Chapter 869: The Four People Who Hanged Themselves

The male students on the ground, along with the middle-aged man, were confirmed dead, because their injuries were far too horrific.

The area had become a pool of blood.

It would have been a miracle if anyone survived. Moreover, Lin Yu and the others had checked for breath beneath their noses, there was absolutely no sign of life.

This time, they discovered this girl in the stall. After examining her carefully, aside from her disheveled clothing, they found no obvious wounds. When they checked her breathing and pulse, they discovered she was still alive, just unconscious.

Therefore, they carried her out of the women's restroom and laid her flat on the ground.

They tried to wake the unconscious girl.

But no matter what they did, she wouldn't wake up.

Jiang Ran and the others had no choice but to carry the girl back to the first floor of the library, to where the deceased Huo Yun lay.

They had Zeng Yan and the other two watch over them.

The rest continued their search.

Next, they searched the swimming pool.

The swimming pool, they searched the whole area, but it was still just the man who had died there earlier.

Outside the swimming pool.

On the concrete pavement, Lin Yu counted on his fingers: "There are 14 of us in total. Subtracting those of us still alive, and those who are dead, there are still 4 people we haven't found."

The Silver-Haired Guy touched his silver hair, which was now soaked with sweat and no longer flowing smoothly, and said: "Those 4 people should be easy to find. After all, the four of them are inseparable every day."

"If we can find one, we can find the other three."

Based on the Silver-Haired Guy's introduction, Jiang Ran and the others learned about the remaining four people.

Two men and two women.

They were couples, but not the kind of couples people would normally imagine.

Normally, when people imagine couples, two men and two women would form exactly two pairs of one man and one woman.

But because all four of these people were bisexual.

Their relationships were a little bit complicated.

Their relationships, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4.

1 and 2 were the men, the rest were women.

The relationships were as follows: 12, 13, 14.

23, 24.

34.

And then, here comes the absurd part.

123, 134, and even 1234.

In short, their relationships were an absolute mess.

Even Lin Yu and the others, who were their own kind of people, found it chaotic and confusing.

Next, Jiang Ran and the others searched several facilities within Alice Apartment, but none of them turned up any trace of those 4 people.

Until they reached Alice Apartment's own small park, built in a corner area within the apartment complex's grounds.

In the center of the small park, Alice Apartment had somehow acquired a massive tree so thick that three grown men would need to join hands to encircle it.

This big tree had two very thick branches.

One branch had a swing hanging from it.

As for the other branch, four people were hanging from it.

All four people had ropes around their necks, the ropes connected to that thick branch. The four were arranged in order of man, woman, man, woman.

Their heads drooped, faces pointing downward, arms and legs hanging straight down.

The most horrifying thing was that this park was an open-air park.

There was no lighting installed here at all.

Therefore, when Jiang Ran and the others arrived, they relied entirely on the high-intensity flashlights they had received as part of their equipment.

They swept the high-intensity flashlights around the park randomly, and when they arrived beside the tree, the light scattered randomly, dispelling the darkness wherever it touched.

And then, it was this careless act of illumination that suddenly caught sight of the four people hanging in mid-air.

At that moment, the light only caught a few pairs of dangling calves and feet, not the entirety of them. So the moment they were illuminated...

Everyone who saw this was so terrified they screamed bloody murder.

It wasn't until the flashlight beam gradually illuminated all four people completely that an indescribable sense of horror and eeriness instantly crawled over everyone's entire body.

Thankfully, there was no wind at the moment. If a strong gust had blown through, the bodies of these four people would probably have been swaying and swinging back and forth.

Under the illumination of Jiang Ran and the Green-Haired Guy's flashlights, Lin Yu and the others confirmed the identities of the four hanged corpses.

They were indeed the 4 people they hadn't been able to contact.

At this point, the status of all 14 people had been fully confirmed:

The living: Lin Yu, Zheng Zihan, the unconscious girl from the gym restroom.

The Silver-Haired Guy, the Pink Long-Haired Girl, the Pimply Guy, the Green-Haired Guy.

The dead: the male student from the gym women's restroom, the Purple-Haired Guy, the male from the swimming pool, and the two men and two women in the small park.

There were 7 living people, and exactly 7 dead.

Lin Yu was now frantically clawing at his hair, messing it up completely.

He paced around in circles, muttering to himself.

"Why? What the hell is going on?"

"Why did we just happen to be playing in the apartment at night, and this kind of thing happens?"

Yeah, why?

The Silver-Haired Guy and the others couldn't figure it out either.

Live stream room.

Chat section.

Middle-aged Uncle: [Thank goodness, out of 14 people, 7 are alive. But at this point, tonight is about over anyway.]

[Sigh, in the end, I just can't compete with you young folks. It took two cups of strong coffee just to keep myself from getting sleepy.]

Domineering Female CEO: [You can go to sleep now.]

Ultimate Rich Kid: [I should sleep too, I'm exhausted. Watching this kind of bloody murder stuff at night, I feel like I'm definitely going to have nightmares.]

Fairy Sister: [But even though a lot of people died tonight, only Huo Yun, one lab rat, actually died.]

The chat section was filled with continuous conversation. These people seemed to be using the constant chatting to keep themselves from falling asleep, forcibly boosting their spirits.

But they all thought tonight was just about over, that it should be ending.

Yet perhaps, it was a new beginning.

...

First floor of the library.

Over at Zeng Yan's side.

Xue Kai was leaning against a wooden bookshelf, looking at his phone. Zhang Wei sidled up next to him and looked at what was on his screen.

His eyes widened in shock: "Why is your girlfriend breaking up with you?"

Xue Kai turned his head and said flatly: "Haven't you heard that saying? Graduation season, breakup season."

"I'm in Nancheng City, and she's not in the city where we went to school either. She went back to her hometown to develop her career, so breaking up is only natural. It's fine that she brought it up, saves me from having to do it and looking like the cold-hearted one."

"Speaking of which, do couples who date in college actually end up getting married?"

Xue Kai craned his neck back and let out a sigh.

Zhang Wei said: "I don't know, but there must be some. Probably very few, the rare exception!"

Zeng Yan was leaning against another bookshelf.

He listened to the two of them talking.

He felt a little envious inside.

After all, he had never attended university.

He had dropped out of high school to work.

If he could have gone to college, he would have loved to experience that sweet campus romance feeling.

But every time he thought of his ex-girlfriend, he lost all hope in that sweet college romance.

His gaze shifted to the others present.

The deceased Huo Yun.

The unconscious girl lying on the small bed made of stacked books.

The Monkey King Mask Man, bound hand and foot, silent.

And Huang Kaiyu, who had been sitting on the ground clutching his head the whole time, looking like he was in great pain.

"This apartment, people dying every few days. Is it some kind of tradition?"

Zeng Yan silently thought to himself.

Just then, he suddenly saw someone fly past right in front of his eyes.

That person was dressed all in black.

It was none other than Xue Kai, who had joined on the same day as him.