Chapter 60 Tree Gao Girls’ High School 20
The coffin was empty.
There were also some items such as clothes and documents, most of which were yellowed and old. The sunshade that the girl wore at that time was not dusty at all, and it was as brand new as the one Xia Yi wore around his neck.
But there was no body, no ashes, and no bone residue.
As a coffin for storing corpses, it was really strange that the only thing missing was human bones. And when I thought about the fact that the coffin was now empty, I couldn't help but think of Xiaochun, who disappeared out of thin air in the "coffin" of the girls' high school. Her homework, her clothes, and her dormitory were also cleared out.
Didn't the human bones in front of him disappear out of thin air? After coming to the girls' high school, he almost had PTSD about disappearance.
"Is it because I'm unlucky that I dug the wrong grave?" Jiang Yuelu muttered to herself as she walked back to the cemetery. The tombstone was engraved with the girl's name and the date of her death. No matter how you looked at it, this was a grave with an owner, but the owner had disappeared.
Looking at the graves lined up nearby, he thought, why not just go all out. If one coffin is a mistake, then ten coffins must explain something. Let's dig up the rest of the graves and see.
The idea is good, but it is difficult to implement.
After digging the second pit, Jiang Yuelu was already sweating profusely. He didn't know how to use ghosts to gain strength, and the only magic weapon he had could only be used to identify ghosts. He used all his own strength. This body was very hot and sexy, but it couldn't do rough work at all. Thinking that there were at least six more pits waiting for him, Jiang Yuelu felt a little desperate.
Pushing his sweaty bangs back, he rubbed his hands together and started working enthusiastically.
On the other side, Xia Yi sat on a tree and watched the wind.
After Jiang Yuelu made the plan to open the coffin, before he could ask if he needed her help, she turned around and gave him a task with a smile: "I don't know if the old man will come. Can you please help me look around?"
Just keep a lookout. It's very simple.
Just sit there.
Just now Jiang Yuelu finally stopped, his fingers stiffened slightly, and he thought he was going to ask for help, but before he could make any move, Jiang Yuelu lowered his head and continued.
Absentmindedly turning the paper doll's head, Xia Yi thought, am I, in his mind, a useless person who can't even hold a shovel?
If Jiang Yuelu could hear his inner voice, she would definitely cry out that she was wronged.
He grew up in an orphanage, and he knew clearly what was yours and mine, and whose was his. The additional questions were his responsibility, and he was also responsible for the tedious and laborious process of opening the coffin. However, it would be wrong to think that he was a kind-hearted person who would rather die than take advantage.
On the one hand, he evaluated and weighed it, and thought that the most important thing to pay attention to was to keep watch. After all, he could stop digging if he couldn't dig anymore, but if he was reported by the funeral people, he would definitely fail the exam. On the other hand... taking care of younger people was a habit he had since he was a child. No matter how powerful Xia Yi was, his appearance and age were similar to his younger brother, and forcing him to do rough and heavy work would make him feel guilty.
However, if he does not come to the mountain, the mountain will come to him.
Just as he was about to drag the third coffin out, a hand held the coffin and stopped him. Jiang Yuelu was puzzled: "What are you doing here?"
Xia Yi was not happy, "Lookout is boring, go by yourself."
There are people in the world who would give up their leisurely jobs to take this hard and tiring job. Jiang Yuelu was really surprised and asked tentatively, "So I really go?"
Xia Yi replied with the back of his head: Go quickly and don’t bother me.
"Forget it, forget it. I'll come and help you."
Xia Yi snorted, "The way you dig, it won't be over until the dead come back to life from the ground. Just watch me." He seemed to be determined to show off, his red eyes moved coldly, and green fire spread out from under his feet.
The ghost fire in the underworld is particularly suitable for the cemetery. The green fire quickly swam into the barren grass and drove out all kinds of wild ghosts. They screamed and dragged the coffin out.
The wild ghosts who were still snoring a second ago clasped their hands together with tears in their eyes: "God, did you hear my voice? I just dreamed about the Ghost City, and you let the green fire of the Ghost City descend here..."
They were furious. "Our little place is so blessed to have you - many people will surely die in the future!"
Jiang Yuelu: That’s not necessary!
"Look, my son, this is the Green Fire I told you about. If a Green Ghost were to appear in our family, it would be a blessing in disguise..."
The ghost grandfather patted his grandson's shoulder vigorously. His grandson's eyes were full of admiration. It seemed that after seeing Xia Yi, he had his goal in life as a ghost - "When I grow up and become a ghost, I must become a strong man like you."
Jiang Yuelu: “…” What kind of underworld is this?
Xia Yi had never seen so many ghosts. In the past, hundreds of ghosts in the ghost city dared not approach him, and only these lonely ghosts who did not know his background would get close to him. Annoyed by the noise, he waved his hand and said "get out" three times. The ghost grandfather dragged his grandson who wanted to use his connections to recognize him as a brother and quickly evacuated the ground. The surroundings became quiet again. There were dozens of coffins in the middle of the cemetery, far exceeding his previous budget.
Jiang Yuelu smiled and said, "You are really amazing. You did in just a few seconds what I couldn't do in a whole night."
Xia Yi thought that was natural. After being praised, he felt better and smiled. He got closer to Jiang Yuelu and went to check the coffins together. The ghosts were very considerate and helped to open the coffin lids. The scene inside was clearly visible. Jiang Yuelu checked ten coffins in a row.
"No."
“Neither here.”
"Still no."
Jiang Yuelu turned around and said, "It's all empty."
Xia Yi: “…Oh.”
He was a little absent-minded and glanced at Jiang Yuelu several times.
Probably because he had sweated a lot while working, Jiang Yuelu took off his coat, leaving only the white shirt that fit tightly to his body. With his sleeves rolled up, his arms were slender, white, and strong. He couldn't help but think of Jiang Yuelu's confession at the beginning, saying that the woman was just his false identity, and his real identity was a man.
Unlike the hands, feet, waist and abdomen, which can reveal gender at a glance, the arms can make him guess what Jiang Yuelu's original body looked like - his original arms should be like this, slender, white, but strong.
I vaguely remembered some fragments. It was him... Jiang Yuelu... and there was a portrait of a woman hanging behind him...
"What are you thinking about?" Xia Yi heard Jiang Yuelu calling him several times, and suddenly came back to his senses, "Nothing..."
Jiang Yuelu was concentrating on the additional questions and working on her career, not noticing the romantic thoughts of the people around her at all.
"Each coffin is the same, the clothes and documents are all there, and the sunstone circle is also there." Jiang Yuelu thought to himself, it seems that God asked him to look at the sunstone circle, and was reluctant to give any other clues, so he observed the white ring at the bottom of the coffin. It is said to be white, but it is actually closer to cement white, with a little dark gray.
"Hmm?" He leaned closer and touched it with his hand, "This texture..."
Xia Yi: "What?"
Jiang Yuelu hesitated: "It looks like... bones."
"Do you remember... the Treeman Skull said that the last girl who died due to the loss of control of the moon power, her friends went to the funeral site once and witnessed their dead friend being hung in a burning iron box, but afterwards no ashes or bone residue were found."
Xia Yi hummed, "Remember."
Jiang Yuelu was lost in thought. "Later... she returned to the dormitory, lay on the bed, and muttered unconsciously that there was something inside... something, what was it? Then she looked out the window and said she was coming to find us."
Xia Yi: "Then a hollowed-out head floated outside the window."
"What if it's not a skull?"
Jiang Yuelu looked at him and quickly expressed his thoughts, "There is something that looks like a hollowed-out skull. It's a thin circle, grayish white..." His eyes fell on Xia Yi's neck.
If the ring floats in the air, wouldn't it look a lot like a floating, hollowed-out human head?
"What the girl saw should be the sunstone circle of her dead companion."
Perhaps something went wrong at the funeral home. In any case, the sunstone circle did not lie peacefully in the cemetery, but ran to the dormitory where its owner used to live.
"What we are seeing now is also the sunstone circles that the dead girls wore." He looked at the coffins laid out under the moonlight, and felt that they were silently telling a story. "Sunstone circles and human bones are also active and can contain the power of the moon... ah, what a mess."
Holding his forehead, he glanced at the empty coffin, "Could they be alive?"
"Dead, burned, buried, it's all an illusion."
"Their disappearance has something in common with Xiaochun... Oh, they are also girls who disappeared." Jiang Yuelu remembered the additional test questions.
Xia Yi mentioned another thing, "I went to the southwest of Yuehe last night, but I didn't find the eternal spring they mentioned, nor the magic stone they mentioned."
The yellow earth, the white holiness, in the everlasting spring deep in the snow forest, there is a magic stone that embodies the holiness of the earth. We made a necklace with it and gave it to every student... This is what the Fat Lady said to him at the time.
Jiang Yuelu knew that if there was nothing there, Xia Yi would not have said it now. He must have seen something else there.
"There is a..." Xia Yi paused, as if thinking about how to describe it, "a living cemetery."
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Xiaochun shed silent tears.
She had been staying in this closed and cold cave for a whole day, with her hands tied, eyes blindfolded, and even her mouth stuffed with cotton balls. She was now like a sacrificed lamb, unable to do anything except wait to die.
Zhu Ling and Lihua...
Will they remember themselves?
They should have forgotten, just like they forgot Maidong, and they will soon forget themselves. Thinking of Maidong, her heart calmed down. Her friend with the winter name always gave her a sense of stability.
She was punished for finding Maidong and was locked up here for sacrifice... She had no regrets at all.
After calming down, she began to feel around on the ground and soon found the wall. It looked like a very small room. She put her ear against the wall and heard the sound of the wind. She began to calculate the possibility of breaking the wall.
"Hmm? This wall..."
Half of her face was pressed against it, and she suddenly realized that the texture of the wall was a little strange. It was not brick or stone, but rough sandpaper, with an uneven surface. When she smelled it closely, she could smell the smell of grass, trees, and blood...
Blood...
She turned around quickly and frantically crawled on the ground, "Ahhhh!"
A monster has grabbed her calf - she thought desperately. A cold, slimy monster! How long has it been hiding in a closed and narrow hut? Why can't she find it? ! Could it be that while she was groping around in confusion, the monster had been watching from above with treacherous and mocking eyes!
Sobs escaped from his lips, "Save me...someone...save me..."
It was as if the heavens had heard her call for help, as a sweet voice came from outside the wall, "Xiaochun? Is that you?"
She was surprised and delighted, "Teacher Lu Yue - is it Teacher Lu Yue?! Save me, monster, there is a monster here!!!"
"I saw it. This monster is really annoying..."
Strange, wasn't the monster at her feet? The room was closed, and she couldn't touch the window or anything like that... How did Teacher Lu Yue see it? Was it the ceiling that she couldn't reach? Yes, Teacher Lu Yue must have been flying in the sky and saw her being caught by the monster!
"Teacher... help--ah!"
The monster seemed to be irritated by the noisy sound and suddenly rolled her into the air. Xiaochun only felt her body flying into the air. The air flow passed through the sides of her cheeks and also took away the cloth covering her eyes. After opening her eyes, she finally saw the monster that trapped her.
That was also the "secret room" that trapped her.
The Chamber of Secrets and the monsters are one and the same. They are the same thing.
The girl was stuck in the air, staring blankly at the tall and thin tree. The tree's belly was just big enough for her. The rough walls were its bark, and the calves were wrapped with flexible vines. The mixture of grass and blood came from the bones and plasma scattered all over the tree.
She had seen a place called a botanical garden in a picture magazine, where each tree had a signboard introducing the garden. There was also a "sign" under the tree where she was, but she had to get closer to see that it was a tombstone.
This tree with a tombstone has a familiar name.
It has been with her since she was born. Her parents call her that, her teachers call her that, Zhu Ling and Lihua and the others - everyone calls her that.
This tree is called: Xiaochun.
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