Chapter 22: Strange Events

  Back at the dorm, Ji Su-yin felt like it had been a long time, but for the other three, it was just a short outing. Ji Su-yin had an illusion that her current life was deviating further and further from the normal track. In just over a month of university life, she had already experienced so much. Sigh~ She really wanted to sigh! When they returned to the dormitory, it was more than two hours earlier than expected, and before 5 pm, the sun was still high in the sky. The few people put down their luggage and relaxed individually.

  Ji Huali's first thing to do after returning was to take a bath, she couldn't stand the greasiness all over her body. Yan Fen'er swept the dormitory, it was her turn today. Ji Suyin lay on the bed, resting and staring blankly at the ceiling.

  Huang Xiaoyu was bored and went online, chatting in several QQ groups without worrying about missing any messages. Suddenly, Huang Xiaoyu let out a loud cry, attracting everyone's attention. "My god! How could something so earth-shattering happen just after we graduated?! Come quick and take a look! Hurry up!"

  Ji Su-yin climbed down from the bed and squeezed in behind three people to take a look. Yesterday, a certain part-time campus cleaner at A University discovered some suspicious soil while sweeping the student square under a Chinese parasol tree. After reporting it to the police, an excavation confirmed that it was the body of a 7- or 8-year-old boy. The deceased has been identified as Qin Lin, aged 7. According to the forensic doctor's statement, the deceased had been dead for 15 years. After investigation, it was found that the deceased was indeed the only son of Professor Qin Yue from the Architecture Department at A University, who went missing 15 years ago. His wife, Xu Min-qing, had declared back then that she would bury their son alive, and was suspected to be mentally ill, so she was sent to a mental hospital. Qin Yue and Xu Min-qing got divorced and remarried, and immigrated overseas. It is speculated that Xu Min-qing, due to the breakdown of her marriage and mental illness, brutally buried her son alive.

  For a moment, several people sighed in unison. Huang Xiaoyu was furious and slammed the table, scolding loudly: "How can this be? Parents are fighting, how can they drag their children into it? It's like burying them alive! How cruel is that? There are actually parents like this in this world?! One is irresponsible, the other is a pervert! The most pitiful one is still that child, only seven years old! It's really detestable!"

  Yan Fen comforted Huang Xiaoyu, who also looked furious. Ji Huali was shocked and looked a bit scared: "So the child was buried there, no wonder I always felt eerie every time I passed by, this is really too terrifying!"

  The three of them were excitedly talking and didn't notice that Ji Su Yin was looking at the photo, slightly curling up the corners of her mouth, revealing a relieved expression.

  That giant wutong tree was once a place where a young couple fell in love at first sight, but in the end, it was the woman who buried that lingering emotion with her own hands! It started here and ended there! Emotions have always been two-sided, one side soft, the other sharp. The woman ultimately hated because of love, the more she loved, the more she hated! In the surging memories, the woman's sharp madness: "Qin Yue loves you the most! So go die! I want to take away Qin Yue's most beloved thing! Hahaha..." But at the same time, the woman also took away her own most beloved thing! Looking back on the boy's soft voice arguing with her, defending his mother, how ironic! The child was the purest and cleanest, he eventually escaped from the shackles, transformed into a clear breeze, and returned to the woman's side. In this tragedy, there is no right or wrong anymore.

  The next day, the weather was great, and Ji Su-yin couldn't help but exclaim in a cheesy way - "Clear blue sky, not a cloud in sight!" Ah! Ji Su-yin was lost in her own little world when Huang Xiao-yu slapped her face, looking helpless. "Don't pretend you know me! Ji Su-yin, why did you give up on treatment?" Ji Su-yin retracted her outstretched arm, covered her left arm with her right hand, and slapped Huang Xiao-yu back.

  "Die! You talk as if I still have a chance." The two of them were carefree and playful, everything was full of vitality. On Monday morning, the third and fourth periods were open classes, and the two dormitories gathered together again.

  "Hey! You know, right? The 'Wutong Tree Corpse Case'! I'm telling you, the one who discovered it is a friend of mine from the Electrical Engineering department. It was just yesterday morning that he happened to be assigned to that area. Hey! Don't you think this thing is a bit eerie?! When they found him, the kid's clothes were exposed outside, who would normally go dig in that spot?! It must have been the kid himself wanting to be discovered, he came out on his own!"

  Huang Xiaoyu and Ji Huali were frightened, and they pinched Nie Yuan hard: "Don't talk nonsense! It's so scary! Maybe it was dug up by a stray dog in the school?"

  Nie Yuan looked at several girls who were scared white, and laughed loudly: "Ah! You're so scared, you girls are really timid!" Huang Xiaoyu was stimulated a bit: "Who...who's timid? It's just that what you said is disgusting!"

  Nie Yuan didn't argue with her about this issue, but instead beckoned to the crowd to gather around, his face strange as he said: "Have you guys heard of A Da's school history?" Some people shook their heads, some nodded, and Ji Su Yin remained still, waiting for Nie Yuan to continue.

  Nie Yuan looked at the few curious faces, self-satisfied, and then lowered his voice: "I'm telling you! I also heard this from my senior. It's said that A University originally didn't plan to build a campus here, but because there was once a high-ranking official who discovered that this land is the largest evil land in A City.

  The city is going to rebuild a big one here, taking the meaning of young people's blood and energy to suppress evil spirits. But! This school has been built for many years, every few years there will be strange things! Do you know that new building? It was built halfway and then abandoned, it has been seven or eight years since construction stopped, as soon as work resumes someone dies, so it's just left there."

  Several girls listened with some tension, while Tian Haiqing was enthusiastic: "Yes, yes! My brother is also in this school, graduated five years ago. In his sophomore year, do you know the Wen Yuan building? There used to be a large mirror on both sides, and students passing by would take a look. One day, a girl from his class passed by and took a look, and she actually saw an old white-haired woman! The girl was excitedly telling this story in the class QQ group, coincidentally, there was another girl in the class who had also taken a look at the mirror on the other side during the day, but didn't discover anything unusual. For a while, everyone treated this as a paranormal event and spread it around, not long after, the girl who didn't discover anything strange died unexpectedly, while the girl who saw the old woman was safe and sound. Suddenly, rumors about the double-sided mirror in Wen Yuan building spread like wildfire, the school couldn't do anything about it, so they immediately dismantled the mirrors and locked them up in a storage room."

  Huang Xiaoyu's face was a bit pale, her fingers under the table were tightly clenched on the hem of her clothes, she was tense to death but still holding on. What couldn't be seen was that Yan Fen'er was actually the boldest girl, listening with great interest all along, and Ji Huali also had a curious expression.

  Ji Su couldn't help but want to laugh, and was fiercely glared at by Huang Xiaoyu. Tian Haiqing had just finished speaking when Nie Yuan took over: "That's the 'Wenyuan Double-Faced Mirror', one of the top ten bizarre events in the big Sheng legend! Do you know the other nine things?" Seeing that everyone's appetite had been whetted.

  "Already know, it's the two-way mirror, the dilapidated building that can't be repaired, and the eerie Chinese parasol tree! Besides these, there's the staircase in the underground room of the North Garden cafeteria, where the number of steps is different going up and down; the strange sounds in the dissection room of the Medical College; the corridor on the fifth floor of the Foreign Language Institute, where a long-haired female ghost walks back and forth at midnight; the night market in the old research dormitory building, where you can hear all sorts of sounds at night, like in a night market; the top floor of the old administration building has a ghost that likes to close doors, it's said that someone was locked on the top floor and got rained on all night, almost getting pneumonia; then there's the elevator in the deepest part of the library, where people always see someone standing behind them in the mirror at night, scaring them; and finally, right under our feet now, is the underground room of the Xiuyuan Building! It used to be an art practice room, a female student from the Art Department went in once, but strangely, no one ever saw her come out again, she just disappeared!"