Chapter 19 This Cup...

"This cup... this cup is..." The senior stared at the straw with teeth marks, her throat twitching. She didn't have such habits.

"Senior, you drank my milk tea," Jiang Cheng said, his face slightly flushed.

Hearing Jiang Cheng say that made the senior even more embarrassed, but she never expected that in the next second, she would watch Jiang Cheng pick up her milk tea and say, as if in a fit of pique, "I don't care, I want to try Senior's milk tea too."

The originally awkward atmosphere was resolved by Jiang Cheng in just a few words. Even more bizarrely, the way the senior looked at Jiang Cheng was different from before.

Jiang Cheng chatted and joked with the senior, complaining about classmates and other things, while meticulously and patiently helping her write the information.

The senior sat beside him, holding the milk tea with both hands, taking small sips, watching his profile while listening to his anecdotes.

Jiang Cheng glanced at his phone when he had a moment.

Time was running out, and he had to rush to the next place; Yuan Xiaoyi was still waiting for him.

So, he stopped writing, shook his wrist, and in the senior's eyes, this junior who was willing to skip class to accompany her looked a little tired.

He didn't look at the senior, but glanced out the window.

At the same time, the senior vaguely sensed that the man in front of her had a bit of melancholy, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you thinking about?"

"I..." Jiang Cheng paused, then admitted, "I'm thinking about my friends. They still don't believe what you said, and I'm worried they'll do something stupid."

As soon as the senior heard this, her expression changed immediately, and even her breathing became rapid. "They... why don't they listen? The warehouse is not a place to joke around!"

"I've tried to persuade them, but they just won't listen. They say it's all nonsense, and they laugh at me, saying I'm just charmed by you, Senior, and that's why I believe you," Jiang Cheng said, his face showing no flattery, as if all his words came from the bottom of his heart.

"I... I would never lie to you, Junior," the senior seemed to care about this point very much, and quickly explained.

Jiang Cheng nodded, "I know, you're good to me, Senior, but..." He glanced at the senior, and finally couldn't help but sigh, "But I have no evidence, I can't prove it to them."

"You want evidence?" the senior said, "I have it!"

"Oh?"

After saying this, the senior seemed to regret it a little, but she didn't want the man in front of her to be misunderstood because of her, and she didn't want to see the tragedy of the past repeat itself.

Looking at Jiang Cheng's timid and expectant eyes, the senior hardened her heart, told him to wait there, and left.

Soon, in less than 5 minutes, the senior came back.

After returning, she locked the door immediately, and covered the observation window with dark clothes. Jiang Cheng's expectant eyes lit up.

After doing all this, the senior walked over and placed a dark brown file bag on the table.

Jiang Cheng noticed that the file bag had a name on it, apparently... Chen Zeqing.

He had never heard of this name.

The senior looked a little nervous. She opened the file bag, hastily poured out some papers, and then took out a few photos from between the papers.

"Take a look at these," the senior said in a low voice, placing the photos in front of Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng's eyes stopped when he saw the first photo.

The door was half open, and a girl was lying on the threshold, her hair scattered, covering half of her face.

Her upper body was outside the door, and her lower body was inside. The background... was the activity center's warehouse.

Even though only half of her profile was visible, Jiang Cheng immediately recognized the girl as... Yuan Xiaoyi.

It looked like she was being chased by something, so she ran out of the warehouse in a panic, but fell on the threshold in a hurry and passed out.

"These were taken a long time ago by the people from the school's security department," the senior explained. "Your friend was found in the same way, with his upper body outside the door and his lower body inside..." Jiang Cheng understood that she was talking about Gao Yan.

Gao Yan woke up and said he was chased by a Tracking Ghost. It seemed that Yuan Xiaoyi had been the same.

The second photo was a close-up of the warehouse door, with knife marks on it, which were later covered with paper.

The third photo was the scene inside the warehouse, in the innermost part, the area they had searched.

There was a shattered mirror on the wall, clearly smashed violently, with several chairs around it.

The layout inside was very close to the secret room described by Curator Zhou.

But what really attracted Jiang Cheng's attention was the things on the chairs.

Each chair had a corresponding item placed on it.

Jiang Cheng carefully identified them one by one. The first chair had a white coat, the second chair had a swimsuit, with a pair of swimming goggles hanging on the back, the third chair had a sports jacket, and there was a pair of running shoes under the chair...

"All these photos were taken by the school security department at the scene. On the one hand, it's for record-keeping, in case something happens to a student, it's easier to clarify responsibility. And also, they are given to the student's attending physician, who is the old professor I mentioned."

"Professor Chen Zeqing." When the senior said this name, her tone carried an undeniable respect, and... regret.

Jiang Cheng noticed it keenly.

"Attending physician?" Jiang Cheng asked, following this term.

"That's right." The senior sighed. "You should have heard of the student Yuan Xiaoyi, right? The whole school is spreading rumors that she has mental problems."

"I've heard a little," Jiang Cheng said. "She keeps saying that she has 5 friends who disappeared, but none of them can be found."

The senior nodded, her tone suddenly becoming mysterious, and looking at Jiang Cheng, she said, "They're not wrong, this Yuan Xiaoyi does have mental problems. Professor Chen Zeqing is very interested in her condition and has been actively trying to find ways to treat her."

"She suffers from a very rare personality split, and it's not just a simple split personality, it's multiple personalities." The senior spoke quickly, as if something was chasing her from behind. "The so-called five missing friends are actually herself, the secondary personalities derived after her main personality's identity recognition disintegrated."

"Look here." The senior pointed to the chairs in the photo and said in a low voice, "According to the professor's speculation, each chair represents the embodiment of one of her derived personalities."

"For example, when she sits on the first chair, she will take off her original clothes and put on the white coat of a medical student, because at this time her self-awareness is that of a medical student."

"In the second chair, she is a swimming champion, and by the same reasoning, the third is a long-distance runner in the sports academy..."

While explaining to Jiang Cheng, the senior couldn't help but tremble. Every time she saw these photos, she felt a chill down her spine, as if she was coming into contact with an unknown, strange world.