《Haunting Spectre Road》 CH 1 It was said that if someone takes this road during the dead of night, they will die a blood-covered death, their face filled with terror. She didn¡¯t believe it and went there alone. And guess what happened? Before her death, she used all her remaining strength and said two sentences, ¡°Death is inevitable! There is no escape!¡± Strange things kept on happening, people were dying, did it all start with the girl that committed suicide 50 years ago? He Jian Fei, Tian Yin Zhen, Dong Lu, Shen Fang, Shi Ting, Ah Qiang and Uncle Li will take you on a journey of no return. Suspense and horror, supernatural elements and magic, truth and reality vs. fake and false, love and fraternal bonds, humans and ghosts, evil and justice, love and hate. Tinadannis shows you a world of intertwined mystery and splendour. Legends are a common thing for the university campus, or maybe it¡¯s a secret established through common practice. When generation after generation of talented individuals leave, it alone remains behind, deeply rooted, continuous and never ending. Resentment, like love, can also be endless. Therefore, exists the never ending nightmare from rumours¡ªa nightmare belonging only to the school campus. Moonlight poured quietly over this university campus with over 100 years of history, silence spread rapidly like the darkness, instantly filling the entire sky. Lights in the teaching buildings competed with the stars in the sky, an assortment of retro-looking lampposts stood by the roadside, statue-like figures scattered around the flower beds like dotted decorations. Busy pedestrians were in such a hurry that they only have time to nod hello to their passing friends and acquaintances, let alone those who were reading as they walked. University campuses have always been said to be a place of scholarly atmosphere, with final exams on the horizon, a sense of urgency and seriousness was added. ¡°Damn it!¡± He Jian Fei stood in the hallways and wanted to take out his cell phone to look at the time. However, not only did he not find his cell phone, he realized that he forgot his super important English textbook back in the dorm, and instead, he brought the physical education theory textbook that he¡¯s LONG been done with. Holding back his anger as he looked at his roommate Zhang Chuan Xun, who was sitting beside him, desperately trying to choke back his laughter. ¡°You kept on nagging and hurrying me, saying that if we are late there won¡¯t be any more seats, and this is the result. Great, now I can go and get a doctorate in physical education theory.¡± Zhang Chuan Xun tried not to laugh at He Jian Fei¡¯s misfortunes and chuckled, ¡°Anyway, at least I brought it, I don¡¯t have a lot of notes, but you can glance it over when I¡¯m not reading it. Your English is already so great, is there really a need for you to read it?¡± He said as he took the book out from his bag, planning to flaunt it in front of He Jian Fei, only to realize after taking a look at the three large familiar words printed on the cover¡ª¡°Physical Education Theory¡±. Damn it! He brought the wrong book as well! Feeling angry and a little embarrassed, Zhang Chuan Xun pushed his bag over to He Jian Fei, who was laughing hard against a column. ¡°The English test is tomorrow, I still have a bazillion vocabularies I haven¡¯t memorized. That Glasses Zhang always loved making people retake his class, I¡¯ve got to get back to the dorm to fetch my book. Save a seat for me.¡± He Jian Fei stopped laughing and said, ¡°The campus shuttle doesn¡¯t run during self-study time and we are at least a few hours away from the dorm, once you make that round trip back, you won¡¯t have much time to read even if you have the book.¡± Zhang Chuan Xun heard and replied, ¡°No need to worry about that, Xiao Tian was with me a few days ago beside the audio-visual education building, we explored and found a small road called Crimson Hilltop, leading directly to the main campus road of our dorm. It takes less than 20 minutes to reach there.¡± He Jian Fei laughed again, ¡°Sure, go ahead, bring mine along as well, I think I left it on my table.¡± He Jian Fei walked into the classroom alone and found a seat, sat down and started studying his advanced mathematics. As he read, he couldn¡¯t help but to have some doubts, Zhang Chuan Xun was an extremely introverted person, he usually like to stay in and surf the internet or play games, why would he be interested in exploring some road? A few days ago, he vaguely remembered hearing something about how during the student voting several weeks ago, Qin Xiao Tian lost to Zhang Chuan Xun by only a few votes, losing his honoured title of Outstanding Student and still harboured resentment towards him. Why would he be willing to walk around the campus with Zhang Chuan Xun? The more he thought about it, the more suspicious he was. Two hours have passed, even if he took the main campus road, he should have been back by now, but there was still no sign of Zhang Chuan Xun. Unable to keep on reading, He Jian Fei packed up his bag and hurried back to the dorm. The audio-visual education building was located in the Northeast corner of the old campus, judging from a Feng Shui perspective, of the Five Elements, it lacked Metal. There were no ponds or lakes on either side of the building, only ancient forests surrounding it on all four sides, a sign of either extreme good fortune or extreme misfortune. Since the construction of the new multimedia classrooms, the old audio-visual education building is now rarely in use. Most of the time, it¡¯s used as a storage place for obsolete electronic equipments. Due to long periods of neglect and disrepair, the cement on the outer wall has shed almost completely, exposing the mottled dark yellow bricks. A few streaks of dark green moss crept across its surface, then finally disappearing in the tall grass at the foot of the wall. The audio-visual education building was simply a dispensable school building, the reason that students even know about its existence was from when the school was bragging about its own achievements, comparing it to the multimedia classrooms. Unsure of whether it¡¯s due to the dim street lights in the area, He Jian Fei circled the audio-visual education building several times, yet was still unable to find the Crimson Hilltop road that Zhang Chuan Xun mentioned. Seeing how it was close to curfew time at the dorm, He Jian Fei had no choice but to give up his search and stepped onto the campus shuttle. Due to delays at the audio-visual education building, by the time He Jian Fei got back to the dorm, it was almost 11 PM, most of the students in his class gets back at around 10:30 PM, all of the lights on the fourth-floor dormitory was brightly lit, except for his own. Zhang Chuan Xun¡¯s not inside? He Jian Fei¡¯s stomach twisted into a knot, he sprinted up to the fourth-floor and hastened to find his keys to open the door and turn on the lights. But all he saw was the two English textbooks lying on each of their desks, and no books seem to be missing from Zhang Chuan Xun¡¯s shelf except for the few in his bag. Could something have happened to him? Before he could think things through, He Jian Fei tossed the two backpacks onto his bed, grabbed his keys and rushed out. When he got to the top of the stairs, he saw his classmate Huang Da Kai walking over with a bunch of study materials. He saw He Jian Fei and asked him, looking a little surprised, ¡°It¡¯s almost curfew time at the dorm, where are you going in such a hurry at this hour?¡± He Jian Fei hurried to tell him about what happened to Zhang Chuan Xun. Huang Da Kai heard and laughed, ¡°The number four teaching building opened up a few all-night study rooms, I¡¯ve even heard that they have a room to borrow textbooks, you are sure to pass by there while walking to the audio-visual education building. My guess is that he probably got tired of walking and headed over to one of the all night study rooms. We are on a university campus, he¡¯s a grown man, are you honestly afraid that something will happen to him? I¡¯ve got a lot of places that I don¡¯t understand on the English test, come over to my room and explain it to me.¡± After hearing him out, He Jian Fei thought that maybe he was being overly sensitive and decided to let things go. ¡°My room¡¯s empty, it¡¯s quieter, why don¡¯t you come over instead.¡± Soon, it was 1 AM, He Jian Fei put down his English textbook and yawned, getting ready to go to bed. When he was putting up the mosquito net, He Jian Fei looked at a hook hanging by the bedside, thinking whether there¡¯s a need to hang up the Spirit Evoking Bell[1]tonight. He Jian Fei has a secret identity, he belongs to the magical arts circle, studying under Mount Wutai¡¯s School since he was two, following the leading authority of Buddhism at the time, abbot Master Zhi Neng, and became the youngest and most talented of the lay disciples.[2] Since Mount Wutai has subdued many a spirits and demons, thus incurring much hatred from the ghost realm, ever since He Jian Fei left the mountain he has gotten into the habit of hanging a Spirit Evoking Bell at night to give warning. But since he entered university, he hasn¡¯t been hanging it up that often. On one hand, it¡¯s due to the university being a holy place of learning, both ghosts and gods looked up to it with respect, on the other hand, it¡¯s because of his own laziness, he only symbolically hangs it up once or twice a month. But for some reason, tonight he felt a foreboding sense of unease and ill omen, and saw nothing bad in hanging that thing up. So in the end, He Jian Fei has decided to hand up one of Mount Wutai¡¯s five major magical instruments, the Spirit Evoking Bell. ¡°Ding ding ding¡± late into the midnight hours, the high-pitched tinkling of bells pulled He Jian Fei away from his dreams and back into reality. He turned and opened his bleary eyes and saw the curtains by the window floating up high into the ceilings, then remembered that he forgot to close the windows before bed. Perhaps a storm was about to break out, hence the strong winds. ¡°Stop!¡± He Jian Fei sent out a yellow paper talisman[3] and sealed the Spirit Evoking Bell as he mumbled in complaint, ¡°Stupid Spirit Evoking Bell, it rings when there are ghosts, it rings when there¡¯s wind, what kind of renowned magical instrument is it supposed to be?!¡± As he cursed, he suddenly spotted through the mosquito net a blurry black figure standing by the balcony. He Jian Fei paused in surprise and asked in a low voice, ¡°Chuan Xun, are you back from studying?¡± The black figure didn¡¯t answer him, instead, it started to approach slowly. He Jian Fei thought it was strange and asked, ¡°What¡¯s wrong with you? I¡¯m talking to you, why aren¡¯t you answering?¡± The black figure still only kept on walking closer and closer to his mosquito net. Thinking back to the persistent ringing of the Spirit Evoking Bell, He Jian Fei suddenly felt a sense of alarm, threw aside the blankets and instantly sat up, ¡°What kind of ghostly spirit are you, what are you doing here instead of being in The Underworld going through reincarnation? Leave now, otherwise don¡¯t blame Mount Wutai¡¯s magical instruments for being ruthless.¡± As soon as he finished speaking, the black figure stopped in its steps but didn¡¯t seem to want to leave. By the blurry moonlight shining in from the balcony, he could clearly see the black figure suddenly raising its hands slowly, then started to walk over once again, heading straight for He Jian Fei, fast approaching his bedside. Was it provoking him? He Jian Fei was furious and picked up a yellow paper talisman, flipped open the mosquito net in an instant and saw that the room was empty, the black figure was now nowhere to be seen. He Jian Fei stood by the bedside and looked around suspiciously, then, a sound came from outside the door. ¡°Sniffle ¡­ sniffle sniffle ¡­.¡± A low, barely discernible sob can be heard, after hearing the familiar low voice, He Jian Fei breathed a sign of relief and asked, ¡°Chuan Xun, why didn¡¯t you speak back there? You almost scared me to death. What¡¯s wrong? Did something happen?¡± Then he walked over to the door and twisted the door handle, only to see the door standing there, unbudged. He turned on the lights to take a look, and saw that the door was twice secured with the safety latch, he personally locked the door earlier that night. The door wasn¡¯t unlocked, and the black figure appeared first inside the room, then crying was heard outside the door, along with the sound of the Spirit Evoking Bell, He Jian Fei broke out in a cold sweat. He paused for a moment, but still took out the key and unlocked the door, then carefully opened the door and said in a low voice, ¡°Chuan Xun, you ¡­.¡± Halfway through his question, he couldn¡¯t help but to be stunned by what he saw. The hallway was silent, the doors to the other dorms on either side of the hallway were all tightly shut, there was no one in sight. Their dorm was quite a distance from the staircase, even if Chuan Xun wanted to run away, he wouldn¡¯t have had time to do so, and not make a single sound. He heard it very clearly, the voice back there was indeed Chuan Xun¡¯s, could it be that ¡­. Just as he was getting a headache thinking about everything, a loud ¡°BANG¡± came from inside the room. He Jian Fei hurried to turn and look, and saw that Zhang Chuan Xun¡¯s English textbook fell on the floor. He looked outside the door once again, there was still nothing out there. Perhaps it¡¯s some minor ghost who wandered in by accident, so he had to re-lock the door, close the window and pick up the English textbook, then head back to bed. At 5 AM in the morning, an earth shattering burst of knocking came at the door, along with a loud and nervous sounding voice, ridding He Jian Fei completely of any amount of sleepiness he had in him. This time, He Jian Fei lost all patience to go and see what¡¯s outside the door, instead he ran to the window and shouted, ¡°Who the hell¡¯s making all the noise out there? Do you know what time it is right now?¡± Huang Da Kai stood outside the door looking utterly terrified, his entire body trembled badly, ¡°Jian Fei, something¡¯s wrong! Something terrible¡¯s happened! Chuan Xun¡¯s dead!¡± This came as a shock to He Jian Fei, and his mind instantly went blank. Huang Da Kai incoherently kept on talking, ¡°I heard he died on the main campus road, his face was filled with terror, his eyes popped out of their sockets and he was covered in blood, but they couldn¡¯t find a single wound on him. All of the school authorities have gathered and a bunch of people came from the police station ¡­.¡± He Jian Fei grabbed ahold of Huang Da Kai¡¯s shirt collar and asked hoarsely, ¡°When did it happen?¡± Huang Da Kai was stunned by the expression on He Jian Fei¡¯s face, he paused slightly before answering, ¡°The medical examiner haven¡¯t said anything, but the body was found by a security guard at around 4 AM when he was making rounds. Why are you asking ¡­.¡± He Jian Fei opened his mouth and took a deep breath of the cool clean air on the outside in order to calm himself. The black figure that came to him at midnight, the strange crying outside the door, and the English textbook that suddenly fell off the desk. So that really was Zhang Chuan Xun¡¯s ghost! Zhang Chuan Xun was already dead then! He Jian Fei suddenly remembered that his master once told him that in The Underworld, beside The Bridge of Helplessness[4] there was a Pond of Vindication.[5] All of the passing spirits that have once been wronged or suffered injustice must wash themselves in the pond to rid themselves of all the hatred pent-up in their hearts. Only after doing so, could they pass The Bridge of Helplessness and head for reincarnation, otherwise they will turn into haunting spectres, forever remaining in the world to receive punishment from The Underworld. Because so many of these ghosts lack the ability to speak for themselves, thus, it was said that when they pass by the Pond of Vindication, they have to lift their hands up to their shoulder level as a sign that they were wronged or suffered injustice, letting the agents of The Underworld know. So the bizarre actions Zhang Chuan Xun made, could it be that he was trying to tell me that he suffered injustice? Why wasn¡¯t he reporting it to the agents of The Underworld? Why go through the efforts and come to tell me? When he suddenly remembered the answer to all his questions, Zhang Chuan Xun was one of the few people that knows about him being a member of the magical arts circle. Could it be that his killer wasn¡¯t human, but ¡­. ¡°Did someone die again? Ha ha ha ¡­ you can¡¯t run, a few must die every year, huh, you can¡¯t escape it, can¡¯t escape it, did you go yet? If you still feel resentment, then let it all out! Ha ha ha ¡­.¡± A figure staggered up the stairs. He Jian Fei was alarmed and asked, ¡°That upperclassmen over there, what is he talking about?¡± Huang Da Kai whispered quietly, ¡°Don¡¯t mind him, I heard that his girlfriend died last year in the same way, he didn¡¯t take her death well, came back and cried for a few nights, then ended up all crazy and neurotic like this.¡± As he was talking, He Jian Fei opened the door and ran up the stairs, leaving him behind. Huang Da Kai stood there stupefied, He Jian Fei didn¡¯t bother to explain to him, he had a feeling that this whole thing wasn¡¯t as simple as it seemed, it¡¯s not just about the death of one person. He Jian Fei caught up to the upperclassmen on the fifth-floor hallway, the guy dragged his body and hobbled along sluggishly. He Jian Fei stopped abruptly about three meters away from him and called out in a low voice, ¡°Please wait. Judging from what you¡¯ve said, you seem to know the reason behind Chuan Xun¡¯s death, I¡¯d like to trouble you for an answer.¡± ¡°Me? I don¡¯t know.¡± The upperclassmen turned his head around, behind the thick lenses of his glasses, an unusual yet terrifying gleam shone in his deep-set eyes. ¡°If I knew then would I have ended up like this? If I knew then would she have died? Did that classmate of yours take a road called Crimson Hilltop?¡± He Jian Fei hurried and nodded, his heart suddenly sank, realizing that it was as he had expected, it had something to do with that suspicious road. The upperclassmen opened his mouth to speak again, ¡°I only know that decades ago, Crimson Hilltop road was secretly called Haunting Spectre Road.¡± ¡°Haunting Spectre Road?!¡± He Jian Fei was surprised by his answer. ¡°Why did they call it such a terrifying name?¡± The upperclassmen stared blankly for a moment, then looked up and broke out in laughter, ¡°I don¡¯t know, she doesn¡¯t know either, neither of us knew. It¡¯s only a legend left behind by the previous graduating class, it was said that if someone takes this road during the dead of night, they will die a blood-covered death, their face filled with terror. She didn¡¯t believe it, tried to flaunt her braveness and ran there. And guess what happened? Ha ha ha ¡­. Before her death, she used all her remaining strength to tell me two sentences, ¡¯Death is inevitable. There is no escape.¡¯ Yes, there is no escape, absolutely no escape.¡± The upperclassmen stopped paying attention to He Jian Fei, turned and slowly walked away. Crimson Hilltop? Haunting Spectre Road? The question on He Jian Fei¡¯s mind last night during self-study time was finally answered. He rushed back to the fourth-floor like a gust of whirlwind. Most of the people on the fourth-floor all went to see what happened, the row of dorms were now mostly empty. Near the top of another set of stairs, came the sound of desperately repressed weeping, the sound floated through the corridors on the fourth-floor, adding an air of sadness to the building. He Jian Fei stopped in front of dorm room 428, kicked in the door and saw a person curled up next to the desk leg, hugging the blankets and sobbing. When he saw He Jian Fei come in, he couldn¡¯t help but to look up at him. He Jian Fei closed in and questioned him coldly, ¡°Qin Xiao Tian, I¡¯d like for you to explain to me about Crimson Hilltop.¡± Qin Xiao Tian was stunned for quite a while, then finally broke and buried his head in the blankets and started bawling, ¡°I ¡­ I just wanted to ¡­ I didn¡¯t think that he would die ¡­. The legend was true, I didn¡¯t expect, I didn¡¯t expect it ¡­.¡± He Jian Fei tried to suppress his anger, and punched Qin Xiao Tian right in the face and shouted, ¡°He¡¯s already dead, what good is telling me all this for!? Do you think crying will bring Chuan Xun back? Everyone thinks that Haunting Spectre Road killed Chuan Xun, but you are the real murderer!¡± Qin Xiao Tian¡¯s body shook vigorously, his crying suddenly came to a halt, and the door room was dead silent. He Jian Fei realized that he wasn¡¯t here to beat him up and vent his anger, he took a few deep breaths to calm himself, looked at the insignificant person in front of him with disgust and asked in a harsh tone, ¡°Tell me about the legend of the Haunting Spectre Road.¡± Qin Xiao Tian¡¯s older brother was in the Student Union and told him about this legend when he visited a few days ago, telling him to take caution and be extra careful. Haunting Spectre Road was originally called Oil Hilltop, it was there when the school was first built and was once used as the main campus road. 50 years ago, a girl was diagnosed with cancer during her physical examination, feeling utterly disheartened, she hung herself on the road. When her classmates were paying their respects at her grave, they told her that she was misdiagnosed, she could have lived a healthy life. The girl was already reluctant to die, she couldn¡¯t give up her resentment and wandered the road each night, crying. Ever since then, no one dared to walk that road at night. A few years later, a male student forgot something at midnight and went to fetch it, but he never came back. Before the incident, someone saw him wandering on that road, scared out of his wits. It was said that his ghost will wander back to his dorm at midnight, seemingly searching for the item that he will never be able to get back. After a few days, another girl was raped and killed there. Two tragic incidents took place at the same exact location, this striking coincidence alerted the Student Union. After a few days of fierce debate, they unanimously decided that it was a female ghost causing trouble. At the same time, they changed the name of the road to Crimson Hilltop, crimson like the colour of blood. So far, accidents at Crimson Hilltop never stopped happening each year, and they all died the exact same way. That¡¯s why the students secretly called it Haunting Spectre Road. In order to maintain the reputation of the school, information about the road was sealed off from the outside world, therefore, very few outsiders know about Crimson Hilltop. Those who died were mostly students from other schools and unsuspecting freshmen. If the legend about people dying at Crimson Hilltop each year was true, then during the 50 years period, it must have gathered countless spirits and ghosts, and accumulated an immense amount of hateful energy,[6] Zhang Chuan Xun¡¯s death was certain the moment he stepped onto the road. The anger that He Jian Fei had tried hard to suppress flared up once again, he took a step forward, grabbed Qin Xiao Tian by his shirt collar and dragged him up, ¡°Have you no human conscience? Where is your humanity?!¡± Qin Xiao Tian met He Jian Fei¡¯s eyes, then closed his eyes and continued crying his heart out, pleading to He Jian Fei, ¡°I¡¯m to blame for everything, I have no humanity, just kill me! I beg of you, please just kill me ¡­.¡± He Jian Fei wanted to slap him hard across the face, but suddenly saw that a green layer of mist hovered around Qin Xiao Tian¡¯s body. Coiling hateful energy? Qin Xiao Tian was being possessed by a ghost! But the most bizarre thing was that the spirit haunting him released energy to protect Qin Xiao Tian against harm from He Jian Fei. The ghost was protecting him? He Jian Fei was taken aback and couldn¡¯t help but to let go. Usually, when a ghost takes possession of a person¡¯s body, they want nothing more than to fulfill their own purposes, therefore they will devour the other person¡¯s soul at all cost, why is the ghost possessing Qin Xiao Tian risking it all to protect him? Translator¡¯s Notes: I¡¯ve actually be meaning to recommend this book for quite a while now, I just haven¡¯t gotten around to actually do it. I recommended this book on Shushengbar, I have posted up the ebook link along with audiobook links. Please check the site out for lots of wonderful recommendation and translations. :) It¡¯s the first of a series, but each novel is a stand alone story, don¡¯t worry about picking up another book in the series and not being able to understand it. This book is horror with Chinese magic and fantasy elements, it is set in the present day, but probably a decade of so behind our current times, considering how it¡¯s written a while ago. I translated the first chapter simply as a teaser to accompany my recommendation. I do plan to translate more of it since I really love this series. :D Also, this is the first modern setting translation of mine, but lots of the elements are rather ancient, so yay~ :) I¡¯m not much for modern novels. P.S. I feel a very strong *cough* FEELINGS between Jian Fei and Chuan Xun xD they weren¡¯t there when I was reading it in Chinese. Perhaps this will inspire me to translate some BL? What do you think? I know some of you read BL, I KNOW! ;) As always, please like, comment, and follow if you¡¯ve enjoyed reading!~ Ciao! <3 1 ÕлêÁå, Spirit Evoking Bell or Spirit Calling Bell, fictional magical instrument, rings in the presence of ghosts and spirits. 2 Ë×¼ÒµÜ×Ó, to put it simply, it¡¯s someone who follows the ways of the Buddhist monks but keeps his or her hair. 3 »Æ·û, used in the practice of magical arts, these are yellow paper with special red writing on them spelling out different orders. Can be used for multiple purposed based on the magic user¡¯s wishes. 4 ÄκÎÇÅ, a bridge in The Underworld that all souls have to walk over and make their way to reincarnation. 5 Ï´Ô©³Ø, literally translates to ¡°pond that washes away injustice one has suffered¡±, a fictional place in the novel. 6 Ô©Æø, the feeling of having suffer injustice or being wronged is transformed into this energy. An accumulation of this energy makes a ghost more powerful. CH 2 He Jian Fei took a few steps backwards and stopped when he reached the door. Qin Xiao Tian looked astonished as he stared at the quiet and sullen He Jian Fei, unsure as to what he¡¯s going to do to him. But the reality was, He Jian Fei was opening The Eye of Dharma[1]to try and view the ghost¡¯s form. The hazy white shadow within the green mist gradually became clearer, and revealed the face of a pretty looking girl with short hair. A section of her outstretched tongue hung out of her mouth, resting limply on his chin, and she had no irises in her eyes, only the white of her eyes were visible. At the moment, she was coiled around Qin Xiao Tian¡¯s neck like a giant anaconda. It was obvious that she was a hanged ghost.[2] Even after taking a closer look, she was nothing but a regular haunting spectre, not only was her demonic powers[3] weak, her hateful energy[4] wasn¡¯t particularly strong either. So why is she here guarding Qin Xiao Tian instead of going through reincarnation? He Jian Fei grew more and more puzzled, and decided to speak to the spirit using ghost tongue.[5] ¡°I am a disciple of the Mount Wutai School, right now I have questions to ask you. Who are you? What is your relationship with Qin Xiao Tian? Why are you protecting him?¡± Qin Xiao Tian saw that He Jian Fei switched from staring at him attentively, to looking at him with a strange and suspicious expression. His mouth opening and closing rapidly, but Qin Xiao Tian couldn¡¯t hear any sounds. He thought that He Jian Fei had gone insane after hearing the news, and his body went limp from fear. He leaned against the side of the table and yelled out hoarsely, ¡°Help! Somebody help! He Jian Fei¡¯s gone crazy!¡± Unfortunately, most of the people in the building went to see the scene of death, nobody was there to hear his panicked cries for help. He Jian Fei already disliked the guy, so he didn¡¯t bother explaining it to him, he only concentrated on waiting for a reply from the ghost. ¡°Who am I?¡± After a while, the ghost finally answered him. Her voice was slow and sluggish, but didn¡¯t sound as hazy and ethereal as other ghosts. ¡°I don¡¯t even know who I am. I¡¯m already dead, what¡¯s the point of remembering the identity I had when I was alive? Knowing that I still love him is enough for me. Although I died because of him, he¡¯s not to blame. He only broke up with me because those despicable women seduced him. I knew that deep down, he still likes me. Yes, he still likes me. That¡¯s why I have to stay here, I have to drive away those other women. This way, Xiao Tian is all mine. His soul, along with his body, will forever and ever be mine and mine alone.¡± He Jian Fei listened and a chill ran down his spine. This woman was determined to merge her soul together with Qin Xiao Tian¡¯s soul, controlling his body together. This was a great sacrifice for a ghost that doesn¡¯t have much power and could only ease their pain by finding a scapegoat.[6] But at the same time, if this continues, Qin Xiao Tian will no longer be Qin Xiao Tian anymore. If love becomes deformed and reaches this state, what difference is there between love and hate? In accordance with the rules of the magical arts circle, one should usually lend a helping hand when encountering ghostly possessions. But He Jian Fei absolutely despised the culprit that indirectly murdered Chuan Xun, and he also pitied the girl, so he wasn¡¯t going to do anything about this possession. He Jian Fei sighed and closed The Eye of Dharma, when he regained consciousness and saw that Qin Xiao Tian was still desperately shouting for help, he walked over and said to him, ¡°Truth be told, I wish I could gut you with a knife. But Chuan Xun was killed by the Haunting Spectre Road, and you really didn¡¯t know the truth behind the incident. If I kill you out of my personal anger towards you, there would probably be some sort of heavenly retribution waiting for me. So today, for the time being, I will let you go. But you have to listen carefully, this doesn¡¯t mean that I have forgiven you. I still think that you don¡¯t deserve to live as a human, heck, you don¡¯t even deserve to live as a dog.¡± He Jian Fei paused and took another look at the green mist around Qin Xiao Tian, then said to him word by word, ¡°Those who play with fire shall burn in their own flames. Qin Xiao Tian, retribution shall come to you soon enough.¡± Then, he left behind the confused and stupefied Qin Xiao Tian and turned to walk away. Due to such a large scale incident taking place on campus, the school was forced to cancel all its classes. He Jian Fei didn¡¯t want to go and see the scene of death and make himself feel sad, but staying in the dorm room wasn¡¯t any better either. Because he didn¡¯t really have anywhere to go, he headed off to the audio-visual education building to search for Crimson Hilltop road, since he couldn¡¯t find it the other night. Because of the dim moonlight last time, he didn¡¯t get a clear look at things. But the sun was blazing outside today, so he saw almost immediately a winding white path to the left of the audio-visual education building. Lush green weeds on either side of the road grew to his waist level, god knows when it was last trimmed. Some of the grass near the exit lies flat on the ground, slightly parting to the sides. It seems that someone had passed by there not long ago, and left behind a trace. After parting the weeds and walking into the entrance to the road, He Jian Fei realized that he can¡¯t quite call it a small road. Although trees and grasses grew heavily on either side of the road, and everywhere was sprawling with foliage, it still wasn¡¯t enough to hide how wide the road actually was. At the centre of the road remains the faded markings that clearly defined the road boundaries. One could still faintly see its former glory as the main campus road, and the lively bustling scene that it once housed. But now, it¡¯s a scene of absolute desolation, everywhere was broken and dilapidated. To the right of the road entrance stood a short and crooked metal sign, brushing off the rust stains revealed the words ¡°Crimson Hilltop¡±. The sign was scrawled in large, messy writing, the word ¡°Crimson¡± was written slightly larger than the other, and a lot messier as well, it¡¯s quite obvious that it had once been altered. All of this pointed to the legend of the Haunting Spectre Road. Fear gradually rippled throughout the quiet, abandoned road. To others, this was merely an ordinary road, but to He Jian Fei, a member of the magical arts circle, even looking at it was torture. The instant he brushed aside the grass and walked in from the road entrance, He Jian Fei¡¯s body shivered involuntarily, a chill crawled up from the bottom of his feet, all the way up to the top of his head. His skin started becoming numb, and soon, the contents of his stomach became restless as well. Dizziness, chills, nausea, the body¡¯s natural reaction to hateful energy after practicing magical arts were all present on this road. The depth of hateful energy accumulated at Crimson Hilltop has reached an alarming proportion. He Jian Fei had overly underestimated the powers of the Haunting Spectre Road, aside from a few yellow paper talismans he did not bring any protective magical instruments. And now, he can no longer keep it up and observe further. So all he could do was to hurriedly pluck a blade of grass from the roadside to test the intensity of the hateful energy, then quickly fleeing from the road. He Jian Fei returned to the dorm and saw that the others have still yet to return, but He Jian Fei still sealed shut the door and windows quite cautiously, leaving only a small crack in the balcony window for air. He pulled over the table and set the blade of grass down on top, then took off the Buddhist prayer beads from his wrist and set the grass down in the middle. After doing so, he took out a lighter and lit the blade of grass on fire. The grass was burned to a charred powder, a small ¡°squeaky¡± noise sounded particularly clear in the still silence. A burning smell started to emanate, spreading to each and every corner of the room. He Jian Fei¡¯s eyeswere fixed on the blade of grass, when suddenly, a strange sight occurred. At first the prayer beads slowly expanded outwards, each bead was stimulated by the hateful energy and collided with each other vigorously, but He Jian Fei has yet to see any scarlet sinister energy[7] appearing out of the grass. He Jian Fei¡¯s heart sank. If the sinister energy could not be detected, yet the prayer beads had such a strong reaction, then there were only two possibilities. One would mean that the ghost was of benevolent nature and has no intentions of harming anyone, therefore, the lack of sinister energy. While the other meant that whatever was there had such extremely high levels of hateful energy, the beads were unable to bless it. And by the looks of things right now, he¡¯s almost certain that Haunting Spectre Road was the latter case. He Jian Fei sat limply on the chair and began to concentrate on thinking the whole incident through. Judging by the legend of the Haunting Spectre Road, it started killing people after the death of the girl that was raped and killed, so the ghostly killer had to be either the first girl who hung herself, or the male student that later died. Since then, a few people die each year, and the combined power of these ghosts that come together gave Haunting Spectre Road its power, finally developing into its state today. But did the people who died later join the ranks of murderers? If so, breaking them down one by one would easily solve the problem of the Haunting Spectre Road. ¡°You didn¡¯t go? If you are still harbouring resentment, then let it all out now.¡± The crazy upperclassmen¡¯s words flashed across his mind, He Jian Fei jumped up excitedly. That¡¯s right! Why doesn¡¯t he go find that upperclassmen and find out the whole truth about Haunting Spectre Road? ¡°What?!¡± The upperclassmen stared at him with alarmed suspicion, ¡°You ¡­ you are saying that you know magic?¡± He Jian Fei sat across from him, sipping away at his tea leisurely. ¡°That¡¯s right. In other words, I have the ability to call out your girlfriend¡¯s ghost to come and meet you. But of course, my hands are tied if you don¡¯t believe me. Although I do have to remind you, if you miss out on certain things, you will regret it for the rest of your life.¡± The upperclassmen missed his girlfriend to the point of madness, upon hearing that He Jian Fei has a way to let him see her again, his eyes reddened and tears streamed down his face. He didn¡¯t even hear clearly the last two sentences that He Jian Fei had said, he simply grabbed hold of He Jian Fei¡¯s arm while nodding vigorously, ¡°I¡¯ll help I¡¯ll help! Take me to her quickly!¡± His eyes were filled with both anxiousness and eagerness. He Jian Fei looked at the man before him, dumbstruck by this person that¡¯s tortured by his own longing desires, finally recovering after a good long while, pried the upperclassmen off of his arm and said, ¡°Then tonight at 11 PM sharp, I¡¯ll wait for you at the corner of the campus road. Remember to be careful, don¡¯t let anyone see you. Otherwise, our plans for tonight will be ruined.¡± The upperclassmen grinned and said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry. Even if someone did see me leave, they won¡¯t ask me anything, because to them, I¡¯ve already gone crazy.¡± After he finished dealing with everyone that came to see him, He Jian Fei headed off to attend Zhang Chuan Xun¡¯s memorial service. After turning down sympathetic consoling and condolences from school authorities and fellow students, He Jian Fei looked to see that it was already 10:45 PM. He opened his desk drawer and took out a sandalwood box, upon opening the box, revealed a peculiar looking necklace laying quietly inside. The necklace was made up of translucent pale yellow pine resin beads, hanging in the middle was a larger colourless bead, the size of a quail egg. When the light hits its surface, splendid colours refracted from it, creating a gorgeous scene. At the same time, something faintly visible was flowing about the inside of the bead. This was one of Mount Wutai¡¯s five major magical instruments, the Sarira necklace.[8] It has the strongest defensive abilities in the magical arts circle, regular ghosts will perish if they come into contact with it, even the stronger ones will succumb to its powers. This protective magical instrument was given to him by his master when He Jian Fei was still a boy. Since he accepted the magical instrument he has yet to use it once. It¡¯s hard to imagine that the first time he¡¯ll be using it would be on school grounds. Haunting Spectre Road was like a newly discovered creature, full of mystery. No one knows how intense its hateful energy levels were, and there was no way of telling how strong its magic will be. Since he¡¯s bringing an extra person with him today, He Jian Fei had to bring something that would be able to guarantee their safety. He did not want any accidents to happen on his watch. He Jian Fei walked out of the dorm, when he came around the corner, he saw that the upperclassmen was already there. He Jian Fei smiled and waved, the both of them headed straight for the audio-visual education building. Despite being protected by the Sarira necklace, He Jian Fei still didn¡¯t dare to go in rashly. They only stood far off from the road, facing the entrance. The upperclassmen said in a panicked voice, ¡°Where¡¯s my girlfriend? Why don¡¯t I see her?¡± ¡± ¡°What is your girlfriend¡¯s name?¡± He Jian Fei asked.¡± ¡°Xiao Fang.¡± He Jian Fei glanced over at him and said, ¡°I¡¯m asking for her full name, not what you call her.¡± ¡°Zhang Qing Fang.¡± He Jian Fei stuck a few yellow paper talismans on the upperclassmen¡¯s back and pushed him aside with a warning.¡°You stay back.¡± Then He Jian Fei took off the Buddhist prayer beads from his wrist and put his palms together with the beads encircling them. He turned to face the entrance to Haunting Spectre Road and chanted, ¡°Disciple He Jian Fei of the Mount Wutai school has information to notify the agents of The Underworld, Buddha¡¯s compassion liberates all beings, and has given us special orders to shield and sustain all earthly beings, Haunting Spectre Road has taken the lives of numerous people, others were plunged into an abyss of misery, incurring great indignation from gods and men, by right it should be terminated. I beg of the agents to open the gateways, allowing Zhang Qing Fang¡¯s spirit to appear, aiding Buddha in his means to expiate the sins[9] of the deceased.¡± As soon as he finished speaking, the prayer beads emitted a faint white light, pointing towards the entrance to Haunting Spectre Road. A transparent silhouette began to gather and form. The upperclassmen almost immediately recognized the person that it had formed to be the familiar figure that he longed to see day and night. ¡°Xiao Fang!¡± The upperclassmen shouted, ¡°I¡¯ve missed you so much!¡± Then immediately rushed over to hug her, giving He Jian Fei, who was standing next to him, quite a scare. However, what happened next shocked him even more. The ghost girl saw the upperclassmen running over towards her, but remained motionless. He Jian Fei noticed as she lifted her drooping right arm ever so slightly, green mist flowed out of her fingertips, and he shouted, ¡°NO! Get away from her!¡± He Jian Fei ran up to the upperclassmen and suddenly pushed him over onto the ground. At the same time, waving his hand and creating a barrier with seven yellow paper talismans. The green mist hit the barrier and ricocheted off onto the grass beside them, a heavy gust of foul rotting smell immediately followed. Toxic hateful energy? The upperclassmen was taken aback at first, but suddenly tried to rush to her side again, it¡¯s a good thing that He Jian Fei stopped him dead in his tracks. Lying inside the barrier, the upperclassmen cried out in overwhelming sorrow, ¡°Xiao Fang, it¡¯s me! Don¡¯t you recognize me?¡± The ghost¡¯s eyes gleamed with red light, and said in an ominous tone, ¡°Comply and live, resist and perish.¡± He Jian Fei stood on the side, puzzled by the string of unexpected events. He knew that if a ghost has yet to drink the Five Flavoured Tea of Forgetfulness[10] at The Bridge of Helplessness, then they will retain their memories from their past life. Since Zhang Qing Fang was a haunting spectre died suffering injustice, it¡¯s only natural that she would be refused entrance to The Bridge of Helplessness. So why is it that not only does she not recognize the upperclassmen, she seems to be full of hatred for him? He Jian Fei looked at the upperclassmen as he lies crying on the ground, he thought for a moment, then picked up a piece of willow leaf, stained it with the upperclassmen¡¯s tears and shouted, ¡°Buddha¡¯s light illuminates!¡± Then flicked it towards the ghost¡¯s back. The air seems to have been ripped open with a clatter, several dozen red strings of various thickness suddenly appeared, tied around the ghost girl¡¯s neck and limbs. Sure enough, it¡¯s just as he had expected! The ghost girl didn¡¯t recognize her boyfriend because she was under someone else¡¯s control. The person behind all of this took advantage of a cloaking technique from the ghost realm, and tried to kill them with a ¡°borrowed knife¡±. After He Jian Fei severed the red strings controlling the ghost girl, she gasped and slowly came to. The upperclassmenwas ecstatic, hurrying to rush to her side, hugging her and shouting, ¡°Xiao Fang, it¡¯s me! Do you recognize me now?¡± He said as tears streamed down his face. Because of the yellow paper talismans on his back, the ghost¡¯s Yin energy[11] was unable to harm him. He Jian Fei smiled quietly as he watched the touching scene before him, two lovers reunited despite being separated by life and death. The ghost girl opened her eyes and initially looked at the upperclassmen in disbelief, but when she turned and saw that the red strings were severed, her face immediately changed to a panicked expression, ¡°Why are the red strings severed?¡± He Jian Fei was just about to explain that he was the one who severed them, when she started shouting at them, ¡°Why aren¡¯t you two running? This is a disaster!¡± A giant gust of hateful energy quietly closed in on them. The ghost girl saw that it was too late for them to run, so she dove and rolled over to shield the upperclassmen with her body, taking the hit for him. While He Jian Fei¡¯s Sarira necklace all of a sudden shot out a thousand golden rays, and surrounded his entire body like halos. The hateful energy dissipated upon contact with the golden light, scattering and flying away. ¡°Xiao Fang, are you alright? Xiao Fang, open your eyes and look at me!¡± He Jian Fei heard the shouting and knew that something was wrong. When he rushed over to see what was the matter, Zhang Qing Fang was already on the verge of perishing due to her injuries. The upperclassmen held her longingly in his arms as he sobbed uncontrollably, a bleak expression on his face. He Jian Fei regretted not looking around first and ended up letting her get hurt, so he stood to the side, not knowing how to bring up the topic of Haunting Spectre Road¡¯s origins. However, Zhang Qing Fang smiled bitterly and said, ¡°I don¡¯t know that much about Haunting Spectre Road, I just know that it originated in 1949, the complicated details it involves are beyond your imagination.¡± She paused and inhaled sharply, then continued, ¡°Give up now, no one¡¯s able to fight it. People will surely continue to die. That woman wants to kill everyone at school!¡± Finally, she looked at the upperclassmen with tender affection, reaching out her increasingly transparent hand to touch his face, and said softly, ¡°Forget about me, don¡¯t live in the shadows of my death, that¡¯ll be my salvation.¡± A wisp of green smoke ascended from within the upperclassmen¡¯s embrace, his most beloved disappearing forever under the holy moonlight, without a trace. ¡°Xiao Fang¡ª¡± His last shrill cry echoed above the audio-visual education building, shattering the silence of the night. Translator¡¯s Notes: This has been sitting in my computer with only 1% yet to be translated. I am ashamed to admit that I have left it there for that long. This chapter reminds me of certain Xianxia stories where they have cool magical items. Anyway, this chapter isn¡¯t very scary, slightly sad towards the end. Hopefully, this will appeal to people that enjoys reading horror, mystery, and fantasy novels. :D As always, please like, comment, and follow if you¡¯ve enjoyed reading!~ Ciao! <3 CH 3 Broken File Record Dragging his tired body back to the dormitory, the sky was already white, and He Jian Fei immediately dialed his girlfriend Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s number. Tian Yin Zhen is a psychic mediator and may be helpful in the investigation of this incident. ¡°Oh, it¡¯s our handsome brother He. Now there is good news and bad news. Which one do you want to listen to first?¡° Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s silver bell-like laughter and the usual teasing came from the other end of the phone. He Jian Fei reluctantly thought that he hadn¡¯t heard it. He thought for a while and sighed: ¡°Anyway, there have been enough bad things these days. Let¡¯s listen to the bad news first.¡± ¡°The bad news is that you left your bankbook and credit cards and they got muddled with mine, so I¡¯ve been accidentally using the wrong ones.¡± He Jian Fei said, ¡°That¡¯s not a bad thing, I¡¯m now taking other people¡¯s cards by mistake too. What about the good things?¡± Tian Yin Zhen cleared her throat and said in a high octave voice: ¡°You have just been voted as the number one pretty boy in the province¡¯s colleges and universities.¡± He Jian Fei cried and laughed: ¡°Who in the world is running such a boring campaign?¡± Tian Yin Zhen was surprised: ¡°Hey, you were voted as the first most beautiful boy-¡± He Jian Fei quickly interrupted her: ¡°Yinzi, have you sensed anything wrong with my school?¡± There Tian Yin Zhen mused: ¡°Well, it seems that some beautiful women have a lot of eye-catching radio waves, how is it? Which one do you like?¡± He Jian Fei rolled his eyes angrily: ¡°Yin Zhen, this isn¡¯t a joke, someone died here.¡± Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s laughter continued: ¡°Which beautiful woman is dead? It¡¯s so heartbreaking for our handsome brother He.¡± He Jian Fei said in a deep voice: ¡°Zhang Chuanxun is dead. Later, his wronged soul came to my dormitory to avenge my wrongdoing.¡± The phone fell silent for a long time, and Tian Yin Zhen said: ¡°It¡¯s too far away, I can¡¯t sense anything, your spell is higher than mine, what is the matter of calling me from there?¡± He Jian Fei said, ¡°I want you to help me see the instant memory, if possible, it is best to look at the instant scene of a place.¡± (Note: The terms instant scene and instant memory are of Japanese origin. Instantaneous scene means that it is said that when a person dies in extreme pain, there will be residual thoughts left in the world, repeating the process of tragic death, for example, a person who was burned to death by fire can see from the instantaneous scene that he was burned by fire until he died. And through the resentful mana magnetic field left by an unjust soul, you can know the situation of the wronged soul at that time, which is an instant memory. In general, instantaneous scenes can be preserved forever and will not be erased, while instantaneous memories only have a thirty-day period.) Tian Yin Zhen said, ¡°Okay, I don¡¯t have class in the afternoon, I¡¯ll be there at three.¡± In the afternoon, Tian Yin Zhen arrived on time, and He Jian Fei told her all the original beginnings and ends of the Haunted Spectre Road. Tian Yin Zhen saw that He Jian Fei¡¯s face and tone were not as calm as usual, and knowing that the matter was serious, she was startled and asked, ¡°Is that haunted-whatever-road that powerful?¡± He Jian Fei frowned and said, ¡°I don¡¯t know its strength very well as of now. Either way, first help me look at the instant memory of the night before. I wanted to make sure if it was Chuanxun, and what exactly he was trying to say to me.¡± Tian Yin Zhen took out a basin of water, sprinkled it with medicinal powder, put her hands on the outside of the basin, and began to silently chant the spell. The water in the basin began to turn black, reflecting the situation in He Jian Fei¡¯s dormitory the night before. A black air drifted in from the balcony, forming a black shadow about three meters away from He Jian Fei¡¯s bed, and the soul calling bell immediately rang loudly, and then He Jian Fei woke up, and just as he was questioning, the black figure suddenly stretched out a pair of bloody hands. Against the backdrop of the moonlight, one could clearly see that the black figure¡¯s outstretched hands were completely parallel to his shoulders. When He Jian Fei lifted the mosquito net, the black shadow suddenly disappeared again. The picture in the water began to move to the outside of the door, and the black figure was floating around outside the door, sobbing from time to time. Finally, the English book in the room fell to the ground, and when He Jian Fei turned his head to look, the black figure suddenly stood up behind him: disheveled hair, protruding eyes, bloody face, but it was still clearly seen that it was Chuanxun¡¯s unique Chinese character face. Tian Yin Zhen was frightened by this terrifying scene, her skills dispersed, and the image in the water immediately disappeared. She couldn¡¯t help but let out a long breath and said: ¡°Seeing someone I know become like this, even if I was mentally prepared, I would be shocked.¡± She saw He Jian Fei¡¯s solemn face and said: ¡°Sure enough, his posture is exactly the same as the legendary posture of retribution in the underworld, can it really be said that it is the scourge of the Haunted Spectre Road? But he died on the main school road.¡± Tian Yin Zhen drained the basin of water and came back: ¡°That posture is very similar, but you are not the messenger of the underworld, and you have nothing to do with the underworld. It stands to reason that the magic world does not care about the matter of the wronged soul, why did Zhang Chuanxun come to you again to avenge the wrong, it is really strange that a little devil with such a low mana as he was not pulled away by the impermanence of the underworld. I don¡¯t think the efficiency of the underworld is very good now.¡± He Jian Fei¡¯s thoughts drifted to Zhang Chuanxun¡¯s body again, that ordinary woman who was righteous, fearless, and kind, who died without the slightest resentment. Why could she still not be controlled through the Naihe Bridge? Could it be that the Haunted Spectre Road has the ability to manipulate the power of life and death in the underworld? Thinking in his heart, his face was silent, and he only heard Tian Yin Zhen continue: ¡°Besides, there are many inconsistencies in the legend of the Haunted Spectre Road, and we can¡¯t believe it all¡±. He Jian Fei suddenly became interested: ¡°Many inconsistencies? What inconsistencies does it have?¡± Tian Yin Zhen knew that He Jian Fei¡¯s mentality had always been several times higher than hers, and understood that he wanted to test her, so he didn¡¯t tell the truth, and said with a smile: ¡°The legend is extremely vulgar, and the content of jokes is very heavy. I won¡¯t talk about it. From the plot it describes, there are several big loopholes. First, the origin of Haunted Spectre Road was started by a girl who was misdiagnosed as cancer, and a few years later she had the ability to kill. Investigating the cause of her death, she was at best an ordinary ghost, how could she have such great ability to provoke such a big disturbance? Unless it is the origin of the ghost path, there are other twists and turns. Second, the legend has pointed out that after the girl died, crying could be heard every night, so no one dared to leave. Why did the boy not shy away from taboos but had to pass there, and at the most dreaded time¡ª¡ªin the middle of the night? His actions are deduced according to the content of the legend, and must have a great relationship with what he is looking for. But no matter how great the connection is, there is no reason to bet your life on this unreasonable bet. Third, it is said in the legend that all people who were murdered by ghosts have the same death conditions, but the boy and the girl who were raped and murdered were also murdered by ghosts. Why are their death conditions different from others? This may be said¡­¡± At this point, Tian Yin Zhen couldn¡¯t help hesitating for a moment, as if thinking about how to sum it up. He Jian Fei already smiled slightly and said: ¡°The legend of the Haunted Spectre Road actually started after the death of the girl who was raped and killed. Capable of killing¡±. Tian Yin Zhen clapped her hands and laughed, ¡°That¡¯s right, that¡¯s why I said that all doubts are concentrated on those three people. The years of their deaths are so close to each other, and the legend has been passed down for more than 50 years. It is inevitable that some people with bad memories will distort and falsify it. Maybe the truth of the ghost path found out in the end is quite different from the legend.¡± The more Tian Yin Zhen spoke, the more excited she became. The element of curiosity has surpassed the original intention of saving the legend¡¯s crisis. He Jian Fei was only annoyed and funny watching it. ¡°Oh!¡± Tian Yin Zhen exclaimed, as if he had discovered something wrong, and said, ¡°If, as I said, the information has long disappeared after more than fifty years, and this kind of major event that ruins the face of the school has always been strictly blocked, wouldn¡¯t it¡­?¡± Thinking that the Haunted Spectre Road might be a death case that could never be solved, Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s interest immediately diminished, and her speech became soft. He Jian Fei stood up and stretched his waist and said, ¡°You¡¯re right, but not completely. After half a century of evolution, all the most precious first-hand information has either disappeared or been destroyed by the school, but it is only official. What about the folk ones?¡± Tian Yin Zhen was stunned: ¡°Folk?¡± He Jian Fei said, ¡°The name change of the Haunted Spectre Road has caused fierce debate in the student union, can it be that the student union in front or behind has no action? Dying a few people a year is a big deal, and no matter how the school is blocked, there will always be people who will find ways to leave a message that will one day be able to eliminate the mystery of the legends. I don¡¯t want to read those high-sounding words from the school, but I want to see the real situation left by the righteous students at that time about the turmoil and the change of people talking about that moment.¡± Tian Yin Zhen said, ¡°As you said, the students who learned the truth at that time must be in their seventies and eighties now, where can they still be found?¡± He Jian Fei said with a smile: ¡°That¡¯s why I said you were careless. Have you forgotten what I said when I first showed you around the school?¡± Tian Yin Zhen was reminded by him like this, and then remembered that when He Jian Fei introduced this prestigious ancient school to her, he once proudly mentioned the biggest difference between this school and other colleges and universities ¨C it was established by the president of the student union in the early days of the school, in order to fight the autocracy and monopoly of the school, the president of the previous student union publicly handed over the key to the next student union president at the change ceremony, bypassing all the institutions of the school, and striving to leave the most detailed work records of the student union archives. Tian Yin Zhen suddenly realized, and said with a smile: ¡°So it is. As the number one horror legend in the school, how can the student union not have the slightest record left? The truth of the legend of the Haunted Spectre Road will soon be known. ¡± In order to distinguish it from the school archives, the archives of the student union are not located in the school history building, but in a large room covering an area of more than 90 square meters on the top floor of the library. Tian Yin Zhen was coming to the top floor of the library for the first time. As soon as she got out of the elevator door, she saw an old wooden door with only one crack, the red paint was almost completely gone, the big hole was eaten by termites, the air conditioner on the side is blowing ¡°whoop¡±, the door is occasionally blown, and ¡°squeaks¡±, as if trying to show its thick wood and precious value. The walls on both sides are very white, and they seem to have been painted recently, which is a sharp contrast to the door. Tian Yin Zhen was stunned, ¡°This¡­ This is your student union archive? Will students be so poor?¡± According to her imagination, even if it is not as luxurious as a five-star hotel, after all, there must be red carpet floor-to-ceiling windows, glazed walls and French chandeliers, etc. But the appearance of this slum house in the twenties and thirties in front of her poured a large basin of cold water on her. He Jian Fei, who was afraid that she would be cold, took off his trench coat and was putting it on her, laughed when he heard this: ¡°It is said that it is to respect the hard work and efforts made by the predecessors of the student union, so the future generations of the student union do not dare to move, they just work outside the wall¡±. Look at the iron plate next to you, and it will surprise you even more¡±. Only then did Tian Yin Zhen notice that there was still a small iron plate standing next to the wooden door, because it had turned brass over time, and the words engraved on it were blurry and could only barely be recognized. Tian Yin Zhen read: ¡°Article 1 of the regulations on the management of the archives of the student union, retired and current employees and teachers of the school are strictly prohibited from entering this room, and the rest of the personnel are not allowed to enter unless they have been signed by the president and vice president of the previous and current student unions. Students who are not members of the Student Union are required to apply for special approval slips from the current Student Union President and Vice President with their student ID cards to enter the Students¡¯ Union. Those who do not comply shall request the current student union to draw up a punishment plan in accordance with Article 97 of these Regulations.¡± Tian Yin Zhen couldn¡¯t help but marvel: ¡°It¡¯s amazing, it can even restrict the school. It¡¯s not like the student union in our school. It blows whatever the school says, and follows it. Is your school convinced and won¡¯t resist?¡± He Jian Fei said: ¡°It just wants to, and there is no way. The most important thing in our school is tradition, especially this kind of conventional rule, if anyone wants to touch it, even if the current student union and students agree, the previous dozens of old alumni will not do it. The school is so shrewd that it will not do such a brazen thing.¡± He Jian Fei glanced at Tian Yin Zhen, who was listening with relish, and then said with a smile: ¡°The most interesting thing is not this. When you see this iron plate, do you think of any allusions?¡± Tian Yin Zhen laughed: ¡°I guessed it earlier. You are imitating the story of the Ming Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, who put up an iron plate to prohibit eunuchs from interfering in imperial politics.¡± He Jian Fei shook his head and said, ¡°Not exactly. You are too poisonous and compared the school to a eunuch. We are following the Kangxi Dynasty, an iron plaque was erected outside the military aircraft to point out the allusion that outsiders are not allowed to enter without special orders.¡± While saying that, he took out the special approval slip from the student union from his arms and prepared to enter. Tian Yin Zhen, who was on the side, was aroused by the inconspicuous iron plate, and squinted down to find Article 97: ¡°Article 97, if there is violation of Article 1, Article 4 and Article 28, if the situation arises, please call the current student union to launch a school-wide demonstration or strike after emergency consultation. If the situation is serious or the school insists on not complying, please call the chairman and vice-chairman of more than ten sessions of the student union to hold an emergency meeting and issue an announcement in the name of the school¡¯s previous student unions, and take all legal means of protest throughout the society, including exposure to the media and prosecution to the court¡­¡± He Jian Fei grabbed Tian Yin Zhen and said: ¡°Don¡¯t read it, it¡¯s important to find out the truth. I have the printed copy, you just take it home and read it.¡± ¡°Is there a slip?¡± Entering the door, before she had time to look around, a low and trembling voice had already startled Tian Yin Zhen. After entering the door, before he had time to look around, Tian Yin Zhen was startled by a deep and trembling voice. On the side of the door, beside a low and uneven old table, was a bald old man. With two rows of loose yellow teeth showing and panting, and a pair of small eyes crowded by spots that almost turned into thin lines, He Jian Fei hurriedly handed over the special approval slip along with his student ID card.The old man held the special approval slip and looked at it over and over again, as if it was a fake. After a while, he raised his head and glanced at He Jian Fei and said, ¡°What are you looking for?¡± He Jian Fei said with a smile: ¡°The management regulations do not say that students have to explain the reason if they want to go in.¡± The old man gritted his teeth and said, ¡°I¡¯m just curious, few people are interested in these yellow files now, let alone the files from more than 50 years ago when the two of you checked it. You go in.¡± Tian Yin Zhen pulled He Jian Fei aside and whispered in his ear: ¡°Your student union does things weirdly. You put up a sign and didn¡¯t mention it. You even invited such an old fellow to interrogate you, making this place like a Yamen¡±. Speaking of this, he glanced at the thief-eyed old man and couldn¡¯t help but smile. He Jian Fei said in a low voice, ¡°Don¡¯t talk nonsense. This old man has been the caretaker here from the beginning, he is always old, he is very loyal, and the people in the school do not know how afraid he is.¡± The two whispered and came in front of a pile of dusty files. He Jian Fei stepped forward and carefully blew off the dust on the surface, looked at the time on the surface of the bag, and said to Tian Yin Zhen: ¡°Zhang Qingfang shouldn¡¯t lie to us, since she said that the Haunted Spectre Road originated in 1949, we will start to check from the files in 1949. Let¡¯s get up.¡± Tian Yin Zhen smiled and said, ¡°Okay, you check the 49-year-old, and I¡¯ll check the 50-year-old.¡± The file room became quiet again, and only the thick and hard paper could be heard quickly flipping. He Jian Fei felt something was wrong when he opened the first page of the file in 1949. Although he had never been in the student union, he also knew that ¡°report worries first and good news later¡± is the rule passed down from the beginning. In the later period, it became a little awkward. Not to mention the singing and dancing, even the words became more and more precise, and the bureaucratic flavor became stronger and stronger, as if trying to cover up something. As a taboo in student union records, it has always been strictly prohibited by the student union. Why was it unblocked in 1949? He Jian Fei became more and more convinced that something unusual must have happened in 1949, perhaps it was the shocking mystery that directly led to the Wronged Ghost Path. Thinking of this, his speed of turning the pages could not help but increase. ¡°Ah!¡± He Jian Fei exclaimed, completely cutting through the silence that lasted about an hour. The answer was clearly revealed on the white paper in front of him. Tian Yin Zhen was searching on the other side of the cabinet in a boring way, and when she heard He Jian Fei exclaimed, she knew that something was wrong, so she hurried forward and asked, ¡°What did you find?¡± The work arrangement of the campus art festival was suddenly interrupted, and a blank sheet of paper was inserted, on which was an unsigned four-character poem: Dancing cherry blossoms, road grass barriers, The top of the pagoda is broken, it is intentional, Beloved God, have mercy on me in this life, Goddess Luo of West Lake, King Xiang loves deeply. Tian Yin Zhen said inexplicably: ¡°What does this mean? Not only does it not rhyme, but the sentences also make no sense.¡± He Jian Fei shook his head and said, ¡°It¡¯s probably a riddle. Don¡¯t be too busy solving the riddle, don¡¯t you think this poem is played strangely? I took a look at the thread, and it seems that it was inserted later, deliberately interrupting the recording, that is to say, the person who put this blank paper seems to be trying to attract our attention. Now the matter is difficult to solve.¡± He said, sighing. Tian Yin Zhen glanced at him strangely and said, ¡°What¡¯s the problem? Since someone left the clue, you should be happy. Even¡­¡± He Jian Fei suddenly pointed his finger at the wall. Tian Yin Zhen looked up and saw that there was a A plaque reading ¡°Student Union Archives.¡± Absolutely rejecting the involvement of school forces is to establish a democratic mechanism independent of autocracy and monopoly. The student union archives have always been covered with a sacred cloak in the eyes of students. In this small space tightly protected by the system, students can speak freely and reveal all the truth, which is known as the ¡°little iron box¡±. Why in this small iron box, did someone intentionally create a mysterious and strange poem? He Jian Fei and Tian Yin Zhen glanced at each other, and a word popped out in their hearts at the same time: ¡°Broken record!¡± This term was created by the student unions of other colleges and universities. Since they could not obtain the same superior environment as this school, they had to avoid the school¡¯s censorship by interrupting the archives, so as to leave a few sentences to warn future generations, but the archives are broken. Records have never appeared in this school because of the establishment of the small tin box, and there is no reason and space for its existence. Knowing the seriousness of the matter, He Jian Fei left the file and walked to another cabinet, saying, ¡°I want to see who the asshole who was the president of the student union in 1949 is, and why he does things so unconventionally?¡± He opened the cabinet as he spoke. In the personnel record sheet, there was another louder exclamation in an instant. The old man at the door roared: ¡°Kids inside, don¡¯t bark, or you will be kicked out!¡± Tian Yin Zhen hurriedly responded: ¡°Got it.¡± She lowered his voice and asked, ¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡± He Jian Fei¡¯s extremely disbelieving eyes moved from his watch to Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s face, and Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s whole body was shivering: ¡± You won¡¯t believe it, the president and vice-chairman of the student union in 1949 turned out to be the ¡®twin heroes on campus¡¯!¡± Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s eyes widened instantly, but she managed to control herself from screaming again. ¡°Campus duo¡± is the biggest myth on this campus. It is said that the former president of the student union was unreasonably expelled for opposing the school¡¯s policies, and all cadres were punished in different ways. The student union was facing the tragic situation of being disintegrated and taken over by the school. Only a freshman student stepped in and became the youngest and longest-serving student council president and vice-chairman in school history. One month after taking over as the chairman, a large-scale fire broke out in the whole school, affecting 50% of the campus. With their extraordinary courage and extraordinary calmness, the two chairmen controlled the panic in only three days. In the end, there was a miracle that no one was killed or injured. Afterwards, he drastically reformed the student union system, took the lead in openly raising the banner of opposing school autocracy, established the iron box system, and gave himself the power to fight against the school through the student representative assembly. It has created the most prosperous and most democratic campus public opinion environment since the establishment of the school. It has also become customary to swear to follow the example of the ¡°campus duo¡± at the inauguration ceremony of the president of the student union. According to the management regulations, every file of the student union must be put in here after the chairman and vice chairman have read the whole article, so as to eliminate the phenomenon of cadres playing tricks. The ¡°campus duo¡± has set a record for this broken file! A thief shouting ¡°Catch a thief?¡± He Jian Fei¡¯s mind couldn¡¯t turn the corner, and he just stood there blankly until Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s words woke him up: ¡°How come you don¡¯t know which year the campus duo served in the student union?¡± He Jian Fei said helplessly: ¡°That¡¯s none of my business, the legend of the two heroes on campus doesn¡¯t mention the year at all¡­¡± Before he finished speaking, he thought about it. The excellent student union president always talked about it for the students, and other things were mentioned. Why didn¡¯t the most famous campus duo not? Tian Yin Zhen said: ¡°It¡¯s useless to be surprised now. Let¡¯s assume that the two heroes on campus left it on purpose, then there must be more than one broken record. Let¡¯s look for it again.¡± Sure enough, as expected, Tian Yin Zhen discovered that a few words were crookedly written next to a program list of a cultural performance in 1951: Three days, the king died, because of unknown reasons, we will prepare the ceremony and go to make a sacrifice. See the words , know it, all scattered. On the seventh day, Ting died, as expected. ¡°Literally, it should mean that after the boy¡¯s unknown death, his classmates went to visit the grave, did not know what words they saw, knew something, and stopped the grave sweeping activities and went back. On the seventh, another girl named Ting died, but why is it ¡°expected¡±?¡± Over there, He Jian Fei also found this article in the 53rd year student union record: ¡°If you know today, why bother? Remorse is irreparable. After the end of the year, the wind is clear. ¡°There is no front or back, no beginning and no end, a few sentences, sandwiched in many complicated transcripts, and it stands out alone. If those inexplicable words really have no real basis and have any connection with the Haunted Spectre Road, then another article that He Jian Fei found is really very clear and relevant information. It was mentioned in a working note by the president of the student union in 1954: ¡°The change of the name of the road is a last resort, and its effect may not be as we expected. The cause of this is found in the third document of the 49th record; the twentieth document of the 1951 year record, and the fifth file of the 1953 year are the remarks and notes. I hope that the next president will take this as his top priority, and don¡¯t forget it! It is remembered after the second meeting of the Student Council in March 1954¡±. It gradually became clear that the Haunted Spectre Road did originate in 1949, the third year of the campus duo¡¯s tenure ¨C it was in the most prosperous year that the Haunted Spectre Road was no longer the same. However, how the campus duo, who are the best student union cadres, dealt with the suicide incident and what clues they left behind miraculously disappeared from the files. On the contrary, what is even more strange is that in the last half year, only the comments of the vice chairman can be seen on the file, but the name of the chairman has never appeared again. The following student unions seemed to avoid this very much, and never mentioned it. Are there any twists and turns hidden behind the prosperity that the world does not know? Just as he was thinking about it, Tian Yin Zhen raised the record and said: ¡°I still don¡¯t understand. To set up the iron box system, one should lead by example. Besides, the system is already perfect, and the two heroes on campus don¡¯t need to make any broken records. In the next few sessions, the student union actually followed the suit. It is really confusing.¡± He Jian Fei just looked at the ground quietly without speaking, then suddenly raised his head after a long while and said, ¡°No, the campus duo is worthy of being a campus duo, so it¡¯s perfectly appropriate to deal with it like this.¡± Tian Yin Zhen was taken aback and said, ¡°What?!¡± ¡°Things that do not conform to common sense can no longer be measured by common sense. We are all overwhelmed by the reputation of the two heroes on campus. In fact, if you think about it from the content of the legend, you can understand the mystery of all broken records. The girl was diagnosed with cancer during the medical examination, and the physical examination program was fully taken over by the student union from the third year of the school¡¯s establishment, and the school never interfered, they just looked at the results. Then, the broken file record that appears to avoid school censorship is completely inapplicable to the Haunted Spectre Road incident. There can only be two reasons why the campus duo did this: one is that the school¡¯s interference was one of the factors that caused the girl¡¯s death; As you said, the protection of the iron box is enough, so I am more inclined to speculate on the second point.¡± Tian Yin Zhen frowned and said, ¡°No longer means broken records? It¡¯s so profound, can you speak more straightforwardly?¡± He Jian Fei looked at the other side of the door and lowered his voice: ¡°Can¡¯t you see it yet?¡± Campus twins do this not to avoid the school, but to avoid the students. Tian Yin Zhen¡¯s eyes jumped, and she hurriedly asked, ¡°Why? There has always been only avoidance of schools, where can students be avoided?¡± He Jian Fei said: ¡°There is only one possibility, once the truth of the Haunted Spectre Road is revealed, I am afraid that people will be in turmoil and will not be able to control the overall situation of the whole school. The latter student unions are just using the same technique to show that they are targeting the same thing. This is probably the true meaning of the broken record.¡± The mysteries gradually dissipated. The most terrifying legend on campus, the Haunted Spectre Road, really has extremely deep roots. Even the invincible campus duo can only use this obscure method to warn, you can imagine how violent waves were set off in the school that year. Thinking of this, He Jian Fei¡¯s mood suddenly became very heavy. He originally thought that this road was at most just a slightly more powerful evil spirit. It didn¡¯t take much effort to subdue and suppress it. It would be fine to avenge Zhang Chuanxun. Who would have expected. It has been involved for more than 50 years, and the twists and turns are hidden and unspeakable. I am afraid it is not as simple as an unjust death. He Jian Fei took over the file from 1951 and looked at it carefully. Tian Yin Zhen said: ¡°In my opinion, the two of ¡®Jun¡¯ and ¡®Ting¡¯ should be the boy who died later and the girl who was raped and murdered. There is also a secret, but the sentence is too vague, and there is very little explanation, so it is difficult to solve the mystery.¡± He Jian Fei nodded and said: ¡°However, it can still be seen that the truth is quite different from the legend, and Ting¡¯s death may be due to other reasons. If it was raped and murdered, how could it be an ¡®unexpected thing¡¯? It¡¯s hard to say what happened to the emperor. But what I¡¯m most confused about is not this. One of the broken records mentioned that ¡®protecting the stone and protecting the seat¡¯ should be the top priority. , it seems to be some kind of treasure that restrains evil ghosts, where are the ¡®stones¡¯ and ¡®seats¡¯ hidden in the campus now?¡± The two carefully studied, but felt that the clues were confusing, and the reasons were intricate, and they couldn¡¯t find it anymore. No conclusions can be drawn, but it is getting more and more chaotic. However, one fact is already evident. Haunted Spectre Road started in 1949 and changed in 1951. Until 54 years ago, people in the student union still held the secret, but it was not known whether it was due to human negligence or other reasons. After 54 years, the secret gradually disappeared, and even distorted the truth at that time by false rumors. To find out the truth, the only way is to find out the student union officials from 54 years ago and inquire. 54 years ago? Tian Yin Zhen secretly twisted her fingers calculated in her heart. Those cadres are now at least more than seventy years old. After more than fifty years of changes, it is difficult to say where those people are now. Even if we find them, half a century has passed, can those people still remember the original situation? Although she felt that this road was not feasible and learned the truth of the Haunted Spectre Road, she had always known He Jian Fei¡¯s temper. Even if he knew that it was a dead end, he had to go back to confirm, so she was silent and listened to He Jian Fei: ¡°It¡¯s late, I¡¯ll send you back first. We¡¯ll go to the student union tomorrow and bring up the address book to see. As long as you find someone who knows, things will be much easier.¡± At seven o¡¯clock the next morning, He Jian Fei and Tian Yin Zhen came to the student union office. Tian Yin Zhen looked around curiously, but this office was not as shabby as the file room. The clear window sills, tall beams and huge golden plaques seem to remind people all the time that this is the soul place of the students of this school. An exquisite student union emblem is hung on the door to symbolize the bestowed by the student representative assembly of the whole school. Supreme power. Tian Yin Zhen smiled, and said to He Jian Fei: ¡°Your office is quite decent, why don¡¯t you also put up an iron sign outside the door, saying, ¡®All civil and military officials must dismount and enter the Forbidden City on foot¡¯?¡± He Jian Fei was about to answer, suddenly a tall man walked out of the door. He was wearing a plaid shirt and a snow-white T-shirt inside. He had a very happy expression on his face. When He Jian Fei saw this person, he shrank back, and that person had already caught up with him quickly. He grabbed He Jian Fei¡¯s hand and shook it violently, as if he had learned about Taiwan¡¯s reunification: ¡°Jian Fei, I will say that sincerity is where the gold and stone are open. You finally figured it out, are you willing to join our student union?!¡± He Jian Fei hurriedly pulled out his hand and said, ¡°Chairman He, don¡¯t guess. Which side of my face has ¡®Join¡¯ written on it? I¡¯m here this time to borrow and take a look at the address book, and also have something to ask you.¡± It turned out to be the chairman of the student union, and Tian Yin Zhen was secretly taken aback. Chairman He said disappointedly: ¡°Are you still unwilling to join? I value your ability so much, and I plan to ask you to join and let you be the chairman. You might as well think about it again. Although being a chairman is a bit tiring, the benefits are great. Quite a lot, I¡¯ll give you money and beauties¡­¡± He Jian Fei hastily grabbed Chairman He¡¯s clothes and told him not to talk nonsense, but it was too late, ¡°Ouch!¡± He Jian Fei bent down in pain, Tian Yin Zhen, who was full of anger, just said nothing. Without hesitation, he stomped on his foot. Seeing that the trick was successful, Chairman He quickly suppressed his smile and said, ¡°Hey, Jian Fei, what¡¯s wrong with you? Are you okay? You¡¯re tired from standing outside, so let¡¯s sit inside. Xiao Zhang, bring the address book here.¡± Hastily withdrew to go in, only to hear He Jian Fei muttering something like ¡°a gentleman¡¯s revenge¡± behind him. The address book and personnel records of the cadres of the student union have already been brought over. Tian Yin Zhen just flipped through them. As she expected, the correspondence addresses and contact information of those cadres since the 1960s are basically blank. He Jian Fei leaned over to take a look, and said to Chairman He: ¡°Why do you have no address here 60 years ago? How did you become the chairman of the student union? You want me to join you with such low efficiency!¡± Chairman He looked. Without even lifting it, a file folder just finished reading came over with the sound of ¡°huhu¡±: ¡°I am the chairman of the student union, not a neighborhood committee that engages in family planning. It has been so many years. You think those people just stay and die in one place and refuse to go out, where can you find out? But then again, what are you doing? Could it be that there is your long-lost relative here¡­¡± Before he finished speaking, He Jian Fei had already flown the folder back with his eyes: ¡°Is my life so tragic?¡± ¡± Seeing that the address book didn¡¯t work at all, He Jian Fei thought about what to pick up to have a look. Tian Yin Zhen exclaimed from there: ¡°Ah! So the head of the Propaganda Department in 1956 is so handsome!¡± Chairman He couldn¡¯t bear it any longer. He couldn¡¯t help laughing, and He Jian Fei sighed, everything is really not going well, and he hits everywhere. Suddenly he remembered the matter of ¡°protecting the stone and protecting the seat¡±, and hurriedly approached Chairman He mysteriously: ¡°Did the senior brother pass you any treasures? For example, the stone throne or something.¡± Chairman He called: ¡± Hey, Brother Jian Fei, I am here for the Student Union, not the Qinglong Gang. By the way, he left me a bill of 1,000 yuan. Since you are interested, I will give it to you.¡± He Jian Fei said: ¡°Then do you have a list of students who dropped out of school or died¡­?¡± Chairman He waved his hand: ¡°Go to the funeral home to check.¡± The last clue was broken, and He Jian Fei was disappointed and wanted to leave the office. Chairman He seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly raised his head and said, ¡°Why do you keep asking some strange questions today? Strangely enough, I remembered that there seemed to be a yellowing unknown record in that cabinet, and if you had so much time, you would help me study it.¡± He Jian Fei¡¯s spirits lifted, and he hurriedly took the piece of paper to look at it, only to see that there were some strange times and things recorded on it: It was decided the plan would commence on the 3rd 4th ¨C success 5th ¨C the expected effect was not achieved, hence it was carried out in depth 6th ¨C failure 18th ¨C continuation 19th ¨C it went 23rd ¨C it was seen; three passed 28th ¨C graduation Among them, ¡°it went¡± was circled in red, and then the following is the comment of the president of the student union: ¡°This is a matter of great importance, don¡¯t take it lightly.¡± Chairman He said, ¡°Look, what kind of mess is this? I also want to say that it is important, so that I dare not lose it.¡± He Jian Fei shook his head, but secretly wondered, the key to the whole piece of paper lies in that ¡°it¡±, what does ¡°it¡± refer to ? What happened again? Although this piece of paper is weird, it may not have anything to do with the Haunted Spectre Road. So He Jian Fei didn¡¯t intend to go any further, and said to Chairman He, ¡°Do you have any ideas for me to find those student union cadres from 54 years ago?¡± Chairman He thought about it. After a while, he said: ¡°There is a way. One month from now will be our 100th anniversary. At that time, advertisements will be posted everywhere to invite old alumni to participate. You can go and see, but I can¡¯t guarantee that they will definitely come.¡± He Jian Fei¡¯s eyes lit up: ¡°That¡¯s right, why did I forget about the school celebration? The student union is full of talents, and you can pick any one at random. What do you need me, a waste?¡± When he turned around, he saw that Tian Yin Zhen was still stunned by the photo, and said angrily: ¡°You and him are in a relationship with each other, I am leaving.¡± Suddenly, a loud burst of laughter erupted in the office. CH 4 THE TRUTH On days without Chuanxun, the people in the class gradually got used to it. Only He Jianfei was never able to adapt. Aside from seeing things and thoughts, if ¡°You must die, you can¡¯t escape!¡± If that prophecy is correct, there will be a second, third, and fourth victim later.Then came the next year, and then this terrifying nightmare continued to surround this ancient campus.In the past few days, those strange statements have been lingering in his mind, but he has no clue.Perhaps, there are too many obscure twists and turns in it. The day of school celebration is almost here.Looking at the whole country, there are not many schools with a history of one hundred years. Therefore, for this school, which has enjoyed the highest reputation since its establishment, it is undoubtedly a major event. The school wants to pull a few Nobel prize winners and national leaders to show off and start a little bit of its own reputation, and the student union also has its own small abacus to see if it can squeeze more funds from the country¡¯s five major corporate giants. After all, they used to be members of the student union, and by the way, they can also take this opportunity to reiterate the authority of the student union and further suppress the school.Therefore, everyone seemed extremely peaceful.Because this time the school asked to do its best to host it, the student union did not need to spend a penny, and the student union was happy to turn a blind eye.The campus has been brightly lit for a long time, and it has been painted everywhere. The more conspicuous buildings have been re-laid with glazed roofs except for cultural relics, and specially customized red lanterns have been hung. Dozens of boxes of imported fireworks are bought and prepared to be put together.They even asked someone to pull out all the withered lotus leaves in the pond and replace them with fake lotus leaves made of transparent fluorescent plastic, flatten the road surface, and tied up a huge colorful inflatable ball every three or five steps. All street lights were replaced with neon lights that can be controlled remotely, and a few screens that can electronically control the flowing waterfall were placed as road signs.The school originally wanted to lay a new red carpet about 500 meters long, from the entrance of the school to the first teaching building, but the previous extravagant approach has angered students.Everyone jointly signed a protest letter and handed it to the student union. The student union intervened, and the school dispelled this idea.But the whole school has already appeared to be flowing with light waves, and its magnificence is even comparable to that of the imperial palace. The major media rushed to report this grand event. Reporters have been coming to cover the event three days before the anniversary. The police station also came to prepare for how to be responsible for the safety of the important people on the day of the anniversary. There were also many citizens who had nothing to do and often ran away and came to join in the fun. Although the school is spruced up, people don¡¯t seem to have much interest in it. The focus of the public is almost entirely on the campus myth that has not been seen for a long time- will the campus duo appear? The campus duo have mysteriously disappeared since they graduated, except for the news that the two teamed up to resist a train hijacking tragedy in 1974 and rescued 600 people, but no one saw these two legends at that time. For alumni and current students, seeing their idols in person is also the main purpose of participating in the school celebration. The school and the student union have allocated most of their staff to the name registration office at the school gate. As long as the campus duo shows up, there will be a large number of welcoming crowds to greet them. Everything seems to be well prepared. To Chairman He¡¯s great delight, He Jianfei, who has never been interested in activities, took the initiative to sign up and asked to join the welcome vanguard team. Although he felt that it was a bit strange for him to come actively this time, he finally made progress. The reputation of the campus duo is also well-known in other colleges and universities, and Tian Yinzhen, who has always admired her, even skipped class to attend the school celebration ceremony. He Jianfei couldn¡¯t resist her, and said to her: ¡°In this case, don¡¯t run around, just follow me and stand at the door to watch. If the school pickets recognize that you are not a student of our school, you will have to suffer.¡± Tian Yinzhen said strangely: ¡± See? Aren¡¯t you going to greet them?¡± He Jianfei laughed and scolded: ¡°Go, I¡¯m just making a cover, there are so many people crowded at the door, who can see who is greeted or not, so I don¡¯t care about it. We just need to find out the campus duo.¡± Tian Yinzhen said: ¡°I don¡¯t think you should be too happy, the campus duo haven¡¯t shown up for so long, and they may not be willing to come out this time, maybe they are old or they can¡¯t come because of some unspeakable secrets.¡± He Jianfei looked intently in the direction of Haunting Spectre Road, shook his head and said, ¡°They will definitely come. Whether it¡¯s their fault or not, Haunting spectre Road was in their hands after all. The guilt of making this unending situation and making it a campus nightmare is tantamount to torture for these two people, with such a strong sense of responsibility, so I¡¯m sure they will not let go of this, and they will definitely come back and have a look.¡± The day of the school celebration finally arrived, and Tian Yinzhen¡¯s ears were almost deafened by the thundering firecrackers and loud voices. At this moment, she was hiding in He Jianfei¡¯s arms and covering her ears with her hands to take refuge.I don¡¯t know what big people came, a large number of firecrackers were shipped out again, Tian Yinzhen said: ¡°Your school doesn¡¯t need to be so exaggerated, right?¡± It was more grand than the National Day, and they burned money like paper. He Jianfei looked at the name on the registration book intently, and said casually: ¡°What about him, anyway, it¡¯s not with our money, the school loves to swing, what can you do?¡± With the passage of time, more and more people entered the school, rubbing shoulders is a common thing to see and the proportion of old alumni began to increase.The appearance of several elderly people in their 90s in the 45th class, set off a small commotion for the welcome crowd of the school celebration. He Jianfei¡¯s complexion became more and more ugly. The school celebration ceremony is about to begin, which means that all the people who are going to come have already come. Could it be that the campus duo really have the heart to leave the past behind? Seeing that he was about to get angry, Tian Yinzhen hurriedly persuaded him: ¡°They may be late. In fact, it¡¯s normal for them not to come today. They never like to join in the fun. They must come to the school quietly to have a look. You just need to pay attention in the future. ¡°He Jianfei lost his mind for a while, then suddenly came to his senses, and said in a low voice: ¡°No, the two campus heroes have come.¡± Tian Yinzhen was surprised and happy, and said in a trembling voice: ¡°Are you sure? Where are they now?¡± He Jianfei said decisively: ¡± Yinzi, wait for me here, I¡¯ll be back.¡± After speaking, he turned around and ran away without waiting for Tian Yinzhen to react. The familiar building became clearer and clearer in front of him, He Jianfei gasped and stopped, looked at the three big characters of the dilapidated ¡°Electric Education Building¡± above, and the weeds next to it had obvious traces of falling. He Jianfei held his voice, tiptoed forward and gently pulled away the weeds on both sides. Behind the rusty street sign, an old man stood quietly, looking up at the sky, muttering in his mouth, and his eyes faintly shone with tears under his snow-white hair. He Jianfei quietly walked behind him, and when he finished speaking, he bowed respectfully and said, ¡°Aren¡¯t you the two heroes on campus?¡± Junior Brother He Jianfei has been waiting for a long time¡±. The old man couldn¡¯t help but be startled, and turned around and looked at He Jianfei a few times and said, ¡°What campus hero?¡± I¡¯ve heard people say they died a long time ago. Don¡¯t see this old man and be confused.¡± He Jianfei said with a smile: ¡°Yes, but I know that the old alumni are not necessarily the campus heroes, but only campus heroes are interested in this haunting spectret road.¡± I don¡¯t know if I¡¯m right? When the old man heard him say the three words ¡°haunting spectre road¡±, his body couldn¡¯t help but tremble, but he quickly regained his composure and said, ¡°Since you know that this is the haunting spectre road, don¡¯t you want to go back quickly, do you want to die?¡± He Jianfei saw that he had suddenly changed and was still calm and constant, and the words just now neither admitted nor denied his question, but were cross-examined. He really deserved to be a campus hero.He secretly admired him and said, ¡°Then please invite the other campus hero out first.¡±I have admired him for a long time, and I finally got a chance to see him today.¡± A complicated and lonely look flashed on the old man¡¯s face, and he said lightly: ¡°Threatening me?¡± If you don¡¯t come out, you won¡¯t come out, It¡¯s just a kind reminder. He Jianfei saw that all the tricks were ineffective for the old man, and sighed in his heart: I had to use the trump card, and said: ¡°I came today because I don¡¯t understand a poem, and I want to ask the two seniors, who were the campus heroes.¡± After speaking, regardless of whether the old man agreed or not, he read the poem aloud to the surrounding trees: Dancing cherry blossoms, road grass barriers, The top of the pagoda is broken, it is intentional, Beloved God, have mercy on me in this life, Goddess Luo of West Lake, King Xiang loves deeply. When the old man heard this poem, his face suddenly changed drastically, and he pointed to He Jianfei and said tremblingly: ¡°You¡­who are you?¡°As soon as he finished speaking, his feet softened, and he sat on the ground with a ¡±thump¡±.He Jianfei didn¡¯t expect this poem to cause him so much excitement, and he didn¡¯t care about asking any questions in his panic, so he was busy helping him up.At this moment, a gust of wind blew, the grass branches swayed, the dust and soil were all rolled up, and the sky was covered with sand and mist, and the sky was overwhelming towards the two people. The trees on both sides seemed to be about to fall, constantly tilting towards the ground, and the ground began to vibrate, getting worse and worse.The sensitive He Jianfei smelled the breath of the ghost world the moment the wind blew, which shocked him.He didn¡¯t expect it, he really didn¡¯t expect that the grievances here were so heavy that even daytime ghosts could make trouble.To the effect that he did not bring the relic necklace to defend himself today, even the spirit bell stayed in the dormitory. The strength contrast is very different. Is it destined to die on the spot today?At this critical moment, the old man struggled to get up from the ground and shouted sharply: ¡°Dong?£¡The sun is up and the bronze statue is in front. Do you dare to move?I¡¯m about to be old at my age, so just take it if you want, don¡¯t hurt this young man¡¯s life!¡±Bronze statue?Protecting the stone seat?It turns out that these two things really exist, is it on this path?He Jianfei completely forgot the danger around him and was about to ask.Suddenly there was a soft ¡°hum¡± from a woman in the grass, which immediately scared He Jianfei to the creeps. The exit of the road was so pervasive that he could not identify it, and he was nervously thinking about how to escape.The sunlight came in through the sand mist, reflecting a soft halo on the beads on the wrist.In a hurry, He Jianfei quickly untied the string of Buddhist beads, threw them into the grass, and said in his mouth: ¡°Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe, Jie, Array, Column, In, Front, Forgiveness!¡±The Buddha beads exuded an eye-catching luster in the sun¡¯s light. After hearing a woman¡¯s groan in the grass, the wind weakened slightly, and the exit was vaguely discernible. He Jianfei picked up the old man and said, ¡°Hurry up! Where is the bronze statue?Run there!¡°He Jianfei led the old man stumbling out of the top of Chigang. The old man¡¯s heartbeat was rapid, and he only said, ¡°She dare not move here.¡±¡±After that, he rested against a tree. ¡°So close.¡±He Jianfei knew in his heart that if it weren¡¯t for the violent sun today, he would suddenly take action and hit her by surprise, and he would never be able to run out.He said to the old man with some guilt: ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I didn¡¯t expect her to be so powerful on the campus¡­¡± The old man interrupted him and said, ¡°My last name is Li. Just call me Uncle Li. Don¡¯t scream on campus. It¡¯s so awful.¡±He Jianfei said, ¡°Yes, Uncle Li, did you just mention the bronze statue, did you mean the stone and seat inside the stone protection seat?¡±Old Man Li nodded and said, ¡°The stone and the seat are actually connected. The stone refers to the bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen, and the seat is the stone seat under the bronze statue.¡±He Jianfei was suddenly confused by this fact: ¡°The bronze statue of Mr. Sun Yat-sen?¡±He and the haunting spectre road.¡± Uncle Li said: ¡°Sun Yat-sen is a great man of a generation. It is said that this bronze statue, built in the 1930s, was sensed by Sun Yat-sen¡¯s spirit, so it is guarded by righteousness, so those dirty things are afraid of it.The stone protector refers to the bronze statue of Sun Yat-Sen.¡±That¡¯s it. I didn¡¯t expect this bronze statue to have such an extraordinary meaning in addition to being a symbol of the school. He Jianfei said again: ¡°Take the liberty to ask, why didn¡¯t another senior come?¡±Is he okay?¡°A trace of pain flashed in Uncle Li¡¯s eyes, and he said, ¡°You have asked me so many questions, I still don¡¯t know who you are and where you learned those verses.¡±¡±He Jianfei is now completely sure that Uncle Li is one of the two heroes on campus, and he has no intention of concealing it anymore. Starting from the death of Zhang Chuanxun, he has been talking about checking old files.When talking about that poem, there was another sad look on Old Man Li¡¯s face. He Jianfei knew there was a difference, so he kept his mouth shut.Uncle Li sighed for a long time and said, ¡°Since you can find these broken records, you are the destined one, and I don¡¯t want to hide it from you anymore.But don¡¯t rely on your own power to run around.What can you do if you have magic power?Isn¡¯t Ah Qiang dead yet?¡±He Jianfei said inexplicably: ¡°Who is Ah Qiang?¡±¡±Old Man Li said with emotion: ¡°It was the president of the student Union at the time. This poem was written before he died. I risked being dismissed and followed his last wish to secretly clip it in the student union records, so that I could finally find a person who solved the puzzle and came to the strange case of the haunting spectre road.The name of campus heroes no longer existed at the moment of his death, and you don¡¯t have to mention this name in the future.¡± Is one of the two heroes on campus dead?No wonder only the annotations of the Vice-Chairman remained during that period.It turned out that the campus heroes had already disappeared as early as their most glorious era, leaving behind the hypocritical glory that the world did not know and the myth that has continued.This information is nothing short of a second major blow to He Jianfei.The person who knows the truth best is already dead!He Jianfei stammered for a long time before asking, ¡°Then¡­ Uncle Li, do you know the inside story of this matter?¡± Old Man Li shook his head heavily: ¡°I can¡¯t guess at all.¡±I have been thinking about this matter for more than 50 years, and the more I think about it, the more chaotic it is. Its complexity is beyond the scope of my thinking.¡±He Jianfei listened to him, but he became more and more frightened. ¡°On June 19, 1949, a girl in Ah Qiang Class hanged herself.This is the first suicide incident in our school, which has a high reputation.This incident naturally caused a sensation on the entire campus.Facing the students mixed with curiosity and fear, I was a little flustered, at a loss, and didn¡¯t know how to deal with it. I thought that since it was Ah Qiang¡¯s class that had an accident, although these were not his responsibility, I should consult him. Maybe there was something to pay attention to So I hurriedly ran to Ah Qiang to discuss what to do. When I arrived at the office, I saw Ah Qiang, who was lively in the past, standing at the table in a daze, his eyes blank. I was taken aback and hurriedly asked him what happened. Ah Qiang calmed down, and reluctantly smiled: ¡®Just in time, Xiao Li, there is something I must explain to you. If I leave something on this table within a month, you can guess it if you can. If you can¡¯t guess it, you can put it in the record and leave it to future generations to see. Someone will always guess. I smiled and said, ¡®Ah Qiang, you don¡¯t have to go to so much trouble to set up a riddle. What are you doing with so many mysteries?¡±Ah Qiang¡¯s face looked bloodless against the sunlight, extremely pale, and his voice was hoarse.He ignored my laughter and said to himself: ¡®I might have some instructions to stay, Xiao Li, I consciously don¡¯t treat you very well on weekdays, but today you have to remember to follow the instructions. Not only to keep you, but you can also benefit one party.¡¯ ¡°I finally felt something was wrong, he was simply explaining the aftermath.I was so surprised that I grabbed his hand and asked in dismay: ¡®Ah Qiang, what¡¯s the matter with you?What happened?Someone wants to harm you?Facing my barrage of questions, Ah Qiang just gently pushed my hand away and calmly said, ¡°Don¡¯t ask, I¡¯ll fight, maybe it¡¯s still the same.¡±¡®Then he waved to me to go away.I asked him about Dong?How to deal with the news, whether to publish it or not. Ah Qiang¡¯s body seemed to be shaken, and he replied after a while: ¡®Go and ask the student department.¡± At that time, the student Department had no other power except to manage the distribution of teaching materials. I thought this approach was inappropriate, but when I saw that he had lost his soul, I had to quit the thought . ¡°In the next few days, I paid a lot of attention to Ah Qiang, lest something happen to him.As time passed, four people in Ah Qiang¡¯s class had died inexplicably. At that time, the whole class was in chaos, but their own class was as calm as ever. At that time, there was a lot of speculation, and they all said that it was related to Dong? She was misdiagnosed with cancer and committed suicide in despair. As for what it has to do with this class and why she came to ask for her life, no one can tell why.I took the initiative to downplay the news of the suicide. At that time, the student union was under a lot of pressure to deal with the rumors outside every day. Ah Qiang¡¯s face became paler and paler, talking to himself all day long, fiddling with a pile of small stones in the office.I was so worried that I forcibly rushed in several times to ask him what he meant by what he had said before, but he strangely asked me if he had said these words. Seeing that I was speechless and at a loss, he rudely kicked me out. ¡°The rumors spread more and more widely. It started with the whole grade, and then quickly spread to the whole school. All the teachers and students were in danger and their hearts were in chaos. I was unable to deal with it. Finally, it alarmed the school and called Ah Qiang and me to ask what was going on.Just as I stammered and thought about how to prevaricate the past, Ah Qiang replied that they were just rumors and promised to settle the matter within 7 days.Itwas very strange at that time, why was Ah Qiang so sure and said, ¡°You must know that all mouths are gold¡¯! ¡°On the 29th, someone woke me up and told me a piece of news that I would never forget in my life: Ah Qiang is gone! I rushed to his dormitory like crazy, only to see Ah Qiang lying quietly on the bed , his face was black and black, as if he had died from poisoning, and there was a mixture of quite painful and emotionless expression. I fell on his body and cried loudly. His body was cold and stiff. I felt his hand clenched. It was a fist, so I tried my best to open it and saw that there were only three small stones inside. I suddenly remembered the words he told me before he died. I quickly wiped away my tears and ran back to the office. Sure enough, there were three pieces of paper on the table. The car of the police station was beeping outside. Before I could take a closer look, I put it in my arms and rushed out. Relying on my identity as the vice chairman, I was not searched or interrogated. The three pieces of paper were finally Not found. ¡°When I ran back to Ah Qiang¡¯s dormitory again, I was out of breath. There were two uniformed policemen inside, holding a pen and paper and asking the two boys who lived with Aqiang. The two boys said everything I don¡¯t know. Looking at the indifferent look on their faces, maybe they poisoned Ah Qiang to death. I really wanted to rush over and beat them up, but I held back. Later, the police called the gatekeeper uncle, he said with certainty that he saw Ah Qiang went out once last night, at about one or two o¡¯clock, the two boys argued that they were sound asleep and didn¡¯t notice. I couldn¡¯t help it anymore, and stood up to correct : ¡°You guys are telling lies! Ah Qiang told me early last month that there was something wrong with the door of his dormitory, and it made a loud noise when it was opened and closed, just like thunder.¡± Their expressions suddenly became ugly, and they whispered to each other. For a while, they seemed to be discussing how to deal with me. Later, before they were taken away by the police, a person suddenly asked me: ¡°Didn¡¯t Ah Qiang tell you anything?¡± I froze for a moment and didn¡¯t answer. ¡°After the two of them took it away, I remembered the three pieces of paper in my arms. I locked myself in the dormitory, took out the paper and looked at it carefully. Each piece of paper was written with some strange riddles that made me dumbfounded. One was a strange poem, the second is a record, and the third, which shocked me the most, is his will. He ordered: ¡°Within seven days of my death, collect the ashes of the rest of my class and bury them at the foundation stone of the bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen. With the will! Remember!¡± ¡°Before I realized what was going on, news came out the next day that the two boys committed suicide by cutting their veins in the detention room. On the third day, fifteen students from Ah Qiang¡¯s class collectively committed suicide by throwing themselves into the water. On the fourth day, the remaining six hanged themselves. So far, no one in Ah Qiang¡¯s class has survived.¡± CH 5 Poetic riddles When Old Man Li¡¯s words reached this point, He Jianfei was stunned for a long time, speechless. Things are far more serious than he imagined. It was almost unheard of for a girl to commit suicide, causing a class of twenty-three students to commit suicide. There must be a major and secret inside story in this. According to Uncle Li, Ah Qiang was holding three small stones when he died. Although he did not see the direction in which they were arranged with his own eyes, since Uncle Li said that Ah Qiang is a person who understands mana, it is certain that he cast the Sanhua Body art. Sanhua body protection is a very high-level self-defense technique in the magical world. It uses the essence of nature to integrate one¡¯s soul with all things in the world, so as to achieve temporary immortality and escape external attacks. To perform the sanhua body protection technique, one must not only achieve a high level of internal and external strength, but also have a certain comprehension and attainment of the unity of all things in nature. Even He Jianfei doesn¡¯t know this kind of superb body protection technique, and he still gets poisoned after using it. It seems that the opponent¡¯s strength¡­is not good, it seems that he has to go back to the mountain to ask the senior brother for help. He Jianfei said to Uncle Li: ¡°That so-called strange record, does it have some discontinuous dates and strange events surrounding ¡®it¡¯?¡± Old Uncle Li nodded and said: ¡°Yes, although Ah Qiang confessed to put it in the archives room, but I think if you put it all in, if the school finds out later, not only the data will be lost, but also such news will be strictly prohibited, so I destroyed the will, only put the strange poems in the archives, and hid the records in the common file cabinet of the student union office, and asked the next few student union chairman to sign on it, prohibiting the subsequent student union from discarding, so that it can be preserved come down.¡± He Jianfei said: ¡°The security system in the archives of the student union is so strict, and you still go to great lengths to disperse and retrieve the materials. I guessed that it was an unusually big event, but I didn¡¯t expect it to be so big. I I seem to have heard you calling that female ghost¡¯s name just now, what is her name Dong?¡± Uncle Li said: ¡°Dong?, a very special name, I heard that she is also a very special girl, but¡­ alas.¡± Turning around and seeing He Jianfei still looking dazed, he took his hand. On the palm of his hand, he wrote it stroke by stroke. ¡°Dong?, Dong?, Dong?¡­¡± He Jianfei ignored Old Man Li beside him, and just lowered his head and muttered in thought. Uncle Li looked at him strangely, and was about to ask what was wrong. He Jianfei suddenly stiffened his neck, frowned, and his eyes suddenly shone. Before Old Man Li could ask a question, he heard him say calmly: ¡°I think I have already guessed the riddle of that strange poem.¡± ¡°What? Really!¡± Hearing this, Old Man Li forgot that he was nearly eighty years old, slapped his thigh hard, and stood up suddenly: ¡°What did you guess? Tell me!!¡± He Jianfei said: ¡°I¡¯m just making a random guess, and it doesn¡¯t make sense for you to say it. Just now you said that the female ghost¡¯s name is Dong? Since the strange poem came out because of her death, it must be related to her name. In the past, the first two sentences of the poem were easily solved. Cherry blossoms are dancing, and cherry blossoms are everywhere, but Japan is the most prosperous, and Japanese cherry blossoms often bloom first in winter, so it may be assumed that the answer to the first sentence is the word ¡°winter¡± And the connection between the second sentence and the second word of the name is very obvious, the road is covered with grass, the road is blocked by grass, that is to say, the grass is laid on top of the road, which is either just or¡¯ Is the font of ?¡¯?¡± Uncle Li nodded and said: ¡°At that time, some people said that the first two lines of the poem represented ¡®Winter?¡¯, but because no one could guess the latter line, we thought it was wrong.¡± He Jianfei said: ¡± Compared with the following verses, the first two lines are relatively simple. The latter lines are difficult to guess independently, but if you understand the hints of the first and second lines, it will be easier to decipher.¡± Uncle Li was surprised Said: ¡°Hint? This is the first time I¡¯ve heard that a riddle has a hint to the following.¡± He Jianfei said: ¡°Actually, it¡¯s not really, because it doesn¡¯t imply the answer, but the method of solving the riddle. It can be found that the puzzle-solving method used in the first sentence is not the same as that in the second sentence¡­¡± Before he finished speaking, Old Man Li suddenly realized: ¡°That is to say, what Ah Qiang wants to express is that the whole poem cannot be solved as a poem. It can be solved with a method of solving the puzzle.¡± He Jianfei smiled and said: ¡°Yes, the correct method of solving the puzzle is to hit the mouse randomly, whichever one you encounter.¡± ¡°Love for Christ, the most famous representation of Christ is the cross where Jesus was crucified, the cross with a series of words tied is the word ¡®sao¡¯; pity me in this life, life is miserable, it is the word ¡®life¡¯. The last sentence is harder to guess, I just almost recited it as ¡°Luo Shen Fu ¡± once, but still couldn¡¯t find any word that could match with the other words. So I wondered if Ah Qiang had used a method that went against the norm of puzzle solving. Luoshen is obviously in Luoshui, but why did she go to West Lake? What does West Lake have to do with King Xiang¡¯s deep affection Such a bull¡¯s head does not match the horse¡¯s mouth, if I were to use it instead, then I would want to express only one meaning ¨C the world is in chaos.¡± ¡°What?¡± Uncle Li hadn¡¯t figured it out yet, he was talking about Dong? Why did he have something to do with the word again? He Jianfei said: ¡°If the sky is in chaos, there will be visions. Isn¡¯t this the favorite exaggeration in ¡°The Romance of the Three Kingdoms?¡±1. For King Xiang Cao Zhi, it doesn¡¯t have much practical significance for him. Cao Pi forced his brother to write poems.¡± The moment when he was really in chaos, it represented the complete end of Cao Zhi¡¯s carefree literary career. From this I thought of the famous seven-step poem, do you still remember which word the poem ended with?¡± The old man blurted out: ¡°Is it the ¡®ji¡¯ lake? What does West Lake have to do with King Xiang¡¯s love? This is not right. If I use it instead, then there is only one meaning I want to express-the world is in chaos .¡± Old Man Li shouted: ¡°It¡¯s the word ¡¯urgent¡¯.¡±He Jianfei sighed: ¡°This is the mystery of Senior Ah Qiang: winter?¡±Injustice, desperate for life!¡± As soon as the mystery came out, it exploded in Uncle Li¡¯s mind like a shattering stone, and scenes of long-standing but extremely familiar scenes instantly flashed in front of him: winter?The death, everyone¡¯s panic, Ah Qiang¡¯s indifference, the calmness of the twenty-three classmates, it turned out that all the strange things that could not be explained were hidden in these six words.It was easy for Old Man Li to wake up from his memory. He looked at He Jianfei, who was standing quietly beside him and watching him without saying a word, and pulled the corners of his mouth slightly and said, ¡°The answer to the mystery is really difficult to solve. We were also considered a hidden dragon and a tiger back then. There are not a few shrewd people¡­¡± He Jianfei thought for a while, and he already knew what Old Man Li wanted to say. , Interrupted: ¡°When I was still studying at master¡¯s place, I liked to play with the big brothers and the others guessing the mystery. Later, in order to win, the mystery became more and more tricky.¡± Old Man Li saw that He Jianfei understood what he meant so quickly. His ingenuity was no less than Ah Qiang. It was natural to guess the mystery. Once the doubts were solved, he smiled faintly and left it alone. He Jianfei took out a blank piece of paper to write down the mystery, took a closer look and said, ¡°It should be correct.The whole point of the mystery lies in the word ¡®urgent¡¯. What Senior Ah Qiang left behind was not only a serious warning to everyone, but also the biggest key to uncovering the inside story of the whole thing.With this word alone, you can determine it was definitely not because of some misdiagnosis of cancer that she hanged herself. Her death is definitely related to all the classmates in their class. So, Dong?The fact that there is a secret in her death has finally been confirmed.¡±Speaking of this, He Jianfei sighed for a long time. That breath was not only a relief to crack the strange poem, but also a worry that Ah Qiang had taken such a tortuous approach to warn everyone .That symbolizes that there are really some inside stories that cannot be told on the haunting spectre road. He Jianfei asked Old Man Li again about ¡°Jun Pawn¡± and ¡°Ting Pawn¡±. Old man Li was at a loss. He Jianfei thought that since Ah Qiang¡¯s death, he must have been heartbroken and away from the campus. Naturally, he couldn¡¯t know that the legend of the haunting spectre road had been changed several times and gradually distorted its true appearance. I¡¯m afraid it will take 54 years for the cadres of the student union to know about this matter.The clue came to an end here. He Jianfei handed the white paper in his hand to Uncle Li and said, ¡°The injustice is actually not difficult to solve. What is difficult to solve is that it has taken more than 50 years.Although basically all the people who know the inside story of the matter have gone, I believe that Senior Ah Qiang will never be willing to let this big event go from unknown to sink down. At that time, he must have been forced by some special reason to record the truth in a rather obscure and tortuous way, but no one could find it at that time, so it gradually evolved into the situation it is today.¡± Old Man Li nodded and said, ¡°I understand, ¡®Unlock the bell and return it to the bellman¡¯. Although the ins and outs of the whole matter cannot be known in detail, Ah Qiang must have left clues somewhere. I will look into it carefully. I know all those old cadres.¡± He Jianfei smiled and said, ¡°As expected of the campus duos¡¯.¡± Uncle Li sighed and said: ¡°There is no need to mention this title again. After Aqiang dies, the ¡®campus duo¡¯ will disappear forever in this world.¡± Aqiang¡¯s death seems to have nothing to do with Uncle Li, but why did Uncle Li do so sentimental? Could it be that there is something else going on here? Seeing that old man Li just stared in the direction of Yuangui Road and said nothing, He Jianfei had no choice but to keep silent no matter how many questions he had. For a long time, there was a faint sound from a distance that indicated the prosperity of the school. The simple and elegant melody solemnly spread over this long-forgotten corner, mixed with the moaning of the surrounding woods, forming a unique scenery. Uncle Li looked up to the sky and murmured: ¡°This song should only exist in the world, how many times can we hear it in the sky? This poem should be dropped.¡± He Jianfei was thinking that the school celebration had already begun. If someone saw me and Li The old man is here, and he doesn¡¯t know how to lie when he is asked, and he also remembered Tian Yinzhen, so he said to Old Man Li: ¡°The school celebration has already started, and someone from the school will come over at any time. If they want to ask why we are here, it is difficult to answer.¡± , let¡¯s go there.¡± Old Uncle Li nodded, and left the desolate place along with He Jianfei. I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s God¡¯s destiny or if one of them did it on purpose. They just passed the bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen on the way to the square. The warm sunlight cast a few streaks of golden light on the back of the bronze statue. With a colorful illusion, it looks extremely magnificent and gorgeous. Uncle Li couldn¡¯t help staring at it deeply. In his mind, the bronze statue was no longer just a bronze statue, but a monument that had not been engraved with an inscription on the tomb of his close friends when he was young. ¡°Ah Qiang, you have been dead for more than 50 years. This time, I will definitely let you rest in peace.¡± As soon as the words fell, there was a slight sound of a woman crying from the direction of the haunting spectre road, and the two looked at each other. Smile aside, trying to hide a trace of horror on his face, but the steps that can¡¯t lie are getting faster and faster¡­ ¡°He Jianfei, what the hell are you doing? You were told to pick up someone, where did you go to play? Yo, who is that behind you? You still have the guts to kidnap an old schoolmate for me?¡± Chairman He saw that He Jianfei had disappeared for a long time. He immediately ran over angrily and questioned him. What is behaving positively? He Jianfei actually still refused to join the student union. He Jianfei was taken aback by his menacing aura, and was hesitating how to introduce him, when Old Man Li said, ¡°Oh, my surname is He, and I¡¯m from the 54th class.¡± Chairman He immediately put on a smiling face and said: ¡°It turned out to be Uncle He. I am the current chairman of the student union, and my surname is also He. It is true that we belonged to the same family five hundred years ago. Hehe, I¡¯m sorry, I didn¡¯t do my job well. An unqualified personnel picked you up and dropped you off, making you late for the school celebration.¡± Having said that, he felt that what he said was a bit nondescript, so I turned to He Jianfei and said angrily, ¡°Say! How did you receive Uncle He? If you can¡¯t tell, you will be deducted five points from your overall review.¡± He Jianfei made up an excuse in a hurry: ¡°He¡­he has no one to meet him, and there are not enough people, so he got lost.¡± ¡°How about you?¡± ¡°Cough, that¡­ I¡¯m lost too. How about meeting him?¡± Seeing He Jianfei timidly looking at Chairman He¡¯s bubbly eyes distorted by excessive anger, he thought of He Jianfei deciphering the strange poem just now. Uncle Li finally couldn¡¯t hold back his high spirits during the puzzle, and laughed with a ¡°ha¡±, and the haze in his heart was temporarily swept away. Since old man Li left, He Jianfei has really relaxed a lot. After all, he had found a clue to follow. The 51-year-old ¡°Junzu¡± and ¡°Tingzu¡± committed suicide not far from Dong? There is a great connection, perhaps once the mystery of Dong?¡¯s suicide is solved, the truth of ¡°Junzu¡± and ¡°Tingzu¡± will be solved. Thinking of this, He Jianfei slowly put the matter down and waited intently for news from Old Man Li, but the strange thing was that there was no news from Old Man Li for two consecutive months. He didn¡¯t know if it was because he was disturbed by the matter with Old Uncle Li, but there was no movement. He Jianfei made dozens of phone calls irritably, but there was always that gentle female voice on Uncle Li¡¯s mobile phone: ¡°Sorry, the person you dialed is temporarily unavailable, please call again later.¡± He Jianfei intuitively felt that something was wrong, However, due to the approaching final exams and heavy review tasks, he had to suppress the idea of going out for the time being and prepare seriously. After all, the final exams have passed, and the school has already started the winter vacation. Because the last one is the English test, He Jianfei used all the review time to make plans for the winter vacation. He went to find out where old man Li had gone, went to the Wutai Mountain to ask the root cause and asked his brother to go down the mountain for help, and went to investigate. the president of the student union in 1951. A whole sheet of eight-fold white paper was arranged densely, even the New Year¡¯s Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year were not spared. Today is the day before the winter vacation, and tomorrow they can take the train to Mount Wutai. The luggage was packed a few days ago, and most of the people in the class went out to play wildly. He Jianfei reviewed the commonly used mantras, felt disturbed, glanced at the empty bed next to him, and remembered the face dripping with blood. He couldn¡¯t help but secretly sighed. He put away the mantra, took out the divination card secretly passed down in Mount Wutai, and prepared to calculate what time Yinzi would call. After He Jianfei lined up, he began to chant a mantra to the main card: ¡°The wisdom of all things, the origin¡­¡± Before he finished speaking, the cards around the main card began to move, and the speed was getting faster and faster. He Jianfei stared at the mantra book for a moment, and his spirit lifted. It turned out that this set of divination cards secretly handed down from Wutai Mountain had its own independent will and was not controlled by the owner. It finds that there is something that needs to be told to the owner first, so it will make another prediction regardless of the owner¡¯s request. Firstly, He Jianfei doesn¡¯t like divination, and secondly, divination cards seldom automatically predict non-extraordinary major changes, so He Jianfei has only heard that divination cards have this function from his master, and now seeing that it is as true as in the legend, he can¡¯t help but put down the mantra book, watching with great interest. After a period of rapid and dizzying movement, the divination cards finally stopped moving, and each card returned to the original semi-circular shape of eight trigrams. He Jianfei was a little surprised to see that the main card had moved to the outermost layer. One by one, big and small, he said: ¡°The left head is a green dragon, the right head is a white tiger, and the middle axis is a red bird¡­¡± Suddenly, He Jianfei was so startled that the cards in his hand scattered all over the ground, and his body became stiff and motionless. The hexagram in front of him is so familiar, could it be¡­ Could it be that what he calculated was a hexagram of great ominous omen that he had never seen before and only heard of its name! He Jianfei hurriedly disrupted the cards array, but his body was still trembling because of the fright. He compared the order of the hexagrams in his memory with the current deck of cards ¨C exactly the same! He Jianfei¡¯s heart felt as if it had fallen into a ten-thousand-year ice cellar, and the master¡¯s words explaining this hexagram of great omens sounded in his ears: ¡°This list is a sign of great omens, and when this sign appears, the god of death is coming, and the road to hell is unstoppable. ¡° ¡°The god of death is coming¡­the god of death is coming¡­are you talking about me or Yinzi?¡± He Jianfei was already in a state of confusion, stood up and muttered to himself. Suddenly there was a strange noise in the dormitory, as if some metal objects were rubbing against each other, He Jianfei¡¯s face changed drastically, and he hurriedly scanned the surroundings of the dormitory, but there was no movement. He Jianfei hurriedly lowered his head, just in time to see a faint black shadow shaking slightly on the pile of chaotic cards. Soul Bell! He Jianfei recognized the shadow almost at first glance. Sure enough, the soul calling bell hanging at the corner of the bed was shaking gently, and the sound was the result of the collision between the pendant inside and the wall of the bell. In order to serve as a warning and scare, the Soul Calling Bell has always been made of pure gold or pure copper, and it emits different piercing sounds depending on the severity of the evil ghost. Why is it acting so cautiously tonight? Before He Jianfei could figure out the problem, there was a horrific cry from outside: ¡°No! Ah¡ª¡± He Jianfei froze at the window as if he had turned into a sculpture. It came from the direction of the ghost road! The dormitories on both sides suddenly became chaotic, and many hurried steps ran out the door. People began to ask in surprise: ¡°What happened?¡± ¡°I heard screams.¡± ¡°Call the security department quickly.¡± There was panic and chaos. There was no movement for two months¡­ Today is not the last day of the winter vacation, nor is it the first day¡­ Today is the day before He Jianfei leaves¡­ Today the ghost killed someone. Demonstration! Haunting spectre road is protesting against him! He Jianfei felt his blood rushing up, and his whole body trembled slightly due to the interweaving of complex emotions. He rushed to the drawer, took out the relic necklace and put it on his head, and rushed out of the dormitory door as if flying. Seeing that he was about to rush out of the building, Huang Dakai quickly pulled him back: ¡°Where are you going? There was a scream from there just now, you didn¡¯t hear it¡­¡± He Jianfei shook his hand suddenly, pushing Huang Dakai staggeringly back a few steps , said viciously: ¡°Don¡¯t stop me!¡± Then he disappeared in a flash. Huang Dakai stopped in his tracks, touched the wrist that had been scratched by He Jianfei just now: ¡°Since Chuanxun died, he has become weird. Is it the same as that neurotic brother? ¡°Thinking of this, he couldn¡¯t help shrinking his heart. Last month, that senior brother hanged himself from a small tree next to the audio-visual building. It is said that before he died, he murmured something like ¡°Xiaofang, I can¡¯t live alone¡± He Jianfei didn¡¯t eat or drink for a day after watching the scene. Before the first half of this year, six people died in the school, far exceeding the record of previous years. Huang Dakai suddenly remembered that he had heard vaguely a few days ago. According to others, there is a very evil legend in this school ¨C the legend of the haunting spectre road¡­ 1* ¨C Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a 14th-century historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong. It is set in the turbulent years towards the end of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history, starting in 184 AD and ending with the reunification of the land in 280 by Western Jin. The novel is based primarily on the Records of the Three Kingdoms (Èý‡øÖ¾), written by Chen Shou. CH 6 Expert There is still the same towering wood forest next to it; the same weeds are deep, and the same moonlight shines brightly on the top. As the outline of the e-education building becomes clearer and clearer, the atmosphere next to it slowly becomes weird, and the moonlight gradually turns pale. There seems to be something in the surrounding air that is constantly flowing, and the crow¡¯s cry also increases. Is it an illusion? Or is this the real road to haunting spectre road?He Jianfei had no time to figure it out. He had already run to the intersection at the fastest speed in his life, rushed in without hesitation, and shouted, ¡°I¡¯m already here; don¡¯t hurt people anymore!¡± Before the voice landed, He Jianfei was already startled. Through the bleak moonlight, he could tell that there was a corpse lying on the ground, bleeding profusely, with his eyes protruding and his mouth wide open, and his face was full of horror. Zhang Chuanxun died on the main school road; his senior brother died on a small tree by the road. Now the body appeared on top of the hill. The haunting spectre road eventually begins to take on life.Sure enough, it was a demonstration! Is he already one step late? ¡°No!¡± He Jianfei was extremely shocked and yelled out, ¡°You just want to lure me out.¡± I am already here. Why do you want to kill one more life? Dong, come out to see me! ¡°No matter how deep your hatred is, can¡¯t a group of twenty-three lives be worth it?¡± The surroundings were quiet, and there was no sound at all, except occasionally a whimper of branches and leaves from the ancient trees next to it. He Jianfei saw something shiny in the distance, which seemed to be a silver-plated lighter. of the deceased? He Jianfei thought, and he stepped forward to pick it up to take a closer look. Suddenly, a bloodless white hand stretched out from the grass next to him and picked up the lighter one step faster than He Jian. He Jianfei was taken aback and quickly retracted his hand. At this moment, a gust of wind blew, poking away the grass covering the white hands. He Jianfei took a deep breath and staggered two steps in an instant. Behind that white hand¡ªthe white hand that touched the lighter but let go¡ªwas just a lonely broken arm, slowly touching on the strange moonlight path, touching¡­ all the way to He Jianfei¡¯s feet. Breaking out in a cold sweat, He Jianfei, who was almost completely unconscious, woke up suddenly, and at the moment when the white hand was about to touch his feet, he jumped back. Ghost Qi coming directly from the netherworld? He Jianfei¡¯s mind was undecided, and the white hand still swam slowly towards him. Disturbing the mind with fear and then taking the opportunity to kill is the usual method of killing people on the road of injustice. He Jianfei hurriedly leaped back a few steps and opened his windbreaker, and the relic necklace that was already about to move inside suddenly glowed with gold. There was a strange ¡°squeak¡± in the grass, and the white hands turned into a puff of white smoke and disappeared. The crisis has been eliminated. He Jianfei barely calmed down, but his feet still trembled without listening to the instructions. He has followed his master for so many years and has seen tens of thousands of ghosts, but he has never been as shocked as this time. His heart was completely numb for a period of time, and he was almost killed. Just after escaping from that white hand, He Jianfei felt the chill behind him again, and his whole body trembled involuntarily. Turning his head slowly, he could see something out of the corner of his eyes.A suspended white shadow stood in the dense grass, with long hair covering his face. He was rickety and stood about 2 metres away from He Jianfei, but the voice was as clear as it was against his ears: ¡°My life can be reached by twenty-three people; my hate, I will never be able to pay it off!¡± He Jianfei stood dumbfounded; those two words seemed to have magic power, and they surrounded his ears endlessly. Dong? Has the hatred reached this point? What happened to their class that year¡ªwhat big event could make a weak woman make such a big determination to never be reborn, preferring to become an endless horror legend? He Jianfei looked down at the relic necklace, surrounded by golden auras, knowing that the ghost aura here is deep. Although the relic necklace is powerful, I am afraid it can only last for fifteen minutes. But he really wanted to know the inside story of the twists and turns of the year. He twisted his neck and wanted to turn his head to talk to Dong. Speaking positively and afraid of provoking Dong?, I didn¡¯t bring any powerful magic weapons, and I had no chance of winning. For a long time, he took a deep breath and tried to stabilise his tone: ¡°I don¡¯t know how deep your hatred is, but I believe that even deeply rooted fateful chakras can be solved, not to mention hatred; it¡¯s just the degree of difficulty.¡± I advised Dong. In a word, when you turn back, you must not harm people¡¯s lives and aggravate your own sins; otherwise, it will be difficult to exceed even if you come in person! There was a faint laugh from behind: ¡°Fate?¡± It turned out that the first disciple of the famous Buddhist family in the magic world also thought that this was just fate. He Jianfei raised his eyebrows. ¡°Since you know that I am a person from the world of magic, are you not afraid that I will ask for help in the future to break you into the 18th layer of hell and never be reborn?¡± ¡°Enemies should be resolved rather than knotted. I don¡¯t think you don¡¯t understand this truth.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t understand.¡± I don¡¯t care anymore, a few more people and a few fewer people are not the same, as long as it is a person, I will kill. Since mine is fate, then the death of all people is a continuation of this fate.¡±There is no greater mourning than death, Dong? Already the heart is like a wood, there is no madness, no paranoia, no cruelty, only plainness as always, is this the most grief-stricken realm? He Jianfei had goosebumps in his hand, he originally thought that he could suppress her with a relic necklace, but now it seems that she has been suppressing him. What happened ahead? Who speaks inside? A little yellow light flashed at the intersection, and He Jianfei was shocked and hurriedly shouted, ¡°Don¡¯t come in; there is a¡­¡± The fierce wind suddenly rose, blowing up the loess and gravel in the sky as well as those rotting blades of grass, and rushing towards the intersection like a tornado. ¡°Dong?!¡± He Jianfei pushed aside the sand desperately, ran towards the intersection with difficulty, and shouted hoarsely, ¡°Stop, Dong.¡± Stop, Dong! In any case, it¡¯s a dispute between Ah Qiang¡¯s generation and you. You don¡¯t want to repay it again and again! Stop¡ª¡ª¡± The wind stopped suddenly. ¡°Bang dang¡± is the sound of a flashlight falling. He Jianfei stopped and stayed there, and in front of his eyes, a familiar face looked at him with a shocked expression, looking very shocked and disbelieving at him. It is the student union cadre, Xiaozheng. Two lines of thick and viscous blood flowed out from the eye sockets, and the pupils burst with blood because of the instant dilation, and a body that was once as strong as a cow fell down little by little in front of him. He Jianfei¡¯s blood was cold from head to toe, and he knew that it was not him whom Xiao Zheng saw, was shocked by, and did not believe¡ªbecause Xiao Zheng was already dead at that time! The strong wind had subsided long ago, the white shadow had disappeared, and the surroundings became quiet again, as if nothing had happened, no one had died, and no ghosts haunted. He Jianfei¡¯s legs gave way, and he kneeled beside the corpse. For the first time in my life, he felt so useless. What does it mean to subdue demons and save all living beings? I have learned a lot of spells, just to see how a living person dies in front of me. Now I feel exhausted physically and mentally, and I don¡¯t know whether what I did is right or wrong. ¡°Dong, what happened back then?¡± ¡°It made you hate humans so much?!¡± He Jianfei yelled to the sky, full of grief and indignation, but the only answer he received was the rubbing sound of the grass next to him. The endless, boring questioning at the police station, the astonishing hatred of Dong Yu, and those bleeding eyes made He Jianfei unable to calm down. He looked at the newspaper but couldn¡¯t read anything, so he looked at the scenery outside, but he didn¡¯t know if it was the effect of psychological hints. The trees moving back quickly looked like they were walking on the path of evil spirits. He Jianfei simply closed his eyes and rested his mind. Tian Yinzhen saw that he hadn¡¯t said a word since he got on the train, so she naturally knew what was wrong with him. At this time, she didn¡¯t persuade him, and he didn¡¯t persuade her. She was anxious for a while, and when he closed his eyes and planned to sleep, she was stunned for a long time. Knowing that persuasion was not enough, she took out the information on the Haunting Spectre Road that she had sorted out. Anyway, the time for the train to Wutai Mountain is still early. The rumbling sound kept ringing, and the depressing atmosphere gradually dissipated in the train carriage. Two hours had passed because the relationship between the trains had been temporarily suspended many times without reason. Some people on the train began to be dissatisfied, and the sounds of complaints, conversations, guesses, and questions and answers began to fill the entire train chaotically. Tian Yinzhen put down the information in her hand, looked at the restless crowd around her, and sighed softly; this naturally could not escape her. He Jianfei, who was actually sleeping but had closed his eyes to nourish his mind, sat up all of a sudden and said to Tian Yinzhen, ¡°Found something wrong?¡± Tian Yinzhen was startled and said with a smile: ¡°Well, you are a handsome man; you have been pretending to sleep, but I was deceived by you.¡± Talking about the information in my hand, she said: ¡°After reading it for two hours, I finally saw some clues.¡± I sorted out a few big doubts, hoping to help our search. He Jianfei smiled and said, ¡°I just thought about it for two hours, and I came up with many big doubts.¡± Tian Yinzhen ¡°That¡¯s right, let me tell you first; let me see if it matches what you want.¡± He clapped her hands and laughed. Seeing He Jianfei nod, Tian Yinzhen began to snap her fingers and said, ¡°The first point is the suspicion of Dong Yu¡¯s death. According to legend, Dong Yu committed suicide because she was misdiagnosed as having cancer. This is already proven to be incorrect. The real cause of death was the doctor¡¯s fault, and the classmates in the class should not be blamed. Therefore, the first doubt is introduced. It was due to a classmate who died unjustly but spread the erroneous cause of death. What was the motive? Why did people believe this at the time? The second point is Ah Qiang¡¯s death. Including Dong Yu, twenty-three students in the class committed suicide. However, Ah Qiang¡¯s method of death was unique. From the attitude of the police station and the narration of Old Man Li, it can be seen that people thought that Ah Qiang¡¯s death was a homicide at that time. Judging from the existing information, Ah Qiang¡¯s use of the Sanhua body protection technique also showed from another aspect that he could not commit suicide. Therefore, there is a second doubt: why did all the classmates commit suicide, but Ah Qiang desperately wanted to save his life? Was it because of Ah Qiang¡¯s failure to save his life that other classmates had to commit suicide? The third point is the time for a forced movement. According to the janitor¡¯s uncle, Ah Qiang went out once at two or three o¡¯clock in the evening. The specific time of Ah Qiang¡¯s death was not mentioned in Uncle Li¡¯s narrative. This can be seen as evidence that the time for forensic identification and reporting at that time was not far from the time of Ah Qiang¡¯s death, but according to the habits of ordinary people, it is omitted. But it was strange that Uncle Li didn¡¯t mention when Ah Qiang came back. Because it is of great significance to infer the specific time when Ah Qiang had an accident in the dormitory, it is impossible to omit it because of some habit, so what is the reason why the shrewd old man Li didn¡¯t pay attention to this time either? ¡°This is the third doubt.¡± After speaking, a pair of bright eyes looked at He Jianfei, waiting for his response. He Jianfei was listening with relish, and when he saw Tian Yinzhen stop, knowing that she had finished speaking, he smiled and said, ¡°I will answer your third doubt first.¡± You also know the art of Sanhua body protection. Only three stones are enough. If he went out just to find the three stones, then he didn¡¯t need to go too far; maybe he had already gotten them by the door, so he wouldn¡¯t leave for more than a minute. That¡¯s why Old Man Li didn¡¯t mention it. The focus is only on the fact that she is leaving. From the perspective of the process, leaving like this is equivalent to not leaving, and nothing can be done in just a few minutes. With such reverse reasoning, it is possible to infer the time when Ah Qiang came back. Now there are only two doubts left. It seems that it is not very good-looking if it is missing. ¡°Let me make up a few more.¡± ¡°Make? ¡± Tian Yinzhen didn¡¯t know whether to laugh or cry. ¡°Then what are the doubts you made up?¡± Ah Qiang went out once at two or three o¡¯clock in the evening. This is what the janitor said. If the school¡¯s work and rest system has not changed much, according to our current dormitory opening time of 5:30 in the morning, no matter how early Ah Qiang was in that era, it would not be earlier than 5:00. So what was Uncle doing at two or three o¡¯clock? Undoubtedly, he is sleeping. So how did he know that Ah Qiang was out? This can only be explained by the fact that Ah Qiang woke him up when he opened the door. He looked at his watch because there was no light in the room and the pointer was blurred. He couldn¡¯t tell whether it was two or three o¡¯clock, so he said it was two or three o¡¯clock. Then the issue surfaced. ¡°Who exactly is the person who went out?¡± Tian Yinzhen exclaimed, ¡°Isn¡¯t it already confirmed that it is Ah Qiang?¡± Only the president of the student council has the key. Uncle Li is from a different campus, and he definitely doesn¡¯t live in the same building. He Jianfei said, ¡°Yes, but the key is dead, and anyone can get it.¡± There is no strong evidence to prove that the person who went out was Ah Qiang. Maybe Ah Qiang didn¡¯t leave the room by half a step that night. Those three small stones can be prepared during the day. Tian Yinzhen looked blankly at He Jianfei¡¯s serious face and said in a daze, ¡°Although¡­ the possibility you mentioned exists, I think this possibility is minimal and it¡¯s a dead end.¡± At that time, the situation was urgent, so Ah Qiang had to temporarily go out to find a stone to cast the Sanhua body protection. He Jianfei said: ¡°After listening to the fourth doubt, you will know whether the connection is big or not.¡± As you said, according to the current situation, Ah Qiang was killed. A few days after his death, the whole class committed suicide in batches. What does this mean? He and the whole class had this premeditation a long time ago. In other words, the whole class knew that he might die. There was no movement in the dormitory on the night of Ah Qiang¡¯s accident, nor did it alarm anyone. The people in their dormitory had expected him to die. In that case, what do you need Sanhua body protection for? Ah Qiang naturally had his intentions, unless¡­ Tian Yinzhen¡¯s whole body trembled suddenly; she almost jumped up and said, ¡°I see, you suspect that Ah Qiang used this method to imply that his roommate poisoned him to death!¡± He Jianfei quickly looked around; only a few people who were napping glanced away, dissatisfied with Tian Yinzhen¡¯s sudden shout, and no one paid attention to them. He turned his head and said vaguely, ¡°Anyway, I think that the importance of the people who went out in the middle of the night cannot be ignored.¡± This shocking discovery suddenly made the whole incident even more confusing. Judging from the note left by Ah Qiang, the whole class was about to commit suicide. He knew it and might have planned it, but now the whole class is working together to poison him to death. Is there a united front in Ah Qiang¡¯s class? It would be unreasonable to deliberately kill Ah Qiang to relieve Dong¡¯s grievances, not to mention that it is impossible to confirm Ah Qiang and Dong now. Tian Yinzhen was thinking of one head and two big ones, while He Jianfei closed his eyes again, not knowing whether it was a fake sleep or a real sleep. There was a sudden commotion at the other end of the carriage. Tian Yinzhen was feeling bored, so she got up and wanted to take a look, only to hear a loud voice say, ¡°You don¡¯t buy a ticket and force yourself to squeeze up and occupy my seat; how can there be such a reason?¡± An old man walked over tremblingly on crutches and said, ¡°I¡¯m not in good health, and I get dizzy when I stand all the time.¡± ¡°Old man, please sit here.¡± Tian Yinzhen was startled. He Jianfei had stood up at some point and smiled at the old man with laziness: ¡°I happen to be tired from sitting, and I want to walk around.¡± Only then did Tian Yinzhen come to her senses. She also smiled and helped the old man to the seat, where she let him sit down. The old man sat down securely. Seeing that He Jianfei was about to leave, he hurriedly shouted, ¡°Little boy, don¡¯t go; chat with me.¡± ¡°I have nothing in common with the girl.¡± Tian Yinhao smiled ¡°puff,¡± and He Jianfei had no choice but to come back. The old man smiled and said, ¡°The old man smiled and said, ¡°The two little ones are so enthusiastic, I am too embarrassed to be here shamelessly.¡± ¡°Seeing that you seem to be full of sorrow, tell me what is on your mind.¡± He Jianfei smiled and said, ¡°You are too worried; we are just sleepy; what is there to worry about?¡± It is right to respect the elders; why are you so polite? Just sit down.¡± The old man looked at He Jianfei¡¯s whole body and said, with a smile, ¡°That¡¯s true.¡± You two were hunted down by a fierce ghost. ¡°In all, I have lost money sitting here.¡± He Jianfei and Tian Yinzhen¡¯s faces changed drastically when they heard the words, ¡°Why would you¡­ The old man interrupted them with a wave of his hand: ¡°Is this still worth it?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not easy to see.¡± ¡°What are you doing with a relic necklace?¡± The relic necklace is a treasure of the Wutai Mountain Buddhist Sect. Only a few big sects know about this and the function of the necklace, so He Jianfei dared to wear it openly. Who knew that he was actually seen through by this old man? He Jianfei hurriedly gathered his face and asked in a low voice, ¡°May I ask the senior¡¯s Dharma name or Dao name?¡± ¡°The younger disciples, He Jianfei and Tian Yinzhen, would like to see you.¡± The old man said, ¡°It¡¯s not necessary; I have no relationship with you; and I don¡¯t help people catch ghosts.¡± ¡°What are you telling people for no reason?¡± I just came here to remind you when I saw the two people with bad luck just now. He Jianfei could only say: ¡°Then, according to the senior, what is the power of this ghost?¡± ¡°Is there any way to resolve it?¡± The old man smiled and said, ¡°Under the world, it is an eternal truth that only one thing can overcome another.¡± ¡°There is no invincible king in the world; the key is to see if you have the heart.¡± He Jianfei knew that he had met an expert and respectfully said, ¡°Senior, please teach me what it means to have a heart.¡± The old man waved his hand and said, ¡°How do I know if you have a heart?¡± ¡°I¡¯m not the roundworm in your stomach.¡± ¡°Wutai Mountain Station has arrived.¡± A cheerful female voice sounded. The old man laughed and said, ¡°It¡¯s time for you two to get down.¡± I won¡¯t take this seat. ¡°See you later.¡± He Jianfei and Tian Yinzhen looked at each other, and after a long while, they had to bow and say, ¡°Then this junior will get down first.¡± ¡°Senior, please take care.¡± ¡°Remember, young man, as long as you have the heart, you can definitely break the haunting spectre road,¡± they said as they got out of the car, turning around to see the old man still happily waving his hands.He Jianfei was shocked. ¡°What?¡± Do you know about the spectral road? ¡°Wait a minute, please tell me¡­¡± The two had no choice but to stand on the platform, wondering. Tian Yinzhen said, ¡°Why does he know the haunting spectre road?¡± ¡°I thought about it for a long time, but I really can¡¯t think of which faction he is from.¡± He Jianfei said thoughtfully, ¡°Maybe he¡¯s an expert who came here to give advice, but it¡¯s a pity that I don¡¯t know the name of the senior.¡± ¡°Forget it, let¡¯s go to Mount Wutai first; maybe my senior brother knows.¡± CH 7 Buddhist abbot At this time, Wutai Mountain had already been capped by heavy snow.The accumulated snow was piled thickly on the stretched body of the pine tree, and as soon as the wind blew, it all flew down and got into the warm back of the neck, making people very annoyed. Although the snow has stopped, there are still flying flakes everywhere, melting, not melting, deformed, not deformed; even if it is a small gust of wind, it can be fun to rotate, blocking people¡¯s progress. Icicles hang everywhere, as hard as a master¡¯s iron knife, so you can poke it hard if you¡¯re not paying attention.Tian Yinzhen had just suffered from an icy pain, and her shoulders were faintly painful. Upon seeing this, He Jianfei stepped forward and put Tian Yinzhen in his arms. They couldn¡¯t help but feel bad that they hadn¡¯t taken a shortcut to get here.It may take less time to walk the clean avenue. After finally walking out of the trail with one foot deep and one shallow foot, I finally saw the mountain gate and the winding and clean main road. The two couldn¡¯t help but get excited and quicken their pace. ¡°Report, He¡­¡± Seeing that it was He Jianfei and Tian Yinzhen, the little novice guarding the door, he dared not be negligent and hurriedly opened his throat and called out, but He Jianfei had already sealed his mouth before he yelled. He Jianfei smiled and said, ¡°Wutai Mountain is my own home.¡± Why are you so polite about reporting it? ¡°We can just go in quietly by ourselves.¡± The little monk said vaguely: ¡°But the abbot¡­¡± Tian Yinzhen stomped her feet and turned around and said, ¡°Your uncle He naturally has a saying on the abbot¡¯s side, so don¡¯t be afraid. The current abbot of Wutai Mountain, Master Zenyue, had just finished presiding over the dharma festival in the main hall when he heard the little monk at the door scream ¡°He!¡± and there was no sound. Master Zhenyue wondered, ¡°And what?¡± Haven¡¯t you heard of a faction called He? Ah! He Jianfei! Thinking that those two were coming, he secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, and he ran away regardless of the monks in the temple who were still standing on both sides. It¡¯s a pity that He Jianfei, who happened to enter the inner door, found out and immediately ran up and chased after him. Tian Yinzhen asked the little monk a few words at the door before entering the inner door. He Jianfei was chasing behind Master Zhenyue, who was flinging himself forward with his robes up, his legs spinning like a hot wheel. There was a newcomer in the temple. The monk looked at this scene tongue-tied, couldn¡¯t help being angry and funny, and shouted: ¡°Elder brother, you are the abbot of a temple anyway, and you are running around like this; can you pay attention to your demeanor?¡± Master Zhenyue turned a deaf ear and continued to run wildly, thinking to himself, ¡°I would rather not have grace; if I am chased, I am afraid I will lose my life.¡± Tian Yinzhen shrugged and entered the main hall to greet the monks: ¡°Let¡¯s leave; don¡¯t be surprised, don¡¯t be surprised.¡± He Jianfei was panting after chasing after him. I haven¡¯t seen you for a few months, but my brother¡¯s running skills have improved so much. Could it be that he has been practicing every day since he was defeated by me last time? Why don¡¯t you try my newly developed closing strategy? The facts finally proved that He Jianfei¡¯s strategy was quite effective. Master Zhenyue was forced into the Sutra Pavilion. There were bookshelves everywhere, and there was nowhere to escape. He Jianfei caught him. He Jianfei was sweating profusely and leaned against the door to take a break. Seeing that Master Zhenyue was still struggling to climb the three-meter-high window to escape, he said, ¡°Big brother, I am your younger brother, not a man-eating tiger.¡± ¡°What are you doing when you see me running so fast?¡± Master Zhenyue panted while busy looking for a ladder: ¡°Although you are not a tiger, you are more terrifying than a tiger.¡± ¡°Tell me, when did you come to me for something good?¡± He gritted his teeth and said, ¡°It¡¯s fine for you to belittle people; you don¡¯t have to be so thorough; brothers in the same school should help each other in trouble; it¡¯s only natural for me to find you; it¡¯s reasonable.¡± ¡°Is it reasonable for me to lose my old life for you?¡± Tian Yinzhen, who just came to see the outcome of the battle, came in and interrupted: ¡°Okay, do you still have to bicker?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t even think about our reputation; Wutai Mountain will lose all face because of you.¡± The two men immediately turned outward in unison with their common enemy. Master Zhenyue reprimanded: ¡°Are you the abbot or am I?¡± ¡°I¡¯m in charge of these things; what are you talking about?¡± He Jianfei followed up and said, ¡°You might as well worry about whether you can get married or not.¡± The two finally lost to Tian Yinzhen¡¯s stunt of ¡°throwing broken pots and rotten tiles together.¡± The night was getting darker, and after the little monk had entertained He Jianfei and Tian Yinhao, he carefully walked out across the threshold with the dinner plate. Two middle-aged monks with three seals on their heads came in to greet He Jianfei and Tian Yinzhen. Since He Jianfei and Tian Yinzhen were the disciples accepted by the great master at an old age, the age difference between them and the eldest disciple, Master ZenYue, was more than 40 years old, and the two middle-aged monks who came to greet them were actually the younger generations of He Jianfei and Tian Yinzhen. ¡°Please, two uncles.¡± Seeing that someone more than twenty years older than himself had to bow to himself, He Jianfei couldn¡¯t bear it and hurriedly got up and said, ¡°Forget it, forget it.¡± ¡°I told Master that I and Yinzhen have special status, and these rules should not be so strict.¡± Master Zhenyue sat on the upper seat leisurely and said, ¡°It¡¯s a pity that Master disagrees.¡± Wutai Mountain has always attached great importance to respecting teachers and respecting Taoism. ¡°I know you are uneasy, but they seldom go out, and saluting in the temple is not very good, so they will be punished.¡± ¡°Just bear it.¡± Seeing the abbot¡¯s words, the two middle-aged monks didn¡¯t dare to be negligent and hurriedly completed the etiquette and said: ¡°I invite the abbot and the two seniors to do evening classes.¡± Master Zhenyue was about to answer, Seeing He Jianfei wink at him, Tian Yinzhen¡¯s expression was also weird; knowing that they had something secret to say, he nodded and said, ¡°You tell them that today the two masters came back from a long distance.¡± They are too tired to go. I¡¯ll talk to them. ¡°Do it yourself.¡± The two middle-aged monks quickly said, ¡°Yes.¡± They sent Master Zhenyue, He Jianfei, and Tian Yinzhen to the door of the main meditation room before retreating. Master Zhenyue sat on the futon in the kang, and seeing He Jianfei looking out through the gap after closing the door, he couldn¡¯t help laughing and saying, ¡°What are you doing? Could it be that the Third World War is about to break out? ¡°It¡¯s so shameful.¡± Tian Yinzhen sat down and said, ¡°We can¡¯t participate in the world war, but this matter does have a great relationship with our safety.¡± Master Zenyue was used to Tian Yinzhen¡¯s indifferent look, and now seeing her serious face, he leaned forward and said, ¡°What¡¯s the big deal?¡± Tian Yinzhen noticed He Jianfei still looking out the door, so she told him about the haunting spectre road. Master Zhenyue¡¯s face became more and more dignified. When he heard that Ah Qiang¡¯s Sanhua body protection technique still could not stop the coming of death, he couldn¡¯t help but let out a soft ¡°Huh.¡± He Jianfei saw that Tian Yinzhen was talking vigorously, so he didn¡¯t speak. After Tian Yinzhen finished speaking, Master Zhenyue pondered for a long time before asking, ¡°How about the power of the evil ghost?¡± He Jianfei interjected: ¡°I haven¡¯t fought her head-on, but I don¡¯t think she is afraid of the relic necklace.¡± ¡°Even the Sanhua body protection technique can be cracked, and the mana will never be low.¡± Master Zenyue pondered the words and said, ¡°She is just a ghost.¡± ¡°Even if she has been dead for more than 50 years, it is amazing to have such an ability to kill as she pleases.¡± ¡°As for the Sanhua body protection technique, judging from the situation you mentioned, there is no indication that it was indeed broken by the female ghost.¡± Tian Yinzhen and He Jianfei looked at each other and were extremely surprised by Master Zhenyue¡¯s speech for the first time in a circle. Tian Yinzhen said, ¡°The key to the female ghost¡¯s ability to possess such great mana is what happened in Ah Qiang¡¯s generation.¡± Intriguing things happened. Everyone has a deep taboo on this issue. Back then, nearly thirty people in the class were able to keep their mouths shut, so it could be seen. She shrugged her shoulders at this point, indicating that this matter was indeed extraordinary. He Jianfei heard what Master Zhenyue seemed to be saying and said, ¡°Master only told me a little bit about the Sanhua body protection technique, only that it is a very high-level body protection technique.ster Zenyue pondered the words and said, ¡°She is just a ghost.¡± ¡°Even if she has been dead for more than 50 years, it is amazing to have such an ability to kill as she pleases.¡± ¡°As for the Sanhua body protection technique, judging from the situation you mentioned, there is no indication that it was indeed broken by the female ghost.¡± Tian Yinzhen and He Jianfei looked at each other and were extremely surprised by Master Zhenyue¡¯s speech for the first time in a circle. Tian Yinzhen said, ¡°The key to the female ghost¡¯s ability to possess such great mana is what happened in Ah Qiang¡¯s generation.¡± Intriguing things happened. Everyone has a deep taboo on this issue. Back then, nearly thirty people in the class were able to keep their mouths shut, so it could be seen. She shrugged her shoulders at this point, indicating that this matter was indeed extraordinary. He Jianfei heard what Master Zhenyue seemed to be saying and said, ¡°Master only told me a little bit about the Sanhua body protection technique, only that it is a very high-level body protection technique.¡± ¡°Is it unbreakable?¡± He Jianfei asked coldly, and Tian Yinzhen was stunned, ¡°How could it be?¡± As soon as the voice fell, Master Zhenyue was startled for a moment and said hurriedly, ¡°This, Master, just said a little bit but didn¡¯t go into detail.¡± ¡°I¡¯m not very clear either.¡± ¡°I think since this kind of body protection technique has a certain history, the ancients before it should have also worked out a way to crack it.¡± While speaking, a trace of embarrassment and panic flashed in Master Zen Yue¡¯s eyes, as well as a little uneasiness. He Jianfei saw all this in his eyes, but he did not speak. The atmosphere in the room was suddenly a little weird. Master Zhenyue hurriedly cleared his throat and said, ¡°What makes me strange is another thing.¡± Sanhua body protection is a very high-level body protection technique. People who can use it must have high-strength mana. Judging from Ah Qiang¡¯s situation at the time, no matter how resentful the wronged soul was, there was absolutely no reason to suppress it. Judging from the situation you mentioned, Ah Qiang¡¯s group of people must have owed the female ghost something very important, which caused Ah Qiang to refuse to suppress it with spells and decide to commit suicide in order to eliminate injustice and relieve evil. Of course, Buddhism is compassionate, but the old monk privately believes that he has taken this step wrong. Tian Yinzhen was about to tell Master Zhenyue the doubts found on the train. Suddenly, He Jianfei gave her a blocking wink. Tian Yinzhen was inexplicable. He Jianfei had already said to Master Zhenyue, ¡°Brother, that¡¯s right.¡± But a big mistake has been made, and the most important thing is to find a way to recover it in time. There are consecutive dead people on the campus now, and people are terrified. If this continues, I¡¯m afraid. Master Zhenyue thought for a while and said, ¡°It¡¯s not impossible to suppress it now, but it¡¯s a bit troublesome.¡± There are many magic weapons in the collection on Wutai Mountain, such as the Vajra Halberd, which can knock ghosts into the 18th floor of hell to suffer or tie ghosts to the melting ghost pillar and be struck by lightning and burned, but it¡¯s too vicious. He Jianfei smiled and said, ¡°I know what you said.¡± If I wanted to do this, would I just sneak in and steal those things and still go to such great lengths to tell you? Suppression is not a cure for the symptoms. Furthermore, you are aware that the campus, as a place of book fragrance, possesses a certain spirituality in and of itself. If we suppress it like this, it will destroy our feng shui together, and I will not be able to take responsibility for bigger things. By the way, there is also a statue of Sun Yat-sen there.¡± Tian Yinzhen interjected: ¡°So we decided it¡¯s better to save her; this way it¡¯s all over and the solution is the cleanest.¡± Master Zhenyue said with a wry smile, ¡°She needs to be willing to save her.¡± ¡°Are you sure you can convince her?¡± ¡°The truth can unravel her grievances.¡± Master Zhenyue shook his head and said, ¡°The truth has been unknown for fifty years, and the truth has become a false appearance.¡± ¡°It seems that this case of haunting spectre road is unusual.¡± Seeing Master Zhenyue bowing his head in deep thought, He Jianfei hurriedly said: ¡°Yes, yes, it is indeed unusual. That¡¯s why I came to find you. Master Zhenyue took a sip of the tea and said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry.¡± Let me explain two points first: one is that I will not borrow first-class treasures, and the other is that I will not go out of the mountain. Okay, let¡¯s start talking.¡± He Jianfei immediately drank the already strong tea and said: ¡°Before I talk, I would also like to declare two points: one is that you will not borrow non-first-class treasures, and the other is that I will never go down the mountain if you do not leave the mountain.¡± Tian Yinzhen sneered and said, ¡°Then what are you talking about?¡± Just fight.¡± Master Zenyue sighed: ¡°Brother, I¡¯m already very old.¡± ¡°There are so many monks in the temple; why are you pestering me?¡± I can¡¯t hold it back; who else in this monastery is qualified to be the leader? ¡°Master told you to take good care of me before he died. ¡°If something happens to me, if I go down to see the Master, I don¡¯t know what will come out of my mouth.¡± Zhenyue was speechless immediately and scolded for a while: ¡°Apart from using the Master to suppress me, don¡¯t you have any other new tricks?¡± He Jianfei knew that he had agreed to go out of the mountain and said with a smile: ¡°There should be more, but this trick is right.¡± ¡°I¡¯m too lazy to think about it before you fail.¡± A distant bell rang outside, and the monks in the temple finished their evening class and prepared to go to the main hall to salute the abbot and then go to sleep. The sound of footsteps gradually moved from far to near. He Jianfei listened to it for a while, and it appeared to him that when the master was alive, he and Tian Yinzhen were only seven or eight years old at that time. They also pretended to be adults, wearing small custom-made cassocks and standing at the back of the team. He walked in with his hands folded in a small square step, thinking that the master would be surprised to hear a few words of praise. Who expected that when the master saw them, the grey beard shook and shook and finally couldn¡¯t help but laugh out with a ¡°puff,¡± but they couldn¡¯t do it even after they stirred up the evening class? already. In retrospect, a smile floated at the corner of He Jianfei¡¯s mouth. At this moment, Master Zhenyue¡¯s questioning awakened him: ¡°It should be almost assembled.¡± ¡°You two can go to the main hall with me.¡± Tian Yinzhen hurriedly said coquettishly, ¡°I¡¯m so tired, big brother; I want to go to bed; will you tell them that I¡¯m asleep?¡± He Jianfei said, ¡°I¡¯m going to sleep too.¡± I¡¯ll make it up when I get up in the morning. He Jianfei¡¯s second sentence is tantamount to empty words. After he returned to Wutai Mountain, he would sleep until noon and wouldn¡¯t get up. Master Zhenyue glared at him before saying to Tian Yinzhen: ¡°Well, let me tell them, but the temple has been under repair recently and the back is not repaired.¡± There is only one empty house. Jianfei should sleep with me. He Jianfei was shocked and said, ¡°What?¡± ¡°My luck won¡¯t be so bad, right?¡± Master Zhenyue has a habit of snoring when he sleeps. He and Jianfei might as well go outside to guard the door when he sleeps with him. Master Zhenyue is snickering, and He Jianfei has already begged Tian Yinzhen courteously, ¡°Shall I sleep with you?¡± The monks have already concentrated in the main hall, but the abbot has not been seen coming out. Suddenly, a long-lasting scream came from the main meditation room. At noon the next day, He Jianfei was awakened by the dazzling sunlight outside. Seeing that it was almost two o¡¯clock, he hurriedly got up, ordered the little novice to get him something to eat, and walked out of the meditation room, stretching. While watching the bonsai in the courtyard, Master Zhenyue¡¯s voice came from behind: ¡°Master He¡¯s finally willing to get up? ¡°How do you plan to make up for your evening class?¡± He Jianfei turned his head and said, dissatisfied, ¡°It¡¯s all because of you.¡± You were snoring all night; otherwise, I wouldn¡¯t have slept through lunch time. ¡°Has anyone called my cell phone?¡± Master Zhenyue said: ¡°An old man who claimed to be Li called you, but it was Yinzi who answered. Yes, I¡¯m not sure. ¡°You can ask her.¡± He Jianfei immediately guessed that it was Old Man Li, thanked him quickly, and walked towards Tian Yinzhen¡¯s room. Tian Yinzhen was playing with her braids in the room, and when she saw He Jianfei almost rush in, she smiled and said, ¡°You finally got up.¡± Uncle Li has looked for you many times. Looking at his hurried tone, he must have discovered some major secrets. ¡°Why don¡¯t you call him?¡± He Jianfei hurriedly grabbed his mobile phone and dialed back: ¡°Hey, this is He Jianfei.¡± Ah, it¡¯s Uncle Li. How about it?¡± It turns out that during this period of time, Uncle Li went to find Ah Qiang¡¯s relatives. Due to fifty years of changes, Ah Qiang¡¯s parents died. There was only Ah Qiang in his family, leaving no incense, and only some distant relatives who were scattered abroad were left. Therefore, Uncle Li tried his best to find Ah Qiang¡¯s cousin and learned a very important message from her. Ah Qiang had called back an inexplicable message three days before his death because it was too weird, so she still remembered it clearly. ¡°Dad, this summer vacation¡­ I won¡¯t go back.¡± ¡°What? What else is there to do? ¡°Why is the student union so busy?¡± ¡°No, it¡¯s from our class.¡± ¡°There is an urgent matter that needs to be settled, and the whole class will not go home.¡± ¡°What¡¯s the big deal?¡± ¡°Can it be settled in two months?¡± ¡°Two months? How can it be enough? ¡°It may never be over.¡± ¡°What? Ah Qiang, what are you talking about?¡± ¡°No, it¡¯s nothing.¡± ¡°In fact, I don¡¯t know how to end it now.¡± ¡°Hey, Ah Qiang¡­¡± ¡°I was talking nonsense, Dad. Just pretend you didn¡¯t hear it.¡± ¡°Then when are you going home?¡± ¡°It may take a long time¡­ a long time.¡± I¡¯m afraid you don¡¯t have the patience to wait any longer. Take care of yourself, Dad; Mom has entrusted you with her care. Goodbye.¡± An incomprehensible phone call ended with Ah Qiang¡¯s joke-like remark. Thinking about it now, the last sentence is clearly a farewell to the parents. Goodbye, Haunting Spectre Road, and the Netherworld; hasn¡¯t it been a long time? Do you think Ah Qiang knew that three days ago? At that time, four people in his class had died inexplicably. According to conventional logic analysis, in order not to cause more deaths, they should be suppressed as soon as possible, but the outcome was the opposite. There must be an unknown turning point in these three days. He Jianfei¡¯s thoughts became even more chaotic; the complexity of redressing his injustice for fifty years had already exceeded his ability to think. ¡°Three days¡­all suicides¡­phone calls¡­the truth¡­ He Jianfei murmured, feeling that the day when the truth would be revealed was too far away. He Jianfei barely got rid of the doubts in his heart and asked, ¡°Does Ah Qiang¡¯s cousin know anything else?¡± Uncle Li said: ¡°She said that even if she did, after so many years, she almost forgot about it.¡± But she suggested that we go take a look at Ah Qiang¡¯s house. Although his house is sold, I heard that people are still living in it. She said that the location of Ah Qiang¡¯s house is a bit strange¡±.¡± He Jianfei hurriedly asked, ¡°What¡¯s so strange?¡± Uncle Li said: ¡°She refused to say it and hesitated, as if she had some scruples.¡± I don¡¯t want to force people, so I have to come back and call you.¡± ¡°Ah Qiang¡¯s residence?¡±He Jianfei pondered and said, ¡°Is that so?¡± ¡°Well, uncle Li, please spare no effort; let¡¯s go to Ah Qiang¡¯s house to have a look.¡± ¡°No problem; I have long wanted to unravel the mystery of Ah Qiang¡¯s death.¡±