After getting the new phone, Xing Ye went downstairs and found the SIM card among the wreckage of the old phone. Just after installing it, a call came in.
The address book hadn't been restored yet; it was an unknown number. Xing Ye picked up the phone and heard Di Kuang's voice: "Xing Ye, money is really a good thing, isn't it?"
Xing Ye: "Did you know I was searching the entire campus for information?"
Di Kuang: "Not only that, you will find that my identity is also based on money. Money in the virtual world is really easy to use."
Xing Ye didn't answer, waiting for Di Kuang's next words.
"I promise you, we will form an alliance, but only until the night of the new moon. I have already found a clue about why Mona Lisa cried, and Teacher Ding has also volunteered to go to the Political Education Office to investigate the matter of the three girls. How about we meet on the rooftop in an hour?" Di Kuang took the initiative.
"That's just what I want. Someone should come to see me soon."
After saying that, Xing Ye put down the phone and touched his chest, where there was a small mirror.
He is really in need of QR codes at the moment, and Xiao Jingzi promised to help him find them, but there has been no success in these days.
Xing Ye tapped his chest pocket and whispered, "You still say you're lucky, but that's useless."
The small mirror in his pocket trembled with anger. He couldn't show his face these days, how could he find him!
"Who are you talking to?" asked Cao Qian from behind.
"Just talking to myself."
About half an hour later, a younger brother contacted Xing Ye and said he had found the insider, but the insider did not want others to know her identity and hoped that Xing Ye would keep a low profile and find a quiet place. The insider said that he did not want money, but just wanted to know where Xing Ye got the photos of the three people.
After hearing this voice message, Xing Ye knew that the person he was looking for had appeared.
The rooftop has been exposed and needs to be moved to another location.
"Let's go to your dormitory. My little brother said that the person who knew about this is a woman, so it's natural for her to enter the girls' dormitory." Xing Ye said to Cao Qian, "It's class time now, so there won't be anyone else in the dormitory. The other party is all four men, so it's not convenient for them to enter the girls' dormitory."
Cao Qian initially thought Xing Ye was a truly intelligent person, but now she's unsure. She still remembers the first thing Xing Ye did upon arriving on campus was go to the girls' dormitory. With so many unbelievable things happening, why would he choose the girls' dormitory over the piano room? Is Xing Ye really not a sanctimonious pervert?
As she thought this, Xing Ye took out a makeup mirror from his chest pocket, opened it, smoothed his hair, and looked at himself for a long time before shaking his head and saying, "No, this face is too obviously masculine. You can't wear women's clothes."
Cao Qian: "…"
Xing Ye put away the mirror and asked naturally, "What's wrong with you?"
Cao Qian hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Let me ask, are you a man or a woman in the real world? I have been in the game world for so long and have always maintained my own gender, but I have heard from others that those who are particularly unlucky and go against fate and enter the game world, let alone gender, may not even be human. I met a player who turned into a dog. He said that he didn't know if he was lucky or not. No one discovered his identity from beginning to end. At that time, the way to win the game was to survive to the last moment. He lived for five years as a dog. At first, he wanted to commit suicide, but later he persevered and won the game. However, the sequelae were very serious. After returning to the real world, he often wanted to lift his legs to urinate. After a period of psychological counseling, he felt much better.
You, are you a man? Or are you my sister? "
Is there still a possibility of turning into a dog? Isn't the game too hostile to the fate-defying faction?
Xing Ye said expressionlessly, "Of course I'm a man, but I just think it's better to enter the girls' dormitory as a girl. It's okay, there's another way. Pretend to faint and I'll carry you back."
So Cao Qian pretended to faint, and Xing Ye carried her back to the dormitory. The dormitory aunt looked at Xing Ye with suspicion, but still let her go.
After a while, a girl knocked on Cao Qian's dormitory door. When she opened the door, it was Zeng Jingrou from Class 3, Grade 2, the school belle.
Boy C once said that Xing Ye pursued the school beauty but was dumped. This is why Xing Ye is sure that Boy C is an ordinary person and not a player. Players don't know who the original owner of this body had pursued.
Zeng Jingrou was truly beautiful, and in a way that looked very familiar. Cao Qian was still wondering where she had seen this face before when Xing Ye spoke confidently, "The girl with the Patek Philippe watch in the photo is related to you."
Zeng Jingrou was slightly stunned, then smiled bitterly and said, "Patek Philippe? You really do know something. I've been at this school for two years and never mentioned my relationship with her until I saw you spreading the photos. Others might not have noticed, but I could tell at a glance that these photos were taken in the locker room, perhaps the same locker room where the accident happened. Where did you get these photos?"
As he was speaking, Xing Ye felt someone patting his shoulder again, and it seemed that a pair of hands were around his neck. The hands were very cold, and the fingertips were very sharp, as if they would strangle him to death immediately if he said something wrong.
"What's that girl's name and what's her relationship with you?" Xing Ye asked without changing his expression.
"Her name is Lin Jingxue, she's my older sister. She takes my father's last name, and I take my mother's," Zeng Jingrou said. "She has always been exceptional and proud, and she's the person I admire most."
She had already printed out the photo and was looking at the photo of Lin Jingxue in her hand sadly, tears falling.
Xing Ye felt the hand on his neck loosen a little, and he asked, "What happened back then? Tell me, and I'll tell you why I got these photos."
Zeng Jingrou calmed down a bit, wiped away her tears, and said, "My sister has always been number one in every field since she was little. She's very strong-willed. She came to this high school and, in the midterm exam for the first semester of her freshman year, she placed second. The top student was a special admissions student, Liu Muqing, who received a scholarship to attend. Not only did she excel in academics, she also surpassed my sister in sports and painting. The only exception was piano. Because her family wasn't well off, she didn't learn piano and couldn't play it. That's the only thing my sister did better than her."
No wonder all the clues corresponding to the piano belong to Lin Jingxue. After he played that song and dismantled the piano, Lin Jingxue would naturally follow Xing Ye.
Zeng Jingrou continued, "One day, on my sister's birthday, my father gave her a very expensive watch. He said it was an encouragement and hoped she would get first place in her next exam. My father is a man who favors boys over girls, but my mother only had two daughters. Fortunately, my sister was very good, and my father wanted her to be his successor. So when my sister came in second, my father couldn't accept it. He wouldn't allow such a thing to happen."
The story line is very complete, even the background is very comprehensive. The reason why Lin Jingxue was so impulsive and hit someone when she saw her watch fall out of Liu Mucheng's cabinet is also quite sufficient.
"My sister was under a lot of pressure during that time. She brought the watch back to school as a warning to herself. But the next day I heard that her watch was stolen, and it was Liu Mucheng who stole it. My sister said that the watch was found, and she even beat Liu Mucheng, and the matter was over. But my father disagreed. He said that people should do whatever it takes to suppress their opponents. Whether it is real or fake, they should take advantage of it and directly destroy the other person's life so that she can never get up again. He also said that my sister was too cowardly. If she was a boy, she would definitely not do this. So my father called the police as a guardian.
Liu Mucheng was taken away by the police to assist in the investigation, and her parents were also called. I was also at the police station that day and saw her parents kneeling on the ground begging her father to let their daughter go, but her father refused to listen.
There is insufficient evidence, and the benefit of the doubt goes to the defendant. The school also hopes to suppress the matter, using Liu Mucheng's regular grades to guarantee that she is not the kind of person who would do such a thing.
With the school's guarantee, Liu Mucheng was brought back to school, but the school also said that it would investigate the matter. Once it was discovered that it was really Liu Mucheng who took the watch, she would be expelled and asked to pack up and go home immediately. She would be suspended from school until the case was investigated.
Liu Mucheng returned to the dormitory in a trance to pack his luggage. He met my sister on the third floor while holding and pulling the suitcase. The two passed each other without saying a word. At that moment, somehow, Liu Mucheng, who was going downstairs, missed a step and rolled from the first step to the last step, breaking his neck and dying.
At that time, a student happened to be walking down the stairs and stepped on Liu Muqing's body. Later, someone said that Liu Muqing was on the thirteenth step of the girls' dormitory building.
So that's how it is. Liu Mucheng, the girl who was falsely accused of stealing a watch, was the one who saw the girl with a skull in the girls' dormitory that day.
When Zeng Jingrou was describing this scene, the spirit behind him became extremely agitated and kept pinching Xing Ye's neck. Soon, ten dark blue fingerprints appeared on Xing Ye's neck.
"What's wrong with you?" Cao Qian asked.
"It's okay," Xing Ye said to Zeng Jingrou, as steady as a rock. "Go on, how did Lin Jingxue become after this?"
"Many people say it was my sister who pushed Liu Muqing down the stairs when they passed each other. The surveillance camera on that floor happened to be broken and didn't record the scene. My sister has no way to defend herself. People always take the side of the weak. Everyone blames her. She sued Liu Muqing, whose family was already poor, without any substantial evidence, and pushed her down the stairs, killing her.
Some people also said that my sister had broken the surveillance camera in advance in order to kill Liu Mucheng.
My sister was so strong-willed that she refused to transfer schools and insisted on staying in school, but she was severely excluded. During her breaks, no one paid any attention to her, so she went to the music room to play the piano to vent her emotions.
Because we were in boarding school, we couldn't get close to my sister, and we didn't know that her depression had become very serious at that time.
One day, the school suddenly called and said that my sister had died after spat out a mouthful of blood on the piano while playing in the music classroom.
After the autopsy, we found out that she had obtained drugs from somewhere and committed suicide by taking poison."
Zeng Jingrou was so emotional at the end that she couldn't help but grab her arm and shed tears: "Why didn't I care about her more? Maybe she wouldn't..."
She is two years younger than Lin Jingxue and was just a child two years ago. How could she think so comprehensively?
The hand that was pinching Xing Ye's neck finally loosened. At that moment, Xing Ye saw a shadow floating in front of Zeng Jingrou, trying to wipe her tears with his hand, but missed.
The shadow turned around and glared at Xing Ye fiercely.
Xing Ye: "…"
He said to Cao Qian, "Bring a clean towel and wipe Zeng Jingrou's tears."