Chapter 50: Tree High School Girls 10
Most ghost stories are bizarre and filled with blood and the smell of the dead. At the very least, they are stories like "a snowy forest on a full-moon night" or "an unknown dead person in the girls' restroom" that sound terrifying.
However, what is recorded in these materials are, “Where did the books that disappeared from the book corner go?”, “Who is it that tears up the duty roster on odd days?”... These puzzles sound like children's games.
How to describe this gap?
It's like when you're watching a horror movie and are ready to see an enlarged skull, but the scene suddenly changes and sends you to the toddler area with cute Barbies, and they give you a pacifier.
Jiang Yuelu said: "The discussions among teachers are more daring." He told the story of a teacher who entered the Moon Altar without permission and disappeared without a trace.
Xie Xiaoya said: "These sound like weird stories! What's circulating among students is just like children's stories..."
Xu Li asked, "But they are children."
Fu Mengru frowned and said, "Is it to protect their physical and mental health? The girls' high school has strict control over students. They are not allowed to leave the school at night, and there are many places on campus that are not allowed to enter. They should not be allowed to think about anything else."
Someone agreed: "There are a lot of exams too."
In addition to the midterm exam, they also have monthly exams, weekly exams, and random checks every few days. After just one day, they are already dizzy.
Xie Xiaoya thought of Luo Qingqing who was "very experienced" tonight, and said uncertainly: "Their physical and mental health... don't need to be protected, and don't you think the more you protect them, the more disgusted they will be? If you are not allowed to think about it, then you really can't think about it? Whether it's the topics they talked about verbally or the topics they recorded, they are all very positive."
After a day of getting along with them, her intuitive feeling about the female high school students was: they were innocent and lifelike, like girls who grew up in a paradise. None of them had a particularly tragic life experience, and none of them were sad or desperate. Their biggest worry was just the endless exams.
"Uh... why is that?"
The discussion reached a deadlock.
Jiang Yuelu asked them: "Is it the same in the academy?"
"Hey." Perhaps because he mentioned the academy in front of outsiders, Fu Mengru glanced at him unhappily, wanting to warn him not to reveal his identity, but then she thought of the relationship between the two of them, which must have been almost exposed, so she simply shut up, thinking out of sight, out of mind.
But Xia Yi didn't care at all. He was still immersed in the joy of victory.
Xie Xiaoya didn't think anything of it and became visibly excited.
"There are a lot of ghost stories in the academy! Have you heard of 'The Shadow Flowing in the Bathroom at Night'?"
Jiang Yuelu shook her head, "I came here right after I reported, and I haven't talked to anyone else."
"Ah, you're going to talk again." Xu Li held his forehead helplessly.
"Help her record it down." Fu Mengru instructed sarcastically, "Play it for her next time when she says she doesn't want to talk anymore and is about to vomit."
"But, but, this is the first time I've been so close to a supernatural event... It's worth telling a thousand times, okay? Besides, I haven't told Teacher Lu Yue yet!"
Jiang Yuelu smiled and said, "Tell me about it."
So Xie Xiaoya shared the supernatural events she experienced during the Wu Games.
The so-called witch sports meet refers to a sports meet held between witches and wizards. The competition items are very different from those of ordinary people. You will definitely participate in it in the future, so I won’t mention it here for now. Xie Xiaoya said this and simply skipped it and got to the point.
"At that time, the students who participated in the witch games lived together, with men on one side and women on the other. Because the location was deep in the mountains, it was difficult to take a shower. Teacher, don't be so surprised. Even if we are witchcraft students, we can't just make water appear casually. It's not magic!"
"Our makeshift bathroom was built by our teachers in advance. They brought running water from the foot of the mountain, and we heated it ourselves."
"There were too many people and not enough water, and everyone had a different bathing time, so there was chaos and complaints in the first few days. The teacher simply ignored it. We made our own rules: girls could only bathe for five minutes in the first half of the night. If they exceeded that time, someone would knock on the door."
"The method worked very quickly. The girls' bathroom became quiet in the second half of the night. Everything was normal until the third or fourth day, which was when the Wu Games was about to end. One night, I suddenly heard the sound of water dripping in the middle of the night."
She deliberately lowered her voice and spoke heavily, just to see Jiang Yuelu's reaction, but he was very calm.
He even analyzed it with lingering emotion: "Maybe someone broke the rules?"
Xie Xiaoya said painfully: "This is a supernatural event, teacher, you are really spoiling the fun..."
Jiang Yuelu smiled and said, "So I guess it's not that simple. Did you see something strange? For example, there is no light in the bathroom?"
Xie Xiaoya immediately appeased him: "That's right! How did you know!"
"And it's not as simple as not having any lights. She hadn't turned on the hot water. It was autumn, and it gets really cold in the mountains at night. Wouldn't it be a good idea to catch a cold if you take a cold shower in such cold weather? But I checked later and no one caught a cold. Everyone's performance was normal."
Fu Mengru: "That's why I said, it must be some kid playing a prank, specifically to trick innocent kids like you. The water is on, there's no light, and you're cold and sleepy. Who would take a bath like this?"
Xie Xiaoya: "But I definitely saw a person's shadow. The moonlight shone on the door, and I could see it very clearly!"
The moon was like water flowing slowly, and the sound of water flowing through the door was also gurgling. She rubbed her eyes at that time, and it seemed that she saw the light of water leaking out from the crack of the door. Who could have broken the rules in the middle of the night when no one was around? They had sworn an oath with the reputation of their respective families. Could it be that the rules of humans were invalid for her...
So are there still people inside?
When she thought of this, she felt a chill run down her toes, as if a damp female ghost had come out from the door. As long as there was water, she could be everywhere.
She must have seen me... maybe she will come over...
The mystery made her confused and she couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality. She pinched her palm. The severe pain made her wake up briefly. In this moment of clarity, she saw the shadow projected on the door - what a terrifying shadow it was... No one would look like that.
"If this is a prank, how do I explain the shadow I saw?"
Fu Mengru curled her lips: "Everyone said you saw it wrong! This is not the only time you have said nonsense while you were confused."
"And the teacher went to the bathroom the next day and proved that there was a ghost smell left. My suspicion was not groundless." Xie Xiaoya has always been confident because she has obtained the most solid evidence. The reason why she said she had obtained it before was because the teacher denied it a few days later.
Fu Mengru: "He said he checked it wrong, but you still can't forget it."
"It's okay, Teacher Lu Yue. Mengru is extremely afraid of ghosts. When she was fifteen, she even wished that there would be no ghosts in the world."
Xie Xiaoya waved her hand nonchalantly, not caring that the latter immediately rushed over with a roar of "Who's afraid of ghosts!" Fortunately, he was held back by Xu Li... Jiang Yuelu barely managed to divert his attention from the good show behind him and looked at Xie Xiaoya who was very serious: "But what I saw that night was definitely not a dream, and what I said was not nonsense."
"This ghost only attacked our bathroom that night. In a sense, it was bold because it dared to go deep into the witches. On the other hand, I still don't understand what it was doing. Was it just for a bath? Just a bath?" Or maybe the ghost was bored and came here to tease me. Xie Xiaoya thought so.
Jiang Yuelu asked: "Why are you so sure it's a ghost?"
Xie Xiaoya said seriously: "Because it is the shadow of a dead person."
Family witches who have been trained since childhood have their own ways of identifying humans and ghosts. Sometimes, when the time, place and people are right and their luck is extremely good, they can even do it without the help of magical instruments.
That night, the moonlight shone everywhere, and she was full of energy. The shadows she saw in that state did not have any breath of life, but she could feel the soft limbs of the shadows rising and falling, and the dead were like living water, breathing slowly.
No matter how many times he heard this ending, Xu Li would still shudder. Xie Xiaoya was not a very good storyteller, she couldn't even suppress her own fear. But this was the horror of the incident, could you imagine a witch who hunted ghosts being afraid of seeing a ghost?
Just thinking about scaring his friend like this made Xu Li unable to help but imagine what the shadow would look like.
Then I gradually became afraid...
Fu Mengru stiffly brought the topic back, "Hurry up and study! You are all not doing your job properly."
Xie Xiaoya wanted to say something, but Xu Li covered her mouth. The others also slowly entered the learning state. When everything was fine, Xia Yi, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly said, "But there is no library."
He said this without a beginning or an end, like fragments of a sentence cut out of it falling from the sky. Like the sound of a radio that suddenly started playing beside you... swallowed up the cause and effect.
The puzzled crowd looked at each other and suppressed their fear.
Jiang Yuelu walked up to him and followed his gaze to the outline on the table. She had been silent all this time, and it turned out that she was reading his work carefully. He couldn't help but feel touched.
The circled words were ordinary.
“The books in the library corner disappeared.”
It was the observations of the female high school student that sparked their discussion.
He recalled what Xia Yi had said just now: But there is no library. Suddenly, an idea came to him: "Don't you think this school is a little strange? There are dormitories, teaching buildings, office buildings, and even an altar, but there is no library."
"Maybe... there are enough books in the book corner for everyone to read?"
Xie Xiaoya immediately retorted: "No. Today in the evening class, I heard the student sitting next to me complaining that there were not many books to read."
The book corner was in a corner of the classroom, and it was so small that Xu Li simply went over to get all the books. One person took them all in one trip, which showed that there were not many books at all. They simply flipped through the books and found another abnormality.
"The categories are so simple." Xie Xiaoya sympathized, "Did they grow up reading books like this?"
Most of these books, which are almost polished to a patina, are picture books with a simple and relaxed style and fairy-tale-like lines. It is not difficult to imagine how pure and harmless the students who have received this kind of education from childhood to adulthood would be. They are just like flowers raised in a greenhouse.
Fu Mengru picked up a book and read the title: "My Ideal." She couldn't help but laugh, "There are still such stupid titles these days."
There are also some housework books and reference books mixed in. After reading them, it will be no problem for you to become a carpenter or a knitting expert.
Xie Xiaoya was eager to read, "I wonder what my neighbor is reading. It seems that she reads the most in this classroom." She didn't want to turn over other people's desks, but just took a curious look. Judging from the cover, it must be a pure love story.
"I've looked at other classes and the book corners are all the same. So it's not a problem unique to our class."
Some people speculated: "Is it because the conditions are too simple? After all, it is a school in the snow forest."
Jiang Yuelu shook her head: "Compared with their backward material conditions, I think their spiritual civilization should be more complete and advanced. They are fully capable of creating books and works, but none of them have been passed down."
Xia Yi said: "Maybe it's not impossible."
As soon as he spoke, the whole place fell silent. His calm demeanor seemed to be reading each of their reactions, and he scanned their expressions without a word, not caring at all about what he said, as if he had dropped a bomb.
“It’s that we can’t see it.”
His words successfully sent chills down everyone's spine.
The classroom was cold for about a minute before everyone stopped gasping for air.
Fu Mengru said angrily: "It's hateful that they don't even tell the truth! I knew this exam wouldn't be that easy. How could they pass it just by memorizing things?"
"If the living don't tell the truth, you can ask the dead." Leng Wenhan said.
After she came in, she sat in the corner quietly, and suddenly attracted everyone's attention, even Xia Yi glanced at her. The moonlight on her body was wiped by layers of eyes, becoming brighter, whiter and clearer, but after staring at her for a few seconds, everyone retreated and stopped looking into her eyes, except Fu Mengru who stared at her closely: "What do you want to do?"
She whispered, "Luo Yin."
To interrogate the dead was something that the underworld officials were born to do. She didn't say it before because she didn't expect it. Now that she took the initiative to speak up, she saved a lot of trouble. Even Fu Mengru said straightforwardly: "Call a few more people up, I don't believe the words of a ghost."
Leng Wenhan nodded.
Xu Li asked: "Do we need to avoid it?"
She shook her head again.
"Wenhan." Jiang Yuelu called her, without stopping her or asking, "I don't know how Luoyin will operate, but I hope that after you go down, I will be able to confirm whether you are safe or not."
Fu Mengru sneered: "Do you think everyone is as weak as you? She was born to do this."
Xu Li also said: "Although I have never seen it, I know that she has never made a mistake. You can rest assured about this."
But Jiang Yuelu was very stubborn, "Okay?"
Leng Wenhan hesitated: "But I don't know...I need to think about it."
It was the first time she faced this question, and the unfamiliar question caused unfamiliar fluctuations. She rummaged around on her body to find a seal, half red and half black, with her birth date and name engraved on it, and gave it to Jiang Yuelu.
"If it's the color it is now, it means I'm fine." Leng Wenhan said: "But if it turns bloody--"
Jiang Yuelu interrupted, "Then I'll pull you up."
Fu Mengru said: "It's not okay to fail at the last moment!"
Jiang Yuelu said nothing, "Let's get started."
Leng Wenhan nodded, and according to international practice, he first burned incense and kowtowed to the clan god, then took out a thin wooden staff with a delicate head and a blind unicorn squatting on it. Jiang Yuelu heard Xu Li muttering under his breath: "I heard that other people in the Leng family can also go to the underworld, but they need to cover their eyes with powerful talismans stacked together, otherwise they can't go to the underworld and can't see the dead souls there."
"But Leng Wenhan is different."
"She can see the birthplace of the dead souls with just her own eyes."
As the cane slowly tapped, a chill suddenly spread all over her body, and even those standing far away were shivering from the cold. Her white pupils were completely misty, not like those of a human, but more like those of a primitive animal.
Jiang Yuelu remembered that the last time she just clapped her hands, she caught a ghost from the underworld.
This time the momentum is huge, I don't know how many ghosts will be pulled up...
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