The next night after communicating with Yi Huai, Tang Yuanyuan and Yi Huai returned to the campus closed by the police as planned.
Returning to the campus that was blocked by the police was much smoother than expected. Tang Yuanyuan seemed to have a lot of experience in skipping classes and knew many of the paths connecting schools to the outside city. She took Yi Huai back successfully through the mountain path in the city. A deserted campus at night.
Although it is strange for normal people to sneak into the school secretly late at night, for Tang Yuanyuan, who is always on the move at night, it is a normal thing. After returning to night school, she obviously He seems more comfortable than coming to school during the day.
"It seems that you have been wandering around the campus at night a lot in the past."
Yi Huai, who followed Tang Yuanyuan from the path in the mountains to the school playground, couldn't help but sigh at how familiar she was, and suddenly began to wonder what the other party came to school for every day, because it seemed that ever since he knew Tang Yuanyuan, he had always been there. I haven't seen the other person do anything serious in school. It feels like he can do anything here, but he just doesn't know how to study.
"The evening self-study in school is boring. There are a lot of people who skipped it, including me. Besides, I can't study even while sitting in the classroom, so it won't affect others... Well, I don't like it very much either. A depressing atmosphere."
Tang Yuanyuan responded to these words and walked in front of him. She shrugged her shoulders indifferently to Yi Huai's words. Then the backpack she carried behind her suddenly moved, and a fox with white fur poked its head out of it.
"After watching it for a few days, I feel that the school is very similar to the academies and private schools I saw many years ago, but the atmosphere is different."
The white fox schoolbag jumped out flexibly and landed on Tang Yuanyuan's shoulder. He spoke in a mature voice. Tang Yuanyuan smiled when he heard the words:
"That's probably because you always follow me, right? From my point of view, campus life is very loose. But since you can say such things...Have you ever been to the human world in the past?"
Tang Yuanyuan was very keenly aware of the information revealed in Zhen's words, and recalled that when she saw it in the Book of Life and Death Detention Center, Zhen had said that the purpose of signing a contract with her was to leave the inaccessible land. When she went out, she originally thought that Tsumugi had been staying in that darkness since his existence, but now it sounded like that was not the case.
The last question at the end of her words silenced Tsumugi, who seemed to want to say more, for a while, but soon he lay on her shoulder, shook his head, and whispered:
"Thanks to one person, I just saw some things."
"This fox has lived longer than me and knows a lot of things. Tang Yuanyuan, I advise you not to be too gullible in some of its words."
Yi Huai followed one person and one fox and his eyes fell on Zhen. He seemed to be a little unhappy about the other person lying unscrupulously on Tang Yuanyuan's shoulder, but as soon as he said these words, he saw Tang Yuanyuan turn his head. , poking his arm with a smile.
"Oh, how can you sow discord in front of the other party?"
Zhen also raised his head and stared at Yi Huai's face with squinted eyes, sneered and said:
"You also know that I have lived longer than you? In my eyes, you are just a brat. I have to repeat what you just said to Yuan Yuan. Do you think you can be gullible? Some brats Maybe he has some evil intentions."
Yi Huai looked instinctively unnatural for a moment when he heard Zhen's last words, but he happened to not be noticed by Tang Yuanyuan who had already turned around. His eyes quietly fell on Tang Yuanyuan again, and saw that the latter seemed to be confused. He patted Zhen's back carelessly, then sighed softly and said:
"Okay, if you want to make fun of each other, you should go home and quarrel again. Now we have entered enemy territory, and internal strife is not a good thing."
She paused slightly, stopped her progress, and then said:
"And since I am willing to live and act with you, it means that I am willing to trust you. Even if I don't know much about your past, I believe that in the future we will get along with you one day when you will all open your hearts and tell me."
"The choice of whether to believe others or not is in my hands. Don't worry, I never believe in anything. When I choose to believe something, I am already ready to make my own decision and bear the consequences. "
She said and smiled at Yi Huai and Zhen, then turned back and took the steps that she had stopped before because of talking. Zhen lay on her shoulder and looked back at Yi Huai, shook his body and said nothing. Yi Huai stopped where he was and looked at her leaving back, his eyes flickering for a moment.
Sometimes the words Tang Yuanyuan said would make him feel that the other party was not a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl at all. It seemed that she who usually seemed to smile and was always a little reckless would have a completely different side at critical moments. She seemed far away. He lives a stronger and more transparent life than he imagined.
A girl like Tang Yuanyuan, who should be pampered and pampered, can have such insights and opinions. It is definitely not something that can be easily learned in one day. He cannot imagine how many things the other party has experienced alone in the past and can only face it alone. Difficulty, and there is no way to know how many choices the other party has made that she regrets.
Because Yi Huai has always had such thoughts and thoughts in his mind, every time he heard the words from Tang Yuanyuan's mouth that were spoken by a girl who should not be her age, he would feel some inexplicable pain in his heart. .
In fact, Yi Huai wanted to ask Tang Yuanyuan many times about the past when he faced those ghosts alone, but just as he still had secrets that he was unwilling to tell her, he could not get to the bottom of her past.
Even so, every time he saw those beautiful eyes of different colors that made his heart tremble with familiarity, he would still want to understand the emotions that Tang Yuanyuan buried under his smile, but he never could. When the time was right, I felt that I had no room to ask.
It was the same at this moment. In this quiet campus in the late autumn night, he stood where the two of them had just stopped, looking at Tang Yuanyuan's walking figure under the dim street lamp, with a complex look on his face and he hesitated to speak. .
After Tang Yuanyuan walked a certain distance with Zhen, she seemed to realize that Yi Huai was not following behind her, so she looked back and found that Yi Huai was still in the same place, so she stopped again:
"What's wrong, Yi Huai, did you find anything wrong?"
Yi Huai came back to his senses because of her call, and his eyes met hers for a brief moment. He shook his head reflexively and walked towards her direction. But when he got halfway, he suddenly stopped and looked up at the teaching building in front of him. .
His eyes swept down from the top of the teaching building in front of him, and then quickly glanced around. After quickly looking around, he frowned, walked quickly to Tang Yuanyuan and whispered:
"No...there's definitely something wrong. This school is too quiet."
"Of course an empty school is quiet at night..." Tang Yuanyuan subconsciously replied, but he immediately realized what Yi Huai said.
"No, that's not right. When you said quiet, did you mean that there aren't any ghosts on campus?"
"You've noticed it too, kid... At first I thought I was the only one who felt weird."
Zhen suddenly straightened up from Tang Yuanyuan's shoulders, jumped to the ground lightly, spun around in a circle and then stopped to look up at Yi Huai with squinted eyes:
"I'm not the type who has a strong sense of inspiration, and I'm not that sensitive to ghosts. I can only feel the evil spirit in a small area. But since you said there is a problem, it means that the ghost energy in this school is indeed very weak."
"It's not very weak, it can almost be said to be non-existent." Yi Huai said, "This is almost impossible in such a popular gathering place on weekdays."
"Indeed, there are many and many kinds of ghosts in the school. I used to see them often, especially recently, but I didn't see anything tonight..." Tang Yuanyuan touched his chin, " I originally thought it was just the right time or the ghosts were hiding, but it doesn’t seem to be the case from what you said.”
"I had the same idea as you when I entered the campus, because my range of perception is also limited, but it is so strange that I didn't find anything along the way, as if..."
"It's like something has wiped out the ghosts on campus."
Tang Yuanyuan raised his eyes and met Yi Huai's eyes: "Is that what you want to say?"
Yi Huai looked into her eyes and nodded lightly. Tang Yuanyuan always thought quickly and could decipher a lot of information in just one sentence. Now, he would no longer be surprised by such things.
"Could it be the young brat you were talking about?" Tsumugi said. "Isn't the guy you said you saw in the video highly suspected of causing these weird things? Could it be that he swallowed up the campus? All the other ghosts in there?”
"If he is going to do this, then there is no point in making Yang Qixuan become that kind of evil ghost. Of course, this is just a guess..." Tang Yuanyuan shook his head, "Ghosts can gain the power of other ghosts by devouring each other... .Is this how Yang Qixuan was raised? Otherwise, there is no reason why she would become so strong in a short period of time..."
"Raising ghosts on campus... Feeding ghosts with ghosts is actually a very costly and easily out-of-control matter. After all, not all ghosts have the ability to digest and devour ghosts. If it was really planned by that boy All this, what is his purpose for doing this?”
Yi Huai frowned and whispered, and the face of the female ghost in the storage room came to mind again. There was nothing special about the female ghost. It seemed that she was just randomly selected. Why was it worth spending so much money? How much does it cost to support?
"We are here to find this answer and to confirm our conjecture."
As he spoke, Tang Yuanyuan also looked at the building in front of him, glanced at the rooftop, and said softly: "This is the third floor of the building where she jumped. We can go up first to find out if there is anything else about this accident." If there are no clues, we can go to the girls’ dormitory again.”
"In addition to being able to find clues about her life, these places may also be the places where she appeared. Since you can't feel any ghostly atmosphere in such a huge campus, we can only investigate one by one. "
When Tang Yuanyuan said this, she took out her phone and looked at the time. It was exactly eleven ten in the evening. Searching the entire campus might take more time than she initially expected.
She hopes to resolve this matter tonight, and it is best not to leave too many hidden dangers. If it is true that the female ghost is being deliberately fed as they suspected, then the longer the delay, the more dangerous the other party will become. Once again The probability of human life will also become greater.
I hope she didn't escape the campus or drag more people into the water.
Tang Yuanyuan held the phone and sighed softly in her heart. She took a long breath and put the phone back into her pocket. At the same time, she checked a handful of talismans that were stuffed into her clothes. Then she stepped forward again, with a sigh of relief. Yi Huai walked into the empty lobby on the ground floor of the third floor.
The empty and spacious campus is quiet at night. The noise from the city in the distance cannot be transmitted to this campus that is blocked by green belts and hills. Apart from the usual late autumn evening breeze, the sound of falling leaves and the gentle breeze are heard here. There seemed to be no other sounds, and there were countless vague black shadows shaking on the floor where no lights were lit.
On the top of the floor opposite the third-floor building where Tang Yuanyuan and the others entered, there was a boy in black robe standing on the edge of the top of the floor. From the moment they entered the campus, they had been watching him from beginning to end. Following the actions of two people and one fox.
At this moment, it was not until the girl's figure entered the teaching building and completely disappeared from his field of vision that he suddenly withdrew his gaze from a distance and looked up at the dark sky tonight, where there were no stars and only the vague moonlight.
The boy's red eyes flashed under the weak moonlight, taking in all the black clouds that were slowly turning in the dim night sky. He watched those black clouds continue to move and turn in the night sky, gradually covering up what was not tonight. Bright moonlight.
Until the last bit of blurry moonlight exposed in the sky was completely obscured by black clouds, and no more light could be seen in his red eyes, he suddenly moved his lips and whispered: A name he repeated countless times.
"Yuanyuan..."
But this call, which sounded as soft as a sigh, was quickly lost in the sound of the wind, and disappeared silently along with his figure.
The top of the building became an empty scene again. The boy left no trace of where he stayed, as if he had never appeared anywhere.
