Chapter 173: Finding a Scapegoat

"I heard from Xiaoli that Zhang Yu will try his best to cooperate with us in the game." Su Yan's lips curled up into a meaningful smile.

"But now it seems that her purpose in entering the game wasn't to cooperate with us."

Zhen Jinli listened to Su Yan's words and understood that he was reminding her implicitly.

Be careful with Zhang Yu and don't trust her too much.

***

During the break of evening self-study, Zhen Jinli went to Class 4 to find Zhang Yu.

"Zhang Yu, you're actually a senior in high school in real life. You should be more familiar with the academic points of senior year, right?"

Zhen Jinli did not mention what Su Yan had told her before, but emphasized that she herself wanted to ask her for some knowledge points.

"Jiuyi needs tutoring in math and English. Do you have any relevant exam notes?"

When Zhang Yu heard Zhen Jinli asking, he couldn't refuse, so he handed her two notebooks.

"Yes, just take it and make a copy."

Zhen Jinli took the notes and said with a smile, "Thank you."

After copying the notes at the school's printing shop, Zhen Jinli asked the students in Class 12 to help bring the notebook to Chen Ji.

At that time, she only thought that she could help Chen Jing as much as possible.

But she didn't expect that it was these two notebooks that would cause both Chen Ji and her to get into big trouble.

***

On the second night of the game, lights were turned off at 11 o'clock sharp and no one was allowed to make any noise in the dormitory.

Chen Ji had the knowledge point notebook that Zhen Jinli asked someone to bring him, so he didn't need to review in bed anymore and lay down on the bed early.

Half an hour later, there was a clattering sound in the corridor, but it sounded different from the footsteps of the dormitory supervisor last night.

Chen Ji felt something was strange, but he still didn't dare to look up, so he could only prick up his ears and listen temporarily.

The footsteps paused outside the silent dormitory door. Through the transparent inspection window, a dark head was staring at them from outside.

The dim green light from the safety stairs seemed to shine on the black shadow, reflecting his head covered in coagulated black blood, making him look particularly terrifying.

The black shadow slipped in through the crack in the door like a real shadow, then slid onto the ceiling and lay there, as if the ceiling was the ground and gravity had no effect on it.

The black shadow twisted his stiff neck and lay down on the ceiling opposite the beds of each student in the room, raising his head to observe each student.

Chen Jing remembered the school rules that he must not make any noise after falling asleep. He closed his eyes and ignored the black shadow crawling on the ceiling.

The student in the bed next to him seemed to be unable to hold back any longer. Chen Jing noticed that his breathing had become a little rapid and flustered.

It's only half past eleven, and some students haven't fallen asleep yet, but even if they haven't, they have to pretend to be asleep.

They had faced similar challenges in the classroom.

When the instructor is patrolling during evening study, he will suddenly open the door outside the classroom and come in. Anyone who looks up will be deducted disciplinary points.

The black shadow stayed on the ceiling of the silent bed No. 3 for a while, then moved to the top of bed No. 4.

The boy in bed number 4 was obviously unable to hold his nerve anymore. He held his breath and didn't dare to breathe.

The black shadow saw that the boy in bed number 4 was not asleep, so he laughed twice.

"So you haven't slept yet?"

***

The girls' dormitory on Zhen Jinli's side also encountered the same strange thing at night as the boys' dormitory.

It was just because she had turned on the panoramic view, so Zhen Jinli could see what the black shadow looked like even with her eyes closed.

She was a girl with long hair, with purple scars on her arms and a pool of dried black blood on her face and head.

Ever since experiencing the Devil on Earth dungeon, Zhen Jinli has basically confirmed that the NPC in the game has deleted all memories of Naxue.

The convenience that Naxue's appearance originally brought her disappeared, and she had to find a way to figure out the purpose of these NPCs on her own.

The dark shadow had his hair loose as he walked to the ceiling above Zhen Jinli's bed. His long hair hung down, almost touching her nose.

Relying on his protective barrier and safe space, Zhen Jinli immediately activated the safe space and pulled the black shadow into the safe space.

"Protect!"

After Zhen Jinli protected herself with a protective barrier, she looked at the black shadow in front of her calmly.

"Who are you? Why are you out here in the middle of the night scaring people?"

The black shadow seemed to have not expected that Zhen Jinli would be so tough and dare to pull her down.

She subconsciously wanted to attack Zhen Jinli and let out a shrill cry.

"You haven't fallen asleep yet. You're disturbing other students. I'm going to punish you on behalf of the dorm supervisor!"

What the hell? A sting operation?

The female ghost originally wanted to grab Zhen Jinli's neck, but she tried for a long time but failed to grab Zhen Jinli's neck.

What was even more strange was that the students around her seemed to be fast asleep. No one was woken up by the noise she made, and no one looked up when they heard Zhen Jinli talking.

Seeing the female ghost's confused expression, Zhen Jinli smiled and said.

“It seems that within a safe space, voices can’t be heard.”

If the safe space could transmit sound, the ghost girl's screams would definitely attract the dormitory supervisor on patrol.

"You just said you wanted to punish me on behalf of the dorm supervisor?"

Zhen Jinli narrowed his eyes, like a cunning fox staring at its prey, and a smile slowly appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"Tell me, what qualifications do you have to represent the dormitory teacher?"

The female ghost shrank back, then begged for mercy.

"I, I lied to you. I'm not qualified to represent the dorm supervisor."

"Please let me go. I must find a scapegoat so that I can be reborn."

A scapegoat? Was she really dead and now a ghost?

Zhen Jinli frowned and asked, "How did you die?"

The female ghost seemed a little embarrassed and whispered, "I committed suicide by jumping off a building due to depression."

Zhen Jinli's brows knitted even tighter. "Since you committed suicide by jumping off a building, why didn't you wait for the students who committed suicide to be scapegoats? Instead, you harmed the students who were still awake. How can this be justified?"

The female ghost was questioned by Zhen Jinli and felt so aggrieved that she almost cried.

"I, I want to be reborn as soon as possible."

Zhen Jinli sneered, "According to what you said, if the students you killed want to be reincarnated quickly, they can only find a scapegoat like you?"

The female ghost glanced at Zhen Jinli cautiously and whispered, "Theoretically, that's right."

Zhen Jinli: “.”

Suppressing the anger rising in her heart, Zhen Jinli said patiently: "What if I tell you that I have another way to help you reincarnate?"

Zhen Jinli finally caught an NPC, so of course he was thinking about whether he could make good use of it.

Damn, it was exactly 11:30 when Nanfeng wrote this paragraph. Fortunately, Nanfeng was not in the school dormitory, but at home.

I found that this book is not very popular. Nanfeng Generating Power for Love may not last long. It should be finished next month.

I finally understand why the infinite flow novels here can hardly be written for long. I quietly looked at those infinite flow novels that have been discontinued, and found that there are too few readers and audiences.

Especially for a film like mine that lacks popular elements and the male lead is not likable, the audience is even smaller.

I'm just asking for some votes symbolically, so that you don't think I'm going to stop updating.

(End of this chapter)