Chapter 312

By the girls' pool.

Classmate Tengyuan Kui grabbed Xiyuanji Qilai's arm nervously, her voice extremely low:

"Qilai-chan, did... did you find the ghost shadow?"

Xiyuanji Qilai bent over, staring intently at the clear pool water, looking up at the words, her face wearing a smile without any gloom:

"Not yet."

She reached out and stirred the pool water, a chill coming from her fingertips.

"But I discovered that the water here is so cool."

Classmate Tengyuan Kui's mouth twitched, unable to help but mock:

"Is now the time to say this?!"

Yukimura Lingyin stood a little further behind the two, arms crossed, her cold eyes scrutinizing the structure of the pool, the arrangement of the tiles, and the angles of the surrounding windows and light.

Jinweitong stood to the side like an exquisite doll forgotten in a corner.

Her gaze swept flatly over the slightly rippling water surface, her face having no emotional ripples.

The calm, like the prelude to a storm, lasted for less than ten seconds.

Without warning—

A violently distorted black human silhouette appeared instantly in the pool!

Even more horrifying was that above the head of the human figure, a deeper, darker shadow was connected, twisted like a falling noose.

The entire shadow seemed to be enduring immense pain, twisting and struggling violently in the water, its hands grasping futilely at the invisible rope around its neck, being slowly dragged toward the deeper, darker depths of the pool bottom by an unseen force.

Like a silent underwater execution spanning time and space, it was eerily re-enacted at this moment.

"I-i-i-it appeared—!!!"

Classmate Tengyuan Kui's scream tore through the brief dead silence.

She jumped up on the spot like a rabbit stepped on its tail, then plunged headlong into Yukimura Lingyin's arms beside her regardless of anything, her hands tightly clutching the other's slender waist, burying her whole face inside, trembling all over.

"Ahhh! R-really, there is one!"

Xiyuanji Qilai exclaimed at almost the same instant.

The moment the black shadow appeared, Yukimura Lingyin's cold pupils suddenly contracted to the size of needle points.

Her heart felt as if it had been gripped hard by an invisible, cold hand, twitching violently.

A short, uncontrollable scream escaped her lips.

In sharp contrast to the chaos of "people falling and horses overturning" on this side was Jinweitong, a few steps away.

Not only did she not take half a step back, but she leaned forward slightly.

Those eyes, clear as glass but lacking temperature, locked onto the eerily twisting black shadow at the bottom of the water, no fear in her gaze.

"Ghost... ghost! It really came again!"

Swimming force captain Xiaotian Tongzi's face turned pale "swish," her lips trembling uncontrollably.

Extreme fear did not freeze her, but instead whipped her nerves like a whip, prompting her to react.

"H-hurry and call the teacher! Call security!"

She turned around in a panic, stumbling as she wanted to run wildly toward the pool exit.

However, just as she had taken two steps.

In the pool, the struggling, dragged pitch-black ghost shadow dissipated as abruptly as it had appeared, without warning.

Just like a drop of thick ink falling into endless clear water, it was instantly diluted, melted, and disappeared without a trace, leaving no mark behind.

The pool water returned to a reassuring azure calm, with only the circulation filtration system continuing to emit a low and rhythmic hum.

As if that scene that made people's souls fly and spirits scatter was just a collective hallucination.

Xiaotian Tongzi's movements froze in mid-air; she looked back blankly, gazing at the empty pool bottom, her face filled with bewilderment and lingering terror.

Xiyuanji Qilai and Classmate Tengyuan Kui finally slowly "peeled" themselves off Yukimura Lingyin.

The two looked at the already calm water surface, still shaken, confirming again and again that the terrifying thing had really disappeared, before breathing heavily, their faces still retaining the lingering fear of having survived a disaster.

"D-disappeared..." Xiyuanji Qilai stroked her violently heaving chest, her voice trembling slightly.

"I-is it over?" Classmate Tengyuan Kui's fingers were still tightly clutching Yukimura Lingyin's sleeve, her knuckles turning white.

Yukimura Lingyin coughed twice, quickly tidying up her shirt collar that had been crumpled, trying hard to restore the expression on her face to her usual indifferent coldness.

Jinweitong turned her head, her gaze sweeping over the three people with different expressions, and said in her signature, flat, waveless tone:

"Since we have already seen the process of the event, let's go out."

"Natsume-kun is still waiting outside."

The group walked quickly out of the girls' pool area.

Except for Jinweitong, who still had an indifferent appearance as if it had nothing to do with her, the others all had expressions of lingering fear to varying degrees.

Seeing them come out, especially the pale faces of Xiyuanji Qilai and Classmate Tengyuan Kui, Natsume Chikage immediately greeted them. ===== CHAPTER 313 =====