Rebirth Must Be Happy

Chapter 555 [546] School Beauty Contest

In the darkness, the group panicked, especially as the red light flashed and the eight-legged female ghost seemed to be crawling towards them. Darkness amplifies fear, and the atmosphere of fear among them intensified. Xu Jinhuan even began to doubt whether the situation described by Song Zhiyu had actually occurred.

In other words, real horror and supernatural elements appeared in a murder mystery game that used horror and supernatural elements as its selling point!

That monster was so realistic; it was definitely not a virtual image, it was real!

He even felt he could hear the laughter of female ghosts or monsters!

"Run!"

In the darkness, someone shouted, and then someone actually ran away in a panic. But before that, Huang Xiaoyu had already run away. Xu Jinhuan heard her scream fading into the distance.

"Don't panic, don't panic."

Xu Jinhuan was still trying to calm everyone down when he felt a soft little hand grab him—judging from the feeling, it was probably his classmate Zhizhi, who was also pulling him to the side, shouting as they ran, "Brother, run! Spider demon..."

'Have you forgotten about your older sister, Wanqing?'

Xu Jinhuan thought to himself, thankfully Xie Wanqing was right next to him, so he didn't really lose her. While being pulled by Song Zhiyu—the little girl unleashed amazing strength in her fear, really dragging Xu Jinhuan along—he reached out and grabbed Xie Wanqing's arm, joining the fleeing army.

Although Song Zhiyu was panicked, she still knew to run towards the direction of the laboratory she had just been in. However, the lights in that laboratory had been turned off by someone. In the darkness and panic, she ran in that direction for a while and didn't know if she had arrived at the destination. But anyway, the exit was just ahead, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

Soon, we reached the exit—presumably to prevent someone from bumping into the wall in the dark, there was a fluorescent light in the corner, providing a faint view.

"Stop first."

Startled and running, Xu Jinhuan was slightly out of breath. She stopped in the darkness, calmed herself, and was somewhat surprised to find that there didn't seem to be many people around. She said, "The laboratory should be right next to us."

The scene was set up with great care, even the classroom door had fluorescent signs, making it easy to spot. Xu Jinhuan led the two to the classroom door and tried to push it open, but found nothing. Then, suddenly, the lights in the classroom came on.

"what!"

Xie Wanqing screamed again in fright. Then, the moment her vision returned, she saw Xu Jinhuan and Song Zhiyu next to her. Xu Jinhuan subconsciously glanced at the classroom and saw Liu Liangfu and Li Hang standing by the door.

The five people exchanged glances, and Xu Jinhuan asked, "Where are the others?"

"They've gotten separated."

Liu Liangfu shook his head, while Li Hang said, "Logically speaking, shouldn't they all be back in the lab? Why are they running around?"

"They must be bad guys!"

Song Zhiyu said with great certainty, "Otherwise, why don't you act with us?"

"Because I'm scared."

Xie Wanqing patted her chest, still shaken. "That scared me to death! What was that thing?"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but glance towards the door and move closer to Xu Jinhuan: "Could there really be a ghost?"

"I guess it's a prop?"

Xu Jinhuan was also a little unsure what it was. "It's definitely not a real monster, but I don't know how it was created..."

After thinking for a moment, she continued Song Zhiyu's previous topic: "Logically speaking, everyone should have subconsciously come to the laboratory, since it is the only place we are familiar with, and there were also clues from the laboratory just now, but it is normal for them to be scared and run around."

Liu Liangfu said, "Let's look for clues first."

The group wandered around the lab again, but found no clues. Just as Xu Jinhuan suggested leaving, Song Zhiyu opened a drawer and asked him hesitantly, "This should be able to be opened too, right?"

Xu Jinhuan was taken aback. He had subconsciously thought that this was "someone else's stuff." There were cabinets and drawers in the lab, but he hadn't opened them. But when he saw Song Zhiyu's action, he suddenly realized that the whole place was just a set and there was no issue of privacy invasion. Only then did he realize and move closer.

However, there were no clues in the drawer. Instead, Liu Liangfu and his team were inspired and found a tablet computer in the cabinet next to it.

"It should be able to open if I put it here, right?"

Liu Liangfu muttered something, his hand already swiping open the tablet. There was no password; it was clearly a prop prepared for the players. The group clicked on it and saw only two apps on the homepage: WeChat and Renren (a Chinese social networking site). These were obviously meant to provide clues, so they opened them to take a look. The prop was surprisingly well-made; there were many posts on Renren, and the pinned post was particularly attractive:

Freshman Campus Beauty Pageant!

"Which school still holds this kind of old-fashioned selection?"

Song Zhiyu pouted in disdain, while Liu Liangfu had already opened the post. Xu Jinhuan immediately noticed the first name in the list: Jingyi.

According to the settings, this wasn't strange, but Xu Jinhuan quickly saw another name below, ranked third:

Wenxiao.

He turned to Xie Wanqing and asked, "I remember the character you played was Wen Xiao?"

"Ah."

Xie Wanqing nodded, seemingly taking a close look at the voting list, and said to Song Zhiyu with a grin, "Your name is on it too, but not many people voted for you."

Xu Jinhuan glanced down and saw that Fang Ying, played by Song Zhiyu, was also among them, but she only had a dozen or so votes. Compared to Jing Yi's more than a thousand votes, even Wen Xiao, played by Xie Wanqing, had more than a hundred votes.

Xie Wanqing might not care about this, but she knew very well that Song Zhiyu would care. Therefore, she was clearly teasing her, smiling at Song Zhiyu and deliberately saying, "Don't overthink it. This is just your persona. Nobody said you're not pretty."

"whispering sound!"

The little girl was clearly a bit annoyed. She pouted and glanced at Xie Wanqing sideways, "It's not like we're choosing you to be the school beauty. You've already graduated, so you can't be the school beauty anymore."

Xu Jinhuan didn't join their conversation. Instead, she carefully searched for clues, scrolling down the post and finding information:

"I saw on Tieba that Jingyi started dating in junior high school?"

"I don't know about junior high, but I went to the high school next to hers. I did have several boyfriends, and they were all rich kids."

"Aren't all pretty girls like this? You'll get used to it."

"Come on, not every pretty girl is as casual as Jingyi."

"Didn't someone say last week that they saw her and her ex-boyfriend going to a small hotel in the back mountains to check in?"

"You guys are ridiculous! After voting for so long, you only picked someone with ripped crotches?"

"No matter how beautiful a girl like that is, I wouldn't want her even if she paid me."

"It's worth playing around with."

……

Unexpectedly, the following posts were mostly attacks on Jingyi, with many using the tone of "classmate" or "roommate" to recount some of Jingyi's romantic affairs.

"Let's see if anyone's talking about how she disappeared?"

Xu Jinhuan had a sudden inspiration. He took the tablet and scrolled down, and sure enough, he quickly found discussions about Jing Yi's "disappearance":

"She was probably killed by her ex-boyfriend."

"They'll definitely rape her first, then kill her; someone this beautiful won't go to waste."

"Her roommate said it was a crime of passion. Apparently, she cheated on him, and her boyfriend caught her in bed with him in a hotel room. In a fit of rage, he pushed her out of the window."

"I heard from others that they were naked when they fell?"

"Stop making this up, okay? The police have already said it was suicide."

"Do you believe?"

"I heard that Chen Haiyang, a junior, was also called in for questioning by Uncle Hat?" (End of Chapter)