Chapter 77

Tan Wenbin walked into the discount store when Runsheng and the others were still busy checking inventory.

He walked to the beverage shelf, originally intending to grab a drink, but then remembered he had no money in his sports shorts pocket after changing. To avoid adding trouble for them, he still walked to the counter, picked up a teacup, and gulped down several mouthfuls of water.

“Need any help?”

Yin Meng, holding a pen and notebook, shook her head: “No need, we’ll be done with the inventory soon. There really are a lot of goods.”

“Of course.”

Yin Meng pointed to the shelf where daily necessities were placed, saying: “Before school starts, we still need to stock up on a batch of daily necessities.”

Aunt Sun said with a smile: “It’s like this every year.”

Yin Meng: “We need to put together mats, bed pads, quilts, basins, cups, towels, and so on, package them as a set, and then put up a discount sign to sell them together.”

Aunt Sun was stunned for a moment. She had originally wanted to show off her experience a bit more, but for a moment, she couldn’t speak.

Tan Wenbin shrugged his shoulders: “Not bad, seems you’ve already gotten into the swing of things.”

Yin Meng said regretfully: “Logically, after graduation, students can leave behind some second-hand goods. If we clean them up a bit, we can sell them cheaply to freshmen in the new semester. Didn’t you collect any at the end of last semester?”

Aunt Sun shook her head: “We didn’t do it that way before.”

Yin Meng nodded: “Then we’ll do it this way in the future. Most students still come from ordinary families.”

Tan Wenbin leaned against the counter and teased: “Indeed, the coffin shop has restricted you.”

“Since I want to do it, I have to do it well. I’m also planning to open a hot food area here. Add some hot pot base, then add some meatballs, tripe, etc., and cook them inside. Sell them individually, like hot pot skewers.”

“Good idea, but you shouldn’t cook it yourself.”

Yin Meng looked at Tan Wenbin somewhat unconvinced.

Tan Wenbin reminded her very seriously: “This is a school. If there’s a collective food safety issue, it’s very serious.”

Yin Meng didn’t argue, just shook the pen in her hand: “Okay, I understand.”

Runsheng finished putting away the goods at his feet, then clapped his hands and looked at Tan Wenbin: “Did you just go fishing?”

“Yeah.”

“Any harvest?”

“I met someone by the lake who called out to me from behind, but when I turned back, I didn’t see a soul.”

Runsheng said, somewhat surprised: “Really?”

Aunt Sun asked: “Is it that lake on the west side? Many people usually like to run there, and couples like to go there too.”

Tan Wenbin asked curiously: “Aunt Sun, you’ve been at this school for a long time. Do you know any school ghost stories?”

“Ghost stories?”

“Yeah, we’re more interested in things like that.”

“Where are there any ghost stories? It’s all just idle talk. If you’re talking about dead people, many people have indeed died inside the school. There are some every semester. Died from jumping off buildings, died from drowning, died from taking medicine, even died from choking. It’s all there.”

As long as the population of a region reaches a certain base, someone dying isn’t a rare occurrence.

But Tan Wenbin didn’t want to hear about these things. He continued to ask:

“Are there any places that are more sinister?”

“Sinister place?” Aunt Sun covered her mouth and laughed, saying, “This is a school, where would there be a sinister place? But I heard my sister say earlier that there are often accidents on Jiangjun Shan at night.”

“Jiangjun Shan?”

“It’s all just hearsay, you can’t take it seriously.”

“Okay, Runsheng, Yin Meng, you continue being busy. I’m going back. Xiao Yuan brother is still alone in the dorm.”

Tan Wenbin walked back to the dormitory building. As he passed by the dorm manager’s office window, he saw the aunt writing something with a pen in one hand while eating egg cake in the other.

“Aunt Ran.”

“You little rascal, you scared me.” Tan Wenbin had just helped her move things before going for a night run earlier, so the two were somewhat acquainted.

Aunt Ran picked up a piece of egg cake and handed it to the young man.

Tan Wenbin didn’t reach for it, but opened his mouth: “Ah…”

Aunt Ran could only smile and put the egg cake into the young man’s mouth.

“What are you busy with?” Tan Wenbin asked while chewing.

“Writing a letter to my daughter.”

“Can’t you call her?”

“Phone bills are very expensive.”

“Using the public phone for private use, right?”

“Huh?” Aunt Ran was stunned for a moment, then understood what this meant, and laughed and scolded, “You little rascal know quite a bit, it seems your family didn’t do less of these things.”

“You’ve wronged me, my dad is a very principled person. When I was little, I always wanted my dad to drive a police car to take me to school, but my dad never did that.”

“Your dad is very good, truly.”

“That’s right, you should see whose dad it is.”

“Hehe.” Aunt Ran put down her pen and rubbed her wrist: “Phew… finished writing. Actually, even if I call, when I pick up the receiver, there aren’t many words to say.”

“Come, let me see, I’ll help you check for wrong characters.”

“Go on, go on, go back to your dorm.”

“Good night, Aunt.”

“Good night, little rascal.”

After Tan Wenbin left, Aunt Ran took out a matchbox, struck a match, and lit the envelope. When it had burned halfway, she put it into the large teacup at her feet.

Next to the teacup was a shoebox, half-broken packaging exposing the black high heels inside.

…

“Slap!”

After entering the room, Tan Wenbin turned on the light and discovered Li Zhuyuan was already lying in bed.

He immediately turned off the light again.

“Binbin brother, you’re back.”

“Did I wake you up, Xiao Yuan brother?”

“I wasn’t sleeping.”

“Oh, you’re sleeping really early today.”

“It’s not early, look what time it is now.”

“Okay, then I’ll come back a bit earlier in the evening in the future.” Tan Wenbin picked up his basin and towel, planning to go to the pool outside to take a shower.

After eating dinner and returning, he and Xiao Yuan went to wash up together.

There was a bathhouse in the school area, but it was relatively far and was also closed now. Actually, even if it opened later, Tan Wenbin felt too lazy to go. It was a boys’ dormitory, wasn’t it more refreshing to just go to the pool there, catch water in a basin, and pour it over your body? After washing, you could just swagger back to the dorm.

Just as he was about to open the door, he discovered a talisman stuck on the dormitory door.

“Xiao Yuan brother, this is…”

“It came over.”

“Ah?”

Tan Wenbin immediately held the basin in his left hand and grabbed the towel in his right, entering a defensive stance.

“It ran away.”

“Oh.” Tan Wenbin relaxed, “Brother, what was it?”

“It ran too fast, I didn’t see.”

“Brother, I’ll try not to go out at night in the future, to protect you.”

“I’m sleeping.”

“Okay.” Tan Wenbin opened the dormitory door. The large slippers made a crisp “slap slap” sound as he walked in the corridor, “What’s the point of me going for a night run? It’s not as good as guarding Xiao Yuan. Tsk, our Xiao Yuan brother is still more sinister.”

Early the next morning, Li Zhuyuan woke up.

He habitually turned his head and saw Tan Wenbin who was still snoring.

The sense of gap was quite large.

Li Zhuyuan got out of bed, picked up his basin, and walked to the washbasin. While washing, someone humming a song came in from behind.

“Hey, little brother, you also came to university? Hahaha.”

“Yeah.”

“Uh…” The other person hesitated and asked again, “Really came to university?”

“Yeah.”

“My goodness, is that true or false?”

Li Zhuyuan finished washing up, packed his things neatly into the basin, turned around, and walked out.

The other person brushed their teeth while leaning out, and only retracted after seeing Li Zhuyuan walk into the innermost dormitory.

The boy put down the basin and just sat down at the desk. Tan Wenbin had just woken up. He bent down to pick up the quilt he had kicked off the bed and muttered:

“It’s still better to sleep in a coffin, no need to worry about kicking off the quilt.”

After getting out of bed, Tan Wenbin stretched lazily: “Xiao Yuan brother, wait for me to finish washing up, then we’ll go out and buy breakfast for you.”

“No need, let’s go find Runsheng brother and the others later. We’ll go out and play these days. After school starts, they’ll just need to watch the store and won’t have time.”

“That’s true.”

Tan Wenbin walked out holding his basin. After a while, he opened the door and came back with a smile: “Just a second-year student, he kept asking me at the washbasin if you were a student. He’s quite nice, named Lu Yi, from Harbin. He even gave me a red sausage.”

Saying this, Tan Wenbin took a bite himself: “Mmm, the taste is very authentic.”

“Have you eaten red sausage before?”

“No, but the first time I eat it, to me, that’s the authentic flavor.”

“Didn’t he go home?”

“No, he stayed at school to do tutoring part-time. He said his home is in the suburbs, so it’s not convenient to go back home to do tutoring.”

Li Zhuyuan and Tan Wenbin came to the discount store. They had already inventoried the goods last night, so there wasn’t much business now. They just left Aunt Sun to watch the store, and the four of them walked out of the school gate together and took the bus.

Tan Wenbin discovered Runsheng was carrying a large bag and asked: “Runsheng, bringing so much water?”

Bringing your own water before going to a scenic spot or buying it outside the scenic spot was a common memory of traveling for Chinese people back then.

Because water inside the scenic area was more expensive, as for what to eat… Normal people wouldn’t bear to buy things to eat in the scenic area.

“Last night, we inventoried a lot of food that was nearing expiration or had just expired. I just brought it all with me. I eat a lot, and eating and drinking outside is expensive, so it’s just right to eat these.”

“Runsheng, you’re a co-boss now anyway, why are you still so stingy? You should show some style.”

Runsheng patted the big bag: “It’s all good stuff. When I was young, it was very hard to eat these things. I never dreamed I could eat snacks freely one day.”

The four of them got off the bus and first entered a duck blood vermicelli soup shop to eat breakfast.

Then they visited several scenic spots throughout the day. The entire process was explained by Li Zhuyuan. By the time dusk ended, Li Zhuyuan felt a little hoarse.

There was no other way. Magnificent natural scenery could be seen by anyone with their own eyes, but cultural scenic spots, without someone explaining them in detail, could only be walked around and viewed superficially. Soon, people would say it was meaningless.

The four of them took the last bus back to school, then went to “Old Sichuan” again for dinner. After entering the school gate, they split into two pairs.

Runsheng walked into the store and didn’t see Aunt Sun. He was still carrying a portion of brown sugar rice cake specially packed for her.

“Probably downstairs.” Yin Meng picked up a hair tie to tie up her hair, then picked up a broom and started sweeping the floor.

Runsheng went to the basement. He came to Aunt Sun’s room and knocked on the door, but there was no response inside, and the light was also off, so she shouldn’t be in.

Runsheng could only go back to his own room and discovered that the dog cage was actually empty.

He looked around and finally found the black dog curled up in a ball under the bed.

The black dog was not its usual lazy self. Instead, its eyes were watery, and its whole body was trembling.

Runsheng silently got up, walked to where the luggage was, and took out the Yellow River shovel.

Yin Meng, who was sweeping the floor, heard the sound of a chair being dragged from upstairs. It was still early before school started, and there were no performances or activities that needed rehearsing, so logically, there should be no one upstairs.

Walking to the top of the stairs, Yin Meng shouted upstairs: “Aunt Sun, is that you upstairs? Aunt Sun?”

There was no response, but the sound of the chair dragging became clearer.

Yin Meng walked up the stairs and came to the second floor. She didn’t turn on the light, but borrowed the moonlight coming in from the window. She could vaguely see a figure dancing there.

The figure was dancing very devotedly, occasionally knocking over the chairs placed around.

The light switch was right at the top of the stairs. Yin Meng reached out her hand.

“Slap!”

The light came on, and the figure disappeared.

Inside the vast wooden floor dance room, it seemed empty.

Footsteps came from behind. Yin Meng immediately turned around. After seeing it was Runsheng, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Runsheng walked up holding the Yellow River shovel. As he passed Yin Meng, he said: “Xiao Hei saw something that scared it.”

Hearing this, Yin Meng was also scared.

Runsheng gripped the shovel and walked to the center of the dance room, looking around.

Yin Meng followed up and said: “Just now, I heard the sound of a chair moving upstairs. When I came up, I saw a figure dancing here, and it disappeared as soon as I turned on the light.”

Runsheng asked: “Could it be a living person?”

Yin Meng shook her head: “It’s impossible for a living person to disappear that quickly in front of me.”

Even leaving aside their profession as corpse fishers, the two of them were now also genuine practitioners. Their observation and reaction were much better than ordinary people.

“Let’s go, tell Xiao Yuan.”

“Okay.”

As the two of them went downstairs, they saw Aunt Sun carrying a thermos bucket coming in.

“Hey, just in time. Just now, the dorm manager of Building Nine called me to eat glutinous rice balls. I thought the store couldn’t be left unattended for a long time, so I just went and brought some back. Come, come, let’s eat together.”

Aunt Sun walked to the counter, put down the thermos bucket, and enthusiastically greeted the two of them over.

Runsheng looked at Yin Meng, indicating that she should go notify Xiao Yuan, while he stayed here.

Yin Meng shook her head slightly. That was a male dormitory, it wasn’t convenient for her to go, so Runsheng should go, and she would stay here.

Runsheng’s gaze was firm, meaning it was also very simple for you to go into the male dormitory.

The two of them had practiced sparring for so long, so tacit understanding was naturally not lacking, and eye signals were even simpler.

Yin Meng had no choice but to run out of the store.

Aunt Sun said doubtfully: “Hey, where did she go?”

Runsheng: “Went to give our friends some things.”

“Then let’s eat first. Glutinous rice balls will swell if left for too long.”

“I’ll pack you some rice cake. I put it downstairs. I’ll go down and get it.”

“No need, eating this is enough. Eating too much at night is not easy to digest.”

“Oh, okay.”

Runsheng walked behind the counter and put the shovel on a chair.

“Runsheng, what are you holding a shovel for?”

“Some of the wall paint is peeling off. I plan to shovel it off and repaint it.”

“This shovel looks quite complex in style, where did you buy it?”

“Brought it from home.”

“Oh, no wonder. Come, you eat first.” Aunt Sun twisted open the thermos bucket and handed a spoon to Runsheng, “Hurry and eat, taste our local glutinous rice balls.”

“What day is it today, eating glutinous rice balls?”

“It’s the birthday of the dorm manager aunt of Building Nine.”

“Oh.”

Runsheng nodded, took the spoon, but didn’t hurry to scoop the glutinous rice balls. Instead, he took out a thick stick of incense from the iron box and lit it.

“Is this a cigar?”

“It’s incense.” Since they would still need to watch the store together in the future, Runsheng didn’t avoid her either.

“Incense?”

“This is my personal meal habit. I’ve liked it since I was a child, and I can’t change it.”

“This habit is really strange, but I’ve heard that some children will eat wall plaster. Yours is still a bit cleaner.”

Suddenly, there was a flash of white light, which was lightning.

Immediately after,

“Rumble!”

Thunder sounded, and it started raining outside. The wind also blew in from the door.

Aunt Sun: “This season is just like this, a sudden thunderstorm. Hurry up and eat, have a taste.”

Runsheng didn’t put down the spoon, but looked at the incense he had just lit.

The wind outside blew in, blowing his hair and the pages of the book on the counter, but the incense was still curling up straight.

Runsheng raised his head.

Above,

Was a pair of floating feet.

…

“It was hard today, Xiao Yuan brother, want to drink some soda?”

“You drink it, Binbin brother.”

“Oh yeah, I forgot, you don’t like sweet drinks. Then I’ll brew you a cup of tea… Let me find it. I remember my mom put two packs of my dad’s treasured tea leaves in my luggage when I came. Hey, found it.”

Tan Wenbin brewed a cup of tea and placed it on Xiao Yuan’s desk.

“Xiao Yuan brother, have a taste.”

Li Zhuyuan picked up the teacup, took a sip, and nodded.

“How does it feel?”

“Your dad didn’t take bribes.”

“Uh, hahaha!” Tan Wenbin couldn’t help but laugh out loud, then wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand while saying, “Then I’ll go buy you some good tea leaves tomorrow.”

“No need.”

Calculating the days, Granny Liu should appear near the school in a few days.

Tea didn’t have good or bad, only divided into taste. The problem was that he was used to the taste of Liu Yumei’s tea, and that kind of taste happened to be very expensive.

The old people in the family compound would hold a tea party to invite everyone to taste tea whenever they got a little bit, but to Liu Yumei, it was just daily ration.

“Rumble!”

“Oh wow, it’s going to rain.”

Tan Wenbin walked over and closed the window, taking back the clothes conveniently.

Just at this moment, outside in the corridor, there was the sound of high heels going “di ta… di ta… di ta…”

Hearing it, Tan Wenbin immediately gestured a “shh” sign to Li Zhuyuan excitedly, even though the boy was sitting at his desk and hadn’t moved at all.

Tan Wenbin immediately rolled on the floor, picked up the Yellow River shovel, then tiptoed to the dormitory door. Just then, the high heels walked to the door again.

There was a friction sound as the shoes moved towards the dormitory door.

“Binbin brother…” “Shh shh!” Tan Wenbin kept waving his hand at Li Zhuyuan, indicating not to scare that thing away again.

Li Zhuyuan flipped open his book and said: “It’s a living person.”

“Ah? Oh… Okay, I know.”

Tan Wenbin stood up, his left hand went to stroke his hair, and his right hand went to touch his thigh, mainly to use awkwardness to ease the awkwardness.

“Knock knock…”

“Binbin, are you in?”

It was the voice of the dorm manager, Aunt Ran.

Tan Wenbin opened the door, and Aunt Ran was standing at the door holding a ceramic bowl.

A pair of chopsticks covered the bowl. Inside the bowl were glutinous rice balls, and there were red words printed on the outer wall of the bowl: Labor Model.

“Aunt Ran.”

“Aunt made some glutinous rice balls. I’ll give you some. Remember to return the bowl and chopsticks to Aunt tomorrow.”

“Okay, thank you, Aunt.”

Aunt Ran poked her head into the room and smiled at Li Zhuyuan, who was sitting at the desk: “Our top scorer should also eat a little.”

Li Zhuyuan turned sideways and returned a shy smile.

Tan Wenbin asked: “Aunt is dressed up tonight, even wearing high heels.”

“Today is my birthday.”

“Oh dear, why didn’t you tell me yesterday? If I had known earlier, I would have prepared a cake for you.”

“You little rascal only know how to sweet-talk.”

“Aunt, happy birthday.”

“Okay, okay, remember to return the bowl and chopsticks.”

Aunt Ran stepped away in her high heels.

Tan Wenbin closed the door.

“Xiao Yuan brother, I probably didn’t talk to Aunt about your things. She manages the dormitory and knows that the students living in this dormitory are not ordinary. She inquired about who you were early on and was even surprised that the newspaper didn’t publish the college entrance examination top scorer’s photo this year.”

Li Zhuyuan didn’t cooperate with publicity, and Wu Xinhan didn’t force him either. Anyway, it was fine as long as the provincial top scorer was from his high school.

“Okay, it doesn’t matter if you say it. After entering university, the college entrance examination results are meaningless.”

“Xiao Yuan brother, want some?”

“I brushed my teeth, I’m not eating.”

“Then I’ll eat.” Tan Wenbin picked up his chopsticks and just clipped a glutinous rice ball when he suddenly heard the sound of the window being opened. Immediately after, a woman’s face suddenly appeared, scaring him so much that he directly threw the bowl in his hand out and shouted, “My goodness!”

Yin Meng flipped in.

Tan Wenbin complained: “No, why didn’t you use the door?”

“I’m a girl.”

Tan Wenbin put up two fingers and made a walking gesture: “It’s just a dorm manager aunt. You just bend down under her windowsill and pass through.”

“Flipping over the wall is still more convenient.”

Li Zhuyuan looked at Yin Meng and asked: “Did something happen to Runsheng brother?”

“I saw the disappearing shadow in the dance room above the store.”

Tan Wenbin bent down, preparing to clean up the glutinous rice balls spilled on the floor: “What’s the big deal? It’s really as Xiao Yuan brother said, we few are together, and dirty things will come here on their own.”

Yin Meng continued: “Runsheng said Xiao Hei was scared.”

“What the heck!” Tan Wenbin immediately straightened up.

The black dog had been raised on supplements since it was young, and it was also the purest Five Black Dog. This kind of dog would generally become more fierce and excited when encountering dirty things.

Therefore, the origin of anything that could scare it was definitely very big, definitely not ordinary dirty things.

After the four of them left Nantong, they just thought that corpse fishing was fun, but that also only referred to normal situations. This kind of thing with a very strong challenge to a big guy was definitely not included.

Li Zhuyuan opened the drawer and picked up his whip: “Is Runsheng brother trapped?”

“No, he stayed in the store and told me to come and notify you.”

“Why did you split up?”

“Because Aunt Sun came back halfway, so Runsheng stayed in the store to accompany her.”

The next moment, Yin Meng saw a hint of indifference flash in Li Zhuyuan’s eyes.

Just this one look made Yin Meng’s back suddenly cold.

It wasn’t disgust or anger, but something higher than these two emotions.

The boy was instinctively rejecting this stupid choice.

But soon, the boy closed his eyes and reopened them. His gaze was restored, and he lightly responded with a sound: “Okay.”

The three of them quickly ran out of the dormitory building. On the way, they passed the dorm manager’s office. The window was closed, and the light was also off.

Coming to the store door in the rain, Li Zhuyuan stopped, raised his hand.

Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng also stopped immediately.

The rain was still falling. On the door frame of the store, rainwater dripped nonstop.

But the problem was, the door was inside the building, and there was a balcony above it. It was impossible for rainwater to hit it and form a water curtain pattern again.

Li Zhuyuan specially looked up, sweeping his eyes, but didn’t see any waterline.

Unless the inner wall of this building was cracked and rainwater seeped in and then happened to flow out exactly along the crack above the door frame, but how could such a coincidence exist in this world?

Therefore, the water dripping on the door and the rainwater outside were not from the same source.

Li Zhuyuan: “It’s inside.”

Seeing that Xiao Yuan brother had no intention of rushing inside, Tan Wenbin also didn’t dare to act rashly, but shouted loudly inside: “Runsheng, Runsheng!”

Li Zhuyuan: “There’s miasma, you can’t hear inside.”

“Oh…” Tan Wenbin shrank his neck.

If there was miasma, forcing your way in would mean getting into its trap, either getting lost or fainting. In short, it would greatly delay time.

Li Zhuyuan’s eyes condensed, his right hand holding the whip, and his left hand snapped his fingers: “Snap!”

In the Walk Yin state, the water dripping on the door frame became thick black, and as it fell, it kept flowing back up to both sides, like a living thing.

Li Zhuyuan raised his whip and lashed at the dynamic black line on the ground!

“Slap! Slap! Slap!”

Three continuous times, this process was interrupted.

In the perspective of Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng, Xiao Yuan just whipped the ground a few times, and the water curtain on the door frame stopped by itself.

Li Zhuyuan shouted: “Yin Meng, in!”

Yin Meng rushed in without hesitation, Li Zhuyuan was the second, and Tan Wenbin was the third.

Everyone didn’t really practice cooperation in their daily lives, but in dangerous situations, they all knew who should be the core to protect.

Originally, the most suitable leader was Runsheng, but he was inside now.

Everything in the store was normal, just the light was a little dim.

By the counter, Aunt Sun was lying there, unconscious.

Li Zhuyuan looked deeply at Aunt Sun’s back.

Runsheng wasn’t on the first floor, and upstairs, “Thump! Thump! Thump!” three continuous heavy blows.

“Upstairs!”

According to the order of entry, the three of them quickly ran up the stairs. Just as they reached the corner of the stairs, the surrounding walls and the stairs under their feet all started to fluctuate, as if they had become liquid, and the shaking amplitude began to constantly increase.

Yin Meng could only bend down, barely maintaining her balance.

Tan Wenbin then fell on his butt, unable to distinguish directions, completely losing his center of gravity.

Li Zhuyuan looked up at the stairs above, it was waiting for himself and the others to enter.

This meant that Runsheng was still fighting with it.

“Follow me!”

Li Zhuyuan raised the whip in his hand and whipped at the empty space in front. As the sound of the whip cracking the air echoed, he also closed his eyes, his ears trembling slightly.

Then, in the sight of Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin, Xiao Yuan was walking towards the downstairs stairs.

They immediately lowered their gaze and looked at the position where Xiao Yuan was stepping.

Then Yin Meng jumped over, and Tan Wenbin climbed with both hands and feet. Anyway, they all needed to advance along the “memory footprints”.

Finally, Tan Wenbin climbed out. The sense of space around returned to normal. He stood up and saw Runsheng who was nailed to the wall by a rebar.

Yin Meng had seen it earlier than Tan Wenbin. Her eyes were red, but she didn’t move, still standing in front of Xiao Yuan.

Tan Wenbin immediately held the shovel and came behind Xiao Yuan, looking around and upwards nonstop.

“That way!”

Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin discovered a ceiling at the same time. Black liquid was dripping there, accompanied by a strong fishy smell.

Looking up again, it seemed there was a black shadow clinging to the top. It should have been severely injured while fighting Runsheng.

“Buzz!”

The black shadow began to squirm. Its figure disappeared from its original position, but the dripping liquid still existed, just changing direction. It was actively approaching the three of them.

“Buzz!” “Buzz!” “Buzz!”

After several continuous disappearances and reappearances, the black bloodstains on the ground were getting closer and closer.

Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin immediately raised their tools towards that direction.

Li Zhuyuan then closed his eyes.

Black blood appeared in front.

Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin each raised their Yellow River shovels.

Li Zhuyuan shouted: “Opposite direction!”

The two of them immediately turned around and struck down in the opposite direction.

“Bang!” “Bang!”

Two continuous muffled sounds were heard.

Tan Wenbin only felt a surge of numbness counteracting his arms, almost cramping.

After Yin Meng struck down with one shovel, she immediately jumped up in place and kicked out continuously with both feet towards that position. This was a standard kick dead body leg technique.

“Thump thump thump!”

A mud mass appeared in the originally invisible place. Mud splashed, exposing a body inside. At its waist, black fresh blood different from the mud flowed out profusely.

Yin Meng raised her shovel forward again, aiming at the opposite wound and chopping slantwise with force.

The splashing mud suddenly shrank back at this time, hitting Yin Meng’s body.

“Bang!”

Yin Meng lost her balance and was forced to fall towards the mud.

But an instant before touching, Yin Meng supported the ground with one hand, straightened her waist, and swung her whole body up using her arm as an axis. Her feet kicked the mud body fiercely again.

The mud scattered again, revealing the body’s face inside. To be precise, she had a head but no face. The position where her face should have been was as if it had been gnawed out, completely sunken in.

You could tell she was female because of her black long straight hair.

It flew out of the mud, pouncing towards Yin Meng.

Yin Meng was just preparing to pick up her shovel to resist.

Just at this moment, Li Zhuyuan’s eyes opened, and he looked directly at it.

A silent stern howl instantly echoed throughout the entire dance room. Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin both felt a tearing pain in their eardrums.

And that faceless person immediately turned around and pounced towards Li Zhuyuan.

It felt a huge threat. This teenager was trying to control it!

Tan Wenbin, who had always stayed by Xiao Yuan’s side and didn’t go up to fight, actively rushed out at this moment, protecting Li Zhuyuan in front of him, and gave the pouncing faceless person a forceful shovel to the face.

“Bang!”

The shovel hit the faceless head squarely, and Tan Wenbin flew back, also bringing down Li Zhuyuan behind him.

Damn, I knocked Xiao Yuan down!

Tan Wenbin, whose mouth and nose were bleeding from the shock, gritted his teeth again, climbed up, and went to get the fallen Yellow River shovel. Behind him, a hand grabbed his arm and used his strength to get up.

Li Zhuyuan glared at it.

In this kind of close-quarters fighting, every moment could decide life and death. More tools actually had no room to play. This was encountering a battle, not setting a trap to hunt.

Therefore, from beginning to end, Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin could only have time to hold the Yellow River shovel and fight desperately, while Li Zhuyuan, as soon as he came up, directly used Wei Zhengdao’s black skin book’s method of controlling dead bodies.

The teenager stirred open his palm and suddenly gripped tightly.

“Buzz!”

The faceless person’s figure stopped in place.

Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin both breathed a sigh of relief. Success!

However, the joy of success only lasted for a few short seconds. In the depths of the faceless person’s black dark sunken face, two red eyes emerged.

Li Zhuyuan’s face showed shock: Damn, it was originally being controlled!

Blood began to overflow from the corners of the teenager’s eyes, but he still stared dead ahead, ignoring the conscious ripping and tearing in the Walk Yin state.

The faceless person’s body began to tremble violently. Black blood fog sprayed constantly, and its body seemed about to fall apart.

Yin Meng and Tan Wenbin looked at each other. One took out the Home-Returning Net, and the other extended the Seven Star Hook. But just at this moment, sensing that it might be completely left here, the faceless person’s body suddenly swelled up.

“Boom!”

Black fog overflowed, covering their line of sight.

The faceless person’s figure began to retreat quickly, shattering the second-floor glass, and disappeared without a trace.

Li Zhuyuan lowered his head and slowly squatted down, pressing his eyes with both hands.

It hurt so much…

Li Zhuyuan’s heart was full of shock.

Before in Shigang Town, the Tai Sui dead body they encountered could control walking corpses, but those two possessed hooligan walking corpses. At that time, Runsheng could take them all down by himself.

But if the faceless person just now was also a walking corpse, then how terrifying was the one controlling her from behind?

Why would there be this level of existence inside the school?

“Xiao Yuan, are you okay?” Tan Wenbin asked concernedly.

Yin Meng also squatted beside him.

Although Runsheng was still nailed to the wall, no one went to look at him now.

Not cold-blooded, but worried that after separating, that thing would come back and attack Xiao Yuan.

Li Zhuyuan shook his head: “Go check on Runsheng. She’s almost falling apart, she won’t come back.”

“Okay.”

Yin Meng immediately got up and ran to Runsheng.

Runsheng was grabbing the rebar that had penetrated his shoulder with his left hand, constantly sucking in cold air.

His pale face showed that in the previous fight, he had already consumed most of his strength.

In fact, Li Zhuyuan was able to successfully launch and almost control that dead body because Runsheng had beaten it into heavy injury beforehand.

“What to do?” Yin Meng asked.

“Hold me… out.”

“Can you?”

“Yes… It’s not in a vital point.”

Tan Wenbin also ran over to help at this time. The two of them held Runsheng’s body one on each side, then Runsheng grabbed the rebar with one hand and slowly moved forward.

It was equivalent to going through the process of being penetrated by the rebar again.

Finally, after detaching from the restraint, Runsheng fell to the ground with a “thump,” his knees on the ground, his mouth open, breathing heavily.

Fortunately, the wound was not in a vital point. If it had been slightly further in, it would have been the most terrifying fatal injury.

This was still Runsheng, who was made so miserable for the first time. Looking at it from another angle, it was also because Runsheng was still able to fight the faceless person and survive. If it were other people, whether Yin Meng or Tan Wenbin, they would definitely have died long ago.

Li Zhuyuan walked over. Although he had wiped it, there were still bloodstains remaining in the corners of his eyes.

Runsheng saw the teenager’s shoes. He forced himself to lift his head and looked at the teenager’s face, especially the teenager’s gaze.

“Xiao Yuan… I… was wrong…”

Even the fiercest beast, under long-term comfortable life, would gradually have its edges ground flat, become dull, and lose its previous fierce decisiveness.

No one could keep that string tense at all times, forever making the most correct and suitable choices. Even a knife needed to be sharpened on a whetstone every now and then.

The emotion of concern flowed from Li Zhuyuan’s eyes:

“Runsheng brother, are you okay?”

Runsheng nodded slightly: “It’s okay… small injury.”

Li Zhuyuan knew that Runsheng wasn’t showing off. It seemed that as long as he didn’t suffer a fatal injury, he could recover very quickly every time.

“Binbin, send Runsheng to the school clinic. Say he accidentally fell onto a rebar during decoration.”

“Okay.”

Unlike the middle school clinic before that could only prescribe Qingkailing tablets and Banlangen, the university clinic was more like a small hospital, even having a doctor on duty at night.

Tan Wenbin’s trained arm muscles came into play at this time. If it were an ordinary person, they really couldn’t carry Runsheng’s large frame.

Yin Meng originally wanted to follow them, but Xiao Yuan didn’t call her name, so she stayed.

The two of them went back downstairs. Because that thing had left, the light in the store also returned to bright.

Although it was still raining outside, the rain curtain on the door frame had also disappeared.

Li Zhuyuan walked to the counter.

He noticed a slight swaying in Aunt Sun’s earlobe position, very slight, but it couldn’t escape the capture of someone good at physiognomy.

Her coma earlier wasn’t faked, but her coma now was.

Li Zhuyuan knew that she had a problem, and this had nothing to do with their contact in the past two days. At that time, she was very normal.

Everything started from the moment she assumed her comatose posture when the three of them came in.

If she had sprawled on the ground with her limbs spread out, or had broken her head and was bleeding profusely and dying, or even shivering under Runsheng’s protection on the second floor, all of this would have been normal.

The most abnormal thing was that she was actually lying on the counter with both hands. This posture was like taking a nap during normal work hours.

That fierce dead body, why were you so gentle to her?

And, she was watching the store the whole day today. If something was going to happen, it should have happened early. Yet, it happened specifically after Runsheng and the others came back.

Although this logic was quite cold-blooded and belonged to the presumption of guilt, Aunt Sun’s safety was the biggest problem.

Especially now, she was still pretending to be in a coma.

She was unlikely to be the murderer, nor the controller, but the faceless person’s dead body was definitely related to her!

Yin Meng had no problem with her professional quality as a corpse fisher, but in other aspects, she was inevitably a bit dull. At this time, she still wanted to go up and wake Aunt Sun up.

Li Zhuyuan raised his hand, stopping Yin Meng’s action.

Then, the teenager reached out and grabbed the Yellow River shovel in Yin Meng’s hand. Yin Meng immediately let go and handed it to him.

Li Zhuyuan raised the Yellow River shovel and smashed it down on the counter!

“Bang!”

“Ah!”

The glass on the counter shattered. Aunt Sun let out a scream and immediately lifted her head. At the same time, she fell to the ground. She supported herself with both hands and then was stabbed by glass shards again, constantly sucking in cold air.

Anger flared in Yin Meng’s eyes. She finally discovered that the person opposite was actually pretending to be in a coma. Thinking that Runsheng stayed because of her, Yin Meng clenched her fists tightly.

Aunt Sun’s gaze first looked at Yin Meng, then at the teenager who had just raised the shovel and was walking towards her step by step.

The soles of the teenager’s shoes stepped on the shattered glass, emitting a crisp “crunch crunch” sound, but on the teenager’s face, a warm smile appeared, just like when she had seen him several times in the past two days. He was always very sensible and polite.

Li Zhuyuan propped himself up with the Yellow River shovel and squatted down, looking at Aunt Sun, and asked in the most gentle voice the most icy words:

“Truth or live burial?”

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