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Chapter 104
Chapter 104 Repayment of Debt
After listening to Lin Qiushi's words, Zhou Hanshan's eyes fell on the statue, and he didn't speak for a long time.
The tears of the statue have dried up, and the eyes have returned to their previous indifference, as if the hint given to them just now was just their illusion.
Gu Longming bent down and picked up the wooden man. He stared at the wooden man in his hand and said, "Zhou Hanshan, how long have you been in love with Zhu Ruyuan?"
"It's been half a year." Zhou Hanshan replied, he walked to the corner of the utility room, found a wooden bench, and sat on it regardless of the dust on it, he said, "We usually meet at events. ... She said she was busy with her studies, and I understood her." He complained that people in love would have lower IQs, which is true now that he thinks about it. They have been full of discord since they met, let alone know and love each other.
The beginning of this story was a mistake, and the foolish man continued this mistake and paid a heavy price.
Lin Qiushi listened to Zhou Hanshan's words, but didn't follow up. He didn't say anything until he finished speaking: "Come and make a wish tonight."
"What?" Zhou Hanshan thought he heard it wrong at first, but after seeing Lin Qiushi's calm expression, he was sure that Lin Qiushi really said this, "You mean... Let's make a wish on this statue again?"
"Time is running out." Lin Qiushi picked up the broken wooden man in his hand, "You don't want to be like this, do you?"
Their wooden figures were all shattered, and they were protected for a while, but not for the rest of their lives. An accident could happen at any time and take the lives of the three of them.
So leaving this world and ending all this is the best option. Although making this decision is not an easy task.
"I don't feel any malice in it, what about you." Lin Qiushi looked at the statue in front of him.
At this time, the statue in front of them was already very human-like, and both the temperature and touch of the skin were approaching the human being. Zhou Hanshan stared at the statue for a while, then suddenly got up and pressed his cheek to the chest of the statue. After a while, his expression changed and he turned to look at Lin Qiushi.
Lin Qiushi guessed what he was thinking from his expression.
Sure enough, Zhou Hanshan's next sentence was: "I heard the sound of my heartbeat."
Gu Longming was taken aback: "Heartbeat?"
Zhou Hanshan was already numb from the stimulation, he said, "Yes, the sound of the heartbeat." He looked at the sculpture in front of him, and carefully touched her cheek with his hand, "Is she going to become a human..."
Although this sentence is a question, in fact, everyone knows very well that the statue in front of her should be able to become a human in a few days, but they don't know what it will cost her to become a human.
Lin Qiushi has decided to stay in the activity room at night and make another wish.
Zhou Hanshan sat in the activity room, silently not knowing what he was thinking.
Lin Qiushi was playing Sudoku, Gu Long lowered his head and studied the wooden man in his hand. The atmosphere in the room was terrifyingly stagnant.
On the way, Lin Qiushi and Gu Longming went to the toilet together. On the way to the toilet, Gu Longming said, "What are you thinking, Yu Linlin?"
Lin Qiushi said, "I'm thinking of Zhou Hanshan."
"What do you want him to do?" Gu Longming's impression of Zhou Hanshan is much worse now. To put it bluntly, he was the one who led to this incident. "If he hadn't fallen in love with Zhu Ruyuan, this might not have happened."
"Yes." Lin Qiushi said, "Do you think he is still lying about something?"
Gu Longming nodded.
Everyone has some secrets, but those secrets may be kept until the moment of death.
"At night, you have to be careful." Lin Qiushi said, "I don't think making a wish is that simple."
"Will she come to stop us?" Gu Longming asked.
Lin Qiushi lowered his head and washed his hands, watching the icy water wash away the neat lines on his palm, he said, "You're talking about Zhu Ruyuan or Zhou Hanshan."
"Zhou Hanshan?" Gu Longming didn't understand, "Why did he stop us from making a wish?"
"Because maybe our wishes are contrary to his wishes." Lin Qiushi closed the water, took out a piece of paper and wiped his hands, "Do you remember where we met Zhou Hanshan?"
"It's in the classroom... Wait, the three of them..." Gu Longming suddenly remembered something, he remembered what the three students did in the classroom, "The three of them are also making a new wish??"
"Yeah." Lin Qiushi said with a half-smile, "You said that this Zhou Hanshan is hiding from us."
Xiaohe who was cut in half, his friend who was beheaded, and Zhou Hanshan who was the only one left. When he and Gu Longming first met the three, they were in the classroom wiping blood on the wooden man. According to Zhou Hanshan, smearing blood on it is part of the process of making a wish, but there is a loophole that cannot be covered up—there are no statues in the classroom.
But if according to Zhou Hanshan, the object of their wish was a statue, then why did the three people hold a ceremony in the classroom. Either the wish doesn't work at all, or the statue doesn't work at all.
"Actually, Zhou Hanshan is not the only survivor in the school." Lin Qiushi said, "Do you remember the librarian?"
"Remember." Gu Longming's mind was in chaos, but he always felt that there was a most critical point in these cumbersome clues, and that point was to sort out all the threads, "Librarian...you mean..."
"He is still alive." Lin Qiushi said, "He also has the wooden man on him, which means that Zhou Hanshan is indeed lying."
Gu Longming smiled bitterly: "I feel like I'm doing a difficult math problem."
Lin Qiushi spread his hands: "The math problem is much simpler than this. It's just that we haven't thought about many details. The librarian is still alive, which proves one thing."
"What's the matter?" Gu Longming could only ask.
"If you wish, you won't die." Lin Qiushi said, "Maybe there is a price to pay, but that price is not necessarily life."
Gu Longming was stunned, and then fell silent: "Then why did they—"
"I suspect now that the statue and Zhu Ruyuan are not the same thing at all." Lin Qiushi said, "The statue satisfies the wish, and the resentful spirits are killing. Of course, this is just my guess and has no basis."
Gu Longming: "So you want to make a wish?" He was still thinking about why Lin Qiushi wanted to make a wish on the statue. Now it seems that he obviously wants to prove something.
"Yes." Lin Qiushi said, "At night, all the puzzles can be solved, and then you will keep an eye on Zhou Hanshan."
"Okay." Gu Longming nodded.
"Let's go." After Lin Qiushi finished speaking, he found that Gu Longming was staring at him. He was a little puzzled and said, "What are you looking at me for?"
"I just think you seem to have changed a lot." Gu Longming said, "After entering the door with me, did you enter a lot of doors?"
"No." Lin Qiushi said, "I only entered a low-level door with my friend... What's wrong?" He felt that Gu Longming's question was a bit baffling.
"No, then you grow up really fast." Gu Longming said, "Compared with last time, you are more powerful." He sighed, "Maybe some people are naturally suitable for the door."
Lin Qiushi raised his brows, he didn't expect to hear such a sentence here in Gu Longming. Although Ruan Nanzhu had said similar things before, he didn't have any special feeling about it, and he just thought that Ruan Nanzhu was encouraging newbies.
The two returned to the room and saw Zhou Hanshan put his face on the table with a listless look.
Lin Qiushi looked at the time and said, "Let's go, you can have lunch."
"I'm not hungry." Zhou Hanshan said, "I don't really want to eat."
Gu Longming: "Aren't you afraid of staying here alone?"
Zhou Hanshan thought for a while, but still seemed a little scared, and said, "Well, the lively cafeteria makes people feel comfortable."
They have things on their minds, and they don't feel very happy eating. When Lin Qiushi was eating, he saw Zuo Sisi, he thought about it, and went to say hello to Zuo Sisi.
"What are you doing?" Zuo Sisi said, "I haven't seen anyone all morning, so I still want to find you."
"In the activity room." Lin Qiushi said, "Is something wrong?"
Zuo Sisi glanced over there: "Do you know who the NPC you are carrying is?"
Lin Qiushi said, "What happened to him?"
Zuo Sisi seemed to have found something and came to tell Lin Qiushi on purpose. She said, "His name is Zhou Hanshan... He had a very good relationship with the group of dead students."
Lin Qiushi nodded, indicating that he knew.
"His classmate said he was dating a girl from Zhu Ruyuan." Zuo Sisi saw that Lin Qiushi's attitude was calm, and she lowered her voice, "But I checked and there was no girl named Zhu Ruyuan in the senior year."
"Thank you." Lin Qiushi thanked her, "Zhu Ruyuan is indeed not in her senior year."
"Then how old is she?" Zuo Sisi rolled her eyes.
"She's a dead person." Lin Qiushi thought about it and told Zuo Sisi about it.
Zuo Sisi: "..." Her expression twisted, "Are you serious?"
Lin Qiushi said, "Yes."
Zuo Sisi: "Then why are you so calm?" She had a thin layer of goose bumps on her arm after hearing the news.
"No, I've already been scared." Lin Qiushi.
Zuo Sisi sighed: "Okay, you guys are still amazing. I finally found it out, but you already knew about it...Do you have any clues about the door and key?"
Lin Qiushi said: "A little bit."
Zuo Sisi knew more about this than them, but they were not familiar enough to exchange information with each other casually, so she didn't ask, but asked Lin Qiushi to be careful about Zhou Hanshan, saying that this Npc might have question.
After Lin Qiushi thanked her, he turned around and returned to their table.
"What wish do you want at night?" Zhou Hanshan had no appetite, poked at the rice on the plate with his chopsticks, and asked.
"What wish do you think is appropriate for us?" Lin Qiushi asked.
"Naturally, let this end quickly." Zhou Hanshan was listless, "I can't take it anymore."
"Okay." Lin Qiushi said, "Then let this end quickly."
The waiting time is long, and the night that comes very fast on weekdays makes people feel like they are living in a year.
The three were waiting in the activity room, but Zhou Hanshan fell asleep on the table.
Lin Qiushi didn't dare to rest, but the damaged wooden figure in front of him reminded him that accidents could happen at any time, and it didn't matter whether you were resting or not when that thing killed you.
It started to rain outside the house, and the hour hand went round and round, and finally it was eight o'clock in the evening.
It was getting dark, and the whistling wind mixed with rain poured in from the edge of the window. Lin Qiushi raised his hand and looked at his watch, then looked at Gu Longming for a moment, feeling that it was almost time.
Lin Qiushi pushed Zhou Hanshan, who was in a daze, to wake up and said, "Get up, it's getting dark."
Zhou Hanshan was agitated, got up from the table, and said vaguely, "I had a dream."
"What did you dream about?" Gu Longming asked him.
"I dreamed of my friends." Zhou Hanshan said, "They said they missed me very much." He reached out and wiped his face, "I... miss them too." After saying this, he smiled wryly. , "Maybe I'm going to accompany them soon."
Gu Longming didn't speak, just patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.
After it got dark, they went to the utility room and pushed the statue out.
The statue still looks motionless, but it has the temperature and touch of human beings. This characteristic makes the whole statue full of weird feeling. Zhou Hanshan touched it carefully and muttered that he would not really become a human. What if become a human being?
Lin Qiushi said, "Can you make a wish?"
"Okay." Zhou Hanshan said, "Cut your fingers, smear the blood on the wooden doll, and make a wish on this statue..." He looked at Lin Qiushi, "What is your wish?"
Lin Qiushi didn't answer, he took out the prepared dagger from his pocket, put it on his finger and was about to cut it, but suddenly stopped.
"What?" Zhou Hanshan asked.
Lin Qiushi lowered his head and looked at the ground.
There were three people in the room. They hadn't gone out since they ate dinner, and the rain started after dinner, but there were a bunch of wet footprints in the room at this time. The doorway stretched down to their feet, and judging from the size, it belonged to a woman's footprint.
Just like what Lin Qiushi had seen in the classroom before, there was one more person in this room, but they couldn't see it.
Lin Qiushi stopped and handed the dagger in his hand to Zhou Hanshan. He said, "You come first."
Zhou Hanshan was taken aback for a moment, as if he did not expect Lin Qiushi's reaction, he said, "...but I have already made a wish."
Lin Qiushi: "Who stipulated that the second time cannot be allowed?"
"I don't know what to promise." Zhou Hanshan seemed a little flustered, "I..."
Lin Qiushi looked into his eyes and said, "Zhou Hanshan, what exactly was your wish?"
Zhou Hanshan: "I—"
"Don't lie." Lin Qiushi said, "If you lie, I'll smash the statue in front of you." As he spoke, he walked up to the statue, his expression not joking at all.
Zhou Hanshan stopped talking, his expression was extremely complicated, and he seemed to want to say something.
"Make a wish." Lin Qiushi's voice was very soft, but no one would think he was joking, "Make a wish to end this."
Zhou Hanshan held the dagger, his expression unpredictable.
Gu Longming also noticed the change in Zhou Hanshan's attitude. With a suspicious look on his face, he stared at Zhou Hanshan and called out his name: "Zhou Hanshan?"
Zhou Hanshan laughed, he put down the dagger in his hand, and said lightly: "You all know it?"
Lin Qiushi sighed, his guess really became a reality, Zhou Hanshan still had something to hide from them, and this matter played a very important role in the whole incident.
Gu Longming also saw the change in Zhou Hanshan's attitude, and involuntarily cursed.
Lin Qiushi said: "Zhou Hanshan, let me guess, the wish you made at that time did not come true... But, is it about to come true?"
Zhou Hanshan was expressionless. At this time, he was completely different from the timid and cowardly one.
"You're in a hurry?" Lin Qiushi said, "When you find that the way your wish comes true is different from what you imagined?"
Zhou Hanshan sighed and said, "I really hate dealing with smart people the most." He stood up from the chair, walked to the statue, and gently stroked the statue's skin, he said, "Yeah, It's not what I imagined, so... I can't die." He turned his head and looked at Lin Qiushi, "So please, please die instead of me."
After he said this, there was a strong wind in the house, and the electric light above his head was squeaked by the wind, and he was about to go out.
Lin Qiushi heard a sticky sound of water, turned his head, and saw Zhu Ruyuan standing behind him. Zhu Ruyuan was still wearing a long skirt, her face was pale, and she stared at Lin Qiushi with resentment, but the original water stains turned red. of blood.
Gu Longming was startled by her sudden appearance, and involuntarily took two steps back.
Lin Qiushi was very calm. He put his hand into his trousers pocket. When he stretched out his hand again, there was already a bloodstain on his finger. Wish: "I hope Zhou Hanshan's wish will never come true."
Zhou Hanshan was very calm at first, but after hearing Lin Qiushi's words, his face changed instantly. He roared and rushed towards Lin Qiushi with his dagger: "How dare you—"
Lin Qiushi's reaction was extremely fast, directly dodging Zhou Hanshan's attack, kicked his hand, and kicked the dagger in his hand and flew out.
Zhou Hanshan was already thin and weak, not to mention Gu Longming, he couldn't even beat Lin Qiushi.
Lin Qiushi punched him in the stomach and knocked him to the ground. Zhu Ruyuan, who was behind Lin Qiushi, grinned, showing a hideous smile and said, "As you wish."
"No!!!" Zhou Hanshan screamed.
Then, there was a sound of stones breaking in the room. Lin Qiushi looked up and found that the statues standing beside them began to shatter piece by piece.
Zhou Hanshan pounced on the statue, crying and protecting the statue with his hands, trying to put it back together. However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stop the statue from falling apart. Zhou Hanshan took the fragments into his arms and cried more and more desperately: "Just a little bit, obviously only a little short-"
Lin Qiushi just looked at him like that.
Gu Longming's expression was very complicated. He said, "What the hell did you do... Are you exchanging your friends' lives for something?"
Zhou Hanshan did not answer Gu Longming's question. All his attention was on the statue in front of him. The statue was completely shattered. Lin Qiushi walked in front of the statue and saw a bronze key among the fragments.
Although he had guessed before, when he really saw the key, he was still relieved.
Zhou Hanshan sat blankly on the ground, holding the statue in his arms.
"Zhu Ruyuan's wish is that the statue has a soul, and your wish is to be with Zhu Ruyuan." Lin Qiushi picked up the key and said to Zhou Hanshan, "There are two ways for you to be together, one is that you die. Second, she became a human being, and you chose the latter."
Zhou Hanshan raised his head and looked at Lin Qiushi quietly.
Lin Qiushi: "It's probably not Zhu Ruyuan who can fulfill her wish, but the statue... right?"
Zhou Hanshan's shoulders shrugged, as if crying and laughing.
Lin Qiushi said, "Your wish is not to win awards at all... So there is no paradox, and the price they pay is just paying for the wishes of their friends."
Raising the dead is not that easy.
Lin Qiushi even suspected that Zhu Ruyuan's statue also had its own soul, but that soul looked exactly like Zhu Ruyuan. It is what satisfies Zhou Hanshan's wishes.
"It wants to kill me." Zhou Hanshan's eyes were exhausted, "because it couldn't fulfill my wish." There is still a part of the soul missing, and without that part, Zhu Ruyuan could never become a human being.
"No." Lin Qiushi put the key in his pocket, "Have you ever thought about it, is it Zhu Ruyuan who wants to kill you?"
Zhou Hanshan was stunned.
"She probably doesn't want you to continue." Lin Qiushi said, "Do you think it's a happy thing for her to change from a statue to a human being?"
Zhou Hanshan looked down at the fragments in his arms.
"Of course, this is just my guess." Lin Qiushi said.
After saying this, he said to Gu Longming, "Let's go."
Gu Longming nodded and walked out with Lin Qiushi. When the two walked to the door, they heard a muffled groan coming from the room. Lin Qiushi turned back and saw Zhou Hanshan lying in a pool of blood with a sharp dagger stuck in his abdomen. .
This image is not surprising, but it makes people feel very uncomfortable.
Gu Longming sighed, Lin Qiushi turned back, and walked out without pausing.
People always have to pay the price of responding for their actions. Zhou Hanshan killed all his friends. Whether it was intentional or not, he had to pay the debt.
The author has something to say: I feel that my physical condition is very bad recently. When I got up at six o’clock today, I was sweating. I will delay the update time by an hour in the future.Do you guys say good or not wow QAQ