Chapter Thirteen The Second Corpse

  Li Yi-qian had already gone in, and Chu Fei-fan followed them in. They took out their flashlights and shone them around, but didn't find anything suspicious.

  "Or we can go upstairs and take a look," Li Yiqian suggested.

  "How come we can't hear anything as soon as we get here?" Lin Yuan said.

  Su Jiner thought for a moment and said: "Maybe someone deliberately led us here! Let's go upstairs and take a look."

  They cautiously made their way towards the stairs, the beam of light from the flashlight making the surroundings appear hazy and even more frightening.

  I don't know why, but the school's lab building uses wooden flooring. After a long time, when you step on it, it makes a creaking sound like an old mouse squeaking.

  "Have you ever asked about a certain flavor?" Su Jin'er asked.

  "What flavor?"

  Su Jiner sniffed again and said: "It smells like something rotten."

  Although it wasn't very obvious, it made her feel quite uncomfortable. At this time, the air around her seemed colder than before.

  "I feel like the temperature has dropped!" Lin Yuan said, rubbing his shoulders.

  "The temperature is lower than before, but you haven't noticed, have you? This chill seems to be coming from upstairs." Chu Feifan said.

  "Is there really something strange upstairs?" Du Xiaonan said in a low voice, her eyes occasionally glancing up at the floor above.

  "I've been here many times before, I don't think there's anything wrong with this building, and I always feel like my sister is right here."

  "Stop! We still don't want your sister here." Lin Yuan said with embarrassment.

  "Oh! Sorry about that." Li Yiqian also looked embarrassed and stuck out her tongue.

  At this time, they had already arrived at the second floor. The corridor on the second floor was pitch black, and after looking around, they did not find anything suspicious.

  At this moment, everyone seemed to have let out a sigh of relief. Zuo Yi looked at them and said: "You guys, you didn't find what you were looking for, did you?"

  "What is it that we are looking for?" Lin Yuan said loudly, and because of her loud voice, the surroundings seemed even more quiet.

  "Why are we only thinking of searching on the second floor? It seems like there's still more floors above!" Su Jiner said softly.

  Everyone gasped in shock at her words.

  Bang!

  Just as they were deciding whether to go upstairs or not, a loud thud was heard from above.

  Everyone was startled and looked up at the top in surprise.

  "What is it?" Du Xiaonan said tremblingly.

  "Qianqian, have you ever been upstairs?" Su Jiner asked.

  Li Yi Qian shook her head.

  "Maybe something on the upper floor fell over! Let's go take a look!" Chu Feifan led the way up to the third floor.

  The sound was not loud and had a somewhat muffled feeling, but in this quiet night, it still made people feel terrified.

  "Let's not go up, okay? I'm so scared, it's so gloomy here!" Du Xiaonan's body was tightly pressed against Su Jiner's.

  It's not just her who is afraid, everyone here is afraid and wouldn't dare to come to such a spooky place for an "adventure" in the middle of the night.

  "No way, it could be a thief! As students of the school, we have an obligation to protect the school's equipment." Chu Feifan suddenly said, since he wanted to be the student council president, he should do practical things for the students, and today was originally his duty anyway.

  After finishing speaking, he went straight upstairs, and Zuo Yi naturally wouldn't let him go up alone.

  "Let's go up and take a look too!"

  Su Jiner and Lin Yuan also followed them up, while Li Yiqian couldn't wait to follow, Du Xiaonan had no choice but to follow with a hard head.

  This experimental building only has three floors, and the third floor was originally also used by students for experiments. However, since a new experimental building was built, this one is no longer in use, and the third floor is even used to store miscellaneous items.

  "This place is really cluttered!" Zuo Yi said, shining his flashlight around, "Acting President, we still don't know much about the school! When you have time, take a stroll around and get to know our school's history."

  "What a big dusty smell!" Lin Yuan said with his hand fanning.

  Su Jiner shone her flashlight around, she not only smelled the dust but also a bloody smell, how could there be a bloody smell here?

  The flashlight beam suddenly landed on a pile of dark things, she slowly walked over, and the more she walked in, the stronger the bloody smell was, could it be...

  "How is this possible?" Looking at what was in front of her, she almost cried out loud.

  As they heard her voice, everyone slowly walked towards her.

  "Ah——"

  Du Xiaonan and Lin Yuan were called out at the same time, but their mouths were covered again, and they could only stare at the thing on the ground with wide eyes in horror.

  On the ground lay a corpse, its mouth wide open and eyes staring widely, with a knife stuck in its neck, fresh blood slowly flowing out from the neck.

  Fear once again gripped everyone's heart, they gazed at the corpses on the ground in terror, almost forgetting to breathe.

  "How... did this happen?" Zuo Yi looked at the corpse on the ground and said, he could almost feel the temperature of the fresh blood.

  Su Jiner took a deep breath, and the cool air entered her lungs, feeling sore.

  Was all this premeditated or a reenactment of history five years ago? No one can give an answer.

  "Should we call the police?" Seeing such a terrifying scene, Li Yiqian also showed a frightened expression.

  "But it's midnight now?" Lin Yuan said, recovering from his fear. "And how are we going to explain to the school why we're here at midnight?"

  "Sound the alarm!" Su Jiner said softly, her face deathly pale. "I think this is just the beginning of everything."

  Everyone gasped in shock at her words.

  The sudden sound of a police siren pierced the midnight silence, and many people in their beds grumbled discontentedly, but in this deep autumn season, they were too lazy to waste their own sleep time for someone else's business.

  As expected, the six of them were taken back to the police station for questioning.

  After an hour-long interrogation, they finally left the police station.

  Back in their dormitory, it was already past three o'clock. None of them had any sleepiness, and they all sat on their beds in a daze.

  "What do you think about this?" Su Jiner suddenly asked. She still had many things she didn't understand about this matter, from getting lost on the mountain during military training at the beginning to the two consecutive deaths now. Although these things seemed unrelated on the surface, her intuition told her that there must be a complex connection between them.

  "I don't know, I now have nothing but fear in my mind." Du Xiaonan said with a trembling voice.

  "I think this thing is definitely related to my sister's death, definitely!" Li Yiqian said with a resolute tone, fiddling with the flashlight in her hand, as if she had already seen the killer who took her sister's life.

  "Jin'er, say whatever you think! We're all so scared!" Lin Yuan was also getting frightened.

  "I'm asking you a question, and you must answer me honestly."

  "What's wrong?" Lin Yuan asked urgently.

  "On the evening we got lost on the mountain, did you guys have a dream?"

  The three people's bodies involuntarily trembled, recalling that night's dream would make one's hair stand on end. The kind of fear that came from the depths of their hearts made their spirits almost collapse, fortunately it was just a dream.

  "That night's dream was really terrifying." Du Xiaonan muttered, her voice trembling even more than before.

  "My dream was that Zhang Junsheng ran away because he was afraid, and then Qianqian suddenly disappeared. Then, in order to find the missing Qianqian, we saw the scene of Zhang Junsheng being killed in a strange village." Lin Yuan finished telling her dream with a trembling voice.

  "Yes, my dream is the same as hers, why are we having the same dream?" Du Xiaonan asked.

  "I had a similar dream with Chufan," Su Jiner said, then she stared at Li Yiqian in the darkness for a long time without speaking.

  "My dream is not quite like yours." She said softly all of a sudden.

  "What?"

  "I dreamed that the one who escaped at first due to fear was not Zhang Junsheng, but Xu Mengguang. The one who suddenly disappeared was Xu Lingling, not me as you said."

  Everyone gasped after hearing Li Yi Qian's words.

  I wonder what other people's dreams are like? Is it only Li Yiqian's dream that is different from ours, or are there others who are also different from us? Su Jiner thought to herself.

  From the start of military training, strange things happened around them. First, they met a woman burning some bones, then heard curses, followed by a fleeting white shadow and eerie crying sounds. Finally, everyone got lost, unknowingly fell asleep, and had the same dream, except for Li Yiqian. Why was Li Yiqian different from them? Was she hiding something from us? And what about that strange Zhang Junsheng, what did he know?

  After thinking for half a day, she still couldn't think of anything conclusive. Before she knew it, the sound of even breathing spread throughout the dormitory. She smiled slightly, as long as everyone could sleep well, that was all that mattered.

  She glanced at her watch and it was already past five. In a few more hours, the sky would be bright. She closed her eyes, for there were still things to do tomorrow!

  She didn't know how long she had slept, but Su Jin'er slowly woke up. She propped herself up to get out of bed, only to find that her body was devoid of any strength, and her head hurt so much it felt like it was about to explode. She rubbed her temples and struggled to sit up.

  "Jin'er, what's wrong?" Lin Yuan saw Su Jin'er's expression and hastily ran over.

  "It's nothing, maybe I caught a cold last night! My head hurts a bit."

  "Then just lie down and continue sleeping! Today is Saturday, no need to go to school."

  "But I still have to find someone today!" With a bit more strength in her body, she propped herself up into a sitting position.

  "Who are you looking for? Is it about last night's matter?"

  She nodded: "I always feel that this matter will not end like this, now two people have died, and I have a premonition that someone else will continue to be killed, so we must stop all of this from happening."