Chapter 108: Transmigrated as a Fraudulent Male Streamer (32)
“Why aren’t you leaving yet?”
Fan Jie’s voice suddenly rang out from Cen Yu’s right.
Cen Yu immediately shoved the newspaper and Fan Jie’s letter into his pocket, then turned his head to look at Fan Jie, who was walking over, with an impatient expression. “Is it illegal for me to take a break?”
Seeing Cen Yu’s annoyed face, Fan Jie—who had been slowly approaching—retreated a little. He silently sat down in his chair and stopped talking.
Cen Yu looked up at the time, only to discover that the wall clock inside the guard post read 3:10 PM.
Yet outside, it was pitch-black, every bit the dead of night. Cen Yu pulled out his phone again, finding that the time displayed on the screen was 2:00 AM.
“Are you really not coming with us?” As Cen Yu was leaving the guard post, he looked back at Fan Jie once more.
Fan Jie didn’t turn his head, merely sitting there and muttering to himself, “Not going.”
Cen Yu gave him one last glance, then walked out of the guard post.
—
He Yongning could tell that after leaving the guard post, Cen Yu had suddenly grown quiet.
He guessed the man had likely discovered something, and the reason he hadn’t spoken up was probably because he felt now wasn’t the right time.
Not the right time? He Yongning’s gaze shifted to the few people beside him.
Aside from himself and Cen Yu, there were Pei Hengyun and Jiang Tuan.
Pei Hengyun was the classmate who had died early, while Jiang Tuan was their good friend.
And Cen Yu had just looked at the group photo, taking a bit of extra time inside the guard post… Had he found materials related to the past?
Meanwhile, Cen Yu’s brain was in overdrive!
He had truly realized something! There was absolutely no good in this lousy System agreeing so easily to his request. While he was busy feeling pleased with himself and thinking the instance was simple, the main System had probably been laughing in secret…
With one hand stuffed in his pocket, he glanced at Jiang Tuan, who was still scanning the area for Yu Sheng, and then at Pei Hengyun, who kept looking over at him. Finally, he spoke up.
“I need to talk to He Yongning.”
Rather than sneaking around, it was better to be direct.
Jiang Tuan wore a slightly surprised expression, seemingly unable to figure out what those two had to talk about. Pei Hengyun simply watched him without a word.
“Follow me.”
Cen Yu knew there was no time to lose, so he grabbed He Yongning by the wrist and led him straight toward the old teaching building.
He Yongning looked back at Jiang Tuan and Pei Hengyun, whom they were leaving behind, then at Cen Yu in front of him. He didn’t resist. It wasn’t until Cen Yu dragged him into an abandoned classroom that he asked point-blank:
“What else did you see in the guard post?”
Cen Yu didn’t waste any breath either, handing both the newspaper and the letter directly to He Yongning.
He Yongning skimmed through the pages at a glance. Cen Yu watched with satisfaction as a look of surprise crossed the man’s face, then added: “The time on the clock in the guard post was three-ten.”
And the newspaper reported that the sudden mudslide occurred at exactly 4:00 PM.
Because that day was a Thursday, everyone was still in the classrooms for school when it all happened far too suddenly.
A landslide combined with a mudslide, instantly submerging almost the entire school and parts of the surrounding area… Cen Yu had previously wondered why every single accident in this story was tied to mudslides.
Whether it was Pei Hengyun’s passing or the reason they were trapped here later on, everything was linked to mudslides.
He never expected the truth behind the entire story to carry such a layer of hidden meaning…
They had indeed been trapped by a mudslide, but not a current one. Ten years ago, everyone at Meiman High School—except for him and He Yongning—had been buried in that mudslide.
Whether it was Fan Jie or Jiang Tuan…
When he first arrived in this town, he had found it extremely strange. Even for a mountainous region, there was no way it should be this cool in the dead of summer.
As for Jiang Tuan’s newly built house…
Cen Yu even suspected it was a paper house burned for him by his family… He looked at He Yongning. “You don’t remember anything?”
He Yongning, just like him, had zero memory of the two of them going away for a period of time during their senior year.
Cen Yu opened the letter he had sent back then. The contents were very simple, mentioning that he and He Yongning had seen a lot of things outside and had even taken a tour around his dream university.
He had told Old Cen not to worry.
The clock in the guard post read 3:10 PM, which meant one thing: if they didn’t leave this campus before the clock in the guard post hit 4:00 PM, they would never be able to leave this place again.
If he hadn’t guessed wrong, Fan Jie had made two wishes in total.
The first time was during their sophomore year when he came to the classroom and made a wish, only for it to be interrupted by Old Cen before it could proceed.
After that, Fan Jie spent a long time living in fear, until after the winter break of their senior year, when Cen Yu and the others also made a wish to that thing—
To this day, Cen Yu couldn’t recall what his own wish had been.
But he guessed it was most likely related to Pei Hengyun.
And the ghost Fan Jie spoke of was either connected to Pei Hengyun or to Yu Sheng… Then came Fan Jie’s second wish, made after receiving the letter from his family.
It was precisely that second wish that triggered the subsequent mudslide. As one of “everyone,” Fan Jie had been buried here as well.
As for him and He Yongning…
Cen Yu thought to himself that because they had “escaped,” Yu Sheng wanted to call them back to finish what was started.
He Yongning was a smart man. Naturally, he could deduce roughly the same things Cen Yu had figured out.
He also understood why Cen Yu had called him aside privately. But the problem right now was that they didn’t seem to have a way to leave the campus…
What Cen Yu was thinking about, however, was his second task: rewriting everyone’s fate.
He had initially assumed that rewriting everyone’s fate referred to altering the fatal outcome destined for everyone after attending the class reunion. Looking at it now, it meant roughly the same thing.
“…Do you already have an idea?” He Yongning looked at Cen Yu, guessing that since the man had called him over, he must already have a plan.
Cen Yu searched around the abandoned classroom for a moment, finding an old scratchpad and a pen.
He pulled out a chair and laid the paper and pen onto the desk. “Come over here.”
He Yongning still remembered what Fan Jie had said earlier, so he naturally understood what Cen Yu was trying to do.
He walked over to sit opposite Cen Yu, jointly gripping the pen with him to start playing “Spirit of the Pen”…
Naturally, Cen Yu didn’t know the proper incantation, so he simply repeated to He Yongning over and over—
“Come out quickly, come out quickly, come out quickly.”
He Yongning’s expression shifted from confusion to a brief moment of numbness. Then, he raised his eyes to look at Cen Yu. “What do you want?”
“Xinyu.” Cen Yu stared at him. “I want to go back to before any of this happened.”
“Wishful thinking.” He Yongning looked back at Cen Yu. “What do you think you have to pay in return?”
Cen Yu propped his chin up with his free hand. “Anything.”
“Then I want you to stay here forever, and never leave again.”
