What was dug out of the soil was a camera memory card, wrapped in a plastic shell and well preserved.
In the Mockingbird nursery rhyme, the sparrow claims to have killed the robin, while the fly says it watched the robin die with its own little eyes.
The male teacher corresponds to the fly in the nursery rhyme. He saw everything with a camera, but did not make it public. He also hid the memory card and ran out every night to dig out the memory card and hide it in another place. I don't know if he did this because he was controlled by a ghost or because he was stimulated to sleepwalk.
While Xing Ye was thinking, Cao Qian waited quietly without asking any questions.
When he sorted out his thoughts, he saw Cao Qian acting like a robot, and was a little surprised: "Why didn't you ask? You didn't even ask about the clues I found in the piano."
"That's not necessary. The fewer people who know, the better," Cao Qian said. "Besides, I might not understand even if you tell me. I'll just be in charge of the beating."
There is not much curiosity in her eyes, and she has a clear understanding of her own position.
Such a companion is good for Xing Ye, but it is not normal.
Although "curiosity kills the cat", Xing Ye believes that this is a kind of curiosity. It is because of curiosity that human beings can make progress. Cao Qian seems to have lost this curiosity.
Seeing Xing Ye still looking at her, Cao Qian said, "This is how I used to get along with my former companions. I was curious at first, and that's how he explained it to me."
Her curiosity was extinguished by her teammates in the game world. This may be a good thing for the team, but it will stifle a person's thinking ability.
The anti-fate camp is already at a disadvantage, and if it loses the ability to think, it will be difficult to persist.
Instead of helping Cao Qian, her companions didn't care about her future at all and focused on training a thug for themselves.
Xing Ye doesn't like this approach. He has always been a leader. Only a cowardly leader would worry that his subordinates would overshadow him. He prefers a model where a hundred flowers bloom, which also stems from Xing Ye's strong self-confidence.
Your subordinates can be smart and capable, as well as ambitious. As long as you are strong enough, you don't have to worry about being counterattacked.
Xing Ye said, "The message I found in the piano is a British nursery rhyme called 'Who Killed the Mockingbird?' You can search the original text online. The sheet music you took is the key information. If you compare it with the correct version, you can find 18 differences. Pressing these 18 keys on that shabby piano will reveal the message of the Mockingbird nursery rhyme. I believe the nursery rhyme is the key clue that connects seven incredible campus events. I didn't want anyone to find out, so I destroyed the piano."
Cao Qian was stunned for a moment. "Eighteen differences? I only found sixteen. But it doesn't matter, just knowing it is good."
"No," Xing Ye said seriously, "I trust you very much and think you're a worthy teammate. Because of this, you can't shut yourself off; you need to be able to think and think proactively. Execution is a good thing, but humans are not machines and can't completely position themselves as tools. In the future, we will encounter more unknown worlds, and it's very likely that everyone will need to think independently to complete the task. At that time, thinking like this will be very disadvantageous."
Cao Qian seemed to have difficulty digesting Xing Ye's words. Xing Ye also knew that forming a habit takes time, so he was not in a hurry.
Thinking cannot be restricted. As long as there is a little bud and it is given enough growth environment, it will break through the ground and thrive.
What Xing Ye needs to do now is to tell his teammates about his actions and plans.
Xing Ye: "Do you know how I found out which sheet music you took?"
Cao Qian shook her head.
"I used a certain ability, and now I have to continue using it." Xing Ye said, "We can't just take this memory card away. We need to put a fake one in, but it's best not to be us."
Xing Ye asked Cao Qian to go back and rest first. She was very tired after tossing and turning for half the night. It was already two o'clock in the morning. There were still two days and one night left before the three-day agreement. Time was not particularly tight and they still had time to look for the head.
"Even if we can't find one, we can give one to the head girl. I think Wu Yu's head is pretty good. We can treat it as a gift and don't have to worry about dealing with the corpse. We can also get points." Xing Ye said to Cao Qian very easily.
Cao Qian: "…"
Through her experience in the game, she had already achieved the ability to kill players without blinking an eye. Since no one actually died, she could just treat it as a holographic online game. However, she still couldn't reach the level of calculating the value of a person's life and allocating it in advance like Xing Ye.
The two people from the anti-fate camp walked around the campus several times but couldn't find the special QR code. Xing Ye currently only has one QR code, which was given to him by the people from the obedient fate camp. It's really pitiful.
After returning to the dormitory, Xing Ye thanked and praised Jingzi very much, saying that if he hadn't been there as a guard, he and Cao Qian would not have dared to dig.
The mirror was very happy to be praised and said that he was a little sleepy after tossing and turning all night. Xing Ye could not put him in the quilt today. It was uncomfortable to face the chest muscles. Moreover, he had the shadow of burying chests in his previous life and did not want to see the chests of men or women. It could not be put next to the pillow either. He was afraid that the pillow would be stained by Xing Ye's saliva. The bedside table was even worse. It was too far away. This was a world with ghosts. What if he had a nightmare?
Xing Ye: "...Then where should I put you?"
"Hmm..." The mirror thought for a long time, and it seemed that he rejected all the possible positions.
"The soles of your feet are okay, right?" Xing Ye said.
"no!"
"Look..." Xing Ye lifted the quilt, "You don't want the pillow or chest, but what about the waist... Even if you want to sleep here, I don't really like having a living person stuck here. Are the only things left here the feet?"
The mirror stopped talking.
"There are only a few positions. You can pick one among the short ones." Xing Ye said helplessly.
"Then let's just cover the chest..." Mirror said aggrievedly, "Don't cover yourself too tightly with the quilt, it's very stuffy."
Xing Ye hugged the small mirror to his chest, feeling funny and cute, and fell asleep with him in his arms.
As usual, there was no class the next day. Xing Ye ran to the supermarket in the school and bought a decent memory card. He downloaded some adult videos from the original owner's computer and gave it to boy C.
"At noon, bury the memory card in the northeast corner of the garden behind the cafeteria. Keep it hidden so no one can see it." Xing Ye instructed.
Boy C said with a sad face: "Brother Ye, aren't you going to find the head? The time agreed with the head is in one day, what are you going to do?"
"I've been looking for him the whole time," Xing Ye said. "Look, the people in the group are still following Wu Yu. Judging from his behavior the night before yesterday, he must know a lot of information. It's a good idea to keep an eye on him."
Boy C finally felt better: "Brother Ye, I've searched the entire campus these past two days and found nothing. I regret it so much. I shouldn't have gone to the girls' dormitory. People really shouldn't do bad things, wuwuwu..."
"Don't worry, I won't use your head." Xing Ye comforted him insincerely.
Cao Qian watched the two of them silently from the corner. She only appeared behind Xing Ye after seeing Boy C leave with the memory card. She said nothing. When she saw Xing Ye scrutinizing her with the gaze of a teacher examining a student, she slowly spoke, "Why are you burying him? What if he's a gamer?"
"It's even better if he's a player. Burying things is for people to see," Xing Ye explained with satisfaction. "He was one of the people who entered the girls' dormitory the night before last. The five of us are the key figures who triggered the quest to find the head. Even if my two friends aren't players, they'll be targeted. They hid things in broad daylight, so they'll probably be dug up again soon."
"You want to confuse the other players?"
"I wanted to fish out the last person," Xing Ye said. "I specifically called him out in front of the classmates so that those who were interested could see him."
"Are you sure the last player is among the classmates?"
Xing Ye: "It's possible. Don't you think there are too many players in our class? You, me, Wu Yu, and Teacher Li are all concentrated here, but the clues are spread throughout the school. Thousands of students and hundreds of staff members could be players. Why are we so concentrated?"
Cao Qian frowned and thought for a long time before coming to a conclusion: "Probability? Luck value?"
"That's right. It's the luck of the players who follow their destiny," Xing Ye explained. "Now we know that Wu Yu, Teacher Li, and Di Kuang are from the same faction. Wu Yu and Teacher Li are players who follow their destiny, and you and I are players who go against their destiny. You and I weren't teammates at first, we fought alone. So, we two players who go against our destiny found ourselves among several players who have joined forces with our destiny right after we spawned. Isn't that unlucky?"
Speaking of luck, Cao Qian nodded with a complicated expression: "It's really unlucky."
"Then the players who follow fate are so lucky that people from the same faction spawn in the same class and can recognize each other at a glance. Isn't this a normal thing?"
"That's right!" Cao Qian felt a strong sense of agreement.
"This shows that Di Kuang is from the Fate-Defying Camp. He spawned in the third grade, which is completely different from us. He's the only one of his companions not here. His luck is really low."
Cao Qian continued to nod frantically.
"Now I'm convinced that Mr. Ding is indeed a follower, and he doesn't have any teammates. He was replaced as the physical education teacher for the first grade, and there aren't any players in the first grade. If he hadn't revealed himself, no one would have discovered him. He's really lucky."
Cao Qian went over Xing Ye's words in her head and tried to analyze them herself. "Among the seven, there were three players who defied fate. Two played alone and spawned in a group that followed fate. One had a companion but was in a completely unrelated location and only reunited with Wu Yu the next day. Of the four players who followed fate, one had no teammates and spawned in the safest location. The remaining three played together in pairs. Why are you sure the last one is Wu Yu's teammate?"
"Because the numbers are too balanced," Xing Ye said, "We know there are four people in our class, two with good fate and two with bad fate. So, doesn't the one with good fate actually have any advantage? Even if they work together, we don't know each other, and we're still evenly matched in terms of numbers. Given the luck of the one with good fate, their advantage must be overwhelming. So the last one with good fate must be in our class. They've known each other since the first day they came into this world."
Xing Ye showed Cao Qian the photos he had secretly taken of two other classmates looking at their phones. "On the first day I entered the game, I didn't immediately check the tasks on my phone. Instead, I paid attention to who in the class was playing with their phones. There were three people in total, you were one of them, and these are the other two, Guan Ling and Zhao Hong. The final player must be one of them!"
Cao Qian looked at the two classmates on her phone and couldn't even remember who they were.
When she first arrived at the game, she was so busy looking down at her phone that she had no time to pay attention to her classmates. She was secretly happy that the first incredible event was happening in the girls' dormitory, so she went to check it out at night.
I didn't expect that someone could observe so many things at the first time, so she was exposed the moment she lowered her head to look at her phone?
Cao Qian looked at Xing Ye with a complicated expression. She had also encountered situations where the player's identity was unknown, but no one had ever used the luck value in the game as a clue to find someone. Her new teammate had already mastered the rules of the game to the core.
He does not play the game according to the rules, but always thinks about exploiting the rules, suppressing the rules, and creating his own rules.
Cao Qian opened her mouth and wanted to say, "What's wrong with your brain?", "Are you really only participating in the second game?", "You are so awesome", but in the end, nothing came out.
Xing Ye noticed Cao Qian's confusion and pulled up his points page to show her: "I really just joined the game and have only 200 points, but I hope you can trust me and cooperate with me. Everything I do is for victory. Maybe you think that killing Teacher Li and getting 1,000 points is enough, but failure is not my style. I want to win.
You and I are the players at the bottom of the table. Our opponents are a group of four players, and a self-deprecating newbie with ulterior motives. Do you want to create a miracle? Do you want to challenge the impossible?
As Cao Qian listened to Xing Ye's words, a long-lost emotion rose in her heart.
That was the emotion that disappeared after she became an adult, the emotion called fighting spirit that she lost under the pressure of life.
"I want to try it." Cao Qian extended her hand to Xing Ye.
Xing Ye shook his hand firmly and said, "Then trust me. Even if I could stab you to death one day, you still have to trust me. This is for victory."
Cao Qian: "…"
She found that she had learned to think. Suddenly, an idea popped up in her mind, so she asked directly: "You said so much to make me trust you, is it because one of your plans includes a plan to kill me?"
"Haha," Xing Ye laughed awkwardly a few times, "Very good, your intuition is good, but it's just one of the plans. It may not be used. After all, the more alternatives the better."
"Whatever," Cao Qian said, "I have nothing to lose anyway."
Xing Ye realized that there must be a story behind her, but their current relationship was not to the extent that they could talk about their past experiences.
Just a partner.
The two ran to a secluded location and watched boy C secretly put the memory card in at noon. Half an hour later, a man came over looking around and dug out the memory card.
It's Guanling.
When Xing Ye was looking for boy C, he deliberately avoided Wu Yu in order to lure out the last person.
What should I do? Cao Qian signaled Xing Ye with her eyes.
Don't act rashly, Xing Ye shook his head at Cao Qian.
He always felt that both Teacher Ding and Di Kuang were difficult to deal with.