She Was Sentenced to Life Imprisonment [Unlimited] - Chapter 65

Chapter 65: The Studio (7)

◎She Knows Where the Body Is◎

The dark clouds of the night covered the crescent moon in the sky, as if plunging the entire world into utter darkness.

The lights overhead were still flickering with sparks, barely hanging on, blinking on and off like the opening scene of a horror movie.

The heavy, dragging sound from the hallway was enough to make one’s scalp crawl.

Jiang Nan’s eyes were slightly closed, as if she couldn’t hear the chaos around her. She tried to carefully distinguish what was being dragged.

A person…

She raised her eyes and looked at Thanatos. The flickering lights shone on her, making it impossible for Jiang Nan to see her features clearly. But in her daze, she saw that the smile in the other person’s eyes had vanished, replaced by an expression of cold indifference and madness.

“Did you hear that?” Jiang Nan repeated again.

“You don’t need to doubt yourself. Even if I can’t hear it, what you’re hearing is correct.”

Something flashed in Thanatos’s slightly raised eyes. Every word she said seemed to carry a strange, hypnotic charm.

Jiang Nan looked at her and felt that she resembled a poisonous poppy, making her feel afraid.

A moment later, a woman’s deranged laughter suddenly echoed from outside. But among the players who were all busy, only Jiang Nan could hear it, because…

Jiang Nan suddenly grabbed Thanatos’s arm. She didn’t even realize how much force she was using. She frowned, her eyes cold as she looked at the tightly closed door.

“One, two, three… you all deserve to die, Jiang Nan. You need to find me…”

When Jiang Nan heard her own name, her frown deepened, but she didn’t feel the slightest bit of fear because of it.

“She wants me to find her,” Jiang Nan said calmly, no other emotion audible in her voice.

When her words fell, the constantly flickering lights that had been dropping sparks suddenly returned to normal. The cool-toned light shone on them, highlighting their disheveled appearance from collecting the student rosters.

“These lights are so jumpy. Ugh, hey, you. Do you happen to know Fang Yuan?” Yan Xin retied her long hair. She had remembered something and casually asked the girl in the corner.

The girl seemed to have been startled by what had just happened. It took her a long time to recover, but she instinctively shook her head and said.

“I don’t know her.”

“You’re lying.” Su Yue looked at her with an intensity that made it impossible for the girl to lie in front of her.

Su Yue was holding a roster in her hand. Most of the people on it had been crossed out, but she could still see the names under the pictures.

The girl didn’t dare to look at her, but what she said next almost made the girl break down.

“It says on here that a girl named Fang Yuan is in the same class as you. It’s impossible that you don’t know her.”

The girl was so overwhelmed by Su Yue’s stare that she was defenseless. Her eyes, which had not yet dried from crying, began to well up with tears again. She covered her face with her hands and sobbed.

“I’m sorry… I lied. I’ve met her, but she’s already dead. I didn’t dare to bring it up…”

When Jiang Nan heard what Su Yue said, a look of surprise flashed in her eyes. They hadn’t confirmed if the student in the picture was Fang Yuan yet. How was Su Yue so sure?

Thinking of this, she took the roster from the other person’s hand.

There was indeed a person named “Fang Yuan” on it. From the crossed-out picture, she could vaguely make out that it wasn’t the Fang Yuan she had seen. But the way Su Yue was questioning the girl, it really looked like she had found her.

It wasn’t until she had confirmed with Thanatos that the person on this roster wasn’t the “Fang Yuan” she had seen that she realized Su Yue had been trying to trick the girl.

Lin Jia was afraid they might misunderstand, so she took the initiative to explain to Jiang Nan.

“That’s just how she is. She’s a lawyer, so she’s good at reading people.”

Jiang Nan nodded. Su Yue’s actions had indeed sped up their progress. Otherwise, if the girl had insisted she didn’t know anything, there was nothing they could have done.

Thanatos, who was standing to the side, looked interested. She even helped out by adding.

“You should have said so earlier. If you had just been honest, we wouldn’t have wasted so much time here. I even climbed through the window to open the door for you. What if I fell and died?”

What she said made the girl lower her head in guilt and timidly apologize.

“I’m sorry…”

Su Yue saw that the girl’s psychological defenses had been broken down enough. Her cold expression also softened a little, and she said.

“We want to know how Fang Yuan died. If you don’t mind, you can tell us.”

The girl secretly looked at them. She asked in a small, puzzled voice.

“With so many people dying, why are you only asking about her?”

At her question, the others were momentarily stunned.

Yan Xin frowned and muttered in an almost inaudible voice.

“It’s not our fault that she’s the only one we know about.”

Lin Jia, who had snapped back to reality, raised a hand and feigned a heartbroken expression. She said.

“Oh, sigh, she used to take care of us back then. But suddenly, we hadn’t heard from her for a long time. We wanted to transfer here to see her, but we ended up hearing that something had happened to her.”

After Lin Jia finished speaking without a change in her expression, she subtly winked at the others. They immediately understood and nodded.

“That’s right. We just want to find out how she died.” Yang Yi said it very sincerely, but she was secretly hiding the eye-rolling Yan Xin behind her.

The girl nodded. As if she had remembered something, she forced a smile and spoke as if to herself.

“She was really good at taking care of people.”

“She told me to find her,” Jiang Nan said calmly.

The others all thought that Jiang Nan was just making up an excuse and didn’t pay much attention to it. But the girl suddenly looked up, a surge of excitement in her expression. The tears welling up in her eyes seemed to fall uncontrollably as she choked out.

“You dreamed of her?! Why? She’s never entered my dreams?!”

As she spoke, she seemed to realize she was getting too emotional and immediately shook her head.

“No, no, that’s impossible…”

She kept shaking her head, but her tears kept falling onto the roster that had her name on it, soaking the paper.

Jiang Nan didn’t deny that the girl thought Fang Yuan had entered her dreams. But seeing her reaction, her expression changed before she spoke calmly again.

“She said she missed you, but you need to find her first.”

After she finished speaking, the others looked at her, a little surprised that her lie was getting more and more far-fetched.

But the girl didn’t notice. She said.

“She’s willing to see me, right?”

Jiang Nan nodded with almost no hesitation and said earnestly.

“We only have three days left, so we need to find her as soon as possible.”

The girl seemed to care a lot about Fang Yuan. Jiang Nan’s words made her cry as she laughed.

The group patiently waited for the girl to calm down. They then listened to her account of Fang Yuan’s past.

“She and I came into this school together. We always knew that people died at this school. But if we were lucky enough to survive, we’d have a great opportunity in the future. So she always comforted me.”

“Until one day, the teacher told her that she had been selected to go to the classes above. The day she left, she was still comforting me. But she still died. Her body was never found.”

Her body was never found?

The others looked at each other. A subtle shift flashed in Jiang Nan’s eyes.

Thanatos walked over to the window. She took a flashlight from who knows where and shone it on the plaster statues. She spoke as if it were an accident.

“Didn’t you say that everyone who dies gets made into a plaster statue?”

A strange flicker appeared in the girl’s lowered eyes, but since her head was down, no one noticed. When she raised her head to continue speaking, she was caught off guard when she met Jiang Nan’s gaze.

A pair of indifferent, watery eyes. Her reflection was in the pupils. The depths of her eyes were like a bottomless abyss. For some reason, it made her feel guilty. She could only quickly look away and spoke quickly.

“I don’t know why she wasn’t. But I looked for her among the statues, and she wasn’t there. But I really want to find her. Can you help me find her?”

She avoided Jiang Nan’s gaze and looked at the others with hope.

Jiang Nan saw that she was deliberately avoiding her but didn’t say anything. She quietly went to the side to look for something.

The others were looked at by the girl as if she were a drowning person clutching at a straw. They either agreed because they were guessing that this Fang Yuan was the important NPC and that they desperately needed to break the instance, or they agreed to help the girl.

When the girl saw that they had agreed, she happily wiped her tears and thanked them.

“Thank you, thank you. You’re good people. She’ll like you.”

The girl was saying nonsensical things, but at that moment, Jiang Nan, who had not been quietly looking through the rosters, pulled out one of the papers. After carefully distinguishing it, she nodded at them.

Jiang Nan looked at Thanatos, who was still leisurely enjoying the breeze by the window. She saw that the glass shards from the window had pierced her exposed arm. Bl00d was flowing, but she didn’t seem to have noticed.

The tall figure just stood there. Her back looked lonely. The smile she usually wore wasn’t there. For some reason, Jiang Nan had a brief moment where she felt like she was seeing herself standing by the window, wanting to jump out countless times.

When this thought flashed through her mind, it made her stiffen. It wasn’t until the other person turned around that she realized she had been mistaken.

She hesitated for a moment but still tugged on her sleeve and said quietly.

“We found Fang Yuan’s roster. Your injury…”

Jiang Nan’s words trailed off. Thanatos smiled and raised her arm to her. In the depths of her squinted eyes was an emotion that Jiang Nan couldn’t understand. It was like a reminder, and she said to her.

“Jiang Nan, we’re the same.”

On her arm, the bl00d-covered wound was gradually healing.

Hearing this, Jiang Nan’s hand holding the paper unconsciously tightened. She didn’t understand what Thanatos meant by her words, but she felt a subtle feeling in her heart. She wanted to get to the bottom of it, but it was obviously not the right time.

Thinking back carefully, Thanatos had been trying to convey something to her since she had accompanied her through the first instance. Perhaps because of the Main God’s existence, what she said and the reminders she gave were all extremely subtle. But Thanatos had never been in a hurry before. This time, however, she was in a hurry to remind her of something by hurting herself.

Their eyes met. Jiang Nan saw a hint of fear flash in her eyes.

What was Thanatos afraid of? Was she afraid that Jiang Nan wouldn’t help her? Or was she afraid of what would happen after they got out?

She had reminded her so many times, but unfortunately, until now, Jiang Nan still didn’t understand.

Jiang Nan turned around, as if to avoid Thanatos’s gaze. She said to them.

“Since we’ve changed the roster and broken the security camera, let’s go back.”

The others didn’t object. They opened the door and walked out one by one.

The hallway was still pitch black. With the moonlight they had finally gotten, they looked at the roster they had found with Fang Yuan’s name on it.

Name: Fang Yuan Gender: Female Address: xxx Condition: Poor, obedient Artistic Skill: A Class: f

Although the picture on the top was crossed out with a pen, one could still see that it was a childish girl with a bright smile, as if she had something to be happy about.

They looked at the roster and found it to be incredibly ironic. She had been given the highest artistic skill, yet she could only be assigned to the lowest class to pave a path for the people above that should have belonged to her.

“No wonder it’s so detailed. It’s just picking people, huh,” Yan Xin said with a cold laugh, finding the situation unbearable.

The girl walking in front didn’t hear her. Su Yue looked at the girl’s back. She pondered for a moment and said.

“She lied, but not about everything.”

Jiang Nan thought carefully about when the girl hadn’t dared to look at her, then said.

“She’s been lying since she said that her body wasn’t found. She knows where the body is.”