With the participation of Su Ran and the others, the traffic at the main stage had significantly increased, and the popularity of the other cosplayers had also risen.
After all, they were all invited by the organizer and had a certain degree of fame.
It was just that the appearance of Su Ran and the others had been too stunning for the average player.
Now, after taking photos with Su Ran, the fans of the other cosplayers also gradually returned.
After the event ended, Su Ran and the others politely declined the organizer’s invitation to dinner.
They just exchanged contact information with a few of the officially invited cosplayers and left.
To Su Ran’s pleasant surprise, even though they were cosplayers invited halfway through, the organizer still paid each of them a fee.
Su Ran heard from the other invited sisters that this price was almost the same as being officially invited, and even higher than theirs when calculated by the hour.
‘As expected of a big company, even the labor fees are so generous.’
After receiving the labor fees, Li Xiaodie and Qiu Feifei put their heads together and took the remaining two to a restaurant they had been wanting to try for a long time.
“I don’t want to walk for the next two days.”
Qiu Feifei threw her hands up, and her rosy face had an intimate contact with the dining table.
Fortunately, they had booked a private room.
Otherwise, with their exquisite makeup, if they appeared in public, most of the customers would probably have no heart to eat, being full just from admiring them.
“I feel the same way about that.”
Li Xiaodie sat on the sofa, having already taken off her white leather shoes, her two white-stockinged legs dangling and swaying.
“The most comfortable one among us should be Xiao Ran. She didn’t have to walk the whole way and had someone pushing her.”
Yuan Shirui, who was beside Su Ran, also joined the conversation.
For the whole day, while the others had barely sat down before the end, Su Ran had been sitting.
“Hey! It was very tiring for me to sit too. My butt hurts a lot!”
Faced with Su Ran’s dissatisfied protest, the other three all chose to ignore her, who was trying to play the victim after getting the advantage.
After a busy day, Su Ran had not forgotten that she still had things to ask.
But looking at the three girls in front of her, and realizing that her protest was ineffective, Su Ran crossed her arms in front of her chest, puffed up her face, and leaned back in her wheelchair, uttering a classic line.
“Let’s not talk about it. Let’s order first.”
While waiting for the food to be served, Su Ran finally had a suitable opportunity to ask the questions she was concerned about.
“Do you know a Teacher Pan in the academy?”
From what Bai Yun had said, Teacher Pan was in charge of the second year, which happened to be the year Qiu Feifei and the others were in.
The two of them should know him.
“Eh, Xiao Ran, why are you asking a similar question as my dad?”
Hearing Su Ran’s question, Li Xiaodie immediately perked up, the gossip-loving soul in her heart burning fiercely.
“Is there a case related to Teacher Pan?”
Thinking of the relationship between Li Shanhai and Li Xiaodie, since she didn’t know about her case, it meant that Officer Li didn’t want to involve Li Xiaodie.
So, Su Ran chose not to tell them the truth and just found a random excuse.
“I just heard it from someone else.”
Li Xiaodie didn’t press Su Ran’s answer.
After all, the relationships within Beizhou Academy were complex, and it wasn’t impossible for Su Ran to have heard about Teacher Pan from someone.
“If you want to ask about Teacher Pan, then you’ve asked the right person. He’s our year’s teacher.”
To make Su Ran believe her more, Li Xiaodie looked at Qiu Feifei, who also nodded in confirmation.
From what Li Xiaodie said, Pan Rui hadn’t been doing anything special recently.
Everything seemed to be the same as usual.
‘This must be why Li Shanhai didn’t get any useful information after questioning his daughter, and why he didn’t tell me the unconfirmed news.’
“But originally, Teacher Pan was supposed to lead the third year for the last field practice. It was because of Teacher Bai Yun’s appearance that he continued to lead the second year.”
Li Xiaodie seemed to have remembered something and suddenly mentioned it.
With this lead, Qiu Feifei followed up and added, “There was no other way. Teacher Pan has been stuck at Sequence Four for a long time. Teacher Bai is a Sequence Five. It’s just a pity that in the end, no matter who led the team, they couldn’t prevent the vampire siege from happening.”
Speaking of this, the atmosphere at the scene, except for Yuan Shirui, sank.
The three of them subconsciously thought of Eve, who had gone missing during the field practice.
It was just that none of them knew that the others were thinking of the same thing.
They all thought the others were mourning the soldiers who had sacrificed themselves in the Northern Border City.
“Sequence Four?”
Hearing this news, Su Ran had a plan in mind.
Unlike Li Shanhai, she knew the consequences of using the magic formation twice.
If, as Qiu Feifei and the others said, Pan Rui had been stuck at Sequence Four for a long time, then in order to gain power, he did indeed have a motive to act.
It was just that Su Ran didn’t know if Pan Rui himself knew what the price of gaining power through the magic formation was.
From the motive, Pan Rui did have a motive to use the magic formation to raise his sequence, but vampires would not cooperate with humans so casually.
‘Is he a person who colluded with the vampires? Or is he just a pawn of the vampires, similar to Li Ming?’
This needed to be found out after finding Pan Rui.
“If I want to see Teacher Pan, where can I find him?”
Since she had already narrowed down the target’s general range, Su Ran was eager to start her own actions.
According to her plan, she would find Pan Rui’s whereabouts, then contact Winnie to have him brought in for a detailed questioning.
She had read in many detective novels that in the end, the protagonist would go alone to find the murderer and expose them.
This approach undoubtedly put oneself in danger.
She, Su Ran, was not that kind of person.
“If I remember correctly, you should be able to see him when the new students register in the next few days. The start of the school year is an occasion where all the teachers of the school need to be present.”
Qiu Feifei thought for a moment and told Su Ran where Pan Rui might appear.
Li Xiaodie’s dark, round eyes darted around.
Hearing that Su Ran wanted to meet with Pan Rui, there must be something she needed to find out.
Thinking that her own father had also asked about Pan Rui, she planned to go back and tell him this news.
Perhaps she could also protect Xiao Ran’s safety.
With the information about Pan Rui, the matter came to a temporary end.
The specific details still needed to be confirmed by Su Ran in person.
Gradually, the restaurant’s dishes were also brought to the table.
Looking at the table full of steaming hot food, the three of them picked up their chopsticks and prepared to start.
There was only one person at the scene with a stiff face, who didn’t even pick up her chopsticks.
Yuan Shirui had been playing too freely today and had forgotten one thing.
She was a vampire and couldn’t eat ordinary human food.
Among the table full of dishes, not a single one contained magical beast meat.
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