Chapter 4
The hard shell packaging, the combination lock with a metallic luster, and the extremely familiar signature all highlight the strong presence of the object in front of you.
That notebook, the notebook that Gu Qingming had clearly left for his mother in the hole in the desk in the classroom, strangely appeared in his schoolbag at this moment.
This was something that was absolutely impossible to happen in theory. Gu Qingming remembered clearly that when he left the classroom, he took a special look at the hole in the desk to confirm that the notes were pressed down by a thick layer of exercise books at the bottom and there was no possibility that they would fall out due to any accident. Only then did he leave with peace of mind.
"Hehehe~ Join us——"
As Gu Qingming's will wavered, a strange laugh seemed to ring in the boy's ears from a distance. He covered his ears, trying to resist the horrible auditory hallucinations that permeated everywhere, and shook his head vigorously.
“Hehehe~ Don’t be like this—”
"Look, look, I'm behind you—"
"I'm on top of you—"
"Come, hold my hand, and let's go together..."
But those laughs were like a thorn in the flesh, and could not be shaken off. They even became more and more obvious, turning into a series of ambiguous words.
Gu Qingming's vision began to blur, and his hands and feet began to feel cold. The tables and cabinets around him, which had originally had clear outlines, gradually blurred and disappeared in front of his eyes. He gritted his teeth and wanted to walk towards the door of the grocery room to ask for help, but his body uncontrollably reached out to the notes in his backpack.
Instinct urged Gu Qingming not to follow the uncontrollable behavior of his body. He used up his last bit of strength to deflect the hand that was reaching for the notebook, pressed the test paper in his backpack, and seized the opportunity to draw a long red mark on his finger with the test paper without hesitation.
Blood soon seeped out of the red mark, and in the silent pain, Gu Qingming finally regained consciousness.
The horrible laughter gradually faded away in his clear thoughts until it could no longer be heard. Gu Qingming was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but he was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he could not breathe.
Although Gu Qingming tried hard to adjust the angle of his outstretched hand, his fingers still inevitably brushed against the notebook.
And the moment the blood-stained fingers touched the notebook, the notebook changed without any warning - above the black hard shell, as if someone invisible to the naked eye was writing, a piece of translucent haloed green regular script words appeared little by little, floating in the air.
"Chalk Storm."
The ink of the writing seemed not to have dried yet, and was slowly spreading out. Then, with a flash of green light, it disappeared.
Almost at the same time, the desk lamps and energy-saving lamps in the grocery room suddenly went out, and the entire dormitory fell into darkness. Only between Gu Qingming's fingers, there was still a little light blue light left.
However, the light soon faded away, and in the pitch-black grocery room, it seemed as if nothing had ever happened, and everything was quiet and ordinary.
Gu Qingming took out his cell phone, which showed 10:50.
It's time to turn off the lights.
It was really like a house leaking in rain. The mystery of the unknown strange notebook had not been solved yet, and another strange incident had just happened. Now it was time to turn off the lights. If it weren't for the Chinese characters written in the green handwriting being too real, he would really think that it was just an illusion.
If only all the weird things he'd been experiencing lately were just illusions.
The boy rubbed his head and stood up. He staggered to straighten his schoolbag, but his foot kicked something metal-like in the dark, making a slight "click" sound.
What is that?
With numb nerves, Gu Qingming struggled to ask the question. He slowly squatted down and put it under the flashlight of his mobile phone. He was surprised to find that it was actually a piece of snake-shaped bronze engraved with strange patterns. It looked very old, like some kind of antique.
"This just fell out of the notebook?"
Gu Qingming felt that he was about to transform into a thinker sculpture.
“Da, da—”
Gu Qingming was just wondering what the four Chinese characters depicted by the turquoise light meant, and what the bronze metal piece that was so old that it had turned turquoise was, when in the dormitory corridor, which had become quiet due to the lights being turned off, a hurried and slightly strange sound of footsteps was heard.
After the lights are turned off at Lantai No. 1 Middle School, dormitory supervisors arranged by the Academic Affairs Office often check the lights in students' dormitories in the corridor and confiscate any illegal items such as small table lamps brought by students, in order to urge students to get a good night's sleep and rest.
Violators will have class points deducted.
Gu Qingming originally thought that the footsteps must be the teacher checking the dormitory, so he didn't care to be afraid. He stuffed his notes into his bag, threw himself on the bed and pretended to sleep.
Although he was only staying at school for one night, he still had to follow the dormitory rules and regulations.
As a "good student" who follows the rules, compared to the class points deducted for violating dormitory rules, in a sense, the fear that the notebook brought to him was simply cute.
But as the footsteps got closer, Gu Qingming, who was buried in the quilt, heard some suspicious points in them that he had not noticed just now.
The dormitory supervisor of the male dormitory had a problem with his left foot because of a car accident. He always walked with one foot light and the other heavy, and his strength was very uneven. Director Zhang Yiwei had specially warned him about this. But now the footsteps outside the door were very steady...
What's more, the most wrong thing is that the footsteps outside the door are mixed with a strange friction sound, as if something heavy is being dragged, which makes people feel cold behind their backs.
But the exception is the brave teenagers in adolescence.
Gu Qingming couldn't suppress his curiosity and thought that he already had enough strange things around him, so this one wouldn't make a difference.
If it has nothing to do with anything weird and it is just a member of society who deliberately sneaked into the school to cause trouble, he would just tell the teacher on duty as soon as possible to prevent his classmates from suffering any loss.
Gu Qingming quietly stood up, leaned on the glass above the grocery room door, and looked outside.
After the lights were turned off, the dormitory corridor was very dark. Everything that was clear during the day seemed to be covered with a layer of translucent veil, hazy and unclear, and could not be seen clearly through the glass.
Fortunately, there are emergency decorative lights in the corridor that glow green, so it is not completely dark.
With the help of the green light, Gu Qingming saw a figure walking nimbly to the stairs. He was dragging a huge bag behind him. It was unknown what was in the bag, but it looked particularly bulging.
Surprisingly, the figure and profile of the man illuminated by the green emergency light of the escape exit were exactly the same as Chu Zhongyuan, who had just been chatting and laughing with Gu Qingming.
But his expression was extremely stiff, without the smile and liveliness that was always present on his lips. Only his rigid shell remained, his eyes tightly closed, as if he was sleepwalking.
"It's so late, what is this gentleman doing upstairs..."
Gu Qingming saw that it was not the ghost he imagined, so he quickly and carefully opened the door of the grocery room. Based on the principle of mutual help among classmates, he hesitated for a moment and decided to follow him to see what was going on. After all, he was a classmate he had just met, so he couldn't just leave Chu Zhongyuan alone in his strange state.
The grocery room and the stairwell were very close, so Gu Qingming didn't have to cross the entire corridor like Chu Zhongyuan did. He reached the stairwell in just a few steps. He looked up at the stairs leading to the sixth floor, but found that Chu Zhongyuan had disappeared.
Did he go up? The structure of each floor of the dormitory building is similar. Could Chu Zhongyuan be going to the rooftop?
Thinking about this gentleman's outrageous style that was repeated several times by He Song, the boy's face turned a little ugly. This self-proclaimed president of the parkour club would not be possessed by some evil spirit during a luck-changing ritual and wanted to run to the rooftop to "test" his parkour skills, right?
Without time to think, Gu Qingming quickly followed Chu Zhongyuan's footsteps and rushed to the sixth floor. The corridor of the dormitory building had no bends and was all straight, so he could clearly see from one end of the corridor to the other. He took a quick look with the green light of the emergency light, and sure enough, he did not see Chu Zhongyuan on the sixth floor.
Above the stairwell on the sixth floor, the fire door leading to the rooftop was wide open, revealing a glimpse of the ominous darkness behind the door.
Gu Qingming gritted his teeth and finally made a decision between the two simple choices. He held the handrail of the stairs and ran up to the rooftop.
A few dim stars twinkled in the dark blue night sky. The street lights along the roads inside the school were lit up here and there, becoming the only light in the dark campus, allowing Gu Qingming to see everything clearly.
The moment everything on the rooftop appeared before Gu Qingming under the light of the street lamps, he felt as if time had stood still, and even his breathing was afraid of disturbing some terrible monster hiding in the dark night.
Chu Zhongyuan stood quietly outside the railing of the rooftop. In the bag that he had dragged all the way here, a dark paper figure shadow slowly floated up and landed on the back of the obviously unconscious boy.
The paper man stretched out his hand, and Chu Zhongyuan also spread his arms uncontrollably.
Then, the paper man curled up the corner of the paper and laughed wildly as if he had succeeded. The next second, he leaned forward slightly.
Chu Zhongyuan's already shaky figure began to shift forward.
not good!
Gu Qingming's sixth sense was screaming danger. He felt his heart beating violently, his limbs were weak but moving quickly, and his adrenaline reached a level he had never dared to imagine. He almost ran at the fastest speed in his life just to get to the railing and hold the man's hand.
The classmate who had just been chatting and laughing with him, with high spirits in his eyes.
It was too dangerous. If Chu Zhongyuan lost his balance even slightly due to the influence of that strange paper man, he would fall nearly 30 meters from the dormitory building without even having to jump.
Gu Qingming stretched out his hand desperately to pull Chu Zhongyuan back. A light green light flashed under his feet. He did not notice that from the entrance to the rooftop to the railing, he was so fast that he almost turned into a light green light.
But even so, he was still a step too late. Chu Zhongyuan, who was affected by the strange paper man, lost his balance without hesitation and fell from the high building. Gu Qingming could only barely grab Chu Zhongyuan's arm.
But at the same time, the huge pulling force destroyed his body's balance, and his instinct made some light blue marks appear around him again, but it was too late.
Gu Qingming and the unconscious Chu Zhongyuan fell off the railing together due to the impact of inertia.
It's over.
There were only these three words left in Gu Qingming's mind.
This is really the end of me. I wanted to help my classmates, but I ended up getting myself into trouble. I should have gone to the dormitory supervisor earlier.
No, if Chu Zhongyuan went to ask the dormitory supervisor, it would be too late, and the dormitory supervisor might not be able to solve these strange problems...
Gu Qingming's thoughts were wild and uncontrollable. Everything around him became blurry as he fell rapidly. Compared with the dormitory building, Lantai No. 1 Middle School seemed exceptionally bright under the street lights, only tinged with a hint of green.
Wait… where does the green color come from?
Gu Qingming came back to his senses from his dying state and was surprised to find that he and Chu Zhongyuan did not fall from the building as expected.
A long green wind appeared at some point and surrounded the two of them. The continuously flowing wind was given color and presented a texture like special effects in a game. The serpentine patterns scattered behind Gu Qingming fixed the trajectory of the flowing wind like anchor points.
Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan were being steadily held in the air by the gentle green wind.
Looking at the ground more than ten meters away from my feet, and the Lantai No. 1 Middle School from a bird's-eye view, and the light blue wind.
Gu Qingming instantly thought of the three words that appeared out of nowhere in the notebook.
"Chalk Storm."
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