Chapter 107: Transmigrated as a Fraudulent Male Streamer (31)
“What does he mean?” Fan Jie caught up, panting heavily.
Cen Yu released his hold on Pei Hengyun. “He wants to drag the game out a bit longer.”
He Yongning and the others were over on the other side of the sports field. Cen Yu pondered for a moment. “Let’s head over to the security guard post.”
“The guard post?” Pei Hengyun looked at Cen Yu. “Why go to the security guard post?”
“We’ll see when we get there,” Cen Yu said.
If his identity truly was Old Cen’s son, then there was no way this setup was useless… It was just a pity Old Cen had already passed away, and he himself couldn’t remember a single thing that happened back then.
After taking a few steps, Cen Yu still felt a strange sense of dissonance.
Earlier, when Pei Hengyun described the scene of their first encounter, the memory had instantly surfaced in his mind.
Yet now that he knew he was indeed Cen Yu from Meiman High School, a former classmate of He Yongning, why hadn’t any memories from this part of the plot loaded in his head?
Could it be that he lacked sufficient clarity on the plot details?
Lost in thought, Cen Yu led the group, running toward the guard post.
Noticing their movements, He Yongning and Jiang Tuan naturally followed suit. The main gates of the school were currently locked tight. When Cen Yu reached the guard post, he found no one inside.
“…” Frowning, he stared through the glass. “There was someone here earlier, wasn’t there?”
He clearly remembered it was the security guard who had let them in.
Yet now, not only were the lights off, but the room was completely deserted.
In a place like Meiman Middle School, the security guard acted as both a gatekeeper and a general custodian, living in the guard post on normal days.
Peering through the glass, Cen Yu carefully inspected the guard post. Confirming that no one was inside and finding that the door handle gave way when turned, he pushed the door open and stepped inside alongside the others.
The moment Fan Jie entered the guard post, he refused to budge another inch.
Trembling all over, he tried pressing the switch that controlled the main gate, only to find zero response no matter how many times he hit it.
He scrambled back outside the guard post, attempting to scale the fence, only to hit an invisible barrier—as if an impalpable wall blocked his path…
Watching Fan Jie’s futile frantic efforts, Cen Yu was hardly surprised. Ever since Yu Sheng first dropped his mask, Cen Yu had guessed they wouldn’t be able to leave Meiman High School until they dealt with him.
Sure enough, his hunch was right.
When Fan Jie re-entered the guard post, his face was a deathly gray, as though he had finally realized he was truly going to lose his life here.
He slumped into the guard post chair in utter despair.
He Yongning glanced at the layer of dust coating the desk. Even though it was summer break, someone should have been on duty by rights.
However, he was unfamiliar with the current security guard and didn’t know if Meiman High School had changed its rules later on… Cen Yu’s eyes landed on the small door at the back of the guard post.
Walking over, he opened the door to reveal the guard’s living quarters.
The setup was extremely simple.
A set of bunk beds, a single desk, and a few bookshelves.
Simple electrical appliances occupied a corner—an electric fan, a hot water kettle—while a small sink sat just outside the guard post for daily washing. Using the restroom likely meant walking over to the facilities in the teaching building.
Stepping inside, Cen Yu noticed a layer of dust here as well.
It looked as though no one had lived here for quite a long time.
The top bunk was piled high with various odds and ends, while the bookshelves held a collection of books.
Cen Yu casually flipped open a book, spotting a small name written in the bottom right corner—
Cen Yu.
It appeared Cen Yu truly was the child of Old Cen the security guard… Cen Yu placed the book back onto the shelf.
Logically speaking, after Old Cen passed away, a new guard should have taken over the post.
Cen Yu looked at the books lining the shelves. “Why didn’t they throw the bookshelves out?” he muttered to himself.
Pei Hengyun walked in behind him, curiously taking in the tiny room. Cen Yu turned to look at him. “Does any of this look familiar?”
Pei Hengyun shook his head. “I don’t think I’ve ever been here.”
Cen Yu looked back at him. “Neither have I.”
That was the strangest part: why didn’t he have a shred of memory regarding any of this?
He turned to He Yongning, who was walking over. “We took a large group photo during our sophomore year. Why wasn’t there one when we graduated in our senior year?”
Cen Yu’s question plunged He Yongning into a moment of thought as well. He slowly shook his head, “…I forgot.”
A bit strange, Cen Yu thought to himself.
If it were due to a lack of resources, then neither photo should have been taken. How could there be a group photo from their sophomore year, yet none from their senior year?
Cen Yu rummaged through the bookshelf again, hunting for more clues, until he spotted a photograph tucked in a corner—a photo of himself and He Yongning together.
Yet judging by the background architecture, the location was actually the major city where he currently lived.
“…Did we go to this place together before?” Cen Yu held up the photo, asking He Yongning.
Jiang Tuan glanced at the photo with a touch of curiosity. As if remembering something, he turned to He Yongning. “Didn’t you go participate in a academic competition back then?”
“What about me then?” Cen Yu asked.
If He Yongning went to the big city for a competition, why had he gone along?
Looking at the date inscribed at the bottom, it read March 11, 2012—shortly after they made their wish to Yu Sheng.
He Yongning stared at the photograph with a deep frown, trying to recall more details, but ultimately shook his head. “I can’t remember.”
He Yongning’s reaction didn’t exceed Cen Yu’s expectations.
Yet he realized the mysteries surrounding this instance were multiplying rapidly. Why had he gone off to the big city with He Yongning during their senior year? Had he received some kind of invitation as well?
Judging by how happily he was smiling in the photograph, it seemed that after taking the photo with He Yongning back then, he had mailed a copy back to Old Cen at the guard post.
If he could find the letter from back then, he might unlock more clues.
Yet right now, there was clearly nothing more to be found… Cen Yu thought for a moment and prepared to leave the guard post first. Otherwise, if Yu Sheng showed up, not a single one of them would get away.
With that thought, Cen Yu prepared to walk out. He glanced at Fan Jie, who sat slumped in the chair refusing to move, before his eyes shifted to the dust-covered pile of envelopes and newspapers over on the desk.
Seeing that everyone except Fan Jie had already stepped out of the guard post, Cen Yu didn’t want to delay any further. He stepped over quickly and scanned the sender names on the letters. Spotting one where the sender was listed as “Cen Yu,” he immediately shoved it into his pocket.
Yet to his surprise, among the pile of envelopes, he discovered a letter addressed to Fan Jie.
He instinctively threw a glance at Fan Jie behind him. After a moment’s hesitation, he offered a silent apology in his heart and opened the letter.
The letter was clearly sent by Fan Jie’s family, and the content was brutally direct.
It simply told Fan Jie to give up on his absurd ideas—there was no way they would let him return home to mess around before graduating high school.
It also told him to stop making life-or-death threats, asking what ghosts could possibly exist in this world.
Unless the school ceased to exist, Fan Jie was going to stay right there and attend school!
Judging by the date at the bottom, it was clearly a letter from March 2012.
Yet earlier, Fan Jie had explicitly claimed that he spoke to his family over the phone… If Fan Jie hadn’t lied about the timeline, then there was only one possibility:
He had begged to return home more than once, and following that incident, Fan Jie had actually seen a “ghost.”
Cen Yu found himself unable to make full sense of it. Looking at the back of Fan Jie sitting there, he felt that as more clues surfaced, the narrative of this instance was growing increasingly complex.
Setting the letter from Fan Jie’s family aside, he prepared to leave the guard post first.
Tidying the letters on the desk as he prepared to step out, his gaze landed on a folded newspaper resting beside them. There, printed in bold on the front page, was the headline—
Sudden Mudslide?! Meiman Middle School Entirely Submerged! Emergency Rescue Underway!
The date printed on the newspaper was March 13, 2012.
Cen Yu’s feet froze dead on the spot.
He hurriedly flipped through the remaining sheets of the newspaper, which continuously detailed the catastrophic severity of the mudslide—how it had damaged not just Meiman Middle School, but the entire town as well.
And the final newspaper sheet chilled Cen Yu to the very core…
It explicitly read: Zero Survivors at Meiman Middle School.
