dinner
Shen Anyan was the first to see clearly.
The moment she realized what it was, she almost immediately turned around and covered Gu Cijiang's eyes behind her.
Gu Cijiang only saw a blurry shadow before his vision was blocked by a hand.
The boys' terrified screams rang in my ears.
At that moment, he immediately realized what the thing that rolled out was, so he closed his eyes and said to Shen Anyan: "I'm closing my eyes, don't worry about me, go over and deal with it."
Shen Anyan looked down at him, and after confirming that the other party was indeed not frightened, he got up and went to the restaurant to check.
Lin Shuang was with her. He Qingtian and Zhou Tian stayed behind to take over the two's guard duties.
The head was indeed a bit scary. Shen Anyan hesitated for a moment and felt that it would be somewhat impolite to kick it back to the restaurant. He was thinking about covering it with a tablecloth. When he looked up at the restaurant, he saw that the long table inside had changed its appearance.
The morning meal had been taken away, a new black tablecloth was placed on the table, the chairs were neatly arranged in a row, cutlery was placed in front of each seat, and the plates contained "food" - hands, feet, limbs, and the body was placed on the large plate in the middle.
It was already dark outside the window. There was no light in the restaurant. The candlesticks were burning dimly and there was a rose on the corner of the table. If you ignore the "food", it was indeed a romantic candlelight dinner.
Lin Shuang turned around and didn't forget to take Shen Anyan with her when she left.
Shen Anyan staggered as the other person pulled her, and luckily she managed to steady herself. She hurriedly shouted, "Hey, wait a minute, I'll find something to cover my head."
Lin Shuang took a deep breath and gritted her teeth, "Then hurry up—"
"I feel like throwing up."
Shen Anyan casually pulled a few towels on the table and covered the head at the door, and then accompanied Lin Shuang to the bathroom.
Lin Shuang was so disgusted by the scene that she felt dizzy, but she hadn't eaten anything all day and couldn't vomit. She could only dry heave a few times and wash her face with cold water. After suppressing the nausea in her stomach, she returned to the living room with Shen Anyan.
He Qingtian had guessed something from the two people's behavior just now, but after hearing the details, he still felt a chill.
Several boys were frightened, and only Gu Cijiang managed to remain calm.
After calming down, He Qingtian thought about the matter carefully and raised his own questions: "This doesn't make sense. How did he arrange all this? The restaurant is not far from here. If that person wanted to... create those things, we would definitely hear it after staying here for a day."
Zhou Tiandao: "Either he has some special ability, or we are all deaf, or... this 'dinner' was made after we left the villa this morning."
He Qingtian held his forehead and said, "Let's forget about dinner."
Lin Shuang looked at the red-haired man, frowned, and asked, "You really don't remember when Wang Zhou disappeared?"
The red-haired man shrank his neck, completely devoid of the arrogance he had when he first arrived. He replied bewilderedly, "I really can't remember. I was so scared that I didn't realize he was gone until I returned to the villa..."
He Qingtian softened his tone and asked gently, "Then think carefully, when was the last time you saw him?"
The red-haired man held his head, struggling to recall: "I should... I should have reached the suspension bridge... I should have said a few words to him... and then... then I saw the suspension bridge was broken, and I was so scared that I don't remember anything after that..."
Chen Anyan said, "That makes sense. If Wang Zhou disappeared at that time, then he would have had enough time to arrange this 'dinner' in the restaurant."
He Qingtian: "...Do we really have to call that stuff in the restaurant dinner?"
Shen Anyan coughed lightly: "It's better than calling a scene of dismemberment."
Zhou Tiandao said: "But speaking of this, the murderer is too terrifying. He was able to capture someone without anyone noticing among so many of us."
He Qingtian was also feeling a bit heavy-hearted, but this kind of solemnity wouldn't do anything good for their current situation, so she didn't let the atmosphere stagnate. Instead, she started talking about other topics: "By the way, even though we can't contact the outside world, can we contact each other internally..."
Shen Anyan said: "Yes, didn't I send you a message before?"
She took out her phone and sent another message to the other party, then asked: "Have you seen it?"
He Qingtian smiled and said, "Yes."
This could barely be considered good news, and everyone felt a little relieved.
He Qingtian sent a message to his instructor, briefly telling him what happened in the villa in the afternoon, and asking him to stop searching for Wang Zhou and that he could come back.
The instructor must have been paying attention to the messages on his phone. He quickly replied "received" and told them that he would be back soon and asked them to be careful.
After the instructor came back and looked at the situation in the restaurant, he obviously held his forehead and sighed.
She pinched her brows and explained to the contestants that leaving the body in the house for too long wouldn't work. It could breed infectious diseases, infest insects, or attract rats and cockroaches. So she'd have to find a way to get the body outside, bury it in the ground, and then cover it with snow.
The instructor asked gently, "Are there any students willing to help? Of course, it's not mandatory. If you don't want to, that's fine. The teacher understands."
Unexpectedly, all the girls were willing, and among the boys, Gu Cijiang also expressed his willingness to help.
The instructor's originally heavy heart felt a little relieved because of this incident. She smiled and said, "We won't need so many people, so I'll just pick a few people at random."
She finally asked Lin Shuang to stay in the living room with the boys, and the rest of the girls went with her to deal with the body.
Fortunately, there was a window near the two bodies. After throwing the bodies out of the window, several people simply cleaned up the blood.
The instructor found a few shovels from the villa, took the three people out of the house, and transported the thrown-out bodies to the forest on the back mountain. After digging a hole and filling it, they shoveled a lot of snow to cover it.
"That's about it."
The instructor breathed a sigh of relief and double-checked the number of people who had followed. After seeing that no one was missing, he announced, "Okay, we can go back now."
By the time we finished our busy schedule, the clock had already reached ten. After everyone gathered in the living room, the instructor offered a suggestion: "Tonight, let's sleep together in groups of two or three, as close together as possible. Keep the lines of communication open and contact us whenever we need anything."
The man with the earrings hurriedly asked, "Teacher, why do we have to live separately? Can't we all stay together in the living room?"
The instructor explained, "At least the room is an enclosed space, which is safer than here. And since the murderer was able to take a contestant away while we were out before, although we don't know how he did it, we still have to be careful. Sleeping in the living room is too dangerous."
The man with earrings bit his lip, still unwilling to give up: "Then we can live together..."
Lin Shuang rubbed his brows and objected to the suggestion: "The guest room is already very small, and three people are already the limit. If all of us move in, we will be suffocated to death before the murderer kills us."
The instructor clapped his hands and said, "Okay, it's getting late. Let's quickly divide into groups."
He Qingtian looked at Shen Anyan and asked in a low voice: "Are you with Gu Cijiang?"
Shen Anyan said: "Well, then you..."
He Qingtian said: "It's okay, I'll go find Zhou Tian's group. But there are only two of you, so you must be careful."
After making the agreement with He Qingtian, Shen Anyan moved closer to Gu Cijiang and quickly agreed with him to stay together tonight.
Seeing that the five people opposite had already discussed the grouping and were obviously unwilling to have anyone else join in, the man with earrings hesitated. When something like this happened, it was natural for him to want as many people as possible to live with him. He then put on a gentle and amiable expression and smiled at Liang Xiaonuo, "Xiaonuo, why don't you join us in the group?"
Liang Xiaonuo shuddered, his whole body filled with resistance. Just as he was about to refuse, the man with earrings stepped forward, put his arm around him, and led him towards himself and the red-haired man.
Shen Anyan couldn't bear it and asked Liang Xiaonuo: "Hey, we can add one more person here, come over."
He Qingtian also said: "I can be in the same group with you."
Liang Xiaonuo felt as if she had been pardoned when she heard this. She immediately tried to break free from the man with the earrings and go to the other side, but was pulled hard by the man.
The man with earrings leaned close to Liang Xiaonuo's ear and said something quickly in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
Liang Xiaonuo's face turned pale for a moment, and he immediately lowered his head and apologized to the other side: "I...I won't go over...I'll just be in the same group with them."
Shen Anyan frowned when he saw this.
He Qingtian wanted to say something else, but the man with earrings had already warmly held Liang Xiaonuo's arm, and together with the red-haired man, they sandwiched her in the middle. The three of them, like brothers, said to the instructor:
"Teacher, let's go up quickly."
The groups were divided, and the instructor led a few people upstairs. Everyone chose the guest room farthest from Zhao Xixi. Before entering the room, the teacher asked the students to check it first. After confirming that there was no danger in the room, he let everyone close the door and rest.
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He didn't feel it before when they were busy together as a group of people, but now that they were back in the room and alone, Gu Cijiang slowly felt a little embarrassed.
After all, the incident happened suddenly, and living together was a necessary choice for safety reasons. He couldn't think too much at this time. He was also a person with a strong sense of boundaries. Although he understood that special circumstances should be treated specially, he still had some resistance to living with people he didn't know well.
Fortunately, Shen Anyan took the initiative to find him, and the other party was not within the scope of "unfamiliar people" to him. If it were just the two of them living together, that would be an acceptable result.
That's what he thought at the time, but after actually living together, his fear of the two murders gradually faded away, and other emotions slowly revived. Only then did he realize that he felt some shyness about living with the opposite sex.
"Do you want to take a shower?" Shen Anyan suddenly asked.
Gu Cijiang was slightly startled, and after realizing what the other party was asking, his earlobe turned red.
Fortunately, the lights in the room were not bright, so the red color was not too conspicuous.
He stuttered a bit, half nervous and half surprised, and asked: "W-what?"
Shen Anyan's tone was frank: "I just went out to dig for a long time, and my body is too dirty. It may take a while to take a shower, so I thought I would let you wash first."
……so.
Gu Cijiang coughed lightly and threw away the strange thoughts that had just arisen in his mind. But thinking about it,
The other party is indeed not that kind of person.
He nodded, said "I'll be fine soon", and went to the bathroom with his change of clothes.
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