betting convention

In the bathroom at the end of the corridor, Ding Bai stood in front of the mirror and stared at his own shadow for a long time. From this angle, he could just see the door of the women's bathroom. Although he couldn't see the inside, everyone passing by could see it clearly.

There was the sound of flushing water in the cubicle, and the rock youth came out, saw Ding Bai still standing at the door, and asked, "Aren't you here to use the bathroom? Why are you standing there?"

"No, I'm just here to take a look." Ding Bai said, "Last night Wei Jie told me that he met a girl wearing a mask at the bathroom door and asked him if he was pretty."

"Hmm." The rock youth rushed his hands under the faucet, "And then?"

"Then he died the next day." Ding Bai thought about it, so far, the only thing he knew about Wei Jie's abnormal behavior was this, "By the way, I don't know your name yet."

"Xu Siyuan." The rock youth said, "That is to say, you now suspect that the cause of Wei Jie's death is most likely the girl wearing a mask he met?"

"I don't know, but at least he was fine until he met that girl." Ding Bai began to feel a little unclear as he spoke.

The whole thing started from the art exhibition called 'Beautiful and Innocence', and if they want to know more details, they may have to start with the works of this exhibition.

So the two of them returned to the dormitory area on the second floor again, and found the previous students to find out where the previous exhibitions were.

"After the accident, all the works were originally confiscated by the police, but it is rumored that the police were involved in these works, so they were returned." The student said, "It should be on the first floor now. The classroom is the one where the sundries are piled up."

After knowing where those works were, Ding Bai and Xu Siyuan found the abandoned classroom on the first floor, but they didn't expect that someone had already found them.

Although they didn't greet each other formally, it's not like they didn't know each other well. When Ding Bai and his colleagues arrived, almost all the dealers were in this classroom.

The entire room is full of randomly stacked works, sculptures, paintings, and handcrafts. These things are randomly thrown on the ground like a pile of waste products, and it is impossible to see that they have been preciously preserved.

"These things are already so dilapidated, what clues can we find?" someone whispered.

Indeed, the exhibition mentioned by the students is said to be held every four years, which means that the things piled up in this room are already four years old.It is still very difficult to find a clue on the old things from four years ago.

Ding Bai walked around the room. This room is not big, it is about the same size as the classroom they have been to before, but there are many things piled up inside.

There are no clues at all from the paintings that are unclear whether they are postmodern or modern, including those piled up fabrics.

But the feeling of this room to Ding Bai is still the same, it is dark and damp, and it feels like moisture will come up from under the feet when stepping on the floor.

In such a humid environment, wouldn't these things get moldy if they piled up here?As he thought about it, he reached out and touched a painting lying beside him. The four corners of the painting were already damp.

He reached out and touched the clay sculpture of about the same height next to him, which also felt damp.However, he glanced at a clay sculpture next to him, and felt that there seemed to be some differences between the two clay sculptures in front of him.

Ding Bai stretched out his hand to touch it, and found something was wrong.The clay sculpture next to it is still wet, and even a hole can come out by pressing it.

Could it be...

Xu Siyuan watched Ding Bai start breaking the clay sculpture, thinking that Ding Bai was crazy, but when he saw an eye protruding from the clay sculpture, he was dumbfounded.

Wei Jie's residual limbs, no, it should be said that the body was wrapped in this clay sculpture.

found it.Ding Bai stopped the movement of his hands, he didn't know how to deal with the matter in front of him.This clay sculpture is in the shape of a squat, and the mud covering Wei Jie's entire body has not formed at all. Wei Jie's body cannot maintain this appearance by itself.

This shows... Ding Bai glanced at the steel frame exposed in the clay sculpture next to him. Wei Jie's entire body should be supported by a steel frame.

Maybe these steel frames were nailed into Wei Jie's body.

Ding Bai thought of what those students said, that the students who participated in the exhibition disappeared inexplicably, and a certain part of their bodies appeared in the works created by them.

In other words, everyone in this building is about to appear in the art exhibition as works one by one.

Just when Ding Bai and the others were shocked to find Wei Jie's body, another bad news came.

Another student died.

Ding Bai had seen the tank of water in front of him before, and when he was in the group, he even complained about what works of art could be produced with two tanks of water.But there is something to see in the water tank at this time.

The girl's waist-length hair wrapped around her body like a jellyfish. Her naked body was soaked in the water, and the lid of the water tank became airtight.

Like a mermaid.

Such a sentence suddenly flashed in Ding Bai's mind, thinking of Wei Jie's body before, he suddenly felt that his previous guess was correct.

All of them might become a piece in an art exhibition.

The surrounding students had gradually lost their minds and clamored to leave this place. Suddenly, the counselor rushed in and said a word, which shocked the group of students.

"Think about the twelve classmates who have disappeared."

Intimidated by these words, everyone calmed down, and the counselor asked someone to cover the water tank with a piece of cloth, and then dismissed the students to continue completing their works.

What the bankers didn't expect was that these students obeyed obediently.

"It's unbelievable." Xu Siyuan touched his chin and looked at the group of students who were obviously scared but pretended to be calm. "I'm starting to wonder if the counselor did this."

It's not that Ding Bai didn't think about it. When he looked at the back of the counselor who was leaving, he felt that someone was always watching him.

Looking around, apart from the bankers who were still standing still thinking, there were only those students who were pretending to be calm.

Feeling wrong?

In the evening, the sky outside seemed to start to change. Many students packed their things and prepared to go back to the dormitory.At this time, Ding Bai was standing at the door of the bathroom, not knowing what he was waiting for.

People who come and go will always look at the person standing at the door of the bathroom, as if they are watching a joke.

The reason why Ding Bai stood at the door was because he wanted to touch the girl who put on the mask, but he didn't touch that girl after standing all night.

Could it be that Wei Jie really encountered a ghost yesterday?

Just happened to pass by two girls in front of him, he stopped them and asked, "Student, do you know that girl here likes to wear face masks the most?"

The two girls seemed to be wondering why he asked such a question. They glanced at each other and seemed to be thinking: "Girls like to apply facial masks, and the one who likes facial masks the most seems to be Li Mengjie, but Li Mengjie..."

"What's wrong with her?" Ding Bai felt something strange and asked.

"She, she's dead." One of the girls said, just as she was about to say something, she was pulled away by the girl next to her.

"I'm sorry, we have to go back first." After the girl finished speaking, she grabbed the girl next to her and walked away quickly. During the process, she still didn't forget to look back at Ding Bai.

died.

If Li Mengjie is dead, isn't that girl Wei Jie met last night really a ghost?

The clues in his mind became a mess, and Ding Bai returned to the room helplessly.

At this time, it started to rain lightly outside the window, Ding Bai went to the balcony and looked downstairs, and sure enough, he saw Chen Zhifei standing in the rain.

The job of a croupier is really not something that ordinary people can do. In order to supervise the dealer all the time, he has to stand downstairs and wait no matter the wind or rain.

In fact, what Ding Bai didn't know at this time was that Chen Zhifei, who was a croupier, didn't have to guard them all the time.

"Hey, Chen Daxia, don't you feel it's raining outside?" Ding Bai stretched his head and looked down.

The people downstairs looked up and saw the head and didn't answer, just stared at Ding Bai quietly.

"Oh." Ding Bai sighed and said, "If you feel cold, you can come to my room to take shelter from the rain?" Ding Bai sent an invitation to Chen Zhifei. He thought that Chen Zhifei would silently refuse, but he didn't expect Chen Zhifei actually went upstairs directly.

"The room is only this big, you can sit wherever you want." Ding Bai said, staring at Chen Zhifei without hesitation.

"Let's go when the rain stops." Chen Zhifei said and sat on the chair in the room.

Outside the window is the patter of drizzle, and the people inside the house are doing their own thing without interfering with each other.Ding Bai was lying on the bed, and he was figuring out the clues he knew so far, while Chen Zhifei sat on the chair and didn't know whether he was dozing off or in a daze.

Feeling sleepy suddenly, Ding Bai squinted his eyes and stared at Chen Zhifeiren for a while, then fell asleep.

At midnight, Chen Zhifei who was sitting on the stool opened his eyes, and he turned to look at Ding Bai who just sat up.Ding Bai turned over and got out of bed, tidied up his clothes, put on his shoes and went out.

Chen Zhifei followed Ding Bai silently. There were many people like Ding Bai in the corridor. They walked downstairs and entered the daytime classroom. At this time, there were already people waiting for them in the classroom.

Ding Bai walked up to a girl and sat on the chair in front of the girl.The girl directly in front of her was drawing something on the drawing paper with a paintbrush. She seemed dissatisfied. She stepped forward to adjust Ding Bai's posture, then returned to her seat and began to draw.

As the croupier, Chen Zhifei stood not far away and watched the scene in front of him. According to the rules of the game, the croupier does not interfere with the banker's decisions in the game, nor can he disclose relevant information to the banker.

He watched Ding Bai's face appear little by little on the drawing paper under the girl's hand, feeling a little unhappy in his heart.Especially when the girl reached out to adjust Ding Bai's posture, she felt even more uncomfortable.

Not far away, a banker was lying on the ground, his body covered with burning candles. The wax oil from each candle dripped onto the banker's skin and quickly condensed into a white film.

And as the candle continued to burn, the condensed candle on the banker's body became thicker and thicker, as if to wrap his whole body in wax oil.

When Ding Bai woke up in the morning, he felt as if he was forced to run five kilometers again, and his back was so sore that he was dying.And Chen Zhifei, who had come to shelter from the rain last night, had disappeared.

"I'm so exhausted, why is this bed so uncomfortable to sleep on?" Ding Bai muttered as he got dressed, only to find that there seemed to be something on his face.

He stretched out his hand to touch it, and it was a little dry, but after he checked it, he found that it seemed to be paint?

When did this thing get up?