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Chapitre 16

"Tell Leng Xin what happened," the principal said to a student. The student seemed very nervous.

His complexion hadn't recovered yet, and given his thin and small stature, he looked pitiful. He kept wringing his hands together.

Then the principal said, "Don't be nervous, speak slowly." This only made him more nervous. He stood upright before Leng Xin.

He said, as if reciting a memorized text, "Dr. Leng, hello. My name is Liu Qi, and I'm a first-year mathematics student. These two people are..."

Feng Zhengyang and Gong Hao from our class.

Although he was very nervous, his narration was still very clear.

This morning, Liu Qi's class was in session when they overheard Feng Zhengyang and Gong Hao arguing in hushed tones.

Well. At first, they kept their volume down, and only Liu Qi, who was sitting in front of them, could hear their argument. (School)

There are no assigned seats in class; students can sit wherever they want. Generally, students who want to pay attention will sit wherever they like.

Students who wanted to do other things during class sat in the front row, while those in the back sat in the back, and the teacher didn't interfere. Feng Zhengyang and Gong Hao sat...

In the last row, several rows in front were empty. Because Liu Qi arrived late, the seats in front were already full, so...

Fortunately, he sat in the fourth row from the back. He vaguely heard Feng Zhengyang say that Gong Hao "would rather die than turn back," and the argument between the two behind him.

The sounds mingled together, making it impossible to understand what was being said. After a while, the two argued heatedly, their voices gradually growing louder, even the old man...

The master heard it too. Gong Hao said, "You're the one who died, and now you're criticizing me?" Feng Zhengyang sneered repeatedly, "I'm dead?"

"Ridiculous. It's clearly you who's dead." Gong Hao let out three dry laughs, his laughter extremely exaggerated, clearly...

It was all an act. Feng Zhengyang wasn't going to back down either, immediately letting out three cold laughs. The students had already lost all interest in the lesson.

The teacher angrily knocked on the podium: "You two, please go outside and argue, okay? This is a classroom after all!"

Seeing that their teacher was angry, Feng Zhengyang and Gong Hao calmed down a little, glared at each other, and slowly sat down.

This course is very important for mathematics students, and the professor teaches it very engagingly. The students saw...

After the argument ended, everyone focused on the lesson. For the entire class, no one heard the two arguing again. After class, the students...

They all left the classroom one after another. Liu Qi also hurried out, but he hadn't gone far when he realized he had left one of his books behind.

They went back inside to get it. Almost everyone in the classroom had left, except for Feng Zhengyang and Gong Hao. The two of them...

They were all asleep, slumped over the table. Liu Qi woke them up, and they rubbed their eyes and stood up. As soon as they stood up, Liu...

They noticed their pants were completely soaked and asked in surprise, "What happened?" The two looked down and saw...

He looked utterly bewildered, and before he could even speak, the watermark was already spreading upwards along his trouser leg. In the blink of an eye...

It had already reached their waists. The two men looked terrified, gripping the table and shouting, "What happened?!"

"A ghost!" In the time it took to say that, both of their chests were already soaked, water dripping down their sides.

A fishy smell and the scent of seaweed wafted over. Liu Qi felt a little scared and took two steps back. The two men suddenly seemed to breathe very heavily.

He looked distressed, one hand gripping his throat, his mouth agape as he gasped for breath, the other hand raised high above him, his legs trembling uncontrollably.

Even more incredibly, as their legs trembled, wisps of seaweed gradually sprouted from their legs.

Mud slowly seeped from their shoes, and their hands, which were waving in the air, were gradually covered by water plants and mud.

The water quickly reached their heads, and they seemed to be suffocating, their cheeks puffed out, their faces ashen, and their eyes...

He rolled his eyes. Liu Qi was so frightened that he forgot to go out and call for help, staring blankly as they struggled. At that moment, the classroom...

The doors and windows were all closed, but their soaking wet hair flew wildly as if blown by a strong wind. Their faces were constantly...

A large amount of clear water flowed out, and soon a large puddle was soaked under my feet.

After a while, they seemed to have exhausted their strength; their hands no longer rose, becoming limp, yet still bent and raised to shoulder level.

They rose and fell, bobbing up and down as if something were supporting their arms. Their heads were tilted back.

Lying up, his expression gradually became blank, his eyes lost their luster, and his mouth opened and closed suddenly after a long time, like two banks of a river.

The fish. Liu Qi was so nervous that his whole body went limp. He wanted to call for help, but no sound came out when he opened his mouth. Seeing the two...

He was on the verge of collapse; with all his remaining strength, he crawled towards the door, one step at a time, one knee at a time. Fear gripped his entire being.

His consciousness was becoming blurred, but he was only thinking about saving people, which kept him from collapsing. When he reached the door, he instinctively turned back...

Looking up, he saw that both of them had their eyes half-open and were motionless. Tears streamed down his face. He knew very well that the two of them were probably...

He died.

By the time he called for help, the two men were already lying on the ground, soaking wet, and lifeless. But he

They still took the person to the infirmary and immediately notified the principal.

After Liu Qi finished speaking, the principal nodded: "Alright, you can go now. Remember, don't tell anyone what you just said."

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Liu Qi nodded hurriedly and left.

"What do you think?" the principal asked.

Leng Xin was busy examining the body and remained silent. In truth, he didn't know how to answer, because he hadn't yet figured out...

The principal's attitude.

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [26]: The condition of the body is the same as that of Xiao Guang and the others. Leng Xin has done several tests and it is now certain that this is another case from Luoyan Lake.

The lake. But he didn't say it aloud. He turned his gaze to the hospital director: "Their situation is incomprehensible."

"What makes it so incomprehensible?" the dean asked.

"They looked like they had drowned, but according to Liu Qi, they were in the classroom at the time." Leng

He thought to himself.

"So how do you analyze this?" the principal asked.

“I don’t know,” Leng Xin said. “I can’t analyze this situation because, given my limited knowledge, I can’t do it.”

"Medical knowledge can't answer this. Perhaps the hospital director has some ideas?" He still didn't offer any analysis, simply throwing the problem at the director.

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The dean smiled slightly: "Leng Xin, you are the most outstanding medical genius in our school. If it weren't for your father's dying wish to have you..."

If you stay here as a school doctor for three years, you'll probably be abroad by now. Don't tell me you lack medical knowledge; hurry up and learn!

Explain your analysis.

Leng Xin smiled slightly: "In any case, I'm not qualified to be the dean of the medical school, right? So..."

"Regarding such a bizarre death, you, the dean, are the most qualified to speak on this matter."

"Strange?" A smug smile suddenly appeared on the principal's lips. "You think their deaths are strange? For..."

What do you mean by that?

"Damn it!" Leng Xin cursed himself inwardly. He still couldn't outwit this old fox. He stopped speaking, lowered his eyes,

I'm going to make sure this dead fish isn't afraid of boiling water.

The principal waited for a while, then suddenly sighed, seemingly talking to himself, "What's wrong with kids these days?"

"That's how it is. I didn't hide anything from him, yet he completely distrusts me and won't tell me a single truth."

Leng Xin remained silent, head bowed.

The principal turned to the dean and smiled helplessly: "Look, aren't the circumstances surrounding the deaths of these two children quite strange?"

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"Yes," the dean smiled helplessly, "the same way Xiao Guang and Liu Yongze died."

"You and I both believe they drowned, but they both happened to die on the shore. Alas, what do you think?"

As the president of a long-established university, can I publicly declare that "these people all drowned on land"?

The headmaster was still asking the dean.

The dean laughed and said, "Of course you can say that, but I'm afraid no one will believe you. Not only will no one believe you, but you, old man..."

They might even be sent to a mental hospital.

The principal sighed, "You understand me best. But some children don't understand this; they always think I don't..."

He spoke out to cover up the truth. Sigh! He sighed for a full minute.

Leng Xin didn't entirely believe him. However, the principal was a nationally renowned scholar, with an impeccable reputation for both academic excellence and character.

Leng Xin had always held the principal in high esteem, and since he had said so, she felt too embarrassed to remain silent any longer. ("Although he was famous...")

"He's called cold-hearted, but he's actually very soft-hearted"—a heart-to-heart conversation between the principal and the dean.

“They all appear to have drowned.” Leng Xin cleared her throat. “The water in their bodies and the composition of the water from Luoyan Lake…”

The signs were consistent: mud and sand in the mouth, silt under the fingernails, and water plants entangled in the body—typical signs of drowning. Furthermore, the root...

According to Liu Qi, their trouser legs were first soaked, then the water spread to their upper bodies, and when the watermarks reached their chests, he...

They appeared to be having difficulty breathing and raised their hands, which looked very much like they were slowly walking into the water and starting in shallow water.

So initially only their trouser legs got wet, but later, when they reached deeper water, the wet parts moved upwards. As for their hands later...

They were limp and powerless, yet bent and held up to shoulder level; as Liu Qi also said, it looked as if something was supporting them.

If the thing supporting their arms is the buoyancy of the water, then that can be explained. In short, if

If their death scene were changed to Luoyan Lake, their deaths would seem perfectly normal. However, since they died in the church...

Inside the room, this is very strange.

The principal and dean exchanged a smile: "You little rascal, you really are holding back some things from us." Leng Xin hadn't been...

People called him "little guy," but it was two gray-haired "old guys" who said it, so he had no choice but to accept it.