Chapter 19: Evergreen High School

After the five-day break, the crowd took a bus to the venue for the second level of the competition.

Still arriving in the afternoon, the destination was a boarding school called Evergreen High School, which happened to be one of the ten schools that Jiang Luo and the others had put together.

Upon seeing this school, Jiang Luo remembered the information he had memorized earlier.

Evergreen High School, originally a key high school in the city, is located in a remote area, with old and dilapidated facilities, but the promotion rate is very impressive. 2012 Education Bureau grants, Evergreen High School after the expansion of the new campus is divided into old and new campuses, in the new campus is the study of freshmen and sophomores, the old campus is the senior high school and the senior high school repeating students, because the old campus is more remote and clean, to give the preparation for the examination of a quiet environment for study.

But what was supposed to be an ordinary expansion has turned into an accident - a senior girl has disappeared during the expansion.

Evergreen High School is a boarding school, students can only go home once a month, students disappeared during the school year, the incident was very big at that time, and in the next three months, several girls disappeared in succession, the expansion of the construction site workers also died in an accident, Evergreen High School from the key high school completely removed from the name.

But a thin camel is bigger than a horse. There are still many students and parents who do not believe in evil and secretly rejoice in the lowering of the score line of Evergreen High School, so the number of students in Evergreen High School is not less than that of other key high schools.

But this year, Evergreen High School is in trouble again.

The staff held the loudspeaker at the front and said: "The second level of the competition will last for three days. Within three days, you have to find the girl who disappeared in 2012, as well as the reason for the death of the worker, and what really happened that year, after the end of this competition, we will select thirty people from the best according to your answers to enter the next level. Your dormitory is located in the old campus, the students from the old campus have already moved to the new campus, the second level of the competition will also be broadcasted live, before the competition starts, please sign a death waiver agreement with us--"

"Thirty?!"

"Holy shit ...... this is a straight up elimination of a hundred people?"

"Four to one odds, why is this level so tough!"

The chatter exploded, violently drowning out the voices of the staff.

Jiang Luo tsked, "A waiver of liability agreement, that serious?"

Zhuo Zhongqiu reassured everyone calmly, "Don't worry, my old man was elected as a judge this year, and I called him before the competition and asked him to take care of us. Even if this level is dangerous, we will definitely be safe."

Ge Zhu sighs, "Following Sister Zhuo is a sense of security."

Zhuo Zhongqiu hooked his lips handsomely, "A small matter."

Hearing her words, the already prepared students of Birch University Class 01 were even more relieved, and frankly went to sign the death waiver and followed the work crew to the dormitory again.

The dormitory on the old campus is a four-person dormitory, two bunk beds plus four desks together, about ten square meters of the room seems particularly crowded. As soon as I walked into the dormitory, I was greeted by a damp odor.

The stench seemed like garbage had been piled up for a long time, and it was like the stench in the sewers, Wenren even covered his nose and sighed, "It looks like a boy's dormitory."

"Of course it's the boys' dormitory," the staff member in front of him said smilingly, "It's an old campus, the sewers often break down, so please bear with us."

"It's okay to be patient," Lu Youyi pointed at Zhuo Zhongqiu, "Why is she a woman in our boys' dormitory?"

The staff's smile remained unchanged, "There was a mistake when arranging the dormitory, I guess, but it's fine, there's no difference between boys and girls, and Zhuo students can come to the first floor faculty and staff's bathroom to take a shower and go to the toilet."

One of the boys blurted out from the back, "So we won't be able to walk around bare-chested?"

"Be as light as you want, you can get naked too," Zhuo Zhongqiu trailed off lazily, "Bro, I like pretty soft girls, you don't have to think too much when you don't have boobs and two extra pounds of meat."

A roar of laughter rang out.

Every time the staff walked to a dormitory, they would call the names according to the list, and when they got to a dormitory at the very end of the sixth floor, the staff said, "Jiang Luo, Zhuo Zhongqiu, Bai Yefeng, Xu Yan."

Jiang Luo looked sideways just in time to see Bai Yefeng walking up to him with a man on his smiling face.

"What a coincidence," Bai Yefeng looked at the dark-haired youth with a smile, "that we're even in the same dormitory."

That oddly familiar feeling came back.

Jiang Luo narrowed his eyes slightly, "Yeah, I didn't expect such a coincidence either."

This dormitory has two people from Birch University and two people from Shanhai University, which can't be described by the word "coincidence".

The staff took them to the dormitory and left. The four stood at the door for a while, and the man named Xu Yan, who was brought here by Bai Yefeng, looked at Jiang Luo with a wary and hostile eye; it seemed that in the minds of Bai Yefeng's followers, Jiang Luo was already regarded as enemy number one.

Zhuo Zhongqiu raised his hand on Jiang Luo's shoulder, and the two of them walked into the dormitory together, "First, choose a bed."

The rooms on the sixth floor also had a sewer stench, but after being in them for a long time, you couldn't smell it.

Jiang Luo and Zhuo Zhongqiu left the dormitory after a few people had finished organizing their belongings.

Needless to say explicitly, they were almost two by two, not prepared to talk much to each other.

In a game where people who aren't from the same school are each other's rivals, and only a fraction of the one hundred and thirty people make it to the next level, everyone is on the defensive against everyone else.

Birch University people gathered in the open space in front of the dormitory, Kuang Zheng and Wen Renlian one dormitory, Lu Youyi and Ye Xun one dormitory, Ge Zhu and Sai Liaoer one dormitory, and after comparing them, they realized that the four people in each dormitory were actually two by two from one school.

"Are they all four to a room?" Jiang Luo frowned, "Doesn't that note refer to the old campus dormitory when it says 4-5 people?"

"It's quite possible," mused Winkelian, "that this one points too vaguely, and there's not much information that would match it yet."

When he finished, he looked to Jiang Luo, "Jiang Luo, did you see anything?"

Jiang Luo looked back at the dormitory building.

The sky was overcast, and the old dormitory building was gray and shabby, with some of the siding falling off from the third and fourth floors, revealing the grayish-white walls inside.

Damp, obscure, and depressing to look at.

"This place makes me feel uncomfortable," Jiang Luo's eyes swept from the sixth floor, stopping at the dormitory window at the end, where a man stood, looking down, Jiang Luo recognized that it was Bai Yefeng, Jiang Luo continued in a slow voice: Jiang Luo continued slowly, "I've had this feeling since I walked into the old campus."

Zhuo Zhongqiu was thoughtful, she was of the Body-Soul Dual Cultivation school, and was much more sensitive to these things in her spiritual body than the average person, "Although I don't feel it as strongly as you do, I also feel that something is wrong."

The two men looked at each other silently.

Jiang Luo pulled open the zipper of his school bag and casually took out a bunch of talismans from it, "Five talismans per person, no more."

A group of people were immediately moved to tears, and could not wait to rush over and hug Jiang Luo to kiss him hard, "Jiang Luo, how can you be so good ah oooh oooh oooh."

"And so many charms for us."

"You must have been writing for a long time oooooooh?"

Jiang Luo humbly said, "Your safety is the most important thing."

He suddenly smiled, "After all, we all work together to get first place."

After the brief party, the sky was completely overcast. The trees were half bent by the brisk wind, and the clouds gathered as if rain was imminent.

Zhu Ge looked up at the sky and said, "There will be rain tonight until six o'clock tomorrow morning, so everyone go back to the dormitory and stay there."

On the way back to the dormitory, there were still many participants who didn't care about the impending rain and went out to search for clues. These were mostly people who weren't sure they would make it to the next level, and the anxiety made them not dare to waste their precious time.

Jiang Luo hadn't walked up such a high staircase for a long time, but fortunately, he had been working out with Lu Youyi for a month, and he didn't feel tired when he climbed up in one breath.

In the dormitory, Bai Yefeng is still there, but Xu Yan, who was by his side, is nowhere to be seen.

Bai Yefeng was sitting on a chair by the window, reading a book, and when he saw Jiang Luo and Zhuo Zhongqiu come in, he revealed a smile and said, "You guys are back?"

Zhuo Zhongqiu nodded toward him and asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"

Bai Yefeng closed the book, the title of which was clearly 'Detailed Explanation of the Compass', and he smiled and said, "I rarely read these basic books, and it's quite interesting to look at them once in a while."

Jiang Luo narrowed his eyes at him and the book, only to feel the stench in the room grow, to the point where he felt like he was tainted with it as well.

"I'm going to take a shower."

Jiang Luo took out a bottle of shower gel and went into the dormitory bathroom.

The dormitory bathrooms on the old campus weren't much better, but thankfully they were cleaned up and there wasn't much clutter. Jiang Luo used a bottle of shower gel to settle his whole body, and was washing his hair when he suddenly smelled a rusty odor.

Jiang Luo opened his eyes, only to see the hot water left behind from the top of the head turned into a blood-like color, water gurgling, rusty smell is getting heavier and heavier.

Jiang Luo : "...... grass."

He shrugged it off, pulled a yellow talisman out of his pants pocket, and stuck it on the water pipe, and a few moments later, the rusty smell was gone, and the blood-like water flow became clear again.

Jiang Luo expressionlessly took another shower with his head and face covered in red liquid.

When he turned off the water and started to get dressed, there was a knock on the door outside the bathroom, "Fellow student Jiang Luo, are you done? I also want to take a shower."

It's Bai Yefeng.

Jiang Luo went over to show him the door, and when he looked outside, Zhuo Zhongqiu was not there.

"She's gone to take a shower on the first floor," Bai Yefeng smiled, "and asked me to let you know before she left that she'd be back soon."

Jiang Luo smiled kindly at him, "Thank you."

Walk back and keep dressing.

Bai Yefeng looked at him and smiled meaningfully as he gently closed the bathroom door and took off the short sleeves he was wearing.

In the mirror, the young dark-haired man with a fair and slender frame was bowing his head and buttoning his pants, and behind him, a much more athletic figure walked slowly.

"Classmate Jiang Luo," Bai Yefeng looked in the mirror, "did you encounter anything when you took a shower?"

Jiang Luo lifted his head and locked eyes with Bai Yefeng from the mirror, he abruptly raised his lips, revealing a florid smile with a compact flower cluster, the red mole on the back of his hand was as fresh as a drop of blood, "How so?"

Bai Yefeng pointed to the yellow amulet on the water pipe, "I don't remember having that before."

"Oh, this," Jiang Luo lifted his hand and took off the yellow talisman, stuffing it into his pants pocket, "I have the habit of sticking talismans around me when I take a shower, occupational hazard, you don't mind, do you?"

"No," Bai Yefeng tacked a smile at the corner of his mouth, "the habit is safe."

Jiang Luo and him polite a few words, put on the clothes and then ready to go out, but Bai Yefeng suddenly stretched out a hand to Jiang Luo shoulder touch, Jiang Luo reflexively yanked his arm to give him an over-the-shoulder drop, and then ruthlessly take the knee against Bai Yefeng's neck, both hands tackle Bai Yefeng's hands, "what do you want". His eyes were sharp and cold, like a sharp knife out of its sheath, "What do you want to do."

Bai Yefeng was restrained so hard on the ground, but it was as if he couldn't feel any pain, instead he laughed lowly, "No, it's nothing, I just wanted to say, fellow student Jiang Luo, the collar on your back is turned out."

Jiang Luo scrutinized him condescendingly, his wet hair resting on the side of his shoulder, part of the water stains being sucked away by his shirt, and part of it dripping down onto Bai Yefeng's chin. Bai Yefeng slowly stopped laughing and looked at him innocently, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Luo pulled his lips, stood up and pulled Bai Yefeng up, patting Bai Yefeng's shoulder intimately, "Sorry Bai, I don't really like it when people pat me on the shoulder from behind, so I'm really sorry for hurting you by mistake."

Bai Yefeng smiled gently, "It's okay."

Jiang Luo gave him a thankful smile and turned to leave the bathroom. When the bathroom door closed behind him, he suddenly remembered something and dug into his pants pocket.

But instead of pulling out the talisman, he only touched a handful of paper dust.

Jiang Luo's fingers twitched as he turned back to the bathroom door, the corners of his pretty eyes slightly raised and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

Ah.

He seems to have discovered a very interesting secret.