Chapter 51 - Ghost School (5) (1/2)

Zhao Xiao Pang’s tone had a hint of excitement and eagerness. He seemed to think that telling ghost stories to others in this environment allowed it to be even more exciting.

Cheng Zhi Chu and the others didn’t stop him. After all, they already knew that there would definitely be ghosts appearing afterwards and nine times out of ten it out take the appearance of the ghost mentioned in the ghost story. With him revealing it first, they could mentally prepare themselves in advance.

“It’s better not to.” Lu Jie shook her head. A hint of embarrassment was revealed on her pure face. “I’m afraid of ghosts.”

“Everyone has heard of it. Aren’t they just a few ghost stories?”

Shen Qi Qi raised her eyebrow and wasn’t impressed: “Things like the dark shadows in the cafeteria, thirteen o’clock in the music room, the bloody footprints in the hall, the disfigured girl in the chemistry classroom………It’s all overused and old.”

“There are also two other ones that you probably haven’t heard of.”

Zhou Xiao Pang shook his head and pointed at the fountain pool with his chubby finger.

“One of it is this fountain pool. Legend has it that when the night is at its darkest, bloody water would come out from the fountain and there would be bloody body parts floating in the pool.”

“There is a savage man-eating ghost that hides in the pool during the day. At night it would wake up and wait for late returning students or teachers.”

“As long as someone gets close to the fountain, the ghost would suddenly reach its arm out and drag that person into the water————”

At this moment, Zhao Xiao Pang’s voice stopped abruptly and the expression on his face stiffed. With eyes large and round, he started in the direction of the fountain. Even his lips were trembling. It was as if he had seen something terrifying.

Seeing him look like this, the others also felt their hearts tighten and they subconsciously turned around only to see that the fountain was still empty and was only covered in a layer of dust.

Zhao Xiao Pang smirked mischievously and stretched out his hands to smack Ou Yang and Liang Wen Bin’s back. The two of them couldn’t help but be surprised by this sudden attack and, when they realised that he was deliberately scaring them, they immediately turned back and chased after Zhao Xiao Pang.

Cheng Zhi Chu saw that there was no water in the fountain from the very beginning, so he didn’t undergo any mood fluctuations. He was also not that scared. On one hand, the pervert Zhou Luo Chen and Winter Branch gave him too much of an impact and, on the other hand, Bai Yi was holding his hand and he was a little distracted by it.

“What’s the other ghost story about?”

Yang Qian Fan took a photo of the fountain pool and asked with a tone of curiosity typical to that of a naïve ten-year-old boy.

However, when he saw the picture displayed on the camera, a trace of darkness flashed across his eyes and he quietly handed the camera over to Gu Zhen.

Zhao Xiao Pang was being chased by his friends and asking for mercy. At the same time, he answered the boy’s question: “The other ghost story……Hey, stop hitting me you two. Let me talk!”

“………..Little child. I’m not trying to scare you, but this is something that’s true. Eighty or ninety years ago, this place was still a wasteland. In particular, the school was a mass grave.”

“How would the poor have the money to build graves? They just randomly rolled them up in straw mats and threw them in. The ground was filled with bones and decaying flesh and the foul odour would be suffocating. At night, it would be dark and eerie. Occasionally when someone passes by, they would even see faint white shadows.”

“The land was developed later. They said that with a school, there would be lots of human and it could help suppress the evil, so our school was built. But in the middle of the night, those ghosts would once again climb out from the ground and wander aimlessly around the school.”

“If you run into these ghosts, the first thing that you must do is to cover your mouth and nose, and refrain from them hearing your breathing. If you disturb them and let them know that you’re a living person, they would swallow you alive. Hey, compared to being eaten by the fountain pool ghost, it’s probably worse being split into pieces by a group of ghosts……”

Gu Zhen looked down at the image in the camera and then he looked back at the fountain.

Under the dim moonlight, the fountain was still quiet and dry. Because of the lack of water, slight cracks had formed on the mottled stone walls and small tufts of grass sprouted from them.

However, the fountain in the camera was spilling out bloody water. The water splashed and bubbled and rolled. In the pool, human eyes, teeth, tangled hair, bones and flesh was floating around.

A black hand stained with blood slowly reached out and rested onto the edge of the pool.

The bloody water poured out non-stop gradually overflowing from the pool and onto the floor. It gradually spread to the position where the people stood.

Gu Zhen who was at the back of the group stepped onto the steps leading into the teaching building and, in the camera, he was able to avoid being stained by the blood.

The bloody water continued to flow out of the pool but, no matter how much it poured out, it never crossed over the steps of the school building.

After a moment of silence, the black hand seemed to reluctantly retract its hand back into the pool.

The scene through the camera was like it was playing in reverse. Bloody water mixed with various human organs retreated back to the pool and swirled and swirled until it eventually disappeared. The fountain pool once again returned to its usual dry state.

Gu Zhen returned the camera back to Yang Qian Fan.

At the same time, Ou Yang used the pin to unlock the door leading to the teaching building and the group went in. Zhao Xiao Pang continued to talk about the earlier ghost story.

“……..Until now, those ghosts also advanced with the times. I heard that after we graduated, the school repaired the elevator in the teaching building. In the middle of the night, the ghosts would ride up the elevator. Hey, look. The elevator is here……….”

He reached out and pointed at the elevator. He was then stunned, and his expression changed abruptly. The meat on his face trembled slightly and fear was reflected in his eyes.

“Enough, don’t think that we’re foolish enough to fall for it the second time.”

Ou Yang couldn’t stand Zhao Xiao Pang’s little trickery. Just as he wanted to hit him, he realised that the latter’s teeth were chattering as well. With a face void of colour, he said: “N-no, the elevator……….There really is something in the elevator……”

“You———-”

Ou Yang still didn’t believe him. He didn’t want to look back but he saw his other classmates also having strange expressions while looking in the same direction. It was like they had seen something terrible.

“Clack………….clack……………..”

The motor sounds of the elevator rang through the quiet corridor. Power was clearly already cut off so how could the elevator still be running?

“……………”

Ou Yang’s body stiffened, and he slowly turned back.

The display panel next to the elevator revealed two bright red numbers. The floor shown was……….

“B18……..” Liang Wen Bin’s voice trembled. “……………The eighteenth-floor underground.”

“Clack.”

The numbers changed and B18 had changed to B15.

“There really are ghosts here. Run!”