Chapter 164 Guardian (Twenty-two)
The four people finally found Dai Lele under the podium in a classroom.
She curled up into a ball, her hair wet with sweat and stuck to her cheeks. When she heard the footsteps, Dai Lele looked over with bloodshot eyes, and when she saw the player's appearance, she subconsciously wanted to open her mouth and scream, but Song Yanchi, who was the first to react, made a "hush" gesture and then pulled her out from under the podium.
I don’t know if it’s because he saw who was coming, but although Dai Lele’s breathing was still rapid, his originally nervous mood finally calmed down.
Before Qiao Yuan could ask, Dai Lele's voice rang out: "Help, help me! There is a murderer here, let's go find the teacher..."
"They shouldn't have played that game..."
Although Dai Lele spoke incoherently, the other four people could still barely understand what happened.
It turned out that Dai Lele and other classmates sneaked over during this time period just to play the Ouija board game.
Dai Lele did have a painting competition coming up, but she had already submitted her work. She took this competition very seriously, and the closer it got to the date when the results would be announced, the more nervous she became. So, at the suggestion of several other classmates who were also worried, she wanted to know the results in advance through the Pen Fairy.
Having dinner with Su Zeyuan was just a casual thing. When Dai Lele learned that he was also troubled, out of the desire to compensate Su Zeyuan, he decided to take him with him and meet up with the classmates who had already gone to the studio.
Listening to Dai Lele's words, Qiao Yuan suddenly remembered that he had seen Su Zeyuan looking distressed in the cafeteria before, and couldn't help but ask, "What is he distressed about?"
Dai Lele was suddenly interrupted and hesitated for a few seconds before answering: "It's...it's about his friend."
"He feels like he only has one friend, but the other person has many friends."
Qiao Yuan:?
Could this friend Su Zeyuan was talking about be her?
After all, apart from her, Su Zeyuan didn't seem to have any other friends who could be considered close friends, so her other friends must be the players.
Qiao Yuan didn't expect that Su Zeyuan was actually feeling distressed because of this problem.
Dai Lele naturally didn't know that the friend Su Zeyuan was talking about was right in front of her. She was too nervous to find out the identities of these people. Seeing that Qiao Yuan was lost in thought, she continued talking.
But when the two arrived at the studio, what was waiting for them were not their familiar classmates, but three unfamiliar faces. They told them that they were also there to play at the activity center. The leading girl even took the initiative to introduce herself as Jiang Yue.
Although she didn't know them, she knew they were from the same school because they were wearing school uniforms, so Dai Lele didn't think much about it. She thought that the classmates she had arranged to meet up with hadn't arrived yet, so she started chatting with the three of them while waiting for them, and they even had a good time.
"Then...then Su Zeyuan found a ball of paper on the ground. He unfolded it and saw numbers and a few 'yes' and 'no' written on it, as well as a lot of messy lines..." Dai Lele stuttered. Although she had not played the Pen Fairy game yet, she had learned the process from her classmates in advance and knew that this was what needed to be written when playing the Pen Fairy game. Moreover, the familiar handwriting and the several yes or no circled on it clearly told her that her classmates had been there.
But if those classmates had been here, where are they now?
Dai Lele was very familiar with those classmates, so she knew that if they had really come, they would definitely remember to leave her a message when they left, but now they were nowhere to be seen...
Although she had realized the problem, she still did not connect it with the three people in front of her. She was grateful that the other party offered to help her find someone, until she and Su Zeyuan followed the three people out of the room and waited for the elevator. The moment she caught a glimpse of the stairs, she couldn't help but be stunned.
She and Su Zeyuan had taken the elevator upstairs before, so she didn't pay much attention to it. Now she discovered that there were two more stone statues. You know, she had only been here once yesterday, and these two things didn't exist at that time.
And most importantly, although the two stone statues were bent over, she felt that they looked very familiar. After careful observation, she found that the faces of the two stone statues were exactly the same as those of the missing classmate.
When she realized this, cold sweat instantly flowed down Dai Lele's face. Because she was too frightened, she accidentally pushed one of the stone sculptures to the ground. A corner of the stone sculpture broke, revealing a pair of frightened human eyes.
She is her classmate.
The other person was still alive, but when Dai Lele called his name, he was unable to give any response. He just stared at her with fear, as if he had seen something terrible, his eyes were bloodshot.
But soon Dai Lele realized that he was not looking at her, but his eyes went directly over her shoulder and looked behind her.
Su Zeyuan was standing side by side with her at this time, with an equally shocked look on his face, so the only people the other party could see now were Jiang Yue and the other two.
At the same time, Jiang Yue's voice rang in her ears: "I didn't expect he was still alive."
Although the voice was the same as usual, Dai Lele could hear a hint of coldness in it.
At this moment, she still had something to understand . There was something wrong with Jiang Yue and the other two. She didn't even dare to turn her head. It seemed as if all the strength in her body was drained away in an instant. Her legs were shaking violently, but she couldn't take a step.
Fortunately, when Dai Lele came to her senses, she was being pulled by Su Zeyuan. Because Jiang Yue and the other two were on the stairs and in the elevator, they could only hide in the classroom, but as they heard approaching footsteps, she realized that it was Jiang Yue and the other two who were chasing after her.
Just when she was feeling anxious, Su Zeyuan asked her to find a place to hide first, and he ran to distract the others. Jiang Yue and the other two were indeed distracted, and she faintly heard Jiang Yue and the other two seem to say that Su Zeyuan smelled good.
From Dai Lele's expression, Qiao Yuan could tell that she was not lying, and it must have been Su Zeyuan who took the initiative to lead the three ghosts away.
Dai Lele didn't say what happened next, but Qiao Yuan and the others had already guessed it. The three ghosts must have been summoned by Dai Lele's Pen Fairy. They probably didn't catch Su Zeyuan before they were interrupted by the players who suddenly entered the building.
However, according to Dai Lele, the initial target of these three ghosts might not be Su Zeyuan, but they still noticed his scent now.
Qiao Yuan felt very complicated, and sighed quietly in his heart: "After this time, I must persuade him to change his laundry detergent to see if the ghost targeted him because he likes the scent of soapberries."
System: [Why doesn't the ghost just chew the soapberry? ]
Qiao Yuan: "Who eats the seasoning directly?"
system:【……】
It can only remain silent.
Only Dai Lele was found, but Su Zeyuan was not. The others had to continue looking for him in other classrooms.
Dai Lele, who had just broken free from her memories, was trembling as she followed the other players out of the classroom. She pulled Tang Huan, who was closest to her, and said nervously, "We have to run quickly. Those three murderers will definitely come again..."
Looking at Dai Lele's appearance in front of them, the players certainly couldn't tell him that Jiang Yue was a ghost, for fear that Dai Lele would faint.
Tang Huan could only say: "We have to find Su Zeyuan first before we leave..."
Dai Lele's expression was full of despair: "But I don't want to stay here anymore. There is a murderer here! And Su Zeyuan might be dead..."
After coming to her senses, she kept recalling the scene of her classmate being wrapped in the stone sculpture. The fact that there was a murderer in the building was also irritating her fragile nerves. She didn't want to stay here any longer for even a second.
She bit her lip and tried to persuade the players who were about to head to other floors. Unexpectedly, at this moment, her pupils suddenly shrank, and she screamed, "There are footsteps!"
There were indeed footsteps, but they came from upstairs.
However, Qiao Yuan remembered that Jiang Yue and the others' elevator did stop at the first floor, and the footsteps did not sound like those of three tied-up ghosts, but more like those of one person.
Qiao Yuan said aloud: "This doesn't seem to be Jiang Yue and the others..."
But at this time, Dai Lele could no longer hear anything.
"Yes, they are coming!" She instantly jumped up like a frightened animal. She subconsciously pressed the elevator button nearest to her. The elevator door opened quickly and she rushed in headfirst.
"Wait..." I don't know if it was because her potential was finally stimulated, but the other party was so fast that Tang Huan, who was closest to her, couldn't stop her. Just after she uttered a syllable, Dai Lele was already frantically pressing the button for the first floor.
The elevator seemed to respond to her urgent thoughts and began to descend before she could even close the door.
Song Yanchi: "Is this elevator broken..."
His words came to an abrupt end when he saw the ceiling of the elevator car.
Because the elevator door outside was not closed, the players could clearly see the elevator slowly descending under the operation of the machine, but at this moment there was a corpse that they were very familiar with lying on the top of the elevator car.
The other person was lying on his back on the top of the elevator car, with his head facing the direction of Song Yanchi and the others. However, he had been split in half from head to toe, with his internal organs and intestines piled up in his abdomen, attracting a bunch of flies circling around him, and his two lifeless eyes were shrouded in a dead aura.
It’s Dai Lele.
Under the roof of the elevator, Dai Lele was standing in the elevator in a daze, looking confused.
She always felt like she had forgotten something...
Ah, she remembered.
At that time, after Su Zeyuan led Jiang Yue out, she finally did not choose to listen to Su Zeyuan and continue hiding, but wanted to run away quickly while the other party had just led Jiang Yue away.
She climbed out of the podium and ran out of the classroom, but she was afraid of running into the murderers by taking the stairs, so she decided to take the elevator. But while waiting for the elevator, she realized that she was shrouded in a shadow.
Through the reflection in the elevator door, she saw three expressionless faces.
It’s Jiang Yue and the others.
They came back so soon!
The elevator finally came up, but she wasn't able to ride it.
The pain of her body being torn apart blurred her consciousness, so much so that as her consciousness gradually faded, only one thought remained in her mind -
She couldn't get out.
His memory completely returned, and Dai Lele let out a shrill scream.
