Chapter 13 "...I believe that since this newspaper appeared here, the 'Takayuki Suzuki' who was burned to death and the 'Suzuki' in this class are likely the same person," Feng Bujue continued. "Extrapolating from this... we can reasonably speculate that the situation might be this: back then, Suzuki's death was actually related to the class monitor, but nothing happened at the time; many years later, for some reason, the class monitor returned to the school and triggered the vengeful spirit's flag, and then kicked the bucket. And after he croaked, he turned into a ghost, preparing to drag the others in the class down with him. So... the opening scene of this script appeared."

"I don't know why... it's a pretty terrifying thing, but after you put it that way, I don't feel scared at all," An Yueqin said, her fear value indeed decreasing significantly after hearing Brother Jue's words.

"After all that talking..." Gui Xiao said, "you still haven't confirmed anything, and the main quest hasn't been triggered yet."

"I told you to be patient," Feng Bujue said leisurely. "First, go through all the known information in your mind and make some reasonable deductions, so that you can deal with any sudden situations more easily."

He finished speaking in a slow and unhurried tone, like a schoolteacher, and then spread the newspaper out, displaying it to everyone.

"Let's talk about the other reports on the newspaper..." Brother Jue continued, "There are three other reports related to this school, namely... 'Principal Miyamoto Commits Suicide at Home,' 'Teacher Sato Suffers a Mental Breakdown in the Toilet,' and 'Student Noguchi Eiji Goes Missing.' There are also two other reports, one about the town's shrine holding a Sansha Matsuri a few days ago; the other about the US returning Okinawa to Japan... This last report takes up the most space, spread across several pages, but it has basically nothing to do with the plot of this script."

"What kind of newspaper is this..." Xiao Tan commented with a forced laugh when he heard this, "It's written a bunch of things about this school, and then there's a national event, the range of content is too big..."

"This should be a 'village newspaper'," Feng Bujue had naturally already thought about this question. "That is, a newspaper run by a small town... From writing, printing, to distribution, everything is done locally, and the content of the report is mainly local news, with a little bit of national events added."

"Can this kind of publication really survive?" An Yueqin interjected when she heard this, "How much news can there be in a small town?"

"Heh... you're right," Feng Bujue smiled, "so they make it a 'weekly'."

"Oh~" An Yueqin immediately understood when he said that.

"The things I just said happened at different times, spanning from one to seven days," Feng Bujue continued. "Suzuki was burned to death on May 13th; Noguchi Eiji went missing on May 14th; May 15th was the Sansha Matsuri and also the day the US returned Okinawa; Sato suffered a mental breakdown on May 16th, the principal hanged himself at home on the 18th, and finally... the newspaper came out on the 19th."

"This week was really tough," Xiao Tan couldn't help but complain after hearing this.

"It's okay, as far as this school is concerned, only two people died, one went crazy, and one went missing," Feng Bujue replied. "If you consider the 'supernatural' setting, these things probably have a certain cause and effect relationship, so... not that many people died, not even the average number of deaths in a horror movie."

"Counting the six of us, the number should be enough," Ruo Yu, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly joked in her cold tone.

But the result... only Feng Bujue was laughing.

The others didn't find it funny at all, and were even a little more scared by what she said.

"Okay, the known information has been explained, and now it's time for the puzzle-solving part," Feng Bujue said, taking back the newspaper in his hand and folding it up. "Before I told you about Suzuki, I had already cracked the hidden information on the newspaper, it's not difficult... just find a complete sentence according to the original folds on the newspaper."

"Wait, wait, wait..." Gui Xiao asked immediately, "Can't you solve the puzzle first, and then tell us about those things just now?"

"You don't understand? I deliberately told you the information first," Feng Bujue replied in a matter-of-fact tone. "So far, the main quest has not been triggered, and the system hasn't given us any time limit, so... why don't we make good use of this 'unlimited time'?" He paused, and added, "Think about it this way... if the main quest is triggered and a rule like 'you must complete the script within a certain amount of time' is generated... then you might not be in the mood or have time to study the plot."

"Okay, okay, you're right," Gui Xiao replied, narrowing his eyes and dragging out his voice, "I'm all ears~"

While the two were talking, Feng Bujue didn't stop what he was doing. He quickly restored the newspaper to the state it was in when it was first placed on the podium, then flipped it over to the side facing up, pointing to a fold and saying, "Okay, everyone, look... this edge just happens to piece together two different reports. The words on either side of the fold, left and right, can be read continuously from top to bottom."

"It's... right... in front... of you... but you... can't... see." Xiao Ling was really amazing, she was looking at the newspaper upside down at this moment, but she quickly read out the Japanese kana on the paper.

"Ho~ As expected of a liberal arts student, impressive, impressive," Feng Bujue immediately praised her.

"Hmm... but what does this sentence mean?" Xiao Ling muttered, tilting her head in thought.

"Hey, hey... why does this sentence sound so creepy?" After hearing those ten words, Gui Xiao instinctively took half a step closer to Xiao Tan, who was closest to him, and his face showed a bit of nervousness.

He was pretty straightforward about this, if he was scared, he was scared, there was nothing to be embarrassed about.

"It's no use if you lean on me, I'm also scared..." Xiao Tan admitted frankly when he saw this.

"Do you two want to find a corner to hug each other and wait for us to solve the puzzle before we call you?" How could Brother Jue, a man with a full talent for taunting, miss such an opportunity? He just spouted trash talk.

Just as Gui Xiao was about to return a few words of trash talk...

"I know!" Suddenly, An Yueqin exclaimed softly, and added, "Right 'in front' refers to sitting in the classroom, facing forward." As she spoke, she walked quickly to the blackboard. "As for why you 'can't see'..." She took a few steps closer and looked closely at the blackboard, "Heh... I see..."

In the next second, she picked up a white chalk from the chalk trough and began to smear it back and forth on the blackboard.

Before long, an area in the middle of the blackboard was painted a light white, and in that whitened area, some stains didn't change color when the chalk passed over them...

In this way... when An Yueqin put down the chalk, the word "rotate" appeared on the blackboard.

"Rotate?" Xiao Tan read, "Rotate what?" He happened to look up when he said this, "Could it be that rotating the light tube above can trigger some kind of mechanism?"

"I think... moving the desks and chairs is more reliable, right?" Gui Xiao wasn't just complaining, he had also been thinking.

"You two..." Feng Bujue took out that old driver tone again, tucked the newspaper under his arm, and walked towards the painting hanging on the wall as if he was taking a stroll. "Turning your brains more is better than anything else."

As he spoke, he reached out and held the frame of the painting. A second later, he put a little force on it with one hand, and heard a "click" from behind the painting, and then the whole painting rotated one hundred and eighty degrees.

The huge face in the painting was originally in a very abstract state, but after such a rotation, when viewed upside down... it was actually a grinning, grotesque face.

Buzz buzz buzz buzz...

At the moment the painting was rotated, the fluorescent light tube directly above the classroom... the only light source in this space at present... flickered twice and went out.

"Hey--no way... what's going on? Did you turn on the light switch?" Gui Xiao's speech speed became very fast, and his voice was a little trembling. Obviously, his fear value was rising rapidly.

"Brother... Brother Jue... are you okay?" A second later, Xiao Tan also asked a dispensable question in his cowardly voice.

Their reactions were common reactions of humans in fear...

When feeling afraid and helpless, people will desperately try to communicate with those around them in order to relieve their inner anxiety. And the way to communicate... is to ask questions.

It's just that people often fall into a state of mental sluggishness or even complete stagnation at this time, so the questions they ask will lack logic, have no meaning, or even be incoherent.

"Shh--don't talk." Feng Bujue quickly responded, telling those two guys who were even more timid than the girls to keep quiet.

Thump--

Almost at the same time that Brother Jue's "words" came out, another strange noise came from another corner of the classroom.

"Wh... what was that?" Although Brother Jue had told them not to speak, Gui Xiao couldn't help but ask after hearing the noise.

"It should be the wooden bookcase to the right of the podium that opened," Ruo Yu's still calm voice sounded in the darkness.

"Don't move, I'll go take a look," Feng Bujue said, already walking towards the source of the sound.

It should be explained here that Brother Jue does not have a "data perspective" at this time, because in scripts with limited abilities, "data observation ability" will also be limited.

Gui Xiao is undoubtedly in a similar situation, so he often fails when he encounters restriction-type scripts...

However, for Feng Bujue, not being able to use the data perspective does not mean that he cannot move in the dark; our Brother Jue is a well-trained man, and his sense of time and space has always been extremely accurate.

Taking this classroom as an example, it's roughly a rectangular space, not very large, and the furnishings inside are also arranged in a certain pattern; in such an environment... Brother Jue only needs to observe for a minute or two, and it's no problem for him to move around inside with his eyes closed.

"Be careful, maybe that sound is some kind of monster crawling out of the cabinet," Ruo Yu couldn't move in the dark either, but she could still offer a reminder.

"Sis! Can you not say such scary things!" Before Brother Jue could respond, Gui Xiao had already shouted excitedly.

"It's okay, I'll improvise," Feng Bujue was calm, he had already walked to the wooden bookcase when he replied.

After all, he's a man without fear. In this environment where you can't see your fingers and in a terrifying atmosphere... he actually reached into the cabinet without hesitation and quickly groped around.

However, at this moment, another change occurred!

Tap, tap, tap...

Suddenly, a series of footsteps came from the corridor outside the window.

The sound wasn't loud, but it was enough for the six players surrounded by darkness and silence to hear clearly.

Moreover... it wasn't just the sound that came; along with the footsteps, there was also a strong smell of blood.

Many people know that when one sense is restricted, the other senses become more acute. Just like at this moment, the players who couldn't see anything clearly sensed the approach of some unknown creature from their hearing and sense of smell.

This feeling... was undoubtedly very bad, even worse than a hideous monster appearing directly in front of you.

"Brother... Brother Jue..." Xiao Tan's voice sounded again, he lowered his voice and trembled, "This is getting a little out of hand..."

After a short two seconds of silence.

"Calm down, I found the flashlight," Feng Bujue's response sounded, giving a welcome message in a very firm and calm tone.

Click--

Before the words were finished, Brother Jue had turned on the switch of the flashlight in his hand and aimed the light circle at the corridor without thinking.

At that moment, all six players clearly saw a pale face plastered against the window glass of the corridor, staring at the people in the classroom with a pair of empty pupils overflowing with blood...

At the moment the flashlight's light shone over, the face distorted and let out a shrill scream, retreating rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, accompanied by another burst of hurried footsteps, the face disappeared back into the darkness outside the corridor, difficult to trace...

This scene was really thrilling and terrifying.

Not to mention Xiao Tan and Gui Xiao, who were more timid, even Ruo Yu and the other three were frightened, their hearts racing and their hairs standing on end.

"One can imagine... in this place, if the action of finding and turning on the flashlight is slow, it might have come in," Only Feng Bujue was calm and collected, still saying things that made people feel lingering fear.

"Can you stop talking? Your words are more terrifying than the ghost itself!" At this moment, Gui Xiao had entered a state of anger out of extreme fear, turned his head and replied irritably.

"How do you know it's a ghost?" Feng Bujue replied calmly. "Judging from the footsteps... I think it's more likely to be a physical monster."