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Chapter 379 Does it matter if the guitar dies?

Because Gu Mian is alone and has limited mobility.

So the others thought for a moment, tore off a few files, and handed them to him.

Pan Yue tucked a few files into Gu Mian's hands: "I see that there are a few students in this class who live near the school, and one whose family member lives right inside the school. I'll just give you these few simple ones."

After everyone's tasks were assigned, they agreed to meet again in the classroom at 6 p.m.

Because they simply had nowhere else to spend the night.

The seven people quickly separated.

Gu Mian watched them leave, then decided to go to the address at the school first.

As is well known, student information includes a home address section, and this student's name is "Xiang Xingye".

It sounds like an insignificant name.

The home address field was filled with...

"The easternmost office on the first floor of Building 6, Songwen College."

Songwen Academy is the school Gu Mian attended in the dungeon.

Gu Mian knew that many schools would recruit older people as cleaners, simply setting aside a few offices in the teaching building for them to live in, and they could also be used as security guards.

Although these elderly people are simply not up to the standard of a normal security guard...

Gu Mian didn't go out until after eight o'clock when there were hardly any people around.

There were no classrooms on this floor, only storage rooms. Gu Mian closed the door before leaving, hoping that Yue Nu's corpse would stay there peacefully and not be discovered by others.

Teaching Building No. 6 was easy to find.

The students had already started class, and no one noticed Gu Mian flashing past the doorway.

Gu Mian arrived at the easternmost house without any hindrance.

There was a long pane of glass in the door through which one could see inside, but the room was empty.

The room appeared to be a regular office and had not been converted into a living room.

"Strange... I shouldn't have gone to the wrong place." Gu Mian frowned and stood there for a while before deciding to go in and take a look.

Unfortunately, the door was locked, which made Gu Mian, who wanted to go in and find out what was going on, give up.

Although the lock looks quite fragile, it's not good to be wielding knives and guns at school.

He could only check out a few addresses around the school first.

Pan Yue gave him information about three students: besides Xiang Xingye, there were two other students whose names also seemed quite ordinary.

Gu Mian is quite skilled, especially in vaulting over railings.

He quickly searched the school grounds and looked for the students' home addresses on the roadside map.

There's no need to go to great lengths to find it.

In fact, the two students lived in a residential area behind the school. Gu Mian found the residential area quickly, and now all she had to do was go in and find the specific address they had filled in.

"Liu Qiang, Building 32, Unit 2, 7th floor, west..." Gu Mian twisted the paper in her hand as she searched.

With the help of kind passersby, Gu Mian quickly found Building 32.

He rushed into Unit 2 in one go and followed the elevator up to the 7th floor.

This residential complex looks a few years old; the facilities inside the buildings aren't new, but they're very clean.

The area in front of Liu Qiang's house is also very tidy.

A white shoe cabinet stood in front of the door, with not a single shoe on it. It was so clean that Gu Mian suspected that a shoe thief had recently visited the place.

Gu Mian straightened her clothes and then began to knock on the door.

But after knocking for more than ten seconds, no one responded. Gu Mian then patiently knocked for another two minutes, but still no one answered; there wasn't a sound from inside.

"There was no one in the office just now, and no one here either?" Gu Mian thought to herself as she looked down at the door lock, which looked quite fragile.

Just then, a creaking sound suddenly reached his ears.

The sound wasn't coming from the door in front of me, but from beside it.

It seems that his two-minute-long, continuous knocking disturbed the neighbors.

Indeed, a normal person wouldn't knock on the door like that.

The neighbor first opened the door a crack, revealing half of his gray head, as if trying to see who was on the other side.

She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was a student.

The neighbor was an elderly man who looked to be nearly seventy years old.

"Young man, don't you know that the family living here just had a funeral a few days ago?"

A funeral? Gu Mian raised an eyebrow. No wonder the shoe cabinet in front of the door looked like it had been ransacked.

But theoretically, Liu Qiang should still be in the prime of his life: "Why did he die?"

The neighbor looked a little strange: "The old man was almost eighty, it's not surprising he's gone. What are you doing here?"

Gu Mian was also a little surprised: "I'm here to see my classmate. Do you know Liu Qiang?"

"What Liu Qiang or not, this old man has lived here alone for decades, and there has never been anyone named Liu Qiang living here. None of us in the whole building know anyone named Liu Qiang."

strangeness.

Gu Mian frowned; the address filled in on the student's file seemed to be different from the actual address.

With a skeptical attitude, Gu Mian went to the home of another student, Zhang Liu.

The situation was the same; nobody knew anyone named Zhang Liu, and you couldn't find a single person named Zhang Liu in the entire building.

"This is too strange." Gu Mian stared at the file in her hand and decided to go back to that office at the school to take another look.

Meanwhile, others encountered the same situation.

Pan Yue and Guo Jimei were astonished to find that none of the addresses matched the people.

Even the phone number was completely wrong.

"Is this damn file fake?" Pan Yue was sitting by a flower bed at this moment, and angrily threw down the file in her hand.

Guo Jimei was also very anxious: "It's impossible. How could the files stolen from the office be fake? Unless everyone filled out fake forms together, but if they filled out fake forms, it would definitely be found out. Could it be that someone secretly switched the files?"

However, judging from the condition of the file, it is clear that it was not forged recently.

“Oh, right…” Pan Yue suddenly turned to look at Guo Jimei, “If someone really did secretly change the files, I think it might be Chu Meiren. The reason I agreed to split up was so I could separate from Chu Meiren. And there’s something else I want to tell you…”

As she spoke, she pulled out the phone that had been smashed beyond repair: "Yesterday I actually watched a short clip of the video, and I discovered... when Yue Nu put her phone down, Chu Meiren was watching her from behind!"

Guo Jimei's eyes widened: "So, Chu Meiren knew that Yue Nu would go back to get her phone, and it's possible that he killed Yue Nu?"

Pan Yue nodded: "Very likely, and I've always thought he and Gu Mian were quite strange. They don't seem scared at all, and Gu Mian even carries a guitar with her the whole time. Do you think a guitar is more important than life these days?"

Guo Jimei nodded in complete agreement.

Pan Yue hesitated before speaking, "I don't know why, but I always feel something's off. I've felt something's off ever since I found out on the first night that Li Wentao wasn't a ghost..."

"They misled us into casting civilians; when the demon kills, it never mistakenly kills its own kind, as if the demon knew everyone's identities from the beginning."

"And then there's Lin Qi, who was voted out. Regardless of whether Li Yibai casts that vote or not, Lin Qi is destined to be eliminated... It's as if someone had already decided that she would die!"

“I’m quite uneasy,” Pan Yue shuddered. “It’s like we’ve fallen into a trap, and the net is slowly tightening. This trend… I have a feeling we’ll all be caught in it soon!”

(End of this chapter)