Chapter 8 The Stone Platform with Hidden Meaning
Since coming down from the back of the school, Jiang Xu has been silent, so that Su Yang doesn't dare to speak, but he was born with a lot of questions, and now he has a stomach of questions circling in his mind, and he can't hold back without asking.
Now the two are resting in a pavilion by the school lake, and Jiang Xu is sitting on a chair and quietly looking at the lake.
"Worm, what have you been thinking? Why haven't you spoken for two hours?"
Su Yang didn't dare to disturb Jiang Xu, he felt as if he was thinking about something, but he was really suffocated.
Jiang Xu raised his head to look at him, then approached Su Yang and said in a low voice.
"Do you remember those stone platforms by the trees on the mountain just now?"
Su Yang nodded, looking at Jiang Xu with a puzzled expression on his face.
"You're talking about the pedestals that give people rest?"
Su Yang asked softly.
Jiang Xu frowned, and then said.
"That's not for people to rest, you see that stone platform for people to rest, is it a person who can sit and poke his ass?
Su Yang was puzzled and supported his head with his hands.
"It's not for people to rest, so what's that?"
Jiang Xu stretched out his hand, then took out a tissue, wiped his fingers on the tissue, and a gray-black finger print suddenly appeared on the tissue.
That was the injured dust left behind by Jiang Xu after touching the stone platform on the back mountain just now.
"See, these are not the dust that will be found on ordinary stones, the dust on ordinary stones is gray and whitish, and these gray are black, like dust left after being burned!"
Su Yang took the tissue in Jiang Xu's hand, indeed, the color of the eyes on the tissue changed from light to dark, and the light gray gradually turned black.
When you are on your hands, you generally don't look good, but because of the texture of the paper towel, the dust will be cut apart layer by layer, so that when it is presented on the paper, you will see it badly.
Su Yang approached and sniffed, a fragrance that seemed to be there wafted in, Su Yang's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at Jiang Xu in disbelief.
"Incense ash?"
Jiang Xu nodded heavily, and then stared at the calm lake again.
Su Yang didn't know why, there would be incense ashes on the stone platform on the mountain behind the school, who would go there to burn incense, and it was not in the temple.
Thinking of those stone platforms, the images that flashed in his mind instantly gave him goosebumps.
"Those stone platforms, shouldn't they be ......?"
Jiang Xu turned his head, and his eyes shone with a dazzling light.
"It is a stone platform that will only be there when it is buried, in the past or in more remote villages, there is no large-scale unified cemetery in the city now, and when someone dies in the family, they are buried in the cemetery in the village or on the hill near the home for burial, and generally erect a wooden tablet, and sometimes, in order to make the tomb look more beautiful, a stone platform will be built on the wooden tablet. ”
Su Yang also knew that after all, he was also from the village, and when he was a child, he also saw the death of people in the village for burial.
"But this is the school, is there a burial of people under every stone platform? Are those eight students?"
Su Yang said with some panic, doing this kind of thing in school, it's scary to think about it, there may be a lot of corpses buried in the place where students can go to school every day.
Jiang Xu shook his head.
"I've counted, it's not the right number! It's not eight, it's only five!"
Su Yang was even more puzzled, and his face wrinkled.
"What could it be, since you can build a stone platform and burn incense, there must be something buried underneath!"
Jiang Xu stood up and paced back and forth in the pavilion.
"I thought so, too, but I couldn't figure out what would have been buried underneath the eight missing students, and who would have built something like this in the school?"
The two fell into deep thought at the same time, and Su Yang looked in the direction of the back mountain, feeling furious in his heart.
Jiang Xu's heart felt uneasy, he didn't know why he was suddenly uneasy, but just now halfway up the mountain, the red-clothed 'female ghost' he glimpsed in the corner of his eye, Jiang Xu was sure that it must be a person.
"Looks like we'll have to ask those classmates again. ”
Su Yang got up, the two of them left the pavilion and walked on campus, the sun was on it, looking at the classmates who came and went were hot and wiping their sweat, but Jiang Xu's body felt surprisingly cold.
Walking to the dissection club, there were only one or two students in it, who were cleaning, and one of them they were familiar with, it was Cheng Yang.
"Hello Cheng Yang!"
Su Yang walked in to say hello with a familiar car, and Cheng Yang turned around and saw that it was them, and laughed.
"Senior, Officer Su, is there any progress in the case?"
Jiang Xu laughed.
"There's really progress, we can't reveal it!
Cheng Yang scratched his head embarrassedly.
Su Yang sat down and looked at Cheng Yang.
"Cheng Yang, has anyone died in the school?"
Jiang Xu didn't squeak and sat on the side.
When Cheng Yang heard this question, he frowned and looked back at the two of them.
"What do you mean?"
Su Yang thought that maybe he was asking too directly, and immediately added.
"Has anyone died in the school in recent times, like a student or a teacher?"
Cheng Yang shook his head.
"If someone dies in the school, such a big thing must have been publicized a long time ago, how can it be hidden, but I haven't heard that anyone in the school has died!"
Jiang Xu asked again.
"So before, did anyone die?"
Cheng Yang still shook his head.
"Not really, I'm a junior in college, at least I haven't died since I entered school. “
Su Yang glanced at Jiang Xu, Jiang Xu's face was not very good, he stood up, nodded towards Cheng Yang, and walked out.
"Thank you!"
Su Yang hurriedly thanked him and ran out.
"This kind of thing, I'm afraid it's not okay to ask boys, after all, boys don't like gossip very much, so I have to find a girl to ask. “
Jiang Xu wanted to find the girl in Jiang Xiran's bedroom, learned about the disappearance from her, and got Jiang Xiran's diary, Jiang Xu felt that she was a very conscious person.
The two were about to walk towards the girls' dormitory, but another girl followed behind them.
"That...... Senior!"
The voice was fierce and gentle, and it trembled a little.
Jiang Xu looked back and found a delicate-looking, not beautiful but very clean girl standing behind him.
"Hello, what's the matter?"
The girl's nervous hands rubbed together, with a hint of melancholy between her eyebrows.
"Can you take a step to speak?"
The girl turned her head to look around, as if she was afraid of being seen.
Jiang Xu suddenly felt that this girl had something important to tell them, and if it didn't work, it would be related to the disappearance.
Even Su Yang became nervous with this girl, and lowered his voice.
"Is there something important to tell us?"
The girl nodded slowly.
Jiang Xu and Su Yang glanced at each other and smiled.
"Let's talk in a different place!"
After speaking, Jiang Xu took the lead in walking forward, and Su Yang looked at the direction he was walking, it seemed that it was still the pavilion, because it was far away, so when the course was intensive, there were generally no people there.
As soon as she walked into the gazebo, tears flowed from the girl's eyes.