Chapter 163 Guardian (Twenty-one)
Qiao Yuan knocked on the door again: "I'm not a teacher, I'm a student, I'm here to see Dai Lele."
As she finished her words, there was finally a sigh of relief from inside, as well as the sound of approaching footsteps and the door latch turning.
There were three people standing in the studio, two men and one woman, sitting in the classroom with dim flashlights. The two boys, one tall and one short, were responsible for opening the door. After seeing Qiao Yuan, they couldn't help but be stunned, opened their mouths, and subconsciously stepped aside to make way for the four people. They couldn't say what they wanted to say for a while.
It was the girl who spoke first, her eyes sweeping over the people present: "What do you want to see me for?"
Qiao Yuan looked at the girl, and to her disappointment, although the girl's voice sounded very much like Dai Lele, it was not her.
Qiao Yuan said, "Hello, we are Su Zeyuan's friends. The teacher has something to talk to him about, but he hasn't returned to the classroom. I remember he said he went out to eat with Dai Lele, so I wanted to come over and ask what's going on."
Hearing Su Zeyuan's name, the girl suddenly realized: "Ah, you are looking for the boy who came here with Lele, right? But Lele heard that he had never been to the Student Activity Center, so he took him out for a visit..."
Before the girl could finish her words, Song Yanchi asked anxiously, "When?!"
Because she had heard Qiao Yuan say that the teacher was looking for someone urgently, the girl did not show any doubt about Song Yanchi's anxiety: "Probably half an hour ago."
"The main thing is that we don't have cell phones, so we don't know exactly where they went, but we'll go out with you to look for them."
As she spoke, she looked at the other two boys, who also had no objections.
Qiao Yuan thanked them and walked out while chatting with the leading girl. They had not heard any noise when they passed the first two floors, and combined with the time the girl said the two had left, Qiao Yuan guessed that the two had already walked upstairs.
The girl's name is Jiang Yue. She and the other two boys belong to the same club as Dai Lele, so they are close to each other.
When asked if they knew why Dai Lele brought Su Zeyuan here, Jiang Yue looked relaxed: "Bring him here to be a model."
"The deadline for a provincial painting competition is approaching, and Lele has not found a model yet. Unexpectedly, he happened to meet him..."
Although Jiang Yue didn't say the name, everyone present knew that she was talking about Su Zeyuan.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Song Yanchi frowned.
When he frowned, he also had a sense of hostility, which made Jiang Yue and the other two boys look stiff, as if they were afraid of being implicated. They did not dare to speak out, perhaps because the relationship between Song Yanchi and Su Zeyuan had not yet reached that stage.
A boy said stubbornly: "We don't know about this. It should be... too anxious."
A few people walked to the stairs while chatting.
Seeing that they were about to walk up the stairs to Qiao Yuan and other players, Jiang Yue stopped them and said, "Hey, there is an elevator here. We can take the elevator directly up. Going upstairs is too tiring."
"Besides, aren't you in a hurry to find Su Zeyuan? It would be faster to take the elevator..."
Qiao Yuan: "A few of us are a little dizzy about elevators."
Hearing Qiao Yuan's words, Jiang Yue cast a sympathetic look: "Then we will go with you."
Qiao Yuan shook his head: "No, that would be tiring for you too, we can just meet up on a certain floor."
Jiang Yue was finally persuaded by Qiao Yuan. After saying hello to Qiao Yuan, she walked towards the elevator with the two boys.
The elevator entrance was right next to the stairs. Jiang Yue raised her hand and pressed the button on the elevator. The roar of the elevator soon rang out.
Because there were not many people in the Student Activity Center at that time, the elevator went up quickly. After Jiang Yue and the two boys entered the elevator, they extended their hands to Qiao Yuan and the others before the elevator door was about to close and said hello: "Then let's start from the first floor."
Qiao Yuan also responded with a smile, but after the elevator door closed, the smile on her face quickly disappeared, and she turned and ran towards the stairs: "Hurry, we need to find someone quickly."
"There is something wrong with these three students."
Qiao Yuan's words were like a bombshell to the ears of the three men, but his body had already followed behind Qiao Yuan.
Tang Huan couldn't help but ask, "Why?"
She thought those three students were normal.
Qiao Yuan: "I think I've seen the appearance of these three people in the information given by Officer Ling before."
She felt that Jiang Yue looked familiar when she saw him for the first time. After searching in her mind, she finally located the information that Officer Ling had sent to her before. She felt that he looked very similar to the three people who committed suicide together in school and left a suicide note in the previous files.
However, when they were looking at the information, their attention was all on those people who died but had the common point of losing their organs. They just glanced at the other dead people, so Qiao Yuan was only suspicious at first.
After all, the three of them don’t have any obvious features in their looks, in layman’s terms, they have ordinary faces.
Tang Huan had long forgotten the information in the file. She turned around and looked at Song Yanchi and Sheng Yegui, and found that except for Sheng Yegui's expression of sudden enlightenment, Song Yanchi was as confused as her, which made her no longer feel alone.
"What confirmed me was the question I asked one of the boys," Qiao Yuan said immediately afterwards.
Tang Huan remembered that Qiao Yuan had been chatting with Jiang Yue and had also chatted with the other boy for a few words, so it was easy for him to recall what the other party had said: "You asked about his height?"
Qiao Yuan: "Yes, I asked him how tall he was, and he said 1.80 meters."
Tang Huan: "Is there any problem with this..."
She has never been very sensitive about height, she only knew that the man was about the same height as Song Yanchi and Sheng Yegui.
Qiao Yuan turned around and looked at Song Yanchi and Sheng Yegui: "How tall are you?"
Song Yanchi didn't expect Qiao Yuan to suddenly change the subject to him, so he subconsciously said, "1.885 meters."
Although Sheng Yegui ran after Qiao Yuan, he subconsciously straightened his clothes when Qiao Yuan looked at him, and then replied in a gentle voice: "1.886 meters."
Song Yanchi had already sneered at Sheng Yegui because he was still managing his image. Now, after hearing Sheng Yegui's answer, his voice immediately rose several degrees, full of disbelief: "What?!"
"Wait, the height I just measured was before my birthday. I should have grown a few centimeters recently. I am at least one meter tall now."
There is absolutely no way he could be shorter than Sheng Yegui.
Tang Huan: “…”
There was no need for Qiao Yuan to explain further, she had already understood.
The tall boy who answered had a similar personality to Song Yanchi, but he was able to omit eight centimeters when reporting his height, which was in stark contrast to Song Yanchi who now refused to give up even 0.1cm.
Qiao Yuan realized this the moment the boy answered, but she did not show it. Instead, she continued talking to him as if she knew nothing. As expected, she successfully deceived them and temporarily separated from the players.
However, when he realized that there was indeed something strange about the three people, Tang Huan felt a chill on his back when he thought about how he had just walked some distance with the three people, and that the other party almost continued to follow him.
After all, she was not an inexperienced newbie, but those three possible ghosts acted too much like students, not to mention the words they heard in the classroom at the beginning. Now that she thought about it, even the muffled words they heard in the classroom might have been deliberately said to them, just to let them down.
He said he was pretending to be a ghost, but in fact he was a real ghost.
At that time, the classroom door blocked the expressions of the three ghosts, but Tang Huan felt that he could more or less guess their expressions at that time. They should be nervous on the surface, but actually they were waiting for them to take the bait with smug looks.
But then new questions emerged, causing her to continue asking: "But if these three people are not human, then are they coming for us or for Su Zeyuan? Can we still believe what they just said? Where did Dai Lele and Su Zeyuan go?"
"And they don't even know which floor they're waiting for us on..."
Tang Huan's questions were like a barrage of bullets, and Qiao Yuan only replied to the key ones: "There is no notification from the system at the moment. Su Zeyuan must be fine. I think they should still be in the building."
"In any case, let's try to find them first. They don't know that we have seen through their identities yet, so it is unlikely that they will attack us. They may even wait for us to bring Su Zeyuan and the others over."
The stairs on each floor of the student activity center were indeed very long, but the four of them were in good physical condition and were running, so they reached the fourth floor quickly.
There were too many classrooms, but because he already knew there was something wrong with the activity center, Qiao Yuan didn't plan to split up and search, so they could only search one classroom at a time.
After quickly searching the fourth floor, Qiao Yuan and the others went up to the fifth floor.
The fourth and fifth floors were a hodgepodge of clubs, and the designs on the exterior walls of each classroom were varied. In the dim light, there was only the sound of the elevator and their deliberately light footsteps.
