After handing over some matters, Chang Lengfeng and others left again one after another. Xiao Mo also found an excuse to deliberately avoid Huang Liang. Then he took a taxi to the local police station, and his purpose was naturally to report the case.

  "Hello, I'm looking for someone who is a bit chubby, with eyes that aren't particularly big..."

  Xiao Mo came in and didn't immediately explain the situation, but instead asked that fat policeman who had questioned him that day.

  "Are you his relative?"

  "No, but I'm looking for him because of an urgent matter. Since I don't know his phone number, that's why I came here."

  "That's right, but we don't have the person you described here."

  "Nothing? This can't be, we just met a few days ago."

  "There are only over ten people here, if it's true how could I not remember. Of course, if you encounter any difficulties, you can also tell me."

  Xiao Mo listened and was very surprised. The fat policeman had asked him a few days ago, but today when he asked again, the police station didn't have this person. He faintly sensed that something was off, thought for a moment, and then asked:

  "I don't need him, there are two others..."

  Xiao Mo described the two police officers who brought him back to the police station that day, thinking that they must know about the fat policeman. However, the answer he got this time made his hair stand on end.

  "I don't know where you heard that they were police, but there are no such three people in the bureau. Besides, I've been here for days and have never seen you come in, let alone anyone interrogate you."

  "You don't have the guts to joke around with the police here, do you?"

  At this moment, Xiao Mu's brain was completely messed up, and another of his perceptions was shattered.

  The entire police station had only a little over ten people? But when he came in that day, he saw no less than thirty people. What scared him the most was that the two who brought him back to the police station and the fat guy who interrogated him didn't exist at all!

  Xiao Mo suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. If those three people didn't exist, then what was it that took him to the police station that day?

  Is the place he went really a police station?!

  Looking at Xiao Mu's face changing with the weather, the police officer sitting opposite him said with concern:

  "I think you should go see a doctor, maybe it's because of too much stress lately, so you've been having some hallucinations."

  Xiao Mo nodded quietly, but then he asked again:

  "I have several classmates who have gone missing, and when I call them, they don't answer. When I send texts, no one responds."

  "Maybe they just changed their phone number."

  "Is it possible that over ten people would change their phone numbers at the same time? Also, I'd like to ask, has anyone reported such a case recently? Regarding students going missing."

  "I can tell you very definitely, no."

  After leaving the police station, Xiao Mo's mind was completely messed up. He couldn't tell what was real and what was fake anymore. His recent experiences had completely overturned his previous understanding of the world. There were classrooms that didn't exist, supernatural powers, buildings filled with ghosts, and that mirror with a ghost gate...

  And now someone tells him that he never went to the police station, and there was no fat man interrogating him. Recently, this city has been very peaceful, with no murders, no missing persons, and no one reporting any cases of missing persons.

  Was it Chen Qing and the others who were lying, or was it the police who were lying, or was he the only one receiving these false impressions? He had completely lost track of what was real and what wasn't. He even thought that this was all just a dream, a very realistic dream.

  In the afternoon, all the way to evening, Xiao Mo was in a daze, and he couldn't muster up any thoughts at all. If others deceived him, that would be fine, but if even his own eyes were deceiving him, then he really didn't know what to do.

  With such emotions, Xiao Mo returned to school before the school gate closed, as promised with Chang Lengfeng and others. At this time, there were still many people in the school, but he couldn't feel any sense of existence, as if he was the most redundant one.

  This time, Xiao Mo didn't take any risks and ignored Zhang Da's gloomy face, insisting on staying outside the school with Chen Qing and Qin You Ru. As for the remaining three people, they could only wait inside the school.

  As the electronic gates closed, the number of students in the playground also decreased, and soon the campus fell into silence again. The three people on the playground were clearly divided, with Huang Liang, who was the bravest, waiting in front of the teaching building, Zhang Da and Chang Lengfeng one waiting under the flagpole, and the other waiting at the gate.

  In this way, no matter where Ji Ruhai appears, they can stop him in the first place.

  Midnight was approaching, and in the darkness, six pairs of eyes kept blinking. The surroundings were filled with the sound of cool wind blowing, which sounded like a baby crying next to their ears.

  Xiao Mu's attention was still on his phone, and it was already midnight, Ji Ruhai should have appeared.

  That solitary path leading to school was as desolate as ever, yet still saw less than half a person's shadow.

  Chang Lengfeng and others also had no harvest, Ji Ruhai did not appear for a long time. Unable to hear the voices inside the campus, Xiao Mo ignored Chenqing's opposition and came back to the door again, then stood up and looked inside.

  The playground was empty and deserted... nothing was left... Chang Lengfeng and his three companions had vanished!

  "Hurry, come quickly! The class leaders are gone!"

  "No way!"

  Chen Qing and Qin You Ru were both short in stature, for them this electronic gate was absolutely a chasm, they couldn't even climb up, let alone jump over. At this time, there was nothing to do but wait anxiously, not even a little bit of hurry could help.

  Xiao Mo was also anxious, but he didn't dare to go in. Three big and tall men had disappeared, if he went in wouldn't he be the same? He slowly let out a long breath, quickly calming down, turned his head and shouted at Chen Qing and the others behind him:

  "I'll call Huang Liang now, you guys contact the other two!"

  After finishing speaking, Xiao Mo dialed Huang Liang's mobile phone. He thought it wouldn't go through, but unexpectedly it did.

  The "beep" sound had been ringing for half a day before Huang Liang's dazed voice finally came from the phone:

  "Hello."

  "Where did you guys go! Did you stop Ji Ruhai?"

  "We were in front of the teaching building's gate and couldn't stop Ji Ruhai; he has already gone inside."

  "Has he gone in? You three are guarding at three places, how can you still let him go in!"

  "We just saw a black shadow flash by, and when we looked again, he had already gone in. The door was still locked with a padlock, and we couldn't get in."

  "What about their class monitor?"

  "They were right next to me."

  He hung up the phone, and Xiao Mo also let out a sigh of relief. No matter what, as long as Huang Liang was fine, that was all that mattered. From his current location, it was indeed impossible to see in the direction of the teaching building. The disappearance of the three people must have been because they had all run off in that direction.

  Before long, the three of them, Chang Lengfeng, had climbed over the electronic gate, their faces showing obvious disappointment. On that flagpole, Xi Ruhai's body was already strung up. It goes without saying that tonight's obstruction action had failed again, or rather, this plan was never going to succeed in the first place.

  "There is indeed some kind of power controlling them, that ghostly speed that humans cannot possess. However, through the situation over the past two days, we can confirm one thing - there must be some kind of attractive force existing in the teaching building. They all entered the teaching building first, and then the corpses appeared on the flagpole."

  Chang Leng's words were recognized by everyone, and Xiao Mo thought for a moment before asking:

  "So you're saying these people were killed in the teaching building, and their bodies were strung up on flagpoles after they died?"

  "It should be like this." Chang Lengfeng nodded in agreement.

  "That's very strange." Xiao Mo furrowed his brow and continued:

  "Suppose, in the teaching building, there really is some kind of power, and Ji Ruhai and others were indeed killed by this power. Then why would that power hang their corpses on the flagpole?"

  "Is it just meant to scare us and make us fearful? This doesn't seem quite right."

  "Yes, it's really unnecessary to do so. The person is already dead, so just discard the corpse."

  Huang Liang also thought what Xiao Mo said made sense and nodded in surprise.

  Chang Lengfeng looked at Xiao Mo's eyes that were still bright in the darkness and asked in a low voice:

  "Do you have any ideas?"

  "I do have a hunch that the force wanting to continue killing must string up the corpses on the flagpole, so it can continue to kill the second person, and then string up the corpse again, repeating the cycle."

  It's as if it were some sort of ritual, and only by doing so can one gain power. Also, from the fact that their corpses suddenly appeared on the flagpole, there may be a certain place in the teaching building that is connected to that flagpole, otherwise the corpses shouldn't have appeared out of thin air."

  Xiao Mo hadn't finished speaking when Chen Qing immediately retorted:

  "It's impossible for the body to be hung on the flagpole, unless it was done by a human. Moreover, I don't think there's any connection between the teaching building and the flagpole. Think about it, if someone wanted to secretly hang the body up there without anyone noticing, it would be way too easy."

  "Yes, it's also possible."

  Xiao Mu nodded in agreement with Chen Qing's words.