Campus Trickster (VII)
Shen Xingyan gave Gu Fang the information he got from Song Xijun, and continued: "I think the things in the University of Technology are not simple, and Song Hongquan may also be involved."
After Song Hongquan became rich, he successively ventured into industries such as hotels, real estate, and tourism. He also invested in building a teaching building for the Industrial University. It was not surprising at all that Xiao Jishan had dinner with him. If the school wanted to develop, it had to cling to its financial sponsors.
Jiang Shengyu and others also talked about the clues they got from their visits.
Ma Wenyuan went there with his classmates Zhang Liang, Liang Cheng and Zhou Jianbin. Zhang Liang and Liang Cheng live in the same dormitory with Ma Wenyuan, and Zhou Jianbin is their classmate.
The cause of the incident was that Zhang Liang heard that there was a restricted area in the school, which was an abandoned dormitory. Someone died in the dormitory, and the school had no plans to rebuild it, so it has remained abandoned. The word "forbidden area" was circulated among students, and the school did not make it clear.
Zhang Liang is very curious and likes to stir up trouble. He boasted to Ma Wenyuan and several of his roommates that he had slept at a grave and stayed up all night to watch over the dead. In his opinion, the restricted area in the school was just a trick. It was just a death of a person, so what was there to be afraid of?
He said he was going on an adventure that night and asked who would join him.
Liang Cheng was moved by what he said and responded immediately, urging Ma Wenyuan to go with him. Ma Wenyuan was not firm in his stance and agreed as soon as the other party asked him to do so.
The other three roommates didn't want to get involved, so they didn't go.
Zhou Jianbin joined the three of them on their way there, just for fun.
The abandoned dormitory building has four floors in total. It was originally a mandarin duck building, which was divided in the middle. The eastern half was for girls and the southern half was for boys. The front hall was also divided into two parts. Every night, the dormitory management aunt would lock the buildings on both sides to prevent students from visiting each other's dormitories when she was not looking.
The dormitory building was very dusty, with spider webs everywhere at corners, stairwells, and rooftops. Some of the doors were open and some were closed. The glass on the window was broken and the broken glass fell to the ground. The dusty tables and chairs were half lying on the ground, and there were some beddings that had not been put away, half spread on the bed and half fallen on the ground.
Zhang Liang walked in front with a flashlight in his hand. "I heard that the girl who was poisoned is a sophomore in the Chemistry Department and lives on the fourth floor."
Ma Wenyuan held Liang Cheng's arm, not daring to breathe, "Let's not go, it's too scary, I always feel like someone is breathing behind me."
Zhang Liang rolled his eyes and said, "Look at your courage. If you come to my side, I have strong yang energy and ghosts are afraid of me."
Ma Wenyuan actually walked up to him obediently and pulled his arm. Suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the half-closed door was blown open with a creaking sound, which seemed particularly loud in the silent night.
Ma Wenyuan screamed in fear, and Liang Cheng also huddled together with Zhou Jianbin in fear.
Zhang Liang looked down upon their cowardly look, pushed Ma Wenyuan away and continued walking upstairs. Ma Wenyuan shrank to Liang Cheng's side, and the three of them walked up together.
When we reached the fourth floor, the entire corridor was silent, with only the pitiful light from the flashlight. When the light shines, there is no end in sight, as if entering a bottomless abyss.
Zhang Liang looked left and right, "Guo Xinyou used to live in 403, this is... 401, go forward."
"Don't call her name!" Liang Cheng scolded Zhang Liang in a low voice. He put his hands together and bowed everywhere, "Don't blame me, don't blame me."
Zhou Jianbin muttered to himself, "All gods, Jade Emperor, Guanyin Bodhisattva, we just came up to take a look. We won't disturb you. We'll take a look and leave. Amitabha."
It got darker as they went in. The three of them dared not breathe and walked very carefully, for fear of offending something they shouldn't.
Liang Cheng was trembling as he tried to persuade Zhang Liang to leave, "It's getting more and more creepy, let's go back. Zhang Liang, don't go any further." Zhou Jianbin and Ma Wenyuan also tried to persuade him, their heart rates were almost 180 beats per minute.
Zhang Liang refused and continued walking forward, almost reaching the door of Room 403. Suddenly the window banged and fell down.
Several people screamed in fright, and then they saw something floating over, wearing a long white robe, with flying hair, and it was moving very fast, and was about to reach them. The four men could no longer hold on and ran downstairs screaming. Zhang Liang ran the fastest, and the light from his flashlight scattered throughout the entire floor.
Running out of the building, everyone's hearts were pounding, their legs and feet were shaking, and cold sweat was pouring down their backs.
Liang Cheng blamed Zhang Liang for not listening to his advice. If he had come out earlier, this wouldn't have happened.
Zhang's face turned pale and he kept shaking his head in fear.
Suddenly, Zhou Jianbin asked, "Where's Ma Wenyuan?"
There was nothing behind them, only three people standing in the dark night, and Ma Wenyuan was gone.
The three people panicked, wondering if they were taken away by ghosts. The three people looked at each other, then looked at the dormitory building that stood like a monster in the dark night, and no one dared to go in.
Liang Cheng said: "Zhang Liang, go in and find him. Didn't you say you were brave enough to sleep on a grave?"
Zhang Liang quickly waved his hands, "I was just bragging, trying to fool you."
Liang Cheng was speechless, "What should we do? We can't just abandon him."
Zhou Jianbin suggested that the three of them go in together to look for it, but when they thought of the creepy white thing, they became timid again.
Zhang Liang said, "Why don't we go to the door and call him."
The other two people also agreed to do this. The three of them went to the door together and shouted, "Ma Wenyuan! Ma Wenyuan!" There was no response. Zhang Liang shone the flashlight inside but couldn't see anyone.
The three people were scared, wondering what they would do if they couldn't find him.
Zhang Liang suggested that everyone keep it a secret and say that they didn't know where Ma Wenyuan had gone.
Liang Cheng said: "They all saw Ma Wenyuan coming out with us."
"Just say that he changed his mind later and didn't come with us."
The three men looked at each other, wavering between conscience and fear.
It’s getting late and it will be too late if I don’t make a decision. Zhang Liang urged again, "Do you want to be expelled? Think about it, you put in so much effort to get into university!"
Liang Cheng and Zhou Jianbin wavered and began to deceive themselves, "Maybe Ma Wenyuan has already escaped."
"Yes, yes. I remember he ran ahead of me."
"If he was still in there, he would have answered when we called him just now. We shouted so loudly."
The three of them deceived each other, made excuses for each other, and returned to the dormitory before the lights were turned off.
But Ma Wenyuan did not come back, and his bed remained empty.
When other roommates asked them where Ma Wenyuan was, they said they didn’t know where he had gone and they hadn’t found him either.
It was not until noon the next day that the unconscious Ma Wenyuan suddenly appeared on campus. No one knew what he had been through or how he got out of the old dormitory.
After listening to Jiang Shengyu's story, the office fell silent.
Qi Jiabao was very angry. "They were Ma Wenyuan's classmates, but because of fear, no one went in to look for him."
Yang Dawei sighed, "No wonder Ma Wenyuan went crazy, but when Lao Wen and I went in, we didn't find anything unusual, and there was no white thing in Room 403 as they said. Did they see it wrong?"
"One person could be wrong, but it's impossible for all three of them to be wrong at the same time."
Gu Fang touched his chin, "Could someone be deliberately playing tricks? Let's go to the old dormitory again, Xiao Shen, you can come with us."
Shen Xingyan nodded, and Qi Jiabao insisted on going, so Gu Fang took the two newbies to the Industrial University.
They first went up to the fourth floor and patrolled from the fourth floor down.
The corridor is not eerie at all during the day. Instead, the sunlight shines in and you can see the dust dancing in the sunlight.
The footprints on the ground are messy and have no reference value.
Gu Fang walked in front, and Shen Xingyan and the others followed behind, stopping at the door of Room 403.
After Guo Xinyu committed suicide, Gu Fang came several times. After handwriting identification, it was confirmed that the handwriting of the suicide note was Guo Xinyou's. But her life went smoothly. Her roommates, friends, and classmates never heard of her having any troubles.
Her suicide was inexplicable.
The door was half open. Gu Fang pushed it and it opened smoothly. He looked at Guo Xinyou's bed. Guo Xinyou was living in the middle. He walked over, touched the armrest of the bed, and looked at the pads of his fingers.
Shen Xingyan stood beside him, "Any questions?"
“There’s less dust than elsewhere.”
Shen Xingyan touched other beds and found thick dust on the fingertips, but there was much less dust on Gu Fang's hands.
Shen Xingyan: "Has anyone been here?"
Gu Fang looked at the ground and saw that there were obviously more footprints near Guo Xinyu's bed. Shen Xingyan squatted down to measure, "It's the same person, size 37, about 160cm tall, 50kg, left foot light, right foot heavy, and right heel habitually drags on the ground when walking."
Qi Jiabao's eyes sparkled with admiration, "How can you infer so much from just one footprint?!"
Gu Fang looked down on his fussing and said, "Put away your worthless look. This is basic skill."
Qi Jiabao lowered his eyes and said, "Captain Gu, you can't be so discouraging."
Gu Fang chuckled, then his expression became serious, "Could it be this person that Ma Wenyuan and the others saw? Why does he/she come here so often?"
"Come to mourn Guo Xinyou? Could it be her classmate?"
Gu Fang shook his head. "We have checked Guo Xinyou's social relationships. She is an only child. Both her parents are working. She has close relationships with her classmates and friends."
"She has no good friends?"
"Her parents said that when she was a child she had a close friend, but that family moved away." He suddenly looked at Shen Xingyan, and Shen Xingyan also looked at him. They both thought of the same thing, "She's back?!"
Gu Fang said: "Go to the Academic Affairs Office!"
The three of them walked downstairs, with Shen Xingyan at the end. She flared her nose as she walked, and looked toward the corridor from time to time. When she reached the second floor, she suddenly stopped and said, "Wait."
Gu Fang turned around and looked at her, "What's wrong?"
"Do you smell anything?"
Qi Jiabao wrinkled his nose and sniffed, "No."
Gu Fang turned and walked into the corridor, "Very light." He opened the door of 201 and looked inside. There was only a broken water cup thrown on the floor in the room, and there was not even a bed.
Shen Xingyan opened the first room and found two beds. The bed board of one was missing, and the ladder of the other was broken. There was a broken washbasin on the ground.
The third room...
The fourth room...
Shen Xingyan wrinkled her nose, "The smell is getting stronger."
Gu Fang: "I smelled it too, it sounds like the stench of a corpse." Shen Xingyan nodded. She was very sensitive to the stench of corpses.
When we opened the fifth room, the stench of corpses was obviously stronger. She looked at the cabinet by the wall. Gu Fang walked over before her and opened the cabinet door. A quilt was crumpled inside. The quilt was covered with dust and was tattered, with cotton wool exposed.
Shen Xingyan walked over, put on gloves, and pulled back the quilt.
Qi Jiabao screamed, took a few steps back, his face turned pale instantly, turned around and began to vomit violently.
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