Chapter 96: Lecture Hall in the Dark
Teacher Gao brought Lin Xi and Shen Sang Ning back to the office, still sitting in the same position as yesterday. Teacher Gao poured water for them and looked a little embarrassed: "Ms. Lin, Ms. Shen, what do you want to know that you have to go to the lecture hall? Can't you just ask me directly?"
It’s great. It’s great.
But the problem is, even if we ask you, you may not tell us the truth.
Lin Xi thought so in her heart, but the smile on her face never stopped. Her smile had a bit of a professional fake smile, and her acting skills were fully exercised in these few dungeons. Anyway, it was much better than the first time she entered the dungeon. Lin Xi drank a sip of water, moistened her throat, and then said:
"Actually, I'm quite interested in that haunted story Teacher Gao told me yesterday. You might not know, but I've had an unusual interest in these kinds of strange things since I was a child. After listening to your story yesterday, I felt a pang of anxiety. I couldn't sleep until I figured out what the story was about. Teacher Gao, can you tell me what exactly happened?"
Teacher Gao looked at Lin Xi. Although Lin Xi's acting skills had improved considerably, she still felt a bit guilty when she lied. Teacher Gao poured herself a glass of water and spoke after a moment. "Ah, how could you be interested in something like this?" She touched her glasses, took them off, found a glasses cloth on her desk, and wiped them before she spoke slowly.
"It's not really a haunted thing. A sixth-grade girl committed suicide in the lecture hall. Because of this, the lecture hall was abandoned, and then out of nowhere, the rumor started that the lecture hall was haunted."
The key question is: "Why did that child commit suicide?"
Teacher Gao paused while wiping her glasses, put them on, and looked at Lin Xi. Lin Xi's eyes were full of curiosity. It seemed that if she didn't explain it clearly, Lin Xi would go to the lecture hall again. So she pursed her lips and said, "It's all my fault..." Teacher Gao's voice was filled with endless sighs, "It's because I didn't notice the conflicts between her and her family and other classmates. If I had discovered it earlier, maybe it wouldn't have turned out like this."
Lin Xi heard something from her words. The girl not only had conflicts with her family, but also with her classmates, which was why she committed suicide. But Lin Xi still had a question that concerned her: "When did she die?" This question just occurred to Lin Xi, because the dust in the lecture hall was too heavy, and the dust accumulated very quickly and slowly. The lecture hall was not a fully enclosed room, and the internal space was very large. Even if the dust accumulated for a few years, it would not cause Lin Xi to cough.
In other words, the lecture hall has not been used for a long, long time.
Teacher Gao was stunned for a moment, and also fell into confusion: "It has been... ten years... twenty years, right?"
Good job.
Lin Xi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, no wonder it was so dusty, the dust had accumulated for so long, how could it not be big.
Teacher Gao didn't want to talk about this anymore, and Lin Xi noticed it, so she simply changed the subject: "Doesn't our school have a welcome party? That lecture hall has been abandoned for so long, and the facilities are still pretty good. I think it can still be used. Why don't you use it again? Besides, if the lecture hall is put into use, wouldn't it dispel the rumors of it being haunted?"
"No!"
As soon as Lin Xi brought up this matter, Teacher Gao interrupted loudly. Lin Xi sensed that there was something fishy going on here, and without giving Teacher Gao a chance to retreat, she leaned back and leaned on the back of the chair. Shen Sang Ning was drinking water obediently beside her, but she also felt Lin Xi's thoughts, so she raised her head slightly and looked at Teacher Gao with a threatening look.
"Hmm? Why?" Lin Xi crossed his legs, a slightly provocative smile appeared on his face: "Isn't it well known that there are no ghosts in this world? Then teacher, what are you worried about? As a teacher, you should break the feudal superstitions and lead the students into a new era."
Teacher Gao also realized that her reaction just now was a bit too extreme. Her lips were pursed into a straight line, and it was obvious that Teacher Gao was not very happy. But she still found a way for her. She said: "I can't make the decision on this matter. The principal has to make the decision. Besides, the lecture hall has not been used for a long time and has fallen into disrepair. What if something unexpected happens..."
"No, I think the auditorium is pretty good, just a little gray. I was jumping around on the stage and in the audience just now, and nothing happened. Ningning and I, two adults, were fine jumping around like that, so how heavy is a child? It's even more likely that nothing will happen to him."
"I can't make the decision on this matter..." Teacher Gao still said the same thing.
Lin Xi asked directly: "Then where is the principal? I will go find him and talk to him. This is the opinion of us parents. As the principal, shouldn't he listen to it as well?" Lin Xi was a bit unreasonable, but she never paid attention to these things in the world of rule-based weird stories. Moreover, having an excuse to face the principal directly was a good thing for Lin Xi and other anchors.
"Teacher Gao, the principal's office should be in this building. It doesn't matter if he's not here. I can wait for him to come back."
Teacher Gao's expression became strange, as if she had just chewed a bitter melon. Lin Xi felt more and more that there was something wrong with Principal Di. She simply stood up and said she wanted to go to the principal's office. Seeing this, Teacher Gao quickly stopped her: "Principal! Principal Di is not actually in school. He is out for something."
Lin Xi was even more confused: "But there's an exam tomorrow and a parent-teacher conference next week. Is the principal going out at this time?"
"Anyway, the principal is not here!"
Teacher Gao didn't seem to want Lin Xi to wait in the principal's office, and even used the method of sending guests away. Lin Xi was sent out of the school gate, and looked at Teacher Gao's back as he turned and went in, thinking about something. Shen Sang Ning asked: "Lin Xi, where are we going now?
where? "
Lin Xi was not someone who gave up so easily. She took Shen Sang Ning to the store opposite the school and bought a flashlight before returning. She climbed over the wall for the third time, slid down from the wall, and brought Shen Sang Ning to the lecture hall. As before, Shen Sang Ning went in first to open the door for Lin Xi, and Lin Xi turned on the flashlight and entered the corridor.
The corridor was just as Shen Sangning had described, with famous quotes hanging around the walls. After arriving at the hall, Lin Xi didn't rush to the lecture hall, but instead wandered around. The glass of the picture frames hanging on the wall reflected the flashlight, making the entire hall look particularly eerie.
Lin Xi didn't care. She shone a flashlight and got closer to look at the photos.
Every time Lin Xi saw them before, she would just pass by in a hurry and be quickly taken away by Teacher Gao, so she could only get a rough idea of them. After Lin Lin and Teacher Gao both said that the girl was very talented and had won many awards, Lin Xi felt that she must be among them. Lin Xi observed carefully, and although the faces of the students and teachers were blacked out and crossed out, if you looked closely, you could still find some similarities.
There was a little girl with a red string on her right wrist. This little girl appeared many times, and her height and age were more like a sixth grader. Lin Xi guessed that this was the girl who committed suicide in the lecture hall. Lin Xi also saw Teacher Gao in the photo.
Teacher Gao's smile was very obvious, and she was particularly gentle when she smiled, so Lin Xi could easily recognize Teacher Gao.
Teacher Gao appears quite often, especially when the little girl is around. Combined with what Teacher Gao said before, maybe... Teacher Gao was once the girl's homeroom teacher.
The story then became clear to Lin Xi: a student who excelled in music but struggled in academics. She represented the school in many competitions and won awards, but was not popular with other students in her class, and her parents disliked her.
She was bullied both at school and at home, and finally chose to commit suicide in her favorite place - the school lecture hall.
Lin Xi put down the flashlight, and the light fell to the ground. She turned her head to look at the lecture hall, thinking that there must be something inside the lecture hall that she had not discovered. She pulled Shen Sangning into the lecture hall. Shen Sangning wanted to turn on the light like she had done twice before, but Lin Xi grabbed her wrist.
"Ningning, I'm not going."
She told Shen Sangning her guess: "The first time, we spent a lot of time in the corridor and stayed in the hall for a long time, and then we entered the lecture hall, and Teacher Gao came not long after we turned on the lights; the second time, we didn't spend much time in the corridor and the hall, but after turning on the lights in the lecture hall, Teacher Gao came again. It is very likely that Teacher Gao noticed that we turned on the lights, so she came. Maybe she has something in her office that monitors the light switch in the lecture hall, so don't turn on the lights."
"good."
Chen Sangning stayed obediently by Lin Xi's side. Light streamed through the lecture hall, which was so gray inside that the dust fluttered slowly in the light, making it particularly conspicuous. Lin Xi stepped on the soft carpet and entered the lecture hall. This time, the lecture hall was different from before.
In the light of Lin Xi's flashlight, Lin Xi saw two words engraved on the stage.
——Zhu Zhu.
In the center of the stage, two characters shone with a shimmering green light. Lin Xi frowned and took a step forward with her flashlight, landing a little behind the characters before crouching down. She could clearly see the characters; they were engraved, but in a chaotic manner. Frowning, Lin Xi reached out and touched the words.
To Lin Xi's surprise, the tips of his fingers felt sticky, as if he had touched something sticky.
Lin Xi frowned, retracted her hand, and placed her finger on the tip of her nose to sniff. It was blood, the smell quite distinct, as if it had just been dripped on her. Lin Xi swallowed and stood up. Perhaps because she had been squatting on the ground for a long time, Lin Xi stumbled as she stood up. Shen Sang Ning supported Lin Xi.
Lin Xi said "thank you" to Chen Sang Ning, the flashlight in her hand shining directly in front of her. The auditorium, which hadn't felt strange the two previous times, felt different this time. In the darkness, the auditorium seemed so far away and oppressive, even Lin Xi felt a little breathless.
People are afraid of darkness.
At this moment, Lin Xi suddenly realized something.
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