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Mo Qi was ultimately just a student, and upon seeing the corpse, he felt a bit flustered. He closed the game interface and immediately dialed the emergency number.
From the receiver came the message “The number you have dialed is out of service,” and in this eerie atmosphere, Mo Qi surprisingly felt a bit relieved.
The fact that the emergency number was out of service indicated that this was no longer the familiar world he knew. This should have been a chilling revelation. Yet, seeing a once lively life now reduced to a cold corpse, Mo Qi sincerely hoped that this was just a false game.
However, Chang Rui and Liao Ruxue were both people he had known for a long time. Thinking of this, Mo Qi felt that the reality was suffocatingly real.
The corpse had swollen beyond recognition. The young man was both shocked and sorrowful. He shook Ke Xiaoxi’s body while calling the counselor, crying out to report the situation.
Mo Qi’s mind was in chaos. The incident had occurred so suddenly, leaving him completely bewildered and unsure where to begin.
The only thing he knew for certain was that all of this was connected to that lingering and eerie game. Whether to uncover the truth or break free from this bizarre situation, the best immediate choice was to understand the tasks set by the game. Whether to undertake them was another matter, but at the very least, he needed to grasp what he had encountered and understand the world he was facing.
The blood-red heart-shaped origami found in the crystal box appeared at the same time as Ke Xiaoxi’s body. This origami must symbolize this incident, but what does it signify?
Is it a lost life, or does it hold the meaning of returning to the wish box—a heartfelt wish?
Mo Qi lacked clues. The male student beside him continued crying while waiting for the counselor to arrive, his sobbing becoming increasingly unsettling.
“Stop crying!” Mo Qi snapped, giving the male student a sharp smack on the back of his head.
The student looked at Mo Qi, seemingly momentarily distracted by his charismatic presence, briefly withdrawing from his fear.
“I didn’t kill anyone!” The student looked at Mo Qi and pleaded, “You have to believe me!”
“Even if you pushed her into the water, it’s only been a few minutes. People don’t drown that quickly, nor do they bloat like this,” Mo Qi told the young man.
The young man smiled and said, “As long as you believe me, that’s enough. Can we exchange WeChat?”
At a time like this, he was still thinking about adding friends. Just how strong was the charm effect the game had given him!
Mo Qi stared at the QR code the young man offered, suddenly remembering the game had mentioned his high compatibility with the charm attribute for this task. Getting clues might be easier this way.
The only connection between Ke Xiaoxi and his charming attribute was that she had voluntarily told him her grade, department, major, phone number, and other information.
Ignoring the young man, Mo Qi quickly searched through Ke Xiaoxi’s coat pocket for her phone while the counselor hadn’t arrived yet. The phone was waterlogged and unusable. Mo Qi thought for a moment, then opened WeChat and entered the phone number Ke Xiaoxi had given him earlier. He was sensitive to numbers and remembered the phone number clearly from just hearing it.
Fortunately, Ke Xiaoxi’s phone number was linked to WeChat, and Mo Qi easily found her WeChat profile.
Since she is now dead, Mo Qi couldn’t send a friend request, but he could view her ten latest moments as a non-friend.
Mo Qi didn’t scrutinize the moments but swiftly took screenshots and saved them. Just as he finished, Ke Xiaoxi’s moments disappeared.
“Show me your WeChat,” Mo Qi said to the young man.
The young man hurriedly handed over his phone to Mo Qi. Mo Qi scrolled through and found Ke Xiaoxi’s moments. Interestingly, there were quite a few moments visible here, but they differed slightly from what Mo Qi had seen earlier. Some moments that Mo Qi had seen were completely absent here.
“Does your girlfriend often post moments?” Mo Qi asked.
“She does. She posts about four or five times a day. Some are visible only to me, some to everyone, and some I can’t see,” the young man replied.
It seemed that some of the moments Mo Qi had captured in screenshots were likely hidden from the boyfriend and had suddenly disappeared just now.
As Mo Qi was deep in thought, the counselor arrived. After a quick glance at Ke Xiaoxi’s body, the counselor sighed and said, “There are always students who commit suicide before exams. You can go now; I’ll call her family.”
They were just told to leave? They were the ones who found Ke Xiaoxi’s body, and the young man was the one who pushed her into the lake. No police report to investigate the cause of death, no request for their statements—just a glance and a conclusion of suicide?
Mo Qi grabbed a boy and stopped the counselor, saying, “I just saw him pushing Ke Xiaoxi into the water.”
The counselor’s gaze swept coldly over Mo Qi. “This person has been dead for at least three days. It’s impossible that he just pushed her in.”
After saying this, the counselor wrapped Ke Xiaoxi’s body in a white cloth and prepared to leave. Mo Qi let go of the boy and grabbed the counselor’s arm, speaking in the softest voice possible, “Teacher, this is the first time I’ve seen a dead person. I’m a little scared. Could you take me back to my dormitory?”
“Find someone else, I’m still busy,” the counselor shrugged off Mo Qi and carried Ke Xiaoxi’s body away.
Meanwhile, the boy tugged at Mo Qi’s sleeve from behind and whispered, “I can take you back to your dormitory. If you’re scared, come with me. I can keep you company tonight.”
Mo Qi dropped the facade of vulnerability, coldly brushing off the boy’s hand. “What’s your name and which college are you from?”
The boy hurriedly replied, “I’m Guo Mingzheng, from the School of Economics and Management, third year. My phone number is 13XXXXXXXXX.”
“Got it. I’ll come to you if I have any questions,” Mo Qi casually saved Guo Mingzheng’s phone number into her contacts and walked away.