Chapter 1014 1022 [The tragic death of Huiyuan Ai]
Mao Lilan took a deep breath and kicked the door hard.
The whole corridor seemed to tremble, and the door made a dying creaking sound, but surprisingly, it did not fall down. However, its hinge was loose, revealing a gap.
Jiang Xia: “…” Produced by Noah, the quality seems to be pretty good.
Mao Lilan was bounced back.
She stood up quickly, her bright eyes seemed to be ablaze with fighting spirit. She used the force from before to spin around, and with a clear shout, she kicked the door hard again.
The door finally couldn't hold on and collapsed to the ground, splashing a cloud of desolate dust.
Several people rushed in through the door, intending to pin down the mysterious masked man and capture him on the spot. Then they would put Huiyuan Ai down and see if she could be saved.
However, the next second, they looked at the empty biology classroom and were stunned.
——There was no one in the room and nothing unusual happened.
The hanging corpse, the candles on the ground, the wax that should have been left, and even the six-pointed star drawn on the ground... all disappeared. There was not even a trace of burning smell in the air, as if what they had just seen was just an illusion.
Jiang Xia was the first to come to his senses. He paused briefly at the place where he remembered "Ms. Miyano" was hung.
Then, in a detective-like manner, he glanced at the windows and said in a deep voice, "They are all locked from the inside."
"How could it suddenly disappear..." Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko stood at the door of the room, trembling and not daring to go in, "Is it haunted?"
Hattori Heiji frowned for a moment, shook his head, and whispered: "There will be no ghosts in the detective copy. That 'Sakuragi-senpai' has emphasized this point."
"It must be a prank." The security guard looked around with a flashlight and breathed a sigh of relief.
He glanced at the high school students and said, "Some members of your 'Mysterious Phenomenon Research Society' are all weird. Today's incident was probably someone pretending to hang themselves to play a trick on you. Okay, stop making trouble. I have to continue my patrol. You guys should go home quickly."
“…”
A few high school students went back to the activity room of the "Mysterious Phenomenon Research Society" without giving up, but Haibara Ai still did not show up.
I wanted to check out a few other "incredible places".
However, probably because they failed to provide any information such as "evidence of Miyano Shiho's disappearance", when they were halfway there, the scenery in front of them suddenly changed.
——In the blink of an eye, they returned home.
…
The night passed quickly.
It's dawn.
Jiang Xia walked back along the street and came to the door of Huihara Ai's house. He raised his hand and knocked on the door meaningfully.
Of course, no one came to open the door - Huihara Ai had been kicked off the line by Miyano Akemi and went to catch up on her sleep. All that was left in the game was a scale model.
Soon, other doors around opened one after another.
In residential areas, the visibility during the day is much better than at night. The annoying fog is gone.
The remaining four people quickly ran to Jiang Xia's side and looked at Huiyuan Ai's room: "She's not at home?"
Jiang Xia nodded.
A group of people sighed and didn't ask any more questions: Although Jiang Xia could go out at night, it wasn't long after he was forced to "go home" just now that it was dawn. Calculating the time, Jiang Xia didn't have time to go to the school to look for someone.
"Let's go to the school first." Jiang Xia looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, with worry in his eyes, "I don't know how she is doing now..."
"It's more likely that she's dead. Frankly speaking, I think she's dead, but the murderer has hidden her body in some way - you should feel the same way."
Hattori Heiji finished speaking seriously, then remembered that Huiyuan Ai seemed to be quite familiar with Jiang Xia, and comforted him:
"Fortunately, the punishment for the game is 'after the game ends, the person eliminated will die'... As long as we successfully pass the level and win that wish, there is still a chance to redeem everything."
Jiang Xia nodded, retracted his scattered gaze, and said solemnly: "Let's go."
…
Today is a normal work day and school is open.
As soon as a few people arrived at school, they felt that the atmosphere today was very different.
The students of Budong High School still gathered in groups of three or four.
But unlike their usual happy chats, this time, their voices were much lower, and their faces showed fear that could not be hidden. In addition, more people continued to gather near the old school building, looking at a window on the first floor, and soon formed a large circle.
Jiang Xia looked around and was about to find someone to inquire about the situation when a figure passed through the crowd and ran over lightly.
The thoughtful messenger was none other than Senior Sakurashu.
Sakuragi Ruriko led a few people to the "Mysterious Phenomenon Research Society" with an extremely grim look on her face. She whispered, "Something happened!"
…
A cordon had been set up at the door of the "biology classroom that could not be opened", and a circle of students surrounded it.
A few people walked over through the crowd and looked at the situation in the classroom, their gazes frozen for a moment.
On the floor in the middle of the classroom, there was a six-pointed star pattern with a diameter of half a meter, and a candle was lit in each corner. At this time, the candle had burned out, and the charred wick was stuck in a pool of solidified wax.
And in the center of the area surrounded by candles, on the beam just above, "Ms. Miyano" was hanging there quietly with her head down.
——Everything was the same as they saw in the corridor yesterday.
If it weren't for the door that was kicked open by Mao Lilan still lying on the ground, several people would even suspect that the peaceful scene they saw after breaking into the room yesterday was just an illusion.
However, it is impossible for five people to see the hallucination at the same time - the corpse actually disappeared and reappeared, like a bloody and shocking "dead body transformation" magic.
…
The policeman leading the team was a middle-aged man.
He turned around and saw Sakuraju Ruriko, and his gaze quickly shifted from her to Jiang Xia and the others, then waved to them.
…
"As of now, Miyano-san's time of death was between nine and ten o'clock last night."
The detective named "Jianchi" held up the old notebook in his hand and flipped through the key points. At the same time, he looked at Jiang Xia and others: "I heard that you guys happened to be in the old teaching building during that time period, right?"
Jiang Xia looked up and around, and found that the people who appeared last night, including various NPCs, had gathered at the door of the classroom.
He nodded, then remembered something and added rigorously, "There was also a man wearing a mask. He was holding a candle and standing next to the body."
Officer Kenmochi nodded. He looked just like the common police officers in the Investigation Division, giving the detectives a sense of familiarity in this strange world.
He handed over a floor plan and asked, "How did you find the body last night? Also, did you notice anything suspicious?"
Jiang Xia looked at the floor plan and pointed: "We were in the activity room of the 'Mysterious Phenomenon Research Society'. After we went out and stood in this corridor, we suddenly saw a fire in the building next door."
(End of this chapter)
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