An Xingyu...
Lu Yanli had never been as excited as he was now. His mind went blank for a moment, and he suppressed his surging emotions and took another look at the student file.
There's no mistake, it's him.
Lu Yanli had always known that if someone from that world died during a mission, they would survive in another strange form in this world. He had also imagined whether people in this world could reach the other world, but unfortunately, he had no way to verify it himself. But now, there was a living example in front of him.
Can this be true
He has been searching for so long, has he finally made any progress
His information was clearly recorded in the student file. Lu Yanli took a quick glance and his eyes fixed.
In the column for father, the font is also flipped left to right, but it can be seen that the name is Anru.
Isn't An Ru the person in charge of the previous term that Officer Zhao told him about? He went to investigate the Yinming Road incident and disappeared. Is he actually An Xingyu's father
So that's it... No wonder he felt familiar, because he looks somewhat similar to An Xingyu.
"What's wrong?"
Even though Lu Yanli's breathing was choked for only a moment, Chu Xiu still keenly noticed that something was wrong with him.
Lu Yanli, who had become accustomed to pretending, quickly came back to his senses and changed the subject: "I'm thinking about one thing. Tell me, why does the school send students to the Yinming Road? What exactly is there in the Yinming Road?"
They have all been to the Yinming Road, and that place is indeed extremely weird, but if you ask them to describe what is there, they can't explain it clearly.
Are there ghosts or "gods"
Chu Xiu also had a serious expression on his face and shook his head.
"By the way, look at the time of these student files." Chu Xiu pointed.
Even the latest one was three years earlier than when they entered.
The mirror world they are in may be the past
Be it horror stories or strange events they have experienced, cases of people going back to the past are not too uncommon. Except for the experience of horror games a few days ago, previous missions were more like illusions. People cannot change the past, but they can get information from illusions.
"Let's go first." They looked at each other, took out their mobile phones to record the video tacitly, and after quickly flipping through a thick stack of documents, the two quickly left the scene.
They found an empty classroom and flipped through the photos one by one, trying to find clues.
"The history of No. 4 Middle School is not very long, but it is very famous locally. One reason is that it has a high enrollment rate. Another reason is that the tuition is cheap and the bonuses are generous. Many students from poor families come here to study. There are also many students who are directly promoted from orphanages."
They all knew that being from a poor family meant another thing—even if something happened to the students, it wouldn’t have much of an impact.
"The current principal has a good reputation because he often waives tuition fees for students. So, even though students often go missing, he still has a very high support rate among other students..."
Lu Yanli was flipping through the photos while Chu Xiu was trying to find some information. As he listened to him, an absurd thought suddenly came to Lu Yanli's mind.
The students here are missing... An Xingyu is missing, but An Xingyu came from that other world... The people in that other world died and resurrected in this world...
Can Chu Xiu be trusted? Should he...
No, not yet, wait a little longer. According to the rules, An Xingyu will come here again in less than half a year, and then I can find a way to find them.
Lu Yanli calmed down.
“What do you think? Is it possible that the students were sacrificed to that…?” Chu Xiu did not say the name of the “god” but answered vaguely. In his opinion, the disappearance of some students meant that the god used them as sacrifices, didn’t it
Lu Yanli: "Then how do you explain the survival of these students?" Although most of the students who returned were mentally ill, they returned after all. Could it be because the "God" did not want those sacrifices
Now Chu Xiu didn't guess anymore.
Ordinary people have no idea what ghosts are going to do, let alone "gods" who are obviously a level higher than ghosts.
"Oh, by the way, let me tell you another piece of news. Officer Zhao, who is in charge of the car crash case at the Yinming Road intersection, told me that her predecessor, An Ru, went to investigate Yinming Road and has been missing ever since."
He enlarged the photo and pushed it to the other party: "I don't think this is a coincidence."
Chu Xiu looked at it and his expression also became serious: "Let's go ask An Ru later? He might know something."
"feasible."
A class lasts forty-five minutes. They had looked at the schedule when they arrived and knew there were still three minutes before the get out of class ended. To avoid bumping into students, they waited until the next class started before leaving.
However, the campus was so large that they didn't know where to start looking. They ran around in vain and were discovered by the Dean of Studies.
“Run!”
Lu Yanli deliberately fell behind to attract the dean to chase him, and after Chu Xiu escaped with difficulty, he immediately ran away.
The school was very large, and its layout was somewhat different from what he had seen from the outside world. Lu Yanli ran around twice and hid in an empty teaching building again, planning to leave after school.
This class is over and it's time to go home.
He wanted to try whether he could leave school in the mirror world.
Lu Yanli sent a message to Chu Xiu about his plan. After a while, Chu Xiu came over. His injuries were more serious, and some blood was seeping from his legs.
"After you left, the dean went after me." Chu Xiu waved his hands. He had finally managed to knock the man unconscious before escaping. After hearing Lu Yanli's suggestion, he hesitated.
Lu Yanli's proposal was very tempting, but his original plan was to complete the game after midnight in the mirror world, so that he could return to the normal world.
"Why do you plan to leave school?"
Tapping the table with his fingertips, Lu Yanli said, "I want to go to Yinming Road to take a look."
What is there in the underworld? Will he go to another world like An Xingyu
Chu Xiu wanted to go, but he valued his life. Lu Yanli had already led the dean away, but the latter still ran after him. This made him realize that the price of his wish to God had been almost consumed. If he didn't cherish it, he would probably end up like Nie Yun and the others.
After a long while, he said, "In this case, let's split into two groups."
He stayed in school to play games, and Lu Yanli went to Yinming Road by himself.
The two agreed that once school was over, Lu Yanli would leave the school gate, leaving Chu Xiu alone in the school. Strangely, he didn't feel hungry, even though he hadn't eaten for nearly a day.
While the students were having dinner, Chu Xiu was wandering around again. His mirror was gone, so he casually took a mirror from a girl in the class, put it in his pocket and left.
He thought everything was going well, but what caught him off guard was that the whole school suddenly became tense. The school dispatched a group of security guards from nowhere to search one building after another. Chu Xiu had no idea what they were looking for. After narrowly avoiding them, he sent a message to Lu Yanli.
On the other side, Lu Yanli left the school smoothly and got on the bus to Yinming Road.
At this moment, he was the only one on the bus. After several transfers, the sky was getting darker and darker, the surroundings were sparsely populated, and the trees were gradually withering and yellowing. After getting off the bus, the weather was as cold as the outside world, so cold that he wrapped his coat tightly.
Lu Yanli looked around to make sure there was no one else around. He took a deep breath and resolutely walked into the Yinming Road.
It was dark, damp and cold.
Even though the sun hadn't set yet, Yinming Road was already dark inside and outside. Trees were withered and yellow, with gnarled branches, planted in two neat rows along the pale road, and there was no end in sight.
Lu Yanli did not act on a whim. He suspected that this illusion was the work of the god behind the scenes. Besides that, there was also an element of gambling.
Let’s take a gamble and see if An Ru will come to Yinming Road today.
He walked along the road and saw an abandoned factory in the distance.
Chu Xiu had explained how he played the Four Corners game here, so when Lu Yanli passed by the factory, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Will there be several other Chu Xiu from other time and space
He stood outside the factory and watched for a while, when he suddenly heard a car horn in the distance. Lu Yanli stepped out and opened the first-floor door of the factory, looking out through a crack in the door.
Several cars drove in a line and stopped outside the factory. Lu Yanli was startled and immediately left the room, found the stairs in the dark, and ran to the second floor.
The second floor was just like the first floor, full of debris and dust, and it felt like I was going to have asthma after taking a few breaths. Lu Yanli covered his mouth and nose, calmed down, and listened carefully.
There was the sound of something being dragged on the ground, and then with a thud, a body hit the ground. It looked like the person being dragged was a human.
He was still a man, so he stammered a few times. Soon, his cries of pain were drowned out by the pain of the punches hitting his flesh.
Lu Yanli could almost imagine the scene downstairs: several people grabbed a man, got out of the car, dragged him into the factory, threw him to the ground, and started beating and kicking him.
"Fuck you, I told you to come out and listen! I told you to come out and listen!"
"Aren't you very capable? Why didn't you find out when you would die?"
The man who was beaten was already out of breath, and after gasping violently, he made a slight sound.
"You guys, put..."
The group of people quieted down and listened to him. Lu Yanli almost leaned against the floor to eavesdrop and heard everything.
What he said was, “Where did you take your students?”
As soon as he heard this sentence clearly, Lu Yanli realized something, and the following conversation further confirmed his guess.
"Why? Isn't Officer An very capable? Can't you find out? Just guess?"
"Students? Aren't the students all fine?"
But they did not answer him, but just surrounded him, laughed at him, and kicked him from time to time.
"Okay, don't waste time." A middle-aged man's voice sounded, "Hurry up!"
Lu Yanli came to the edge of the wall outside the stairs on the second floor and carefully peeked in.
It was too dark in the factory, and Lu Yanli's actions were not discovered. He watched the group of people take out a small electric saw and, after pulling the trigger, the saw made a small-scale roar.
Then, the group of people laughed and cut off the head of the man on the ground bit by bit.
Lu Yanli didn't look at anything more. He leaned against the wall on the second floor, slowly moved to the edge of the window, and slowly calmed his breathing.
Is this Anru’s past
A few unclear sentences mixed with laughter were heard from below, and then the lights of several cars outside the factory lit up. The group of people picked up their things, got back into the cars and prepared to leave.
In other words, the man’s body should still be on the first floor.
Lu Yanli watched the car go away, then slowly turned around, went downstairs, and came to the center of the hall.
With the help of the light from his cell phone, he could clearly see the body on the ground.
His clothes were completely soaked with blood, the color was so red that it was even a little black, and his entire body was covered with scars.
But there was only one thing, his head was missing.
Lying on the ground was a headless corpse soaked in blood!
Lu Yanli suddenly recalled the scene when the group of people left. They were all carrying tool packages, and one of them was carrying a plastic bag that looked like it contained a human head.
They took Anjou's head away.
That's why he went back to school to find his head.
Those teachers will encounter unexpected events.
Lu Yanli took another look at the headless corpse on the ground, then turned and left.
The cause of Anru's death was already known, and he was eager to know the answer to another mystery.
He sent a message to Chu Xiu to inquire about the progress, and continued to walk back while there was still time. After a long time, Chu Xiu replied to his message.
"Come back soon. The teacher will check the dormitories at night. It will be bad if you are not here."
Inside the office, a group of people surrounded Chu Xiu to give him love education.
His cell phone and gun were both placed on the table. Since the bullets were given to Lu Yanli, Chu Xiu insisted that it was just a toy gun. The teachers didn't pay any attention to him and instead started talking about the disadvantages of skipping classes and playing with cell phones.
Chu Xiu watched his cell phone light up. It was clearly a message from Lu Yanli. He wanted to take it back, but he was tied to the chair and couldn't struggle free. He could only watch the other party reply to the message.
Lu Yanli should be able to tell the difference and won’t be exposed, right
Chu Xiu prayed in his heart.
Not long after, the dean put his phone on the table with a serious expression.
"I have just sent a message to your accomplice, he will be back soon. You two skipped class to play with your phones and showed disrespect for teachers. Since it is already late today, you will be punished by standing for an hour and getting up early tomorrow morning to sweep the playground!"
On the other end of the phone, Lu Yanli felt something was wrong when he received the message. After thinking for a while, he sent a formal message back, saying that he would be there soon.
The speed of the car was indeed very fast, and Lu Yanli did not break his promise. With his understanding of the horror world, it was best not to go against any word of the ghosts. He kept urging along the way and finally arrived at the school early.
Standing together with Chu Xiu as punishment.
The two didn't think there was anything wrong with it. They stood outside the dormitory building and chatted, telling each other the news they had received.
Chu Xiu: "I'll try again tonight. I wonder if I can go back to the mirror world."
Lu Yanli had the same guess. After the two stood for an hour, they were sent back to the dormitory by the dean of studies.
There were six people in a dormitory. Chu Xiu and Lu Yanli never thought that they would get a share. They wanted to refuse but had no choice but to accept it. They took off their coats in front of the dean and lay on the bed to rest.
In the dormitory, everyone chatted for a while and then went to sleep.
One of the boys seemed unable to stand the cold weather. Seeing that Lu Yanli's quilt looked very thick, he asked embarrassedly if he could change it. Lu Yanli didn't care and lifted the khaki quilt on the bed and carried it to the other boy's bed.
He had no intention of falling asleep anyway, so he leaned against the bed and closed his eyes to rest.
Time passed little by little, and soon it was midnight.
There were faint sounds of strangeness coming from the dormitory.
The boy who had borrowed the quilt just now seemed to still feel cold. He curled up in the quilt and shivered. The sound of his upper and lower teeth chattering could be heard by the whole dormitory.
"What's wrong with you? Are you sick?" others asked.
"I don't know... I'm just so cold..." the boy said shivering.
"You've been feeling cold since you came back from Yinming Road. Do you want to ask for leave to go home and see a doctor?"
"No... don't... I, I just need to sleep for a while, Lu Yanli... lent me the quilt..." the boy continued trembling.
"Okay then." The other roommates finally stopped talking.
“It’s so cold…” The boy wrapped the quilt tighter and tighter.
He was sweating from the heat, but he still felt cold. The tighter he wrapped himself, the more he sweated, and the more he sweated, the colder he felt.
He felt wet all over, as if the quilt had not been dried. He could not help curling up his body, and finally he could not help burying his head in it.
Strange... Why do I feel like I can't move
Is it because it's too cold? Frozen
No, that's not right, this feeling...
The boy wanted to lift the quilt a little, but was surprised to find that he didn't lift it at all.
His hands...
His hands were stuck to the quilt and were still slowly melting in!
Not only the hands, but also the legs! The whole body is slowly merging into the quilt!
This discovery almost scared the boy to death. He wanted to scream, but no words came out. He looked down and was shocked to find that half of his neck had melted and stuck to the quilt.
No one in the dormitory noticed his abnormality, and everyone was relieved that he had stopped shaking. He opened his eyes and gradually merged with the quilt.
The khaki quilt becomes thicker and looks very warm.