Poison (V)

When they arrived at No. 6 Middle School again, the police still looked unfriendly, but they did not embarrass them anymore.

The teaching building was brightly lit, but students were still engrossed in their evening self-study. The experimental building was dark, with no one in sight.

This is a good thing. The fewer people know about what they are investigating, the safer it is.

They were not allowed to turn on the lights and had to move in the dark because they were afraid of attracting security guards and students, and even more afraid of being seen by the strange cat-like and dog-like creatures walking in front of them.

Before entering the laboratory building, Jiang Yu drew a small magic circle in the blind spot of his vision to attract the remaining souls and resentment of cats and dogs.

The small animals were dismembered, and their souls were weaker than those of humans. If it weren't for Yu Shu, their souls, which were so weak that they almost disappeared, would have been impossible to condense.

But even with the technique, the soul he found was unstable, sometimes visible and sometimes not.

Rather than ghost, it would be more accurate to describe it as thought.

When people die of old age, they will leave behind a trace of thought. This thought is born from the regrets that they were unable to fulfill during their lifetime. It will stay in the world for a while before disappearing naturally.

As for those animals that died tragically from insane torture and abuse, their only desire was the obsession to survive.

According to news records, Ma Yongqi fell from the building during evening self-study. The incident occurred at the right staircase entrance on the fifth floor of the experimental building, diagonally behind the teaching building, a remote corner that happened to be in the blind spot of the teaching building.

If the cleaning lady had not cleaned up the fallen leaves behind the right side of the laboratory building the next day, Ma Yongqi would have had to wait until the class with the experiment scheduled started in the afternoon to be discovered.

That obsession led them to stop at Laboratory No. 2 on the first floor.

When the light from his mobile phone swept in, Yu Shu was frightened by the biological mannequin. He patted his chest and took a deep breath. Looking back at Jiang Yu's condition, he was not frightened at all. Instead, there was a hint of yearning in his eyes.

Yes, Jiang Yu has been learning from his master since he was a child and probably has never been to school. It is normal for him to be curious and yearning when he sees the concise and clear key points of biology on the whiteboard.

The thought meowed like a dog, then quickly rushed to the stairs. It looked back at Jiang Yu and Yu Shu, and after confirming that they had caught up, it kicked off with its hind legs and jumped up five or six steps.

His route of action was strange but clear. Every time he stopped, it was a biology laboratory. The only change was the knowledge points on the whiteboard.

Yu Shu suddenly reacted and nudged Jiang Yu's shark muscles with his elbow: "Do you remember, the information said that some of the broken limbs and arms were worn off alive by blunt instruments?"

Jiang Yu lowered his eyes slightly and nodded gently. He remembered that his subordinates had bolded the relevant words when organizing the information.

"Actually, that's not the case. The places he stopped were all biology labs. And looking at the configuration on the tables, I see tweezers in the labs used by different grades." Yu Shu continued, "Tweezers are somewhere between sharp and blunt, and they're the weapon that best fits the results shown in the data. And Li Sheng just happens to be a biology teacher."

Jiang Yu understood what Yu Shu meant. The lake between the teaching building and the staff building had no fence, so it was easy to fall into the lake. A slight bump would cause someone to slip.

He looked down at the illusory obsession of cats and dogs, and deduced that on the day of Li Sheng's accident, "He" should have been relatively stable, and it would have been easy for him to scare an adult off their feet. Moreover, Li Sheng's report did mention scratches from animal claws.

Could it be that the accidents that happened to Li Sheng and the other two people were their own fault?

Just when they all thought that Li Sheng really died from his revenge, he jumped up to the fifth floor and walked to a place five or six meters away from the stairs where Ma Yongqi fell. He entered a state of alert, arched his body and his fur exploded.

The entrance to the stairs was like a bottomless mouth, swallowing the moonlight and air.

Because of the Eternal Life Knot, Yu Shu no longer felt cold, weak, or had respiratory paralysis when encountering dirty things. It was not until the talisman paper thrown by Jiang Yu burned out a wailing human face in the empty space in front of him that he realized he had won the prize again.

If he made a big noise and attracted people here, it would definitely have a negative impact on the school if the news got out. This responsibility was too heavy for Jiang Yu to bear, so he could only use the weakest talisman to simply delay time.

"Let's go. The school is still in self-study. We can't make too much noise."

Jiang Yu pulled Yu Shu and walked back.

However, when they ran back, every classroom on the fifth floor looked exactly the same. The desks in the third row of the fourth row were crooked, and there were three red and one green magnetic sticks hanging on the blackboard.

Since going from the left is always in a loop, do the opposite.

"Go to the rightmost staircase." Jiang Yu made a quick decision.

They thought that taking the stairs would bring a turn for the better, but they didn't realize that the stairs were even more dangerous. There was no end, and there was no way to leave. It just went in a loop.

Yu Shu went down floor after floor, and no matter how many times he ran, he always returned to the fifth floor.

"I... ran, no, moved." Yu Shu bent over and panted, holding the handrail of the stairs. His eyes were stained with moonlight, flashing tiny lights in the dark night. He looked at Jiang Yu for help.

Jiang Yu's physical strength was extraordinary. His face was not red and he was not out of breath, as if he had not just run up more than ten flights of stairs.

"He comes with bad intentions."

Jiang Yu looked up at the ghosts floating on the upper level.

The ghost's flowing white clothes were stained with a strong dark red, and there was a gray mist lingering around him. The closer he got to Yu Shu, the wilder the rhythm of his heartbeat became.

Yu Shu thought he had seen ghosts several times and could accept them, but the one in front of him was completely different from the previous ones. It was too disgusting and looked exactly like death.

Yu Shu's palms were covered in cold sweat. The strong desire to survive overwhelmed him and stimulated his potential. He started running again.

He rushed down another floor, and the scene changed. It was no longer the 5F prompt, but a more terrifying and weird scene appeared. When he turned the corner and wanted to continue running down, Jiang Yu appeared in front of him.

Suddenly, his blood was filled with deep cold, and the chill running down his back made him somewhat unconscious, because he was now standing at the same place where the ghost had been when Jiang Yu looked up just now.

Yu Shu wanted to scream but couldn't, and his throat was blocked. He didn't even have the strength to make a sound. It was as if the bones in his legs and feet were pulled out, and he could hardly stand.

He grabbed the handrail and instinctively struggled to retreat to the upper level. However, when he retreated to the upper level, he saw the same scene again, but the perspective had changed from looking down to looking up.

Yu Shuxin's heart was in his throat. The endless chill on his back immediately nourished the bad thoughts that grew and spread in his mind. His position was almost overlapping with the ghost, so he could not escape whether he went up or down.

Yu Shu's neck turned to the side little by little like a rusty gear.

The ghost is behind him!

Yu Shu's eyes went dark, his hands loosened and he slid down, unable to hold on to the handrail. His remaining strength disappeared completely in the face of extreme fear.

All Yu Shu could do was continue running down next to Jiang Yu.

"Is this considered a ghost wall?" Yu Shu panted.

"no."

Jiang Yu supported Yu Shu's waist and gave him some help to move forward.

Of course it wasn't a ghost wall. They were trapped in a spiral staircase. When they ran down, they could see their own backs, and when they went back, they would meet their own puppet-like selves.

The only thing was that the ghost chasing them never had a clone.

No matter how they ran, they were in a constant cycle, passing by their own backs again and again, and brushing past the wax doll-like handwriting again and again.

Due to the limitations of the situation, Jiang Yu couldn't simply break the cycle.

Yu Shu's breathing was disordered and he was gasping for breath, and there was a strong smell of blood in his throat.

"You, think of a solution." Yu Shu's voice was very weak. He had reached his limit and could not hold on for much longer.

And that ghost was determined not to give up until it could catch up.

I don't know how many times I have passed by the platform at the corner of the stairs. The moonlight is fixed on the window in a beam. Every time I pass by, the shadows of the two people running past are shallow and long, like a bridge connecting the moonlight and darkness.

"He Yuhua, it's time to work." Jiang Yu was forced to shout in a low voice.

Yu Shu froze for a moment and almost tripped while running, and Jiang Yu had to hold him up.

He remembered Jiang Yu saying that He Yuhua could not leave the village. Even if it was useful, He Yuhua would remember the favor they had done her, but this place was a million miles away from the village, so how could he call her over?

Yu Shu was puzzled when the Eternal Life Knot on his chest automatically floated out from his shirt, bathed in the cold moonlight, and cast a slightly aqua shadow.

He Yuhua, wearing a veil and a Chinese wedding dress, appeared out of nowhere and faded into the sight of the two men.

She raised her hand, pulled out the hairpin and threw it out like last time. She had always found it strange that a thrown stick-like object would spin in the air, but the hairpin He Yuhua threw kept moving horizontally and accelerating.

The hairpin pierced the ghost's heart and passed through, leaving a small hole in it.

In less than three seconds, the ghost turned into a thick mist and disappeared without a trace.

He Yuhua turned around, wearing a red headscarf, and nodded as if greeting the two. Then she raised her hand and pointed to the window: "Jump from there."

Yu Shu's eyes widened. Not to mention how He Yuhua could get out of the Eternal Life Knot, just think about jumping out of the window. They were on the platform between the fourth and fifth floors. If they jumped down, they would end up like Ma Yongqi.

Just when he was wondering whether Jiang Yu or He Yuhua had gone crazy, Jiang Yu had already climbed up, half of his body sticking out.

"Are you crazy?!" Yu Shu looked pale and nervous.

Jiang Yu jumped up and disappeared completely from sight.

Jiang Yu left no trace at all, as if his jumping out of the window just now was an illusion.

"Jump, it's on the first floor outside. You'll never get out if you don't jump."

Yu Shu gritted his teeth and decided to just turn over. If it was on the news tomorrow that two men fell out of the window at No. 6 Middle School, he would not let He Yuhua go even if he was a ghost.

However, as soon as he climbed up to the window and stuck his head out, he found that they were on the first and second floor platforms of the stairs on the left, and Jiang Yu was looking at him from below.

"Jump, do you want me to pick you up?"

The moonlight fell on Jiang Yu, casting a layer of cool and soft light on him. When the breeze blew the corners of his clothes and hair, Yu Shu seemed to see the shape of the night.

Yu Shu nodded: "Just catch it."

"Okay, jump." Yu Shu was quite smart most of the time, but he often couldn't understand Jiang Yu's jokes, which made Jiang Yu helpless. But it was Jiang Yu's fault for not being able to control his mouth and insisting on telling the jokes. He was digging a hole for himself and jumping into it.

Yu Shu pounced on Jiang Yu, and when he turned around, he saw He Yuhua pointing in the direction of the gymnasium and disappeared.

They walked a few steps forward to the side of the gymnasium, where there was nothing.

I really don’t know what He Yuhua asked them to do here.

"When we get back, you have to explain the matter of He Yuhua to me clearly." Yu Shu narrowed his eyes and glanced at Jiang Yu.

"I kept her in the Eternal Life Knot and wanted to keep her as a servant, but due to your physique and her choice, I gave the Eternal Life Knot to you."

Jiang Yu was too lazy to wait until he got back to talk about it, so he explained it clearly in a few words.

"You should ask my wishes."

"There's no need to ask about things that are beneficial and harmless." Jiang Yu said as a matter of course.

Yu Shu clicked his tongue and said, "Okay." Yu Shu thought about it and felt that Jiang Yu had no reason to harm him.

Besides, it was too generous of Jiang Yu to use the Eternal Life Knot given by his master to harm others. It didn't make sense no matter how you looked at it.

When their voices stopped, a voice that didn't belong to them buzzed like a mosquito: "Is anyone outside? Can you open the gym door for me?"

Yu Shu almost jumped, but the voice sounded familiar, and he thought he had heard it somewhere before. The more he listened to it, the clearer the image of the shy boy in school uniform emerged in his mind.

"Wang Zhiyao?" He thought for a long time and said uncertainly.

"Who are you? Do you recognize me?"

"I'm Yu Huan's brother. Why are you in the gymnasium, you're so filthy?"

Jiang Yu looked at Yu Shu as if he was a fool. "He was locked up, right? Could it be that he was playing hide-and-seek with me and got in here?"