Chapter 162 Guardian (Twenty)
At this moment, a stern male voice came from the door: "What are you all doing there?"
It was the head teacher who walked in. He looked very bad and as if had vomited. Qiao Yuan guessed that it was because he was asked to identify Cheng Xiao's body.
After hearing what the head teacher said, the students who were originally surrounding Qiao Yuan and Su Zeyuan subconsciously dispersed a little. Some students also spoke out to explain, which made him realize what had happened. His face turned almost the same color as the white wall next to him.
Only when he saw Qiao Yuan and Su Zeyuan standing nearby unharmed did he breathe a sigh of relief: "I'm glad you're all right."
"It looks like the screws of the fan are loose. I'll ask the janitor to come and take a look. Everyone should just endure the days without fans for a while. Peace of mind will naturally cool down..."
Judging from the expressions of the classmates around him, Qiao Yuan felt that everyone felt a chill down their spine.
With the teacher's comfort, the students quickly believed that it was just an accident.
The head teacher soon noticed Xu Yunchuan.
When facing Xu Yunchuan, his attitude was much better. He greeted him in a gentle voice and reminded him that his classroom was upstairs. In front of the teacher and classmates, the other party obviously didn't say much, just nodded slightly as a response, and then really walked out of the classroom.
The teacher seemed to have thought of the ultimate purpose of his visit this time, and called Yang Zhe and Song Yanchi out separately. Although the other party's reason was vague, Qiao Yuan could already guess that what the other party wanted to ask was related to Cheng Xiao.
However, when some classmates asked where Cheng Xiao had gone, he coughed with difficulty and said that the other party had just asked for leave due to some sudden things, and asked everyone not to think too much about it. Instead, they might as well think about how much time is left before the college entrance examination and do a few more questions.
The teacher's words undoubtedly brought the students back to reality from their panic, but it was indeed effective. As his voice fell, the people who had originally surrounded Su Zeyuan had dispersed and walked towards their seats with gloomy faces.
Qiao Yuan was the only one left sitting in Su Zeyuan's seat, but she couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Today, dangerous incidents happened one after another, and Xu Yunchuan's timing was really clever, which made her suspicious. But Xu Yunchuan behaved normally and looked like a normal person, so there was nothing suspicious about him.
And judging from Su Zeyuan's expression, he and Xu Yunchuan didn't have much contact, and the possibility of a personal grudge between the two was unlikely, but the possibility that it was because of Wang Hao or that he was possessed by a ghost could not be ruled out.
But no matter what, Qiao Yuan still added Xu Yunchuan to the list of suspects.
Due to what had just happened, Qiao Yuan stayed in Su Zeyuan's seat until the bell rang before returning to his own seat.
Song Yanchi and Yang Zhe also returned to the classroom halfway through the class. Judging from Song Yanchi's impatient expression, he was probably asked the same questions again as before.
Just as Qiao Yuan thought, Song Yanchi and Yang Zhe were called away by the teacher because of Cheng Xiao's matter. The two had been with Sheng Yegui before, and had already told the teacher once when they found the body. This time they went to tell the police.
Coincidentally, the policeman who came this time was still Officer Ling.
Qiao Yuan thought that Officer Ling might have to stay in the school permanently.
However, she also knew that Cheng Xiao ran away on his own. And judging from the fact that Song Yanchi and Yang Zhe were told by their teacher and Officer Ling that there was nothing to get upset about, Cheng Xiao's final outcome would most likely be judged as suicide. After all, he was at the sensitive stage of taking the college entrance examination.
After school, Sheng Yegui and several other players also came to the classroom. Their class's self-study class was requisitioned by the teacher, so they had to attend classes back-to-back, even the break time was connected.
Although they had only not seen each other for two or three hours, Qiao Yuan could sense Sheng Yegui's longing for her. Especially after hearing what happened to Qiao Yuan and Su Zeyuan, this time he did not even give in to Song Yanchi as usual, but stayed close to Qiao Yuan, with worry and annoyance between his eyebrows: "If something happens to you, how can I live..."
Qiao Yuan had heard similar words from the other party before, so his attitude was very peaceful. However, Song Yanchi regarded Sheng Yegui's reaction as a pretense to win Qiao Yuan's favor. If Qiao Yuan hadn't mentioned Xu Yunchuan, there would have been another dispute.
"I heard from the class teacher that Xu Yunchuan seemed to have taken a leave of absence due to illness. Even the teacher didn't expect him to come here so suddenly." Yang Zhe also shared the gossip he heard from the teacher while waiting for Song Yanchi to be questioned: "Anyway, his family has a strong background, and he is someone Wang Hao always relies on."
From the chat records with Wang Hao at that time, Qiao Yuan had already seen that Xu Yunchuan did have some background, otherwise he would not have obtained those information. This also meant that even if they suspected each other, they could not show it openly, after all, they still needed to stay in school until the college entrance examination.
After hearing Qiao Yuan's suspicion of Xu Yunchuan, the other players' expressions also became tense.
If it were before, Yang Zhe would have hesitated and thought about Qiao Yuan's statement, but the sudden change made him a little confused, and he could only nod repeatedly.
Cheng Xiao's death and the sudden fall of the fan blades made the players very nervous. However, nothing happened until they returned to the dormitory after school and the next afternoon.
However, the players have already realized that the current peace may only be the calm before the storm, so they have been on edge.
Su Zeyuan can be considered to be worry-free in some aspects. He almost only goes between the classroom, cafeteria and dormitory. However, a special situation occurred today.
At dinner time, the girl whom he had rescued from Wang Hao came over.
The girl's name is Dai Lele, a sophomore in high school. She was targeted by Wang Hao because her appearance met his aesthetic standards. Now she has come to Su Zeyuan to have dinner alone as a thank you.
Because the other party invited Su Zeyuan alone, Qiao Yuan and other players naturally had no way to follow him closely like before, and could only keep their distance as before.
As a student, the place where Dai Lele invited us to eat was naturally the cafeteria.
Although there were fewer senior high school students eating in the cafeteria, there were still quite a few people in the cafeteria, so the players had to sit separately.
Qiao Yuan grabbed a position closer to Su Zeyuan. From her angle, she could just see the profiles of Su Zeyuan and Dai Lele without being discovered by them.
Amid the sounds of people coming and going and dishes colliding, one could just barely hear the two people talking.
Dai Lele naturally felt sorry for not looking for Su Zeyuan after she rescued him. Although Qiao Yuan only heard words like "fear" and "worry about revenge", she could guess why Dai Lele didn't look for Su Zeyuan before.
The other party had always been worried about revenge from Wang Hao and others, but as the news of Wang Hao and others' death spread to the first and second year of high school, she finally no longer had to be afraid of this matter, so she plucked up the courage to find Su Zeyuan to thank him.
Qiao Yuan didn't hear clearly what Su Zeyuan said, but judging from the happy atmosphere between him and Dai Lele, Su Zeyuan obviously didn't take the matter to heart.
But soon Su Zeyuan frowned, as if he was worried about something. He hesitated for a long time before speaking to Dai Lele, and Dai Lele also answered with some words after a brief surprise.
Qiao Yuan looked at the two people opening and closing their lips and felt that lip reading should be put on the agenda.
Just as she was thinking about what the two of them were most likely to discuss, she found that Dai Lele suddenly stood up and walked towards Su Zeyuan, making a pulling motion. However, Su Zeyuan was faster, and he put away his arm first, avoiding Dai Lele's contact, but soon stood up and followed Dai Lele.
The moment Su Zeyuan left, Qiao Yuan also stood up and followed him.
Su Zeyuan and Dai Lele were not slow, and Qiao Yuan walked a few steps faster, trying to pretend that they met by chance after dinner. But at this moment, the crowds of people leaving the cafeteria and those who wanted to enter the cafeteria collided, and they fell into chaos for a while.
Although her eyes were always on Su Zeyuan and Dai Lele, the figures of the two were like fish entering the sea, and soon blended into a group of people wearing the same school uniforms.
When Qiao Yuan turned sideways and barely squeezed out of the crowded crowd, Su Zeyuan and Dai Lele were no longer in sight.
"Su Zeyuan is missing?" Yang Zhe's voice sounded behind Qiao Yuan. Other players also squeezed out of the cafeteria one after another and found that Su Zeyuan and Dai Lele were nowhere to be seen.
This was the first time that Su Zeyuan disappeared without any players following him. Even Yang Zhe and Tang Huan, who were always calm, showed brief panic on their faces. They came to their senses only after hearing Qiao Yuan's reminder to go to the classroom first. They hurried to the classroom to check the situation.
But they did not find Su Zeyuan in the classroom. According to his classmates, Su Zeyuan never came back after leaving the classroom during lunch time.
Uncle Man, who was less mentally competent, had already started to tremble in his voice: "If he didn't go back to the classroom, where else could he go?"
After all, several players knew that Su Zeyuan usually went to only a few places. He had just come out of the cafeteria, and there was no one in the cat feeding area or the classroom. As for the boys' dormitory, it was even more impossible. After all, during school, the doors of the boys' dormitories were usually locked.
"He left with Dai Lele. Let's go look for him in Dai Lele's classroom." Although Qiao Yuan was nervous when Su Zeyuan disappeared from his sight, he still remained calm.
Although it is not known whether Dai Lele and Su Zeyuan have such a good relationship, Su Zeyuan did leave with her at that time, so Qiao Yuan subconsciously thought of her.
A group of people walked towards the teaching building where Dai Lele was, but when they got there, they were told that Dai Lele had not returned either, let alone seen him return to the classroom with a strange face.
But they did learn another important thing:
Dai Lele and several classmates discussed going to the student activity center in school at dinner time, but they didn’t know what they were going to do specifically.
After thanking the classmate who provided the information, Qiao Yuan walked towards the classroom door with other players while thinking about the possibility of Su Zeyuan and Dai Lele going together.
Uncle Man's voice rang out again: "He's not here either..."
"What would we do if something happened to him? Wouldn't that mean the mission failed? Xiao Qiao, why didn't you think highly of him at the time..."
When he said the second half of the sentence, his tone already carried a hint of complaint.
"? Why do you say that my sister doesn't think highly of Su Zeyuan? Is she the only one with eyes?" Before Qiao Yuan could say anything, Song Yanchi spoke first, his sharpness revealed.
Uncle Man muttered, "I...I didn't mean that. I was just stating the facts. It was indeed Xiao Qiao who was closer to Su Zeyuan at that time."
"Right, Xiao Zou?"
But Zou Lu, whose name he mentioned, did not answer immediately like before, which made Uncle Man feel embarrassed for a moment. He subconsciously looked at Zou Lu and found that he was absent-mindedly fiddling with the barbs on his hands, as if he was indifferent to their conversation. He could only say to make up for it: "It's already this time, are you still distracted?"
"Okay, now is not the time to talk about this. The most important thing for us now is to find Su Zeyuan." Yang Zhe has calmed down now: "The school is closed, he definitely can't leave the school, let's split up and look for him in other places."
"I'll go to the Student Activity Center to take a look." Qiao Yuan also spoke up.
Although Su Zeyuan has not been found yet, the system has not yet notified that the mission has failed, so Qiao Yuan's mood is still relatively stable.
Song Yanchi and Sheng Yegui naturally want to be with Qiao Yuan.
Not to mention that Uncle Man had just had a conflict with Song Yanchi, he also trusted Yang Zhe more, so he chose to be with Yang Zhe. Facing Tang Huan and Zou Lu who had not yet made a choice, he subconsciously wanted to win them over.
Zou Lu chose to go with Yang Zhe and the others without much hesitation. She originally wanted to pull Tang Huan to go with them, but to her disappointment, Tang Huan chose to go with Qiao Yuan and the others.
The players quickly separated.
The Student Activity Center is where the school clubs gather. It is located in a separate building, but generally no one is allowed to enter after 5 p.m. However, since it is not locked, it cannot stop students from entering after 5 p.m. The teachers are aware of this, but as long as it is not too excessive, they will not care.
It was nearly seven o'clock when Qiao Yuan and her friends arrived at the Student Activity Center. Looking inside through the glass door, even the lights were off and no one was visible. Only the mirror on the wall reflected the figures of Qiao Yuan and her friends looking inside, as well as the students hurrying past them.
"This...will Su Zeyuan and Dai Lele be here?" Tang Huan had previously thought that Su Zeyuan might have come to the Student Activity Center with Dai Lele, but now seeing the scene in front of her, she became a little uncertain again.
Qiao Yuan didn't hesitate. After taking a quick look around the hall, he pushed open the glass door and said, "Since we're here, let's go in and look around first."
With the sound of the glass door being pushed open, a group of people quickly walked into the hall.
Although the light in the room was a little dim, they could still . In addition, they did not want to attract the attention of the students and teachers outside, so Qiao Yuan and others chose not to turn on the lights.
When Qiao Yuan was in Dai Lele's classroom, he had already found out that the other party was the vice president of the Art Club, so after entering the hall, he immediately found the map of the Student Activity Center and prepared to go to the place assigned by the Art Club first.
Although the Student Activity Center is equipped with an elevator, for the sake of caution, Qiao Yuan chose to take the stairs and walk towards the third floor where the Art Club is located.
Song Yanchi said as he walked, "Strange, if Su Zeyuan was really here, why would he follow that... girl here? Did he just want to see what the student activity center looks like?"
He quickly seemed to have thought of something, and showed impatience: "Why did it take us so long to approach him, and he just left with a girl casually?"
Qiao Yuan had also thought about this question. She even wondered if Su Zeyuan was just beginning to fall in love and fell in love with Dai Lele at first sight, but she felt that his reaction at the time was not quite like that.
Apart from Su Zeyuan, the person involved, no one could accurately answer Song Yanchi's question, but fortunately he didn't seem to care. He complained a few words and continued walking forward.
Although the decoration style of the Student Activity Center is simple, it is obvious that it was carefully built by the students. You can basically tell what clubs are on each floor just by looking at the decorations.
Some of the school's popular clubs even occupy an entire floor, and the Art Club is one of them. As soon as Qiao Yuan went upstairs, he saw two stone sculptures placed at the entrance of the stairs, bending over as if welcoming guests, which was quite funny.
There are a variety of art works hanging on the walls, some of which are obviously paintings made by classmates, and some are like works of art that have been turned from waste into treasures and are embedded in photo frames.
Some works were so stunning that Tang Huan took a casual glance but was quickly drawn in. In the real world, Tang Huan often visited art exhibitions. If it wasn't for the wrong time, he would have stopped and slowly admired them.
However, what attracted the four people's attention most was the sound coming from the classroom next door. There were both boys and girls, and one of the female voices sounded very much like Dai Lele.
Qiao Yuan ran quickly towards the direction where the sound came from, and the sound was getting closer and closer.
There was no air vent on the door and it was locked, so Qiao Yuan knocked on it first.
A sudden knock on the door interrupted the laughter, and the room soon fell into silence, as if the sound just now was just her illusion.
The other players were also shocked. Tang Huan looked at Qiao Yuan and asked, "Did we hear it wrong?"
But they soon understood the reason.
Qiao Yuan heard someone whisper in a very low voice, thinking he was lowering the volume: "Don't make any noise, in case the teacher comes over."
A trembling voice sounded, and it was obvious that it had thought of something, and its tone was horrified: "But, but we laughed so loudly just now..."
The voice that spoke first replied calmly, "Shh, it's okay, the door is locked, we will never open it, at most the teacher will think it's haunted."
Other players: “…”
Qiao Yuan now knew how the terrifying rumors about some schools spread.
