Poison (Twenty-five)
The school director and the principal fell from the same building. The school director's body parts were intact, and he was lying in the landing position, with his eyes open and looking up at the sky.
Jiang Yu took a look and knew what was going on, so he took Yu Shu and left.
"A corpse ran out and jumped off the building, and we're just going to leave now?" Yu Shu was a little confused.
Jiang Yu stopped and turned back to meet Yu Shu's gaze. "There's no need to hinder the professionals. Besides, it's obvious that the poison is treating them like toys."
Yu Shu was stunned for a moment, and his mind suddenly became clear.
Yes, if you really want to punish that group of people, why not just burn them to death or scare them to death? Why torture them slowly while they are neither dead nor alive?
Furthermore, the custom is to bury the dead in peace, but no deceased person who has been involved with poison can be buried in peace. Either their bodies are torn into pieces, or they cannot rest in peace even after death and are at the mercy of others.
It is indeed a game. It is a game with living people, watching them being burned by flames and suffering a fate worse than death between unconsciousness and painful awakening; it is also a game with dead people, watching them die without an intact body and unable to be reborn.
Since the poison is playing tricks on these people, they don’t have to worry too much about the safety of the patients who spontaneously combusted in the hospital. It is relatively safe for now.
"Did you know this a long time ago?" Yu Shu looked at Jiang Yu's calm expression and his brows twitched.
"Not long ago. We found out when we confirmed that Lin Wenxue's condition was different from the others."
Jiang Yu opened the car door for Yu Shu and then slipped into the car from the other side.
Yu Shu said dissatisfiedly: "Then why didn't you tell me."
Jiang Yu stared at the rearview mirror and slowly moved the car out. After driving out of the pile of cars, he continued with Yu Shu's words: "You didn't give me a chance."
Yu Shu was speechless for a moment.
It's indeed his problem.
He held onto Jiang Yu's fingers and kept asking questions without giving him a chance to breathe. Because of his series of questions, Jiang Yu might not have remembered it after he had some free time, so he didn't say anything.
Yu Shu glanced at Jiang Yu and found that Jiang Yu's eyes were on him, so he smiled awkwardly.
"Wang Zhiyao's home address."
Without asking any questions, Jiang Yu added, "Don't ask, just tell me."
Yu Shu took the mobile phone in the car that was used for navigation and entered the address of Wang Zhiyao's home.
There is no parking space around the urban village. After parking the car, it takes five or six minutes to walk to that area.
In the dim alley where no lights can be turned on, the stuffy air seems to be unable to flow.
Every few steps, you can see a snack bar with an open kitchen but no dine-in service. When they pass by, they can hear the chef shouting at them while cooking, "Handsome guys, have a midnight snack."
They stood downstairs and looked up at the dark building, then they remembered that it was not because the residents did not have electronic induction keys that they could not enter.
Fortunately, Yu Shu was able to think it through.
Those snack shops don’t have dine-in services and don’t have Meituan or Ele.me delivery signs. Most of them only deliver to urban villages. As long as you have a specific address, you might be able to follow the delivery man in.
So, Yu Shu went back to the snack bar sign, ordered a snack, and then chatted with the owner for a few words. He directly said that they were new tenants and forgot to bring the sensor key to get in, so he hoped that the owner could help them open the door.
This kind of thing happens frequently in urban villages, and the store owner readily agreed. Although he said that neighbors don't need to be so polite, he still quickly prepared the boiled chicken and served it.
As soon as he entered the building, Yu Shu shuddered.
The voice-controlled lights in the corridor didn't respond at all. It was pitch black, as if covered by an airtight black cloth.
The stairs of the old building were narrow and high, and it was easy to miss a step if you were not careful. The two of them walked up carefully with the help of the light from their mobile phones.
"Why not just ask them for help?" Jiang Yu glanced at the lunch box in Yu Shu's hand and thought it was unnecessary.
Yu Shu rolled his eyes, his compressed voice still lingering in the corridor: "If you don't buy something and ask others to help you for free, they will definitely not be happy."
Jiang Yu didn't respond and walked up while counting the floors.
I came in, but I couldn't get into Wang Zhiyao's house. I could only stand at the door and do nothing.
Yu Shu placed the food he bought downstairs in front of the raw rice with three chopsticks stuck upside down.
Jiang Yu's trouser pocket was like a treasure bag, and a thin wire appeared out of it.
He squatted down and fiddled with the keyhole, while lowering his voice and instructing Yu Shu to use his cell phone to illuminate him.
"This is illegal entry." Yu Shu complained in a low voice.
Jiang Yu continued to tinker with it. In the silent night, the subtle sound of the iron blocks colliding was like a sharp knife, slowly piercing his eardrum.
"Then you climb up to the fifth floor along the water pipe and look outside the window." Jiang Yu said lightly.
Yu Shu simply kept his mouth shut, hoping to get it over with quickly so that the other residents wouldn't find out that they had illegally broken into the house in the middle of the night.
There was a click, and the lock of the first iron door opened.
Before Jiang Yu started to tinker with the second door, he heard a slight creaking sound from the door hinges, and the door opened a crack and opened by itself.
A cool breeze blew out of the house, making Yu Shu's hair stand on end and his heart feel cold.
Jiang Yu looked calm as he pushed open the wooden door and walked straight in. The further he went into the house, the colder it became. It was clearly summer with a temperature of over 30 degrees Celsius, but he couldn't help shivering as if he had walked into an ice cellar.
There was a faint woody scent in the air. Looking towards the center of the living room, there was an incense burner in front of the TV, with three unlit incense sticks stuck upside down.
Jiang Yu used his cell phone to light the room and walked around the living room.
The living room was very empty. The only furniture was a wooden coffee table, a wooden sofa, a TV and an incense burner. The traces of the furniture's long-term placement could still be seen on the floor.
Jiang Yu looked up and saw that the large window on the side for lighting was covered with a layer of black plastic film, and the black plastic curtains were pulled down and pulled tightly.
The doors and windows in the room were closed, and a cool breeze blew continuously without any source, which just lightly slid across the skin, penetrated into the flesh and blood, and reached the heart.
It's like the chill you feel upon entering the building is magnified several times.
At this moment, the sound of wind chimes came from overhead. The crisp and pleasant sound was long and lingered in the house for a long time.
They both looked up at the ceiling.
There are not only wind chimes on the ceiling, but also a small upside-down statue of Guanyin.
"The incense is inserted upside down and the Guanyin is hung upside down. This house is really weird." Yu Shu felt uneasy and leaned closer to Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu took a talisman and stuck it on his and Yu Shu's shoulders: "With the Guanyin statue hanging upside down and the Buddha with closed eyes, plus the incense sticks stuck upside down inside and outside, this room is a man-made treasure trove of filthy evil spirits, specifically for the dead to live in."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Yu put his arms around Yu Shu's thighs, exerted force from his waist and hips, and lifted him up high.
The sudden rise into the air made Yu Shu a little overwhelmed.
"Take Guanyin down." Jiang Yu ordered.
Yu Shu did as he was told, but the moment his hand touched the Guanyin statue, a cold, wet liquid trickled down his wrist. At the same time, his vision went black, and a dizziness washed over him, like a beating from a fist and a kick, instantly draining his strength. However, he summoned his willpower and raised his hand to pull down the Guanyin statue.
"I feel dizzy whenever I touch this Guanyin." Yu Shu placed the Guanyin statue next to the incense burner as Jiang Yu asked. He observed it carefully for several seconds. However, the Guanyin statue was dry and there was no water stain at all. He didn't know if it was an optical illusion or if he had been fooled.
"There is too much negative energy." Jiang Yu said.
Jiang Yu straightened the incense stick that was stuck upside down and lit it, and then he straightened the chopsticks that were stuck upside down at the door.
But the incense didn't smell fragrant at all, instead it had a faint rotten smell.
At the same time, the sound of water dripping onto the ground in the room became clearer and clearer.
As you get closer to the room, the foul smell becomes stronger and the ticking sound becomes clearer.
Jiang Yu pushed open the door calmly.
I saw a swollen and water-stained man lying on the bed, and the dripping sound was the water flowing down the corner of his clothes.
Yu Shu suddenly understood what was going on. What he saw in front of him was not a human being at all, but a rotten, smelly, and swollen corpse!
And what dripped onto the ground was corpse water.
But before Jiang Yu could speak, the corpse on the bed started moving on its own!
The body of the corpse did not move, but its head turned 180 degrees, and its eye sockets full of maggots stared at the two of them. Then it grinned, and turbid and foul-smelling liquid flowed out like a waterfall.
Yu Shu's psychological endurance has improved a lot, but when he saw such a disgusting scene, his stomach kept churning and he couldn't help but dry heave.
With a thud, the man's head fell off and rolled to Yu Shu's feet, just meeting the sight of Yu Shu who was retching with his head down.
Yu Shu almost couldn't help but scream, and kicked it away reflexively.
However, in Jiang Yu's eyes, there was nothing unusual about the bed except that it was smelly and wet.
But he quickly realized that Yu Shu felt dizzy when he touched Guanyin as soon as he finished speaking, so he quickly grabbed Yu Shu's hand and led him out of the room.
"That corpse is so disgusting." Yu Shu covered his mouth, still feeling nauseous.
Jiang Yu glanced around fiercely: "That's not a corpse, it's the soul of Wang Zhiyao's father. You bumped into the Guanyin statue, and I put the incense sticks in the right place, so you saw him."
"I'm not going to be possessed by a ghost, am I?!"
"Unless he's so stupid that he'd rather be trapped here forever."
Yu Shu breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as he lowered his eyes, the Guanyin statue that was originally facing the coffee table now had its back to it.
"The Guanyin statue...has changed direction!" Yu Shu suddenly felt a chill crawling up his spine.
Jiang Yu lowered his head when he heard the voice. He not only saw that the Guanyin statue had changed direction, but also saw some special residues on it.
The trace was exactly the same as the trace shown by the magic circle set up in the school.
It turned out that he had made a wrong judgment from the beginning. Nothing was a coincidence. The real culprit behind the scenes, whom they had been looking for for so long, had been staying by their side in an inconspicuous manner.
No wonder all the people who got into trouble were related to him!
"I know where the poison is."
Yu Shu was stunned for two seconds before coming to his senses: "Huh?! Where is it?"
"In the hospital, and we are very familiar with him." Jiang Yu's eyes flashed with determination in the darkness.
Yu Shu narrowed his eyes, a vague answer in his mind, half believing and half doubting: "Is it really Wang Zhiyao?"
Jiang Yu nodded heavily, feeling helpless about his misjudgment. He was certain that the poison could not reach Wang Zhiyao, but the fact was that simple.
"So it really is him..."
Yu Shu was not surprised at all. He had suspected Wang Zhiyao a long time ago because many clues led to Wang Zhiyao, especially the notebook, which was like a roll call. The order of all the names on it corresponded exactly to the order in which the students had accidents.
But Jiang Yu and he were both deceived by what was written in the book.
"Go to the hospital?" Yu Shu asked again.
Jiang Yu shook his head: "I need to go back and prepare something."
Although the poison has no immediate effect on Wang Zhiyao, Wang Zhiyao is just an ordinary person with a weak body after all. There is no guarantee that he will not cause any harm to Wang Zhiyao after he leaves.
They have to minimize the damage as much as possible.
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