Chapter 128 The Ouija Board (5) "The person who orchestrated all of this is..."
"Hmm? Can we open the clubhouse?" Teacher Meng asked with some regret, clearly remembering the safe house feature of the clubhouse. "I tried a few places but they didn't work, so I stopped trying."
The three left the old teaching building, and Ms. Meng drove her car to the student club building.
The entire building was brightly lit, like a lighthouse in the night sea. When they could see the whole building, they discovered that on the side facing them, only the room in the very center was dark.
This made the elongated building resemble an eye, gleaming like refined gold in the darkness. The unlit room, like a deep, dark pupil, watched their arrival.
Now he and Sun Enze remembered another, more ordinary remark Xie Tan had made: Xie Tan had said that he was the one who turned off the light.
I suppose this lamp is one of them.
They walked into the brightly lit building and stopped in front of the dimly lit room, which was the chess club.
The room was almost devoid of decoration. Two walls were occupied by dark wooden bookshelves that reached the ceiling. Inside the bookshelves were several sets of chess and many chess scores. Several unfinished chess scores were scattered on the table and chairs. Perhaps a member of the club forgot to put them away. A4 papers that someone had knocked over were scattered all over the floor. On the whiteboard on the innermost wall, there was a carefully drawn chessboard, which was preserving a certain endgame.
Near the window, there is a chess table placed at an angle, facing out the window, with white and black pieces on the chessboard.
The boy, as solitary and aloof as the moonlight itself, sat sideways in front of the chessboard, his fingertips tapping the board with a crisp sound. He looked bored and weary, as if trapped in the night.
When they appeared, he slowly raised his eyes and said, "Too slow."
Xi Rui bounced around and sat down on the opposite side of the chessboard, rocking his chair and shouting, "Isn't it clearly Xiao Tan who's hiding here slacking off? Don't you have anything to say?"
Xie Tan leaned back: "I think you're the one who has endless things to say."
"Okay, nothing escapes your eyes." Xi Rui thought. This guy definitely knows something, but he's always too lazy to explain. The difference in information is obvious. They've come to him for help, and that's certainly true. "Is it a Ouija board?"
Xie Tan, who actually had no idea what was happening, replied: "Yes."
Anyway, the new story is called "The Ouija Board".
"But I can't summon it no matter what I do, please help me." Xi Rui took out several sheets of paper with his drawings of the spirit and stuffed them into Xie Tan's arms.
Xie Tan didn't stop him from forcing the sale. He picked it up and was about to take a look when Teacher Meng, who was sitting to the side, couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "Who is this...?"
Xie Tan's gaze swept across the paper and landed on her. Teacher Meng felt a chill run down her spine, as if she had been glanced at by a merciless idol, yet there was a dark and eerie demonic aura about her.
Describing it as "a statue corrupted by demons" seems more accurate, and it also makes her calves twitch.
Having been a teacher for so many years, she had seen all sorts of mischievous students and powerful leaders, yet she was intimidated by the gaze of a single student… And was this even a student from their school? He looked even younger, like a high school student.
Ah, isn't there that kind of legend, the ghost of a top high school student who died young despite having the best years ahead of him...
"...Teacher Meng? Teacher Meng!"
Teacher Meng snapped out of her daze, realizing that Xi Rui was introducing them to each other, and quickly replied, "Hello, Xie, I'm a teacher from the Food Science Department. You...you're also trapped here? What happened? This is terrifying..."
"I just woke up recently," Xie Tan said calmly, speaking the truth. "What happened to you all?"
Xi Ruixue secretly rolled his eyes at Chang Mingai's specialty. This guy knows everything, but he just puts on an act in front of outsiders.
Moreover, the act was very half-hearted; I didn't expect him to be scared, but at least I could have feigned some surprise.
Sun Enze was also aware of this, but firstly, he couldn't refuse Xie Tan, and secondly, he felt that this was likely part of Xie Tan's scheme, and he was afraid that it would backfire on him. So, the person who usually backed down took the initiative to talk about their situation, and Teacher Meng sometimes agreed and sometimes added to it.
Xie Tan, who truly knew nothing, listened to him while looking at the paper Xi Rui had drawn. His expression remained unchanged, but in his heart he sighed, "It has to be Xiao Sun, no matter which Xiao Sun it is."
"Bring me new ones." Xie Tan casually tossed Xi Rui's few sheets of paper aside.
Xi Rui muttered to himself twice and picked up the white paper floating under the chessboard.
Xie Tan took his pen and started writing on the paper.
Fortunately, he had carefully examined the preview image and perfectly replicated the Ouija board.
"It has to be you! Whew, all done. Come on, who wants to try with me?" Xi Rui held the spirit paper with great interest. "I wonder what kind of ghost it is, and how it died. I'll ask it later."
"Questions about ghosts themselves are the worst thing to ask, President!"
"Is that so?"
"Don't you already know that?"
"Hehe~"
Xie Tan: "Here?"
The only dark room—it certainly sounds like the perfect place for a haunted house…
Xi Rui suddenly realized: "Oh right, thank goodness Xiao Tan reminded us that this place isn't haunted. Let's go to the old teaching building instead?"
Xie Tan: ?
Can't it be haunted? He thought he would wake up trapped in the eerie No. 27, but that legend has been debunked.
Teacher Meng drove them back to the old teaching building area.
As they passed the newly numbered teaching buildings, Xie Tan, sitting in the back seat, suddenly looked up as if sensing something. Today, no, yesterday, in the building where they had their classes, there seemed to be a figure standing there, indistinct and facing them.
Then, those terrified eyes reappeared in his mind, causing him to instinctively grab the handrail beside him.
The car suddenly braked hard, and Teacher Meng screamed as they were thrown forward.
Xi Rui was skilled, and Xie Tan grabbed the handrail in advance, but Sun Enze was not so lucky and almost bumped his nose and bled.
Startled, Teacher Meng cried out, "Someone's here! Someone's here!" and fell into a state of extreme anxiety once again.
Xi Rui and Sun Enze quickly comforted her, while the former seemed to be deep in thought, glancing at Xie Tan in the back seat.
Xie Tan turned his gaze away from that building, and when she shouted "Someone's here," he realized that she had also seen the person on the roof.
The ghostly figure running at night and the teacher's disappearance both revealed their true nature on the 27th.
Could the cause of death for the student who jumped off the building, the last strange incident, be hidden today?
Xi Rui's eyes flashed. The rooftop was empty; he couldn't see anything, but he also thought of the person who fell from the building yesterday.
Xi Rui took over driving, and Xie Tan also moved to the passenger seat, handing over the important task of comforting the teacher to Sun Enze.
Sun Enze has always been introverted and rarely utters a word, but among this group of people, he is surprisingly the most capable of comforting others.
The two in front of me were still one with a playful smile and the other with extreme indifference.
They returned to the classroom in the old teaching building. Teacher Meng's emotions had calmed down considerably, and she apologized to them.
"Oh, I understand, I understand. Who wouldn't be scared if they saw a ghost?" Xi Rui, who wasn't scared at all when she saw a ghost, said with a smile. "So, who wants to come with me?"
The classroom fell silent.
Sun Enze looked left and saw that Teacher Meng had just been frightened; he looked right and saw that Xie Tan, leaning against the table, was almost asleep and uninvolved.
He had no choice but to volunteer, but to his surprise, Teacher Meng gritted her teeth and said, "I'll do it."
"Teacher, are you okay?"
"Of course I'm scared, but as a teacher, I can't just watch you students take risks while I hide in the back. Besides, I also want to ask, why me? Why have I been trapped here for so many days..."
"Great! It's midnight, when the yin energy is at its peak. The lights can't be turned on anyway. It's quiet, dim, and the environment is perfect. A man and a woman, one yin and one yang, sounds like it'll be easier to succeed. Let's go?"
"……bring it on."
The two sat facing each other. Xie Tan's drawing of the spirit writing brush was placed on the table. They both stretched out their right hands, elbows suspended in the air, holding the brush with the tip vertical, and lightly touched the words "Entrance" in the upper left corner.
They closed their eyes and whispered, "Ouija board spirit, Ouija board spirit, you are my past life, I am your present life. If you wish to continue our bond, please draw a circle on the paper."
An eerie silence filled the room. Sun Enze stared at the scene with tension, barely daring to breathe.
But just like before, there was no reaction at all.
Is it still wrong?
It seems we've come full circle back to the initial question: Is the location wrong, or is the paper and pen incorrect? Or is it not a spirit medium at all?
However, this was a paper for drawing the spirit pen that Xie Tan himself had drawn...
Xie Tan closed his eyes.
At that time, Lu Jinzhao was holding him, with No. 7 cat in his arms. Although sitting on the sofa for a long time was not very comfortable, with two heaters, one big and one small, he was indeed succumbed to a soft drowsiness and thought he could sleep well.
Unfortunately, his sweet dream was interrupted by the chill. When he opened his eyes, his boyfriend was gone, his cat was gone, and not only the travel agency, but the entire campus was empty. So he was exhausted, and the two of them started a divination in front of him. He was about to fall asleep.
Fortunately, he was immune to noise, but very sensitive to silence. He realized that the silence had lasted too long and opened his eyes.
Looking out the window, the first thing I saw was the distant student association building. I remembered Xi Rui saying it "looks like an eye," so I subconsciously filled in the part that was blocked by other buildings in my mind... It really does look like one.
The pen suddenly moved.
All four of them looked over at the same time.
The pen tip slowly drew a circle over the two characters "entrance".
It's here!
Xi Ruixian asked with a hearty laugh, "Ouija board spirit, did I rank in the top three in this month's exam?"
He had seen the results with Director Jiang beforehand. Because he had been busy with teaching and club affairs recently, he had surprisingly fallen out of the top three and was now in fourth place.
The Ouija board drew a circle on the "no" sign.
"Oh dear, I'm so sad. Is the subject of Historical Theory and History of Historiography still the highest score?"
yes.
"Phew, thank goodness. I'm going to take back everything that's rightfully mine by the end of the semester."
The result was correct. Xi Rui pretended to cry twice, then changed the subject: "Ouija board spirit, Ouija board spirit, is today December 27th, 20xx?"
yes.
Are we trapped in this day?
yes.
Xi Rui asked four questions in a row. Even if the others were out of the loop, they should have snapped out of it by now. So he smiled politely at Teacher Meng and gestured for her to ask.
Teacher Meng took a deep breath: "Did you trap us here?"
The pen tip moved more slowly this time, circling around the word "no".
Ms. Meng's vigilance vanished, replaced by surprise. Her gaze at the others clearly said, "It's lying to us, isn't it?"
Xi Rui gave him a reassuring look, and then spoke again, but instead of probing or questioning, he asked directly: "Is the person who orchestrated all of this among us? Who is he?"
Teacher Meng was stunned, and Sun Enze subconsciously glanced at Xie Tan.
Xie Tan remained unfazed.
First, the Ouija board answered the first question with "Yes".
Then they watched as the pen tip slid towards the letter area, heading straight for the "X".
Xi Rui chuckled inwardly, having anticipated this. He glanced at Xie Tan with a half-smile, then realized he had gone too far with his pen.
The pen tip passed through the "X" and eventually circled around the "S".
Xi Rui was taken aback and was visibly stunned.
Not Xie Tan?
Xie Tan sat there, his expression unchanged, revealing nothing of his thoughts.
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