?"
He still couldn't help but cue his ex-teammate who had already shown the attitude of "I'm dead and burn the paper" attitude, just like an ex-boyfriend who still clings to his ex after breaking up. Qiu Ran said: "I saw him in the language examination room this morning, telling every student in Class F to come on..."
"This guy is really addicted to being a teacher!!"
"Leave him alone, let's do our own thing." Qiu Ran said wearily, "When I was taking a shower in the dormitory last night, I met a female ghost who asked me to borrow shower gel..."
"and then?"
"And then? While she was washing, mud and sand flowed out all over her body, from nostrils to ear holes to mouth to eyes..."
Li Fen imagined the scene of the quicksand in the seven orifices, and felt a chill in his heart.
"Oh, the human-shaped quicksand bag..."
In the corridor upstairs, Lin Huai was drinking coconut juice while listening to the movement of the three people downstairs.
The biggest feature of Minghua Middle School is studying from Monday to Friday, taking exams and studying on Saturdays and Sundays. This morning, the third grade completed the weekly exam of the language exam. During the evening self-study time when students can embrace "Looking at the World" or "Nanfengchuang" for a short rest (or prepare for the second day's English and comprehensive tests), Lin Huai, a fake teacher, can also finish the day's homework and let himself Swing a boat with two oars to push away the waves...
Maybe it's a physical problem. Since entering this school, it is very rare for Lin Huai to meet ghosts. Generally speaking, within the sphere of influence of powerful ghosts, there will be a large number of homeless little ghosts living there.
They live in the sphere of influence of powerful ghosts, relying on the ghost aura unintentionally emitted by the other party to taste a little bit of sweetness. And they themselves, by frightening trespassing human beings, provide more fear nutrients for powerful ghosts, which can be called mutual benefit and symbiosis. Good-tempered, or powerful ghosts who don't care about it, will allow their existence. Some domineering and powerful ghosts will destroy them together.
Like the female ghost buried in the soil that Lin Huai met in the woods before, she is also one of the little ghosts living here. And the quicksandbag female ghost that Qiuran added should also be one of the sojourners.
Perhaps it was because his behavior was too terrifying, after being buried in the earth, no more ghosts were willing to approach him. The only white or red shadow that often appeared disappeared without a trace after the hanging suicide in "Fur Alice". With this in mind, he decided to pay more attention to his three teammates and use their experience of encountering ghosts to strengthen his reasoning ability.
"Yan Xi, committed suicide on the rooftop; Shen You, the woods fell into the water; Tang Feng, hanged himself in the piano room... One more, one more is needed to prove my reasoning." He thought, "But I feel that Xu Chi... seems to be Don't like botany?"
He put the straw in his mouth and walked up the stairs with his hands in his pockets. When he reached the third floor, he saw an acquaintance sorting garbage at the stairway where the trash cans were placed.
It's Li Xinyi.
Holding a large bag of garbage in her hand, she squatted on the ground, lowered her head, and was sorting dry garbage and wet garbage one by one. She looked haggard, with split ends and a sallow complexion.
During the movement, her fingers seemed to touch something, and with a hiss, she took her hand out painfully. Maybe there were shards of glass in the garbage bag, her finger was cut, and blood flowed out bit by bit.
Lin Huai walked over, looked at her and said, "Why are you sorting out the garbage here? Don't the students in your class sort and throw it away by themselves?"
Li Xinyi was startled when she heard the voice. She jumped up, as if she breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Lin Huai, her complexion improved a lot.
"No... this is... Teacher Yu's class rules. He said that students should learn to respect labor..." Li Xinyi murmured.
"Rather than learning to work, it's more like a way to toss students..." Lin Huai thought.
He asked Li Xinyi again: "Is this job done by students on duty?"
"No..." Li Xinyi said, "There is a special person in charge. Before me, it was Yan Xi..."
After saying this name, she closed her mouth as if she knew she had made a slip of the tongue. After a while, Li Xinyi said again: "Actually, I did something wrong, so I should..."
"This is just a way for him to establish his personal authority out of selfishness." Lin Huai said, "It's quite interesting."
He didn't dislike the other party's dirty hands, so he beat Li Xinyi's hand aside, carried the trash by himself, and threw it into the trash can.
Li Xinyi lowered her head, rubbed her hands together and said nothing. Lin Huai said, "Go, wash your hands."
After Li Xinyi finished washing her hands, Lin Huai took out a Pocky from her pocket and gave it to her: "I saw that the people in your class C are united, and now it seems that it is true, even such unreasonable behavior will be met Do it willingly, it's really..."
He thought for a while and said, "It's really solidarity."
Li Xinyi held the pocky, lowered her head and refused to eat. After a while, she said again: "In fact, it is very easy to be united."
"?"
"As long as everyone on a team is in concert to hate the same person, all the faults must be that person. Then while dissing the same person at the same time, everyone will stand on the opposite side of the 'wrong' side, and then they will It will become united." She said slowly, "A team always needs someone to fill this role. Without the previous person, there will be the next person. This may be the previous... My retribution for standing by Bar."
After saying this, she stayed where she was for a while. After the time it should have taken to finish sorting out the trash, I slowly walked back to my class.
her back...
Lin Huai squinted her eyes, watching her step by step into the darkness.
At that moment, his inspiration seemed to move.
Lin Huai looked up.
I saw the white figure standing in the depths of the opposite corridor.
White breath.
He looked at Li Xinyi with a bit of pity in his eyes.
"Help..." He opened his mouth.
He seemed to sense something before he could utter a complete sentence.
Bai Yanxi only had time to quickly make a "2" gesture, and then quickly disappeared into the corridor.
Lin Huai turned around and saw another red figure walking down the stairs step by step from behind him.
After not seeing him for a few days, his cuffs seemed to be much redder again. He didn't look at Lin Huai either, but walked to the corridor step by step.
Red color breath.
He looked at Li Xinyi's figure, as if he was very pleased, and showed a distorted and spiteful smile.
"Hahaha… "