Chapter 125

Chapter 122

Due to the inability to find direct poison and the hospital not providing a clear poisoning report, the police's actions were limited. It was impossible to summon all suspects for interrogation, and even the relationship network investigation was primarily conducted through simple visits.

However, after this quick and timely operation, the rumor of Zhou Yiyun being poisoned was "verified," and the version of "a certain female class monitor in this school suddenly suffering from a mental illness," which was already brewing and about to spread, was extinguished in advance.

After all, if it were a genuine mental illness attack, there would be no need for so many police officers.

While Tan Yunlong was arranging the next stage of investigation tasks and direction, Li Zhuoyuan and Lin Shiyou were the first to leave the dormitory building and get into the arriving police car.

Lin Shiyou was a little excited and happy: "Brother Xiao Yuan, what should we do next?"

"There's a very simple method."

"A simple method is good, just use a simple one!"

"You kidnap all five of those girls, then severely torture them to extract a confession."

Lin Shiyou: "......"

Li Zhuoyuan turned his head sideways and looked out the car window. The campus environment often brought with it a sense of peaceful years, and every university had its own style.

After a long period of hesitant thought, Lin Shiyou asked: "Brother Xiao Yuan, should we tie them up in the basement of our school's affordable store?"

"Huh?"

"I feel like that place is more suitable for imprisoning people. The most dangerous place is often the safest place."

"Are you really planning to do that?"

"If we can determine that the person who cast the curse is among those five people, Brother Xiao Yuan, I think your method is feasible."

"Then why don't you just kill all five of them? Anyway, the murderer is among them."

Lin Shiyou: "......"

Lin Shiyou once again tried hard to persuade himself, his fingers clenched forcefully, his expression also twisted for a moment, and finally, his whole body was like a deflated ball, and he said dejectedly:

"Brother Xiao Yuan, this... I seem unable to do it."

He actually really thought about the feasibility of doing this.

Li Zhuoyuan: "No rush, the person who cast the curse is very stupid. If a fish gets spooked once, it will hook itself. I just deliberately pointed out the laundry soap matter in front of them, just like hitting a nest."

A frightened fish will run, but a stupid person who is frightened will jump into the water themselves.

The range of suspects has been narrowed down so much, finding out who cast the curse is no longer considered difficult.

Now, what needs to be considered more is, since the opponent can get such a high-level cursed object, it's impossible for them to be an ordinary person and just pick it up casually on the roadside, right?

The copper coin I buried in my old home's grave hasn't been picked up yet.

This high-level cursed object, she knows how to use it, dares to use it, and knows how to recycle it, which means she is very familiar with and understands this.

Even if using a cannon to shoot a mosquito is absurd in itself, the premise is that she has a cannon and knows how to shoot.

This means:

She is a stupid fool, and a stupid fool with a background.

Li Zhuoyuan crossed his fingers and gently tapped.

Catching the fish is just the first step.

The second step is to fish out the connections behind her.

As for the third step, that is... hehe.

There's a line that often appears in gangster movies: disasters don't affect family.

But the problem is, you've already targeted our family first.

Lin Shiyou noticed a kind of deep-seated indifference in the teenager's eyes.

He mistakenly thought that Brother Xiao Yuan was dissatisfied with his previous refusal, so he had to force himself to say:

"Brother Xiao Yuan, could there be more than one murderer?"

"Huh?"

"Among those five people, could there be two, three, four, or even all of them be the murderers?"

If they are all murderers, then I have no moral burden. Tonight, I'll just go all out and kill, not save!

"No, there's only one murderer."

"Ah......"

"Zhou Yiyun has a very good personality. Even if someone is a murderer, they should be very good sisters with Zhou Yiyun during their daily interactions.

In a dormitory, if many people are dissatisfied with you and collectively participate in, default to, and cover up actions to harm you, then how much must you be hated by gods and despised by ghosts?

Moreover, this is casting a curse and using a cursed object. Ordinary people wouldn't even have the qualification and level to participate even if they wanted to."

"Then I......"

"I only hope for one thing now." Li Zhuoyuan lowered his head and looked at his flat fingernails.

"What thing?"

"Did you bring me money?"

"Brought." Having experienced the embarrassment of not having money to take a taxi back the last time they went out, Lin Shiyou now makes sure to pack his wallet before going out every time.

"There's a store over there. Go buy some paper and pigments."

"Okay, I'll go buy."

Lin Shiyou got out of the police car. Watching him leave, Li Zhuoyuan's gaze slowly sank.

He hoped that the connections behind the murderer wouldn't be as sensible and timely as Lin Shiyou's family last time, and wouldn't preemptively jump out to extinguish justice within the family.

So this time, the identities of the Qin and Liu families won't be reported first.

I am now: Nantong Haohe Wharf insert sit, salvage corpse Li.

Come on,

Hook.

......

The sky gradually darkened.

Inside the dormitory.

The police had already left. The five girls sat on their beds or chairs, the atmosphere very heavy.

Their gazes towards each other already carried suspicion and caution.

Tong Yanyan spoke up and said: "So, Yiyun was poisoned by someone?"

Wang Luan suddenly started crying, and while crying, she said: "Why is it like this, why is it like this? Who on earth wants to harm Yiyun, who is it!"

She was the youngest in the dormitory, and also the most delicate in appearance. Previously, whenever she cried, the sisters in the dormitory would all come over to comfort her.

But this time, no one was in the mood. They were all first-year freshmen, and many people were facing the police at such a close distance for the first time in their lives.

Unlike the image of police seen in movies and TV shows, when you face a uniformed police officer questioning you in reality, the sense of oppression and shock is real.

Zhao Mengyao: "I really can't understand who wants to harm Yiyun. Yiyun is such a good person, who could do such a thing!"

While saying this, Zhao Mengyao's gaze swept over the remaining four girls one by one.

Zhang Xin: "I believe that even if someone wants to harm Yiyun, it won't be us in the dormitory. The police will continue to investigate, ask everyone in the class, and even ask other people. We are just the first batch to be questioned. Besides, it doesn't mean the poisoner is in our dormitory."

Zhou Shengnan jumped off the bed and said: "Anyway, if I find out who harmed Yiyun, no matter who it is, I will kill her!"

Tong Yanyan bent down. She was on the lower bunk, and Zhou Yiyun was on the upper bunk, so some of their supplies were placed under one bed.

The plastic basin was pulled out by her again. The original bar of laundry soap had already been taken away by the police for inspection.

Tong Yanyan pointed at the plastic basin and asked: "Who put a new bar of laundry soap in here?"

Everyone's gaze looked towards the plastic basin, and no one spoke.

Tong Yanyan asked again: "The person who changed the laundry soap definitely won't come out and admit it. I want to ask, have any of you seen anyone else come under my bed to change things?"

Still no one spoke, just shaking their heads.

Tong Yanyan pursed her lips and continued: "If you saw something, please say it now. Don't try to cover for anyone, because since she dared to poison Yiyun, she might also poison you!"

Wang Luan wiped her tears and said: "I didn't see."

Zhao Mengyao: "I didn't see either."

Zhang Xin: "Is this laundry soap poison, or was there poison in the laundry soap Yiyun used last night? Yiyun can't eat laundry soap, right? Could it be that contact with it causes problems? Then won't the clothes you wore this morning also have problems?"

Tong Yanyan looked at Zhang Xin with some doubt and asked: "What do you mean by this?"

Zhang Xin: "I'm worried about you. Look at the police's attitude earlier, they clearly pointed out that the laundry soap was the problem. Didn't the police just come to find poison?"

Zhou Shengnan said with a puzzled look: "I also can't understand why poisoning is related to laundry soap?"

Zhang Xin continued to explain: "Could it be that kind of poison that can be transmitted through contact?"

Wang Luan: "If that's the case, then won't our whole dormitory be affected? Woo woo woo, I don't want to die, I don't want to go crazy, woo woo woo......"

"Nannan, don't cry." Zhou Shengnan shouted, "What problem can crying solve?"

Zhao Mengyao: "How about we write anonymous notes? In case someone is embarrassed to say it in front of everyone, we can just write it on paper, and then open and look together?"

Tong Yanyan said dissatisfiedly: "This kind of thing has already happened, what is there to be embarrassed about? Yiyun is already in the hospital. If we know something, do we still need to save face for her?"

Zhou Shengnan echoed: "Yanyan is right. At this point, if you saw something and still dare not say it, then there's really no cure."

Zhang Xin: "On the contrary, I think Mengyao's suggestion is not bad. Why not try it?"

Zhao Mengyao took out a notebook, tore off five sheets of paper, and then took five pencil leads.

One sheet of paper and one pencil lead, she handed them out to her roommates one by one.

When it was Tong Yanyan's turn, Tong Yanyan didn't take it, but instead shouted: "It's really a pure waste of effort. If you had this effort, why didn't you tell the police directly just now?"

After shouting, Tong Yanyan got off the bed and put on her shoes.

Zhou Shengnan asked: "Yanyan, where are you going?"

"I'm going to the school store to buy a new cup, toothbrush, toothpaste, and laundry soap. I'm also changing all my towels!"

Tong Yanyan walked out of the dormitory.

Wang Luan looked at the paper and pencil lead in her hand and asked: "Should we still write?"

Zhao Mengyao said: "Write it, just in case. Everyone turn back and write. After writing, put it in this box in order. Then we'll look at the contents together."

Everyone turned back.

"Have you all finished writing? Don't turn back. Come one by one and put it in, starting from Nannan, then Xinxin, then Shengnan, and finally me."

After everyone had put it in, Zhao Mengyao shook the pen holder below, then sequentially stirred open the four slips of paper. The first three were blank, and the fourth one was written:

"I saw Yanyan change the soap."

Inside the dormitory, everyone was silent.

Zhou Shengnan said in confusion: "Who wrote it?"

No one answered.

Zhou Shengnan continued to ask: "If Yanyan changed it, why would she still take the initiative to mention this matter and ask who put it in?"

Zhao Mengyao: "Could it be that she's deliberately playing the thief crying stop thief?"

Wang Luan: "Do we... do we need to tell the police? Or should we wait for Yanyan to come back and ask her together?"

Zhang Xin got off the bed and walked outside.

Zhao Mengyao: "Xinxin, where are you going?"

Zhang Xin: "I'm going to find the counselor. I want to apply to change dormitories!"

......

When Tong Yanyan walked out of the dormitory building, a pink human-shaped paper fell in front of her.

She was in a fit of anger, and didn't even look at it, directly stepping over the pink paper.

After arriving at the store, checking out the toiletries and daily necessities, Tong Yanyan picked up the public telephone placed on the counter and dialed a number.

The counter was right at the door, in the shadow on the left side of the big door. Li Zhuoyuan stood there, his ears slightly twitching, and all of Tong Yanyan's conversation clearly fell into his ears.

She was calling her mother, talking about Zhou Yiyun's matter, saying that the police had come today, and expressing her current nervousness and fear.

Her mother then comforted her on the other end of the phone.

After Tong Yanyan finished her call, she carried her things back to the dormitory.

The remaining four girls also left the dormitory building separately during this night, after all, they all had to go to the cafeteria for dinner.

Every time a girl came out, a small pink human-shaped piece of paper would float down in front of them.

Zhang Xin lowered her head and glanced at the piece of paper before continuing to walk forward.

Zhou Shengnan then grabbed the floating paper and threw it into the garbage bin in front.

Wang Luan and Zhao Mengyao were startled when they saw the paper, and accelerated to run away.

Besides Tong Yanyan, there were two other people who came to the store to make calls, namely Wang Luan and Zhang Xin.

Wang Luan called her father, recounted what happened today, and then cried tearfully seeking comfort.

She talked really ramblingly, and even told her dad about the anonymous note writing after Tong Yanyan left the dormitory.

Zhang Xin called her uncle. Her uncle should be a certain leader in the school or have connections within the school. Zhang Xin begged him to help her arrange to change dormitories. She said she didn't want to stay in this dormitory anymore.

Her uncle asked her for the reason. She told him about the dormitory incident today, and disparaged all the girls except Zhou Yiyun.

Zhou Shengnan and Zhao Mengyao didn't make calls, which was also normal. At that time, telephones were not yet popular, especially for rural students. It was very luxurious to be able to call their parents and chat anytime.

Tong Yanyan, Wang Luan, and Zhang Xin, their family conditions should be pretty good.

The first two called their homes directly, while Zhang Xin called to use connections to change dormitories.

Actually, there was a public telephone under every dormitory building, right on the table outside the dormitory office.

The reason why the three of them came out of the dormitory building to the store to make calls was because Li Zhuoyuan had asked Lin Shiyou to cut the telephone line in the dormitory building.

To reconnect, they would have to wait for relevant repair personnel to come and process it tomorrow.

As for the paper figures that floated down every time someone came out, they were also thrown by Lin Shiyou, who was hiding in the trees.

The night gradually deepened. Although it wasn't time for the dormitory lights to go out and power cut, it wasn't far either. On the road outside, there were only a few sporadic couples still having their last private talks, and the store was also preparing to close.

Li Zhuoyuan sat down on a long chair, and Lin Shiyou ran over.

"Brother Xiao Yuan, any discoveries?"

"Three people made calls, no abnormalities were found."

Lin Shiyou scratched his head: "Alas, what a pity. It doesn't matter, Brother Xiao Yuan, you think of another method, we can definitely......"

"What's a pity?"

"Didn't you say that the three people who made calls didn't find any abnormalities?"

"No abnormality just means they are normal, which eliminates three options."

"Amount...... right oh!"

When you put the murderer's position at "stupid fool", the world becomes very simple. To design complex and profound traps and tests is just to insult yourself.

A stupid fool won't think that I am focusing on her, and at this time, she would specially run out to call "family" and deliberately chat at home to show me.

If she had that kind of brain, she wouldn't have done the matter of opening a new bar of laundry soap and throwing it back.

To contact family, she should also tell her family that someone seems to have discovered her secret, first admit her mistake to her family, and then seek help from her family.

Li Zhuoyuan asked: "Where are the paper pieces?"

"Brother Xiao Yuan, I observed that Wang Luan and Zhao Mengyao were startled when they saw the paper pieces, Tong Yanyan directly stepped over them, Zhang Xin glanced at them and just walked away, and Zhou Shengnan directly threw the paper pieces into the garbage bin.

So, according to your previous exclusion and their reactions, Zhou Shengnan is the one who cast the curse?"

Li Zhuoyuan took out the pink human-shaped paper from Lin Shiyou's pocket, gently shook it in front of him, and asked: "Why?"

"Because she's not afraid! Brother Xiao Yuan, you cut this paper figure according to the standard size for hitting a small person. As long as you understand a little about curse techniques, you will see it.

But there are no words written on it, no lines tied, and no paint pressed. It's just like a standard yellow paper with no symbols at all, like a Taoist paper. There's no need to be afraid at all.

So, according to the two methods of exclusion, there is only one truth. The person who cast the curse is......"

"Ayou."

"Um, Brother Xiao Yuan?"

Li Zhuoyuan flicked the paper in front of him and asked: "Do you think this paper is scary?"

"I......"

"I deliberately painted it pink, not white or black, just hoping it wouldn't give people a scary feeling. This kind of paper, if stuck on the wall for literary activities, is very normal. What's there to be scared of?

Don't think things are that complex. Everything can be simpler.

So, those who can be scared by it are either naturally timid and cry whenever they encounter something, or they just... really have a problem."

"So, the person who cast the curse is......"

"Zhao Mengyao."

......

"Who are you looking for?"

Tong Yanyan opened the dormitory door and asked in a very stiff tone.

After she came back to the dormitory from the store after buying things, the people in the dormitory looked at her with obvious vigilance, even hostility, which made her feel very uncomfortable. Even when facing strangers, she didn't have a good temper.

"Is Zhao Mengyao in your dormitory?"

"Yes."

"A boy asked me to send her a love letter. Here you go."

An envelope with a heart on it was handed over, and Tong Yanyan received it.

The girl who delivered the letter left. She was returning to the dormitory late, and a boy had given her money to come in and deliver a love letter, which was equivalent to running an errand and earning a quick buck.

Tong Yanyan closed the door, threw the love letter to Zhao Mengyao, who was already sitting on the upper bunk, and then returned to her own bed.

If it had been before, every time Zhou Yiyun received a love letter, everyone would collectively let out a "yo~" in curiosity, tease her, and even playfully want to look at it together.

However, Zhou Yiyun never opened the seal every time, and always put it in the drawer.

Everyone started to guess and doubt, saying that the class monitor already had someone in her heart.

Zhao Mengyao picked up the envelope somewhat unexpectedly, specially waited a moment, but found no one teasing her, and no "yo~" sound.

She said to herself: "Heh, at this time, who still has the mind to look at this kind of thing."

Tong Yanyan didn't answer. Zhang Xin was packing her luggage, preparing to move dormitories tomorrow. Wang Luan was curled up on her bed, tears in her eyes. She still needed others to comfort her, so where would she have the time to provide emotional value to others?

Only Zhou Shengnan very perfunctorily accompanied her with a sentence:

"Just take it as a moment of fleeting happiness." Zhao Mengyao's chest fluctuated for a moment, then she took continuous deep breaths, finally stabilizing her emotions.

Subsequently, she carefully opened the envelope and took out the letter paper.

The handwriting on it was very good-looking, but the content was very short.

"Regarding the matter of casting a curse on my table sister, I need you to give me an explanation.

Tomorrow at twelve noon, meet backstage at the school auditorium.

——Nantong Haohe Wharf insert sit, salvage corpse Li."

Zhao Mengyao's entire face changed color. She asked with a trembling voice:

"Hey, where is our Yiyun from?"

Zhang Xin pulled on her luggage box. She was from Jinling, also in Jiangsu, so she casually answered: "Nantong."

Tong Yanyan said at this time: "Didn't that teenager who followed the police today say he was Yiyun's table younger brother? Then he should also be from Nantong?"

Zhang Xin: "Should be."

Zhao Mengyao got off the bed.

He was watching all along!

Zhang Xin asked: "Are you going out to see him?"

"Ah?"

Zhang Xin said speechlessly: "See that guy? The one who wrote you the love letter."

"I... I... yes, I'm going to see him."

Zhou Shengnan asked: "Are you prepared to say yes?"

Zhao Mengyao shook her head: "No, I'm going to reject him and make him give up. Hehe, what are you all thinking? Am I that kind of casual person, who says yes just because I received a love letter?

If that were the case, wouldn't our class monitor have had a dozen boyfriends already?"

Because Zhao Mengyao mentioned Zhou Yiyun again, the little bit of interest in speaking that had just ignited was instantly extinguished again.

Everyone lowered their heads and stopped speaking.

Zhao Mengyao walked out of the dormitory. She first went downstairs. At the dormitory building door, the dormitory aunt was just about to close the door. Seeing her come down, she asked:

"Are you going out? Go quickly and come back quickly. I'll wait for you for a while."

"No no no, it's okay, auntie, you close the door. I'm not going out."

Zhao Mengyao seemed to suddenly think of something, waved her hands continuously, and then ran back up the stairs.

She didn't go back to the dormitory, but entered the public toilet on the floor, hid in the innermost stall, and closed the door.

She took out a folded piece of paper from her pocket, propped the paper open, blew on the middle, and the paper expanded into the shape of an ingot, like a small boat. Immediately after, she stuffed the "love letter" into the paper boat.

She looked at her fingers, took a deep breath, preparing herself.

"Vomit......"

Taking a deep breath in the toilet, a gust of foul air made her feel nauseous.

After dry heaving twice, she made a decisive decision, put her finger in her mouth and bit the fingertip open, then dripped blood onto the paper boat. After the paper boat was largely soaked with fresh blood, she took out a cigarette box from her pocket and took out a lighter from the cigarette box.

"Pa cha!"

The lighter ignited the red paper boat, which she threw into the toilet bowl below.

"Hua la la!"

Just then, the water storage tank in the foremost stall reached a certain water level and started releasing water. The water flow in the toilet bowl was turbulent, and the burning paper boat submerged into the round hole.

In the innermost stall, someone cursed:

"Is there any public morality? Smoking in the toilet!"

......

Sixth Hospital, ward.

Tan Wenbin sat on a chair, arms crossed, feet stacked and resting on the side of the bed.

Although this was a bit far from the bed, it allowed him to pay attention to the patient on the bed while also keeping an eye on the three burning candles under the bed.

Zhou Yiyun slept, slept for a very long time.

This time, her eyelids trembled slightly, and she woke up.

Although her eyes were still somewhat lost, her personal spirit was gradually recovering.

She seemed to be thinking, recalling what happened today.

Then, panic once again flowed out of her eyes, and terrifying images began to attack her brain. Her body also instinctively started to curl up.

"You're awake?"

Zhou Yiyun turned her head and looked at Tan Wenbin next to her. She bit her lip, and tears flowed from her eyes.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's all over. It's okay."

Tan Wenbin reached out to wipe her tears. This wasn't the first time Zhou Yiyun had cried today. When she was lying on the bed during the day, her eyes lost and without spirit, she also cried when she saw him.

However, when Tan Wenbin's hand reached over, Zhou Yiyun took the initiative to grab it. Immediately after, she buried her head towards Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin could only bend down and hug her, gently patting her back with his palm.

When the girl was the class monitor, she wasn't strict, and her voice wasn't loud, but she couldn't control people.

Tan Wenbin, who was previously the class's left protector, had been yelled at and educated by the class monitor quite a bit.

This was the first time he had seen the class monitor so weak.

Even on the eve of the college entrance examination, when she confessed her feelings to him, she was confident and bright like a rainbow in the sky.

But now, she was very scared, very weak, yearning for dependence and security.

Tan Wenbin held her, and ruthlessness flowed from his eyes.

He had always avoided his feelings for Zhou Yiyun. Did he like her?

He should like her.

She was very beautiful. She existed in his memories. Her confidence, her smile, once adorned his youth.

If he didn't like her, he wouldn't have told Uncle Tan about her, and consequently been overheard by Aunt Tan.

If he hadn't been moved, he wouldn't have told Runsheng, causing Runsheng to tease him repeatedly about when he would have a baby.

But to say it was the kind of true love to the death, that definitely wasn't the case, because it hadn't really started yet.

But her confession to him was truly different.

This was a kind of difference that even outsiders could see, like Lin Shiyou.

And besides these, what Zhou Yiyun encountered today was even more of a re-tearing of another wound in Tan Wenbin's heart.

He had personally witnessed Zheng Haiyang die in front of him. Today, he almost witnessed Zhou Yiyun fall and die in front of him.

Having already experienced loss once, when it happened again, the anger was imaginable.

He had always suppressed this anger. During the day, when Xiao Yuan was there, he didn't express it, because he didn't want to interfere with and influence Xiao Yuan's judgment. Xiao Yuan had already gone with his father to investigate this incident.

Once the investigation results came out and the real murderer was found, Tan Wenbin would kneel in front of Brother Xiao Yuan and beg him to help him take revenge.

He knew very well that Brother Xiao Yuan didn't like to be bound by emotions. Brother Xiao Yuan was very averse to using emotions to handle matters, but he, Tan Wenbin, just couldn't endure it.

He wanted to kill, kill, kill the person who had harmed Zhou Yiyun!

Zhou Yiyun gradually stopped crying. She moved her head away. The ruthless expression on Tan Wenbin's face disappeared, replaced by a gentle smile.

"Thank you, Binbin."

Tan Wenbin helped her adjust her pillow to make her more comfortable.

When he stood up and pulled away from her, Zhou Yiyun lifted her hands and grabbed his clothes.

She was very scared.

"Don't go......"

Tan Wenbin shrugged, pointed at the fruit on the bedside table, and said:

"I just want to perform for you a classic scene of peeling an apple by the sickbed."

Zhou Yiyun lifted her head and looked at the bedside table. There was indeed a fruit basket placed there.

Her lips were also very dry.

But she still shook her head, her hand still grabbing the boy's clothes.

She was not acting like a child in love or a reluctant sweetheart leaving and acting spoiled. She had just experienced terror and was still under the remaining warm shadow.

"Okay then."

Tan Wenbin picked up an apple and a fruit knife, and lay down on his side by the sickbed.

A smile appeared on Zhou Yiyun's pale face. She leaned her face on Tan Wenbin's chest and wrapped her arms around his waist, afraid that he would disappear.

Tan Wenbin then hummed a song and peeled the apple.

After peeling off a piece, he delivered it to her mouth. She opened her mouth and ate it, not at all minding her lips touching his fingers.

And this soft, warm, and moist touch, on the contrary, made Tan Wenbin's heart feel like a little deer was jumping around.

After eating half an apple, Zhou Yiyun said: "Don't eat, you eat."

Tan Wenbin then gnawed on the remaining half apple himself.

Zhou Yiyun asked: "How did you end up here?"

Tan Wenbin knew that this wasn't the time to help her recall, but instead smiled and asked back:

"Then where should I be, under the bed?"

Zhou Yiyun seemed to realize that her hand had just been pressing against his chest and she was also hugging his waist.

But she just slightly lifted her face and slowly moved her hands away. A moment later, she leaned her face back again and hugged him tighter.

After a long time, she spoke again: "What exactly... happened to me?"

"It was a nightmare, and now the nightmare is over. From now on, it will all be beautiful dreams."

Tan Wenbin's fingertips gently patted the girl's back.

He didn't plan to tell Zhou Yiyun the truth, because not everyone could adapt to the truth.

Zhou Yiyun, after all, wasn't Ali.

Initially, Brother Xiao Yuan risked overdrafting himself to set up the formation and counter-kill that pair of dwarf father and son. It was I who rode the three-wheeled bike, woke myself up by slapping myself, and sent Brother Xiao Yuan back to the dam at Grandpa Li's house.

Brother Xiao Yuan told Ali that someone wanted to scheme against him, and he had already counter-attacked and would kill the person who wanted to scheme against him.

I was just faint by the side at that time. Although faint, I saw that the usually ice-cold and expressionless little girl, Ali, smiled.

But if I told Zhou Yiyun the truth, and also told her what she had experienced in the past and would experience in the future, even ignoring the influence of cause and effect relations of Walk River, then could she... really accept it?

After I finished the task with Brother Xiao Yuan and came back, I would tell her: Hey, do you know how powerful I am? I used a stone to smash a person to death tonight; I, alone tonight, eliminated a nest of evil things!

Not every girl is like Ali, who would directly express happiness about this.

Of course, he also didn't hope that she would become Ali. He hoped that she could still live her life with confidence and sunshine like before.

If possible, being able to see her occasionally was already very happy.

If she found someone, his heart would also regret it, and he might be sleepless for a while in the evening, but he could eventually enlighten himself.

Just now... Tan Wenbin looked at her in his arms, and after his fingers stopped patting, his fingertips touched her back. Even through her clothes, he could feel that smoothness.

He was not a naive person. He knew: the sense of distance he had originally deliberately maintained seemed to have been broken.

"Tan Wenbin."

Zhou Yiyun continued to lean her face on his chest and called out his full name.

"Your slave is here, does Your Majesty have any instructions?"

"Tan Wenbin, I want to be with you, the kind that's not separated."

"That's not good, is it? You're just sick, wouldn't that make it seem like I'm taking advantage of someone in difficulty?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't agree." Zhou Yiyun lifted her head and looked at his face, "There's no rule that says only boys can pursue girls. I can also pursue you."

"Don't, don't, don't, no need, no need, old class monitor, we won't suffer this grievance."

"Do you have a girl you like?"

"Yes."

Zhou Yiyun lowered her head, silent.

This reply seemed to instantly drain away all the courage she had previously mustered.

"Before, I always deliberately made trouble during self-study class, just wanting to hear her angrily yell at me: 'Tan Wenbin, you give me some quiet!'"

"Puchi......"

The girl laughed.

Tan Wenbin: "Tan Wenbin, you can not study yourself, but don't influence other classmates' study!"

"Okay." The girl grabbed Tan Wenbin's waist and shook it.

"Tan Wenbin, if you don't listen to me again, I'll go tell the teacher!"

"Alright." Zhou Yiyun's face was red.

"Tan Wenbin, it's study time now, don't you want your future!"

"Stop, enough." Zhou Yiyun lightly hammered the boy's chest with her fist.

Tan Wenbin lowered his head and looked at the girl in his arms:

"Class monitor."

Zhou Yiyun's body tensed slightly.

"I also didn't think that I, this mere toad, one day, would also be able to eat swan meat."

"Don't, don't......"

Zhou Yiyun continued to lightly hammer Tan Wenbin's chest in dissatisfaction.

"This time, don't make metaphors, don't use metaphors."

Alas, women are really difficult to serve.

"Class monitor."

"Um......"

"I like you."

Zhou Yiyun was satisfied. She closed her eyes, a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and her breathing gradually stabilized.

Just as Tan Wenbin said earlier, the nightmare is over, and next will be a beautiful dream.

Let's just consider this a dream for now.

At least in the dream, she was satisfied.

She fell asleep.

This time, her eyebrows were no longer furrowed, her expression was very comfortable and serene, even with some sweetness.

A smile also appeared at the corner of Tan Wenbin's mouth.

Although the environment was not suitable at this time, and smoking was harmful to health, second-hand smoke was also very harmful. He had also quit smoking and given the pack he had before to his old dad......

But he really wanted to lie here at this moment and light one up, and then continuously blow out excited little smoke rings, just like the steam engine in a cartoon: "Tut tut tut!"

He gently moved the girl's hand away, settled her well, and covered her with the quilt.

Tan Wenbin got off the bed, first lowered his head to check that the three candles were still burning normally, then straightened up and lightly twisted his waist and neck.

Brother Xiao Yuan and his dad had gone to investigate, and he didn't know if his dad had inherited enough of his excellent talent to cooperate well with Brother Xiao Yuan.

Suddenly, Tan Wenbin felt as if a chilling wind had blown in, hitting his face and making his forehead feel cool.

The ward door and windows were all closed, there was no ventilation.

Having experienced so many things, Tan Wenbin also had experience: something was happening.

He reached into his pocket with his left hand to get a talisman, and drew out the Yellow River shovel from his bag with his right hand.

He circled the sickbed step by step, facing the ward door.

Before, he was used to standing in front of Brother Xiao Yuan. Now, behind him, there was one more person who needed his back.

Late at night in the hospital, it was very quiet. This floor was also single wards. Those who could live here were either patients with special conditions or patients with special identities.

So, tonight, except for this place, the wards on this floor were actually all empty.

A seventy-year-old man wearing a white hole vest, carrying a bamboo basket, and leaning on a wooden stick with his left hand, came to this floor through the staircase.

He looked about seventy years old, but his actual age might not have been that old, because that wrinkled, dry, and thin face was like that of an ordinary farmer who had endured the wind and frost of life in the countryside.

The new cloth shoes on his feet were the only decent thing on his whole body. This outfit was like going out to the market.

The old man raised the wooden stick in his hand, picked something from the bamboo basket on his back, and then threw it forward.

A dirty, broken cloth doll fell to the ground.

The old man emitted obscure, mixed syllables from his throat, and continuously drew circles around the cloth doll with the wooden stick in his hand.

The cloth doll started to tremble, and wisps of black smoke drilled out from the cloth doll's body, finally condensing in front into a distressed girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, in ragged clothes.

Her body was full of sewing marks, and even more silver needles were all over her body. Her scattered hair completely covered her face.

She started to move forward, dragging one step at a time along the corridor, coming to the front of that ward.

She turned her body, wanting to go in, but as soon as half of her body went in, she was bounced back out by an unknown force.

Behind her, doubt appeared in the old man's eyes.

Inside the ward.

The non-Walking Yin Tan Wenbin only felt the chilling wind intensify sharply, but then it suddenly stopped. There were slight trembling and friction sounds all around the ward.

He immediately turned back to look, and saw that the three candles under the sickbed just shook slightly, but were still burning normally, which made him let out a sigh of relief.

Just at this moment, in the quiet hospital building, a crisp snap of fingers sounded from somewhere.

"Pa!"

The three candles were instantly extinguished!

Tan Wenbin's eyes widened. What was going on?

The girl was attempting to enter a second time. First, half of her body passed through, and then, she went in completely.

Seeing this, the doubt on the old man's face disappeared, replaced by a slightly suppressed smile:

"Hehe, a little salvage corpse person I've never heard of, actually dares to ask for an explanation from my family.

Well then, I, the old man, will satisfy you today.

I wonder if you are satisfied with this explanation?"

At this time, a teenager's voice came through:

"Very satisfied."

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