Chapter Twelve Midnight Cries

  They turned their heads and saw Du Xiaonan standing at the door of the balcony.

  "Xiao Nan? How did you end up here?" Su Jiner asked.

  "I just came back and saw you all on the balcony, I was going to say hello to you, but unintentionally heard your conversation, I really didn't mean to eavesdrop." Du Xiaonan said desperately shaking her hands.

  Su Jiner looked at Li Yiqian, who nodded, then Su Jiner said to Du Xiaonan: "It's nothing, since we're all in the same dorm and everyone knows about this matter, we won't hide it from you either. However, we must be aware that we are facing a demon who kills without blinking, so our lives are always at risk. I think Lin Yuan and Xiaonan, you two should not get involved."

  "No way!"

  The two of them rarely spoke in unison.

  "Jin'er, how can you forget our promise? As long as you're involved in something, you can't just drop me." Lin Yuan said with a pout.

  "And me, we are in the same dormitory, you can't leave me behind."

  Li Yi-qian looked at them and said: "Thank you, I really don't know how to thank you?"

  Because of this matter, the four of them became very good sisters, and Li Yi Qian was no longer alone. However, they could never have imagined what kind of terrifying things they would face next.

  Tomorrow is Saturday, so there's no need to attend classes. The lights-out time at night is also half an hour later than usual. At this moment, the four people in dormitory 414 are sitting together discussing how they can find out what happened five years ago.

  "Jin'er, there are some things I don't know if I should say or not." Lin Yuan muttered.

  "Do you still have something you don't dare say? Say it, what is it?"

  When Lin Yuan heard Su Jin'er say this, she suddenly gained courage and smiled: "You also said that the person we are facing may be a devil who kills people without blinking an eye, and we only have four weak women. Why don't you find someone to help us?"

  When everyone heard Lin Yuan's words, they all knew what she meant. Now everyone knows that the famous big brother Chu Feifan in school is running for student union president, and the possibility of winning is almost 99%, and this big brother has a crush on Jin'er, with the help of this future student union president, things will be much easier to do.

  Su Jiner had thought about doing so, but she felt that she shouldn't drag more people into this whirlpool. She always had a bad premonition and felt that even if Li Yiqian hadn't pulled her into the whirlpool, she would still be sucked in. So when Li Yiqian asked for her help, she didn't refuse.

  "Alright! Tomorrow I'll go find Chu Fei Fan and Zuo Yi, maybe they can really help us." She seemed to have made up her mind.

  "Wow! It's already 11:30 without realizing it! Why haven't you turned off the lights yet?" Du Xiaonan said, looking at her phone.

  "Have you forgotten? Today is Friday, the lights will be turned off half an hour later. It seems that our school is still quite humane." Lin Yuan said while eating potato chips.

  "Although it's like this, we should also go to bed and sleep. If the lights aren't turned off, just leave them on! Let's think of a solution again." Su Jiner said.

  "You think Chu Fei Fan and them will agree with us?" Du Xiao Nan suddenly said.

  "With our Su Da beauty taking action, is there anything that can't be done? I've experienced Jin Er's charm before! If you don't believe me, Xiao Nan, let's make a bet and try it out!"

  "I'm not interested in playing with you!" Du Xiaonan said as she crawled onto the bed.

  "Hey! Xiao Yuan, aren't you afraid of getting fat to death? It's really late and you're still eating." Su Jiner heard the sound of Lin Yuan biting into potato chips, as if he was biting into her own bones.

  "Want two pieces too?"

  "No way."

  "Fine! If you're not eating, then just go to bed!"

  Just as Su Jin'er was drowsy and about to fall asleep, she suddenly heard a faint cry, a very sad cry.

  She rubbed her temples, was she too tense lately? Why did she always hear someone crying? To confirm whether it was her own illusion, she held her breath and listened carefully, but found that the sound had disappeared. Maybe she was just too tense after all!

  As she thought of this, she closed her eyes in relief, but just as she did, the voice came again, this time even more clearly, like someone crying right next to her ear, and her heart began to thump wildly.

  "Jin'er!"

  Just as Su Jin'er wanted to continue sleeping, she suddenly heard someone calling her name. It wasn't the kind of voice like on TV where a female ghost calls out to people, but rather the kind of voice her classmates usually used to call her, only with an added layer of sorrow.

  "Jin'er, have you fallen asleep?"

  Just as Su Jin'er was about to get up and take a look, Lin Yuan suddenly said in a low voice.

  "Not yet! Why aren't you sleeping either?"

  "I was just about to fall asleep when I suddenly heard someone crying, and I thought it was my own illusion. But then I heard someone calling my name." Lin Yuan slowly got down from Su Jin'er's bed and crawled into her quilt, "I'm scared!"

  "Did you hear someone calling your name?"

  Lin Yuan nodded in the quilt.

  "I'm just like you, only I heard someone calling my name." Su Jin'er said nervously, "Are we both hallucinating?"

  "I... I also heard someone calling my name!" Du Xiaonan said at this time.

  Then they saw Li Yi Qian move and turn her body, saying: "How come I didn't hear anything?"

  "There are four people in our dormitory. Three of them heard someone calling their names, but only Qianqian didn't hear it. Why is that?" Su Jiner said.

  "I heard it again, in crying, it's a cry." Du Xiaonan said in terror.

  "Shh! Don't speak."

  After a while, Su Jiner said: "Someone is crying, it seems to be on the side of the experimental building."

  Su Jin'er sat up, put on her clothes, it was already autumn, and the weather started to get cold.

  "What do you want to do?" Lin Yuan asked.

  "I want to go and take a look."

  "No way! Maybe it's that thing! Let's not go."

  "How come I didn't hear anything?!" Li Yiqian said, still bewildered. "Jin'er, let's go together, maybe it has something to do with my sister's death!"

  Li Yi Qian also got up.

  Seeing them both going, Lin Yuan said: "Then I'll go too, if we're gonna die, let's all die together."

  "I don't want to be alone here either, I'm scared." Du Xiaonan also got out of bed.

  "This is very dangerous, you'd better not go."

  "One more person, one more companion, I must go." Lin Yuan said firmly.

  Du Xiaonan also nodded firmly.

  "Alright! Whoever has a flashlight, bring it along, let's go together."

  In case of a power outage, they each bought flashlights, which are now coming in handy. They took their respective flashlights and carefully exited the dormitory, with no one knowing what kind of terrifying things they would encounter outside.

  Li Yi Qian led them out of the broken window, while Lin Yuan led them around to the experimental building via a small path.

  "Lin Yuan, how did you know there was a small path here?" Su Jiner suddenly asked.

  "Haha, wasn't it that day when I wasn't sleeping in but you went to occupy the seat first? Actually, I wasn't sleeping, I was very curious about what was strange about the old lab building, so after you left, I got up and went to take a look, and then I found that small path."

  Su Jiner glared at her, and after realizing she couldn't see her, said: "You're too bold! I told you not to interfere, yet you still interfered?"

  "Aren't you here now too?"

  When she heard her words, Su Jin'er didn't know what to say anymore. Now that they had already gotten mixed up in this, it would be hard to quit.

  "Ah——" Du Xiaonan suddenly shouted loudly, Li Yiqian quickly covered her mouth.

  "Don't shout!"

  Du Xiaonan's eyes widened in horror as she stared at the left side and pointed with her hand.

  The three of them looked in the direction she was pointing, and suddenly, all three of them broke out in a cold sweat. There was a white figure over there.

  "Shh! Don't talk, it might just be a piece of clothing. We don't want to scare ourselves." Su Jiner said, although she said so, how could she not be afraid?!

  "How can clothes possibly come walking towards us?"

  A few people stared at the white figure, slowly moving towards them.

  "Oh no! She's coming over, what are we going to do?" Du Xiaonan stuttered.

  "I'd like to see if she's human or a ghost!" Li Yiqian said suddenly.

  The figure slowly approached, and they finally let out a sigh of relief. The person who came was none other than Chu Feifan, the incoming student council president of their school.

  "What are you four people doing sneaking around here in the middle of the night? I thought you were thieves!" Chu Feifan said.

  "We were going to ask you too! Are you out here basking in the moonlight instead of sleeping at midnight?" Lin Yuan's courage grew after seeing that it was a person and not a ghost.

  "Isn't it because of the presidential election? Come out and patrol." a voice beside him said suddenly.

  "Ah! A ghost!" Lin Yuan cried out.

  "Please don't shout! Do you want to wake up the whole school?" Su Jiner said, covering her mouth.

  "You're the ghost? It's me." said Zuo Yi in black clothes beside him.

  "What are you wandering around in black clothes at midnight for?" Lin Yuan said.

  "What's it to you?"

  "What's going on with you guys running out in the middle of the night?" Zuo Yi asked.

  "Hmm! We can't sleep so we came out for a stroll." Lin Yuan said with a yawn.

  "Alright, stop making a fuss. We were originally looking for their help anyway, and now we've run into them just in time. But I won't tell you the specifics yet. Four of us in our dormitory heard someone calling out our names, so three of us came down to take a look." Su Jiner said softly.

  "What's your name? How come we didn't hear it?" Zuo Yi replied.

  "It's precisely because I found it strange that I wanted to come down and take a look!" Du Xiaonan said.

  "We'll pay you back!"

  "Ah!"

  Six people walked together towards the experimental building, and the distance from where they stood to the experimental building was not far. At this time, the experimental building was pitch black, even if there really was something, no one would dare to go in at this time!

  Chu Fei Fan walked in the front, while Zuo Yi walked at the back. Several girls were in the middle, holding hands and walking slowly forward.

  Chu Fei Fan slowly pushed open the large iron door of the laboratory building, which was already covered in rust due to its long period of disuse, and a layer of rust stuck to his fingertips.

  Looking at the pitch-black inside of the door, no one dared to step forward again.

  "What's wrong with you guys? I was just inside during the day today!" Li Yiqian suddenly said in a low voice.

  Her sudden words also made everyone take in a breath of cold air.

  Li Yi Qian stepped through the iron gate first, and as soon as she entered, she felt a chill run from her feet to the top of her head, causing her to shiver.