Chapter 3 It’s Hard to Tell the Real From the Fake

"Hello." Looking at the strange number displayed on the screen, Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, but still answered the call.

"Don't go." A low voice came from the phone.

Without waiting for Lin Yi to speak, the person on the other end of the phone quickly hung up the phone.

"Don't go?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment.

He wanted to call back to ask clearly, but found that the number was not dialed.

He glanced at the time on the phone, it was almost 9 o'clock.

It takes 30 minutes to take a taxi from home to the back mountain, and Lin Yi must get there early.

In order to make the classmates believe what he said next, Lin Yi made a plan.

He didn't care about the call from the strange number, and hurried to the back mountain.

Near 10 o'clock, the classmates in the class came to the agreed place one after another.

"Lin Yi, why did you call us here?"

Sports Committee member Jiang Fan looked like he hadn't slept well. He sat on a rock and complained: "I played games until 5 o'clock last night and I was so sleepy."

"Me too!" Another classmate echoed, "My Xuan Ce killed a lot and won 18 games in a row!"

"Okay." Class monitor Gu Zijin walked to Lin Yi.

Her voice was very nice, like a wind chime hanging on the eaves in summer, "Lin Yi must have called us here for something important."

"Is there something that can't be said in the group?" An Yun frowned and kept fiddling with her hair that had just been dyed yesterday.

"Besides, didn't we have an appointment for a graduation dinner in the afternoon? We can say it then."

Lin Yi counted the number of people. In addition to the two classmates who went out to travel with their parents, only the study committee member Zhou Kai was not there.

"Where is Zhou Kai?" Lin Yi asked.

"Zhou Kai said he had something at home and couldn't come." A classmate answered.

"Lin Yi, don't keep me in suspense." Jiang Fan yawned, "Everyone is almost here, tell me what you want to say, so I can go back to sleep."

"Wait a little longer, there's still one person who hasn't arrived yet." Lin Yi looked outside.

"There's still one person?" Gu Zijin looked at the people present, "All the classmates in the class are here, and the classmates who can't come have also said in the group, who else are we waiting for?"

"Lu Linhai." Lin Yi frowned and said.

"Linhai?" Jiang Fan was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you say in the group not to call him? Why are you waiting for him now?"

"Here he comes!"

Not far away, Lu Linhai was walking towards the abandoned factory building.

"You will know what I'm going to say soon." Lin Yi's face became particularly solemn, and even his body trembled involuntarily.

"What happens next may exceed your imagination, you must be mentally prepared."

Lin Yi hid behind the factory gate, where there was a rope that Lin Yi had set up in advance.

He arrived here in advance just to set a trap.

Lin Yi knew very well that it would be difficult for them to believe the existence of monsters just by verbal narration.

Therefore, putting a monster in front of them would be more useful than any words.

Lin Yi did not let the classmates in the group tell Lu Linhai, but contacted Lu Linhai himself and asked him to arrive here after 10 o'clock.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Lin Yi began to sweat nervously.

"Huh? You are all here." Lu Linhai's voice came from outside the door.

He walked in and saw the classmates in the abandoned factory.

Lin Yi pulled the rope suddenly, and a stone fell from it and hit Lu Linhai on the head.

With a muffled sound, Lu Linhai fell to the ground.

"Ah!" An Yun screamed, she was frightened by the sudden scene in front of her.

"Lin Yi, are you crazy?!" Jiang Fan jumped up from the ground, and it seemed that even the tiredness disappeared at this moment.

"Lin Yi, why did you do this?" Gu Zijin frowned and looked at Lin Yi in disbelief.

"Listen to me!" Lin Yi explained loudly, "He's not a human, he's a monster!"

"Crazy, Lin Yi, you're really crazy." An Yun began to retreat, as if worried that Lin Yi would attack her as well.

"Ambulance, call an ambulance!" Jiang Fan picked up his phone and prepared to call the emergency number.

"I can prove it to you!" Lin Yi shouted while picking up a sharp stone from the ground.

He came to Lu Linhai and scratched Lu Linhai's skin with the sharp part of the stone.

"Ah!" The pain woke Lu Linhai up, and Lin Yi didn't hesitate to grab the stone on the ground and smashed it.

"He is really a monster. Although he looks like us, he is actually a monster in human skin."

"I'll prove it to you now, as long as you tear his skin open, you can see the armor inside him... armor... why is it like this?".

"Kill... kill people!" The scene in front of them terrified the people again, and they fled everywhere, afraid of becoming the next victim.

Lin Yi was stunned, shaking all over.

Lu Linhai lying on the ground was not a monster at all. There was no black shell under his skin.

"Why?" The stone slipped from his hand, and Lin Yi sat on the ground weakly.

The pungent smell of blood rushed into his nose, and the blood stained his clothes red.

The classmates in the factory ran away, leaving only Lin Yi, Lu Linhai lying on the ground without breathing, and the class leader Gu Zijin.

"Why is this happening? Why is he not a monster?" Lin Yi couldn't figure it out, and kept muttering, "He is obviously 19 years old, why is he not a monster?"

"Oh, classmate Lin Yi, you seem to have guessed wrong." Gu Zijin's voice came to my ears.

Looking up, I didn't know when she had walked over.

Gu Zijin didn't seem to be frightened by the scene in front of her. She squatted down and looked at Lin Yi with a smile.

"Classmate Lin Yi, how did you find out?"

Discover? What was found?

Gu Zijin's words made Lin Yi shudder. He raised his head, his eyes full of fear: "You...you are..."

"Classmate Lin Yi, you have made a very serious mistake."

What a beautiful voice, but at this time, the voice sounded like the whisper of an evil spirit to Lin Yi.

"The consumption time of the beastman is determined according to the preference of the eater."

"Just like some people like to eat medium rare steak, and some people like to eat medium rare."

"So, some beasts will be eaten after they are born, and some will be eaten when they reach adulthood."

"By the way, do you want to guess how many beasts like you are left in our class?"

Familiar tentacles emerged from Gu Zijin's abdomen and wrapped around Lin Yi tightly.

Gu Zijin slowly approached, she stretched out her tongue and licked Lin Yi's face, shouting intoxicatedly: "It smells so good. Sure enough, the meat of beasts is the most delicious."

She opened her mouth and bit Lin Yi's throat.

Lin Yi struggled, but couldn't break away from the tentacles entangled with him. Gradually, his consciousness began to blur, and he knew that he was going to die again.

...

"The exam is over, candidates are asked to stop writing immediately."

The shouting in his ears woke up Lin Yi. When he opened his eyes, he saw the test paper in front of him. It was the test paper for the last exam.

He's back, back in time again.

June 8th is the last day of the college entrance examination.

"This student, the exam is over. Please stop writing immediately."

Seeing Lin Yi still holding a pen in his hand, the invigilator came over.

"Classmate, did you hear me?"

"Shut up......"

Lin Yi's hand holding the pen was shaking.

"What did you say?" The invigilator was stunned for a moment.

"I told you to shut up!" Lin Yi stood up suddenly.

He threw the pen in his hand on the ground and shouted hysterically.

Looking at his trembling hands, the image of killing Lu Linhai emerged in his mind.

Yes, the person he killed was not a monster, but a living person.

Everyone in the examination room looked at Lin Yi in unison, but now he no longer cared.

"You are monsters," Lin Yi shouted with a wry smile, "I know, stop pretending. You are monsters, you are all monsters!"

"This student, what's wrong with you?" the invigilator asked with concern, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Get away! Don't come close to me!" Lin Yi quickly backed away.

But when he found that everyone in the classroom was looking at him, his scalp felt numb and he felt extremely uncomfortable as if there was something stuck in his throat.

"Why? Why do you do this to me? What did I do wrong?"

"What is real? What is real?!"

Lin had a severe headache and felt like he was going crazy.

Tears fell from his eyes, and Lin Yi collapsed and shouted: "Give me back, give me back my old life, give me back my parents..."

In a daze, Lin Yi felt someone coming over.

"Teacher, I'm sorry. He is my classmate. Maybe he didn't perform well in this exam and was under too much pressure, so he behaved like this."

Lin Yi heard this voice. It was the voice that came from the mobile phone when the unknown number called.