The heat wave was surging, the summer insects were chirping, and Yi Xiaochuan was lying in the empty dormitory, holding a black teardrop-shaped crystal pendant in his hand, in a daze.
It's just past 10 o'clock in the evening. If it were in the past, this would be the time when the sounds of games and chats would be heard one after another.
But today, after experiencing a series of graduations and farewells, Otokogawa lay on the bed like a salted fish.
I don’t play games, and I don’t read updated novels.
His eyes were full of melancholy and loneliness.
Time flies, and four years of college life have passed in a blink of an eye. The sadness of parting and thousands of words are all stuck in my heart.
Everyone goes their own way and has their own future.
Some continue their studies, some pursue a master's and doctoral degree, some pass the civil service exam, some inherit the family business, and some work shifts in a factory.
I don’t know when we will meet again, but I can be sure that by then some of us will be successful, some will be rising, some will be struggling to make a living, and some will be in dire straits.
Now, in the entire 11 male dormitory buildings, except for the first and second floors which are the dormitories for freshmen, the third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors are all for graduates. Most of the grades have moved out of the dormitories now, at least in Otokogawa's major, there are two classes and the entire fifth floor dormitory is just him.
After staring blankly at the ceiling for a while, Yi Xiaochuan turned up the fan. The weather in June was already very hot.
As for the air conditioners, the school cut off the power in order to force the graduates to leave quickly.
Sudden!
My phone vibrated, interrupting my thoughts. I reached for the phone. The pendant was hanging in front of my chest, twinkling in the light like stars blinking.
It was the second oldest in the dormitory who called all the members in the dormitory group.
Northeastern Corner: Brother Xiaoyi, are you still in the dormitory? Waiting online! Urgent!
Zhang Yueban: After drinking yesterday, he sent me to the high-speed train and said that he would not move unless the dormitory manager kicked him out. He was reluctant to leave his love nest. I think it was pesticide or poison...
Yi Xiaochuan looked at Fatty Zhang's usual unpunctuated words with a frown on his face. He simply ignored them and sent an emoticon.
Xiaoyige: Daze.jpg
Morning erection: Fatty, you'll die if you put one more punctuation mark! For Virgos, it's a real pain in the ass...
Zhang Yueban: I type slowly, so I can only catch up with your speed during the time you are thinking. Chen Bo, you have studied for a master's and a doctorate degree, but you still don't have this much comprehension!
Northeastern Corner: Stop joking, this matter is very important. Brother Xiaoyi, are you really still in the dormitory
This was a voice message. From the second brother's tone, it seemed that he was drunk, but it was really a bit hurried.
"Yes! The work is done and I will move out tomorrow."
"You may not believe what I said. I myself can't believe what I encountered tonight. Let me show you a video. I suggest that you move out tonight, Brother Xiaoyi..."
"Why?"
A video was sent.
The video was shot with a mobile phone at night, in a large forest, pitch black.
"My hometown is in this village. I was born and raised in this village... I came out for a walk after having a few drinks. This summer, it's still more comfortable to live in the old forest... Hey, there's movement!"
Judging from the voice, this is the second child! He has a duck voice and his singing is so amazing.
The video shot by the second brother? Brother Xiaoyi changed his posture to make himself more comfortable.
As the phone moved, a yellow fox appeared in the video. Its fur was shiny and glossy, and the satin-like luster of its fur could be felt in the video.
Huangpizi, also known as weasel, is called Huang Daxian in the Northeast.
In the video, the yellow-skinned creature suddenly stood up, its eyes glowing with an eerie light under the dim light of the mobile phone and the soft moonlight.
The video shook for a while, obviously startled.
"I am so surprised!"
Just as Otsogawa was wondering, another person's voice suddenly came from the video: "Do you think I look like a human?"
"Huang...Huang Daxian appeared?"
Yi Xiaochuan thought about it and based on his seven years of experience of reading books, when animals speak, it means they have become something significant.
The phone vibrates.
Zhang Yueban: After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, animals are not allowed to become spirits!
Chen Bo: Could it be that this yellow-skinned person is a smuggler from the fighting nation? Northeast China and Siberia are not far apart...
In ancient times, people believed in Wong Tai Sin and built temples for him. This is not from a fabricated novel, but a true folk belief. Wong Tai Sin is one of the five great immortals and is the easiest to communicate with. In ancient times, some villages would build a temple for the Five Gods of Wealth at the entrance of the village to receive incense and worship.
Brother Xiao Yi: This is to ask for silence. It seems that Huang Daxian has already practiced well, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon day by day, and has taken off his transverse bone. As long as he responds "I am a human", he can transform into a human form. Then he can be called a demon... Manual funny.
Continue watching the video.
"Do I look like a human being to you?"
The voice in the video was heard again, and in the hazy moonlight, the yellow-skinned man was seen bowing again in a very realistic manner.
Then it seemed to remember something, and used its front paws to dig out its ear sockets. It actually took out something with its little paws, threw it forward, and it fell to the ground.
"Do I look like a human being to you?"
Under the bright light of the mobile phone, the light in the yellow-skinned man's eyes became even more enchanting.
“Like!” The second brother almost cried, with his phone camera facing the Wong Tai Sin: “You are such a good person.”
As soon as the second brother finished speaking, Huang Daxian seemed to smile. He scratched his ears and cheeks, then bowed to the second brother again.
Just as he was about to leave, Huang Daxian suddenly turned around and bared his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Human, remember! Don't go out when it's dark!"
…
"So what's that got to do with me finding a small hotel to sleep in tonight? Anyway, this plot has been used too much in online novels, but considering your hard work, I'll give that yellow-skinned guy 99 points, and the remaining one point is for you, don't be too proud..."
Zhang Banyue: Yes, yes, yes, the yellow fox is well raised. 99 points is not too much, and one point is not too little. But if you stay in a small hotel, I am afraid that Xiaoyi brother can't stand it during this time period. He will groan all night. I didn't sleep on the train yesterday. My eyelids are fighting each other, so I went to bed.
Morning Erection: I feel like I should block this group. I can’t stand the torture of fat people. I’m going crazy.jpg Good night everyone. I’m going to meet the boss tomorrow. Have a good sleep and feel refreshed.
The two troublemakers left the room, and the second from Northeast China said earnestly, "It doesn't matter? Don't you know that the 601 dormitory upstairs has been sealed for four years?"
"The guy who fell off a building four years ago because he couldn't get his diploma? Well, we poor students should thank him. Otherwise, the school's graduation assessment would have been stricter. With my English proficiency, I would have lost my degree..."
"Don't go off topic! Wong Tai Sin said not to go out after dark. Now the dormitory is empty, plus what happened to you, it's a typical haunted house! Don't you know that schools are the most likely places for ghosts to appear? And the mountain behind our building 11 is a mountain of graves!"
"So what? It's already past 11 o'clock, and you want me, a graduate student stranded in the dormitory, to wake up the dorm manager who is already asleep and looks fierce and wants me to get out as soon as possible, and ask him to open the door for me? And, second brother! Don't you know that I like to watch horror movies at night when I have nothing to do? I'm very brave? And don't go out after dark, you can't scare me. Besides, you have passed the civil service exam and are a member of the Communist Party. How do you live in politics? Under the glory of socialism, all the gods and demons are paper tigers..."
Northeastern Corner: I also hope that I just drank too much, but this video... Well, you should be careful at night, and contact me in time if there is any situation.
Brother Xiaoyi: It’s safe, it’s safe…
Otokogawa lay in bed like a salted fish and finished reading the novel he was following. After a while, it was already past twelve o'clock, and he fell into a deep sleep...
“Tick…Tick…”
“Tick…Tick…”
The sound of dripping water could be heard in the silent corridor.
In the silent night!
In an empty bedroom!
In the ear of Xiao Yi who has fallen asleep!
The sound seemed to be lingering like a demon.
The dormitory where Oto Ogawa lives is on the fifth floor, 501. Through the corridor window, you can see a hill that has not yet been fully developed.
Part of the front mountain has long been turned into a martyrs' park, but the larger back mountain, near the school, is still a barren mountain. I heard about the construction of a city garden a long time ago, but in the four years that Otokogawa has been studying, there has been no movement at all.
No couple would dare to go in there at night to save money on a hotel room. Mosquitoes and snakes are one reason.
The most important thing is that there are many graves!
Opposite dormitory 501 are the public toilets and water rooms.
There is no bathroom in the dormitory. Everyone on the 5th floor uses the public bathrooms at the east and west ends.
“Tick…Tick…”
Otoshi Ogawa was woken up by the heat. He was sweating profusely and his back was soaked.
When I sat up and looked, I saw that the small fan at my feet had stopped.
"It won't break down, will it? It's the last night! Why don't you hold on for a while? Three hours is good enough... Um, is there a power outage?"
Our little brother Yi immediately felt a surge of anger in his heart. If there was a large-scale power outage, the dormitory building would have been in chaos long ago, but now it was quiet outside, without a single sound, and everything was silent.
Then there is only one reason!
"Dorm Manager! You are so vicious! You actually pulled the plug on me..."
With the help of the bright (pale) moonlight outside the window, Yi Xiaochuan groped his way down from the bed. Halfway through, he suddenly stopped because he heard clear footsteps in the corridor outside the dormitory, gradually fading away.
It was like someone stood outside the dormitory for a long time, and then saw Otokogawa wake up and hurried away.
Thinking that it was the dormitory manager who turned off the power, Yi Xiaochuan didn't think much about it. He took his cell phone and opened the door, looking towards the long corridor. In the darkness, the corridor seemed to have no end.
No one.
No sound.
There were no footsteps.
The fire sign with green light looked particularly green in the darkness, like the eyes of a ghost.
The night breeze blows gently on my face, it's a little cool, but very comfortable.
Yi Xiaochuan didn't notice that it was so eerily quiet tonight. There was not a single sound of insects and frogs that should have been chirping in the summer.
Furious and sleepy, Oogawa ignored everything.
I opened the power distribution cabinet next to the door, turned on the flashlight on my phone, and stood on tiptoe...
Otokogawa was suddenly stunned, because in the reflection of the transparent plastic, he could see...
A man's face appeared behind me, his eyes were red, and he was looking at me deeply...
“Tick…Tick…”
The sound of water dripping on the ground sounded again, and Otokogawa was horrified and resisted the urge to turn around. Because he loved reading horror novels, he knew a lot of taboos when encountering ghosts.
For example, a person has three lamps, one on the head and one on each shoulder. Especially when walking at night, if you feel there is something behind you, you must not look back. If you look back, the lamp on your shoulder will be blown out by yourself, and you will be possessed by a ghost.
But the less I look back, the more terrifying it becomes.
My scalp started to tremble.
Suddenly, liquid spread under my feet. Because I was wearing slippers, I could feel the viscosity of the liquid more clearly.
There is red color under the eyes, it is blood!
Suddenly, I felt a breeze on my shoulders and my nostrils were filled with the smell of blood.
Through the reflection, a hideous head, as if it had been run over by a bulldozer, drooped on the shoulders.
What no one noticed was that the pendant on Xiao Yi's chest, which was darker than the night, actually cracked as the head approached...
"I heard you were going to thank me..."
"I'm back from hell..."
"How are you going to thank me..."