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Chapter 308 - Chapter 308 Chapter 308 Supernatural Event

Chapter 308: Chapter 308: Supernatural Event Chapter 308: Chapter 308: Supernatural Event Although overall, this school didn’t have many features worth boasting about, it did have one point that satisfied us: due to its vast grounds and the scarcity of students, there was definitely no shortage of quiet corners where one wouldn’t be disturbed.

This was perfect for discussing some of the more sensitive matters.

“So you are…”

Behind an abandoned building in the school’s dormitory area, a skinny man with glasses, who claimed to be Liu Fan, spoke with a somewhat incredulous expression.

A rather ordinary-looking young man, two beautiful girls with gentle smiles, and two little girls that seemed no older than twelve. Though they did not lack the ability to attract attention, it was hard to see them possessing the traits of “Mysterious Organization Special Envoys.” If they were members of the “Boundless Love” team that had been gaining notoriety in recent urban legends, it would be too…

Well, maybe one could imagine the three adults fitting the role, but what’s with the two kids?

“Tell us about what happened now,” I said.

Facing the skepticism in his eyes, we weren’t surprised at all, but explaining was a waste of time, so I went straight to the point.

Liu Fan hesitated for a moment but, realizing that we had no motive to deceive him, he let it go.

Still, could this group of men and women, giving off the “family taking their children out for a picnic” vibe, really solve any and all problems they took on as those friends had told him? Could the “Boundless Love,” which seemed more like something from a novel or urban legend, truly help him find Sister Ling?

But he had to trust, didn’t he? After all, when even the police were helpless, what else could he, a cowardly guy, do but place his last hope in this almost ethereal place?

“Please… please help me, Sister Ling has already been missing for four days! I…”

“Alright, alright, we know,” I interrupted with a hand gesture for pause, “All this you have mentioned in your request. Ghostly phenomena in Old Gao’s lab building and the dorm area, lights flickering against walls at midnight, a girl–oh, the Sister Ling you mentioned–disappearing while taking a shortcut back to the dorms after night study, and various other incidents. We’ve got all that. What we want to know now are the specific manifestations of these paranormal activities, when they started happening, and, if you don’t mind, tell us about this Sister Ling. It seems you care a lot about her, haha, just some personal curiosity. You can choose to tell us or not but, of course, based on how complete your answers are, we’ll determine the level of effort we’ll put into our actions…”

“Ah Jun, you’ve been influenced by Lin Xue,” Qianqian’s voice echoed in my head.

I immediately shuddered: “Don’t bring up that terrible name at a time like this.”

The glasses-wearing man before me, whose name and appearance said nothing but ‘ordinary,’ suddenly showed a shy smile, looked down, and said, “Sister Ling… she’s my girlfriend…”

Shocking!

Utterly shocking!

Did I just hallucinate or did this… this… this born-to-be-bullied, pushover-face glasses-wearing man just say that Sister Ling… is his girlfriend?

He could say she was his long-lost aunt and I’d believe him, damn it! How could this feeble young man, who even speaking to strangers would make him blush, actually have a girlfriend?!

And how exactly did he manage to woo a girl in the first place with the inability to complete a sentence without hesitation?!

And that address, Sister Ling… Is that what you call your girlfriend? Is that how you should address a girlfriend? Answer me, damn it!

At this moment, the soul within me swelled with tears, turned around, pounded the floor, and slammed the walls…

“Okay, go on…”

The Leader, who had momentarily returned from a pallid fright, switched back to a meticulous bureaucratic face, stern in expression, the corner of his mouth twitching.

“Oh,” Liu Fan promptly responded, although he found the sudden inexplicable shift in the other’s demeanor incomprehensible, he thought it best not to dwell on it and continued obediently, “Actually, the talk of paranormal activities at this school has a long history…”

“Although the school isn’t much, it is, after all, an old institution with a history of a hundred years. Most of the buildings here are quite old, so it’s normal for there to be some legends, like an extra step appearing at 1:30 in the morning or a classroom on Friday nights where the sounds of someone reciting texts can be heard, or the sounds of card playing coming from an empty dorm room on the sixth floor at night, and whenever it rains at dusk, there’s always a girl under the teaching building asking to borrow an umbrella. Anyone lending her one would find their umbrella on their bed the next day, covered in bloodstains and stuff. There are a lot of such legends in this school, well-known to all. Most students here don’t perform very well academically, and those girls also like to…”

“Bang!”

A loud noise as Qianqian’s fist swung past the man’s nose and struck the concrete wall beside him, leaving a deep web of cracks.

“It would be trouble if you don’t stick to the point.”

The girl who had just demonstrated her explosive power withdrew her fist, a warm smile on her face, looking as innocently harmless as ever.

Accompanied by the almost audible “squeak and creak” sound, Liu Fan stiffly turned to look at the shocking web of cracks on the cement wall, his sweat pouring down.

This time at least, doubts about our strength in his heart had lessened quite a bit…

“I wrote about the things on the form…” Liu Fan wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, and moved away slightly before he cautiously continued, “All of those incidents started occurring just in the past month, and unlike other mysterious rumors, these anomalies have been witnessed by many students, even several teachers are aware of them.”

“This school has over a hundred years of history, including many building renovations and major reconstructions, but because of a decline over the past decade or two, many of the reconstruction projects have been abandoned, leaving behind a lot of unfinished buildings, like the science building and the dormitory area behind it, half of which are still under construction. The empty lot in the middle is piled with construction waste, and students returning from their lab classes at night have to take a long detour around it. However, some students taking a shortcut through the construction site, Sister Ling does that often too, but nothing ever happened… until a month ago when some unsettling rumors started.”

“It’s said that one night, a girl taking a shortcut back to the dorms through the debris pile had an accident because it was too dark, and the nearby streetlights were also broken, resulting in her tripping over some concrete blocks. When she fell, her throat was impaled by two steel rods protruding from the ground… Then, the next morning, people only found her shoes and the blood on the ground, but the body was missing.”

“After that, strange phenomena began to occur,” Liu Fan swallowed nervously, his face showing fear, “At night, lights would often turn on in one of the labs in the science building, as if someone was still conducting experiments there. But I haven’t seen this phenomenon; Sister Ling once went to investigate voluntarily but didn’t find anything. Then in the dormitory buildings here, where we have few students, many dorms are empty, and many only house one or two students. The girl who originally had the accident had just one roommate, who moved out after the accident because she was scared to live alone. But from the empty dorms, there would always come the sound of laundry being washed. Supposedly, the girl had taken the shortcut because she was in a hurry to wash her clothes, so it’s her who came back, wanting to finish the things she was doing in life… uh, these are the things I heard when the girls in the class were talking, I…”

Watching the skinny boy in front of her waving his hands and starting to explain the situation, Qianqian tapped her forehead with a resigned look and said: “Don’t worry, you’re clearly not the type who would dare to enter a girl’s dorm even if you had a thousand times the courage, but why are you explaining something so off-base that no one would think of? You’re only making yourself look guilty…”

Liu Fan immediately showed an embarrassed expression and said in a low voice: “Well… actually, I go in there quite often… Sister Ling asked me to help move things…”

“Bang!”

The familiar sound of a heavy strike rang out again, and even the usually good-tempered Big Sister couldn’t refrain from taking action.

“Focus… the important point…”

“Uh… there’s also that pile of debris. It’s said that the spirit of the girl who died is still nailed to the ground by the two steel rods there, so she cannot move on. Every few days, one would see flickering wisps of ghostly flames moving back and forth within the debris, and under the concrete slabs, a ‘squeak squeak’ sound can be heard. Sometimes during the day, passersby would even see the originally straight rebars twisted into spirals. This… this is definitely true! I’ve seen it too!”

After uttering these words with a frightened expression, Liu Fan’s face turned sad: “Sister Ling went to investigate these incidents by secretly keeping watch at the construction waste site… Then she disappeared a few days ago… You have to help me! Although the police have come several times before, they haven’t found anything at all, and I think, these kinds of divine and mysterious matters, only the equally legendary ‘Boundless Love’ might be able to handle…”

“Uh… hold on a sec.” Upon hearing that regrettable studio name, I immediately called a halt, then asked curiously: “You said your girlfriend went to investigate these things? That’s such a strange hobby… Of course, that’s still my personal curiosity. You can choose to answer or not to answer, but you understand that the completeness of your answer will determine what I omit, right?”

“Ah Jun,” Qianqian’s voice came again, “you’ve really corrupted…”

Liu Fan was not secretive about this question at all: “It’s like this, Sister Ling… she has a sister who disappeared several years ago, and I’ve heard her talk about it. Her sister disappeared under similar mysterious circumstances, alive without a trace, dead without a body, so… she’s interested in this kind of thing…”

“Liu Fan? What are you doing here?”

Just as Liu Fan was in the middle of speaking, a young female voice suddenly interrupted him.

We already knew someone was approaching, but it seemed to be just an ordinary person, so we didn’t pay much attention.

“Ah, Teacher Zheng!”

A young woman wearing a long dress approached from around a nearby corner. Liu Fan immediately perked up upon seeing her and called out loudly.

Talking about this day and age, in such a chaotic and decaying school, to still have someone as obedient as an elementary school student… That was just too weird…

“You’re not from this school, are you?”

The young woman addressed as Teacher Zheng approached us with a puzzled voice, her gaze upon us clearly inquisitive.

For some reason, I took an extra moment to observe the young woman before me.

Of course, it wasn’t because her appearance was particularly attention-grabbing. While she could be considered pretty, I’m not so lecherous as to ogle every beautiful woman who passes by. It was just that there was something noticeable about this woman.

Firstly, with the weather turning cold so quickly, she was only wearing a thin dress. Wasn’t she cold? Was this the legendary beauty that freezes oneself?

Okay, that question wasn’t important… What I really cared about was that this woman in front of me always gave me a sense of being somewhat enchanting.

Weird, seeing that she was a rather plainly dressed woman, yet she gave off such an impression. Was this the legendary factor of charisma?

“Oh, we are friends of Liu Fan.”

I wore a genuinely sincere smile on my face, my tone so believable it could deceive myself to death.

“Friends of Liu Fan?” The young woman furrowed her brow, “I see… Don’t take offense, but Liu Fan is a very honest student, he doesn’t have many friends, and… well, never mind.”

Although she didn’t finish, I could roughly guess what this young teacher was suspecting: Judging by age, we clearly didn’t look much like friends of this high school boy.

However, looking at the composition of our group, severely imbalanced in favor of females plus the presence of two little girls, it did eliminate the possibility that we were suspicious characters.

“Well, that’s that, we have other matters to attend to, so we’ll be heading off… Liu Fan, I’ll come find you for a chat in a couple of days!”

Seeing the arrival of the teacher, I knew today’s conversation was probably over. After quickly saying goodbye, I grabbed Visca, who was curiously observing the cobweb on the wall, and led the group of beauties both big and small to make a temporary retreat.

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