With the sudden drop in BGM, the holographic projection scene changed again...

The 'little deceased' classmate played by Ji Xiaodao obviously did not give up. After seeking help from her class teacher to no avail, she began to consciously collect various information, starting from staying all night in the library to investigate the history of this strange city.

Going to the neighbors around her temporary residence, she, who is not good at communicating with others, keeps trying her best in her own way. However, whether it is a classmate from the student union who plays the role of the administrator of the municipal library, or the uncle of the school janitor who plays the role of the grocery store owner next door, it seems that everyone

None of them wanted to talk too much about the matter of 'Wangfeng Academy High School Class 3'. This situation made Xiao Ming's investigation reach a deadlock almost at the beginning.

But she didn't give up because...

"This is unfair."

It was still the classroom with an increasingly gloomy tone. The girl was absentmindedly spinning her pen while turning her head to look at the boy sitting alone in the corner staring out the window. The narration she had recorded in advance echoed in the air——

"Although I don't know what happened to you, even though I don't think I'm a busybody who likes to get to the bottom of things, even though the reason why I paid attention to you disappeared not long ago, but..."

"This kind of ridiculous thing, this kind of pain that is not self-inflicted but imposed on oneself by the outside world, should not be borne by people like you who are still willing to be kind to others after being isolated for so long.

....."

Classmate Xiao Ming's eyes were bright and firm, and he lightly clenched his fists.

"It doesn't matter even if you don't want to. It doesn't matter even if you are said to be nosy. Since I am not a lovable type, this level of willfulness is just reasonable."

...

BGM once again became relaxed and cheerful, as if everything that had been depressing before was just a phantom or a dream that had never really existed. The various scenes in the school once again restored a vibrant and youthful atmosphere. The only difference is,

Ji Xiaodao, who had never really appeared in these scenes before, that is, classmate Xiao Ming, somehow integrated into it. Although his temperament was still cold, he still slowly integrated into the group and became one of those smiling faces.

She started going to the cafeteria to eat with a few girls...

She started tutoring members of the same study group...

She began to sit on the side of the road and chat with everyone in her free time...

With a stiff face, she began to listen to pop music that she had originally dismissed at the suggestion of her 'new friends'...

The original 'weird' classmate Xiaomi disappeared, and was replaced by a quiet girl who didn't like to talk, but could get along well with everyone. In the last few scenes of this series of non-stop transitions,

She even has several 'best friends' and 'suitors'.

Xiaomi, who had completely integrated into the class, just like everyone else, completely ignored the boy in the corner who was always acting as a backdrop.

Everything looks so normal, even so normal that it makes people want to yawn. After all, on a stage equipped with holographic projections, even if these too ordinary daily scenes can touch people at first, they will quickly make the audience become...

fatigue.

But everyone present really didn't feel bored, because they could never forget the first scene, the blood-red crescent moon, the pale girl, the sharp hatchet...

Finally, after a moment, Ji Xiaodao's first-person narration sounded again——

"I successfully became a member of this class, and in the process gradually discovered that the world I was in in the past seemed a bit too pale..."

"Although I initially established a good relationship with everyone for a purpose, I don't know when I started to start to gradually enjoy it. After participating in many things, I realized that they are not boring at all..."

"This is a rare 'normal' day. I am no longer the weirdo who is incompatible with the environment. I have friends, hobbies and even things I like. It's like a hazy and happy dream..."

"I was shocked to find that I am not actually a 'weird', I am just an ordinary person who locked himself in a box simply because of his personality and psychological reasons. And now, the box is opened..."

"It's a pity that it's just everything on the outside, but it is an illusion that seems warm and happy, but in fact is more cold and cruel..."

...

The scene is set in a park in the afternoon, next to a brightly colored swing, and the characters are Xiao Ming and her classmates.

"Have you finally gotten used to life after transferring to another school?"

The girl with a few freckles on her face covered her mouth and chuckled. Xiao Ming, who was sitting next to the swing and reading a book, turned around and blinked: "We were all very concerned about you when you first transferred here, although many people thought you were...

Weird and unsociable, but it’s great to be able to get along with everyone now.”

Classmate Xiao Ming nodded slightly: "Well... I have received more and more care from everyone recently..."

"Hehe, it should be said that you are the one who takes care of us, especially tutoring us with homework~"

The girl walked to sit down next to classmate Xiao Ming and stuck out her tongue: "After all, our school is very strict about the admission rate. Although there are many extracurricular activities, the pressure of homework and exams is really too much. Wow, if it weren't for you,

, I will definitely be called a parent after last month’s quiz!”

Classmate Xiao Ming smiled, shook his head and said, "I'm just doing what I can."

At the same time, her voiceover sounded again——

"It's a very ordinary conversation, very ordinary politeness, but there is no pretense. There is sincere gratitude to each other. This feeling is not bad at all..."

"But it is precisely this kind of comfortable and lazy daily life that still oozes a chill that makes me chill..."

"The corner that everyone can see and is deliberately ignored by everyone has never appeared in any topic..."

"I like you very much, so I really hope you can give me a wrong answer to the following question..."

The narration and BGM are hidden together.

After a brief silence, Xiaomi turned to look at his friend who was holding a reference book and asked softly: "By the way, Xing, how many people are there in our class?"

"Eh? No, it was just a few months ago. Don't you know how many people are in the class now?"

The girl named Xing blinked, then spread her hands and said: "Of course... uh..."

She suddenly got stuck and paused for half a second before continuing: "Twenty people."

"Twenty people..."

Classmate Xiao Chen pursed his lips and said softly: "Well, I'll count, starting with Shanshan in the first row and the first column, one, then Fangzheng in the second row and the first column, two, and then the third row

..."

Xing looked at her curiously.

One minute later...

"You in the fourth row and column, nineteen, and then..."

Classmate Xiao Ming paused here, and then asked casually: "Well, fourth row and fifth column...who is that person? I didn't seem to hear him answer when the roll call was called.

"

The next second, the face of the girl named Xing suddenly turned pale, and then turned her head away stiffly: "Xiao...Xiao Mian, what are you talking about, that kind of thing... ugh...

....No, you didn’t actually say anything just now, right?”

Xiao Chen shook his head silently and looked at Xing with burning eyes.

"Yes, yes... you are a transfer student and have never stayed in this city..."

Xing looked away with twinkling eyes and whispered: "Well, there are some things you may not understand, but...but that's not an important thing, so..."

Classmate Xiao Ming gently held the other person's hand and asked softly: "We...are very good friends, right?"

"But then..."

"I just don't like the feeling of being kept in the dark, especially now that I have become familiar with everyone..."

"Xiao Ming, I..."

The voices of the two became smaller and smaller, and the stage gradually fell into darkness. It was not until the BGM that kept ticking like a clock played for a full minute that it lit up again.

The stage was reshaped by a holographic projection into a simple bedroom. There was a set of genuine tables and chairs by the window that I guess were brought up during the blackout. Student Xiao Ming was sitting in front of a wooden table filled with a large amount of handwritten information.

Staring blankly at half a yellowed newspaper...

The title hanging at the top is very eye-catching (holographic projection split-screen close-up) - [A fire broke out in Wangfeng Middle School due to unknown reasons, and a student was killed. The reason needs to be investigated urgently]

The date is a day twenty years ago...

"Three months after changing the approach, the investigation finally made substantial progress."

The pre-recorded narration sounded, and classmate Xiao Ming stared at the hold in front of him, clasping his hands tightly.

"The owner of the coffee shop he frequented used to be the editor-in-chief of a certain newspaper in this city. For the past thirty years, he has always been brooding about the incident that cost him his job..."

"He gave me this newspaper. Only three thousand copies were printed in total, but before it was published, he was pressured by someone to destroy 90% of the newspaper, and he shared his investigation results with me...

.”

"If I hadn't found a way to falsify his physical examination results and make him mistakenly believe that he had only a few years to live, I'm afraid he wouldn't have told me anyway..."

"Combining the information I got from Xing's mouth, I finally managed to restore the full picture of that incident."

"It's a pity that it's just a vulgar and superstitious supernatural story..."

"On the evening of January 3, 2009, the students of Class 3, Grade 1, No. 66 of Wangfeng Middle School held a ghost story meeting on the rooftop of the teaching building. Only one person did not arrive. At 21 o'clock on the same day, a fire broke out due to improper heating methods.

In the chaos, the door to the rooftop was accidentally locked, trapping a total of nineteen students. Due to the large amount of proctoring equipment stacked on the rooftop, it was impossible to send out a distress signal.

At 22:30 on the same night, the only boy who was not present received a call from his classmate's parents and was asked about his classmate's whereabouts. Since he had promised to conceal the information in advance, he could not contact his classmate by phone, so he made excuses to go out and return to school.

, and became the first witness when the security team left the dinner party and the school staff fell asleep.

Perhaps because he was afraid that his classmates would be held accountable, the boys did not choose to call the fire alarm or wake up the school staff immediately, but rushed into the teaching building and went straight to the rooftop.

Ten minutes later, when the boys opened the rooftop door, because they were outside and the fire spread slowly, except for a few students who were slightly burned, everyone else was unscathed. However, just as everyone fled outside in a swarm

At that moment, the boy who opened the door was pushed down the stairs, hit his head on the steps and fell into a coma.
To be continued...