Chapter 6: Ghostly Shadow on a Rainy Night

  "Let's go back first, it seems that there is something blocking the way during the day, we should not be able to find anyone. We can only come at night." I said helplessly to the others. There was still an inexplicable sense of unease, and I felt that this place was extremely dangerous.

  "Are we leaving just like that? Don't want to play anymore?" Huo Weiwei was scared like a kitten earlier, but now that she heard they were leaving, she felt a little reluctant to part.

  I nodded and said to her: "Let's go out and find someone else, this time we came too impulsively."

  Ginger fatty asked doubtfully: "Master, didn't you bring everything? Why were you so impulsive?"

  I shook my head and said, "It's not like that. We didn't even get a clear understanding of what happened before coming here directly, it's not appropriate. I think we should go ask some people involved to see what they actually encountered. Then make a decision. By the way, Fatty, does that ghostly old teacher live on campus?"

  "Our school is in a remote area, who can go home every day? Teachers have staff dormitories. Teacher Xiao usually lives there."

  The madman rubbed his chin and asked: "What kind of person is Teacher Xiao? Is he easy to get along with?"

  "Uh, how to put it? He's a pretty stubborn old man. I heard he used to be a teacher and retired later. As you know, our school is a private university, and many of the faculty members are those retired teachers who were rehired. If you get along with Mr. Xiao, he'll treat you very well, but if you don't see eye-to-eye with him and he looks down on you, then nothing will work out."

  I asked Jiang Paozi: "What about you? What's your relationship with Xiao Laoshi?"

  Jiang Pangzi shook his head and turned around to say to Huo Mengmeng, "Ask her, Teacher Xiao doesn't teach us, but teaches this lady."

  I turned back to look at Huo Wenmeng, Huo Wenmeng coughed twice and waved her hand, saying: "Teacher Xiao is too old-fashioned and doesn't quite get along with me."

  I thought so too, this Hu Mengmeng always puts on makeup, and most older teachers don't approve of it. But then Liang Yuhao suddenly said: "Then...Mengmeng can you go find Teacher Xin?"

  Huò Huò's eyes lit up, and the crazy person asked who this Xin teacher was. Huò Huò said: "Xin teacher is a teacher at our school, only two years older than us, about your age. She looks pretty and has a good personality. She gets along with us like friends, if she takes charge, there will definitely be no problem on Xiao teacher's side."

  I heard her say that and nodded: "Then you call her now and tell her about it."

  Huò Huò nodded, picked up her phone and started dialing. Although the call connected, there was a lot of static noise, which came in bursts. Huò Huò held the phone: "Hello? Hello? Teacher Xin? Hello..."

  She yelled for a while but got no response, the other end was intermittent and couldn't hear what they were saying. Huo Mengmeng hung up the phone and cursed: "Damn it, what a crappy network, can't even hear clearly..."

  But as soon as she finished speaking, Huo Weiwei's small face suddenly turned white. She let out a startled cry and grabbed me, saying: "I, I remember..."

  "Ah, my little sister-in-law, you scared me half to death with your sudden movements!"

  Huo Weiwei was a bit nervous, biting her lip and shaking her head vigorously, as if she had thought of something. Suddenly, she asked me and the madman:

  "You guys said that in places where there are ghosts, mobile phone signals will be unclear and make a 'zzt zzt' sound?"

  The madman probably knew what she wanted to ask, raised an eyebrow and looked at me. I didn't hide it, and said directly: "In theory, there should be. In fact, you can look at the soul in this way, the soul is a kind of energy body that exists in a non-physical form, just like electricity. Bioelectricity can also cause corpses to rise, which is similar.

  "Where there is bioelectricity, the magnetic field will be different, just like the fact that there are free charges in the air."

  Huò Huàihuā bit her lower lip and said: "I suddenly remembered, I... I called Wang Dong at that time, his side was this kind of voice, are we... are we really in a place with ghosts?"

  She said that, and I also fell into deep thought. Because I think this place is very strange. If you say there are ghosts, I will definitely be able to see them when I enter the scene. But I couldn't feel any yin energy, only a kind of inexplicable magic energy. It's foggy. But if you say that this place is fine, I wouldn't believe it even if you killed me.

  Where there are ghosts, there must be a ghostly aura. If there is a ghostly aura, it will definitely leak out. But here, I don't know what's going on, and I just can't sense any yin energy. However, Wang Dong and Cui Zi did indeed go missing here, that's for sure.

  "I'm getting chills all over, let's get out of here quickly..." Jiang Pangzi hugged his arm and his voice was shaking slightly as he suggested in a low voice.

  I also think that this place can't be investigated for the time being, so I called them to follow me, and we headed downstairs. Jiang Pangzi and Liang Yuhao were talking, and Huo Nianmiao occasionally chimed in with a sentence or two; I could tell they were scared and trying to lighten the mood by chatting about something else. My mind was preoccupied with the strange aspects of this building as I walked down the stairs, but suddenly, while descending the staircase, I felt a hand grab me.

  I turned around and saw a madman. The madman frowned and said, "Something's off, didn't we only go up to the second floor?"

  I said: "Yes, what's wrong?"

  The madman said: "How can that be? We're already on the fourth flight of stairs... If it's a two-story building, there should only be two flights of stairs!"

  It wasn't until the madman said that I realized, indeed, we seemed to have gone down more than two flights of stairs. Because the entire environment was pitch black, the flashlight could only illuminate a very limited range and couldn't see the surroundings clearly. My mind was thinking about something else, so I didn't even notice.

  Huo Weiwei covered her mouth in shock and exclaimed: "My god, is this a haunted house? We're done for, all horror movies play out like this."

  I still can't feel any yin energy or ghostly aura, so I shook my head: "It's impossible to be a haunted wall. If there was evil energy, I would have detected it. Let's go, we'll head up."

  Just then, Huo Weiwei's phone suddenly rang out loud, and the ringtone was particularly startling in the quiet corridor. The woman's voice singing a foreign song echoed throughout the building, extremely desolate, yet terrifying in this environment.

  "My god, this is so perverted, using this song as a ringtone." The crazy guy muttered two sentences beside him.

  The phone call was made by Teacher Xin, but after answering it, I still couldn't hear clearly because of the static noise. I looked at Huo Nianmiao on the other end saying "Hello? Hello?" and asked Fēngzi (crazy person), what song is this?

  The madman told me: "Black Sunday, it's said to be a death song. Those who heard this song for the first time will commit suicide. Unconsciously filled with a sense of sorrow and despair in their hearts. It is called death music. Of course, later it was said that the original score was destroyed, nothing left. The current version is not the original one, but it's still popular online.

  "There are indeed those who follow the wind and say whatever, ah, listening to it makes my head ache! In fact, they're just showing off."

  I think it's funny, Huo Weiwei on the other end has already hung up the phone and said she still can't hear clearly, what to do?

  We decided to leave first anyway.

  I went ahead and walked up one floor, and indeed, I ended up back on the first floor.

  "Scared me to death! What kind of ghost is this that's hitting the wall? Isn't it coming up now?"

  It wasn't until now that we saw clearly, originally when we were walking forward from the first floor, we saw a staircase going up and went straight up, but the flashlight's range of illumination was limited, and we didn't notice there was another staircase next to it leading downstairs.

  "There should be a basement there. Our old house had that kind of small Western-style building with a basement underneath for storing things." Liang Yuhao said foolishly.

  "What's a basement? It's obviously an underground room. Who knows what's underneath? Why don't we go take a look?" Huo Nian Nian was a typical thrill-seeker, always shouting about seeking excitement, but when something actually happened, she would get scared out of her wits. However, once the situation passed, her enthusiasm would return. It was really hard to understand her.

  "For now, let's just drop it. The most urgent thing is to understand the whole story as soon as possible. The more we know, the more control we have. Otherwise, it's like a blind man touching an elephant, and we won't know when we'll find what we're looking for."

  As I said this, others also nodded and we all walked out of this abandoned teaching building together.

  As they walked out of the teaching building, they found that the sun had already set, but the sky was still deep blue and hadn't completely darkened. It was in a state of being almost dark but not quite. Jiang Pangzi Liang Yuhao and Huo Mengmeng both took a deep breath, clearly releasing all their fear from inside at this moment.

  Huò Huò couldn't wait, and hurried to return the call to Teacher Xin. The crazy guy and Jiang Pangzi each lit a cigarette. Liang Yuhao beside them was looking in the direction of the school not far away.

  I turned back to look at the teaching building with a thoughtful expression. At this time when it was neither blue nor black, the building looked desolate and bleak with weeds growing wildly everywhere. The windows nailed with wooden boards gave people an indescribable sense of eeriness after looking at them for a long time. Occasionally, there were some windows on the upper floor that had not been nailed shut, which seemed like one black hole after another, as if they would swallow up people's souls.

  I sighed and withdrew my gaze, just as I was withdrawing my gaze for a moment, I felt like I saw something out of sync. A flash of light passed through my mind, and when I turned to look again, everything around me seemed normal, nothing special. But the unease in my heart grew stronger. What did I see earlier? It didn't seem quite right.

  Just then, Huo Weiwei bounced over: "It's all set, we're going to find Teacher Xin now. You guys will have to explain it to him later, I don't want to get scolded. Teacher Xin doesn't seem too supportive of us doing this kind of thing."

  After finishing, Huo Wenwen stuck out her tongue, because she had broken a cold sweat in that teaching building, and was both startled and frightened. The makeup on Huo Wenwen's face was already smudged, with mascara sticking to the skin under her eyes, making her look like a panda. Sticking out her tongue, she still looked somewhat endearingly cute.