Pollution throughout the territory

Fortunately, the three of them are quite courageous, especially Liu Xiuxiu and Liang Wan. If something happened and they were scared out of their wits, they probably wouldn't be able to become investigators.

They calmed down quickly. Xia Ren walked to the classroom door, held the cold handle, took a deep breath, and took the initiative to open the door.

The world is quiet.

As if someone had pressed the pause button, the sound of reading that was slightly noisy just now disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye, along with the people in the class.

The students, including the head teacher Bisha who was sitting on the podium, all disappeared.

There were only neatly arranged desks left in the classroom. Other than that, it was empty.

"how come……"

Liu Xiuxiu covered her mouth, her hands trembling a little.

Liang Wan walked up to the podium and touched the stool where Teacher Bi had just sat. Wherever her fingers touched, she felt a biting coldness.

She took out the talisman and tested it, but there was still no change.

"Have you encountered this situation before during missions?"

Xia Ren asked.

Liu Xiuxiu shook her head.

Liang Wan frowned and said, "The infected body is not so evil."

I always feel that there has been a familiar atmosphere since just now.

Xia Ren looked around the classroom, then followed his memory and came to Xu Qiang's seat. He casually opened a textbook on the table. What was printed inside was not normal text, and was filled with suspicious dark brown smudges. The entire page looked like it was made of blood, skin fragments, and hair.

He threw the book back in disgust, picked up another one, and opened it, still the same situation.

Just when the three of them focused all their attention on the classroom, a person suddenly walked in from outside the door.

This is a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old, tall, wearing the uniform of Liming Middle School, wearing a pair of glasses, and looks relatively shy.

As soon as he entered the classroom, he saw Xia Ren and the others, and was stunned.

"Sorry, I went to the wrong class."

With an awkward smile on his face, the young man nodded to them and turned to leave.

"Wait a minute!"

Liang Wan wanted to stop him and chased him out of the classroom, but when he got to the corridor, he couldn't see him.

Liu Xiuxiu also chased him out and said hesitantly: "That person looks familiar."

"Su Mingyi, a student in Class 3, committed suicide five days ago. It's normal that he looks familiar, because we have seen his photo on the victim's file of the hanging rope."

Xia Ren walked out of the classroom and looked out at the deathly silent campus from the second floor with a solemn expression.

"Don't you find it strange? If this is an illusion created by Xu Qiang, then why has there been no danger that could threaten our lives until now?"

Liang Wan looked into his eyes: "What do you want to say?"

"I have an idea, but I'm not sure yet. We need to go to the library."

Without further ado, the three of them all want to get out of the current situation as soon as possible, so even though there are still many doubts that have not been clarified, they can only let go now.

Especially Xia Ren, he has been feeling anxious ever since he noticed something was wrong.

Although today's update has been released on time, tomorrow's update has not been started yet. He has not saved the manuscript. If the update is interrupted, it will be a small matter if the task is not completed. The main trouble is the person who follows the update, and the other party can really kill him. of.

The three of them came to the library of Liming Middle School. This is a two-story building that looks full of books during the day. However, in such a dark night, this huge and cold building can only bring heavy depression. .

Xia Ren didn't stop and went straight to the bookshelf.

Sure enough, just as he expected, none of the books had their own names on the side covers. They were all marked with two words: books.

Liang Wan opened one of the books, only to see blank pages.

"There's no writing on it."

Xia Ren sighed and said, "There's no need to look at anything else. The books in the entire library are probably the same."

Liu Xiuxiu asked: "Why are you so sure?"

Everything that happened from the moment they entered the teaching building was beyond the scope of the two investigators, Liang Wan and Liu Xiuxiu.

They deal with weird phenomena, yes, but they don't deal with supernatural phenomena.

Xia Ren looked a little weird and said slowly: "Because, Liming Middle School is now a ghost school."

Liu Xiuxiu opened her eyes wide: "Ghost school?"

"impossible."

Liang Wan objected: "Don't tell me, you want to say that all the people we encountered before were all ghosts."

"that is the truth."

Xia Ren shrugged helplessly: "Do you still remember the flame we saw under the teaching building?"

Liang Wan said impatiently: "How can I not remember what happened just now?"

Xia Ren took out half of the school uniform skirt from his trouser pocket and said, "I felt familiar at the time, and now it is finally confirmed that this is a ghost story I fantasized about when I was in school, based on the news about the unexpected pregnancy of a student at Liming Middle School. Xiu Son, you know what my occupation is, right?"

"Profession?" Liu Xiuxiu raised her head and recalled, "You mean, writing novels?"

"That's right."

Xia Ren picked up a book from the bookshelf next to him, closed his eyes, and made an expression as if he was thinking hard. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes. The book in his hand already had text, and what was displayed on the cover was "All "Environmental pollution" are four big words.

“Look, my book is published.”

Liang Wan and Liu Xiuxiu were both confused.

After making a joke that few people understood, Xia Rencai continued: "Before July this year, I was writing supernatural novels. Whether it was the footsteps that Xiu'er heard or the blood-stained school skirt that was half burned. Well, there are also empty classrooms, which are all materials I have conceived.

In other words, this school is not Xu Qiang's illusion, but a dream. "

"Dream?" Liu Xiuxiu repeated without understanding.

"right."

Xia Ren nodded, his eyes flashed, and he looked a little excited: "Xu Qiang is not the leader of everything we have encountered so far. If I expected it right, he just dragged us into a dream, and everything in the dream was caused by We take the lead ourselves, and the phrase "confession in an endless nightmare" refers to what we fear."

"In other words, he wants us to create something terrible to drive ourselves to death?"

Liang Wan is worthy of being an A-level investigator. Apart from being a road idiot, his mind is quite flexible. Once he points out something, he can think of many aspects on the spot.

"If we cannot discover this as early as possible, we will always think that these are Xu Qiang's illusions. The deeper the fear, the more powerful the imaginary enemy will be, until we imagine an irresistible enemy..."

Realizing this, both of them couldn't help but feel scared. They must know that any of the things they had seen in the Eighteen Hells at the foundation headquarters could easily kill them if they were exposed.

"But."

Liu Xiuxiu asked in confusion: "If you die in a dream, will you really die?"

"maybe."

Xia Ren is not sure about this: "The girl who followed us in cannot be unconscious no matter what, but she can feel pain. This should be understood by the outside world. If we die in a dream, the outside body will also judge it as die."

"etc."

Liu Xiuxiu noticed a problem: "What you just meant is that you know that girl is not a fake?"

Xia Ren nodded: "If it's fake, I won't keep her."

"No, no."

Liu Xiuxiu was a little confused: "Since she is not fake, why don't you let her follow us? Isn't it dangerous for her to stay there as an ordinary person?"

"Xiu'er, you said the opposite."

Xia Ren put the book in his hand back on the bookshelf and said: "We are not taking refuge, but taking the initiative to contact dangerous people. It is not safe for her to follow us."

Liu Xiuxiu seemed to understand.

Liang Wan answered: "But even if we know that we are in a dream, how can we wake up?"

Xia Ren spread his hands and said, "I don't know about this, but I have an idea, maybe I can try it out."

"what idea?"

"It's not certain yet. Before that, we have to do a test first."

Xia Ren led them out of the library and to the gate of Liming Middle School.

The huge iron door was closed tightly. Looking from the door, there was fog floating outside, and visibility was very low.

The gate is usually opened only when vehicles pass by. Normally, when students enter the campus, they use the side door, but the side door is also locked at the moment.

Without hesitation, Xia Ren came to the guard hall nearby, where an old man with gray hair sat taking a nap.

"Hey, wake up."

Xia Ren knocked on the table, looking very rude.

The doorman woke up at this moment. Not only were his pupils black, but also the whites of his eyes. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked very horrified.

Xia Ren said directly: "Open the door, we want to go out."

"Hey hey hey..."

The old man laughed sinisterly and said in a rough voice: "It's forbidden to go out at night. You can't leave unless..."

"Unless what?" Liu Xiuxiu asked.

The old man looked at them with a sinister smile, looked at them maliciously, and said slowly: "Behind the canteen, there is an abandoned well..."

Xia Ren was very familiar with this routine. Usually when he wrote a book, he used it to enrich the plot and improve the word count, so he said impatiently: "You can't open the door."

A threatening tone.

The old man raised his eyebrows: "Hey hey hey..."

"boom!"

The dark crowbar was inserted directly into the table in front of him, making a big hole. Xia Ren pulled out the crowbar and weighed it in his hand: "Respecting the old and loving the young is a traditional virtue, but it's a pity that I don't have it."

The old man's next words were choked in his throat. He looked at the hard stick, stood up silently, took a bunch of keys from the wall, put them on the table and pushed them to Xia Ren.

"now it's right."

Xia Ren successfully skipped the tedious side tasks, got the key, and turned around to open the door.

"You can't leave..."

The old man's erratic voice came from behind. When Liang Wan turned her head, the other man was gone.

"Is he usually like this?"

Liang Wan asked Liu Xiuxiu in a low voice.

The latter thought for a while and said, "You underestimate him."

He is someone who can say "your father is dead" to a little loli without changing his face, and he even wants to snatch a toy water gun.

Hearing this, Liang Wan immediately looked at Liu Xiuxiu sympathetically.

While they were whispering, Xia Ren had already opened the side door.

The three of them walked outside together, and the thick fog began to dissipate.

However, what appeared before them was still a familiar campus scene.

Looking back, the iron door was still closed, and they were still inside.

Xia Ren seemed to have known this result for a long time and was not surprised.

"As expected, Xu Qiang's scope of control is limited to this school."

"Then what should we do now?"

Xia Ren looked up at the sky and said something seemingly irrelevant:

"Lu Xun once said that human power has its limits, and only magic can defeat magic."