Chapter 131
The diary fell to the ground.
Lin Yi looked at the diary. Probably because Cheng Yang mentioned Qin Zhou, Qin Zhou’s shadow slowly appeared in his mind. Looking at this diary, it was like he was looking at Qin Zhou.
His Senior had been thrown to the ground.
(〃＞皿＜)！
Lin Yi was actually a little nervous.
He was clearly aware of Qin Zhou’s concern for him. In the 4-4 Rule World, Qin Zhou’s concern extended even to whether he was hungry or not. After leaving the 4-4 Rule World, a hastily disconnected phone was also enough to attract Qin Zhou’s concern.
Although it was the result of his half-truths and lies.
But now, Qin Zhou was angry.
He didn’t know if in his anger, Qin Zhou still cared about it.
Would he just let the diary land face up; just let him go and die?
His eyes fell on the diary. It was lying face down.
The diary was face down — it wasn’t allowing him to take risks.
Lin Yi scratched his nose sheepishly.
This answer was okay.
Qin Zhou still cared about him, although his insincerity made Qin Zhou angry.
Cheng Yang, who was standing next to him, was even happier with this result than Lin Yi. He breathed a sigh of relief. “Lin Yi Xiong, look. What did I tell you? President Qin would never let you take this risk.”
“I saw it,” Lin Yi said.
Cheng Yang also knew the importance of the main plot in the Rule World. He sincerely suggested Lin Yi, “Lin Yi Xiong, let’s go as soon as it’s light out. That pentagram you mentioned, since it’s in cat’s blood, it won’t be that easy to clean. Let’s get to the classroom earlier and maybe Sun Jingwen hasn’t cleaned up yet.”
Lin Yi tugged at the shirt covering his head, but he didn’t pull it off. Rather, he rearranged it so that it wouldn’t fall off so easily. “I’m heading out through the door.. You stand a little farther away. Don’t let the cats outside caught your scent.”
Cheng Yang: “?”
“N-no,” Cheng Yang was shocked, “Lin Yi Xiong, didn’t you see it?”
Lin Yi glanced at the floor again.
Cheng Yang: “The diary is face down, right? I’m not seeing wrong, right?”
Lin Yi: “Yes.”
Cheng Yang emphasized, “The diary facing down means that President Qin doesn’t agree with you going. Are you going to go against the President of the Student Union?”
“I know. I’m not going against Senior.” Lin Yi explained good-naturedly. “I have to go.”
He doubted that Sun Jingwen would just leave what he was looking for until dawn.
This was one reason why he had to go.
Another was, because of his negligence, the participants have all regarded Ren Li as their backbone, which allowed Ren Li to easily lead the remaining participants to violate the Rules of Death.
Now, it was the third night in the 8-4 Rule World. All he has is the outline of the main plan and he didn’t even have any basis to make it tenable.
If this is delayed any longer, more people would die.
This was the first time Sun Jingwen appeared. Why did she appear at this time? What’s the pattern behind her appearance? Why did she use the phrase “There is a ghost in the school, run” to mislead the participants. Lin Yi needed to go to get all these answers.
Knowing that Cheng Yang was also worried about him, Lin Yi said, “Wealth and honor are sought in danger, right?”
It was rare that Cheng Yang had to correct Lin Yi. “That sentence doesn’t apply here.. Besides, what ‘wealth and honor’?”
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Lin Yi had no plans to quarrel with Cheng Yang anymore. After he made sure to wrap his face tightly, he glanced at Cheng Yang from the eye-slits through his sleeves and said, “I’m going. Please step back.”
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Lin Yi said, “I’ll go by myself.”
From time to time, there came the sound of running cats outside. It was obvious that they are still trying to locate Cheng Yang’s scent.
Although the putrid smell filled Room 204, to be on the safe side, Lin Yi asked Cheng Yang to step back, lest Cheng Yang get too close to the door and his smell spreads.
Without further delay, Lin Yi opened the door and walked out of Room 204.
Cheng Yang made a step, a last ditch effort to stop him but Lin Yi had already closed the door behind him.
Cheng Yang thought for a while, walked to the window and carefully lifted a corner of the curtain, taking a look outside.
The black cat was still there, squatting on the windowsill, staring at Room 204.
Only then did Cheng Yang notice the black cat’s eyes, glowing eyes of pure green.
He suddenly thought of something he heard somewhere. Legend has it that black cats are the guardians of the gates of the underworld and the darker the black cat’s fur, the higher its magic power. Don’t look into its eyes on a dark, windy night. Looking is said to enchant the soul. Even if you encounter it in broad daylight, it will bring bad luck and disasters… ①
Cheng Yang’s heartbeat was suddenly racing and his breath froze.
He couldn’t help but sweat for Lin Yi.
On the other side, Lin Yi was making his way out of the dorm.
He was deliberately going slow. He wanted to look at the eyes of the cats in the dorm.
However, although he’d heard them about from time to time while in Room 204, when he came out, he didn’t spot a single cat.
Lin Yi could only give up.
He reached the dormitory hall. Just like the dark nights of the previous two nights, the lights in the mailroom were turned off.
Lin Yi didn’t have time to waste even a single glance at the mail room and quickly walked out.
The cat outside the window was different from the cats in the dorm.
These were different cats summoned by two different curses.
The cats in the dormitory were summoned by Transmission. They were there to sniff out the scent of the cursed person. While the cat outside the window had been summoned by the cat curse. This cat used its eyes to locate the cursed person.
In the dormitory, Lin Yi could afford to slow his pace since he wasn’t cursed and had nothing to fear.
Once outside the dormitory, he needed to be very alert. He had been cursed by the cat curse and the Rule of Death must be to have his face seen by the cat summoned by the cat curse.
As soon as he left the confines of the dormitory, Lin Yi ran towards the teaching building.
He didn’t look back to see if the cat that had been squatting outside Room 204 had noticed him and followed. After all, it was pointless. If it had followed him, there was nothing he could do.
Two minutes later, Lin Yi rushed into the teaching building.
He ran very fast. His speed just now could beat the highest sprint record set by a high school gymnast.
Lin Yi leaned against the wall, gasping.
He had to get his breathing to slow down. The teaching building was completely silent so his breathing would sound too loud. If he breathes too loud, he might be discovered by Sun Jingwen if she hasn’t left the classroom yet.
After taking a moment to make sure his breathing returned to normal, Lin Yi tried to push the door of a classroom on the first floor of the teaching building.
The result was the same as his previous attempt. It seemed that except for Class 1 of Grade 2, no other classroom in this teaching building could be pushed open, although the sound of students studying could be heard from inside them during the day.
Lin Yi took back his hand.
The main reason why he tried opening the classroom door just now was to determine the location where Sun Jingwen’s cat curse would be implemented. If Sun Jingwen implemented the cat curse in the teaching building then the only place she could do so was in the classroom of Class 1, High School 2. No other classroom could be opened.
After confirming this, he quieted his steps and walked towards their classroom.
After a short while, he arrived at the door of Class 1, High School 2.
The classroom door was locked.
Lin Yi stared at the door lock for a while.
According to the nature of her speaking lines, Sun Jingwen had two lines during the day.
The first was to count the number of people and report the number of missing people.
The second line is to remind the students to lock the door.
Baoxiang Secondary School was a township school and the classroom door locks were all padlocks.
To lock the door, one had to first use the key to open the padlock then overlap the iron plate on the classroom door to the hook on the door frame. Finally, use the padlock to lock it.
None of the participants had the key to the padlock.
On the first day, Lin Yi had stayed in the classroom until the end. He saw all the student NPCs leave the classroom before the participants, indicating that the key was not with them.
So where was the key that locks the classroom door?
It was with the only remaining student NPC, the student that has never appeared before; it was is in the hands of Sun Jingwen.
Lin Yi pursed his lips and stared at the door lock through his makeshift mask’s eye-slit.
In this way, Sun Jingwen had actually been telling them from the beginning that the missing student had been in the classroom.
Very contradictory.
Since Sun Jingwen wanted the participants to know of her existence, she initially focused on telling them that there was one less person in the class.
It was like a person who says “I’m very low-key” but keeps doing ostentatious things.
While thinking about this contradiction, Lin Yi took out the branch he had grinded before and went to open the lock.
He no longer made any effort to keep his breathing quiet. The lock was outside the classroom. There was no way for Sun Jingwen to have locked the door and remain in the classroom.
He must have arrived too late. The locked door showed that Sun Jingwen had most likely cleaned up the scene of the cat curse ceremony and left.
But now that he was here, Lin Yi still planned to go inside to see if there were any traces left. Maybe she hadn’t been able to deal with everything.
After unlocking the door, Lin Yi slowly pushed the door open.
After opening the door and bumping into Sun Jingwen earlier that evening, Lin Yi had learned his lesson. He didn’t go in immediately this time. He stood at the door of the classroom and looked in.
The classroom was quiet and no one was there.
After confirming that Sun Jingwen wasn’t in the classroom, Lin Yi walked in.
His eyes were directed towards the floor.
The ground was clean, not to mention a pentagram array, not even a trace of blood could be seen.
However, Lin Yi still discovered a blind spot.
Lin Yi came to one spot and stopped. He then looked down at the ground at his feet.
Baoxiang Secondary School was a township school. The floor wasn’t paved with tiles but was made of smoothed cement. The cement floor below his feet was darker in color. If you listen carefully, there was a crisp crackling sound.
Lin Yi determined that was where Sun Jingwen had painted the pentagram array.
A cement floor is porous and water poured onto it will seep into it. The air in its pores will be quickly expelled, creating the sound of airflow.
The water molecules of cold water and hot water act differently. The attractions between the molecules is different. Therefore, when cold water is poured on a cement floor, it will make a crisper ‘crackling’ sound while hot water will make a dull ‘plop’ sound. ②
To clean blood stains, the only thing you can do is soak it in cold water and then scrub it hard.
This spot had been washed with cold water.
Lin Yi squatted down on the ground and felt around with his hand.
After a while, he found what he was looking for.
Cat hair.
Carefully looking at it, the cat hair he found was indeed black.
Lin Yi was now sure that the curse used by Sun Jingwen was indeed a cat curse.
Lin Yi then stood up. He then walked to the spot where he and Sun Jingwen had been looking at each other earlier that evening and then looked forward.
He was looking for where Sun Jiingwen could have hidden the sacrificial cat.
A place where the cat could see his face but not Sun Jingwen’s.
He was looking at the podium. To the back was the blackboard and above that was a square cabinet.
This cabinet was probably used to house a TV, one used to let the student watch news broadcasts.
Lin Yi’s eyes were fixed on the cabinet.
He came closer then looked up.
It may be that the cabinet was old or of poor quality. The two cabinet doors appear to be closed together but in fact they’d lost their magnetic lock and there was now a gap two or three fingers wide in the middle.
If the dying cat had been placed inside, the cat could have indeed see Lin Yi through this gap, but not Sun Jingwen who’d been standing underneath.
Lin Yi walked over and reached out to open the cabinet door. He raised his head and looked inside.
There was no light in the classroom. It was pitch dark and the inside the cabinet was also dark. There was no TV stored in it so it looked like an empty cabinet.
But Lin Yi couldn’t guarantee that the cabinet was empty if the cat was black. Just like the first night when he could only hear the cat meowing but couldn’t see the cat in the dark. The black cat could have blended into the darkness.
The cabinet hung just above Lin Yi’s head. When he got closer, it was difficult to get the cabinet within eye level. He could only raise his arms and put his hands into the cabinet to explore a little.
The cat curse would only take effect if the cat dies. The cat outside the window of Room 204 is probably just a wronged soul.
Lin Yi wanted to try his luck and see if Sun Jingwen had just left the cat’s body inside.
He needed to find the cat’s body to verify whether Sun Jingwen could have dug out the cat’s eyes. If Sun Jingwen had dug out the cat’s eyes, that the sniffing cat had no ideas would be too much of a coincidence. It would confirm that Sun Jingwen used cats to complete the cat curse to curse others and then the cursed person used the cats to complete the Transmission curse. This could possibly be the main plot.
Although the chance of finding a dead cat here was low.
Lin Yi groped and fumbled little by little. Suddenly, Lin Yi paused.
He couldn’t quite believe it. He was incredulous.
There was a plush feel against his hand.
Was it Qin Zhou’s spirt showing up to help him find clues smoothly?
Just like how the underachiever worships the god of examination and the god of examination actually making an appearance and making the exam go smoothly for the poor student.
Qin Zhou was the student union president; it was close enough.
He was about to grab the plush something out of the cabinet but he was made to pause again.
There was no crow blood here so Sun Jingwen’s pentagram array could only have been done with cat’s blood.
The fur of a cat that had been drained of blood couldn’t be this plush. His hand should feel sticky and bloody.
But the feel against his palm now was different.
“Meow–”
In the cabinet, near his hand, a shrill cat meow suddenly sounded.
Lin yi thinking about of Qin Zhou in every circumstance is cute
Thanks for the chapter
Fvk that scared me! I’m never looking at cats the same
Christ I was holding my breath every single second of this chapter
Reading it at 1.30 AM and the last line almost gave a heart attack .. 😱😨
God does this author hate cats or what? All the mentions of cat abuse and cat induced violence is making me sick
I know this chapter is supposed to be very serious and scary but picturing Lin Yi running around outside as fast as he can shirtless but with a shirt covering his head made me laugh