Relocation Brigade

Poker bridging refers to opposing the tops of two cards to form an A-shaped triangular prism, the distance between each two triangular prisms is equal, and a poker is placed horizontally on top of it as a second layer of bedding.

The second layer, the third layer, the fourth layer... and so on, and each layer will reduce a certain amount of triangular columns compared with the previous layer.

After all, the bridge built by playing cards lacks some stability. When the stack reaches a certain height, the poker bridge will collapse.

Before the collapse, the last person to place the poker bridge became the loser of the game.

Chen Ling played this kind of game countless times when he was a child, and lost countless times.

It's just that he couldn't figure out why the students in Class [-] would play this, just play it, and even pee their pants in fright.

Afraid of being exposed, Chen Ling didn't dare to speak, and quickly clicked on the screen with his fingertips:

[Who was the last unlucky one?I forgot. 】

The other end replied: "It's Sun Liping from our class. That kid hasn't come to school yet. I wonder if he was scared and sent to a mental hospital."

Chen Ling wrote down the name, and asked a digression: [Cheng Le on the first floor really scared to pee last night? 】

The other side replied: "Is it interesting to lie to you? Cheng Le was so scared that he didn't sleep last night. He woke up this morning with dark circles, like a ghost. Just now he wanted to ask the teacher for leave to go home, but the teacher refused."

Chen Ling: [Why not let me? 】

The other party said: "The fact that Sun Liping did not come has had a very bad effect. His parents even came to the school and asked if the child was bullied at school. Later, I don't know what the principal said to the parents. Anyway, they left. Time to be happy."

After speaking, I felt that something was wrong, and the other end sent another voice: "Why don't you know anything? Are you from our grade?"

Chen Ling stopped talking and quit the post bar.

From the series of conversations just now, it can be determined that these students are playing a poker bridge game, and whoever loses will be unlucky.

It's not a masochist, it's impossible to rush to play such an evil game.

The only possibility is that they were forced to play.

Remembering that Zhou Yuanxin had played in the past in the private message, Chen Ling frowned, suspecting that this matter might have something to do with Zhou Yuanxin.He got up from his chair and found that Jiang Yu and his master had gone fishing in the fish pond in the next village, so he took Wu Weiwei to Rongshen Middle School again.

They still went over the wall from the last way.

It's just that without Jiang Yu's little wall-climbing expert, the two of them climbed the wall in disgrace, very embarrassed, and almost fell when they jumped down.

It's class time now, Chen Ling found Class [-] classroom.

Most of the students in the classroom were engrossed in their homework, while a few were absent-minded, and Ji Nan belonged to the latter.

Chen Ling took out a piece of toilet paper from his pocket, squeezed it tightly into a ball, and threw it towards the back of Ji Nan's head while the teacher who was doing self-study lowered his head to write the lesson plan.

Ji Nan covered his head and turned around, seeing the person standing by the open back door, he was stunned for a moment.

Chen Ling mouthed "Come out" to him, and quickly moved away.

Ji Nan sat on the seat, hesitating a little.

Seeing that he wanted to raise his hand but didn't dare, the deskmate was very annoyed, clicked his tongue, and called out for him: "Teacher, Ji Nan is going to pull his pants, and I want to ask you for leave."

There was roaring laughter in the classroom, and a few whistled exaggeratedly.

Ji Nan blushed with anger, "I didn't..."

The self-study class teacher glanced up at him, then turned to look at other people, and suddenly patted the podium hard: "Quiet!" She adjusted her glasses and said to Ji Nan, "Go."

Ji Nan just took out some toilet paper from the desk and pretended that he really had to go to the bathroom.

Chen Ling and Wu Weiwei stood waiting for him at the corner of the corridor, and when they saw him come out, they quickly waved for him to come over.

Ji Nan squeezed the toilet paper nervously, and asked in a low voice, "Do you have anything to do with me?"

"Do you know the poker bridge game?" Chen Ling asked bluntly, "Is this game randomly selected people to play, or is it a designated number of people to play?"

"How do you know..." Ji Nan was stunned.

Chen Ling said: "Listen to this tone, you already knew?"

Ji Nan hummed, lowered his head, and unconsciously picked his fingernails.

Chen Ling looked around. Although there were no students in the corridor during class hours, there were occasional teachers passing by. It was not safe after all.

He still has some plans, and he can't let his face be exposed now.

"When do you finish class?"

Ji Nan raised his wrist and glanced at the electronic watch, and said, "There are still 10 minutes."

Chen Ling: "At this point in time, where is the least likely place for people to go?"

"Sports warehouse." Ji Nan said.

"Then let's go there." After Chen Ling finished speaking, he dragged Ji Nan away.

The sports warehouse is next to the playground, but it can be directly passed through a path behind the high school.

The warehouse is full of large and small sports equipment and cushions, and the dust is flying in the light beams cast from the roof, which is a bit suffocating.

Chen Ling rubbed the tip of his nose, and the itchy nasal cavity was relieved a little.

He took Ji Nan to a pile of boxes, sat down cross-legged, and cut to the chase: "Can you tell me more about the poker bridge?"

Ji Nan still looked evasive and nervous.

Chen Ling: "I guess, this matter may be related to Zhou Yuanxin, and there are not only two or three players involved in the game, there should be many people."

Ji Nan raised his head abruptly, staring blankly at Chen Ling: "How much do you know?"

"Not much, I just know that Cheng Le from Class [-] was recruited last night, and when it was his turn to play cards, the poker bridge collapsed." Chen Ling pulled them down and sat on the ground together.

Wu Weiwei kept in line with the two and also crossed their legs.

Ji Nan took a deep breath, and suddenly stopped picking his fingers, his tense back seemed to have been pulled out of the spine, and he bent down weakly.

"You're right. There are many people participating in the poker bridge game. We have Class Nine, Class Five, Class One, Class Two, Class Three... let's say there are at least a dozen people, and there may be more in the future."

His eyes were focused on the ground, and his voice was light and ethereal, "On the second week after Zhou Yuanxin's death, red crosses began to appear on his desk. At first everyone thought it was someone playing a prank, so they put a camera in the desk. As a result, When they came to the classroom the next day, they found that the camera could not capture anything during the period from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-], only black and white snowflakes."

"And on the table, there is another red fork."

"Even at that time, everyone still didn't think about being haunted, and that night, two students were left in the classroom, and they wanted to catch the prankster."

Wu Weiwei was a little nervous when he heard that, "Did you catch it?"

"No." Ji Nan said, "No one has entered the classroom at all. When the two of them walked into the classroom after [-]:[-], they found a newly written fork on Zhou Yuanxin's desk. It was so new. If you rub it, it will leave marks on your hands."

"What is it written in?" Chen Ling asked.

Ji Nan's face turned pale, his lips trembled a few times, and he tried to squeeze out a word from his throat: "Blood."

He emphasized again: "Someone took the blood out and got a relationship test. It's human blood."

Chen Ling and Wu Weiwei looked at each other and asked, "And then? Where is that desk? What does this have to do with Poker Bridge?"

"Zhou Yuanxin has only one friend at school, and everyone else ignores him, because he always keeps his head down, submissive, and even speaks in a low voice. Gradually, the school began to spread rumors that he is gay and sissy. Since then, Zhou Yuanxin became more silent, and the surroundings became more and more malicious towards him. Later, the rumors intensified, and the label attached to Zhou Yuanxin was not only homosexual, but also promiscuous."

Ji Nan clenched the trousers on his knees, his shoulders trembled slightly.

He took a deep breath, raised his head and said, "They started throwing things at him, scolding him, and often threw his desk directly from upstairs. Sometimes they broke it, and they told the teacher that Zhou Yuanxin put it on himself. The table was broken."

"Zhou Yuanxin has almost no money on him, and I have borrowed money from him three times to pay for the desk. Probably because he has no friends, he often sits on his seat and builds a poker bridge during recess or after the physical education class is dismissed. Half of it was deliberately broken up..."

"Didn't he tell the teacher about these things?" Chen Ling became more and more annoyed as he heard this, and clenched his fists tightly.

He didn't understand, where did these people get so much malice at such a young age.

"It's useless..." Ji Nan was taken aback by the expression on the young man's face, and whispered, "Zhou Yuanxin's father once received a call from the teacher, and he even went to the principal's office. I thought someone would finally support Zhou Yuanxin, As a result, after his stepfather left, everyone bullied him as before."

"That's not his father, it's his stepfather."

Chen Ling suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Have you ever seen any injuries on Zhou Yuanxin?"

"I've seen that every time Zhou Yuanxin comes back from her monthly vacation, she will have new bruises on her body..."

Chen Ling was so angry that he wanted to curse, Tao Zhiyong is such a beast.

Now he seriously suspects that Tao Zhiyong's purpose of coming to school is not to protect his stepson at all, but the purpose is just the opposite!

Wu Weiwei's emotions were even more exposed, and he said directly: "It must have been abused by Tao Zhiyong! Damn it, I should rush up and kick my feet last night!"

Ji Nan obviously didn't expect that there was such a hidden secret in it. His lips moved a few times, and his voice was dry: "No wonder he always eats steamed buns at school. Could it be that his stepfather doesn't want to give him money?"

He paused, remembering that Zhou Yuanxin should have biological parents, "What about his biological father and mother?"

"His father passed away a long time ago." Wu Weiwei spat, remembering what Zhou's mother looked like, "His mother doesn't exist."

Chen Ling propped his forehead, took a few breaths, and suppressed the anger rushing in his chest.

"Go on, let's talk about what happened before Zhou Yuanxin died."

"Two days before Zhou Yuanxin committed suicide, he was doused with water and locked in the basement. The basement is next to the small abandoned playground of the school, and few people go there. I actually knew he was in it...but those people warned Me, let me not meddle in my own business, or beat me up."

Ji Nan also helped Zhou Yuanxin at the beginning, but after being taught a few times in succession, his fragile kindness was completely curtailed.

It's not that he doesn't want to help, it's just that the pain and cowardice in the past made him dare not take a step forward, and he dared not reach out to pull his former friend from the ground.

Ji Nan's face didn't change much, but the sad emotion in his eyes was already surging to the point of overflowing.

Chen Ling waited patiently for him to recover.

After about two to three minutes, Ji Nan spoke again: "Zhou Yuanxin was rescued by the cleaning staff the next day. At that time, the school was on a monthly holiday, and everyone had already gone back. I felt uneasy and ran away early in the morning. I went back to school to check once and found the basement door was open."

He thought that the matter was over, but he never thought that when he returned from his monthly vacation, he would see Zhou Yuanxin hanged in the woods.

Chen Ling suddenly said, "Why did he choose that position?"

"Zhou Yuanxin is often called to the wall of the woods, sometimes called to be scolded, sometimes beaten. I think he wants them to witness his own death, so that they will always remember that they are burdened with a Human life is to scare the murderer..."

These are all Ji Nan's guesses. Only Zhou Yuanxin knows what he thinks.

"Ji Nan." Chen Ling stretched out his hand to hold his shoulder, and leaned over with his body, "Do you believe that Zhou Yuanxin committed suicide?"

Ji Nan was stunned, he never thought of another possibility.

"Is not it?"

"No one has seen Zhou Yuanxin hang himself, and no one can explain how he put his neck into the rope hanging on the branch without the help of external force."

Ji Nan's face turned pale, "But the suicide note, he left me a suicide note..."

"I have a different opinion from you. I don't think it's a suicide note, but Zhou Yuanxin simply wants to leave this violent school with you."

Chen Ling turned Ji Nan's body and faced him, "If campus violence is not effectively curbed, it will only intensify. When a victim of violence disappears, they will only go to find the next one after a short pause. target of violence."

And these targets are often weak and bully people who dare not resist.

These words seemed to bring back some of Ji Nan's memories, his pupils shrank, and goosebumps appeared all over his body.

Chen Ling looked into his eyes and asked, "Did they bully you?"

Ji Nan raised his head stiffly, nodded, and shook his head again.

He swallowed a few times, his voice tightened: "After confirming that the red cross was not a prank, they began to suspect that Zhou Yuanxin came back for revenge, but no one dared to move that desk away."

Wu Weiwei: "They let you go?"

"Yeah." Ji Nan said, "I was actually a little scared and didn't want to go, but I was slapped in the end."

Ji Nan's home is in good condition, loved by his parents, and has never been slapped.

That day was the first time, but not the last.

Because he used to be Zhou Yuanxin's friend, Ji Nan was forced to buy incense paper money for everyone and burn it back. He was forced to go to the classroom in the middle of the night to intercede for all those who bullied Zhou Yuanxin.

"Wait." Chen Ling interrupted, "You made all those dark burning marks in the classroom by yourself?"

"Not exactly, someone else burned it too..." Ji Nan came to his senses and widened his eyes in surprise, "How do you know?!"

Chen Ling said frankly: "I saw you burning paper in class. As for why you saw it, don't ask, and I won't tell you."

Wu Weiwei: "..."

"...Okay." Ji Nan really stopped asking, and continued, "Actually, there are some kind-hearted students in the class. They feel guilty that they didn't help, so they secretly go to the classroom to burn papers in the middle of the night to repent. I hope Zhou Yuanxin If you can have a good pregnancy early, you won’t be bullied again in the future.”

"By the way, where did you move the table?" After Chen Ling asked, he stood up on his knees.

The students on the playground are gathering, heralding the end of physical education class, and they will soon be moving in equipment.

"It's in the basement where he was locked up before." Ji Nan laughed suddenly after speaking, with a joy that only he could understand.

"After the desk was put in, Cheng Le, who initially bullied Zhou Yuanxin, found a pack of playing cards in his desk..."

The playing cards were very old and worn, some of the edges were sanded down.

Cheng Le didn't think too much about it at the time, and directly threw the poker into the trash can.

The next day, he came to study in the morning, and he found the deck of playing cards in the desk again.

Whether it was burned, lost, or shredded to flush the toilet, Cheng Le would find an identical deck of playing cards in his desk early the next morning.

Cheng Le knew that he was haunted by ghosts, but he couldn't get out of the campus, and every time he got the leave slip from the teacher, it would disappear.

He also tried to ask his parents for help by phone, but as soon as the phone was connected, there was a weird rattling sound from the receiver.

It's like coming out of a choked throat, hehehehehehehe needs to open his mouth very hard to make a sound.

Cheng Le is not stupid. After he guessed that the poker cards were the ghost's revenge tool, he built a poker bridge one by one according to the way Zhou Yuanxin played when he was still alive.

But the poker seemed to be against him specially. Whenever he built the first layer, the poker bridge collapsed.

Cheng Le was scared to death, but his mind was as bad as before.

He dragged several people who had bullied Zhou Yuanxin together into the pit, and pretended that it was just an ordinary game that required everyone's cooperation when they didn't know the origin of the playing cards.

"The first person to lose isn't Cheng Le." Chen Ling said firmly, otherwise Cheng Le wouldn't be so frightened after losing the game this time.

"No, it's Cheng Le's good buddy, Fang Hexi." Ji Nan said with a sneer, "He got up that night to go to the bathroom, went straight out of the window on the second floor, broke his leg, and is still lying in the hospital. "

Wu Weiwei groaned, "Why did you go out through the window and fell asleep?"

Chen Ling reminded: "Ghosts cover your eyes."

Ji Nan looked over and said in surprise: "You also know that ghosts cover eyes? When I was young, I heard from my grandma that ghosts cover the eyes of living people and push people to a dead end."

Chen Ling asked: "Then what happened after that?"

"After that, the deck of playing cards seems to have a life of its own, and it will choose the game participants independently. Different people will pick up different playing cards, and the rest of the playing cards are still in Cheng Le's hands."