Chapter 98

"You bunch of thieves... thieves..."

Su Mian blinked, "This was originally for us, right?"

After the words fell, she saw him slap the table and stand up, pointing at Su Mian with blue veins popping out, "You have no greed at all!"

"Why steal the doll! Why!"

Once these words were spoken, Su Mian finally realized.

The so-called curse originates from greed itself.

And the so-called price is not necessarily life.

She realized that those missing "lovers" were not murdered.

They were consumed, dismantled, and finally only ashes suitable for feeding were left.

"Foolish Doll, as the name suggests, foolish delusions; once a certain thought is generated, I will give it to its owner and hand it over to him to feed it independently."

The head teacher spoke faintly, "Once the host dies, the soul will be trapped in its body forever, never to be reincarnated."

"Then wouldn't it be better to just wish for immortality?"

Su Mian asked curiously, but saw the head teacher looking at her like she was a fool.

"The wish made requires a different price; to make this wish, unless you can kill hundreds or thousands of people to feed it."

The head teacher sighed, obviously out of temper, and took out several sets of doll clothes from the drawer and handed them to Su Mian.

"Within 24 hours, you must make a wish or a curse on it, otherwise, you will suffer a backlash."

After leaving the office, Su Mian did not immediately tell other players the news.

She first had to confirm a fact: was Shen Jiarui's wish related to the murderer?

So at lunchtime, Su Mian did not leave the classroom; she hid in Shen Jiarui's drawer to rummage and found her draft paper; after quickly flipping through a few pages, she finally found a page with only a short sentence written on it.

Who is the murderer who killed Liang Chuchu?

Su Mian's heart sank, and she lowered her eyelids.

If she already knew the truth, why didn't she choose to tell the other two? Did she feel that using this method to obtain the truth was dirty? Unwilling to say it out loud? Or did she feel that no one would believe her if she said it?

In this way, she couldn't tell them the truth even more, so Shen Jiarui would have a reason to say that she found the murderer through various means.

But if she didn't tell them, Jingzhe would suffer a backlash; if she told her, Jingzhe would vote for her.

Ethical and moral issues caught her off guard.

In this way, the truth became a boomerang instead.

Concealment can become Su Mian's sharp weapon, but the price of paving the way for herself is Jingzhe's death.

Revealing it, this boomerang will fly back and be placed on her own neck.

Su Mian could raise a knife against those who hated her without hesitation, but she couldn't watch her friends walk toward death step by step with cold eyes.

Reason told her how to weigh the pros and cons, because her own life is the most important, but companionship and warmth pulled the balance back to the starting point time and time again.

She stood in the middle, with no way out, and could only let hesitation take root and spread in her heart repeatedly.

Su Mian's head throbbed; she stuffed the draft paper back, and after confirming that there was no one in the classroom, she planned to go eat first; it doesn't matter, there are still three days, there must be other solutions.

Just out of the classroom, she saw two familiar figures on the floor across from her; Su Mian was a little surprised and looked along the line of sight.

Zhou Ye and Chang Anning...

She felt a little puzzled, hid herself in the door frame of the back door, and raised her eyes to observe the actions of the two.

Ten minutes ago.

"Hey, boss, there's a girl at the door looking for you."

Yi Junxi smiled ingratiatingly and pointed to the door; Zhou Ye glanced at that figure and withdrew his gaze in boredom.

"I'm going to bring lunch for your sister-in-law, tell her I'm busy."

Yi Junxi said "Oh", and then ran out of the classroom to negotiate with Chang Anning.

Zhou Ye picked up his coat and put it on his shoulders, lifted his legs and walked to the front door, but was immediately stopped by Chang Anning.

Yi Junxi behind him was terrified, pulling her clothes and dragging her backward.

Zhou Ye lowered his eyes, hooked his lips faintly, with a distant but polite smile.

"Classmate, is there anything?"

Chang Anning's aggressive momentum instantly diminished by more than half; she couldn't help but blush and spoke stumblingly.

"You, you are the DM, right."

"You didn't participate in the discussion and self-introduction, not even a single process, you didn't fulfill the duties that a DM should fulfill at all!"

Chang Anning looked at Zhou Ye's gentle and handsome face, and became more and more confident when speaking, and her voice was a few degrees higher.

But she didn't see the coldness and impatience in his eyes under those slender eyelashes.

"So what?"

This actually stumped Chang Anning; she didn't expect Zhou Ye to answer like this.

However, from the current point of view, the DM is not as scary as they said at all.

So she boldly approached two steps, her voice softened slightly, making her negotiation relaxed and moderate.

Of course, if it weren't for someone being in a hurry to bring food, the current Chang Anning would have become a corpse.

"This case also has something to do with you, Zhou Ye, Liang Chuchu died, you must know something, please can you tell me some situation?"

Zhou Ye just wanted to lift his legs and leave, but his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a small figure hiding behind the door in a classroom downstairs; he suddenly hooked his lips and looked back at Chang Anning.

Chang Anning was shaken by these eyes, her heartbeat became faster and faster, she secretly said that there was a play.

Zhou Ye narrowed his eyes and pretended to think, placing his slender fingers on his chin.

"Hmm... there is a girl in your dormitory who is very timid, I often hear Liang Chuchu mention her, she said she hated her to death."

Hearing this, Chang Anning's eyes lit up, wanting to step forward to grab his hand but was dodged.

She retracted awkwardly and thanked him, her sense of superiority becoming more and more explosive.

This DM is so scary in other people's mouths, but he is obedient to her; she should have come to ask earlier.

Chang Anning rushed to the cafeteria with joy, becoming more and more certain about the candidate for the murderer in her heart.

As for this "timid" person, Zhou Ye didn't name her; who knows if he was talking about the character setting or the personality?

Time passed quickly, with two days and eight hours left in the countdown; Chang Anning stepped on the dead leaves all over the ground, walking forward with deep and shallow steps.

Her breathing was rapid, but her eyes were burning.

She found it.

Under an old crooked-neck locust tree, Shen Jiarui was facing away from her, squatting on the ground, holding something in her hand and muttering words.

From Chang Anning's angle, she could clearly see that it was a doll, exactly the style from the wooden cabin yesterday.

"It really is you."

Shen Jiarui trembled violently, quickly stuffed the doll into her school uniform jacket, and turned around in a panic.

Her face was pale, and the bruises under her eyes were thick.

"You, how did you find this place?"

"Followed you here," Chang Anning approached one step, "I felt you were wrong since I came out of the cafeteria, sneaky."

"Jiarui, why are you hiding the doll? Are you afraid of being discovered your 'secret'?"

"I have no secrets!" Shen Jiarui's voice rose, "I just... just want to be alone for a while!"