Chapter 32 The Surprise of the Power Outage

The teaching building was plunged into darkness without warning by a power outage.

Unlike the students' numbness during the morning class fire, the boundless darkness seemed to have triggered the fear switch deep within these female students' hearts.

The students who were having extra lessons were startled by the pitch-black darkness and quickly became restless.

The instructors and teaching assistants who were maintaining order quickly rushed to the classroom with flashlights to keep order.

"Quiet the hell out of here!!!" the instructor yelled, brandishing a stun gun. "Anyone who causes trouble will be locked up in the reformatory for a week!!!"

The crackling of electricity and flashes of light successfully intimidated the restless students. They huddled together, heads down, trying to hide in the corner, afraid of being dragged back into the reformatory.

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"What exactly happened?" one of the instructors asked his colleague. "The electricians haven't figured out why the power went out yet?"

"Who knows?" The colleague looked at the darkness in the distance that the flashlight couldn't reach and felt inexplicably uneasy.

"So many strange things have happened these past few days..."

The classroom was chaotic, making everyone feel irritable and agitated.

Director Wu immediately reported the power outage to Vice President Zhang.

"Why did the power suddenly go out at this critical moment?" Vice President Zhang sat in the villa, feeling uneasy.

"Xiao Wang?" Director Wu kicked the stunned teaching assistant Wang. "Go to the power distribution room and urge the electrician to check on the progress of the repairs."

"How could the backup generator suddenly break down...?"

Teaching assistant Wang stared at the powerless teaching building, too afraid to go out.

But Director Wu was pressing him hard, leaving him no room to refuse.

With no other option, he had to bite the bullet and head towards the teaching building.

Several instructors and teaching assistants came out one after another, carrying flashlights. When Wang, the teaching assistant, saw that they were all familiar people, he gradually relaxed.

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"Strange," the instructor said, raising his flashlight and scanning the classroom. "That lecturer went to the restroom, why hasn't he come back yet?"

"Ms. Tan," the drill instructor said, looking at the female homeroom teacher maintaining order on the podium, "could you please go check the restroom?"

"Something just feels off..."

"Okay, you stay on the platform and keep an eye on things," Teacher Tan said, signaling the instructor to keep an eye on the group of students while she went to the restroom to find someone.

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As Assistant Teacher Wang walked into the dark corridor with a flashlight, his heart began to race for no reason again.

Even though the noisy sounds from the classroom weren't far away, and the familiar instructors and teaching assistants were all working normally, he still felt that the teaching building was much more dangerous than usual.

Suddenly, a woman dressed in very loose and simple clothing walked towards us.

Suddenly, a person who walked silently entered the area illuminated by the flashlight, startling Assistant Wang, who was holding the flashlight.

“You…” Assistant Wang calmed down and saw that the person was wearing a light ink-colored top, a simple and elegant long skirt and cloth shoes, and that she was also wearing a familiar string of beads on her wrist.

"Qingxin Lecturer?" Teaching Assistant Wang breathed a sigh of relief, his gaze falling on her mask. "Why are you suddenly wearing a mask?"

"I was so scared, I thought it was something else..."

He gave an awkward laugh, and the panic in his heart gradually dissipated.

“The students were making a fuss when the power went out, and I couldn’t get out of the way in time,” Qingxin lecturer’s voice was muffled behind her mask, “and I hurt my face.”

Teaching assistant Wang didn't take it to heart.

"Where are you going?" he asked casually.

Instructor Qingxin pointed to the bathroom, "Go wash your face and treat your wounds, then you'll be back to class soon."

When Assistant Instructor Wang saw the woman's figure turn into the toilet in the corridor, he assumed it was just a minor incident on his way to the power distribution room.

He noticed something was wrong as soon as he got near the power distribution room.

The toolbox on the ground looked as if it had been smashed open, with tools scattered all over the floor.

The flashlight swept forward in the direction the tools had scattered, and Assistant Instructor Wang's pupils suddenly contracted.

"Someone come quick!!!" Assistant Instructor Wang turned and ran, shouting for help as he ran.

Soon, several instructors rushed over upon hearing the commotion. "What's wrong?"

"Someone was...someone was..." He was still in shock, pointing to the darkness behind him. His mind was filled with images of the corpses in the corridor and the corpses from the fire on the fifth floor that morning. He was completely panicked by the extreme fright.

Seeing that Assistant Instructor Wang could no longer speak in complete sentences, the instructor simply took a flashlight and went to check on him himself.

The electrician collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

His electrician's uniform had vanished.

The instructors exchanged glances, and one of the bolder ones leaned down to check the electrician's breathing.

"He's not dead," he breathed a sigh of relief. "He must have been knocked unconscious."

Upon hearing this news, Assistant Instructor Wang was unsure whether to remain fearful or breathe a sigh of relief.

"Who would attack the electrician... and steal his uniform?" The drill instructor was completely baffled. "Was it a burglar? Or..."

As Wang, the teaching assistant, gradually calmed down, he somehow started to connect the topic with Li, the teaching assistant who had gone missing at the fire scene.

He thought of the murder plots he found on Li's phone, and his face grew paler and paler.

"Not a thief... but..."

Serial killer.

Xin Que glanced back at her own arrangement in the toilet stall, changed back into Xiao Li's uniform, and jumped down from the toilet window.

"That's strange," the instructor muttered. "It's one thing that the lecturer didn't come back, but why hasn't Teacher Tan, who went to look for him, returned either?"

"The electrician's uniform was stolen, and he was found unconscious near the power distribution room..."

The instructors became increasingly suspicious of tonight's power outage.

"Wait!!!" His companion suddenly stopped him in his tracks. "What's that by the toilet door?"

A pool of dark red liquid meandered out from the crack in the women's restroom door and flowed down into the corridor.

The group noticed the liquid on the ground and the smell of rust in the air, and immediately became alert.

It's blood.

In the end, Assistant Instructor Wang didn't dare to go in.

He stood at the door, trembling, and took out his phone to call Director Wu. Another instructor was watching the door, while the rest of the people took flashlights and went to the women's restroom to see what was going on.

"Director Wu, again, again," Teaching Assistant Wang stammered, "another incident has occurred in the teaching building!!!"

The instructor pushed the toilet door, but it wouldn't budge.

He kicked the toilet door, and the thin door panel was quickly kicked open.

Also kicked open was a female corpse leaning against the door.

When the instructors shone their flashlights on the scene behind the toilet door, they all took a step back.

Blood splattered all over the toilet. Teacher Tan was twisted and leaning against the wall, the bloody hole on her neck was gruesome.

"Someone's...someone's dead!!!" The instructor was terrified. He was about to back away when the flashlight shone on the scene through the window.

The woman, dressed simply, looked terrified, as if she had seen something extremely frightening before she died.

She lay crookedly on her back, hanging on the window frame, her hair falling to the floor.

Unsurprisingly, a hole was also made in the same spot on his neck.