Chapter 59 Shugao Girls’ High School 19
Zhu Ling would not lie, let alone lie about this matter. Seeing Jiang Yuelu looking at them silently, Zhu Ling and Lihua were a little at a loss.
Even stranger is themselves.
This morning, after Zhu Ling got up, she stood in front of the sink for a long time. Lihua asked her what was wrong, and she subconsciously said, "...I seem to have forgotten something."
Very important people and things.
Like water flowing away from the bottom of a pond.
After talking with Rika for a while, she felt better. But the name mentioned by Shikatsuki made her startled again. Koharu? It seemed like she had heard it somewhere before.
Just then, Xie Xiaoya and the others came downstairs, so Zhu Ling asked them, "Do you know Xiaochun?"
Several people shook their heads. Zhu Ling asked Leng Wenhan, who was left alone, again, but she hadn't heard of him either. Zhu Ling's persistence made Fu Mengru frown, "How many times do you have to ask? We all said we don't know him!"
Zhu Ling didn't know what was wrong with her.
She would not ask for an answer without considering other people's feelings, but today she did it abnormally. Lihua looked at her worriedly, and her friend's eyes reflected her own expression. Did she look like she was about to cry?
But what happened?
Nothing happened, why am I sad?
"I'm sorry, I..."
“Don’t apologize.”
Jiang Yuelu stopped Zhu Ling from saying anything, "You didn't do anything wrong."
Was this what the Fat Lady had warned her about yesterday? She had known that Xiaochun would disappear, and that her friends would forget about her.
Is it the same for everyone else?
Jiang Yuelu spent a day investigating, and during breaks she visited several grades and classes, but no one had ever heard of Xiaochun's name.
There was another unknown girl living in her original dormitory. She claimed that she had lived there for half a year and had never heard of anyone named Xiaochun or Xiaoqiu.
Sitting on a bench in the afternoon, the sun was shining on his head, but he didn't feel warm at all. In his hand was the homework that he had handed in a few days ago. The only thing missing was Xiaochun's. Even the written records were erased. How could a person disappear so cleanly?
Jiang Yuelu murmured, "Has it completely disappeared..."
[Keyword "disappeared" detected, additional question for the first test - "The Disappearing Girl" is now open]
[Congratulations to the candidates... Ah, it's you]
It had been a while since anyone had asked additional questions, so when the system was woken up, it threw flowers to celebrate. However, after seeing that the person answering the questions was Jiang Yuelu dressed as a woman, its mood took a sharp dive, and it became completely disgusted with the world, with no energy in its voice.
[If you haven't made a choice before the ten-second countdown ends, the additional question will be automatically considered abandoned]
[Ten, three, two…]
Jiang Yuelu: “…”
Do you really treat him differently?
Jumping from ten to three, is that a human being?
Before the system read out the number, he quickly chose to agree.
[Find the missing girl's location within the specified time to complete the question and get the corresponding score. The countdown starts from now, and you have 24 hours to solve the puzzle]
【23 hours and 59 minutes...】
There are no clues at all.
He looked up at the white sky, thinking about the topic he had just heard - "Find the location of the missing girl." That is to say, there is a definite location. As the saying goes: If you want to find the person alive or the body dead, you must first find the person and the body. If she really disappeared like the wind, then stop looking for her.
The situation now is that there is a force that can erase students' existence.
Let’s call this force “it” for now.
The amnesia it caused occurred at the memory level. For a school as big as this, it was normal for many people to have never heard of the name Koharu. So the operation was also quite simple, just erase the memory of those who were related to Koharu.
As for making a person's physical existence disappear, that is easier to achieve in a girls' high school.
First, take away Xiaochun, then take away her related things, and let another girl live in. It can erase existing memories, and naturally it can shape non-existent memories. That's why the girl swore that she had lived here for half a year.
“These are fairly simple.”
The crux of the matter lies in the title - "Location of missing girl."
Xiaochun disappeared, so why didn't he ask directly - "Find Xiaochun's location?" It was because Xiaochun was not the only one missing. He remembered that the girl had lost control of her emotions long before she disappeared, and she loudly accused: "You have forgotten Maidong, and you will forget me too!"
What he said came true.
Before Mai Dong, there was another Mai Dong. One by one, girls disappeared quietly from the girls' high school. The innocent girls who were locked up in the school listened to fairy tales and had no suspicion of the changes happening around them.
After sorting out the problem, there was still no clue to be found.
From finding one person to finding a group of people, Jiang Yuelu discovered the difficulty of the question and felt more stressed.
Xie Xiaoya and the others also don’t remember…
Um?
He still remembers.
What is the difference between him and Xie Xiaoya? He is a teacher and they are students. What else? His eyes swept across the campus sharply, and the girls were in groups of two or three, with white halos shining around their necks.
At the beginning, Leng Wenhan and the others were taken to the Moon Altar and put on the Sunstone Circle. The Sunstone Circle did not endanger their lives, but what if it affected their memories?
Jiang Yuelu thought, he'd better observe closely. Not in the daytime, not in the school, there are eyes everywhere, and he couldn't hold a girl and stare at her all the time.
The Fat Lady’s attitude shows that teachers tacitly accept that students will go missing, but they turn a blind eye to it. If he stands up and doubts, he might be put at a disadvantage and targeted by “it”.
The security in the attic building has been stepped up recently. Students can no longer sneak out like before, and he can't go in either.
"ah……"
Jiang Yuelu suddenly thought of a place.
--cemetery.
Living students are hard to approach, and dead students are always ignored. Shu Renluan said that all the students who died in the girls' high school in recent years were buried in the cemetery outside the funeral grounds. Because of the Moon Force, their belongings could not be taken away by their parents and relatives, and their belongings were buried in the coffins.
Moreover, not many people have died in recent years, and the cemetery is very desolate.
It was a long forgotten place, and there were very few eyes. He could easily design a route to avoid them.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea. Jiang Yuelu made up his mind and swept away the previous gloom, but he did not notice that people on the upper floor were frequently looking at him.
"Teacher Lu Yue doesn't seem very happy..."
"All the students in her class 3 passed the test. If I were her, I would be secretly happy. Why would I still be worried?"
"But she just looks troubled..."
Hearing the whispers from the side, Xia Yi leaned over the corridor railing and looked in the direction they pointed unconsciously. The person who upset him also fell into unhappiness, but he did not get much pleasure from it. Instead, he was even more unhappy because of the depression between Jiang Yuelu's eyebrows and her absent-minded eyes.
He seems to be very busy today...
In the morning, he saw Jiang Yuelu at the entrance of the Pavilion Management Building. He heard them talking about a student named Xiaochun. This name made him feel uncomfortable.
Pulling the cold white ring around his neck, he turned and left indifferently.
Why should you care about him?
Whether he is happy or worried, what does it have to do with him?
If he said another word to Jiang Yuelu, he would jump off the roof immediately!
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Late at night, at a funeral home.
Xia Yi's face was livid as he followed the figure in front of him. He followed Jiang Yuelu for about half an hour. At first, he thought he was going to the snow forest to see the tree skull again. Later, he saw him go around the back of the Moon Altar. Only then did he realize that he was going out late at night to visit the cemetery of the Girls' High School.
What are you doing in the cemetery? Digging graves?
Before the sarcastic words had even finished, the man in front suddenly raised a shovel and dug out a coffin.
Xia Yi: “…”
Jiang Yuelu worked quickly and dragged the coffin into the grove at lightning speed, hid it behind a tree, and then went back to fill the hole. After finishing all this, he returned to the woods. Just as he had agreed, a light lit up on the path at the end of the cemetery, and the slow footsteps gradually approached, and a hunched figure appeared at the end of the road.
It’s true.
The old undertaker that the Tree Man Skull mentioned is still alive. If he and the coffin were still in the cemetery, they would definitely be caught by him.
To be on the safe side, he also drew a talisman to conceal his and the coffin's aura and avoid the lantern search as much as possible. As the hunched figure gradually faded away, he couldn't help but relax.
There was a familiar figure entwined around his hand.
The paper dolls flew around the talisman in his hand, drooling. He smiled, "You're here again."
Jiang Yuelu took out a piece of paper doll, kneaded it into a ball, and fed it to her, but halfway through eating the paper doll, she felt that the taste was not right and was not as delicious as the first time, so she spit it out while crying.
Jiang Yuelu thought to herself, he is still picky about food, he is spoiled.
He asked, "Where is your master?"
The paper doll subconsciously wanted to point in a direction, but seemed threatened by a pair of lifeless eyes in the darkness. It shivered and dared not say a word.
Jiang Yuelu saw through it, "Oh, so he was so cruel to abandon you and leave you alone. What? He's not coming back tonight?"
"She farted!"
There was a loud and angry shout in the woods. Jiang Yuelu burst out laughing.
Later I realized that he was trying to lure me out, "..."
Xia Yi walked out of the woods, his face full of murderous intent, and glared at Jiang Yuelu hatefully, "I really hate you!"
Jiang Yuelu: "I know. Your dislike is your love."
Xia Yi's eyebrows jumped, "You are just making wild guesses and talking nonsense."
Jiang Yuelu: "Am I right?"
Xia Yi: “Absolutely not.”
Jiang Yuelu: "I know, your inaccuracy is accurate. I am right."
Being led back by him again, Xia Yi was upset and simply kept silent, which was better than letting him continue to laugh at her. Jiang Yuelu stopped while she was ahead, held the paper doll, and returned to the coffin.
Xia Yi had wanted to ask a long time ago, "Why are you digging coffins?"
"I'm here to look for someone. I suspect Xiao...ah, you don't remember Xiaochun either." Jiang Yuelu glanced at the collar around his neck, which he had put on.
After telling Xia Yi about Xiaochun's disappearance, Xia Yi snorted and said, "Eating my memory is very good, very good."
No matter how Jiang Yuelu looked at him, she didn't think he was very good.
It suddenly occurred to him, "…I should have looked at your sunstone circle earlier."
The only person who could quietly walk out of Jin Ye Ge Guan Building was Xia Yi. But soon, Jiang Yuelu thought again that even if they could meet at night, they would have to meet in a place where no one was around. After all, they still had to go to the cemetery.
"I guess the sunstone circle has other effects besides limiting the moon's power. When we open the coffin and perform an autopsy, we may be able to find some clues from the remaining ashes."
Xia Yi nodded.
Seeing him suddenly lift his foot, Jiang Yuelu was stunned, "What are you going to do?"
"Open the coffin."
Jiang Yuelu was speechless, "I'm afraid your kick... will disturb the dead soul."
Xia Yi snorted, "There are so many ghosts, I don't necessarily have to take care of their feelings one by one." After saying that, he couldn't think of any specific examples to prove it. In a depressed mood, Jiang Yuelu took over the task, "Let me do it."
He silently said sorry a few times in his heart and slowly lifted the coffin lid.
There was no rotten smell, but a faint wood fragrance. It made sense when I thought that the ashes after cremation were stored there. The flesh and blood had long been burned, and there should only be a few bone residues left inside.
The coffin lid fell to the ground.
The white moon reveals the human figure.
The outline of the person seemed to remain in the coffin, because the white sunstone circle was placed at the neck position. But there were no ashes or residues in the coffin.
Human existence seems to be devoured completely.
Only that circle shines quietly under the moon.
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