Chapter 1: Crying in the Dance Studio
The night is as deep as ink, and the street lamps are charming, reflecting the strange hairy moon in the sky.
"It's going to change." Ning Yu muttered to himself, carrying a mop and a bucket alone, across the empty campus path, to the dance studio on the second floor of the Student Activity Center.
Ning Yu is a freshman this year, and his family background is very poor. After learning about his family situation, the counselor of the department was very enthusiastic to arrange this work-study job for him - cleaning the dance studio every day.
Because the school has been preparing for the welcome party recently, many student actors of the school art troupe are stepping up rehearsals, and every day does not end until late, while Ning Yu must wait for everyone to leave before he can start work.
The night looked like no different than usual, but it seemed a little unusual.
The lights in the stairwell are out of order, flickering and flickering, eeriely like scenes from supernatural movies, full of horror.
Ning Yu came to the door of the dance studio, put down the mop and bucket, took out a bunch of keys with a "bang", and was about to open the door, but found that the door was unlocked.
Which careless person was the last to go and forgot to lock the door? Still is...... There are thieves?
There is a lot of audio equipment in the dance studio, which is very expensive, and if it is stolen or damaged, Ning Yu will definitely not be able to get out of it.
Ning Yu suddenly became nervous, his heart beat faster, and his breathing became a lot shorter.
Wait, there's something in there. But the lights are turned off, so they don't look like people.
Ning Yu took a deep breath, held his breath and grabbed the doorknob, and slowly opened the door, hoping not to make any noise, but the "creak" between the door panel and the door frame still sounded uncontrollably, which was particularly clear in this silent night.
"Woo woo woo ......"
As the door was opened, the low sobbing sound of the woman gently entered Ning Yu's ears, although the sound was not loud, but it made him sweat all over his body.
There are many ghost stories circulating in the school, and many students are happy to spread them everywhere, including rumors of haunted girls in dance studios.
It is said that there was once a female student who became a junior for a married man outside the school, and after being discovered by her original partner, she made trouble at school. The girl didn't know that the man was married, and her self-esteem was very heavy, so she hung herself in this dance studio in grief and anger, and finally turned into a ghost that would never disappear, crying here every night.
Ning Yu didn't believe in the theory of gods and ghosts, but he was inevitably a little scared at this time.
"Who's in there?" Ning Yu asked with a slight tremor in his voice.
No one answered, but the sobs still echoed softly in the empty dance room, as if coming from another space.
Ning Yu stood at the door, his heart was at war, and he hesitated for a while before he entered it and fumbled to find the switch.
"Smack...... Smack......"
After a crisp sound, rows of incandescent lights flickered a few times before lighting up, illuminating everything in the dance room.
No one?
After Ning Yu looked around, he didn't see anyone, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
However, if there is no one, why is the cry still continuing, is there really a ghost?
In such a state of mind, Ning Yu felt a little uneasy and panicked even when he saw himself in the mirror of a whole wall.
Ning Yu picked up the mop as a self-defense weapon, and his heart suddenly felt a lot more steady. He looked in the direction from which the cry had come. When he was on the loudspeaker in the nearby corner, he suddenly noticed that behind the speaker in the mirror, there was a ponytail girl wearing a red T-shirt and jeans.
The girl hugged her knees and buried her face between them, her shoulders shaking, and she looked like she was crying sadly.
"Classmate, what's wrong?" Ning Yu walked around to the side of the speaker, but he didn't dare to approach, keeping a safe distance from the girl, for fear that the other party would suddenly raise his head and reveal a hideous, terrifying or even bloody face.
The girl slowly raised her head, revealing a delicate pink face, a pair of eyes that were red and swollen from crying, like two small peaches, and her face was full of teardrops.
Seeing the girl's appearance, Ning Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, knowing that the other party was not a female ghost, but a dancer in the college student art troupe, and also a well-known school flower of the economics and management department on campus, named Tang Tang. As her name suggests, she is extremely sweet, good at dancing, and her family conditions are also known for her good family conditions, she is the perfect girl that countless boys are unremittingly pursuing, and she is the goddess recognized by the majority of otaku in the school.
In Ning Yu's eyes, this is a fairy-like figure, making people dare to look at it from a distance and dare not approach, for fear that just getting close will defile the purity of the other party.
is such an excellent girl, at this time, she is hiding alone in the corner of the dance studio, crying so much. Why this happened, Ning Yu was very puzzled.
Could it be that someone gave it to you......
Ning Yu was taken aback by his own idea, and hurriedly looked at Tang Tang carefully to make sure that her clothes and pants were all in good condition, and then secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Tang Tang took out a tissue, wiped his tears and snot, stared at Ning Yu very nervously, and asked in a slightly choked voice, "Who are you?" ”
"Ning Yu" Ning Yu replied embarrassedly, and raised the mop in his hand to tell the other party that he was a work-study student.
"Oh." Tang Tang nodded, but from the arms she wrapped in front of her, she was still very vigilant.
Ning Yu asked, "It's so late, are you ......?"
Tang Tang didn't wait for Ning Yu to finish speaking, then interrupted: "Can you talk to me?" ”
Belch? Talk? Over here?
Ning Yu was stunned, then sat down on the spot, still keeping his distance from Tang Tang, a little curious about what Tang Tang wanted to say to him, a poor student with no sense of existence.
"Do you play Honor of Kings?" Tang Tang asked.
Ning Yu didn't expect Tang Tang to ask such a question, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Honor of Kings, a 5V5 competitive moba mobile game, can now be said to be popular all over the world, and there are almost no people around him who don't play, as for Ning Yu himself, he hasn't paid attention to this game for a long time, and when he heard Tang Tang's question, not only the scene of the year came to mind......
"Do you play?" Tang Tang saw that Ning Yu didn't speak, so he asked again, waking up Ning Yu who was stuck in his memories.
"Don't play." Ning Yu smiled bitterly in his heart, shook his head, and said very calmly.
For Ning Yu now, studying hard, finding a good job, and making his parents happy, this is what he should do, as for games and dreams, he has ...... Give up!
Tang Tang should have remembered the sad thing again at this time, and tears burst out again. She choked up and said, "I can't believe that just by playing such a broken game, he can run away with Su Hui, a stinky woman who can only play games." Haven't I been too busy lately to spend time with him, how can this be? I don't want him yet, so why doesn't he want me? Why! ”
Su Hui?
Ning Yu had heard of this name, it was a school flower in the art department, one of the three school flowers along with Tang Tang, he liked to broadcast competitive games live, and he had a huge number of fans.
The goddess of dance and the goddess of e-sports seem to have no intersection with each other, and they will have emotional entanglements with the same man, who is that person, and how can they have such great charm?
Tang Tang naturally didn't know what Ning Yu was thinking at this time, and the more she talked, the more angry she became.
"That stinky woman even came to the dance studio today, saying that she was here to visit the class and bring him food and drink. But how can I not see that she is here to show off to me naked! She walked around me and always looked at me pouting and smiling. ”
Belch? Are you sure it's not big breasts but chicken breasts? Ning Yu was almost amused by this sentence.
"I'm, at me!"
Tang Tang's legs kept kicking, making Ning Yu fully feel her anger beside him.
"If that's all it takes, but after the rehearsal, she even said that she wanted to teach everyone to play games, and asked me if I could play, what I said I wouldn't be able to play games, and I wouldn't even find a boyfriend in the future!"
"Ning Yu, did you say that she did it on purpose, did she deliberately anger me!"
Ning Yu nodded hurriedly beside him, "It should be." ”
"Of course I can't say I can't play, I don't want to lose to her!" Tang Tang pouted and said.
Ning Yu suddenly had a bad premonition and asked, "Then?" ”
Tang Tang gritted his teeth and said, "She said that if I really can, do I dare to have a game with her in a week?" What would you not dare? Compare to compare! ”
Ning Yu stroked his forehead, a little speechless. Tang Tang is too simple, how can you not see such a simple agitation method?
Tang Tang's face was gloomy, and his eyes began to turn red again: "I really didn't expect that I couldn't be difficult in terms of language and literature, but I couldn't play a broken game." ”
Honor of Kings is a game that is easy to get started, but it is still very difficult to reach a high level of competition, and it is impossible to play well without a lot of practice for a long time.
Tang Tang, who has never played a game, is likely to be abused by Su Hui in the end. Tang Tang must have thought of that result, so because of his strong self-esteem, he hid here alone and cried late at night.
Tang Tang saw that he had been talking for a long time, but Ning Yu had never spoken much, so he said a little angrily: "Forget it, I told you so much, you don't understand anything at all, you go and get busy with yours!" ”
Ning Yu frowned and asked, "What about you?" ”
Tang Tang wiped his tears, took out his mobile phone, and clicked on the game horizontally, "I won't believe it if I don't go back tonight, it's just a game, why would Su Hui's stinky woman be, I won't, I will never admit defeat until the last moment." ”
Looking at Tang Tang's stubborn look, Ning Yu wanted to persuade a few more words, but thinking that they were not familiar with each other, he could only shake his head with a wry smile, get up and go to clean up honestly, and pay attention to Tang Tang's movements while mopping the floor.
When Tang Tang plays games, his body will sway left and right with the characters on the screen, which looks clumsy but cute. Judging from her hurried appearance, it is indeed the first time to play the glory of kings. But I don't know if I remembered the sad thing again, or if I was frustrated in the game again, Tang Tang suddenly threw the phone to the ground, hugged his knees and cried.
"Why are you going to lose again? Why do you scold me again......"
The ground was very slippery, and Tang Tang's mobile phone slid far on the ground and stopped when it hit Ning Yu's feet.
Ning Yu lowered his head and looked at the familiar game interface on his phone, he was in a trance for a while.
Tang Tang's level is indeed quite poor, it was only a few minutes after the opening, and she gave five heads, causing her side to be beaten by the other side and breathless, no wonder she was scolded.
He shook his head helplessly, picked up the phone and came to Tang Tang's side, wanting to return the phone to her, but seeing a girl crying like this, he felt that the softest place in his heart was touched.
"Actually, you can win." Ning Yu said.
"Can you win?" Tang Tang asked with a wink of tears.
Ning Yu nodded and said, "I'll try?" ”