Chapter 115: [Harboring a Ghostly Secret] Sedan Blocking the Road
[Ding—Congratulations, the number of players has been reached.]
[You are students of Class of 2012 from X University. Many years after graduation, you learned that your classmate Ji Xiaolan is getting married and received her invitation.]
[Because of some things you did in the past, even though the place where Ji Xiaolan is getting married is very remote, you still chose to go.]
[Next, please begin exploring the storyline—]
Xu Shengsheng looked at Bai Cha and whispered, “I’ve already graduated from university? Does that mean I don’t have to do ‘Five-Three’ anymore?”
Bai Cha patted her shoulder heavily.
“You learn until you’re old! No one says you can’t do ‘Five-Three’ after graduating from university!”
Xu Shengsheng: QAQ.
She retreated to the side, feeling withdrawn.
Bai Cha had already started checking the contents of her backpack. There were two sets of spare clothes, a set of disposable toothbrush and toiletries, a bag of compressed biscuits, a bottle of water, a mobile phone, and a photograph.
To be honest, the system’s prompt was hard not to associate with something like a class collectively bullying a student and then feeling guilty.
However, it wasn’t new for the system to play with words.
Bai Cha took out the photograph.
It was a graduation photo.
The Class of 2012 Archaeology Department of X University group photo.
There were eleven people in the photo in total, and Bai Cha’s and the others’ faces had been placed in it.
Many players had also found this photo and were looking up to compare faces with each other.
Only then did Xu Shengsheng realize there were things in her backpack, and she quickly took them out.
The players’ faces were easy to compare, and soon everyone found the two people in it who didn’t belong to the players, one male and one female.
Unsurprisingly, the female should be Ji Xiaolan, with a very delicate appearance and a sweet smile.
The male was uncertain for the time being.
However, given that there was indeed a groom in the dream, it was possible that he was the male, but the groom in the dream looked like a monster.
Everyone continued to rummage through the things in their bags. Besides the photo, there was only one wedding invitation left.
The invitation was of somewhat poor quality and wasn’t written like a typical wedding invitation.
This invitation read:
Lan Mountain welcomes your arrival: Please be sure to come and attend Ji Xiaolan’s wedding on September 1st, 2022.
That was about it for the items. The rest might be in the phone.
The bus was moving slowly. It was very dark all around, and it was impossible to see what was outside.
The journey might be a good time for them to explore their identities, so no one spoke.
Xu Shengsheng watched Bai Cha flip through her phone, blinked, and also opened her own phone.
Bai Cha directly put her phone next to her and taught her how to quickly check personal information.
Xu Shengsheng understood at a glance.
She was actually very smart, but just as her skill indicated, she was very careless and often absent-minded.
Because of her forgetfulness, she was scolded by her aunt every day.
Both of their information was very simple.
Bai Cha’s identity was Chen Shuya, born on May 21, 1994, a local of X City who attended a nearby university.
Although she studied archaeology, she switched to accounting for her postgraduate studies and now worked as an accountant in a large company, earning 8,000 yuan a month. She had a boyfriend and was already engaged, pretty much a winner in the secular sense.
Xu Shengsheng’s identity was An Yixiang, born on March 2, 1995, from G City, who came to X City from another province for university.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree, she successfully passed the civil service exam and entered a system-affiliated job related to archaeology in X City.
Her current monthly salary was 4,000 yuan, and it had been around this price for a long time, very stable. She had a boyfriend of three years, but they had just broken up.
The currently seventeen-year-old Xu Shengsheng counted on her fingers and realized that she had aged exactly ten years.
The players also had a common group chat.
However, no one had chatted in the group for a very, very long time.
The latest message was from a week ago, when a person named Gao Wei first sent a photo. The photo was of the wedding invitation.
Gao Wei: Did you guys receive the invitation? Are you going?
No one in the group replied at the time, until someone else sent a photo.
Only then did everyone successively indicate that they had all received it.
Then the group was silent again for a long time.
Bai Cha saw her identity and sent a message.
Chen Shuya: I’m planning to go anyway.
Gao Wei: Sigh, go then, all of you go.
Some others responded with a sound, while others remained silent.
But indeed, everyone had come.
After all, there weren’t that many people in one class.
Or perhaps there weren’t that many people in one department.
The Archaeology Department of X University wasn’t particularly outstanding, let alone the fact that archaeology as a major was extremely unpopular in 2012.
Otherwise, Chen Shuya wouldn’t have switched majors for her postgraduate studies.
Bai Cha flipped through the photo album again. Chen Shuya’s album had many landscape photos, apparently taken during company trips organized every so often.
Apart from that, there didn’t seem to be anything else. This phone seemed to be new.
Bai Cha clicked on the phone’s account, trying to see if she could synchronize some information through the cloud. But the network signal was very poor, so the speed was very slow, and she could only put it in the background for now.
She asked Xu Shengsheng to synchronize as well and also looked at the most frequently used apps.
It was a short video app. After opening it, the personal account also shared many travel and food videos.
There was still nothing personal, no selfies or other photos of herself.
However, in the reflection on a stainless steel spoon in one of the food pictures, the photographer’s appearance was visible.
Although she was holding her phone, blocking more than half of her face, you could still make out that she was a very pretty woman if you looked closely.
While she was searching and exploring on her phone, a player spoke.
“Um, I’m Gao Wei, what about you guys? Let’s introduce ourselves?”
The speaker was a somewhat fat man, but his height should have been 180 cm, so he appeared very tall.
“I’m a primary school teacher now,” he directly revealed his character’s identity.
After all, they had to explore the storyline together. Although they would be wary of each other. After all, there was no guarantee that during the exploration process, there wouldn’t be any plot developments unfavorable to someone, and someone might hide things.
But now at the beginning, it shouldn’t be the case.
After he spoke, many people followed suit and introduced themselves.
Of course, these were all the names within the game.
Xu Shengsheng seemed thoughtful, realizing something, and sent a message to Bai Cha on her phone: Shouldn’t we not let others know our real names in this kind of instance?
Bai Cha: Not really… It’s just better to be cautious. Sometimes knowing your name is enough for others to harm you.
Xu Shengsheng looked like she had learned something new.
Everyone matched the information, and Bai Cha memorized everyone’s faces and names.
At this point, the time the game allowed players to discuss and explore personal information seemed to have come to an end.
Because the bus suddenly braked hard.
There were no seat belts on this old bus, and everyone instinctively leaned forward.
After sitting up straight, they naturally looked up ahead.
On the dark highway where the road ahead was completely invisible, a bridal sedan chair was stopped.
A gust of wind blew through the curtains of the sedan chair, slightly lifting them.
The bus headlights shone on the sedan chair, but everything else was in shadow.
A player couldn’t help but gasp.
This…
As everyone knew, the three classic elements of domestic horror were brides, paper figures, and old houses.
These three could extend into all sorts of rumors.
And this thing blocking the road…
