"Mom and Dad."
There were only these four words on the first page. Even if Bai Wu had perfect reading comprehension, he still couldn't understand what these four words meant.
He turned to the second page, and the monster formed by the black substance outside the window had already bared its fangs and claws.
But it didn't come in, and the white fog seemed to know that it would not come in.
The second page.
"He Shuhong, the teacher, died in a car accident, died from being close to me."
There is no more description, it is so concise that not a single word is nonsense, it is a small note-like note, and the content of each page is very short.
What Bai Wu cared about was that this time was different from seeing the words "Dad and Mom".
He had no reaction when he saw the words "Mom and Dad" and his mind was blank. But when he saw He Shuhong, Bai Wu seemed to have opened the file that Hong Yin had prepared.
The memory came back in an instant.
He saw a woman in her thirties, the kind of strict female teacher that people remembered. She was not pretty, had crow's feet, and was wearing printed fabrics from the 1980s and 1990s. The lenses of her glasses were a bit thick, and she always seemed to hold a book and a ruler in her hands.
All her past experiences with the cursed woman are vividly portrayed.
No one knew why, but the closed-door Baichuan Middle School suddenly had a cursed campus legend. This girl who could bring bad luck had caused a big sensation long before.
No one knows why the school would bring such a monster into the school.
Even though the West Campus where she is located is far away from the school, it still causes anxiety among many students and parents.
Many students dropped out, but soon accidents began to happen to those who dropped out. Disappearances, deaths, and all kinds of strange things happened to those who escaped from the school.
All public opinion seemed to point to the cursed woman. She was clearly staying in the old building on the west side of the school, but everyone still blamed the accident on her.
Gradually, people were afraid to leave school anymore.
Because those who stayed in school seemed to be fine, but once they escaped from school, they would inevitably encounter unexpected events. The people of the Security Bureau were fighting against evil, searching for missing people, and catching masked monsters all over the world.
They simply don't have time to take care of more cases.
The reputation of the curse woman became increasingly bad, and no teacher was willing to teach her, not even online classes.
It was not until the teacher He Shuhong mentioned in the note appeared that someone was finally willing to impart knowledge about the cursed woman.
He Shuhong is a staunch atheist. She believes that those children who left school and encountered accidents actually did so for other reasons and cannot be blamed on the girls in the old building.
This is a teacher with great character. When no one dared to talk to the Cursed Woman even through the Internet, she chose to teach the Cursed Woman various courses.
The two got to know each other, and He Shuhong felt that the curse girl was actually very kind-hearted. This girl who was not good at talking and spoke a little stiffly was actually very eager to communicate with others.
During the Cursed Girl's difficult and painful campus life, He Shuhong played the role of a teacher, a friend and a mother.
Bai Wu could feel from these memories that for a period of time, the cursed woman regarded He Shuhong as her own mother.
But in the end, He Shuhong died.
She had no memory of seeing He Shuhong's body, and the cursed woman could not leave the building to pay her respects. She only heard that He Shuhong was said to have died in a car accident.
Once again, all the rumors pointed to the cursed woman.
Almost no one understood and supported what He Shuhong did during her lifetime, but her death still gave them a good opportunity to develop their ideas.
"Ungrateful", "dishonest to teachers and ancestors", "ungrateful", "repaying kindness with enmity", "treasonous"... These insults came in an overwhelming manner, as if the curse woman had killed He Shuhong with her own hands, as if she was already a witch on the gallows waiting for sentencing.
He Shuhong's memory ends here.
There was no emotion in this simple sentence without any unnecessary information, but Bai Wu could feel the guilt in the cursed woman's heart.
He turned to the next page.
"Jiang Huan, Senior, died in the fire, died near me. I am a monster."
Another memory came rushing back.
The cursed woman lay by the window of the low building, looking at the seals around her, feeling like a monster.
A real scourge.
Seven hundred years ago, when neither the sequence nor the terms were known, people could only attribute everything to fate.
She stood by the window every day, wondering when her fate would end and whether she would be able to live an ordinary life one day.
That's how Jiang Huan met him. It's not that this senior art student didn't believe in those campus ghost stories, but because he was determined to find some absurd and weird beauty, he still came to the restricted area of the school.
Jiang Huan didn't really get close to the cursed woman, and they kept a distance from each other every time they met.
After seeing the scene where the cursed woman was looking at the sky with the breeze blowing her long hair, Jiang Huan was completely attracted.
In the desolate, silent and dim tones, the whole scene is like a haunted house, full of oldness and horror, but there is an incredibly beautiful woman who can blend perfectly with the scenery.
This is what Jiang Huan wanted to find, the beauty in the dilapidated and desolate. After seeing this scene, he began to come here to paint every day.
One is afraid of curses, but comes to the forbidden land in pursuit of perfect paintings. The other is afraid of bringing trouble to others, but longs to have friends.
They are far apart, yet they have a tacit understanding that needs no words. One is willing to hold the brush, and the other is willing to be the person in the painting.
It's obvious that the two of them don't even know each other's names.
The cursed woman didn't need to explain all the rumors. When Jiang Huan saw her, he believed that such a beautiful girl would never be a demon who caused countless people to die strangely.
He really thought so, and even the cursed woman felt that there might really be someone in this world who would not think she was a monster.
Because they didn't know each other and were always far away from each other, the cursed woman felt that perhaps the bad luck would not affect Jiang Huan. Even if they couldn't talk face to face, it was a kind of satisfaction to have such peace and gaze.
But misfortune still came.
One day she learned Jiang Huan's name from the news of Jiang Huan's death.
In that low building, the cursed woman can also use the Internet, although it is limited to the school network. From the campus forum, she learned that the classroom caught fire and the art student Jiang Huan died in the fire.
Jiang Huan’s body was not found.
The post did mention several bodies, but the test results have not yet been released. However, the facts are in front of us, there were only a few people in the classroom at the time.
Amidst all the curses on the forum, the cursed woman shed tears and blamed herself. She not only killed Jiang Huan, but also implicated other people in the classroom.
Jiang Huan’s memory ends here.
Bai Wu frowned, he always felt something was wrong.
Normally speaking, He Shuhong and Jiang Huan did die in accidents, and it is even possible that their luck was really taken away by the cursed woman.
But inexplicably, the white fog gave off a very discordant feeling.
He turned to the third page.
"Lin Yiping, the junior who liked to feed cats, died of drowning. He died of being close to me."
After the previous experiences and encounters, it is almost inexplicable that the cursed woman can bring curses and that people who come into contact with her will be plagued by bad luck.
The school still insisted on keeping the cursed girl.
Although the students continued to protest and were puzzled, they no longer dared to escape from the school. More and more students began to disappear. More and more strange and supernatural events and absurd campus stories appeared in people's topics of conversation.
It seems that since the arrival of the cursed woman, this world, which was already gradually distorted, has become even more distorted.
Things that only appear in supernatural stories... begin to appear one by one. People continue to disappear mysteriously and no one can find them, casting a layer of fear on everyone in the entire campus.
People blamed all the strange phenomena on the cursed woman.
In order to stop persecuting others and to prevent anyone from dying because of her, the cursed woman also locked herself up.
When we are young, even loneliness is noisy. In order to escape loneliness, those children do all kinds of rebellious things, eager to be recognized and eager to attract attention.
The cursed woman had no chance to be so willful. She gradually began to understand that people like her would only bring misfortune and disaster to others.
She often squatted in the corner of an empty classroom, where the trash can should have been, and hugged her knees as if she wanted to bury her head in them, silently repeating: "I am a monster."
She did think so, but monsters also have a vulnerable side.
"I want to have friends, but I don't want my friends to die."
The sentences written by the cursed woman on the paper were always simple and straightforward. Perhaps sensing the owner's intention, the note written on the table was carried out of the restricted area by the black cat.
When it came back, the note had been changed.
"It's a cute cat. Are you its owner? Don't you have any friends? Maybe you could consider taking the initiative to chat with someone."
Looking at the words on the note, the cursed woman was terrified. She longed for friends but was afraid of implicating others.
She did not respond to this message.
But the most sincere feelings written on the white paper every day are always taken away by the little black cat.
And every time it comes back, it brings information about a person.
"The cat was a little thin, so I fed it some dried fish in the bushes on the west campus, and it liked it very much."
"There seems to be something strange going on in the basketball gym... They say they can hear people playing basketball late at night."
"Several people have gone missing from the school recently. I hope they are okay."
"You didn't write anything today... But the little black cat still came to see me."
The day after Lin Yiping replied to the letter, the cursed woman discovered that it was the black cat she had raised, which was constantly conveying the words she had written and the other party's feelings.
In order to prevent Lin Yiping from being affected by bad luck, the cursed woman decided not to write anything. However, Lin Yiping did not care and continued to reply.
The black cat still brings back news from him every day.
"I didn't have any friends before because I couldn't hear anything. Later, I relied on hearing aids to hear the sounds around me."
"It's the end of the semester, but my friends don't seem to be leaving. There are more and more weird things happening in school."
"Have you heard? There seem to be some creatures that have never been seen before outside the city."
"Black Cat seems a little sad today. Is it because you are unhappy?"
"This seems to have become a secret meeting place for it and me. It waits for me here every day."
For more than ten days in a row, Lin Yiping had been using this method to unilaterally reply to the cursing woman. He only wrote one note a day, and each note only had one sentence. He would neither write less nor more.
Although the cursed woman did not reply, these notes still became one of her few joys. However, she woke up from this joy not long after.
I cannot implicate this person, I cannot be complacent, I am a monster that spreads bad luck, the only way I can protect them is to push everyone away.
With this realization, the cursed woman wrote her true identity on the note.
"I am a monster, a monster living in a restricted area, don't reply to my messages and don't touch my cat."
She wrote this short sentence against her will, thinking that her identity would scare the other party and make this friendship, which had never even begun, disappear completely.
But the next day, the cursed woman saw a sentence that made her want to cry:
"I know. I knew it the day after I met the black cat. But it doesn't matter. We are friends after all."
It turns out that Lin Yiping knew it all along.
But this boy, who had never heard the noise of the world since he was a child, didn't care about what people around him said. He just felt that the cursed woman was pitiful and thought that it was not wrong for a person to have friends.
After that, the cursed woman still didn't reply to the message, but the black cat still brought news about Lin Yiping every day.
She didn't dare to hope for anything because she was afraid that if she suddenly had some expectations for the future, these expectations would quickly turn into nothing.
Sometimes people are tortured by fate and have to live in a humble manner. When good things happen in their lives, they will also worry about whether something bad will happen to offset such good luck.
Maybe as long as I don't respond... Lin Yiping will be fine.
By the end, the cursed woman had given up on the joy of having a friend to talk to, she just wanted the boy to be alive.
Experiencing this memory, Bai Wu has already seen Lin Yiping's end.
This kind-hearted but somewhat lonely boy eventually drowned in the artificial lake on campus.
The information about this boy also came from the death announcement by the school.
Similarly, the cursed woman in the memory did not see the body. The school discovered the death scene as soon as possible and announced the news as soon as possible.
It's nothing more than the curse woman bearing more insults, and her heart is filled with guilt again.
The school didn't seem to care, especially in Baichuan City at that time, where everyone was busy taking care of themselves. The school was in chaos, and the outside of the school was also in chaos. Even the outside of the entire city was in turmoil.
Evil has begun to appear, and humans in the city have begun to mutate. Even though the Tower Era is still a few years away, Baichuan City seems to have entered the most twisted moment in advance due to some evil secrets.
Naturally, what happens in school stays in school.
But Lin Yiping's death this time caused those people who did not know the truth and just followed the rumors to blame others to shift their anger to the black cat that had come into contact with Lin Yiping.
They believed that the black cat brought the curse with it, so Lin Yiping died by drowning and the black cat must have died by fire.
Countless people watched this inhumane live broadcast of cat abuse on the Internet. People cheered, as if the witch on the gallows was finally going to be burned to death by the flames.
The flames did not kill the black cat.
It just let it accompany its owner forever in another way. From then on, there was a strange story on campus - the black cat that could not be burned to death.
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Three encounters, three regrettable deaths.
These kind people who once tried to redeem the cursed woman eventually became shackles and fetters that imprisoned her heart.
Those vicious rumors and accusations did not make the girl give up hope. Instead, it was the moths approaching her that made her realize that she was a real monster.
Maybe until now, the cursed woman still thinks of herself as a monster, but Bai Wu has already sensed something is wrong.
"There were three deaths, but no bodies were found... The school announced the deaths unilaterally. The eyes mentioned a hoax... The identity of the cursed woman seems more like a cover to attract people's hatred and attention."
There are many more names behind the note, but these people are all those who have disappeared mysteriously or have been announced as dead.
The cursed woman obviously believed that she was responsible for the deaths of these people.
Bai Wu quickly finished flipping through the note book. During this process, the black substance behind him never actually attacked him.
Ever since he saw the black cat, Bai Wu actually had a premonition that the most dangerous place in this campus ghost story might be inhabited by the person who was the least like a monster among this group of monsters.
He still has many doubts in his heart.
Who hid those sticky notes in various hidden locations? What's the story behind the old man with the lantern? What's the truth behind Room 404
This question did not bother Bai Wu for too long, because he soon found a clue in another diary on the desk.
This diary only records a short sentence and a memory.
But unlike He Shuhong, Lin Yiping, Jiang Huan and others, this memory is more special and precious to the cursed woman.
"An unknown, masked hero, died by the principal, died by getting close to me."