The monitor looked pale, reviewing a book in his hand, but anyone could see that he was distracted and absent-minded.
The head teacher, who was "inspecting" from the back door of the classroom with his hands behind his back, looked at him twice.
"Xie Jialin, come here for a moment."
The monitor seemed startled, his shoulders shrugged slightly, and he sat in his seat for two seconds before realizing that it was the head teacher calling him.
After returning to school from Zhao Wuyuan's home this morning, the class monitor and Luo Zheyu were first comforted by the head teacher, and then taken to the psychological counseling room to stay for more than half an hour before returning to the classroom for class.
Even after something like this happened, the school didn't let them go back, for fear that when they returned home their parents wouldn't be at home and they would be left alone at home, which would make them even more depressed. So it was better to keep a close eye on them.
Seeing Xie Jialin's absent-minded look, the head teacher became even more worried and annoyed. He could not help but turn his gaze away to another corner - there, Yunbo was sitting obediently on a chair, holding a stack of test papers and writing furiously. Occasionally, his deskmate would ask Yunbo about questions he did not understand, and Yunbo would answer them seriously.
Yunbo has a really good psychological quality and deserves praise!
Another half an hour passed, until the bell rang for the end of get out of class. The head teacher sighed softly, patted Xie Jialin on the shoulder, and told him to do more exercises and not think too much about other things.
Luo Zheyu raised his head and looked at the class monitor Xie Jialin who walked into the classroom.
The other person walked straight towards Li Bin without looking around, his limbs swaying somewhat stiffly as he walked.
It seemed as if this was not a classroom, but a place of execution.
Li Bin, another person participating in the Four Corners Game, is also good friends with Zhao Wuyuan, Yun Bo, and Xie Jialin.
"you……"
Xie Jialin sat on the chair in front of Li Bin, speaking to him with his body sideways, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself, with a frown on his face.
"What's wrong?"
Li Bin's attitude was quite cautious.
The teacher had kept the news of Zhao Wuyuan's death a secret from his classmates, but as one of the people who had played the four-corner game with Zhao Wuyuan last night, he had already been questioned by the police and naturally knew that Zhao Wuyuan was dead.
At the same time, we also know that it was Xie Jialin, Yun Bo and a taxi driver who discovered Zhao Wuyuan's body.
That scene must have been a great shock and stimulation to the two of them. Li Bin felt that he should try his best to understand and sympathize with his good friend's emotions. At this time, even if the other party wanted to punch him, it didn't matter, he would not fight back.
Of course, two punches won’t do.
"…Did you encounter anything strange after the game ended last night?"
Xie Jialin opened his mouth and finally asked this.
"No." Li Bin blurted out the words in the same casual tone as usual. Just after he finished speaking, he saw Xie Jialin frowning even tighter, with a bit of pain on his face. He quickly lowered his head and thought.
"I haven't encountered anything strange." Li Bin deliberately lowered his speaking speed and tone, speaking word by word.
The tone was extremely gentle.
"Then...then you have to be careful..."
Xie Jialin lowered his eyes and stared at the table, speaking in a low voice.
He seemed to have something else to say, but he strangled the rest of his words in his throat.
"Yeah!" Li Bin nodded repeatedly without asking him what he should be careful about.
"I'll be careful, don't worry! You too~"
The cute ending tone made Li Bin feel nauseous.
"...Forget it, just follow me."
Xie Jialin dragged Li Bin out of the classroom.
As he passed the podium, his limbs became visibly stiff again.
He seemed scared.
There are too many people in the corridor.
There are many people and many ears.
Xie Jialin pulled Li Bin to the men's restroom again.
"Squad leader, where are you taking me? To the toilet? It's okay. If you want me to go to the toilet with you, just tell me. I will definitely go to the toilet with you if you tell me. How would I know if you don't tell me? You are so mysterious and aggressive. It just means that we have a tacit understanding. I understand you. If it were someone else, they might think you were going to take someone to do something..."
Li Bin kept chattering behind him, and Xie Jialin could only feel his temples throbbing.
The haze in my heart and the fear that enveloped my whole body dissipated a little.
………
"Do you believe there are ghosts in this world?"
Under the dim light of the toilet, the dark-skinned boy asked this with his back to the mirror.
He stared at Li Bin, his lips were pale and tightly pursed, the corners of his lips were stretched into a straight line, and his expression was more serious than ever before.
"……ah?"
Li Bin was stunned and almost asked him if he was upset. Fortunately, he remembered in time that Xie Jialin was indeed upset when he saw Zhao Wuyuan's body today, so he resisted the urge to blurt out the words.
"This morning, Yunbo asked me for Zhao Wuyuan's cell phone number."
"Aren't they as close as a pair of trousers? Why didn't you save their phone number?"
Xie Jialin ignored Li Bin's interruption and continued, "The call is connected."
"Zhao Wuyuan asked us to rescue him. He said he was hiding in the closet."
"When we arrived at Zhao Wuyuan's house, the security door couldn't be opened, so Yunbo forcibly pulled it open with one hand."
"Wow... cow... is this true?"
"Really, I saw it with my own eyes."
"...Zhao Wuyuan came out of the closet. He looked like he had been soaked in water for hours. He told me to be careful, and then..."
"Then?"
"He just disappeared, and two minutes later we saw his drowned body in the bathroom, swollen with water, exactly like what I had seen."
“…”
Li Bin stared at Xie Jialin without saying anything, not knowing how to start.
"The police said he was dead early this morning, drowned in the bathtub."
Xie Jialin recalled the water in the bathtub.
Very full, almost overflowing.
But the bathtub is at most about 1.8 meters long, more than half a meter wide and one meter deep.
It was in such a small "pool" that a healthy teenager, nearly 1.8 meters tall, drowned.
Pause.
"Be careful Yunbo."
"Eh? Why?"
"His hand, which was holding the corpse, did not shake at all."
"Zhao Wuyuan died, so tragically, so suddenly, but he wasn't scared or sad at all."
"This... maybe he didn't show it. You know, some people are actually very sad inside, but you can't see it on the outside..."
As Li Bin spoke, his voice gradually became lower and his eyes looked behind Xie Jialin.
Xie Jialin was lowering his head with an expression of fear and pain, and did not notice his change.
"That's different. Yunbo is like... like he is looking at a dead stranger..."
Li Bin stood still, winking at Xie Jialin frantically, but it was like winking at a blind man, Xie Jialin didn't even look at him.
"Forget it. I have other reasons to prove that Yunbo is abnormally strong and his body is freezing cold. He doesn't have the body temperature that a normal person should have..."
Li Bin panicked and stretched out his foot to step hard on Xie Jialin's toes.
"Ouch..." Xie Jialin hugged his foot and screamed in pain.
"Stop it, please. I feel very uncomfortable now and I'm not in the mood to play with you."
Li Bin rolled his eyes.
"cough……"
There was a cough behind me.
Xie Jialin held his foot and rubbed the painful part. When he heard the cough behind him, he just moved aside without looking back to make it easier for the other person to pass.
He foolishly didn't look at him. Li Bin faced him directly, but he couldn't ignore him. He smiled at him awkwardly and shouted:
"Yunbo."
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