The seven ghost brides had strange smiles on their faces, and the red silk in their hands flew out towards the crowd, covering the moon overhead as Yue Xingwen hurriedly shouted, “Everyone come to Qin Lu’s side quickly.”
Then, they gathered around Qin Lu. Qin Lu’s finger quickly flicked on the globe twice, and the plate movement instantly moved them into the forest, leaving the group of evil spirits far behind.
Gao Xiaoxin continued to ask nervously, “What about Luo Jiajia?”
Yue Xingwen said, “As I said just now, when in danger, if you can go out immediately go and run towards Qin Lu’s door in room no. 4, but she ran downstairs. It’s likely that she was stopped by the evil spirits.”
Remembering the terrible screams coming from the inn just now, Gao Xiaoxin could not help but shiver all over and hurriedly looked at her boyfriend beside her, “Send a message to call them on the Research Group’s chat channel ah!”
Gao Yongqiang’s face turned serious as he typed quickly on the chat channel: “Lu Kai, Luo Jiajia, come to the forest!”
However, there was no response at all.
Gao Yongqiang’s face looked ashen. “My cousin is usually slow-tempered, each time we make appointment to go to eat, he’s always late, so fucking serve him right!” Gao Xiaoxin bit her lips and did not speak.
Yue Xingwen whispered a few words in Qin Lu’s ear.
The group of fierce ghosts soon came after them. Their bodies floated in the air like a flying red phantom, and in the blink of an eye, they surrounded everyone again. Then, Qin Lu opened her plate movement again, “Switch places!”
After she upgraded her plate movement skill, it could be used six times. She had to set six points in the current scene, representing the six major plates on the globe to use it, and she could swap to any points she set. Yue Xingwen told her to switch everyone back to the inn to escape the evil spirits’ attacks, and also to drop by the inn to see what was going on with the other couple.
Yue Xingwen could not be so cold-blooded to ignore the life and death of his two classmates. At least he had to see the corpses even if they died.
In a blink of an eye, everyone arrived in front of the inn door.
Gao Xiaoxin was shocked. “The Geography Department is so powerful ah?”
Qin Lu glanced at her and said with a sullen expression. “The reason for having everyone gather at the door of my room is naturally because I can take you to switch places and escape. The friend of yours didn’t believe me, I just called her over and she ran downstairs like crazy…”
Gao Xiaoxin felt embarrassed. “She-she’s a rather suspicious person.”
Yue Xingwen glanced at Jiang Pingce, who understood him. The two of them quickly came to the corridor on the right side of the inn. Jiang Pingce raised his right hand slightly and directly led Yue Xingwen in a straight line up to the window on the second floor.
Yue Xingwen pushed open the window, and rolled into the room with a tumble. Jiang Pingce jumped into the room after him——
The candle in the room had been blown out by the wind, and by the moonlight, all that could be seen was a boy falling to the floor with his eyes tightly closed and his gold-rimmed glasses also fell to the side and broke, and the girl was nowhere to be seen.
Yue Xingwen shook the boy’s body hard and shouted. “Wake up!”
The boy woke up in a daze, and Yue Xingwen asked, “Where’s Luo Jiajia?”
The boy looked dazed. “Jiajia?” He seemed to react to what had just happened, and hurriedly got up to rush outside. Jiang Pingce stopped him with a cold face, “Don’t make trouble, you go down first.” After saying that, Jiang Pingce grabbed his back collar like a chicken, threw him directly down from the window, and used the coordinate system to make him land steadily on the ground.
Yue Xingwen quickly stepped out of the door and took a few steps towards the stairs——
At the bottom of the stairs, a girl in a white dress was lying on her back on the bluestone tiles, with her eyes widened from shock, disheveled hair, and a pool of dazzling crimson blood around her head. Apparently, she lost her footing and fell down the stairs or was pushed down by the evil spirits during her panicked escape, hitting her head right on the hard stone floor, and was killed on the spot.
Yue Xingwen closed his eyes.
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It was the first time he had seen a living classmate die in front of him, and the horror expression on the girl’s face and the messy blood around her made his heart tighten.
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Everyone came to the location they had just set in the forest to get away from the female ghosts.
Lu Kai, who had just been rescued, put his broken glasses on the bridge of his nose with trembling hands and asked in a dry voice, “What about my girlfriend Luo Jiajia?”
Yue Xingwen said in a deep voice, “Fall to death.”
Everyone: “……”
Hearing the news of the death of their classmate, everyone’s faces turned pale slightly.
Qin Lu bit her lips. “She should run to my side, if only I could pull her at that time…”
“Dead?” Lu Kai yelled. “No way! Are you kidding me? I’m going back to check!”
Yue Xingwen’s ears were about to go deaf from his yell.
Jiang Pingce frowned and stared at him coldly. “Yelling so loudly. Why didn’t you know how to protect your girlfriend when you were in danger just now? If you want to go back to see, go ahead, no one’s stopping you.”
Lu Kai glared fiercely at Jiang Pingce, but his back was cold from the sharp gaze of the other party.
This was the first time Yue Xingwen heard Jiang Pingce’s intimidating, stern and cold tone. He instantly overpowered the other party from the momentum. Lu Kai was dumbfounded and stood silently behind his cousin with a pale face.
A cold smile floated at the corner of Jiang Pingce’s mouth. “Look, it seems that you don’t particularly like her either.”
Lu Kai: “……”
If you really like someone, you will desperately protect the other party.
Gao Yongqiang glanced at his brother and changed the topic. “Will those female ghosts chase after us? What should we do?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Ghosts are phantoms, we can’t touch their bodies and we can’t kill them. Just now, senior brother Liu’s scalpel, and my dictionary went straight through their bodies when we threw it. It’s all useless to them…” He looked at the students around him, “I want to do an experiment and I need everyone’s cooperation.”
Qin Miao simply said, “Go ahead.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Later, when those female ghosts come over. Young Ke will put Xiao Tu out to attract them, and everyone will also try using some control skills to see which ones work against the ghosts.”
Everyone nodded their heads.
As soon as the words were spoken, the group of female ghosts in red flew over like lightning and surrounded them.
Ke Shaobin hurriedly called out Xiao Tu, letting Xiao Tu sing the song and glided quickly to the depths of the forest, and the female ghosts were indeed attracted by Xiao Tu’s song and drifted away neatly with Xiao Tu.
Xiao Tu’s song could only last for a while, and after it was over, the female ghosts floated back. The red silk in the female ghost’s hand abruptly protruded out. Seeing that the silk was about to wrap around the crowd’s neck, Qin Miao suddenly raised her right hand, “To dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups!”
The red silk in the hands of all the female ghosts instantly fell to the ground. This disarming skill from the History Department worked really well for team fights.
Yue Xingwen hurriedly said, “Run!”
The crowd rushed towards the outside of the forest, and Yue Xingwen shouted as he ran, “Sister from the Chinese Department, where’s your ellipsis!”
Gao Xiaoxin finally reacted, and she quickly wrote several ellipses with her right hand.
Those female ghosts were about to catch up with them, but were affected by the ‘slow down effect’ of the ellipses, and their movements were instantly stuck. Gao Xiaoxin realized that her skills were useful to them, and then she drew a lot of exclamation marks and threw them over.
One by one, the exclamation marks fell from the sky like sharp arrows, but all of them passed through the female ghosts’ bodies and smashed the ground into several pits in a row. Liu Zhaoqing looked back and could not help but complain. “This continuously smashed down exclamation marks is similar to a mallet.”
Gao Xiaoxin cried out, “But the attack didn’t work ah!”
Yue Xingwen said, “Question mark.”
Gao Xiaoxin ran while drawing question marks and flinging them behind. A group of female ghosts with their heads full of question marks, they stopped in the air with a confused face, obviously stunned by the question marks. The scene looked a little funny to watch.
They did not expect the Chinese Department ‘???’ controls worked pretty well.
Nine people rushed out of the forest as fast as they could, panting heavily and stopping to look back——
Those female ghosts did not follow them up again.
Gao Xiaoxin was terrified. “What happened? They don’t- they don’t chase anymore?”
Yue Xingwen exhaled softly and analyzed. “First, their range of activities includes the area around the inn as well as the forest. As long as we run out of the forest, they will stop chasing; Second, since the ghosts are phantoms, we can’t hurt them with any physical or magical attacks, but the control skills are effective for them.”
Jiang Pingce concluded, “That means, when we encounter female ghosts, we can only control them and then run away?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “Yes. It’s slightly harder than the night time battle royale in the cardiovascular ward, but fortunately we can still deal with it.”
Although there were many monsters in the cardiovascular ward, they could be killed, one by one until all of them were killed. On the contrary, the number of female ghosts was small in numbers, they were extremely fast, almost floating instantly in front of them. They had long-range attack red silk in their hands as weapons. If they were not careful, they would be strangled by their red silk. They could not be killed, so the students could only escape.
Fortunately, they had a limited range of movement. It was about a kilometer to run out of the forest, and with the help of Qin Lu’s plate movement, their escape distance with their legs could be reduced by half, which was not too difficult for them.
Yue Xingwen exhaled slightly and looked at everyone. “Did you guys have any strange dreams after falling asleep? I dreamt of the ritual of worshiping Heaven and Earth in the wedding scene, and saw a pair of rag dolls in the wedding chamber.”
Jiang Pingce said, “I dreamt of a guard painting in the house, and the woman in the painting was extremely beautiful, wearing a bright red wedding dress.”
Liu Zhaoqing scratched the back of his head and said, “In my dream, a girl was bitten by a snake in the forest, and was saved by a young doctor who passed by, helping her to suck out poisonous blood, and carried her to the medical center to heal her injuries.”
Ke Shaobin said seriously, “I dreamt of a woman who was wearing pink clothes sewing a rag doll, stitch by stitch, and putting red clothes on the rag dolls. She was writing a note that seemed to have numbers on it, but I couldn’t see it clearly.”
Qin Miao said, “I dreamt that a matchmaker carried a lot of dowries to a family’s house to propose marriage. At the entrance of the house was written ‘Su’s Family’, and it looked like a poor house with a small courtyard with only a servant and a guard.”
Qin Lu said, “My dream seems to connect with my sister. The Su family agreed with the marriage and said that after the New Year, they would send Miss Su to the Zhao family’s house to celebrate the wedding. Upon hearing the matchmaker’s word, I know that Mr. Zhao was sick and dying. Miss Su matched his eight characters, and the fortune teller said that Mr. Zhao still had a glimmer of life.”
Yue Xingwen glanced at the couple group. “What about you guys?”
Gao Xiaoxin said, “I dreamt that a bride in red was put into a coffin, with a ghastly pale face, which is scary.” A shiver ran down her spine when she thought of the coffin in her dream. Her boyfriend, Gao Yongqiang also said, “My dream is the same as Xiaoxin, a coffin with a bride in it, and the coffin was buried in the ground.”
Lu Kai had a confused expression on his face and said, “Did you all have a dream? How come I didn’t have a nightmare…”
Everyone turned back to him in unison, and Yue Xingwen frowned. “You didn’t sleep on that wooden bed?”
Lu Kai argued in a low voice, “That wooden bed is already moldy. Jiajia said, the quilt may have been covered by a dead person! How can you sleep on that bed? We slept on the table.”
Yue Xingwen: “……”
Jiang Pingce said coldly, “You two didn’t read the exam questions?”
Qin Miao’s face also sank. “Isn’t the mechanical voice equivalent of an examiner for each exam saying ‘please allocate accommodation rooms and go to bed’? Go- to- bed, did you hear the three words ah?”
Qin Miao spoke quite impolitely, and Lu Kai’s face turned green with her words.
Gao Yongqiang was actually quite rational, and immediately turned around to scold his brother while covering his face, “You’re so fucking slow at ordinary times, and you can be late for a meal, but now we’re in the library! Can you be serious? There is also Luo Jiajia, she can’t get rid of her young miss personality, coming here to show cleanliness for what?! She was eliminated, and I’ll stop talking about her. If you don’t want to die, don’t make mistakes and drag everyone else down with you, you hear me?!”
He slapped his face upon saying that, and Lu Kai almost had a concussion. “I know brother…”
Gao Yongqian had opened his mouth to scold, so it was not good for Yue Xingwen and the others to continue scolding him.
Yue Xingwen rubbed his temples gently, having everyone sleep in 8 separate rooms in the first place because he was worried about missing clues at night. As a result, Lu Kai and Luo Jiajia, a really unreliable couple, actually managed to carelessly ignore the hints from the mechanical voice, and did not sleep on the bed because of the cleanliness obsession, disliking the unclean quilt, and therefore did not receive the night time plot clues.
The students matched in the previous course were all very good, giving Yue Xingwen the illusion that ‘all the students in the library are very strong’, but in fact, there were many rookies like this couple group.
Yue Xingwen ignored Lu Kai and looked at Jiang Pingce to analyze. “The characters that have appeared so far include Miss Su, Mr. Zhao, the doctor, the guard, the pink-clothes woman, and the matchmaker. We missed the clue from room no. 8 where Lu Kai and Luo Jiajia stayed, but the impact won’t be too great. At the beginning of the course, the prompt had said that one Research Group could also open the exam if there weren’t enough examinees to match. It means that four people can also pass this course, and the missed clues would surely be repeated for us.”
It was impossible for 4 people to stay in 8 rooms at the same time, collecting a maximum of 4 clues on the first day. Since the course could be passed by 4 people, that meant, the missing clue on the first night would not have much of an impact, and the clue would be given repeatedly on the following days, which was why Yue Xingwen was not angry.
Lu Kai and Luo Jiajia screwed up, and he still could save it if he did not screw up.
Yue Xingwen’s words really made everyone’s moods improve a lot, and it was really important to have someone who could stabilize the army’s hearts, otherwise, everyone might have fallen into the complaints about Lu Kai and the anxiety of ‘if you miss the clue, you can’t pass the course’.
Qin Miao asked, “This time, the clues were given in the form of dreams, a dream in each room? And the dream will repeat for several days?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “En. Perhaps it can be interpreted as a dream of the ghost who died unjustly. The rag doll in both my dream and Young Ke’s dream had notes on it that must have been very critical information. I couldn’t see it in the dream, I thought it was a bit like a cursed doll with Chinese’s eight characters on it.”
Qin Miao agreed. “The ancient people did like to curse by pricking needle to doll and writing the Chinese’s eight characters. Is the pink-clothed woman who sewed the doll going to curse Mr. Zhao or Miss Su?”
Qin Lu guessed, “From the matchmaker’s words, it seems that Mr. Zhao was terminally ill, and the Zhao family was desperate, so they rushed the marriage to make Mr. Zhao’s illness got better. Could it be that his illness is due to being cursed by a rag doll?”
Ke Shaobin offered a different opinion. “But the woman I dreamt of had a weird smile when she was sewing a rag doll, and it felt like she hated someone very much. Or maybe she’s jealous of Miss Su and pricking the rag dolls to curse her?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s investigate again at dawn.”
There were still many mysteries.
What made Yue Xingwen most confused was that the plot in the dream was very similar to an ancient n-love affair, coupled with the tragic case caused by the feudal superstition ‘Chinese’s eight characters for the wedding’, and the bride was eventually buried in a coffin.
Why was there no connection to this inn?
YX is so smart!
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