Chapter 58 Grave Numbers Above All 20 Sixth Middle School
The second woman suddenly had a strange premonition: Could it be that the pretty girl who went to the counseling room was being haunted by an evil spirit?
Out of compassion, the four girls, including Girl B, approached Girl A and thus also met Boy A. To make it easier for them to stay in touch, they created a group chat. At that time, they originally wanted to name the group "Possessed by a Ghost," but that name was censored, and the group was forced to disband. When they recreated it, they gave it a positive name: "Happy Learning."
Young people can't resist the allure of supernatural stories, especially when they're related to their own lives. At this time, the two girls had just received their wills and hadn't officially encountered the ghosts yet. The only one who could give the two girls advice was the ghost senior.
The "ghost senior" could create a virtual account to communicate online. She said in the group: "I don't know what to do either. I've only heard of this rumor, but when I was alive, I never heard of anyone actually dying because of it."
The woman, let's call her A, tearfully mentioned in the group chat: "I think this rumor is true. One day, I was practicing in the dance studio. After evening self-study, everyone was getting ready to leave, but I was so nervous that I wanted to practice one more time. After I finished, I found that I was the only one left in the dance studio..."
At the time, the girl was unaware of the rumors. She just felt that the quiet school was scary and dared not practice anymore, so she quickly packed her things and went home.
But strange things started from that day. Whenever she went back to the dance studio, she felt that the person in the mirror didn't have a mouth.
Like the mouths in horror movies with special effects, it looked like a smooth, flesh-colored skin with no mouth at all. When the girl was shocked, she couldn't even scream. She frantically touched her face, startling the students around her.
When her classmates gathered around and asked her if she had a cramp, she suddenly touched her mouth again, made a trembling sound, and everything seemed to return to normal.
The first time was exhausting. The second and third times, gradually, even when walking past the window, the woman felt like she didn't have a mouth anymore.
In a daze, she almost broke her leg while dancing. Her teacher noticed that she had dark circles under her eyes and asked if she wanted to see a counselor, perhaps because she was under too much pressure since starting her senior year of high school.
The woman, A, knew she didn't have a mental health issue, but she couldn't explain what she saw using common sense. She feared it might be a hallucination caused by depression, so she followed her teacher's advice and asked for leave to go to the counseling center.
After listening to her story, the counselor insisted that she was under too much pressure, because many dance students, both male and female, had this feeling, but they still managed to get into good universities, which showed that the pressure of senior year was indeed high.
It wasn't until the second woman and her friends came to find her that the first woman learned about this legend.
Girl A is very nervous. There's a Mid-Autumn Festival dance coming up, and then there's the last school anniversary celebration she can participate in, both of which require her to perform on stage. If she can't stay in the dance studio, both she and Boy A will be punished according to school rules.
Having spent so much time on campus, they've subconsciously come to believe that school rules are scarier than ghosts.
For a moment, the senior student was at a loss. She thought that she should ask some older students. The rumors must not have existed from the beginning. It must have been the first victim that made them a legend among the students.
This seems to be the only way at the moment. Female A and Male A followed their senior's advice and secretly went to the psychological archives room during their dance practice at night to see if they could find any other suicide notes or special items. They remembered to look for the older batch, at least older than their senior.
Each class has different evening self-study sessions. On this particular night, Girl B, her best friend, Girl E, and the girl who jumped off the building all had to go back for evening self-study. So, the girl who jumped off the building secretly gave the key to Girl A, telling them to be careful to avoid cameras and security guards when they went there. At night, many places in the administration building were not lit, and they couldn't turn on the lights when they entered the archives room.
Stealing is a serious offense to honest children. If they are caught, their parents will be called in and they will be punished. But with their lives in danger, they have no choice but to steal.
When they arrived, they found that the suicide notes were from a relatively recent period. It seems that leaving a suicide note has only become popular in recent years to avoid being blamed by the school or parents. In the past, people would just jump directly.
The woman, let's rummage through the archives. She found some cosmetics that someone had left there. The file said that they were left by a very unruly and disobedient student after she was counseled by a psychologist. She said she was keeping them with the teacher so she could study hard and come back to ask the teacher for them when she was better.
It sounds like some kind of inspiring agreement, like those delinquent students who leave their knives to their homeroom teacher and eventually return to the right path and study hard.
However, the file records that the girl committed suicide by jumping off the dormitory building. At that time, although some people jumped off the dormitory building, there were no barbed wire fences to prevent students from committing suicide like there are now.
The records were indeed taken quite late, and with evening self-study almost over, there were still many files to be looked through in the archives. So, Ms. A suggested taking this one back to try, and if it didn't work, they would come back again.
Man A was also a little afraid of this kind of thing, and he was reluctant to be possessed by a ghost. Now that he had only found one, he was somewhat relieved and agreed to leave.
This cosmetic is old enough that they share their feelings about accompanying their belongings and wills in the group every day.
For the first two days, nothing changed. On the third night, they had different dreams.
Girl B got a gentle senior, her best friend got a bookish academic genius, the girl who jumped off the building got a senior who dreamed of traveling around the world, and Girl A dreamed of a very... exciting senior.
The first three girls all had a "cheat code" that could help them with their studies, but the girl in the first girl's dream had a strange person in her dream. She was a senior girl dressed in all sorts of jingling jewelry, with unconventional hair, tattoos, and piercings, very similar to the description in her file—a troubled girl. To put it bluntly, she was a typical delinquent, seemingly ready to bully anyone at a glance. However, she was rather silent and didn't speak to the girl all night. In the dream, she just sat on the corridor railing, gazing into the distance, lost in thought.
With the mock exams approaching, even art students had to return to the classroom to study. The art studio, music room, and dance studio were all locked up, so everyone had to go elsewhere to discuss these matters.
To facilitate communication among their ghosts, they chose to communicate in a group chat, and each ghost created their own virtual account. However, the female student's senior did not, as she seemed reluctant to communicate.
If the senior student doesn't speak, female student A and male student A will have to go back to the archives to look for other relics, which is not easy to find.
Everyone in the group offered various suggestions, but none of them worked. Suddenly, the girl who jumped off the building had a flash of inspiration and asked the girl: "What's her name?"
The woman paused for a moment, then replied: "The file says her name is Tang Xiaofen."
The girl who jumped immediately said: "Then I know who she is, flute senior. Can I ask you to play an old tune for me?"
The flute senior is the ghost that was in the old flute of the female octave. She was happy to help, but she didn't expect that she would have to play an old pop song. Although the female octave studies musical instruments, she rarely plays such outdated pop songs.
Fortunately, the flute senior was from an earlier era, so she had heard it and could still remember the score.
Since there was nowhere to play music at the new campus, they sneaked off to the old campus. In the empty music classroom, surrounded by moss and dust, with vines climbing the windows and blocking out the light, the deserted campus felt like stepping into a terrifying dream world. But they weren't afraid at all. Instead, they were filled with youthful passion and impulsiveness, trying to untangle the knot in the heart of the non-mainstream senior.
The golden sunset shone through the windows, casting a yellowish glow on the old classroom. Nvwu walked onto the stage carrying a flute and handed the old flute to the side.
The camera could capture their appearance. It was girl B who raised her phone and took a picture of this scene. Next to girl E, a slender and beautiful but somewhat blurry figure appeared. The senior student who played the flute was still wearing the old-style school uniform. She gently raised her flute and started the performance.
The melodious tune drifted through the classroom, and everyone listened quietly. In the camera lens, the ghosts they had summoned slowly appeared. Each ghost showed a look of nostalgia. They had died too young. The song was unfamiliar to the children today, but it belonged to their youth.
Tang Xiaofen slowly appeared at the front of the classroom. She looked at the girl on the stage and slowly shed tears of blood. This scene was so terrifying, but everyone only felt sad.
The pop songs were all short, and soon ended with the flute senior's slightly trembling final note. This time, Tang Xiaofen was willing to communicate with them.
When asked about the secret of the dance studio, Tang Xiaofen wiped away her tears and said on camera, "I don't really know much about this, but I do know that the dance studio was originally a dedicated ballet studio."
Only female student A and male student A are dance students here. Female student B, holding up her phone, asked, "What's the difference between these?"
The woman explained, "There's not much difference, but there are quite a few dance students at the school, and one dance studio can't hold that many people. So the dance studio floor in the art building is divided according to dance category. The ballet studio is on the opposite side."
Tang Xiaofen continued, "The dance studio you're talking about now should be the large public dance studio. But in the past, that dance studio was reserved for ballet students for performing large-scale ballet productions. Now, the large classroom has become public, and the other smaller dance studios are allocated according to the type of dance."
The girl who jumped nodded: "This doesn't seem surprising. In the past, people talked about going on the international stage. The most famous dance in the world was ballet, and many people were eager to learn it. Naturally, the school would allocate more resources to it. But now ballet has declined, and folk dance and classical dance have gradually become the mainstream in China, so more classrooms are allocated to you."
"But according to Senior Tang, the classroom change wasn't because of employment issues, was it?" Male A raised his question. He was terrified of that classroom and just wanted to find a solution.
Tang Xiaofen thought for a moment and said, "I have a way. I heard it from someone jokingly. I don't know if it's accurate, but we can try it."
The woman and the man asked in unison, with great anxiety, "What's the solution?"
"Don't let anything get taken away. If it is, replace it with something else. I remember, your mouth was taken away, right?" Tang Xiaofen suddenly looked at the female student. "From now on, when you go into the dance studio, remember to wear lipstick to prove you have a mouth. Remember to change the color a few times. If you have a mouth every day, the mirror will probably keep stealing your mouth. But if it steals one thing every day, it means it hasn't stolen anything."
This explains why Woman A was buying different lipsticks to change into; it finally provides an answer to this strange phenomenon.
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: If they're all stolen, all that's left is a red mouth. Isn't that just a mouth drawn on a paper doll? That seems even scarier. [Starry-eyed]
Ling Yuanshan: Why do you always say such strange things with a happy face? [Question mark]
Wu Wangwang: You'll understand when you grow up [starry-eyed]
Ling Yuanshan: [Question mark]
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