Chapter 103 Haunted High School (37)
Wei Wan has already caught me, so there is no point in continuing to hide this photo.
Su Yue handed over the photo, and at the same time, Cang Zhi moved to Wei Wan's side imperceptibly, ready to catch it if Wei Wan fainted, so that Wei Wan would not hit his head on the stone floor or have any other accidents.
Wei Wan was stunned when he got the photo, and his eyes widened briefly.
Because his fever had just subsided, his face was so pale that it seemed transparent, and he looked very sick, which made Su Yue worried.
However, Wei Wan didn't suddenly faint or have any more extreme reactions as they worried. He was stunned for a moment and said softly, "Is he Gao Zhuo?"
"He..." Su Yue suddenly doubted himself for a moment. After all, there was nothing in the box that said "I am Gao Zhuo". There were only a bunch of awards belonging to Gao Zhuo and a photo of a handsome guy and Wei Wan.
However, Su Yue then decisively believed in his own judgment.
"It should be." Su Yue replied.
Wei Wan responded, and his attitude was so calm that Su Yue almost thought he had mistaken him for the wrong person, because he didn't react at all.
But then I realized that I was not wrong.
Wei Wan was clearly lost in thought. After a moment of silence, he said softly, "Shall we go back first? My mind is so confused."
"Okay." Su Yue agreed immediately.
On the way back, it was obvious that Wei Wan was distracted. Several times he mistook the steps for the ground and the ground for steps, and bumped into the tree headfirst.
If a player were a little slower to react, a key NPC in the game might be accidentally injured because of the memory he was about to find, and spend the rest of the game in a hospital bed.
However, under the escort of Su Yue and Cang Zhi, Wei Wan arrived at the dormitory safely.
He sat at Su Yue's desk, staring blankly at the photo. Su Yue and Cang Zhi didn't dare speak, watching him in silence. Outside the window, cicadas chirped raucously from their perched tree trunks. The pink sun gradually set in the west, until it dyed the branches swaying in the breeze, the sky, the earth, and even the window frames pink.
Wei Wan, who was sitting at the table like a stone statue, suddenly said, "I remember."
Su Yue and Cang Zhi turned their heads at the same time, just like sunflowers facing the sun. Wei Wan held the photo in both hands, his eyes unwilling to leave it for a moment, with a faint smile on his lips.
"I remember everything now." Wei Wan said.
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"Gao Zhuo." Wei Wan repeated the name softly, with a smile on his face, as if he was feeling a little nostalgic.
He looks very handsome when he smiles, but looking at his smile now only makes people feel a little sad.
"Is he your...lover?" Su Yue asked tentatively.
"No." Wei Wan replied.
Su Yue and Cang Zhi were both stunned.
"I like him and we have a good relationship, but we are not lovers," Wei Wan said.
Su Yue immediately began to think of some of the fearless plots of the scumbag in human novels. Looking at the pale and weak Wei Wan in front of him, his anger level increased by +100.
Wei Wan turned his gaze away from the photo and glanced at Su Yue. He was stunned for a moment and quickly waved his hand: "But it's not what you think. You think too much."
Su Yue: “…Oh.”
"We are very good friends." Wei Wan said, "He doesn't know I like him, and I don't dare tell him that I like him. Because I am very satisfied as long as we can be good friends, that's it."
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"Gao Zhuo is my classmate. We met in an elective course at the beginning of our freshman year. I was late for class that day and there was only an empty seat in the first row. He and I sat at the same table in that empty seat. It started like that very simply." Wei Wan said.
He smiled as he recalled these things, his dark pupils reflecting the brocade-like light of the setting sun. In his narration, Su Yue seemed to be able to see those scenes.
"We were both very famous in our grade, but not in the same way. He was a top student and handsome, so everyone admired him. I was famous because I was rich, a second-generation rich kid, and maybe a little bit because I was good-looking. A lot of people liked me, but it wasn't the same kind of liking that he liked."
Su Yue really wanted to interrupt and say that the person who likes you must like you sincerely, but he didn't want to interrupt Wei Wan's memories, so he gestured for him to continue.
“We were divided into a group and did group work.”
"I don't think Gao Zhuo would be too fond of students like me, because my grades were average at the time and I was often late. If my family wasn't wealthy and I wasn't a decent piano player, I wouldn't have been able to get into Jinling with my level of skill."
"I thought Gao Zhuo would ignore me, but after adding him, he took the initiative to discuss how to do the group collaboration. I was actually pretty bad at it, and it was just an elective. Who would really take an elective seriously in college? But Gao Zhuo kept me company."
At first, Wei Wan’s attitude was that if the top student wanted to do it, he could do it himself, and if he didn’t want to do it, he could just make a random slide show when the deadline was approaching. However, Gao Zhuo quickly brought several layouts and asked Wei Wan which one he liked, and also prepared a division of labor.
The key is that the part he gave to Wei Wan didn't even require Wei Wan to do too much homework, but it also made Wei Wan feel involved just in time. For example, Gao Zhuo would first check all the information, and then tell Wei Wan to arrange the information according to the already determined sections.
"In that elective course report, we unanimously received the highest score. We also won the school's monthly excellence medal for that report. I've never won anything like that before."
"I said to Gao Zhuo, you are so awesome! Let me treat you to a meal. I thought he would refuse, but he agreed. I treated him to a meal at a cafe near the school, and afterward he treated me to milk tea in return."
"At that time, our department had a midterm exam, and we had to take advanced mathematics. I was really bad at math, so one day I asked Gao Zhuo for help with a problem. Maybe because I got it wrong so badly, he said he would teach me."
Su Yue unexpectedly discovered that as Wei Wan spoke, images would appear before his eyes, which might also be a special event built into the game.
He saw Wei Wan, under the warm light of a second-floor coffee shop, spread out before her: a test paper, a math textbook, and a notebook. It must have been winter, for the coffee cup before her was emitting wisps of white steam, and she was wrapped in a large plaid cashmere scarf, her face appearing no larger than a palm.
Looking closely, the advanced mathematics book should be Wei Wan's, because it is so new that there is almost no sign of it being opened, and the notebook is definitely Gao Zhuo's, with the knowledge points densely packed in and recorded very carefully.
Gao Zhuo sat next to Wei Wan, slightly at an angle, not too close, but definitely not too far away. He was wearing a simple black down jacket, a straight-cut silhouette. It wasn't a very stylish outfit, but it was enough for him.
Wei Wan's brows were furrowed tightly as he stared at the questions on the paper in front of him for a long time. Finally, he threw his pen aside in frustration and complained, "What the hell is this! I can't even understand it!"
"I've told you this before." Gao Zhuo smiled. His voice was low and pleasant, the kind that made you know he was a big boss.
However, Mr. Gao had a good temper. He flipped the book in front of Wei Wan forward a few pages and pointed to a formula with a red wavy line. "Look, it's this formula. If you slightly deform it, it will be the stem of the problem."
Wei Wan looked at the textbook and the test paper in disbelief, and after a long while, he concluded, "It's become so bad that even its own mother wouldn't recognize it."
Gao Zhuo was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "That makes sense."
Gao Zhuo then explained to Wei Wan how to make the formula known to its true mother. He then performed a few simple calculations, so clearly that even Su Yue, who was watching, seemed to understand. Wei Wan naturally understood as well, his eyes widening as he finally blurted out, "Holy crap, there's even this trick?"
"Yes," Gao Zhuo said, "it's very interesting."
Wei Wan twirled his pen unconsciously, in a state where he felt that mathematics was not so scary, but at the same time, it was indeed very scary. Then, perhaps because he felt a little cold, he rubbed the back of his left hand with his right hand.
Gao Zhuo pushed the coffee cup a little towards Wei Wan.
The white foam on the surface of the coffee cup trembled, and the cinnamon powder on the milk foam also swayed cutely.
"Drink something before writing, otherwise your hands will be cold." Gao Zhuo said.
Wei Wan took a sip obediently, like a kitten licking water, and then asked Gao Zhuo, "Aren't you cold?"
"I'm not cold." Gao Zhuo smiled. "This temperature is nothing to me."
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"I later learned that Gao Zhuo's family was very poor. He had no living expenses, and his entire family's income came from his scholarships, grants, and the money he saved from working part-time," Wei Wan said. "Even so, every time we went out, he would buy me a drink, and I had to refuse."
"I used to think studying was meaningless, but gradually I seem to like studying."
Wei Wan paused, not even realizing that the corners of her mouth were slightly raised. "Or should I say, I've fallen in love with Gao Zhuo."
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But Gao Zhuo would not like Wei Wan, because he had no such concept at all.
Wei Wan didn't dare tell Gao Zhuo about his little thoughts. Given Gao Zhuo's upbringing, if he knew Wei Wan had such thoughts about him, he would definitely be shocked and would keep his distance from her.
So Wei Wan could only be Gao Zhuo's good friend. What made him happy was that Gao Zhuo also treated him as a good friend.
They would go to each other's classrooms to attend classes, but Gao Zhuo would really attend the classes while Wei Wan would secretly watch Gao Zhuo. They would also participate in club activities together.
Wei Wan plays the piano very well, and nervously invites Gao Zhuo to listen to her performance, because he feels that this act of presenting a treasure is childish, so he is very nervous.
When he heard it for the first time, Gao Zhuo applauded in surprise. By the second time, Gao Zhuo could tell the name and origin of the song Wei Wan played.
When Su Yue heard this, the scene appeared in front of his eyes again.
It was the music classroom, the one where someone had died before. No wonder Wei Wan got a headache when he was near it. But back then, the classroom was as peaceful and beautiful as a dream, with moonlight pouring down into the night.
Wei Wan sat in front of the piano, her body slightly bent, her fingers dancing on the keys like elves, and her fingertips flowing out in beautiful arcs like a waterfall.
Gao Zhuo sat in the first row of the classroom, listening attentively.
After Wei Wan finished playing the piano, she took out a box and handed it to Gao Zhuo, saying it was his internship gift. Gao Zhuo opened it and found a pair of leather shoes inside, the same pair of luxury leather shoes.
Gao Zhuo was stunned for a moment, as if he wanted to ask how much the shoes cost, or wanted to say that he would return them to him later, but in the end he didn't say anything about money. He tried on the shoes, smiled and said, "Thank you, Wei Wan, I like them very much. I will wear these shoes when I go to internship in the future."
"What happened next?" Su Yue asked.
"Later..." Wei Wan was silent for a moment, his voice lowering. "Like I said, Gao Zhuo's family isn't well off. Although his grades are excellent, he's unwilling to cooperate with the dean's messy propaganda, so the dean really dislikes him."
The Dean of Studies at Jinling University is a well-known snob, and he is also very arrogant and self-willed.
Even during the few simple days of the game, Su Yue felt that the dean of studies was particularly targeting "poor students", as if as long as their family background was not good enough or they were not outstanding enough, it would be a mistake to appear at Jinling University.
"Gao Zhuo and I were close, and the dean of studies firmly believed that Gao Zhuo was approaching me with ulterior motives. She told us to stay away from each other, otherwise Gao Zhuo would be punished. I went to the dean of studies and told her that I admired Gao Zhuo, but she just thought I was bewitched by him and that it was Gao Zhuo's problem."
"I was very sad and didn't want Gao Zhuo to be repeatedly confronted by the dean of studies. He's an excellent student and shouldn't be dragged down like this. I suggested we stop contacting each other. But Gao Zhuo said that if I didn't want to contact him, then I wouldn't. If I still wanted to, he wouldn't ignore me because of the dean's ridiculous demands. He wasn't afraid, so I shouldn't be afraid either. So we continued to get along like before, without doing anything shameful, and no one could do anything to us."
"Later..." Wei Wan gritted his teeth.
"What happened next?" Su Yue asked.
"Later, we participated in a project together and won the Goldfinch Award. But at that time, someone wanted to join Gao Zhuo's group, but Gao Zhuo refused to take me with him. He reported Gao Zhuo for academic misconduct and for stealing raw materials from the laboratory."
"Gao Zhuo wouldn't do these things, but that person deliberately framed him, and the dean of studies disliked Gao Zhuo, so the dirty water was easily thrown on Gao Zhuo. She talked to Gao Zhuo and said that if he was willing to admit his mistakes, she would help him settle these things and would not revoke the Goldfinch Medal. She did it for no other reason than to make Gao Zhuo bow to her."
"What about Gao Zhuo?"
Gao Zhuo refused. He would rather give up the Goldfinch Award and the high bonus that came with it than admit that he was wrong.
He said that he was innocent and that if he admitted his mistake, not only would he not be able to hold his head up, but Wei Wan would also be made a laughing stock.
There was no way he would ruin Wei Wan's reputation and his own for the so-called medal and bonus.
Gao Zhuo decided to drop out of school because of this incident. Even if the dean of studies did not deliberately suppress him, he did not want to stay there anymore. At this time, the university next door extended an olive branch to him, and Gao Zhuo agreed to go there to take a look.
"It rained heavily that day," Wei Wan said. "I offered to go with him, but he said no, it was raining so hard, and asked me to wait for him in the study room. I agreed, but I never saw him."
Just at the east gate of the school, a car hit Gao Zhuo due to brake failure due to slippery road conditions caused by rain, and took him away.
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After learning about this, Wei Wan was in a coma for two days and two nights due to excessive pain. He wondered if Gao Zhuo would be fine if he had accompanied him that day. If he had not had the urge to work on the project with Gao Zhuo on a whim, Gao Zhuo would not be hated.
After waking up, Wei Wan was so shocked that she forgot everything about Gao Zhuo.
It even took him more than half a month to remember where Jinling University was, who he was, and what he was doing there.
But he remembered that year the school renovated all the chemistry laboratories, dismissed several chemistry teachers, and expelled several poor students.
Now that I think about it, the best thing to do is to completely erase all traces of Gao Zhuo's existence as quickly as possible.
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The dormitory fell into a long silence. Wei Wan didn't speak, and neither did Su Yue and Cang Zhi.
After an unknown amount of time, Wei Wan finally whispered, "Do you think Gao Zhuo could be the Pen Fairy?"
"But if it was him, why would he do those things?"
This is a really difficult question to answer.
A death filled with resentment can make a person linger for a long time after death until he becomes a vengeful spirit, and the theme of this game is "Pen Fairy".
During his lifetime, he suffered from bullying and oppression by the head teacher, and even lost the awards and bonuses that should have belonged to him because of false accusations, and finally died a violent death.
Whether you want to believe it or not, there is a very high possibility that Gao Zhuo will return to school as the "Pen Fairy".
This can explain why the Pen Fairy came particularly quickly when Wei Wan appeared on the nights when they summoned her, but took a long time when Wei Wan was not there, and the Pen Fairy was even unwilling to come out.
It can also explain why the body died in the music classroom and was wearing the same leather shoes that Wei Wan gave to Gao Zhuo. This was to demonstrate to the dean of studies.
But the Pen Fairy has killed people, and in a very cruel way.
The president of the club is undoubtedly a "believer" of the Pen Fairy. A vengeful spirit that uses living people as believers certainly cannot be a good vengeful spirit.
This is why it is difficult for Su Yue and others to admit that the Pen Fairy is Gao Zhuo.
When a soul is possessed by resentment and polluted by it, it will gradually lose its nature, forget everything about its life, and only remember to do evil. The more evil it does, the heavier the evil spirit will be.
Even if the Pen Fairy was really transformed from Gao Zhuo, at this point, he is no longer the "Gao Zhuo" that Wei Wan knows.
After a long silence, Su Yue said, "We still know too little about the Pen Fairy. If Gao Zhuo is really the Pen Fairy, we must first learn more about the world... and the things related to it."
Su Yue was still frightened and almost blurted out "the setting of this world". Then he didn't know how to make it fit.
But Wei Wan was obviously still confused, because Su Yue's words were particularly strange.
However, Cang Zhi added at the right moment: "Then we have to go find the president. He should have more information."
Wei Wan's attention was immediately diverted by Cang Zhi.
"Okay, then let's go find the president."
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In theory, it is not difficult to find the president of the Summoning Immortal Society.
Although this guy seemed unfriendly, he would send text messages during every club activity, so I still had his phone number.
Su Yue sent a text message to the president, but no one replied.
"No. It seems I can't reach him on my phone." Su Yue sighed and asked Wei Wan, "Do you know what the president's major is?"
"I think so." Cang Zhi thought for a moment, "Is it possible that you were on guard the entire night and all the lights were on?"
"?" Su Yue asked, "What do you mean?"
Cang Zhi didn't answer immediately, but looked at Wei Wan and said, "Try sending a text message to the president."
Wei Wan was stunned for a moment, then sent a message to the president with the same content as Su Yue's message.
-Hello, I would like to ask for some knowledge related to the Pen Fairy. Can you tell me?
Less than five seconds after the message was sent, the other party replied.
-all right.
The contrast between the two clearly expresses the meaning of not wanting to pay attention to Su Yue.
Cang Zhi shrugged.
Su Yue: "..."
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