Seventeenth (11) Hallucinogen

  From a man's perspective, the most perfect woman is Fengyue. Firstly, she is beautiful enough, with stunning beauty that can be seen anywhere, regardless of what she wears or where she is, whether she is brave or timid, healthy or sick. As long as a woman is beautiful enough, it's called "alluring" and scores 99 points in a man's mind. Then, she is also brave, has courage, and is righteous, which adds another point to her perfection.

  So in my heart, Fengyue is a 100% woman.

  I don't want to sully her with any impure thoughts.

  For an instant, I really doubted her.

  In the face of life and death, women are not that important after all. Although it's said that dying under a peony flower is romantic, if one is dead, no matter how romantic they were, it's just a reputation. What men love most is still lust, not romance.

  I looked at Feng Yue, and under Hou Mingyu's testimony, others also looked at her.

  Feng Yue was somewhat unclear, she said, what's wrong? It was me who gave him water. However, at that time, I wasn't the only one present, would I dare to feed him water myself? At that time, Si Yao and Shen Po were both there, don't believe me, ask them.

  Xiyao and Shenpo nodded, I said, why is it a girl feeding water?

  Fengyue glanced at Xiaobin on the ground and said, "The boys would be delighted if he died. They wouldn't care no matter what I say. This morning, I had to persuade Xiaobin to help him go to the bathroom, and then something happened. Can't blame me for this, right? When I asked Xiaobin, Xiyao was also present, she spoke up too. Why are they all staring at me suddenly?

  I said there's something wrong with the water, where did your water come from?

  The wind and moon exclaimed that it had nothing to do with me anymore, the water was poured out of the thermos in his room. As for who put it in the room yesterday, I don't know. Anyway, it wasn't me.

  Several people said it at the same time, and it wasn't me either.

  Ma Tiancheng spoke in a rough tone, "It was me, I put half a bottle of hot water in his room yesterday, it was kind intention, how can he blame me for this?"

  I hastily waved my hand and said that I had drunk water once before, which was last night, and then felt very strange, seeing many weird things. I didn't dare tell you guys yesterday.

  Ma Tiancheng said, "Then who gave you water to drink?"

  I said I don't know.

  Ma Tiancheng said, "You're such a big person, don't you know who gave you water to drink?"

  I had a sudden realization, I was drinking water in a semi-dazed state, but I didn't dare mention my condition. Since I suspected it was poison, speaking out would be fatal. I could only lie and say that at the time, I was also drinking from my own thermos bottle.

  Fengyue said, "Do you think he is in the same state as you?"

  I nodded and said, "Yes."

  Fengyue said, but the water in your thermos wasn't given by me, why did you just suspect me?

  I was at a loss for words, and seeing the wind and moon somewhat angrily, I hastily waved my hand and said, "I'm not doubting you, I'm doubting that water. The state it gave me is just like what others say, roughly able to see what they say."

  Fengyue said, is there such a thing?

  Then she walked in front of Hou Mingyu and said to him, "Take a look at who I am."

  Hou Mingyu said, you are Fengyue.

  The wind and moon are talking, but I'm not wearing clothes, right?

  Hou Mingyu immediately looked up and down Fengyue, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, although his hands were tied, his arms struggled to break free, as if he wanted to reach out and touch Fengyue.

  Feng Yue stepped back a few steps and said, "Really?"

  Ma Tiancheng was still holding Hou Mingyu, and at this time he stretched out his own right hand, placed it in front of Hou Mingyu's face and said, "Don't look anymore, take a look at the gun in my hand. If you're not honest with me, I'll shoot you dead."

  Hou Mingyu suddenly bowed his head and sat down on the ground, then muttered, I'm honest, I'm honest.

  I see everyone still seems to have the interest to play with Hou Mingyu for a while, waving his hand and saying, what is this thing after all?

  Ma Tiancheng said, as soon as he entered the room and poured a cup of water, he knew.

  We rushed in, the house had a musty smell, dim and gloomy, the whole room gave people a very bad feeling, as if it was an empty tomb.

  Ma Tiancheng tied Hou Mingyu, who had been played with by everyone, back to the bed. He picked up the rope on the ground and said, "This rope was cut open by someone."

  I saw the scar of the knife being cut off above, and then said that these two knives are exactly the same. Is this also a good wholesale?

  Ma Tiancheng said, "Let's talk about water first, and we'll discuss the dagger later."

  I picked up the thermos and poured it into a nearby cup. It was empty. There wasn't any water in the thermos to begin with.

  Fengyue said on the side, "Is this thermos empty?"

  I said, how much water was left before?

  Fengyue said, very little, but it seems not empty, yesterday's water was not much, right?

  Ma Tiancheng said, with just him alone, how much hot water can he still provide? You don't care, I think now everyone is giving me a hard time?

  I hastily wielded the spoon and said, so you're saying that in the end there's no water left?

  Fengyue said, I'm not sure, if there is any, it should be a very small part, but why is it empty?

  Fengyue is absolutely right. This thermos should still be able to squeeze out a few drops even if it's empty, but there isn't a single drop of water in here. Is someone playing a prank on us?

  I didn't want to suspect Fengyue at first, but now that she's speaking, I feel more and more suspicious of her.

  Fengyue said, "Are you sure it's just water that messed up his brain and not something inexplicable?"

  What else could be more inexplicable than this?

  Feng Yue said in a low voice, "This place is so eerie. Is there a saying called 'ghost covering one's eyes'? The ghost wants you to see what it wants you to see."

  Feng Yue said with a mysterious tone, originally everyone was like a startled bird, at this moment the crowd began to slowly back away, finally we all ran out and stood in the corridor looking at Hou Mingyu who was stunned.

  I said, if it's a ghost, we're completely helpless. But if it's human, maybe this time he'll reveal his weakness. Fengyue, I trust you very much, but everyone is in danger, can you describe the situation before he ran out this morning?

  Fengyue let out a sound, pulled over Sihua and said: Yesterday the boys all said they wouldn't care about Hou Mingyu anymore. This morning after breakfast, I told Sihua that we should take some food to feed Hou Mingyu, Sihua told Jin Sanbai, but Jin Sanbai said he wanted to go with Da Zhang to find a way out and go up the mountain. I had no choice, so I discussed with Sihua whether the three of us girls should go up to feed him, after all, we couldn't just watch him starve to death. So the three of us went together, to be honest, I was really scared, but also really couldn't just sit and do nothing. I fed him some breakfast, and poured hot water from a thermos for him to drink, Sihua was always present, right? Did you see me doing anything with my hands or feet?

  Siya said, "Don't listen to their nonsense. Can't do good deeds and be suspected instead? If everyone sweeps the snow in front of their own door, suspicion would decrease, but... can you just watch him starve to death? I was present throughout, every word Fengyue said is true."

  The immortal old woman said, yes, I also testify.

  Fengyue said, then he said he wanted to... pee. The three of us were powerless, right? Can't let me... I didn't dare loosen his rope, do you want me to hold it for him? The three of us went out to discuss with Xiaobin, but Xiaobin disagreed and said to let Hou Mingyu pee in his pants. Jin Sanbiao and the other two had already left, we three talked for half a day, Xiaobin just wouldn't agree, finally after discussing it, we also couldn't do anything about it, this matter can't be done by girls, we're not loving servants, right?

  Siya nodded and then turned back to look, Xiao Bin was standing at the back of the crowd, leaning against the wall with a pale face. Siya said, "At that time, we three tried to persuade him, but he just wouldn't agree."

  Fengyue said, and then we finally waited for the two of them to come back, but something happened, everyone ran out to the village. Then after coming back, we consulted with Jin Sanbai again, but it didn't work either, the two of them had the same attitude, saying they were frightened, and asked us not to bother them.

  Siya said, right, at that time the attitude was very bad, and even swore. We were very angry and didn't want to care about it anymore, but Fengyue had a good heart and said she would discuss with Xiaobin again, if it really didn't work out, she would go help Hou Mingyu instead.

  Feng Yue sighed and said, I'm just too soft-hearted, so I went to ask Xiao Bin again. This time he was much more straightforward, saying that he would help this once, but next time the boys would have to take turns coming over, and we should try to persuade Jin San Bao and Zhang Da Zhuang. At the time, I just humored him, saying it was definitely no problem, and then we went back to our room.

  Xiyao said, then we heard a scream, when we ran out and found that Xiaobin was being trampled by Hou Mingyu, and Xiao Ai was caught by him. At that time, we were all scared to death, Hou Mingyu said he was released by Aifei, wanting to kill us all, so we kept a distance from him, but someone was in his hands, and didn't dare to completely ignore him. Then you guys came back.

  I thought about it, and that means the time interval between when I went to fetch water and when Hou Mingyu ran out was quite long, and Hou Mingyu's door had been open all along, so anyone would have had time to go in and pour water for him or empty the thermos.

  That is to say, Fengyue was not the only suspect, nor even the prime suspect. After all, it would be impossible for a woman to hang someone like Dapeng in an ancient temple.

  I looked at Hou Mingyu again and said, "In the past, we've always encountered unsolved mysteries, but this time we have a breakthrough, right? I said that Hou Mingyu's state is very similar to mine yesterday. When others spoke, I could see what they were saying, it was as if I was easily hypnotized. Just now, Fengyue said it might be "gui yan yan" (a ghost covering one's eyes), which is possible, but we can't give up on this lead, right? Does anyone know of anything else that could cause this state?

  Ma Tiancheng spoke up, "Isn't it just a hallucinogen?"

  Hehe, I've played with this stuff when I was clubbing at night, but this is different from drugs, it doesn't have such strong addictive properties. Of course, that's not to say you can just go ahead and inhale it, this stuff can drive people crazy. Looking at him like that, I reckon the dose isn't small.

  I said, hallucinogen? Can you describe it in detail?

  Ma Tiancheng said, "What else can I say? Anyway, you ask me to talk about the composition and principles of this thing, but I definitely won't be able to say anything. All I know is that it has an effect - when you're playing high in a nightclub, taking one pill will make everything around you seem very illusory, making you forget yourself and not know anything. But if the dose is too large... I'll just say it straight out - many people use this to harm girls in nightclubs. If the dose is large enough, no matter what you say to the other person, they'll hear whatever you want them to hear. You can tell her that you're giving her 5 million yuan and she'll immediately see the money; you can mention a famous car or watch and she'll believe it's true... Do you understand?"

  I nodded and said, "Either it's a ghost blocking my eyes or it's hallucinogenic."

  Jin San said, "What thing is it that you're talking about? You say you have that state, but I didn't see it yesterday. I remember when Ai Ya ran back, right? How come I didn't hear you say you saw Ai Ya?"

  Xiao Pang'er was supporting Xiao Ai, I saw her pale face and couldn't bear her worrying about me, so I concealed the part where I saw Ai Ya. I said, at that time the medicine's effect probably wore off.

  Jin San said, "You're the ones who keep saying this stuff. Our people are being beaten one by one, and today you came back without a word and hit us two again. You want me to say that you're the ones with ulterior motives, right? Are you trying to arrest all of our male students and then harm our female students?"

  Two donkeys kicked Jin Sanpang's waist from behind, Jin Sanpang fell to the ground with a thud, Er Duzi stepped on his back, his eyes were red, he gritted his teeth and said, "You killed my brother, today I'll beat you to death."

  Mentioning Xiao Buzhi, I also went crazy. My friend hanged himself on the tree, thinking that the curse of disappearance had fallen on me again. The ticking sound in my mind kept flashing, all of which was enough to drive a normal person mad.

  Moreover, at this moment I don't even feel like a normal person.

  I went mad and pushed Zhang Dazhuang away. Zhang Dazhuang was originally standing timidly in the crowd, he stumbled, then shouted: What do you want to do? Are you going to kill us all?

  I was about to go up and hit Da Zhuang, Feng Yue and Si Yao grabbed my arm, Feng Yue said, what do you want to do? Are you really going to bully us?

  I was stunned, then I saw the students were all in a panic, Ma Tiancheng standing there also looked somewhat dazed, I pointed at Zhang Dazhuang and said, those two killed my friend.

  Ma Tiancheng said: "You two? Do you have evidence? If so, I'll beat them to death."

  Two donkeys stepped on Jin Sanbao, he said, Xiaobudian found the flaw in their plan and was killed by them. How did they happen to run out this morning? And coincidentally, it was two people? They must have discovered that Xiaobudian had gone out and followed him before killing him.

  Jin San Pao said, lying on the ground, "Don't talk nonsense, you're spouting blood. Why would I want to kill your friend? I don't even know him, and I've never seen you before. Where did you come from? Have you been hiding somewhere all these days? Are you the one who killed people, and now you want to kill us?"

  Two donkeys exerted themselves underfoot, Jin Sanpang let out a loud cry, and the students very consciously stood on the opposite side of us, everyone suspiciously looking at us.

  I just threw that camera to the front desk, turned around and ran downstairs, holding the camera high above my head. I said this is my friend's instrument, he installed a camera in the cave, this instrument is a receiver. This morning he went to receive the image, then found something, which led to someone being silenced. Look.

  I turned on the camera, found that shot and handed it over. The students gathered around in a circle to watch it once, looking at me with confusion.

  I'm saying, take a look at the time, it was before the explosion, in the middle of the night someone went to the cave and moved things. Do you understand?

  Fengyue reacted the fastest, covering her mouth before whispering, "Could it be that the loud noise that night wasn't an earthquake, but... someone had blown up the cave?"

  I nodded.

  Siya said, "Why? Who wants to lock us up here?"

  I said, does he want to lock us up here and kill us all?

  Suddenly all around was quiet, I could hear everyone's heavy breathing, and also many noisy heartbeats.