Chapter 20: The Corpse

I went to Xueying's funeral...... Before leaving, her mother gave me her diary as a souvenir.

But I didn't have the courage to open it after all.

Xue Ying died on the third night after I returned home, jumping from the top floor of the dormitory building.

She...... It was suicidal. No one knows why, so there are naturally many good and bad rumors on campus.

But I knew the real motive for her suicide – that one of us had to die.

There are only two ways to feel at ease. One is to be killed by another person, and the other is to let the Diexian choose himself, and he waits in pain and restlessness when he doesn't know what time he died......

But Xue Ying chose the third method. She committed suicide and gave up her life for me.

But what did I do for her? I just watched powerlessly as she faded before my eyes, faded more and more, and finally disappeared into the void forever......

Tired! It's really tiring!

I didn't want to go on in that heartbreaking school, so I dropped out.

In the days leading up to the process, the school was going to renovate all the old school buildings in order to wash away the mold, but the entire construction plan was aborted halfway through, because during the expansion of the foundation of the new school building, a large amount of water rushed out of the ground, flooding the entire site and playground.

Only then did I understand that more than a hundred years ago, where did the great river that should have been in the playground go? It never suddenly disappeared, but only flowed into the ground more than ten meters deep.

Today the weather is fine, and I came to the cemetery to see the snow. After this period of time, I thought about it a lot.

Either way, she's never going to come back.

Unwilling to ...... I'm not willing to let her die like this...... I must find out the truth of the matter, and I must give myself and Xue Ying an explanation!

In front of Xue Ying's grave, I thought silently in my heart.

So, I went to visit Zhou Jian. The only person related to Zhong Dao and Li Ping is now the only one left.

He wasn't at home, so I wrote a few words on a small piece of paper, along with a photograph, and stuffed it through the crack in the door.

That night, he made an appointment to go to the camphor forest at the school.

"What do you mean by that?" Zhou Jian wrote the one with the words, "I already know everything, I don't want to be exposed, I will come to the camphor forest near the school pavilion at eleven o'clock tonight." The small note with the words and the photo I specially left for him took out, handed it to me, and asked coldly.

Noncommittal, I took a large number of photos of clothes and a school badge from his hand, and said slowly: "Zhou Jian." Xuequan Township No. 1 Middle School 62 senior class 3 students, thirteen years ago, he was successfully admitted to a famous university that many people dream of, but he gave up the opportunity to soar, resolutely entered the police academy, and eleven years ago, began to his alma mater, as a small school police officer who really has no future.

"Why? Is it because he has a deep attachment to his alma mater, or does he have other goals and plans? I'm confused by this question, can you tell me the answer? ”

"Absolutely." To my surprise, Zhou Jian replied briskly: "A person who can be admitted to a prestigious university is usually not too stupid, and a person who is not too stupid usually does not have too many inexplicable complexes." That man, of course, had an ulterior purpose. ”

"What's the purpose?" I asked shrewdly.

Zhou Jian raised his head and stared at me, and said slowly: "Since it is the goal, of course no one wants to say it until it is achieved." ”

I glared back at him, and suddenly laughed, laughing: "You are a smart person, and I don't think I'm too stupid, we two smart people should open the skylight and say something." You killed Li Ping, right? ”

"I don't understand what you're talking about."

"Hey, since you don't understand, you might as well listen to me tell you a story, a story that happened in this school thirteen years ago." I looked at him with my eyes, took a deep breath and said, "There are three protagonists in this story, named Zhong Dao, Li Ping and Zhou Jian, who are in the same school and class, and they are very good friends.

At the beginning of the story, the relationship between the three protagonists is actually quite simple, Li Ping is Zhong Dao's girlfriend, and Zhou Jian is a friend of the two. But suddenly one day, Zhou Jian found that he was in love with Li Ping, and he couldn't extricate himself, so the scales, which had always maintained a delicate balance, began to turbulent.

Soon after, Zhong Dao proposed to Li Ping to break up because he fell in love with his mentor Gao Xiu. At this moment, the balance between the three was completely broken, and Zhou Jian began to constantly plot for the person he liked, and he spread the gossip of Teacher Gao Xiu everywhere, and finally forced her to death.

He also taught Li Ping, who was abandoned by her lover and almost had a nervous breakdown, to pretend to be pregnant, to win Zhong Dao's sympathy, and at the same time, he secretly imagined for himself. But after several attempts to show love were rejected, he really felt that Li Ping would always have only Zhong Dao in her heart, and she couldn't tolerate herself at all, so the resentment that had accumulated in her heart for a long time began to slowly erupt......

One dark night, in the camphor forest of the school, there were two people, a man and a woman, fighting.

"Stinky woman, what's wrong with me compared to that guy? I love you so much, I love you more than he does! You said you wanted a newborn baby, so I went and stole one for you; You said that you hated Teacher Gao Xiu and never wanted to see her again, so I spread rumors about her for you and forced her to death; You say, who else is better than me to you? ”

That man was Zhou Jian, his face was hideous, and he frantically tore off the school uniform on the girl under him again and again.

The girl struggled desperately, biting him, and glaring at Zhou Jian with hateful eyes, "Beast, don't touch me!" I swear, I won't let you go! ”

"What the hell? Hmph, stinky woman, I will fulfill you, I will make you a ghost. Zhou Jian laughed eerily, and he pinched the girl's neck harder, squeezing it tighter and tighter, until she stopped struggling and her whole body collapsed softly.

Zhou Jian seemed to have woken up to something, and hurriedly let go of his hand.

"Ping'er, I didn't mean to. Trust me, I really didn't mean to...... How could I be willing to kill you! Frightened, he shoved his hands into his mouth and tightened his body, his whole body trembling.

I don't know how long it took, Zhou Jian suddenly laughed, while smirking, he leaned down and stroked the girl's face affectionately, "That's fine, Ping'er, so that you won't like other people anymore, you will always be mine!" ”

“…… That's how you killed Li Ping, hiding her body with the baby in a very hidden place. I stared at Zhou Jian, not letting go of any expression on his face.

But I was disappointed, and he just grinned and said, "It's an imaginative story, and I want to know why you have to doubt me." ”

"It's actually quite simple." I leaned heavily against the white camphor tree that used to be wrapped in blue, and sighed: "After Xue Ying died, I was indeed decadent...... But I was not willing to let her die like this, so I was determined to find out the truth. ”

Be sure to give yourself ...... Explain to Xue Ying! I thought to myself.

"I've always felt that something in the campus legend has been distorted, and when I think back to what Zhong Dao said to me and Xue Ying before he died, it suddenly dawned on me.

"In school legends, everything is told to be true and false, but the protagonist is not Chung Dao - why are there these school legends? Why is Chung Dao portrayed as a heinous villain? In fact, the second problem is obvious, because the people who fabricated the campus legend have a strong hatred for Chung Dao. ”

I smiled at Zhou Jian: "Zhou Jian, only those who have stayed in this school for many years have the ability to arbitrarily twist rumors and legends and refer to deer as horses. You have been a school police officer for eleven years, and you are very low-key, so that few people know about your existence, even me, it was only after I found your school card by chance that I found out that you were a person and began to pay attention to you. How do you know that the more you investigate, the more you feel that you are not a simple person! ”

I paused and said, "Actually, I'm starting to suspect you because of that legendary baby on campus." When Zhong Dao was dying, he said that he had never behaved deviantly towards Li Ping, and the child Li Ping was carrying was definitely not his. I believe in him. So, is Li Ping pregnant with a child? If so, whose child is it? If not, where did the baby corpse she showed Chung Dao come from?

"I had an idea and asked a friend to help me find out if there was a baby stolen from the hospital in Snow Springs thirteen years ago. Unexpectedly, it was easy to find the record, and what was even more unimaginable was that an old nurse in the hospital swore that the thief who took the baby was wearing the school uniform of the first middle school......

"Li Ping is not pregnant at all, the baby she showed Zhong Dao is the one you stole from the hospital!"

Zhou Jian was still smiling, as if he was listening to a story that had nothing to do with him, "Your words contradict yourself, since you said that Zhong Dao has never touched Li Ping, then I think the two of them should know it." How could Li Ping use unwarranted things to win sympathy? Even if she were that stupid, I don't think I would be stupid enough to do such a thankless task! ”

"Of course you have your own calculations." I locked my eyes on him and patiently explained, "Li Ping was dumped by Zhong Dao, and her nerves became abnormal after being hit hard. Whatever you suggest to her, as long as you say that you can bring Chung Dao back to her, she will do it; And you want Li Ping to completely die to Zhong Dao because of this incident, so that she understands that the man will never love her again, so you took the risk of doing this stupid thing. ”

Zhou Jian clapped vigorously, "Very brilliant reasoning." If I really killed Li Ping, then you say, where did I hide her body? Why hasn't anyone been able to find out until now? ”

I smiled coldly and looked at my feet, "I think the answer lies under this camphor tree." As long as you dig down, you can immediately find a huge cavity, and the bodies of Li Ping and the baby should be there! ”

"How did you find out?" Zhou Jian's face finally changed.