1TWITF[C Chapter 105

Chapter 105

The campus was ablaze.

Bombs couldn’t harm ghosts; the dormitory building had completely collapsed, with stones flying everywhere and the road shaking, which actually slowed down Lu Yanli’s escape.

“That bomber is here again!” Jin Fugui wiped his face, clearing away the dust, “Will this guy ever stop? How many sins has he committed?”

Lu Yanli said, “Stop talking, let’s go. Where’s the school gate?”

Jin Fugui looked blank. “We can’t get out at night.”

On the other side, the man wearing a hood and mask detonated another bomb.

“I don’t quite understand, what is his goal? Does he just want to kill people?” According to news reports, Jiang Yu inserted another small flag on the map.

This indicated that the bomber had destroyed another place.

Besides residential buildings, it was schools. However, the area next to the school, originally used to hold the cultural festival, was not damaged.

“Could it be because he’s running out of bombs?” Di Ying said.

Xi Menyuan said, “That possibility can’t be ruled out.”

“It can only be said that for some reason, he’s actively reduced the frequency of the bombings.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the task-takers felt the building they were living in shake.

Gravel and dust rattled down.

“Damn it! Run!”

Jiang Yu never expected that the person would attack them.

Because of this, his previous reasoning had to be overturned.

Lu Yanli was doing this on purpose.

This way, by the end of the month, the number of members who could participate in the cultural festival would be greatly reduced. He would be a bit safer.

What’s more, the red figure in his eyes was still there.

Lu Yanli suddenly sighed.

Sure enough, his greatest enemy was himself. After his future self clearly mentioned this problem, he knew that the only person who could solve the problem of the fierce ghost hidden in his eyes was himself.

He couldn’t let his future self be watched by the ghost, otherwise, the other would die; he couldn’t let the current him be unable to rest. So, wasn’t the only person who could be sacrificed him?

That person was—Jiang Yu.

Flames soared, illuminating half the night sky. Before long, sirens sounded.

The police were here.

Lu Yanli didn’t run away. After running downstairs, he hid in the shadows and quietly followed Jiang Yu.

“Who’s there?”

In the chaos, Jiang Yu got separated from the others. He ran towards the main road and quickly noticed someone following him.

Just as he was about to turn around, he felt a pain in the back of his head. Jiang Yu was knocked unconscious.

A long time passed before Jiang Yu slowly opened his eyes.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he was startled. The streets around him had been completely turned to rubble. He was lying in the rubble, surrounded by bloody body parts, and the rotting, scorched smell was drilling straight into his nostrils.

Wait! The picture album was gone!

“Brother Jiang! You’re here!” In the distance, several task-takers ran over, “The explosions have finally stopped, but the police still haven’t found the person.”

Jiang Yu said, “I understand.”

Now, how could he not understand that all of this was done by the bomber? He just wanted to take the picture album.

Considering the time difference between the bombings at the school and their residence, Jiang Yu deduced that the person should have gone to the school first and, finding it wasn’t on Jiang Bai, turned back to take action.

Damn it…

Jiang Yu pursed his lips, determined: he must, he must catch this person.

Jiang Yu shook his head, “Let’s go back first. We need to discuss some things further.”

The task-takers, who had reunited, had to consider their living problems first.

Fortunately, there were too many deaths in the town, and many positions were vacant. They could do other jobs first, which was also a good opportunity to integrate into the town’s life.

*

“It’s over, it’s over, what do we do now?” Jin Fugui kept muttering, “They’ve all turned into ghosts, we can’t get out of the school at night.”

“If we can’t get out, we’ll find another place to hide first,” Lu Yanli said.

“No. Should we go hide in the teaching building?”

“But…” Jin Fugui looked back, scaring him into running even faster, “They’re catching up!”

Even though they weren’t moving quickly, the distance between them was constantly shrinking.

“Resurrection?” Lu Yanli chuckled.

“Don’t you believe it? Look at them, aren’t they alive and kicking?”

“It’s better to just die than to become like this.”

“No.”

What should he do?

What should he do?!

Lu Yanli could, of course, leave Jin Fugui behind. He just needed to run faster than Jin Fugui. But… the other person had the secret he needed. He couldn’t let the other person die.

Jin Fugui was also afraid.

Almost… just a little bit, he was about to be caught by Jin Cancan, who had already turned into a fierce ghost.

He didn’t want to die! Why was he desperately searching for the two pieces of music if not to live?

“Actually, there isn’t no way out.” Jin Fugui decided to gamble, “Just now, Yuanbao was singing the Son of Heaven Sacrifice.”

“He didn’t finish singing.” Jin Fugui’s lungs were about to burn up, he said as he ran, “And, the Eight Sacrifices Song. Although I don’t know what the Eight Sacrifices Song is useful for singing, it is said that these two have to be sung together.”

“No.” Jin Fugui smiled bitterly, “This is what my master told me. Otherwise, I wouldn’t know. Whether he has tried it, I don’t know. But he has already, already passed away…”

“Then try it.” How much worse could it get?

Hearing this, Jin Fugui tried even harder to calm his breathing. He took a deep breath and somewhat laboriously sang a song that Lu Yanli was very familiar with.

“It really works!” Jin Fugui was pleasantly surprised.

Only Lu Yanli saw it clearly.

When he was singing, a green glow gradually appeared on Jin Cancan’s body, and when he stopped, that light disappeared again.

Since Jin Fugui, as an ordinary person, was singing, he didn’t hide. Instead, he listened carefully, hoping to memorize the song.

As he listened, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

*

At the other end of the town, Lu Yanli, who had obtained the picture album, suddenly stopped.

Afterwards, he nearly died at the cultural festival and wished to return to the past.

Logically speaking, he should be relieved, but why did he feel a faint unease in his heart now?

*

Jin Fugui was still singing.

Changes were happening to the people in front of him.

Originally, their appearances had all returned to their normal looks before they died. As Jin Fugui sang, the skin on Jin Cancan’s face fell off bit by bit, and the green fungus regrew.

Huang Li’s neck gradually lengthened, with clear rope marks on it. He fell to the ground.

The others were the same, gradually returning to their appearance before they died.

Jin Fugui didn’t dare to stop. He could only continue to sing. Prolonged running made his throat dry. Now, his throat hurt so much, but he couldn’t stop.

He couldn’t stop until dawn.

Now, there were less than three hours until dawn.

Lu Yanli endured the frustration in his heart. His emotions were starting to become very abnormal. He knew that this song really couldn’t be sung; it wasn’t meant for the living to hear.

He sat farther away from Jin Fugui and silently watched the horizon.

Suddenly, he stopped.

At the end of the dark road, a red figure was walking towards them.

As soon as that figure appeared, it gave him a strong sense of crisis. The hair on his body stood on end, and his heart was beating very fast.

“Quick! Let’s go!”

Without even thinking, he grabbed Jin Fugui and ran.

He wasn’t wrong. This was the fierce ghost that had once been hidden in his eyes. Now, it had come out.

Why was it coming to find him? Was it because they were once the same person, or was it because of the singing?

Lu Yanli didn’t know. He could only keep running.

Jin Fugui: “Hey, hey, the song isn’t finished yet. Be careful of them…” He turned his head to look, and the things that had been left behind had long since returned to their original state, sprawled on the ground without moving.

Now, he didn’t say anything and continued to run.

*

At the entrance of the town, Lu Yanli sat in a small wooden house.

In front of him was a picture album, but this picture album was one he had just drawn. If someone took it to compare with the other, stolen one, they would find that the contents of the two picture albums were almost identical.

Now, the picture album in the hands of him, who was going by the alias Jiang Bai, had been taken away by Jiang Yu’s group. The other him was chasing after the task-takers. He couldn’t easily run to the task-takers’ side, lest that fierce ghost find him.

So, how should he hand this picture album over to the current him in this timeline?

Lu Yanli was having some difficulty.

In another world that he didn’t know about…

“No, no, no, that won’t do. The mission seems to say that it must be concealed from everyone. If I post it, will it be considered a violation?”

“In that case…” The girl hesitated for a while and then closed her eyes, silently reciting the town’s name.

All over the country, many people closed their eyes and began to recite silently.

In the present world, in a corner of the sea, on a deserted island, the shadows of buildings slowly appeared in the void, looking like a small town.

A small town surrounded by mountains.

It was just that the shadows of the buildings were too faint and hazy. If you weren’t careful, you might think it was an illusion.

However, no one on the deserted island would notice it anyway.

Soon, many figures emerged outside the town’s shadows in the void. These figures didn’t even look at each other and quickly scattered.

*

“It’s almost dawn.” Lu Yanli looked up at the horizon.

A sliver of fish-belly white appeared.

Just as Jin Fugui had said, it was impossible to escape this school at night. Last night, they had run for a long, long time, but they hadn’t seen the shadow of the school gate. They had only been constantly going around in circles on campus. But now, only a sliver of light had appeared on the horizon, and they turned their heads to see the school gate.

“Let’s go,” Lu Yanli urged.

Jin Fugui wiped his face, “Okay, wait for me.”

After a long run and singing, Jin Fugui’s voice was almost ruined. He closed his mouth, trying hard to secrete a little saliva to moisten his throat.

Later, after going out, I must drink seven or eight bottles of water. He thought to himself.

This time, it went smoothly. The two of them walked out of the school gate. Inadvertently turning back, Lu Yanli broke out in a cold sweat.

He, dressed in red, was standing at the school gate, staring at him intently.

Afterwards, the red figure turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared.

Who did it go to find?

Lu Yanli couldn’t think too much.

After the two of them escaped, Jin Fugui found the nearest small shop and drank three bottles of water in one go. Like him, Lu Yanli was equally tired and exhausted, but his mind was still clear.

Opening his mouth, he wanted to speak, but he found that he couldn’t speak anymore.

“What’s wrong?” Lu Yanli asked.

Jin Fugui tried to open his mouth again.

It wasn’t an illusion. His throat was burning and stinging. He could only make breath sounds. After trying several times without success, Jin Fugui anxiously gestured with his hands.

“You… you can’t speak anymore?”

Jin Fugui nodded repeatedly.

[Can you sing?]

Seeing that Jiang Bai didn’t speak, Jin Fugui’s round face was instantly full of panic. He looked at Jiang Bai earnestly, constantly gesturing with his hands, and pretending to kneel down to plead.

[This opera must be sung, otherwise the people in the town won’t let us go. To put it bluntly, they know that at the cultural festival, the dead can be resurrected, so they’re so unscrupulous.]

His memory was very good. Whether it was the song Lan Zhiyu had sung before or the songs that Jin Yuanbao and Jin Fugui had sung later, he had memorized them all.

Jin Fugui instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

*

“Strange, when did so many new faces appear in town?”

After one night, the task-takers had planned to find a place to live again, but the guide was long gone. Many residential areas had been bombed into ruins, and the hospital was already overcrowded, requisitioning some empty rooms as wards.

Therefore, they had nowhere to go for the time being. They could have found a short-term job, but they found that there were suddenly many competitors?

These people looked like task-takers, but they didn’t seem like it. No matter how they tried to find out, they couldn’t. It seemed that they were originally locals.

It was getting more and more complicated.

The people in the town weren’t too welcome to the first batch of task-takers, but they were very willing to accept the second batch. This batch of people was going to integrate into the town, so they were very attentive to the natives and quickly gained a foothold in the town.

The second batch of task-takers knew each other’s identities, but none of them would expose it. They only pretended not to know each other and even began to inquire about the mission content of the first batch of task-takers.