Chapter 1527
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Chapter 1527 Assist from [Night Curtain]
“What’s wrong?”
Cao Yuan followed from behind, saw Lu Menglei’s strange expression, and asked proactively.
“This is Building 5… Haven’t you heard the legend about this place?”
“Legend?”
Lu Menglei told the story of Room 609 in Building 5, and as she spoke, her face grew increasingly pale. She looked around and felt chills all over her body.
Sometimes the person telling a ghost story becomes more immersed in it than the listener. She even felt the surroundings growing cold.
Cao Yuan glanced suspiciously at the building, “It’s just a horror story, no need to take it seriously. I’ll accompany you there.”
“Do we really have to go…” Lu Menglei hesitated, “But this rumor is very real… Almost everyone at Beijing University knows that this teaching building is forbidden at night.”
“Forbidden? I want to see what’s so forbidden about it.”
Cao Yuan chuckled and strode toward the dim entrance of the teaching building, his silhouette under the streetlight appearing as mighty as a giant.
Seeing this, Lu Menglei gritted her teeth and followed closely behind Cao Yuan. Remember the website
Although this teaching building was only six floors, it covered a large area. Cao Yuan walked into the spacious first-floor hall and looked up to see corridors stacked layer upon layer, appearing like an inverted layered abyss in the dark environment.
“Where’s the light switch?” Cao Yuan asked.
“I remember… it should be in that corner.”
Lu Menglei stayed close behind Cao Yuan, looking at the dark and deathly quiet interior of the teaching building. The images she had just imagined flooded back, making her palms sweat with nervousness. She pointed in a certain direction and spoke in a lowered voice, as if afraid of waking something in the darkness.
Cao Yuan followed her direction, walked to a wall in the hall, and after feeling around for a moment, finally found the button.
Click—!
The button was pressed, but no lights came on. The entire teaching building remained in darkness.
“Hmm?” Cao Yuan raised his eyebrows in surprise, “Are the lights broken?”
“They shouldn’t be… When I passed by around 7 PM tonight, all the lights were on.” In the darkness, Lu Menglei’s face grew even paler, “Maybe… we should leave.”
“Don’t worry, nothing will happen while I’m here.” Cao Yuan spoke calmly. Though his voice wasn’t loud, it carried a strange power that somewhat calmed Lu Menglei’s pounding heart.
Cao Yuan reached into his pocket and took out his phone, turning on the flashlight. The white light illuminated a small area in front of them.
“Turn on your phone flashlight too.”
“I… my phone is in my bag, which was taken by the cat.”
Cao Yuan sighed, “One is enough… Which floor did you see the cat go to?”
“The sixth floor.” Lu Menglei paused, “That’s… the floor from the legend.”
“Is there a direct elevator?”
“Yes.”
Under Lu Menglei’s guidance, Cao Yuan found the direct elevator, but like the lights, the elevator seemed to have lost power and showed no response.
“This whole area must have lost power… Remember to stay close to me. Wherever I go, you follow.”
Cao Yuan said solemnly, holding the flashlight.
The horror legend, the unexplained power outage, the endless darkness… these things continuously eroded Lu Menglei’s courage. Though she had a strong personality, she was still a girl with an innate fear of such things. Seeing Cao Yuan step away, she instinctively reached out and held onto his arm.
Feeling a soft touch on his arm, Cao Yuan’s body trembled imperceptibly, then continued walking as if nothing had happened. In the darkness, the corners of his mouth gradually turned upward…
…
“He’s secretly smiling.”
In a certain dark area of the hall, the figures of Lin Qiye and his two companions slowly emerged. He looked in the direction the pair had gone and spoke softly.
“Indeed, the unknown and fear are catalysts for promoting feelings,” An Qingyu smiled and said, “Qiye, did you already know about the legend of this teaching building?”
“I heard about it from a friend on my first day here. Didn’t expect we’d use it now.”
“Do you think Cao Yuan knows we’re helping him?”
“He probably has some idea. The way Jiang Er possessed that black cat to grab the bag was too coincidental…”
“I’ve cut off all the power. What should we do next?” Jiang Er’s ghost-like figure emerged from the wall, her voice coming through the Bluetooth earpiece.
“Where did you put the bag?”
“In the drawer of the second desk from the right in the last row of classroom 609.”
“Good.” Lin Qiye seemed to remember something, “By the way, did you notice anything strange in that classroom?”
Jiang Er thought carefully: “No, it’s just an ordinary classroom.”
Lin Qiye nodded.
“Actually, the most effective method now would be for Jiang Er to scare Lu Menglei a bit… But I’m afraid that’s too direct, Cao Yuan might not react in time, and Lu Menglei might faint on the spot,” Lin Qiye said while thinking.
“Indeed, there’s no need to go that far,” An Qingyu nodded.
With Jiang Er’s current appearance, she was the spitting image of a female ghost in white. If she suddenly appeared before Lu Menglei, the current slightly scary atmosphere with a hint of romance would likely turn into “The Ring.”
“It’s a pity that Room 609 doesn’t actually have anything supernatural,” Jiang Er sighed. “Just going to retrieve the bag and leave feels a bit anticlimactic…”
“Lu Menglei is just an ordinary human girl. The current situation is already pushing her limits,” Lin Qiye said, watching the two figures climbing the stairs. “We’ve done what we can. Now, it’s up to Cao Yuan.”
…
In the pale light of the phone, the dim steps passed one after another beneath their feet, and the dull footsteps echoed in the dead silence of the teaching building.
Lu Menglei clung tightly to Cao Yuan’s arm, not daring to look around, afraid that something terrible might suddenly appear.
“What… what floor are we on now?”
“Third floor,” Cao Yuan answered after shining his flashlight on the stairway sign.
“But… but I feel like we’ve climbed at least five or six flights of stairs?” Lu Menglei’s face grew increasingly pale, “Cao Yuan… are we experiencing a ghost loop?!”
As she said the words “ghost loop,” Lu Menglei’s voice trembled. She held onto Cao Yuan even tighter because she distinctly remembered climbing many, many steps.
Cao Yuan paused for a moment, then spoke again:
“Oh, sorry, I mistook 5 for 3. We’re on the fifth floor.”
“???”
Lu Menglei was so angry she gritted her teeth. She pinched a piece of flesh on Cao Yuan’s arm and twisted it 180 degrees, saying irritably, “At a time like this, you’re still joking with me!”
Cao Yuan seemed completely unaffected by the pain, chuckling lightly, the corners of his mouth turning up even more.
