"Does the police know why all these students chose to hang themselves?"
Xiao Xiao asked about something that had been on his mind for a while.
"Hang themselves?"
Meng Jixi was taken aback. "What reason would there be?"
"They all chose to—"
"Wait!"
Meng Jixi abruptly cut himself off. "Now that you mention it... it does seem a little strange."
"Two of the students who died by suicide were in the same class. The other two were in different classes."
"All four were seniors."
"Three girls and one boy."
"Other than the two who were in the same class, the rest didn't know one another."
"There was nothing they had in common."
"Nor did they socialize."
"The one thing they shared was that they all chose to hang themselves."
"Three of them died on the balconies of their own dorm rooms. The one found this morning was hanging from a big tree beneath the boys' dormitory."
Meng Jixi murmured to himself, his mind tangled with all the information.
"Why did they all choose to hang themselves?"
"The last one isn't hard to understand."
"It was probably revenge on the boy who broke up with her."
"She hanged herself beneath the dormitory where he lived."
"But what about the first three?"
"Did the first student choose to kill herself, and the next two simply follow her example and choose the same way to die?"
"It's possible."
"If that's not the case..."
"Could they have been influenced by something?"
"If the students were encouraged to kill themselves, then is this some kind of peculiar obsession of the person who encouraged them?"
"Do they like watching people hang themselves?"
"Meng Jixi."
Xiao Xiao's sudden call pulled Meng Jixi, whose mind had been spinning, back to the present. "Huh?"
Just then,