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"He died in the underground parking garage of Block B. His resentment was so deep that it affected the entire high school. Our goal is to destroy his body!"

"Only by destroying its corpse can the curse be ended!"

"Coincidentally, when we first entered the university, we brought a very powerful weapon with us... but when that thing approached Chen Qiong's body, it was attacked by Chen Qiong's spirit and was left in a shaft in the underground parking garage of the West District with the words 'Filthy Fire' written on it."

"That special weapon requires identification, but it won't take long. As long as you can help me attract Chen Qiong's spirit's attention, I'll be able to activate the weapon soon and destroy Chen Qiong's corpse!"

Yang Linlin bit her lip.

"Approximately how long will it take?"

Li Sheng replied:

"It should only take about three minutes in total!"

Yang Linlin looked at Zhao Yi with a questioning look in her eyes.

Zhao Yi extended his hand and shook hands with Li Sheng.

"When will the operation take place?"

Li Sheng pondered for a moment and said:

"It's too late tonight. Come back to the water tower tomorrow night, and I'll take you to the west underground parking garage!"

Zhao Yi:

"Can we scout out the location first?"

Li Sheng scratched his head and said:

"I almost forgot... you're not familiar with the terrain, so it's only right that you scout out the outer areas first!"

After the three of them made their agreement, they sat quietly there for about four hours until the ghostly fog outside disappeared. Only then did Zhao Yi lead Yang Linlin away from the water tower and head to the dormitory building.

The next day, they sat down according to their assigned positions on the roster.

Several more students in the class sat in the wrong seats and were beheaded on the spot!

The blood was cold and smelled foul.

But in the blink of an eye,

They disappeared along with the corpse.

The two survived the day without any major incidents.

While eating dinner in the cafeteria that evening, Zhao Yi shoveled rice into his mouth and asked Yang Linlin, who was sitting next to him:

Do you have fishing line?

"Silk thread will do... but it has to be fine enough, long enough, and strong enough."

Yang Linlin was still thinking about what would happen tonight and had no appetite.

"have."

"But... what do you need this for?"

Zhao Yi replied:

"kill."

Yang Linlin was stunned.

"Who to kill?"

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"Li Sheng".

Yang Linlin continued to watch Zhao Yi, who kept eating. He spoke casually, as if he were describing something insignificant.

But only the person involved knows just how insane those words really are!

"Are you crazy?"

"If we kill Li Sheng, who will help us break the curse?"

Yang Linlin didn't know what Zhao Yi was up to this time, but judging from his tone, he didn't seem to be joking!

He really wanted to kill Li Sheng!

After finishing the last bite of rice in his bowl, Zhao Yi looked up, elegantly opened a bottle of 82 soy milk, and said earnestly:

"If you're still hoping he can help us break the curse, then you're really not far from death."

Yang Linlin glanced at the noisy cafeteria around her, moved closer, and whispered:

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Yi drank the whole soy milk in one gulp.

He lied.

Yang Linlin frowned.

"lie?"

How did you know?

Zhao Yi tapped the table lightly with his index finger, recalling everything from last night, and recounted in detail:

"First, he's just an investigator, not a student from Class 8 of the first year of high school. Don't you think his description of Chen Qiong is a bit too detailed?"

"He was so meticulous that he even knew when Chen Qiong saw the mayor's son, Pang Xiao, put his hand inside the clothes of Zhang Ya, the class beauty, during class."

Yang Linlin's body stiffened.

"Secondly, three people are missing from the roster."

"Chen Qiong, Pang Xiao, Zhang Ya."

"None of these three are on the roster."

"If things are exactly as Li Sheng described, then I think Chen Qiong, who possesses the power to plunge the entire school into strange chaos, would not let Pang Xiao and Zhang Ya go—at least he wouldn't let Pang Xiao go."

"Because Pang Xiao was the source of this tragedy!"

Yang Linlin fell into deep thought.

Zhao Yi continued:

"Third, he didn't discover the basement of that water tower by chance... I even suspect that he built it himself."

Looking up, Yang Linlin stared at Zhao Yi with a face full of question marks.

If she could understand the first two points, she really thought Zhao Yi was talking nonsense about the third point!

"The curse on this school has spread to most corners, affecting all the teachers and students. Where did he find the time to build such a large basement in front of so many evil spirits?"

Zhao Yi's gaze was deep and unfathomable.

"No ash."

"what?"

"I said, there's no dust in the basement."

Recalling what happened last night, Zhao Yi explained:

"Last night, I deliberately tried many corners."

"The lampstand, the sofa, even... those odds and ends were almost dust-free and very clean."

"No one usually cleans the basement."

"Unless people live there regularly."

"As you said, it's almost impossible to build such a basement on the face of a demon after the curse has occurred, so the basement must have been built before the curse occurred."

"The entrance is so well hidden, there's no light, and the mechanism is concealed behind bricks that no one would expect... Do you think it's more likely that he discovered the basement by chance while being chased by evil spirits, or that he knew about its existence all along?"

Yang Linlin was stunned.

Zhao Yi's observation skills... are just too terrifying, aren't they?

"But if he's deceiving us, what's his purpose?"

Zhao Yi explained:

"Psychologically speaking, a purposeful lie is usually a mixture of truth and falsehood."

"To make a lie more logical and believable, it often needs to incorporate some elements of reality."

"For example, even without Chen Qiong in her demonic form, there are definitely dangers in the underground parking lot of the West District that we cannot imagine."

"And Li Sheng really wanted to enter that shaft marked 'Filthy Fire'."

"But once he goes in, he won't come out again, which is why he lied and asked me to help him attract the ghost outside."

Analyze it layer by layer.

Yang Linlin now believes that Li Sheng, who seems completely harmless, is actually a fraud!

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Damn, that observation and judgment is absolutely amazing!

To be honest, I also feel that something is off about Li Sheng!

This unlucky kid actually tried to scheme against Zhao Yi, that madman. He'll probably suffer a terrible fate!

But since Zhao Yi discovered the problem, why didn't he kill Li Sheng last night, and why did he have to kill him today?

It's normal that you can't imagine it, after all, we are normal people, while he is a madman!

……

He took out a fishing line from his person and handed it to Zhao Yi.

After Zhao Yi put it away, Yang Linlin asked again:

"What do you need me to do tonight?"

Zhao Yi said:

"You don't need to do anything."

"Whether we succeed or not depends on tonight."

"We're lucky, we'll be able to break this curse tonight!"