Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

When the raindrops just fall from the sky, they only feel a little cool on the human skin, but if they step into the puddles of stagnant water, they feel the bone-chilling cold.

They are now entering along the main entrance of the academy, which used to be a large vestibule, where ginkgo bilobas were planted, and the yellowed leaves were spread all over the ground on the small black bricks. The stage is silent and silent, and there is a sound in all sounds.

But at this moment, Bailu Academy is like stagnant water under the feet, turning cold foam, and the wind makes an empty whizzing sound from the cracks in the broken bricks.

Everyone standing on the doorstep hesitated, mainly because they didn't know what was waiting for them in the water, and no one entered the water for a while.

"It's really dirty." Meng Chengtian frowned.

Hengsheng smiled slightly and said: "To the young master, this is a sewage flow, but to us servants, it's just a puddle with a little rain." He even took the lead and walked into the pond.

Jia Chen felt a little ashamed, they kept begging to save the people and uphold justice, and they didn't even dare to step in a puddle in front of them, they might as well be a servant of the Meng family.

"Let's go too!" He said, taking a deep breath and stepping into the puddle.

It's really cold, Jia Chen gritted his teeth reflexively, he couldn't help turning his head to look at Mr.

The gentleman still looks like a young man who is about to reach the crown age, with a delicate face and a plain expression, with a small skull on his back, a leaden gray sky behind him, and a dirty pond full of water under his feet, but From Jia Chen's perspective, the husband is neither embarrassed nor flustered, but has a kind of calmness that reaches the poor place.

Beside him is the handsome Meng Chengtian, and the imposing Fu Heng. Mr. is neither handsome nor imposing, but when Mr. stands there, when others look at him, the first person they see is Mr. Wang.

"Sir, wait for us to pass first before you come here." Jia Chen wanted to call out, but he heard a voice in his ear, "Jia Chen, why are you in a daze, come here quickly."

As soon as Jia Chen looked up, he realized that everyone had crossed the shore, only he was still standing in the pond. He hurriedly waded to the opposite auditorium, and a student named Gu Yan whispered, "Did you just go crazy? Why are you standing in stagnant water in a daze?"

"It's nothing, I'm a little distracted." Jia Chen hesitated for a while, he didn't expect that so much time had passed just by looking back.

Fu Hengdao: "Time is urgent. Let's divide into three teams and search from different directions. Jin Yiwei and I will search the lecture hall..."

Zhao Ran raised his hand and said, "Let's search the dormitory area, there are many rooms that we are familiar with."

The place where Lu Tian is most likely to be suppressed is near Shen Fangji's dormitory, Fu Heng nodded and said: "That's fine, then please ask Mr. Meng and his party to search the office area of ​​the supervisors and the imperial library.

Meng Chengtian was wiping his dirty shoes with a brocade handkerchief, and said without raising his head, "My lord, you have the final say."

He dropped the Jinpa and looked at Jiuru with a smile and said, "Sir, be careful."

Zhao Ran gave him a big roll of eyes: "Don't worry about it."

"Really?" Meng Chengtian had something to say, and Hengsheng couldn't help but said: "The situation here is weird, we'd better investigate it earlier, it's better to go out while it's dark."

Fu Heng nodded in agreement and said, "Okay, no matter which team completes the search first, they will gather at the auditorium in front of the vestibule."

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The academy is built on the mountain, so the front is humble and the back is high, with many buildings and buildings. The dormitory is close to the mountain and the terrain is high. The rain has stopped long ago. The further they go, the less water in the academy. After it collapsed, there are still pavilions and pavilions behind, birds singing and flowers singing, it looks like a pure land outside the world at this moment.

The students saw that their usual familiar environment was still intact, and their tense hearts relaxed. Ju Yan said to Jia Chen: "It seems that our academy must have a magic weapon that can restrain this demon tree. Saint, we will definitely find it!"

After the students nodded their heads, Jia Chen turned to look at Jiuru, the little skeleton on his back had come down and was running around, he said, "Evil can never prevail, it has been like this since ancient times."

"Jia Chen!" Suddenly someone shouted, Jia Chen turned his head and saw Gu Yan running over panting, "What are you standing in front of this door looking at?! If I didn't find you missing, you would It's time to fall behind, hurry up!"

Jia Chen suddenly felt a chill on his back, no, no, he obviously only took one look at the little skull, why did he fall behind.

Gu Yan couldn't help but pull him up and ran forward, and sure enough, he ran across the Quqiao, and Jia Chen found that everyone was waiting for him in front of the gate of the dormitory.

"Jia Chen, where did you go?!"

"You are still running around at this time, you are too careless!"

"Yeah, this is too dangerous!"

The students blamed one after another, Jiu Ru said, "Did you find out something just now?"

Jia Chen lowered his head, his forehead was sweating, but he didn't say anything strange about himself. What if these people regard him as a monster?

"I was in a hurry to urinate just now, so I found a place to relieve my hand."

Gu Yan said: "Then you have to tell everyone, this is so worrying."

Jia Chen said guiltily, "I'm sorry, I will pay attention next time."

Jiu Ru then said: "Two people form a team, everyone goes to search separately, first check if there are still people, and if you find anything unusual, speak up immediately."

"Yes." After everyone answered, two or two teams searched along the trail in the dormitory.

Zhaoran turned his head and glanced around, the dormitory area was basically well preserved, only a few old buildings were tilted, could it be that Lu Tian was trapped here, he thought so, but he still went on walking towards Shen Fangji's courtyard .

The sound of their footsteps walked away, Jia Chen resisted not looking back, he was afraid that if he turned around, his own time would be lost again inexplicably.

Gu Yan whispered: "Go back to our courtyard first, I still have some things to take."

Jia Chen nodded distractedly. He followed Ju Yan back to the yard. Gu Yan was not a disciple of Mr. Pu, but his supervisor Mr. Pu was also famous all over the world. It can be said that the love of a wealthy gentry is rare.Therefore, Mr. Pu is also the richest of all the supervisors. Not only do his disciples not need to be filial, but every now and then, as a teacher, he will buy some food for the students.

If Mr. Fan She is the most annoying faculty member of Bailu Academy, then Mr. Pu is the most likable one.

Jia Chen looked up at the sky and sighed in his heart, but he didn't know where this lovely Mr. Pu went now, whether he was killed by the demon tree, and finally became the fruit of the human head tree.

"Found it!" Gu Yan cheered.

Jia Chen lowered his head and saw Ju Yan coming out of the room holding a package like a treasure, and while untying it, Gu Yan said: "This is my husband's handwriting, hey, during this chaos, I don't know if Mr. If you can't escape, if you can't escape, these things will become his relics."

As he spoke, he unfolded a short scroll inside with a bit of sentimentality, on which were written four words: Meditation produces wisdom, iron trees and silver strokes, majestic and majestic, it really is a good word.

But Jia Chen's face gradually turned pale, and he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

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"Sir, this way!" Zhao Ran walked straight towards Shen Fangji's yard. Even if it wasn't for Lu Tian, ​​he had to go back and check the bamboo tube. If he lost half of the token, he would be punished. Stuck in this weird 20 years ago.

He also made up his mind that if Jiu Ru had any doubts, he would tell him all about it, and believed that Jiu Ru would also tell himself all the coefficients he knew.

Maybe that way they can unravel that part of each other that they don't know.

Shen Fangji's courtyard is still the same, with orchids, osmanthus and emerald bamboos in the pavilion, but the part close to the bamboo forest has been removed.

Lu Tian is here!But where has he gone now?

Jiu Ru said: "It seems that there is nothing unusual here, let's go to another yard to have a look."

Zhaoran suppressed the doubts in his heart, and followed Jiuru towards the other yards, when suddenly there was a scream from afar.

"East side!" Zhao Ran said, Jiu Ruyi grabbed his arm a few times and ran to the place where he screamed.

"Killed, killed!" A man ran around and shouted.

Zhao Ran recognized the screaming person. His name was Yan Dan, and he was an old student in the academy. He had been in the academy for several years because he had never been admitted to the Imperial College. He was a bit older, so he was friendly to everyone, including Zhao Ran, this weird little boy who is not very popular with everyone, will smile a few times when he sees him.

"Zi Zhong, who was killed!" someone asked.

Yan Dan pointed to the pavilion in front of him and stammered: "When I was patrolling with Gu Kuan, he said that he felt a little tight in his chest. I saw that his face was a little pale, so I thought he was frightened when he fled, so I let him stay in the pavilion. After a short rest, Gu Kuan said that he was a little hungry. I just remembered that there were some cakes in my room, so I went to get some pastries for him. Who knows, who knows, when I came, I found Gu Kuan's eyes were wide open, and there was a large pool of blood on his back, as if he had been stabbed by someone, and he died of anger."

Clearly said: "Go, look ahead."

Everyone followed him and ran towards the pavilion, but when they got to the pavilion, they didn't see Gu Kuan.

"What about people?"

"That's right, didn't you say that Gu Kuan was killed? Where's his body?"

"It's not far from here to that pavilion. Could it be that the corpse ran with long legs?"

Yan Dan walked around the pavilion several times anxiously, muttering in his mouth all the time: "Impossible, Gu Kuan is really dead. I even touched his nose, but there is no breath at all, and the pulse neck is completely numb. none."

"This demon tree can hurt people, so it's possible that Gu Kuan was poisoned by something, and after death, he would cheat the corpse." Some students speculated anxiously.

In the current situation, people would believe any conjectures, not to mention that Yan Dan just ran out a few dozen steps, and Gu Kuan's body disappeared. There is really no better explanation than the fake corpse.

Who is the murderer?Did Gu Kuan cheat the corpse?

For a while, the scene was silent, and suddenly heard a piercing "squeak", everyone was startled, turned around and found that Jia Chen and Ju Yan came out from the opposite door.

Seeing them, Ju Yan froze for a moment and said, "Why are you all gathered here?"

"Didn't you hear Zizhong shouting to kill?" a student asked back.

Ju Yan was taken aback: "Killed, who was killed?"

"It's Gu Kuan." Jiu Ru asked, "What were you two doing in the room just now?"

"We just went back to the room to get some of our own things. Just now, we heard a vague noise, but we didn't hear it clearly, so we don't know that so many things happened outside." a burden.

Yan Dan said solemnly: "What time is it now, you are still nostalgic for things outside your body, your yard and the Changsheng Pavilion are facing each other, if you are so careful, you will not take the opportunity for the murderer!"

Gu Yan lowered his head, Jia Chen looked a little pale and said: "He came back to get Mr. Pu's handwriting. Mr. Pu's life and death are unknown, so it's good to have this opportunity to bring it."

Yan Dan's face softened a little now, and he respected the teacher, it's better to come back with his husband's handwriting than come back to take property. "

Zhao Ran said: "Apart from Yan Dan, is there anyone who went out alone?"

Everyone else shook their heads, Gu Yan glanced at Jia Chen, but said nothing, but he knew very well that just now when he was rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the house, he planned to take away the rest of his belongings At that time, he really, clearly heard the door knocking outside. Besides Jia Chen, who else in this yard would open the door at that moment?