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Decai Middle School
Chapter 11
After jumping to the bottom of the list, the number of people online in the live broadcast room increased rapidly.
【Ding! The number of people online in the live broadcast room exceeded 6000】
【Ding! The number of people online in the live broadcast room exceeded 8,000】
【Congratulations to the anchor for his achievement: I am the most beautiful boy in this instance.
Wow, your unique live broadcast style and charming personality shined in the live broadcast room! It successfully attracted the attention of a large audience and became the rating champion in this instance!
Please continue to burn your life, move forward bravely, and create a higher quality live broadcast for the audience!】
Wen Jianyan had a headache from the noise.
He turned his head to look at his watch.
There are still ten minutes left. The time of the new point settlement is approaching.
Thinking that this popularity will soon be turned into points, the ding sound seems to be less annoying.
Su Cheng stepped forward from behind, his eyes fell on the canvas, and he was slightly startled: “This… this is?”
Wen Jianyan immediately came back to his senses and instantly entered the role.
“Xu Yuan.”
He paused, his voice a little deep with subtle hoarseness: “…My sister.”
Su Cheng pursed his lips, a look of intolerance appeared on his face, and he couldn’t help but be silent for a while.
Wen Jianyan seized the opportunity to take advantage of the fact that the other party was still immersed in the false emotions created by him, and before he had time to recall and question everything that happened, he stepped forward and quickly removed the human skin painting from the drawing board. After picking it up and putting it away, he gave the instruction cleanly and neatly:
“Let’s go.”
Su Cheng: “Eh…eh?”
Wen Jianyan’s tone was calm, but his speech was slightly rushed: “It’s not appropriate to stay here for a long time.”
That’s true.
Su Cheng nodded, hurriedly quickened his pace, and followed Wen Jianyan out of the room in confusion.
“Then… Then where are we going next?”
Su Cheng trotted a few steps, tried his best to be side by side with Wen Jianyan, and asked in a low voice.
“Go back to the dormitory.” Wen Jianyan replied.
Su Cheng was stunned: “The dormitory building?”
Although Wen Jianyan still looked calm, his actual mood was extremely bleak.
Seriously, no one in this world will be more against going back to the dormitory than him.
After all, the hatred of the old witch is still concentrated on him, and going back now is like a sheep going into a tiger’s mouth.
However, he had to return the face to Xu Yuan, so he had no choice.
Wen Jianyan sighed in his heart, and nodded his head hard:
“That’s right…”
He put on an unfathomable and solemn expression, frowned slightly, and said vaguely, “I still have something to confirm. So let’s go back.”
Su Cheng nodded incomprehensibly: “…This, so that’s why.”
He doesn’t know why, but the other party’s brows are wrinkled now as if he has his own plans. So he subconsciously stopped asking questions, kept his mouth shut and followed him.
The barrage was swiped by the wicked “hahahaha”.
[Sprinkle flowers! The head of the Scammer Victims Alliance is born! He will really suffer to death, hahahahahahaha!]
[Fuck, once again I pity the other newcomer anchor.]
Some viewers scoffed at this:
[Come on, don’t feel sympathetic. Is this anchor’s lie so hard to expose? Stupid people are not worthy of our sympathy.]
[Don’t expose your ignorance too thoroughly, okay? In this situation, Can you still identify those subtle loopholes while running for your life? Don’t make me laugh.]
[Yes, anyone can say that they can do it while seeing from God’s perspective.]
[No, no, no, this is secondary. The main reason is that the anchor’s psychological play is really slippery… First, subtly establish authority, and then pretend to be mysterious to confuse the public, it is simply to cut off the doubt from the root. Basically, if this set of tricks is played, anyone could be led on.]
With the experience of going upstairs, the two escaped the siege and interception of the shadow and successfully left the teaching building.
They went back the same way and quickly returned to the dormitory building.
The door of the dormitory building was open, and everything was blurred in the shadows of chaos. The surroundings were dead silent, and you could hear the empty whimpering of the cold wind slowly passing through the doorway.
There was a thick smell of blood in the air, and the strong smell of rust was almost sickening.
Wen Jianyan and Su Cheng looked at each other and saw the solemn expressions on each other’s faces.
The two stepped forward lightly and walked cautiously into the building.
After the lights went out, the hall was empty, as quiet as a tomb.
In the stairwell, a dim light lamp illuminated the blood-stained stairs, and the traces of being dragged looked shocking under the light. The fragments of internal organs and scratched finger marks were faintly visible in the pool of blood that had not yet dried up. After seeing it one could imagine how tragic the massacre had been that occurred here.
Wen Jianyan looked solemn.
He turned his body slightly, avoiding a lot of splattered blood on the wall, and walked up the stairs step by step.
Su Cheng followed behind him, his eyes slowly swept over the cruel traces, and he couldn’t help but feel a chill in his back.
He lowered his voice and asked:
“This… what happened here?”
Wen Jianyan shook his head: “I don’t know.”
He frowned: “However, based on these traces, it is very likely that someone has suffered misfortune.”
The young man paused for a while, then lowered his head slightly to look down:
“Do you remember the room I pulled you into?”
The dim light was cast from the top of his head, gilding his beautiful and profound facial features with a layer of gold, and in the boundary line between shadow and light, he appeared worried and honest.
Su Cheng was a little stunned for a moment before nodding his head.
Wen Jianyan: “My phone is hidden there.”
He paused and sighed heavily: “Things have developed to this point. No matter what, I can’t just continue to sit back and watch. I must ask for support.”
Su Cheng was startled: “Then your sister…”
Wen Jianyan gritted his teeth slightly:
“…I won’t let more innocent people be killed.”
Su Cheng was stunned for a second, and then could not help but be in awe.
The other party concealed his identity and sneaked in against the order. If he contacted his superiors for support, his actions would also be exposed.
But…he gave up the chance to find his own sister in order to save people!
So moving!
The barrage was filled with “…”.
[he-tui!]1In the raw, it was written in English.
[…He is looking for a fart sister and wants to contact a fart superior. This guy finally found a legitimate excuse to go back to the dormitory!]
[Dog liar, deceiving innocent anchors! (50 reward points)]
[Shameless! (50 reward points)]
[…If the first few people hadn’t been scolded and rewarded at the same time, your righteous indignation would be more credible.]
After easily deceiving Su Cheng’s trust again, a smile flashed across Wen Jianyan’s lips. He withdrew his gaze, turned around and continued to walk upstairs.
The psychological stress of walking through the stairwell was much greater than the last time when they left.
The ground was slippery, the blood stains that had not yet dried up were covered with messy footprints, and the air was filled with a strong smell of rust, which became more pungent as they went up.
Even Wen Jianyan, who had memorised the map of the entire dormitory building by heart, was fully alert and walked forward cautiously.
But fortunately, from the first floor to the third floor, they did not encounter any danger.
The old witch that Wen Jianyan was most worried about, they didn’t even see half a shadow of hers.
Soon, the two came to the third floor without any risk.
Compared with when they left, the third floor became more eerie and deadly. Some bedroom doors were open crookedly, and there were long trailing marks on the ground. Although some bedroom doors were closed, their windows were splattered with blood, which looked extremely tragic, as if something as terrifying as in the corridor had happened inside.
Looking at the silent bedrooms, Su Cheng felt a little terrified but also felt a little bit of joy in his heart.
It seems that his previous choice to leave the dormitory to explore the school was the right choice.
Obviously, hiding in the bedroom is no safer than going out to complete a mission.
He just doesn’t know how many anchors are still alive in this instance.
Wen Jianyan walked straight to his room.
The bedroom door was tightly closed, and the inside was pitch-black and quiet as a tomb.
Wen Jianyan took a deep breath, raised his hand, pressed it on the door handle, and slowly opened the door.
As soon as he entered the room, the bedroom door seemed to be dominated by some kind of force, and it slammed shut with a ‘bang’!
The deafening sound echoed in the empty corridor, making the heart tremble.
Su Cheng was shocked. He took a step forward in a hurry, and shook the doorknob forcefully: “Brother XiaoWen, what’s going on?”
Through the thin door panel, the young man’s somewhat muffled voice came over:
“The door lock is stuck. You wait for a while.”
The moment he heard the other party’s voice, Su Cheng couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.
As a novice anchor who entered the instance for the first time, the sense of security brought by the other party is really precious.
He didn’t know when, he began to trust this NPC more and more, and even unknowingly regarded him as the backbone.
“Do you need me to look for the key outside?”
Su Cheng asked.
“…Okay, sorry to trouble you.”
Wen Jianyan leaned back against the door, his Adam’s apple rolled, and he tried his best to answer in the calmest voice.
His eyes were fixed on the corner of the bedroom.
A girl in an old-fashioned student uniform was standing there silently. She was facing Wen Jianyan, but her head was turned 180° behind her, her long black hair was hanging on her chest, and her whole body looked weird and scary.
Wen Jianyan heard the blood rushing in his ears, and his head was a little dizzy under the excessive pressure.
Although this is not the first time he experienced this kind of thing, the instinctive physiological response to fear has not eased in the slightest.
The female student, whose head was facing backwards, slowly raised her hand and opened her palm as if asking for something from him.
“Have you found my face?”
Calm down.
This was the reason you came back here.
Wen Jianyan warned himself in his heart.
He took a deep breath and said,
“Yes.”
As he walked forward, he reached into his pocket and touched the folded human skin painting with his fingertips.
“Give it back to me.”
The female student took a step forward slowly, with a trace of abnormal eagerness in her voice.
Her head was still twisted 180° backwards, and Wen Jianyan couldn’t see her expression. He could only see the long dark hair fluttering in front of her chest with the movement.
….wait a minute.
Chest?
Wen Jianyan was stunned.
In his mind, a thought flashed like lightning. In an instant, it tore through the dark sky and illuminated everything clearly and vividly.
In that human skin painting, Xu Yuan’s hair… obviously only reached to her shoulder.
Is this an error of the instance? Or…
He pulled his fingers out of his pocket little by little, took a half step back defensively, and narrowed his eyes:
“You… are Xu Yuan.”
“Give it back to me!!”
The attitude of the female student in front of him became more frantic, and her voice suddenly became sharp, as if the fingernails were scratching on the glass with high frequency. The hysteria in it could almost pierce people’s eardrums.
“…Or do you want to become Xu Yuan?”
Wen Jianyan breathed lightly, stared at the other party, and slowly completed the remaining half of the sentence.
The other party suddenly stopped moving.
The air seemed to freeze in an instant, squeezing deeply, making breathing difficult and laborious. The cold and gloomy air was sucked into the lung cavity, causing the body temperature to drop.
The female student lowered her hand slowly.
“Cluck… cluck…”
The sound of neck bones twisting sounded, and her head slowly turned forward.
Under extreme pressure, Wen Jianyan could feel his fingertips trembling slightly. He held his breath and forced himself to fix his eyes on the other person’s face.
A pale and gloomy face turned around.
It was a face that did not resemble the person in the painting.
She stared at the young man in front of her with pitch-black eyes for a split second, and the corners of her mouth rose greatly, revealing a terrifying smile that could be called eerie.
Her face was 30% similar to the one Wen Jianyan saw under the bed, but the details were richer this time.
To be precise… the female ghost’s mask-like face looked like a poor and rough replica.
And the authentic version of that terrifying face is in front of Wen Jianyan at the moment.
“Click Click—”
A sharp metallic rubbing sound sounded in the small bedroom, monotonous and infiltrating.
A utility knife was slowly pushed out of the plastic casing, flashing a cold light in the dim bedroom, and the icy surface reflected the gradually clear sinister smile.
“Hehe, hehe.”
Her head was crooked as if it was broken, weird laughter overflowed from her throat, and she walked towards Wen Jianyan step by step.
Wen Jianyan stepped back, cold sweat seeping from the corner of his forehead.
His fingers were hanging by his side, already tightly grasping the life-saving prop he had just taken out of his backpack——The Concealment Robe, which could provide a minute to prevent him from being found.
From the beginning, he had already thought of a way out.
However, the duration provided by the Concealment Robe is too short, and it is still very difficult to open the door to escape in such a short time, so Wen Jianyan must hold on to the last moment before using it.
At this moment ——
“Meow.”
A faint cat meow rang in his ear.
Wen Jianyan was stunned.
…Xiao Ju?
In the next second, all the light disappeared, and a bloody blob jumped out of the darkness at a speed that the naked eye couldn’t catch, and dashed straight towards the female ghost’s face——
“Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh——”
A shrill scream rang out.
With this emptiness, Wen Jianyan quickly seized the opportunity, turned around suddenly and rushed towards the bedroom door!
The door that was closed just now seemed to have lost its strength and was easily pulled open.
Su Cheng, who was squatting at the door, raised his head in astonishment and met Wen Jianyan, who rushed out of the door.
Wen Jianyan didn’t care about indifference and integrity at the moment. He raised his hand, grabbed Su Cheng’s collar, and pulled him up:
“Let’s go!”
Su Cheng stumbled and was dragged out in confusion.
Gasping for breath, he heard the “click” sound of the utility knife being behind him.
The voice was getting closer and closer as if something was chasing after him.
Su Cheng became terrified and he didn’t dare to turn his head back. He could only follow Wen Jianyan as fast as he could. While running, he cried out, “Where are we going!”
Wen Jianyan also broke down and shouted back: “Downstairs!”
He didn’t want to stay in this ghost place for a moment!!!
However, the two of them had just arrived at the stairwell, and before they could go down, they heard an all-too-familiar humming sound coming from downstairs.
The lights at the top of the stairwell flickered dimly, accompanied by the sound of heavy footsteps. The gloomy and intermittent humming gradually approached——
Fuck!
It’s the old witch!
As the target of the opponent’s hatred, Wen Jianyan’s hair stood up, and he shouted in a somewhat out-of-tune voice:
“Go, go! Go upstairs!”
Caught between both the utility knife and the humming voice, Wen Jianyan and Su Cheng stumbled to the fourth floor of the dormitory.
The bright red number “4” is imprinted on the mottled wall, illuminated by flickering lights.
Not far away, the stairs extend into the darkness.
In the blink of an eye, several broken memories flashed across Wen Jianyan’s mind.
In the toilet.
“There is a mirror in 408 in the dormitory building. As long as you can find it, it can fulfil one of your wishes.”
“Do we really have room 408 on the fourth floor?”
“It is said that there is, but 408 was later sealed with cement. You need to look for it at midnight, and after you open the door…”
At dusk.
The old woman opened her cloudy eyes, her tree-bark like wrinkled face trembled slightly, and she said in a very low voice:
——”Stay away from the fourth floor of the dormitory.”
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1In the raw, it was written in English.