Chapter 040 Trap

Ji Weihang stopped and stuck to the shadows of the two people who were talking, listening in openly. As for clues in other areas, he let his spiritual sense search.

The person who said this was a young female teacher. She looked eagerly at the middle-aged female teacher next to her, waiting for her reaction.

The middle-aged teacher raised his eyebrows slightly, looked around, and confirmed that there was no one around. He asked in a low voice: "What do you mean? Do you think there is someone who looks like an intruder?"

When it comes to identifying a specific person, if there is no solid evidence, most people will always hesitate and think that this seems not a good idea. The young teacher is no exception. She hesitated for a moment, but finally skipped the specific name and talked about the cause and effect:

"As you know, electronic devices are not allowed in school. The notice of intruders was issued by our class teacher. When I notified them, they didn't think it was a big deal. But there were always students who came to the office quietly and said that they thought some students were suspicious.

"Director, you also know that children's words cannot be taken seriously. Most of the news is of course false. However, after observation, I think some students do behave abnormally... The naughty students have become well-behaved, and the quiet students have become arrogant..." He swallowed and whispered, "Also, the principal..."

The young teacher's voice was extremely soft and low, and she seemed to be very worried that her words would be heard by others. She also changed the way she addressed the people around her from the more intimate "Teacher Fan" to "Director".

Seeing the nervous expression of the young teacher, Director Fan first comforted her and waited for her to calm down before saying, "Are you telling me this because you want me to report it?"

"No, no, no." The young teacher waved her hands repeatedly, "I just want to tell you..." Seeing Director Fan's calm expression, she suddenly felt guilty and regretful in her heart - if that was the case, she should have kept it in her heart.

"...I'm not sure, so I don't dare report it casually." Since she had already said it, it didn't matter if she said one or two more words. She paused and added, looking around nervously as she spoke, as if she was afraid of being discovered, "Last year, didn't I mention it in the office? One of my neighbors was reported and taken away."

Director Fan pondered for a moment and hummed.

"Later I found out that she never came back... It's been more than a year. An intruder wouldn't stay that long..."

The hidden reason behind this made both of them fall into silence.

Whether being detained permanently or dying, both are daunting outcomes.

The young teacher whispered: "...Anyway, I don't dare to report it. These are lives at stake..."

"...Moreover, in fact, most of the invaders did not do anything bad. After they leave, the body will return to normal."

At this point, she looked at Director Fan cautiously and said, "Director, will you report it?" If the director reported it, the source would still be her. Wouldn't it be like "I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me"*.

Director Fan looked at her and smiled, "What are you reporting? School is over, the kids are gone, and it's time for you to go home."

Knowing that this meant that it would not be reported, the young teacher breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "That's right, goodbye, Director."

Looking at the young teacher's hurried back, Director Fan also turned around and was about to leave.

At this moment, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that the shadow beside her suddenly moved, and something emerged. She immediately stepped back and opened her mouth to scream.

But before she could say anything, a dark arm emerged from the shadows and grabbed her, dragging her into the darkness! The wall swallowed her.

The woman in the monitoring room widened her eyes and dropped her chopsticks onto the table. After checking the surveillance for a long time, she still couldn't find Director Fan. She called the phone next to her and said, "A superhuman appeared and kidnapped the director of the elementary school department."

I won't discuss the reaction of the academy for now. In the shadows, Director Fan, who was originally panicking and struggling, has returned to normal. He looked at Ji Weihang and said calmly, "Danxin Daojun, what a coincidence."

"Teacher Fan" had met Ji Weihang once in the previous game.

When Wei Hang met Yao He again in the rules review, she was the one standing behind Yao He. When Yao He wanted to leave with Wei Hang, she was the one who stopped the other players who wanted to oppose Yao He's departure.

Although they only met once, both of them remembered each other's faces.

"I am no longer the Loyal Heart Taoist." Ji Weihang abandoned his previous title and said, "Hello, I am Ji Weihang, and my current identity is Xing Le from the Happy Orphanage."

"Hello, my name is Li Wenxin." "Director Fan" said, "Currently I am Fan Hua from Elite College."

After a brief self-introduction, Ji Weihang quickly got to the point and asked her if there was anything noteworthy about the Elite Academy - that was why she took the initiative to show up. Asking "insiders" about the situation was, of course, faster than finding clues on her own.

Although she knew that the spiritual consciousness had not gained nothing.

Li Wenxin thought for a moment, but did not rush to draw a conclusion. Instead, he told the story in detail: "When I first entered the game, I was taking a lunch break in the office. Since most of the teachers had gone home or back to the dormitory to rest, there were not many people in the office, and I was the only one awake.

"While I was observing the environment, an old man in his sixties with a mole on the corner of his mouth walked into the office, came straight to me, and told me that the evening meeting would be moved forward by one hour. Just as I was about to answer, the old man disappeared.

"Later, I inquired about the situation and found out that the other teachers didn't know there was any meeting. The elementary school where Fan Hua was studying all left as soon as school was over. Even if there was a meeting, it would be held in the morning.

"I stayed behind to attend the meeting to find out what was going on, and then I ran into the kid."

Ji Weihang didn't care that Li Wenxin called the young teacher a child. In her opinion, that person was no different from a child. She thought about it and said, "It seems that I have done something bad. If I hadn't caught you to talk and followed you quietly, I might have been able to sneak into the meeting, but now, it's impossible. That kind of surveillance..."

"...Not necessarily." Thinking of something, she looked at Li Wenxin with a smile, "I have an idea, but are you willing to take the risk?"

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"Fan Hua was eaten by a black shadow?" A tall, capable woman with short hair strode into the monitoring room and went straight to the point, "Show me."

The woman in the monitoring room immediately showed her the footage.

A black arm stretched out from the darkness, grabbed the middle-aged woman and pulled her into the darkness, disappearing. The short-haired woman frowned, and reached for the monitor, but it went through. She activated her T ability - "Scene Retracement".

This ability allows her spirit to go back to a certain scene through a medium, which is perfect for solving crimes. Her public identity is a private detective who can make full use of this ability.

She circled around the scene in retrospect for several times. "Retrospection" can show the "truth", so this is not a false picture that can deceive the camera.

She paused the scene, squatted beside the dark arm that stretched out from the darkness and looked carefully, but could not see any details that could reveal the other party's identity. Touching the arm, the dark substance was cool and smooth, like semi-solid water, but it was not directly offensive.

There's nothing to see anymore.

The short-haired woman exited her ability, the scene disappeared, and she returned to the monitoring room.

"Are there any noteworthy parahumans nearby?" she asked the woman.

"...Yes!" After thinking for a moment, the woman quickly gave an answer and called up the corresponding picture.

"At that time, the system prompted that a special person appeared nearby. I took a look but didn't pay much attention to it." The woman explained clearly to the short-haired woman, trying not to get herself into trouble. "Because Xing Le is one of us. She was born in Xingfu Orphanage and is a graduate of Yingcai. She just came from the orphanage. Maybe she suddenly wanted to go back to her alma mater and didn't enter the college. I didn't pay much attention to it."

Quickly searching for Xing Le, the woman paused and said, "She turned a corner ten minutes ago and disappeared."

Observing the expression of the short-haired woman, he wondered if he would not be held accountable.

The short-haired woman did not give her any promises or comforts that were beyond her authority. She turned and left. When she opened the door of the monitoring room, she suddenly heard her screaming, "She's out! She's out! Fan Hua was vomited out!"

The short-haired woman suddenly stopped, turned around and walked back quickly.

Fan Hua was detected in the surveillance video, so the corresponding small picture was enlarged.

Fan Hua appeared, but not in the place where she had "disappeared", but inside a small, dim room. She knocked over a bookshelf and fainted among the mess of materials.

The short-haired woman's expression changed. She looked at her cautiously and said, "This is the data room, right?"

The short-haired woman didn't have time to pay attention to her. She quickly walked out of the room and took out her cell phone.

"It's me. There's someone in the data room. Carry her out and control her. Don't hurt her."

The ignored woman breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that nothing serious would happen to her.

When the short-haired woman hurried to the infirmary where Fan Hua was, Fan Hua had already woken up with the help of the doctor, but said in a daze that he didn't remember anything.

The short-haired woman naturally wouldn't believe the nonsense about amnesia, but she didn't show it on her face. She spoke gently to Fan Hua, comforting her mood of "being uneasy due to amnesia" and trying to find out her purpose.

When Fan Hua was unconscious, a superhuman wanted to search her memory, but not only did it not work, the person who used the ability fell into a deep sleep, as if he had suffered a counterattack.

This was not Fan Hua's method, and it might be related to the black shadow. In order to find out the other party's methods, origins and purpose, they decided not to take action against Fan Hua for the time being and pretend to be polite.

"I remember that I seemed to have to attend a meeting." Fan Hua seemed to have let down some of her guard towards the short-haired woman who treated her gently, and said thoughtfully, "But I don't quite remember what it was."

Here she comes! Is this her purpose? I feel something is a little strange… The short-haired woman paused, received the instruction from above, and said with a smile: "I know what the meeting is, do you want to go?"

"Maybe this will help my memory." said Fan Hua.

It will help your purpose. The short-haired woman had a gentle smile on her face, "The meeting is about to start, do you want to go with me now?"

Fan Hua agreed, so the short-haired woman took her to change into a clean set of clothes - the original clothes were already covered with dust and unknown black stains. After changing, they were taken for testing to check the source of the black stains, trying to find out where Fan Hua had been and her current purpose. The two walked towards the meeting room.

Elite Academy is divided into primary school and middle school, separated by two playgrounds and a wall. They are now in the middle school.

After walking around for a while, we arrived at the conference room, which looked like an ordinary large tiered conference room. It was almost full. When the short-haired woman took Fan Hua to sit in an empty seat in the second row, the lights suddenly dimmed.

A long-haired man appeared on the podium in the conference room and began to speak.

I don’t know if it was just to please Fan Hua or if the meeting was really that boring, these topics were just routine reports in the academy.

Fan Hua moved around out of boredom, and the short-haired woman sitting next to her immediately asked, "What's wrong? Did you remember anything?"

Was this meant to tease her? Fan Hua glanced at the short-haired woman and said, "No." Then he asked, "Are you a teacher?"

The short-haired woman agreed casually: "Almost."

Fan Hua nodded, grabbed her arm and said, "Then come with me."

The short-haired woman was already on guard and was about to take action, but she was swallowed by the shadow without any resistance. The various methods used by the superhumans who were watching them were of no avail.

When the lights were hurriedly turned on, the two had disappeared.

The various means originally used on the two people were unable to track their whereabouts, as if they had disappeared from this world.

Just as the group of people were looking at each other in bewilderment, the door of the conference room was pushed open with a bang, and a handsome young man ran in, saying in panic: "The laboratory was robbed!"

This is a huge pot that fell from the sky! The people in the conference room who had originally set up a trap to catch someone suddenly fell into panic, shirking responsibility. In the end, under the command of the long-haired man, they dispersed to look for someone. The thin boy was not in the eyes of these superhumans who looked down on him, and no one cared where he went.

They thought that they should ask the "parents" to take responsibility.

Then, in some deserted corner, a dark arm stretched out from the darkness and pulled him into the darkness.

“It’s this thing, but I don’t know what it’s used for.”

His expression changed, and the "young man" Li Wenxin restored his appearance. He took out the stolen items from his arms and threw them into Ji Weihang's arms.

The short-haired woman who was tied up nearby looked at the thing in horror. Ji Weihang turned his head to look at her and said:

"It seems you know what this is."