"I've already said that I'm an outsider, so I can see clearly, and he's not the only one with other intentions!" Chang Qing's tone was calm, but his words were unyielding, "As for using Yun Tengjiao's 'Soul Splitting Bead', I don't think there's anything wrong with it!" Until now, he has no apparently unfavorable intentions for us. In this case, we don't have to make a lot of noise! ”

"You want to risk her?" A cold light appeared in Qi Zhen's eyes.

"It's not. It's to die and be born! Chang Qing seemed a little excited, "We can wait and see what happens, but we are not passively waiting for someone to slaughter." Moreover...... Cat charm, white impermanence, golden silkworm shadow, which one is not weird and unpredictable, insidious and vicious? Could it be that we can still hope for them? ”

……

I listened indifferently to the two of them arguing, but the waves rolled in my heart, and many thoughts flashed in my mind, as if countless lightning lights crossed the dark night sky!

No matter how long the night is, you can't resist the footsteps of the dawn!

When the sun rises over the east mountain, a new day comes! I walked into the school as if nothing had happened, carrying my school bag as usual. Qi Zhen and Chang Qing followed me without saying a word, the two were not far away, but there was no conversation.

Last night's argument was inconclusive, and none of them could convince anyone. And I have always watched from the wall, and Chang Qing has a sentence that is very correct, we have our own thoughts and plans, how can we be as tacit as before?

Fortunately, both of them still have the same concerns about me.

When I walked into the class, I saw Ge Hong running over, pulling me and saying, "Do you know? Chen Qiu suddenly took a month's long vacation. ”

"Hmm. How do you already know? ”

"You forgot, I'm the most well-informed!" Ge Hong looked at it slightly, and then remembered something, "However, the principal seems to be very angry. ”

"Strange, isn't it looking for the dean of students to take a long vacation? How could it alarm the principal? ”

"You don't know that the Dean of Students and the Dean of Academic Affairs have both suddenly become seriously ill and hospitalized, and Vice President Ding ...... The principal has been busy lately! Ge Hong shrugged sympathetically.

"Both are hospitalized? Yesterday seems to be fine! Ahem, it's an unpredictable situation! ”

"Who knows! I heard that he was suddenly admitted to the hospital last night, and the principal went to the teaching office to sort out important documents early this morning! ”

My heart moved slightly, the two directors were very sick, and the principal's behavior was quite strange, even if the documents were important, they didn't have to sort them out in person early in the morning, right?

However, these questions were only passed by in front of my eyes, and I left them behind. There are still a lot of problems that I can't solve by myself, so how can I still have the heart to meddle in things?

The class bell rang, and this was a Chinese class. The classmates lazily held the books and sat crookedly in their seats, some closed their eyes to recuperate, some drew with small books under the books, and some simply read martial arts novels with relish, and some girls who were close were still talking and laughing quietly...... Walking into the classroom, it feels like a mistake on a university campus.

The reason is our Chinese teacher, whose surname is You, who is a neurotic, pale and sickly middle-aged woman. She was sick shortly after school started, and only barely managed to come to our class until last week. said that it was a class, but in fact, most of the time she sat on the side of the podium with her head propped up, in a daze, and let us learn by ourselves. It was only when she was in a good mood that she suddenly stood up and explained the text endlessly, not in order, but basically on a whim, turning to which paragraph she turned.

Although her explanations were incisive, focused, and beautifully written, most of us listened to them in a daze because of their short-lived moments and the casual dismemberment of texts, and we couldn't take notes even if we wanted to. As a result, the language class is disheartened and goes its own way.

It's about that there have been too many accidents in the school recently, Vice Principal Ding has become crazy for his son's affairs, and the director of education and Director Sun of the Academic Affairs Office are sick and hospitalized, so there is no school leader to take care of this matter.

Today, however, the situation seems to be somewhat unusual. The bell has been ringing for a long time, but the sick Teacher You has not yet appeared.

While we were doing our own thing, we were guessing about the reason why the teacher didn't show up. Half a class passed, and no one came. We all thought to ourselves, Mr. You may have taken sick leave again! Five or six minutes before the end of class, a bitter face appeared at the door of the classroom. Ahem, it's Mr. Lu, who is in charge of campus safety in the Academic Affairs Office.

My heart is tight, something happened again?

"Students, your teacher You is on sick leave, and the Chinese class will be changed to self-study first." An expected piece of news that didn't cause much reaction. It's just that the face of the person who relays the news is always pale, as if he is always living in unexplained trouble.

I breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at Chang Qing and Qi Zhen again, their slightly nervous expressions also relaxed.

We can't blame the snake shadow, the main reason is that this Teacher Lu feels like a crow who specializes in reporting murderous letters, which is inexplicable and terrifying.

He hurried away, and seemed to have a lot of business to do. But before leaving, he deliberately glanced at Changqing.

What a strange look! With a little hope, a little scruples and uneasiness, and a lot of fears that want to be covered! Chang Qing looked at me, then at Qi Zhen, and his worries suddenly spread to us like cold germs.

I was worried again, could it be that there was some mystery hidden behind Teacher You's sick leave?

The day passed in a vague state of worry.

For the next seven or eight days, the wind was calm. The school found a substitute teacher for our class, a tall and thin old man, surnamed Wu, a retired old teacher. He was rigid, unsmiling, and very strict with our class, and after a few days of teaching, the original laxity in Chinese classes immediately disappeared. The classmates still complained in private, but when they were actually in class, they didn't dare to mess around anymore. It seems that everything is back to normal.

The three of us waited nervously every day, looking at our own suspicions and worries, and at the same time hoping that things would come to light, which was really contradictory.

This morning, it had been ten days since Chen Qiu asked for leave. We are in a language class.

Old man Wu paced in the quiet classroom with his hands behind his back. We all put our heads down and worked hard to write, and he liked to dictate long texts in class for a limited time.

I waved my wrist, which was a little sore, ready to keep fighting.

There was a very loud sound coming from far and near.

How? Which class has PE classes? So noisy!

"Quick...... Come on! There's a madman...... Break in, break in! The classroom door slammed open, and a panting man screamed and rushed in.

The house was in an uproar.

Old man Wu was startled, and asked in a loud voice, "Where is it?" Where is it? How could it be...... Breaking in? ”

"In ...... Flower bed in front of the office building! That madman...... With a knife! …… Fast, fast...... The principal wants all classes to evacuate! Fast! Fast! Teacher Lu, who was given the title of "Whistleblowing Fierce Bird" by me, was in a cold sweat, and his face was distorted and screamed.

No wonder he is so embarrassed, he is the teacher in charge of campus security in the Academic Affairs Office, and a madman with a knife actually ran into the school, if he hacked and injured the teacher and student, it is definitely a major liability accident that cannot be shirked!

The tables and chairs "crackled" for a while, and the classmates in the class didn't wait for Wu Laofa to speak, they threw down the things in their hands and ran out of the door.

"Don't panic! Don't squeeze! …… Beware of falling! In the midst of the chaos, Old Man Wu was experienced after all, and he quickly calmed down, and hoarsely evacuated us who were huddled together in front of the classroom door and screamed from time to time.

"Get out...... To the playground! …… ...... by the bunker," Mr. Lu's voice became very strange, drowning in a meaningless noise.

I, Qi Zhen, and Chang Qing also squeezed out with the crowd.

There are more people outside the classroom. All the classes in the New Teaching Building 1, Building 2, and the Experimental Building are running towards the same destination - the playground. The bustling crowd, the screams of timid girls from time to time, and then the chaotic, light and heavy footsteps, the snoring and panting, the atmosphere of panic inevitably enveloped the campus and suppressed the hearts of each of us.

Fortunately, the road is not too far.

When I got to the sand pit in the playground, I saw only people, familiar, strange, people I had seen but couldn't name...... It's even more than the people on the day of the National Day performance. I turned my head to look around, only to find that Qi Zhen and Chang Qing, who had been by my side all along, were gone. Hey, where did you go? I had to weave my way through the crowd, looking around trying to find them.

"Who are you looking for?" Someone grabbed me.

When I saw it, it was Jane!

"Qi Zhen and Chang Qing. It's still there just now, and I don't know where to run in the blink of an eye! I answered honestly.

"The two of them won't lose it, what are they looking for!" Jane smiled.

I looked around, and there were unfamiliar faces dangling around.

"Did you see that madman?" Jane stabbed me.

"I didn't see it. What about you? ”

"Well, I see, our class was in physical education class just now. Do you know who that madman is? Xiao Zhen nodded, and then mysteriously leaned over and asked.

Who is it? I thought about it and shook my head honestly. Crazy, it can't be Vice Principal Ding, right?

Probably my expression was silly, and Xiao Zhen couldn't help but laugh a little: "Look at you scared like that!" Isn't he just a madman? ”

"Ahem, who is he?"

"An old man." Jane seemed to add casually, "Oh, I heard he used to be a school worker at our school. ”

Janitors?! I suddenly remembered what Chang Qing had said about the crazy old schoolworker in the woods in front of the old building. How could it be so coincidental that in the midst of this mess, he came to school again to go crazy? I think of the "death list" he once left, on which there are Ding Zhongheng, Ye Xiaoyun and Yun Tengjiao, all of whom are inextricably linked to the "soul contract"!

No, I'm going to check it out!

I turned around and ran against the flow of people towards the office building.

After running a few steps, Xiao Zhen caught up.

"I'll go over there in the office building and have a look."

"Well, let's go together."

I stopped and said seriously, "I just want to take a look...... That madman. Don't go. ”

"Isn't he just a crazy old man, I'm not afraid!" Xiao Zhen blinked mischievously with wide eyes, but her tone was resolute, "I'll go with you." ”

After saying that, she hurriedly walked ahead of me, as if she was afraid that I would say anything more to dissuade her.

"The Dharma arises from the cause, as it is the cause." What is insisted on coming is always related to cause and effect, and blocking and avoiding it are equally useless.

With a sigh of relief, I didn't hold on any longer.

The two of us cautiously dodged the teachers in the Academic Affairs Office, bypassed the cafeteria, and came to the corner of the office building. The bushes in front of the building obscured us with our heads bowed, and through the gap, we looked out, and on the concrete walkway between the office building and the flower bed, there was a lean old man over sixty years old, dressed in a white-washed tunic and dark green trousers, with a twisted muscles on his face, with a terrible crazy look, his eyes staring straight in front but as if there was no focus, hollow and scattered, and a knife tightly clutched in his hand. This is a long-handled watermelon knife with a narrow blade and a cold light, most of the handle is blood red, and there is a large drop of blood on the tip of the knife.

My heart trembled, did he kill someone? I don't know who it is?

"He killed someone." Xiao Zhen lowered her voice and said, "What a madman!"

Her voice was indignant, but her eyes were indifferent, and she didn't have much fear, more like a player.

I looked around him, but I didn't find a body or anything like that.

"I'm going to kill you! …… Kill you! The mad old man swung his knife and howled loudly, "I'm not afraid! …… Devil...... The devil who kills a thousand knives! …… You can't hide...... I'll kill you! ”

With his movements, drops of blood splattered from the tip of the knife and landed on the ground.

I watched him closely, especially the look on his face. After a while, I lowered my voice and asked, "Guess who the devil he is talking about?" ”

"How do I know? He's crazy! How can the words of a madman be taken seriously? Jane replied in disgust.

"Didn't you notice? The expression on his face was not so much madness as extreme fear, and it seemed to freeze. He's probably scared mad by the devil! I said thoughtfully.

"Oh? Your imagination is so good. Jane pouted disapprovingly.

After getting along for a long time, her pouting look is really similar to mine.

"That's just my good observation, and it has nothing to do with imagination." I laughed.

"If the policeman doesn't come again, he may rush into the office building!" Jane changed the subject, "I don't know what the principal should do?" ”

As soon as her words fell, the crazy old man seemed to have received an order, brandished a watermelon knife, and rushed up the steps of the office building!