Chapter 21: Du Xiaonan Went Mad

  Du Xiaonan is missing.

  Su Jin'er really couldn't believe that she had only been here for a short time, yet she had experienced everything that she hadn't encountered in the past 18 years. Although every day someone dies in this world, and from the moment of birth, everyone is destined to walk on a path leading to death, no one can escape it, so she wasn't afraid of death. After all, it's just a matter of dying early or late.

  But now, a four-person dormitory suddenly became two people, the originally somewhat crowded dormitory, at this moment it seems empty.

  "Jin'er, do you think we two will suddenly disappear as well?"

  "Don't talk nonsense, maybe Xiaonan just ran out when we weren't paying attention."

  Su Jin'er and Lin Yuan leaned tightly against each other, their eyes wide open as they stared at every corner of the dormitory. After what had just happened, Su Jin'er herself didn't know if she still wanted to believe that there were no ghosts in this world. At this moment, she was really scared, a fear that came from deep within her heart, making her spirit almost collapse. She thought that even for someone with a strong personality, their willpower would be destroyed in such a situation.

  When did she firmly believe that there were no ghosts in the world! I remember my mother saying that when she was four or five years old, one night at her grandmother's house, she suddenly had a high fever and looked out of the window with unclear consciousness, calling "ghost" all the time. At that time, everyone in the family was scared, but my mother, who never believed in ghosts, insisted on sending her to the hospital. However, the fever did not subside, and she remained in a state of confusion. Later, it was her grandmother who invited the village shaman to come and perform rituals, and she finally woke up.

  But mom still insisted that it was the medicine that worked, so she didn't believe in ghosts and gods either.

  But now she's starting to wonder whether it's that she really doesn't believe or if she just doesn't want to believe.

  "Should we go out and look for her? It's already dark, will she be in danger?" Lin Yuan looked out the window, outside was pitch black, only a few windows of the dormitory building in front had faint light coming from them.

  Su Jiner also looked up at the window, what was that thing that had just made her almost lose her soul? Where did Du Xiaonan go again? The door was still closed, even if she ran out by herself, why didn't she and Lin Yuan hear any sound?

  "Jin'er, I'm so scared. Do you think the female ghost I just saw was Xiao Qing? Has she come back for revenge?"

  "Xiao Yuan, I've told you before, don't scare yourself. If there really are ghosts, why do you see something different from what I see?"

  "You... you saw it too?"

  Su Jiner nodded heavily: "Right, I saw Zhang Junsheng's head."

  ……

  The room was silent, and all they could hear was each other's rapid breathing.

  "No, Xiaonan might be in danger, we have to go find her." Su Jiner suddenly said, Li Yiqian had already disappeared, she couldn't let Du Xiaonan disappear too, no matter what was behind all this, whether it was human or ghost, she had to stop it.

  Seeing Su Jiner's firm eyes, Lin Yuan also "brushed" up: "Good! I've decided, no matter if the other party is human or ghost, we must stop him and find Qianqian and Xiaonan."

  Although what just happened scared them, they were not heartless people, so Su Jin'er called Chu Fei Fan and Zuo Yi to find together with herself, after all, they were still girls.

  They still went to the pavilion they often visited, perhaps because of the cold weather, there were no couples dating outside tonight. The wind outside was very cold, blowing on their faces like a knife cut, they shivered and listened to Su Jin'er and Lin Yuan's encounter in the pavilion, they also felt that things were very strange.

  "Have you looked everywhere? Won't it be on the top floor of the dormitory?" Chu Feifan asked them.

  "If she went up to the top floor, there should have been some noise...” As soon as he said this, Su Jin'er suddenly stopped and her eyes widened in horror: "How could I have forgotten such an important clue?!"

  "What clue?" The three men asked in unison.

  "That scream! Why did only I, Xiaoyuan, hear it? Didn't anyone else in the dorm hear it? And at this time, my classmates shouldn't all be asleep yet!"

  Everyone involuntarily gasped, this matter was indeed very strange, unless that scream wasn't emitted by a human.

  "Never mind, let's find Du Xiaonan first!" Zuo Yi said.

  Everyone nodded in agreement.

  They almost searched every place in the school, but couldn't find Du Xiaonan. However, there was one place they didn't go to - the old laboratory building of the school. Since Li Ran's body was found there, it had been sealed off by the police and no one was allowed to enter except for the investigating officers. All the experimental equipment that were originally placed inside had also been moved out.

  "Has it been sealed off already? Is she going there?" Lin Yuan asked, trembling.

  "Hmm, the only place we haven't been is there, we have to go look for her, otherwise she'll end up like those three people."

  After making the decision, the four of them quietly walked towards there, the wind seemed to be stronger than before, Su Jin'er tightened her clothes, every time she went to that experimental building, she felt a cold wind drilling into her neck.

  The wind blew through the leaves, making a "rustling" sound, but fortunately it didn't reach the point of sounding like a ghostly wail.

  "Look, it seems like there's someone over there!" Lin Yuan exclaimed in surprise. They had just arrived at the bottom of the experimental building when they saw a figure.

  "Shh! Don't talk, let's go take a look."

  They approached cautiously, but in this quiet night, it seemed that human hearing also became abnormally sharp. The figure hiding in the darkness moved its body and then quickly turned around and ran into the woods, disappearing quickly into the quiet night.

  "He ran away." Su Jiner sighed in disappointment.

  "Could this be another informant? Or is he the murderer?" Zuo Yi muttered to himself, stroking his chin.

  "Never mind, let's go find Du Xiaonan quickly!" Chu Feifan shone his flashlight at the pitch-black experimental building.

  The figure seemed very familiar to him, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't quite recall. Although he was running fast, his legs seemed to be injured, and he was limping as he ran.

  Four people cautiously approached the experimental building, unsure if it was true that the building had a strange aura. Every step they took towards it seemed especially difficult.

  "How come even the moon is gone?" Lin Yuan's teeth chattered and he leaned tightly against Su Jin'er.

  Chu Fei Yan raised his head to glance at the sky, then lowered it and stared straight at the door in front of him. He stretched out his hand and pushed open the rusty iron gate of the laboratory building.

  "We'll go straight up to the third floor." Su Jin'er's voice was very soft, but in this quiet and oppressive space, it still sounded particularly eerie.

  "Why? What brings her here at this late hour?" Zuo Yi asked in surprise.

  "Hehe! If it were a normal person, they would definitely not come running in the middle of the night, unless they're someone with a lot of guts or have something urgent to attend to."

  "Hmm! Ever since Li Yi-qian disappeared, nothing has been normal! Sometimes when I see her eyes, I feel so terrified!" Lin Yuan nodded in strong agreement.

  During this time, they were also tormented by Du Xiaonan to the point of madness. She walked without making a sound and often suddenly appeared behind them or knocked on the door when they were in the bathroom. When they opened the door, there was no one outside, but when they tried to close it, she would suddenly appear again, staring at them with a pair of lifeless eyes. What's even more terrifying is that she would get up in the middle of the night and stand beside their beds, watching them with a creepy smile.

  Sometimes they really wanted to send her directly to a mental hospital, but they felt sorry for her. Every time they saw the originally lively and lovely girl become like this, it increased their determination to find out the truth.

  Suddenly, Su Jin'er went crazy and ran upstairs quickly. She didn't know why she was running, but a voice in her heart told her that if she didn't hurry up, something terrible would happen.

  She didn't care about the surprised shouts of several people behind her and ran all the way up to the third floor.

  She stood in the corridor, her eyes wide with wonder as she stared at the white figure at the far end of the hall - Du Xiaonan.

  Du Xiaonan's body floated in mid-air, her back to Su Jiner, making it impossible for her to see her face. Her senses told her that Du Xiaonan was not dead, and as long as she went over to save her, she would not die. However, fear had rooted her feet to the ground.

  "Jin'er?"

  Lin Yuan and the others finally arrived, but what was only a few minutes felt like several centuries to her.

  "Go and save her!" She finally found her own voice.

  Several people ran to the side and found that Du Xiaonan's hands were tightly pinching her own neck, her body was suspended in mid-air, her eyes were wide open, and her eyeballs were almost popping out.

  Good heavens! Despite this, she was still smiling, a strange smile directed at them.

  They laughed so hard their hair stood on end.

  "Let's put her down first and then talk!"

  Chu Fei Fan and Zuo Yi held her waist and slowly pulled down, but Du Xiao Nan's body suddenly pressed down completely.

  After putting her on the ground, Chu Fei Fan said strangely, "How can this be?"

  "What's wrong?" Su Jiner asked.

  "It doesn't matter!"

  Looking at Du Xiaonan on the ground, they were shocked to find that her face, which should have been red due to difficulty breathing, was now pale like a dead person. However, her hands still tightly grasped her neck, and when they tried to pry them open, they found her strength to be astonishingly great.

  "What can we do? We can't just watch her strangle herself to death!" Several people panted and sat on the ground, watching Du Xiaonan's breathing grow weaker and weaker.

  Su Jin'er pulled out the hairpin on her head and pricked it into her person.

  Du Xiaonan's body shook slightly, and several people hastily pressed down on her hand to prevent her from pinching herself.

  After about ten seconds or so, Du Xiaonan slowly opened her eyes, then let out an "ah" and fainted again.

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