Chen Zuixing seemed to be particularly obsessed with this smell of blood. He narrowed his eyes lazily and could see a bit of satisfaction. The tip of the bright red tongue gently licked around the wound, like some kind of snake-like animal, which inexplicably brought out a bit of ambiguity.
Jiang Weimian only felt a slight tingling sensation on his wrist, which was immediately covered by an unfamiliar, wet and soft itch that reached his coccyx. His arms were stiff, and he didn't know whether to evade or rebuke angrily. His brows were furrowed and his voice was hoarse and low: "Zhen Zuixing!"
He seemed to be warning the other party, but he lacked a bit of cold deterrence.
After hearing this, Chen Zuixing finally slowly retracted his movements and turned to look at Jiang Weimian. In the dim light, his lips were extremely red, faintly revealing a bit of beauty, and he raised his eyebrows with a half-smile and asked: "What are you doing..."
Jiang Weimian thought that he should ask Shen Zuixing this question, but his intuition told him that it would be better not to answer this question. Seeing that the Gaozhi team had left, he rolled on the spot and left the table where he was hiding.
Jiang Weimian sat on the ground with his back to Shen Zuixing, and quickly put down his sleeves, trying to cover up the lingering wet feeling on his wrists. However, that feeling was like weeds taking root and growing wildly in my mind. The less I wanted to recall it, the clearer it became.
Chen Zuixing also slowly came out from behind. He stared at Jiang Weimian's back that was thousands of miles away, squinted his eyes, and suddenly said a word without any end: "...Jiang Weimian, this is a failure. There’s no way to restart the game, just take care of yourself and don’t send out those unnecessary kindnesses, it’s not good for you, understand?”
Chen Zuixing has never seen a person like Jiang Weimian, who even though he is in trouble, still has the mind to meddle in other people's business.
Whether it was the girl in the novice level or Qian Duoduo's teammates who were holding him back, Jiang Weimian seemed to have spent too much unnecessary energy and kindness on these people.
There is no player like him.
This is not a good thing.
After Sui Xingyu quietly approached Jiang Weimian's back, rested her chin on his shoulder, and breathed out a warm word in his ear, like a devil whispering to lure: "Jiang Weimian, the group newbie level has passed, here. It’s the primary level…”
"Even if your teammates die, it won't affect your mission..."
"You just have to make sure you're alive, you know..."
"Jiang Weimian, just make sure you are alive..."
Jiang Weimian paused slightly when he heard this. He didn't understand why Shen Zuixing suddenly said these words, but thinking of the other person's moody personality, he felt that it was not unusual. He slowly turned back to look at Chen Zuixing, and happened to meet a pair of bright black eyes, with his own reflection clearly reflected in them.
“…”
Jiang Weimian looked at him quietly and said nothing. After a while, he finally spoke, his voice calm, as before: "There are winners and losers in the game. I know the rewards for winning and the consequences of losing."
"Shen Zuixing, I accept the consequences."
"There are many ways to die, and there are many ways to live. I can't choose my death, but I can choose how to live."
Jiang Weimian wants to live the rest of his life with an open mind. This openness must be clean and pure, without any guilt or regret.
In the first half of his life, he had to lose a lot of things, including memories, rules, and emotions. Time is a terrible thing. It is quietly erasing all his memories of the past twenty years, and his brain has begun to go blank.
But Jiang Weimian can never lose his respect for life and the bottom line of being a human being. It is something that has been engraved in his bones since he was born. Time cannot erase it, and neither can illness.
"I will get you out of this game alive."
"I will not forget."
Jiang Weimian seemed to have made some promise, and he said the last sentence very seriously. After saying this, he ignored Shen Zuixing's stunned look and stood up from the ground, intending to go downstairs to continue looking for clues. However, the documents piled up on the table accidentally slipped down due to his movements, falling one after another like dominoes, stirring up countless dust.
Jiang Weimian instinctively took a step back to avoid the dust, but his eyes accidentally glanced
, but suddenly found a stack of crumbling playground construction drawings on the edge of the table. Even if the dust accumulated, it was not difficult to distinguish the red and green patterns on it.
At that moment, something suddenly flashed in Jiang Weimian's mind. He picked up the pile of drawings on the table, shook off the dust, and quickly looked through them one by one. It turned out that it was because part of the ground of the school had collapsed and he had to refill the construction drawings of the playground.
Seeing this, Shen Zuixing stood up from the ground, patted the dust behind his butt, and glanced at the drawing in Jiang Weimian's hand: "What are you looking at?"
Jiang Weimian lowered his head and checked the dates one by one: "The playground construction drawings. It said that because part of the school's road collapsed and sank, the government allocated a special amount of money to repair the playground. The construction date happened to be from the beginning of July to the end of August, which coincided with the death of the deceased. The timing matches.”
After hearing this, Chen Zuixing realized something, but felt it was ridiculous: "You don't want to say that the body was buried under the playground, do you?"
Jiang Weimian called up the prompt image provided by the game and zoomed in to carefully observe the marks on the body: "It's not impossible. You see, there are gray marks on the school uniform on the body. In addition to chalk dust, it may also be cement used to fill the road. . The red and green traces on it are not paint, but colored rubber accidentally stained by the paved track.”
He frowned and concluded: "The body was buried under the playground. No wonder it hasn't been discovered for ten years."
Chen Zuixing cursed in a low voice: "Fuck, the playground is so big, how can we dig it out!"
Jiang Weimian looked at the time and found that there were 18 minutes left. He immediately dragged Shen Zuixing out of the office and ran downstairs quickly: "There should be an equipment room downstairs. I've seen the drawings. Only a small part of the road collapsed at first, and there was no major collapse. Construction started on the area, and the body should be buried there.”
Jiang Weimian and Shen Zuixing ran to the equipment room on the first floor and found a few old shovels. Seeing that He Man and the others were still looking for corpses in the woods, they immediately rushed over to join them. By the way, they also caught Wang Dabiao who was watching in the corridor. Come down.
Jiang Weimian checked the place where the road had been repaired through the school green belt, then gave each of them a shovel and urged: "The body is in this area, dig it out quickly, time is running out!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. While they started digging the ground hurriedly, they asked in disbelief: "How could the body be buried underground?!"
This school has been abandoned for many years and has not been maintained. The grounds are also in a state of decay. There are no traces of the rubber track that was originally laid. The ground is cracked and covered with weeds, so it is not difficult to dig.
Jiang Weimian was also unsure: "Except for this place, I can't think of any other location. Let's dig first."
Qian Duoduo shoveled the soil hard while complaining: "If I were a student in this school, my legs would be weak if I ran on corpses every day."
He Man said: "There is no place in the world where people are not buried. If you push forward a few hundred years, there will be corpses of ancient people everywhere. You should stop walking."
Wang Dabiao said nothing, counting him digging the hardest. At this time, the advantage of being strong is revealed. When it comes to work, one person can do the work of two.
Just as everyone transformed into groundhogs and frantically dug without their lives, a deep pit finally appeared on the ground, but there was still no body in sight.
Jiang Weimian's expression remained unchanged, his arm muscles tightened, and he continued to shovel dirt quickly. While digging, Shen Zuixing searched for traces of the corpse in the soil and muttered, "Is the corpse really here? If I keep digging, I will almost bury myself."
Jiang Weimian was already sweating, and he said while digging: "It's more reliable to dig underground than to fish in the river."
He pointed to the team of stupid players who were fishing for corpses in the school's viewing lake.
Shen Zui It stinks, how could it have been hidden for ten years without being discovered?”
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly found something hard that his hoe had shoveled. He lowered his head and saw that it was a white bone. He immediately said to everyone: "Stop digging, the body is out!"
When Jiang Weimian heard this, he immediately dropped his hoe, and sure enough, he found a white bone in the soil. He wrapped his coat around his fingertips and began to pull at the soil around him. As expected, another
He found a few scattered human ribs and said to everyone: "Hurry and help us find them together and dig out all the bones."
After all, Qian Duoduo is still a student. Hearing this, he waved his hands quickly: "No, no, no, I, I, I... my legs are weak..."
Wang Dabiao was also a little timid, so he immediately threw away the shovel and took three steps back: "It's unlucky to touch the bones of a dead person."
Shen Zuixing knelt down to help dig out the bones. Hearing this, he curled his lips and said with a smile, "It's really unlucky. When you die, I'll see who will collect your body."
The owner of this corpse has been dead for many years and has completely turned into bones. The school uniform jacket he was wearing also rotted into a few pieces of rags whose color could not be seen clearly. Jiang Weimian, Shen Zuixing, and He Man dug out all the bones they could find and placed them next to the pit. A skull was stacked right on top, with black holes in its eye sockets, which was inexplicably eerie.
Just when Jiang Weimian was about to look for any other missing bones, he suddenly heard a harsh "beep" sound in the sky above his head, and then a familiar prompt appeared:
Dear players, please note that there are only three seconds left before the end of time, and the countdown begins—
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This round of game is over. The correct location of the deceased's body is at six o'clock on the playground of Yunhai High School. Congratulations to the "Four Idiot Team" for successfully finding the real body of the deceased and advancing to the next round of the game. The remaining players failed to complete the task within the specified time and the remaining interfaces were automatically released. I wish you a happy journey to the new level!
Just as the game prompt sounded, there was a flash of white light in front of me. The players who were fishing for corpses in the river immediately disappeared in front of them, followed closely by the players who were digging flower beds, followed by the players who were digging into the wall.
Team Gao Zhi also guessed that the body was probably buried on the playground, but their landmark location information was not as accurate as Jiang Weimian's, so they could only randomly choose a place to excavate, completely in the opposite direction.
When Bai Zhiang heard that Shen Zuixing's team had successfully passed the level, he was so angry that he threw away his shovel and said with a sullen face: "Let's use a jump card and stay in this interface."
Confirm to use
Bai Zhiang: "Yes."
Ding, Gao Zhi team uses a skip card to automatically skip the corpse hunting mission, advance to the next round of missions by default.
The four idiot teams were stunned when they heard this, and the air fell into a deathly silence. The cold wind blew and picked up the fallen leaves, which was extremely desolate.
Jiang Weimian couldn't understand: "...Why do they have so many cards?"
Chen Zuixing has evil intentions: "Let's go rob them."
He Man: "I'm so envious. They have so many props."
Qian Duoduo scratched his head: "Did they top up the money?"
Wang Dabiao was indignant: "Damn it, why do I only have one pack of walnuts!"
However, even if Jiang Weimian and others were unwilling, they still advanced to the next round of game missions with Team Gao Zhi. When they were about to listen to the game instructions, at this moment, the whole school suddenly began to undergo earth-shaking changes.
The dead trees began to glow with life, slowly spreading their green branches and leaves. The old and mottled walls were as clean as before in an instant, and even the plants climbing on them were annihilated in the air like dust. The ground changed, and a brand new red and green plastic track appeared. The sky was cloudy and blue.
Seeing this, Jiang Weimian's pupils shrank, and he subconsciously looked at the bones they dug out before, only to see that they had disappeared without a trace and were replaced by a piece of green grass. Even the dust and dirt on their bodies disappeared.
It was like going back in time, and they were back to the original point.
The game's cold prompt sounded in the sky again: Dear players, it is now nine o'clock in the morning on July 17th, and you are located in Yunhai High School. The mission of finding the corpse has been completed. Please find out the truth behind the death of the corpse before 12 noon and successfully arrest the murderer.
If the mission is successful, you will be rewarded with a resurrection card. If the mission fails, there will be no penalty and the interface will be automatically transferred.
The last four words rang clearly in everyone's ears: the timer begins!
When the game prompt fell, Jiang Weimian's ears suddenly rang with a rush of class bells, followed by students walking
The noisy laughter in the gallery. He subconsciously followed the sound and saw many high school students coming and going on the playground around him.
Some of them were playing ball and some were skipping rope. At the same time, they looked at Jiang Weimian and others with curious eyes, as if they were wondering why there were five more strange adults in the school.
Chen Zuixing subconsciously leaned closer to Jiang Weimian, frowning: "It's so annoying, I hate crowded places."
He Man covered her mouth in surprise: "Is this going back in time? Are we back when this school was not abandoned?"
Qian Duoduo probably misses campus life the most. He looked around here and there with a novel look on his face: "Oh my God, I never dreamed that I would be able to go back to school one day."
Jiang Weimian checked the time on her phone and frowned: "It is now nine o'clock in the morning on July 17th, and the deceased was killed at eleven o'clock in the evening on July 16th. In other words, he has been dead for more than nine hours."
Shen Zuixing seemed to have read through Jiang Weimian's thoughts, glanced at him with unknown meaning, and said in a cold tone: "Why, do you still expect the game to go back one more night to revive him?"
Jiang Weimian did think so, but since the person was dead, he couldn't control time. He could only find the murderer as soon as possible according to the game mission.
Jiang Weimian looked around and found that there was a partition erected around the playground track. When he took a closer look, he realized that it was covered with new plastic material and had not yet dried.
Chen Zuixing confirmed the location and found that it was where they dug up the body. He lowered his voice and said, "The body of the deceased should be buried inside."
He Man frowned and said: "It's too cruel. How can you bury a living person underneath? Why don't we call the police and let the police dig up the body?"
Wang Dabiao glared at her: "You are stupid! When the police dug out the body and found that it was a murder, didn't they take the murderer back for investigation? How can we catch the murderer? Should we go to jail?! This is a game, not real life. ”
He Man also felt that this question was unrealistic and remained silent.
Jiang Weimian interrupted the quarrel and motioned for them to look at the teaching building opposite: "Look, there are police officers talking to teachers in the corridor on the third floor. The students around also have strange expressions. Something must have happened in the school. Let's find out first. Let’s talk about what happened.”
After he finished speaking, he looked at He Man and Qian Duoduo: "You two are relatively friendly. Chat with the students next to you and ask about the situation. Shen Zuixing and I will look for clues nearby."
Wang Dabiao asked subconsciously: "What about me?"
Jiang Weimian: "Find a place to hide first, don't get arrested by the police."
Wang Dabiao is covered in tattoos and has a fierce look. It would be bad if the police arrest him as a suspect.
Wang Dabiao: “…”
He Man and Qian Duoduo immediately dispersed after hearing this and got close to the female student next to them. Wang Dabiao glared at Jiang Weimian, turned around and left in anger, not knowing where he went.
Jiang Weimian stood there and glanced at the warm sun above his head, but he didn't go anywhere. Instead, he found a comfortable position on the grass, closed his eyes and slowly lay down.
He hasn't slept in a long time...
When Shen Zuixing saw this, he lazily sat cross-legged on the ground: "Jiang Weimian, are there people like you who are hiding here and being lazy?"
Jiang Weimian closed his eyes and hissed, looking extremely tired: "Don't talk, I'll take a nap for a while and call me in twenty minutes."
Chen Zuixing paused slightly: "Are you sleepy?"
Jiang Weimian didn't know why, and she didn't hide it from him. She hummed, "I have narcolepsy..."
The sound behind her gradually disappeared from her lips, and she fell asleep quietly.
Chen Zuixing was stunned for a second when he heard this, not knowing how to react. He stared at Jiang Weimian's eyes for a long time, then looked up at the scorching sun. After a while, he took off his coat and held it above his head, blocking part of the dazzling glare.
Jiang Weimian didn't know how long he had slept, but he had been in a state of nervous tension for a long time, so it would be good to rest for just one more minute. He just felt that he had a very comfortable sleep, without any weird dreams or random noises. When he was finally woken up by someone gently tapping him, he was a little reluctant to wake up.
.
"Jiang Weimian, wake up."
Hearing this, Jiang Weimian opened his eyes in a daze, only to see Shen Zuixing's face enlarged from close range. The other person was holding a coat with both hands. His facial features were somewhat blurred in the shadows, but his eyes were still bright.
Jiang Weimian paused slightly when he saw this, and suddenly realized something was wrong. He turned his head and glanced, and then realized that he was actually pillowing on Shen Zuixing's lap. He sat up as quickly as if he was electrocuted, and his head bumped into Shen Zuixing's head with a bang.
"Fuck me!"
Shen Zuixing covered his forehead and fell to the ground in pain: "Jiang Weimian, you are just a white-eyed wolf! I have good intentions to block the sun for you, but you treat me like this?"
Jiang Weimian was also dizzy from the impact. Seeing Shen Zuixing fall to the ground, he couldn't care about himself for a moment and quickly helped him up from the ground. He frowned and asked anxiously: "What's wrong with you? Did you hit your eye?"
Shen Zuixing tightly covered his forehead and kept shouting that it hurt: "My eyes hurt and my head hurts. Jiang Weimian, you must have eaten too many walnuts, your head is so hard."
Jiang Weimian didn't know what to do for a moment: "Put your hands down and I'll take a look at your wounds. If it doesn't work, I'll take you to the infirmary."
The school should have an infirmary.
However, Shen Zuixing refused directly: "I won't go!"
He finally stopped covering his forehead, but a small area of blue was visible to the naked eye next to his forehead. Jiang Weimian got closer and took a closer look, then subconsciously covered Shen Zuixing's forehead with his cold palm and rubbed it gently: "It's okay, it's a skin injury."
Chen Zuixing deliberately contradicted him: "You said it was a skin injury, but it was a skin injury. I think it was an internal injury. You knocked me out and gave me a concussion."
Jiang Weimian saw that Shen Zuixing had a smile hidden at the corner of his mouth, like a cat that was stealing, and later realized that their current actions seemed a bit too close. He didn't know why, but he suddenly remembered the scene of Shen Zuixing licking his wounds. He retracted his hand and stood up, turning his back to Shen Zuixing and frowning: "Then go to the hospital."
His tone was as calm as ever, or at least that's what it sounded like.
Shen Zuixing grunted: "I'm not going to the hospital. Hey, give me a hand. My legs are cramped."
After he finished speaking, he stretched out a hand to Jiang Weimian, waiting for the other party to pull him. The latter glanced at him, remained silent for a moment, and finally reached out and pulled him up.
He Man and Qian Duoduo happened to come back, covered in sweat from the sun. When they saw Jiang Weimian, they immediately ran forward and panted: "We found out that a boy in this school is missing, and a girl suddenly went crazy. They are all students in the second (third) class of high school."
Jiang Weimian frowned slightly when he heard this, and was surprised by this unexpected information: "A girl is crazy? What's going on?"
He Man explained: "The missing boy's name is Zhao Xi, which is the body we dug up. This morning, the teacher suddenly discovered that he did not come to class and was not in the dormitory. He contacted his parents and found that he had not returned home, and his roommates did not know about him. Where are you going? It happened that the school's playground was recently renovated, and the road surveillance was damaged, so the teacher had no choice but to call the police."
Qian Duoduo was afraid that she would leak, so he quickly added: "When Zhao Xi disappeared, there was another girl named Liao Qian who did not come to class. The teacher went to her dormitory to check and found her hiding in the bed alone. He was yelling like crazy and was delirious. His parents and doctors have been contacted.”
He Man finally concluded: "I heard that Zhao Xi is a bad gangster with poor grades, and Liao Qian is a marginalized girl who is excluded in the class. When the girls' dormitory was assigned to a dormitory of six people, she happened to be the extra one. I live alone in a dormitory. I usually live alone and don’t talk much. I don’t have many friends. I can’t find the reason when something happens.”
The school bell rang, all the students returned to the classroom, and the playground became empty for a while. The scorching sun scorched the ground, making people sweat profusely.
Jiang Weimian had an intuition that there must be some connection between Zhao Xi's death and Liao Qian's madness. His eyes fell on several cement workers squatting in the corner of the school smoking, and he asked absently: "Where is Liao Qian?"
He Man searched around, and finally pointed to the innermost teaching building and said: "I heard that Liao Qian had a knife in her hand. She would not let anyone get close to her even if she was dead. She hid under the bed in the dormitory and would not come out. The teacher could not contact her. Parents, they are trying to take her to see a doctor. This matter has spread to all the students.
Discuss privately. "
Jiang Weimian only said one sentence: "Let's go and take a look quietly."
Chen Zuixing raised his eyebrows and looked at him when he heard this: "Isn't it good to enter the girls' dormitory?"
Of course Jiang Weimian knew it was bad, but there was no other way now: "It's class time now, and there should be no one in the dormitory. Let's go check on Liao Qian first. We really can't let He Man sneak in."
He Man is not very old, he looks about sixteen or seventeen years old, so he should not be discovered if he sneaks in.
After he finished speaking, he looked around and saw a pile of renovation tools near the corner of the school. He walked over and picked up a tool box, dressed as a renovation worker, and covered his face with a safety helmet.
Chen Zuixing followed suit and picked up a paint bucket. As soon as Qian Duoduo picked up the chainsaw on the ground, he was suddenly slapped on the back of the head: "Why did you bring the chainsaw in there? Are you going to be a murderer?"
Qian Duoduo covered his head and put it down in frustration, and could only pick up a paint roller instead.
Jiang Weimian said to He Man: "You pretend to be a student inside. If anyone asks, tell us that the bathroom in the dormitory is leaking and take us in to find out the problem."
He Man nodded and gestured OK to show that he understood. She borrowed Qian Duoduo's schoolbag and carried it on her back, and immediately led Jiang Weimian and the others to the girls' dormitory.
Team Gao Zhi looked at each other in confusion: "What should we do? How about we sneak in too?"
"Damn it, there are electric saws and cutting machines all over the ground, how do you get in? How do you answer when people ask, should we go in and cut people?"