The girl's voice trembled, clearly on the verge of tears; she couldn't possibly be joking.
But what I said before came true so quickly?
I couldn't help but feel a little confused.
I put the phone on speakerphone, so Li Huai and the other person also heard what the girl said.
Li Huai dropped the bread in his hand in surprise, muttering to himself:
"Wow, that's incredibly insightful."
Luo Tianhe was also dumbfounded.
"It's only been half a day, and the ghosts have already come out at night?"
"Don't panic, tell me what happened?"
I ignored them. This was unexpected. I doubt the girl called me because of the ghost behind her.
"Even though I'm the only one living in the dorm now, I always feel like I'm not alone at night! Last night I kept recording on my spare phone the whole time. Since I had to go to class early the next morning, I didn't listen to the recording. Our school only let us out after half a day of classes, so I didn't go back to the dorm; I just wandered around outside. But when I came back last night and turned on the recording, I...I..."
The girl's voice was somewhat incoherent, but I could roughly understand it.
I glanced at the date; today is Sunday.
The high schools in our city are considered quite strict; they don't have holidays every weekend, but rather alternating between long and short weekends.
On a weekday with a long weekend, school ends on Friday and there are no classes on Saturday and Sunday. On a weekday with a short weekend, students have to attend classes all day on Saturday and all morning on Sunday, with only the afternoon being free time.
"What exactly happened?"
Luo Tianhe leaned closer, wanting to know what had happened.
"At 2 a.m., in the recording, there was a blurry sound of people talking in the dormitory. I was half asleep at the time and said, 'Stop talking, I'm sleeping!' and then there was no sound."
The girl's voice trembled as she spoke, and I could hear her rapid breathing.
"Could it be someone from another dorm who stayed up late and came to borrow something? Since your school allows cell phones, there must be quite a few people staying up late at night, right?"
I didn't say anything, but Luo Tianhe guessed.
"No, impossible! A major incident happened at our school. A man broke into a room in the middle of the night and raped the girls. All the girls in that dorm died after being violated! So our dorm room is always locked, and it has a security chain. Even if someone had a key, it would be impossible to open it!"
Luo Tianhe and I exchanged a glance.
After such a terrible incident, how could parents still send their children to study here?
The teaching quality is that high?!
"You said the sound was muffled, could you have misheard?"
Li Huai frowned, trying to find a reasonable explanation.
Young women living alone are prone to overthinking; maybe she's just scaring herself?
“That’s right, the sound was very muffled because my voice was recorded very clearly in the recording. So at first I thought I might have misheard. But when I heard the recording at five o’clock, I… I don’t know what to say. I’ll play it for you.”
The girl's voice trembled even more violently, and you could even hear her teeth chattering.
Soon, a faint, eerie voice, as if from the underworld, came from the phone:
What exactly do you want to record?
Holy crap!
Luo Tianhe let out a strange cry.
The girl couldn't hold back any longer and seemed to be crying under the covers.
"Send me your location, we'll go check it out now."
I glared at Luo Tianhe and said on the phone.
"Please, please come quickly, I'm really scared."
The girl quickly sent the address. I hung up the phone and said to Luo Tianhe with a hint of exasperation:
"What are you yelling about? What's there to be afraid of about a ghost that has no real power and can only scare people with illusions? Look at Li Huai, he's so calm."
When I mentioned him, Li Huai also sighed somewhat:
"A ghost that can shut you up and make you quiet down is an absolute gem. I once encountered a ghost that would suddenly turn on the TV in the middle of the night and project its own gruesome death onto the screen, or it would keep calling me with ghostly calls, which was so annoying that I didn't sleep well all night!"
Seeing how calm we both were, Luo Tianhe felt a little embarrassed.
However, he would rather face the living dead than this sinister situation.
"Idiot, why don't you smash the TV and your phone instead?"
Luo Tianhe forced a way to make amends.
"Damn it, the TV belongs to the landlord, and I bought the phone myself. If you smash it, you're going to pay me back."
"Alright, enough nonsense. I just did some research and found out that her school is really something else."
I showed them the page that was open on my phone.
"Second on the list of paranormal events in the city: Anning Girls' High School!"
I glanced at Li Huai.
"The terror level of this thing is second only to your old employer, Aoyama Mental Hospital."
Upon seeing this, Li Huai, who had just been calm and collected, suddenly swallowed hard, looking extremely nervous.
"The place I used to work at was a fake; it was newly built and just used the name. The real Qingshan Mental Hospital, that thing, it's really weird!"
How eerie is it?
Luo Tianhe asked with some curiosity.
"Let me put it this way, I wouldn't even dare to go and live in the fourteenth building, but I wouldn't dare to even take a stroll around Qingshan Mental Hospital at night!"
Li Huai seemed to still be shaken.
“There was an old man surnamed Yue who was with me when I moved the body. He had been doing this for more than ten years and he was quite skilled. That guy made a bet and insisted on spending a night at Qingshan Mental Hospital. No matter how we tried to persuade him, he wouldn’t listen. I remember that he bought black dog blood, asked for amulets, and even had his fortune told by a fortune teller.”
"And then he never came out again."
Li Huai's story came to an abrupt end, and we realized just how sinister the Qingshan Mental Hospital was.
"I'm afraid Anning Girls' High School isn't a good place to go. How about we go tomorrow during the day?"
Luo Tianhe was starting to have second thoughts.
After all, in his view, the few of us had no relation to that girl and it wasn't worth the risk for us.
I understood what he meant, but instead of answering directly, I said quietly:
"You probably remember the third question I asked her, right? That girl defied fate and lived a peaceful life for over a decade—it's not that simple!"
"If I'm not mistaken, she must be a twin, but her older or younger sister was killed by her parents on the day she was born. And they used a dark magic to raise her into a ghost!"
"Killed her? And raised her into a ghost! She can't even be reincarnated, why? Have her parents gone mad?"
Li Huai stared at me with wide eyes, unable to believe his eyes.
I let out a long breath, my voice somewhat suppressed:
"Although it is cruel and unfair to her, it may be the best choice for her family."
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