Chapter 131 The Spirit of the Ouija Board (8) "Do you also want to use the spirit of the Ouija board?"...
However, Xi Rui did not get any further results from many of Xie Tan's questions. When he directly asked Xie Tan if he was the mastermind, he simply circled the "S" again.
Later, Xi Rui even questioned his own judgment. Because, with the intention of testing Xie Tan, he asked if Xie Tan knew the details of some mass suicide cases, and the answer was surprisingly "no."
Rather than being shocked that Xie Tan didn't know, Xi Rui's first reaction was to doubt the accuracy of the Ouija board's answer.
How could Xie Tan not know? Besides, this guy is a hot commodity among ghosts and monsters. Even if he really didn't know, those monsters would rush to tell him to make him laugh.
He's using his observational eye and the hands of a clock to jump through time. In this monster-filled place, the Ouija board is a fixed point, inseparable from the mass suicide case. He couldn't possibly be unaware of such crucial information...
Isn't the mass suicide case the main point?
Xi Rui noticed the pen trembling slightly, and suddenly a thought struck him: "You're restricted, aren't you?"
The pen quickly circles the word "yes".
Xi Rui found it hard to believe; if even the answers from the Ouija board could be manipulated, then there would be nothing left to refer to.
To ensure the accuracy of his answer, he deliberately avoided asking Xie Tan, "Were you also trapped by the mastermind behind the scenes?"
yes.
"The moment you became a spirit, you learned a lot out of thin air, right?"
yes.
Are you still trapped?
yes.
To figure out what's really going on, we need to bring the Ouija board to our side.
While Xi Rui was shouting "Xiao Tan has gone too far," he calmly thought that if even the Ouija board spirits were affected, they might be thinking in the wrong direction, and the real reference point had been hidden by Xie Tan.
Perhaps even helping the Ouija board to escape its clutches isn't the way to leave this day, as the Ouija board says it's still trapped.
His face was full of worry: "There are only the three of us, and we don't know how our other friends are doing. We need your help. How can we save you? Should we kill the people who are holding you captive?"
The pen, which had been trembling slightly, suddenly stopped.
To avoid making a mistake, they went to the rooftop and pulled over some abandoned tables and chairs to invoke the spirit of the Ouija board. At that moment, a cold wind blew by, making clothes and papers rustle, and the old tables and chairs shook, making an unpleasant sound.
Xi Rui felt as if all the pores on his body had been stretched open, letting in a cold wind that froze his limbs and bones.
He stared at the hand he was holding on the Ouija board, slowly changing from the clean and tidy hand of a young man to the hand of a woman with some wrinkles.
The color also changed from the flesh color of a living person to a grayish-brown, spreading all the way to the arm.
Xi Rui slowly raised his head and saw a face filled with fear, distortion, and a mixture of relief and madness.
That's Teacher Meng's face.
Her arms were trembling, which was originally uncontrollable due to restraint, but now it was completely due to the excitement of successfully finding a scapegoat.
The woman laughed maniacally, her movements large but silent. She grabbed a pen and scribbled on the paper, leaving behind a sentence:
Your turn.
Sun Enze fainted again.
When he woke up, he was still on the rooftop. The cold wind had long since subsided, and the person opposite him and the Ouija board were all gone.
He immediately grabbed the edge of the rooftop and looked down. The area below was empty. In this season, even the flowers, plants, and trees were bare. Only some artificial landscapes built by the school were out of place, their lush greenery swaying gently in the wind.
His heart calmed down slightly; he was terrified that if he peeked out, he would see the president lying in a pool of blood.
What exactly happened? His memory has been cut off again. The president's last question was... what was it again?
His partner's unknown fate left him anxious and uneasy. He had lost one of his pillars of support and now only wanted to find another. However, as he reviewed the president's questions, his nerves became increasingly agitated, and the Ouija board was restricted... Was the Ouija board's answer really accurate?
The rooftop door creaked open with a sickeningly loud sound.
Sun Enze suddenly turned around, and Xie Tan slowly walked out from the dark stairwell, holding the Ouija board paper in his hand, which swayed slightly.
Sun Enze never thought that Xie Tan would be unable to break Xi Rui's control, and Xi Rui thought so too, so he moved at a stealthy speed the whole time, and even offered to carry him on his back.
But Xie Tan was probably deliberately trapped.
It was so that they would use a Ouija board.
Just like how he deliberately let Teacher Meng go to summon the Ouija board.
Sun Enze asked, "Can the Ouija board...lie?"
“Even the Ouija board lied, so there’s no reference point here.” That’s what Xie Tan thought, and he had also probed into it during his back-and-forth conversation with Xi Rui.
He didn't lie? But the Ouija board said that Xie Tan didn't even know the details of the mass suicide case...
Sun Enze suddenly froze.
Is it that they don't know, or that they don't need to know?
By inducing Teacher Meng, one could say that Xie Tan was helping the ghost of the suicide victim seek revenge. Concealing the fact that the Ouija board belonged to the student who jumped from the building on the 26th could be loosely interpreted as Xie Tan's scheme, given that only one person could escape and their hidden competitive relationship existed.
Although Sun Enze believed that Xie Tan would not compete for the only escape spot, it wasn't because Xie Tan was particularly kind, but because Xie Tan would never have made an effort to "live." Even if it was necessary in the plan, he would probably disdain it and seek a more advantageous way for himself.
But why was Xi Jinping lured into this? Is it unrelated to the suicide case, and is it simply to eliminate an opponent?
Whether it was a mass suicide or an escape, it was completely unimportant to Xie Tan.
Is it possible that Xi Rui... or even his group of companions, were Xie Tan's real target for jumping through time to this place?
Could it be that the president has already...?
Sun Enze dared not look Xie Tan in the eye; when Xie Tan approached, he only dared to stare at the spirit paper in Xie Tan's hand.
The Ouija board must have been blown off the rooftop by the wind and picked up by Xie Tan, who had timed it perfectly and leisurely arrived here.
He heard the boy's voice, softer than the wind on the rooftop, ask him, "Are you also going to use a Ouija board?"
This was followed by a faint smile.
Sun Enze felt a chill run through his body. He thought again of everything he had seen through his clone's eyes in the police station, of the words "the water is overflowing," and of his soul trembling with fear. He took a step back and pressed himself against the rooftop.
Xie Tan: ?
Xie Tan was trapped in the old teaching building. Everyone else was gone, and he couldn't open the door no matter what he tried.
Half an hour ago, the door suddenly opened by itself again.
He spent half a day finding an unlocked bicycle and searched for the person on campus.
But the campus was too big to find. He walked through the digital building area, preparing to return to the club building, when he suddenly felt a gaze on him from the rooftop.
He realized with a start that this was the building where the person who fell had been found. He stopped the car, looked up, and saw a piece of white paper drifting down from the rooftop. As he got closer, he saw circles of text on the paper that looked like an eye.
No matter how much the wind tossed and turned him, that eye always remained fixed on him.
Xie Tan reached out, and the paper landed in his palm.
The rooftop was empty. Xie Tan went upstairs and saw Sun Enze by the rooftop.
He walked over and noticed that Sun Enze wasn't looking at him, but only at the Ouija board, so he asked that question.
After all, he suspected that Teacher Meng and Xi Rui had both gone to consult the Ouija board behind his back, and that Sun Enze might also have something he wanted to ask but didn't want him to know.
But Sun Enze's reaction... Xie Tan originally wanted to ask where Xi Rui was, but the professional skills of the popular character development system told him that there was no need to ask anything at this time.
No way, that guy?
Two people have already disappeared, leaving only the two of them. It's too dangerous.
The Ouija board can no longer be invoked; those two disappeared after invoking it, and they still don't understand why.
He was also looking for a way to leave, but he was trapped in the old teaching building and didn't encounter a single ghost, such as the female student with the twisted body or the male student who fell from the building. There were also no words that appeared out of thin air on the blackboard to remind him.
There's also the strange thing about the clubhouse building where pressing a switch can light up the entire building, and the old teaching building has become a "safe house." He couldn't get any information from the ghosts.
Strangely enough, he was originally afraid of having such "alone time" to deal with the ghosts of thirteen students.
Something unusual must be going on.
Since there's a safe house available, let's go back to the real safe house.
"Let's go." Xie Tan turned and left, not caring whether Sun Enze followed or not.
After he went down two floors, he heard footsteps chasing after him.
Sun Enze chased after Xie Tan with a "what's the worst that could happen?" attitude. After all, Xie Tan had saved his life, so he figured he might as well take it back. Did he really have the power to stop Xie Tan from doing what he wanted?
He heard about it afterwards... Neither the Black Goat nor the Mirror Cult could stop this person!
However, things remained calm. Xie Tan simply walked ahead and asked him if he could drive.
Sun Enze said, "...I got my driver's license."
"Then I'll have to trouble you."
Sun Enze realized what was happening, took the car keys from his waist, and Xi Rui said that if he needed to go back to the club building, he could drive it, so he gave him the keys.
"I...I'll do it."
He glanced in the rearview mirror; Xie Tan was leaning lazily back in his seat… He wasn’t going to kill him directly, or force him to use the Ouija board again.
As expected... he was probably overthinking things.
He prayed inwardly, deceiving himself.
It was almost midnight when I got back to the student club building.
Sun Enze wanted to visit the opera club, but there was no internet and the large screen inside the building couldn't be turned on, so tearing off a calendar by hand was the most intuitive way to see what was going on.
He asked Xie Tan for permission with a timid look in his eyes. Xie Tan went with him and returned to the chess club first.
Although he woke up in the travel agency, the only room without lights was still the one he cared about the most.
Xie Tan felt cold as soon as he entered the room. There was a constant rustling sound of paper. The window was not closed properly. It was his first time here and there was white paper all over the floor. It must have been ruined long ago. He covered it up for a while and then the wind blew it open again.
The chessboard in the preview image is right outside the window. It wasn't occupied by the Ouija board. Someone's unfinished game is set up there. Xie Tan doesn't understand chess, but he wants to see if anything will change after two people go missing.
A piece of paper stuck to the window was blown onto the chessboard and got stuck among the pieces. Xie Tan took the paper, but accidentally knocked down a white piece.
The chess piece landed with a crisp sound. Xie Tan instinctively wanted to look over, but was first drawn to the clock that had just been reset to zero.
In the blink of an eye, midnight became eight o'clock again.
Unable to leave the 27th? Did Xi and Rui fail?
But when he went back upstairs and passed the opera club, he saw that the top page already had "No. 28".
They left the cycle of number 27 and came to number 28.
So Xi Rui actually succeeded in helping the Ouija board spirit escape and leave the future timeline?
The lockdown period starts at 8:00 AM and lasts until midnight. If a solution cannot be found, the lockdown will be restarted that day.
How long is this "future"?
If no solution is found, will it just drag on indefinitely, or is there a limited number of days, and if it's not solved, we're doomed?
The travel agency's voice came through, and Xie Tan remembered that the Ouija board had said there were other people, so their group must have been scattered across different days.
A new day brings new people.
On the 28th, Chang Mingai arrived.
She had just woken up and was still dazed when she saw them.
"What time is it? Have you given the notification? Where is the others?"
Sun Enze stammered and struggled to find the right words. Xie Tan sat down on the sofa, glanced at his phone casually, and then checked the time again.
But to my surprise, the comic has been updated.
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