Chapter 152

Chapter 152

Invisible Wall.

It could create four invisible walls around the user, ensuring their safety.

However, like the Invisibility Pearl from before, this thing could only remain fixed in the place where it was first used. It couldn’t move along with a person.

Xia Zeqin had most likely used this item.

No one could answer Qin Nan’s question.

Jian Fan turned back around, his gaze returning to the television. “Look for clues first.”

Qin Nan gave an “oh” and stopped dwelling on Xia Zeqin. Shi Chen did not ask too many questions either. His attention was quickly drawn to the video playing on the television.

Aside from that string of numbers, what other information was hidden in the video?

The video had already reached the part where everyone was ganging up on Zhao Yingguo.

“The Fire was that intense. Did no one notice it at the time?” Lin Junruo suddenly raised a question.

Mu Xin paused and looked at Lin Junruo.

Lin Junruo was still frowning as she said, “With a Fire that big, smoke must have poured out a long time before that. Someone should have noticed, right? I remember when I was in university, one of the dorm rooms accidentally started a Fire by using a banned appliance. It was discovered very quickly. By the time the ambulance arrived, the Fire had already been put out. In the end, only a few things in that dorm room were burned, and no one was even hurt.”

“Lin Junruo has a point,” Qin Weiyi agreed.

Judging from the way it looked, this was a school dormitory. If such a huge Fire broke out in one dorm room, how could no one have noticed? Long before it burned that fiercely, someone should have discovered it and reported the Fire, right?

“That’s not all,” Shi Chen said as well.

The others looked at Shi Chen.

“Zhao Yingguo is a girl. Maybe she could handle those other girls, but if she wanted to take down a boy, tie him up, and then move him into this dorm room, could she have done all that by herself?” Shi Chen said.

Everyone quickly arrived at the answer in their hearts.

She couldn’t.

Zhao Yingguo couldn’t possibly have done it alone. That meant what happened that day involved an accomplice besides Zhao Yingguo. But was this accomplice truly helping Zhao Yingguo, or did they have another motive?

Everyone sank into thought. Outside, Zhao Yingguo was still slamming herself against the door.

Qin Nan spared a bit of attention for the situation outside. After thinking for a moment, he raised a possibility. “This dorm building has been around for several years. This door won’t get knocked open, right?”

Zhao Yingguo seemed completely unable to feel pain as she kept throwing herself against it. If she did it enough times, there really was no telling whether she might break it open.

Jian Fan lifted his eyes and quickly pointed at the desk nearby. “Block it.”

Lu Jing did not need anyone to direct him. He immediately stepped forward and pushed the desk straight against the dorm room door. After that, he piled some other things, such as chairs, in front of the bathroom door. As for the balcony…

Lu Jing was stumped.

“The balcony door is all glass. Blocking it with stuff won’t do any good,” Lu Jing said.

Jian Fan lowered his gaze and thought for a moment. “The safe period has a time limit.”

“What?” Yellow Hair asked.

Qin Nan quickly understood what Jian Fan meant. “If it gets hit too many times, the glass probably won’t hold. So we need to think of a way to leave or deal with Zhao Yingguo before the glass breaks?”

“Zhao Yingguo is right outside. Even if we think of a way, we still can’t leave,” Yellow Hair said worriedly.

“Make a feint to the east and attack in the west,” Jian Fan said.

Shi Chen looked at Jian Fan and asked, “How do we do that?”

They were all inside this dorm room. Could they really create noise somewhere else?

Jian Fan did not explain further. He simply reached out and pointed at the television in front of them.
“I’ve watched this thing several times too, and I really can’t see anything useful in it.” Yellow Hair’s temper was starting to fray again.

Qin Weiyi chuckled. “What Jian Fan means is to use the television as a diversion.”

Yellow Hair let out an “oh.” Once he understood what Jian Fan meant, he immediately nodded. “That works. Then the most important thing right now is finding a way out. Could it be that the clue isn’t in the dorm supervisor’s room at all?”

“It’s possible,” Jian Fan said.

“If it’s not here, things are going to get tricky.” Qin Weiyi’s brows drew together.

They needed to get out of here and search the nearby area for clues, but there was no way they could do that without making even the slightest noise. And once they made noise… wouldn’t that be certain death?

“Don’t panic yet. Let’s keep looking,” Jian Fan said, still the calmest one among them.

On the television, the footage began playing from the beginning again.

“This video, and the Metal Box-could they have been left behind by that accomplice? What was the point of leaving these things here?” Qin Nan asked.

None of them had any ideas.

Naturally, Qin Nan couldn’t get an answer from them. With no other choice, he could only keep watching the video.

No matter how many times he watched it, the video still made Qin Nan uncomfortable. It made him angry and nauseated-especially that girl who had taken the photos.

By all rights, a girl should have been better able to empathize with the victim. Yet she had been the original perpetrator. It was utterly disgusting.

As Qin Nan silently cursed her in his heart, he kept his eyes fixed on the video. Then something flashed through the corner of his eye. Qin Nan froze, grabbed the remote, and hurriedly pressed pause.

“What is it?” Jian Fan asked.

At Qin Nan’s sudden movement, everyone turned to look at him, confused as to why he had stopped the video all of a sudden.

Qin Nan walked up to the television, crouched down until his eyes were level with the screen, then pointed at one corner and said, “This woman. She isn’t among the twelve people who died later.”

Everyone followed Qin Nan’s gaze.

It was a girl standing in the corner. While the others were assaulting Zhao Yingguo, she had her head lowered and was casually playing with her phone. There didn’t seem to be anything strange about it, but…

Jian Fan took the remote and pressed play.

The video continued.

When it finished playing again, silence fell over the room.

Just as Qin Nan had said, that girl had not been in the final sea of Fire. She was not one of the twelve people.

“If Zhao Yingguo wanted revenge, she couldn’t possibly have let anyone go. Then this person…” Mu Xin gave a soft “ah.” The answer was already obvious.

This girl, who had appeared in the video from the very beginning, was Zhao Yingguo’s accomplice.

That made sense.

Because she was one of that group’s companions, no one would have guarded against her. That would have made it easier for Zhao Yingguo and her to work together from the inside and outside, take all those people down, and finally tie them up in one dorm room.

But had this person been Zhao Yingguo’s accomplice from the very beginning, or had she changed sides later?

There had to be more to her story.

“Why do I feel like Zhao Yingguo is just a mini-boss, and this one is the real big boss?” Qin Nan rubbed his brow, feeling a headache coming on.

Qin Nan wasn’t the only one thinking that.

Zhao Yingguo was very likely the one who had been used. The one hiding behind Zhao Yingguo was probably the true big-boss-level threat. In other words, they had already been forced into a dead end by a mini-boss. If they ran into the big boss…

The future looked bleak.