He Yongning simply watched the two of them from the sidelines, as if they were putting on a charade.
“You didn’t seem so afraid before…” He Yongning was about to say ghosts, but perhaps worried that Pei Hengyun would overreact, so he changed his words, “Afraid of that thing.”
"We used to play that game in the classroom during winter break."
“A game?” Cen Yu immediately looked at He Yongning. “What game?”
He Yongning hadn't expected Cen Yu to be so interested. He thought for a moment and said—
"It's that game where a few people stand in a corner of the classroom and pat each other on the shoulder."
“I remember you didn’t seem that scared back then.” He Yongning looked at Pei Hengyun. Even though he knew that everyone would change after graduation, Pei Hengyun’s change was still somewhat beyond his expectations.
Pei Hengyun seemed to recall the games they used to play.
He whispered to Cen Yu, "I only started to get scared because I had played this game before."
He pulled Cen Yu away from the old house and back onto the cobblestone path, as if he were genuinely worried that something might jump out of the old house. "...I felt that at that time, it seemed like something had indeed appeared out of nowhere."
Cen Yu certainly knew about this famous game.
Four people are standing in a completely dark room, at the four corners. Starting with the first person, each person takes turns tapping the next person on the shoulder and saying their name.
Logically, there should be one empty slot in this game, but...
Often, as the game comes to an end, the four people in the darkness will suddenly discover that a strange name has appeared in a corner that should have been empty.
As a notorious fraudulent anchor, Cen Yu certainly didn't hold back when it came to creating entertaining content for his shows.
—Actually, that sound was from a remote-controlled recorder that had been placed there beforehand.
Simply record an unfamiliar name beforehand, then change the voice and play it in the dark.
Then, when changing positions, someone would take the recorder with them to the next position.
If Cen Yu had previously wondered where the ghosts came from in this otherwise pleasant campus story, he now understood—
So it was you main characters who caused all this trouble!
He glanced at Pei Hengyun, who seemed lost in memories and trembling with fear, then looked at He Yongning. "So you really did encounter a name you'd never heard of back then?"
Perhaps it was because it reminded of that past event.
He Yongning's gaze lingered on Cen Yu and Pei Hengyun's faces before he nodded and said, "Yes."
"Whose name?"
"I don't know." He Yongning frowned. "Now, when I try to recall it, my memory is very blurry..."
He looked at Pei Hengyun, "Did you talk to someone with that name back then?"
Pei Hengyun looked bewildered upon hearing this. "Did I say anything?"
"Hmm," He Yongning said, "I remember you asked me something."
But when he tried to recall it, he found the memory to be very blurry, as if his memory had deliberately forgotten it to protect him.
Trying hard to recall, all I can remember is the moment when a strange name suddenly appeared in the pitch-black room, and everyone was terrified.
There were also questions that Pei Hengjun asked at that time.
"So, what's your opinion on this...?" Cen Yu immediately began investigating.
After all, generally speaking, things that are suddenly summoned in a school classroom are related to the school's past.
"And why do you guys play this game if you have nothing better to do?"
He Yongning genuinely couldn't remember anything, but Pei Hengyun, who had been trembling and seemed quite frightened, suddenly spoke up.
"I heard that after that stranger appears in the game, you can make a wish to him."
"?" Cen Yu looked at Pei Hengyun, "...You made a wish?"
Pei Hengyun hesitated for a moment, "Since he said I was talking to that thing at the time... then I might have made a wish?"
Pei Hengyun was clearly very uncertain as well.
"..." Okay, all amnesia.
Cen Yu cursed the system in his heart again.
Perhaps because they had been gone for too long, Pei Hengyun's phone rang. Cen Yu glanced at it and saw that it was the class monitor, Yu Sheng, calling.
After he connected the call and said something to the other end, he hung up and then spoke to Cen Yu and He Yongning.
"The class monitor said they would go to school first without waiting for us, and told us to go by ourselves."
...
Upon arriving at this "Perfect High School," Cen Yu discovered that the school was completely different from what he had imagined.
A standard running track, a brand-new teaching building... He looked across the playground and then saw an old teaching building hidden in the shadow of a locust tree.
The exterior of the teaching building is still covered with tiles, while the untiled parts are painted blue. Perhaps because it has been abandoned for a long time, the teaching building inexplicably evokes a sense of unease and panic.
Noticing Cen Yu's gaze, Pei Hengyun immediately explained in a low voice, "That's the old teaching building over there."
Upon hearing his words, Yu Sheng immediately replied, "Yes, a few years ago He Yongning donated a large sum of money, and we just happened to be able to buy a new teaching building."
As he spoke, he called to the others, "Shall we go take a look at the new teaching building?"
Yan Feiluan was not in the crowd, perhaps because he was unable to move around easily and therefore did not come with them, or perhaps because he felt uncomfortable being with his teachers, even his former teachers, even though they were ten years ago.
Cen Yu glanced at the abandoned teaching building and realized it matched the one in Pei Hengyun's painting.
Seeing that the group was about to walk towards the new teaching building, Cen Yu stopped and said to Pei Hengyun, "I'll go take a look over there."
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