Who was the ghost hidden among the players, and how did he cause the male player to fall to his death? No one could figure it out. Instead, Cen Biexi, who had been missing for a whole morning, came back first.
He was still wearing his school uniform, but there were more wrinkles on the hem, and his eyes and brows looked more tired.
In the afternoon, Shi Yu pushed his wheelchair to the library.
There is a long corridor connecting the library and the teaching building. On weekdays, there are few people coming here, so it is quiet. This makes the voice behind the glass door seem even more abrupt: "Can you stay away from me?"
It was Lin Zhi's voice.
Cen Biesi pursed his lips: "I just want to help you."
"But your so-called help will only make my life worse!" It was like water that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly boiling, and even the ending tone was trembling with hysteria.
Lin Zhi's eyes were red. "Do you know what you are like in school? Yes, you are the face of the school. You attend classes on time, hand in homework on time, and always get first place in exams. You have so much money that you can buy breakfast for people around you every day. The teachers treat you like a treasure. Both men and women are willing to approach you and bow to you.
"But I can't! I'm not as smart as you. I have to get up before dawn every morning. I read books and practice exercises every day. During exam week, I sleep less than four hours a day. Even the time for eating and going to the toilet is squeezed out. Even so, I can only maintain my grades at the top of the grade. I can never reach the ceiling above! I have no family, no background. If I want to make a name for myself and want to have a less difficult life in the future, I can only rely on myself. I have to study at school and make money on weekends. Slightly more formal places outside don't recruit child laborers. I can only beg them and tell them that if I don't have money, I can't even afford to eat!"
"Do you know what other people say about us? You have everything, but other people only flatter you. You say you want to help me, but where were you when I had to spend time cleaning up the water that the sanitation committee member poured on my desk and chair every morning when I arrived in the classroom? Where were you when the study committee member deliberately took less of my share every time they distributed some materials? Where were you when the boss of the part-time job shop kicked me out and threw garbage all over me?! What else have you given me except trouble?!"
Cen Biesi froze in place, his eyes filled with confusion and helplessness, and he opened his mouth: "...I'm sorry."
Lin Zhi turned a deaf ear and roared, "Don't let me see you! Get out of here!"
This is probably the most hurtful thing a girl has ever said in her life.
Cen Biesi left the library in a daze and accidentally bumped into a wheelchair outside. He fell down and was then caught by a hand.
"Thank you..." He quickly stood up and looked up to see the person's face. "Shi Yu? Are you here to borrow books from the library?"
"Return the book." Shi Yu glanced at the glass door. "Did you have a fight?"
"Did you hear that?"
"Um."
After a moment of silence, Cen Biexi seemed to lose his temper. He grabbed a handful of hair, squatted down, and buried his face in his knees: "I didn't know she lived like this."
"What does her life have to do with you?"
“…But this is all my fault.”
Shi Yu: "Do you like Lin Zhi?"
Cen Biexi's voice paused: "...Ah?"
"It's not between friends, it's the kind of liking a boy has for a girl, it's about sexual awareness." Shi Yu said, "Do you like her?"
Cen Biexi probably didn't expect someone to ask so directly. He was stunned for a few seconds and his ears gradually turned red.
But the other party didn't intend to let him go: "Do you like it?"
He pursed his lips and was silent for a long time before he responded very softly, "Yeah."
Shi Yu said: "You like her, so you regard all the sufferings she has experienced in the past as your dereliction of duty."
Cen Biesi raised his head suddenly, his eyes red: "No, it's not like that..."
Shi Yu said calmly, "You said you hurt her, but I only saw you carrying her to the infirmary when she fell, I saw you bringing her breakfast every day, I saw you secretly sending her back at night before going into your own dormitory, but I didn't see you hurt her in any way."
"She was hurt by those classmates who liked to watch the fun, the teacher who lacked concern for her students, the part-time shop owner who violated the dignity of others, and even herself who was incompetent. What did you do wrong?"
"She feels wronged, don't you feel wronged?"
The boy couldn't even organize a single word of rebuttal.
How can you not feel aggrieved when the person you like tells you to get lost in person?
It was a very windy evening. Shi Yu pushed the wheelchair towards the wall and said, "I've always been confused. Why do so many people in the class think that there's nothing right between you two?"
Cen Biesi was stunned, as if he didn't understand what he meant.
"Since you are all in adolescence, you should be able to empathize with me. It is too black and white and too extreme to use cold violence against Lin Zhi just because of the difference in material conditions between you. Just to say that the two of you appear on the honor roll together every time you take an exam, I think even if everyone knew about it, they would just be happy to see it happen."
"The bright moon on a branch startled a magpie." He whispered, "Even your names match each other. Who else could be so destined as you two?"
Cen Biexi's eyes suddenly trembled.
Shi Yu shook the book in his hand and said, "I'll go in first."
Cen Biesi didn't let out a long breath until he could no longer see him, then he left the corridor in a panic.
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Lin Zhi hasn't left yet.
As soon as Shi Yu entered the room, as expected, he saw the girl hiding on the other side of the stone wall.
Lin Zhi hung his head and his shoulders were shaking.
Shi Yu didn't look at her, but didn't leave either. He just stopped beside her and casually flipped through the thick-covered book in his hand.
The library is different from the teaching building, it is not a place with lights all the time. The last class in the afternoon ended very late, and now it is already dark, hiding the despair and collapse in the shadows.
As soon as I vented my overwhelming emotions, I felt empty and cold in my heart.
Lin Zhi cried hard, but no matter how hard she cried, she kept silent, shedding tears one by one. After she finally calmed down, she raised her hand and saw a pack of napkins.
She stared at it for two seconds, and finally gave up on herself and took it. She used half a pack to clean herself up, then looked up at the wheelchair beside her: "You, do you want to return the book? I'll go up for you."
She cried so hard that she had difficulty breathing and her speech was intermittent.
Shi Yu: "Why don't you let him help you?"
Lin Zhi's hands were shaking and he could hardly hold the paper bag.
"If someone bullies you, you can tell him. He is willing to be used by you anyway." Shi Yu said slowly, "Since you feel troubled, why don't you say it?"
The two of them had barely spoken to each other in class, so they were not at all familiar with each other, and naturally it was impossible for them to really open their hearts and talk about these issues.
Lin Zhi was silent for a moment, and finally whispered: "You have never liked anyone."
Shi Yu nodded.
"That's why you ask." Lin Zhi wiped the tears from her eyes, "I can't use him because I can't bear to do so."
Shi Yu looked at her for a while: "Just because of this?"
Lin Zhi lowered his head: "What else?"
The light in the sky disappeared and darkness gradually fell.
Shi Yu could no longer see a single word clearly in the light from the glass, so he simply raised his head from the book and asked, "Then why do you care so much about Su Lingque?"
Like a sudden thunderclap in the quiet clouds.
At that moment, the girl's eyes were filled with too complicated emotions. She opened her mouth anxiously to explain or question something, but in the end she said nothing. She just lowered her head silently, staring at a corner of the tiles on the ground.
The two of them were silent.
Until an extremely cold aura suddenly rose from behind the two of them.
It was completely dark.
Darkness is the best hiding place for shadows, and only the trembling air reveals the danger beneath.
Shi Yu suddenly dodged to the open space in front. The wheelchair behind him made a clear crash sound, flipped sideways and slid several meters away on the ground, hitting the wall heavily.
Lin Zhi was probably frightened by the sudden noise. His legs, which had been crouching for a long time, became numb and he knelt on the ground. He shouted in panic towards the place where the noise came from, "What happened?"
As soon as the words fell, a beam of light suddenly lit up in the darkness.
Shi Yu was leaning against the wall, holding a cell phone that the school strictly prohibited from carrying, and the light was coming from the rearview mirror.
The aggressive ghosts suddenly stopped and retreated.
Lin Zhi looked around on the ground for a moment before he stood up again: "What was that just now?"
Although the ghost did not attack, the cold aura around it clearly showed that it had not left, but was hiding right under their noses, but they just couldn't see it.
Silent and even unable to attack.
The light from the cell phone's flashlight shone on the exit, and the glass door that was originally wide open was unexpectedly locked at some point, and the two of them were trapped in a jar.
Completely passive.
If you want to break the situation, you have to...
Shi Yu closed his eyes and did not answer her question. He asked again: "Why do you care so much about Su Lingque?"
The surroundings were extremely dark, and the low temperature caused by the chilly air condensed into a thin mist on the ground, which then silently turned into thin ice, with the flashlight reflecting a dazzling ball on the ground.
Lin Zhi couldn't see his face clearly, and before she could think of how to answer, he continued, "Because she's dead? Because she and Cen Biexi were classmates? Or because you look like her?"
The girl shivered from the cold.
"I've heard many people say that you have a curse on you, and that anyone who gets close to you will be unlucky. This is also true for other students." Shi Yu said, "But Cen Biesi stays by your side every day, so why is he the only one who is not affected?"
"Why do the malice carried by those so-called curses affect those who are close to you? Is it because most of those who have approached you will only bully you, or is it because the malice itself is not intended to affect them at all?"
He didn't use a questioning tone, but remained calm, as if reciting a distant story: "You know Su Lingque once existed, and you also know that you look a lot like her. This is actually the real reason why you have been deliberately avoiding Cen Biesi, right? Because you are afraid that his attitude towards you is just due to transference."
"You don't like those who bully you, but you also don't like Cen Biexi. But you can't bring yourself to do that to Cen Biexi, so those people are the ones who are unlucky. This is the only possibility I can think of."
Lin Zhi's hands were shaking and he couldn't utter a word.
The other person stood in front of her without her knowing when.
Shi Yu lowered her head and unlocked her phone: "Actually, I really don't understand."
The phone's lock screen was opened, and it was still on the recording interface that was used not long ago.
He turned up the volume.
"Do you like Lin Zhi?"
"It's not between friends, it's the kind of liking a boy has for a girl, it's about sexual awareness."
"……Um."
Lin Zhi opened his eyes wide, almost in confusion.
"I don't quite understand," Shi Yu raised his eyes, "Why in your cognition, you are always just Su Lingque's shadow, and never yourself?"
The words fell to the ground.
The air in the room condensed slightly, and then the wind suddenly picked up.
The huge monster crouching in the darkness suddenly disappeared, and the extremely low temperature began to warm up.
At the same time, the system message is automatically updated on each player's wristband:
[The main mission of the game has been completed]
[Participating players are still in place, and all members' quests continue (find the ghost hidden among you/hide your own ghost identity)]
[Note: Ordinary players need to find and kill the only ghost player. The ghost player needs to cooperate with the ghosts to kill ordinary players until the number of ordinary players remaining is less than or equal to their own number; players can kill each other]
At this moment, all over the campus.
The remaining five ordinary players were overwhelmed with emotion when they saw the message sent by the bracelet.
Shi Yu lowered her eyes, and the fluorescent light on her wrist came into view. After the public information was released, the private message popped up:
[Your identity: Ghost player]
……Good.
He thought, he had just killed the ghost that he was supposed to help kill ordinary players.
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