Chapter 2: The Thick Smell of Blood

With a loud rumbling sound that broke through the clouds, we were shaken to the core. Morning Research Dew's features twisted as he spat out the stone in his mouth, which was sticky with blood and saliva.

"Fuck!" he yelled strangely, afraid he had twisted his back.

When the dust had passed, the smell of blood wafted thickly from the darkened ground. I shivered for a while and smelled, "Do you guys smell blood?"

Looking to my right and seeing that Liu Ke had fainted, I panicked, "Hey! Research Dew, come help me! Liu Ke has fainted!"

Chen Yanlu stood up, not caring about the dirt on his body. Helping me up as well, she turned and continued to help Liu Ke walk backwards.

"Where are you going?" I asked as I followed.

"We're going to the viewing gallery." He replied calmly.

I nodded my head to follow.

When we got to the rows of viewing seats, he settled the fainting Lauk into his seat. I followed and climbed up to the highest point with a clear view of the playground.

The viewing seats showed me very clearly that the large crater that had been blasted out of the center was, I guessed, more than ten meters wide. It was getting late in the morning and I looked at my phone, exhausted and just wanting to sleep.

Why would a ghost fire appear in the school for no reason and then explode?

I guess Chen Yanluo already had the answer in his head. But I don't want to ask him. I want to use my own mind to think, there has never been such a situation before, the school is very strict, to the night after nine o'clock, the playground does not allow students to stay. I and the morning research Lu quietly back time is more than eleven o'clock at night, has exceeded the strict requirements, so now the scene of the incident is only us. And the explosion appeared when Liu Ke, who had disappeared for a few days, suddenly appeared.

My brain buzzed.

I didn't want to suspect Liu Ke into it, even though that's how it was taught in the book. At the scene, besides me and Yanlu, it was him ……

"Yanlu, what do you …… think?" Finally, I still want to ask what he thinks.

Chen Yanlu did not say a word and stared at Liu Ke, as if he wanted to eat each other. I don't dare to imagine that he must be suspecting Liu Ke as well. Then, he gently reached over and I closed my eyes tightly not daring to look.

After a few seconds, I only heard him say "Liu Ke has a fever."

I thought he was going to search on him, scared me. When I suddenly opened my eyes, the smell of blood immediately wafted out. Though it wasn't as strong as what we smelled at the runway earlier.

"Can't stay here any longer! We have to hurry back to the dorms." He finished calmly.

A shiver ran through me as I saw him for the first time without a child's personality. Seeing me stiffen, he sighed and came over to take my cold hand. Unlike me, that hand was filled with heat wrapped around mine.

Resuming his smiling appearance, "Little Mimi, see the school tomorrow."

I came back to my senses and looked towards Liu Ke. He said, "Don't worry, I'll carry him. You go back first."

I shook my head uneasily and said, "No. I'm going to stay with you guys."

Research Dew sighed and crouched down in front of Liu Ke. I used all my strength to help a big man onto his back, and at this time, the skinny Research Dew's back seemed extra wide.

Hang in there, Liu Ke. I touched my forehead and realized that it was more than a fever, it was a high fever. Research and Lu carried him well, we quickly retreated towards the outside, leaving the playground.

Back to the dormitory, the sky is already hazy white. The fatigue of the night made me fall asleep quickly, and I slept until noon. My roommate came back from lunch and woke me up by screaming in fear when she saw me covered in dust.

Rubbing my sleepy eyes, I struggled to get up and my muscles ached all over my body. More than a hangover ugh ……

Open the fully charged cell phone, the message ringing non-stop. more than 20 missed calls, 5 text messages, all the morning research dew got.

Today is …… April 4th.

Fortunately, my roommate woke me up, or I would have missed the afternoon exam!

I climbed up and looked through the text messages.

The first one 7:00 a.m.: Why don't you answer the phone? Don't worry about it, his fever's gone down.

Second one 8:30 am: pick up the phone! Hey, dumbass, still not awake. The police are investigating and have completely sealed off the playground.

The third one at 10:40 am: Liu Ke woke up, unconscious, I called and sent him to a big hospital. You see this text message quickly call back.

The fourth article eleven o'clock in the morning: really things are imagined.

The fifth twelve o'clock in the afternoon: quickly return to the phone!

Looking at the fully charged cell phone, twelve thirty. This last text was sent half an hour ago, I pressed the quick answer button2 to dial Morning Research Lou's cell phone.

"Idiot just woke up now?!"

I hold the phone away from my ear and walk over to the sink to get ready to wash up.

"Got a little overstimulated last night ……," I explained, looking at my hair in the mirror in surprise at being slept in a chicken nest. And the dusty face as well as the dirty, mud-stained clothes. Even sighed, afraid that this body of clothing can never be worn again.

On the other side of the phone, after a moment of silence, said, "…… Our school …… is dead."

Hearing this news, I was not surprised. Who is the dead person dead? I asked while brushing my teeth. The voice stammered and spat out the words.

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a long time, only to hear him slowly open his mouth, one word booming out of his mouth, "The …… mentor of the two of us."

"Wow-!"

The toothpaste and tooth cup that I had finished brushing my teeth came off on the floor in one smooth motion, and I blurted out with little thought, "How did our mentor …… die?" I was very reluctant to think, very reluctant to think.

Normally, my mentor and I were very close. He treated people kindly and was a target for us to learn from. One night, just a few hours. Before class he smiled and said to me: study hard. And just a few hours later, he was gone from this earth.

The heavy voice on the other side of the cell phone said, "Come out, I'll buy you dinner."

"Still in the mood for dinner?" Tears fell unknowingly, "I'll come out to you now."

Hanging up the phone, I quickly washed my face. Changing into clean clothes, I went out the door, before leaving my roommate told me the exam time. I nodded my head while cheering her on to warm up.

After leaving the door, the weather is extra cold today. The sky is drizzling with spring rain, I forgot to bring an umbrella. I crossed the crowd at breakneck speed, and found Chen Yanlu sitting in the corner staring out the window in a wall of human flesh.

Quietly sat across from him, I know that his mood is even heavier than mine, the mentor usually especially favored him.

"A cup of coffee," I said to the waiter.

He heard my voice and turned his head. Five anime hand puppets lay around him, "Want to hear my reasoning?"

I nodded, "Go ahead." Tangled up in thought, he should be thinking similarly to me.

My line of thinking was that what I saw last night was a torch getting fire. And not some ghostly mass of fire, because there were only two of them, and they wouldn't move. That the bombing, was caused by the ground, as to what exactly caused it. I didn't have the self-study to think about it, and the mentor's death was due to a congenital heart condition. He couldn't stand the loud noise and died.

I know there are many errors in my reasoning, and that's because of assumptions made with many unknowns.

"This is a case of bizarre death." There was a pause, and Bully was so dominant that he grabbed my coffee order and gulped it down twice.

I rolled my eyes in disbelief and asked, "How is that possible, I believe in science ……"

"There are some things that science can't explain."

I was silent to listen to him continue to say, I think he is a night without sleep, dark circles under the eyes is very prominent. : "In the early hours of the morning I went back to the dormitory to change clothes and returned to the playground, the pit is about twelve meters or so, it is full of burning smell. Around the black dried blood, proving that a person died here."

My heart fluttered as he took out the first anime hand puppet and put it down. It was a peculiar way of reasoning for Morning Glory, and he occasionally toyed with it like this when doing high IQ questions.

"I didn't dare linger too long, so I went back to my dorm. The lanai, now, stayed for a couple of hours, and by the time dawn broke, the blood could no longer be smelled. The police car drove carefully into the school at seven in the morning, and the students were still resting."

I listened carefully as he told me what he had missed in his sleep, and he continued, "They cordoned off the playground. That's what happened, and I'm guessing that the fire was from a torch."

Here as I reasoned, he saw my eyes light up and pulled out another hand puppet when to the back of the first.

"The torches were two, and there were two of them. When we got there, only one was in the bushes, the other was nowhere to be found."

Puzzled, I continued to listen, "That's when we met Lauk." He placed a third hand puppet close to the second, "He told us it was dangerous here and urged us to leave quickly. Thinking he knew something we didn't, we got word of a death, it was our mentor. Only a few of us students know about it, because the university doesn't want to interfere with the festivities tomorrow. So only a few of our students were notified of our mentor's death." He placed the fourth hand puppet close to the first.

I was sweating at this point, my heart gripping together with it. He was silent for a moment and drank his coffee in one thorough gulp. Taking the fifth figure out and placing it behind the first and second group got, he said, "There is another theory …… that the police are hiding the facts."

I listened to it and felt completely that things were not as simple as I thought.

"That is to say, you suspect that the first mannequin and the third mannequin is one, the second mannequin and the fourth mannequin is one." Looking at his slender fingers he kept cutting off the fifth mannequin.

I continued, "The ones holding the torches in the center of the playground are Liu Ke and Mentor, and all of these guesses of ours are completely blind, and it's possible that the police are deliberately concealing the truth …… So what truth would they be concealing?"

"They didn't pull up the video to check the witnesses, they're hiding Liu Ke." Research Lou guessed this way.

My mind went blank, remembering that Liu Ke's mom is a criminal police officer, it's also very likely that this is the reason. Now that I've listened to the reasoning of Renglu, I feel that my mood has lifted quite a bit from the heaviness. He was a rare genius, and his reasoning was more accurate than mine.

Kenroku stood up and headed out the door, and I took small steps to follow. "Where are you going?"

"To the databank." His tone was calm, and he didn't drag his feet enough to surprisingly say those four words, which were off-limits to the school. All the students' teachers' personal and private files were in that basement. I didn't know where the basement was, Morning Glory's insightfulness was beyond my imagination.

The small step appendage came to the library, I looked at him differently. He smiled and took my hand and headed inside. We have done a lot of stealing things since we were young:

When we were little, we stole eggs from our neighbors, climbed trees to steal cherries, played Dare to hide in other people s backyards and chewed on radishes …… This is the first time we have done real stealing, and we are going to steal from all the people in this school who are associated with the police. If I'm not mistaken, he's trying to do a process of elimination to investigate!