Chapter 33 "University Students" System notification: The testimony "raw stake" has been...
Wang Xiaoming: "...Knife...painting?"
"The murder in room 404 must be happening again upstairs in another timeline!" Li Xiaojun cried, clutching his head and trembling.
With a power outage and no internet, cell phones continue the haunting instead of radio broadcasts. Will the next step be to reconnect with the old power lines and trigger a death-themed ending?
Yang Xiaohong said, "Quickly go upstairs and save her! We can't let Zijing fall into the trap set by the mastermind! Zhong Jun is definitely not a good person! We can't let the clues go cold!"
Yang Xiaohong triggered the testimony about the 'mastermind', and Jian Zijin's phone rang enticingly again. They heard the vanished dormitory head, Jian, calling them from upstairs.
"What's wrong with you guys? Hey, are you the freshmen from the class of 2002 downstairs?"
"Jian Zijin? Is your situation better again? Is your date September 9, 2002?"
But to their surprise, Jian Zijin answered them...
"I feel terrible... I feel like I'm not in 2002 anymore... but in a strange time and space... I'm lost, and in front of me is a basement I don't recognize... even my phone is malfunctioning..."
Knowing about the time loophole, Yang Xiaohong asked, "Zijin, speak louder, what's wrong with your phone?"
"Xiaohong, I have a lot of missed calls on my phone."
Jian Zijin told her.
"I don't know who's contacting me from across time and space. It's an unknown number, and I'm afraid to answer..."
An unknown number was frantically calling his Nokia. After uttering this cryptic hint, Jian Zijing severed all contact with the team.
They may have really traveled through time together.
Now that things have come to this, the nighttime raid on the public education building must begin.
As soon as he finished speaking, the paranormal phenomenon from the previous scene stopped.
The only sound in the hallway was dripping water.
Suddenly, they heard the footsteps of a security guard and an older woman behind them.
Ma Dazhuang: "...Hehe..."
Liu Cuihua: "Hoo..."
Upon hearing the sounds of these domesticated animals, the students immediately became restless, and a gloomy atmosphere hung over their five faces as the old wolf and the two-legged sheep began their dormitory inspection.
Yang Xiaohong: "Quickly take out your meal card and travel back to 2000. Let's see what clues the old Ma Baoan and Aunt Liu will tell us."
The meal card that Jian Zijin gave them during the day was returned to the five people.
With their eyes closed and silently reciting the search criteria, their identities officially matched those of the five main suspects in the murder case.
Spacetime was opened up.
System notification: The testimony "live stake" has been triggered!
On September 9, 2000, Ma Dazhuang, alone in the duty room after the student murder, banged his head against a white jade Guanyin statue and confided his secrets.
Because someone died in 404, a large number of faculty and staff left en masse.
Director Zhang's order sent him here, but he couldn't face the terrifying number 404. Drunk, he watched the fallen flashlight spinning around and the poor old security guard uttered an old testimony involving a murder case.
"I don't know anything... Let me go, let me go. I was just on patrol when I saw blood everywhere at the entrance to dormitory 404, and the dead students were lying on the ground in pieces... That head of the student life department must have been completely ripped out..."
"..."
"When the police arrived, they all said that Zhong Yun from room 404 was the murderer... because only that young man disappeared after the murder in the dormitory. But ever since that day, every night when I patrol, I can see the old dormitory building with lights on. There's clearly no one inside, but when I look up, every room's window is filled with ghosts..."
Then the transition changed.
Liu Cuihua was crying outside the canteen.
"Waaah, please don't come looking for me... Classmates, it's not that I don't want to burn paper money for you, it's that your deaths are the fault of the higher-ups..."
"I just heard Professor Chen say that there is no clean school in the world."
“The more a school wants a high graduation rate, the more it has to choose the most dangerous graveyard and fill the ground with the five sacrificial animals representing metal, wood, water, fire, and wood. This is called ‘driving a living stake’.”
The five people heard this.
The will to survive is to call the police.
I already knew that once I entered this haunted school, I'd be trapped if I didn't investigate the injustices. But it seems the school's shady dealings and the injustices that humiliate normal people are yet to come...
At that moment, the green glow of the emergency exit automatically guided them to the sign for the 4th floor.
Seeing that this was going to be a ghost hunt in another dimension, Wang Xiaoming started crying again, this time Xie Xiaomei and Yang Xiaohong covered his mouth.
Two girls, one of them, held off the second male lead.
The second male lead was taken away like a pig being slaughtered.
Time and space were still in disarray. Five groups of footsteps, each carrying a mix of emotions such as anxiety, fear, and confusion, began to explore the fourth floor together, accompanied by flashlights.
In order to find out who was behind this and to ensure Jian Zijin's safety, Yang Xiaohong knocked on the door of room 404, "Zijin!"
The dormitory head, who had been absent for some time, remained silent.
Paranormal explorers broke down the door.
The light swept across the wire bed and mosquito net. There was a pool of blood on the ground, left by someone, and next to the bloodstain was a Panasonic CD player with a transparent case.
When they touched the transparent cover, the music playback buttons started flashing like a marquee, and an old song full of nostalgia began to play.
"Will you remember me tomorrow?" (Male voice 1)
"The diary you wrote yesterday." (Male voice 2)
"Will you still be thinking about tomorrow?" (Male voice 3)
"You used to cry the most." (Male voice 4)
"The teachers can't remember anymore," (Male voice 5)
"You can't guess the question." (Strange voice)
The song panel also displays two or three main storylines: find the inconsistencies in the song, identify the "psychopath," the "ghost," and the "murderer" who framed others and fled, and uncover the truth behind the unsolved case.
Li Xiaojun: "Is this 'My Deskmate'? Isn't there only five people in 404?"
After playing it again, Zhang Xiaojun said, "Male voice 1 sounds a lot like Senior Monster! Male voice 5 also sounds a bit like Senior Zhong!"
Xie Xiaomei broke out in a cold sweat: "So this song was sung by the original five-person group, but did you notice? The extra person's voice sounds very old. I feel like the last person isn't a student..."
They had the same idea, and the ghost stories enthusiasts were also discussing it:
[There must be a ghost among the five who wasn't a student of this school. It seems the case from back then involved the supernatural...]
Where is the ghost? Could it have already infiltrated the group of people now?
[To perform the forbidden Five Elements ritual using a living person, wouldn't it require a priest to carry it out?]
Yang Xiaohong saw the comments in the ghost story group. Just as she was about to close the pop-up underworld panel, a system notification appeared—
[Professor Chen Wei invites you to take on the role of 'Yang Sihong' and lead a team of freshmen on a nighttime ghost-hunting expedition to the Public Teaching Building.]
The fear of the unknown made Yang Xiaohong's eyes widen. Meeting the new character meant greater danger, but she ultimately decided to grit her teeth and go for it.
The next second, the scenery in front of them began to distort and tear apart, and when everyone opened their eyes again, they were already in an office.
The system teleported them to Act IV.
The professor called them.
The new students pushed open the door and went inside.
There was a man standing in the university's academic affairs office, which was decorated with spider plants and peonies. He was surrounded in the middle and was a handsome guy who could be voted the campus heartthrob. He had healthy dark skin, was tall, and had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes.
The system says the boy is Jiang Yanrui, who is also the head of the student life department, that disgusting monster.
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Author's Note: The author, Little Pig, has been sent to the county for training by her superiors. I'll write the scenes of the fox kissing Jianjian in more detail before posting them. *kissing sounds*
(I started writing as soon as I got home that night)
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