Chapter 554
[545] The Eight-Legged Female Ghost
"cough"
After passing the student ID cards around for everyone to see, Xu Jinhuan coughed and said, "Now we can confirm that there's no real ghost. That was just an NPC coming to give us a clue."
Everyone was genuinely a bit frightened, so his lame joke helped to ease the tension. Everyone laughed along, and Wang Chi said, "So, that boy from earlier might be a clue?"
"Should we give chase?"
Huang Xiaoyu glanced at Xie Zhiqiang, then at Xu Jinhuan, seemingly still a little curious about this "celebrity," or perhaps a bit of an idol. She pointed to the corner ahead and said, "He ran that way. If we go there now, we might still be able to find him."
"It's definitely not that easy to get clues."
Song Zhiyu pinched her chin, deliberately adopting a thoughtful and wise posture, "Based on my years of experience reading novels and watching movies, if we chase after them, we might just find that Liu Moumou's corpse."
"No way?"
Xie Wanqing was a little startled. After all, she had just seen the NPC run past, and subconsciously treated him as a living person, instantly creating an immersive experience. Then, fearing that Song Zhiyu would laugh at her for being a coward, she quickly tried to make amends: "Even if someone dies, they still need to put on makeup, right? He just ran past, is it too late to put on makeup now?"
Song Zhiyu slightly raised her chin and snorted, "If you don't believe me, let's go and see."
Xie Wanqing remained silent, looking at Xu Jinhuan.
Xu Jinhuan thought for a moment and looked at the other boys: "I also feel that we can go and take a look. After all, there are no other clues right now, and the fact that this NPC came over will obviously convey some information."
"Go ahead."
"Let's go take a look first."
The boys didn't object. Li Hang and Wang Chi even exchanged a few sarcastic remarks before pushing each other past.
When you reach the corner, it's a small intersection. The corridor in front of the laboratory is the "main road," with a narrower and shorter corridor on each side.
Liu Xiaoyu had just turned left, so everyone looked to the left in unison, more or less prepared for the possibility of something terrifying being there—like Liu Xiaoyu's corpse from before—but there was nothing there.
This is also a corridor, but it is narrow and short. In the dim light, you can see two classroom doors at the end.
As he turned the corner, Xu Jinhuan glanced to his right and saw that it was another short corridor with two classroom doors at the end.
"go!"
Wang Chi continued walking forward. In just a few meters, he reached the classroom door. The classroom door facing the corridor was closed, while the classroom door next to it was open, and there were no lights on.
Perhaps because the answer was about to be revealed, Song Zhiyu seemed a little scared. She held Xie Wanqing's arm with one hand and poked Xu Jinhuan with the other.
Xu Jinhuan was looking at her and was startled by her little action. Fortunately, he quickly controlled his body's reaction and did not show his fear. Otherwise, he would probably be laughed at by the little girl for years to come.
He glanced back at Song Zhiyu, who pointed to the empty classroom next to them: "You go in first."
Seemingly realizing something, he paused for a moment, then quickly added, "No, let them go in first."
This refers to Xie Zhiqiang, Wang Chi, and a few other boys.
Wang Chi and the others weren't strangers to Song Zhiyu. After a moment of stunned silence, they realized what was happening and were both amused and exasperated: "So you're afraid your brother will see a ghost, so you're making us take the fall first?"
After all, it was just a murder mystery game, so everyone had the guts. Liu Liangfu walked straight in and said, "I'll go first!"
The classroom door was closed. He grasped the doorknob, turned it easily, and pushed the door open to go inside. It was pitch black and he couldn't see anything. Since all cell phones had been handed in, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go in so as not to block other people's way. Although he was nervous, he had no choice but to go in.
To bolster his courage, he casually peered around in the darkness and said, "Look where the light is. Why does this place feel so empty?"
The corridor light shone in slightly, and after everyone came in, they all felt much more at ease. With the help of the dim light, Wang Chi found the switch and turned on the light.
The moment the lights came on, everyone subconsciously looked around. Xu Jinhuan even felt his hair stand on end because of the tension, fearing that he might see something physically disturbing at any moment.
Fortunately, under the bright lights, it was just an ordinary lecture hall with nothing in it.
Although this is not in the city center, and Miyutang has made a large investment, it is impossible to really imitate the large lecture halls in universities, as that would be too wasteful of space. However, in order to ensure the experience, this classroom does not look small and can be considered an ordinary classroom.
However, it was just an ordinary classroom. The group looked at each other and saw that everyone looked both disappointed and relieved, which they found rather amusing.
"Let's go."
Seeing no clues, everyone turned and left. Liu Liangfu, who had just been brave, started to provoke Wang Chi and Li Hang. Unable to withstand the provocation, Wang Chi decisively pushed open the door of another classroom and turned on the light himself in the dim light.
Because they were moving so fast, Huang Xiaoyu and Xie Wanqing hadn't even entered the classroom by the time the lights came on. Huang Xiaoyu, fearing something scary might be there, asked anxiously in a low voice, "Is there something?"
"No."
Seeing his girlfriend so timid, Xie Zhiqiang inexplicably found her even more adorable. He smiled and replied, glancing at his equally timid sister with undisguised disdain, "Just come in."
This was also a lecture hall. Xu Jinhuan stood at the entrance and looked around, but found no clues. He couldn't help but feel a little strange and pondered, "This is not right. Liu Xiaoyu came here, and logically speaking, if he was scared, he would close the door when he went into the classroom. So he should be in this classroom with the door closed."
"Then why didn't you say so just now?"
Song Zhiyu rolled her eyes at him, grabbed his clothes with one hand, and followed behind him. When Xu Jinhuan turned around, she was "tailed" and moved sideways like the foot of a compass. She looked around the classroom more and more warily, and said, "I also think there must be something in here."
Huang Xiaoyu, who had just relaxed a little, tensed up again upon hearing this: "Why?"
Song Zhiyu said, "That NPC must have some clues to lead us here, otherwise why would they have sent us here?"
"Look for it."
Wang Chi walked straight to the back of the classroom, and the others followed suit. Soon, they heard Liu Liangfu shout from the front row, on the other side of the podium: "Here!"
Everyone turned around and walked over to take a look. They saw a small door in the corner of the classroom. The door was ajar. Through the crack in the door, they could see a mop, a trash can, and other items inside, as well as half a body, seemingly sitting against the wall. Judging from the clothes, it was Liu Xiaoyu, who had just run away in a panic.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Wang Chi gave Li Hang a push, and Li Hang gritted his teeth and walked over to open the door, but he didn't dare to go in himself.
However, once the door was pushed open, the scene inside the small storage room was fully revealed to everyone: Liu Xiaoyu was sitting in the corner of the small storage room, leaning against the wall, his head, face, and body covered in blood. Judging from his stiff limbs, this NPC should be dead.
He was holding onto the wall with both hands. Judging from his body language, he seemed to have seen something terrifying and was trying to push it back, but he was forced into a corner with nowhere to retreat.
"Is he completely dead?"
Song Zhiyu blinked, then turned to Xu Jinhuan and asked, "Should we check his breath?"
Xu Jinhuan was speechless: "They're just real people pretending to be corpses, they're not really dead, so why can't they breathe?"
"That's true."
Song Zhiyu nodded, took a closer look at the NPC playing the corpse, and suddenly chuckled, pointing at the NPC and saying, "He smiled! I saw him smile!"
Huang Xiaoyu clearly didn't understand this small detail, and grabbed Xie Zhiqiang's arm, saying, "Don't scare me, isn't he dead?"
"You're too into the role."
Song Zhiyu pursed her lips, and seeing Xu Jinhuan looking around again, she asked curiously, "What are you looking at?" The others also looked at Xu Jinhuan, and Xie Zhiqiang asked, "Did you find a clue?"
"no,"
Xu Jinhuan shook his head and explained, "I was checking if there were any internal passages here. Otherwise, since he was all alone, could he have disguised himself as a corpse?"
"Can't you just have fun in peace?"
Xie Wanqing was also a little scared. Although she knew the corpse was an NPC, it still looked a bit frightening. She couldn't help but chide, "If there are no clues, let's hurry up and leave. It looks so scary."
He paused for a moment, then added, "If we don't leave, they'll just have to keep playing the role of corpses."
Song Zhiyu said, "There must be clues on this NPC. Who wants to go and touch him?"
This time, they directly asked Wang Chi and the other three single guys.
"I go."
Wang Chi struck a pose of heroic arrogance, walked over and touched the corpse. He must have touched something ticklish, because the NPC couldn't help but move. Wang Chi was startled and blurted out, "Brother, you're dead, don't move! You scared me!"
The crowd burst into laughter. Wang Chi quickly pulled out a few cards from the corpse's pocket, looked at them himself, and then Xu Jinhuan.
"168cm tall, Scorpio, likes purple and white..."
Xu Jinhuan took her card, looked at it, and then handed it to someone else. "I saw her in the library on Saturday morning, and I saw her leaving the school gate on Sunday afternoon... It's funny that this is someone else's information, Jingyi's?"
Song Zhiyu nodded and said, "It's possible. This dead guy probably liked Jingyi, and he was a stalker too."
Xie Wanqing looked at the card and asked in confusion, "Then is he related to Jingyi's disappearance? Why did he die?"
"He kept saying there were ghosts, could it be that Jingyi has become a ghost?"
Song Zhiyu muttered under her breath, "Chen Xingzhu and Chen Xingruo played the roles? Impossible!"
As she spoke, she chuckled again, glancing furtively at Xu Jinhuan: "Brother, if those two dressed up as ghosts, would you be scared?"
Xu Jinhuan thought for a moment, but couldn't imagine how the two sisters could dress up as ghosts to scare people. If they really dressed up as ghosts, like wearing a white dress and letting their hair down, he felt he would be happy to play Ning Caichen. He chuckled and said, "Probably not."
With their looks, they're no match for ghosts!
This isn't filming a movie, after all. Even if someone knows how to do makeup, it's not that professional.
"Wait a moment."
Huang Xiaoyu looked at the cards and suddenly said, "The photos on the other side of these cards look familiar."
She held up a card and showed it to the others: "Look at this one, isn't it the lab we just visited? It's a black and white photo, so it looks old, but it's actually new."
"Seems to be."
Xie Wanqing looked at it, nodded, and then looked at it carefully again. "There seem to be words on it."
She looked at it but couldn't see it clearly. Song Zhiyu squeezed over to look as well. Xu Jinhuan and the other guys couldn't get too close, so they looked at the photos on the other side of the other cards. They all looked like scenes from the school, but they hadn't been there yet, so they weren't sure.
"There are words on it too."
Xu Jinhuan adjusted the angle of a photo and quickly noticed writing on it, in faint red characters. After trying to make out the writing, he realized, "It's a name, Li Xiaona."
"what?"
Huang Xiaoyu paused for a moment, then looked up at her. "My character is called Li Xiaona."
"Ours also has a name written on it, Chen Hai... Yang?"
Xie Wanqing and Song Zhiyu finally recognized the names, but they were unrelated to the group. They then examined other photos and discovered several more names, including some of the original members of the group.
Xie Zhiqiang plays Guo Xu, and Li Hang plays Zhang Yong.
"Let's go check that lab first and see if there's any news about Chen Haiyang."
After discussing their plan, the group walked out of the classroom and found that the corridor lights were off, with only the dim light from the laboratory lights after turning the corner, making the corridor very dark.
"Roar!"
Wang Chi, who was walking in front, stomped his foot and yelled, trying to wake up the motion-activated lights, but the corridor lights did not turn on.
The group paid no attention and continued walking forward. Just as they walked out of the two classrooms and returned to the "main road" corridor leading to the laboratory, at the crossroads, they suddenly caught a glimpse of a red light flashing in the opposite side of the short corridor—the one corresponding to the two lecture halls they had just come from.
Xu Jinhuan subconsciously turned his head to look over, and immediately his hair stood on end!
At the end of the opposite corridor, the door to the classroom facing them was open. With a flash of red light from somewhere, he clearly saw a monster "crawling" in front of the classroom door.
An eight-legged monster!
Four legs on each side were clinging to the door, and in the middle was a dark mass that seemed to have long black hair hanging down.
The red light flickered on and off, and when it shone again, Xu Jinhuan, who was tense all over, saw the dark mass in the middle raise its head—it was a head, but it seemed to be more than one head. In the dim light, the hair parted to the sides, revealing a blurry face.
A woman's face!
She still seems to be smiling!
"what!"
Xu Jinhuan wasn't the only one drawn to the flickering red light. Just as Xu Jinhuan's hair stood on end, Song Zhiyu screamed and instinctively lunged at Xu Jinhuan, wrapping her arms around his neck.
Xu Jinhuan never expected that such a terrifying thing would appear in a murder mystery game. He was startled for a moment. When Song Zhiyu hooked her arms around him, he almost subconsciously mistook her for the eight-legged female ghost and nearly couldn't help but punch Song Zhiyu away.
Fortunately, Song Zhiyu's screams were still ringing in his ears. The moment his fists clenched, he realized what was happening. In the lingering thoughts amidst the immense fear, he was only thinking about one question: Is this some kind of murder mystery game?
Could it be that we've really encountered a monster?
Along with Song Zhiyu's scream, Wang Chi and Liu Liangfu also exclaimed "Holy crap!" almost simultaneously, and seemed to jump up, because Xu Jinhuan clearly felt someone touch him.
Then, the lights in the classroom behind them suddenly went out, and it seemed that the lights in the other half of the laboratory also went out, leaving the surroundings pitch black.
At the classroom door where the eight-legged monster was, the red light flashed again. Under everyone's horrified gaze, the eight legs of the eight-legged monster on the door moved, and the head in the middle also shook. For a moment, Xu Jinhuan and the others wondered if they were hallucinating, because the head seemed to have turned into two.
"what!"
"Ghost!"
Xie Wanqing's legs nearly gave way in fright. She reached out to grab Xu Jinhuan, but her scream was drowned out by Huang Xiaoyu's even more piercing "Ghost!" Huang Xiaoyu's voice was almost choked with sobs. She immediately covered her eyes and shouted in the darkness after the red light went out, "Don't eat me! Don't eat me!" (End of Chapter)