Chapter 13

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"Wh... what? You found them? Where... isn't there anyone here?"

Zhou Yanqing's gaze quickly rested on Huaiyou.

"Wh... what's wrong?"

But similarly, Zhou Yanqing also saw the change in Huaiyou's face; almost in an instant, his face turned pale.

"Don't scare me..." Zhou Yanqing was almost crying.

Although she also followed his gaze the next second, she didn't see anything strange in her line of sight.

All she saw was that clean, slightly dirty wall.

Although Huaiyou's face had turned pale.

He was still relatively calm, but his expression at this moment looked exceptionally ugly.

He looked at that wall quietly; the scene from just a moment ago was truly imprinted in his heart.

Although he was also very strange, why did that wall suddenly look like it had returned to normal?

He guessed with high probability that he hadn't seen wrong.

It was very simple, also because it was now 12 o'clock.

"Follow me, it should be here." Huaiyou gritted his teeth, his words seeming to carry a hint of anger, but also a trace of fear.

Huaiyou and Zhou Yanqing slowly walked toward the wall on the left.

The time was now exactly 12:01.

The distance to that wall wasn't far, so the two of them walked over quickly.

But when they truly reached that wall.

Zhou Yanqing's state was still fine, as she hadn't discovered anything.

Huaiyou's entire mental state was slightly strange, as if he had fallen into it, but he also maintained a certain degree of rationality.

Zhou Yanqing couldn't help but ask again: "Where?"

Huaiyou looked at the wall in front: "It should be here, but I'm not sure. We'll know the result soon..."

As Huaiyou spoke, he looked to the side a few times, and with the help of the vivo phone flashlight, he could roughly see some things.

Soon, he picked up a flat-headed wooden hammer from the ground.

It should be the kind used for tapping tiles.

He guessed it was left behind by the school construction workers, along with a few wooden boards, as he had mentioned before.

Huaiyou weighed it a little, feeling it roughly; although it was wooden and not an iron hammer, it was estimated to be two or three pounds. If this thing hit a head, he felt it would directly open a hole.

"Step back a little."

Huaiyou took a deep breath.

Then he slowly walked in front of the wall.

Zhou Yanqing watched his series of actions and finally roughly guessed what he wanted to do.

Her eyes turned red, and at the same time, she covered her mouth.

That's right.

Huaiyou wanted to see, or to verify a fact.

What was inside the wall in front of him?

And the thing was already obvious; he had seen it clearly just now, and it was likely those few people.

Those few missing girls.

Huaiyou didn't speak to comfort her.

He gently raised the hammer in his hand and struck the wall one blow after another.

Sure enough.

The facts proved that he hadn't seen wrong just now; although the thing he saw disappeared quickly, the facts proved he hadn't been hallucinating.

His guess was correct...

The sound of the wall at first was a dull thumping sound; clearly, this kind of sound indicated that the inside was solid, made of real reinforced concrete and bricks.

But soon, that dull thumping sound turned into a thumping sound with a slight echo; the sound seemed a bit light, and also seemed eerily real.

Huaiyou knew very well what this sound meant.

The inside was empty!

Huaiyou's face turned even paler; the most fatal guess, or rather, the fact seemed to have appeared.

There was a very high probability that they were inside!

They had been built into the wall!

Huaiyou was slightly dazed for a moment, but before he could take another step, Zhou Yanqing walked over with red eyes, somewhat crazily.

She actually snatched the hammer from Huaiyou's hand.

Then, in Huaiyou's horrified gaze, she struck the wall with a heavy hammer blow.

Surprisingly.

The wall didn't actually look very sturdy.

The weight of the hammer plus the force of Zhou Yanqing's blow actually smashed a hole the size of a fist.

Zhou Yanqing looked at the hole that had been smashed, then stuck her fingers in and pried it backward, and a piece of debris was pried off.

Revealing the things inside.

That piece of black clothing, and a small part of exposed skin, looked like a hand...

Only that skin had already become completely withered and stiff, with no vitality or life.

Huaiyou naturally saw the things inside clearly, and his hands and feet went cold, a chill surging up.

There was indeed someone inside.

But they should already be dead.

Zhou Yanqing looked at the scene appearing before her eyes, fell to the ground, tears already streaming from her eyes, unable to control her emotions now.

She had held a glimmer of hope before, although she had also thought of the worst result.

When the result was truly placed before her eyes, she still couldn't take it.

The scene before her eyes seemed heavy, oppressive, and made it hard to breathe.

But soon.

Huaiyou discovered something wrong.

He slowly retreated a few steps, his gaze fixed on the wall, and helped Zhou Yanqing up.

Then he picked up the hammer from the ground.

"Don't cry, it might not be your friends, unless those friends have been here for several years, and one of those girls' hands is bigger than a man's hand."

Huaiyou took slightly stiff steps, then slowly walked toward the wall again.

Because he had just suddenly and meticulously discovered that the exposed hand and half a piece of clothing were wrong.

That hand was a bit too big.

Although it looked like it had been withered and decayed for a long time, Huaiyou still recognized some of the most basic bones; that hand didn't look like a girl's hand no matter how he looked at it.

For a girl, the hand was a bit too big.

And the clothing, because only now did Huaiyou react; that piece of clothing just exposed outside was black.

It looked clearly like a suit.

There was even a button on it!

How could Zhou Yanqing's friends be wearing suits when they went missing?

And judging from the degree of decay of the clothing and skin of the person inside the wall, it looked like they had been there for many days, maybe even years.

The disappearance of those few girls was clearly only last night!

So.

Who was inside?

Huaiyou steeled his heart, gritted his teeth, swung the hammer in his hand, and struck the wall hard again.

One, two, three!

As he swung with force, the hole in the wall gradually expanded.

More and more of the inside was exposed.

Soon, Huaiyou indeed discovered that as more of the inside was exposed, what was revealed before his eyes was not a girl at all, but a male corpse!

After a part was exposed.

Huaiyou saw that a corpse was actually twisted into that shape in a weird, broken posture.

The man's hand was dislocated, so it happened to be close to the wall, which was one of the main reasons why it shattered with a light tap.

But when the scene was completely exposed to Huaiyou's eyes, Huaiyou suddenly felt something was wrong.

The strange English that appeared on the wall he had seen just now was indeed the appearance of a girl; why was the person inside a man?

That curled-up posture didn't match what he had seen at all.

Unless...

"It couldn't be..."

Huaiyou muttered to himself, another terrifying possibility coming to mind.

"Could there be more than one?"

Huaiyou suddenly realized that he definitely hadn't seen wrong just now, although those shadow-like traces had suddenly disappeared.

But in the process of walking, he, at a distance, couldn't actually guarantee that he could accurately determine the wall position of those traces in such a pitch-black environment.

So at this moment.

Huaiyou, slightly trembling, quickly raised the hammer in his hand and then took a step toward the right.

It should be this place...

Huaiyou thought silently in his heart.

Staring, he hammered hard again.

"Thump!"

A violent sound rang out.

The wall in front of him cracked open like before.

Huaiyou's heart jumped, but he didn't stop his hand, then stuck his fingers in and, emboldened, pulled outward.

A piece of wall debris was completely pulled away.

The next second.

Huaiyou gritted his teeth, trying his best not to let out a scream of terror.

Sure enough.

The shadow he had just seen was actually real.

There was another person here, a girl wearing a white dress, but there were reddish-brown marks on the dress, and part of it had been dyed red.

It was likely blood.

From the part revealed, he could just see part of her upper body; the reddish-brown marks had gradually turned into that kind of black, and Huaiyou couldn't even tell how many years it had been.

The bloodstains before his eyes clearly indicated that the person had likely suffered severe torture.

And then was put into the wall...

What kind of deep hatred was this!

But, suddenly.

Just at this moment.

Huaiyou suddenly and strangely discovered that Zhou Yanqing, who seemed to have been crying and scared just now, why was she suddenly silent?

Huaiyou's expression shifted, and a feeling of unease surged from the bottom of his heart.

He turned his head and successfully saw Zhou Yanqing.

But at this moment, the situation was wrong.

Because her gaze was fixed on the darkness behind him.

Huaiyou looked, wanting to speak, but because of extreme fear, she couldn't speak at all, and couldn't even stand up...

Huaiyou also saw it.

There was actually a person there, a man also wearing a suit, looking normal.

The man in the suit was hung in mid-air, his neck tightly choked by a clump of pitch-black hair.

His eyes were wide open, and his tongue was already sticking out.

He had been hanged behind them!

Huaiyou muttered to himself.

"There's another one..."

And behind the man, suddenly, a girl wearing white clothes walked out.

Her face had patches of bloodstains.

And her right hand was holding a boy with a green body.

It was like they had walked out of the darkness.

Wind sounds suddenly appeared all around, whistling.

Like their wailing.

The boy looked at Huaiyou and Zhou Yanqing with wide eyes.

He revealed a lovely smile.

But, the next second.

He opened his arms.

Like the familiar scene from before, it appeared again.

He rushed over.

That girl also.

Rushed over!

"Giggle... giggle..." A weird sound came at the same time.

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