Chapter 42 2. 4:16 AM

Lan Tianyu thanked me repeatedly before leaving my office.But I know that this is just a polite behavior of this student, he does not understand his problem. This is quite normal, even though I talked to him for more than half an hour on a hungry stomach, it is impossible for me to cure his mental illness with just one conversation like this.Especially when I hinted that what happened to him was actually caused by some compulsive nerves and fantasies in his brain, I clearly read disappointment and resistance in Lan Tianyu's eyes.Obviously he didn't believe what I said to enlighten him, but he was very educated, and he didn't directly express his distrust of me. Instead, he silently listened to my analysis and suggestions, thanked me, and said that he would try To relax and reduce the pressure of studying - but I said, I can see that this is his polite behavior, he actually didn't listen at all.

After Lan Tianyu left, I sighed secretly—it seems that in order to completely cure his mental illness, a relatively long-term treatment process is required. There was no class this afternoon, so I went to the gym to exercise for more than an hour, went to the bookstore and bought a few new books, and then stayed in my single apartment to read and surf the Internet.Yes, for a bachelor in my twenties, doing whatever I want in my spare time is the most comfortable life. As soon as I got to school the next morning, I realized something must be wrong. A police car was parked at the school gate.On campus, students gathered in the playground, panicked and chattering.I walked past them, but couldn't hear what they were talking about.I came to the office full of suspicion and found that the principal happened to be talking to the teachers here. The last sentence I heard him was "In short, don't say anything about this matter, so as not to cause bad influence in society."

I hurried over and asked, "Principal, what's the matter?" The principal looked back at me, sighed, and said reluctantly: "A boarding student in our school died unexpectedly in the dormitory early this morning." "Ah!" I was shocked. "who is it?" "Lan Tianyu from Class 12, Senior One." The principal frowned and said, "Okay, don't inquire about this matter anymore, I just said it, this matter..." "Wait!" I trembled as if I had been shocked by an electric shock, "Who did you say died? Lan Tianyu! Lan Tianyu from Class 12, Senior One?"

The principal and several teachers in the office were stunned. They obviously felt that my reaction was a bit extreme.The principal asked puzzledly: "Yeah, what's the matter? Do you have any special relationship with this student?" I opened my mouth, wanting to tell them about Lan Tianyu's consultation with me at noon yesterday, but I didn't say it out——I don't think I can describe this weird thing in a few words.Besides, I now have more concerning things to ask. "Principal, how did he die?" I asked hastily. "It seems that he died of myocardial infarction caused by excessive shock. I don't know the specifics."

I froze for a moment, remembering the strange thing that Lan Tianyu told me yesterday, a strange thought suddenly came to my mind. "Principal, you said Lan Tianyu died this morning, do you know the exact time of his death?" "I heard from the forensic doctor named Kang Wei that the time of death was between 4:00 and 4:30 in the morning." Speaking of this, the principal became more and more suspicious, "Mr. Yu, what is the relationship between this Lan Tianyu and you? Why are you asking such details?" I completely ignored the principal's question, because as soon as I heard the name "Kang Wei", I couldn't help calling out immediately: "Ah, the forensic doctor is Kang Wei? Thank you, principal!"

The principal and several teachers looked at me suspiciously and rushed out of the office. Kang Wei is my high school classmate.He kept in touch with me all the time. He thought his career was not close to mine, but now he has a convenient time. I quickly took out my mobile phone and dialed Kang Wei's number. After a while, I heard his familiar deep voice: "Hello, is this Yu Yang?" "It's me." I cut straight to the point, "I want to ask you something, Kang Wei. Did you come to our school to examine a dead body early this morning? A student named Lan Tianyu."

"Well, yes. What's the matter, what's your relationship with him?" "It's the teacher-student relationship." I didn't want to explain to him in detail, but I was eager to know the answers to some questions. "I just want to ask, when did you find out the exact time of his death?" "Between 4:00 and 4:30 in the morning." The answer was exactly what the headmaster had said. "Can this time be more accurate?" He smiled. "Our current forensic technology can't be accurate to the minute or the second. If I can guess the time of death within half an hour, it is considered very accurate."

I froze and didn't speak.Kang Wei seemed to sense my disappointment, and said, "However, I heard something from a classmate of the deceased—he was the first to discover what had happened. He looked at his watch and knew the details of the deceased. The time of death—but, you know, we forensic doctors cannot use this as evidence to infer, at most as a reference." "It's okay, tell me! When did he die?" "The classmate said that the time displayed on his electronic watch was 4:16." When Kang Wei said this, his voice was calm and his tone was flat, but he obviously didn't realize how much impact and shock this sentence had brought to me.When I heard him say "4:16", my mind exploded with a "buzz".There is no doubt that this sentence confirmed the terrible surmise in my heart.A strange and inexplicable feeling of terror spread all over my body in an instant, making me numb and unable to move.

"Hello, Yu Yang...Yu Yang? What's wrong with you?" Kang Wei's voice pulled me back from the fearful imagination, I collected myself and asked, "The autopsy you did showed that he died of myocardial infarction caused by excessive shock, right?" "yes." "Then do you know what frightened him?" "I don't know about that. But I heard from the classmate who was sleeping on the bed that he suddenly heard a scream from under the bed in his sleep. He thought he was having a nightmare when he got out of bed, so he leaned over to call him, but there was no response. He When I got out of bed and took a look, I found that Lan Tianyu had his eyes wide open, his mouth was wide open, his face was distorted and terrifying, and he was already out of breath—the one who went to bed was also frightened to death, screaming and waking up the other two people in the dormitory, Then they notified the dormitory management department."

"You mean, Lan Tianyu might have been frightened to death by a nightmare?" A fine layer of sweat permeated my forehead unknowingly. "I don't know, it's possible." "Is there such a thing? I mean, one can be scared to death by a nightmare?" Kang Wei paused for a moment, then said: "I've heard of this kind of thing, but it's extremely rare—but, as I said, it's just a possibility. I'm not sure if he was frightened to death in a dream. " My brain was spinning rapidly, but it was a mess and I had no clue.At this time, I heard Kang Wei say: "By the way, Yu Yang. I advise you to change schools to work if possible. I think the Feng Shui of your school's land is not very good."

I was confused: "What?" Kang Wei said: "Did you know that our Public Security Bureau will organize the files of cases that happened in the same place together. When I put Lan Tianyu's file today, I found another file bag from a long time ago, and I didn't know that you There was also an accident at the school eleven years ago." "Ah... I was still studying at that time. Why, could there be a student death event in the school eleven years ago?" I couldn't believe it. "No, it's not the same thing. A student mysteriously disappeared." Kang Wei said, "And have you forgotten? The place before was not the current high school, but a dilapidated elementary school. Because the school is too old , so the school asked the construction team to renovate and rebuild some parts of the campus. The school was both in class and under construction at the time, and there was some confusion, which resulted in management oversight. A naughty first-year boy was in physical education class , It disappeared like the world evaporated. The people in the school searched the campus up and down, but they couldn't find anyone, and the guard insisted that they never saw any students sneaking out-you said, this is not a strange thing ?" Hearing this, I understood a little bit: "It was because of this kind of thing that the elementary school was forced to close. The current high school was built in this place later!" "That's right. But now something more serious and even more unbelievable has happened in this school—the resident student died in his sleep inexplicably! That's why I said, maybe this place has bad feng shui, change it Something will happen..." Kang Wei was still talking, but I didn't hear a single word of what he said later. In my mind, I was repeatedly thinking about a question—— Did Lan Tianyu really die in his sleep "inexplicably"?Or is there some unexpected reason? I thought again of those words he said to me at noon yesterday, and these words now make my hair stand on end—— Three nights in a row I was awakened by the same nightmare at 4:16.