罗一 pondered for a moment and realized his companion made sense. He stared at the huge lock on the door, lost in thought. "But... who is imprisoning him? And why?"

"Whoever is capable of doing something like this in the school must be a high-ranking figure," Zhen Jianren said. "As for why they're imprisoning him, I think we'll have to go inside and ask."

"Now?" Luo Yi shrank his neck.

Zhen Jianren nodded. "Yes, right now."

"Wait!" Luo Yi turned his head to look at Zhen Jianren, frowning. "If he's really imprisoned, why hasn't he run away? Or called the police?"

Zhen Jianren stopped in his tracks. Clearly, Luo Yi's words had struck a nerve.

After a few seconds, Zhen Jianren pursed his lips and, looking at the empty courtyard inside the door, said calmly, "I think I know how he broke his leg..."

Hearing this, Luo Yi, who was close behind him, trembled.

...

Zhou Taifu, wrapped in the borrowed clothes, carefully followed behind Yu Wen.

Zhang Yinyin was on the other side, a little distance away from the two.

"It's so cold..." Zhou Taifu muttered under his breath, hugging his arms. At the same time, he noticed Yu Wen frown, so he straightened his neck and wisely swallowed the rest of his words.

The three of them walked in silence.

Having eaten nothing in the morning, Zhou Taifu was both hungry and cold. When they passed a supermarket, he hurried inside and bought three cups of hot soy milk.

As he rushed out, several female students in line stared at his back with increasingly strange expressions.

Holding the hot soy milk in his hands, Zhou Taifu felt a little more confident, and some color gradually returned to his pale face. "Miss Yu," he asked tentatively, "is it dangerous for just us to go to the music room? Or... or should we call that Feng Lan?"

Feng Lan seemed to know something about the school's history and seemed easier to talk to.

Most importantly, Zhen Jianren had tested her with the camera.

She wasn't a ghost.

Yu Wen stepped onto the steps, avoiding the puddle in front of her.

She didn't like the feeling of being wet; it reminded her of being in the rainforest in Southeast Asia with her companions.

Just as Zhou Taifu thought he had gotten nowhere, Yu Wen's voice came, "The ghosts in this mission have already changed. Yesterday's Feng Lan wasn't a ghost, but that doesn't mean she isn't one today."

Hearing this, Zhou Taifu was taken aback. After a long while, he said, "I... I don't think it's that bad, is it?"

Before he could finish speaking, Yu Wen, who was walking in front, stopped first.

Then, she slowly raised her head.

In front of them was an unfamiliar building.

It looked more impressive than Block C, where the music room was located.

After Zhou Taifu steadied himself, he looked at the building in front of him, feeling somewhat confused.

"Where is this?" Zhou Taifu asked, then he subconsciously looked at Yu Wen. "Aren't we... aren't we going to the music room?" He paused, reminding her, "Block C."

"Then it seems we've gone the wrong way," Zhang Yinyin, who had been silent all along, suddenly laughed. Her laughter was strange, faintly revealing an indescribable feeling. In short, it made people very uncomfortable.

Zhou Taifu turned to look at her, only to find that she was also staring at him.

"Then you can leave," Zhang Yinyin took off the hood of her dinosaur pajamas, revealing a neat short haircut. The ends of her hair were slightly upturned, but the sweet feeling was gone.

"Anyway... our destination has arrived."

At this point, even if Zhou Taifu was stupid, he would have realized something. He stared into Zhang Yinyin's eyes, surprised. "You never intended to go to the music room in the first place?"

Yu Wen, as still as an old monk in meditation, slowly turned around, her gaze sweeping over Zhou Taifu and stopping on Zhang Yinyin. After a long time, she said, "Do you want to live?"

Four words.

Without any emotional fluctuations, as bland as a cup of plain water.

"It's not your turn to question me," Zhang Yinyin retorted sharply, having shed her naive appearance. "Take out what you have, and I might consider cooperating with you."

"That way... everyone can survive."

Yu Wen slowly shook her head. "I'm asking... do you want to live?"

Zhang Yinyin's face turned cold. It seemed that the situation wasn't as optimistic as she had imagined. This woman in front of her was much more difficult to deal with than the woman in the qipao.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Yinyin's expression was unfriendly.

Yu Wen was still as cold as ice. "I have a very important thing to do. It's very dangerous there, and there's no room for error. I might consider taking you along," she paused, "if you want to live."

Zhang Yinyin laughed instead of getting angry. "You think you can control me?"

"So..." Yu Wen paused, raising her eyes. "You want to die?"

"Don't think you're the only one..."

Zhang Yinyin, who was sneering, suddenly stopped, her disdainful sneer frozen on her face.

The next moment, a large mouthful of blood spewed out of her mouth, along with words she hadn't finished saying.

She trembled and turned around, seeing a cold face.

"You..." Her eyes were filled with disbelief.

Zhou Taifu carefully wiped the blade on the lining of his clothes, his movements skillful, his face as calm as if he had just killed a chicken.

Zhang Yinyin's body swayed, then she fell to the ground.

Her consciousness gradually faded away, and blood slowly flowed from her back...

"What should we do with her body?" Zhou Taifu sheathed the dagger and glanced at Yu Wen in front of him. "Is it necessary to search her?"

Yu Wen looked down at Zhang Yinyin, who wouldn't close her eyes. Her dinosaur pajamas were about to be covered in blood.

"No need," Yu Wen shook her head. "It's secluded here, and the body will disappear in a moment." After a long time, she continued, "Didn't you hear what she said? She still thinks the thing is on me."

Zhou Taifu frowned slightly and said, gasping for breath, "Who has the thing, then?"

Currently, there were only two teams left: Jiang Cheng and the fat man who went to find Director Li, and Zhen Jianren and Luo Yi who went to the equipment center.

"Forget it," Yu Wen interrupted. "That Director Li, and the equipment center side, I estimate they won't be smooth sailing. They might even die there."

"This time we didn't get the jump on them, but as long as they're all dead," her eyes turned cold, "then the thing will be ours next time."

Zhou Taifu straightened his back and nodded reluctantly. "That's all we can do."

During the few days of this mission, Zhou Taifu had always been stooped and lowered his head, making him look like a pampered rich man.

Foolish, ridiculous, and unlearned.

But at this moment, he straightened up, revealing even a few rolls of fat on his neck, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

"In my opinion, we should carry her body to the woods," Zhou Taifu licked his lips, looking around. "I'm worried that students or teachers might pass by and discover it, and then we'll get into trouble."

Unexpectedly, Yu Wen shook her head. She first looked around, and then said with a strange expression, "No need. Haven't you noticed? There are fewer and fewer teachers and students appearing now."