Chapter 99 Activity Room
One of the three students ran away, and of the remaining two, one was so scared that he was shaking all over and his face was as pale as paper, while the other collapsed to the ground and looked like he would faint at any time.
In desperation, Gu Longming shifted his gaze to the man who was still barely standing. The man was so frightened by Gu Longming's stare that his legs gave way, and he almost fell to the ground like his companion. Fortunately, Gu Longming grabbed his arm in time, preventing him from collapsing.
"What are you afraid of?" Gu Longming said helplessly. "I'm not going to eat you. Those things are the ones who will eat you. Why are you so scared of me? Come on, little brother, calm down and tell me your name."
"My...my name is..." The student was held in Gu Longming's hand like a chicken, unable to even cry. "My name is Ai Wenrui..."
"Ai Wenrui, right?" Gu Longming asked. "What exactly did you three do, and what does it have to do with those people who died?"
When mentioning the dead, Ai Wenrui began to tremble uncontrollably. He didn't dare to look Gu Longming in the eye and didn't speak for a long time.
"Why aren't you talking?" Gu Longming asked. "If you tell us now, you still have a chance to survive. If you don't say anything, how can we help you?"
Ai Wenrui gasped for breath due to fear. After hearing Gu Longming's words, he finally managed to squeeze out a sentence from his throat: "Statue..."
"What?" Gu Longming perked up.
"That strange statue in the club room," said Avonlea. "...it's all because of it..."
Seeing that he was willing to talk, Gu Longming released his hand and let him stand by himself. Ai Wenrui crossed his arms and said, "It all started half a year ago. At that time, I joined the sculpture club..." As he said these words, the student squatting on the ground slowly stood up, but his expression was very strange, as if he had become numb after experiencing a huge shock.
Lin Qiushi noticed his situation and called out, "Classmate?"
"Xiao He?" Ai Wenrui also noticed his friend's strange behavior. "Xiao He...what's wrong with you?"
The student whom Ai Wenrui called Xiaohe made a hoarse sound in his throat and moved his eyes to the ceiling above his head. Lin Qiushi had a bad feeling. Following Xiaohe's gaze, he saw a red object lying on the ceiling. If it was the thing before, Lin Qiushi might not have recognized it, but after going through so many doors, Lin Qiushi could easily recognize the identity of this thing - it was a skinned person with long hair hanging in the air. The red appearance looked like a coat at first glance, but a closer look revealed that it was clearly flesh and blood with distinct texture.
"Ahhhh!!!" Ai Wenrui screamed miserably when he saw this thing, and turned around to run out of the classroom. Gu Longming felt something was wrong and grabbed him, but although he grabbed Ai Wenrui, he failed to grab Xiaohe. Xiaohe staggered to the classroom door, and just as half of his body was inside, Lin Qiushi heard a loud noise - the classroom door was slammed shut.
Xiao He let out a scream as he was actually smashed in half by the classroom door, one half outside and the other inside. The most terrifying thing was that he didn't die immediately after being cut in half. He kept spitting blood and screaming, his hands waving on the ground.
When Ai Wenrui saw this scene, he couldn't bear the shock and fainted. Gu Longming's face also looked ugly. Obviously, he didn't expect such a bizarre way of death.
Logically speaking, although the classroom door is made of iron, it is not sharp. Even if it is smashed like this, at most one or two ribs will be broken. However, the world inside the door is beyond the scope of common sense. So although it is incredible, this incident still happened after all.
When Lin Qiushi looked at the ceiling again, the thing had disappeared.
Xiao He, who was smashed in two by the door, died. Gu Longming looked at the body outside the door with a bitter face and said, "What should we do? Should we call the police?"
Lin Qiushi: "...Let's tell the hospital first."
"Okay." Gu Longming said... Although it's not appropriate, it seems that this is the only way.
The two of them went to a nearby classroom and randomly found a teacher to tell him that there was another accident in the teaching building. The teacher was not surprised at all and casually asked, "Another death?"
"Yes," Lin Qiushi said, "Please call the police."
"Okay." The teacher said, "You should go to Sanjiao less often. Many people have died there. How can these students be so unconvinced..."
The Third Teaching Building is where Class Three has their classes. Most of Class Three’s courses are held in the Third Teaching Building, so we go there often.
Lin Qiushi chatted briefly with the teacher and learned that all three students from Class 3 had disappeared in the Third Teaching Building, but beyond that, there was no other information. Lin Qiushi left the classroom and saw Gu Longming sitting outside, supporting Ai Wenrui.
"Not awake yet?" Lin Qiushi asked.
"Not awake yet." Gu Longming said, "This child is quite fragile."
"It's not that I'm fragile, it's that any normal person wouldn't be able to bear seeing such a scene," Lin Qiushi said. "They mentioned the activity room, right... I want to find time to go and take a look."
"Okay, how about I carry him on my back and we go there now?" Gu Longming said.
"Is it too heavy?" Lin Qiushi asked.
"No, he's small enough, no problem." Gu Longming patted his strong arms, then lifted Ai Wenrui up like a sack, "Let's walk."
"Yeah." Lin Qiushi nodded.
The two of them were planning to ask students about the location of the activity club. As they were walking outside, Ai Wenrui woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he began to struggle frantically, screaming, "Help, help—let me go, let me go—"
Gu Longming said: "Classmate, calm down, there is nothing like that here!"
"No, no, no, no!! She will follow me. It's all our fault, it's all our fault. We shouldn't do this, we shouldn't do this..." Ai Wenrui burst into tears, and his whole body seemed to collapse.
"What do you mean? What exactly did you do?" Lin Qiushi asked quickly.
Ai Wenrui refused to answer and continued to struggle in Gu Longming's hands, trying to escape. Finally, Gu Longming got angry and slapped him on the back, angrily saying, "If you move again, I'll kill you right here. Don't bother that thing!"
Ai Wenrui screamed when he was slapped, but after being yelled at, he finally regained some consciousness and cried, "I'm just a participant. I don't know anything."
"Participant? What were you involved in?" Lin Qiushi's first reaction was that this was another case of school bullying. Could it be that this group of students bullied another student, which led to the whole incident?
Who knew that Ai Wenrui wiped his face and said in a trembling voice: "You... have you heard of campus legends?"
"What is that?" Gu Longming said in a Northeastern accent. "What the hell is that?"
"It's one of those legends that every school has," Alvin said. "Something about time stopping if you go to the principal's statue at three in the morning, or that the stairs to the art room have thirteen steps at twelve in the morning..." He finished saying this and started crying again. "I didn't know it would be like this. They clearly didn't say it would be like this."
"What did you do? What campus legend are you involved in?" Lin Qiushi already understood what Ai Wenrui meant. This group of students might have been involved in some horrific campus legend and had offended something they shouldn't have.
Ai Wenrui looked sluggish and didn't speak for a long while, but under Gu Longming's urging, he continued listlessly: "At the beginning... we played with the Pen Fairy."
Pen Fairy is basically a hit among supernatural games. It is especially popular among students because the gameplay is simple and the necessary props are available everywhere.
It can be said that in almost every class, there are a few brave students who have played this.
"Oh, I know that." Gu Longming said, "Go on."
"Nothing happened." Ai Wenrui continued, "We didn't see anything, and nothing came out." He started crying as he spoke, "If only it could end here, if only it could end here-"
It seems that this group of students did more than just play with the Ouija board.
"What's next?" Lin Qiushi felt that the key information was coming.
"Later they said there was a statue in the activity room that had special powers," said Ai Wenrui. "If many people make wishes to it, their wishes will come true..."
When they said these words, the three of them were standing outside the teaching building.
The outside of the teaching building is very spacious, with no ceiling and nothing to stop them. If something unexpected happens, they can leave easily.
But just as Ai Wenrui was saying these things, Lin Qiushi felt a subtle feeling. He raised his head and began to look around, trying to find that subtle point.
Gu Longming noticed Lin Qiushi's movements and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Qiushi: "Something seems to be wrong..." His gaze rested on the teaching building on the right.
It was a classroom with the curtains drawn, the lights on. Standing there, a slender silhouette against the light, was a woman's silhouette, with long hair and a long dress. She stared at them through the thin curtains.
Gu Longming also saw where Lin Qiushi's gaze was directed. Logically, the silhouette wasn't scary, but goosebumps appeared on his arms. He asked, "Is that a person?"
"Hmm..." Lin Qiushi said, "I don't feel well. Carry Ai Wenrui on your back first. We'll be ready to leave at any time."
Gu Longming nodded, reached out and grabbed Ai Wenrui into his arms.
Ai Wenrui, a young man of 1.78 meters, was like a baby in Gu Longming's hands. Under normal circumstances, he would definitely complain, but now that his life is almost gone, who has the time to care about dignity?
So Ai Wenrui did not refute and was obediently thrown onto Gu Longming's back.
At the moment Ai Wenrui was thrown onto Gu Longming, Lin Qiushi heard the crisp sound of shattering glass. He reacted extremely quickly and shouted to Gu Longming, "Run!"
Gu Longming broke into a run, covering over ten meters in just a few seconds, with Lin Qiushi close behind him. As soon as the two of them left their original spot, they heard the sound of broken glass falling to the ground. Lin Qiushi turned around and saw that the area they had just been standing on was covered in a dense carpet of broken glass. It was conceivable that if the two of them had walked even a little slower, they would have been in heaven by now.
"Fuck." Gu Longming cursed, "Who the hell threw this?"
Lin Qiushi remained silent, gazing at the shattered glass from afar for a moment. Although the image wasn't crystal clear, he was certain he saw bloody handprints on some of the broken glass. He said, "Let's stay away from the teaching building."
"Well," Gu Longming said, "Wait a minute, Ai Wenrui, why are you silent?"
Lin Qiushi leaned over to take a look and found that he had fainted from fright again. This child was really pitiful. He had experienced so many shocks in one day and had brushed shoulders with death several times.
Gu Longming and Lin Qiushi found a place far away from the teaching building, sat down and patted Ai Wenrui awake.
Ai Wenrui's mood had eased a little, but after being so stimulated, he collapsed again. As soon as he woke up, he started crying non-stop. Gu Longming was so annoyed by his crying.
"Can you please stop crying? As a grown man, can't you be a little stronger?" Gu Longming persuaded.
"Wow, wow, wow." Ai Wenrui said, "I want to cry out the water that got into my brain..."
Gu Longming had nothing to say.
Lin Qiushi inexplicably felt like laughing, but laughing was obviously inappropriate in this situation, so he simply coughed twice to stop himself from laughing. He said, "Stop crying for now. Tell us what happened."
Ai Wenrui was still crying, and finally annoyed Gu Longming, so he said, "You cry slowly, we're leaving first, we'll talk again if we have a chance to meet tomorrow."
Ai Wenrui was afraid of being left alone, so he reached out and grabbed Gu Longming's arm: "Please don't go."
Gu Longming: "Then stop crying!"
Ai Wenrui wailed: "But I'm afraid——"
Gu Longming: "Fuck, what are you afraid of? If you're not afraid, you won't die? Be good and tell me quickly. If you tell me, you might still have a chance to survive. If you don't tell me, you won't have any chance at all."
As the two of them talked, students occasionally walked by, occasionally casting strange glances their way. Lin Qiushi clearly heard a passing girl spit in disdain before saying to her companion, "Another scumbag, right? Look how miserably that little bottom is crying..."
Lin Qiushi fell into a mysterious silence. He glanced at Gu Longming, then at Ai Wenrui, and then silently moved his feet a little further away, as if to say, "I'm not very familiar with them."
Gu Longming was still using his last bit of patience to persuade Ai Wenrui. God knows his patience has never been so good. If it were in reality, he would have rolled up his sleeves and taken action long ago. However, since they were inside the sect, he couldn't use violence. After all, if the other person died after being beaten, it would be so embarrassing to meet him as a ghost.
"Don't cry, baby, Ai Wenrui is the best." Gu Longming said, "Be brave, your brothers are here to support you!" He was almost sick to death.
Fortunately, Ai Wenrui seemed to really believe it, and his crying gradually subsided. He said, "I can tell you, but you have to protect me. I don't want to die—"
"Okay, okay, I'll protect you. I'll tie you around my belt and take you with me wherever I go." Gu Longming said, "I'm not the kind of man who's irresponsible after using you..."
After hearing this, Lin Qiushi secretly moved his feet forward.
"We went to worship the statue," Ai Wenrui finally stopped crying and sobbed, "according to what the senior student told us... After that, we made a wish, but we didn't expect...it would actually come true."
"What did you wish for?" Lin Qiushi thought of the statues they had seen in the library. "Did you wish to win a prize?"
"That was just a joke—" Ai Wenrui defended himself. "With so many people there, who would have thought it was real? We really thought it was just a joke." After he finished speaking, his expression became a little dull, as if he had thought of something. "Who could have thought? Who could have thought that for this wish, we would have to pay so much..."
Lin Qiushi asked, "Where is the statue now?"
"Still in the activity room." Ai Wenrui said tiredly, "After the accident, we went back to find the statue and made a new wish, but it was useless. People continued to die..." When he said the word death, he couldn't help but look up at the windows of the teaching building next to him. It was obvious that he was still in shock from the broken glass falling from the sky just now.
"Then let's go take a look," Lin Qiushi said. "Let's take a look at the statue in the activity room."
"Now?" Ai Wenrui trembled, "But I'm scared... I can't walk anymore." He pointed to his weak legs.
"It's okay," Lin Qiushi said, "He'll carry you."
Gu Longming: "..." He felt a little aggrieved, "I can't always carry him on my back."
Lin Qiushi: "Please bear with it for a moment."
Gu Longming: "I'm saving my back for my future girlfriend!"
Lin Qiushi ruthlessly revealed a cruel truth: "But he just got off your back."
Gu Longming: “…”
Ai Wenrui looked at Gu Longming shyly: "I'm sorry, I still like girls..."
Gu Longming gritted his teeth: "What a coincidence, I fucking like girls too."
There's no point in liking girls. There are no girls here anyway, so the young man can only make do with it. Gu Longming sighed and once again offered his strong back to Ai Wenrui. Ai Wenrui lay on his back, directing the way forward.
The three of them headed towards the activity room.
The activity room is next to the playground. According to Ai Wenrui, there used to be a lot of people going there, because the sculpture club is the ace club of their school, which has won numerous awards and has a high status in the school. Therefore, many freshmen will actively participate in it, and the club is very active.
However, after the accident happened to students in the school, the popularity of the club quickly cooled down. Although the school did not say it, the people in the club knew very well that most of the dead were their members and had participated in the activities that night.
"There seems to be no one inside." Ai Wenrui said, "We have to go find the teacher to get the classroom key first..."
Lin Qiushi said, "No need to take the key."
Ai Wenrui: "You can't get in without the key..." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Lin Qiushi standing at the door. He took out a black hairpin from his pocket, lowered his head and started to open the door.
A few minutes later, the door unlocked. Ai Wenrui stared at it with wide eyes and said, "You detectives have this skill?"
Lin Qiushi: "Alas, life is not easy. I have to learn everything."
Ai Wenrui: "..." Do you want to learn how to pick a lock? He felt like something was wrong.
But the door was opened anyway, and the three of them pushed it open and walked in. Ai Wenrui turned on the light next to it, shrouding the entire activity room in light.
Lin Qiushi began to observe the surrounding situation. He originally thought that the activity room should be quite small, but he didn't expect it to be quite large. It was filled with all kinds of messy props and sculpture supplies. It was obvious at a glance that the students here were obsessed with this.
In the center of the activity room, there is a huge wooden table with a lot of materials and several human head sculptures on it.
Although Ai Wenrui mustered up the courage to bring them here, he was still a little scared and hesitated at the door for a long time: "Why don't you go in? I'll wait for you outside."
"Let's go together." Gu Longming glanced at him, "Otherwise, if you encounter any problems outside, we won't be able to help you."
"There's nothing outside, so nothing should happen." said Ai Wenrui.
"How come we can't meet each other? Don't you remember how your friend died just now?" Gu Longming knocked on the door casually, signaling Ai Wenrui not to let his guard down.
"Okay..." After weighing it, Ai Wenrui finally followed Gu Longming's advice. If he didn't think these two people were reliable and helped him avoid several ambushes, he wouldn't have brought them here.
It would be best if they could resolve this matter... after all, those things are really hard to guard against.
Lin Qiushi walked into the activity room, glanced around, and asked, "Where's the statue?"
"We locked it up," said Avenri. "It seems to be in the room inside." He pointed to a small storage room.
Lin Qiushi walked to the door of the grocery room and spent several minutes to unlock it. He also sighed in his heart that Ruan Nanzhu's skills were really practical, otherwise they would have had so much trouble.
After unlocking the grocery room, Lin Qiushi saw a statue wrapped in white cloth. "Is this it?"
"Yes..." Ai Wenrui observed for a while and was about to nod, but then he felt something was wrong: "No... It seems... Not right." He swallowed his saliva, "This one seems to be a little bigger than that one."
Lin Qiushi: "..." Could it be that the statue was replaced?
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