Some people appear to be righteous in their daily lives, but once they lose the constraints of morality and law, they will do unexpected things, such as Wu Yu.
He has special abilities and can leave this world at any time. He regards himself as a being superior to ordinary people and does whatever he wants in this other world.
Xing Ye knew that he couldn't impose his own moral standards on others, but he still felt angry when he encountered such a situation.
Fortunately, the English teacher in charge was stopped in time without suffering any substantial harm. Xing Ye also gave the discoverer a fund and asked him to mobilize a few friends to keep an eye on Wu Yu and call the police if he committed any more crimes. The classmate readily agreed.
Another younger brother who was recruited by his money ability sent a photo of Wu Yu communicating with a senior student. The person who took the photo secretly took the photo from a distance, and only saw Wu Yu being scolded in front of someone in a humble manner, and could not clearly see the senior student's appearance and expression.
Fortunately, the younger brother was very smart. Afterwards, he asked his senior classmates for the name of the senior and also took a half-length photo to send to Xing Ye.
The senior's name was Di Kuang, nearly 1.9 meters tall. He exuded an aura unlike that of a high school student, conveying a sense of decisiveness and determination. At a glance, Xing Ye immediately determined that he was Wu Yu's mastermind. Di Kuang had Wu Yu publicly attract the other players while he remained in the background.
Their meeting was also very covert, in the boys' restroom. If it weren't for their wealth and the human wave tactics, it would have been difficult to discover Di Kuang's presence in the end.
Just by seeing Di Kuang's photo, Xing Ye decided that he was a formidable opponent and would not be easy to deal with.
Xing Ye suddenly thought of something and took out a small, flat mirror from his left breast pocket. He opened the lid and showed him Di Kuang's photo: "Do you recognize him?"
"I've never seen one," Jingzi said proudly. "I'm a high-level player who has reached the advanced world. How could my contemporary opponent still be in the melee world? He's just a rookie."
"What does he look like?"
"It's so ugly." The mirror's tone was full of disgust.
Ugly...? Xing Ye looked at Di Kuang's photos from top to bottom. No matter how he looked at him, he seemed to be a handsome and strong man with a body that could be a model. His face had a kind of rugged and wild beauty. This kind of appearance is very popular nowadays.
Remembering that the mirror also said he was ugly, Xing Ye couldn't help but ask curiously: "Then who can be called handsome or beautiful in your eyes?"
The mirror thought carefully for a moment before answering, "I will."
Xing Ye: "…"
"You have to know that I look at my face in the mirror every day. Over time, I find everyone ugly." The voice of the mirror was particularly sincere.
Xing Ye didn't say a word, just closed the mirror and put it back in his pocket. He was very busy and had a lot of preparations to make.
Xing Ye, who skipped classes, has been wandering around the school. He is a little concerned about two of the seven wonders on campus: "When you walk in school after dark, it always feels like someone is looking at you from behind" and "Why did someone pat my shoulder?" The other five have specific places or times: the girls' dormitory at 12 o'clock, the New Moon boy, the piano in the music classroom, the Mona Lisa in the corridor, and one or several people living in Room 404. Only these two are scoped to the entire school and the protagonist is "you".
It should be a mysterious event that requires players to trigger certain specific conditions to discover. Are these events related?
While thinking, Xing Ye walked to the piano classroom. Cao Qian took a book here, and she must have found some clues.
It was noon and there was no one in the piano classroom, but the door was not locked. A dusty, old grand piano was placed in the corner.
Xing Ye took a rag, carefully opened the piano lid, wiped the piano clean, and pressed the keys on it with his hands.
By the way, he learned piano when he was a child.
Piano, painting, calligraphy, martial arts... Xing Ye has a strong learning ability and can learn anything quickly. His parents hired countless tutors for him, and Xing Ye studied hard.
The music teacher said that there was no emotion in his piano playing, like a flexible mechanical hand pressing keys. Xing Ye could remember how to play each piece of music and could play some difficult pieces perfectly, but the teacher said that his music had no soul and could not move people, and was just a gorgeous show of skill.
Xing Ye has never thought about developing in a career like art that requires full commitment. He just wants to understand every field.
A classmate told Xing Ye the name of the music score that Cao Qian had taken away. Xing Ye searched for the e-book of the music score on the Internet and set it to automatically turn pages according to the playing time. He found a chair and sat in front of the piano, playing the song accurately.
However, this piano is broken. Many keys cannot make any sound, and some keys do not produce the correct pitch.
But for Xing Ye, none of this mattered. He didn't care whether the sound was perfect or not, he was only focused on finishing playing the music.
It took half an hour to finish playing the song without any mistakes. The moment Xing Ye pressed the last key, all the keys on the piano seemed to be pressed down by countless hands at the same time, and the old piano made a dull humming sound.
Then a pair of invisible hands began to play on the piano, the same song that Xing Ye had just played.
No wonder Cao Qian took the music score away. She probably thought the problem was not with the piano but with the song.
Xing Ye listened patiently and suddenly found a key that was different from what he played. He immediately wrote it down and listened attentively. He had a strong memory and could read music. After half an hour, he found eighteen differences.
Xing Ye understood why Cao Qian took the music score. That score should be the automatic playing version, which needed to be compared with the official version on the Internet. She thought that as long as she took the music score away, no one else would be able to find the problem.
But that is five-line music notation. People who don't understand music theory would probably go blind if they tried to find eighteen differences in such a long piece of music.
Xing Ye pressed the eighteen keys in order.
He clearly remembered that these eighteen keys could not make any sound when he played them, but this time, every time Xing Ye pressed a key, he would hear an English letter ringing in his ears.
Xing Ye wrote down these English letters to form a sentence: whokilledcockrobin.
"Who Killed the Mockingbird", a well-known British nursery rhyme, is a story about trial and being judged. The robin is a bird that is about to be judged, but it is killed by a sparrow before the trial. The indifferent fly claims to have seen it all, the fish took its blood, and the onlookers are so numb. Only when the robin really died did everyone begin to grieve and mourn.
At the end of the nursery rhyme, the next person to be judged will be the sparrow that killed the mockingbird.
Different people have their own interpretations of this nursery rhyme. Xing Ye doesn't want to speculate on the meaning of the nursery rhyme for the time being. He just wants to destroy this key information.
So he began to violently dismantle the piano. It was useless to stop the piano from making any sound. He had to make sure that the piano could no longer work.
He took out the tools for repairing the piano and removed the keys one by one.
"What are you doing! This is public property!" A man rushed into the music classroom and saw Xing Ye causing trouble, so he rushed in.
Although he was clearly trying to stop Xing Ye, his voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of disturbing others.
"Really? I'll compensate you whatever the cost is." Xing Ye tossed out two wads of money from his bag. "Is it enough? If not, I have more."
The man was stunned and smiled awkwardly: "I, I'm not a manager."
Xing Ye looked at him indifferently, a man in his thirties. "Ding Chengshuang, our senior year physical education teacher. Mr. Ding, what are you doing in the music classroom?"
"Does this classmate know me?" Teacher Ding looks ordinary, with an ordinary face that you forget once you see it.
Xing Ye took great pains to remember the information of the faculty and staff. After all, everyone was a suspect. He was not very familiar with the temporary workers, but he could match all the regular teachers.
"There's a girl with a nice figure in your class. I often look at her during class, and by the way, I remember an unimportant you." Xing Ye sat down on the piano with his feet up, not caring about the piano at all.
"You... Hey, even if it's a broken piano, you should cherish it. How can you do this..." Teacher Ding said with a distressed look on his face.
Xing Ye observed him for a while, then suddenly smiled: "You want to hide the key information? I already know the secret hidden in the piano, and I can't let others have the chance to discover it. This is a very normal behavior, right? A person who obeys fate."
Teacher Ding was stunned for a moment, then turned gloomy: "Are you a player too?"
"I'm a person who defies fate," Xing Ye said straight to the point. "You're alone, right? Do you want to cooperate with me?"
"How do you know... No, why should I cooperate with you?" Teacher Ding asked. "You don't seem to understand my strength. I can clear the level by myself. Besides, we are from different factions. After the melee world, we might fight each other like in the novice world. There's no benefit in cooperating."
"I know how to judge people," Xing Ye said. "Your first reaction when you walked in was to stop me instead of attacking me indiscriminately. This shows that you are a steady person and won't attack others easily when you are unsure of my identity."
In addition to being steady, they also have flaws such as being timid, indecisive, and having difficulty making choices. Regardless of their character, such people are very suitable for manipulation.
"How many mysteries have you investigated?" Xing Ye asked.
Teacher Ding blushed. "I haven't noticed yet. I'm embarrassed to go into the girls' dormitory at night. There's no room 404 in this school, whether it's the teaching building, the office building, or the dormitory building. There's no Mona Lisa's smile hanging in any of the corridors. The piano was silent when I listened to it yesterday. When I came to check on you again at noon today, I saw you dismantling it."
However, it is not convenient for players to go to the girls' dormitory, which means that this person is at least good in terms of men and women, and there should be no problem in superficial cooperation.
"I've investigated two mysterious places, obtained key clues, and confirmed the identities of four players. Are you sure you don't want to cooperate with me?" Xing Ye asked. "Or do you think a rookie like you, who has only experienced three worlds, can force information out of me with just a few QR codes?"
Teacher Ding was surprised and asked, "How do you know I've only experienced three worlds? This is the third one. I didn't expect it to be so difficult!"
Because you don't have the indifference that veteran players have towards ordinary people in another world, and you are too easy to be fooled. Xing Ye thought secretly.