Chapter 8: I am such a brave and witty and handsome author
"Ah——"
A scream echoed throughout the dormitory building.
Even Chu Changge and Fatty next door heard the sound and came over.
"What's wrong?" The fat man looked at Xun Li, who was huddled in a ball on the bed: "Isn't it quite impressive during the day?"
Chu Changge asked Gu Mian with his eyes.
Gu Mian explained: "It's nothing, I just saw a face."
As he spoke, he pointed to the window. There was nothing else there.
Gu Mian lowered her voice: "You'd better be careful, they..."
They've always been there.
The unclosed door swayed slightly, and Gu Mian saw a figure outside the gap.
"In any case, proceed with caution." Gu Mian warned.
The two nodded slightly.
Xun Li has never been able to fall asleep. Although he was in a dungeon, the experience was very real and he still felt sleepy, but it would not kill him if he didn't sleep.
He huddled up in a ball and looked around like a big goose.
Sometimes he asked Gu Mian to help him look under the bed, and sometimes he asked Gu Mian to pull the curtains tighter.
Gu Mian had nothing to do, so she agreed one by one.
But in the second half of the night Xunli's mood was not so good.
Seeing the person getting up to leave, he hurriedly asked: "You want to go out?"
Gu Mian looked back at him: "Yes."
It's terrible! Who dares to stay alone in this school full of resentful spirits in the middle of the night?
Xun Li quickly dissuaded him: "What are you doing out there? It's too dangerous outside, it's safer to be with me."
"No" Gu Mian refused: "What you said before makes sense. I think I need to go out and practice my courage."
He didn't give Xun Li a chance to speak again, opened the door and walked out.
Xunli was left alone in bed.
Gu Mian made an appointment with Fatty Chu Changge and set out in the middle of the night.
But when he walked to the next door and knocked on their door, there was no movement inside.
Gu Mian frowned slightly and opened the door directly.
The lights were still on, but there was no one inside.
"strangeness……"
Gu Mian took another look at the narrow and dark corridor. The light from the chandelier overhead was very dim. The distance was obscure and there was no end in sight.
The door to the two female players was tightly closed, and there was light seeping out from inside, but Gu Mian had no intention of inviting them.
There was no signal on the phone, and the friend system was not turned on. There was no way of knowing where the two of them had gone.
Could it be that something happened?
Gu Mian thought as she walked towards the dormitory number 102 with Zhang Ping's name on it. There was no need to worry, she would definitely meet her as long as she was still here.
Originally, he wanted to violently unlock the door, but found that the dormitory door had opened by itself, and even cracked a gap.
It was pitch black inside.
Gu Mian reached out and pushed open the door.
The light switch was next to the door. He pressed it a few times and found that the light above his head did not respond. It seemed that the circuit in this room was broken.
There was no other way, so Gu Mian had no choice but to turn on the flashlight on her phone.
This is a single room. It is very simple inside, so simple that you can tell something special just by looking at it.
Gu Mian saw a notebook on the bed at a glance.
"Journal?"
He reached out and picked up the heavy book lying across the bed. This book was about the same size as a political textbook, half as thick as a brick, and very heavy.
However, there was a bookmark inside, and Gu Mian easily turned to the more useful page.
The bookmark included in this book is a photo of a page in a book. There is a talisman drawn on the book, which is similar to the talisman in the TV series. In short, it looks like a ghost drawing the talisman.
There are also a few lines of text in the photo, which seem to record the contents of this spell.
"The Evil Ghost Soul-nurturing Curse"
"The greater the resentment when you die, the stronger the ghost will become after death. If you stick this spell on the corpse, you can suppress the ghost's ability and prevent the ghost from leaving the body for a certain distance."
"Remember! This talisman will be..."
There should be half a page at the back, but I don't know who tore it off.
Gu Mian took out the photos and flipped through them. The book was almost empty, with only one sentence written on the first page.
"The spring silkworms will not run out of silk until they die, and the wax torches will dry up only when they turn to ashes and shed tears?"
There are no other words on it except this sentence.
"Strange" Gu Mian touched her chin, why did Zhang Ping have photos of such a charm?
To use this spell on someone, you must have his body, and the bodies of those who were burned to death should have been taken away and cremated.
After all, the police were involved and there was no way they would leave the body of one of them behind.
So in this school, Lin Yanan may be the only one who can be imprisoned by this spell.
She was killed and put under a spell, and her soul was imprisoned in this school forever.
Did Zhang Ping put the talisman on Lin Yanan's body after her death? Was it to retaliate against Lin Yanan burning herself to death?
While Gu Mian was thinking about it, she glanced at the only line of words in the book - "Spring silkworms will not run out of silk until they die, and wax torches will turn to ashes before tears dry up."
Things didn't seem to be as simple as he thought.
Gu Mian didn't plan to stay here for too long. He tore off the piece of paper with the writing on it and stuffed it into his white coat along with the photo.
Before leaving, he took another look at the dormitory.
Except for the boy in uniform in the mirror, the pale face exposed from under the bed, and the bruised hands clinging to the balcony door frame, there was nothing special about him.
Before Gu Mian left, she took the opportunity to kick the face under the bed.
The corridor was still dark, dark and deserted.
The windows at both ends were cracked open, letting in cold wind.
There was still no one in Chu Changge and Fatty's room, not even a hair was left.
"Let's go to the fourth floor and have a look." Gu Mian looked at the narrow corridor and said to herself.
The entire class of students who died lived on the fourth floor, which is also the top floor. Maybe we can find some clues in their dormitories.
While he was thinking, he walked to the stairs and stepped up.
Everyone has seen such things as stairs. You have to turn halfway up the stairs.
Just when Gu Mian was about to turn the corner, a pair of feet suddenly appeared in his peripheral vision.
It was a pair of feet wearing sneakers, stepping on the somewhat dirty stairs. It quickly climbed to the second floor in front of Gu Mian and then disappeared.
Adult feet, worn women's sneakers, the other two female players were not wearing sneakers.
"Is it Zhang Ping?"
Seeing this, Gu Mian gave up the idea of going to the fourth floor and stopped directly on the second floor.
The corridor on the second floor was also deep and narrow. The people who ran up before had disappeared. Gu Mian used the moonlight to look towards the nearest dormitory.
There are no locks on the doors.
Xun Li, who was still in the dormitory on the first floor, was shivering under the quilt.
The light was on, but he didn't dare to show a single hair, and his whole body was tightly covered by the quilt.
At this moment, he heard a heavy knock on the door through the quilt.
Xun Li was a little excited and immediately lifted the quilt: "Gu Mian, you finally..."
But as soon as the quilt was lifted halfway, the strange footsteps made him swallow the whole part behind.
"Boom"
"Boom"
"Boom"
Stiff footsteps were walking straight towards him.
The sound didn't stop until it reached the head of the bed. Directly opposite his head, Xunli's quilt had been opened by him with a big crack just now.
As long as you turn your head slightly, you can see something staring at you next to you.
His whole body was shaking, his scalp was numb, and he didn't dare to move while lying on the bed, let alone re-press the gap.
Just when Xun Li was trembling and stiff, he suddenly felt the hairs on the back of his neck move slightly, as if someone was staring at him under the quilt.
Immediately afterwards, a subtle rubbing sound came from behind the head.
