Chapter Twenty Fear

  Looking at the fallen leaves and trash all over the ground, Su Jin'er couldn't help but furrow her brow. How could they find He in such a large forest?

  Just as she was about to give up searching, her phone rang.

  Lin Yuan heard her phone ringing and quickly ran over: "Whose call is it?"

  "It's Chu Fei Fan." She picked up the phone and said, "Have you found any clues?"

  Chu Fei Fan stared blankly and said: "Where are you?"

  "I was in the woods where Zhang Jun's body was found."

  "What are you doing there? It's very dangerous."

  "Do you have any news?"

  "Ah! I found Zhang Junsheng's information, shall we gather at the school gate now?"

  "Good!"

  Hanging up the phone, Su Jiner took a deep breath. Had Zhang Junsheng really not left any clues, or had she just looked in the wrong place?

  "Can't find it?" Lin Yuan threw away the branch in his hand and said while clapping his hands.

  "Hmm! I've been searching for so long and still can't find it, next time I'll bring those two along to search together."

  When they returned to the school gate, Chu Feifan and Zuo Yi were already waiting for them there.

  "What information have you found about Zhang Junsheng?" Su Jin'er asked as soon as she saw them. She was now very worried about Li Yiqian's safety, who had been gone for four days and might be in a precarious situation by now.

  "This news is absolutely unexpected, Zhang Junsheng is three years older than us, according to common sense, he should be at least two grades higher than us, but why is he in the same grade as us?" Zuo Yi said puzzled, still stroking his chin with his right thumb and index finger.

  "There's something strange about this, maybe he skipped two grades or maybe he even started school late!" Lin Yuan said as he looked at him.

  "Alright, stop teasing me, I'm getting worried about Qianqian now!" Su Jiner said with a furrowed brow.

  "Zhang Junsheng, 21 years old, lives in this city with his family, but he is not a native of this place. As for where his hometown is, there is no record of it. His parents are farmers who came to the city to work. Perhaps that's why his grades were still good, so it was impossible for him to be held back a year. In fact, the reason he ended up in the same class as us is because two years ago, he suddenly disappeared."

  "Missing?"

  "Hmm! However, his name at that time was not Zhang Junsheng, but Zhang Jun, which was changed later."

  "How did you guys know this? And even if he changed his name, his appearance wouldn't change, right? Shouldn't those third-year students have recognized him?" Knowing Zhang Junsheng's information didn't make things simpler, but instead more complicated. Was it really that they were overthinking things? She couldn't figure it out.

  "I also find this point strange."

  "Shouldn't there be his photo in the student file?"

  Chu Fei Fan shook his head, while Zuo Yi helplessly shrugged his shoulders.

  "We also wanted to find his photos, but not only were there no photos of him, the information was only half there. I think it's possible that someone before us destroyed useful clues and left us with useless or misleading ones."

  When Su Jin'er heard Chu Fei Fan's words, her heart cooled down by half, and there was no clue as to how to find him.

  Moreover, we also investigated the information about the three people who died. At the scene of their death, there were only their own footprints and fingerprints. The causes of Li Ran's and Zhang Junsheng's deaths were the same, both had their major arteries in the neck cut off.

  "Could it be that there really are ghosts in this world?" Lin Yuan's voice was somewhat shrill, her body and teeth were all trembling.

  "Lin Yuan, calm down, there are no ghosts in this world, ghosts are just people's imagination, don't scare yourself."

  Lin Yuan is not a brave person, and her fondness for anatomy isn't really about the feeling of a knife cutting through skin as she said, but because she wants to be a forensic doctor. However, with this bizarre murder case happening now, she's gotten scared.

  "Aren't you going to be a forensic doctor? As a forensic doctor, you can't be afraid of corpses, let alone ghosts. Fortunately, at least we're seeing complete bodies now." She lets go of Lin Yuan and looks at Chu Fei Fan and Zuo Yi, saying: "I want to ask for your help with something."

  "What's wrong?"

  "Take me to the police station."

  Su Jiner is not a reckless person, they have reported the case for four days, but there is no news from the police station. What's even more infuriating is that three people have already died in school and one person has gone missing, yet the school leaders are still acting as if nothing has happened. Don't they fear that these incidents will spread and affect the school's reputation? Or...

  A terrible thought startled her, impossible, she must be thinking too much, she shook her head, trying to shake off the chaotic thoughts in her mind, but that thought was like a stubborn root, couldn't be shaken off.

  "Jin'er, does Xiaonan look like she's possessed or something?" Lin Yuan asked, leaning on the headboard and looking at Du Xiaonan who was leaning against the wall, her occipital bone knocking against the wall repeatedly.

  Su Jiner raised her head to look at Du Xiaonan on the other bed, whose eyes were dull and pale, with lips constantly trembling, hair disheveled, and had not spoken a word since she returned and spoke once. Her situation was really too strange.

  Her eyes were fixed on the window outside, with a feeling that something terrible was about to come in from outside at any moment.

  No, no, it's not right.

  Su Jin'er looked at her again, and the feeling was different from before, what had changed?

  She stared tightly at Du Xiaonan.

  "Jin'er, what's wrong with you? Why are you always staring at her?"

  "Xiao Yuan, come quick and take a look. Xiao Nan is different from just now, hurry up." Although she was talking to Lin Yuan, her eyes never left Du Xiao Nan for a moment.

  Because of Su Jiner's tension, Lin Yuan also became tense. She was originally very afraid and now she is even more afraid. She tilted her head and looked at Du Xiaonan carefully.

  It's the eyes!

  It's her eyes, they were lifeless just now, but now they're terrified, why did I only notice such a big change after so long?

  Following her gaze, Su Jin'er slowly turned her head to look out the window. It was just a simple movement, but she felt like it took great effort, as if her neck had been cast in plaster and every slight turn made the sound of cracking or breaking.

  She finally finished the action, but this action made her sweat profusely. Now that it's already early winter, she shouldn't be sweating so much!

  The sky outside the window had completely darkened, she opened her eyes wide and stared at the outside, her eyes becoming more and more fearful. On the top of the window, there was something swaying, slowly, little by little, falling down.

  It's a human head!

  Oh my god! That was a bloody human head, hung upside down outside the window, with eyes wide open and staring at her through the window. Her breathing became more and more urgent, she wanted to scream loudly, but not a single sound came out of her throat. The head slowly descended further, until finally, she saw his entire face - it was a familiar face, Zhang Junsheng's. His tongue had become extremely long, covering his nose completely, with blood dripping from the tip and some even sticking to the window.

  Fear swept through her entire body, why couldn't she make a sound, and not even move an inch?! What's more terrifying was that she found out she couldn't even move her eyeballs, only staring at the frightening skull outside the window.

  Good heavens!

  Xiao Yuan quickly discovered that she could also call herself. Why was Lin Yuan silent at this time? Was she in the same situation as her own?

  Suddenly, the skull actually smiled, and Su Jin'er's body hair stood up, her scalp was numb! Breathing also became more and more unsmooth, as if the air around her was slowly being sucked away, she was about to suffocate, and her chest was also painfully splitting.

  Just as she thought she was going to die, a scream finally brought her relief.

  She recovered, gasping for breath, her entire body aching as if her bones had been dislocated, and what was most frightening was that the feeling of terror still lingered in her heart.

  At last, she summoned up her courage and slowly lifted her head to look out of the window.

  Zhang Junsheng's head was actually... gone.

  Was it just an illusion of mine earlier?

  Who made that scream?

  "Xiao Yuan."

  She finally found her own voice and it's great to be able to speak out.

  At this time, Lin Yuan was curled up in the corner of the wall, with a terrified look on his face.

  "Xiao Yuan, are you okay?" She climbed up to the top bunk and held Lin Yuan, who was shivering with fear, in her arms.

  "A ghost! Jin'er, there really is a ghost, I saw it, I really saw it."

  "Xiao Yuan, don't be afraid, what we see is just an illusion, there are no ghosts."

  "But I really saw it, she said she would take me away, look!"

  Lin Yuan pulled up her sleeves, and on her wrists were five bright red fingerprints, making them have to believe everything that had just happened.

  "What exactly did you see? Why did it pull you?"

  "I saw her, I saw a woman with disheveled hair, her face covered in blood, skin hanging off, and many white worms crawling on it. Her eyes were two black holes, no upper lip but a lower one, she floated slowly from the window to my bedside, staring at me with those eyeless eyes, really looking at me, then stretched out her hand saying she wanted to take me away, so terrifying, I wanted to call you but couldn't make any sound."

  Listening to Lin Yuan's words, Su Jin'er's body was like being soaked in icy water.

  "Wasn't that scream just now yours?"

  Lin Yuan trembled and shook his head.

  "Is that... Xiaonan?"

  They had forgotten that there was another person in the dormitory, but when they remembered her, Du Xiaonan's figure had already disappeared from her bed.

  "Where did Xiaonan go? Did you notice?"

  "I was so scared myself, how would I have noticed her!"

  "That scream wasn't from you or me, it was Xiaonan. But where did she go?"

  "Will it be in the bathroom?"

  "Let's go and take a look!"

  Su Jiner first crawled down from the bed, then Lin Yuan followed her down. They held hands and slowly walked towards the bathroom.

  Su Jiner's hand slowly reached out towards the bathroom door, a distance that was clearly very close, yet seemed forever out of reach.

  Finally, she summoned up the courage to push open the door. At the moment when the door was pushed open, a cold gust of wind blew towards them, and they couldn't help but shiver.

  "Nothing — there is none."

  The bedroom is just this big, where can she go?

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