Chapter 4: The Midnight Climber (Part 2)

  After hearing this, the director fell into deep thought, and I was thinking that the thing just now should be a spirit, and it didn't have eyeballs. Thinking about it made my whole body shudder, but Yue didn't come, which means she didn't mean to harm me, so the focus is on Xiao Qi's body now. Just now Liu Ying said that when the female corpse crawled into the dormitory, it directly pounced on Xiao Qi, what connection do they have? Could it be a fight for a boyfriend?... Okay, thinking too much, let's wait until tomorrow when she wakes up and ask her.

  The director was silent for a while, and still decided to let the girls rest well first. This matter might be difficult for him to handle as well, so he'll wait until tomorrow when the principal comes to ask him to deal with it together. He turned on the lights for the girls, but I didn't return to my dormitory. Instead, I slept in the boys' dormitory on the left side of the girls', just in case something unexpected happened again in the girls' dormitory... Ugh, this smell is awful.

  I slept until more than 5 o'clock in the morning, it was time for the boys to get up for their early self-study session. The boys got out of bed one after another, I quickly got dressed and went outside the girls' dormitory. The door hadn't opened yet, probably because they were sleeping soundly due to being startled last night. Just as I was thinking this, the girls' dormitory door opened, it was Liu Ying.

  "How are they? Are they still sleeping?" I said.

  "Well, they didn't sleep all night because of what happened last night, and they haven't gotten out of bed yet, so let's just skip morning self-study today." Liu Ying said, rubbing her eyes.

  I see she also has dark circles under her eyes, she must be very tired too. I said: "Yeah, I think you're really tired... why don't you go back and rest? It's okay, missing one early morning study session won't make a difference."

  "Hehe, it's okay, let's go, Xu class monitor." She said as she walked and pulled my sleeve towards the classroom. "Hehe, alright." Looking at her temples lit up by the yet-to-rise sun, with a faint smile on her face, strong girls are really likable...

  It wasn't until the first class in the morning that the girl from last night came to class, and Xiao Qi also arrived. During the break between classes, I saw that her face looked particularly bad. During the break between the second class, the principal called me to go to the office, where both the president and vice-president were present.

  "Xu Ming, have a seat," said the principal.

  "En." I said, sitting on the sofa opposite the principal and director.

  "Deputy principal said that you were also there last night, what do you think who did this thing?" The deputy principal said while smoking.

  "This... I think it might be aimed at that girl Xiao Qi, because the other girls seem to have just been startled by what they saw, and didn't suffer any harm from her." I stared at the vice principal's cigarette. As a boy, I hadn't smoked before, so even smelling it made me feel nauseous. The vice principal followed my gaze, suddenly realized, and quickly put out the cigarette: "Sorry, I always smoke when I'm worried."

  The principal suddenly let out a long sigh: "Ah... I didn't think that in such a small school, there would be such a perverted person causing trouble. Old Zhang (Vice Principal Zhang Dongming), you and Old Li (Dean of Studies Li Kun) set up an ambush together at the girls' dormitory tonight, catch that bastard for me! Catch him and beat him to death! How dare he scare my students!"

  The vice principal and the head teacher both nodded, then I was called away... I didn't even have a chance to speak yet... They wouldn't think that's a prank, would they?! Last night I clearly felt a sense of oppression, forget it, they probably won't believe in the existence of spirits anyway... Oh right, I can ask Yue when school lets out.

  After school in the afternoon, I rode my bike quickly towards home. When I arrived at the front yard, Yue appeared inside the door. "What's wrong, Ming? You're all sweaty," said Yue. He moved a chair from inside the house over while speaking. This was our family's old courtyard; Yue said that there were door gods and other spirits in the new house, so he couldn't enter. Our school had an underground chamber with golden plaques inscribed by a divine brush to suppress the yellow bronze toad spirit, which also made it difficult for him to enter. So we cleaned up this room and let Yue stay here during the day.

  I sat down on the chair, panting and said: "Yue, did you feel that I was in danger last night?" Yue said strangely: "No, weren't you studying upstairs? I didn't feel any danger from you here, what's wrong? What happened?"

  "Yesterday after self-study in the evening, a girl from our school was possessed by a spirit, I felt a very strong sense of oppression." I said.

  "It can't be! There's a toad spirit guardian under your school, we can't get in." Yue was even more puzzled, actually not just him, I was also very puzzled. I clearly felt a sense of oppression, but the spirit really couldn't enter, the principal thought someone was causing trouble, I think it's absolutely impossible, that thing is definitely not human.

  After listening to my idea, his eyebrows were already furrowed: "This is too inconceivable! What on earth is that thing?! It won't pose a threat to you, will it?! Tonight I'll go outside your school and take a look! If he appears, use the summoning technique to actively summon me, no matter what kind of forbidden land it is, I can appear!"

  "Hey, you're getting a bit anxious, but it's okay to take a look outside the school at night. I'll be accompanying the principal and the dean of studies, I'm afraid they might treat that thing like a human being, which would definitely put them in danger. But don't worry, I have a natural aura that repels evil spirits, so I won't be afraid of it. If there really is any danger, I'll immediately take the principal and the others out of the school gate, and you can help me then."

  "Alright, wait till the sun sets a bit, I'll be waiting for you at your school gate. Remember, if there's any danger, just bring them to the school gate and run!" Yue reminded me again and again. "Got it, got it! Hehe, these are the clothes and iron and stuff that I bought for you yesterday, I just brought them back from my dorm today." As I spoke, I used a lighter to set fire to those paper clothes, iron, TV and whatnot in the brazier. After everything was burnt up, Yue took all the things out of the brazier, haha, they looked exactly like real ones!

  I was chatting with Yue when my mom called me again: "Mingming? What's wrong with you! Every day after school, you always run to the front yard, and I have to call you for dinner."

  "Hehe, okay, mom, there are many flowers I planted in the front yard, I want to go take a look at them. From now on, I won't let you call me and worry about it." I said with a pout to my mom, hehe, no matter what I do, as long as I say it with a pout to my mom, there's nothing that can't be done, haha."

  After lunch, I said goodbye to my parents and Yu, then hurriedly rode my bike with my friends to school. The whole afternoon was uneventful, but as evening approached, my heart started to feel inexplicably tense. When the evening self-study session was about to end, I took the initiative to find the directors, wanting to be with them, fearing they might be in danger. They just laughed at me, saying I was underestimating them. How frustrating! I was doing it for their sake! But they still let me follow them, and we hid together behind the wall of the girls' dormitory, who knows what others thought of us, three-headed monsters or something~~~~.

  When the evening self-study bell rang, students returned to their dormitories one after another. The girls' dormitory also opened its door, and the girls came back one by one. However, it wasn't until 11:30 that nothing happened. The vice principal laughed and said, "I told you so, it must be some hooligan causing trouble. See, they don't dare to come now." No! I suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blowing from behind me. Could it be?! I shouted loudly, "It's behind us!"

  At the sound of my loud roar, the principal and schoolmaster quickly turned around! One turn of the head is not a big deal! Almost scared me to death! A pair of eyes with only whites staring straight at us! The vice-principal immediately let out a loud cry: "Ghost!!" What guts...

  The instructor was even more experienced, and as soon as he heard the shout, many students came out of their dormitories to see what was going on. The instructor yelled loudly: "Everyone go back to your dorms! Whoever dares to come out will be expelled tomorrow!" In an instant, all the students who were preparing to come out immediately became quiet and still, even turning off their lights.

  On this side of the wall, only I, the vice principal and the instructor who were scared to sit on the ground, and that ghost were left. Everything became quiet, and all we could hear was our three breaths and the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves and grass in front of us. In front of us was a female ghost with only white eyes floating in front of us.

  Suddenly! The female ghost took another step towards us! Oh my god... My heart was racing, and I could feel the principal's body trembling even more violently beside me. "Why are you interfering in other people's business! This matter has nothing to do with you!" The female ghost suddenly spoke up. As soon as we heard this, we felt something was off, and the principal opened his mouth: "How can it have nothing to do with us? They're all my students! Why do you want to harm them?"

  "A student?! She's not even worthy! She's not even human trash!"

  The instructor asked: "Are you talking about Xiao Qi?"

  "Don't mention that cheap person to me!!" As soon as the name Xia Qi was mentioned, the female ghost's aura immediately became abnormal! Could it be a crime of passion? Before I could think more about it, the female ghost had already pounced on the principal! How arrogant! I still have my innate evil energy, and I'm a vegetarian! I stood in front of my master, concentrated my mind, and sprayed a mouthful of air at that female ghost!

  With a thud, I was thrown to one side by the female ghost. How could this be?! Could ghosts also become spirits?! I looked at the female ghost as she pounced on the principal again and hastily shouted: "Principal! Quickly follow the school headmaster to the school gate! That way you can protect yourselves!"

  The principal immediately pulled the schoolmaster and ran towards the school gate. The female ghost suddenly turned around and pounced on them again! I flew over and pounced, although I knew that ghosts couldn't be touched, but at that moment, I really couldn't think of anything else, so I pounced. Unexpectedly! I actually grabbed her leg tightly, and with a bit of effort, I dragged her to the ground along with me! She wasn't a ghost! Then what was she? She got angry, kicked me flying, and turned around to fly towards the principal and others, but during the time I bought for them, they had already run to the school gate, where Yue was waiting. I felt much more at ease all of a sudden.

  Just as I was about to chase after him, I suddenly found a piece of paper on the ground. I picked it up and took a look under the light in the corridor, and it turned out to be a poem that read:

  Gift of love

  A gentle breeze leaves no trace

  Wilted leaves sorrow

  However, dust and dirt obscure its beauty

  On the branch of flowers

  Buds burst forth in first bloom

  Pluck a single branch

  A gift for one's lover

  What a beautiful poem, is this related to her identity? No time to think more, put the letter in pocket and rush to school gate quickly.