45 Taboo 6 || There is a ghost in the dormitory

"Something happened?" Jing Ning leaned over from the upper bunk, his voice sounding sober, not like he had just fallen asleep.

"It came from the girls' dormitory." Yan Shuang sat up and listened carefully to the noise outside. At the end of the opposite corridor, there was a faint sound of an object falling to the ground, followed by a series of hurried footsteps.

"Oh." Jing Ning said and lay back down, "Go to sleep."

Yan Shuang remembered this voice. It was another girl named Wu Siyao who was with Zheng Yuxuan.

Wu Siyao was now sprinting down the corridor, occasionally emitting screams and whimpers, which were particularly loud in the night. She then desperately knocked on the doors of other dormitories, but received no response.

She was the only one left in the dark and empty corridor.

The noise outside gradually became quieter and calm returned.

The next morning, when Yan Shuang opened his eyes, he saw Ye Jing'an sitting beside his bed, staring at him with a resentful look on his face.

"Is there something wrong?" Yan Shuang asked with a yawn.

"Shuang'er, when did you become so carefree?" Ye Jing'an gave him a thumbs up.

"Really?" Yan Shuang reflected, maybe because she had been with Jing Ning for too long, she was influenced by him, that guy didn't know what fear was.

"Something happened last night?" This was the first sentence Red Hair said after coming to live in this dormitory.

Today he seemed like a different person, and he had put away the bad temper he had when he first entered the game yesterday. Perhaps it was because he heard the screams last night and realized the danger here.

"How could it not be bad? The screams were horrible." Ye Jingan said, "I was so scared that I couldn't sleep all night."

"I don't know what's going on. We can't go to the girls' dormitory. We can only wait and see if Tian Yiyi and the others have noticed." Yan Shuang said.

When the four of them finished washing up and were about to go downstairs, Lin Haichen and Liu Hui from next door also happened to go out. Liu Hui didn't look like he had slept well either, the dark circles under his eyes said it all.

A few people greeted each other. Zheng Yuxuan did not return home last night, and everyone knew that he was in danger.

As soon as they went downstairs, they saw Wu Huimin, who led them yesterday, standing not far away.

When he saw the six people, he said, "I'll take you to the exam when everyone is here."

Several people nodded in agreement, and no one dared to ask any more questions.

After a while, the four girls from the girls' dormitory came downstairs one after another, their faces looking grim. Zhang Fan vomited a few times. Lin Yue followed at the back, trembling all over. Her white T-shirt was stained with dust in several places, and her delicate makeup was blurred by tears.

She nearly tripped several times as she went downstairs.

"Everyone is here, follow me." Wu Huimin looked at the few people and led them to the laboratory building.

Someone died in the team, two of them in one night, and the atmosphere in the entire team began to become solemn.

Yan Shuang deliberately slowed down his pace and slipped to the end of the team, asking Tian Yiyi about her situation in a low voice.

Tian Yiyi told him about Zheng Yuxuan staying in the girls' dormitory. She said, "This morning, I went to check next door and found Deng Yuxuan collapsed in the middle of the room. There was a huge hole in his chest, as if his heart had been ripped out with bare hands." She gestured, "And I found Wu Siyao's body in the bathroom. The entire corridor was covered in blood, as if it had been mopped, spreading from the room to the end. Wu Siyao's head had been pushed into the sink drain, and her neck was completely broken."

"Lin Yue is also in the dormitory?" Jing Ning asked.

Yan Shuang returned to the front and said, "Yes, it is said that Zheng Yuxuan suddenly started bleeding and she fainted from shock. Not long after she woke up, Tian Yiyi came."

After saying that, the two looked at each other for a while.

This situation was clearly somewhat unexpected. Should we say she was lucky, or that she hadn't encountered the death condition?

Jing Ning seemed to be lost in thought. "Two of the three people in the room died, and their deaths were different... Zheng Yuxuan died because he stayed overnight in the girls' dormitory. As for Wu Siyao, the exact cause of her death is still uncertain."

As she spoke, Wu Huimin took them to the third floor and said, "I hope you can do well in the exam this time and try to pass it in one go." She stopped at the door of Room 3017 and pointed to the clock on the wall: "This is the exam schedule. It will officially start at 8:30." After that, she disappeared at the stairs in her high heels.

"Is this reasonable?" Ye Jing'an asked, "Only five minutes for the break?"

"Brother, you are in the game, why do you care whether it is reasonable or not?" Yan Shuang said mercilessly.

There were no students in the laboratory building at the moment. Lin Haichen was asking them about what happened last night. Lin Yue was frightened and squatted on the ground, crying and saying nothing.

"Girl, calm down first." Ye Jing'an used the same tricks he used to coax his girlfriend. "Crying won't solve any problems. You have to tell us what happened before, then we can help you. Otherwise, you fainted and got away with it yesterday, but what about tonight?"

Lin Yue sobbed, shuddering at the thought, and spoke haltingly, "Last night, after the two of them went back, I wanted to persuade Zheng Yuxuan to go back to his own dorm. What if someone really died? But Wu Siyao said I was soft-hearted and believed everything others said. Seeing that Zheng Yuxuan had no intention of going back, I stopped trying."

"Later, around 11pm, I was sleeping on the upper bunk, just getting ready for bed when I saw through the glass door... I saw the light in the next dorm was on, and there was a woman sitting on the bed, combing her hair." Lin Yue glanced at Tian Yiyi and the others. "I thought you guys weren't asleep yet, but then I realized none of you have hair that long."

"I was so scared and anxious at the time, and was about to tell those two people, but unexpectedly the woman turned around and smiled at me. My mind went blank." Lin Yue started crying again when she said this.

"Then what?" Lin Haichen asked.

"Then there was a knock on our dormitory door. Before I could recover from my fear, Wu Siyao opened it. Standing at the door was the woman who had just been in bed. In the blink of an eye, she stretched out her very long nails and dug into Zheng Yuxuan's heart. Then I fainted."

Lin Yue felt that it was because he did not have time to speak up that he killed his friend.

If the door hadn't been opened, the ghost might not have been able to get in. She cried in fear and felt guilty.

Zhang Fan gasped after hearing this. She slept behind the door. From Lin Yue's perspective, the ghost was on the bunk above her. "We went to bed at nine o'clock last night."

Xu Yaoyu fearfully grabbed Tian Yiyi's hand and said, "The ghost is in our dormitory."

It would have been fine if I hadn't asked too much, but once I did, the four people living in the girls' dormitory all had grim expressions. One dormitory had a ghost, and another dormitory had been killed by a ghost.

"What should we do? We don't know anything right now. If we have an exam, according to this schedule, we won't have time to go out and look for clues." Zhang Fan asked.

"Don't panic yet." Lin Haichen soothed him, "There's still time during the day. Let's divide the work first. We'll take the test later and try to write down everything we know. See if we can hand it in early. Then, we'll carefully search the places we didn't finish searching yesterday. We're sure to find a clue."

No one objected.