The atmosphere in the classroom is particularly harmonious.
Su Er put one of the props pendant on his neck and repeatedly emphasized: "I will return the rest of the props to you before I leave."
Who knows when Zhou Linjun will secretly cheat him out of something? The asset transfer plan is a long project.
Hearing the plot in their tone, Ji Heng suddenly felt that the story of those two people was suitable for creating a separate copy background, which could probably surpass the three views of all other copies.
Preventing the Ghost King from making a deal with Gou Baopu was just a precautionary measure and did not take up much of Suer's thinking space. He walked to the window and glanced around, only to see a few players around the playground.
"I don't know where that ghost went."
Ji Heng: "She will come back."
Soul raised an eyebrow... Are you so sure?
Ji Heng repeated what the little girl had said before: "I've accepted the mission, so I can't eat for the time being."
The word 'temporarily' is very subtle.
Suer shrugged: "They want to keep us as food reserves."
A few minutes later, Ji Heng walked back toward his office, rummaging through things without hesitation. It wasn't long before he found a roster at the bottom of a drawer. Unfortunately, it only listed emergency contact numbers, not the occupations of his parents.
He squinted his eyes and searched the cabinet that the little girl had just crawled out of, and found some other things.
Seeing Ji Heng holding out a thick stack of red notebooks, Su Er took a look out of curiosity.
"Elementary school student quality development report book?" Su Er flipped open one at random. "It looks quite old."
Subconsciously, I began to read the teacher's comments carefully.
Seeing this, Ji Heng reminded: "Just look at the grades. Teachers sometimes let students write their comments."
From what he said, he seemed to be very experienced, but this time Suer did not make a joke. He first found the one belonging to Zhang Xiaohua, and after reading it, he began to look through the remaining report books.
When he closed the last book, he let out a soft "whoosh".
"My grades in every subject are ranked second in the class."
This is definitely not just a coincidence.
Shaking his head, he turned his head and asked, "Guess who's number one?"
"Chen Ziwen." Ji Heng didn't even bother thinking.
Su Er: "Chen Ziwen wrote in his speech that he won the first place in the competition because of his teachers' cultivation and personal efforts. I'm afraid there were other factors involved."
Comparing Chen Ziwen and Zhang Xiaohua's report books, the former's score in each subject was at most one point higher than the latter.
At this point, I became a little puzzled: "The birth date and time must be specific to the birth date, and using the birth date to write an article is not easy in itself."
Besides, as long as a person makes a deal with the fox fairy, he should know the importance of keeping his birthday safe. Why are there so many people worshipping the fox fairy in a class?
Ji Heng didn't answer and suddenly looked outside the door.
Sur also heard the sound and thought it was the little girl coming back from foraging for food, but unexpectedly it was a player who opened the door.
I don't know if he was being overly suspicious, but when their eyes met, it seemed that what he saw in the other person's eyes was not astonishment, but a hint of surprise.
"I thought it was a ghost and it scared me." The player patted his chest.
Su Er glanced at his name tag...Liu's appearance.
No impression.
"After turning the pages with the ghost, everyone dispersed." Liu Changxiang casually explained why he was alone and walked towards them: "Since we met, do you want to act together?"
Ji Heng didn't say anything, and Liu Changxiang automatically assumed that he agreed to join the team.
After repeatedly assuring himself that he wouldn't hold back, Liu Changxiang took the initiative to share a few clues he had found: "I saw some newspapers in the library. It turns out that every year, students in this school die in accidents. However, in the past, they all died outside the school, in fires, drownings, and so on."
Ji Heng nodded without much reaction.
Unable to establish a common topic, Liu Changxiang knew that this person had a rather cold personality, so he didn't care and turned to talk to Su Er, who looked more friendly: "What are you looking for?"
"The deceased student's grades," Su Er said without hiding anything: "Now I'm going to find the photos."
He suspected that Chen Ziwen was the Ghost King he had dealt with before, but he lacked a photo to match him with the real one.
Liu Changxiang helped to look for it.
For a moment, the only sound in the office was the rustling of files.
To be on the safe side, Suer would occasionally glance in the direction of Liu Changxiang. Before looking away, he accidentally saw a small insect that looked like a mantis on Ji Heng's shoulder. It was lurking patiently, and its sickle-like front claws were slowly raised up a little every few seconds.
Raising his hand to flick it away, Ji Heng turned slightly and shook his head slightly.
Because of this deliberate indulgence, a minute later, the mantis easily harvested half a hair.
Liu Changxiang breathed a sigh of relief, with a slight smile on his lips.
He did not rush to leave, but instead greedily ordered the mantis to move towards Sur.
"If you don't hurry up, it will be too late."
Ji Heng's sudden words scared Liu Changxiang so much that he shuddered, but he quickly calmed down.
Players are not allowed to kill each other, which sometimes becomes the biggest protection in the dungeon.
"I..."
Just as he was about to speak, Ji Heng pretended not to notice his reaction and walked over to Su Er: "There are only seven days in total, and there are still many pages left in the Book of Answers."
Liu Changxiang was stunned for a moment, then he was delighted, because it turned out that the sentence was not directed at him.
This secret complacency didn't last long. After harvesting the hair, the mantis slowly crawled into its owner's pocket. Liu Changxiang was about to find an excuse to slip away, but the moment he looked up, his pupils trembled violently.
A little girl holding a pair of red shoes appeared outside the door, standing silently. Her eyes, devoid of any human emotion, stared at him, and the little girl's throat moved, as if swallowing.
Liu Changxiang couldn't help but take a step back. His first reaction was that there were three people in the office, so there was still room for maneuver.
Su Er continued with his work as if nothing had happened. He choked on the dust in the booklet and rubbed his nose. "Didn't he remind me that if I didn't leave, it would be too late."
The gentleness in his expression just now completely disappeared, and the corners of his lips curled up as he said, "You know everything about Ji Heng and me, right?"
Although it was a question, the tone was very firm.
On the other side, the little girl approached barefoot step by step, and Liu Changxiang tried to use Suer as a shield.
"We triggered a side quest," Soul sighed at this stubbornness. "She'll only attack you."
Upon hearing this, Liu Changxiang's expression changed drastically. He quickly thought and said, "I bought this information from someone else. As long as I can save..."
Su Er was too lazy to listen to him and looked at Ji Heng.
Ji Heng smiled and looked at Liu Changxiang: "The plan went so smoothly, didn't you ever doubt it?"
He stood by the window with the light on, looking for something. There was a playground across from his office, so anyone who looked up could easily locate him.
Liu Changxiang only thought of this now, and before he had time to ask the reason, the little girl had already come in front of him.
The props on him were all low-quality, with only a mantis that was barely useful for stealing things. It was okay if he encountered weaker ghosts, but this little girl was obviously not a good person.
Zhang Xiaohua was really happy that the food was delivered to her door automatically. The moment Liu Changxiang ran away, he twisted the other person's arm with extraordinary strength.
Before the blood spurted everywhere, Ji Heng pulled Suer to the door, stood against the wall, and waited for everything inside to be over.
Amid the screams, Suer was thinking about Ji Heng's last words to Liu Changxiang.
Liu Changxiang took the trouble to approach them, probably because he was absolutely sure that he could borrow their luck. He hadn't specifically asked about their birthdays since he entered the house, which indirectly indicated that he had already obtained their birth dates.
So Ji Heng deliberately revealed his whereabouts in order to make sure whether anyone knew his fate?
Suer frowned. If this was the sole purpose, he should let Liu Changxiang give out the person behind the scenes.
The screams became more and more shrill and gradually became weaker.
Everything that happened in the office was distorted and presented on the wall in front of him in the form of shadows. One of the people had half of his head hanging on his neck. Su Er suddenly remembered the words that the headless child said before he jumped out of the window and escaped:
"Because you'll experience it yourself."
History is indeed repeating itself. Some players attempted to kneel down and worship the fox fairy in private, hoping to get the correct answer through luck.
After a long time, Su Er let out a breath.
Ji Heng: "Have you figured it out?"
Su Er nodded: "Liu Changxiang said that someone sold him the information."
This sentence is the key point.
How could it be such a coincidence that a player who likes to collect horoscopes in real life happens to come to a copy where he needs to provide horoscopes to borrow luck.
All I can say is that the game is selectively picking people, deliberately allowing this type of player to enter the current dungeon.
"The so-called repetition of history proves that before the tragedy occurred, someone in the school was also selling students' birth dates and horoscopes."
A chill crept up his arm for no reason. Sur felt something was wrong and turned his head, his blood-stained face reflected in his pupils.
Zhang Xiaohua's face was covered in blood. Her hand was no longer holding her shoes, but her soft eyeballs. She pinched her earlobes from time to time, as if to indicate that she was listening to their conversation.
Ignoring the bloody scene, Ji Heng walked over fearlessly and half-knelt in front of her: "Except for the Ghost King, all other powerful ghosts are trapped in the Book of Answers."
Only Su'er had encountered a ghost that prevented people from leaving the classroom, but it had no killing power at all.
"What about you?" Ji Heng helped her fix the crooked hairpin on her head: "Why aren't you with everyone?"
The dullness in her eyes disappeared. Zhang Xiaohua wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with her sleeve and said in a half-complaining, half-coquettish tone: "My classmates don't want to play with me."
"oh?"
"They disliked the fact that I wore a pair of tattered sneakers year-round and that the hair tie I used was made of wool..." Zhang Xiaohua said with a pout, "They also gave me a lot of nicknames and often hid my things."
Ji Heng said in a gentle tone: "You were the first to discover the fox fairy, right?"
Unlike her indifference when asked about the competition before, Zhang Xiaohua nodded eagerly as if she had finally found something to show off.
"It was raining heavily that day, and someone cut a hole in my umbrella, so I had to wait in the classroom." Her eyes flickered as she spoke, "The Fox Fairy appeared at that moment, saying she could change my luck and win a jackpot that would change my family's destiny."
Ji Heng said in a deep voice: "But you didn't agree."
"You can't make a deal with the devil." Zhang Xiaohua answered firmly.
"I rejected the fox spirit and started helping the students who bullied me with their homework and running errands every day. I also lied to them and told them I could tell fortunes. Soon, some people took the bait and asked for their parents' exact birth dates."
"...In the second half of the semester, I gradually revealed the existence of the fox spirit to them and started to sow discord by selling birth charts," she said, not forgetting to show off her red shoes and butterfly hairpins. "I bought a lot of beautiful things with the money I earned."
Zhang Xiaohua grinned as she kept stroking the wings of the butterfly hairpin.
"Those who make deals with the devil will not have a good ending. Only things gained through hard work are real."
She had inquired and found out that there had been students in the school who had accidents over the years, and those people would inexplicably have a period of good luck before they died.
It must be because of the fox spirit worship.
Su Er did not interrupt the whole time, thinking back to the poem "Competition" he saw in the textbook, and felt a little emotional.
"But you still died."
Ji Heng's light words made the little girl's voice suddenly become sharp: "Find the murderer, or I will eat you!"
Suer and Ji Heng looked at each other and had the same idea... keeping this little girl around would definitely be a time bomb.
He lowered his voice very low: "My mother-in-law who traded human skins with me once said that there can only be one Ghost King in a copy."
Ji Heng nodded.
Soul's eyes rolled and for a moment he smiled like the loving Grandma Wolf.
"What's the point of just eating people? Why don't you eat your own kind?"
Zhang Xiaohua revealed a frustrated expression: "There's a powerful restriction that won't let me eat."
Cannibalism is the best way for ghosts to advance.
Soul took out the electric shock device and explained to the little girl's defensive look: "It's good for you."
After saying that, he injected Yin energy.
Zhang Xiaohua showed an expression of enjoyment.
Su Er suddenly stopped and spread his hands in the face of the other party's dissatisfied gaze: "That's all that's left."
Zhang Xiaohua didn't believe it and reached out to grab it. As soon as she touched the edge of the electric shock device, she was burned. She screamed "wow" and jumped half a meter away.
"This thing is only for me." Su Er pointed at the Book of Answers. "How about I release the ghosts and you fight the monsters, leaving the last bit of health for me."bookshelf
After saying that, he raised the electric shock device in his hand and said, "Use it to absorb the ghost energy and then transfer it to you."
Although there was a huge benefit in front of her, Zhang Xiaohua was tempted but did not agree immediately.
Sur tempted, "Dealing with the devil doesn't end well, but I'm just an ordinary, weak human."
The food chain is a ghost → a human. Zhang Xiaohua considered it and finally nodded in agreement.
Ji Heng, who witnessed the whole process, had a complicated expression on his face, and had a feeling that this silly kid might as well make a deal with the devil.
On the surface, it seems that Sur is serving her, but in fact, it can reduce the number of ghosts in the Book of Answers; secondly, when the little girl becomes stronger, she will inevitably clash with the Ghost King, and a lose-lose situation is beneficial to the player; even if she is smart and knows how to lie dormant, the game will not allow two Ghost Kings to appear in one copy.bookshelfbookshelf
No matter which outcome, Su Er will be the beneficiary.
Fearing that the night would prolong and bring more trouble, Suer put his hand on the book of answers and asked directly about the location of the graduation certificate.
After opening it, as expected, the correct answer did not appear on the page. Instead, the creepy words "nursery rhyme" were written in black and white.
"Scissorhands, a good tailor..."
A childish and strange singing voice came from far away.bookshelf
The fog rose from nowhere, gradually covering the entire office and blocking the view.
Zhang Xiaohua's eyes widened, and after determining the correct direction, he suddenly jumped towards somewhere in the fog.
The singing stopped abruptly, and not long after, Zhang Xiaohua was holding the female ghost with her throat bitten in one hand.
The fog showed signs of dissipating as the female ghost grew weaker.
Su Er frowned. This little girl was so strong.
Ji Heng: "The other ghosts all made deals with fox spirits when they were alive, and their luck was used up. They can't be that powerful after death."
"If you dare to lie to me, I will eat you." The little girl warned, throwing the female ghost in front of them like a piece of trash.
With the deal as a bond, there was no need to worry about the other party becoming stronger and then backfiring in the short term. Su Er honestly used the electric shock device to end the ghost girl's life and kept his promise to inject Yin Qi into the little girl's body.
"Switch." He said to Ji Heng, "You still have quite a few pages left."
Before dawn, the Book of Answers became thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye.bookshelf
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The sun rises in the east, the color of the morning sun is particularly scorching, and wherever the light shines into, it seems to drive away all the evil spirits.
Many tired players stopped and felt the warmth of the sun.
In the classroom.
Dongfeng Jushi came to the window in his wheelchair, tilted his head back slightly, squinted his eyes, let the sunlight shine on his face, and sighed with satisfaction: "It's dawn."
The day finally dawned.
This long night is finally over!
Less than half a minute after he expressed his emotion, dark clouds suddenly rolled in from the horizon, blocking out the sun and suppressing the thin light.
The contentment in Dongfeng Jushi's expression disappeared like smoke.
There is a ghost advancing, and it is nearby.
He clasped his fingers together and gripped the wheelchair armrest, and the next moment he appeared in the place where the ghostly aura was the strongest.
In the office, Suer was still doing free labor. When he heard the noise, he looked up at the door.
Dong Feng Jushi's face was as gloomy as the dark clouds outside the window. He closed his eyes and said word by word, "It's you again."
Why you again?