Chapter 145: White Figure Is there something strange going on here? ...
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can asked Zhang Ruyun and Mr. and Mrs. Zhong to go to the lounge at the end of the corridor to wait. They also knew that the two of them were deliberately trying to get rid of them, so they cooperated quite well.
They questioned several other students.
Lin Zhuyue roughly concluded from the classmates' stories that Zhong Tingbai's grades were in the upper echelons of the class, that he studied very hard, and that his intended goal was to get into a prestigious 985 university in Cong Province, but he wasn't particularly sure.
Zhong Tingbai's physics grades fluctuated greatly. In his second year of high school, he only scored 25 points. He once wanted to change the subject, but was dissuaded by his homeroom teacher.
There is indeed no problem with popularity.
He is a pretty good student.
But when Lin Zhuyue repeatedly asked about the relationship between Zhong Tingbai and the teacher, the classmates all dodged the question to varying degrees. Some said it was not bad, some said it was very good, and some hesitated for a long time before saying that there was no problem.
There is a problem, definitely there is a problem.
This is what Lin Zhuyue thought.
After talking with the students, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can went to the lounge again to meet Zhong Tingbai’s parents and the class teacher Zhang Ruyun.
"Xiaobai is usually very well behaved, but he's a little insecure."
Mother Zhong wiped her tears sadly and said,
"We love her too... I'm not in good health, and she came after many years of marriage. It's like having a child late in life, so how could I not cherish her? Our family isn't well off, but we've always been there for her, fearing we wouldn't be able to take good care of her..."
Zhong Tingbai's mother is 55 years old and his father is 56 years old. They are both not young anymore, and even with the latest test tube technology, it would be difficult for them to have another child.
Their family conditions were not good either. Mother Zhong was a housewife and Father Zhong was a truck driver. They simply did not have the financial resources for IVF.
One can imagine the devastating impact that Zhong Tingbai’s death has had on this family.
After the conversation, it was time to go home from school.
Zhang Ruyun went to the class to take a look and came back quickly. After Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can asked to sort out their thoughts alone, she took the initiative to send Mr. and Mrs. Zhong out of the school.
"She doesn't seem like a bad teacher."
Lin Zhuyue supported his face with one hand and said,
"If Zhong Tingbai's death was related to her, she would have been haunted by the dead spirit, not just like this. As for the parents... they wouldn't harm their child in their situation."
"Go find the ghost in white clothes in the laboratory building."
Shi Can said to Lin Zhuyue,
"Zhong Tingbai jumped off the building after seeing her. It's very likely that she's involved... Even if it's not, according to the spiritualist code, we can't ignore her knowing she exists. We have to find her anyway, so let's find her first and talk about it later."
"Before we look for her, we have to look for Zhong Tingbai himself."
Lin Zhuyue nodded.
Principal Gong called and invited the spiritual masters and Minister Du to dinner. Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can had worked hard to come to Wuju City to help them solve supernatural incidents, so they still had to take care of dinner.
Lin Zhuyue directly rejected Principal Gong:
"No, we can handle it ourselves."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can went out to have some mutton soup and then returned to school.
They went to the place where Zhong Tingbai jumped off the building.
The buildings at Wuju City's No. 16 Middle School aren't very tall, and Zhong Tingbai jumped from the rooftop of a three-story teaching building. It's a stretch to say someone would die from a fall from this height, and Zhong Tingbai died because she landed headfirst.
The bloodstains on the asphalt road have not yet been cleaned.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Are there any supernatural reactions?"
"No."
Shi Can looked at the compass needle, which was motionless, and added,
"I didn't feel anything wrong. The yin energy here is only at the level that exists at night."
Lin Zhuyue sighed and said, "I didn't feel it either."
Zhong Tingbai had only been dead for eight days, and there was no expert to set up formations when No. 16 Middle School was built. His soul would not be suppressed or even harmed here, so it was impossible for it to dissipate in just eight days.
Where did you go?
"Let's go to the laboratory building first."
Shi Can put away the compass and said,
"The security guard has the key. Let's go get it."
The school's main monitoring room is not far from the laboratory building. There are security guards on duty here 365 days a year, and they have the keys to all the classrooms, offices and laboratories in the school.
Before Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can went to get the key, they contacted Principal Gong. Principal Gong had informed the security office in advance and told them to just go and get it, and the security office would not ask any questions.
But the security office didn't ask, but Shican kept talking.
He chatted with the security guard for a while.
"Will you patrol the lab building at night?"
The security guard replied:
"We have to patrol every night at 11 o'clock. In the past, there were occasional cases where students who lived in the dormitory did not return to the dormitory and stayed in the laboratory building and teaching building at night."
Shi Can asked again: "Have you heard any strange noises?"
The security guard waved his hand: "No, it's very quiet."
"But I heard this place is haunted."
Shi Can still asked without giving up.
"How can there be no movement when it's haunted?"
"Oh, you're such an interesting young man." The security guard took Shi Chan's words as a joke and said, "Where do ghosts come from in this world? And even if there are ghosts, why would she let me hear the noise she made? I don't owe her anything."
Shi Can couldn't prove to him that there really were ghosts in this world, so he could only let Lin Zhuyue pull him away.
The two entered the laboratory building together.
Lin Zhuyue felt that Wuju City No. 16 Middle School could actually brag a bit—
There are lights, and the teaching conditions are far ahead of Yuancheng No. 1 Middle School, a famous school ranked among the best in the country.
They groped their way to the stairs, went up to the second floor, entered the corridor, and after walking a short circle in the U-shaped corridor, they found Physics Laboratory No. 219, where students had witnessed ghostly figures appearing every time there was a thunderstorm.
Lin Zhuyue used the key to open the door of the laboratory.
Shi Can walked in first, holding the compass.
He frowned and glanced around the laboratory, his eyes slightly confused.
“…This is it, right?”
Lin Zhuyue turned on the light and walked to the window. She looked up at the opposite side. Although she couldn't tell which two windows belonged to Zhong Tingbai's classroom, she knew that the opposite side was indeed the senior high school teaching building where Zhong Tingbai was studying.
Lin Zhuyue understood Shi Can's doubts very well——
There are no ghosts, no negative energy, and no abnormal magnetic fields here. It is so peaceful.
Lin Zhuyue said, "I'll confirm with the school."
"We didn't feel anything wrong on the way here. With your and my intuition, if there was a ghost, it would have been noticed long ago."
Shi Can frowned as he spoke, and after a moment, he said,
"You back off."
Lin Zhuyue hid to the side.
Shi Chan turned off the light, raised his left hand and hooked his middle finger.
The lightning of the Small Five Thunder Curse lit up in the physics laboratory.
At the moment when the lightning illuminated the laboratory, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can saw a long-haired woman in a white dress standing by the window.
After the lightning died down, she disappeared again.
Lin Zhuyue was horrified: "...What's going on?"
Is it a ghost? But why can't I sense it? I can't sense it when I can't see it, and I still can't sense it when I can see it... Is there a "door" here that can disrupt the spiritual master's inspiration?
"It's not a ghost, but a residual image reflected here from somewhere unknown. It's a metaphysical phenomenon, because this image truly comes from a ghost. I don't know whether it has dissipated or still exists. The image of its existence was recorded by the world and played back under certain conditions."
Shi Can hooked his finger again, the lightning flashed again, and the figure appeared again. Shi Can said,
"It can't be handled, but the phenomenon itself isn't threatening. It can't do anything other than scare people."
Lin Zhuyue asked doubtfully, "Then Zhong Tingbai..."
"It definitely couldn't have been caused by this phenomenon."
Shi Can looked through the window at the teaching building opposite and said,
"This phenomenon has probably existed for a long time. If Zhong Tingbai was going to jump off a building because of this phenomenon, he should have done so in his first year of high school."
"Could it be that we moved to a new classroom after entering our third year of high school? The windows of my old classroom couldn't see here, but the windows of the new classroom can..."
Shi Can shook his head and said:
"She shouldn't be the only one jumping off the building."
That’s true.
Lin Zhuyue thought.
Zhong Tingbai's ghost is gone, and the white ghost that is suspected of killing her is not a real ghost... This supernatural incident seems to have entered a certain weird rhythm, just as bizarre as the K3 bus.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can locked the door of the physics laboratory. After leaving the laboratory building, they returned the key to the security room, then went outside the school gate to find their car and drove to a nearby hotel to rest.
Lin Zhuyue called Principal Gong and roughly explained his findings tonight.
Principal Gong said on the other end of the phone:
"Is the lab okay? That's great."
Lin Zhuyue thought: But your tone is not good at all.
Very depressed and disappointed.
It's as if he really wishes there was a ghost in the laboratory.
What do you think?
Lin Zhuyue asked Shi Can: "What should we do?"
"Case closed. Return to Tiancheng and submit a report stating that the actual investigation determined that the supernatural events could not have occurred."
Shi Can spread his hands and said,
"But that's too hasty. I like to get to the bottom of things. What about you?"
Lin Zhuyue also agreed with Shican's decision:
"I also think this matter shouldn't be let go like this. But what should we do?"
Shi Can said, “Please ask the spirit.”
"Invite a spirit?"
Shi Chan nodded:
"Let the deceased's relatives and friends summon the spirit... Although we haven't found Zhong Tingbai's spirit, it's only been eight days since he died. There's a high probability that his spirit is still there, and perhaps we can summon it."
Lin Zhuyue said: "Then I will contact her parents..."
Lin Zhuyue picked up the phone and called Principal Gong.
"Contact her parents? Sure, but I don't have Zhong Tingbai's parents' contact information. Her homeroom teacher does. I'll call Teacher Zhang and ask."
After a while, Principal Gong called back and said:
"I asked Teacher Zhang. Zhong Tingbai's father has to deliver goods tomorrow, and her mother is worried about him and wants to go with him. Because of the child's funeral, her father asked his boss for leave and hasn't worked for many days... If he delays any longer, he might be replaced."
"If I lose my child and my job, what will it matter?"
Lin Zhuyue's eyes dimmed.
lie.
She became tougher and asked:
"What did the child's parents say? They said they were busy with work, so they couldn't come?"
Would parents who love their children so much really refuse to cooperate with the spiritualist to summon spirits for the sake of work?
Principal Gong also seemed to realize that the situation was unacceptable:
"Let me ask again..."
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