Chapter 8: The Woman on the Ceiling

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Huaiyou stood at the entrance and strangely discovered.

On the 2nd floor, the environment outside was truly a bit eerie.

Compared to the 1st floor, and even compared to the boys' dormitory, to be precise, the outside of the dormitory looked a bit strange now.

The wall skin had actually peeled off a bit, the wall that should have been white now looked vaguely greenish, and he could even see that the wall at the door looked damp and dark.

There were even spider webs in the corners, and there were even white traces on the ceiling, crisscrossing one by one, looking like they had been scratched by something.

"Is it the dormitory inside? Why does the environment of the girls' dormitory look so bad?" Huaiyou asked.

"That's right." Zhou Yanqing answered, "It's the dormitory, no mistake, but I remember, it's not this kind of environment, I remember, the walls outside and such shouldn't look like this, right?"

"Oh?" Huaiyou asked with doubt: "Not look like this? Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure... it's like it's been changed to a different place." Zhou Yanqing seemed to doubt why the surrounding environment had become a state she didn't recognize at all.

"Forget it, be careful, it might be wrong inside, let's go in and see first, see if there are any clues."

Huaiyou greeted her, then didn't care about the situation outside, and then gently pushed open the dormitory door.

At the same time, he also turned on the dormitory light.

Once the light was on, the entire environment became bright.

The girls' dormitory was the same as the boys' dormitory, the kind of bunks, the height was basically about the same.

Only now looking at it like this, Huaiyou clearly discovered that there were only three beds with quilts and such, looking like there should only be three people living there.

Very obviously, Zhou Yanqing also said it before.

And the three were actually the three missing girls.

The three beds were next to each other, one bunk, another bunk next to it, the beds were very clean and tidy, the three missing girls seemed to be people who loved cleanliness, so basically everything was packed neatly.

Walking inside a bit was the balcony, generally the place to dry clothes here.

There were still girls' clothes drying there at this moment.

Only now did Huaiyou gradually discover that the air actually had a faint musty smell, he looked back, but couldn't find the source of the smell.

It gave him the feeling that the entire room was filled with this strange smell.

And just then, when Huaiyou's gaze swept back towards the balcony, he was suddenly a bit doubtful.

"Why are there so many mirrors?"

The balcony was the place to dry clothes, and just now when he looked at it for the first time, Huaiyou hadn't noticed it, probably because of the obstruction of the line of sight and the angle of the mirrors, but now he discovered that there were densely packed mirrors placed on the balcony, probably more than 10 of them.

Some were smaller than a palm, some were half the size of a person, just placed in a disorderly manner.

Looking at it, there was no pattern at all.

Zhou Yanqing saw these mirrors and couldn't help but be a bit surprised: "..." Clearly, she also didn't know what was going on with these mirrors.

Huaiyou saw these mirrors and couldn't help but walk over to check them carefully, but strangely discovered that these mirrors were just ordinary mirrors.

There was nothing different or strange about them.

"Why put so many mirrors here?" Huaiyou, who was keen, felt that there was a problem with the matter, the strange feeling was very obvious, but he just couldn't say what the problem was.

And just then, Huaiyou just wanted to open his mouth to ask Zhou Yanqing what strange habits the three missing girls had, otherwise they wouldn't have put the mirrors in the dormitory like this.

Outside the door, suddenly there were one after another strange sounds, suddenly appearing.

"Dong, dong dong..."

The sound of something knocking on the wall next to the door.

Zhou Yanqing also heard it.

Maybe because her mind was tense, she held her breath, looking at the outside of the door uneasily; the sudden movement was very strange, making the two of them, because they had run into that child just now, feel uneasy, and they both pricked up their ears to listen to the movement outside.

And very quickly.

Apart from that kind of dong-dong sound.

At this moment, the two also heard the sound of something moving.

It seemed like footsteps, feeling like something was walking outside...

Huaiyou's mind was tense, the boy naturally couldn't hide behind Zhou Yanqing, so he slowly walked towards the dormitory door, even if he was actually scared himself, he had to protect her safety no matter what.

When he entered, the door was half-closed, and Huaiyou also looked outside through the crack of the door at this moment.

He even prepared himself psychologically at the same time.

In an instant, Huaiyou's body suddenly tensed.

Just in the crack of the door, he suddenly clearly saw a face, to be precise, half a face, dark blue, that was a child's face, and it was looking at him! The two had an intimate eye contact!

The child grinned, the mouth on half of his face revealing a pitch-black hole.

"Saeki Toshio!"

Huaiyou recognized the child.

Isn't that Saeki Toshio! Kayako's son! He was actually outside the door! Following him?

Huaiyou just wanted to react.

But suddenly heard.

"Crack!"

A loud door-closing sound rang out at this moment, the door was actually closed!

"Damn!" Huaiyou was startled, but still reacted quickly, walking in three steps as two, using his strength to pull the door handle outwards.

But now he strangely discovered.

The door had already been opened.

No matter how hard he tried, the door was like being welded there, he couldn't open it at all!

Huaiyou tried for a long time, but still found that he couldn't open it; he took a step back, his face iron-blue, staring dead-set at the door that had already been opened.

The scene just now happened too fast, and he had no way to stop it.

As a student who had stayed in the school for several years, he actually saw it after a period of familiarity; the door was the only place to leave the dormitory.

The dormitory naturally had windows, only those windows were welded with steel bars to prevent accidents, and he couldn't break them open with his bare hands at all.

He didn't expect that child to actually follow him; he originally thought that if he followed the clues, there shouldn't be any problems, at least there should be a buffer period.

Facts proved that the other party didn't talk about any buffer period.

However, the occurrence of the matter wasn't just like this.

Before Huaiyou and Zhou Yanqing could say anything.

The electric light suddenly flickered as if it were out of control, and then suddenly went completely dark.

The entire girls' dormitory fell into darkness.

At the same time, there was a thick smell of blood, mixed with the musty smell he felt when he first entered, which swept through and completely flooded into the two people's nasal cavities.

Huaiyou and Zhou Yanqing covered their mouths and noses uncontrollably at the same time, but at the same time, their hearts seemed to have been heavily stimulated; the darkness had actually scared them.

Huaiyou quickly turned on the flashlight, but his gaze was fixed dead-set on the mirrors on the balcony.

Because just when the light went out.

Huaiyou clearly saw it.

Someone was standing on that balcony, not him, and not Zhou Yanqing...

That was a person wearing white clothes; because it was only for a moment, and the light went black in a second, Huaiyou only saw a rough outline and couldn't see anything more specific.

But he could be sure that he definitely hadn't seen it wrong.

Zhou Yanqing quickly turned on her phone flashlight, clearly also noticing the change in Huaiyou's expression, seeing that the other party's expression was very bad, and asked: "What did you see, that child, or..."

Zhou Yanqing was clearly also scared by the sudden closing of the door and the sudden extinguishing of the light, but because of the angle just now, what she saw was only that the door was closed and the movement was a bit big, which startled her.

But the light of the flashlight made her see Huaiyou's face turn very bad, staring at the direction of the balcony.

"That child, outside, but, just now I saw that person on the balcony again, standing there, wearing white clothes..." Huaiyou's voice was trembling.

Zhou Yanqing heard this, and her scalp went numb instantly.

Because she knew that Huaiyou had no reason to lie to her, what he said should be true.

And that meant that there was actually something in the dormitory.

Only, she didn't see it just now.

The whole world seemed to have become quiet at this moment, even with the illumination of the two people's phone flashlight lights, the corners that couldn't be seen clearly still had a kind of dark terror.

"What should we do now? Is that the same existence as that child? Anyway, the feeling I heard, it's not like it." Zhou Yanqing felt uneasy, "If that thing is really in the dormitory... and I can't see it, isn't it very dangerous."

It was as if to verify what Zhou Yanqing said, the two keenly felt that the strange smell emanating from the surrounding air suddenly intensified again.

Even with the two people's endurance, they couldn't help but frown and cover their noses subconsciously.

"I can't see it, but I did indeed see it, could it be that the thing is hiding in the corner of the wall? There is just a blind spot in the field of vision there."

Huaiyou was highly alert and had such an idea, and said it lightly, because it was indeed as he said, the place where the mirrors were placed was indeed a visual blind spot on the balcony.

A person standing there was completely fine.

Although he was also a bit scared, at this moment, he had to determine if that thing was hiding in the corner.

Huaiyou slowed his pace, overcoming the horror in his heart, and walked over slowly; the phone flashlight's light was very weak, but it wasn't dim, and it could be considered bright.

"Phew... no one, it should be fine." Huaiyou breathed a sigh of relief, but just then, he had already seen clearly that there was no one in the blind spot.

But just then, just as he wanted to turn his head, his line of sight inadvertently glanced at the mirror again.

Only then did he see.

In the reflection of that mirror.

A head was stuck to the ceiling.

To be precise.

That was a woman, her hair spread out, her eyes empty, her skin a sickly white, like a corpse; at this moment, she was shaking her head slightly, the entire ceiling of the dormitory was completely covered by her hair, only revealing a head, or rather.

It also seemed like just a head.

And just then, her eyes were staring at Zhou Yanqing, but she was shedding two lines of blood tears, fresh blood dripping, just hitting Zhou Yanqing's head.

Huaiyou turned his head instantly to look at Zhou Yanqing; Zhou Yanqing, who felt something, touched her head, and then looked at it with doubt.

She began to scream.

Huaiyou's breathing instantly became rapid, as if countless needles were pricking his whole body, his whole body seemed to have been stuffed into a block of ice.

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