Chapter 61 Shugao Girls’ High School 21
"Koharu?"
Zhu Ling's fingers slid across the words in the diary, and she felt a sense of strangeness and familiarity from the name. She turned her head and asked, "Lihua, do you remember her?"
Lihua shook her head.
Zhu Ling was a little disappointed. She leaned against the wall and hugged her knees. "I thought I would find something after getting the diary, but in the end, there is still nothing."
She was careless in today's class, and after returning to her dormitory, she found her diary from the past year. She has the habit of writing a diary every day.
The Xiaochun that Teacher Lu Yue mentioned... could it be her friend? If they had known each other before, why was there no trace left... She should be able to get the answers from the diary.
The cowhide notebook on his knees had obvious signs of wear and tear and use. Zhu Ling stared at it for a long while and suddenly said with certainty: "This is not my diary."
Lihua was surprised and asked, "Isn't it?"
"Absolutely not." Zhu Ling picked up the notebook and looked at the hanging white paper. Her bright eyes did not miss any suspicious clues.
"I look through my records every day... If someone has touched them, I will definitely find out. Lihua, people can't disappear without a trace, and my diary won't change its cover without a trace. I believe someone must have done something."
She covered her hand on the cowhide shell, and the faint fluctuation of moon power was transmitted from her palm. Her eyes brightened, "Moon power! That's easy... I can control it too." She was the best female high school student... Of course, that was before Xia Yi came here.
After a burst of white light, the ringing sound gradually faded. Although the notebook on the ground was no different from before, Zhu Ling knew that this was her diary. After this experience, she was more certain that it contained crucial information. Maybe after seeing it, she would remember who Xiaochun was.
At the same time, she thought that someone had gone to great lengths to change her memory and diary in order to prevent her from recalling it. What the other party was trying to hide must be a very frightening secret. So the other party must have other preparations, such as... sending out a warning signal when someone tried to restore the diary...
She shuddered all over. "We have to hurry. After reading it... we have to return to normal quickly, otherwise people will find out!" Although she said so, Zhu Ling was not sure if she could restore the diary to the way it was designed by that character.
But Lihua smiled at her and whispered encouragingly, "A Ling can handle anything."
Zhu Ling calmed down and said, "Then let's get started!"
The past year slowly flowed out as she turned the pages. It was the promise made by the four girls as they leaned closely together in the winter snow.
"Me, Lihua, Maidong, and Xiaochun. We are going to be good friends for life."
"The dry leaves in late winter will always turn green in spring, just like Ophiopogon japonicus and Xiaochun will never be separated, the hands of spring and winter will always be connected."
"Pear blossoms and I are summer and autumn. I saw what midsummer is like in picture magazines. The rivers don't freeze, you don't need to wear heavy clothes, and every day is long. The first time I saw it, I was sure that this was the season for me."
"With a little bit of the bitter heat of summer, the pear tree will mistakenly think that spring has come again. These blooming pear flowers will not bear fruit, nor will they change from one shape to another. Pear flowers are pear flowers, and they will always look like pear flowers..."
Tears dripped onto the paper. Zhu Ling cried out and said in a daze, "Strange, why am I crying..."
She couldn't remember. She couldn't remember anything... She could clearly feel how happy she was when she wrote this, but she had forgotten the happiness she felt at that time.
Even those two "lifelong friends" were forgotten.
"Who could it be? Is it Teacher Le Mi? Or Teacher Yu?" Anger overwhelmed her sorrow, and she opened her eyes wide in anger, "Or... the High Priest of the Moon Altar?!"
Lihua patted her, "A Ling. Look here."
Lihua, who was always strong, seemed to be forcing a smile at this moment, and her finger pointing to a certain place on the paper was trembling slightly. Zhu Ling followed her finger and saw a line of words. That was her last diary entry two weeks ago. When she turned back, she found nothing.
That is, she did not write in her diary during these two weeks.
"No... I remember I wrote every day. Unless..." She suddenly thought of a possibility. Use the moon power to restore the diary, and each restoration corresponds to a change. The ringing stopped, and the words "Xiaochun and Maidong" appeared in her diary, but there were still two weeks of content that had not been restored.
It was because someone had later altered her diary, so she had to use her moon power and the ringtone again to make the diary for the past two weeks appear.
But that's not the point. The point is that someone changed it twice.
"Two weeks ago, Maidong disappeared..." This time, it was Xiaochun who disappeared, and she remembered the diary and came to check it. She is herself, and her thinking habits will not change because of amnesia. Whenever a friend disappears and she notices that her memory is wrong, she will definitely check the diary first.
So she did the same thing last time.
The amnesia now proves the consequences of that time - no matter what she and Lihua tried at that time, they failed in the end. Not only did she fail to remember who Maidong was, but she also forgot another important friend.
"A Ling, what's wrong with you?"
"I... I just..." She couldn't control the trembling of her hands and feet because she heard footsteps outside the door slowly approaching in the corridor. Once again, they were discovered again. Their fate was obvious and they were powerless to change it.
Tomorrow, they will live happily without realizing it, just like a damned dummy, losing friends and memories in this girls' high school without knowing anything...
"Damn it! This time, let me remember who you are!" Zhu Ling screamed and opened the door first. When she saw the face behind the door, her pupils dilated sharply, "...Why is it you?!"
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Moon River Cemetery.
Frosty mist filled the forest. Under each tree was a black tombstone. Xiaochun stared blankly in the air. The serpentine mist circled around her toes. In a flash, she recalled several broken fragments - two girls, one in front and one behind, walked into this ominous dark forest in the middle of the night.
"I remember..."
The tears fell from the sky and turned into frost before hitting the ground.
"Two weeks ago, Maidong and I got lost and walked across Zhalama to here..."
Just like today, they also saw tall trees with twisted arms that looked like normal people. After their feet crushed the dead leaves, the entire cemetery seemed to be awakened, and they rolled to the ground after being attacked one after another.
She covered her face, but tears were still falling. "My sunstone circle was broken! Without it, the teachers will know I sneaked out the next day, and they will definitely punish me!"
"At this time..."
Xiaochun raised her head, staring at the white bone pieces that dotted the tree. They were like rings or long strips, colliding with each other and making crisp sounds that could be heard even farther than the sound of Zhu Ling's bell.
When Maidong saw these things, he thought of a solution quickly.
She seemed to have returned to that day, watching the short-haired girl tear off the white bone ring and clumsily put it on her, "Look, it looks very similar, doesn't it? They won't notice. When you go back, just pretend to be sick, and I'll figure out the rest."
She looked at her with bright eyes, "Teacher Yu likes you very much and will not punish you for such a small matter. Okay, let's go back."
…
"After that, I went back to school and pretended to be sick and didn't go to class. A few days later, Mai Dong disappeared. No one remembered her, and Zhu Ling and Li Hua had forgotten her too." Those few days were a blur. She went from a quiet girl who loved reading to a manic and incomprehensible lunatic. She asked questions loudly in the school regardless of anything, and rushed out of the school in the middle of the night regardless of anything to look for Mai Dong...
While doing these things, she was actually very happy, feeling hot and refreshed in her heart - those who made Maidong disappear and erased everyone's memory must be watching her from behind, right?
Just let them watch! Watch her make mistakes, and then write down her crimes one by one, until they can no longer bear it and arrest her too. This is the best way!
So she can go see her good friend.
"They lied to me--" Xiaochun screamed angrily in the air, "They threw me here, but I still can't find her. Where did she go!!!"
The sharp sound offended the tree that was twisting her neck, and the angry roar of a beast rang out in the forest. The tree threw her to the ground fiercely, and the ice shell of the earth was instantly pierced, cracks spread layer by layer, and the girl was thrown to the ground, and rushed backwards due to inertia. Jiang Yuelu caught up with her, and the talisman paper flew out, and the soft soil rushed out of the ice layer, holding Xiaochun's back steadily before it hit the stone.
"Xiaochun, wake up!"
"Teacher Lu Yue..." She opened her eyes with difficulty.
The scream just now had used up all her strength. She blinked and was about to speak, but she saw something behind Jiang Yuelu and was nailed to the spot.
She was thrown under another tree. This silent tree also had a tombstone standing behind Jiang Yuelu. The name engraved on it was exactly that of her missing friend -
“Ophiopogon japonicus…”
Xiaochun struggled to get up from the ground and broke free from Jiang Yuelu's arm. The blow just now must have shattered her heart and lungs, otherwise why would she feel so heartbroken at this moment. Slowly walking to the tombstone, she stroked the two words, subconsciously raised her head, and looked at the body of the tree.
The cage that held her was the same as hers.
Will Ophiopogon japonicus be in there?
Xiaochun turned her head and spoke so softly that it was inaudible, "Teacher Lu Yue, can you help me in? I want to see her."
Xia Yi wanted to say, it's a waste of time. The person disappeared two weeks ago and is now just a corpse. Why bother looking at it again? But Jiang Yuelu made a hushing gesture and agreed, "I know. I'll help you."
A hole large enough for one person to pass through soon appeared in the tree trunk. Considering the dim light inside, Jiang Yuelu also prepared a simple burning torch and handed it to her.
"Thank you." Xiaochun thanked softly.
Xia Yi was naturally in no mood to watch their recognition drama, so he turned around to deal with the roaring vines in the air. It seemed that only the big tree that imprisoned Xiaochun was awake in this cold cemetery.
Jiang Yuelu walked over, but he did not follow Xiaochun in.
"All trees with tombstones should be able to attack people, but now only one is active... I'm afraid that's because their awakening has a mechanism." Perhaps these trees will only wake up from hibernation when sacrifices are made or food is consumed.
Jiang Yuelu watched from afar.
These trees were not like the tree heads, they could not speak. The moonlight today was not as dim as that day, he could see its shape clearly. It was just a tree.
Then the question arises. How can a tree be as flexible as a human being, moving its branches as skillfully and smoothly as if it were using its hands? How does it do this? Is there someone secretly controlling it?
While he was thinking, he heard a scream coming from the tree hole behind him. He turned around quickly and held the edge of the hole. Before he entered, he smelled a strong smell of blood and couldn't help frowning.
"Haru! Where are you?"
The torch that was given to her was lost somewhere. The tree cave was dark and dark, and the girl's crying seemed very close. Jiang Yuelu heard her voice and felt relieved. She groped for the torch on the ground and lit it again, illuminating the girl huddled in the corner.
"Are you okay? Can you walk?"
She didn't answer.
The fire moved towards the girl, and the sight was so shocking that Jiang Yuelu almost vomited.
Finally forgetting about the broken human tissues, he squatted down and said, "Let's go back."
Xiaochun didn't know how she stood up. The large pool of blood and minced meat took away her sanity. She wanted to cry, but she couldn't. The result she had imagined and the one she actually saw were two completely different things. Who could admit that they had lost their best friend forever?
She would never see her again. Thinking of this, she was like a doll that had lost its soul. She let Jiang Yuelu pull her up and saw the childish carvings on the rough wall in the firelight.
The next second, my eyes were covered with damp mist.
Jiang Yuelu also looked at the picture after noticing it. It seemed like the traces that were carved with great effort by a person who was on his deathbed and had little strength left. The traces were crooked and blurry, but one could vaguely make out that they were two flowers.
One flower falls from the sky, and the other blooms on the ground, winter snow and spring flowers, it's so simple.
Two little men were walking hand in hand.
"The dry leaves in late winter will always turn green in spring, just like Ophiopogon japonicus and early spring will never be separated, the hands of spring and winter will always be connected." She said this.
Xiaochun's tears welled up in her eyes.
Jiang Yuelu: "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, nothing." She wiped away her tears carelessly, but couldn't help crying loudly, "I'm too cold, I'm sorry, teacher, I'm too cold..."
......
Jiang Yuelu used a calming charm on her, and when she fell asleep, he carried her out on his back. In the time it took to say these few words, the world outside had turned upside down, and Xia Yi seemed to be furious.
He stood on the tangled pile of dead branches, his eyes red as blood. The vine he was holding was wilting, like a hungry snake, and there was no trace of the attitude he had before to throw Xiaochun to the sky and into the earth.
Jiang Yuelu thought that if no one stopped him, Xia Yi would probably turn the cemetery upside down.
But will those people let him do it?
As if responding to his inner thoughts, a helpless voice sounded in the air.
"Stop it, both of you."
He is the high priest of the Moon Altar.
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