Behind that wall stood a bewildered Linlang. Upon seeing Shekh, she immediately exclaimed, "605! They're in 605!"
"No need to look anymore, they've arrived."
Sher turned his head and saw Shi Jinzhe, who seemed to be doing as usual, helping the disfigured Zhou Xiao walk towards them.
Upon seeing that she was unharmed, Shi Jinzhe shook his head, indicating that he was also not injured and not to worry.
Shekh's gaze fell on his bare fingers. "What happened between you two?"
“I was sent to room 605. The teacher was covered in chemical reagents. When I arrived, she was having a fit of madness, so I traded my ring with her and managed to buy her some time.”
Shi Jinzhe sent Shehe to see Zhou Xiao, saying, "The teacher loves money, and he couldn't afford it, so he went crazy."
"that's all?"
"Really, you can ask him if you don't believe me."
"Yes, it's true." Zhou Xiao looked down at the ground, his voice lacking confidence: "I was originally going to 705, but then the illusion space shook and suddenly threw me into 605. As soon as I entered, I was dumped in front of the teacher and burned all over by the sulfuric acid that dripped from her mouth. I was so desperate at the time. If I had been drowned in her saliva, I would never want to be a human again."
"Is that so?" Shekh stared at Zhou Xiao, trying to discern more. "Why do you seem a little guilty?"
"...Boss, look at the injuries on my face. If you hadn't asked, I wouldn't even want to talk. How could I not be scared?"
Zhou Xiao removed his hand, revealing his face with its skin torn and bleeding profusely from his mouth.
“It’s true. We just ran into each other when the space was shattered.” Shi Jinzhe sighed and raised his hand to Shehe: “What would I do without you?”
Shekh helped him put the ring back on: "Stop with the sweet talk, or I'd think your arm had been chopped off."
Shi Jinzhe: "Then I'll be more like you, which is great."
Shekh: ...
ill.
The four reunited, and Shi Jinzhe approached the ruins, pressed down on the golden vines above, and said, "This is a person, it's Old Zhao."
Linlang emerged from behind the ruins: "Old Zhao?"
Shi Jinzhe: "Yes, everyone here has another side, perhaps the most obvious characteristic, or perhaps the most essential psychological reflection. And Lao Zhao, because he loves his daughter, has become an indestructible wall, protecting Xiao Zhao every night."
Shekh: "No wonder the explosion couldn't destroy this wall."
Zhou Xiao covered his face: "Yeah, when I went up to 705, I found that there was no one inside. There was no one on the entire seventh floor. Old Zhao was definitely not on the seventh floor."
Linlang: "But Old Zhao loves his daughter so much, didn't he realize that Little Zhao is a fake?"
"Let him answer himself." Shi Jinzhe put away the golden vine and watched as the dilapidated wall gradually transformed into a man in his fifties covered in wounds.
Old Zhao looked much more disheveled than he had in the morning. He sat on the ground, his eyes vacant, and showed no reaction to the group.
After observing for a while, Sher held out his palm above Old Zhao's head and said, "Zheng Jingjing, you can say it or he can say it, choose one."
When Jin Teng was absorbing Lao Zhao's life force, blood vessels appeared and attacked. Zheng Jingjing cared about Lao Zhao a lot, and she wouldn't ignore it.
Sure enough, strands of blood appeared out of nowhere, coiling and intertwining, and soon formed the shape of a "person".
"vomit."
Linlang covered her mouth and gagged.
The Zheng Jingjing in front of her seemed to be covered by a dense mass of red earthworms. The twisted and writhing blood figure was just lines, with no facial features or skin, which made her feel nauseous.
Behind Zheng Jingjing, a shattered heart pressed against her back. The heart was much smaller than before, enveloped in a thick black-gold color, shrouded in despair and pain, making it hard for her to breathe.
"Zheng Jingjing...?"
"It's me."
The suffering caused her heart to break down, making it difficult for Zheng Jingjing to construct illusions anymore. She could only appear in front of everyone in this form.
Her body was facing Old Zhao on the ground, her voice deep and hoarse, making listeners' ears itch.
"Let him go."
Shehrley remained unmoved, his posture unchanged: "Tell me the whole story first."
Zheng Jingjing paused for a moment, then spoke, giving the four of them a big shock, "Xiao Zhao and I are half-sisters, Xiao Zhao's full name is Zhao Jingjing."
Zhou Xiao stared in disbelief: "...So...melodramatic."
"Old Zhao had me with my mother before he got married. They later broke up peacefully. A year later, he met and married Xiao Zhao's mother through a blind date."
“It wasn’t until high school that I discovered a problem with the child support my mother was receiving, and that I learned I had a younger sister who was two years younger than me, and that we were in the same school, where she was my junior.”
Shi Jinzhe said, "So you deliberately approached Xiao Zhao?"
Zheng Jingjing: "No, my mother told me not to bother her family, but I was a little curious about her, so I paid more attention to her. Xiao Zhao found out and thought it was because we were both named Jingjing, so we became friends."
"She's a bit silly, a little spoiled, and has a strong personality, but she's really good to me. I don't like socializing, and whenever I'm alone, she stops playing with others and comes to keep me company. You could say she's both my sister and my only friend."
Shi Jinzhe glanced at Old Zhao: "And what about him? Do you know?"
"Old Zhao found out about our relationship very quickly. He had a talk with me and said that we could be friends, but he hoped that I would not reveal the true relationship between me and Xiao Zhao. Xiao Zhao is a bit spoiled and arrogant. If he finds out about this, it will not be good for either of our families."
“I promised to only be good friends with Xiao Zhao. Maybe it’s because of blood ties, but she’s quite close to me. I’ve been a part of her life, from graduation to dating to marriage.”
Zheng Jingjing changed her tone as she spoke: "It's just that she has bad taste. She's stubborn and insists on marrying a gigolo who has nothing and can only write some flowery nonsense to fool Xiao Zhao."
Upon hearing this, Shi Jinzhe felt a slight pain in his knee for some reason.
Shekh said bluntly, "Don't you sisters have the same taste?"
Zheng Jingjing was speechless, then said self-deprecatingly, "That's right, that's why we're sisters."
Shekh asked, "And then what happened?"
"You know what happened next. After a few years of marriage, Xiao Zhao suspected that her husband had changed his mind and begged me to help her test his sincerity. I did, but she was stubborn and unwilling to believe it."
Zheng Jingjing turned her head, which was wrapped in red silk, and looked at Linlang. "Do you know why the letter you could easily find in the study didn't arouse Xiao Zhao's suspicion?"
Linlang: "...Because you have the same name, Qingxin can also be called Zhao Jingjing."
"Yes, she knows these things, but she just wants to deceive herself, saying that maybe it's a letter for her. I think she won't admit it until she sees the coffin, so she deliberately bookmarked it a few times."
At this point, Zheng Jingjing's attitude turned to one of unease, "Then she began to doubt whether I had really fallen in love with her husband."
"…………"
The complete silence inside the room clearly revealed the inner thoughts of the people present.
After a few seconds, the experienced Shi Jinzhe composed himself and asked Zheng Jingjing, "Did something else happen, like she found out about your relationship?"
The trap set by Lao Zhao is easy to trigger. If they hadn't seen each other for years, that would be one thing, but the two sisters have become best friends, and their families must know something about each other's families. This makes it too easy for the truth to be exposed.
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