Chapter 4: Encounter with a Ghost

  The fourth, fifth and sixth floors were all quiet, several girls felt bored. Wu Fang ran to Cao Sen's side and asked: "No ghosts, what do we do next? Why not go to another teaching building?"

  "Or shall we go scare that pair of mandarin ducks again?" Jingjing asked Cao Sen with great enthusiasm.

  Cao Sen is a thorough male chauvinist, and the only reason he brought girls out tonight was because Sima De did too much. Otherwise, no matter how many girls cried, they wouldn't have been allowed to join tonight's activities. At this time, the two beauties' requests that were not yet satisfied immediately triggered his disgust, and he replied stiffly: "Less nonsense, let's go downstairs and return to the dormitory."

  "The dormitory building gate has been locked early, we can't go back." Jingjing became enthusiastic and didn't want to end the midnight adventure hastily.

  "You come out as you go back."

  The dormitory building closes at 11 pm in the summer, but it can't keep out students who want to go in and out. Each dormitory building has its own second passage, and the girls' dormitory is no exception. When Cao Sen said this, several girls pouted again, looking very unhappy, even Yang Xin was a bit hesitant. But they didn't dare argue with Cao Sen, his indifference to girls was notorious throughout the school.

  At Cao Sen's command, Group C and Group A exchanged positions, with Guo Jing leading the members of Group C to head east towards the stairs.

  Yang Xiang stomped her foot in dissatisfaction, and the high-heeled shoes made a loud noise that echoed through the building.

  After all, she was his own wife, Sima De lightly pulled Yang Xiang once, asking her to be quiet. Yang Xiang exerted force and twisted her husband's arm, causing Sima De to grit his teeth in pain. The anger that Yang Xiang had been holding back for the whole night finally dissipated a bit, and she quietly leaned against her husband's side, looking like a little bird depending on him.

  Seeing the couple's reconciliatory trend, Cao Sen let out a sigh of relief. When will this Sima big brother ever grow up?

  A faint rustling sound came from the west staircase, and Deng Fei's sharp ears caught this slight noise. He immediately made a warning gesture, and the muzzles of the A-team members' guns instantly pointed to the west.

  Cao Sen also heard the sound and didn't want to pay attention to its source, he just wanted to leave the building as soon as possible, so he said: "Let's keep going, that was just Yang Xin stomping her foot earlier."

  To play a good special forces game, the first thing is to have strict discipline like the military. The members of Team A did not hesitate and followed the team with their guns collected.

  As the crowd went down to the fifth floor along the east staircase, the west staircase room heard the sound of "da da" again. This time the sound was clearer than on the seventh floor, and it seemed to be the sound of high heels stepping up the stairs. This time everyone heard clearly.

  Cao Sen made a silencing gesture, suppressing the doubts of several girls, waving his hand to let the team continue downstairs and ordering them to speed up.

  The atmosphere had become tense without anyone realizing it, and the members of Group C quickened their pace, soon arriving at the fourth floor. However, something unexpected stopped them in their tracks - the "dak dak" sound was coming from the third floor, not from the west, nor from the central staircase, but from the eastern staircase on the third floor!

  A very clear voice, clearly indicating that a person wearing high heels is going upstairs. Group C stops, and the sound also disappears. Group C cautiously moves forward, and the sound of high heels starts again, as if Group C is confronting an invisible person.

  Cao Sen quickly made a hand gesture, letting the pre-designated B team members protect the girls one by one. He then quietly went down to the fourth floor and communicated with Guo Jing using hand gestures, indicating that he should change his route to the central staircase to avoid the sound.

  Kuo Ching was somewhat reluctant, but still carried out Cao Sen's orders, leaving three team members to monitor the stairs, while the others crept forward in a steady, fragmented pace, slowly closing in on the central staircase.

  To everyone's surprise, the voice sounded again on the central staircase! The problem is serious.

  It's impossible for anyone to switch between three staircases at such a fast speed, nor can they predict the movements of the team members. The only reasonable explanation is that either the other side has three people and extremely sensitive hearing, or the sound was not made by humans, but by... ghosts.

  Caosen felt for the first time that he shouldn't have come here tonight, especially with five girls and a bride. He quickly calculated and stopped Group C from approaching the central staircase, let Group B retreat to the fifth floor corridor and merge with Group A at the back, and led the team members who were monitoring the third floor to slowly and evenly go downstairs, he wanted to meet what made the sound.

  Four snow-bright light columns swept every corner of the stairs, and when they reached the bend in the stairs, Cao Sen took the lead and rushed forward with his gun, while another team member probed out the muzzle on the upper half of the stairs, guarding against potential dangers within sight to provide cover for Cao Sen.

  Under the bright cone of light, Cao Sen saw a scene that made his hair stand on end. He saw a pair of feet wearing bright red high heels slowly rising into the fourth floor ceiling! Faintly, there was also a corner of a skirt floating in with the feet.

  "Group B!" Cao Sen's first reaction was that something - no matter what it was, it definitely wasn't human - was approaching the location of Group B.

  No time to give him more warning, the fifth floor was filled with intense gunfire and the sound of 6mm steel balls ricocheting off the walls, interspersed with the shrill screams of a female student. The earpiece was filled with the chaotic shouts of team members: What's coming... Shooting! Shooting! B team requests support! Immediately followed by even more intense gunfire, as well as the angry roars of A team members. The entire fifth floor was like a real battlefield, Cao Sen's blood boiling!

  "Everyone follow me!" Cao Sen sprinted towards the fifth floor, with Team C members close behind. However, they were unable to enter the fifth floor. The hallway on the fifth floor was filled with the whizzing sound of 6mm steel balls tearing through the air. Such dense gunfire would cause severe injuries even if one wore enhanced protective gear and charged out.

  "Team B, report your situation!" Cao Sen was eager to know what had happened.

  Simada is the leader of Group B, but he can't hear his echo. One of the team members shouted at this time: "That thing has disappeared, stop firing, stop firing!"

  As the team members shouted, the shooting gradually stopped. Cao Sen finally led his men to rush into the fifth floor corridor. Under the light column, Cao Sen first saw the terrified faces of the team members, then saw Sima De tightly hugging Yang Xiang and pressing her under him. The M4 was thrown aside, with his right hand raised high holding a pistol, his index finger still rapidly pulling the trigger, while his fake Glock pistol had already been in an empty chamber state.

  Several other girls, like Yang Xiang, were also tightly protected by the team members, who nervously scanned the ceiling.

  Cao Sen first ordered a few team members to guard both ends of the corridor, then had someone pull all the girls up. He had just seen with his own eyes that the thing could pass through the ceiling, and pressing the girls onto the floor couldn't provide sufficient protection.

  When Ding Haitao went to La Sama De, his reaction was a bit hysterical, and he actually pointed the muzzle at Ding Haitao. Ding Haitao gave him a slap in the face without hesitation.

  Gather the girls together, have team members surround them in a tight circle outside, and arrange for Cao Sen to have no time to care about the girls' condition. Grab Teng Fei and ask him what happened just now.

  "Damn, Sen Ge, this time brother opened his eyes wide, that thing is a ghost, floating in mid-air, the upper body was stuck in the ceiling, and the lower body was a white skirt with red high-heeled shoes, just like air, not afraid of being hit at all. It was hovering above the girl's head, and finally seemed to have chosen sister-in-law. The commander went crazy, shooting desperately, the long gun was fired out and replaced with a handheld gun."

  "What happened later? How did it disappear?"

  "I don't know, all of us brothers opened fire at it, and didn't even care about friendly fire, we fought desperately, and before I knew it, it was gone."

  "Can't stay, leave immediately." Cao Sen was very certain that tonight was a real encounter with a ghost, and it's possible that he had encountered her during the previous two days' defense.

  Damn it, I shouldn't have brought those girls here tonight, Cao Sen thought with regret. Otherwise, he could have had a proper showdown with the female ghost to see who's more powerful. Now he can only leave this place of trouble for the time being and talk about it later. If something happens to the girls, especially the bride Yang Xin, things will get out of hand.

  "Don't disperse, surround the girl, let's go!"

  Under Cao Sen's command, the team members almost carried the girls and rushed downstairs at their fastest speed. When they reached the third floor, Ding Haitao remembered the mandarin ducks and asked Cao Sen what to do. They were all alumni of the same school, so what could be done? Take them away together, even if it delayed time, take them away together.

  When the door to that classroom was opened, Ding Haitao, who entered first, was stunned. Where were the mandarin ducks? The desks were all in their original positions, not arranged like beds, and the curtains were all rolled up at the windows, completely different from when they had just entered. Ding Haitao, who usually didn't know fear, cursed, "Damn it!" and turned around to leave the classroom.

  Teng Fei, who was behind, looked at him in shock and uncertainty. He didn't want to stay any longer, so he returned to the group and explained the situation to Cao Sen. The brothers quickly wrapped up the girls and rushed down to the first floor. When they saw the main gate, several of the girls let out a sigh of relief, finally able to leave this haunted place.

  Guo Jing, who was walking in the front, went to pull the door, but was shocked to find that the door was locked from the outside. At this time, the sound of high heels came from the second floor again, and the sound of "da da" stepped closer step by step.

  Kuo Ching hastened, drew out the combat knife from his combat boots, reached out to grab the steel wire lock and with great force chopped down. With a "ka" sound, the steel wire lock was cut into two segments, the team members rushed out while surrounding the female student. The last ones, Teng Fei and Cao Sen, reluctantly glanced at the dark corridor before turning around to leave.

  When everyone had walked far away, a hunched figure slowly entered the teaching building.