Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and looked around casually. Suddenly, Gu Xizhou noticed a female student standing on the sports field in the distance, sizing them up. Baek Dong-yang and the others noticed Gu Xizhou's gaze and looked at the sports field at the same time.
Suddenly, Baek Dong-yang shouted excitedly, "It's her!"
Everyone was wondering what he meant. Baek Dong-yang added, "She was the one who showed us the way the day before yesterday!"
Xiao Yue looked at the female student and hesitated for a moment before saying, "That day … I think it was her!"
Everyone hurried to catch up with the student. Gu Xizhou, in particular, grabbed hold of the student.
"What is it?" As she spoke, the female student used her hand to tuck her hair behind her ear and smiled faintly. Her voice was very soft and light.
The people around her didn't know how to answer her question. Gu Xizhou was about to speak when he heard Si Yu ask the female student, "Who are you?"
She said faintly, "My name is Li Jia. I'm a student of this school."
"Why did you show us the way to death?" Baek Dong-yang's temper exploded as he asked anxiously.
Li Jia glanced at him and smiled strangely. "What way to death? I don't know what you're talking about."
Baek Dong-yang was so angry that his whole body trembled. Because Li Jia showed them the way, three of them died!
"If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave first." Li Jia raised her eyebrows and smiled.
"Classmate, I still have some questions to ask you." Si Yu showed a standard smile that exuded hormones. His aura instantly killed Li Jia's strange smile, causing the surrounding temperature to warm up. Perhaps because of Si Yu's smile, Li Jia didn't leave immediately.
She said, "Ask away. If I know, I'll tell you. If I don't know, then there's nothing I can do."
Si Yu took out the newspaper and handed it to Li Jia. "Do you know this woman?" Li Jia asked Si Yu.
Li Jia shook her head. "No."
At this moment, Qi Fei, who had dyed his hair pink, suddenly appeared. He looked at everyone. They had met once in the office, and Gu Xizhou and the others had looked for him in the library. He seemed to remember them and greeted them happily.
"Hi." Qi Fei shouted. Everyone looked at him at the same time. When they came back to their senses, Li Jia had already run to the middle of the road.
"Should we chase after them?" Cheng Yue frowned and asked.
"Forget it. Let her go." Si Yu turned to look at Qi Fei. "It's you. You seem to have lost a lot of weight."
"Yeah!" Qi Fei lowered his head and looked at his skinny hands. Every joint of his fingers could be seen clearly. He scratched his head and said, "I'm also wondering why I've lost so much weight all of a sudden. My classmates even suspect that I've taken drugs."
A boy at the back shouted at Qi Fei, "Hey, Qi Fei, let's go. Do you still want to study?"
"I'll be right there!" Qi Fei replied and left in a hurry.
Si Yu stared at Qi Fei's back thoughtfully.
Rumble — —
"It looks like it's going to rain." Gu Xizhou, who was walking on the road, raised his eyebrows and looked at the dark sky.
Si Yu was silent for a moment and said to the people around him, "Let's go to the school building to hide from the rain."
The people around him did not refute Si Yu's words, especially Gu Xizhou who had experienced the rain last time. He was still a little traumatized by the rain.
A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky like a sharp sword piercing through a blade. The next moment, heavy rain poured down. The pitter-patter of the rain accompanied the gradually darkening sky. The outside of the school was shrouded in black fog, and the world outside the fog was hazy.
Gu Xizhou and a few of his friends sat in a classroom. He curled his lips and leaned against the window sill.
Si Yu did not speak. He quietly read the newspaper in his hand, looking for clues.
Gu Xizhou looked at the woman standing outside the window. It was the woman Su Xiaomian had asked them to find. She stood in the rain with an umbrella in her hand.
"It's her." Gu Xizhou was not the only one who noticed the woman. Several of his friends beside him also noticed the woman outside the window. The woman was holding a large black umbrella that could accommodate five or six people. She stood quietly outside the window and stared at them.
The short-haired woman was holding an umbrella in the rain. Her hair and clothes seemed to have just been fished out of the water and dripped onto the surface of the water.
Gu Xizhou could only vaguely see the woman turn around in the rain and walk toward the school building where they were. Everyone was stunned. Soon, they heard the sound of footsteps.
"Knock, knock, knock — —"
A dull knocking sound came from the corridor. It sounded like someone was knocking on the door of the classroom.
The half-closed door was pushed open. Suddenly, the wind from outside blew in. It was so cold that the people in the classroom could not help but shiver. There was no one outside the door.
Gu Xizhou looked down and saw a black umbrella on the ground.
The umbrella was wet. Gu Xizhou picked up the big black umbrella on the ground and looked at it carefully.
Seeing this umbrella, the others felt their hair stand on end. Obviously, this black umbrella was left behind by the short-haired woman.
"Is there something wrong with this umbrella?" Xia Hang asked in a low voice.
Gu Xizhou glanced at him. "See for yourself."
"… Haven't you already seen it?" Xia Hang took a step back, as if he was afraid of touching the black umbrella.
Gu Xizhou ignored him. He pursed his lips and walked slowly to Si Yu. "It's just an ordinary umbrella. It's a good umbrella."
Si Yu took the umbrella from Gu Xizhou's hand and turned to look at the corridor. A figure flashed by.
There seemed to be something in front of them. Everyone looked at each other and tacitly walked forward together. When they walked over, they only saw a pool of water on the ground.
"Let's split up and look for her." Gu Xizhou suggested. "She's in the school building."
Cheng Yue looked at the water on the ground and said hesitantly, "She might not be human … If we split up to look for her, will we …"
Si Yu said softly, "Since she can replace another person, she's definitely not human. Be careful not to go up to the fourth floor and don't walk the path of death."
Because of Si Yu's words, no one had any objections.
Everyone was about to split up when two of the girls said in a trembling voice, "Si Ge, we're so scared. Can we be in the same group as you? We're afraid that I can't remember so many rules … "
Before Si Yu could speak, Gu Xizhou directly hugged Si Yu's right hand. At the same time, he gave Fang Zhi a look. Fang Zhi followed Gu Xizhou and hugged Si Yu's left hand.
Gu Xizhou said, "The three of us came in together. Don't leave us behind. I'm so scared! "
Si Yu was speechless.
When the two girls heard Gu Xizhou deliberately speaking in a low voice, they gritted their teeth and glared at Gu Xizhou.
Gu Xizhou said, "There's no point in glaring at me. I won't give her to you."
When the two girls saw this, they had no choice but to give up.
The nine of them split into groups of three and searched for the woman in the school building. Before they left, Si Yu asked Gu Xizhou to pick up the umbrella on the ground and bring it with him.
"Is this umbrella useful?" Gu Xizhou asked.
Si Yu nodded. "It should be useful. Bring it with you."
The windows in the corridor weren't closed. From time to time, rainwater would drift into the corridor.
Rumble — —
The sound of rain pitter-patter outside didn't stop.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh — —"
"It's footsteps." Gu Xizhou turned to Si Yu. Si Yu and Fang Zhi also heard the sound and the water on the ground. After avoiding the path of death, they vaguely saw a human silhouette in the middle of the corridor on the third floor.
Rumble — —
Under the dim light, Gu Xizhou finally saw the figure clearly. It was the short-haired woman.
Then, the woman walked into a classroom. Gu Xizhou and the other two didn't think twice and followed her in.
After entering, Gu Xizhou didn't see a classroom. Instead, he saw a strange room. The room was empty and there was nothing in it. There was a corpse lying on the ground.
It was the corpse of a dead woman … Her face was pale and she was staring straight ahead. Her mouth was slightly open and her face was distorted. She must have been in a lot of pain before she died.
Si Yu and Fang Zhi also followed in. The three of them saw the corpse on the ground. It was the short-haired woman.
She was lying on the ground. Her hair and body were wet. She looked similar to the male victim that Gu Xizhou had seen in the previous case. It was a classic case of drowning.
"She drowned," Gu Xizhou said.
Si Yu nodded and didn't say anything. Instead, he rummaged through the room. Gu Xizhou saw this and immediately helped him. In the innermost part of the cabinet, Gu Xizhou found a photo album.
The album was filled with photos of her and a man. Every photo was taken in this small room. In every photo of the woman and the man, she was smiling stiffly.
Gu Xizhou saw a hundred yuan note by the window. Its owner seemed to want to throw it out of the window.
"Open it," Si Yu said. "There should be what we are looking for."
Gu Xizhou opened the crumpled note and saw a few words: "Who can save me? I'm being held captive. My name is Su Xiaomian. My ID number is xxxx. I'm at 705-11."
Gu Xizhou said, "Her name is Su Xiaomian. It's the same name as that NPC."
Si Yu was silent for a moment, then said, "I understand."
"What do you understand?" Gu Xizhou asked.
Si Yu pointed to the female corpse on the floor and said, "There's more than one person who disappeared. Do you remember Qi Fei?"
Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi nodded at the same time. "Yes."
"He suddenly became thin, not because of drugs, but because he was very hungry!"
Fortunately, Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi's intelligence was still online. "Li Jia corresponds to the crazy woman, Qi Fei corresponds to the homeless man, and Su Xiaomian corresponds to the short-haired woman. There's more than one person who was replaced."
"Why did you choose them to replace her?" Fang Zhi asked.
Si Yu pointed to the names on the paper. "If I'm not wrong, they correspond to the names of the people who died in the newspaper."
Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi asked at the same time, "Why?"
Si Yu said softly, "Do you think someone like Qi Fei can get into a university?"
Gu Xizhou said, "… Yes, I don't think so."
Si Yu said, "He used someone else's name to study in exchange for the first half of their life. So now it's an equivalent exchange. The dead person used the second half of their life to exchange with them."
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