Infinite Mystery Cities
Chapter 54

The Dorm Manager's Ballpoint Pen

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The campus, the night ghosts, Wang Meng's death, the Yin Souls in the bathhouse, the Initiates, the materials, the Side Quest, the Main Quest, and the nail in the beggar's chest...

All of it surfaced in front of Xiao Ran, leaving his thoughts in a muddle.

He simply took out some paper and a pen and began listing the questions one by one.

Before long, he had written down everything he knew.

Looking over the information he'd sorted out, Xiao Ran began to organize his thoughts again.

"The campus's night ghosts weren't here originally. Taking into account what I saw in the beggar's memories, along with the iron nail I found, could an Initiate have deliberately turned the school into this place?"

"Could... an Initiate really do something like that?"

Xiao Ran wasn't sure.

During the trial, he'd seen what the Old Woman could do. With a single coin, she'd turned an entire village into that hellish place.

The method she'd used might have been some kind of occupational ability. There was no guarantee that none of the other Initiates had a profession capable of transforming a school like this.

The cause of Wang Meng's death was another mystery. He died on June 20, so what about September 5? If what Yang Kai and the others said was true, and they only had to say "September 5" when they encountered a ghost story, did that mean September 5 was the date everyone at this school died?

Xiao Ran furrowed his brow.

He had tried Spirit Seizing on Wang Jun and the others many times, but their memories were nothing but a chaotic jumble of fragments. Since they had souls, why had their memories become such a mess?

With all the questions laid out before him, Xiao Ran felt as though

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