Chapter 129
Lin Yi’s expression was even more serious than if he had seen a ghost.
In this situation, it would be difficult for anyone to maintain the look on their face.
However, Lin Yi did not scream. Although he was shocked at this belated discovery, he did not overly panic.
He could take the initiative to stop looking at the teacher, oh no, not this ‘teacher’, this classmate.
Lin Yi turned his head and looked at the window. Outside, the lighted sky was narrowing, stained with twilight.
It wasn’t dark yet, so Lin Yi didn’t panic or get scared.
He picked up the notebook and walked out of the classroom.
Even with his back to the female classmate, Lin Yi could still feel her cold gaze. When he walked out of the classroom, he turned around, shook off her eyes on him and ran away.
Lin Yi didn’t have time right now to figure out what was going on.
He had to get away from here and head back to the dormitory first.
It took four or five minutes to walk from the teaching building to the dorms. Lin Yi ran, rushing into the dormitory building. Cheng Yang was still arguing with the participant by the dorm entrance.
The person who received the package today was a boy, a sophomore, named Chen Zixun.
In truth, there had been no need for Ren Li to warn them what a package meant in the 8-4 Rule World. All the participants knew very clearly.
No matter who sent this package, it represented impending misfortune. Of course, Chen Zixun didn’t want to receive the package. He wanted to transfer away the package but didn’t dare throw it away. Cheng Yang was the only one, true and proper, who could take over the grievance of receiving this package.
Chen Zixun held on to Cheng Yang and said, “Take your package back.”
Cheng Yang looked down at Chen Zixun’s hand clutching his clothes. “Grandfather will count to three. If you don’t let go, I will stuff that package down your throat. See if I won’t.”
Cheng Yang was already big but he recently got a haircut and it made him look like a gangster.
People who don’t know him would never imagine that his courage was inversely proportional to his size.
Chen Zixun was frightened by Cheng Yang’s posturing. He wanted to let go but grabbed on tighter instead.
“No.” Chen Zixun insisted, “Take the package away.”
Cheng Yang held back his anger and said, “Grandfather already said it eight hundred times. I didn’t send you this package.”
He pushed Chen Zixun away. “Don’t you have eyes? Take a good look at whether the sender’s name is my name on the delivery note.”
Chen Zixun also knew that he had offended Cheng Yang. He was worried that Cheng Yang would really stuff the package into his mouth and he was also afraid that the package would bring death.
He stepped back and said, “The sender could be anonymous. Who knows if you’re the anonymous sender?”
“Fuck you.” Cheng Yang’s patience was completely exhausted, “Scram. Get the fuck away from me”
After saying that, he turned to leave. From the corner of his eye, he saw Chen Zixun about to come forward to hold him back. Cheng Yang raised his hand. “Do you want me to slap you to death?”
“Cheng Yang.”
Lin Yi walked in quickly and shouted, “Let’s go.”
Saying so, he leapt ahead and in a few seconds, was gone.
“I’m right behind you.” Seeing Lin Yi’s anxious look, Cheng Yang was now even more disinclined to continue talking with Chen Zixun.
That he’d been willing to argue with Chen Zixun here was out of consideration for Lin Yi’s status as a patrol team member, whose duty it was to safely bring out of the Rule World the students who’d been thrown in this time.
He’d stayed and tried to get Chen Zixun to open the package and take a look.
The curse letter in the package was clearly written, hide one’s life and pass on the curse letter.
But Cheng Yang didn’t dare to say it openly. He was worried that this loose mouth of his would cause unnecessary trouble for Lin Yi. And so he spoke in a very roundabout way. His mind was spinning all the while, thinking what words to use that could give hints to Chen Zixun without causing trouble for Lin Yi.
As a result, after he hinting at it for a long time, Chen Zixun just kept asking him to take the package back.
Cheng Yang was tired.
Damn idiot. This was useless even if Immortals descended to earth.
“Follow me and I’ll beat you up!” Cheng Yang warned off Chen Zixun and then hurried to find Lin Yi.
Lin Yi had gone directly to Room 204.
Cheng Yang still remembered Lin Yi’s anxious look and couldn’t bring himself to care about what was in Room 204. He was right at Lin Yi’s heels.
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“What’s going on?” Cheng Yang asked hurriedly.
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As soon as Cheng Yang heard this, he said, “Oh, shit! I said so, didn’t I? There’s something wrong with that teacher, she was deliberately provoking us…”
Halfway through his rant, Cheng Yang suddenly realized that this was not the point. He hurriedly broke off and said anxiously, “So… the original second Rule of Death was preempted? So what’s the second Rule of Death now?”
Cheng Yang looked at Lin Yi anxiously. He was stupid. Even if Lin Yi told him the situation word for word, he would not be able to guess what Rules of Death might be on the plate tonight.
He waited for Lin Yi to tell the answer, so that they could then figure out a solution together.
Lin Yi shook his head, maybe because Cheng Yang’s emotions were affecting him, he became scared.
“I don’t know,” Lin Yi said quietly.
Cheng Yang was shocked. “You don’t know?!”
Lin Yi said, “It’s just a possibility.”
Cheng Yang’s gut feeling had been correct. The female classmate had done it on purpose. She repeatedly emphasized that there was one missing person from class one of high school year 2. For the past two days, she had been laying down the groundwork, implanting the fact that there was one less person in the class into everyone’s memories and so she hadn’t included herself when counting off the students before.
Today, when she was counting, she added herself in. There were two empty seats in the class and it was easy for people to notice that something was wrong with the number of people.
Lin Yi knew that there was a tiger in the mountains but went to the mountain anyway, falling into the trap.
In the Rule Worlds, the existence of NPCs is a tool for Monsters to kill people. The female student hadn’t set this trap just for fun. Her ultimate goal was to kill the participants for the Monster.
That was why Lin Yi thought that he might have violated the female classmate’s Rule of Death.
But Lin Yi had no idea what the specific Rule of Death was.
It couldn’t be reading her diary. If reading her diary was a Rule of Death, he had already violated it early on. The female classmate needed only to wait for nightfall to kill him.
There would have been no need to add any new entries to the diary.
Apart from seeing the contents of the diary, Lin Yi could not think of any other Rule of Death that he might have violated.
What he’d done was to return to the classroom, find the diary, read the contents of the diary, discover that the female classmate was the missing student and look at the female classmate.
Returning to the classroom could not be a Rule of Death since everyone has been to the classroom. If that had been it, someone would have already been caught.
Finding the diary, also, could not be a Rule of Death. Just like reading the contents of the diary, he had already found the diary on the table and then looked at its contents. If finding the diary was a Rule of Death, similarly, the female classmate would have had no need to add new entries to it.
Looking at a female classmate could not be a Rule of Death.
Everyone had more or less made eye contact with the female classmates during class. If this was a Rule of Death, some of the participants would have fallen into the trap already. She wouldn’t have waited until now for him to raise his head and look at her.
The only one left was discovering the female classmate’s identity.
This Rule of Death was somewhat similar to Cen Qian’s Rule of Death in the 4-4 Rule World but there were also differences.
In the 4-4 Rule World, Shunxi’s identity was emphasized from the very beginning. But in the 8-4 Rule World, it was only emphasized that there was one less person. The number of people was emphasized rather than the identity of the female classmate.
Moreover, Lin Yi only knew that the female teacher was the missing student NPC. He had no idea who the female classmate was, not even her name.
And there was the most important point.
If discovering the identity of the female classmate was the Rule of Death then she should have just written down who she was in the diary. There was no need to hide “There is a ghost in the school, run away” and “I’m looking at you” in the text.
Not everyone could have reacted instantly like Lin Yi, recognizing the female teacher as the missing student NPC.
After hearing this, Cheng Yang breathed a long sigh of relief.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s okay.” Cheng Yang patted his chest. “But you really fucking scared me to death.”
Although he couldn’t find any point where he could have violated a Rule of Death, Lin Yi had a vague feeling that he had indeed fallen into a trap and the feeling was very strong.
“For now, let’s leave it be.”
Lin Yi put aside this matter for the time being, suppressing the uneasiness in his heart. He then started to read the diary in his hand.
When he and the female classmate looked at each other in the classroom, Lin Yi was sure that reading the diary was not a Rule of Death.
That’s why he took the diary out with him when he escaped. To take a step back, if reading the diary was a Rule of Death, he’d already stepped on the mine, so he should read all the entries before it gets dark and the student NPC comes to his door.
The diary in Lin Yi’s hand still had the page ‘I’m looking at you’, but Cheng Yang next to him didn’t catch on to the mystery and said doubtfully, “What’s written here? I know all the words but how come I can’t make heads or tails of it? It doesn’t even have any uncommon words. They’re all commonly used words.”
Cheng Yang was frightened but Lin Yi didn’t clue him in.
He turned the diary to the first page and saw the name on the diary.
Sun Jingwen.
This must be the name of the female classmate.
[Year 20xx, X month X day, rainy. ]
If they do this again, I won’t tolerate it anymore.
[Year 20xx, X month X day, sunny. ]
They asked for it.
[Year 20xx, X month X day, sunny. ]
I’ve started.
Although there was no beginning or end, the contents of these diaries seemed normal compared to the two entries Lin Yi had seen before. He could also guess some things from the contents of these diaries.
They did something that made Sun Jingwen angry. At first, Sun Jingwen’s approach was to be patient. Obviously, ‘they’ didn’t restrain themselves and perhaps even intensified their behavior, which angered Sun Jingwen.
Sun Jingwen began to fight back.
[Year 20xx, X month X day, Yin. ]
Five-zhi, just the right amount.
[Year 20xx, X month X day, Yin. ]
The first-ge.
[20xx year, X month X day, rain. ]
The second-ge.
[20xx year, X month X day, rain. ]
The third-ge.
[20xx year, X month X day, Yin. ]
The fourth-ge.
[20xx year, X month X day, rain. ]
The fifth-ge.
Reading up to this point, Lin Yi then went back to read ‘Five-zhi, just the right amount’.
Then he re-read the next five entries in the diary.
Cheng Yang didn’t understand but after seeing Lin Yi flipping through the diary several times, he reckoned that Lin Yi must have figured out something.
After Lin Yi stopped flipping pages, Cheng Yang asked in shame, “Lin Yi Xiong, can you take the time to talk to this idiot brother?”
Lin Yi said, “The counters are different.”
At first, Sun Jingwen used the counter “zhi”.
In the next five entries, Sun Jingwen used the quantifier “ge”.
In terms of usage, ‘zhi’ is generally used for animals.
One of the usages for ‘ge’ was for counting people.
Like, one person, one adult or one child;
One girl or one boy.
Cheng Yang thought of the things he had encountered during the past few nights. He hesitated for a while and then said, “Five…could she mean five cats?”
Lin Yi nodded, he thought so too.
“Five cats corresponding to five people. Did this Miss Sun use the five cats to deal with the five people?” Cheng Yang asked.
Lin Yi nodded again. Cheng Yang, gaining confidence after receiving that affirmation, said, “I got it. This Sun Jingwen was the one who released the pigeon. She killed the cats and then wrote the curse letter with the cats’ blood. The five people who received the curse letter were frightened and started spreading the curse letter to protect themselves.”
This time Lin Yi did not nod. “How could she guarantee that the curse letter would spread among these five people?”
Cheng Yang: “What do you mean?”
Lin Yi said, “For example, say she wanted to kill you and me. I received her curse letter first, but I didn’t pass it on to you. I passed it on to Senior. After Senior received the curse letter, he didn’t pass it on to you either. It was passed to Ou Ying Xue Jie, but Ou Ying Xue Jie still did not pass it to you but instead passed it to Captain Wang. Once the curse letter reaches Captain Wang, the chances of it being passed on to you is even smaller since Captain Wang has no contact with you.”
“Yeah.” Cheng Yang changed his mind and said, “Then she wrote five curse letters? Then sent them to these five people respectively.”
Lin Yi said, “That can’t be.”
“That she wants to kill them is certain so why even leave the second line of ‘If you want to live, pass it on’?”
Cheng Yang said, “Curse letters are usually passed on to others. The more people there are, the more people it’s passed it on to so the curse will be shared by many people. Maybe the second line wasn’t written by Sun Jingwen but by the person who received the curse letter. On the note I received, the first line and the second line seemed to have been written in two different handwritings.”
Lin Yi said, “‘It’s your turn to hide your life.’ Without the second line, it would be difficult to think of it as a curse letter.”
Cheng Yang fell silent.
Lin Yi was right. He decided to be quiet lest his nonsense affect Lin Yi’s thinking.
Lin Yi lowered his eyes and pondered.
The curse letter could kill the participants so there was no need for Sun Jingwen to show up.
Unless she had nothing to do with the curse letter and used other methods of killing.
Moreover, Sun Jingwen and the person who wrote the curse letter were not in the same camp.
The curse letter successfully killed Xia Hui on the first night but failed on the second night.
The day after the defeat, daytime today, Sun Jingwen exposed herself and appeared. As if to make up for the regrettable fact that no one died the night before, she couldn’t wait to take action.
But Chen Zixun had received the package today, which proved that Sun Jingwen and the person who wrote the curse letter had not coordinated at all.
Or rather than saying that Sun Jingwen had not coordinated with the person who wrote the curse letter, it was better to say that Sun Jingwen was competing with the person who wrote the curse letter.
Xia Hui died, and the person who wrote the curse letter got one point.
If Chen Zixun who received the package dies, the person who wrote the curse letter will get another point.
Therefore, Sun Jingwen, who has no score so far, could not sit still.
“Meow–”
A shrill meow interrupted Lin Yi’s thoughts.
Cheng Yang was startled, “Xia Hui’s imitation of a cat’s meow is getting more lifelike…”
He got goosebumps.
Lin Yi looked under the bed and saw Xia Hui still hiding under the bed.
“That meow hadn’t come from him,” Lin Yi said.
The sound had come from outside the window.
“What did I say?” Cheng Yang breathed a sigh of relief, “How can it sound so lifelike? That was clearly a real cat meowing.”
Real cat’s meow.
Lin Yi suddenly said, “Did those guiding cats meow during the past two nights?”
Cheng Yang thought back. “I don’t think so. They just kept scratching at the door.”
Lin Yi practically flung the words down. “Hurry and close the window. Don’t let the cat see me!”
As he said this, he ducked under the bed, causing Xia Hui to jump out from under it.
This was a series of reactions and Xia Hui startled Cheng Yang again. However, Cheng Yang heard the anxiety in Lin Yi’s tone and had no time to calm down his fear. He quickly headed for the window.
Opening the curtains, there was indeed a black cat looking in from outside.
Cheng Yang hurriedly slammed the window shut. After finding that the window was locked he quickly closed the curtains.
Once he was done, he went to see Lin Yi hiding under the bed.
He mouthed, “What’s wrong?”
Lin Yi said, “I’m being targeted by Sun Jingwen’s Rule of Death.”
did the cat finding him because there’s the ghost smell on the notebook?
Interesting. So now there’s two targets tonight, Lin Yi and Chen Zixun.
I know Lin Yi would be fine.. I’m actually worried about the new kid who received the parcel..
Why do I find cat Xia Hui adorable???