My organs are too abstract.

When Xu Yuan came out after taking a shower, the dormitory was already empty.

Xu Yuan frowned, looking puzzled. "Strange, why is he in such a hurry?"

He shook his head, not paying any attention, and sat on the edge of the bed drying his wet hair. Recalling the dark figure from last night, he couldn't help but lower his head and ponder.

"That shadowy figure... doesn't seem to kill people directly, but rather operates according to a fixed mechanism."

He has probably figured out this mechanism—first take photos of the target, then continue to observe and take more photos. As his understanding deepens, he can gradually replace and control the target.

Xu Liang knocked on the door twice but only remembered one time, and there was also a moment when his body jerked, which must have been because he was being slowly and unconsciously violated.

The girl who fell to her death was probably not an accident, but rather because she was the previous target of the shadow.

Xu Yuan then thought of the corpse he had encountered before. What was its mechanism?

Aside from chatting with it for a while, we had no prior interaction. Could it be that... as long as I reply to its messages, I'll be targeted?

Thinking of this, Xu Yuan sighed softly, looking as if he had been deeply taught a lesson: "Alas, once bitten, twice shy. Sure enough, you shouldn't pay attention to messages from strangers."

However, upon closer reflection, although the corpses and shadows have different mechanisms, they have one thing in common: they are both rigid and unable to communicate normally, just like a pre-programmed sequence.

Moreover, once you understand their mechanisms, avoiding them isn't actually that difficult.

Are all calamities like this?

"wrong."

Xu Yuan's eyes flickered slightly as he suddenly remembered Guang Ge, whom he had met at the KTV.

At that time, an unknown calamity mark appeared above his head, and the owner of the mark—the opera singer—behaved quite differently.

She was more spiritual, and had clear emotions when facing herself. Compared to the bewildered and numb appearance of the corpse and the shadow, she was more like... possessing consciousness.

"From this perspective, perhaps there are some kind of differences between different calamities?"

Xu Yuan pondered for a while and felt that his understanding of calamity had become clearer.

"Buzzing—"

My phone suddenly vibrated.

Xu Yuan thought it was a message from Zhao Ze and the others, but when he picked it up, it was a friend request from a stranger, accompanied by a strange message:

"Do you remember our promise?"

"Um?"

The other person's profile picture was a basketball icon. Xu Yuan stared at it for several seconds, confirming that he had no recollection of it.

Looking at that nonsensical statement again, a strong sense of déjà vu washes over you.

Xu Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly, his heart instantly on high alert. He sneered, "Well, I just said you learn from your mistakes, and you pull this on me, huh?"

Without even thinking, he decisively clicked "reject".

"Buzzing..."

The other party, however, seemed unwilling to give up, bombarding the country with one application after another.

Xu Yuan didn't even bother to look at it again. He casually silenced his phone and tossed it onto the bedside table, sneering inwardly, "Hmph, trying to use the same trick to frame me, Xu? Not so easy!"

With this sense of smugness that seemed to see through everything, Xu Yuan slowly closed his eyes and entered his usual nap mode.

……

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Yuan was breathing steadily and sleeping soundly, showing no signs of waking up.

Just then, his left hand fingers suddenly twitched slightly on their own.

The index and middle fingers, held together, resemble two short legs, silently climbing upwards along the edge of the thigh.

It crawled over the lower abdomen and chest, finally stopping above the cheek, the palm gently raised and suspended in mid-air.

It looked like the next second was about to bring a slap down on him, giving him a friendly wake-up call.

At this critical moment—

Xu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

With lightning speed, his right hand grabbed his left hand tightly.

He stared at his left hand, which was hovering in front of him, a smug smile playing on his lips: "It's been so long, and you still want to ambush me? Not so easy!"

My left hand was still for two seconds, then suddenly my index finger straightened, my thumb hooked my middle finger, and I flicked it lightly—

"Snapped!"

He flicked Xu Yuan's head lightly.

It wasn't very forceful, but it was extremely insulting.

Xu Yuan: "..."

"You idiot."

Faced with this rebellious left hand, Xu Yuan felt powerless and gently gave it two taps as punishment.

Instead of checking his phone immediately, he began his daily indoor workout.

He didn't check his phone until he was drenched in sweat from practicing and took another shower.

Besides the endless friend requests from that stranger, there was also a missed call from someone whose contact name was "Class Monitor".

"What does Su Nian want with me?"

Curious, Xu Yuan casually dialed back. After a few seconds of ringing, the call was answered.

Su Nian immediately questioned, "Where have you been? Why didn't you answer your phone in broad daylight?"

Xu Yuan said succinctly, "Go to sleep."

"Why are you sleeping in the middle of the day?" Su Nian's tone was full of suspicion. "Did you go steal a cow last night?"

"How dare you slander someone's innocence out of thin air?" Xu Yuan explained seriously, "I went to punish evil and promote good. I not only saved a life, but also avenged another lost life. I think you should show me the respect you deserve."

"You spent the whole night punishing evil and promoting good?"

"No, it was probably just a few minutes," Xu Yuan said honestly. "But I didn't sleep for long before I got up early to exercise. I'm still very sleepy during the day and need to catch up on sleep."

Su Nian was stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

She certainly didn't believe in the idea of ​​punishing evil and promoting good, but Xu Yuan had indeed been training recently, which didn't seem like he was lying to her.

She couldn't help but wonder, "Can't you exercise at another time? Why do you have to get up so early?"

"Sigh," Xu Yuan looked down at his left hand and shook his head with a sigh, "You'll understand when you get to my age."

"..."

Su Nian said speechlessly, "You're talking nonsense again."

Xu Yuan smiled and said, "So, what did the class monitor want to talk to me about? You didn't just want to chat, did you?"

"I've noticed you're getting increasingly shameless lately."

"Ah, you can't be shameless without thick skin," Xu Yuan shook his head and sighed, "It's all out of necessity."

"I'm too lazy to argue with you," Su Nian cut to the chase, "Do you still remember Yang Minghao?"

"That boy who chased you on the playground?" Xu Yuan thought for a moment. "I vaguely remember him. Why?"

"Do you have a lot of complaints about him?"

Xu Yuan was taken aback: "No, we should say we've buried the hatchet. Why do you say that?"

"No?" Su Nian asked, puzzled. "You haven't checked your phone at all today?"

"You've watched it several times, what's wrong?"

"Didn't anyone contact you in between?"

"Looking for me? No." Xu Yuan thought for a moment, then added, "But there's some idiot who keeps trying to add me, and he keeps saying weird things."

"Do you think there's a possibility..." Su Nian paused for a few seconds, then slowly said, "That idiot you're talking about... is Yang Minghao?"

Xu Yuan: "?"