Chapter 7: Go to bed early to prevent sudden death
When Fatty and Chu Changge returned to the office, Gu Mian was already sitting at the desk, with a report peeled off the wall in front of him.
He broke off the iron gate railing and got out to expose it.
He raised his head and looked at the two people who came back: "What did you gain?"
Chu Changge sat down: "We found a warehouse on the sixth floor of this teaching building, that is, at the end of the corridor on the top floor, which is like a utility room, but it is locked tightly."
"The door of the warehouse seems to have been replaced. It is much newer than other doors, but the gap in the door frame is black, as if it has been burned by fire."
Been burned by fire?
Gu Mian paused for a moment, then pushed the report on the table to Chu Changge: "Look at this."
Chu Changge and Fatty both looked down.
"Fire investigation report of Class 4, Grade 2..."
"The fire occurred in the warehouse on the sixth floor of the teaching building on the evening of November 26, 2008. The cause of the fire was arson. According to the investigation, this was a premeditated arson and murder case."
"The number of victims in the fire was 29, including 28 students and one teacher."
"The twenty-eight students are all students in the second and fourth classes of junior high school, and the dead teacher Zhang Ping is the class teacher of the second and fourth classes."
"In addition to the twenty-eight classmates who died, the last survivor of Class 2 and 4 disappeared that night. If anyone witnesses this student, please report it to the police immediately."
There is a photo of a girl below. She has a doll head, fair skin, and big eyes. She really looks like a rabbit.
There is a line of small words under the photo - "The above is the missing student Lin Yanan"
"Lin Yanan?" Chu Changge stared at the photo: "That's the student you mentioned."
Gu Mian nodded: "Well, that's the one who didn't come to class."
The report did not say that Lin Yanan was dead, but disappeared on the night of the incident. This means that the fire only killed one teacher and twenty-eight students.
"This is weird." Fatty also wondered: "The task of the dungeon is to teach twenty-nine ghosts, so twenty-nine students should have died, right?"
Chu Changge pushed up his glasses: "Then there is only one possibility. This Lin Yanan must have died somewhere and then turned into a ghost, but her body was hidden and has not been found so far."
Moreover, Lin Yanan probably died in this school.
"I have two guesses now -" Chu Changge continued.
"First guess, I guess the other twenty-eight people killed Lin Yanan, hid her body, and then she turned into a ghost and came back for revenge."
"But there are many ways for ghosts to kill people. There is no need to go to such great lengths to gather them together and burn them to death, so I actually prefer the second conjecture."
"The second guess is that the murderer is Lin Yanan, a living person. She was rejected by everyone. After being suppressed for a long time, she suddenly broke out and set fire to everyone. The dead people turned into ghosts and came back to take revenge, killing Lin Yanan."
"But if it's the second conjecture, I can't explain why the ghost hid the body after killing someone."
"And no matter which guess it is, I can't figure out the meaning of the existence of teacher Zhang Ping."
This copy was really taxing, and Gu Mian felt like her brain cells were dying in large numbers.
He pinched his forehead and said, "Actually, it doesn't have to be that troublesome. Now let's catch a student and whip him for questioning. I think we can ask him right away."
Chu Changge didn't even raise his eyelids: "If you can't die, don't drag me to die with you."
The fat man also winced: "Dr. Gu, are you serious about what you said?"
Of course I am serious...
However, Gu Mian didn't say this in the end. She just knocked on the table idly beside her: "Then if you continue to reason, do you still want me to find clues?"
Chu Changge took out a pen at some point: "I've searched all the teaching buildings, and there's nothing special except the warehouse on the sixth floor. Now I mainly want to go to the dormitory to look for clues."
The dormitory building is opposite the teaching building, with a large playground in the middle.
However, Gu Mian had seen that the dormitory building was locked, and there was a timetable posted on the door. It would not open until four in the afternoon.
I don't know who opened the dormitory door, but this is in the dungeon, so there is no need to worry about it.
As he thought about it, he glanced at the electronic watch on the table. It was now half past two in the afternoon.
Xun Li has already gone to history class and will be back around three o'clock. He doesn't know if he will come back alive.
The other two female players were sitting side by side on the rubber floor of the playground at this time, and they did not seem to have entered this strange atmosphere in the teaching building.
Time passed very quickly, and soon Xunli, the history teacher, came back.
The fat man was originally waiting to see his joke, but unexpectedly, the young man, who was 8.8 meters tall, was not frightened at all. When he came back, he laughed hard at the fat man.
"When I saw you come back in such a mess this morning, I thought they were scary, but when I went there I found that they only dared to pick on the weak ones."
"I stood on the podium, and no one dared to speak out. Not to mention playing drums and passing flowers, everyone listened seriously to the lecture."
“I originally thought this horror game could be so scary, but it’s nothing more than this!”
It seems that this person passed the class very safely.
The fat man's face turned red when he was laughed at, and he almost looked like he was trying to crawl into a crack in the ground.
Night falls quickly.
I don’t know how the time is allocated in this dungeon, but it was already getting dark at a little after four o’clock.
By five o'clock, the whole sky turned into a rich dark blue.
The dormitory building is slightly drier than the teaching building, and at least the windows are still intact.
As soon as you enter the door, you will find a deep corridor, like a monster's throat, with a chandelier hanging at the top emitting a faint orange light, flickering twice from time to time.
The dormitory corridor is very narrow, about two meters, and it feels crowded even if you walk side by side with a fat man.
At this time, the more than twenty resentful spirits also returned to the dormitory, but they all lived on the fourth floor.
The teachers’ dormitory is on the first floor.
In the narrow corridor, Gu Mian saw the dormitory door with her name on it after walking a few steps.
"104" he read out the house number.
The teachers' dormitory is for two people per room, and Gu Mian's roommate is the history teacher Xun Li.
Two female players share a dormitory, and Chu Changge and Fatty share a dormitory.
It is worth mentioning that there is a familiar name posted on the door of dormitory No. 102 next to Gu Mian’s dormitory: Zhang Ping
But the door was locked and I couldn't get in.
Gu Mian had no choice but to give up and go to her dormitory to check first.
The teachers' dormitory is very simple, with a balcony, two beds and a large table.
The table is placed between the two beds, and there are two hot pots on the floor.
The curtains have been drawn, leaving a gap in the middle, and the dark sky can be seen.
Xun Li sat down on the bed and yawned loudly: "This experience is so real, I actually feel sleepy in it."
As he spoke, he became excited again, as if he wanted to show off something: "Actually, you were also scared when you went to class in the morning, right? I heard that you were so scared that you ran back before the time was up."
"Actually, you don't have to be so afraid. Just learn from me and be tough and they won't dare to do anything. Those ghosts will only suspect cowardice..."
Xun Li stopped mid-sentence because he found that Gu Mian was not listening to him at all, but was staring thoughtfully in one direction.
He followed Gu Mian's gaze.
Between the gaps in the curtains, he saw a pale face staring at him from the window.