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Chapter 353 The battery is almost dead.
Everyone's eyes immediately turned to Guo Jimei.

Even Yuan Qinghua's expression seemed a little strange.

Seeing everyone looking at her, Guo Jimei immediately and nervously explained, "When I saw that piece of paper this morning, I was just surprised... I thought it might be someone's prank, because many people know that we play that game..."

"So this morning I didn't pay much attention to it and just left it in the dorm... but Yuan Qinghua, you..."

As Guo Jimei spoke, she looked warily at Yuan Qinghua: "Why would you carry something like that with you?"

A breeze blew in from outside the window.

A few strands of hair, blown by the wind, obscured half of the face of the Yuan blue-and-white porcelain sitting against the light.

She reached up and tucked her long hair behind her ear before speaking: "Because Zhang Pingfan went missing before, we've been trying to find him these past few days. This morning I saw this piece of paper next to my pillow, so I'm a little worried."

By the way, Yuan Qinghua is the class monitor of Class 9 in the second year of high school. It seems that he was involved in Zhang Pingfan's disappearance all day yesterday.

Unfortunately, there has been no result so far.

“Since it’s in the dorm,” Chu Changge suddenly spoke up, “how about we go back and get it now?”

Upon hearing this, Yue Nu looked at Chu Changge with some curiosity.

She was unaware that Li Wentao had received an extra vote, so she found Chu Changge's reaction rather odd: "It's just a piece of paper. Last night, eight people voted, and I voted for Zhang Pingfan, while the other seven of you voted for Li Wentao..."

She suddenly stopped talking at this point.

Even 007, who was still unaware of the situation, was stunned for a moment, then muttered to himself, "Back then, it seems that only Gu Mian, Chu...Chu Meiren, Coco, me, Pan Yue, and Yi Bai voted for Li Wentao, right? He should only have had six votes, right?"

Yue Nu clearly realized this as well: "That's right! Last night, out of the eight people who voted, the six of you who were here voted for Li Wentao, and I voted for Zhang Pingfan. That only makes seven votes. So the eighth vote must have been cast by someone outside of the seven of us. The fact that it was able to accurately vote for Li Wentao means that it must have witnessed what happened last night from the shadows. The eighth vote is a ghost!"

But as soon as she finished speaking, Gu Mian shook her head and said, "No, that's not it."

Yue Nu looked at Gu Mian with some curiosity.

Gu Mian frowned slightly: "During the vote last night, Li Wentao angrily cast his vote for Pan Yue, so this eighth vote was cast by Li Wentao for Pan Yue."

007's expression was grave: "We know that eight people voted, three abstained, one voted for Zhang Pingfan, one voted for Pan Yue, and six voted for Li Wentao, which is exactly eight votes... But last night it was clearly said that Li Wentao received seven votes, so how could there be one extra vote?"

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "We're also very curious, but putting aside the question of what happened with the extra vote, it's a fact that Li Wentao got seven votes, so the ghost is very likely the person who voted for Li Wentao besides the six of us."

Upon hearing this, Yue Nu quickly walked to the table: "No wonder you all care about the paper on which Guo Jimei voted."

As she spoke, she looked at Guo Jimei and said, "It's noon now, and the dormitories are all open. We'll go back with you to get that piece of paper."

It's a tone that brooks no opposition.

Guo Jimei was stunned for a moment, then said, "I'm not going with her."

She was referring to Yuan blue and white porcelain.

Yuan Qinghua still seems somewhat bewildered, as if she doesn't understand why Guo Jimei suddenly treated her this way.

“Okay,” 007 stepped forward, “I’ll go back with you.”

Li Yibai looked at Guo Jimei warily, then turned to 007: "Shall I go with you?"

Since boys aren't allowed in the girls' dormitory, Li Yibai had to wait downstairs if he wanted to go.

Even though it was daytime, it was still dangerous to be alone, since ghosts could easily separate people.

At this moment, Yue Nu suddenly spoke up: "Splitting up is indeed not good for us. How about this, we go together. Lin Qi and I will go back to the dormitory with Guo Jimei to get our things, and the rest of us will wait downstairs. We'll come back and decide what to do after we get our things."

It wasn't that they had any emotional attachment to this classroom and needed to return to make a decision. Rather, they had no other base of operations besides this place; everywhere else was filled with students and teachers, and their gathering to discuss matters would be too conspicuous.

No one objected.

The group immediately set off to walk outside.

It was already past 12:30, and there were no students left in the teaching building. The corridors and stairwells were quiet.

The group quickly arrived at the dormitory building.

But just as they reached the bottom of the stairs, Yue Nu suddenly frowned: "Right, Pan Yue hasn't been here all this time. I suddenly remembered something... Last night when I left the classroom, I saw Pan Yue writing in her diary. Could she have been writing in it all these past few days?"

007 asked curiously, "You mean she might have written her identity in her diary?"

"Even if it's unlikely, we have to seize the opportunity, even if there's only a slight chance." Yue Nu looked at 007.

007 nodded slightly: "Okay, then let's go back to the classroom and look for Pan Yue's diary after we get the things."

But as soon as she finished speaking, Yue Nu immediately said, "No need for that trouble, it will be quick, I'll go get it right away."

"Now?" 007 frowned.

"Although it's not good to act alone, ghosts don't kill people during the day, and it's still a long way from 8 pm... You guys go up first, I'll be back when you come down." Yue Nu said as she turned around and ran towards the teaching building without waiting for the others to speak.

Looking at Yue Nu's retreating figure, Gu Mian felt that she wasn't going to retrieve any diary.

007 looked puzzled, but she didn't waste any time and turned to Guo Jimei beside her: "Then let's go up there."

Guo Jimei nodded: "Mm."

The Yue woman was definitely not going to retrieve any diary.

She ran back to the classroom where the others had been, walked around the long table made up of eight desks, and went straight to the window.

There's nothing particularly interesting outside the window; what's interesting is the radiator on the wall below it.

She bent down, panting heavily, and then pulled something out of her pocket.

It turned out to be a cell phone.

This is one of the advantages of being a day student: you can bring whatever you want to school anytime.

Without hesitation, she immediately turned on the video recording function, then slowly placed her phone into the radiator with the camera facing outwards.

It's September now, and there's no heating yet, so there's no need to worry about your phone overheating and exploding.

"Putting it here allows you to see almost the entire classroom, and it can be concealed. Once it's inside, it'll hardly be noticed..." Yue Nu muttered to herself as she slowly pushed it inward. "If all goes well, my plan can be realized tonight."

She deliberately gathered everyone she could, and then returned alone, because she was afraid that the ghost would know what she had done.

She was the only one in the empty classroom, and the sound of her phone rubbing against the heater was particularly clear, echoing continuously in the empty room.

But just then, she suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

It felt like something was watching me from behind.

My computer is almost out of battery, so please bear with this for now!

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