Chapter 8: School Rumors (Part 2)

  After class, the two girls and Su Jiner and Lin Yuan returned to dormitory 414 together.

  The next part of the story made them tremble with fear.

  Five years ago, the experimental building currently used by the school had not been built yet, and it was still the old experimental building. In that year, a girl named Xiao Qing hanged herself in the experimental building. Since it was a suicide, the school did not pay much attention to it. After investigating for some time, the police did not find any results and concluded that she had committed suicide due to heavy academic pressure. The girl who died was from dormitory 414.

  After that, strange things began to happen in the school. For example, the door of a certain dormitory would automatically open, and the faucet in the bathroom would flow water by itself. What made people afraid was that someone could often hear crying sounds coming from the toilet. However, no deaths occurred until one night, a shrill cry pierced the sky, and terror finally unfolded.

  "What exactly happened?" Lin Yuan asked anxiously.

  One of the girls looked out the window unconsciously, and another girl seemed to ease the atmosphere, saying: "We all forgot to introduce ourselves."

  Su Jiner looked at her pale face and said: "My name is Su Jiner, hers is Lin Yuan, what about you?"

  "My name is Ouyang Chunxiao, her name is Wu Nannan."

  Wu Nannan turned her head and smiled at Su Jiner, but her complexion looked even paler than Ouyang Chunxiao's.

  "Hurry up and tell the story!" Lin Yu said excitedly, although she was very afraid of those ghosts and monsters, but her curiosity was stronger than anyone else's.

  "Sister Xue said that for a period of time afterwards, they all lived in fear."

  Originally, after the girl called Xiao Qing died, all the strange events in school were referred to by her classmates as Xiao Qing's ghost coming back, and it was said that she must have come back for revenge. Such rumors began to spread throughout the school, but because nothing too frightening had happened, the students didn't pay much attention to it. However, the real terror had only just begun.

  It was that night, when a shrill female voice pierced the sky, that terror instantly enveloped the entire campus, and that shrill female voice came from the 414 girls' dormitory.

  "Is he dead?" Lin Yuan asked.

  "No, the girl who screamed wasn't dead, it was another girl. The girl had gotten up to use the restroom, and when she turned on the light, she found that the other girl had hanged herself from the ceiling fan. Her eyes were wide open, her eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets, her tongue sticking out, and blood dripping onto the floor, forming a puddle."

  Lin Yuan's eyes widened in shock, while Wu Nannan beside him looked up at the ceiling fan with a terrified expression. At this moment, the fan was slowly swaying, as if there really was a corpse hanging from it.

  "Fan - how did the fan start moving?" Wu Nannan said in terror.

  As soon as they heard her words, they all looked up at the ceiling fan above their heads, and the ceiling fan was indeed slowly swaying.

  "Could it be that Little Qing's ghost has come back? What should we do?" Wu Nannan continued to say, her voice also becoming sharp due to fear.

  Su Jiner looked at the fan and then looked at the window and said: "Maybe it's because the window wasn't closed properly."

  After she finished speaking, she stood up and walked towards the windowsill. Then she looked at the window and laughed, saying: "It really wasn't closed properly!"

  After she closed the window, the fan also stopped spinning, and everyone's tense heart calmed down. Only Wu Nannan's face was still pale and bloodless.

  "Is that girl really dead?"

  "Ah, another girl's cry woke everyone up, and many people were frightened when they saw the girl's corpse."

  "What did the police say?" Su Jiner asked.

  Ouyang Chun shook her head and said: "Sister didn't say, we were all scared to death when we heard it, who would have thought to ask this, only you Jin'er would think of it."

  "I don't believe in supernatural things, so I think it's man-made. Since it's man-made, there are only two possibilities: either it's homicide or suicide. So we should ask the police what they say!"

  Lin Yuan looked at Su Jin'er with a smile that was not quite a smile and said, "How is it that you're becoming more and more like a detective? And what's more, such a beautiful detective."

  Su Jiner glared at her and said, "I wish I were a detective. But I'm really curious, what happened to this case later?" She brought the topic back on track.

  "Afterwards several more people died, but how it was concluded we don't know."

  "What about the ones behind? How did they die?" Su Jin'er asked.

  "Can't all be hanged?" Lin Yuan continued.

  Wu Nannan bit her lip and shook her head, saying: "No, one of them fell from the upstairs, another drowned, and another hanged himself."

  "In other words, including Xiao Qing who died first, there were three hangings, one jumping from a building, and one drowning, right?"

  "Well, in total five people died that year, and the time interval between them was about a week or so, five people died within a month."

  "It's really scary that five people died in just a few months?" Lin Yuan said with a nod.

  "Never mind, after all it's been five years already, what's the point of studying this now? Let's just focus on learning!"

  Su Jin'er stood up and said, looking out of the window.

  The sky has turned gray and white, it seems like it's going to change weather.

  "Time has passed so quickly, it's almost noon, we'll go eat soon, let's go first!" Ouyang Chunxiao waved goodbye to them.

  "Alright, sounds good! Come visit me when you're free!" Lin Yuan smiled and waved goodbye.

  But Wu Nannan's face was still very pale, she seemed to have something to say all the time, but never said it out loud. As soon as they walked out of the door, she said: "I don't know why I feel like their dormitory is so weird! There's always a chill in the air, and clothes keep getting blown inside."

  "How could it be? I don't think there's anything strange about it! And besides, you shouldn't forget that the thing that happened five years ago wasn't targeting room 414, and only two of the people who died were from 414."

  Their conversation gradually drifted away, but Su Jin'er standing at the door happened to hear it.

  "Jin'er, what are you doing standing there?" Lin Yuan's words had just finished when Du Xiaonan rushed in from outside.

  "Huh? What are you doing standing by the door?" Du Xiaonan asked her.

  "Oh! Never mind, you were just coming in as I was about to close the door."

  Su Jiner sat on the bed, thinking about what Ouyang Chunxiao had just said. On the surface, she seemed to have no doubts at all, but she had a feeling that he was suspiciously hiding something.

  After thinking for half a day, she still couldn't figure out what it was. She shook her head, maybe she had watched too many Sherlock Holmes episodes! Why was she so suspicious? It's already been five years since then, what's the point of thinking so much about it? Thinking this way, she stood up and looked at her watch, it was already 11:30.

  "Xiao Yuan, go eat now, you still have class this afternoon!"

  She waited for half a day without hearing Lin Yuan's response. She turned her head and looked at Lin Yuan on the upper bunk, not knowing when she had fallen asleep.

  "How can you sleep so well?" She shook her head with a bitter smile.

  "Are you going to eat?" Du Xiaonan suddenly rushed out of the bathroom, she had been hiding in there since she got back.

  "Really? Are you going together?"

  "En, of course, right, Jin'er, can I have a request?" Du Xiaonan suddenly said in a low voice.

  "What's wrong?"

  "Can you and Lin Yuan bring me along next time? Li Yi Qian always comes and goes alone, I don't know what kind of mysterious thing she's doing. I don't want to be left out, so I thought of going with you guys."

  "Of course! I thought you had friends in other dorms?"

  "No way! You have no idea? I heard a scary story today and was frightened to death, so that's why I don't want to wander around the campus alone!"

  "What story? What's the story?"

  As soon as Lin Yuan heard the two words "the story", he immediately jumped up from bed.

  "Aren't you asleep?"

  "Yes! But you know, I love listening to stories! So I woke up."

  Su Jin'er looked at her helplessly and pouted.

  "Let's go! We'll talk as we walk." Su Jiner said, picking up the coat on the bed and putting it on.

  "Wait a minute, I'll be right out." After that, Du Xiaonan rushed into the bathroom again.

  It's good that this school has separate toilets and bathrooms, otherwise it would be crowded to death.

  There were still many people in the cafeteria, and at this time, all the students had just finished class, so the cafeteria was packed with people.

  They finished their meal and looked for a vacant seat that could accommodate three people.

  "Hey! There's an empty seat over there, let's go sit there."

  Du Xiaonan pointed to a corner and said.

  The restaurant was packed with people, but that corner was desolate and empty.

  "How strange, there's not a single person here!" They placed their trays on the table and curiously looked at every passerby, but they all kept a distance from this place. After seeing the three of them sitting there, they looked even more curious, with some people even revealing terrified expressions.

  "Right! Why do they look at us with such a strange gaze? They seem to be very afraid." Lin Yuan put a piece of braised pork into his mouth and said unclearly. "Wow, it's so greasy!" Lin Yuan spat out the meat he had just eaten.

  "It's a good thing I didn't order that dish." Su Jiner put the vegetables into her mouth.

  "What? Isn't that Xu Lingling and Chu Feifan? Are they together?" Du Xiaonan said, looking at the crowd.

  "It's them! They seem to be walking this way." Su Jin'er lifted her head to take a look, then lowered it again and continued eating.

  "Hey! You guys okay?" Xu Lingling said with a smile, then looked around and said: "Are you really not afraid? Or do you simply have no idea what this place is?"

  "What's wrong?" Lin Yuan raised his head and looked at her unhappily.

  "Hah! Looks like you really don't know, okay then! I'll tell you." Xu Lingling said with a proud and arrogant tone.

  At this time, Chu Feifan sat down beside Su Jiner and said: "I'll also listen to why I can't sit here!"