Special Social Situation Administration

The classroom full of students was inspected countless times by Yan Ting in one day. The half-new desks, chairs and benches and the graffiti on the walls were not much different from those classrooms he had seen before. .

But this is only the part that is visible to the naked eye. What it shows in the mirror is quite different—the carbonized tables and chairs and the charred walls after being smoked and burned. Concrete peeled off and exposed walls replaced it, and there were all indications that the house had been kissed by fire.

What rushed into his eyes was a piece of scorched blackness. When Yan Ting regained his composure and took a closer look, he realized that the pale-skinned students outside the mirror harmoniously blended into the whole background in a scorched posture—all of them were scorched. It's like chicken feet that have been fried in boiling oil, charred, constricted, and stiff...

And Lu Yu was sitting among the ruins after the fire, with an indifferent expression, which formed a sharp contrast with everything around him. It was also because of seeing him that Yan Ting felt less flustered.

Although he kept saying that he would protect Luyu and wanted to fulfill his promise with his own words, he had to admit that it was because of Luyu that he could muster up the courage to try something in this extremely weird place.

Lu Yu gave him courage.

Yan Ting moved his eyes away from Lu Yu and began to carefully identify the scorched objects in the mirror. He found that he could not see Teacher Zhang on the podium from his position, so he turned sideways and used the mirror to capture Teacher Zhang is teaching.

But at this moment, the mirror suddenly went black. It was different from the scorched black of the classroom. It felt like a black screen, as if the lens was blocked by a pitch-black object.The next second this thought flashed in his mind, he saw a scarlet eye suddenly opened in the darkness.

——At this moment, someone was standing behind him.

Yan Ting was startled, the mirror fell to the ground with a snap, and he didn't bother to pick it up. He turned around abruptly, instinctively making a defensive move, but to his surprise, there was nothing behind him .The group of students were still sitting where they belonged, motionless and listening carefully, much easier to learn than the living students.There was no one moving around in the classroom, and Yan Ting couldn't tell for a while, who was standing behind him just now?

He turned around quite a bit, and Lu Yu, who had no intention of attending the class, cast a questioning look at him when he saw this. Yan Ting shook his head lightly. At this moment, his heart was still beating violently, and he left with lingering fear. By the window, not far from the classroom, waiting for class to end.

After waiting like days and years, the bell for the end of get out of class finally rang.

Lu Yu, who stayed in the classroom impersonating Liang Rui, seemed to be really accepted by them. During the whole class, they didn't do anything to him that threatened his safety, so he just sat in the classroom safely. to the end of get out of class.

This group of "students" strictly abided by the normal work and rest rules, and left the classroom in a swarm after class, and flocked outside the twin buildings.

Yan Ting stretched out his hand to hold Lu Yu who was in the crowd, the two exchanged a look, clasped their hands and blended into the crowd, wanting to try to see if they could leave the building, but just as they walked to the door, they were caught A transparent barrier blocked it back.

Sure enough, their range of activities was within this building.

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After confirming that they couldn't leave the building, the two of them searched several places they could go while the sky was still bright, but they still found nothing.After finishing dinner with the food obtained from the vending machine, the two huddled in the classroom and began to sort out the clues at hand.

But there are only a few clues, and after combing and combing, there is nothing new to gain.

While sorting out, we have to cheer up to deal with and beware of some things that may arise.

When concentrating on it, time always flies very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it is almost morning.At this time, Lu Yu was so sleepy that he lay beside Yan Ting, drowsy.

Yan Ting looked at his half-closed eyes, trying to stay awake, couldn't help laughing, "It's okay, you can sleep for a while, I'll watch over it, I'll call you if there's anything to do."

Lu Yu had already reacted with a sluggish mind for several seconds before he nodded, lying on the table and closing his eyes.After he fell asleep, Yan Ting continued to study the things in his hand, even though he knew that there was nothing new, but doing something in vain would make him feel better than waiting for nothing.

Lu Yu fell asleep for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes, and asked Yan Ting while lying on the table: "I remember, the teaching building is cut off after twelve o'clock, is this building also cut off?"

Yan Ting's heart skipped a beat, how could he forget this?

He glanced at his watch hastily, it was only a few minutes before twelve o'clock.He immediately took out his mobile phone, which had completely lost signal as soon as he entered this space, and looked at the battery, which was close to the red line.When he went out to pick up Liu Chen last night, his phone had less than half of its battery, so he went back after he had gone. He didn't think about the phone's battery at all, and naturally it was impossible to bring a charger, so he was delayed here for a day. After that, the power could no longer hold up.

If the power cuts off at twelve o'clock, even if you can use your mobile phone as a flashlight, it won't last long.

"Xiaolu, do you have your cell phone?"

"No." Lu Yu sat up and shook his head.

"The flashlight or something?" Yan Ting paused, "You didn't bring anything with you when you came out to look for me?" He remembered that coming from Luyu's dormitory, he would pass through a very dark road.

"I brought an umbrella." Lu Yu retorted.

During the speech, the hour and minute hands met at the twelve points on the scale, and the bell rang at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and all the lights in the whole building were extinguished in an instant.

"I always feel," Yan Ting swallowed, "something bad will happen after the lights are turned off..." Before he finished speaking, there was a muffled sound outside the window, as if something had hit the ground from a high altitude.

Lu Yu glanced at him, and Yan Ting felt that he seemed to see the flash of disgust on Lu Yu's face through the darkness—the crow's mouth towards him.

The two approached the window cautiously. From where they stood, they could clearly see the open space outside the window. With the help of the dim light from the street lamps, they could see a person laying there in the open space, motionless, with blood dripping all over the ground.

"...Someone jumped off the building." Yan Ting said with difficulty.

"Is it Liang Rui?" Lu Yu asked. The only person who jumped off the building was Liang Rui. He was deeply impressed by the girl who started the incident. She was the first thing he thought of when he heard about jumping off the building.

"...It looks like a boy, but I'm not sure." After all, people were deformed from the fall.

After adapting to the darkness around him, Yan Ting found optimistically that he could see in the dark. After realizing this, he subconsciously looked at Lu Yu. Then it got a little weird.

"what happened?"

"Teacher," Lu Yu hesitated to speak, "...the one who jumped off the building seems to be Ding Hao, I remember this suit, the one he wore when he disappeared."

"Isn't he dead..." Yan Ting subconsciously rejected the answer, but he immediately realized that, except for him and Lu Yu, everyone in this building was dead?

In this building, it is not surprising that the dead are alive, but what happens when the dead die again?

As if to answer Yan Ting's confusion, Ding Hao, who was lying on the ground and deformed, and there was absolutely no possibility of survival, moved slowly.

"Ding Hao seems to have moved, is it my illusion?" Yan Ting asked dumbfounded.

"I don't think so."

Ding Hao stood up slowly supporting his distorted and deformed body, and fell freely from the fifth floor, causing several bones in him to be shattered and fractured. He could hardly support him standing, but he lost his life and He didn't care about the pain at all. After twisting his body into a very strange posture, he tremblingly walked towards the teaching building...

"I heard," Yan Ting subconsciously lowered his voice, "People who commit suicide will repeat the whole process of suicide over and over again. Do you think Ding Hao is like this?"

"Teacher, I have heard a lot of strange things." Lu Yu commented.

Yan Ting choked for a moment, Liu Chen really told him a lot of such weird things, he didn't pay much attention at the time, but now he remembered all of them.But now is not the time to think about these things, he quickly turned his attention back to Ding Hao who was walking towards the entrance of the Twin Towers - what would he do?

Because of his broken body, Ding Hao's movement speed was not fast, but he finished walking the few steps of the Twin Towers in a short while.It's just that after entering the teaching building, Ding Hao didn't come towards Yan Ting and the others. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he seemed to go straight upstairs.

—Is he going to jump off the building again?

This thought flashed through Yan Ting's mind.

Doubtful, Yan Ting waited anxiously for Ding Hao to fall from the building for the second time, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement. It seems that Ding Hao did not climb up for the second time.

With Ding Hao as an uncertain factor, the two didn't dare to get sleepy anymore. They turned their backs to each other and stared at one side, guarding everything around them.

They didn't wait for Ding Hao to jump off the building for the second time, but they waited for the sound of him going downstairs.

Yan Ting held his breath and judged Ding Hao's position by the sound of his footsteps - Ding Hao went downstairs from the fifth floor, the sound of his footsteps was very faint, but fortunately the whole building was silent, so he could barely hear the movement until he went down to the third floor, The voice gradually became louder, but then, Ding Hao seemed to linger on the second floor for a while before continuing down.

This time when he went down to the first floor, Ding Hao didn't go around the classroom anymore, he walked towards the end of the corridor.At that moment, Yan Ting felt that his breathing was about to stop suddenly, he could only hold Lu Yu tightly, hid in a blind spot where he couldn't see from the window, and stared at the door and window.

Not long after, he saw Ding Hao appearing outside the window.

After falling from the fifth floor, Ding Hao's face and body were deformed, like a clay figurine that had been squeezed by violence, all parts of his body were stuck together casually, making do with it.

Ding Hao passed the window back and forth several times, but in the end he did not open the door to come in - the classroom door cannot be locked, if he opened the door, Yan Ting would have nothing to do.

Besides, can the doors and windows really stop ghosts?

After wandering around like a headless chicken in the corridor on the first floor, Ding Hao moved his steps and went upstairs again.Throughout the night, he wandered up and down the building like this.

Yan Ting and Lu Yu huddled together, counting the seconds until dawn, after which the group of students would return here, and Ding Hao should also end this behavior like a headless chicken.

At five o'clock in the morning, Lu Yu was a little sleepy again, because Ding Hao went back and forth several times on the first floor, but he didn't come in, so both of them breathed a sigh of relief.He leaned against Yan Ting's side and yawned: "Teacher, why do you think Ding Hao is wandering back and forth?"

Yan Ting recalled the path of Ding Hao's actions, and for some reason, he felt a little familiar.Looking at the night before dawn outside the window, he suddenly asked Lu Yu: "Now, it must be past five o'clock in the afternoon outside?"

"Well," Lu Yu replied, "day and night are reversed here and outside."

reverse……

reverse? !

Yan Ting fell silent, he suddenly realized why he felt that Ding Hao's path was familiar—if Ding Hao's behavior was reversed and he jumped off the building as the end point, then his trajectory was very similar to theirs today— — He is searching the building.

Yan Ting remembered that Ding Hao entered here between eleven and twelve o'clock in the evening, which was the last class in the morning, almost the same time as they entered.

According to their experience today, Ding Hao should have had some free time between [-]:[-] and [-]:[-]. He may or may not have done something. Yan Ting is still unknown.From [-]:[-] p.m. to [-]:[-] p.m., he was forced to take Liang Rui's place and began to follow the class.After six o'clock in the afternoon, he got a period of free time, which should last until eight o'clock the next morning, but Ding Hao was not so lucky.

"Xiaolu, I remember you said that Ding Hao died on the second day after his disappearance. Can you tell me exactly when?"

"It seems to be..." Lu Yu thought for a while, "Around twelve o'clock at noon."

Everything is right!

Now that Ding Hao is not on the first floor, Yan Ting grabbed Lu Yu up: "We have to leave this classroom immediately."

"Why?" Lu Yu asked in a low voice while being dragged by Yan Ting as he walked out.

"Find a place to hide first and I'll explain to you later."

"The window next door is not closed tightly. I found it when I checked it before. Can you open the window and get in?"

"Okay." The two opened the classroom door and walked into the corridor. The darkness stretched the corridor infinitely, and it looked particularly gloomy. Those places that were darker than the night seemed to hide unknown horrors.Taking advantage of the darkness, the two climbed through the window to the classroom next door and locked the window behind their hands.

After confirming safety, Yan Ting began to explain to Lu Yu the reason why they wanted to leave that classroom: "You said that Ding Hao died at around 12:[-] noon the next day, and that point corresponds to the time here at [-]:[-] a.m. point, right?"

"Ah."

"That is to say, it should be noon when Ding Hao entered here, and after some things, he jumped off the building and died at twelve o'clock that night. Then there is a problem. After his death, his time will be stagnant, and he will not have a new one. Time, I told you before, people who commit suicide repeat the process of their own death, but this process belongs to the "past" and they exist in the present by constantly replicating the time of the "past". I say this, you can understand ?"

"Go on, I'm trying to understand."

"Ding Hao seems to be in the same situation. He can't have a new time, so he can only exist by copying the past. You just asked me why Ding Hao was wandering around like a headless chicken. I thought about it carefully. Turned out he was looking at the building, as we had done before..."

"You mean, he copied the whole process from entering this space to dying to exist?"

"Yes."

"Then why did we leave that classroom?"

"Because there is another problem. As soon as Ding Hao appeared, he jumped from the fifth floor. This is obviously his end point, so I boldly speculate that the time he copied is a reverse of cause and effect, commonly known as rewinding."

"Huh? What does that mean?"

"If you rewind in twelve hours, the two six o'clock coincide. He left the classroom at six o'clock in the sequential time, which means that he will be at six o'clock in the reverse time, which is the upcoming six o'clock Enter the classroom. During his time, from two o'clock to six o'clock, he needs to attend classes in the classroom." Yan Ting paused, "But this is all my guess, right, we will know soon."

Not long after Yan Ting finished speaking, Ding Hao went down to the first floor again, the two of them still hid in a blind corner, listening to Ding Hao's movements quietly.

This time, Ding Hao did not leave after walking to the side of the corridor.When the bell rang at six o'clock, he stretched out his hand and pushed open the classroom door——

When he heard the creaking sound of the door of the classroom next door, Yan Ting still felt grateful for his survival after the catastrophe.If they hadn't escaped from that classroom, they who had relaxed their vigilance now would have to meet Ding Hao there.