Chapter 243 Escape Room (7) - Change Task

Well, the other jars contain normal specimens, but this one looks like the hand of a plastic mannequin selling clothes in a shopping mall.

Why is it so obviously fake? Are they afraid the players won't notice?

Ning Shu called Cheng Chuan over and pointed to the jar: "Look, isn't this plastic?"

The jar was placed a bit low, and Cheng Chuan bent down and stared at it for a while before confirming Ning Shu's question: "Yes, why is this stuff being soaked?"

Ning Shu: "Did you find anything over there?"

Cheng Chuan shook his head: "It's just an ordinary thing, I didn't see any clues."

Ning Shu felt there were no clues in the jar, so she had no choice but to search the cabinet.

She opened one cabinet after another and found a bloodstained sack of marijuana inside.

As soon as the cabinet was opened, a stench of blood and decay filled the air, almost killing Ning Shu.

"Ugh~"

She almost vomited; the strong smell of blood must be related to the victim.

Cheng Chuan quickly came over, put the watermelon box on the ground, and went to rummage through the bag.

He also found the smell pungent, but still tolerable.

"There was nothing inside, but there was a lot of blood."

Cheng Chuan suddenly felt that the mannequin's hand might be one of the clues, because it seemed so out of place here.

He looked at Ning Shu and said, "Let's take that hand with us."

Ning Shu immediately understood that he was referring to "that hand": "Take it if you think it's useful."

Ning Shu grabbed a new bag from the cabinet, intending to use it to pack the contents.

As a result, Cheng Chuan simply used a large pair of tweezers to remove the mannequin's hand and placed it inside the watermelon box.

Ning Shu: "...Won't this cause the flavors to mix?"

Cheng Chuan didn't hear clearly: "What?"

Ning Shu: "It's nothing."

She felt they weren't doing a mission, but rather picking up trash.

Before Cheng Chuan could close the lid, he suddenly heard someone speak behind him: "Where are you taking Wang Xue's head?"

"ah!"

The scream was Cheng Chuan's. Ning Shu didn't yell, but she was so frightened that she sat down on the ground.

What appeared to be a person was in front of him; his complexion was normal, and he also had a shadow.

Cheng Chuan clutched his heart, and after a long while, asked, "Who are you?"

Ning Shu quickly got up.

The newcomer noticed their work badges and said, "I'm the biology teacher here, and you're the criminal police investigating this matter?"

Cheng Chuan closed the box and stood up: "Yes, you know Wang Xue?"

Biology teacher: "Of course, she was my best student. She always did the best in every experiment. It's a pity that she did this."

He stared at the box in Cheng Chuan's hand. "What did you put in there just now?"

He had only seen Wang Xue's head.

Cheng Chuan pointed to the empty jar filled with soaking solution on the table: "We found a hand in this jar that is different from the other specimens, so we are going to take it away for examination."

The biology teacher looked around the lab and frowned: "Where did this hand come from?"

Cheng Chuan was taken aback and opened the box again to show him. The biology teacher frowned: "This is not a specimen from my lab. It should be Wang Xue's hand."

Cheng Chuan: How did you know?

Biology teacher: "Her hands are very distinctive, aren't they?"

Cheng Chuan: "..."

Ning Shu: "..."

How do you deliver your "lines" so seriously without breaking character and laughing? Being an NPC isn't easy either.

Ning Shu recalled his first words and pointed to the watermelon in the box: "Did you just say this was Wang Xue's head?"

If the other party could claim that the mannequin's hand was Wang Xue's hand, then it's not surprising that the watermelon is the head.

However, she still wanted to confirm it, since they suspected the evidence had been switched.

The biology teacher looked at them strangely: "Isn't it obvious? Can't you see it?"

Before they could speak, he knelt down in front of the box: "Wang Xue was such an outstanding student, yet she died young. Heaven is jealous of talent."

After saying that, she hugged the box and started crying.

Ning Shu couldn't help but think to herself: This must be what they call a performance without props, the NPCs have such a strong sense of conviction!

In ancient times, people called a deer a horse; now, they call a melon a skull. It's truly something I've never seen before.

Cheng Chuan decided to go along with what he said: "So you saw it, that's why Wang Xue's body is like this?"

Cheng Chuan meant that Wang Xue's body was like a mannequin?

Biology teacher: "Yes, please leave as soon as you have your things. I need to schedule the next class soon."

Cheng Chuan didn't say anything more. He packed up the box and gestured for Ning Shu to leave together. Ning Shu took the bag from her hand as well.

Stepping out of the biology lab, Ning Shu began, "How about we..."

Before she could finish speaking, Cheng Chuan replied, "Okay."

Ning Shu: "You know what I'm trying to say?"

Cheng Chuan laughed: "Let's take another approach. If Wang Xue's body is like this, it's not actually that scary. It seems simpler than the first approach."

Ning Shu felt that it was not only simpler than Option 1, but even simpler than Option 2 proposed by Li Mengqi and Wu Yi.

After all, the person they're looking for has legs and can run.

But what I'm looking for is an inanimate object, just lying there waiting.

Ning Shu: "Then it's settled. Let's change the plan."

Cheng Chuan: "You had this all planned out while you were inside, didn't you? Otherwise, why would you be dragging this bag around?"

Ning Shu was still dragging the bag in her hand. The bag was quite big, and she couldn't fold it up, so she could only drag it along.

Ning Shu gave him a thumbs up: "That's right."

Cheng Chuan: "Huh, this is actually a very long corridor."

Ning Shu: "What part of the school does this corridor refer to?"

Cheng Chuan remained silent for a moment, then quickly thought: "It should be the playground."

Are they going to set up every single place a school should have? How dedicated!

Ning Shu: "Is that why it's so dark?"

The playground has no lights, so is that normal?

Cheng Chuan: "...I don't know, let's keep walking and see."

They hadn't walked far when they heard a shrill female voice, eerily quiet: "My textbook is missing..."

Ning Shu jumped up, dropped the bag in her hand, and darted behind Cheng Chuan, staring tremblingly in the direction from which the female voice came.

Is this a human or a ghost?

Although Cheng Chuan spoke with righteous indignation, his legs were actually shaking a little when he actually saw the "thing". But he had already made his promise, so he couldn't back down.

He mustered his courage and asked, "Who are you?"

The female voice was still eerie, slow and drawn out: "I'm a student at an elite school. My textbooks are missing. Have you seen them?"

After saying that, he suddenly appeared in front of them. His face was not visible, but his limbs were twisted, clearly indicating that he was not a normal person.

Although there was only a blurry black shadow, that indistinct shadow was enough to scare people half to death, like Ning Shu.

Ning Shu was thinking to herself, "Holy crap! This is amazing! Even though he's already passed away, he still loves to study so much. No wonder he's from an elite school and an elite class!"

Cheng Chuan's legs were also shaking, and he said in a trembling voice, "I didn't see it. We're new here."

Female voice: "Where did my textbooks go? Did you steal them?"

She suddenly became excited, and her shadow appeared in front of them in an instant.

Ning Shu shouted, "We didn't steal it! No! No!"