Obviously a passerby, but he made his debut in the forum with real wine

It rained heavily at night, and the sound of distant waves entered my ears.

I asked if the same thing happened last year.

I asked again if anyone died last year.

The teacher who came to see me looked at me in amazement, as if I was the ghost he was afraid of: "How do you know?"

I think saying "I guess" at this time will spoil the atmosphere too much.

Because I didn't think about how unexpected my question was.

Also because I am actually asking the question with the attitude of asking, I also accept the answer of no.

The reason for asking such a question may have to be explained from the teacher's saying that the students collectively hit ghosts.

In fact, the phenomenon described by the teacher is very similar to a psychological phenomenon passed down as an urban legend, called mass hysteria (masshysteria).

The so-called mass hysteria, also known as collective madness, refers to group fantasies, delusions and panics caused by individuals.Although the exact cause of the disease has not yet been found, there are only various speculations, but the areas where cases occur frequently are generally places where the environment is relatively depressive, closed and conservative.So there are studies that say it's a conversion disorder.Psychological stress leads to physical conditions. Because the group is contagious, after an individual has a condition, other individuals are also affected.Except for the group as a unit, in a sense, it is actually very similar to psychosomatic disorder-because stress can cause stomach pain, hyperventilation and other symptoms.

The onset symptoms of mass hysteria have both commonality and characteristics.Although it is basically one person's abnormal panic that caused collective hysteria, some cases will say that the patients collectively experience physical discomfort, hysteria, and epilepsy, and some say that they have encountered ghosts and met supernatural beings.The latter is more inclined to have similar experiences or religious background.There have also been mass hysterias in schools in Malaysia many times. The most recent case was that students claimed to see black shadows, and this statement was too curious to support a group of freelancers who made a living on horror themes.

Therefore, when the teacher described the situation, my first reaction was mass hysteria.

At the same time, I guess that the reason why the training camp is willing to cooperate with the psychological stress experiment conducted by the research institute may be that it wants me to investigate this part of the situation, or to provide immediate psychological counseling.In addition, I am still a person who knows that this is a world named Ke, there can be no ghosts, and it is even more impossible for so-called ghosts to kill people.

Only then can I push the boat along the way and generally deduce my problem.

I said to the panic-stricken teacher, "Actually, this is not necessarily an encounter with a ghost. I think it's more like a psychological phenomenon called mass hysteria." Because I said it too firmly, the teacher was shaken instead and subconsciously repeated " Mass hysteria" is the word.

I know he doesn't know much about this aspect, so I don't need to be too mysterious, explaining: "In fact, this kind of situation has happened in Italy, the United States, Kenya, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and other countries. But because there is no specific and accurate Scientific conclusions. Some people like to make gimmicks, so they will move closer to the supernatural direction."

I continued: "The reason why I am asking is because I began to think about the reason why the principal asked me to come here. It may not be completely in line with the social psychology experiment of our institute. It may be because it was discovered that students had a collective outbreak since last year. Hysterical. Especially after this incident is over, there are still people who died, which aggravated the psychological panic of the students..."

I don't know how much the teacher who came with me listened to, but judging from his state, I should divert his attention from this matter.

"teacher."

I paused again, insisting that he and I meet eyes before saying the next sentence.

Following my words, his pale face was lifted up, facing me with a bleak expression.

I showed him a firm smile and said, "Don't worry, we will definitely find a solution. The current students are still waiting for you to help them, and they are all relying on you. Can't we cheer up?"

The teacher woke up in my voice, and his expression softened a little in my words: "You are right." After he took two steps, he said softly to me again: "Thank you... I was too gaffe just now... "There was hesitation in his voice, maybe after he calmed down, shame began to surface in his heart.

"The main reason is that it happens to involve my professional field. If I encounter something I don't understand, I will be in a hurry. This is human nature."

The teacher nodded.

What I am most worried about now is whether the man in black clothes mentioned by Gao Shan Dahui will also be involved in this case.After all, according to my current understanding, this case should be completely handed over to Matsuda Jinpei.I don't want Matsuda Jinhei to join Conan's main line like Furutani Rei and Mofu Jingguang. I feel that there will be many uncontrollable factors.

Second, I have another worry.

In fact, after I met Matsuda Jinpei today, I went to the forum to inquire about the news, and then I heard that something would happen to me...

To be honest, I feel very complicated.

34:[-]:[-] night time.

The storm still roared indifferently.

At this moment, the entire island seemed to be trapped in the prison built by the endless dark sea and night wind and could not escape.The only sufficient light is candlelight in the inner buildings of the island.

There are more than 100 students in the training camp.

After the incident, the students were gathered by the faculty in the central hall of the training camp.

When I arrived, the hall was filled with the light of candles.The windows were closed because of the wind and rain, leaving only two doors for entry and exit.The students were in mixed emotions, because many teachers (in addition to the head teacher, the director, and the principal) were present, so the students in the hall were very quiet, and there was almost no voice of conversation.The students were either hugging each other tightly, or staring out of the window in a daze, and of course some remained unmoved, reciting formulas or English words by the light.At this time, they looked no different from ordinary students who gathered together because of the power outage.

After I found the position of the principal, I was planning to have a few private words with him.However, he just saw me for the first time and said something immediately - there is one less student.

After concentrating the students, each class quickly counts the number of students as a unit.In addition to the students who were sent to the medical room, there was one student missing, a girl.After listening to the principal's name, it was one of the three girls who mentioned Ueno Sakimi - Rin Tsukishima.

"There is no one anywhere in the dormitory building. Her roommate was also sent to the medical room. Now it's such bad weather at this time, where can she go?"

When the principal spoke, his eyes unconsciously turned to the window.He should have another sentence, but he didn't go on.

Because it makes people more disturbed.

I guess he wanted to ask if something happened to Rin Tsukishima.

So I pressed down what I was going to say, and immediately said, "I'll help find it. Who was the last person to see Rin Tsukishima?"

The principal called Tsukishima Rin's second-grade teacher again.The class guide also called Ueno Sakimi over: "The last person I saw was Ueno classmate. She said that when she was reading with a reading light, she saw Tsukishima Rin avoiding the patrolling teacher and left her dormitory. There was a gap in the door of the room, when Tsukishima-san left, Ueno saw her shoes through the gap, and he didn’t return after that.” After he finished speaking, he looked back at Ueno Sakimi, asking her to add something .

All dormitories have only one staircase, and the entire corridor is one-way.Unless Tsukishima Rin climbed to his room through the water pipe from the first floor when he came back, there would be no trace of his return.

I asked the class guide to leave me alone with Ueno Sakimi, and I wanted to talk to Ueno Sakimi again.

"Do you know where Tsukishima-san went?"

Ueno Sakimi glanced at me with faint eyes. From the first time we met, I found that her attitude towards me was quite provocative, especially after I introduced myself as a volunteer lecturer, she knew that I did not How much power to speak in this training camp.The whole class was like watching a monkey show, sneering as if there was nothing.At this moment, she glanced at the class teacher from a distance, and said softly: "I have already told the class teacher what I know."

There was contempt for elders in her manner.

In fact, many students have this kind of performance - they realized very early that the so-called teachers are actually ordinary people, they may not know more than themselves, they just have the advantages of age and status.Therefore, they will show disdain for adults.However, students with different emotional intelligence expressed differently.Students with low EQ will take impoliteness as a unique personality, provoke teachers as a maverick, and only leave others with the impression of lack of quality and education.But students with high emotional intelligence understand the rules of social operation, so they will also make a cute gesture on the surface, and they are very good at judging the situation and protecting their own interests. Such students are exquisite egoists.

I glanced in the direction of the dormitory building outside the window, and said to Ueno: "I can give you another chance."

I imitated her posture and glanced at her lightly: "You should know that you are not really smart."

As soon as I said this, Ueno Sakimi's face flushed instantly, like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

"You said, you saw Tsukishima Rin's shoes walking through the crack of the door. Is it the light in the corridor? Tsukishima Rin can escape the teacher's inspection, it must be time to turn off the lights, and there will be no lights in the corridor. Is that the sky light? Your dormitory building is backed by skylight. Although there is no storm during the lights-out time, how can there be light through the dark clouds? Or do you have night vision? Next, unless you keep staring at the door on purpose, how can you Will you know that Tsukishima Rin didn't answer after leaving? Since you showed that you don't care about Tsukishima Rin, why do you keep staring at the door? Do you still have the habit of duplicity?"

I paused.

"I hope you don't think your own statements are smart."

After all this was said, I noticed that Ueno's originally stiff shoulders relaxed for a moment, but then regained the tense posture just now.

She lowered her head and said: "I really lied. The reason why I care about the situation of classmate Yue Dao is because before going to night self-study, I saw that Yue Dao received an anonymous letter. After seeing the anonymous letter, Yue Dao The classmate's expression became very flustered. When I saw her leaving in the middle of the night, I guessed it might be related to the letter, so I always paid attention to it."

"Why do you care? What do you care about? Do you want to know why Tsukishima is panicking? But, you don't know the reason at all, so why do you care? Do you think you will get an answer if you keep staring at her actions? You Does Tsukishima Rin really care? Or do you care about her reaction to the letter, did you put the letter?"

In fact, some people will be curious, even if there is no answer.

But I don't say it, I just put psychological pressure on Ueno with a skeptical attitude.

Ueno subconsciously looked up at me, stunned for a few seconds and said, "Teacher, why do you think so? Why should I put the letter?"

"Because I said before that your corridor is a one-way traffic. If Yuedao leaves, you have to pass by your door, it means that your room is closer to the exit. Then, unless you are looking at her specifically, why do you stay away from her?" The window, deliberately walked to her room to take a look, and just met her panic expression. Then, assuming you didn't see it with your own eyes, if you didn't go to her room specifically, you heard the news, Why lie again, saying that you saw it?"

Ueno seemed to be adding answers, and immediately said: "I actually saw someone very strange. After coming out of her room, she left in a hurry. I couldn't see the other person's appearance clearly. I went to Tsukishima-san because of curiosity. Take a look at your room.”

I folded my arms and chuckled lightly, "It's still weird."

Ueno's attitude did not appear in the relaxed posture when I retorted for the first time, but was more calm and calm, and she was not afraid of me poking through her logical loopholes again.Her pupils looked at me, and she even smiled, and said, "What's so strange about this? People are curious."

Lying addiction.

Ueno Sakimi may suffer from liar addiction.

Combined with what Rin Tsukishima told me before, Ueno Sakimi claimed to be a psychic and was furious when others denied her identity, but she never corrected it and still did her own way.She should be used to her lying behavior.We all know people lie.But some people can't control their lying behavior, which has become a habit, and they believe in their own words, and they don't even have any sense of shame or burden because of their lies. Psychologically, this is Lying addiction.

It is difficult to get effective treatment in a short time even if this kind of disease is counted by senior psychological counselors.

I'm not going to make it up with this girl.

I called the head teacher over and said, "I'm going to take Ueno-san to find Tsukishima-san, can you follow me?" lest I become a gangster in Ueno's mouth.

The head teacher looked at Ueno and me in surprise, and said, "Do you know where we are?"

"Yes, but I have to borrow the hand of Ueno-san."

The head teacher was confused, and even Ueno-san looked at me in surprise.

I took Ueno's wrist, pressed her pulse, and started to walk out.No matter what she wants to say, or what the class teacher wants to say, I keep them quiet.

Rin Tsukishima was not in any of the buildings in the training camp.

The three of us kept walking towards the periphery, towards the direction of the mountains and forests. The sky was dim, the rainstorm continued, and our vision was completely blurred. We could only walk with a limited range of vision.Fortunately, the mountains and forests we went to had been developed before, and there were trails to follow, otherwise I would suspect that we would get lost in the mountains and forests.But as the time spent getting longer and longer, not only the head teacher, but also my heart continued to sink.And Ueno Sakimi's hands were getting colder and colder.

Our footsteps finally stopped at an abandoned house that looked like a forest ranger. The door of the house was ajar, and a white light from a flashlight leaked from the ground, illuminating the water stains on the ground with a strange light.The wind and rain outside seems to be another world.I opened the door, and soon a pair of protruding bloodshot eyes met——

The long rope pulling Tsukishima Rin's neck was tied to the beam of the cabin.She was kneeling facing the gate, her back was straightened by the ropes, and she was still wearing a school uniform skirt, which just swept across the floor. Like a sunny doll.

I think this scene of kneeling and hanging himself is quite weird and terrifying.But then Matsuda Jinpei came to the scene and ruined all the atmosphere.I still remember that he said that people are hung after death, so the length of the hanging rope is just right.While I was focusing on the pose of the deceased, his focus was on the length of the sling.This made me suddenly understand why the more professional people are not afraid of these at all.Because they start to "solve questions" as soon as they come up, just like the reading questions in the big exam. No matter how beautiful, interesting and profound the story is, there are all questions below, and it is difficult to immerse yourself in it.

"Student Tsukishima?" The teacher's voice rang out.

I stopped his movement with my hand: "He has no vital signs, don't go there. Let's find a way to call the police now."

After I finished speaking, I realized that I no longer needed to hold Ueno's hand, so I let her go.

The class teacher looked at Ueno because of my actions, and said, "How do you know that Tsukishima is here?" When I set off, I used the rhetoric that Ueno would lead us to find someone.Now the class teacher's speech is obviously inclined to Ueno as a suspect.

However, when Ueno encountered this situation, he didn't panic, and responded very calmly: "Teacher, I have already said before that I am a psychic, and I know this place, of course, because I saw that the soul of Tsukishima-san is attracting me." .”

Ban Tuoxin thought it was true, and his expression became quite impressive.

"..."

This is of course a lie.

When a person is being pulled, he only needs to shake the opponent's hand while walking. If the direction is wrong, he will feel the resistance of the shaking.On the contrary, the other party will think that you really know the path and make obedience, so that the path can be judged.This is a little trick that uses psychology. I thought about performing it when I was in the police academy—for example, let them hide a small object in a crowd of hundreds of people, and I took the person who hid the object by the hand to find it.There's some appreciability in this, but it's taking too long, so I'm giving up.

I can know this cabin from Ueno, which means that Ueno knows that Tsukishima will come to this place.But because the back and forth time has already explained everything, she has no time to kill, let alone arrange all this.

I plan to take pictures with my phone first.

While I was still taking pictures of the knots of the rope, a few lights flashed outside the window, cutting the light and darkness of the house back and forth one by one, a bit like the window sill of a rental house on the side of the road, because of passing by one after another car lights Lights up over and over again.I soon realized that there were people outside, and said to the head teacher and Ueno: "Teacher, take Ueno back to the training camp first. I'll go and see the situation."

"And teacher, where are you going?"

"I'll take a look."

I grabbed the shock device in my pocket.

The head teacher seemed to realize that I was going to run after that light, and immediately said: "Teacher He, it looks very dangerous, so don't go there! If it's a murderer, what should you do?!"

"Go back first, pay attention to safety. After you go back, don't say anything, don't cause students to panic again."

I said this sentence was for the class teacher to listen to, but in fact it was through the class teacher to control Ueno's speech.

Then, I rushed into the rain curtain without looking back.

The light was not as far away as I imagined. The reason why I ran out was because when the light cut across the room just now, I saw the outline of Matsuda Jinpei.It seemed that two people were fighting, and the place was close to the cliff.I can't leave him alone just because he has the aura of the protagonist.

Maybe in the storyline, he just needs someone's help?

Maybe I appeared in this story to play that person?

Thinking about it this way, I can't do nothing.

When I arrived, another person seemed to have noticed the light of my flashlight, and the figure ran away into the jungle.The place where Matsuda Jinpei should have been originally was empty at the moment.Next to it is a cliff of several tens of feet. Below the cliff, the sea waves are surging, and the rip current is rapid, and the depth is unknown.The light penetration of the flashlight is not strong, it can only illuminate the sea surface, and no one can be seen.

What should I do?

What should I do?

What should I do?

Now the success rate of jumping to save people is almost zero.

Correspondingly, the suicide success rate is 90.00%.

Countless possibilities popped up in my head.

I checked the rock face of the cliff again, maybe he was caught by some abrupt branch?

If there is no rope at that time, I may have to use the one from Tsukishima-san.

My thoughts are like a wild horse running wild, running farther and farther, and my restless mood rises and falls like the waves.I had no choice but to search while shouting: "Matsuda, did you hear my voice? Do you answer me?"

The eyes also followed to identify the miscellaneous branches on the rock wall more carefully.

However, before I could react, someone grabbed me by the collar and was dragged backwards.This action was extremely rough, and my head was forced to tilt up. The rain poured down my back from that cold hand, making the hairs all over my body stand on end.

Immediately after—

"Are you stupid?"

"Eh?"

The other party continued to yell at me: "Do you want to die so close to the cliff?"

"........."

Although I didn't look back, I already knew who it was who grabbed the back of my neck and nearly strangled me.

Simply speechless.

After he let go, I coughed several times and stared at him while coughing.