Südliche rote Bohnen

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Jiang Shichao, whose face was flushed red from being pinched, was already laughing so hard he could hardly breathe: "Sorry, I just thought you were too nervous."

"Let me give you a break, haha! Who told you not to trust your brother? Hahaha!" Lin Ding was so embarrassed and angry by the laughter that he threatened...

Saying that you want to do this

He only stopped after the secret was revealed.

Although he pretended to be annoyed, Lin Ding was actually very grateful to him. After this commotion, he felt relieved.

Many people say: Even if someone has a mental illness, it's not a big deal. If you're sick, get treatment! Medicine is so advanced these days! He...

Smiling at the night sky. Suddenly remembering something, she quickly asked, "You just said you believe you're not hallucinating, is that true?"

Is it fake?

Jiang Shichao sighed: "A-Ding, I've already shown you this mark, can't you figure out why?"

"What?"

Lin Ding thought for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Oh..."

Jiang Shichao nodded in agreement. He knew Lin Ding had already guessed: "Just this afternoon, because of the surrounding..."

With no one around, you wondered why the campus was so quiet, so I took the opportunity to carve my height on a tree again.

Now that the traces are still there, it proves that the situation of being alone in the surrounding area did indeed occur.

Lin Ding agreed with his statement.

If it's an illusion, then the act of carving the marks should also be an illusion, leaving no real traces.

However, since it was not a hallucination, the problem became very serious: what exactly was going on?

Jiang Shichao said, "I don't know what happened, but based on the information we have so far, it's clearly impossible to explain it using common sense."

To explain the phenomena we observe, we should, of course, gather more information to arrive at a correct conclusion.

The incident occurred on Wutong Avenue, but nothing is currently visible at the scene. The sound of ping-pong balls could be heard coming from inside the stadium at the time.

Perhaps there will be some clues inside the stadium.

The gymnasium was packed with people at all its facilities. The table tennis room was on the third floor, a large activity room with two...

Ten pool tables. Seven or eight people surrounded each table, the small silver balls flying back and forth, producing a crisp "ping-pong" sound.

A chorus of voices rose and fell. Seeing Jiang Shichao enter, many people immediately greeted him and invited him to play a game. Shichao smiled.

He refused. He searched carefully around and saw Cheng Bin. Cheng Bin was fighting fiercely with a girl. The girl...

The boy seemed to be a master; Cheng Bin repeatedly missed, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He had clearly seen Jiang Lin and his companion.

They were too busy fighting to say hello.

Jiang Shichao and Lin Ding stood by Cheng Bin's pool table. Only after Cheng Bin finally won 21-19 did they call him over.

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---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [6]: Cheng Bin was very happy to see them: "You're alright? You scared me to death. What happened?"

Jiang Shichao smiled and said, "Low blood sugar, it's nothing. Cheng Bin, where were you before 2:30 this afternoon?"

“I’m on Wutong Avenue, what’s wrong? Has a murder occurred? Are you interrogating me?” he laughed.

Lin Ding punched him: "Nonsense! We have a secret plan. You tell me what it will be like between 2 and 3 pm today."

What you see and hear will be beneficial later!

Cheng Bin asked suspiciously, "What secret plan? I won't say anything unless you tell me!" He adopted the posture of a revolutionary martyr.

He even smoothed his hair back. Lin Ding was both annoyed and amused, and was about to argue with him when Shi Chao pulled him aside.

He said, "Never mind then," and turned to walk towards the door. Cheng Bin panicked and chased after him, saying, "Alright, I'll talk. But..."

There's really nothing special about it.

According to Cheng Bin, this afternoon he was reading on Wutong Avenue as usual, surrounded by people coming and going. Then, at 2 o'clock...

Half an hour later, he saw Shih-Chao and Lin-Ding, and came up to greet them. The two of them turned deathly pale, as if they'd seen a ghost, and fainted.

They collapsed. He then took them to the infirmary, waited for two hours, and when they still hadn't woken up, he went to the reading room himself.

They don't come to play until around 7 o'clock.

It was a very ordinary experience.

This happened on October 15th.

For the next few days, Jiang Shichao and Lin Ding were busy investigating the matter, but they found no clues whatsoever.

Everyone said that afternoon was as lively as usual. Until Jiang Shichao and Lin Ding finally gave up and prepared to treat it all as...

Just as a nightmare faded from memory, something shocking happened on campus that stunned all the teachers and students.

On October 18th, the university-wide football final was held between the Advertising Department and the Computer Science Department. The two teams were evenly matched, displaying excellent footwork.

Most importantly, Xiao Guang, the star forward of the Advertising Department, and Liu Yongze, the star guard of the Computer Science Department, are the most popular guys on campus.

Yun, a talented individual, not only plays football exceptionally well but is also the student council's vice-minister of sports. Plus, he's tall and handsome, and in the [number missing] [year missing]...

The Third Normal School was extremely popular. A dense crowd of spectators lined the football field, all there to catch a glimpse of their talent. (Jiang Shi)

Chao and Lin Ding happened to be free from class (even if they had class, they would skip it), and they also squeezed into the crowd to watch the game.

Jiang Shichao was short, and when someone jostled him, he could barely see anything. However, Xiao Guang had helped him before, so...

He absolutely couldn't miss this game. Luckily, there was a big tree by the field, and he immediately climbed it. Just as he reached the branch...

As soon as he settled in, he saw a pair of green eyes staring at him from among the leaves. Startled, he almost fell off the tree. He looked closely...

Look, it's Zhao Xuejun's black cat; the bandage on its tail is still on. The cat doesn't seem hostile; it glanced at him twice.

She just kept lying there and ignored him.

"Pah!" he sighed, annoyed by the bad luck, and then focused intently on the game.

The match was indeed exciting, with both sides attacking and defending back and forth, and after more than 40 minutes, there was still no goal.

At the start of the second half, Xiao Guang dribbled past his marker and quickly approached the opponent's penalty area. Liu Yongze then single-handedly...

The interception was crucial. This was the first one-on-one face-to-face encounter between the two since the start of the game, sending the entire arena into a frenzy, with fans from both sides cheering.

Don't call out your idol's name; even the players on both sides were caught up in the atmosphere and temporarily stopped what they were doing.

Everyone watched the duel intently. Jiang Shichao also waved his fists and shouted Xiao Guang's name loudly, then he heard something under the tree.

A female voice roared, "Liu Yongze will win!!" He couldn't help but look down sharply, just as the girl was doing the same.

An unfriendly gaze fell upon them, and both were momentarily stunned upon seeing each other: it was Zhao Xuejun. There was no time for further words, only...

They glared at each other, then turned their attention back to the court.

The two players on the field truly lived up to their reputation as star players; the ball darted around their feet, preventing Xiao Guang from making any further runs, and Liu Yong...

Ze couldn't force him back. At this extremely tense moment, the two suddenly took a few steps back simultaneously, their faces showing extreme...

The people present, still expecting a decisive battle, were taken aback by the astonished expressions on their faces. They stood upright, completely bewildered.

It fell backward.

There was a brief moment of utter silence; people were still processing what had just happened. After a short while...

The players on the field quickly surrounded them. Jiang Shichao, seeing them from the tree, first checked their pulses, then began to...

They performed CPR and cardiac arrest, and several people frantically made phone calls, seemingly calling an ambulance. The audience, unaware of the situation...

Moreover, a huge murmur arose from the sidelines. Seeing the situation was dire and worried about Xiao Guang's safety, Jiang Shichao quickly jumped down from the tree and headed towards...

The two players sprinted off. As soon as they started running, the spectators all joined in. Soon, with the two players at the center, the crowd...

The groups became densely packed.

Everyone was shocked by what they saw.

Both players were soaking wet.

Playing football is a very physically demanding activity, so it's normal for players to be soaked in sweat. However...

Xiao Guang and Liu Yongze were clearly not soaked with sweat. They were only that wet from falling into water.

The two men were pale, their mouths agape, their bodies stiff, and their breathing and heartbeats had stopped.

Leng Xin pushed through the crowd, glanced at him, checked his pulse, and shook his head: "Dead!" He turned him over...

Looking down at the two bodies, he frowned and said, "They've been dead for at least two hours, and judging from the symptoms, it seems..."

Drowned.

Everyone thought this claim was absurd: they were playing basketball energetically just minutes before, how could this be...

They could have been dead for two hours? And there wasn't even a small puddle on the field, how could two people have drowned?

But everyone at the scene felt that the cold-hearted words were indeed true; the corpse was so stiff, so soaking wet.

The corpse...

Everyone felt a strange sense of unease.

The faces of the two handsome young men, now dead, were no longer beautiful; they retained the shocked expressions of their dying moments, as if asking, "Why..."

What? We're just going to die like this?

Yes, why? Who can answer that?

---Magpie Bridge Fairy