Chapter 75
When Yitu and his companions reached the door, the kindergarten principal Shi Min was discussing the situation with two security guards.
"...This is roughly the situation. I'll have to ask one of you to go find help, and one of you to stay behind to protect the teachers and students. Is that okay?"
A look of panic flashed across the faces of the two security guards, and they looked at each other and said at the same time:
"Then I'll go out—"
"I'll go call the police. I'm familiar with this place. Xiao Zhang, you stay here and protect everyone."
The tall, dark-skinned security guard said this without giving Security Guard Xiao Zhang a chance to refuse, and walked quickly towards the door.
If a murderer sneaks into the kindergarten, who would dare to stay here? It would be better to leave as soon as possible.
Yitu watched the security guard quickly leave the garden. Although the remaining security guard Xiao Zhang looked unhappy, he still asked responsibly:
"Is there anything I can do now?"
Before Shi Min could answer, Yi Tu suddenly asked, looking at someone not far away:
"Who is that?"
Xiao Zhang was stunned when he heard this and looked in the direction he was looking.
Not far from the kindergarten gate, there was a dirty homeless man with long hair. His face was thin and sallow, and there was too much white in his eyes, so he looked a little neurotic.
But his body did not appear weak due to malnutrition, but was unexpectedly tall.
"He...he seems to be a homeless person nearby." Security guard Xiao Zhang said:
"I don't know what's going on lately, but he keeps squatting at the door of our kindergarten. It's really scary."
Shi Min complained dissatisfiedly, "Why don't you and Xiao Liu chase him away? What if he scares the teachers coming in and out?"
Xiao Zhang looked aggrieved. "We've chased him away several times! But every time we chase him away, he comes back and refuses to leave."
However, just as Xiao Zhang finished speaking, the homeless man suddenly moved.
He stared in the direction where security guard Xiao Liu left for a while, then turned back to look at them standing inside the door, as if he was thinking about something, and then stood up.
He followed quietly, but the security guard Xiao Liu was unaware.
Yitu couldn't help but frown, feeling that the homeless man's look at them was a little weird.
It was like a beast seeing its prey and hesitating about which side to chase.
"Why is he going in the same direction as the security guard?" Hu Zaozao also felt something was wrong. "Is anything going to happen?"
"It's hard to say." The curly-haired girl Taozi shook her head.
The headmaster, Shi Min, turned around and glanced at them. "What could possibly happen? We are the ones who are going to get into trouble now."
"The students are almost awake now. Please don't gather together. In this situation, it doesn't matter whether you attend class or not."
"Try your best to ensure your own and your students' safety. Teachers, please hold on a little longer. Everything will be fine once Xiao Liu calls the police."
"Director." Xu Heng suddenly asked:
"What if something happens to the kids in our class? After all, the murderer is among the twelve of us, and each of us is responsible for a class."
Shi Min looked back at him and said after a long while:
"Has Teacher Wu told you?"
"This time, Sunflower Kindergarten will hire five teachers based on your performance."
As soon as Shi Min finished speaking, everyone's faces changed.
"Five?!"
"Only five?"
"No, Director, what you mean is..." Ah Cheng, clutching his handkerchief, looked shocked. "Among the twelve of us, only five can pass the internship assessment, right?"
Shi Min tilted her head and looked at the teachers with different expressions. "Yes, in a sense, that's true."
"But there is a murderer among you..."
Shi Min stopped talking halfway and shook her head, saying, "Forget it, it's not important anymore."
"Dear teachers, the time has come to test you. Do your best to protect your students. I believe that the murderer who infiltrated the kindergarten this time may be a test for you all."
"I hope all the students at Sunflower Kindergarten can live well."
"Okay now, let's go take care of the kids."
After the principal finished speaking, he turned around and left, walking towards the students' dormitory, leaving behind the twelve teachers, each with their own thoughts.
“Why only five teachers were hired?”
Xue'er, the girl in the white skirt, choked up a bit when she said this:
"Isn't this forcing us players to kill each other?"
Her boyfriend Da Zhang didn't say anything, but just hugged her shoulders tightly.
"Only five people were hired." Hu Zaozao also sighed, "How cruel."
Yitu paused and looked up at her.
Although Hu Zaozao said this, there was no fear in her tone, but rather a hint of pity.
It seemed like she must be one of the five admitted teachers.
After noticing Yitu's gaze, Hu Zao Zao was stunned for a moment:
"What's wrong?"
Yitu shook his head and said nothing, but Ding Rong, who was standing next to him, spoke in a friendly manner:
"Although this card game is low-level, the restrictions are so strict. We should try to keep in touch as much as possible and let each other know if we have any clues."
"Brother Tu, you and Zao Zao should stay in the small class area. I will help you keep an eye on the situation in the middle class."
Ding Rong smiled at Yi Tu, with a hint of goodwill.
Yitu didn't think there was anything wrong, it was just expected.
He nodded, and suddenly remembered that there were four of them coming in this time.
"Where's Xu Heng?"
Ding Rong said without thinking: "Don't worry about Xu Heng, he will be fine on his own."
Yi Tu frowned slightly when he heard this. Ding Rong finally reacted and explained with a slightly embarrassed look:
"It's not that Zao Zao and I deliberately excluded him, but he has always been like this, always keeping to himself, and..."
"And if we get too close to him we'll get into unnecessary trouble."
Hu Zao Zao also spoke:
"Xiao Heng's card is indeed quite troublesome. If other players knew that we were in cahoots with him, we would be collectively targeted."
"We just need to keep our distance from him. Even if his identity is exposed, we can still provide him with some help from behind so that he won't be isolated and helpless."
Yitu didn't say anything. He looked at the two people's frank expressions and smiled:
"I'm just a newcomer. I don't know how you two team up to play cards together. Is it like this before?"
Hu Zao Zao couldn't guess the attitude hidden in this man's smile, and said hesitantly:
"That's about right. We're just used to it."
She didn't want Yitu to focus on Xu Heng anymore. It wasn't a glorious thing to do. Who would have the nerve to tell others that they had passed the level by betraying their teammates?
Hu Zao Zao quickly shifted his focus, "Let's go back and check on the students. Everyone is scattered, so it's too easy for the murderer to strike."
Yitu: “Okay.”
Seeing this, Hu Zao Zao went to his class first.
Just when Yi Tu was about to leave, Ding Rong was still kindly reminding him.
"Brother Tu, seriously, you don't have to be so kind. Xu Heng is a teammate in real life, but he's an outlier in the game."
"Any teammates who got too close to him were implicated by him."
Yitu smiled when he heard this, "I'm new here, thank you for telling me this."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left. The moment he turned around, the smile on his face disappeared.
Ding Rong didn't see it and just thought that the Queen of Hearts accepted his opinion, and he felt a little uneasy.
This new member turned out to be even more aloof and difficult to get along with than he had imagined.
When Yitu returned to the dormitory, the group of short-legged human cubs had already woken up. They got out of bed early, opened the door, and ran around everywhere.
Yitu grabbed a chubby girl with her braids sleeping crookedly with his right hand, and picked up a little fool with his left hand. He shouted a few times, and the children who heard the teacher's voice quickly gathered around.
He quickly counted them and found that there were sixteen radish heads, not one missing. Yitu breathed a sigh of relief.
After helping the students wash and dress one by one, he took the children to the classroom.
A breakfast cart had already been placed at the classroom door. It was probably sent by the head teacher in advance. It was filled with nutritious breakfast prepared for the children.
After Yitu distributed breakfast, he took one for himself and stood at the door, but was not in a hurry to eat it.
Now that the twelve of them have separated, will the player who has obtained the identity of the murderer choose to take action early?
Yitu thought about it, tore open the breakfast bag and stuffed it into his mouth.
This morning, in addition to taking care of the students, teachers and players in different classes would check on each other from time to time to avoid accidents.
The murderer didn't dare to act, but the security guard who went out to look for help in the morning never came back.
As it was almost noon, only the security guard Xiao Zhang was looking around anxiously at the kindergarten gate.
The head teacher came three times, but all three times he made inquiries without any results.
It was not until almost lunchtime that they saw someone coming back to the door.
But the person who came back was not the security guard Xiao Liu, but the strange and weird homeless man.
He slowly walked to the entrance of the kindergarten, touched his round belly with his big hands, and when he saw Xiao Zhang who was stunned at the door, he grinned at him.
I caught off guard and saw that his white teeth were stained with unknown blood.
Xiao Zhang's face immediately turned pale, especially when he saw the dark red spot on the homeless man's chest.
He was frightened and rushed into the security room and pressed the button, but the iron gate of the kindergarten was closed tightly.
The homeless man lying outside the door looked somewhat unwilling. He looked at the children who came out to play in the garden from time to time with greedy eyes. After thinking for a while, he squatted back to his original position.
"How could this happen?" Hu Zaozao's face turned pale. "There's no one to help, and we can't get out. And we don't know what characteristics the murderer who's hiding among us has..."
Yitu was not surprised, as the purpose of this game was to trap them here to death.
Otherwise, how could the murderer kill people with impunity?
"You should go back to the classroom first. Lunch will be served soon. We'll talk then."
Hu Zaozao nodded. She lived next door to Yitu and would come over to visit when she had nothing to do.
After taking care of the children to finish lunch and go to bed one after another, the twelve teachers had time to gather in the lounge for lunch.
Lunch was brought by the head teacher and Xiaoman in a cart, and the twelve teachers sat down to eat.
The flat-faced, freckled Mr. Benzi poked at the white rice, hesitated for a moment, and then said:
"I just passed by the lobby...and the TV hanging in the lobby seems to be getting a signal again."
"What?" Taozi stopped and looked at her, "What did you see?"
Ben seems to be a bit introverted and has trouble speaking fluently when there are many people around.
"That news popped up on TV again, but this time it's the second half..."
"Get to the point!" the impatient little Fatty couldn't help but shout, "The flowers that keep dawdling are about to give up!"
Benzi's face flushed instantly, and he spoke in panic:
"It's just that the news said we should identify the murderer and kill him immediately!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the entire lounge fell silent.
"Is this true..." Xiaoman was stunned and whispered.
"Are you sure you didn't read the message correctly?" Hu Zaozao frowned and asked, "Are the words 'Kill on the Spot' really on it?"
Benzi nodded vigorously, and whispered as if he was deflated:
"The game actually lets us kill people."
Everyone was silent for a while. Almost all the information they had obtained since entering the game came from the cat TV in the hall.
The TV told them that a murderer had escaped to the vicinity of Sun Road, and so a murder occurred at the Sunflower Kindergarten.
And now the TV tells them that once they identify the murderer, they should kill him immediately.
The appearance of this message is not a mandatory requirement, but a reminder to all players...
In this card room, they can kill each other and will not be punished.
"Why is this happening?" Xue'er was so upset she was about to cry. "Isn't this a Diamonds card game? Why is it like a Spades card game, where players can kill each other?"
"We're so unlucky to have encountered such a poker game. In the end, only five of us survived. I don't want to die."
Da Zhang also looked unhappy, but he could only try his best to comfort his girlfriend.
Xu Heng paused with his chopsticks in his hand, feeling annoyed by her crying.
"None of the twelve people died. Who are you crying for?"
Xue'er was frightened by the scolding and stopped crying suddenly.
Da Zhang gave him a dissatisfied look and said, "Mind your own business."
Xu Heng chuckled and was too lazy to talk nonsense with him anymore.
At this moment, Yitu, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly said:
"There's a cell phone signal."
Everyone was stunned and quickly took out the mobile phones they always carried with them.
Their mobile phones are all work phones provided by the kindergarten, which contain parents' phone numbers and some student parent groups that need feedback.
At this time, their search page jumped again and again, and finally a blank page popped up.
The photo on the blank page could not be loaded, but when I scrolled down, a description text appeared.
The murderer, 25 years old, was a teacher at a private kindergarten in xxx. He was dismissed after being reported by a student's parents for corporal punishment. He harbored a grudge and murdered the student's family of three on x month x month. During his escape, he stabbed several others, including a hotel owner named Chen, to death. After his arrest, he became mentally unstable, repeatedly engaging in self-harm and other acts of harm, such as biting...
"Damn, this is too bad!" Ah Cheng couldn't help but yell and cursed, and the handkerchief he was holding was thrown on the table.
"The important information hasn't been loaded yet, so just mentioning age is pointless!"
Yitu put the phone down, and soon the signal was cut off again. It was impossible to load the web page with a large blank space.
Everyone felt a little heavy-hearted. If the murderer was around 25 years old, then all the twelve people present met the requirements, except Ah Cheng who was obviously middle-aged.
Right now, apart from waiting for the information to be refreshed again, they are also trying their best to ensure their own safety.
After lunch, the table was full of bowls. Seeing that no one took the initiative to clean up, Ben, who was used to doing this at home, couldn't help but stand up to clean up the dishes.
Yi Tu was about to help, but Xu Heng was one step faster than him and took away the plate in front of him.
"Thanks."
After collecting the dirty dishes, the notebook pushed a cart to deliver the dirty dishes. Taozi was hesitating whether to deliver the other cart when she heard someone say to her:
"Let me do it."
Taozi was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Okay."
Hu Zaozao looked at the backs of the two people leaving and suddenly said:
"Do you think anything will happen to them..."
Yitu suddenly looked up at her. Hu Zaozao was startled and stood up awkwardly.
"I'm going to wash my hands."
Benzi was pushing the food cart quite fast. When she was halfway there, she realized that it was very dangerous to go out alone.
Behind her was a man who was also pushing a food cart, and the feeling of panic and uneasiness in her heart became even stronger.
Could he be a murderer? Otherwise, why would he follow me out?
Benzi pushed the food cart and walked faster and faster.
Xu Heng behind her naturally noticed this and smiled.
Benzi quickly arrived at the back kitchen. There was no one there, and the ingredients and pots had not been cleaned up yet and were scattered all over the place.
Benzi didn't care about that. She pushed the food cart to the spot and was about to turn around and leave.
However, the moment she turned around, she was caught off guard by a familiar face.
"You——" Why are you here?!
However, before she could finish her question, her body became unable to move and a sharp knife stabbed into her stomach the next second.
The sound of the knife piercing through her vagina was dull and terrifying. Benzi couldn't utter a word. She struggled gurglingly in her throat and her breath gradually weakened.
The knife-wielding attacker standing in front of her seemed to have finally grown tired of this boring game. The murderer easily dragged the notebook to a frying pan.
Without hesitation, he pushed her head into the oil pan. Even though the fire had been turned off and the oil was only slightly warm, it was enough to suffocate her.
Xu Heng pushed the food cart and arrived at the back kitchen soon. He knew that the girl was wary, so he walked slowly to avoid any embarrassment between the two of them.
However, as soon as he entered the back kitchen, a strong smell of blood hit him in the face.
Xu Heng's heart sank, his grip loosened, and the food cart slid and hit the counter.
Benzi's body fell under the oil pan and stove. His flat face became even more swollen and terrifying after being suffocated by the oil pan.
Her eyes were wide open, and her face was full of unwillingness.
Xu Heng stood there and watched for a long time before he took a few steps forward.
Where Benzi died, there was a sentence written in blood on the opposite wall.
If you had come earlier, she wouldn't have died. (Smiley face)
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