Chapter 157 Mizuki Private High School (Twenty-nine)
If we say that Yang Huiru's expression before and when she saw Nan Huan just now was just surprise.
So now hearing Bei Xi's words, he was already very frightened.
The silver knife and fork in his hands fell uncontrollably onto the white porcelain plate, making a collision sound.
This was truly inappropriate. Even though there weren't many students in the restaurant at the moment, the commotion still attracted some attention.
But Yang Huiru couldn't care less now. Her out-of-control emotions did not improve, and it took her a long time to find her voice again.
"You...you can see Yanqi's name on the transcript?"
She used a lot of effort to squeeze these words out of her throat. The look she gave the two of them was filled with an indescribable expectation and a kind of panic that urgently needed affirmation.
This sentence really caught both of them by surprise. Nan Huan anticipated that Yang Huiru might not want to tell the truth for some reason, but he never expected to get such a question in return.
Her eyes narrowed as she thought about it, and she quickly got the message from the other person's words, "Except for you and us, other students in the class don't even see Yanqi's name on the transcript?"
This is both a question and an answer.
But Nan Huan perhaps didn't need Yang Huiru to say anything at all, as he had already gotten the answer he wanted from her expression.
"It's more than that." Yang Huiru sighed, not knowing whether it was because they could also see Yanqi's name and felt a little safe, or because the situation before them seemed more complicated.
"My classmates seem to have no memory of Yanqi's name. They can't remember that she was our classmate. They can't remember anything about her. It's like..."
At this point, her eyes darkened and her voice became quieter.
"It's as if this person never existed and has completely disappeared from this school."
Bei Xi helped her finish her words, but her eyes were always on Yang Huiru, "Then why do you remember it so clearly and can even see her name when no one else remembers it?"
She did not use a questioning tone, perhaps because Yang Huiru's condition was not very good, or Bei Xi felt that the other party did not have any ill intentions, and she was just simply curious.
"I don't know either,"
She rubbed her face with her hands, as if trying to sober herself up. “Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with my mind.”
She pulled the corners of her mouth and revealed a bitter smile.
"When I first discovered that I was the only one who saw Yanqi's name on the report card, my classmates all thought I had some kind of hallucination, and the teachers also thought it was my problem. I didn't want to be kept for after-school tutoring, so I had to pretend that it was my problem, and never mentioned it to anyone else afterwards."
"Sometimes I wonder if this person really existed. If not, what's wrong with my memory? If it's true that only I can see it, then why did he choose me? I don't know."
She finally came out of that numb shell, but all that was left was the exhaustion of walking alone.
Nan Huan and Bei Xi looked at each other briefly. They both understood each other's meaning from each other's eyes. They both believed that Yang Huiru was telling the truth.
"Perhaps her disappearance was not a simple accident," Nan Huan thought for a moment before speaking, "I chose you because I think you can uncover all of this, maybe bring her back, or maybe make everyone remember her again."
These words were not simply to comfort Yang Huiru, but Nan Huan believed that perhaps there was some kind of connection between Yang Huiru and Yanqi, so the system chose her.
"What kind of person is Yanqi? Are you classmates?"
Following this, Nan Huan naturally asked about the situation in Yanqi.
"She is a..." Yang Huiru seemed to be relieved a little by Nan Huan's words, but when she tried to answer Nan Huan's question, confusion appeared on her face, "Why can't I remember it?"
It was clearly a familiar name, and Yang Huiru knew that the other party was her classmate, but why was there only a large blank in her mind when she thought of the other party?
"It shouldn't be like this, I know she is my classmate," this realization was a big blow to Yang Huiru. She suddenly became incoherent and leaned back suddenly.
The chair rubbed against the ground, making a sharp sound.
"I clearly remember it. I'm not lying. It's true. I remember her."
She repeated these words eagerly, as if she was afraid that the person's name would disappear from her mind in the next second.
The situation was a bit sudden, and Nan Huan took a few seconds to react. She stood up from the chair, walked to Yang Huiru's side, reached out and patted her on the back several times, trying to calm her down.
"Okay, okay, I know you remember her, but the situation was a little sudden. Calm down first and think about it slowly. Don't get excited."
Although her actions were very polite, after just a few takes, Bei Xi took over unilaterally.
Bei Xi's patience is not as good as Nan Huan's. To be precise, apart from being extremely concerned about Nan Huan's affairs, she is indifferent to other things.
Even the pat on Yang Huiru's hand was a little heavier than Nanhuan's.
"You may also be forgetting, so calm down now. Before you completely forget, tell us some useful information so that we can help her."
Compared with Nanhuan's gradual progress, Beixi seems much calmer.
But it was not known whether it was the calmness that approached the facts beneath this indifference that finally made Yang Huiru wake up, or perhaps it was the convincing tone of the person in front of her when he said he could help Yanqi.
In short, Yang Huiru really escaped from the panic state just now. She clasped her hands together, as if this action could give her some sense of security.
She squinted her eyes, searching for any useful clues in her memory. "I don't remember what she looks like, but the first time I saw you, I thought you looked familiar, and I thought of her."
She stared at Nan Huan's face, carefully describing her feelings, and collecting those scattered, faint lights in her blank brain.
"She had good grades and worked very hard. She was always one of the first few to go to the classroom." She could vaguely recall some scenes, but they were only a few seconds long and flashed by. "Oh, by the way, she must have liked strawberry milk. She would put a bottle of it on the upper right corner of her seat every day. Sometimes she would smile at the milk."
Yang Huiru's eyes had closed at some point, and when she said this, a smile appeared on her face.
Perhaps it was because of these scattered pieces of information that slowly outlined the image of Yanqi, so that she suddenly remembered something and opened her eyes abruptly.
"The milk was given to her by someone else. It seems she has someone she likes."
These words had a somewhat desolate tone, but were very certain. After that, Yang Huiru could not remember anything.
"What about the rest? When did she disappear?" Bei Xi didn't show any expression after hearing these words, but continued to ask, "Was there anything wrong before she disappeared? Anything is fine?"
Yang Huiru drank some water to calm herself down, then closed her eyes and thought for a while before finally shaking her head.
"I don't have any impression of that. If you hadn't said that she was missing and other students couldn't remember her, I wouldn't have realized it at all."
After she finished speaking, she realized that it was not appropriate, and she gave a dry explanation, "I really didn't lie. I don't want her to disappear. I really can't remember her."
She pressed her solar plexus with a painful expression on her face, probably due to overusing her brain.
"We believe you, don't think about it for now."
It was Nan Huan who spoke up and comforted the other party, asking her to relax.
"Can you find her? Maybe she is still..." Yang Huiru was originally asking Nan Huan, but her eyes started to wander after she finished speaking. "Is there any possibility?"
The last sentence seemed to be a question to herself.
"We will try our best."
Nan Huan felt that after entering the dungeon, it was easy for him to agree to some requests from NPCs.
But after thinking about it, she gave an affirmative answer.
Although they now have to track down Yanqi's whereabouts in order to understand the school, he is a student after all, so they should save as many as possible.
Seeing that the practical exam for the drama department was getting closer, the two did not delay any longer and said goodbye to Yang Huiru, and told her that she could contact them at any time if she thought of anything else.
During this period, Bei Xi didn't say anything. He just lowered his head and nodded, not knowing what he was thinking about.
"This news doesn't seem to be arranged by the system."
She waited until they were out of the restaurant before she said something meaningful to Nan Huan.
Bei Xi originally thought that Yang Huiru was an NPC arranged by the system who could provide information, but the current situation does not seem to be the case.
If it was arranged by the system, why didn't they let Yang Huiru provide the information openly?
Being able to remember the other person's name but not being able to remember the circumstances of their disappearance, what kind of clue is that?
Bei Xi believed that, due to some special reasons, Yang Huiru had not been completely brainwashed by the system and still had some brief impression of Yanqi.
"It really doesn't seem like the system's work," Nan Huan commented, agreeing with Bei Xi's point of view, "But what I care more about is the person she likes, and the 'Strawberry Milk' that appears in front of me every time I almost forget about it."
Nan Huan rubbed his chin, as if he had discovered something interesting.
"One is the mastermind of mischief who always steals student cards, and the other is a missing student who was at the top of the class. I originally thought that 'strawberry milk' was a pretty useless clue, but now it seems that's not entirely true. I'm just a little curious, is it really that delicious?"
She was talking about something serious, but suddenly for no reason she started talking about something else.
Bei Xi laughed and touched Nan Huan's head, "If you want to try it, I'll give it to you when you see a vending machine on the road."
"How can you be sure that she is the student who played the prank? Maybe she staged her own disappearance and hid in the dark, so she is more suitable for doing such sneaky things?"
Nan Huan agreed with Bei Xi's proposal, but for her second question, Nan Huan responded confidently, "My intuition is that campus also needs some lingering feelings. It's too unaesthetic for a person to do such depressing and dark things."
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