40 Ye Yin

◎Remaining clues◎

The fire burned for a long time, taking away the ghosts of all the NPCs.

Qi Qiuxue checked her backpack again. The little substitute doll had disappeared. It had attracted the attention of the NPCs on Qi Qiuxue's behalf, leading them to step into the trap set up in advance without thinking.

She explained everything on the note she slipped to Su Wen and Li Mengyu. Not only did she briefly state the truth, she also detailed the plan for tonight. There was alcohol in the infirmary and the warehouse, and everyone needed to get a large amount of alcohol after escaping the dormitory and cover the entire room with this highly flammable liquid.

Qi Qiuxue then uses a puppet to lure the NPC into the house and start a raging fire. The other players need to seize the opportunity to close the door and completely cut off the other party's chance of escape.

"Is it over?" After the fire died down and there was no more sound in the house, Yang Yi couldn't help but shed tears. "That's great! This can be considered revenge for Zhou Le and Jiang Rou's deaths."

"Yes." Li Mengyu nodded gently, her eyes filled with joy at having survived a disaster. She asked in disbelief, "Can we finally leave here?"

"Let's go down and take a look." Su Wen made a prompt decision. Several people went downstairs together and quickly came to the school gate.

At this moment, everyone was so excited that they couldn't contain themselves.

As they were about to leave the dungeon, everyone unconsciously recalled what had happened in the past few days, and for a moment they were filled with emotion. Whether it was fear or sadness, these negative emotions were finally temporarily cut off and were left in the dungeon forever along with the disappeared NPCs.

Tears welled up in Yang Yi's eyes as she said a heartfelt goodbye to everyone: "Goodbye."

"I'm glad to be your companions." She raised her hand to wipe away her tears, her voice choking with sobs. "I hope we can meet again in the next dungeon."

"I will." Li Mengyu took a few steps forward and hugged her tightly, with a faint smile on the corner of her lips. "I hope we can live safely and smoothly forever."

"Everyone." After ending the hug, she looked at the others.

"Yes." Qi Qiuxue nodded gently, "I definitely will."

"Open the door," she said afterwards.

"Okay." Yang Yi, who was closest to the door, opened her lips to respond, took a deep breath, raised her hand and placed it on the door, then pushed it hard.

“…”

“Click.”

“Click, click.”

"What's going on?" Yang Yi panicked. The door only made a few heavy noises under the force of the push, but it did not open smoothly as everyone wished. Li Mengyu, Zhao Xiangning and others on the side also noticed that something was wrong and joined the ranks of pushing the door, but no matter how hard they tried, the door in front of them still could not be opened.

"Why?" After repeated failures, Yang Yi collapsed and looked back at Qi Qiuxue behind her, "Zhang Xue, haven't we eliminated all the NPCs? Why can't we escape from here?"

"Is there anything left to be solved? Or are they not dead?" A huge sense of fear enveloped everyone. Yang Yi shook her head, uncontrollably thinking of the worst possible outcome. "If they are not dead, what should we do? What else can we do?"

"Don't panic." Qi Qiuxue stopped her wild thoughts and tried to think about the reason.

She remembered the first copy. After they found out the truth about the supernatural events on the lake island, the system popped up to congratulate everyone on successfully completing the mission goals. But now, after they eliminated all the NPC ghosts, the system prompt board did not appear.

In other words, there is something in this copy that they have not yet discovered.

What is

Qi Qiuxue looked back at the vast campus behind her, thought for a moment, and finally made up her mind: "Let's go back again."

"What?" Yang Yi was confused.

Qi Qiuxue looked at her and opened her mouth to tell her plan: "There are six of us left now. We can split into three teams. One team will go back to the classroom to explore, one team will go to the dormitory building, and the remaining team will go to the gymnasium."

"There must be some clues we've overlooked. Only by finding them can we escape safely."

"Okay, okay." Li Mengyu nodded in response, agreeing with Qi Qiuxue's decision. It was always better to take action than to complain. "Yang Yi, let's go back to class together.

"Then Zhao Xiangning and I will be in a group and we will go to the gymnasium." Su Wen followed up.

Li Yiqing responded and looked at Qi Qiuxue beside him: "Axue..."

"Okay, let's form a team." Qi Qiuxue looked up at the sky. The night passed quickly and it was dawn before she knew it. The sun rose slowly, and the warm sunlight gradually dispelled the cold and darkness.

They set out again, facing the rising sun: "Let's go."

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Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing first searched dormitories 403, 404, and 405, but did not find any useful clues, so they expanded the search scope and searched other dormitories in classes.

Hard work pays off. After some effort, they found a diary in dormitory 409 at the end of the corridor. The diary was hidden very deep, between the bed board and the mattress. Qi Qiuxue roughly judged the identity of the diary owner based on other items on the bed.

【Ye Yin.】

In the fictional environment of the NPCs, Qi Qiuxue seemed to have noticed this person. She was a little girl who always stayed in the corner, kept to herself, never talked to anyone, and never tried to attract anyone's attention.

The diary was not locked. Qi Qiuxue lowered her eyes and turned to the first page, reading it one by one, her brows gradually furrowed.

It turns out that Lin Yan and the others not only bullied the "players", but also bullied, and even continued to bully, this little girl named Ye Yin——

On x month x day, Lin Yan and her friends threw away my schoolbag. It contained my textbooks, my living expenses, and the hairband my grandma had once braided for me. Gone, all gone!

On x month x day, Jiang Xiaoxia blocked me in the restroom. They cursed me with the most unpleasant language and attacked me with the most vicious behavior. Why? What did I do wrong? Why did they bully me?

On x month x day, I tried to ask the teacher for help, but the teacher never really helped me. He always gave me a perfunctory response. Lin Yan and the others didn't even receive any punishment. Why is this? I'm also the teacher's student...

On x/x/x, Lin Yan, to punish me for snitching on the teacher, brought a bunch of people to lock me in the storage room and cut off my hair with scissors. I'd been growing it for a long time, and I was so unwilling to do it, but I had no choice. They beat me, kicked me, and slapped me. It hurt so much. It hurt so much.

On x/x, I happened to see Lin Yan's father giving the teacher a card. The teacher accepted it with a smile and promised to take good care of Lin Yan. No wonder the teacher didn't want to help me, no wonder the teacher protected her! I hate it, I hate everyone, go to hell, go to hell!

On x/x, I borrowed my teacher's phone to call my dad. He didn't want to believe what I said. He told me to be more sensible and not to cause him any more trouble.

[On x month x day, they actually started bullying Luo Xiao. She's my only friend. How could you treat her like this?]

[On x month x day, I lost my only friend. I can't let her get involved, so don't come looking for me.]

[It’s so painful, so sad, I want to kill them all, let them all die, everyone, including me, let them all die...]

Every word was heartbreaking, and each entry described the grievances Ye Yin had suffered in recent days. Qi Qiuxue compared the date of the first diary entry with the date of the last one, and was surprised to find that the time interval was as long as half a year.

This shows that Ye Yin has been suffering from this inhuman bullying for more than half a year.

Qi Qiuxue frowned, rarely showing such big emotional fluctuations: "Are they still human?"

"People like this deserve to die a thousand times, they will definitely go to hell." Li Yiqing was also very angry. She sighed and gently grasped the corner of Qi Qiuxue's clothes, "Axue, will that fire..."

"Maybe." Qi Qiuxue knew what Li Yiqing was going to say. She didn't linger any longer, took the diary, and went to meet up with the other players. "Let's go and see if anyone else has found any other clues."

Yes, everyone quickly gathered in the playground, and the clues they brought back were all related to Ye Yin.

Su Wen found a blood-stained knife and a suicide note signed by Ye Yin in a storage room in the gymnasium. There were also a lot of bloodstains on the ground. It seemed that someone had tried to end his life here.

Li Mengyu and the others found a piece of paper covered in names in a student's desk. There were even fingerprints on it. She handed the paper to Qi Qiuxue and said, "The handwriting on it is different. It's the signatures of most of the girls in the class."

"And the first name at the beginning is Luo Xiao," she said, motioning Qi Qiuxue to look at the title written at the top of the paper. The handwriting was also Luo Xiao's. "She must have spent a long time and effort collecting these names and fingerprints, as if to protect someone."

"Ye Yin." Qi Qiuxue opened her lips to give the answer. The moment she saw the title, she already understood. "She wants to protect her friend, Ye Yin."

"Let's go." At this moment, she finally saw everything clearly. Qi Qiuxue looked at the other players present, "Let's go to the gym."

"What are you going to do?" Li Mengyu asked back.

"Go find Ye Yin." Qi Qiuxue said.

Zhao Xiangning was stunned when he heard this: "We just explored the gymnasium thoroughly and didn't see anyone except us. Could it be that..."

"Yes." Qi Qiuxue nodded, confirming her guess. "She's probably dead. If we want to find her, we need to resort to other methods."

Zhao Xiangning: "What

Qi Qiuxue: "For the spirit summoning game, we happen to have the props, right? They're the pen fairy props that the NPCs specially prepared to trick the players."

“Now is the time for them to come into play.”

【Author’s words】

Here we come!

Thanks to the little angel who threw the rocket launcher: 1 for being at peace with the world;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: Shi Yi 1;

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: Ling., Shi Yi, Chong Hui Xin Nian, Wan Cao 2; Spicy Rabbit, Ye Mian っている, Han An ＾3＾, Internet Addict, Langli's Dog, Qiu Lang is beautiful 1 fairy 1;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: Wolf God's Wrath 146 bottles; Jin Xi 60 bottles; Throwing a Skull at You 12 bottles; Mila, AY, 65588388 10 bottles; Don't Want to Go to Work, Heart as Still as Water 5 bottles; Lu Xunfeng 2 bottles; Jingran Qin Jiaren Yi 1 bottle;