Chapter 12 - Birthday (1/2)
He couldn’t see it’s face from this angle, but he intuitively knew that it was looking at him.
Lin Yiri said, “What were you doing? You didn’t utter a word for half a day.”
Su Min sensed that Jing Xian was still beside him, so he lied without blinking, “I was too absorbed in looking for information in this photo and didn’t hear you.”
His hand was pinched.
In response, Su Min nipped the ghost’s hand and glared at the air. He didn’t know if he was glaring in the right direction, but he was slightly annoyed.
Jing Xian released his hand, then snuggled closely to his ears and softly whispered, “Your angry appearance is really adorable.”
Since Su Min couldn’t see the ghost, much less beat him up, he simply ignored Jing Xian.
Putting his hands in the safety of his pocket, Su Min said, “It’s not early. We’ve found a clue, so let’s leave.”
If he stayed any longer, he would be eaten clean.
Like before, the silhouette under the ceiling fan continued to sway. It was inevitable for Su Min to pass it if he wanted to see Chen Ke’s corpse.
But he also wanted to see the face attached to that figure.
The ghost didn’t appear to be malicious. It was simply dangling about, like a fine weather doll1.
She seemed to be in love with this action, swaying until the arc grew larger and larger. Sometimes, her tiptoes would even touch Lin Yiri’s neck.
Lin Yiri was extremely terrified. “What is it? What is it?”
Su Min pretended he couldn’t see, and Lin Xiao Yan pretended she couldn’t hear. “Hurry up and go.”
As for Chen Ke’s body, they couldn’t take it away and could only let it remain there. Maybe she would run off to the office building tonight.
Before leaving, Su Min closed the dormitory door.
The ghost had swung like a pendulum under the ceiling fan that was on the verge of collapsing. Su Min thought it wasn’t impossible for her to fall face-flat on the floor.
He quickly shut the door and didn’t dare look inside again.
This time, his loot was a birthday card, a photo, and the knowledge that Teacher Chen was related to this incident somehow.
Now that he had the name of the two girls, it would be easier to dig for their information. Perhaps he would figure everything out by tomorrow.
Su Min wanted to go.
Lin Xiao Yan, “Watch over me tomorrow evening.”
Lin Yiri, “How can we go? We can’t enter the girl’s dormitory again… If we go in, we will be driven away by the dorm-keeper aunt, then the whole school might be informed.”
They would certainly be in big trouble.
Su Min was speechless. “What are you talking about? This matter will soon blow up. When that time comes, there’s no reason for the blame to start with you.”
The female lead still had a preferential treatment.
There was no male lead in this movie. If the female lead dies, wouldn’t the ending go up in flames? These kind of movies generally don’t have such an ending.
Su Min only wanted to live to the end.
At this moment, Lin Yiri glanced around and nervously asked, “Su Min, do you hear the singing?”
Su Min listened carefully, “I hear it.”
Lin Yiri asked, a little awkward, “Why does it sound like it’s singing The Most Dazzling Folk Style…”
The three people stood on the stairs with their ears perked up to listen. The song was coming from the dormitory on the third floor.
They had never been to the third floor.
Lin Xiao Yan asked, “Do you want to go and see?”
Su Min thought for a moment, “Forget it. Maybe they’re partying down there2. We’ll go in after it cools down.”
He still cherished his life.
This dormitory had been sealed up for several years. It would be normal to see a lonely soul or ghost. Ever since he saw Liu Lili’s corpse move, Su Min no longer felt that this sort of thing was baffling.
As they approached the third floor, the singing became clearer.
Once they passed the third floor and continued their descent, Su Min thought he heard a girl’s howling.
–As if wailing why ghosts have bald heads3…
Su Min silently touched his hair.
Fortunately, there was no signs of any baldness. If he became bald at such a young age, he would have a wear a wig and worry about it being blown away by the wind.
The thought was terrifying.
When Su Min came out of the dormitory, he couldn’t help but look back.
What he saw made his back suddenly straighten, and the hairs on both of his arms raised.
Facing him was a dormitory building with six floors, each with dozens of balcony windows, as well as anti-theft shutters.
The very same balconies were filled to the brim with a sea of ghosts. When and why and how they died was unknown.
There was no lack of ghosts whose bodies were badly mutilated; there were countless that lacked an arm and a leg. They were all crowded together, watching as the trio left.
One, who was behind the anti-theft shutters, even stretched out its hand and waved at him.
Su Min watched as that arm fell off the window.
Su Min: “…”
The other party seemed to be aware of this, too. It reached forward but fell off the balcony. Unexpectedly, its whole ghost body dropped and shattered into pieces.
He took back his line of sight and hurriedly left without looking back.
Early the next morning, Su Min awoke.
Like before, the cinema gave him a reminder:【Hello, Audience Member Su Min. Congratulations on successfully surviving another day. There are still two days left before the movie’s conclusion. Please continue to persist until then. Today’s hint: office building ]
It was still the office building.
Su Min was certain that the root of everything stemmed from there. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been the setting for so many scenes.
The matter of chief importance was to uncover the event that started it all.