Chapter 16: Rose Bride (16) Archives
"How is it possible to have such ability?" Chen He was the first person to raise the question.

Yan Jinyue said frankly: "Just because you don't know doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It only proves that you... are ignorant." She tilted her head, her amber eyes full of provocation.

"you--"

Chen He glared angrily, but was interrupted by Zhao Jianing: "Well, she's lucky to be alive, no matter what abilities or props she uses."

She crossed her arms and walked in front of Yan Jinyue, chin up, looking her up and down with disdain, and said in a contemptuous voice: "Since you can escape death, you must have some strength. Why don't you come with us to the rooftop?"

"Of course, I'm here to cooperate with you." Yan Jinyue smiled faintly.

"Tsk..." Zhao Jianing laughed as if he had heard a joke, holding his stomach. "Do you know what cooperation is? It's when our strengths are equal. That's called cooperation. And you... hehe."

Yan Jinyue's expression did not change, and her voice was calm, "How do you know that our strengths are not equal?"

"You're not referring to that special ability of yours that you don't even know if it exists?" Zhao Jianing rolled his eyes and kept laughing.

"No."

The corners of Yan Jinyue's lips tightened, and a look of satisfaction condensed in her eyes. She was not the kind of person who could be easily molded by clay and would step on any garbage.

"The information resources I have, the information I currently have, is definitely unknown to you all. And similarly, perhaps there are some things you know that I don't know, so, do you want to cooperate for mutual benefit?"

"What do you know?" Seeing her so confident, Zhao Jianing put away his disdainful look.

"Then you have to tell me first what you know, and then I can tell you. After all, you have more people and more power."

Zhao Jianing frowned and retorted: "Why?"

At the same time, another voice said, "Deal."

From Qi Yunxiao who was standing aside.

Zhao Jianing looked at him in astonishment, but the latter's light glance made her instantly calm down. Chen He, who always liked to call out to Yan Jinyue and especially targeted her, did not react and acquiesced to the man's decision.

Yan Jinyue's long, slender crescent-shaped eyebrows suddenly raised. It seemed that the class structure of the player team had undergone drastic changes during the few days when she was away.

"According to the information we have so far, the teachers, dormitory managers, and some staff members among the human NPCs are all ghosts, but they are bound by some kind of restriction. At first we thought it was a student handbook, but after testing, we found that some of the rules were confusing and even tempted us to actively look for ghosts."

Qi Yunxiao spoke slowly, his logic was very clear, but this was all Yan Jinyue had already grasped. She asked anxiously, "What else?"

Qi Yunxiao glanced at her and continued, "We can now confirm that the students in this copy are all normal humans and will not transform into ghosts. According to previous copy experience, the secrets of the copy are all between humans and ghosts, so the second task should refer to-"

"What have these ghost teachers done to their human students."

"Yang Lili? What was the cause of her death?" Yan Jinyue reacted quickly.

"Yes." Qi Yunxiao nodded, "And the key should be the rose wall on the rooftop and the long knife ghost on the top floor."

"But that rose wall is too tricky!" Chen He yelled, "That ghost is even scarier. If you want to go, go ahead. I won't complete this second mission."

"That's right." Luo Yaoyao leaned on Chen He's shoulder and acted coquettishly, "Brother Chen, you must protect me."

Chen He showed a self-proclaimed handsome but actually very greasy smile, "Don't worry, my dear Yaoyao, I'm here. Except for the long-knife ghost, those ordinary ghosts can't hurt you."

Zhao Jianing rolled his eyes in disdain, then looked at Yan Jinyue who seemed to be deep in thought, and sneered, "We have told you all the information we have, what about yours? Don't try to get something for nothing!"

"Don't worry, it won't happen." Yan Jinyue lowered her eyelashes and looked thoughtful. "What I know now is that there is a kind of sacrifice in this school, and it may be a human sacrifice. I suspect this is the sin mentioned in Mission 2."

"How do you know? Do you have any evidence?" Qi Yunxiao asked. Yan Jinyue took out the file bag with photos given to her by Shen Wu from the space and handed it to him.

Chen He and his companions also came over curiously.

Qi Yunxiao opened the bag and took out a stack of photos. The other people scrambled to take a few away.

"What's wrong with these people? I've never seen them before." Chen He yelled.

Yan Jinyue gave two words in a cold voice: "The back."

They turned the photos over and saw the words. Luo Yaoyao read out one of them: "Bai Jiaojiao, 17 years old, number 039, sacrifice level: C... What is this?"

"Sacrifice level?" Although Chen He is stupid, he has some experience as a veteran player. "There really is a sacrifice."

Yan Jinyue said: "I think Yang Lili might also be a sacrifice. We can investigate those teachers and the sacrifices in the past. If we can find the connection between them, we should be able to find out what the sacrifice was about."

Zhao Jianing picked and chose among the photos and said disdainfully, "But these photos are decades old, and the quality seems so poor. Even if it was really a sacrifice, he would have died a long time ago. What can be found out?"

She held up a few of them.

"Yes." Qi Yunxiao stared at the photo with his head down and blurted out, "I found an archive room in the teaching building. I can check it."

He raised his head, a cold light flashing in his narrow eyes.

**
As night fell, everyone followed Qi Yunxiao to the so-called archive room, which was a small room at the corner of the first floor of the teaching building.

The teaching building was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. There were no lights, so they all held a flashlight. The eerie cold wind blew on the back of people's necks, and everyone had goose bumps.

Luo Yaoyao tugged at Chen He's sleeve, her voice starting to sob: "Will we meet a ghost? Aren't ghosts said to be stronger at night? Why did you choose to come at night?"

"Heh..." Zhao Jianing sneered, "Idiot, there are teachers guarding here during the day, do you want to die?"

"Oh." Luo Yaoyao lowered her head, bit her lips, and used her eyelashes to block the flash of hatred.

When they arrived at the door, Qi Yunxiao took out a dagger and knocked on the door skillfully. He first went in and looked around, making sure that there was no one inside and no ghosts before signaling everyone to go in.

They split up and searched the shelves for files.

The archive room must have not been cleaned for a long time. There was dust everywhere. If you took out a file box, your face would be splashed with dust.

"Ahem..." Zhao Jianing fanned herself wildly with her hands in disdain, and couldn't help complaining, "There are so many. If I look through them one by one, I'll never find them."

"That's right. There are so many. How long will it take to find them? By the time we find the clues, it won't be 30 days." Chen He was also complaining.

"Look for something with a special mark." Qi Yunxiao's cold voice sounded, "Since it is a sacrifice, it must have a special mark."

Zhao Jianing glanced out of the corner of her eye and actually saw several file bags with asterisks on them. She said happily, "I found it. Yun Xiao, you are really smart."

The woman's deliberately low-pitched voice made one's scalp tingle. Yan Jinyue clicked her tongue twice, went straight to the area twenty years ago, and took out an asterisked file box.

As luck would have it, as soon as I opened it, I saw the name "Shen Wu" on the file bag at the top.

She was very excited, but before she took it out and opened it, the flashlight suddenly went out.

Not just her flashlight, but everyone's flashlight was out.

(End of this chapter)

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