1TWITF[C Chapter 58

Chapter 58

An Xingyu…

There was no mistake, it was him.

Lu Yanli had always known that people from that world who died in missions would survive in this world in another bizarre form. He had also imagined whether people in the present world could reach the opposite world, but unfortunately, he couldn’t personally verify it. But now, there was a living example before him.

Could this be real?

Had he finally made progress after searching for so long?

The student file clearly recorded his information. Lu Yanli quickly scanned it, his gaze fixed.

An Ru, wasn’t that the previous head of the department that Zhao Police Officer had told him about? He disappeared while investigating the Yinming Road incident. Could he be An Xingyu’s father?

So that’s how it is… No wonder he felt familiar, because he and An Xingyu looked somewhat alike.

“What’s wrong?”

Although Lu Yanli’s breath hitched for only a moment, Chu Xiu still keenly noticed his abnormality.

Lu Yanli, who was used to pretending, quickly regained his senses and changed the subject, “I’m wondering, why does the school send students to Yinming Road? What exactly is on Yinming Road?”

They had all been to Yinming Road, and it was indeed extremely strange, but if they were asked to say what was there, they couldn’t explain it.

Were there ghosts, or were there “gods”?

Chu Xiu also looked serious and shook his head.

“By the way, look at the dates on these student files,” Chu Xiu pointed.

Even the latest one was three years earlier than when they entered.

The mirror world they were in might be the past?

They found an empty classroom and flipped through the photos one by one, trying to find clues.

“The history of Fourth High isn’t very long, but it’s very famous locally, firstly because of its high enrollment rate, and secondly because the tuition is cheap and the scholarships are generous. Many students from poor families come here to study. There are also many students directly from orphanages in the school.”

“The current principal has a good reputation because he often waives tuition for students. So, even if students often go missing, his approval rating among other students is very high…”

Lu Yanli flipped through the photos while Chu Xiu tried to find information. Listening to him, Lu Yanli suddenly had an absurd thought.

The students here go missing… An Xingyu went missing, but An Xingyu came from that world… People from that world die and are resurrected in this world…

Was Chu Xiu trustworthy? Should he…

Chu Xiu didn’t guess anymore.

Ordinary people couldn’t guess what ghosts wanted to do, let alone “gods” who were clearly a higher dimension than ghosts.

He enlarged the photo and pushed it to the other party, “I don’t think this is a coincidence.”

Chu Xiu looked at it, his expression also becoming serious, “Should we find An Ru to ask later? He might know something.”

“Feasible.”

A class was forty-five minutes long. They had looked at the class schedule when they came. There were still three minutes before the end of class. To avoid running into students, they waited until the next class started before going out.

However, the campus was so big that they didn’t know where to start looking. They ran around for a while to no avail, but were discovered by the director of studies.

“Run!”

Lu Yanli deliberately lagged behind, attracting the director of studies to chase him, and when Chu Xiu managed to escape, he immediately disappeared.

After this class, it would be time to leave school.

He wanted to try if he could leave the school in the mirror world.

Lu Yanli’s suggestion was tempting, but his original plan was to complete the game after midnight in the mirror world, so that he might be able to return to the normal world.

“Why are you planning to leave the school?”

Tapping the table with his fingertip, Lu Yanli said, “I want to go to Yinming Road and take a look.”

What exactly was on Yinming Road? Would he go to another world like An Xingyu?

Chu Xiu also wanted to go, but he cherished his life. Lu Yanli had already led away the director of studies, but the latter still ran after him. This made him understand that the price he paid for making a wish to God had been almost exhausted. If he didn’t cherish it, he would likely end up like Nie Yunzhen and the others.

He would stay in school to play the game, and Lu Yanli would go to Yinming Road by himself.

After the two had agreed, Lu Yanli left the school gate as soon as school was over, leaving Chu Xiu alone in the school. Strangely, he didn’t feel hungry, even though he hadn’t eaten for almost a day.

Just when he thought everything was going smoothly, what caught him off guard was that the whole school suddenly became tense. The school didn’t know where it had transferred a batch of security guards from, and they were searching building by building. Chu Xiu had no idea what they were looking for, and after narrowly avoiding them, he sent this information to Lu Yanli.

On the other side, Lu Yanli left the school smoothly and got on the bus to Yinming Road.

At this moment, he was the only one on the bus. After several transfers, the sky became darker and darker, the surrounding area became sparsely populated, and the trees gradually turned yellow. After getting off the bus, the climate was as cold as it was outside, making him wrap his coat tighter.

Lu Yanli looked around, made sure there was no one else, took a deep breath, and resolutely walked into Yinming Road.

It was dark and damp.

Even though the sun hadn’t set yet, the inside and outside of Yinming Road were already dark. The trees were withered and yellow, and the branches were gnarled. Two neat rows were planted along the pale white road, and you couldn’t see the end at a glance.

Lu Yanli wasn’t acting on a whim. He suspected that this illusion was the work of the god behind it. In addition, there was also a part of him gambling.

He was betting that An Ru would come to Yinming Road today.

He walked along the road, and in the distance, he saw an abandoned factory.

Chu Xiu had told him about his experience playing the four-corner game here, so when Lu Yanli passed the factory, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Would there be several other Chu Xius from other timelines inside?

He stood outside the factory and watched for a while, when he suddenly heard the sound of a car horn in the distance. Lu Yanli flashed open the door on the first floor of the factory and looked out through a crack in the door.

The sound of something being dragged on the ground, with a “thump,” a body slammed onto the ground. It seemed that what was just dragged was a human being.

It was a man, who mumbled a few times. Soon, his painful wails were drowned out by the sound of heavy blows.

Lu Yanli could almost imagine the scene downstairs. Several people grabbed a person, dragged him out of the car into the factory, and threw him **** the ground before starting to punch and kick him.

“You mother****er, I told you not to inquire, I told you not to inquire!”

“Aren’t you very capable? Why didn’t you find out when you were going to die?”

The beaten man was already out of breath. After panting heavily, he made a slight sound.

“You, take…”

What he said was, “Where did you take the students?”

As soon as he heard this sentence clearly, Lu Yanli realized something, and the following dialogue further corroborated his guess.

“What? Isn’t Officer An very capable? Can’t you find out? Guess!”

“Students? Aren’t the students all doing well?”

They didn’t answer him, but surrounded him and laughed, occasionally going up to give him an extra kick.

Lu Yanli came to the edge of the wall outside the stairwell on the second floor and carefully poked out a little bit to peek.

Then, the group laughed and little by little, cut off the head of the person on the ground.

Was this An Ru’s past?

In other words, that person’s body should still be on the first floor.

With the help of his phone’s light, he saw the body on the ground clearly.

The blood had completely soaked the clothes on his body, and the extremely red color was even a little black, and his whole body was scarred.

But only one thing, his head was missing.

What was lying on the ground was a headless corpse soaked in blood!

They took An Ru’s head away.

So, he would return to school to find his head.

That’s why those teachers were killed.

Lu Yanli glanced at the headless corpse on the ground again and turned to leave.

An Ru’s cause of death was clear, and he urgently needed to know another mystery.

He sent a message to Chu Xiu to inquire about the progress, and while it was still early, he continued to walk back. After a long time, Chu Xiu replied to his message.

*

In the office, a group of people were giving Chu Xiu an education of love.

His mobile phone and gun were placed on the table. Because the bullets were all given to Lu Yanli, Chu Xiu insisted that it was just a toy gun, so several teachers didn’t care. Instead, they grabbed him and talked endlessly about the disadvantages of skipping class and playing with mobile phones.

Lu Yanli should be able to tell the difference and not expose him, right?

Chu Xiu prayed in his heart.

After a while, the director of studies put the phone on the table with a serious expression.

On the other end of the phone, Lu Yanli felt something was wrong as soon as he received the message. After thinking for a while, he sent a decent message back, saying that he would be there soon.

The speed of taking a taxi was indeed very fast. Lu Yanli didn’t intend to break his promise. With his understanding of the horror world, it was best not to violate any words of the ghosts. He kept urging along the way, and finally arrived at the school early.

Stand with Chu Xiu.

The two didn’t feel anything wrong, standing outside the dormitory building chatting, telling each other the information they had obtained.

Chu Xiu: “I’ll try again tonight. I don’t know if I can go back in the mirror world.”

Lu Yanli also had the same guess. After the two stood for an hour, they were sent back to the dormitory by the director of studies.

A dormitory for six people. Chu Xiu and Lu Yanli didn’t expect to have a share. They couldn’t refuse, so they could only accept it. In front of the director of studies, they took off their coats and lay on the bed to rest.

In the dormitory, everyone chatted for a while and went to sleep.

One of the boys seemed unable to stand the cold weather. Seeing that Lu Yanli’s quilt seemed very thick, he asked embarrassedly if he could exchange it. Lu Yanli didn’t care, lifted the earthy yellow quilt from the bed and hugged it to the other’s bed.

He didn’t intend to really fall asleep, so he leaned on the bed and closed his eyes to rest.

Time passed little by little, and soon, midnight was about to arrive.

However, a strange sound was faintly heard in the dormitory.

“What’s wrong with you? Are you sick?” others asked.

“I don’t know… I’m just so cold…” the boy said shivering.

“No… don’t… I, I’ll just sleep for a while. Lu Yanli, he… lent me, the quilt…” the boy continued to say tremblingly.

“Okay then.” The other roommates finally stopped talking.

“It’s so cold…” the boy wrapped the quilt tighter and tighter.

He was clearly sweating from the heat, but he still felt cold. The tighter he wrapped it, the more he sweated, and the more he sweated, the colder he felt.

He felt wet all over, as if the quilt hadn’t been dried, and couldn’t help curling up his body, finally burying his head in it.

Strange… Why does it feel like I can’t move?

Is it because it’s too cold? Frozen stiff?

No, no, this feeling…

The boy wanted to lift the quilt a little, but was surprised to find that he couldn’t lift it at all.

His hand…

His hand was stuck to the quilt! It was slowly melting into it!

Not just his hands, his legs too! His whole body was slowly merging with the quilt!

No one in the dormitory noticed his abnormality. Everyone was relieved that he was no longer shivering. He opened his eyes and slowly merged with the quilt.

The earthy yellow cotton quilt became thicker and looked very warm.