Disappearing Class (Ten)
When Youyi woke up, he found himself in the hospital. His memory and consciousness returned. He thought about it and sat up from the bed.
Apart from feeling weak all over and having a slight headache, he didn't feel any other discomfort. He didn't know if the others could still breathe, so he had to check before he could feel at ease.
As soon as their feet touched the ground, someone pushed the door and walked in. The two of them looked at each other and froze in place.
Finally, Nan Zhou put down the thermos in his hand and said, "You are awake. The doctor said that you are still very weak and you can't walk around even if you wake up."
He walked over to You Yi and saw that he was just staring at him without saying anything. He felt a little uncomfortable. "Your aunt and the others have been watching over you for two days. You are resting next door. Don't tell me that you lost your memory after sleeping. I will beat you up."
You Yi stared at him and suddenly laughed. His smile was colder than ever before. "I saved you twenty times in the illusion, watched you die seventeen times, and succeeded three times. But every time someone told me it was fake."
Nan Zhou froze in place, moving his lips but not uttering a word.
You Yi stood up and grabbed him by the collar, "This is the 21st time. People say that things never happen more than three times. You said that I have doubled my chance now. If it is still fake now, I might as well kill you myself."
His tone was very calm, a kind of calmness before a breakdown or madness.
"I'm sorry." Nan Zhou's eyes turned red. "I didn't expect... I couldn't do anything at that time, but now I promise that everything is true and we are still alive."
You Yi looked at him steadily, and after a while he slowly let him go, "Okay, why are you crying? I should be the one howling more."
No matter how many times, no matter how much doubt I have in my heart, as long as it is him, I will give him my trust as if it were free.
Admit defeat.
He couldn't help but think so when he was hugged by Nan Zhou.
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Mo Liuying and Shen Mengze sat side by side on the hospital bed. They had just seen off other classmates who came to visit them. They woke up half a day earlier than Youyi.
"Youyi should be waking up soon. I wonder how he will react when he sees Nanzhou?" Mo Liuying put the old file in her hand on the table.
"Don't mention him, I felt like I was dreaming when I saw Nan Zhou." Shen Mengze smiled, and it was obvious that he was very happy.
When he woke up and regained his memory, he pieced together the cause and effect of the event.
After school started, classmates disappeared one after another, and a rumor began to spread on campus that the curse of Class 5 had come for the third time.
At that time, not only them, but also the school staff, the police and the parents made a lot of efforts, but students still disappeared one after another, and no one saw them alive or dead.
The missing person went to the old campus before disappearing, but the police searched the old campus and could not find the missing person.
As for these missing people, all their experiences can no longer be simply called illusions. They are more like a space constructed by two generations of vengeful spirits. In that space, everything is extremely real, and not all the dead people have the same good luck as Nan Zhou.
Many of them have not even been found with their bodies, and they must have remained in that constructed space forever.
"Don't you think this incident is very much like a game?" Chen Mengze said.
Mo Liuying looked at him in surprise, "What do you mean?"
"Because if you think about it carefully, the Ghost Society is like an important plot point in a horror game that provides key clues to break the game."
Chen Mengze pondered, "To be honest, the things in that space have too many opportunities to kill us, but there is obviously a rule that restrains them, not allowing them to kill indiscriminately or not."
He said, "Your and my situations are special and they are separate, but it's a miracle that the others are still alive."
After the last incident in Liwan, they gathered together for an in-depth conversation. Chen Mengze told Mo Liuying and the others about the anomalies that had happened around him over the years, as well as what the ghost messenger had said to them.
So now Mo Liuying certainly understood what he meant when he said their situation was special.
She said, "Didn't the ghost say that the situation is turning around? Don't you also feel that things are getting better?"
Chen Mengze said, "That's true, but I think the situation is not getting better out of thin air. There really is a force that intervened to protect us, especially before He Guang appeared."
Mo Liuying nodded. She also agreed with Shen Mengze's idea. A name flashed through her mind: Gu Xitong.
Chen Mengze added, "Although I have accepted these abnormalities in myself, the incident in Class 5 is still too shocking. Counting our class, this is the third Class 5. If this happened once, it would be enough to shock the whole country, but the fluctuation caused by three consecutive incidents is only within this city."
And this fluctuation will probably fade away in the near future.
Mo Liuying said, "It's not surprising. According to common sense, our school should have become a well-known ghost school and could not continue to operate. But it still exists safely and is still an enviable good school with a very strong faculty."
She said, "There is a force that influences the world, making people take these things for granted. Just like in recent years, we also feel that what has happened to us is terrible, but we are still immersed in an illusion that we can bear it. We have never been sober as we are now."
In fact, according to common sense, madness or death is the outcome that she and Shen Mengze should have, just like those people who left them in the past years.
Shen Mengze was silent for a long time before he continued, "I just said that there was a force that intervened to protect us, allowing Nan Zhou and the others to survive the disaster. I have a guess about this force."
Mo Liuying said, "Gu Xitong."
Shen Mengze nodded slowly, “You really…it was only after I came back that I remembered that there was no such person in our class.”
Mo Liuying looked at him, "Do you have the answer now?"
Chen Mengze sighed, "The only one who can break into that space and save us is the ghost messenger."
Mo Liuying nodded, "It was only after I actually met her that I dispelled my doubts about He Guang."
Chen Mengze was stunned, but he immediately understood what this meant, "Have you always believed that He Guang is the ghost messenger?"
Mo Liuying said, "Yes, the ghost messenger is like the policeman in the underworld. It is her duty to protect us again and again, but she is not our unilateral guardian and cannot protect us all the time. I used to think that she paid too much attention to us and always showed up at the right time."
"So, if He Guang is the Ghost Messenger, everything makes sense." Shen Mengze said what she wanted to say, "The Ghost Messenger has no reason to care about us, but He Guang does, and her skills and courage are far beyond those of ordinary people."
Mo Liuying looked at him, "It seems that you have had these ideas for a long time."
Shen Mengze smiled and did not deny it.
Mo Liuying continued, "Not only that, during the dream of death, after you entered the dream, I saw many dreams about He Guang, which I have never told you."
Her eyes were dim, "I saw her standing in a field of red spider lilies."
"Higanbana field?" Chen Mengze repeated.
The red spider lily is also known as the flower of the underworld. Legend has it that it blooms on the other side of the road to hell.
Mo Liuying's dreams have some predictive power. If she dreams of this kind of scene, it is really hard not to associate it with this aspect.
Of course, there is also the possibility that it is foreshadowing death, but it is really hard for people to associate this word with Kazuko.
Mo Liuying said, "You told us everything afterwards, so I'm not surprised why the Ghost Messenger paid so much attention to us."
A faint smile appeared on her face, somewhat self-deprecatingly, "Because we are the so-called children of destiny."
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In the garden downstairs, He Guang was touching Gu Xitong's arm in amazement, "Are you really the System?"
Gu Xitong nodded, "Yes, dear host, it's me. This body was produced by the Alliance Store. It looks no different from you humans, but it's just the appearance. The inside is still a bunch of data."
It was a familiar speaking style, but He Guang still found it unbelievable, as if the cat he raised suddenly cultivated into a human form one day, and when you were in danger, it descended from the sky like a hero to save you. It was simply full of a dreamlike sense of surprise.
Wako asked, "So you bought a body specifically to save us? It looks great."
Gu Xitong smiled sadly, "Actually I rented it. It's too expensive to buy it, and I don't have enough points. As for the name, it's a homonym. My master's surname is Gu."
[I couldn’t help but pinch myself. Xitong is equal to the system. I feel so stupid.]
[I actually thought about this, but it was too bizarre, so I didn’t say it]
[We thought the system was offline, but it was actually right under our noses]
[System, you can always see what we say, why don’t you say anything?]
[I give the system full marks for this show-off]
[Hahahaha, I deeply felt the poverty of the system]
Gu Xitong said, "Dear friends, I didn't mean to hide it from you, but the situation this time was too special and too dangerous. In order not to attract their attention, I didn't even contact the host."
[I don’t blame you, System-kun, what exactly is going on this time?]
[Yeah, you acted like a hero who was leaving to cover the enemy, I thought you wouldn’t be able to come back]
"The situation this time is similar to what that friend who always has bold ideas speculated. Several of Green Source's more well-known supernatural locations are all concentrated in the old campus. Many old friends have seen the most famous library, but it is not the most dangerous, although ordinary people will die if they step into it. But compared to those taboos that must not be mentioned, they are just small puddles."
Gu Xitong narrated, "The two most dangerous places in Luyuan are the Forest of No Return and the teaching building of Class 5 of Senior 1. You are no strangers to these two places. You also know about the situation of Class 5 in that small space. It has buried two classes of students of Class 5 of Senior 1 in 20 years. Except for one special case, no one of the 89 students survived.
If the host and I weren't here this time, Class 1 and 2 would have become the third Class 5 to disappear."
He Guang modestly did not want to share the credit, "This time it's all thanks to the system. Without you, I would definitely have capsized."
"Host, don't be too modest. I have seen your performance, and it is as good as ever." Gu Xitong immediately praised, "I am proud of you."
"System, you are so kind." He Guang was very touched.
[System and anchor's daily cornyness]
[Look up to the sky, we are all watching]
[I only now believe that this system is real. It is not easy to imitate the feeling of being able to be mushy with the anchor]
【Ha ha ha ha】
[Wait, the special case refers to Senior Sister Su, right? I really want to know how she survived this dead end. Is it really because she was an exchange student that year that she escaped? ]
[Yes, yes! Senior Sister Su couldn’t be the previous protagonist, right?]
[But the system says they are wiped out]
Gu Xitong smiled slightly, "She's already here."
【Meow meow meow? 】
[I feel like the system has become more reliable and mysterious now that people have come into contact with it.]
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He Guang raised his head and saw Su Zui walking slowly towards the garden entrance.
"Hello, junior high school girl!"
Kazumitsu waved in response, "Senior."
Su Zui walked over and said, "I heard something happened in your class, so I came to take a look. I didn't expect that what happened that year would happen again."
In fact, she had known that something had happened to Class 1 and 2 of Senior High School, and she had tried to go to the old campus to rescue people, but she couldn't even find the door to the ghost realm.
Sure enough, it is not a pleasant thing for people to always be aware of their own weakness.
She glanced at Gu Xitong, her eyes flashing with deep thought, but she spoke without beating around the bush.
"Schoolgirl, what did you experience in there?"
He Guang glanced at Gu Xitong, who nodded slightly, and she told him about her experience there.
"Did you lose your memory?" Su Zui touched his chin, "I was trying to trick you into thinking that was the real world!"
"Senior, is it true that you survived back then only because you became an exchange student as the rumors spread?" He Guang didn't beat around the bush. She could tell that Su Zui came here today just to talk to her.
"Of course... not." Su Zui stretched out his tone and sat down casually. "Back then, I didn't go abroad at all."
People who are familiar with Su Zui describe her with one word: heartless.
Friends who have known her for a long time all have a feeling about her. It seems that this person was a quiet and shy person before high school, but she has changed completely in just one year.
To be precise, it was during her freshman year of high school when she was an exchange student that her personality became more outgoing, lazy, and cheerful.
Su Zui sneered at the emotions and doubts of the people around him.
She thought, if you were like me, and suddenly fell into a curse called Class 5 when you were in high school, the whole class would be dragged into a dark ghostland. Except for your classmates, the whole world would be fake, and you would have to survive in that ghostland.
You have to forget that you are a human being. You have to be more evil, more cunning, and more daring than a ghost. You have to defend your class because it is the only island where you can live.
You still have to endure loss, and finally you return to reality with the living, but everyone's memory has been tampered with, and you become the only survivor.
Even if others are alive, you cannot be together and must remain silent forever.
You will find that this little bit of life is not worth mentioning.
But she had no one to talk to, until today.
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