Chapter Ten The First Death

  "Yes, I heard someone knocking on the door, but didn't hear any footsteps coming upstairs." Su Jiner said, "By the way, you just mentioned that you saw some words on the wall, what kind of words were they?"

  "It's just a line written with red pen! I think it might be someone's prank!" Li Yiqian said nonchalantly.

  "What is the content?"

  "Everyone will die, no one can escape." She still looked completely indifferent.

  Lin Yuan's eyes widened in surprise: "You see this and aren't afraid at all?"

  "It's probably someone's prank!" Su Jiner said.

  "I think so too!" Du Xiaonan's voice was trembling, but she still echoed in agreement.

  No one was speaking in the bedroom anymore. Everyone was thinking about the questions that had arisen in their minds. At this moment, the lights suddenly went out.

  "Who turned off the lights?" Du Xiaonan asked in a hoarse voice, she was just thinking about the horror movie she had seen before, and the light suddenly went out, scaring her.

  "It's probably time for lights out!" Su Jin'er replied.

  "Isn't the lights-out time at 11? Why is it only 10:30 now?" Li Yiqian said languidly, and there was a faint yellow glow on her bed, which was emitted by her mobile phone.

  Su Jiner closed her eyes, she suddenly felt very tired, and her eyelids were so heavy that they couldn't be opened at all.

  At some point, a strong wind started blowing outside, with a mournful howl that sounded like someone was crying.

  "Is someone crying?" Su Jiner suddenly opened her eyes.

  The wind outside seems to have grown stronger, blowing against the window frame with a rattling sound.

  Su Jiner looked at her watch and it was already 12 o'clock, but when did she fall asleep? She shook her somewhat dizzy head and sat up from the bed.

  Maybe the window wasn't closed tightly! She always felt like there was a wind blowing on her face.

  Suddenly, she felt something sweep across her face, and everything in front of her turned black. She couldn't see anything, so she stretched out her hand to feel around.

  It's hair!

  When did Lin Yuan this little girl start liking to hang her hair down from the bed?

  She got down from bed and went to the balcony, wanting to close the window tightly.

  Just as she was about to close the window, she suddenly saw a shadow swaying downstairs. Who is still awake at this late hour? She pushed open the window, and the wind blew her hair into disarray. She couldn't help but shiver with cold. She opened her eyes wide, wanting to see clearly who it was below, but the distance was too far, and she could only see a blurry white shadow.

  She shook her head and closed the window, having nothing to do with anyone.

  Standing by the bed, she took a look at Lin Yuan sleeping on the upper bunk, but found that Lin Yuan was not even in bed. Then whose hair was it just now?

  She suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, she stretched out her hand to touch Lin Yuan's bed, it was still warm, that is to say Lin Yuan had just gone out.

  She bent down, felt out the flashlight on her own bed, and the weak light of the flashlight shone out. She shone it on Li Yiqian's bed, but strangely, she wasn't there either. Only Du Xiaonan was sleeping alone in bed, seemingly sleeping soundly.

  Other people's affairs Su Jiner can ignore, but Lin Yuan's affairs, she cannot ignore. She opened the bathroom in the room and took a look, but there was no one inside. She quietly opened the door and walked out.

  The corridor in the bedroom was quiet, so quiet that there was no sound at all, only her own light footsteps and the sound of wind outside the window, mixed together, giving people a terrible feeling.

  Su Jiner held the flashlight and carefully went down to the third floor, she looked around the corridor and found no one, then went down to the second floor. The second floor was also empty, she suddenly thought of the white shadow she saw on the upper floor earlier, could it be one of the two?

  It's so late, Lin Yuan wouldn't have gone downstairs by herself if there wasn't something going on, so she must have discovered something. Honestly, didn't I tell her not to get involved in this matter?

  Su Jin'er thought with some anger.

  She walked to the first floor and found that the door was locked, so were they still in the dormitory or was there another place to go out? She carefully took a flashlight and turned around on the first floor, but didn't find any place to leave the dormitory. Just as she was about to go upstairs, a sudden gust of cold wind blew over, but all the windows here were closed, how could there be cold wind?

  She walked in the direction of the wind, and found that next to the dormitory management office, there was actually a broken window. She turned off her flashlight and slowly approached it.

  The window was just large enough for one person to squeeze out sideways, she crouched down and carefully made her way through the broken window, the wind outside was strong, her hair was blown against her face, she could hardly open her eyes.

  Suddenly, her mouth was covered by someone's hand. She widened her eyes, trying to see who it was, when a voice whispered in her ear: "Jin'er, it's me, don't speak."

  Su Jin'er nodded.

  "Xiao Yuan, how are you here?" she asked softly.

  "I saw Li Yi Qian come out, so I followed her. Let's go and see where she is going at midnight?" Lin Yuan said in a low voice.

  "Didn't I tell you? Don't interfere with other people's business! Why don't you listen?" Su Jiner scolded.

  "I know, but she doesn't look like she's awake. Could she be sleepwalking? I'm worried something might happen to her."

  Upon hearing her words, Su Jin'er said: "Alright, let's follow them and take a look."

  "She must have gone to the old lab building," Lin Yuan said, pulling Su Jiner's hand, and Su Jiner could feel the sweat oozing from her palm.

  As expected, when they just approached the experimental building, they saw Li Yiqian walking in stiffly, and her body was so stiff that it seemed like she was really sleepwalking.

  "I've heard old people say that you can't call out to a sleepwalker, or she'll be scared to death."

  "Well, I've heard it too, so I didn't call her, but followed her all the way."

  "How did you know that window was bad and could be opened?"

  "I followed Li Yi Qian out, at first I was also very surprised? But I didn't think much about it, just thinking about what she wanted to do."

  At this time, they had already walked to the door of the experimental building. The door was open and they carefully pushed it in. Inside, it was pitch black, even darker than outside.

  Su Jiner turned on the flashlight and carefully stepped inside, the beam of light illuminating the dust particles floating in the air. She swept the light around her surroundings but didn't see anyone.

  Just as they were about to go upstairs, Su Jiner suddenly pulled Lin Yuan and said: "Don't move, someone is talking."

  She pulled Lin Yuan's hand and hid in a dark corner at the staircase entrance.

  From upstairs, you can faintly hear the sound of someone talking.

  "Did you bring what I told you to take?"

  It is a man's voice.

  "It's here, but you have to tell me what I want to know first, otherwise, I won't give it to you." It was Li Yi Qian's voice.

  "I'll certainly tell you, but first you have to show me what I want you to bring."

  Su Jiner whispered: "They seem to be making some kind of deal? Did you see her carrying anything when she came out with Li Yiqian?"

  "It seems like she always has something in her arms."

  "Listen to what they say next."

  "Shall we go up and take a look?"

  "No!"

  At this time, Li Yi Qian seemed to have shown him something already.

  "Can you tell me now?"

  "As for that matter, I don't know much about it. All I know is that after she died, her body went missing twice. The first time it went missing, it was found in the cafeteria, but the second time it went missing, it was never found again."

  "How did you know these things?"

  "My brother is a policeman. I found out unintentionally from him. And there's another very important point, do you want to know?" the man said suddenly in a mysterious tone.

  "Hurry up and say it, otherwise I won't give you these things."

  Next was a very soft conversation, Su Jin'er and Lin Yuan did not hear it.

  "What?" Li Yiqian said in surprise.

  Li Yi Qian's voice sounded surprised, but more of it should be anger.

  Then they heard footsteps coming down the stairs again.

  "I think they should be coming down, let's go first." Su Jiner pulled Lin Yuan out of the lab building. "We must get back to the dorm before she does."

  "I know there's a shortcut here, let's take it." Lin Yuan pulled Su Jiner's hand and ran towards the back of the experimental building.

  Behind the experimental building is a forest, and on the wall of that forest, there is a small door. Passing through the small door can directly reach the 4th dormitory building, so they can arrive at the dormitory first without arousing Li Yiqian's suspicion.

  Fortunately, they didn't encounter any obstacles on the way and returned to their dormitory smoothly. Just as they lay down on their beds, they heard Li Yiqian's footsteps coming upstairs.

  Su Jiner turned over, facing the wall, while Lin Yuan pulled the quilt over his head, only revealing his eyes, quietly looking outside.

  After a long time, the dormitory returned to silence again. Su Jin'er turned over and faced outward. She didn't know who the man was that Li Yi-qian had met, what kind of deal they were making, or why Li Yi-qian would be shocked and angry when she heard the man's last words. What were those words?

  What do they mean by the corpse went missing twice? After it disappeared for the first time, it was found in the cafeteria. The cafeteria? She suddenly remembered that when she had lunch in the cafeteria today, Xu Lingling said Xiao Qing's corpse appeared on that table. So, does this mean that the corpse Li Yi Qian and others were talking about is actually Xiao Qing's? But Xiao Qing died five years ago, what does this have to do with Li Yi Qian? Why would she care so much about Li Yi Qian?

  Thought for a long time, still no thoughts, forget it, said not to get involved in these things, anyway, has nothing to do with oneself.

  She closed her eyes at this thought.

  But just as she had closed her eyes for less than five minutes, she heard a "thud" sound, as if something had fallen from upstairs. She was startled and quickly sat up, the sound seemed muffled, but in this quiet night, it sounded exceptionally piercing.

  "Jin'er, did you hear that? It sounds like something fell." Lin Yuan's voice suddenly came from the upper bunk.

  "Ah, I heard you, why aren't you sleeping either?"

  "I don't know either, I just feel like there's always a chill wind blowing into my neck and I couldn't sleep."

  Su Jiner thought for a moment, the window tonight was closed by herself, it shouldn't have been cold wind, but why did she always have a bad premonition since entering this school?

  "Maybe you didn't cover it well!" She herself didn't know how to comfort her, should she tell her that she had a bad premonition all along?

  "What just fell down? Should we go down and take a look?"

  "Never mind! I think it's just the strong wind that blew something away, let's go to sleep! Don't think too much about it." Although she said so, her heart was still pounding rapidly, as if it was going to jump out of her mouth, but she couldn't tell Lin Yuan.

  The next morning, Su Jin'er was woken up by a noisy sound before she even woke up. She picked up the watch on her bedside table and took a look at the time, it was just after five o'clock, why was it so noisy outside? It seemed like there were also police car sirens.

  She suddenly opened her eyes wide awake, with no trace of sleepiness. Could it be that the sound last night was someone jumping off a building? She quickly got dressed and out of bed, then woke up Lin Yuan who was still dreaming.

  When they rushed downstairs together, the downstairs was already crowded with students. Lin Yuan pulled Su Jiner's hand and squeezed forward, when they squeezed to the front of the police cordon, just in time to see the police covering a dismembered corpse with white cloth, but strangely, there was not a single drop of blood on the ground.

  "How can there be no blood?"

  When Lin Yuan heard Su Jin'er's words, he found that there was not even a drop of blood on the ground.

  Because the corpse's face was facing down, they did not see who the deceased was.

  "The dead person is Xu Mengguang." Chu Feifan appeared beside Su Jiner without knowing when.

  "How did you know?"

  "The clothes, he is still wearing the ones from military training." Chu Fei Fan pointed at a corner of white cloth sticking out.

  What Chu Fei Fan said is not wrong, the clothes on the deceased are indeed exactly the same as Xu Meng Guang's during military training, but this doesn't mean that person is Xu Meng Guang!

  Perhaps guessing Su Jin'er's thoughts, Chu Feifan said: "Four days ago, Xu Mengguang took a leave of absence, and no one knew where she went. It was on the second day after he took his leave that Xue Lingling said she saw his body. Do you still remember?"

  "Yes, it was that morning, and then the body just disappeared." Su Jiner said.

  "When was this? How didn't I know?" Lin Yuan asked in puzzlement.