Chapter 36 Road Back Home

  I and Huang Yanyan were going back the same way, but we were ambushed at the exit. Huang Yanyan's fingers were chopped off, she was seriously injured, and could only move forward. As a result, along the way, Huang Yanyan suffered many injuries, now she is unconscious and in critical condition. What's infuriating is that when Chen Xiang came to rescue us, he actually locked the iron gate.

  Thinking of the terrifying experience in the basement all night, I was very angry in my heart, knowing that everything was planned and controlled by the ghost mask man. In the end, there were two roads, if I hadn't been clever enough to know that the ghosts had something to ask for, if we had been broken down and rushed out recklessly, I'm afraid we would have died already.

  Now we had to walk through this sewer, thinking that we could see the exit and get out, but the first exit was blocked, and the second one hit the masked man who had been waiting here for a long time. He seemed to have our movements under control, but he didn't take strong revenge against us, just like a cat playing with us.

  This made me very puzzled and confused. After I told Chen Xiang about the main events of our night, she listened for a long time and suddenly frowned and said: "It seems that the masked man must be someone we know, or maybe some classmate, teacher, or friend, he doesn't want to hurt us two!"

  I was taken aback for a moment after hearing that, and only saw Chen Xuan 'Lu' continue to say: "He seems to just want to scare us half to death and then drive us away!"

  I stared blankly, looking at Chen Xianruo who opposed and said: "If he doesn't want to hurt us, why did he still give Huang Yanyan's hand!" After I finished speaking, my eyes were filled with indignation as I looked at Chen Xianruo.

  Chen Yan 's face changed as soon as he heard the words, and he also said with a puzzled expression: "What you said is also right, maybe the ghost mask man doesn't want to conflict with us directly, wants us to die in this underground maze by ourselves, so he can get rid of us once and for all! He won't leak out any secrets here! It must be this idea!"

  I nodded in agreement with Chenyan 'Lu's' statement, this explanation was the most reasonable and appropriate. The two of us continued to walk forward step by step, suddenly we found a third escalator. I looked at Chenyan 'Lu' and said: "This time I'll go up!" My tone was firm and didn't allow her to refuse.

  Chen Yan 'exposed' looked at me with a helpless expression and nodded in agreement. He took over the flashlight from Huang Yanyan and shone it on me as I carefully climbed up. When I reached the manhole cover, I listened intently for any movement above. After a while, I didn't hear anything, so I summoned my strength and pushed upwards with all my might. To my surprise, the manhole cover opened with ease.

  I felt a slight sense of surprise and excitement when I pushed open the well cover. My nerves were extremely tense, and I quickly looked up, but there was no one in sight. I hastily called out to Chen Xuan: "No one's here! I'll go up first, then you climb up! I'll catch you from above!"

  Chen Yan 's face was tense as she looked at me and nodded, then I directly crawled out of the well cover. The surroundings were pitch black, and I couldn't see where we were, but it seemed a bit familiar. I found that this place looked desolate, with some weeds growing wildly around us, and a small path that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time. It turned out that we were just below here.

  At this time, Chenyan 'Lu' also climbed to the vicinity of the wellhead and shouted at me: "Okay, Xiao Mi, you first take Yanyan out, I can climb up myself!"

  I came to my senses, then turned around nervously and directly picked up Huang Yanyan's body, which was propped up by Chen Xuan 'Lu'. After I pulled Huang Yanyan up, Chen Xuan 'Lu' also slowly crawled out.

  I felt the pulse of Huang Yanyan's heartbeat, and found that her heartbeat was still there. I let out a slight sigh of relief, but I didn't relax too much because I could clearly feel that the frequency and strength of Huang Yanyan's chest pulse seemed to have decreased by a lot compared to before.

  I was extremely anxious, and I quickly carried Huang Yanyan on my back. I saw Chen Xianruo staring in a certain direction, looking distracted. I suddenly became very angry and shouted at him: "What are you doing? Hurry up and leave here! Where's the flashlight?" I suddenly realized that Chen Xianruo didn't have the flashlight in his hand anymore.

  Chenyan 'Lu' suddenly came back to her senses, but didn't respond to my words. She seemed extremely nervous and said to me: "Xiao Mi, look over there, is that a person in white clothes on the third floor rooftop?" Chenyan 'Lu's words made my heart tighten up, I hadn't paid much attention to those things just now.

  I followed the direction of Chenyan's 'Revelation' finger and looked far away, and suddenly I saw a white-clad figure under the moonlight, faintly clear. I could even see that the person was a woman with long hair, and my heart was shocked and lost color when I saw this scene.

  "That's right, it's a person, how can she stand there? Could it be that..." I was extremely anxious and tense in my heart.

  Just as I finished speaking, Chen Xiang 'Lu' suddenly let out a cry of surprise, and then I saw the white-clad figure jump directly from the rooftop. Myself and Chen Xiang 'Lu' heard a faint muffled sound "thud" coming from there, and both of us had a very bad premonition: "Someone jumped off the building!"

  My face turned extremely ugly, I didn't expect a living person to jump off the building and commit suicide in front of me at such a close distance. Moreover, it was at the moment when our nerves were about to relax, but instead we witnessed another shocking scene again.

  I felt Chen Xuan 'Lu' tightly hugging me, my heart was extremely terrified, I looked at Chen Xuan 'Lu' and kept saying: "What to do? What to do!" At this moment, I seemed very helpless, very frightened.

  "Don't worry, I have a mobile phone. There should be a signal here outside. I'll call the police first and let them go there right away. We shouldn't go to the scene ourselves, or it will be hard to explain!" Chen Xiang said after finishing speaking, quickly took out her mobile phone, preparing to make an emergency call.

  He took it out, but soon let out a disappointed sigh: "There's still no signal! What's going on? This is an Apple brand phone, and the quality is so bad! I'm never buying a foreigner's phone again!" Chen Xian was furious and wanted to smash the phone, but she couldn't bear to do it and put her hand back.

  "Let's get out of here first, maybe it was just an illusion earlier. We were all scared to death tonight and the pressure is huge. We've all had hallucinations. Let's ensure Huang Yanyan's safety first before talking about anything else," said Chen Xuan with a difficult expression.

  As soon as I heard his words, I realized again that the most important thing now is Huang Yanyan's injury. I hastily wiped away my tears and hurriedly carried Huang Yanyan on my back, then anxiously wanted to leave, but suddenly stopped in my tracks and looked at Chen Xuan, saying: "Where are we? Where should we go?"

  Chen Yan 'Lu' listened to my words and immediately furrowed her brow, looking very puzzled. Her eyes kept scanning the surroundings from time to time. Suddenly, after a while, she looked at me and said: "Did you see that building just now? It seems to be the teaching building on the edge of the school near the road, that old and abandoned teaching building!"

  I looked in the direction of the building where someone had jumped earlier and nodded after a while. Then Chen Xianyu continued, "This seems to be the old school site, do you remember? During the introduction when we first entered school, it was mentioned very clearly that our new school is separated by a wall from a large area of old school sites, which used to be the abandoned old university campus."

  It wasn't until then that I reacted, widening my eyes in utter astonishment as I gazed around at the extremely old and dilapidated buildings. I turned to Chen Xian 'Lu' and said: "You just mentioned it, but I only now remember - we've actually left the school grounds? And what about that ghost mask person from earlier, are they still here?"

  After I finished speaking, my face suddenly changed color, and I had a very bad premonition in my heart. Morning Xiao Rou furrowed her brow and nodded at this time, then said to me: "They must be here, even hiding in some dark corner watching us. They want to scare us half to death, drive us crazy and stupid before they'll be satisfied!"

  I gazed around nervously, and suddenly I bellowed in anger: "No matter who you are, you will have to pay the price for what you've done! I must catch you! You just wait, if you have any tricks up your sleeve, bring it on! Homi will not be intimidated by you!" I said this to boost my own morale.

  "Let's get out of here, you should know the way by now?" I looked at Chen Xiang curiously, ignoring the ghost-faced man hiding in the shadows.

  Chen Xuan 'Lu' looked around nervously, then nodded at me and said: "I know, we'll leave from here! From the back of this building, there's only one wall to cross, after that it's our new school, we'll go straight to the infirmary and get an ambulance to take Yan Yan to the hospital, that's the fastest way."

  Chenyan 'Lu' said anxiously, I followed Chenyan's hand and looked over, at a not-too-distant old-style teaching building with a fairly large area. I knew we had to go through that old-style teaching building in order to enter the school as quickly as possible and send Yanyan to the hospital for treatment. I didn't dare delay.

  I immediately said to Chen Xuan 'Lu': "You carry Huang Yan Yan, I'll lead the way. My strength and speed are greater than yours, my physical strength is also better than yours. You follow behind me! You must follow closely, if you fall behind, you will definitely die!" I stared at Chen Xuan 'Lu' as I spoke, feeling a slight tension in my heart.

  Chenyan 'Lu' gave me a gloomy and bitter smile, saying: "I know, you're a 'female' hooligan, I'm a young scholar!" After that, looking at Chenyan 'Lu's' bitter expression, I found it very amusing.

  I found a curved steel pipe in the bushes beside me before I went in, and after weighing it in my hand for a few times, feeling its weight, I nodded very satisfactorily, thinking that the steel pipe was "quite" handy.

  I picked up the flashlight on the ground, took a look, and the light was somewhat dim. It was indeed running out of power, but I had to make do with it. I called out to Chen Xuan 'Lu' and headed directly towards the not-too-distant, gloomy teaching building.

  Soon the three of us arrived at the entrance of the teaching building, I held a flashlight and nervously illuminated the environment inside the teaching building, finding that this seemed to be an independent laboratory teaching classroom, each room was connected together, and there seemed to be only one straight corridor.

  I nodded to Chen Xuan 'Lu' and walked in, after passing the hall, I came to the middle corridor, I nervously used my flashlight to shine around, and found that it was indeed a straight corridor, with laboratories on both sides.

  Suddenly, I saw a white figure flashing by the door of a laboratory not far in front of me. My heart suddenly tightened and I quickly grasped my hands tightly, took a deep breath, and muttered to myself: "It's an illusion, it's an illusion!"

  Until Chen Xuan's 'confused' voice sounded behind me: "What's wrong Xiao Mi?"

  I slightly paled and shook my head, choosing to walk in the direction of the corridor closest to our new school. At this time, I followed the psychology that curiosity kills the cat and didn't shine my flashlight randomly around the surroundings, only shining it on the road ahead.

  After walking for a while, we all became very careful not to trample things randomly and only walked on empty ground. We reached the end of this corridor, turned around, and I was stunned on the spot.

  I gazed angrily at the scene in front of me, and the corridor that could have been quickly passed through was actually locked by a large iron gate. I gently shook the iron door, but there was no response.

  Chen Yan 's "Luo" suddenly appeared behind me and shouted in a tense voice: "Xiao Mi, be careful on your way back!"

  I was startled and quickly lifted my head, shining the flashlight in front of me. My face turned pale with fright as I hastily retreated backwards. Before me stood a girl with a deathly pale complexion, dark circles under her eyes, wearing tattered and worn-out white clothes that occasionally revealed glimpses of her underwear.

  I swallowed my saliva and looked at the child in front of me with difficulty. The girl saw me retreat and suddenly rushed over, fortunately, the iron door separated us, she could only stretch out her hand to grab me constantly, baring her teeth and making a fierce face, very frightening.

  I was shocked and hastily retreated, too scared to make a sound. Just then, Chenyan 'Luo' hurried over, grabbed my hand and pulled me behind him, frowning at me as he said: "This person doesn't seem to know who they are, they look crazy, it's not a ghost, right? You feel the wall, there's no faint electric current around us."

  I instantly touched the surrounding walls in terror, slightly relieved, but I was still very tense looking at the girl who was still struggling to rush over and said to Chen Xian: "But who is she? Looks so scary, is it human?" After I finished speaking, I took a deep breath.

  Chen Yan 's eyes suddenly became strange, and she looked at me with a playful expression: "You seem to have been scared out of your wits, hehe. If it's a ghost, do you think the iron gate in reality can restrain her? Besides, look at her arm, there are bruises, would a ghost have that?"