A few minutes later.

Russell and Subway, the giant bear and the arctic wolf, after a series of friendly exchanges and comparing information with each other, finally confirmed that both sides were victims, and they had just been attacked by a tower ghost disguised as the other party.

Russell poked the two people opposite each other with his mobile phone for a long time, and the Arctic wolf dropped a drop of holy water in the palms of the two teenagers, and nothing happened, thus confirming that the opposite side was not disguised by the undead.

"I really didn't expect that you two are here." The Arctic Wolf sighed.

"I really didn't expect that there really would be a student codenamed Husky." Subway sighed.

Russell sat down in the stairwell and roughly analyzed the ghost's methods:

"It looks like this ghost is very cunning. It split into four sub-souls, in pairs of two, disguised as a group of people in the tower now, each to contact the other group.

Then, what the real person in contact reacted to and what information was provided, and the disguised dummy reacted similarly. This makes the 4 split souls behave without flaws. ”

The Arctic wolf next to him recalled the incident, and his heart was very uncomfortable.

Two first-year students were able to kill two Split Souls, and the Giant Bear, who had the strength of the Second Grade, teamed up with him—I guess it was a team-up—and actually let one of the Split Souls escape!

Russell seems to have read the meaning of the Arctic wolf:

"Husky, you don't need to blame yourself too much. We took advantage of the raid, and you seem to have been raided in reverse. ”

The Giant Bear agrees with Russell:

"Well, these split souls are actually just cunning, good at disguise, and their combat effectiveness is actually average. Even if the four Souls are combined, they are far inferior to a single second-year student, as long as the latter has the means to attack the spirits. ”

"By the way, Giant Bear, Ling's Blazing Sun Charm may not have been snatched away." Russell said suddenly.

"Why?" Giant Bear asked.

Russell explains:

"Giant Bear, let's review. Spirits can pass through physical matter, split souls in front of you, and escape through walls, right? ”

"Yes."

"But your Blazing Sun Charm is a physical entity, how can a split soul hold it, how can it pass through the wall?"

The bear felt that Russell's logic was clear, but still questioned:

"But I saw it disappear through the walls with the Blazing Sun Charm."

"But have you noticed a detail?" Russell's eyebrows were raised, and his expression was solemn, "When these distracted souls are disguised, they are all wearing clothes. ”

"Is there anything wrong with getting dressed?" The Arctic wolf looked dazed.

Russell continued to preach along his own lines:

"If these Split Souls can conjure up flashlights, clothes, and other foreign objects when they are disguised, then they may also be able to disguise themselves as holding the Blazing Sun Charm in their hands. And the real Blazing Sun Charm was not actually carried away by the Soul Splitting through the wall. ”

The giant bear felt that it made sense, and nodded:

"Possibly, maybe the Soul Splitter just put it on the ground after snatching the golden spell. I was so anxious at the time, and the environment was dark, I didn't notice it at all. Let's go back and see! Maybe the spell hasn't been taken away yet! ”

So, Russell, Subway, Giant Bear, Arctic Wolf, and the four of them walked down the stairs together.

The sound of footsteps echoed through the silent stairwell

……

On the way, Russell deliberately diverted the topic to dispel the atmosphere of fear and panic:

"As we all know, when humans become ghosts, they all wear clothes — well, most of them wear clothes. It can be seen that when you die, the items you wear will also become part of the spirit body.

"You say, if someone dies while wearing exoskeleton armor, will there be a ghost with exoskeleton armor?

"Further, if the Gundam pilot is dead, can you make a ghost who opens the Spirit Gundam?

"In addition, I think that in order to improve the ghost's living standard after death, it is best to carry entertainment items such as mobile phones and game consoles with you when you die."

In the team, the other 4 people except Russell seriously thought about Russell's problem.

The original atmosphere of fear dissipated.

"The ghost of the Spirit Body Gundam is so cool, isn't it?" Subway, who walked at the back, was intrigued when he heard it.

"Is this a question that a living person should be thinking about?" The wind chimes walking in the middle of the line couldn't help but sneer.

When the Arctic Wolf heard Russell mention his mobile phone, he habitually took out his mobile phone and looked at the news in the White Wolf Club, wanting to dilute his nervousness.

A group member sent a message: "Boss, boss, when are you going to teach that freshman named Russell a lesson?" Is it really going to be videotaped? ”。

Another group member retorted: "The boss teaches a first-year student, and it will be over in the blink of an eye, where does the 'whole process' come from?" ”

The arctic wolf looked gloomy and sighed helplessly.

"Husky, what are you looking at?"

Russell's face came to the Arctic wolf's shoulders at some point.

"Ahhh

The Arctic wolf screamed in fright.

"Russell, you don't suddenly appear behind someone else and look at someone else's phone."

He removed his phone and immediately swept his gaze to the phone screen, worried that Russell would see the chat message just now.

Fortunately, at this time, the two chat messages just now have been swiped.

The latest pieces of information come from a first-grade girl named Osprey, who was one of the four people who bullied Black Feather with White before.

The Osprey's message is:

"Have you heard? In the equipment warehouse of the gymnasium of the primary school, there is a very fierce ghost. My roommate and I are exploring inside.

"My roommate Violet said that it felt like there was indeed an extremely strange supernatural energy flowing in the air in the equipment warehouse.

"She's a genius at perceiving energy, and she's never missed a beat.

"There's really a problem with the gymnasium's equipment warehouse!"

The Arctic Wolf breathed a sigh of relief, estimating that Russell didn't see the information about himself, and made a click to turn the phone off.

Unexpectedly, Russell behind him said abruptly:

"Husky, though I don't know what you're looking at.

"But according to the general ghost story routine, any information you see when you turn on your phone at this time may be meaningful and valuable. Maybe it has something to do with the results of our final investigation. ”

"It's none of your business, freshman." The Arctic Wolf snorted disdainfully.

Although I do see things related to you...... He muttered silently.

5 people continue down.

……

Russell, Subway, Wind Chimes, Giant Bears, Arctic Wolves, stopped.

They came to the stairwell where the Giant Bear and the Soul Splitter had fought before.

The five of them searched for a long time, but they couldn't find the blazing sun charm.

"Well, it seems that after we left, the ghost body, or the soul it split off, had taken the Blazing Sun Charm away." The bear shook his head and laughed at himself, "I didn't expect to make such a stupid mistake, almost like a husky." ”

The Arctic Wolf felt that this sounded weird, and could only comfort himself, "What does the Husky have to do with the Arctic Wolf, the boss of the White Wolf Club."

Russell wasn't too disappointed—he wasn't the one who lost the thing, anyway.

He advised:

"The information I have received shows that the ghost of the tower is not very high, and according to the vague results of divination and prophecy, it is at most at the level of a second-year student.

"It has just been killed by us 3 soul divisions, and one soul has been severely damaged, the main body should be in a relatively weak state, we can take the opportunity to find it and completely solve the problem of the tower spirit body!"

What Russell didn't say was that he needed a contract spirit.

If you don't take advantage of the ghost to subdue it today, and wait for it to recover from its weakened state, it will be even more difficult to find an opportunity in the future.

"The five of us join forces to deal with a weak ghost, it's easy!" The Arctic Wolves also support this plan.

The wind chime also nodded:

"This ghost's specialty is that it's weird enough and good at camouflage. If we are separated for a short time, it can be disguised as any one person. But as long as we're all together, the ghost's camouflage ability won't be of much use, and there's no threat at all. ”

"There's some truth to that speculation." Remembering what had happened to him and Miss Thornbird's request for him to bring another man, the bear asked Russell:

"Russell, did you mention in the information you took over that multiple people acting in a team are more likely to encounter ghost-related anomalies?"

Russell bowed his head slightly:

"I looked at the profile. All students who have encountered anomalies and who have expressed 'extreme fear' afterwards have been in the vicinity of the tower with the rest of their classmates. But their memories are vague and they can't tell where their fear is. ”

"That's right! I've figured out how this ghost is scary! The arctic wolf slapped his thigh and suddenly realized:

"If there are more than one person acting together, such as two people, it will find a way to separate the two people, and then send a split soul to contact the two people, disguised as the other person. According to the reaction of the real person, let the split soul react accordingly, which seems to have no flaws. It is only at the end that the Ghost Split reveals its identity and launches a surprise attack to achieve a huge horror effect! ”

After saying these words, the Arctic wolves all felt that their IQ had increased a little.

Russell looked indifferent and noncommittal.

"Then the five of us get together, don't separate no matter what, and search the tower again to see if we can find traces of the ghost's body." Wind chimes proposed.

Everyone nodded their heads and prepared to continue down the stairs.

But Russell stood still, not moving.

"Russell, what's wrong with you?" Subway asked.

Russell's expression was cold:

"Guys, I have a little question. The 5 of us, has it been decided, the next 5 people will get together, as far as possible not separated. ”

"yes, what's wrong? And why keep emphasizing the number of people? The Arctic Wolf wondered.

A smile appeared on the corner of Russell's mouth, but his tone was as cold as ice:

"Is there a possibility?

"In the beginning, we only had [four people] right.

"Among us, is it not ......

"One more person?"

Actually, I also tell ghost stories.

This chapter is actually 3000 words, but in order to match the weird atmosphere of this one, I deliberately wrote it in 4k, as if it was inexplicably extra 1000 words.

(End of chapter)