The rain was pouring down, blocking the way between the complex and other teaching buildings, and I told Momoi with a stiff face that I was going to the principal's office, but he didn't speak, just nodded silently, and then we each held an umbrella and walked side by side. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

No one spoke first, only the sound of heavy rain washing over the ground.

Because the incident of Saraka made the classmates extremely frightened, many people's mental state was very unstable, so the whole day of classes in the first year of high school D class was suspended, except for the two remaining "dead soldiers" around Momoi - Chiba Norishi and Guanghui stayed in school, and Shui Jing also stayed to wait for me, everyone else left in a panic and weakly, everyone's back was lonely and helpless, trembling like losing balance, like a dying chick waiting to be saved in a storm.

Momoi and I just entered Building No. 1 when the bell rang, and when we went straight to the top floor to the principal's office, the door was open, but we didn't see Uncle in the office.

Momoi sat down on the couch at the reception table after entering, and could see that he was still trying to adjust to the events of the morning, my legs had always been weak, and my stomach was very uncomfortable, and I really didn't have the courage to think about Saraka's face, but my mind was full of the unbearable scene.

"Are you alright?"

Momoi asked me in a whisper.

I didn't want to shake my head or nod my head, but I just put my fingers together and covered my mouth and nose, I felt that there was still a smell of blood leaking in between my fingers, I swallowed saliva with nausea, and when it just slid through my throat, it seemed that there was still a strong smell of blood in my stomach, and finally I didn't hold back, I rushed to the corner and vomited violently... Tears, saliva, confused thoughts, even cramping limbs... I feel like my whole body is about to break...

From witnessing Funa, Akiya, and Saraka this morning, their various horrific deaths, I feel that my nerves have long been broken, and I don't know what is still supporting me.

Momoi got water and towels from nowhere, and while I was wiping my face, Uncle came in, and he hurriedly helped me to sit on the sofa, and asked the cleaner to deal with the dirt in the corner.

"Xiaoxi, are you alright?"

"It's better now..."

Uncle handed me a glass of water.

After I felt better, Uncle sat down across from me and Momoi and spread out a stack of photos. This time, I clearly saw the group photo without shoes.

The first boy from the left in the third row from the bottom to the top, the strange person no one knew, I looked at Momoi and I, we have studied this photo before, but Uncle doesn't know.

"—This person."

Uncle pointed to the boy in the photo that we had all wondered about, and his fingers trembled slightly.

"-- he may be the grain."

"Maybe—?"

What do you mean maybe? Hasn't the uncle seen the grain?

Uncle moved the photo, pulled it under the noses of Momoi and me, and continued.

"This is a group photo of the real Class D of the first year of high school in '97, and the one in the library you have seen is a fake photo."

"Ahh

There was really such a thing, I thought it was just something that Liao Tai said out of control and exaggerated for a while.

"Why did the headmaster say, 'He may be a grain?'"

Momoi asked, tilting his head after taking a closer look at the photo.

"The location where this person is standing - is where He Gu was when he took this group photo, and before the photo was washed out, there was an accident in He Gu, and it was at that time that everyone discovered this terrible phenomenon."

- A terrible phenomenon?

"Didn't you say that the grain disappeared from the photo?"

Uncle took a deep breath and said.

"It's not that it's gone, it's 'changed', it's become this person."

- Ah, I seem to be starting to understand something.

"Everyone found that there was a stranger in the photo, no one knew this person, but everyone knew that the person standing here should have been Hegu, how did he become this person, everyone was discussing, and suddenly someone asked, 'This person is indeed not Hegu, but what does Hegu look like...?' These words made everyone realize that the appearance of He Gu in their memories seemed to have been inexplicably deleted, and they couldn't remember the faces of He Gu's classmates at all. ”

"That's why you forged a group photo without this stranger and put it in the library, right?"

"Not exactly—"

Uncle looked up at me, he stacked up the other photos behind him and pointed to the first boy from the left in the third row, also from the bottom to the top.

"If this hadn't happened in the group photos after that, I wouldn't have done anything like forgery..."

I hesitated to look over the photo, and in the same position, there was a boy with a darker uniform than the rest of his classmates - but to my surprise, the face was "another stranger".

"What's going on?"

Momoi asked first.

"In the group photo of the first year of high school in every 'accident year', it is this position, there is always an extra stranger, and the face is different every time."

Momoi put his hand in his hair as he flipped through the photo, his eyebrows furrowed, and the words "I can't believe it" were evident from his expression.

――I remembered that when I first saw the photo, there were two words "who is it?" on the back, and I guess it was because my uncle had been thinking about "who is this person?"

No wonder to fake photos, such group photos really can't be made public.

"So what's the deal with them not wearing shoes? And the school building that slopes behind it..."

I couldn't help but ask.

"That's it... As soon as the photo was washed out, it became like this for no reason. ”

"- 'Change' like this? That is, in the case of completely unbelievable ... This strange thing happened, right? ”

"Yes - unbelievable."

Uncle whispered.

"At first, I didn't believe that this could happen, and I explained it by photo glitches and things like that, but I knew in my heart that it wasn't a glitch or a man-made problem."

There seemed to be a bit of self-reproach in the uncle's tone, was it because he didn't believe these things in the first place?

"So did this 'stranger' appear in reality?"

Momoi asked smartly.

Uncle shook his head.

"-No, it only appears in the photo, as if it is hidden among everyone--with faces that no one knows... But even though I don't know him, I feel that he is Hegu, and he just changes his face and appears in the group photo of the first year of high school D in each 'accident year'..."

Hidden among everyone... With faces that you don't recognize... So, will this strange grain be presented to us in any way?

Momoi and I looked at each other, and he seemed to shake his head slightly to indicate that he didn't know what was going on.

"Uncle, are there no survivors in Class D of the first year of high school in the 'accident year'?"

This question is very sensitive, but I have to ask.

"Yes."

Uncle did not hesitate and simply admitted this cruel fact.

"At that time, in addition to the students who died in accidents, there were also suicides, but the school blocked the news, if such a thing spreads... I'm afraid that someone will interfere in this matter, not because it affects the interests of the school, but because I am worried that students in other classes may be implicated. ”

"Uncle's child is also in Class D of the first year of high school, right?"

"-Yes, that's it."

Where Uncle pointed, I saw an athletic guy in the last row of boys, it was said that he was the illegitimate son of Uncle, I had never seen him, and I didn't know until this time that his name was Ken Yagi, and his mother's surname.

"I don't want to mention this kid because I feel guilty and I take a way to avoid it... He Gu only entered the school after half a school year, I didn't ask too much about Jian's situation in the class, I was afraid of adding unnecessary pressure to him, but due to my negligence, I didn't notice that Jian has been changing since then... At first, he said that there was a very strange person in the class, and at one point he suddenly said that there was not one, but two new transfer students..."

"- two?"

Momoi and I cried out in surprise at the same time, but as the events became clearer, they seemed to be getting closer to our speculation.