After leaving the dormitory, Yu Wen and her group headed towards the south side of the campus.
Zhang Yinyin hangs at the end, neither far nor close.
It was relatively deserted there, and except for a few girls doing morning exercises, I didn't meet anyone else along the way.
The girls' eyes were very strange. They looked directly past Yu Wen and Zhang Yinyin and stared at Zhou Taifu in the middle.
Staring at the latter made his heart tremble.
"They...what do they want to do to me?" Zhou Taifu covered the only vest he had on, his face as white as a piece of paper.
Fortunately, the girls just watched from a distance and did not do anything irregular as Zhou Taifu thought.
This world is so terrible, Zhou Taifu swallowed silently.
If you were left alone, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The road has come to an end.
Several people stopped.
In front of him was a tennis court, with a fence that was several meters high and stained with rust.
The place was empty.
The morning sun was shining, and there was a layer of fine particles floating in the air.
The smell of moisture filled the nostrils.
It seemed like it had rained last night.
The ground of the stadium is old concrete, with faint traces of white paint remaining on it, which are now very blurry.
Most of the net has disappeared, leaving only the bare poles.
Next to one side of the fence, there are rows of steps-like seats.
Exposed to the wind and sun, the plastic seats were now dry, cracked and turned white.
Obviously, this tennis court has long been abandoned.
Zhou Taifu looked at Yu Wen who had brought them here, with confusion flashing in his eyes.
Zhang Yinyin seemed to want to say something, but after noticing that Yu Wen had turned into a nearby fork in the road, her expression gradually became weird.
It wasn't even a road, just a path made of sand.
Only one person can pass.
After a while, the three of them raised their heads, and a building almost identical to the dormitory building where they lived appeared in front of everyone.
Zhou Taifu stared here and couldn't help but swallowed.
Unlike the dormitory building where they lived, this place was not abandoned.
Flowers in red clay pots are placed at the windows of some rooms, while in many others clothes and even objects such as washbasins are hung.
There are still people living here.
...
"Dong dong dong!"
The structure of the building was exactly the same as their dormitory. Yu Wen easily found the room she was looking for and knocked on the door.
The sound was very hollow, a flavor unique to that era.
"Crunch——"
The old door shaft made a harsh friction sound, like a dying old man.
The contrast is sharp with the young face that flashed out from behind the door.
The woman looked at them and panicked for a moment, "Is it you?"
Yu Wen smiled and said, "Teacher Feng, I'm sorry to bother you."
It was the woman in charge of the rehearsal.
After hesitating for a moment, the woman still blocked the door and did not move, as if she was considering whether to let them in.
"Teacher Feng," Yu Wen pointed to the room and continued, "Is it convenient to go in and sit for a while?"
"This..." The woman looked confused.
"Thank you," Yu Wen nodded and walked directly in.
The woman moved away subconsciously.
Then there is Zhang Yinyin.
Zhou Taifu was the last one.
After he entered, he looked around. The structure of the room here was the same as theirs, except that only the woman lived here.
Because there is only one single bed.
The rest of the space was filled with women's personal belongings, and there was a clothes hanger hanging from the hook in the closet, with a few pieces of underwear hanging on it.
It looked like it had just been washed, and there were still obvious water stains on the dark cement floor.
The woman was sitting on the bed staring at the three of them. Just when Yu Wen was about to speak, the woman interrupted her first, "I know what you want to ask."
Zhou Taifu was stunned.
Then, as if she was afraid of being heard by something, she lowered her voice and asked, "Have you...did anyone encounter that kind of thing?"
"Please go on," Yu Wen neither admitted nor denied, but simply nodded.
Then he took out the pen and paper he carried with him and prepared to record.
But the woman seemed to hear something from it, and asked nervously: "Is that person okay?"
Yu Wen thought about it carefully and realized that since her chin was gone, it shouldn't be considered good. However, out of consideration of not disturbing the woman, she nodded and said, "It's not bad."
"Oh my god, he's so lucky." The woman tightened her clothes in fear.
After a while, she stared at Yu Wen and said cautiously: "After the rehearsal yesterday, I saw you in a panic, so I suspected that something like that had happened to you."
"Actually, many teachers here have encountered this kind of thing..."
Her voice suddenly became softer.
Yu Wen raised her head, stopped the pen in her hand, and said calmly: "Including you? Teacher Feng."
The woman trembled when she heard the words, but finally nodded and said after a long time: "Well, that... was in my first year at this school."
"One day, like other teachers, I left the office together after get off work."
"Because my family is not local, I applied for a dormitory at school and went to the cafeteria to eat. But it wasn't until I finished eating that day and returned to the dormitory that I discovered that I had forgotten my key in the office drawer."
"I was very anxious because it was almost completely dark."
At this point, she paused and explained: "Our school has an unwritten rule. Try not to wander around the campus after dark, especially not near Building C."
"But..." The woman raised her head, her face turned ugly, "My office is in Building C."
Hearing this, Zhou Taifu's throat couldn't help but roll.
"When I first came here," the woman said, "I heard this saying, but I didn't know why."
"I was also curious and asked teachers who have been teaching for a longer time, but everyone kept silent about it. They just told me that this is the school's rule and I must abide by it."
"But you should go back and get the key," Yu Wen said calmly, looking into the woman's eyes.
After all, the plot still needs to advance...
"That's right," the woman sighed. She turned her face and looked out the window, as if she didn't want others to see her eyes.
"By the time I arrived at Teaching Building C, it was completely dark," she paused, then whispered after a moment: "That building was the same."
"It's the kind of black that you can't see without reaching your fingertips. It doesn't have any brilliance, and it doesn't blend in with the surrounding night. It feels like... it's swallowing the night."
"Can you understand that feeling?"
The woman stared into Yu Wen's eyes and suddenly became excited, "That building...that building seems to be alive! It is alive, it is...waiting for me." Throw yourself into a trap!”
"Please calm down." Yu Wen was not led into the woman's rhythm. She looked at the woman and said slowly: "It is daytime and you are not in Block C. You are safe."
"call--"
After a long time, the woman seemed to struggle out of the memory. She nodded and pursed her lips together unnaturally.
