Chapter 69: Don’t learn math, physics, and chemistry, life is full of magic “…
"..." Tim's expression was unnatural for a moment, but he quickly hid his emotions.
"The New York guys always speak highly of their partners."
Ryushu smiled at him, "But your situation is different."
"Bruce always says he hates Batman, but now he hasn't said he hates Superman."
"What if—"
"For Superman, those few words of thanks might be enough, but that's just speculation. You can ask him someday."
"He should know..." Tim looked at the pink roses on the bush next to him.
After being prompted, Liu Shu realized that there was something extra next to her. She was a little surprised. The Kryptonians were stronger than she thought.
"Are these the flowers he gave you? So cool!" Liu Shu put the flowers Tim handed her back into his hand.
"No... never mind..." Tim seemed to want to say something, but gave up.
"Should we go look at the winter flowering trees?" He pulled a photo of a hand-drawn map from his pocket.
"Are campus ghost stories so specific?" It no longer sounded like a ghost story. Liu Shu took a look and took note of the hand-drawn map.
"As a campus legend, this map is the only one that fits," Tim said, retracting the photo. "There's no reference point, just a few lines drawn on the road. Finding the exact location will take some time."
He was still too conservative, there were still many strange stick figures on the map.
"Skip the map and go straight to finding it." He didn't know how such an abstract picture came into his hands. "Where did you take the photo?"
"There's a detective agency next to the reading club. I saw it when I passed by." Tim didn't look like he was bluffing.
"Out-of-season plants usually appear because the ambient temperature doesn't match the season. Let's first look for a warm place in school." Liu Shu's impression of plants came from the natural encyclopedia he read as a child.
"Yeah." Tim nodded and followed her.
But why would it be included in the investigation list just because it blooms out of season?
No, there must be a villain related to plants, Liu Shu suddenly understood.
All abnormalities need to be investigated.
But Gotham is so big that they can only keep an eye on what’s happening around them, which is really troublesome just thinking about it.
"Why did you think of helping the detective agency find these things?" You might as well ask, since the person is right next to you.
“This is fun.”
"...Really?" His answer was completely different from what Liu Shu had guessed. "Did you have fun?"
"I'm glad," Tim realized they were heading towards the cafeteria. "The kitchen temperature will definitely be higher."
"Do the trees here bloom?" They walked to the cafeteria door, but Liu Shu couldn't recognize the common trees here. They were completely different from those at home.
"This is a jacaranda, and this is a honey locust," Tim looked at her. "There's also an elm tree in front of the school. They'll all be in bloom."
"Which one do you think it is?" They were all trees he had heard of, and Secretary Liu wrote down the two he had just mentioned.
"Jacaranda? After all, it's the most conspicuous." Tim took out the photo and wanted to see if there were any clues on the map.
"Is this red cross the destination?" It looked like a treasure map, but that was the only resemblance. Liu Shu leaned over to take a look.
He lowered the photo a little and pointed to a black rectangle on the edge. "Do you think there's a possibility that this is the school gate?"
"Then this is the teaching building..." Liu Shu didn't quite understand why the person who drew this thing drew the teaching building into a key.
"Is this the key?"
“It feels like it.”
“Why are you drawing this?”
"Hmm - it does symbolize wisdom. These lines are not roads, but the walls of buildings. He directly connects the nearby ones." Tim frowned slightly.
There were some other patterns, but they no longer wanted to guess. They had racked their brains just to figure out a key.
"In the cafeteria, as expected," Liu Shu took a step back and raised his head, "Shall we go to the back and take a look?"
"good."
Walking around to the side of the building, they saw a jacaranda in a strange state.
Some flowers have bloomed near the wall, but there are not many leaves on the outward-facing branches.
Glancing at the still lush grass on the ground, Tim jumped to the wall and raised his hand to touch it.
"How is it?" Judging from his expression, he was not surprised at all. Liu Shu stepped back slightly to allow him to jump back.
"It's hot."
That’s right, Liu Shu nodded to him.
"That should be the kitchen," Tim dusted off his hands. "Just like you said."
"Aren't you coming over?" Liu Shu took two steps back.
Tim reached her in just one step. "You don't have to go that far. Trust me."
"I'm sure you can jump over it," Liu Shu suddenly thought of something funny. "If you trip over something, will you do a front flip to stand up?"
"That sounds like something Dick would do...just watch the road." Tim said with a smile. In fact, he never watched the road at home and would just sleep where he fell.
I always feel that this person is speaking against his will, and Liu Shu keenly noticed the indifference in his words.
"Actually, I have another photo here." Tim blinked and flipped his hand like a magic trick to hold the photo between his fingers.
"Are there a lot of ghost stories at our school?" How could she not know anything about them? She didn't seem to have been at school very long, though. Liu Shu grabbed Tim's wrist and began looking at the photos.
"There seem to be thirteen."
"That's too many." Liu Shu knew that 13 was a symbol of bad luck here, and he didn't know how many things the classmates had found as ghost stories to actually get thirteen.
"It's a bit much."
"Are we going to finish searching today?"
The photo shows an old teaching building, which is located near the previous warehouse and is no longer in use.
Liu Shu let him go, "Isn't that place fenced off?"
"This is the last one," Tim waved the photo. "Even though it's fenced off, people always go there."
"What about other strange stories?"
"Those are too unoriginal. I don't want to count stairs in the corridor or wander around in the bathroom." He shook his head.
"It's really unoriginal." It all sounded familiar. Liu Shu walked in front again. She was actually very interested in these.
Tim seemed to have noticed. He smiled and walked beside her. "I got this from a member of the detective agency. There are notes on the back."
"What did you write?"
"Every Friday at 1:15 PM, there's a strange noise in the third-to-last classroom on the top floor of the abandoned teaching building."
"The time and place are so accurate?"
"The people who gave me the photo said they went to see it on Friday and heard the sound. They added this exact time. The full name of the rumor seems to be 'Friday's Weird Cry for Help'." Tim said seriously.
"How weird." It sounded abnormal. Liu Shu glanced at the person next to him, wondering how he could say this without any shame.
"?" Tim was a little confused, he didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with it.
"This naming method has a second-grade middle school aesthetic," Liu Shu looked up from his position in front of the makeshift wall. "Shall we climb over it?"
Tim knocked on the wall in front of him. "These are all wooden boards. They are not very strong. If you are not careful, you will get hurt. Let's find the door."
Obviously he was taking care of her, and Liu Shu understood. She followed Tim along the wall for a while and finally found a gap where she could walk in sideways.
It wasn't a particularly scary place, it was just rather empty, with barely any plants, probably because it was winter.
Liu Shu looked at the teaching building. The walls had peeled off, revealing the bricks inside. The entrance doors were nowhere to be seen. She looked to the right and found the frames of the doors. Only broken glass remained of the original glass doors, piled under the rusted metal door frames.
Those are probably the only dangerous ones.
“Why is this place fenced off?”
"We need to tear it down and build a new one." Tim stepped onto the steps at the door. He walked to the supporting column and looked around the hall.
Because of the large flow of people, half of the first floor of a teaching building is often a lobby, with stairs on both sides of the building, and there must be more than three exits.
"Did you see anything?" Liu Shu could only see that the foundation of the building was very good and there was no cutting of corners, but it was just that time had made it unusable.
“It’s well built.”
"You've been looking at it for a long time..." Is this what you're looking at?
"It was donated by Bruce's parents."
"..." Liu Shu looked up at him, "Very impressive. Most of Gotham's infrastructure was funded and built by Wayne."
"I think it's amazing, too." Tim laughed.
He still looks better like this, Liu Shu nodded in satisfaction.
"But today isn't Friday." Would it be useful to climb up now? Liu Shu stepped onto the last step. She could tell from the dust on the ground that someone often came here.
The same was true on the stairs and in the hall, with dust in every corner, but there was very little dust in the middle of the road, and there were many shoe prints.
"We can install a camera here." Tim took out a lot of small things from his pocket. He seemed to want to install a complete set.
Is this right? Liu Shu sometimes really admires him, he can always take out tracking monitoring and eavesdropping.
"Ever since the cameras came out, there have been fewer and fewer ghosts." Although it's not very good, it is indeed very convenient. She looked at Tim with approval.
"Well, if a spirit really appeared, the machines would malfunction and the small animals would stay away." He raised his head. "There are bats here."
"It's so small." Liu Shu also saw the bat in the corner of the ceiling. It was hanging there upside down and motionless, but its eyes were always staring at them.
"I put it away."
"Let's put one in the third-to-last classroom as well." Multiple cameras are needed to record the whole thing. Liu Shu held up his mobile phone as a light source in the dark corridor.
"The third from the bottom is too vague. They didn't even mention the exact number." Tim looked towards the end of the corridor. "There are classrooms on both sides."
At this time, we have to judge where the most people have been based on the traces on the ground.
"Is this the place?"
The door was closed and the lock was broken, revealing a hole through which one could see into the classroom.
"If we can see eyes on the other side from here, then today's other two ghost stories are too weak." Liu Shu didn't really want to squat down, but Tim checked it immediately after discovering the keyhole.
Seeing him stand up with a serious expression, Liu Shu couldn't help but feel a little worried.
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