Chapter 130 The Ouija Board (7) Anyway, Xi Rui didn't believe it. ...
Teacher Meng climbed up the steps one by one.
She walked slowly, so her voice was soft, and she arrived silently outside the office on the fifth floor. Sure enough, the door opened.
She didn't push the door open or knock, but listened intently to the sounds inside. She heard a terrifying scream shaking the house, and everything in the room—tables, chairs, cabinets—made a screeching sound as they scraped against the floor. A sinister atmosphere permeated the room, and even just standing by the crack in the door, she felt a chill run through her body.
That was absolutely... absolutely not a sound a human could make!
"The sound was a bit too loud."
But when she heard the boy's indifferent and nonchalant words, she was taken aback and immediately pushed the door open and entered.
The window was wide open, the curtains were billowing high, and the boy was still holding his sword, his posture languid. Suddenly, a distorted black shadow fell out of the window and dissipated into the wind.
"Xie Tan, are you alright? That's..."
Xie Tan walked out, casually tossing the peach wood sword into Teacher Meng's arms.
Teacher Meng hurriedly steadied the sword: "I was so worried about you because you hadn't come up. Was that a ghost trapped here? Or was it the spirit of the Ouija board? Luckily, this sword helped you. Why did you give it to me..."
She talked a lot, but Xie Tan kept walking and she couldn't keep up, so she had to stop talking: "Xie Tan, wait for me, my feet, I can't walk fast."
“Being imprisoned is a terrifying thing, teacher, you must know that too.” Xie Tan, who was a step ahead, turned around slowly and said, “So I’ll go unlock it first, you can keep the sword.”
Since the ghosts won't hurt him anyway, if the sword is really useful, it's better to leave it to someone else.
He made the final decision and then disappeared upstairs.
Teacher Meng looked at the Seven Star Sword and took a deep breath.
"Is Teacher Meng alright...?" Sun Enze asked worriedly in the sealed-off classroom.
"With Xiao Tan here, what problems could there be?" Xi Rui lay on a small bed made of tables and chairs, swinging his legs.
Sun Enze was silent for a moment, then whispered, "It's just that she and Xie Tan were alone together... Will Xie Tan really care about her?"
"Don't worry."
Sun Enze breathed a sigh of relief: "That's true, Xie Tan has actually helped many people..." like him.
Then Xi Rui said, "He definitely won't care about her."
"Huh? Then... what do we do? We can't get out either."
"Hey, Xiaoze, you really care about her? I thought you already had experience with this?"
Sun Enze paused for a moment, then his expression turned strange: "Is there something wrong with her?"
"Don't you think she knows too much?" Xi Rui said. "The incident happened in the old teaching building. No one saw it. By the time the old man in the patrol car discovered it after the weekend, all the students were dead. Similarly, the news was completely blocked because the incident was bizarre and beyond common sense. It was probably caused by supernatural forces. The leaders and the police station all spoke up, so everyone kept quiet. Even the older teachers didn't know where the first student died or how many students jumped from the seventh floor, but she knew all the details. I heard these details from the seniors who personally performed exorcisms here."
"Moreover, since she knew so much and was fed up and just wanted to escape, there was no sign that the paper and pen in that classroom had been touched. Of course, you could say that one person can't play the Ouija board, but when she learned that the Ouija board spirit was one of the thirteen students, she was so terrified that she almost dropped the pen. That was more than the fear of encountering a ghost story; it was more like..."
Sun Enze continued, "She was also involved in this."
"I heard about a couple whose deaths were exceptionally gruesome. Originally, a spirit from the Ouija board was sealing off the building. The boy made a deal with the spirit during a questioning session, releasing his girlfriend. But even though the girl escaped to the door, she couldn't open it. Do you know why?"
"The Ouija board never intended to let her go?"
"The Ouija board kept its promise and withdrew its power to seal the door, but the door was locked from the outside, on a physical level."
"...The person who locked the door was Teacher Meng."
"That girl is from the food science department. She's a good student, got a guaranteed spot in the graduate program at our university, and is incredibly talented. She's good at everything from piano and painting to speed skating. She's also the president of the drama club. She should be a lively person, but she had a falling out with her advisor. She accused him of improper authorship of her papers, withholding her work fees, and verbally abusing and suppressing students. Soon after, various 'rumors' about her improper academic attitude and immoral lifestyle began to circulate."
It's quite obvious who spread the rumor.
Xi Rui said, "She promised her friends to play Ouija board together, so she probably had no other choice but to ask how to resolve the situation... As it turned out, her tutor was staying at school that night and heard them playing Ouija board. He wanted to catch them in the act of being irresponsible and give them a good scare to teach them a lesson. He didn't take their knocking and cries for help seriously and locked the door."
"The senior members of the cult said that the spirit that killed them had been exorcised, but one of the students' ghosts was too resentful to be released, so it could only be sealed away and would slowly dissipate over time. During the last exorcism, we found another one that was always hiding and was very difficult to catch. I guess it was the ghost of that boy who was keeping company with his girlfriend who was sealed away."
Sun Enze: "So the Ouija board spirit is that boy, seeking revenge?"
The classroom door lock was suddenly turned, and Xie Tan pushed the door open.
"Oh dear, it has to be my club members who come to save your beloved club president~"
"Xie Tan! ...Teacher Meng isn't here?"
Xie Tan replied, "She twisted her ankle; she's behind me."
"How cold-hearted," Xi Rui said exaggeratedly, then took the bunch of keys and handed them to Sun Enze. "It has to be Xiao Ze. Go pick up Teacher Meng. I heard her fall down."
There was indeed a cry of pain coming from the other side of the stairs, along with the clatter of something falling to the ground.
"Okay...okay."
After Sun Enze left, Xie Tan stayed behind. Xi Rui suddenly asked, "Aren't the hands of the clock here too?"
Xie Tan turned to look at him.
"Jumping through time, blocking time, only this time it's not the past, but the future. 'Time is an old friend'... Compared to you, Zhu Fengliang is indeed not a Mad Hatter."
"Didn't the Ouija board already answer you?" Xie Tan leaned against the wall.
The Ouija board did say that other people were present, but Xie Tan wasn't sure if Chang Mingai was among them.
However, from a comic book perspective, since the story is unfolding while they are all in the club, it would be a waste not to involve them all.
Where is she?
"You think I'm some kind of Ouija board?" Xie Tan scoffed. "You're the one closest to her, why don't you ask yourself that?"
"I know you have a very kind heart." Xi Rui's expression changed.
Xie Tan raised an eyebrow: "Me?"
Didn't I just call him a heartless bastard?
"Otherwise, why would you help the Ouija board spirit get revenge? That sword was the vessel that sealed the female ghost, right? Although I don't know why, I guess it can't be sealed anymore. You knew she wanted to test if you could break the seal on the office door, yet you were doubly considerate and gave her the sword directly, making her mistakenly believe that she could use it to threaten the Ouija board spirit, and then you could also capture the Ouija board spirit."
Xie Tan: ...
He realized that something was wrong with Teacher Meng, which wasn't surprising, but he really didn't know that there was a seal on the office door; the door had opened by itself.
Xi Rui said, "If we can seal or kill the spirit of the Ouija board, then of course we can leave. She would naturally think of that. She's been acting all this way, and she's probably already on the seventh floor with Xiao Ze, summoning the spirit of the Ouija board. When she gets surrounded by two ghosts... tsk tsk, I hope she doesn't get blood on Xiao Ze's face."
On the other side.
"Shouldn't we wait for them?" Sun Enze asked hesitantly.
“Just now, ghosts attacked Xie Tan on the fifth floor. They couldn’t hold back any longer. Time is of the essence. Xie Tan and I agreed that he would go open the door for you and attract the attention of the other ghosts. I’ll go get paper and pen. Let’s finish this quickly. With this sword, we have nothing to fear.”
Teacher Meng unlocked the seventh floor and strode briskly to the classroom where the boy had jumped to his death.
She explained the origin of the sword and described the scene of Xie Tan using the sword to defeat the monster, gently comforting Sun Enze.
After all, one person can't play the Ouija board game alone.
"Ouija board spirit, Ouija board spirit, you are my past life, and I am your present life. If you wish to continue our bond, please draw a circle on the paper." She said this before Sun Enze could.
They sat facing each other, their pens moved, and they quietly entered through the "entrance".
They first asked a few trivial questions, and then Teacher Meng suddenly revealed the identity of the Ouija board spirit, accurately stating the name of the last boy to die among the thirteen people.
The pen stopped.
“Child, I remember you. You are excellent. You should have had a bright future ahead of you. Being trapped here must be very painful for you. As your teacher, it is my responsibility to help you,” Teacher Meng said gently, while her other hand, hidden under the table, gripped the peach wood sword tightly. “Ouija board spirit, Ouija board spirit, tell me, how can I save you?”
Everything was quiet and eerie.
Suddenly, the pen started moving again.
Sun Enze fainted.
When he opened his eyes again, he was on Xi Rui's back.
When Xi Rui saw that he was awake, she put him down and took his hand to go upstairs with him.
This is not the old teaching building; it's a building complex with numbered sections.
What's wrong? He was confused.
Xi Rui said that when they found him on the seventh floor, he was lying on the Ouija board, the sword was rolled on the ground, the classroom was empty, the wind was blowing the curtains high, and they did not see Teacher Meng.
Sun Enze shuddered: "So she managed to leave, or was she killed by a ghost...?"
"Aside from the extreme measure of killing the spirit, the correct approach should be to help the spirit resolve its obsession and find release. Xie Tan deliberately lured her into his trap; she is certainly dead, but not here, not on the 27th."
So, based on Xie Tan's actions, the president deduced the method of escape. Sun Enze asked, "He didn't die on the 27th?"
"On the night of the 26th, a disheveled female corpse was found on the hillside below the old teaching building area. It should be her, and she has been dead for several days, which is probably around the time she went missing."
Sun Enze was stunned. It was like the tape had played first, but then the button was pressed; the effect came first, and the cause came later.
Yes, they jumped time! Before the 26th was over, they were pulled into Carnival on the 27th!
"What's all this strange stuff lately?" Sun Enze couldn't quite put his finger on it. The current situation was easier for him to understand. He murmured, "That boy took his revenge himself, so it can be considered..."
“Neither of the couple were Ouija board spirits,” Xi Rui said. “The Ouija board spirits are not among the thirteen people who committed suicide.”
"What?"
“From the moment I asked the taboo question, ‘How did the Ouija board die?’ the Ouija board stopped answering and left.”
Sun Enze remembered that the light bulb had broken at that time.
"So the ones after that are all?"
"I deliberately guided the pen tip to answer, to coordinate with Xiao Tan," Xi Rui exclaimed. "We really do have a tacit understanding; we don't need to discuss it beforehand, we have the same idea."
So at that time, I was trying to persuade Teacher Meng.
"Is it not the Ouija board's revenge?"
"It's not wrong to say it's revenge. The student who jumped off the building on the 26th was also from the food science department. Like that girl, he suffered a lot from his professor. He was already dead before he jumped, and his time of death may have been even earlier than Professor Meng's."
Xie Tan and Xi Rui tacitly cooperated with the Ouija board to carry out the retribution.
"That's right, the Ouija board is the anchor point here, and all the strange things may be under its control."
"Now that the Ouija board's obsession has been fulfilled, can this day finally be over?"
It will be midnight again in less than an hour.
"We need to perform another Ouija board ritual at the spot where he fell, just to get it over with..."
Sun Enze suddenly realized: "Where's Xie Tan?"
"I've locked him in the old teaching building," Xi Rui said lightly. "Actually, we're just trying to steal his credit, aren't we? To make him shut up!"
Sun Enze's eyes widened: "Huh? Wait, this won't do!"
"Don't worry, you and he together have eight hundred schemes. You owe one, and he owes eight hundred and one. What are you worried about? Or do you really believe he's so kind as to jump into the future just to help a ghost get revenge and be free?"
Anyway, Xi and Rui don't believe it.
Xie Tan reminded him that if he were here, the Ouija board would be the absolute authority, and perhaps by "summoning the Ouija board," he could actually get some information about what Xie Tan was up to!
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