He Ruo was a good boy, according to Professor Ma. However, Yibei thought he was the closest in terms of personality to Shui.
He was famous in campus for all the wrong reasons – all girls who were targeted by him will almost certainly not escape him.
Of course, Shui allegedly treats every woman he’s with as if they were husband and wife, but He Ruo is a certified scumbag according to the girls he’s been with.
However, now, he is dead, and his story will simply dissolve into irrelevance.
As soon as the bell rang, Professor Ma hurriedly left the classroom, as if he were more excited that class was over than his students.
Seeing Professor Ma’s actions, Lu Yibei followed him knowingly.
He briefly asked his professor about He Ruo, but he simply shook his head.
He originally wanted to tell him about the contents of the bamboo scrolls, but with a man of integrity like Professor Ma, perhaps it was for the best that he didn’t reveal that the scrolls were really just a diary filled with swearing.
They soon saw an area cordoned off in the Faculty of Arts, with yellow warning tape blocking their way.
Professor Ma and Lu Yibei looked away from the place where He Ruo was killed, looked at each other, and shook their heads helplessly.
Although they felt bad about He Ruo’s death, they had more important matters to attend to.
Just as they left, a girl appeared from the stairwell leading to the corridor. Her face was stained red from tears, and she hurried to the scene where He Ruo had died.
Soon, her heart-piercing cries echoed down the corridor.
“N-no! I was joking when I said he should go kill himself. I didn’t mean it.”
The sudden appearance of the girl and her weird behaviour stunned even the policemen beside the tape for a while.
It was almost certain that He Ruo was killed by an urban legend, but now that this girl has appeared, could it be that she herself was the urban legend who killed him?
Seeing the girl slumped on the ground and crying, Professor Ma froze for a moment, frowned, and walked towards the utility room where He Ruo was killed.
“Come!” Professor Ma patted Yibei’s shoulder. “Let’s have a look.”
He didn’t expect Professor Ma to be into gossip like this. Forget it; just watch from the sidelines and observe.
Like many onlookers, the two stopped a few metres away from the warning zone and watched from afar. At this moment, they roughly understood what happened from the gossip of the people around them.
He Ruo’s body was discovered by the janitors early in the morning, and the janitor could smell a faint, rotting stench in the corridor.
A few days ago, another professor suspected that the lab was infested with rats, hence the rotting smell.
When he opened the utility closet, his soul almost jumped out of his body.
The police arrived quickly, surveyed the scene, and transported the body away. It is said that the body was carried away using buckets instead of a stretcher.
His body had rotted into a puddle of black mucus, but his head remained intact as if he had avoided dying.
His skin was still pristine, but his eyes were wide open, and his pupils lacked life within them. His mouth was agape, and his cheekbones shrank.
It was as if he saw something terrifying and died.
His roommate saw him the afternoon before, and they were just attending class together that very day.
“Professor, he attended your class a while ago, and he brought in a beautiful girl, remember?”
“No.”
“That’s fine. It was when you were worried about Lu Xu’s situation.”
Hearing this, Professor Ma was slightly taken aback and then said repeatedly, “Don’t talk about it. Don’t talk about it. It’s not good to talk about people behind their backs.”
Regarding He Ruo’s death, his cause of death was agreed upon, but his time of death was still largely up in the air.
Some say it happened last night.
Some people said that he had encountered some urban legend, and he was turned into a living dead. It was not until yesterday that his body could no longer maintain the shape of a human body, so he found a place and turned it into a puddle of black mucus.
These theories made Professor Ma a little scared.
The thought of a student who may have been dead for weeks once sitting in his class gave him chills.
On the other hand, Lu Yibei didn’t care too much about when He Ruo was killed. Just knowing that someone died tragically in front of him made him feel uncomfortable.
“We should leave. Aren’t you still worried about the bamboo scrolls?”
His eyes were burning; he was afraid that if he got any closer, he would see how He Ruo would’ve died.
However, Lu Yibei didn’t want to see him!
According to what Professor Ma said, He Ruo’s death is probably related to the bamboo scrolls, so why don’t we just investigate the bamboo scrolls?
‘I’ve already seen too many scary things!’
“Yeah, let’s go.”
Seems that Professor Ma had the same idea.
However, just as the two were about to leave, the crying girl seemed to calm down a little and blurted out an important message, causing an uproar among the onlookers.
“I-I dragged him here and locked him up in here last night!”
The policeman closest to the girl was stunned and asked, “What? What do you mean?”
“I-I wanted to teach him a lesson!” The girl cried out. “He kept pestering me in class, so I lured him here and locked him up in here, but… I didn’t want to kill him! I didn’t know this would happen!”
The policemen nodded amongst themselves knowingly before handcuffing her. They needed to interrogate her back at the station.
However, just as the girl was about to be dragged away, a group of men in black appeared down the corridor.
Lu Yibei frowned slightly. The man leading the men in black was none other than Li Xuan.
Li Xuan stood in front of the policemen, and the policemen were shocked.
“You’re…”
Li Xuan simply smiled and said, “Leave this to us.”
The policemen led the girl away, and the crowd dissipated with the policemen’s orders.
At this moment, Li Xuan glanced at Lu Yibei, who was in the crowd, from the corner of his eye, and he couldn’t help but smile and walk over.
“You’re here too?” Li Xuan smiled knowingly.
