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Jiang Huali shook her head, "No, I don't have that kind of peculiar hobby."
Mo Ci paused for a moment, then stuffed the doll of misfortune back into his arms.
He walked over to Jiang Huali and asked, "Did I scare you?"
This is the second time he has asked a similar question.
Jiang Huali said, "You're overthinking it."
Jiang Huali was worried that going downstairs would allow others to see the Mo Ci shrine, so she stopped where she was and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Mo Ci replied, "I just happened to be passing by."
Jiang Huali looked around. It was an ordinary office building, nothing special, and even a bit dilapidated. She asked, "What are you doing passing by here?"
Mo Ci: "I'm hungry."
Jiang Huali nodded, "Oh... um?"
Jiang Huali: "Come and eat people?"
Mo Ci: "..."
He instinctively defended himself, saying, "I don't eat people."
They only eat ghosts.
Although the limping man didn't look very appetizing, he could barely tolerate it.
Just beat him until he's a ghost.
Jiang Huali didn't know what Mo Ci was thinking. She wanted to ask him more about Mo Ci and learn more about him in this world.
"Have you been staying here all this time?"
Mo Ci tilted his head and said honestly, "No."
Jiang Huali was somewhat surprised, but then she remembered that when they first met, she had said that she would give him a part of her soul after leaving this instance, and Mo Ci had not expressed any objection to the word "instance" at the time.
If it were truly an NPC from this instance, the reaction would likely be different.
Jiang Huali then asked, "Then why are you in this instance?"
Mo Ci glanced at her and said nothing.
Jiang Huali waited for a while and found that Mo Ci remained silent and kept looking at her.
"Just passing by."
Jiang Huali asked the system: "Is he just giving me the runaround?"
The system echoed: 【That's terrible!】
Jiang Huali still needed to find her teammates and didn't want to stay in the office building for too long. Anyway, she and Mo Ci would meet again before this dungeon ended.
So Jiang Huali walked towards the stairwell.
Mo Ci looked at Jiang Huali's back in front of him and touched the doll of misfortune again.
He came to this instance because he felt an unprecedented attraction.
Sweet, warm, and desirable.
Mo Ci lifted his foot and followed.
He doesn't want to go back to the abyss yet.
As for those things, let them play with them for a while.
Jiang Huali sent a message to Qi Man, asking them to meet up on the second floor of the cafeteria in the evening.
During this time, Mo Ci stayed by Jiang Huali's side.
Since no one else seemed to be able to see the Ink Shrine, Jiang Huali stopped paying attention to it.
The group sat down in the same spot as before, just as Xin Mingqing and his teammates walked by.
Neither group spoke, nor did they even exchange glances.
Jiang Huali recounted her discovery in the office building today.
That vice principal must have a problem.
Qi Man frowned. She had also been to the vice principal's office. There was no one there at the time, but she found a red scarf in the desk drawer.
However, the one she received was not a prop.
Yin Mengshu took a bite of her food and said, "It might be a different setting. Maybe Jiang Huali entered a different timeline at that time."
This guess is correct, which explains why Jiang Huali returned to the office door after attacking the vice principal.
Perhaps she had already entered the "illusion" when she knocked on the door.
Jiang Huali said, "I haven't used that prop yet. Let's find some time tonight to see what the memory scenes in the prop are."
These memory props can be used by multiple people. As long as the person holding the prop is in a certain space, they can enter the memory scene together.
No one had any objection.
After finishing dinner, Jiang Huali returned to the teachers' dormitory.
She doesn't need to check the dorms tonight, and neither do Qi Man and the others.
Jiang Huali didn't really want to do another room check. To this day, she still doesn't know who knocked her unconscious near the cafeteria.
Perhaps we could ask the Mo Temple.
Jiang Huali had been busy and for a moment forgot that she could ask Mo Ci, since he was also there at the time.
When Jiang Huali returned to her dormitory, she saw that Zhao Yu was also there.
Mo Ci had disappeared by the time she entered the dormitory. Jiang Huali greeted Zhao Yu, who smiled at her and seemed to be in better spirits.
Jiang Huali sat down at the table and organized the clues she had collected over the past two days.
She first encountered a toilet ghost while checking the dorms, then was knocked unconscious near the cafeteria. Zhao Yu and Qi Man brought her back, and then encountered the mutants again in class the next day. Xiao Lan and Xiao Tian are currently the two people she cares about the most.
Judging from the afternoon's visit to the office building, Xiao Lan had been sexually assaulted by the vice principal, and perhaps she left a red scarf in the vice principal's office.
The question about the red scarf during class also revealed some information; the question said—
"Little Red said, 'I'm wearing a red scarf, but Little Blue isn't.'"
"Little Yellow said, 'I'm wearing a red scarf, and Little Blue is wearing one too.'"
"Little Blue said, 'My red scarf fell into the toilet.'"
"Little Green said, 'Little Blue took my red scarf.'"
Only one of the four people told the truth: the answer to the question was that only Xiao Huang was not wearing a red scarf.
Jiang Huali thought that if all the clues she had obtained were adjusted and speculated on along the timeline, then she could arrive at a conclusion.
Xiao Hong didn't wear her red scarf.
Xiao Huang brought his red scarf, but gave it to Xiao Hong and didn't wear it himself. However, he ran out while Director Luo was inspecting, so Director Luo didn't notice him.
Xiao Lan was originally wearing her own red scarf. After Director Luo inspected it, she was assaulted by the vice principal in the office, and her red scarf fell to the vice principal. So she stole Xiao Lü's red scarf.
After Xiao Huang returned, he snatched Xiao Lü's red scarf from Xiao Lan's hand.
Little Green had her red scarf stolen and hid in the toilet crying.
Xiao Lan also lied; her red scarf did not fall into the toilet.
So, where did Xiaolan's red scarf go?
Jiang Huali glanced at the blood-stained red scarf that had been put into her backpack.
Perhaps this is Xiao Lan's red scarf.
Jiang Huali lowered her eyes. The last point was just her guess, and there was no evidence to prove that the timelines of the two events were consistent.
No...maybe.
Jiang Huali suddenly remembered that when she asked Xiao Lan where her red scarf was in the classroom, Xiao Lan said that she was wearing a red scarf around her neck, but her neck was covered with scars.
In the illusion in the vice principal's office, Xiao Lan also has marks on her neck, the marks left by the abuser.
Perhaps the illusion is a replay of the past.
The mission in this instance is to find out the truth behind the abandonment of Hope Primary School.
The scene they are in now may be a replay of the past.
Jiang Huali fell silent. If that's the case, then are all the people in this school ghosts?
Just as Jiang Huali was starting to feel uneasy, the dormitory lights suddenly went out.
Jiang Huali: "!"
Before she could react, Zhao Yu next to her let out a scream.
"Ah! What happened?"
The shout made Jiang Huali's heart race. She instinctively reached for the cabinet next to her, opened it, and began groping around in her hands.
While searching for candles in the cabinet, Jiang Huali comforted Zhao Yu, "Teacher Zhao, it's probably just a power outage. You just sit there, and I'll look around to see if there's anything that can provide light."
Zhao Yu's voice still sounded a little scared, "Okay, Teacher Jiang, I'll wait for you."
Jiang Huali found a candle and a lighter in the cabinet.
"bass--"
Flames appeared, and the firelight shone.
The candle illuminated the small space. Jiang Huali held up the candle in her hand, intending to place it between her and Zhao Yu's table.
Zhao Yu suddenly called out to her, "Teacher Jiang, you don't need to put this candle so close to me. I'm a little afraid of fire."
Jiang Huali paused for a moment, then did as she was told and moved the candle a little further away.
She casually asked Zhao Yu, "Is Teacher Zhao afraid of fire?"
Zhao Yu was a little embarrassed. "Yes, when I was little, my grandma burned herself when she was cooking over a fire, and I've been afraid of fire ever since."
She smiled, a hint of nostalgia on her face, "I was quite naughty when I was little, and my teachers often complained to my parents."
"Who would have thought that I would become a teacher myself, managing those brats every day?"
After a while, the dormitory lights came back on, and someone knocked on the door to tell us that the power outage was due to a circuit breaker tripping.
Jiang Huali stayed in her dormitory for a while. After receiving Qi Man's message, she left her dormitory and knocked on Qi Man's dormitory door.
I opened the door and went inside; everyone else was already there.
When Qi Feng saw her come in, he deliberately said, "You're so slow. You always make people wait."
Jiang Huali closed the door and ignored him.
Jiang Huali walked straight to Qi Man and sat down next to her, taking out a memory prop from her backpack.
Seeing that Jiang Huali was ignoring him, Qi Feng looked at his companions and tried to find someone who shared his views.
Qi Man was twirling the dagger in her hand, Yin Mengshu was reading a book, and Cun Ke was looking at Yin Mengshu.
……never mind.
Qi Feng looked away in disappointment.
Seeing Jiang Huali take out a red scarf, everyone put down what they were doing and looked over.
Qi Man said, "Let's begin."
Jiang Huali nodded.
[Is it confirmed that the prop "bloodstained red scarf" was used?]
【yes. 】
The surrounding environment changed in an instant.
"Xiao Lan! What made Teacher Xiao Yu angry again today!"
As Jiang Huali's vision gradually cleared, a little girl ran past her with a ponytail and a blue butterfly hair clip.
A little girl ran past Jiang Huali; she was the one who had just spoken. Jiang Huali reached out to grab her, but her hand slipped through the little girl's arm.
They only caught a gust of wind.
Jiang Huali withdrew her hand and turned to look at the lively backs of the two little girls.
"That fat guy bullied me, and I just fought back! Teacher Xiaoyu said that next time I should tell her first and not hit people without permission."
Xiao Lan said.
Another little girl exclaimed "Ah!" and said indignantly, "Next time Big Fatty bullies you, just tell me, and I'll go beat him up for you. Then you go find Teacher Xiaoyu!"
Jiang Huali's gaze fell on the little girl waving her tiny fists, and finally settled on her short, ear-length hair.
It's Oda.
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