Chapter 15: The Horror Data Room

  It's dark, the pitch-black sky has no stars. At some point, a layer of white fog floated in the air. It's already 8 o'clock, but Li Yiqian and Du Xiaonan haven't returned yet. Calling their phones also gets no answer. Could something have happened?!

  "Didn't they tell you where they were going to investigate?" Su Jiner asked worriedly.

  "They just said they were going to the city, but didn't specify where." Lin Yuan said with some annoyance. She had clearly told them to come back early this morning and also said that if something came up and they couldn't come back, they should at least give her a call, so why hadn't she heard anything from them now?

  "Never mind, maybe they're delayed by something! I wonder if Chu Fei Fan has gotten the key?" Su Jin Er muttered to herself, her heart inexplicably feeling a little down.

  "Listening to Zuo Yi's words, he will definitely get it. It's those two girls who are worrying!" Lin Yuan said, playing with his fingers.

  Su Jiner closed her eyes, she really didn't expect to encounter such a thing as soon as she came to this school. If her father and mother knew about her situation, would they let her transfer schools? Maybe! But now she's actually starting to get curious about it, although she knows that her curiosity might put herself in danger, but she just can't persuade herself not to care about this matter.

  Su Jin'er walked onto the balcony and then looked down saying: "Let's go! Let's head downstairs! Maybe they're already waiting for us."

  It's already deep autumn, and the nighttime temperature is much lower than daytime. When speaking, large puffs of white mist come out of your mouth and dissipate in the air.

  They walked out of the dormitory, and the white fog outside was thicker. They could see a distance of no more than 3 meters, and even the flashlight could only illuminate a distance of 5 meters. However, despite this, it still couldn't stop those couples in love from talking and whispering to each other every step of the way, with their arms around each other's shoulders. It was precisely for this reason that they didn't choose to meet at the pavilion.

  "Jin'er, Lin Yuan, we're over here." Zuo Yi waved his hand and called out to them.

  Su Jiner furrowed her brow, originally thinking that Zuo Yi and Chu Feifan were both very quiet boys, but now she realized she was wrong. Zuo Yi had a very delicate face, but he was actually a very capable boy, and it was unknown how many girls in school fell for his delicate appearance.

  "How's it going? Did you get the key?" Su Jiner asked.

  "I've got it." Chu Feifan replied.

  Chu Fei Fan is indeed a person who is "consistent inside and out".

  "Goodness gracious! You have no idea how much effort our young master Chu had to put in to get the key, he almost had to sell himself!" Zuo Yi said with a sly smile.

  "Betray yourself? What does she want you to do?" Su Jiner asked.

  "Don't listen to Zuo Yi's nonsense, it's not true." Then, he glared at Zuo Yi fiercely.

  Zuo Yi spat out her tongue and didn't continue speaking.

  "Shall we go? There are only fifteen minutes left until 9 o'clock. Are we going now or waiting a bit longer?" Chu Feifan asked.

  Su Jin'er looked around and suddenly found that the place where couples were just a moment ago was now empty, with an eerie atmosphere everywhere.

  "Why is nobody here?" Lin Yuan looked around with some fear.

  "It's probably because of the sudden drop in temperature!" Zuo Yi pulled her clothes tighter and said with a pout.

  "Never mind, since no one is around, let's go! To the reference room, I want to find the answer as soon as possible." The eerie feeling around her made her very uncomfortable, she really wanted to turn back to the dormitory and not care about anything else, but there was a sense of fear in her heart.

  She took a deep breath and headed towards the student union, perhaps because the school placed great emphasis on the student union, it had specially built a two-story building for the students of the student union to use. Their conference room was on the first floor, while the president of the student union had an independent "office", other offices were given to other clubs, and the student union's data room was in the last room on the left side of the second floor, they quietly went up to the second floor.

  "We're now looking at this room and others that don't seem to be any different, but actually there's another door inside!" Chu Fei Fan said as he slowly opened the lock.

  "Is there something so important inside? And with two doors too!" Lin Yuan asked in puzzlement.

  "Fortunately, we have all the materials from the school's establishment to the present, so they are very precious." Chu Feifan explained, "After entering, we will split up to find the materials we need. When searching, be careful not to make a loud noise, lest we be discovered."

  "Ah!"

  After passing through the first gate, they really saw the second gate, and the second gate was even more tightly closed than the first one.

  "I don't get it, they're just some documents, why are they being hidden so secretly? Are people going to come and steal these useless documents?" Lin Yuan asked in confusion.

  "Alright, let's get down to business!"

  The room was pitch black, and since there wasn't a single ray of moonlight outside, the house was dark and they couldn't see anything. They didn't dare turn on the lights either.

  "Let's split up and search! It'll be faster that way." Su Jiner took out a flashlight and quietly shone it around, illuminating three rows of bookshelves and one row of glass-fronted cabinets. The cabinets were divided into small compartments, each containing neatly arranged documents.

  Su Jiner chose the last row of bookshelves, and everyone began to look for useful information. In the dark room, there were only a few beams of light quietly stopping, with only the sound of pages turning.

  At some point, the temperature around suddenly dropped, Su Jiner rubbed her arms and continued to flip through the materials, but she still couldn't find anything useful. They were from the 81st class, so five years ago would be the 76th class. Even if they searched all night, it was uncertain whether they would get any results. She massaged her slightly sore neck as she stood up.

  "Have you found any useful information?" she asked softly.

  They all shook their heads.

  "Chu Fei Fan, you're the acting chairman now, do you know where the materials from the 76th session are?"

  Chu Fei Fan shook his head and said: "I'm not officially the chairman yet, and I've never been here before, so I don't know."

  "We're like headless flies, it's really hard to find the information we want. Since this is a major event, let's look for it in the major events section, and also by year. Five years ago should be the 76th session." Su Jiner said, looking at the documents in the glass cabinet, "Maybe they're all in here."

  Su Jiner took a lamp and shone it on the label stuck on the glass: "Look, there's really a year written here!"

  Upon hearing her words, they all picked up their flashlights and searched around. Indeed, on a glass cabinet, it was written "Class of 1976".

  "Over here!" Chu Fei Fan shouted.

  Then several people gathered around and carefully took out a thick stack of documents from the cabinet.

  "It seems like a lot of things really happened that year!" Zuo Yi said, looking at the thick stack of documents.

  "Well, let's sit down and divide it up among us, and search carefully." Su Jiner said.

  At this time, the temperature around seemed even colder. Lin Yuan looked around and said: "Don't you guys feel like the temperature has dropped a lot?"

  "There is a point, but after all, it's already deep autumn, and the temperature difference between day and night will be large, which is normal!" Zuo Yi said, rubbing his shoulders.

  Lin Yuan nodded thoughtfully, although she felt that Zuo Yi was right, but she felt that the chill seemed to come from her own heart.

  They sat down at a table, carefully flipping through the materials in their hands. At some point, the atmosphere around them began to become eerie.

  Suddenly, they felt a chill from their toes to the top of their heads, and stiffened their backs as they slowly turned around.

  Nothing!

  They looked at each other in dismay.

  "Did you feel it too?" Lin Yuan asked with a trembling voice.

  All three nodded, this can't be another collective hallucination of a few people at the same time, right?

  "Why is there a bloody smell?" Su Jiner held the flashlight and shone it around, last time she asked about the bloody smell, someone died, what was it this time, wouldn't someone be killed again?!

  "Right! And it seems like the smell is getting heavier and heavier."

  "Ah——blood!" Lin Yuan suddenly shouted loudly.

  Bright red blood is slowly flowing into the house from under the door, the smell of blood is so strong that it makes people want to vomit.

  "No way, I think I'm going to throw up." Lin Yuan covered his chest, his face pale.

  It was only an instant, and the blood had already flowed to their feet. Su Jin'er looked at the blood on the ground in horror and said: "Where did so much blood come from? Are we having another hallucination?"

  The more blood gathered, they hastily jumped onto chairs, looking at the blood on the floor in horror as it slowly filled the entire floor.

  Suddenly, there was a rustling sound outside the door of the house.

  "What's the sound?" Chu Fei Fan listened carefully to the sound coming from outside the door.

  "What's that?" Lin Yuan opened his eyes wide and stared at the pitch-black room.

  Just then, the flashlight in Lin Yuan's hand slowly dimmed and went out. She slapped the flashlight in her hand with force and said anxiously: "Why did it run out of battery at this time!"

  The three of them shone their flashlights in the direction of the door, and the rustling sound continued, like the sound of clothes rubbing against the ground.

  Suddenly, a hand stretched out from the ground at the door, and that hand was all bloody. If you looked closely, you would find that there was no skin on that hand at all.

  "What is that thing?"

  Fear made every hair stand on end, and the surroundings also began to become oppressive, making it almost impossible to breathe.

  Then, a head poked in, with long hair hanging down to the ground, and blood constantly dripping from its mouth onto the floor. They watched as it slowly crawled into the room, that person was crawling, hands pressed against the ground, knees on the ground, slowly crawling into the room. Several people were suffocatingly watching this eerie scene, but not a single one could make a sound.

  That "person" stopped when it crawled into the house two meters away from them, then it slowly raised its head.

  They stared at it, their mouths agape in shock, but no sound could escape. What a face it was - covered in fresh blood, with eyes that were two black holes, a nose twisted to one side, and lips that curled up and down, with blood flowing endlessly from the eyes, nose, and mouth. Although it had no eyes, they still felt a pair of icy gazes fixed on them with malice.

  Their violent gasps and the bloody smell lingering at the tip of their noses made their stomachs churn, but looking at what was in front of them, no one dared to move an inch.

  The air was so cold that it almost froze people stiff, they seemed to have lost control of their bodies, their brains constantly sending out danger signals, but they couldn't move, their backs were numb with pain, and their bodies kept trembling.

  "Quickly!" Chu Fei Fan swiftly jumped down from his chair and simultaneously picked up Su Jiner from her chair.

  At the sound of his voice, everyone quickly jumped off their chairs, their feet all soaked in the blood water on the ground, the intense bloody smell hitting their brains, almost fainting.

  They pulled each other's hands, carefully avoiding the monster on the ground, slowly moving towards the door. Su Jin'er could even feel the thick blood sticking to her skin, and her stomach churned with wave after wave of nausea, but she couldn't vomit it out.

  The monster stared at them with its black hole-like eyes, but its body remained in a kneeling position, motionless. They tensed up their bodies and moved slowly, little by little.

  Just one more meter and I can escape.

  Just as they were about to reach the door, the monster suddenly turned its body around, four pairs of eyes staring tightly at it, but no one saw when it turned around, their mouths wide open in surprise.

  When exactly did he turn around and why didn't they all see it?