CH 127

Xiao Lan felt a bit of a novelty as she basked in the sight of her classmates.

He had always existed at school as a bully or even a god of learning, and although he used to get a lot of attention from his classmates, it was all adoration or jealousy in their eyes at that time.

I never thought I'd get to experience the rebellious schoolboy treatment now.

At this time, the students looked at him with curiosity mixed with a touch of envy, as if it was human nature to look at rebels with concern and a certain vague expectation.

Don't tell me, it's ...... pretty cool to be a bad student once in a while.

In this way, Xiao Lan once again followed Luo to his office.

It was like a secret base for the two of them, a place Xiao Lan knew well enough. He leans casually against the table with his lesson plan and Luo's sinewy handwriting, which looks much more responsible as a teacher than he is as a student.

"Any luck? Sir." Luo closed the door and turned to Xiao Lan.

Xiao Lan told him about what he had seen in the Rector's office, describing in particular what had happened to Mr Weld and what was written in the Rector's handwritten notes.

"Spell puppets, that's interesting stuff." Luo sat back in his chair, "We've obviously been up close and personal with Mr Weld before and we didn't even realise he wasn't actually alive."

Xiao Lan: "Now I'm going to go back to the northern tower when it's dark, this time to see Adeline."

Although there is a danger of Mrs. Hong Yue when it is dark, if it is not dark, the school is still quite full of students and adolescents like to go where no one is, so it is easy to expose the trail on the way to the tower.

Now that they were two, even if they met Mrs. Hong Yue, they were sure to get away with it.

"I'll be there with you." Luo said with a small smile. "But it's still a while before dark, want to kill some time?"

Xiao Lan was a little curious: "What do you want to do?"

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Are two people really going to clean up here?

It doesn't need to be so desperate, does it?

Luo reached out from a row of books on the table and pulled out a book that looked very familiar to Xiao Lan -

The archaeological record from which Xiao Lan chose the word " Luo " to give his name.

Luo gestured at Xiao Lan with the book in his hand, "I borrowed this book from Laurence, it's a rare visit, want to read it together?"

Xiao Lan: "......"

To be honest, he was a bit vain about the Luo Yang shovel incident.

Xiao Lan was a bold and wild young man back then, and if he had a bad temper in front of him, he would have been dead by the time he was 15.

I didn't expect Luo to really accept the name.

Even after forgetting everything about themselves, they remember.

Luo is already in a good mood, flicking open the book, reading it with a leisurely gesture, as if its contents were very interesting.

The evening sun streamed in through the window, shining on his perfectly contoured, unearthly face, outlining a nice golden light, even the gold-rimmed glasses perched on the bridge of his nose shone warmly and softly in the setting sun.

Xiao Lan couldn't help but go over and look at it with him.

The book is actually quite boring, full of professional notes and analysis, interspersed with a lot of jargon.

But neither of the two men reading the book said much as they looked at one text on the page with a faint look of nostalgia in their eyes.

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A room was silent, with only the slightest sound of a book being turned.

One flipped through the book leisurely, the other watched in silence, as if there was some kind of unspoken understanding.

Soon after, it finally got dark.

The pale red moonlight once again enveloped the whole college.

Luo's long fingers stop flipping through the book.

He raised his eyes to the red moon outside the window and whispered, "Sir, it is time."

Xiao Lan also looked up, a bright light in her eyes, "Let's go."

The two men stood up and stepped into the red field bathed in danger.

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Carefully hiding their tracks, the two men once again made their way to the northern tower.

Today the tower still has that deserted look.

Xiao Lan listened carefully for movement inside, but strangely, today there was no sound of scales scraping against the ground, nor did he hear the murmur of a child-like voice.

Everything was very quiet, so quiet that it was as if there was nothing inside.

The two men found the door below the tower.

Not surprisingly, the door had been locked by a large, heavy lock.

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Unlike the barrenness of the entire tower, there wasn't much rust on this lock, and even Xiao Lan felt the smoothness of the cylinder when he unlocked it, as if it would have been opened regularly.

Enter the tower.

A damp, mouldy smell came from the walls, and water stains and moss appeared on the walls all around.

The entire tower is very empty, and although the building still has a gothic and ornate feel, there is little furniture to be seen inside, giving off an air of emptiness and decay.

Xiao Lan turns on the [nuclear torch] and looks around.

There are two staircases ahead, and the further up they go, the drier the surroundings become.

And down that staircase, the dampness was heavy and there was more moss around than the rest, as if there was some kind of water source down there.

"Sir." Luo pointed to the mossy ground beneath their feet, "There are signs that it has been stepped on repeatedly, all down and then back up, so someone must have gone down here a lot."

Xiao Lan followed Luo's lead and saw that there were indeed a number of footprints on the ground, but they were mostly obscured by the rapid growth of moss.

It seems that not only is the rumoured monster in the tower not two snakes, it is also possible that it does not live inside the tower.

Campus lore is indeed full of uncertainty.

The two men walked down the dark, damp steps, and the further they went, the heavier the air became and the smell of fishy water grew on the tips of their noses.

The sound of dripping and water running can occasionally be heard.

After walking for a while, we finally reached the end of the stairs.

But the strange thing is that it is just an empty space, seemingly devoid of anything, but suffused with vapour from an unknown source.

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"Is there a mechanism?" Xiao Lan speculated.

The water vapour is so thick here that it's almost like being on the river, but it seems odd not to see any water source within sight.

"Leave it to me." Luo points his finger on the wall and instantly, pitch-black shadows spread out, searching the entire room.

Quickly, he withdrew his hand and walked towards a piece of masonry in the corner of the room that looked indistinguishable from the surrounding area.

He reached out and pressed down hard against the edge of the block, and with his movement the whole block swung up to reveal a stone switch behind it.

Luo flicks a switch and the next instant a downward passage appears in the otherwise empty floor.

This efficiency made Xiao Lan give him a nod: "It's amazing every time I watch you look for clues."

Luo just smiled, "My pleasure."

The two then entered this newly emerging passage.

The passage is narrow and cramped, only big enough for one person to pass through, the surface is also slippery and not easy to follow, and it is a long passage, as if going all the way to hell.

It took a while to walk before the two came to an open area once again.

It is a huge, empty space, surrounded by stone walls, with a layer of standing water on the floor and a barely decorated interior that looks eerie and ghastly.

It turns out that this place is actually hidden so deep.

It's no wonder that only a faint sound could be heard outside, probably because the monster being held inside happened to be moving closer to the staircase, if it was further away, no sound would have been heard outside at all.

Xiao Lan's torch searches the walls for clues.

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Suddenly, high up on the wall he saw some graffiti, scrawled in childish strokes, like the work of a child.

But this height is beyond the reach of even the average adult, and Xiao Lan's eyes scanned the area to see no climbing tools.

How were the graffiti painted on?

Putting aside his doubts for the moment, he surveyed the graffiti.

The level is much better than Luo's, at least it's human.

On the far left is a woman in a red dress.

The child's brushwork cannot convey the details of the dress, only a long, puffy skirt, and a large pile of black on the head that seems to express the hair.

All around this woman was a red colour and the image looked eerie.

On the other side, not far from the woman lay a figure.

A male by his clothing, he has slightly longer flaxen hair and his chest is a large mass of red, a symbol that the man has been seriously injured or even killed.

Next to it is the child's childish handwriting.

[Mum's gone mad ......]

[Mum is scary]

Xiao Lan indicated the woman on her left with her torch, "Does this look like Mrs. Hong Yue?"

He moved his hand light to the side again, "This one looks a lot like Mr Weld, I saw him with a wound on his chest in about the same place."

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"So the graffiti is trying to say that it was actually Mrs. Hong Yue who killed Mr. Weld." Luo said.

Xiao Lan said, "Mrs. Hong Yue was actually Mrs. Weld, but for some reason she didn't know about it and didn't even remember that she had killed her husband."

"And if that's the case, how did Adeline die?" Xiao Lan looked at the graffiti on the wall and couldn't help but frown, "Was she also killed by the headmistress in the guise of Mrs. Hong Yue?"

Luo knew that Xiao Lan was just thinking, not seeking answers from him. He stood still, watching Xiao Lan's every move, as if he did not want to miss a single detail.

Xiao Lan thinks of the headmistress who recorded her painful struggles in her handwritten notes, and wonders how Mrs Weld would feel if she knew that the source of all her grief and pain was herself.

But who is the person at ...... who drew these?

Adeline after the resurrection?

If Adeline is, what size is she now?

Plus both the rumours and the headmaster's handwritten notes had previously stated that she would attack people.

It doesn't feel good to do it.

Xiao Lan whispered, "It seems that we still have to find Adeline."

He surveyed his surroundings.

As his torch swept around him, there was no sign of any two-tailed snake woman.

As the two men walked forward, holes in the ground filled with water appeared ahead of them.

The hole in the ground is large enough to accommodate several adults without any problems.

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But the cave was so dark that the torch could not penetrate it, making it impossible to guess where it actually led.

Xiao Lan retracts torch: "Looks like whoever enters will die ......"

Just because a player's body is enhanced and hardy doesn't mean they can survive in the water.

Who knows where this dark waterway will lead and how long it will be, and there may even be unknown dangers lurking within it.

In the event of a fight and it is too late to change your breath, then you can die peacefully.

Luo said, "Do you want me to scout, sir?"

As a non-human who doesn't need to breathe, such a job is within his grasp.

Although this water quality looks rather apologetic, he would have no mental block at all if he had Xiao Lan's hopes.

Xiao Lan shook his head, "What's in the water is still unknown."

He could not leave Luo to face these dangers alone and then feel comfortable enjoying the other man's contribution.

He stepped forward and gently dabbed a bit of water on his nose and sniffed, "The smell, it's similar to the water stains that appear to tip the ceiling every morning."

It is Adeline, then, that leaves the player with a hint.

Where on earth has she gone now?

At this point Luo pointed to the algae on the water and said, "This algae, according to the teachers at the school, is a very special species that grows in the lake in the college forest."

Xiao Lan turns his head and asks, "Is there a lake in the forest?"

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Luo smiles: "As a teacher, it's natural to know a little more."

"According to the teachers, the forest outside the college seems to be full of carnivorous wild animals. A disbelieving teacher was once attacked when he ran for a walk at night and resigned not long after escaping back."

"According to this teacher's account, there is a sizeable lake in the forest, and he had gotten this algae on his body."

Xiao Lan: "......"

What a people's teacher with a spirit of discovery.

For a moment, he didn't know whether to lament that this teacher was big-hearted enough to go for a walk in such a dark forest, or whether he should lament that people with iron heads actually had such hard lives.

It's amazing that this teacher has survived such a death wish.