Tang Yuanyuan and his party cautiously walked up the corridor, looking for the cry that kept echoing in her ears.
The echoes in the empty corridors of the campus' teaching buildings at night were particularly harsh. Even if she stepped as lightly as possible, the sound of her footsteps seemed to be infinitely amplified in the silence.
And every time the footsteps hit the wall and then turned back, they came back to her ears as if there were countless shadows chasing after her, making chaotic footsteps. Every time the echo sounded in her ears, it was as if they were tapping her. Tight nerves.
But no matter how Tang Yuanyuan turned around, she couldn't see what was chasing behind her. Yi Huai and Zhen also said that there was no scent of ghosts near them. Such a start made her feel that she had underestimated her opponent this time. weird.
It wasn't until they passed through the corridor and entered the corridor on the next floor that the chaotic footsteps that had been chasing behind her quietly disappeared.
But when she took a few steps and instinctively turned back to make sure there was nothing behind her, she saw a row of bloody footprints behind her.
The row of footprints were very small, like those of a newborn baby, but each blood mark glowed with bright blood under the light of the flashlight, as if a child had stepped in the blood and stained the entire sole of the foot, and then slammed it hard on the ground. Imprinted marks.
And those bloody footprints almost all appeared behind the heels where Tang Yuanyuan landed, which meant that if the opponent was really behind her, he was almost moving forward against her legs.
Seeing such a scene, Tang Yuanyuan couldn't help frowning and her face changed slightly, but her eyes did not stay on those footprints. Instead, she turned back and raised her head, took a deep breath and looked back in the direction of the bathroom.
"I feel no chill after walking all the way. It must be a prank by the kid to attract attention. At least I can roughly confirm that these handwritings are from the ghost baby."
Yi Huai was a little surprised to hear her whisper. He stood beside her and kept paying attention to her reaction. He didn't expect that she was calmer than he thought.
Normally, humans of her age would become suspicious when encountering something strange, not to mention being frightened half to death and would basically panic. However, Tang Yuanyuan could analyze it calmly even if a ghost found its way onto her head. She had to. He is worthy of being someone who has survived so many years of harassment by ghosts.
"As we approached the bathroom, the crying became quieter... Maybe it was a trap laid by it, or maybe it was leading the way..."
Tang Yuanyuan said so softly and took another step forward. She turned the corner and walked into the public toilet with the flashlight in her hand. The bloody footprints following her were still appearing along the way, but she did not look back, but followed them. Following the direction of the crying, she walked into the women's restroom with Yi Huai and Zhen.
The baby's cry that had been echoing in her ears as a guide suddenly stopped the moment she entered the women's restroom. Instead, what hit her senses was the strong fishy smell that came from nowhere in the restroom.
The pungent fishy smell seemed to be the smell of blood as soon as she smelled it. It was so strong that it almost stunk, but she looked around the toilet with a flashlight and couldn't find any blood stains that could emit such a strong smell.
Everything in the women's restroom looks normal. The gray-white tiles around it reflect light under the flashlight light. The school's restrooms are cleaned regularly every day. The floor without any extra materials proves that the same is true here. .
After scanning around, Tang Yuanyuan confirmed that there was no abnormality in the surrounding area, so he shined his flashlight on the ajar door of the toilet.
"I don't like the feeling of opening a blind box and hitting ghosts the most..."
She sighed softly and stood in front of the first ajar door and hesitated for a moment. Just when she was mentally preparing to open the door, Yi Huai suddenly said:
"Let me do it."
As he spoke, he stepped forward and pushed open the first ajar door. The toilet cubicle looked normal, with no extra blood stains as expected.
After taking a look and seeing nothing unusual, he quickly turned around and then pushed open the next room next door.
The stall doors in the women's restroom were pushed open one by one, but the source of the bloody smell that permeated the restroom never appeared until Yi Huai walked around and finally stopped at the last restroom in the corner of the entrance. .
The door of the cubicle in the corner has a white paper with the words "no use allowed" on it. The door is not like other cubicles but is closed tightly. However, its door is the best among all cubicles. The cleanest one, with no sign of stains at all, so Yi Huai did not push the door open at first.
Because all possibilities in this toilet seem to have been eliminated, and only this door that cannot be opened is left. If there is any secret in this toilet, it can only be hidden here.
So when they faced the door, they involuntarily entered the peak of vigilance. Yi Huai turned around and signaled Tang Yuanyuan to retreat, while Zhen, who had been lying on her shoulder, also arched his back in a posture of preparing to attack.
Then Yi Huai stretched out his hand as before, but failed to push the door open.
He frowned when he saw this and tried again, but there was only the sound of the cubicle door shaking in the toilet.
The last compartment cannot be opened.
Tang Yuanyuan was already mentally prepared to see a terrifying scene, but this situation was somewhat beyond her expectation.
"Strange... This cubicle in schools is generally designed as a sit-down toilet for people with disabilities... Very few people use this room... So most of the time it is used as a utility room to store cleaning tools. Why can’t it be opened using...?”
She whispered so, looking at the compartment door, a guess formed in her mind, and then she took a few steps forward and spoke to Yi Huai:
"Let me try."
As soon as she said this, she reached out and touched the door of the compartment, but before she could use any strength, something strange happened suddenly.
The door of the compartment suddenly began to shake violently, making strange noises. It seemed that there were countless hands behind the door frantically slapping the compartment door that could not be opened. The intensive slapping sounds continued one after another, as if they were dying. The man tried his best to push away the cage that was about to kill him.
Even though Tang Yuanyuan was mentally prepared, she was jumped by the sudden movement. She instinctively backed away and wanted to stay away from the compartment door, but she stumbled and almost fell in her hurry. Fortunately, Yi Huai stepped in from behind in time. Caught her.
"Thank you..." She raised her head and before she finished saying thank you, she saw Yi Huai staring at the compartment door with a gloomy expression, murderous intent gleaming in his red eyes. At the same time, Zhen also suddenly He began to roar with anger and was ready to attack at any time when facing the door.
The moment the toilet cubicle door moved, the temperature in the entire space dropped sharply. A biting chill instantly filled the entire toilet, and the smell of blood that was present at the beginning became stronger and stronger. It seemed like this toilet was a cage soaked in blood.
"What a heavy ghost spirit..."
Yi Huai spoke in a low voice while helping Tang Yuanyuan, whose center of gravity was unstable, and the blue spirit fire that had been following him began to beat violently.
The door that had been shaking violently was still making continuous slapping sounds, and the sounds were even getting denser, as if there was food that made them salivate right in front of them, as if they were about to break through the door and rush out from inside at any time.
He pulled Tang Yuanyuan behind him, and with a sullen expression he raised his hand to split the spiritual fire beside him. Then he pressed his palm and pointed at the shaking compartment door. The split spiritual fire suddenly seemed like The fireball spun towards the door, bursting into blue sparks on the surface!
Immediately afterwards, the exploding spiritual fires gathered together again, and attached to the entire compartment door and began to burn violently. The door that was constantly being slapped suddenly began to twitch violently, and in addition to the sound of impact, there was a cry-like wailing.
It wasn't until the spiritual fire continued to burn on the door for a while that the banging and crying coming from behind the door gradually decreased and disappeared, and the cold atmosphere in the toilet also began to quickly fade away.
Tang Yuanyuan watched the flames on the door gradually fade away. For some reason, she suddenly felt like something had escaped from the toilet. She frowned and looked behind her, trying to dispel the strange feeling. But when his eyes fell on the entrance behind him, he was suddenly startled.
She glanced back accidentally, but happened to see a figure standing in the aisle outside the entrance to the toilet.
The figure stood in the shadow of the dark corridor. Tang Yuanyuan couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but she could clearly recognize that the other person was the boy who appeared in the video!
Moreover, the only thing that could really see the boy in the field of vision of her eyes was the red right eye in her heterochromatic pupils. There was nothing in the shadow of the corridor in the field of vision of her left eye.
She recovered from the brief shock and was about to tell Yi Huai in front of her that "he has appeared", but she saw the boy standing there with his index finger raised to his mouth.
The boy's behavior seemed to be telling her not to speak. For some reason, Tang Yuanyuan couldn't see the other person's face clearly in the dark, but she felt that he was smiling at her.
Because of the other party's reaction, the words she wanted to say were stuck in her throat. It wasn't until the boy waved at her and disappeared that she frowned and turned her gaze back to her own. Palm.
"Does he know me...?"
She felt this way for no reason and could not help but murmur to herself in a low voice. The words could not escape the ears of Tsumugi lying on her shoulder. He narrowed his eyes and asked:
"who?"
"....I just saw the boy in that video when I walked outside."
Tang Yuanyuan answered truthfully and shook his head: "He gave me a very strange sense of familiarity..."
Yi Huai, who was standing in front of her, also heard the conversation between her and Zhen. He looked back and stared at her for a moment. He wanted to say something but could not say it. Instead, Zhen beat him to it:
"Don't believe the feeling the ghost gives you. I didn't feel any breath outside just now, but you saw him. That kid may be more evil than we thought."
"Many ghosts can confuse people. The so-called familiarity may be an illusion they deliberately created for you... Fortunately, you didn't run out alone."
Tang Yuanyuan laughed after hearing its words:
"...I won't do that kind of thing where people are killed...I understand what you're saying...but the feeling he gives me is really not that simple kind of bewitchment...I said I don’t understand. I had this familiar feeling in my memories before, but it was not as strong as when I saw him this time..."
"I don't know why..."
Her words suddenly stopped here. After thinking about it, she still didn't say the following words: "I think his breath is somewhat similar to Yi Huai's" and "I think he might not hurt me."
Zhen saw that she had something to say, so he couldn't help but ask: "What don't you know?"
Tang Yuanyuan only shook his head and changed the subject: "No, it's nothing, it's not important. Compared with that, has the evil ghost in this toilet been eliminated?"
As she said that, her eyes fell back on the cubicle door, just in time to see the last trace of the spiritual fire that could burn the soul dissipate, and the next moment, there was another sudden sound in the toilet that had returned to silence. It was as if the door lock of the compartment was suddenly opened from the inside.
Then the cubicle door creaked and slowly opened by itself, revealing the strange whole scene in that cubicle.
