"..."
There was a pause on the other end.
Then ca the customary cold voice of Beichuan Si, "I found a couple of close friends, I think there shouldn’t be any problem."
Found a couple of friends?!
Qianhe Kagura’s expression changed, and she imdiately grabbed the list of students performing the ghost act.
Two third-year students, one Beichuan Si, another second-year student... four people in total.
If Beichuan Si had found two of them...
Qianhe Kagura swallowed hard and murmured softly, "Sato, Suzuki, Tanaka... Do you recognize these three people, Beichuan?"
"I don’t know them," Beichuan Si replied indifferently.
Don’t know them?! But there are only four high school ghost perforrs, right?! If you don’t know them, then where did you find these friends? Make friends out of thin air?
Qianhe Kagura was certain now.
The person on the walkie-talkie was definitely not Beichuan Si.
Then who were they? What did they want to do to the Kyubei students?
Qianhe Kagura’s breathing beca hurried; to conceal this, she coughed twice and replied:
"Is that so? Then you should be very careful... for now, just stay put. We’ll have soone co to find you in a mont."
"Okay."
The walkie-talkie went silent again.
Qianhe Kagura imdiately pressed Shen Gu Mirai’s walkie-talkie.
"I’ve received your ssage, Shen Gu Mirai speaking," said Shen Gu Mirai, her voice tinged with a hint of laughter, seemingly unaware of what had actually happened on the mountain.
"Shen Gu! So irregularities have cropped up on the mountain! Hurry and get the students to leave! There may be a gang of thugs on the mountain, and Beichuan might have already fallen into their hands, plus they might be carrying knives!"
Qianhe Kagura’s voice burst out in urgency.
This left Shen Gu Mirai on the other end of the walkie-talkie stunned.
Huh?
Thugs?
Beichuan Si fell into their hands?
And the thugs have knives?
No way. I can believe there are thugs on the mountain, but you’re saying Beichuan Si fell into their hands?
That’s a bit too...
After Qianhe Kagura clarified the situation, Shen Gu Mirai hesitantly said, "Um... Teacher Qianhe? You might not need to worry so much. Maybe Beichuan and the others are just so convincing in their act that they’ve scared everyone?"
"Regardless! Evacuate everyone into the lodge! I’ll give you a phone number, it’s the lodge owner’s. Get them to protect you!"
Qianhe Kagura switched off the walkie-talkie.
This left Shen Gu Mirai sowhat stunned.
She looked toward the dark woods, twitching her mouth, "How did it co to this...? And Mr. Temple... what in the world are you doing?"
Why is the teacher so scared? What on earth happened?
Elsewhere.
After hanging up on Shen Gu Mirai, Qianhe Kagura finally couldn’t hold it in any longer.
She turned to the other remaining teachers and scread at the top of her lungs, "Quick, call the police!!!"
...
The Japanese police were unusually efficient for once.
In roughly fifteen minutes, a few police cars arrived from the local station.
After so deliberation, they decided to ascend the mountain from three different trails.
And then—
Then they saw Beichuan Si, sitting amidst a pile of students and teachers who had fainted, the bird beak mask removed from his face.
Nobody was injured.
Everyone had simply fainted from excessive fright.
A quick count revealed that, besides the eight groups of students who had gone up the mountain, there were also five teachers lying unconscious on the ground.
Indeed.
They had all fainted from fear.
Not only were the police baffled.
Even the teachers still standing by were flabbergasted.
They stared at Beichuan Si, who was chatting with the police in a prop bloody robe, speechless for quite so ti.
What on earth was going on?
Was it really as Shen Gu Mirai had said, that these people had all been scared faint right here?
"Excuse , are you Teacher Qianhe Kagura, the person in charge of this courage test event?"
The interrogative voice of the police rang out.
"Ah... Yes, I am." Qianhe Kagura, deep in thought, distractedly looked up.
"Well, could you co to the station with to make a statent? We’ve just done a headcount, and no one is missing. This includes the four teachers—they’re only lying on the ground due to excessive fright; a night’s rest should see them right."
The police spoke calmly.
"Uh... but there might have been thugs..." Qianhe Kagura wasn’t quite ready to give up.
To simply accept that her teachers had been scared into this state by a student—honestly, she couldn’t accept it at all.
"There were no thugs; we have already conducted a thorough search of the mountain."
Seeing Qianhe Kagura’s expression, the police asked with a peculiar look, "Does Teacher Qianhe have any history of paranoia?"
"How could I possibly!" Qianhe Kagura’s face turned red with indignation.
"I understand." The police nodded, scribbled sothing in a small notebook, put it into the pocket of his chest, and then opened the door of the police car, "Please accompany us back to make your statent. It should take just over an hour and won’t interfere with your subsequent work."
"...Fine."
Qianhe Kagura nodded dejectedly.
She watched Beichuan Si wave at her, feeling even more perplexed.
How could there be no thugs?
One student frightened so many people?
How could this be possible?
Seeing her expression, the police by the car door cleared his throat and gently reminded, "Next ti you hold this kind of event, please rember to restrain it a bit. Never mind the students... even the teachers got scared, which fully demonstrates the overzealous nature of your event planning this ti."
Overzealous event planning?!
It wasn’t like that at all!
Qianhe Kagura had organized such events many tis before, and students always left laughing and carrying their prizes, nothing like today.
But she found herself unable to voice this.
Because the twenty-odd snow-white stretchers with teachers and students who had fainted lying on them forced her to keep silent.
Before getting into the police car, she gave so further instructions, then left with a face full of reluctance.
anwhile, Shen Gu Mirai, wearing a guide’s cap, curiously looked at Beichuan Si: "Mr. Temple, what on earth did you do? How did you manage to scare so many people?"
"Nishijou Kurenai and Shihui coordinated," Beichuan Si explained briefly.
He was also a little baffled.
Wasn’t it normal for people to get scared and pass out at a courage test? But why did Kyubei call the police right away?
This was way off script.
It was only because Shen Gu had phoned him in ti that Shenzhu Shihui and Nishijou Kurenai had even thought about surprising the police coming up the mountain.
Beichuan Si glanced at his collar.
Nishijou Kurenai really had a blast this ti.
Her small doll’s mouth was stretched into a smile.
However, this subtle expression coming out of a mouth taped with a cross sohow gave off a sinister vibe.
As for the other one.
Shenzhu Shihui on the other side was trying to straighten her neck as if she had overexerted earlier and was struggling to get it right.
"Did you enjoy yourself this ti?" Beichuan Si asked as he stroked his chin.
Hearing this question, even Shen Gu Mirai couldn’t help but stick out her tongue.
Enjoyed themselves?
They ended up on stretchers, wasn’t that enjoynt enough?
Did they have to scare soone into having a heart attack to call it enjoynt?
She had heard the chilling screams echoing from the mountain when she was at the base.
The despair and restlessness in those screams were very real.
They even made Shen Gu Mirai, who normally feared nothing, purse her lips and let go of any idea of going up to et with Beichuan Si.
But still—what had happened on the mountain?
Shen Gu Mirai was still quite curious.
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