Regardless of whether what he said was true or not, Xing Ye and Cao Qian were unable to attack Teacher Ding, and could only take the opportunity to ask for information.
"What did you find in the gym last night?" Xing Ye asked.
"Di Kuang said he couldn't trust you completely. Who would tell real intelligence to their opponent? For the past two days, while he was dealing with you, he had Guan Ling and Wu Yu looking for special QR codes and clues. Now, both the video and the painting point to Bai Xu, so Di Kuang went to contact Bai Xu."
Through Teacher Ding's narration, Xing Ye and Cao Qian learned the story on the other side.
Bai Xu was not as bad as Xing Ye described. Di Kuang directly pointed out what happened that year, and Bai Xu cried and said that she was forced.
She said that Lin Jingxue gave her the key to force her to frame Liu Muqing because she was afraid of leaving evidence. She was also at the scene on the stairs that day and saw Lin Jingxue push Liu Muqing down and asked her father to destroy the surveillance camera.
It was indeed Lin Jingxue's father who hired someone to destroy the surveillance system. Bai Xu was right. She also recorded the conversation between Lin Jingxue and her father at that time.
At that time, Lin Jingxue watched Liu Mucheng die with her own eyes. Her mental state was extremely bad and her speech was incoherent. In the recording, she kept crying "Liu Mucheng is dead, wuwuwu". Lin's father said very decisively, "Don't worry, I will take care of the surveillance."
This recording successfully dispelled Di Kuang's doubts, and he firmly believed that what he had found was the truth and Xing Ye was just misleading him.
Bai Xu's distortion of the truth was too credible. If Xing Ye and Cao Qian had not seen the souls of the two girls and the monster-like Bai Xu at night with their own eyes last night, they might have been deceived.
"How shameless." Cao Qian shook her head. She had never thought that a person's heart could be so vicious.
Xing Ye was mentally prepared. If he didn't have this ability, how could he establish the main plot of the story and put all the blame on Lin Jingxue?
"If you hadn't started with the piano first, we might have been cheated." Cao Qian said.
Xing Ye: "No, even if I heard the robin's nursery rhyme, and Lin Jingxue turned into a ghost and followed me, Bai Xu could still distort the facts. Bai Xu could say that Liu Muqing was the robin, Lin Jingxue was the sparrow, and she was the fly that witnessed everything. When Lin Jingxue was the ghost, she was very angry and hurt people. I was almost strangled to death. In this situation, would you believe a mute evil ghost who wanted to strangle people at any time, or would you believe the beautiful and kind Bai Xu in the daytime?"
Cao Qian remained silent. If she were the same person in the past, she would have chosen Bai Xu's words.
"What did you find in the gymnasium?" Xing Ye asked Teacher Ding.
"We found Liu Mucheng's cousin Zhang Feiming. He is also a student of this school and is a sophomore this year. Wu Yu discovered that he would run out of the dormitory every night and hide things in the gymnasium, so we decided to come and look for him. They looked for him without my knowledge yesterday, but it seems that they didn't find anything, so they asked me to continue looking today." Teacher Ding did not hide anything.
Second year of high school, this age can also be considered as a teenager.
Having the same surname as Aunt Zhang means that Zhang Feiming is the child of Liu Mucheng's uncle. He was in the third grade of junior high school two years ago and had not yet entered this school.
Xing Ye thought about it. As a fellow sophomore, he didn't know this student at all, so he asked, "Tell me some detailed information about Zhang Feiming."
Teacher Ding said, "He's in Class 9 of Grade 2. Classes 1 and 2 are key classes, classes 3 through 8 are regular classes, and classes 9 and above are specialty classes. Zhang Feiming excels in calligraphy, art, and sculpture. He was specially recruited two years ago. He spends his daytime study time in the art room and is a somewhat quiet boy."
Art...once again cleverly overlaps with this subject.
"Have you investigated the relationship between Bai Xu and Zhang Feiming?"
"Huh? Are they related?" Teacher Ding was stunned. He had never thought about this before.
"Liu Muqing, Bai Xu, and Zhang Feiming all studied painting. It's such a coincidence, I don't believe they have no connection. And I think Liu Muqing's missing head is related to Zhang Feiming."
In the nursery rhyme "The Robin", the fish used his plate to take the robin's blood. Xing Ye has been wondering who the fish is and who could do this.
It now seems that Zhang Feiming has this condition.
Liu Mucheng is an only child, and Zhang Feiming is her very close brother. He is very likely to go to the wake.
"Why would they let you search here alone?" Xing Ye asked. "I don't believe they can completely trust you."
Teacher Ding is different from Guanling Wu Yu. They have been working with Di Kuang for a long time and entered this world as a team. Teacher Ding joined later, so it is normal for him not to trust him.
Maybe Di Kuang has found some key clues he thinks are important, but he is unwilling to tell Teacher Ding.
"Hey, do you think I'm easy?" Teacher Ding sighed. "With my initial skill, who would be willing to team up with me? It's actually a great skill for escaping. Most people can't kill me. As long as I have teammates, I don't care if they truly trust me or if the information I get is correct. As long as they sell it out, I can save my life, so I must have teammates, and I can't let them see my initial skill."
Xing Ye: "You said you entered the game by scanning a QR code shared with you. You were clearly being sold out. How could you be selling out your friends for personal gain?"
"I stole his graduation project, and he's hated me ever since. When we met that day, I thought he'd reconciled, but who knew... maybe that's why I had these two skills the moment I entered the game."
It's all your own fault.
People like Teacher Ding will only struggle between betrayal and abandonment. They will never be able to pass the game and will always be trapped here.
"Here's a piece of advice for you," Xing Ye said. "If I were you, and you wanted to reform and find real teammates, you'd look for people who appear kind and innocent. Show them your skills at first. They won't trust you, but if you act a little pitiful, they'll at least take you in. Then, find an opportunity for your opponent to kill you. Your teammates will know you'd rather die than betray them, and they'll be moved and consider you a true teammate."
"Ah?" Teacher Ding said awkwardly, "The feeling of death is very real, I..."
"what ever."
Some people will never do what they should do even if they know it; that's just their nature.
"Look at him."
Xing Ye told Cao Qian to keep a close eye on Teacher Ding while he went into the equipment room to look for her.
Teacher Ding is a player who follows fate. When he chooses to search in the gym, there must be clues there.
Xing Ye took out a mirror from his jacket pocket, opened it, and whispered, "Help me."
Mirror: "Huh, I knew you couldn't do it without my help."
After feeling proud enough, Xing Ye took the mirror and slowly turned it around the room. When he came to a certain spot, he said, "Go look over there. I feel like there's something there."
It was a ping-pong ball box. Xing Ye poured out the balls and saw a QR code at the bottom of the box.
"You are so awesome!" Xing Ye exclaimed.
He and Cao Qian had been wandering around the campus for so many days but couldn't find a single QR code. The mirror was just as he said, even if it became a prop, it had unbeatable luck.
"Hmph!" If it had a body, the small mirror would definitely make its nose tilt up high.
After thanking the mirror again, Xing Ye put it away and said to Cao Qian outside the equipment room, "Come in for a moment."
Xing Ye did not scan the QR code, but gave it to Cao Qian.
Cao Qian, who once said she would not give the QR code to anyone if she had it: "..."
Xing Ye: "Don't look at me like that. You need the QR code more than I do. You know my initial skills well, and I still need you to protect me when I use them. And I've already memorized this QR code."
He is trying to stir up trouble by doing this, as if to say, I am very rich and don't need this thing.
Although Cao Qian complained a lot, she was still very fast at scanning the QR code.
After it was absorbed into the phone, the QR code introduction was as follows: Table tennis balls bounce around and can train your reaction speed, making it a very good sport.
The two were unable to figure out what the QR code's function was through the introduction, but with Cao Qian's skills, having the QR code would be like adding wings to a tiger, and no one could use the QR code as fast as she did.
I searched the equipment room again, but still found nothing.
Xing Ye used his wealth to hire informants who were constantly tracking Wu Yu and reporting his whereabouts. He also had someone keeping an eye on Guan Ling. Xing Ye kept tabs on the two men's movements, even following them to the bathroom.
Cao Qian's informant kept a close eye on Di Kuang and Bai Xu based on their relationship, fearing that they would find a small corner to have a romance during class breaks, and helped Cao Qian keep a close eye on them.
Although they are outnumbered and at a disadvantage, they have the advantage of being rich and willful, and they make full use of environmental factors to suppress their opponents.
At this time, the four people who were being targeted were far away from the gymnasium, so Xing Ye had plenty of time to look for things.
He thought about it and sent another group message: I suspect that Zhang Feiming, the kid from Class 9, Grade 2, wants to steal my girlfriend Zeng Jingrou. Please help me keep an eye on him and observe him secretly. There will be a big reward.
There was a shout in the crowd, and they knelt down to thank the sponsor and expressed their willingness to work like slaves for Xing Ye.
Cao Qian, while taking advantage of the convenience of money, couldn't help but feel a little jealous. She said, "Do you still have money? You must have spent millions in the past few days, right?"
Xing Ye glanced at her and quickly sent a message to his father: Dad, I have no money.
Father Xing: I'm Director Xing's assistant, and he's in a meeting right now. I only have access to one million. I've already transferred the money for you. If it's not enough, I'll let Director Xing know after the meeting.
Xing Ye: Not for now, that's enough.
Cao Qian: "…"
She has personally experienced what hatred of the rich means!
Xing Ye looked at Teacher Ding and said, "We don't have any offensive awareness, so we can't use our initial skills or the QR code, but knocking him out shouldn't be a problem, right?"
Cao Qian: "I can't lift anything heavy when I see him. It's hard to knock him out."
"Me too, but I can use props."
Xing Ye took out two electric batons from his backpack and handed one to Cao Qian. "I bought this from the security guard at the gate. It's not a player's item. Do you think it can be used?"
"No, no, no!" Teacher Ding began to struggle frantically to refuse.
It seems to work. Xing Ye said to Teacher Ding, "Knocking you out is for your own good. You need to continue to integrate into Di Kuang's team. You must show your determination to fight to the death. Even if your phone is smashed and you are knocked unconscious, you will resolutely not reveal any information to me. This way, your relationship with your teammates will be sustainable. Go ahead!"
The last sentence was said to Cao Qian. Cao Qian stunned Teacher Ding and nodded with satisfaction: "It is quite useful. It may be effective if used in battle."
All skills and QR codes restrain the opponent's abilities, but cannot restrict items in the game world. The environment is also a factor that restrains the enemy.
The two searched the gymnasium thoroughly, and Cao Qian even pulled out the badminton net and basketball hoop, but still found nothing.
Xing Ye concentrated on studying the photos Cao Qian sent him, and noticed that Guan Ling and Wu Yu were constantly picking up basketballs, and Di Kuang was also playing basketball at noon.
"Pick up the basketballs one by one and take a look." Xing Ye said.
The two men pushed the basketball hoop over and checked one by one.
When picking up a basketball, Xing Ye suddenly said, "The weight of this basketball is different from the other ones."
Cao Qian compared them and found they were too light, like feathers. She couldn't tell which one was lighter, feather A or feather B.
Xing Ye frowned as he held the basketball. There was a fruit knife in his backpack, which he bought from the store. Xing Ye always prepared a full range of such small props.
With his strength, a fruit knife couldn't possibly penetrate a basketball, but Cao Qian could. With a powerful thrust, the fruit knife sank into the basketball, and then with a powerful slash, a strand of black hair fell out.
Cao Qian became more careful. She cut the basketball open bit by bit. There was a head wrapped in the basketball. It was Liu Mucheng's face.
"How could that be?" Cao Qian was very puzzled.
Xing Ye pinched it and said, "This isn't a real human head, but it's made to look very realistic."
Cao Qian looked carefully and found that it was indeed fake. The hair was real, carefully implanted one by one. She didn't know what the skin was made of, but it might be real leather.
"Do Di Kuang and the others think this is the head Liu Mucheng wants?" Cao Qian asked.
Xing Ye: "Liu Muqing herself might have felt the same way. You should remember that before the Requiem was played, her mind was extremely confused and easy to fool. It wasn't until Lin Jingxue appeared that she regained some of her normalcy. And the head that danced in the corridor that day had her face, but Liu Muqing said it wasn't hers. It was probably just a phantom, existing only in another dimension."
Cao Qian: "What would have happened if we hadn't witnessed Lin Jingxue and Liu Muqing's relationship and had rashly handed this head to her?"
Xing Ye said solemnly, "Of course, the player, with the help of the kindhearted Bai Xu, will find the head, liberate Liu Muqing, and complete part of the campus hidden object quest. Then, they will assist Bai Xu and Zhang Feiming in eliminating Lin Jingxue, the spirit behind the quest, and successfully complete the quest."
By doing this, the truth will be buried forever. Lin Jingxue's soul will be scattered, Liu Mucheng's soul will be confused and unable to wake up, and the monster Bai Xu on the second floor of the girls' dormitory will escape punishment.
Once Liu Mucheng was liberated, Aunt Zhang, who had no help from her daughter and only relied on a painting, could no longer suppress the monster Bai Xu. Like the other dormitory aunts before her, she went crazy or died.
The college entrance examination will be held in a few days. After the college entrance examination, Bai Xu, who has obtained Liu Mucheng's wisdom and talent, will be released from this school and enter university and society. From then on, no one will be able to subdue this monster.
But the ending that Di Kuang and others got seemed so beautiful on the surface.
The truth is chilling.
Cao Qian rubbed her arms and asked, "Why is this world so complicated? Wouldn't it be better to just simply complete the missions?"
Xing Ye said: "Because reality is complicated, what you see with your eyes may not be the truth. You have to look for it with your heart."
The young man running with his head in his arms on the night of the new moon must be Zhang Feiming, which means that he was the one who made this move and he knew about it.
Why did he do this? Liu Muqing was his sister, was he aiding and abetting the evil?
There are still three hours until dark, and we need to investigate Zhang Feiming before that.
Time was running out, and Xing Ye didn't care about his campus image. That thing had disappeared long ago anyway.
He sent a message to his younger brothers in Class 9 of Grade 2, asking them to block Zhang Feiming in the men's restroom on the first floor and hang a sign saying "Under Repair" in front of the door.
"Let's go and bully our classmates." Xing Ye said, rubbing his hands together.
Cao Qian: "Why do I feel like you're a little excited?"
"Really?" Xing Ye took out a mirror from his chest and looked at his face. He seemed to have a young and mischievous smile on his face.
Cao Qian: "…"
She rubbed her eyes hard, suspecting that she was seeing things.
Xing Ye, tall, masculine, with an IQ that crushes ordinary people, always seeing the world from a god's perspective, suddenly pulled out a makeup mirror from his jacket pocket? A very delicate one, embroidered with beautiful flowers.
"Mirror, mirror?" Cao Qian asked, pointing at the mirror.
Xing Ye put the small mirror back into his pocket with an expressionless face and said to Cao Qian in a warning tone: "Don't look at what you shouldn't look at, and don't ask what you shouldn't ask."
Cao Qian: "Oh."