absurd deduction game.

Chapter 428 Brother and Neighbors

"Hey, today's children can fall asleep during the exam. If it were me back then, my heart would be so nervous during the exam, how would I dare to sleep?"

A chubby middle-aged man wearing glasses stood by the window, looking at the examination room of Class 10 and [-] with a complicated expression. There were still [-] minutes before the end of the examination. As the teaching director, he was patrolling these floors and had already seen many The class fell asleep a lot.

This subject is English, and the papers can be handed in half an hour in advance. A group of sports students in Class [-] have already handed in the papers and went to the playground to play basketball. The rest of the people are probably not in a hurry. The paper was drawing there, and some of them, like Ye Qin, fell asleep.

Standing next to the dean was the head teacher of Class [-], and the head teacher who taught English also thought of going to the door to take a look on a whim, only to hear the dean expressing emotion in a low voice.

She looked in the eyes of the dean, and then laughed: "Ye Qin, his grades are good, and he must be going to bed after finishing his work. I heard that he has to make up lessons for his sister every day when he comes home. Maybe You must be too tired."

After she finished speaking, she remembered something again, and joked to the dean: "Besides, it was so many years ago when you were in school. Now the teaching resources are so much better than before, and many children... don't think that going to school is a thing. Things worth being happy about will certainly not be as serious as you were at the beginning."

"Well, every age has its own hardships." The dean shook his head. He was notoriously good-natured, and the students were not afraid of him. Every day, he would receive greetings from many mischievous classmates in various ways.

With his hands behind his back, he walked slowly. The head teacher lost the interest of staying and walked to the office.

Today is the last day of the monthly exam, and English is also the last subject. After finishing this subject, these high school sophomores will be temporarily released, and they will have a day and a half vacation.

The homeroom teacher knew the difficulty of the paper, so she showed a gloating smile, thinking that when she came back after the holiday, most of the little bastards in the class would be doomed by the scores.

After the two teachers who were muttering by the window had left, Yu Xing calmly opened his eyes.

He had been awake for several minutes, but he just pretended to be asleep and could hear the conversation of the two teachers clearly.

It sounds like the classmate Ye Qin he plays is a very good student at school, and there is a younger sister at home... The exam questions are all related to the family, so this younger sister may also play an important role.

He propped up his upper body slowly, and looked at the classroom and the test papers on the desk that were filled to the brim.

After falling asleep in the dark classroom of Xuechi Middle School, the position of waking up has obviously changed. The sky is bright but it is about to sink. It seems that it is approaching evening, and the classroom is full of restlessness due to the imminent holiday. Uneasy breath.

The invigilator on the podium looked at the more and more students gathering in the corridor outside, heard the voice gradually becoming louder, sighed, and finally asked the idle candidates below: "Have you all finished writing?" ?”

"The exam is over." The dozen or so people who stayed in the classroom replied sparsely.

"Then let's collect the papers in advance, knowing that you are in a hurry to get out of school, and your mind is not on the exam."

After getting the unanimous consent of all the candidates, the invigilator asked the students in the last row to stand up and collect the test papers. Yu Xing packed his bag and walked out of the classroom with the group.

"Ye Qin, do you want to have dinner together?" A classmate he knew stopped him. After Yu Xing turned his head to look at it, he was about to refuse, but another classmate answered for him.

"Forget it? The third year of high school is also a quiz today. Ye Qin's brother is probably coming to pick him up and go back with him. His brother is so old-fashioned and a nerd. If he knew that Ye Qin would not go home directly but would go out to dinner with us , I’m afraid I have to talk about him again.”

"Ah, that's it, forget it."

Before Yu Xing said a word, these classmates arranged him clearly, smiled and waved goodbye to him, and left first.

It turns out that Ye Qin also has an older brother, tsk, an older brother and younger sister, as well as parents, there are at least five people in this family.

He looked at the backs of these students, stood where he was, and obediently waited for his brother to pick them up.

This deduction is not systematic, and naturally there is no character memory instillation or character information. He is currently in a state of ignorance about Ye Qin, and can only make a little guess based on the reactions of the people around him.

He was sorting out the situation in his mind, when a cloud of shadows came to him, blocking part of the sunlight that shone on him.

Yu Xing looked up and saw a very sweet-looking girl with short hair wearing a knee-length school uniform skirt, holding two cans of Coke in her hand, smiling at him, and handing one of the cans to him.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. Why did you fall asleep today? Is it really because you are too tired?"

The girl's tone was very familiar, and Yu Xing guessed that she should be an acquaintance of Ye Qin, but not from the same class.

It may also be a puppy love... He had seen this girl a long time ago, and when the test paper was about to be collected, the girl was waiting in the corridor, but at that time Yu Xing was not sure who the girl was waiting for, so he didn't pay too much attention .

He took the Coke, although it wasn't an iced Coke, but it still lowered the temperature a bit for the scorching weather.

Yu Xing's tone was flat, and he chose an attitude that could be explained in any way: "Yeah, I'm a little tired these days, but I didn't go to bed until after the exam."

"Well, by the way, you were in a daze just now, were you looking at those people?" The girl pointed to the direction where the students who had invited Yu Xing to dinner just now left, "Don't pay attention to them, your brother is fine, they don't Knowing your family's situation, just talk nonsense, don't worry about it."

Yu Xing's heart moved, and he didn't ask anything that would cause suspicion. Ye Qin's family seemed a bit complicated. He had better wait until he got home, and then look for clues from home. As a place where he lives every night, the clues at home are absolutely More diversification.

Most of the students in the corridor waited for the person they were waiting for, and left in twos and threes, and soon there were only a few students who didn't know what they were thinking.

The girl didn't even intend to leave, so she stayed beside Yu Xing and dragged him to chat. The topic shifted from interesting things at school to the Chinese test paper that she had finished two days ago.

"Hey, you may not believe me. I happened to be sitting in the last row. When I collected the test papers, I looked at the composition topic written by the person at the front desk. Do you know how outrageous he is?"

The girl remembered the happy things, and patted the wall next to her regardless of her image. Now Yu Xing was basically sure that the girl was not his puppy love, but someone like a best friend, otherwise let's not mention being so bold in front of her boyfriend Is it really common? Any girlfriend can't stand her boyfriend saying a lot of things, and only responding with a cold "um, oh".

This reflected that there was no problem with his coping. Ye Qin should have been an introverted person with a delicate mind and an active brain, but he didn't like to talk much.

The girl in front of her was very interested, and she obviously didn't care about Yu Xing's attitude at all: "We're not training argumentative essays recently. The guy at the front desk wrote an essay. It's nothing, but his title is very persistent in using argumentative essays. The writing method is called 'On the Feasibility of Part-time Teachers, Gardeners, Lighthouses and Candles', it's so interesting, hahaha..."

"..." Yu Xing pondered for a while, "Seeing you laughing like this, is this... interesting?"

"Hey, don't you think it's very interesting?" The girl's eyes widened slightly, and then she rolled her eyes helplessly, "Maybe, it might not sound very interesting, but when I watched it, I immediately thought of the teacher's Reaction, I think it's very funny, if you want me to say, you are more like a nerd than your brother."

"When can you try to be more cheerful? I am obsessed with ghost stories all day long, watching live horror games, and playing pen fairy and all kinds of gods and gods. I am not as gloomy as you are." The girl said without hesitation Pulling Yu Xing's face, "You, it would be nice if you could be more interesting."

"So, you like interesting people?" Yu Xing asked.

After asking, he was slightly taken aback, because the sentence just now was not what he wanted to say, but a certain force in the dark drove him, forcing him to ask this sentence before he could react.

The girl admitted generously: "Who doesn't like interesting people? Hey - your brother is here."

The third year of senior high school ended a little later than the second year of high school. They chatted in the corridor for a long time before Ye Qin's brother arrived late.

Yu Xing looked at the reputation, and a tall and thin boy came from the other end of the corridor, also wearing a school uniform and carrying a schoolbag.

When the boy came over, the other party's friend said goodbye to him: "Ye Ming, I'll go now, see you tomorrow!"

Ye Ming nodded slightly to his friend, his attitude was indifferent, very similar to the Ye Qin played by Yu Xing now.

"Let's go home." Ye Ming came to Yu Xing, as if he just saw the girl, "Yu Wan is here too, shall we go back together?"

"Okay, I won't be bothered to take the bus back if I can catch my eldest brother's car." The girl smiled.

Yu Xing smiled.

It turns out that the girl is Yu Wan, and she is my...neighbor.

I'm afraid they are still the kind of neighbors who grew up together as childhood sweethearts.

Because on the scroll, Ye Qin’s house has two and a half floors and is old. Generally, this kind of house has existed for a long time. It is located in a remote place and surrounded by single-family houses of the same type. Buying these The people in the house are less likely to move. They have lived in the same place and faced the same neighbors for decades. This is the most likely.

Yu Xing followed them downstairs.

He is not very used to this body that is so close to an ordinary person. For himself, it has been a long time since he has felt sore shoulders from lying down for a long time, and his senses have been completely blocked.

This means that even if the ghost is by his side, he may not know anything about it. Even if all the peaceful scenes in front of him are illusions created by ghosts, Yu Xing can't stretch out his spiritual power to feel them as usual, but can only follow this This illusion continues to move forward until the ghost shows its clues.

Like now.

He found it a little strange, since there were normal scenes all around him, scattered students in the corridor, occasional teachers passing by in a hurry, the excited frolic of some boys in the open space downstairs, and the slight friction between the soles of his brother Ye Ming's shoes and the ground. The sound, and Yu Wan's chirping voice asking Ye Mingkao how he was doing.

But the more he walked, the more he felt that this place was very unreal, as if the white walls and tiles beside him should ooze blood.

Every move of others is so pale, like a silhouette drowned in time, Yu Xing feels bored under the cover of paper now, he can vaguely feel that there must be something wrong around him, but he can't find it arrive.

The most direct manifestation is that when he walked, goose bumps appeared on his body, and his heart beat uncomfortably.

This feeling didn't dissipate until I walked past the school gate and got into a small white car. Yu Xing sat in the co-pilot, Yu Wan consciously sat in the back seat, Ye Ming also took out the car keys, Insert into the keyhole of the car.

He is in his third year of high school. If the month is old, he has indeed reached the age where he can take the driver's license test. Yu Xing can't recognize what kind of vehicle it is. This is the only way he can tell that Ye Qin's family background is really good.

He leaned on the leather seat, intending to look at the scenery outside the window, so as to relieve the feeling of being weak.

The vehicle started slowly and was galloping on the road outside the school. While observing the architectural style beside the road, Yu Xing was distracted thinking that maybe when others first became deducers, they felt this way in the deduction. Those who have no special talent People are frightened by ghosts and death threats that may appear at any time; people who have some talents and can sense ghosts a little will be tortured by the kind of fear that follows everywhere.

He's just going through what others have already gone through.

On both sides of the road, within the entire line of sight, the building presents a gray and white tone, and the various shops still use rolling doors, and the shops sell everything, which is very messy.

At the entrance of the shop, there are itinerant vendors who spread a piece of cloth and start selling things. They are all gadgets to please the student group. Many students in school uniform gather around the stall to pick and choose, and some take their friends to the small noodle shop. noodles.

Some residential buildings were built further away, with the same color tone, probably a community.The building is not high, only three or four floors. No matter how you look at this scene, it is a bit similar to decades ago.

Yu Xing happened to have experienced that era, and his sense of sight was very strong.

Hmm... is the timeline of the game the first few years of the 21st century?

He blinked, and felt that it was not so absolute, because when he was in the classroom, whether it was the chalk drawings about old anime on the blackboard at the back, or the indoor loudspeaker that could broadcast to the whole school, even the two teachers by his window whispered It is obviously impossible for the exclamation of the times to have existed at the beginning of the century.

——Of course, if the world view is different, then it’s fine, just treat him as a judge of loneliness.

Yu Xing's fingers unconsciously tapped on his leg. After a while, he suddenly realized that when he was not concentrating, both Ye Ming and Yu Wan were too quiet.

It was as if he was the only one in the car.

His eyes slowly focused from the slack state, and he looked behind him through the transparent glass calmly. From his angle, he could see Ye Ming in the driver's seat, and he could also see Yu Wan from the corner of his eye.

So, he looked at Ye Ming through the car window.

Ye Ming put his hands on the steering wheel, but turned his head to face him, as if Ye Ming only looked at him for as long as he watched the scenery.

Good guy, don't watch the road, drive dangerously!

Yu Xing subconsciously wanted to turn his head to let Ye Ming watch the road and drive, but in the next second, he stopped this urge abruptly.

He is Ye Qin now, not Yu Xing, and he has no capital to kill him.

Big brother Ye Ming is really not right, what about Yu Wan?

Yu Xing didn't know if his eyes turned to Wan's side at this time, which would make his brother change. After all, if his brother turned his head around, he could see his expression reflected on the car window.

Suddenly, a hand stretched out from his shoulder.

The slender and soft hand hung over his shoulder, and then patted it suddenly: "Ye Qin, do you have any napkins? Lend me one."

Yu Xing was still hurt by the girl's hand. He turned his head and found that Yu Wan was leaning forward slightly. When he looked over, the expression on that sweet face was a little unnatural. winked at him.

"...I have it, how many do you want?" Yu Xing asked.

I don't know if he observed too carefully, so he was a little sensitive, Yu Wan seemed to glance at the glass window, and then replied: "One piece is enough."

Yu Xing took out a napkin from his schoolbag and gave it to her. When he looked at the window again, Ye Ming's face had become normal, and he was driving the car attentively.

So he turned his head openly and looked Ye Ming over.

"What's the matter?" Ye Ming slightly turned his face towards him, but his eyes were still focused on the road, which is what he should be like when driving.

"It's okay, it just feels like you've lost weight recently." Yu Xing didn't have anything to say, because Ye Ming is indeed a very thin type. His driving wrist is thinner than that of a girl, and he probably doesn't have much flesh under his school uniform.

"I'm a senior in high school this year, and I'm too heavy on my studies. It's normal to be thin." Ye Ming said, "If you don't want me to lose weight, then put more meat when you cook tonight."

"I see." Yu Xing agreed very calmly, and no one could see that he only found out the fact that the dinner in this restaurant was cooked by himself in the last second.

It's strange, my elder brother has a lot of work in his third year of high school, and my younger sister doesn't know whether it's in her first year of high school or junior high school or elementary school, but how could the job of making dinner fall to Ye Qin, a sophomore in high school, where are the parents?

It was related to the exam questions, and Yu Xing was very vigilant. At the beginning of the reading questions on the exam paper, Ye Qin walked back home from school, and after seeing the home, he thought that his father would not renovate the house, so at that time, his father was still in his life normally. , My brother may not have bought a car yet.

Everything on the test paper was before the timeline he experienced now?
No, if, as he guessed before, the living conditions of this family are really good, then even if my brother didn't buy a car, my parents should have bought a car, and they would take Ye Qin, who was younger at that time, to and from school. , if there is no time, there is always a babysitter.

This road is quite long, and there are no students in sight now. The commercial atmosphere on the side of the road is getting weaker and weaker, as if driving into a more secluded area. After more than ten minutes, Ye Ming stopped the car slowly .

Yu Xing came to a location that can be regarded as the suburb of the city. Looking around, all the houses are single-family, far away from each other, occupying a large area, and their exteriors don’t look very beautiful, and the old atmosphere is very old. obvious.

Ye Ming stopped the car to let Yu Wan get out of the car, Yu Xing changed his expression and asked, "Do you want to come to my house for dinner tonight?"

Judging from Yu Wan's relationship with him and Ye Ming's familiarity with Wan, Yu Wan should be a person who often eats at their house. This is Yu Xing's conclusion after observing the details, so this The invitation was not obtrusive.

In the car, he had already determined that something was wrong with Ye Ming. The role of brother must have something to do with ghosts. Maybe Ye Ming is the kind of internal rule that is forced by some kind of curse. Now he can’t do anything to him, as long as he accidentally steps into the Trap, a trigger-type ghost that immediately shows the side that belongs to the evil spirit.

If Yu Wan is the same, then most likely he will not refuse this invitation, because it is convenient for him to have a loophole when they are together, and it is easier to do it.

"Eh..." Yu Wan hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Ye Ming, "Is it convenient today?"

"It's okay, it's inconvenient for you to come to my house." Ye Ming said it didn't matter.

Yu Wan said quickly, "Okay, then I'll eat at your house, and you can ask Ye Qin how to write homework after eating."

She did not refuse.

On the surface, Yu Xing showed nothing unusual, but in his heart he adjusted the level of danger of Yu Yan to a higher level.

Ye Ming drove again and passed Yu Wan's house. In fact, their house is really close to Yu Wan's house. They are on the same road, with only a dozen meters of flower beds in between.

Yu Xing observed the "home" that was getting closer and closer. His house was as pale as what was written in the reading title. Some walls had peeled off due to poor maintenance, exposing the red bricks underneath, and there were growths growing in the cracks between the bricks. Sporadic weeds.

The bottom two floors are quite large, and the top half floor seems to be an attic, with only one closed window. The attic reaches the top with a triangular roof, and the bricks and tiles are neatly arranged, and some moss seems to be attached.

Next to the house stood a tall telephone pole, and the cables hung from the pole, and stretched to other houses, and so far.

The hottest hours have passed, the weather has turned cooler, and the sound of cicadas resounds in the field between the houses, blocked by the overlapping grass and leaves.

After stopping at the door of the house, Ye Ming wanted to park the car in the garage, and Yu Xing and Yu Wan got out of the car first.

He was just about to take out the key in his schoolbag to open the door when Yu Wan said quietly, "Ye Qin, you have to be more careful recently."

Yu Xing showed a startled expression: "What's wrong?"

Yu Wan lowered his voice, as if he was worried about being heard: "Did you see it when you were in the car? Your brother..."

"I can see it more clearly. At that time, your brother was clearly driving, but in the reflection, his face was facing you!"

(End of this chapter)