Chapter 47

Looking at the note in her hand, Xu Ming's mouth twitched slightly, and after two seconds, she couldn't help but sigh.

To be honest, when she realized that she had been involved in a strange talk again, she held back, even though her frequency was really a bit outrageous, higher than the frequency of some games offering money-making activities; she also held back when someone called her Guo Shuyi. Anyway, things like names are not important.

But facing the piece of paper in her hand, she really couldn't hold back.

"What the hell, this is nonsense... Should I believe it or not?" She muttered in her heart, helplessly picking up the piece of paper again and flipping through it, trying to find more clues on it.

When you are still not clear about the situation, it is the most difficult to deal with this kind of prompt, because it has no beginning or end, and lacks other information for supporting reasoning. If you don't listen to it, you will be furious if something goes wrong; if you listen to it, it will be even more frustrating if something goes wrong.

Moreover, this simple and crude prompt is not a rule at all. It has no effect and anyone can do it. The domain owner cannot give false rules, but if you want to write this kind of prompt, there is no limit. You can write whatever you want. Maybe at some point, she will pick up another piece of paper in the same place with the words "Get out of the toilet quickly!"

So, to be honest, compared to this kind of prompt, a set of rules like Hongqiang or Butterfly Hotel is better.

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, calm down and sort out the situation first... I should have entered the ghost story area now, that's right. And here I have been given a new name and a new identity... By the way, the girl just now called me, 'Guo Shuyi'? Is it who I think it is?

" "That means this ghost story is related to the case two years ago... No, no, no, wait. It's not certain yet." "

There is still too little information on hand. Xu Ming had to stop thinking halfway. After all, it is too arbitrary to make a judgment based on a name. Maybe this strange story has its own unique mechanism. She was called "Guo Shuyi" simply because this name happened to be mentioned before entering...

Sometimes it is easy to be blinded by one's own conclusions too early.

And when the girl was talking to her just now, she saw the school emblem on her school uniform - Beiwan No. 2 Middle School.

Xu Ming knew This school is in the same district as where she lives now. It's just an ordinary high school.

And Guo Shuyi, if I remember correctly, went to high school in the south of the city, and it was a key school in the city. This alone doesn't match up at all.

So I should calm down first, collect information, collect as much information as possible...

Xu Ming thought silently, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and finally calmed down. Then he raised his head again and looked around.

Of course, in order to show respect for the hint in her hand, she still I backed away as far as I could—all the way to the door, with one foot inside and one foot outside.

I left, but not completely. The main point is to be able to move in and out freely.

Looking at the bathroom I'm in now, it looks very normal at first glance. The male and female toilets in schools are often separated. This is a separate female toilet. The overall space is rectangular. Perhaps because of the poor lighting, the lights are still on even though it's daytime. The white light makes the limited space It was very bright.

On one side of the space was a wash basin and a long mirror, and on the other side were four parallel cubicles. At the moment, no one was inside, and all the doors were half open; in the space next to the cubicle, mops and buckets were placed.

Next to the wash basin was the sanitary napkin mutual aid box that Xu Ming had seen before.

Xu Ming was still holding the reminder paper that she had dug out from inside, and when she saw it again, she subconsciously glanced at it a few more times; and it was these few glances that made her discover something else.

——Inside the mutual aid box, there was a piece of colorful paper.

...To be precise, it should be a cut poster. It was pressed tightly at the bottom, and the two sides were folded upwards along the inner wall of the box.

Xu Ming had only seen the inside of the paper when he looked from top to bottom before, but now when he looked from the outside in, he realized something was wrong—

there seemed to be words on the poster.

To see the words clearly, he had to go in. Xu Ming glanced at the note in his hand and instinctively paused; after a slight hesitation, he made up his mind and walked over quickly.

——"Marinate first and then eat", nowadays' ghost stories seem to be very particular about that, and it is generally unlikely that the Domain Lord will be released at the beginning; on the other hand, she has the characteristics of an idiot. From previous experience, as long as the Domain Lord is not encountered in an angry state, there should be no problem.

... Probably.

While thinking, Xu Ming had already come to the mutual aid box and took out the paper inside. The background color is gaudy, but if you look closely, you can indeed see some pen marks.

The handwriting is light, and because of the special texture of the poster, the color is almost gone. But the person who wrote it seems to have been very hard, leaving a very deep mark, so it can be roughly identified-

[Currently confirmed: Amusement park, the transfer point is the second compartment, the time is about 18:00

[Beiwan No. 2 Middle School, the transfer point is the fourth compartment, the time is unknown

[Cinema, the transfer point is the third compartment, the time is unknown]

... Transfer point?

Xu Ming unconsciously pronounced these two words, frowned slightly, and looked down again, catching sight of two more lines of small characters. A red pen was used, and the color was slightly clearer than the above, but the font was smaller, and the handwriting was also different from the above:

[Supplement: The cinema transmission point opens at 5 pm! Don't go after the movie is over, NPCs will occupy the compartments!

[The B&B transmission point is in the first compartment, the time is 3 am! ]

Xu Ming:...?

Okay. More confusing things have been added.

Why are there cinemas, amusement parks and B&Bs here? It's not like this weird story has three maps, right? And there's the so-called "transmission point"...

Xu Ming tentatively looked at the compartment behind him. After a little thought, he stuffed the two pieces of paper in his hand back into the mutual aid box. Then she walked cautiously towards the "fourth compartment" mentioned on the paper.

The interior of the compartment was very clean and spacious, but it was a little wet, as if it had just been cleaned. Xu Ming stepped in carefully, scanning every detail as much as possible.

However, she did not find anything strange.

This made Xu Ming feel even more strange. She suspected that there might be something, but she could not see it... and the whale fat man was not there at this time.

After thinking for a while, she could only take out her mobile phone and start taking pictures of every corner. Not long after taking a few pictures, she heard a "sizzle" sound -

Xu Ming's action of taking pictures suddenly stopped.

Her heart skipped a beat inadvertently, and she slowly raised her head, her eyes falling on the fluorescent lamp above her head.

The thing that was crackling just now was this thing.

Not only did it crackle, but it also flashed. And almost at the moment when Xu Ming looked up at it, it made another "pop" sound - and it

went out cleanly.

As one lamp exploded, all the remaining lights were extinguished as well. The space that was very bright just now suddenly became dark, as if covered by a layer of dark filter.

Xu Ming: "..."

Very good, something bad has happened. I suspect that something that I can't see has crawled out of this space. But I have no evidence.

- Unexpectedly, something worse happened soon.

Evidence, there is.

A strong sense of oppression quickly rose up, like a rapidly rising water surface, and in a blink of an eye, it enveloped the entire bathroom, making Xu Ming a little breathless.

The first time she realized something was wrong, she instinctively wanted to run to the door. However, as soon as she stepped out of the cubicle, a cold fishy smell hit her in the face. Before Xu Ming could think carefully, she stepped back subconsciously. By the time she reacted, her body, which was temporarily taken over by the desire to survive, had already made the most direct response -

retreating back to the cubicle and closing the door with her backhand. The next second after the door was closed, a strong collision sound came from outside.

"Oh my..." Xu Ming, who came to his senses, took a breath and saw that the door panel was shaking from being hit. He quickly turned around and propped it with his back, and his feet pressed against the corners of the cubicle to increase his resistance.

Good news, the guy outside didn't seem to have the script of infinite strength, and couldn't directly push open the door she was holding; this made Xu Ming slightly relieved, and then he quickly took out his own rule book, flipping through it while stamping his feet in his heart.

... In other words, what is this weird talk all about!

The one who can cause such a strong sense of oppression is most likely the domain master, and a small probability is the dodder or Hu Yang who holds the root, and this is under the premise that the other party's emotions are very strong -

but no matter which one it is, this is unacceptable!

It's fine to give hints without giving the rules at the beginning, just as if you want to create the atmosphere first; but you didn't give a set of rules, and let the domain master come out first, what kind of explanation is this?

Others come up to fight three, but you go straight to the king bomb!

Xu Ming gritted his teeth secretly, feeling the strong push from outside the door, and flipped through the book in his hand more and more anxiously. When he saw that the basis level of the "Strange Story Demolition and Relocation Office" had returned to level three, he couldn't help but close his eyes in regret.

... But thinking about it carefully, in the last strange story, she almost relied on wholesale work cards to barely raise the basis level of the "Strange Story Demolition and Relocation Office" to level two. And in this strange story, besides her, there are only thirty light-hearted A Jiao who are still in the rule book...

Then here, the authority of the "Demolition and Relocation Office" is indeed not enough for level three.

Without a suitable level two basis, it means that the "paper robe authority" cannot be used to establish rules. Then the only options he could rely on next were "rotten fruit substitution" and "butterfly feeding" - Xu Ming tried the latter first, and tried to open his mouth to have a good talk with the guy outside, but unfortunately, as soon as he opened his mouth, there was a stronger collision outside the door.

...Okay, it seems that the guy outside doesn't really want to listen to me.

There is no other way, so I can only consider rotten fruit substitution. "Single substitution" alone has little room for implementation, so I put it aside for now; Xu Ming could only turn to the back of the rule book to see if there are any useful reading records...

Unexpectedly, at a glance, he only saw the screen full of "save the child" -

[Wuwuwu Fairy Madam, please save the child! When will Madam be open to receiving submissions? I really want to order illustrations from you. Madam, please save the child. Oh, oh, oh...】

Xu Ming: "..."

I remembered. Before entering this strange story, she was indeed processing private messages from the account.

Child, I really want to save you, but who can save me?

Xu Ming was helpless. She closed her eyes and tore the paper. With a sense of luck, she looked at the newly drawn paper again - she was not sure whether Lu Yueling had also entered this strange story, but if she had, then there should at least be a reading record for her here.

Good news, there is indeed a reading record.

Bad news, not sure if it is Lu Yueling's.

[…Tears welled up almost instantly, and Yang Duoduo’s eyes were hot. Even so, she tried hard to hold back her tears, straightened her back, and looked at the man in front of her whom she once loved deeply.

[[So, everything is fake.] She sneered, [I am the Shangguan family’s child, and I was taken away by mistake. You knew this a long time ago, but you chose to help them deceive me, hide the truth from me, and destroy the evidence, just because you didn’t want your beloved sister Shangguan to lose everything she has now! ] [

[But have you ever considered me! If I could have found the right match at that time, I would not have lost this leg at all! ] She yelled loudly, and finally couldn’t help but close her eyes in pain. It was as if she finally saw the false face of the world...]

Xu Ming: “…………”

Yang Duoduo... Why is it Yang Duoduo again?

Isn't Yang Duoduo from the romance channel next door? Why did she go to the city channel? And she lost a leg? And why did she see this... Yufei is here too? ?

Feeling extremely confused, Xu Ming tore off the paper with force. But no new reading records appeared afterwards.

...Okay, it's confirmed, this reading record is Lu Yueling's. She knew she shouldn't let her and Qiu Yufei chat nonsense.

The knocking sounds outside the door were getting more and more urgent, and the pressure on Xu Ming was getting greater and greater. Xu Ming tried hard to think, but under the impact from outside the door, he couldn't think properly at all. Even if he had some ideas, they were quickly messed up.

If it doesn't work, just ask A Jiao to come out and help hold the door. After all, they have more people... Xu Ming thought in despair. The next second, he seemed to realize something and his expression froze.

Wait... A Jiao?

Xu Ming's heart moved slightly, and he suddenly clenched the rule book in his hand.

As if he was holding the whole world.

——So, a moment later.

With another fierce impact, the shaking cubicle door finally burst open, and the mop and bucket against the door bounced heavily, making a clanging sound, and the water in the bucket spilled all over the floor.

But that was all.

There was no one in the cubicle.

The "thing" standing by the door paused slightly, then looked up and noticed that behind the wall of the compartment, several pairs of charred feet were quickly retracting.

Almost at the same time -

the half-closed plastic door of the second cubicle not far away was quickly pushed open. Xu Ming rushed out like lightning, and rushed to the door headlong, not forgetting to turn around and wave back.

"Come back, come back - are you all in!"

As she urged, several more charred figures came out of the cubicle and returned to the rule book like black smoke; on the other side, Xu Ming was doing two things at once, and after confirming that all the charred ones had returned to the rule book, he closed the book in his hand. Then, when the terrible chill came again, he jumped out with all his strength!

His feet staggered and landed on the ground outside the bathroom. There was a sudden silence in his ears, and the surroundings suddenly became bright. The feeling of depression dissipated like a dark cloud in an instant, and even his breathing became smooth.

Xu Ming took a deep breath, not daring to stay any longer, and hurried forward. Her body was unstable for a moment, and she subconsciously reached out to the side to support herself. A little charred mark was immediately left on the originally clean brick wall.

This was stained when she ran away just now - she just called several A Jiaos out, and with their help, she got a mop and a bucket to help hold the door. While they were pressing the door to buy time, she was dragged and crawled into the next compartment. After landing, she thought it was still not safe, so she tried hard and climbed into the next compartment again...

I have to say, she is worthy of being able to crawl along the outer wall of the hotel with Gu Yunshu. This moving speed is really not to be underestimated.

Xu Ming thought to himself, and wiped off the marks on the tiles. Walking all the way to the entrance of the staircase, she was thinking about where to go when she bumped into a familiar figure.

"Guo Shuyi!" When the other person saw her, he was stunned for a moment, and soon waved at her, "Why are you out already? I just found a small bread and was about to send it to you..." "

No need!" Xu Ming was afraid that she would send her back to the bathroom next, so he hurriedly said, "I just found one in my bag, and I have already dealt with it. Don't bother!"

"...Bag?" The girl was stunned again, her eyes swept to the bucket bag on Xu Ming's body, and she uttered a low "huh", as if she had just found this thing.

"Oh, Guo Shuyi, why do you have such a bag?"

Xu Ming: "..." Huh?

The inexplicable question made her heart skip a beat.

The heart that had just dropped because of escaping death suddenly rose again.

Then, the girl's eyes swept towards Xu Ming again, and her eyes became more suspicious, as if she was taking a good look at the person in front of her for the first time:

"Looking closely, you are not even wearing a school uniform...

" "Your hair is not tied up. And you are wearing earrings..."

"You don't look like a student at all."

The girl murmured, and Xu Ming's heart sank with every word she said. At the end, the originally lively tone, for some reason, took on a rigid and mechanical meaning, and her eyes also took on a defensiveness.

Seeing this, Xu Ming's heart was alarmed.

"Okay!" Seeing the other party looking at him with more and more suspicion, Xu Ming instinctively felt that this was definitely not a good thing. He made up his mind and spoke directly, "Since you asked so, I will tell you the truth!"

Girl: "......?"

The strange words finally stopped, but Xu Ming did not dare to be careless. His thoughts turned quickly, and the next second, he heard her speak firmly:

"Actually, I dressed like this on purpose.

"Because I actually wanted to skip school today."

Girl: "..."

"...Ah?" She obviously didn't expect Xu Ming to say that. She was silent for a moment before speaking again, "Why?"

"Because..." Xu Ming tried hard to start the fabrication mode, and secretly prayed that the effect of the butterfly feeding would be more reliable, "Because I can't stay in that house anymore."

"Ah? ? "The girl was even more confused after hearing, "But you live on campus?"

"..." Thank you, at least I know where to change into school uniform later.

"It's not a question of living on campus or not, it's because I don't know how to face my family. "I..."

Xu Ming continued to make up the story as much as he could, and when he met the other party's questioning eyes, his heart suddenly moved again.

Wait a minute, so what's the situation now?

The other party will get along with me normally when he recognizes me as "Guo Shuyi"; if he finds out that I am not, he will be weird or even hostile.

The hint on the note is to remember "I am not her"... In other words, you can't just play Guo Shuyi blindly. Although the content of the note is not reliable judging from the previous situation, it is not a good thing to immerse yourself in other identities...

Xu Ming thought quickly, and finally made up his mind. With a try-it attitude, he slowly spoke:

"Because, I just found out that I was actually taken away by mistake."

Girl: "..."

Ah???

"My last name shouldn't be Guo at all. My last name should be Xu. It's my family... who has been lying to me. I don’t know how to face them, I think all this is too hard to accept...”

Xu Ming spoke word by word, and then closed his eyes forcefully and painfully.

It was as if he finally saw clearly the mask of this world.

...He didn’t care about the girl next to him, who had a completely dumbfounded expression.

*

On the other side, a few minutes later.

At the door of the toilet on the third floor.

Two girls rushed over in a panic, and when they reached the door, they stopped abruptly and looked inside carefully.

"...Hey, are you sure? "After observing carefully for a while, the taller one of them couldn't help but speak, and in the movement, a piece of white gauze stuck to the side of her neck under the ear was exposed, which was very eye-catching. The

other girl with her was slightly shorter, but had a more mature face. She had the princess cut that was popular in the past few years, which made her face look small. At this moment, she was also going to the toilet cautiously.

"It must be right." Hearing her companion's question, she spoke firmly, "I just passed by Class 3 and saw their class leader rushing out. He said that he was going to give 'Guo Shuyi' sanitary napkins... But where did Guo Shuyi come from in Class 3?"

She glanced at the tall girl, her tone becoming more certain: "Didn't we specially investigate before? There are only two "Guo Shuyi" in the school, one is you, in Class 5 of Grade 2, and the other is me, in Class 4 of Grade 1. That's all.

"But now, a Guo Shuyi suddenly appeared in Class 3 of Grade 1, and in the toilet..."

When she said this, her voice suddenly dropped, and she looked at her companions with a serious look: "Apart from the arrival of a 'newcomer', is there any other possibility?"

The tall girl: "..."

"That's right." After a little thought, she nodded affirmatively and looked inside again, "But there seems to be no one inside?"

"Could it be that he has left?" Gongzhuqie frowned, opened her mouth to call out, but seemed to be afraid of something. She deliberately stepped back two steps before trying to speak, "Guo Shuyi, are you in there?"

There was no response from inside, but the tall girl suddenly noticed something and waved at her fiercely.

Gongzhuqie looked over and finally saw something special under the sink in the bathroom.

There were a few scratches.

Deep, huge, beast-like scratches.

"...It's it, it's been here." Gongzhuqie's face changed instantly, and she soon let out a long breath, "As long as it appears once, it will not appear again that day. Let's go in and take a look. If there is someone inside, maybe that person is..."

There is still hope of being saved.

Before she finished her words, the person had already walked in, but she never uttered the last three words.

If the other "Guo Shuyi" went out not long after coming here, that would be fine, but I'm afraid that she would stay in there for a while longer because of something...

Thinking helplessly, Gongzhuqie walked deeper and pushed open the bathroom doors one by one. Just at this moment, I heard a low cry from the tall girl behind me. I quickly turned my head and saw her standing against the wall with a mutual aid box next to her. In her hand was a piece of note that looked like she had just taken it out of the box.

"The newcomer is probably up to something dangerous." She held up the note in her hand. "The box was open when I came. She must have seen this note."

But what was written on the note was wrong - after entering this "world", one should leave the bathroom as soon as possible...

"This should be a hint from somewhere else. Somehow it drifted here." The princess sighed and quickly figured out the reason. "Isn't there a location marked on it? It looks like an older note."

"There's another possibility. Maybe this is fake." The tall girl guessed, "Maybe this is fake news deliberately released by the mastermind behind the scenes, just to deceive people..."

"Okay, can you please stop talking about this?" Princess Qie said helplessly, "Being trapped here is already miserable enough. You should just know this terrible thing in your heart. Why do you have to say it out loud..."

As she spoke, her hands never stopped moving. Soon, she pushed to the fourth compartment.

The door was ajar. It opened with a push. Princess Qie looked inside, but her eyes widened in surprise. The

tall girl also came over when she saw the situation. After seeing the situation inside, she couldn't help but exclaimed "Ah".

- The compartment was empty. Only on the tile floor inside, there were obvious footprints.

Not only that, there were also some scratches on the door of the cubicle... indicating that "it" had indeed been here, and there had indeed been other humans in this cubicle.

More importantly, they did not see anything here that could represent a "corpse" -

"In other words, that person... ran away?"

The tall girl blinked slowly, and after a long time, she finally came to a conclusion: "Or after encountering 'it' head-on?"

Princess Cut beside her was also a little dumbfounded, and after a pause, she said: "'It' will only appear when Guo Shuyi is in the bathroom... So it seems that this is the case."

"Awesome." The tall girl spoke from the bottom of her heart, and her not-so-elegant words earned her a dissatisfied look from Princess Cut beside her. She shrugged nonchalantly and walked out while saying, "What? I didn't say anything wrong. The triggering conditions here in the school are the easiest, and it's also the easiest to be tricked. It's amazing that you can still run away under such circumstances."

As she spoke, she had already walked back to the sanitary napkin mutual aid box. Then she reached her hand in.

"Instead of this, why don't we check the box carefully first. Because we were afraid of 'it' before, we couldn't come in and look for clues. It's a rare opportunity this time... Hey, it really comes."

She raised her wrist and pulled out a fragment of a poster.

It was the one that Xu Ming had found before.

Seeing this, Gongzhu Qie also hurried over. After the two looked at each other for a while, they both showed solemn expressions.

"The school's transmission point... the time is unknown." Princess Qie bit her lip slightly, "So we still have to find that time point ourselves."

"But we don't have many days left." The tall girl also sighed, "I still have no idea... and even if we can find it, how to run after entering the bathroom is also a problem..."

"... go find the new person." Princess Qie made up her mind, "She can escape from under 'its' nose. Maybe there are some ways in this regard."

The tall girl pursed her lips and thought for a moment, then nodded. Turning around and about to leave, she suddenly seemed to remember something, and suddenly stopped and turned to the mutual aid box again.

Princess Qie: "?"

"This piece of paper has the transmission points and times of other places. Others may need it too." The tall girl said, folding the poster paper and stuffing it back into the box. After thinking for a while, she took out the note and took out a pen from her pocket.

"'If you are in school, ignore the words above... leave as soon as possible...', done!"

She quickly added a sentence on the note and breathed a sigh of relief. She turned around and put the paper back into the box, clapped her hands, and walked out with Princess Cut.

*

Same time.

On a cement road in a rural area in the south of the city.

The child sitting in the back seat of the car looked out the window boredly and suddenly said, "Dad, there's a dog!"

"Oh." The parent who was studying the navigation did not even turn his head and began to speak in a coaxing tone, "Then baby, look carefully, what kind of dog is it?"

"Wolfdog!" The child said confidently, "A big wolfdog!"

"Oh..." The father who was driving was still distracted, "Baby, that's not a wolfdog, it's a German shepherd dog, also called a German shepherd..."

"Blackback!" The child patted the seat and shouted happily, "Big blackback!"

Dad: "Yes, blackback..."

Child: "Umbrella!"

Dad: "...Ah?"

"Big black shepherd! Carrying an umbrella! Run fast!" The child grabbed the rear window and said excitedly, "Faster than cars!"

Dad: "......?"

"No, baby. Dogs can't run faster than cars, don't they...???"

Before he finished speaking, the young father suddenly widened his eyes, staring out the window and then at the windshield.

——At the end of his sight, a smooth and sturdy German shepherd was running forward with its legs spread out.

On its back was a broken umbrella fixed with a rope. Behind it were clouds of dust raised by the violent movements.

In the blink of an eye, it ran away without a trace.