Chapter 20: Deadly Shower
When they got to the bathhouse, someone was using it.
Teacher Gao walked up and knocked on the door. After confirming that the other party knew that their class also needed to take a shower today and had prepared enough hot water, he took them to wait outside.
While we were waiting, Teacher Gao emphasized some precautions: "The school only supplies hot water for 15 minutes at a time. Once the time is up, the water will be cut off. So you should move quickly after you go in. Don't delay. Otherwise, you will have to endure it if you don't wash thoroughly."
A group of children were holding basins and listening to him chattering about miscellaneous things like clothes should be put in the basin, where the basin should be placed, etc. He was even more talkative than an 80-year-old grandmother.
After Teacher Gao finished speaking these nonsense words, the people inside had already finished washing and came out, and it was their turn to go in.
The bathhouse was very simple, with no separate changing and washing areas, and no specific division between men and women. It just had a low wall casually built in the middle.
After entering this casual bathhouse, Lu Jiamu, Yu Leng and Wang Biao immediately gathered together, quickly put their clothes into the basin, and waited for the water to run.
Warm water gushed out from the shower head, soothing everyone's body and mind.
The three of them did not have much time to experience the beauty of hot water. Although the water supply was for fifteen minutes, they had already drawn upon their past experience of being late and were prepared to finish washing in five minutes.
The moment he emerged from the water, Yu Leng asked, "Who goes first?"
Although his question was incoherent, the remaining two people understood what he meant instantly.
The three of them couldn't wash their hair or faces at the same time. If they were covered in foam at the same time, they would lose a lot of ability to deal with crises.
With their three years of experience in watching horror movies, it is very pleasing and logical for something to suddenly appear or happen outside of their field of vision when their eyes are covered by foam in the bathhouse.
Wang Biao responded first: "Then it's me."
As he said this, he had already started washing his hair with soap, and tried his best to keep the foam from getting into his eyes.
After washing his hair, he washed his face roughly.
By the time the three of them had taken turns washing their hair, they had basically finished the bath.
Having avoided the major concern of having foam blinding their eyes, the three of them felt much more relaxed when enjoying the hot water.
Boys’ five-minute bathing technique is always so joyful.
But they didn't stay warm for long before the water in the entire bathhouse suddenly stopped without any warning.
In the bathhouse, there were several children who had not had time to rinse off the foam on their bodies. They looked pitiful and helpless standing under the shower which was no longer running water.
Wang Biao pushed his short hair back, looked at the shower head, and asked, "Is it time?"
Yu Leng shook his head.
Based on his ability to accurately predict the time, which he had developed since he entered middle school, he knew it was definitely not here yet. At least five minutes later.
Otherwise, those kids wouldn’t have been unable to finish washing even though the teacher said it would take fifteen minutes.
Yu Leng said uncertainly: "Maybe there is no water."
Several children began to shout: "Teacher, there is no water!"
As soon as someone shouted, everyone started shouting, creating a noisy echo in the empty bathhouse.
A teacher-like man walked out of the lounge with a wrench in his hand. Seeing that the water in the bathroom had suddenly stopped, he said, "It must be a stuck pipe. Let me go check it out."
Lu Jiamu had finished washing up and didn't want to waste any more time, so he took the basin and left the shower head, found a corner where he wouldn't be splashed by water, and prepared to change his clothes.
Yu Leng and Wang Biao had also finished washing. They didn't want to wait any longer for the water, as they didn't know when it would come out again, so they wiped themselves with towels and started to change their clothes.
The teacher muttered something like the water quality was getting worse and worse, while walking towards the boiler room and starting to check it by banging on it.
A faint sound of air leaking could be heard from the pipe, but because the children in the bathhouse were talking and shouting too loudly, no one paid much attention to the sound.
The clanging sounds from the boiler room suddenly stopped. The teacher gave a brief "Hmm?" and then silence fell over there.
The "hissing" sound of air leakage became louder and more obvious.
A heart-wrenching scream came from the boiler room: "Ah!!!"
It was a terrifying sound, as if someone was scalded by boiling water, and someone was struggling inside.
The screams echoed in the empty bathroom, hurting people's ears.
what happens?
All the children stared nervously in the direction of the boiler room and fell silent, but no one dared to go over to check.
The scream had broken off, and within a second or two, it seemed to melt and gradually become unclear.
Ah…ah…uh…
The water pipes began to vibrate, as if something was flowing inside.
“Squeak!”
Before they could react, the nozzle closest to the boiler room was already spraying liquid.
The water is flowing again.
No, that's not water! That's a red liquid!
The child was caught off guard and was stunned for only a blink of an eye. Then, as if he was scalded, he screamed heartbreakingly: "Ah!"
The first child who got wet opened his eyes wide with fear, his eyes were bloodshot.
Then his eyes literally fell out.
His screams became unclear in an instant, and then his entire body began to melt, turning into a pool of sticky blood, becoming the same as the stuff that came out of the shower head.
They flowed together, screaming and spreading to the side, trying to cling to others.
It all happened so fast, in the blink of an eye. Everyone was stunned.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!”
The pipe shook more and more violently, and the nearby nozzles began to spray out sticky blood one by one.
Those who were splashed by the liquid began to scream and melt in an instant. The originally joyful bathhouse suddenly turned into a living hell.
Yu Leng stared with his eyes wide open and cried out in horror: "F…Fuck!"
Wang Biao patted him and said, "Run!"
The moment Lu Jiamu saw the accident happening, he swiftly climbed to a high place where he would not be affected by the liquid with the help of the corners and several small pipes, and quietly observed the situation from above.
He saw several children who were close to the door rushing towards it and trying to escape, but the door was locked without him knowing when.
They desperately pounded on the door with their fists, but the door did not open. Instead, this action delayed them, causing them to be touched by the red liquid and begin to melt while screaming.
Wang Biao and Yu Leng also climbed to a high place and looked down.
The girls on the other side of the wall didn't know what was going on, they just heard the terrible screams, so they put on their clothes.
Coleman looked up at the man standing on the pipe and asked suspiciously, "What happened?"
Wang Biao was so anxious that he danced with joy: "Go to a higher place! A higher place!"
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