Chapter 25
Competition comes too fast, like a tornado.
Who would have thought that initially Su Jiao went into the police station, and in the blink of an eye turned into the Su City’s Wu Chang grab performance war.
Lian Xi and Su Jiao are dumbfounded, but Hei Wu Chang’s gaze is cold, the corner of his mouth snickering. He stretched out his hand: “Take something related to performance out.”
Su Jiao: “Huh?”
Lie Chen’s long eyes converge, thin lips slightly open: “Performance.”
Su Jiao: “Performance?”
Lian Xi beside him, could no longer see it, “Sun Yan, that girl.”
Su Jiao: “…..”
God damn performance! I have name, okay!?
Besides, this, probably already died!
As if hearing Su Jiao’s cursing words in his heart, Lie Zong glanced at him lightly: “Already die.”
Lian Xi frowned: “Really die?”
Lie Chen: “Died.”
Su Jiao did not react for a moment, for a long time, he murmured in a low voice: “Okay ba still unable to save her…”
The person is already gone, but the body must be found.
Su Jiao took out from his pocket, his own mobile phone, pushed lightly as he got rid of the phone case, handed over: “Look, with performance …. no, things related to Sun Yan, right? Although I do not know what you want to do, there is something related about this mobile phone case and her. Last month she helped me open a welcome party, but that night she gave me a meet and greet gift.” Thinking about this matter, Su Jiao also expressed a little regret, “That girl is really not bad, super warm-hearted, but also especially good at chatting.”
Lian Xi: “You have a good feeling about her?”
Su Jiao: “Then certainly no bad feelings ah.”
Lian Xi gently nodded: “Oh, almost forgot that you seem to be someone’s boyfriend.”
Su Jiao: “….”
The next second, the youth raised his finger to the sky: “I swear, I and Sun Yan really fucking not even one penny nor two penny relationship!”
……
Things have developed to the present, there is one thing, Su Jiao is always puzzled: “Why do you think Sun Yan said I was her boyfriend?”
Lian Xi: “What do you think?”
Su Jiao’s face dumbfounded: “I don’t know ah!”
This matter, Su Jiao really wants to break the head yet still could not be understood.
He and Sun Yan were friends, but they were friends at best or at the most. The two of them added WeChat, three days every now and then will chat, but could not be said as boyfriend or girlfriend, the two of them can not even be considered as acquaintances.
Originally between the graduate and undergraduate students, not too many interactions, besides that, Su Jiao has been living off-campus for a month. He knows only one undergraduates, Sun Yan and only a little familiar with the same dormitory Xie Ze. So far, he only says a few words with others.
Su Jiao stroked his chin, suddenly a flash of light 💡: “Could it be that she sees that I look too handsome, so she flaunts with her classmates, saying that she is my girlfriend? That’s right, that’s the only possibility!”
Lian Xi: “….”
Su Jiao: “What kind of expression are you wearing?”
Lian Xi smiles slightly, “Nothing.”
It’s good since you’re happy.
However, on the surface, Lian Xi felt that his roommate’s face was too big, but after a long time, he thought about it more carefully, “The possibility you mentioned is really not impossible.”
Su Jiao immediately came into the spirit: “Right, that’s right, Lian Xi, you think so too. Otherwise, why would she say I’m her boyfriend? She must be thinking that I’m handsome and it’s good for her to fall in love with me. I’m telling you, sometimes people can’t tell the difference between beauty and ugliness when they’ve spent time with people who appreciate the beauty and exotic flowers (weirdo). Just like that medium, Xiao Liu, I’m such a big, handsome man here, she did not blink an eye, but preferred that….” Su Jiao winked towards Lie Zong’s back, “That type, you know. You tell me, Xiao Liu, isn’t this aesthetic problem?”
Xiao Liu, who had just returned home from work, said, “Ah Qiu!”
Lie Zong lazily swept a glance at Su Jiao and simply didn’t bother to take care of him.
Unlike Su Jiao who wanted to attract Sun Yan’s soul, first of all, he had to wait until 11 pm-1 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) when the Yin energy was in full bloom, and secondly, he also had to find a suitable place to invoke the soul, after getting the mobile phone case sent by Sun Yan, he directly threw it lightly into the air, and as the evening breeze whisked by, the man’s low voice rang out along with him——
“Heaven and earth prevail, there is no door to hell.”
“Extinguish!”
Su Jiao was watching from the sidelines and poked Lian Xi’s arm: “Don’t say that this spell of your ghost guards is quite cool, much more handsome than the one I have.”
Lian Xi: “….”
You are really mentioning ‘the pot that doesn’t boil’ [idiom: to touch a sore spot or talk about sb’s weak point].
Hei Wu Chang’s fake incantation was cunningly made up and fancy, but it didn’t affect his output in the slightest.
In the darkness of the night, the transparent mobile phone case flew into the air, and at the moment it reached the highest point, with the man’s icy cold word “extinguish”, suddenly, golden flames flared up in the air, and the blazing fire engulfed the small mobile phone case.
In the blink of an eye, the mobile phone case was almost burnt out!
Soon, the golden flames gradually dissipated, and in the centre of the flames, a golden light suddenly shot out, and with a whoosh, it pointed towards the north.
Lian Xi’s reaction was extremely fast, he jerked his head to the side before letting this golden light shoot into his face.
Lian Xi: “What is this?”
Lie Chen: “The breath of the living, it points to the last person the performance has touched.”
Su Jiao was shocked, “Isn’t that the murderer?”
Lian Xi added, “If she was killed by others.”
Without delay, the three of them immediately moved out, following the direction pointed out by the golden light and chasing after it at a fast pace.
This pursuit led them out of the neighbourhood and three roads.
Five minutes later, standing in front of the gates of the North Campus of the University of Su City, the three stopped in their tracks.
Quietly looking at the dormitory building that the golden light pointed to, Lian Xi was silent for a moment and turned his head to ask his roommate: ”I only studied undergraduate courses in Su City University, so I don’t quite recognise it. This dormitory building… in front of a graduate student dormitory building?”
Su Jiao did not reply, he opened his mouth wide and stared blankly at the place where the golden light was pointing.
Lian Xi sensed that something was wrong: “Su Jiao?”
Lie Chen glanced at Su Jiao who was standing dumbfounded and was about to raise his steps towards the school gate when he saw that Su Jiao finally moved in front of the empty school. He slowly turned around and looked towards Lian Xi and Lie Chen. After a few seconds, with a complex expression, he uttered the words, “That… seems to be my dormitory.”
***
One o’clock in the morning, the North Campus of the University of Suzhou City.
The school doorman was woken up to help open the door, looking at the three young people in front of him, he complained, “It’s so late, come back earlier next time!”
Su Jiao thanked him repeatedly and put away his student ID.
The postgraduate dormitory building is very close to the school’s main gate, a golden light, invisible to mortals, shoots straight from the ground to the third floor, through the glass and into the fourth room from the left.
Three people follow the golden light into this postgraduate dormitory building.
When going up the stairs, Su Jiao’s mood is still quite complicated, he said to Lian Xi: “No way, our dormitory is just me and Xie Ze. I’m sure I did not meet Sun Yan, so is Xie Ze the last person Sun Yan saw? But I haven’t heard that they have any relationship.”
Lian Xi asked, “What kind of person is Xie Ze?”
Su Jiao: “He is also our Shandong’s citizen, especially warm, helpful. When I just came back, he also went downstairs to help me carry luggage, nothing weird or wrong.”
Lian Xi: “Are you sure you know him very well?”
Su Jiao: “….Quite okay ba. Eh, in front is my dormitory. Here it is.”
In the narrow and cold dormitory corridor, three big men stand side by side in front of the door of 304 dormitory.
Su Jiao stood in the middle, Lian Xi stood on the left, and Lie Chen stood on the right.
White light shone down from behind the three men, reflecting three black shadows on the metal door panel.
Su Jiao took a deep breath and took out the key.
“Then …… I’ll open the door.”
Only a crunching sound was heard, and the door to the room was opened.
Su Jiao held the door handle, he first nervously turned his head to lock eyes with Lian Xi before subconsciously twisting his head to the right, however, before he could see his teammate’s appearance, he saw the handsome and tall man directly reach out his hand, and pushed the door of the room open with one hand.
Su Jiao: “F*ck?!”
The door swung open and hit the wall with a snapping sound.
Su Jiao’s hands were busy turning on the light: “That … that Lao Xie, I came back to get something, I brought two friends, sorry that I disturbed your sleep.” The next second, the lights opened, Su Jiao surprised: “Huh, he is not in the dormitory?”
Only to see that the clean and tidy dormitory was empty.
Lian Xi walked to one of the messy beds and Su Jiao said, “This is my bed.”
Lian Xi then walked to another neatly folded bed, Su Jiao: “Then this is Xie Ze’s.”
Lian Xi: “He’s not coming back at all?”
Su Jiao: “No way, Xie Ze rarely stays out at night. Don’t look at him, big and tall, actually he just read books all day long.”
Lian Xi: “How about you try to make a phone call?”
Su Jiao immediately dialed his roommate’s phone, however: “He didn’t pick up.”
“Not true.” Lian Xi’s gaze flinched as he looked up at Lie Chen: “Hei Wu Chang, I remember you saying that this golden light points to the last person Sun Yan touched, not the last place she appeared?”
Lie Chen nodded, “Hn.”
Lian Xi’s face sank abruptly, “So … Xie Ze is still in this house?”
As the words landed, a piercing chill plucked up from the soles of his feet, and Su Jiao shivered in horror.
Not only him, in the entire room, apart from the calm-faced Hei Wu Chang, even Lian Xi felt a chill at his back.
He had seen a lot of ghosts since he was a child, but in a situation like this, everyone would not be able to calm down.
Su Jiao trembled and walked to Lian Xi s side: “No, where is Xie Ze…? This is also invisible. He…is he really in this dormitory?Impossible.”
Lian Xi pursed his lips, “Look carefully.”
“No need anymore.”
At these words, Lian Xi and Su Jiao turned back in unison to look at a certain man whose face expression did not change.
Lie Chen casually said, “Bend over and lower your head.”
The two followed his words, bending their waist and lowering their heads.
Lie Chen: “Look up.”
Lian Xi raised his head slightly, and at the sight of the body that was clinging to the bottom board of the bed with wide-open eyes, his eyes abruptly widened and a gasp of surprise caught in his throat. The short roommate beside him was not that calm, Su Jiao screamed out and sat on his arse on the floor.
“He, why is he lying under my bed?!”
……
Without saying a word, Su Jiao took out his mobile phone and was about to call the police.
Lie Chen: “Wait, wait.”
Su Jiao stared straight: “Still waiting? We can’t wait anymore ah. This person is already dead, if you do not call the police, in case the police arrest me again to ask questions again, what should I do?I am wrongly accused, you guys have to testify for me.”
Lian Xi: “It indeed has to wait.”
Su Jiao: “???”
You actually spoke for him again!
This time, the straight man Lian Xi finally understood his roommate’s meaning, he explained, “Firstly, Xie Ze’s death was very sudden, I remembered that you had a phone call with him in the evening, how did he suddenly die? I think this matter might be related to Sun Yan’s death. Secondly…,” he looked up at Lie Chen, “You said before that the golden light points to the last person Sun Yan touched, isn’t that right?”
Lie Chen lowered his eyes to look at Lian Xi, his gaze moving slightly, “That’s right.”
Lian Xi: “So, is it a living person … or a dead person?”
Lie Chen smiled, he knew that the youth in front of him understood what he meant.
“A living person.”
Su Jiao froze in place.
Lian Xi turned back to look at his roommate, “Now, you understand, right? The golden light will only point at living people, so that means that before we entered the school, or even right when we went upstairs, Xie Ze was not dead yet. But after we entered the house, he was already dead…. along the way here, did you see anyone?”
Su Jiao opened his mouth and said in a daze, “No…”
Lian Xi nodded: “Right, not to mention people, we didn’t even see a single ghost. So, whether the one who killed Xie Ze is a human or a ghost, he is either still hiding here or…” After a pause, Lian Xi asked, “Is there anyone living in the dormitory next door to you?”
Su Jiao: “Yes.305 No one lives there, but 303 is occupied.”
Lian Xi looked towards the balcony: “At the height of this fence, a college student with slightly better hands will definitely have no problem climbing over it. Do the two students living next door in 303 usually work out?”
Su Jiao clenched his fingers, he calmed his breathing and tried to regain his composure: “Go directly to search for him ba.”
Lian Xi looked up at him.
Su Jiao said word for word, “There’s only one person living next door in 303, called Liu Hao, he was the school’s basketball captain when he was an undergraduate.”