[Twilight] Amis

"Hey, that classmate over there, can you do me a favor?"

This is a pleasant female voice.

Thinking this way, Lila raised her head and found that Miss Veronica Green, Mr. Banner's teaching assistant and the goddess in the hearts of more than 80.00% of the boys in the school, was standing outside the lawn holding a lot of cardboard boxes.She looked left and right, and confirmed that the other party called her and got up and stepped forward, taking a part of the cardboard box from the other party's hand.

"Where are these?"

Following Miss Green to her office, Lyra looked around and asked.

Miss Green's office is clean and tidy, just like her. There are not many decorations in it, but it does not give people a monotonous and deserted feeling, but a touch of warmth.

"Here." Miss Green said, she put the stack of cardboard boxes in her hand on the empty middle shelf of a cabinet by the door, then turned around and took the cardboard box from Laila's hand, and put it away in the same way.

"Thank you for your help." After finishing all this, she patted the ashes on her hands, turned to Lila with a smile, and said, "Would you like something to drink? I have coffee, milk and orange juice here."

"Milk." Laila thought for a while and answered, just when she felt a little thirsty.

"Which one do you like?" Miss Green asked, taking out a pair of china cups from the glass cabinet, shaking them at her.One of the cups has a white background with a black cartoon pig printed on the cup, and the other has a black background with a white cartoon pig printed on the cup.

Laila's gaze swiveled between the two cups, then pointed to the black pig's on a white background.

"I think drinking in a cup you like will make the taste of the drink better psychologically." Miss Green added with a smile.

Lyra nodded slightly, she thought so too.

While Miss Green was preparing the milk, Laila's eyes wandered aimlessly around the room, and then fell on the computer on the desk.

The computer was turned on, and what occupied the entire screen was a maze game. The winding lines were dazzling.

"When I am free, I like to play some small games like maze on the computer." Seeing Laila staring at the computer screen, Miss Green explained while pouring milk, "Here, here—" She stretched out her hand to pour it The black pig's cup of milk on a white background was passed to Lyra.

"Thank you." Laila took the cup, lowered her head and took a sip, the cool milk melted in her mouth, leaving a faint aftertaste.

"You're welcome." Miss Green held the black-and-white pig's cup in both hands, looked at the computer screen and continued, "It's a pity that I'm rather stupid, and it's always easy to end up in a dead end, and then I have to go back to the previous intersection and start over. This I've been playing this map for a long time, and I'm still stuck in this place." She pointed at a point on the screen, her tone helpless.

After observing carefully for a while, Lila said unhurriedly, "Maybe... you can go in this direction, and then go here...here..." She said while gesturing the route on the screen with her fingers.

Miss Green's gaze followed Laila's fingertips, she nodded as she responded, her eyes gradually brightened.

After studying the maze game together for a while, Laila left Miss Green's office with a potted prickly pear the size of a palm.

There were two pots of prickly pear on Miss Green's computer desk, one pot on the left and right sides of the computer, and now she is holding one of the pots.According to Miss Green's words: it's better to put some green plants in the room.

She didn't intend to accept it at first, because based on her previous experience, she was a typical breeder who raised and died, but Miss Green threw out a sentence that made her fall silent for a moment—"These two pots of prickly pear are very easy to raise, and so are I." People who don’t know how to grow flowers and plants, all the plants they raised before died, but they didn’t expect them to survive so tenaciously.”

Laila looked down at the green in her hand, and the chaos that had been lingering in her mind for the past few days seemed to dissipate a little because of this fresh color.

Ever since she saw the little white cat that lost one eye that day, and thought that the cats selected by the extreme yin force should show symptoms of temporary blindness, she narrowed the scope of her search to those blind cats .In the school, she found a total of five blind cats. However, like the little white cat, they all had real eye damage.

She thought, could it be that the cat chosen by the extreme yin force is no longer in the school, or——was her direction wrong from the beginning?

"...Unfortunately, my brain is relatively stupid, and I always tend to enter a dead end, and then I have to go back to the previous intersection and start over..."

What Miss Green said just now resounded in her mind.

Laila looked up at the sky thoughtfully.

Perhaps, she also needs to go back to the previous intersection, and then start over in a different direction...

Before Laila could decide whether or not to change direction, she felt the familiar force again.

This time, unlike any other time in the past, the power emitted by the extreme yin force was very strong, and it did not disappear immediately.

Lila held back her excitement, and her figure was like an erratic shadow, flitting across the night-filled Fox Middle School.

Nearly.

very close.

As the distance got closer, the power became more and more obvious, and the light in Laila's eyes also became brighter and brighter.

Fox Middle School staff housing.

sixth floor.

Laila froze and stopped in front of a door.

The feeling about that power suddenly disappeared in the last second, just as abruptly as it appeared.

And the last feeling points to——

Lila reached out her hand to the door without hesitation, the golden shimmer flickered on her fingertips, and the door was opened silently.

--in.

The house was dark and quiet.

There is also a faint, slightly weird smell.

Laila dodges in silently, closing the door behind her backhand.

With the moonlight coming in from the window, she saw a desk in the corner by the window, and a person was sitting behind the desk.

An old man.

That face was not familiar, but it was not unfamiliar. She had seen it several times on campus, and it was the old headmaster that Selma had introduced to her.

He seemed to have fallen asleep, sitting motionless on the chair with his eyes closed, his head tilted to one side.

With a heartbeat, Laila stepped forward lightly, with her right hand reaching for his carotid artery.

In the next second, her eyes widened.

No pulse!

The old man in front of him was already dead, and died quietly in his dormitory.

Is it suicide?He killed?still……

Lyra put her hand over her mouth just in time to suppress an exclamation that almost blurted out.

In the middle of the night, in the silent dormitory, under the icy moonlight, there was a dead body who didn't know how long it had been dead.

Lyra shivered reflexively, and the chill crept into her heart.

If it was a homicide, maybe the murderer is still here at this time.

As soon as this thought passed through his mind, there was a slight noise in his ear, as if something had pierced the air.

Lyra turned sharply—

Outside the window, a black shadow quickly passed by.

She narrowed her eyes and followed without hesitation.

Through the street...over the roof...into the forest...

Under the moonlight, two shadows passed by like flying, one was running fast in front, and the other was chasing closely behind.There is always a distance between the two. The former cannot shake off the latter, and the latter cannot catch up with the former. The comparison at this time is patience and determination.

Laila chased, keeping her eyes on the shadow in front of her.

It was the back of a person.

The back view of a woman.

and……

Her eyes darkened.

In the end, the person in front gave in first.She stopped in front of a big rock as soon as she stopped, and then slowly turned around to face Laila.

Lyra's gaze met the man's face, and she paused for a moment, showing no sign of surprise.

Because she already guessed it.

"So it's you." She said softly, although she used the word "So it was", there was a taste of "It really was you" in her tone.

"Long time no see, Laila." The other party looked at her and smiled slightly.

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