"After seeing that, you can still eat?" Wang Jing asked in astonishment.
"If this continues, it's very normal for people to die." Ning Wei's implication was that nothing could stop her from eating.
But everyone present, except for her, indicated they couldn't eat.
Ning Wei didn't insist, planning to cook her own meal in the cafeteria.
As soon as she took two steps outside, Li Ye followed her.
Later, the girls around Bai Xue were still whispering about their relationship, mainly because of Li Ye's good looks, envying Ning Wei for receiving special treatment.
Ning Wei pushed open the cafeteria door, and Li Ye turned on the lights for her.
The two searched the cafeteria and finally decided to eat boiled eggs!
Ning Wei took a big bite and offered one to Li Ye, "Aren't you really going to eat?"
Li Ye pushed it back, "I'm not hungry."
Since there was no one else around, it was a good opportunity for the two of them to talk.
The two people died in the room without waking anyone else. Although the reason for this had been found, other issues remained unresolved.
For example, was it suicide or murder?
Why did they die?
Did they touch some hidden rule?
There were too many people earlier, and with the noise, it was impossible to sort things out. That's why Ning Wei chose to ponder with Li Ye alone now.
Ning Wei had participated in or heard about everything that had happened since the scream occurred, so she wasn't worried about any omissions.
The scream was made by Bai Xue's sister, Bai Yang. When they woke up, they heard someone knocking on the door outside. It was actually Song Zhi knocking on Ning Wei's door, intending to wake them up to go sightseeing together.
Because she misheard, Bai Yang went to turn on the light to knock on the door. Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned on the light, she saw the bodies out of the corner of her eye.
She didn't even have time to open the door and was so scared she hid beside Bai Xue.
Immediately after, Li Zi'ang and the others ran over and surrounded the room. After they looked, it was Ning Wei and her group's turn to look.
Then Ning Wei and Li Ye discovered a small mechanism for releasing sleeping gas inside the chandelier.
Ning Wei and Li Ye had also seen the two bodies. They had died not long ago, and their bodies were still warm.
The bodies of the two corpses had no hair. They had been scraped clean with a razor, and it looked like they had done it themselves. A lot of hair was not cleaned up and was scattered all over the floor.
Secondly, they didn't know where they got the needle and thread from, threading them through their bodies. In some places, they had been so fierce that one could vaguely see black threads hidden beneath the skin.
Scraping off hair and wrapping their bodies with thread must have had some symbolic meaning, but there was too little information now, and Ning Wei couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she thought.
As for why these two people died, the reason was also unclear.
Having just arrived at this place, everyone was very cautious. Therefore, these two people had not acted alone. After leaving the cafeteria, the eight of them tidied up their beds and prepared to sleep. They knew nothing after turning off the lights.
According to Ning Wei's previous discovery, turning off the lights would trigger the sleeping gas mechanism, so these two dead people should have also been gassed.
How could gassed people suddenly wake up and harm themselves?
This matter was too bizarre, and Ning Wei's expression was also somewhat grim.
"According to this, even if you don't leave the crowd, you could still be targeted." After analyzing, Ning Wei only reached this unsettling conclusion.
"Could it be that they said something, or made some inconspicuous small movement?" Li Ye tried to guide Ning Wei to continue thinking.
Ning Wei shook her head. Those two people were not part of their team, so even Bai Xue and the others couldn't recall some details about them, let alone bystanders like them.
"If you can't think of it, then don't think about it." Li Ye offered Ning Wei another egg.
Ning Wei couldn't eat anymore. She put the remaining two eggs in her pocket, and the two of them left the cafeteria.
Now, all the dormitory doors in the first row were wide open, except for the one with the bodies and those that were uninhabited.
Passing by, one could see a few people sitting together inside, idle.
Mei Nan thought that Ning Wei and the others had secretly gone to investigate. Unexpectedly, Ning Wei innocently took out the eggs from her pocket and asked him, "Do you want to eat?"
"You're really hungry," Mei Nan said, somewhat speechless.
Ning Wei nodded.
No matter how Li Zi'ang planned the next steps, Ning Wei intended to have a small meeting in their room.
Just as she was about to speak, Tang Tang's fingers twitched.
"She's awake," Yuan Yuan, who was accompanying her, said in a low voice.
Before Tang Tang could sit up, she said urgently, "I saw it."
"What?" Yuan Yuan, who was closest to her, was slightly startled.
Tang Tang suddenly sat up, "I saw it. They took out razors and needle and thread from their pockets and helped each other shave their hair, muttering that having hair was inconvenient for swimming and their skin was too loose for swimming."
Everyone looked at Tang Tang in surprise, not daring to interrupt her.
Tang Tang continued, "After the hair was shaved clean and their skin was sewn up, they jumped into the water."
Ning Wei and Li Ye exchanged glances. Although the two corpses had wounds all over their bodies, the real cause of their death was suffocation.
However, this discovery had not been revealed to others, so how did Tang Tang know?
Ning Wei cautiously approached Tang Tang. After speaking, Tang Tang seemed to have come back to her senses and tightly grabbed Ning Wei's arm, "They drowned! They drowned!"
Seeing Tang Tang's emotional state, Ning Wei quickly comforted her, "Don't be afraid, everyone is here. Calm down first."
Tang Tang took several deep breaths, then looked around, and finally, as if she had just woken up, her eyeballs rolled a couple of times.
"I remember you fiddling with the mechanism and releasing sleeping gas. I inhaled it, my vision went black, and when I opened my eyes again, I saw what those two people did before they died!"
This was all coming together. Could it be that a ghost had possessed Tang Tang and was using her eyes to tell everyone what had happened?
However, Ning Wei saw no signs of possession on Tang Tang, nor did she see the ghosts of the two corpses.
"Did you see where they were swimming?" Zhu Yilian asked Tang Tang in a soft voice.
Tang Tang slowly recalled, "It was a large pool, very, very large. They sat in front of the pool, took off their clothes, shaved their hair, sewed their skin, and after doing so, they jumped in and drowned."
"Do you know where this pool is?" Yuan Yuan asked next.
Tang Tang shook her head, "When I opened my eyes, I saw this place. I don't know how to get there."
Tang Tang had said everything she had to say. She looked as if her soul had been drained, and she lay back with her eyes open.
Zhu Yilian helped her lie down properly. The remaining people looked at each other, puzzled.