Why aren't you leaving yet?

Fan Jie's words suddenly rang out from Cen Yu's right side.

Cen Yu immediately stuffed the newspaper and Fan Jie's letter into his pocket, then turned impatiently to look at Fan Jie who was walking over, "Can't I rest for a while?"

Fan Jie, who had been slowly approaching, took a step back when he saw Cen Yu's impatient expression... and then silently sat down in his chair without saying a word.

Cen Yu looked up at the time and found that the clock in the guardhouse showed 3:10 pm.

But it was pitch black outside, and it looked like the middle of the night... Cen Yu took out his phone again and found that the time on the phone was 2 a.m.

"Are you really not coming with us?" Cen Yu looked back at Fan Jie as he left the guardhouse.

Fan Jie didn't turn around, but just sat there muttering to himself, "I'm not leaving."

Cen Yu took one last look at him before leaving the guardhouse.

...

He Yongning noticed that Cen Yu suddenly became silent after leaving the guardhouse.

He guessed that the other party had probably discovered something, but didn't say anything because they felt it wasn't the right time to talk about it.

"Is it inappropriate to say this?" He Yongning looked at the people beside him.

Besides himself and Cen Yu, there were Pei Hengyun and Jiang Tuan.

Pei Hengyun was a classmate who died young, while Jiang Tuan was their good friend.

And Cen Yu just saw the group photo, and then lingered in the guardhouse for a while longer... Did he find some information related to the past?

Cen Yu immediately started brainstorming!

He had truly discovered something! Anything this lousy system would readily agree to was definitely not good. While he was smugly pleased with himself, thinking the dungeon content was simple, the main system was probably already secretly laughing…

With one hand in his pocket, he glanced at Jiang Tuan, who was still observing where Yu Sheng was, and Pei Hengyun, who kept looking at him, before finally speaking.

"He Yongning and I have something to say to each other."

Instead of hiding, it's better to be straightforward.

Jiang Tuan looked somewhat surprised, as if he couldn't understand what the two of them had to say to each other, while Pei Hengyun just looked at him without saying a word.

"Come with me."

Cen Yu knew they couldn't delay, so he grabbed He Yongning and headed towards the old teaching building.

He Yongning glanced back at Jiang Tuan and the other man who had been left behind, then looked at Cen Yu in front of him. He didn't resist until Cen Yu dragged him into an abandoned classroom, at which point he asked directly—

"What else did you see in the guardhouse?"

Without wasting any words, Cen Yu handed the newspaper and letter to He Yongning.

He Yongning read the entire content in a few glances. Cen Yu looked at him with satisfaction and a surprised expression, then said to He Yongning, "The time on the guardhouse is 3:10."

The newspaper reported that the mudslide occurred at exactly 4:00 AM.

Because it was a Thursday, everyone was still in the classroom at school, and everything happened so suddenly.

The landslide and mudslide together almost instantly buried the entire school and parts of the surrounding area... Cen Yu had been wondering why the accidents in the novel all seemed to involve mudslides.

Both Pei Hengyun's death and the reason they were trapped here were related to the mudslide.

But little did I know that the truth behind the whole story had such a hidden meaning...

They were indeed trapped by a mudslide, but not in this situation. Ten years ago, everyone at Meiman High School, except for him and He Yongning, was submerged in a mudslide.

Whether it's Fan Jie or Jiang Tuan...

He was quite surprised when he first arrived in the village, as it was unusual for a place in the mountains to be so cool in the middle of summer.

As for Jiang Tuan's newly built house.

Cen Yu even suspected that it was a paper house his family burned for him... He looked at He Yongning, "You can't remember anything?"

Like him, He Yongning had absolutely no recollection of the time they had spent away from home during their senior year of high school.

Cen Yu opened the letter he had sent. The contents were simple: he said that he and He Yongning had seen a lot of things outside and had even visited his ideal university.

Tell Lao Cen not to worry.

The guardhouse clock reads 3:10, which means that if they don't leave the campus before 4:00, they will never be able to leave again.

If he wasn't mistaken, Fan Jie made two wishes in total.

The first time was in his second year of high school. He came to the classroom and made his first wish, but he was interrupted by Lao Cen and didn't continue.

Then Fan Jie lived in fear for a long time, until after the winter break of their senior year of high school, Cen Yu and others also made wishes upon that thing—

Cen Yu still can't remember what his wish was.

But he guessed it was probably related to Pei Hengyun.

The ghosts Fan Jie mentioned were either related to Pei Hengyun or Yu Sheng... Then came Fan Jie's second wish after receiving a letter from his family.

It was this wish that led to the subsequent mudslide, burying Fan Jie, as one of "everyone," here as well.

As for him and He Yongning...

Cen Yu thought that because they had "run away," Yu Sheng had to call them back to continue this matter.

He Yongning is a smart man; he has thought of almost everything that Cen Yu could think of.

He understood why Cen Yu had called him over alone, but the problem now was that they couldn't seem to leave the entire campus...

Cen Yu, however, was thinking about his second mission: to change everyone's fate.

He initially thought that what changed everyone's fate was the inevitable death that everyone would face after attending the class reunion, but now it seems to mean something similar.

"...Do you already have an idea?" He Yongning looked at Cen Yu, guessing that the other party had called him over because he already had a plan.

Cen Yu searched the abandoned classroom for a while and found a discarded notebook and a pen.

He pulled out a chair and placed paper and pens on the desk. "Come here."

He Yongning remembered what Fan Jie had said, and naturally understood what Cen Yu wanted to do.

He went to the opposite side of Cen Yu, and together they took the pen, and then began to play the "Ouija board" game...

Cen Yu, of course, didn't know what to say, so he simply kept talking to He Yongning—

"Come out quickly, come out quickly, come out quickly."

He Yongning's gaze was initially puzzled, then he froze for a moment, before he looked up at Cen Yu and asked, "What do you want?"

“Xiaoyu,” Cen Yu looked at her, “I want to go back to before everything happened.”

"That's wishful thinking." He Yongning looked at Cen Yu. "What do you think you'd be willing to sacrifice?"

Cen Yu rested her chin on her free hand. "Anything is fine."

"Then I want you to stay here forever and never leave again."