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Chapter 41 The Weird Rumor
Pushing open the gate of the boxing gym, Liu Tie looked around with apprehensive eyes, and finally found no strange traces, so he was slightly relieved.

It's okay, it's really because I thought too much, so nothing happened, right...?
Liu Tie felt a little guilty.

In fact, he didn't think that with the character of the young lady, he would do ridiculous things in junior high school. Most likely, he just misunderstood because of his rich imagination.

But what happened to the two girls he heard talking about just now?

It's not easy for him to ask directly, or he doesn't listen to the eldest lady's orders, so some things can only be guessed.

Liu Tie wandered around the boxing gym twice, making sure that there were no valuable clues left, and prepared to leave.

But at this moment, his eyes froze and fell on the target post.

Liu Tie went to the target post to observe carefully, and found that it had only added new "wounds" on the neck, heart, and thighs, which correspond to human vital organs.

The difference between these marks and the old marks all over the body is very obvious, because the marks left behind are deeper, the gaps are larger, and the locations are concentrated.

Compared with the shallow marks, these wounds seemed to be carved out with a knife at a close distance; but the beautiful and neat cut surface was enough to negate this guess.

"It was...that kid left it with a flying knife?"

Liu Tie looked at them in astonishment, and the scene when these wounds appeared on the human body could not help appearing in his mind——

A slight chill ran down the man's back.He has witnessed more than one scene of people being seriously injured, with three knives and six holes, and blood flying everywhere, so he understands how terrible a person who can leave such a wound on a wooden stake is by no means an amateur who rely on daily training Hand strength and eyesight can be trained.

"Young people these days are really amazing."

Liu Tie touched the sweat on his forehead and couldn't help but smile wryly.

"Speaking of which, having such a 'skilled' friend accompanying the eldest lady at school can make people feel at ease... But in the final analysis, it still depends on what the boss thinks."

*
After that, Liu Tie drove the young people home.

Time soon came to the second day.

Two plans were made before, one is to visit Teacher Gao, and at the same time find a way to awaken Miss Xie's ability; the other is to hire detectives to find out about the whereabouts of the explorer and the "body".

The latter will take time to select suitable candidates, as for the former...

They decided to act now.It is always better to deal with affairs sooner rather than later.

In the evening, the classroom was quite noisy when it was time to dismiss after a long day of classes.The students on duty began to clean the blackboard and mop the floor. In the corridor outside the door, children carrying schoolbags and chatting enthusiastically passed by in twos and threes. The stairs on both sides were quickly crowded with middle school students on their way home.

"You said you were going to visit Teacher Gao?"

After Yan Jingxing and Qiao Peng, the class monitor who was about to go to the office, mentioned this matter, the other party's eyes widened in surprise.

"I find it strange that her classes are taught by a substitute teacher these days, and all kinds of gossips are flying all over the sky... Then, Teacher Gao is really sick? Do you want to organize everyone to buy some fruit together these two days? to visit her?"

Yan Jingxing opened his mouth and wanted to refuse, after all, this was the matter of the three of them.

According to his experience of going to school in the city, when some classmates or teachers in the class are sick, they often organize people to visit them in turn. This is not a problem at all, but the problem is——

"By the way, I almost forgot to ask, which hospital is Teacher Gao in?"

"The Mental Health Center of Ankang Hospital. Do you know the location? It's the one built on the hill that used to be a nursing home."

"..."

Qiao Peng didn't react for a while, he helped the glasses that had slipped from the bridge of his nose, and asked back in surprise:

"You mean that crazy...mental hospital?"

"Correct."

Yan Jingxing nodded.

"But...you can't just go in and visit that kind of hospital, do you need to apply in advance?"

"Yes, already applied. Do you still want to go?"

Similar trivial matters have always been taken care of by the reliable eldest lady.

"I, I'll think about it again."

The class monitor shook his head quickly.

"Well, it's okay. Then I'll go first."

Yan Jingxing put on his bag and was about to leave.

At this time, he heard someone calling him outside the door, the familiar sweet voice was as beautiful as a clear spring flowing, but the words he said were...

"—Let's go, Yan Jingxing, why are you still dawdling in the classroom? Let's go to the mental hospital!"

"..."

As soon as this statement came out, almost everyone in the classroom focused their eyes, even the students from other classes passing by in the corridor at the moment couldn't help casting their gazes curiously.

Yan Jingxing lowered his head, walked out of the classroom at a faster pace, and saw Ji Chunzao leaning against the tiled wall on one side of the corridor, waving his arms vigorously at him, with a bright smile on his face.

He still remembered that this guy ran out almost as soon as the get out of class bell rang. Did he expect too much?
Yan Jing walked up to her and couldn't help complaining:

"Can you stop shouting so loudly next time, people will take me as if I went to a mental hospital!"

"What does it matter, what I said is the truth."

"Are you really ignorant or just pretending..."

Well, looking at the upward arc of the girl's mouth, he already knew the answer.

Although Ji Chunzao sometimes loses her mind, it doesn't mean she's not smart, and she's clearly playing tricks on people right now.

After all, this girl's reputation is well known in the school, but it doesn't matter if she herself is broken.

With her hands behind her back, she walked around him smilingly, only to find that the boy's hands were empty.

"Didn't you buy something for visiting? Do you want to go to the commissary now?"

"...you seem excited?"

"Of course, it's a mental hospital! Aren't you curious? Don't want to see what it's like inside?"

"Not at all."

"Too lacking in the spirit of exploration, curiosity is the source of human progress!"

It's so weird that you're curious about things!

Yan Jingxing turned around angrily and left.

Because they made an appointment to take the car together, the two of them had to meet up with Miss Xie next.

After arriving in Class [-], before Yan Jingxing could react, Ji Chunzao began to walk to the window carelessly, shouting into the classroom.

"—Xie Yuzhi, are you there? We are going to the mental hospital together!"

As soon as this remark came out, the audience fell silent. The classroom, which was originally full of people, seemed to be soaked in a pot of ice water. Everyone subconsciously stopped what they were doing and what they were saying, and looked in the direction of the person involuntarily. ——

It can be seen that the power of language is huge.

Yan Jingxing, who was following her, almost laughed out loud.

Then, with a small face and a serious expression, the classmate of the team leader came out of the crowd with his schoolbag on his back.

"..."

"Let's go?"

Ji Chunzao enthusiastically extended an invitation to the eldest lady.

Xie Yuzhi glared at her angrily.

"What are you shouting for?"

Yan Jingxing desperately resisted the urge to laugh out loud.

Now he doesn't blame Chunzao for talking nonsense all the time, seeing Miss Xie's stinky face suddenly feels worth it.

"I won't pick you up this time, Jing Xing and I will go by car, you can figure out a way to get there by yourself."

Xie Yuzhi, who was always used to her, was expressionless at this moment.

"Hey~ why is this, don't!"

Ji Chunzao soon began to regret her naughty thoughts on the spur of the moment.

*
After that, Chunzao begged her for a long time before the eldest lady let go.

After all this tossing, by the time the three of them walked out of the school gate, almost all the people who had left the school had left.A familiar black car was parked at the entrance of the alley not far away.

Boys and girls with schoolbags walked briskly in that direction.

"Hey, it's all the fault of Chunzao." When Xie Yuzhi spoke, her cheeks puffed up slightly, and she was still dissatisfied with someone's mischief, "Maybe we will have an 'experimental middle school psychopath trio' next nickname."

Yan Jingxing suppressed a smile and replied:
"Thinking about it carefully, we claim to be the 'Baiyue Town Alien Search Team', and all of us seriously believe in the existence of aliens, and we are so serious. If this kind of thing gets out, it may be seen by others. It's no different from being insane."

"No, obviously we are the ones who see the truth, because they can't see the reality in their eyes, so they take seriousness as a joke..."

In the middle of speaking, Xie Yuzhi couldn't help laughing.

"Yeah, you're right. These words are like what a lunatic who is obsessed with absurd stories would say. At least if I were in the past, I would definitely think so."

"So, you don't need to tell others, and you don't have to get approval from others. If you take it too seriously, you will be the one who gets hurt."

Ji Chunzao looked very experienced.

"Just the three of us know."

Girls' hearts are not that big.For Chunzao, it is a great fortune to meet one or two close friends who are willing to believe in her, which is enough for her to break free from the lonely life in the past.

……

The black car drove out of the alley, and its destination was the mental health center in Baiyue Town.

Because there was a driver, they tacitly did not chat about another planet and superpowers.Even so, after experiencing a big adventure, the relationship between the three is quite close now, because they are all studying in the same school, so they are not afraid that there will be no topics to talk about.

Seeing the two girls talking and laughing, Yan Jingxing held the fruit basket for visiting on his lap, and suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, the mental hospital we are going to is quite famous here?"

He brought up the conversation he had with the monitor before leaving the classroom.

"Qiao Peng in our class, when he heard that he was going to visit Teacher Gao in a mental hospital, his face changed suddenly. He gave me the feeling that he knew about it a long time ago, and he was even a little afraid of that place. What's going on? "

"It's very famous..."

"Hey, didn't you hear the story there when you were young?"

The girls answered almost in unison.

They looked at each other, and Xie Yuzhi clapped her hands, showing a dazed expression.

"By the way, I almost forgot that Jing Xing just moved to our town last month, so I really haven't heard about the local mental hospital."

"Uh……"

Yan Jingxing scratched his hair.

Is that place really famous?

He suddenly had a subtle feeling.

A well-known mental hospital in the local area, no matter how you think about it, it is not a good thing, right?

On the other side, Ji Chunzao has already begun to introduce it with great interest:

"As long as you are a child who grew up in the town, you must have heard of it. This mental hospital located on the mountain is super famous. I heard that all the mental patients in the city are sent here for treatment. Some There are all kinds of rumors, and some adults will use these things to scare children, saying that they will be sent there one day if they don't obey."

No wonder she acted excited all the way.With Chunzao's personality and strange hobbies, he probably already regarded that place as a long-awaited adventure place.

"What are the specific rumors?"

Yan Jingxing took up her conversation.

His hobbies are actually almost the same as Ji Chunzao's, so he can keep up with her topics.Rather, the three junior high school students in the car are all curious types.

After realizing that there is another new world full of secrets and magic hidden behind the seemingly peaceful world, and after experiencing an exciting alien adventure, their mood became even more out of control.

"I'll think about it."

Ji Chunzao tapped his chin with his finger, looked at the roof of the car, and began to recall.

"The most famous thing about that place is the rumor about the fire. The mental hospital was not called a 'health center'. It was originally a sanatorium for some mentally abnormal patients. Later, in the 90s and [-]s of the last century, something happened. It was a big fire, and it is said that many patients and medical staff died."

"The current mental health center was built on the former site of the nursing home, so there are many strange stories circulating:"

"For example, in the middle of the night, someone saw a charred black figure walking slowly in the corridor, passing by the window. During the day, when the cleaners were cleaning, they found that there were charred spots on the ground. strange footprints;
"For example, some rooms deep in the corridor are not open, but the door is sealed tightly, but people passing by can always smell the burnt smell coming out of the crack in the door;"

"For example, some patients would say that they saw ghosts in the room, but because they were mentally abnormal and prone to hallucinations, the doctors didn't take it seriously, but it didn't take long for that patient to see a ghost in his own room. He hanged himself in the ward..."

(End of this chapter)