DSMC Chapter 165.2

Aside from Qi Feng, Director Jiang also sent another staff member with them.

Su Xiran had two assistants. The one who had just come running over was Assistant Xiao Tang.

After leaving the classroom on the second floor where they had been filming, the staff member sent by Director Jiang went to the first floor with Su Xiran’s other assistant, while they headed upward, toward the restroom Xiao Tang had mentioned earlier.

Since Su Xiran had disappeared outside the restroom, naturally they needed to check whether there were any footprints.

With Xiao Tang there, Qi Feng and Lan Mo couldn’t enter the women’s restroom. They checked the floor and the nearby walls, but there were no signs of a struggle.

Yan Jiyun also quietly poked his head out. His eyesight in the darkness was much better than Qi Feng’s and Lan Mo’s.

He looked around as well and indeed didn’t find anything unusual.

Xiao Tang had just said that Su Xiran wasn’t someone who would leave without saying anything. Since there were no signs of a struggle, she must have left on her own. Then, before leaving, Su Xiran should have told Xiao Tang, right? Or perhaps something had caught Su Xiran’s attention, and she thought she wouldn’t go far from the restroom, so she didn’t bother telling Xiao Tang?

This theory was quite reasonable. So, was there any trace nearby that could prove she had been distracted by something before being abducted?

Lan Mo shone his flashlight toward the right, near the windows, and discovered a red hair clip.

He asked Xiao Tang, “Is this Su Xiran’s?”

Xiao Tang nodded vigorously. “Yes, yes! She was wearing this hair clip in her hair. She even told me today that it went really well with her red dress.”

Yan Jiyun: “……”

Talking about a red dress in the middle of the night was genuinely terrifying. At this point, he didn’t even dare stick his head out anymore and obediently shrank back into the backpack.

Just then, a white object fell from above right in front of them. The sound of the heavy object hitting the ground echoed throughout the silent Mingya High School.

Bang!

Other than Yan Jiyun, who had just pulled his head back into the bag, all three of them saw what had happened.

Lan Mo and Qi Feng quickly rushed to the balcony and looked down. A white human-shaped figure was lying on the ground, while the vehicles the production crew had driven over were parked not far away.

For the convenience of carrying equipment upstairs, there were lights on below on the first floor. The three of them could see everything clearly. The person who had fallen from above was a woman wearing a white dress.

This matched the line Qu Wanqiao had just recited from the script.

Qi Feng: “The final second of October 1st.”

Xiao Tang froze for several seconds before finally screaming, “Ahhh! Someone jumped off the building!”

Qi Feng and Lan Mo immediately rushed downstairs. They needed to identify who the woman who had fallen from the building was as soon as possible.

Someone had reached her before they did — it was Shi Yan and He Yuanle, who had been on the first floor the whole time.

He Yuanle stepped forward and turned the woman’s face over. “Holy shit, her face is completely smashed and covered in blood. That’s horrifying.”

Shi Yan walked around the body once. “Yeah. But you can still tell who she is.”

Qi Feng and Lan Mo arrived at this point as well, along with quite a few other players who had rushed over.

Yan Jiyun smelled the overwhelming stench of blood, and the crayfish he had just eaten nearly came back up. Although cats weren’t afraid of the smell of blood, he had a human heart, and he was still extremely averse to the smell of human blood.

If there weren’t so many people around, he would have jumped down to see who had actually died. For now, he could only wait for the others to provide him with information.

This school building really wasn’t a lucky place. This was the third time someone jumped to their death, and fourth if he counted the attempt on Yan Weiqing’s life. Had something major happened to Teacher Qu when he was in school?

Since all the dead are girls… he guessed that perhaps a girl Teacher Qu had cared about deeply had jumped from this school building.

There were two keywords shared by both the Mermaid instance and the Mingya High School instance: the first was a girl; the second was suicide.

With so many people gathered, the identity of the woman in white was quickly confirmed.

It was actually the female lead who had just disappeared, Su Xiran!

Xiao Tang’s legs went weak, and she collapsed onto the ground, so shocked that she even forgot to cry. “S-Su-jie, how could this happen?”

“Oh my god, how could something like this happen?”

An NPC hugged their arms in fear. “Could it have something to do with the October 1st rumor?”

“Could it really be true?”

“Then doesn’t that mean Si Hao really did see a white figure just now?”

“This is so scary! I’m going home tomorrow morning. I don’t want to stay here anymore!”

Once again, the date October 1st had appeared.

Yan Jiyun could now be certain. The day that had been haunting Teacher Qu was October 1st.

Time: October 1st.

Location: The school’s main teaching building.

Victim: A girl.

Cause of death: Falling from the building.

Relationship with Teacher Qu: Girlfriend? Unrequited love? Close friend?

Manner of death: Suicide? Murder?

A terrifying atmosphere spread throughout the entire production crew, and the NPCs were all extremely frightened.

Producer Ci and Director Jiang quickly brought people over. They were also utterly shocked and devastated by the first female lead’s sudden fall from the building.

Yan Jiyun didn’t stick his head out, so he couldn’t see the expressions on their faces at that moment.

Shi Yan quietly said to Qi Feng, “A few people are pretty suspicious. They weren’t in the classroom during the break just now, and when we kept an eye on them, they did everything they could to get away from us.”

Qi Feng had just been thinking about this. He fell silent for a moment before saying, “In the [Mermaid] instance, a girl was pushed from a building. It’s very similar to this instance.”

Shi Yan said, “You mean these two instances actually have something in common?”

Qi Feng said, “Yeah. Do you know about the New Main Mission?”

Shi Yan said, “I do. Find Qu-laoshi.”

Qi Feng said, “Lan Mo should have explained the entire plotline to you. This is Qu-laoshi’s mental world. No matter what kind of plot unfolds, it can’t be separated from his personal experiences. I suspect that the incident involving the white figure corresponds to the girl jumping from the building in the [Mermaid] and [Mingya High School] instances. If we strip away the irrelevant details, we can conclude that during his high school years, an important girl in his life died. The fact that this girl died on October 1st triggered his dissociative identity disorder.”

Qi Feng’s final words suddenly enlightened Yan Jiyun.

That’s right. The girl was extremely important to Teacher Qu. She died on this particular day, but was it her own choice or someone else’s?

Perhaps he had never figured out the truth of what happened. After he became ill, he understood the truth even less. Each personality had a different version of the story behind it, but what exactly was the truth behind the girl’s death?

In the [Mermaid] instance, the girl was pushed from the building by her friend because of love. The girl who died at Mingya High School’s murder motive was still unknown.

However, Shi Yan quickly added more information for Qi Feng.

“The girl who died at [Mingya High School] was murdered because of her roommate’s jealousy. Her roommate deliberately lured her out of the dormitory in the middle of the night, knocked her unconscious, and handed her over to the top student she liked, her boyfriend. They only wanted to use her boyfriend to take her rape her. But several other boys discovered them before they could actually do anything. Someone recorded the whole thing. Later, the girl died because she inhaled too much of the drug she’d been given. The boys couldn’t catch up with the person who had the recording device. When they went back and discovered that the girl was dead, they worked together with her roommate to stage the scene as a suicide. The matter was extremely serious, so the school covered it up, and the police never publicly disclosed the truth behind the girl’s death. Later, someone began taking revenge on these boys and girls. But we hadn’t found the culprit before we entered the new mainline.”

The amount of information was enormous.

Shi Yan truly lived up to the title of a high-level player. Other than failing to find the final culprit, he had already figured out almost the entire chain of events with remarkable clarity.

And now, it was their turn to find the culprit who had killed Su Xiran.

Who would be the mastermind this time?

Qi Feng continued speaking quietly with Shi Yan. No one else could hear them. Only Yan Jiyun could hear their conversation clearly and distinctly.

It was practically cheating.

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“Is Kitty Baby going to get carried through this round? It looks like a conversation between two people, but actually there are three people listening.”

“Am I the only one who doesn’t care about the plot progression? I only care about whether Kitty Baby’s cold will get better.”

“I’m worried that Mimi will get gastroenteritis after eating crayfish.”

“No way. The Level 5 streamer already said Kitty Baby is his cat, and that he raised it himself. He should know Kitty Baby’s digestive system pretty well.”

“Holy shit, after hearing the Level 5 player’s explanation, I get it! Qu-laoshi wants the players to help him uncover the truth behind that girl’s death. All the instances related to [Mingya High School] are manifestations of his obsession!”

“Then why did the [Innocence] instance get mixed in?”

“I don’t think it was random at all. Qu-laoshi wanted the kitty and the players to understand him better. Wouldn’t that make it easier for them to help him uncover the truth? Once the truth is found, they’ll naturally be able to find Qu-laoshi’s main personality.”

“Then aren’t you forgetting that Qu-laoshi also has a secondary personality? He’ll definitely come out and cause trouble. I’m getting excited just thinking about it. I want to see the secondary personality cause trouble! I just love Qu-laoshi’s evil split-off personality, hahaha!”

The female lead, Su Xiran, hadn’t even finished filming the opening scenes before she was suddenly written out of the story.

Not long afterward, the police took the body away.

The production crew continued staying at the school to film the remaining scenes.

All the NPCs were now hiding their true identities extremely well. Qi Feng and the others had immediately gone to the rooftop to investigate, but everything had been cleaned up perfectly. There wasn’t the slightest trace left behind.

It seemed they could only rely on deduction to find the truth.

The incident had also completely driven away Yan Jiyun’s sleepiness. While he was on the rooftop, he jumped out of Qi Feng’s backpack.

He went downstairs ahead of the others. He wanted to examine the scene where Su Xiran’s hair clip had fallen. Perhaps there were still many subtle but crucial clues that hadn’t been discovered.

After the incident, dozens of players were moving around everywhere. Yan Jiyun transformed back into human form in a dark corner, which made it easier for him to investigate. He also took the opportunity to meet up with Qi Feng and Gu Wenzhu.

He glanced at his school uniform, then ran to the classroom on the second floor where the costumes and props were kept and found a set of clothes to change into.

He wasn’t picky and simply grabbed a random outfit and put it on.

When he came out of the props room, he happened to run into Director Jiang, who had just come out of the restroom.

Director Jiang called out to Yan Jiyun. “Wait.”

Yan Jiyun stopped and asked boldly, “Director Jiang, what’s the matter?”

Director Jiang shook his head. “I’ve never seen you before. Who are you?”

Yan Jiyun was about to make up some random identity for himself.

“I…”

Director Jiang said, “A reporter?”

Yan Jiyun’s eyes lit up. Director Jiang was really helpful, even his identity had been provided for him. “Hahaha, indeed, I’m a reporter. To be honest, I came here to photograph the dating scandal between Qu Wanqiao and Su Xiran!”

When he’d been sleeping inside the backpack earlier, he’d overheard the NPCs gossiping about the rumored relationship between Qu Wanqiao and Su Xiran. Now that information had finally come in handy.

Director Jiang narrowed his eyes, a dangerous glint appearing in them. “I’ll give you two choices. Do you want me to call the police and have you arrested, or do you want to stay and help me with the work?”

Yan Jiyun said, “I swear, I didn’t photograph anything, and I won’t post anything about Su Xiran’s incident online.”

Director Jiang chuckled indifferently. “You only have one choice: stay and help me. You have a pretty good appearance, and your bone structure is excellent. You’re exactly the type of female lead I have in mind.”

Yan Jiyun wondered if there was something wrong with his ears.

“???”

Yan Jiyun: “Is this production crew really that casual when choosing a female lead? Even if you need someone to fill in at the last minute, you can’t just randomly grab someone off the street. Furthermore, I’m a man!”

Director Jiang said, “Do you think I’m choosing you for no reason? The outfit you’re wearing right now was specifically prepared by me for the female lead.”

Yan Jiyun cursed inwardly. It was just a random trench coat he’d grabbed! What was wrong with it?!

Director Jiang said, “This is the male lead’s outfit. When the two characters are imprisoned, the male lead puts his coat over the female lead. I think it suits you quite well. Your skin is also very fair, and your eyes are expressive. All right, it’s you.”

[Congratulations, Player! You have obtained a new identity in the Mingya High School 2.0 instance: Lead Actor of the film Mingya High School, playing the first “female” lead.]

[Please follow the script and cooperate with Director Jiang to complete the film.]

…Fuck his life. Tired.jpg.