“There is a ghost.”

This sentence came out of Lin Mao’s mouth, and he licked his dry lips, “Think about it, Shen Liang forgot to lock the door the night three days ago, there was a possibility that someone came in, he locked the door the night before yesterday, and last night the door locked by the teacher himself!”

“Okay, let’s assume now, assuming that Shen Liang didn’t check before locking the door the night before yesterday, the other party might have hid in the studio beforehand, and came out to cause damage after we all left, but the teacher must have checked carefully, if he found out that someone was hiding, he will definitely not leave it alone.”

“But, Xia Wei’s face is gone again. Everyone’s drawing of Xia Wei has no face, without any exception, including the teacher’s painting.”

After self-analysis, Lin Mao didn’t wait for a response, he gulped, stared at the few people in front of him, “Why aren’t you talking?”

In broad daylight Lin Mao broke out in a cold sweat unexpectedly, “Damn it, talk, you guys, each and everyone don’t put deadpan faces. I’m in a panic, really, if you don’t believe me, take a look, my hair is standing on end .”

Xia Wei said quietly, “You had no face either.”

Lin Mao’s eyelids twitched, and he quickly calmed down, “Isn’t that one time less than yours?”

Xia Wei lowered her head and picked the rabbit ears on the MP3 case, “Because I have been a model twice, you only became a model once, and when you become a model again, you will be the same as me.”

“I won’t be a model in the future. It’s so fucking unlucky that a good living person’s face disappeared.”

Lin Mao rubbed the moss on the corner of the wall in a mess, “Fuck, I don’t know what happened, I have been in the studio for more than half a month, and it has been fine before, nothing happened, only since these three days such a strange thing happened.”

His voice stopped, and his face froze, “I just said there are ghosts, what do you think?”

Zhou Jiaojiao looked at Lin Mao with a look in her eyes of an idiot, “What are you thinking, Lin Mao, I really can’t see that you are so timid.”

“There are no ghosts in this world, only people with ghosts in their hearts. If you are really afraid, don’t stay here.”

Lin Mao rolled his eyes, “Don’t be funny, the way to learn art is paved with money, I don’t know how much effort I spent to get my family to agree to my art study, now I have paid the tuition fee, if I go back, it is not impossible for my parents to hack me to death.”

Zhou Jiaojiao glanced over, “You should have already discovered that you are not made for this path. Even if you don’t go back, you won’t learn much by staying here. At most, you’ll just lie to your parents, and then to yourself, for psychological comfort.”

She hit the nail on the head, and Lin Mao jumped up, his face flushed, and he gritted his teeth shouting word by word, “Zhou, Jiao, Jiao!”

Zhou Jiaojiao put aside her joking thoughts, “Okay, okay, I’m talking about myself as well. Actually, it’s not a big deal. Next time you finish sketching, just take the painting back.”

Lin Mao slapped his forehead, “Yeah, why didn’t I think of that!”

Zhou Jiaojiao hurt him in time, “You’re stupid.”

Lin Mao kicked half of the broken pottery that was exposed out of the soil, “It’s really enough, Zhou Jiaojiao, if you are like this, no one will want you in this life.”

Zhou Jiaojiao was like an experienced person, “Life is full of unknown variables, and I haven’t graduated from high school. In this life, I don’t know if I can live to be twenty years old.”

“No, it should be said that I don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Maybe I’m still talking to you now. After a while, I fell somewhere and hit my head and my skull open like a dipper, or I fell asleep and couldn’t get up.”

There was an indifference on her apple face that didn’t match her age, as if she had experienced life and death a long time ago, strangely, “Young people, if you have today, live today well, let’s talk about tomorrow’s affairs when there is tomorrow.”

Lin Mao was dumbfounded, “Zhou Jiaojiao, are you crazy, you even cursed yourself?”

Zhou Jiaojiao was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, “Hey, Shuran, Xia Wei, Shen Liang, what do you guys think?”

The three people whose names were called still kept their squatting posture against the wall, and they didn’t make a sound, and didn’t know what they were thinking.

Huang Dan was sorting out his thoughts. He pulls out all the information he has so far, throws away the useless ones, categorizes the useful ones, and puts the uncertain ones in a separate box.

There were three times in total, Xia Wei twice and Lin Mao once, none of them had faces in the painting.

The first time this happened, Huang Dan didn’t cross over. When he appeared, the original owner was scared to death, but he didn’t know what he saw. The next two times were related to him, and the painting was drawn by him.

Since the task this time is to find out who altered the painting and removed the face on it. Xia Wei and Lin Mao should be ruled out from the people involved, right?

Moreover, Lin Mao and Huang Dan lived in a small room and slept on the same bed. If he sneaked out at night and came back secretly, Huang Dan would know.

Huang Dan called in his heart, “Mr. Lu.”

System, “Speak.”

Huang Dan, “Are there ghosts in this studio?”

System, “Host Huang, please remember, this is Supernatural area 120.”

Huang Dan asked again, “Am I a ghost?”

System, “Host Huang is a ghost and also not.”

Huang Dan felt that this system worker is very good at playing word games, not as easy to deal with as Mr. System, and there was still a gap between interns and senior workers.

System, “Are there any questions?”

Huang Dan said, “Yes, but Mr. Lu won’t tell me.”

System, “Then there is no more.”

Huang Dan，“……”

The brief interaction begins with formality and ends with formality.

Huang Dan’s arm was pulled, he looked at Xia Wei who was pulling him, and asked what’s the matter.

Xia Wei frowned, “Shuran, I should have taken away the sketch of me you drew last night, it is a pity, besides Chen Shi, your sketch is the one that resembles me most. “

Huang Dan said, “I can draw for you next time.”

Xia Wei withdrew the hand that was holding his arm, turned her head and said, “I don’t want to be a model anymore, I don’t feel anything when I see myself faceless at first, but when that happens again the second time, I feel very bad.”

Huang Dan pursed his lips and said nothing.

Xia Wei lost her temper suddenly, she ripped off the MP3 earphones, her face turned pale, “Who the fuck did it, it’s so annoying!”

Zhou Jiaojiao was startled, and looked at her unhappily, “Xia Wei, what are you shouting for? I already thought about what to eat for lunch. As a result, you shout and forget about it.”

Xia Wei sneered, “What are people doing here who have no self concern? Want to see a joke?”

Zhou Jiaojiao turned her head, and the ponytail behind her shoulders brushed her back, “Are you to go so far as to be eccentric? At that time, whoever was selected as a model was drawn by lot. Who is to blame for your luck?”

She pointed at Lin Mao, “Besides, Lin Mao had also become a model, hadn’t his face gone? You are not alone.”

Xia Wei didn’t speak, Lin Mao became anxious, “Can you stop fucking mentioning this!”

Zhou Jiaojiao looked at Xia Wei, who was pale, and Lin Mao, who was emotionally unstable. She looked incomprehensible, “What a big deal, I really don’t understand, it’s just that the face on the painting was wiped off by someone. Did it fall off? It’s not that the skin on your face was peeled off.”

Before Xia Wei and Lin Mao got angry, Zhou Jiaojiao said, “Besides, this happened three times in a row. It will definitely attract the attention of Teacher Zhang and Teacher Liu. That psychopath will never have another chance.”

The latter sentence eased the tense atmosphere.

This is indeed the case. The studio is not peaceful, and strange things happen again and again. The two teachers would be more uneasy. They want to be at ease more than anyone else, so that the studio can be kept open safely.

With strict supervision, those who want to make trouble will have scruples, and it will not be so easy to run amok.

Xia Wei paused for a moment, and asked out the doubts in her heart, “Jiaojiao, why are you so sure that there are no ghosts in the world?”

Zhou Jiaojiao asked without answering, “What do you mean, do you think there are ghosts in the world?”

Xia Wei’s face turned even paler, “I’ve never seen it before, how do I know this?”

Zhou Jiaojiao said, “I haven’t seen it either.”

Xia Wei wants to ask, since you haven’t seen it, how do you know whether there is one?

Zhou Jiaojiao could see what was going on in her mind, “Let’s put it this way, if there were ghosts, I would have died long ago.”

Not only Xia Wei, Huang Dan, Lin Mao, but also Shen Liang, who had never spoken, all looked over at the same time when they heard this sentence.

Only Huang Dan has an inquiring gaze.

It stands to reason that Lin Mao, Xia Wei, and Shen Liang are from the same school, and now only Shen Liang has not encountered that incident. He has not been a model, and it is not sure if he would have any face.

As for Zhou Jiaojiao, it really has nothing to do with her. Her father sharpened pencils and laid drawing paper for her in the studio, but she dragged herself here to join in the fun.

When Huang Dan heard a laugh, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Zhou Jiaojiao didn’t seem to notice Huang Dan’s stare, she said with a laugh, “I saw a person dying before, and reached out to me, but I couldn’t help, you said, if there was a ghost, wouldn’t that person have come to me to settle accounts after his death?”

Xia Wei’s eyes widened, showing an expression of disbelief, “Why did you see him die and not rescue?”

Zhou Jiaojiao curled her lips, “I was wearing a new dress that day. My aunt bought it for me. It was a piece of several hundred yuan. If I rescued someone, there would be blood on the skirt, and that kind of blood clot, it’s disgusting so I didn’t care.”

Xia Wei looked at Zhou Jiaojiao as if seeing a cold-blooded monster, “You……”

Lin Mao couldn’t take it anymore and jumped to Shen Liang’s side, “Damn, Zhou Jiaojiao, aren’t you crazy? You can do that kind of unconscionable thing? You are not afraid of being struck by lightning!”

Shen Liang frowned, and looked at Zhou Jiaojiao with disgust, “Although it’s not against the law, you should not do that.”

Zhou Jiaojiao didn’t take it seriously, “You said it didn’t break the law, then why can’t I do that? It’s just a stranger, who is not related to me, and I don’t have to save him.”

“Besides, I’m not a rich person. If that person wakes up and wants to blackmail me, where can I go to reason?”

Shen Liang asked with a sullen face, “You can call 120 or 110. It doesn’t take much of your time. Why didn’t you call?”

Zhou Jiaojiao pinned her broken hair behind her ears, “I have something to do that day, so I didn’t care about it that much. Besides, I thought to myself, even if I don’t call, there will be others behind me, so others can make calls when time comes.”

Xia Wei’s body trembled, “How do you know there are other people behind you? Zhou Jiaojiao, people like you really……you can live at ease after killing someone, aren’t you afraid?”

Zhou Jiaojiao blinked, “Why be afraid? I didn’t kill him.”

The surrounding air pressure reached the extreme, and the atmosphere was also suppressed to an unspeakable degree. It seemed that a fierce quarrel would happen in the next moment.

Huang Dan suddenly said, “You made this up.”

“Shuran is so smart.”

Zhou Jiaojiao laughed loudly, pointed at Xia Wei, Lin Mao, and Shen Liang, “I didn’t expect the three of you to really believe it.”

She leaned forward and backward with a smile, tears came out of her laughter, “If I really saw someone asking for help, I would definitely save them. God is watching over my head, otherwise there will be retribution. Why are you so easy to deceive?”

Shen Liang’s face darkened.

It took Xia Wei a long time to scold, “Zhou Jiaojiao, are you sick?”

Lin Mao continued, “I don’t think she is just sick, but she is seriously mentally ill and escaped from the mental asylum.”

Zhou Jiaojiao looked at the backs of the three of them who turned and left, and said speechlessly, “Really, I can’t make a joke even, why are you so serious.”

Huang Dan said, “This is not funny.”

Zhou Jiaojiao was noncommittal, “Really? I think it’s quite funny.”

Huang Dan said seriously, “It’s not funny.”

Zhou Jiaojiao was slightly taken aback, she pursed her lips, “Alright then, I won’t make such jokes in the future.”

Huang Dan didn’t speak.

Zhou Jiaojiao scratched her face, a little at a loss, “I thought they could tell from the beginning that I made it up, but I didn’t expect them to take it seriously, such a fake story……”

Huang Dan still didn’t speak.

Zhou Jiaojiao remembered something, “Shuran, how do you know I’m lying?”

Huang Dan said, “It’s a contradiction.”

“You first said that the person died, and then you said that you didn’t call the police, because you thought that someone might do that later, which means that the person you saw at that time was not dead, and you didn’t know whether the person was dead or alive later.”

Zhou Jiaojiao smacked her lips, “Excellent.”

Huang Dan was about to go to the studio, but his hand was pulled, and Zhou Jiaojiao’s voice was heard, “Shuran, let me treat you to something, how about Malatang? Duck blood vermicelli, beef vermicelli are fine, and there are other kinds of sliced noodles, Dandan noodles. I know a shop over there that makes them very delicious.”

“The teacher is present.”

“It’s okay, no one will come.”

Zhou Jiaojiao took Huang Dan and left, chattering, as if she was a complete foodie.

Huang Dan wants to finish the task, no matter who it is, he has to observe, so he simply follows Zhou Jiaojiao to eat.

In this day and age, regardless of the brand of mobile phone, among the students, those who use it are either rich people or a treasure in the hearts of parents. Zhou Jiaojiao belongs to the latter. She has a mobile phone, although it is not as good as Xia Wei. But it is also the envy of others in the studio.

Huang Dan heard Zhou Jiaojiao lying to her father on the phone, saying that he didn’t eat breakfast, and he was dizzy for some reason, and had low blood sugar. She accompanied him to eat, worried that he would faint.

“……”

Zhou Jiaojiao hung up the phone and smiled embarrassedly, “I don’t speak that way, it’s not easy to report when I go back.”

Huang Dan asked her, “Does your father believe it?”

Zhou Jiaojiao raised her smiling face, “Believe me, he wants me to be friends with people who have good academic performance and good painting skills. Shuran, you were not that type of person before, but now you are. My dad said that you are amazing, and you will improve in the future.”

Huang Dan frowned, “Your father is here, what about your mother?”

The smile on Zhou Jiaojiao’s face froze, and then returned to normal after a while, “My mother is long gone, and my father and I are the only two at home.”

Huang Dan said, “Sorry.”

Zhou Jiaojiao said it’s okay, “I’m doing pretty well now.”

She wrinkled her nose and complained in a low voice, “It’s just that my dad is sometimes too annoying. I’ll be eighteen in two years, and he always treats me like a child, thinking that I can’t do this and that.”

Huang Dan said, “Your father cares about you too much.”

Zhou Jiaojiao sighed, “I know, but he has a lot of control, and he just doesn’t let me surf the internet. I can only sneak to the Internet cafe, but I almost fell off when I climbed the west gate, you say, if something happened to me, wouldn’t he regret it to death.”

“Painting too, my dad always asks me to show my paintings to the teacher. There are dozens of people in the studio, and the teacher still has lessons to attend, so how can there be time for one-on-one? Isn’t that beauty from No. 1 Middle School very good at sketching? My dad asked me to communicate with her more and learn her painting skills, hmph, in fact, he just fell in love with the other party’s mother……”

The conversation stopped, Zhou Jiaojiao said embarrassedly, “Shuran, you think I’m annoying, I just said too much.”

Huang Dan said, “It’s okay, I’m not bothered.”

Zhou Jiaojiao was stunned, “Shuran, I like you of now.”

She held out her hand solemnly, “Hi Zhang Shuran, my name is Zhou Jiaojiao, and I want to be good friends with you.”

Huang Dan held her hand, “Okay.”

Zhou Jiaojiao cleared her throat, and wrapped her arms around Huang Dan, “We will be good friends from now on, good friends, let’s go, I’ll treat you to something delicious!”

While Huang Dan and Zhou Jiaojiao were holding duck blood vermicelli and sucking and swallowing, the discussion in the studio still existed.

Teacher Zhang and Teacher Liu had communicated in private, and they agreed that this was not jealousy due to inferior skills, but a simple prank, and people are in the studio.

As for why all the sketches last night had no faces, it was because the other party wiped off the faces he had drawn in order not to be suspected.

Lin Mao is recognized in the studio as ignorant, so he was called to the studio alone by two teachers and asked if he did this. If so, he should admit it and don’t wait for them to find out.

The implication is that they will be very difficult to deal with when the time comes.

Lin Mao said that he really didn’t do it, “Teacher Zhang, Teacher Liu, if you don’t believe me, I can swear to God!”

Teacher Zhang said meaningfully, “There is no need to swear. I discussed it with Teacher Liu. We will take turns to be on duty for the next few nights. If people don’t know how to repent, the studio will not keep anyone.”

Teacher Liu hummed, “People came here to learn painting. If they have the time to prank, why don’t they hurry up and learn more, and they will be able to get into a satisfactory school next year with a single entrance exam.”

Lin Mao’s facial muscles twitched violently, aiyo shit, isn’t this just for him to hear? A warning in disguise? Really, don’t believe it after saying it several times, how could he do such a crazy thing.

It’s October in the western calendar, and the single-entry exam will start around January. Those who want to go to other schools don’t have much time. Almost all the studios are very strict. They must hand in three paintings of still life, gouache, and human head sketches every day. There is no shortage of one piece, and they will comment on and modify the paintings in the morning, noon and evening.

However, the studio of the Agricultural University is very loose. After all, there are differences between teachers and teachers. People mainly teach at the university, and this is just a side job, so coming here also depends on the self-discipline of the students.

When Huang Dan and Zhou Jiaojiao went back, half the morning had passed, and the two teachers who were correcting the students’ paintings in the studio didn’t say anything.

There is not enough time, and painting still life is not finished.

Huang Dan simply drew a sphere for practice.

He noticed that a gaze fell on him, and found that it was Zhou Jiaojiao, who seemed to be unable to stand being nagged by her father, and was sending him a look for help.

After thinking about it, Huang Dan turned sideways and said, “Shushu, she didn’t draw anything this morning, the teacher will check.”

Father Zhou became anxious when he heard this, and quickly said to his daughter, “Then you draw quickly, and draw that ball with classmate Zhang.”

Zhou Jiaojiao loosened the big clip that clamped the drawing board, put down the drawing paper, and said softly, “Shuran, I thought you would leave me alone.”

Huang Dan said, “I saw you asking me for help.”

Zhou Jiaojiao didn’t say anything, just grabbed a few hard fruit candies for him.

Coincidentally, except for Zhou Jiaojiao and her father, Huang Dan, Lin Mao, Shen Liang, and Xia Wei, they all live on the first floor, occupying three of the four rooms, and in the remaining one lives a college student who plays the guitar every night, looks like a rough man, but inside lives a weak girl who loves to dream.

The rental house has an iron staircase outside. Even if it does not rain or snow, it is not so easy to walk at ordinary times. Xia Wei almost always wears shoes with heels. She walks ahead without any hesitation.

Afterwards Lin Mao, Huang Dan, Shen Liang last.

“I won’t go to the studio in the afternoon. I plan to sleep until around four or five o’clock. Then I will go directly to the Baima Internet Cafe and meet my master at the entrance. What about you? How did you plan?”

Xia Wei would only call Chen Shi that way in front of others, and when the other party was present, she would always call him by name.

Lin Mao visited the Internet cafe before. He could see Xia Wei’s long legs in stockings swinging when she went up the stairs, and her buttocks wrapped in denim shorts. He didn’t get close, afraid that the other party would fart and make him faint “Baima? There are too many people there, and we have been there several times but we didn’t get a seat.”

Xia Wei said, “That’s why we have to go early.”

Lin Mao said that he didn’t care whether to go to the studio in the afternoon, “Shen Liang, how about you?”

Shen Liang said lightly, “I have to paint gouache in the afternoon, and sketch in the evening so I have to go. In that case forget about the Internet cafe. You guys can play, I won’t join in the fun.”

Lin Mao turned his head and screamed, “Not going? Without you how can LaoZi play ah? Wouldn’t do, you have to go. I scored so many points for you last time. If you don’t help me this time, you are not allowed to be xiongdi.”

Shen Liang didn’t change his face, “Then don’t allow it.”

Lin Mao rushed downstairs when he heard the words, passed by Huang Dan, blocking Shen Liang from going up.

Listening to the argument behind him, Huang Dan didn’t quite understand the relationship between the two of them. When Xia Wei called his name, he raised his eyes, “What?”

Xia Wei has already gone upstairs, “I’m asking if you’re going to play in the evening for all night?”

Huang Dan said, “Going.”

Xia Wei said bye, then turned and left.

Huang Dan watched her figure disappear around the corner, a trace of strangeness flashed through his heart, but he didn’t know the reason.

There was a serious problem at noon, there was no food.

Huang Dan stood in the house in a daze. The original owner didn’t have a card, and his family couldn’t pay him living expenses. He had to go to that relative’s place every time. It was obviously not asking money for nothing. The family would send money to relatives, or pay him when came over in person and he still has to humble himself.

So the original owner lived frugally, didn’t go if he could, and tried his best to stay until his parents came to see him.

The small stove and pots and pans were bought by the original owner and the deskmate in partnership. As a new roommate, Lin Mao got a little bit of benefit, so there is no need to pay for that part of the money. However, the coal used to burn the stove and the meals for two meals a day are shared equally.

Lin Mao’s family is poorer than the original owner’s.

It’s okay if there is no food, even the bottle of pickled peppers that the original owner brought from home was eaten up.

Lin Mao said, “I’ll go to Shen Liang’s place to have a look.”

Huang Dan wandered around the house, and when he heard Lin Mao’s shout from the next door, he closed the door and walked over.

Most likely Chinese cabbage was stewed in boiling water, and a small handful of dried chili was thrown in. If the taste is bad, it depends on the spiciness, otherwise there will be no food. The three boys ate with plain rice, and each ate two large bowls.

Huang Dan cried while eating, it was spicy.

Lin Mao and Shen Liang watched him cry while eating, as if he was a crazy person.

The meal ended with Huang Dan’s cries, he threw down the bowl and chopsticks and went out to blow his nose, and turned on the faucet in the washbasin outside to wash his face.

There is only this washbasin upstairs, and Huang Dan found something from the original owner’s memory. Xia Wei carried the spittoon over every day to pour urine, and was bumped into by the original owner many times.

One can’t do anything about it, there is only one public toilet in this deep alley, let’s not talk about a long pool inside, the water is only flushed once in a few days, and there is often no place to set foot around, the distance from here to there is a bit far, has to turn several alleys to take a piss.

Xia Wei doesn’t cook by herself, but the original owner, Lin Mao, and Shen Liang, three people have to do, including the male college student, they not only have to brush their teeth and wash their face in the washbasin, but also wash vegetables and dishes, very casually.

Huang Dan didn’t stay long, wiped his face and left.

Everyone in the studio in the afternoon knew about Huang Dan crying like a fool after eating, because of Lin Mao’s loudspeaker mouth.

Huang Dan didn’t care, there were a lot of drawing boards and easels in the studio, he had just arrived, bumps were inevitable, and pain and crying were unavoidable, and the others would be even more speechless by then.

The person concerned didn’t make a sound, Zhou Jiaojiao couldn’t stand it any longer, “Lin Mao, what are you upto, what are you making the fuss about, can’t a man cry?”

Lin Mao was drinking water and choked.

Zhou Jiaojiao patted him on the back, “You goofy, you deserve it.”

Lin Mao, “……”

He stopped coughing, and he asked Huang Dan, “Why did Jiaojiao speak for you? Did the two of you make some shady deal this morning?”

Huang Dan said, “The teacher is here.”

Lin Mao snorted, “Boy, I’ve been using this trick in elementary school. You have to change the subject, don’t you? Cough cough, teacher, no, there’s something wrong with my reflective apple painting. I’m watching how Shuran draws.”

He lowered his head, and the subject of the conversation changed so violently that he bit his tongue, and his eyes were wet from pain.

Teacher Zhang said, “You don’t even have a piece of color on your drawing paper. Where did your apple go? Did you eat it?”

Lin Mao shot a quick glance at Zhou Jiaojiao and Shen Liang who were mocking, and muttered, “If I knew it earlier, I would be like Xia Wei, and slept in my room this afternoon.”

Teacher Zhang said calmly, “It’s easy to fall asleep, you go and collect your painting tools, leave the studio now, and sleep as much as you want.”

Lin Mao went to his seat in desperation to complete the draft.

Before five o’clock, at the entrance of the Baima Internet Cafe, a few young men and women met. The one walking in front was a handsome man and a beautiful woman. They were very seductive and well-matched. Those who didn’t know would regard them as a couple.

Among the few people, Huang Dan was the only one who was out of place, and he didn’t fit in with others. He didn’t like the stale air and noisy atmosphere in the Internet cafe, but in order to get in touch with people related to the task, he had to force his way.

Baima has the best environment among all the Internet cafes around. In addition to the small room like other Internet cafes, there are two or four luxury private rooms with sofas and better computer configurations. It is suitable for couples and friends to play.

Although Xia Wei didn’t say anything, she wanted to go to the private room with Chen Shi.

Chen Shi didn’t think so, and went to the small room with everyone, Xia Wei had no choice but to follow.

There are several people playing in the small room, which is dark. Huang Dan is sitting in the corner, the wall is on the left, Chen Shi is on the right, and from his side to the right are Xia Wei, Lin Mao and Shen Liang.

Chen Shi turned on the computer, “Did your teacher examine the outcome?”

Xia Wei shook her head and said, “No way to examine.”

Chen Shi leaned back a little, sitting casually, and unbuttoned a button of his shirt, “Is the painting still there?”

Xia Wei said, “I took a picture with my mobile phone.”

She dug out the picture and handed it over, “That’s it.”

Not a painting. Most people will not appreciate sketches of human heads. They think it’s not only ugly, dirty, but also a little scary. They can’t understand why this kind of thing is pasted on the head of the bed to have nightmares when they look at it.

Even if it is a beautiful woman, her eyes, nose and mouth are made up of black lines, which kind of affect the beauty.

The person in the picture is Xia Wei. The person who was sketched last night can be considered from the long hair, the edge of the dress neckline, the big earrings, and the necklace around the neck.

But Xia Wei’s face was clean and blank, which looked a little weird.

Chen Shi narrowed his eyes, “It doesn’t look like it was erased with an eraser.”

Shen Liang chuckled, “Not an eraser, then how did that person manage to mess with face? It can’t be just blowing air, or just stretching out a hand to wipe it away, right?”

Chen Shi ignored his sarcasm, “If it’s an eraser, it will leave marks, it won’t be like this……”

He didn’t continue, as if he couldn’t think of an accurate adjective for a while.

Lin Mao said, “Okay, don’t think about it when you come out to play, I can’t listen to it at all now, as long as I listen to it, my hairs will stand up immediately, and I will feel nauseous.”

Chen Shi didn’t say any more, he brought an ashtray over, and lit a cigarette.

Huang Dan had nothing to do, so he clicked on the website to find a movie to watch. He was smoking second-hand smoke, and the smell of tobacco filled his nostrils. When the boy finished smoking one and started to smoke the second one, he couldn’t help but say, “Can’t you take a break?”

Chen Shi tilted his head, “Are you talking to me?”

Huang Dan said, “One side of me is the wall, and the other side is you.”

Chen Shi had a cigarette in his mouth, “You’re a really interesting person, to have Gege, I nib a cigarette, also telling indirectly.”

Huang Dan said, “I’ll be honest, will you nib it?”

When Chen Shi talked, the cigarette trembled, his voice was blurred, with a smirk, “No.”

Huang Dan，“……”

Within an hour, Huang Dan couldn’t take it anymore. He got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face. He wanted to stand there to take a breath, but found that the smell was no better than that in the room, so he left the Internet cafe and breathed the coolness of the night at the door. Inhaling the messy car exhaust.

Footsteps came from behind, Huang Dan didn’t turn his head, when the footsteps got closer, he smelled the smell of soap, mixed with the smell of cigarettes, which was out of place.

Chen Shi walked along the road, not caring about the little tail behind him.

At this point, there are many snack stalls on the side of the road, cold noodles, braised noodles, corn, tea eggs, all kinds.

Chen Shi told the boss that he wanted four servings of cold noodles, and it seemed that he brought them for Xia Wei and the others.

Huang Dan came over, “I want one too.”

Chen Shi said, “Add another.”

After Huang Dan asked the price, he was about to touch his pocket, but was stopped by Chen Shi, “You will smoke second-hand smoke all night, so let me treat you with these noodles, work hard.”

“I don’t want your treat, can you not let me smoke second-hand smoke?”

Chen Shi felt that the logic of the young man’s question was wrong, “If you can’t stand the smell of cigarettes, just change your location.”

Huang Dan sighed.

Chen Shini glanced at him, “Why are you sighing?”

Huang Dan said something abrupt, “It is more difficult to quit smoking than to start.”

Just as Chen Shi was about to speak, there was a harsh car horn, and a car not far ahead almost hit a pedestrian. His breathing tightened, and he squatted on the ground unsteadily, with his arms wrapped around his knees. The posture is also very insecure.

Huang Dan stretched out his hand unconsciously.

Chen Shi’s tone was terrifying, almost yelling, “Don’t touch me!”

Huang Dan’s hand was in the air, and it took a long time before he let it go.

He remembered what Xia Wei and Lin Mao had said. When this person hears the sound of a car engine, sees a car, or rides in a car, he will be a little scary. He also recalls that the other party encountered someone in a car accident on the day of the exam and passed out on the spot.

On the way back, Chen Shi didn’t say a word.

Huang Dan was holding the cold noodles and didn’t know what to talk.

Xia Wei, Lin Mao and Shen Liang, three of them, saw Chen Shi’s expression, and they guessed the reason. They tacitly didn’t touch that topic, but just ate their respective cold noodles, deliberately relaxing the atmosphere.

The small room was filled with a smell of garlic, and the other people smelled that smell, and pushed the keyboard back and forth into the table, and went out to buy food.

Chen Shi didn’t take a bite of the cold noodles, and he smoked with his eyelids half closed.

It wasn’t until there were several cigarette butts in the ashtray that Chen Shi came to his senses and asked Huang Dan in a hoarse voice to give him the water in the bag.

Huang Dan found the mineral water bottle and handed it over.

Chen Shi unscrewed the cap of the bottle and poured down a few mouthfuls of water. He let out a long sigh of relief and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, “Hey, didn’t I scare you when we were on the side of the road?”

Huang Dan lied, he said no, but in fact he was frightened, at a loss, and wanted to cry.

In the second half of the night, Huang Dan was low, and the others were still in high spirits.

Xia Wei was watching “The Prince Turns into a Frog”, and didn’t know what plot she saw. She wiped her nose and tears with a tissue while crying. At this time, she was just a young girl who didn’t care about worldly affairs.

Lin Mao and Shen Liang were playing Legend, they were roaring with headphones on, their blood boiling.

Huang Dan looked at the person next to him, it was the same movie, he had watched it three times, and he didn’t even feel bored.

He yawned and tilted his head to watch the movie on the other party’s computer.

When Huang Dan saw the hero in the movie fold the lucky star alone, his drowsiness disappeared immediately, and he also sat up straight without blinking.

Chen Shi clicked the mouse to stop the screen, his hand instinctively followed the protagonist’s movement of folding the stars, and he twitched his eyes when he realized what he was doing.

“It’s okay to learn how to fold stars, I am crazy……”

Chen Shi turned his head and found the young man’s face full of tears. He was stunned, “What are you doing? Are you crying watching this?”

Huang Dan said, “Stars are hard to fold, I can’t fold them well.”

Chen Shi snorted, “Really? So you folded it and gave it to your girlfriend?”

Huang Dan wiped the tears off his face with a tissue, crying in his voice, “Not a girlfriend.”

Chen Shi clicked till the end, he wasn’t that interested in other people’s emotional experience.

This did not attract the attention of others in the room.

After Huang Dan stopped crying, he found the movie on his computer, watched it twice by himself, and then fell asleep on the table unknowingly.

When he woke up, except for Chen Shi, the others were lying on their stomachs and fell asleep.

Rubbing his eyes, Huang Dan asked, “Aren’t you sleepy?”

Chen Shi flicked the cigarette in the ashtray full of cigarette butts, he smoked too much, his voice was hoarse than usual, “With this thing, I can stay up for several nights in a row.”

Huang Dan was taken aback, “Have you tried this before?”

Chen Shi spit out a puff of smoke, but he didn’t answer, the answer was written in his bloodshot eyes.

Huang Dan pursed his lips, his heart ached again, he asked in his heart, “Mr. Lu, I don’t understand, this is not my body, why do I feel distressed?”

System, “That’s because the pain is engraved in your soul.”

Huang Dan was stunned for a while, “Oh.”

Chen Shi stood up to wash his face, and Huang Dan also went.

There was no one in the bathroom at this time, only the sound of their footsteps, tired after staying up all night.

Chen Shi was flushing water into the urinal when he suddenly turned around.

Huang Dan at the pool was caught on the spot looking at his buttocks, and didn’t even have time to turn away.

His face turned cold, Chen Shi pressed the switch to flush the water, he washed his hands and left without looking at the young man again, as if he stayed for a second longer, he would swing his fist up.

Huang Dan touched his nose, thinking that he was done for.

This person found that he was staring at his ass, and began to repel for a while, as well as entanglement and struggle, and awkwardness, every time.

After six o’clock, a few people came out of the Internet cafe, their faces were full of exhaustion, the skin on their faces was wrinkled, and they felt ten years older after a whole night.

Xia Wei yawned, the beauty is still a beauty, with long hair, her inbuilt flash, “Let’s go to the Town God’s Temple tomorrow morning.”

Lin Mao rubbed his face, “There are a lot of people on National Day, there is nothing interesting to go there except to see people.”

Xia Wei squinted, “Who asked you, Chen Shi, are you going?”

Chen Shi said it depends on the situation.

Xia Wei asked, “By the way, Chen Shi, didn’t you say you came here to visit relatives?”

Chen Shi said he made a mistake, “I originally came to attend the funeral, but my family said that my relative had been rescued and his life would not be in danger for the time being.”

He joked, “I specially brought a black suit to the ceremony, it seems that it will not be useful this time.”

A car drove up, and Huang Dan noticed that Chen Shi’s hands outside were immediately put into his trouser pockets, clenched into fists, and his thin lips were tightly pursed.

He squeezed his fingers and looked away.

Xia Wei asked, “Are you staying a few more days? The vacation is not over yet.”

Chen Shi’s face turned pale, his voice changed, his footsteps were fast, and his figure was slightly chaotic, “Let’s talk about it later.”

Huang Dan didn’t go to sketch last night. A few girls in the studio pulled a college student to be a model. The face of the college student was on it.

Both teachers were relieved.

Xia Wei and Lin Mao also breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that that person will not cause any more sabotage in the future.

That night, Chen Shi appeared in the studio.

The teacher did not arrange sketching, only a few people were practicing drawing, Huang Dan was there, and there was no one missing, including Zhou Jiaojiao and her father.

Chen Shi came here for a casual stroll, he seemed to have a lot of free time.

There is no car horn, no car in sight, and no need to ride in a car. Chen Shi normally makes people difficult to approach. It is a natural sense of oppression and distance. Even if there is always a smile on his lips, it cannot be concealed.

Xia Wei was still thinking about the Town God’s Temple, so she asked Chen Shi if he would go.

Chen Shi agreed.

Xia Wei laughed happily, she smiled so smugly, like a nympho, even Zhou Jiaojiao rolled her eyes when she saw it.

“Shuran, that repeat student really looks more handsome, does he have a girlfriend?”

Huang Dan shook his head, “I don’t know.”

Zhou Jiaojiao’s eyes flicked over the boy’s body, “I guess not, because he doesn’t wear couple jewelry.”

Huang Dan said, “Yes.”

From the beginning to the end, Chen Shi didn’t say a word to Huang Dan, nor did he look at him.

Huang Dan was rejected as a pervert.

He pinches his brows, it’s a bit troublesome, let’s take one step at a time.

The next morning, Lin Mao knocked on Xia Wei’s door, but there was no response. He scratched his hair, “No way, already left?”

Shen Liang walked over, “It’s not even seven o’clock, so should be inside.”

Lin Mao said, “Then what’s going on? Sleep like a dead pig? Impossible, she’s worried about Chen Shi’s matter, she’s going out to play in the morning, she must get up and put on makeup before dawn.”

He crossed his arms and said, “If you want me to say, at this moment she is probably having breakfast with Chen Shi in some breakfast shop.”

A voice came from behind, “Eat a fart early, my stomach is almost growling.”

Chen Shi came over, proving that Xia Wei was not with him.

Now everyone feels strange, what’s going on with Xia Wei? Could it be that she hadn’t recovered from the night before?

Huang Dan had a bad premonition in his heart, he twitched his nose, his face changed slightly, and said without thinking, “Chen Shi, move out of the way.”

Chen Shi frowned, the young man called himself by his name. He didn’t feel surprised, but the tone was very strange, as if they were very familiar, but they had just met, not familiar at all.

Also it is unlikely to change to familiar ever.

Seeing that the boy didn’t move, Huang Dan yelled again, his eyebrows furrowed, “Chen Shi.”

Chen Shi glanced at him and moved away.

Huang Dan squatted down, and leaned his face to the crack of the door, “I smell blood, it’s very strong, it’s inside.”

As soon as he said this, the atmosphere in the corridor changed.

Lin Mao was the first to speak, “Impossible? Where did the smell of blood come from? I didn’t smell it at all. Shen Liang, Chen Shi, did you smell it?”

Chen Shi pulled Huang Dan away, raised his foot and kicked the door.

After a bang, the door slammed into the wall, bounced back a little, and a strong fishy smell rushed out, making people sick.

Chen Shi saw something and he remained motionless and froze in place

Lin Mao grabbed his shoulder and looked in, “What’s the strange smell? It smells so bad. Why don’t you go in? Xiao Wei isn’t here……”

Huang Dan at the back saw Lin Mao take a few steps back and fell to the ground, hitting the back of his head heavily against the wall of the aisle. He kept trembling and screamed like a ghost.

Shen Liang who was next to him also saw it, he went over immediately, and the next moment he showed an expression similar to Lin Mao’s, and staggered back.

Huang Dan found that Shen Liang was biting on the back of his hand, and soon he bled, but unexpectedly he didn’t realize it, and his whole body was in a state of extreme surprise.

He took a few steps forward, stood beside Chen Shi, looked in along the gap, his pupils shrank.

Xia Wei inside fell on her back on the bed, with her head resting on the side of the bed, her long straight hair hanging down to the ground, and a bloody palm print on her face, which was pressed from the front.

Because of the bloody palm print, Xia Wei’s originally youthful and beautiful face became extremely ugly, making people have nightmares when they saw it. Her eyes were staring at the ceiling, and her mouth was slightly opened stiffly, as if to say something.

She died.

When she died, Xia Wei was wearing a nightgown, the original color could not be seen, it was stained brown-black by the dried blood.

Xia Wei is slender, her neck is slender and long, like a swan, as if it will break if you twist it lightly. Her fatal wound was on the neck. There were several blood holes on both sides, and there was also one in the main artery. The blood flowed on the floor from the bed. Yes, a large amount of blood was sprayed on the wall too, and the scene was shocking.

Both Lin Mao and Shen Liang were dumbfounded.

Huang Dan wanted to call the police, but he didn’t have a mobile phone, so he had to shout Chen Shi’s name.

Chen Shi wiped his face and pressed the number with shaking hands.

The police came quickly.

They went into the room to check, and they were sure that Xia Wei ordered a stainless steel eyebrow trimming scissor.

There was only her fingerprint on the handle of the scissor, and the bloody palm prints on her face were left by herself. The doors and windows of the room were closed tightly, and there were no signs of being pried by anyone, and there were no footprints on the floor of anyone else entering.

The police initially determined that the deceased killed herself.