Chapter 68 - Life Exchange

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Off to the side, Xiao Yue looked at the female student and hesitated for a moment before saying, “That day, it seems like… it was her!”

Everyone moved quickly to catch up to the student– Gu Xizhou in particular, who skidded to a stop directly in front of her. 45UMPf

“Is something wrong?” The female student pushed her hair behind her ear as she spoke, showing a dull smile. Her voice was very soft and mellow.

Being asked this, the people surrounding her actually didn’t know how to reply. Gu Xizhou wanted to speak when he heard Si Yu ask the student, “Who are you?”

She replied indifferently. “I’m Li Jia, a student here.”

“Why did you want to point us toward the death route?” Bai Dongyang demanded, his temper exploding. 9A4fai

Li Jia looked at him with a strange smile. “What death route? I don’t know what you’re talking about?”

Bai Dongyang trembled with anger. Three people died because of this girl’s directions!

“If there’s nothing else, I’ll leave first.” Li Jia raised her eyebrows and quirked the corners of her lips upward, smiling.

“Classmate, I still have a few questions I want to ask you.” Si Yu flashed his standard hormone-packed smile. Its aura instantly sec-killed Li Jia’s off putting smile, warming the surrounding temperature. Presumably because of Si Yu’s smile, Li Jia didn’t immediately leave. elRvL1

She spoke. “Ask, ba. I’ll tell you if I know, but if I don’t, there’s nothing I can do.”

Si Yu took out the newspaper article about the female madwoman’s car accident, handing it to Li Jia. “Do you know this woman?”

Li Jia shook her head. “Don’t know.”

At that time, Qi Fei’s dyed head of pink hair abruptly appeared. He looked at everyone. He seemed to have an impression of Gu Xizhou’s group, since he had met him once before in the offices and had found him in the library, and he cheerfully waved to them. eDNLFO

“Hey,” Qi Fei called, drawing their attention. By the time they regained their wits, Li Jia had already run to the middle of the road, quick as lightning.

“Do we chase her?” Cheng Yue asked, furrowing his brows.

“Forget it, let her go, ba.” Si Yu turned his head toward Qi Fei and said, “It’s you, ah. You look like you’ve dropped a lot of weight.”

“Yes, ah!” Qi Fei looked down at his bony hands, where each knuckle stood out clearly. He scratched his head and said, “I’m also surprised that I’ve lost so much weight. My classmates all think I’m on drugs.” dCJHLm

A male classmate behind them yelled at Qi Fei, “Hey, Qi Fei, let’s go! Don’t you need to study?”

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In the dim light, Gu Xizhou finally saw that the figure was the short-haired woman.

The woman entered one of the classrooms, and Gu Xizhou’s group didn’t think before chasing after her. MLcmFn

After they entered, Gu Xizhou didn’t see a classroom, but another strange room. The room was completely empty; there was no one in it. On the ground lay a corpse.

It was a dead woman’s body… Her face was bluish-white, looking straight ahead. Her mouth was open, and her features were twisted. She should have died in agony.

Si Yu and Fang Zhi also entered, and the three people all looked at the body on the ground. The corpse was the short-haired woman.

She lay on the ground, her hair and body were wet, and her appearance was similar to the case Gu Xizhou previously handled with the male corpse. A typical case of death by drowning. fpqm8L

“She drowned,” Gu Xizhou stated.

Si Yu nodded and didn’t speak, beginning to search the room instead. Gu Xizhou immediately began to help him look. Located within the most interior cupboard, Gu Xizhou found a photo album.

All of the photographs inside the album were of her and a man. Each photo was taken inside this narrow room. Her smile looked very stiff as the woman and the man posed for the pictures.

Gu Xizhou saw a one hundred yuan note on the window ledge. Its owner seemed to want to throw it outside the window. u3fAiU

“Open it up,” Si Yu said. “There should be something we’re searching for inside.”

Unfolding the note and smoothing out the wrinkles, Gu Xizhou saw a few words—— “Who can rescue me? I was imprisoned. My name is Su Xiaomian, ID number xxxx, I’m at 705-11.”

Gu Xizhou said, “She’s called Su Xiaomian, just like that NPC.”

Si Yu was silent for a moment, then he said, “I understand.” aSIde6

“What do you understand?” Gu Xizhou asked.

Si Yu pointed at the woman’s corpse on the ground and said, “More than one person has disappeared. Do you remember when we just saw Qi Fei?”

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi nodded. “Remember.”

“He suddenly lost weight not because he was taking drugs, but rather because he was very hungry!” 8qPfth

Fortunately, Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi’s IQs could still be considered online. “Li Jia corresponds to the madwoman, Qi Fei’s counterpart is the vagrant, and Su Xiaomian matches this short-haired woman. More than one person was replaced.”

“Why choose to replace them?” Fang Zhi questioned.

Si Yu pointed at the name on the opened slip of paper. “If my guess isn’t wrong, then their names are the same as the people who died in the newspaper.”

Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi asked simultaneously, “Why?” 0dEGge

Si Yu said lightly, “Do you think that Qi Fei could pass the university entrance examination?”

Gu Xizhou: “…En, probably not.”

Si Yu: “They attend school in the name of another person and exchange the first half of their lives, so it becomes an equivalent exchange. The dead exchange with them for the second half of their life.”

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