"What's wrong?"

Cao Yuan followed from behind and saw Lu Menglei looked strange, so he took the initiative to ask.

"This is the Five Teachings Building... Haven't you heard of the legends here?"

"legend?"

Lu Menglei recounted the story of Room 609 in the Fifth Building. The more she spoke, the paler her face became. She looked around and felt a chill all over her body.

Sometimes the person telling a ghost story is more immersed in it than the person listening to it. She even felt that the surroundings were a little chilly.

Cao Yuan glanced at the building suspiciously and said, "It's just a horror story, no need to take it seriously. I'll go with you."

"Do you really want to go..." Lu Menglei hesitated, "But this rumor is true... Almost everyone in Shangjing University knows that this teaching building is taboo at night."

"Taboo? I want to see what the taboo is."

Cao Yuan chuckled and strode towards the dim gate of the teaching building. His back under the street light looked as majestic as a giant.

Seeing this, Lu Menglei gritted her teeth and followed Cao Yuan closely.

Although this teaching building has only six floors, it covers a large area. Cao Yuan walked into the empty first-floor hall and looked up. He saw corridors stacked up one after another. In the pitch-black environment, it looked like a layered abyss hanging upside down in the air.

"Where is the light?" Cao Yuan asked.

"I remember...it seemed to be in that corner."

Lu Menglei followed closely behind Cao Yuan, looking at the dark and silent interior of the teaching building. The scene she had just imagined emerged in her mind again. Her palms began to sweat with nervousness. She pointed in a certain direction and spoke in a low voice, as if she was afraid of waking up something in the darkness.

Cao Yuan followed the direction she pointed and walked to a wall in the hall. After groping with his fingertips for a while, he finally found the location of the button.

Bang——!

The button was pressed, but the lights did not come on and the entire teaching building remained dark.

"Huh?" Cao Yuan raised his eyebrows in surprise, "The light is broken?"

"It shouldn't be like this... When I passed by here at around 7 o'clock tonight, the lights were all on." In the darkness, Lu Menglei's face turned even paler, "How about... let's go out."

"Don't worry, nothing will happen with me here." Cao Yuan spoke calmly. Although his voice was not loud, it had an inexplicable power that calmed Lu Menglei's pounding heart a little.

Cao Yuan reached into his pocket, took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and the white light illuminated the corner in front of the two people.

"Turn on the flashlight on your phone, too."

"I...my phone was in my bag and the cat took it away."

Cao Yuan sighed, "This one is enough... Did you see how many floors the cat went to?"

"The sixth floor." Lu Menglei paused, "It's... the legendary floor."

“Is there a direct elevator?”

"have."

Under Lu Menglei's guidance, Cao Yuan found the location of the direct elevator, but like the lights, the elevator seemed to have lost power and there was no response.

"The power may be out in this area... Remember to follow me closely. Go wherever I go."

Cao Yuan held the flashlight and said solemnly.

Horror legends, inexplicable power outages, endless darkness... these things continued to erode Lu Menglei's courage. Although she had a strong personality, she was a girl after all, and had a natural fear of these things. Seeing Cao Yuan walking away, she subconsciously reached out and held his arm.

Feeling a soft touch coming from his hand, Cao Yuan's body trembled slightly, and then pretended nothing happened and continued to move forward. In the darkness, the corners of his mouth gradually rose...

…

"He's snickering."

In a dark area of ​​the hall, the figures of Lin Qiye and the other two slowly emerged. He glanced in the direction the two men left and spoke softly.

"Sure enough, the unknown and fear are the catalysts that promote feelings." An Qingyu smiled and said, "Qiye, have you known the legend of this teaching building for a long time?"

"I heard about it from a friend on my first day here, but I didn't expect to use it now."

"Do you think Cao Yuan knows that we are helping him?"

"You should be more or less aware of this. Jiang Er's action of possessing the black cat to snatch the bag just now was just too coincidental..."

"I have cut off all the electricity. What should I do next?" Jiang Er's ghostly figure emerged from the wall, and his voice came from the Bluetooth headset.

"Where did you put your bag?"

"The drawer of the second desk on the right in the last row of classroom 609."

"Very good." Lin Qiye seemed to have remembered something. "By the way, when you went to that classroom, did you find anything strange?"

Jiang Er thought about it carefully and said, "No, it's just an ordinary classroom."

Lin Qiye nodded.

“In fact, the most effective method now is to let Jiang Er scare Lu Menglei… But I’m afraid that if I do it so directly, Cao Yuan won’t be able to react, and Lu Menglei may also faint on the spot.” Lin Qiye said as he thought.

"There's really no need to make such a big deal." An Qingyu nodded.

Judging from Jiang Er's current appearance, she looks just like a female ghost in a white dress. If she really appears in front of Lu Menglei, then this slightly ambiguous and slightly scary atmosphere will probably turn into something like The Ring.

"What a shame! It would be nice if classroom 609 was really haunted." Jiang Er sighed. "It doesn't feel good enough to just go get my bag and go back..."

"Lu Menglei is just an ordinary human girl. The current situation has almost reached her limit." Lin Qiye glanced at the two figures going up the stairs and said slowly, "We have done everything we can. Now it's up to Cao Yuan."

…

In the pale light of the cell phone, the two men walked up the dim stairs one after another, and the dull footsteps echoed in the silent teaching building.

Lu Menglei held Cao Yuan's arm tightly, not daring to look around, for fear that something terrible would suddenly jump out.

"We...which floor are we on?"

"Third floor." Cao Yuan shone the flashlight on the sign in the stairwell and answered.

"But... but why do I feel like we've already walked up at least five or six flights of stairs?" Lu Menglei's face turned paler and paler. "Brother Cao Yuan... are we stuck in a maze?!"

When she said the last three words "ghost wall", Lu Menglei's voice trembled a little. She hugged Cao Yuan's body tighter because she did remember that she walked up many, many steps.

Cao Yuan paused for a moment and spoke again:

"Oh, sorry, I mistook 5 for 3. We are on the fifth floor."

"???"

Lu Menglei gritted her teeth in anger. She pinched a piece of flesh on Cao Yuan's arm with her hand, twisted it 180 degrees, and said angrily, "It's already this time, and you're still kidding me!"

Cao Yuan seemed to feel no pain at all. He chuckled twice, with the corners of his mouth curled up a little more.