1TWITF[C Chapter 48

Chapter 48

As they spoke, they entered the elevator, pressed the button, and the elevator slowly descended.

The third basement level of the building was the morgue.

The elevator doors opened, and a cold draft hit them, making them shiver.

The forensic doctor was standing at the door waiting for them. Seeing them arrive, he didn’t waste any words and directly led them to the scene.

“There were a total of twenty-four corpses, originally placed here, all in good condition. After lunch, when I came back in the afternoon, they were all gone.” The forensic doctor pointed to one of the wall cabinets, where twenty-four drawers were pulled open, empty.

“Who opened the drawers? Have you checked the surveillance?”

“I, I opened them. I originally planned to come back and continue working, but when I opened one cabinet, it was empty. I opened another, and it was still empty. I don’t know why I couldn’t find them. I checked the surveillance, and there was nothing unusual.”

“Really no anomalies?”

“None.”

“How long did you take for lunch?”

“Less than twenty minutes. I was concerned about this matter, so I didn’t delay for too long.”

In just about twenty minutes, where could twenty-four corpses go? Even if it was just a skeleton, the volume was still there. No matter what method was used to decompose or hide them, it didn’t seem like something that could be done in twenty minutes.

The information that had just been distributed floated into her mind, and Officer Zhao pursed her lips.

She heard that her predecessor, because she insisted on exploring Yinming Road, disappeared and has not been heard from since.

*

“Okay, the teacher knows, this matter will definitely be dealt with.” Class teacher Li promised.

Only then did Wen Qing leave the office with light steps.

Unexpectedly, the other colleagues, who usually chatted so happily, gave each other suggestive glances, but not a single one supported her suggestion.

“Wh-what’s wrong?” Teacher Li was a little at a loss.

“Little Li, you better not interfere with this matter, let them go.” In the office, an older teacher said with a smile.

“Ah? How can I not interfere? Running to that kind of ghostly place late at night, and besides, what’s with the ‘giving money as long as they go’? It must be a scam, right? What if they really get trafficked?” Teacher Li asked, puzzled.

The two teachers sitting next to her exchanged knowing glances and subtly pouted.

Hearing this, Teacher Li was even more confused, “What kind of saying is that?”

She wanted to ask them one by one, but no one was willing to pay attention to her, as if they were afraid of being tainted by something unlucky. She seemed to understand something and immediately changed her tone, “I see, the students just want to go take a look, of course, as a teacher, I should respect the students’ personal wishes, as long as it doesn’t affect their studies.”

Hearing her words, the office returned to its usual harmonious atmosphere.

Wh-why isn’t she saying anything?

Is there another arrangement?

“Teacher Li…” She ran to the office after school to find someone, but the class teacher was not there, and the other teachers were busy with their own things. When asked, they all said they didn’t know.

Wen Qing was burning with anxiety, but the teacher next door had no intention of interfering at all, and even told her not to meddle in it. The students who wanted to ask for leave for evening self-study were generously approved, only with the reminder to pay attention to safety.

But, going to that place, where is there any safety to speak of?

Wen Qing bit her lip and chased after them.

If the teacher didn’t care, she would chase the people back!

Behind her, in the office, a group of people watched Wen Qing’s receding figure, their expressions subtle.

*

“It should. I only posted the message on the forum of a nearby high school. This school’s tuition is not expensive, and many students come from ordinary families. For money, many people will come.”

Near Yinming Road, inside an off-road vehicle, a man and a woman were discussing. After discussing the details, they finally began to turn to the real problem, their eyes cast towards the back seat.

“What about him?”

In the back seat, Chu Xiu was still unconscious, seemingly experiencing extremely painful nightmares, his entire face twisted in pain.

“Let’s hide him now, okay?” This was considered Shi Yan’s last bit of mercy.

Nie Yunzhen looked at the sky outside. The sun was gradually setting, and the twilight was spreading across the sky. He gritted his teeth, “Okay, let’s go together.”

Because they had to meet the students in advance, they came to Yinming Road ahead of time. Hearing this, Shi Yan started the car and drove towards the depths of the dense forest.

“I don’t know what it’s like here after we left yesterday. I hope it won’t…” Shi Yan had a hint of sorrow between her eyebrows, and the hand holding the steering wheel was clenched tightly, so hard that her fingertips turned white.

Nie Yunzhen also fell silent, “We have to do the mission… it shouldn’t be that unlucky, right?”

They drove cautiously all the way, and luckily, nothing went wrong. However, a few hundred meters before reaching the crossroads, yellow tape was wrapped around the trees, and a notice was posted on the side of the tree, claiming that a serious car accident had occurred here last night, and that irrelevant people were prohibited from entering, and so on.

“Car accident?” Shi Yan and Nie Yunzhen in the back seat looked at each other and saw solemnity in each other’s eyes.

The car accident mentioned on the notice couldn’t possibly be last night…

*

Outside the Municipal Police Bureau, it was crowded with reporters who had heard the news. As soon as they heard there was major news, they all ran faster than wolves smelling the scent of meat.

“Excuse me, is it true that a major car accident occurred on Yinming Road? The public is very suspicious of the truth of the case. Can the relevant person in charge answer it?”

“It is said that no one survived at the scene. Why did the police determine it was a suicide? Do the people in the three cars all committed suicide at the same time?”

Officer Zhao felt a burst of frustration in the car.

What could she say? She also knew that there were doubts about this case, but could she tell the public? Say that there were ghosts in this world? Hahaha, that’s hilarious.

She couldn’t say anything. The corpse test results were originally supposed to be compared with the city’s missing people to find the deceased. Now that the corpses were gone and the test results were stolen, she didn’t even know who was dead, how could she say anything?

Just then, she received an MMS message on her phone, sent by an unknown person. As soon as she saw the content of the MMS message, her eyebrows stood on end and she became extremely angry.

“Who’s so immoral? Asking students to run there and play hide-and-seek?! These students are also, are they crazy for money?” She cursed in a low voice, slowly drove back into the courtyard, preparing to notify the local school.

The result shocked her.

The post was real, and the students who responded below were also real. Roughly calculating, there were about thirty replies indicating they wanted to go.

Damn it…

*

Far away on the other side of the city, at a high school, a group of students boarded a bus that they didn’t usually take.

They were all high school students from the same school, wearing the same school uniforms. Some were unfamiliar with each other, but seeing that everyone was sitting on the same bus, they knew what they were going to do, and quickly exchanged names and got to know each other.

The driver was also curious and asked about it, thinking there was some activity today, and the students stammered and perfunctorily answered.

After leaving the school gate, take a bus and get off three stops before the terminal station, then transfer to the terminal station, and finally transfer again, and you will arrive.

“Speaking of which, who’s going to be the ghost?”

“It should be okay if we lose, right? But it’s really exciting. At most, I’ve slept on a grave before.”

“When I was little…”

For the last transfer, there was no one else except the driver. For a while, this bus was unusually lively. Before getting off, everyone happily said goodbye to the driver, and the driver showed a strange smile on his face, telling them to come again next time.

But how did his smile seem to be saying that he hoped to see them come out alive?

The students didn’t care and walked down one after another, and were stunned by the scene in front of them.

“Is this… Yinming Road?”

“It’s really desolate! Even the trees don’t grow leaves.”

“And this place really feels a bit gloomy.”

With eleven people gathered together, it could give them some courage, so in the face of such a desolate and almost terrifying scene, everyone was still smiling and didn’t care too much.

“Hey, by the way, where’s the person who said they would play hide-and-seek together? Where’s the person who posted?”

“He said let us go further ahead. There’s a sign for Yinming Road ahead, and there’s a car there, that’s them.”

Just like what was said in the post, a man and a woman.

The man who looked a little difficult to get along with also showed a smile, “I’m Nie Yunzhen.”

Having received the deposit in person, the last bit of worry was gone. Everyone was still students, not too familiar with each other, and able to get one thousand safely. No one thought about doing anything illegal in the wild, and they all obediently reported their names. Everyone brought their school badges, and some were afraid they wouldn’t believe them, so they even showed them their school badges.

Shi Yan and Nie Yunzhen silently remembered the number of people in their hearts. A total of eleven students came.

Three girls: Yun Qian, Ling Weiwei, Zhang Dan.

Eight boys: Tian Le, Fang Nan, Liang Qiucheng, Sun Hao, Xie Yu, Zhang Zhijie, Huang Yuanwang, Liu Chengliang.

The students all had watches, so they could keep track of the time.

“Is there any reward or punishment for losing or winning?” One of the students asked subconsciously.

Hearing this, the students immediately became excited.

“Of course we’re not afraid, we’ll just wait then.”

“It’s just that we’ll have to trouble you to send us back then.”

Time passed little by little, the night wind became colder, and except for a bonfire, the night was as dark as thick ink, and the temperature became lower and lower. From time to time, they could hear the whistling of the night wind like the roar of a beast.

Shi Yan took a lot of food from the car, and everyone shared a little, and then read books and reviewed by the bonfire, gradually falling silent.

They thought it would be an easy job, but personally experiencing waiting until after midnight was particularly difficult. Many people regretted it a bit, but since they had already come, they were too embarrassed to ask them to send them back without finishing the game, so they could only grit their teeth and endure.

They didn’t know how long they waited, but midnight finally arrived.

An extremely terrifying and cold aura swept over them, and everyone present shivered, but they only thought it was an illusion caused by the nighttime temperature drop, and hurriedly wrapped their coats even tighter.

“Okay, everyone come and draw lots now.” Shi Yan took out a complete, unopened deck of playing cards, took out a Great Joker, and then drew one card from each suit from A to 3, and put it together with the Great Joker, making a total of thirteen cards.

“The person who draws the Joker is responsible for being the ghost. The sign of catching someone is to take the other person’s playing card as proof, okay?” Shi Yan asked again.

Tian Le asked, “What if the other person refuses to give it?”

This way, everyone had no objections.

One hand after another reached out to draw a card.

“Okay, show your cards now.”

Unexpectedly, the one who drew the Joker was actually Yun Qian, the most timid one.

“Ah? It, it’s me…” Yun Qian hesitated a bit. She had just agreed with Ling Weiwei to hide together somewhere, but now she had to be the ghost to catch others alone, and fear appeared on her face.

“Okay, well, I’ll do my best.” Under the comfort of her classmates, Yun Qian clenched the Joker card in her hand.

She followed the rules very well and didn’t look around randomly, and occasionally glanced at her wristwatch, silently calculating the time.

Deep in the dense forest, under a slope, a man suddenly opened his eyes and then gasped rapidly.

He glanced at the sky and immediately took out his mobile phone to check the time, and then his expression changed drastically.

It was already past midnight, and the hide-and-seek game had begun!

Fortunately, they didn’t abandon him.

Chu Xiu stood up, patted the dust off his body, and looked around. It was pitch black and he couldn’t see anything clearly, so he decided to wait in place.

He sent a message to Shi Yan, asking about the hide-and-seek information.

Shi Yan and Nie Yunzhen ran east together. They had been here before, so they naturally knew where to hide well. With their physical fitness, ten minutes was enough to run very far.

“Really? That’s great.” Nie Yunzhen was sincerely happy.

On the other end of the mobile phone, Chu Xiu, who received the message, was extremely shocked.

They actually still found students to play, and that was fine, but the ghost was actually Yun Qian?!

Shi Yan and Nie Yunzhen both survived because he had been resurrected once to avoid Yun Qian and Wen Qing. They naturally didn’t know the strangeness of these two girls.

Chu Xiu took a deep breath, feeling a sense of powerlessness that fate could not be shaken off.

He immediately sent a message to Shi Yan and Nie Yunzhen.

“If the student you found to be the ghost is really called Yun Qian, I can only say, run! Run quickly! Don’t be caught by her.”

“Because she is really a ghost!”

The first message made Shi Yan and Nie Yunzhen a little confused, but the second made their bodies stiff and their backs cold.

At this time, ten minutes had arrived.

The hunt began.

A pale hand opened the car door. A girl in a school uniform slowly walked down from the car and looked at the dark, dead forest.

Now, she was going to find her good friends.

Her figure slowly walked forward, and at the moment she passed the bonfire, the fire instantly went out.

It was too dark at night. He only saw Yun Qian’s expression clearly when he got closer, and he immediately felt that something was wrong.

“You, what’s wrong with you? Your face is so pale.” Zhang Zhijie waved his hand in front of her, “Why are you spacing out?”

In the next second, the person who was spacing out became him.

Yun Qian opened her mouth, but not to speak. Her mouth opened wider and wider, as if her jawbone was dislocated and her skin had unlimited stretching power, slowly opening to her waist and abdomen.

“You… you are…” A real ghost!

Yun Qian is a real ghost!!

Unfortunately, he no longer had the opportunity to say these words, nor did he have the opportunity to remind his classmates.

A boy’s scream echoed through the night sky. Immediately, a playing card fell to the ground.

That hand picked it up and put it in its pocket, its voice hoarse and cold, “The first one, found.”

“There’s a casualty.” As soon as they heard this voice, the three people who were really doing the mission knew what was going on. They had to do their best to run forward to increase the distance.

The other students naturally heard the scream too. The scream was so shrill that it didn’t sound like it was faked at all. Immediately, their hearts also trembled a little.

“What’s going on? This voice sounds like Zhang Zhijie’s.”

“What happened to Zhang Zhijie?”

Most of the students brought their mobile phones, otherwise they wouldn’t know the forum. Even the poorest Tian Le was with Fang Nan who brought his mobile phone. Fang Nan scratched his head and asked others in the group what was going on.

“No way? Did you guys really go to play?”

“Too brave.”

“Wait, did you say you heard Zhang Zhijie’s scream? Who’s the ghost now?”

Fang Nan replied, “It’s Yun Qian, didn’t I just say it?”

“Yun Qian? Didn’t Yun Qian die in an accident five days ago? Don’t joke around.”

Yes, yes…

The memories in his mind gradually became clear, and Fang Nan recalled them little by little.

Yun Qian… she had died long ago.

So, the one playing hide-and-seek with them now is… a real ghost!

“Run!!”

*

Downtown, a hotel.

A handsome man was sitting in the room, reviewing data, with a newspaper laid out on the table. On the paper, a major tragedy was boldly announced.

On the black-and-white photograph was Yun Qian’s face.

And around Yun Qian’s face were dozens of other photos, all of whom were young high school students.