Zhao Yuezhu's pretty eyes widened in anger, "That's not fair. You won't swear, but you want me to?"

I spread my hands. "Is this world fair? Do ghosts and gods care about fairness?"

"Since they don't, don't talk to me about fairness. Just choose yes or no!"

Zhao Yuezhu gritted her teeth and said, "Fine! I swear!"

I watched Zhao Yuezhu make her oath before saying, "Now, you can tell me about Bai Xin."

Zhao Yuezhu said, "I've analyzed Bai Xin's stories. In each of her stories, there's a crucial person, and that person's name definitely contains the character 'Xin' (心, heart). I think that's Bai Xin herself."

"I think Bai Xin is using stories to let us find her, but there's a mystery in each of her stories. Only by solving those mysteries can we find Bai Xin."

Zhao Yuezhu paused here, "That's all I know."

I frowned. "Bai Xin, is there any point in doing this?"

It's not uncommon in the art of divination for wronged souls to ask people to find them. Many wronged souls die in mysterious circumstances, and a lingering resentment will latch onto someone, asking them to find their body.

The purpose of these wronged souls is merely to clear their names; they won't kill endlessly.

Moreover, if she wants to seek justice, why doesn't she just reveal her grievances and burial place? Why create so many mysteries? Does she even want justice?

Ye Yang said, "Could it be that someone else is looking for Bai Xin?"

I narrowed my eyes slightly. "What's with this escape room?"

Zhao Yuezhu said, "Before Bai Xin kills someone, each of her stories will be reenacted, in different ways. If the person she chooses can't solve the mysteries in the story, they'll die at Bai Xin's hands."

As Zhao Yuezhu spoke, she took out a newspaper, "Look!"

Zhao Yuezhu took out the Late City Evening News. In the last section of the newspaper was indeed the story of "The Funeral Hall Classroom."

The story also took place in an escape room amusement park.

The plot of the story was exactly the same as what we saw in the escape room. The story also ended abruptly after the male protagonist entered the guard's duty room.

I put the newspaper on the table. "What about the rest of the story?"

"There isn't any!" Zhao Yuezhu said, "This edition of the Evening News is published once a week, and Bai Xin's first story won't have an ending."

"The ending of the story is usually in the second part, which is the newspaper held by the deceased. The police don't even need to examine the body; they just need to look at the newspaper to know the cause of death."

I nodded. "You interned at the Late City Daily for so long, didn't you ever hear how Bai Xin's stories ended up in the newspaper?"

Zhao Yuezhu said, "I've inquired about this too."

"The Late City Daily is a semi-official newspaper, and each edition undergoes strict review. From the first draft to printing, it needs at least five people to review it."

"The Late City Daily was criticized by the province and city for having ghost stories in the newspaper, and the president of the newspaper specifically installed a monitoring system because of this."

"Several cameras are directly facing the printing press, and can clearly photograph the printed pages."

"They can guarantee that Bai Xin's story isn't on the newly printed newspaper. But when the newspaper goes on sale, Bai Xin's story appears."

Zhao Yuezhu said, "That's about all I know."

I couldn't help but narrow my eyes. "What a powerful ghost!"

I tapped the table. "This ghost is giving us not too few clues, but too many. She wants us to work alone!"

I said in a deep voice, "We have at least three clues to investigate now. And we happen to have three diviners."

"First, is to follow the clue of the Funeral Hall Classroom. The last place the protagonist appeared was in the school's guard room. According to the escape room logic, the next clue should be in the guard room."

"We can go to the guard room to find clues, and then continue to follow this clue."

I looked at Zhao Yuezhu and said, "According to Zhao Yuezhu, all the stories written by Bai Xin actually happened. Moreover, the scene of this escape room should be a tomb suppressed by pig iron."

"If I'm not mistaken, there should be a school buried underground in Late City. Or, a school where someone died."

"Because the ghosts are lingering, the school was sealed by diviners with secret techniques. The scene created by Bai Xin is mapping that school."

"Finding that school and uncovering the secrets that happened in the school, we can determine the real secret of Bai Xin's continuous writing of stories."

I paused and said, "It's not difficult to find this clue. I saw that the layout of the classroom was very similar to the situation in the seventies and eighties. That is to say, the time when the school had an accident is not too far from now."

"Whether you ask the local diviner's know-it-all, or go to the archives to check the information! It will be easy to find clues."

I raised my hand and tapped the Late City Evening News that Zhao Yuezhu took out, "The third clue is here."