R High School is one of several key high schools in K City, and this school has cultivated countless outstanding talents for the country for more than 70 years. 89.53% of the students are admitted to the undergraduate program.

R High School is a private high school located on the outskirts of the West Side of K City. It's a beautiful place, quiet and peaceful. The campus is mainly in the style of garden-style architecture, with the mountains in its backdrop and facing the bus terminals in several major areas of K City. Due to the advantages of the school's convenient transportation, beautiful school environment, strong learning atmosphere, and high admission rate, although the tuition fee is expensive and the closed accommodation management is implemented, students can only go home during the winter and summer vacations, but there are still many parents who are willing to entrust their children's future here.

Wang Liming is one of the students at the school. Listening to the name, you can tell that it is a boy, he is in the first year of high school this year, and his academic performance is at the upper level, and he came to this school with the hope of his parents.

In Wang Liming's eyes, this is a pretty good school. The teachers are normal, unlike some schools where teachers like to raise the bar with their students. The management of the school also has a lot of flexibility, and only the corresponding class hours need to be completed each day, and the rest of the time is at the disposal of the individual. Classes are held from 8:00 a.m. to 23:00 p.m. Students who come to the classroom to register only need to attend six compulsory subjects for the college entrance examination at any time in one day, and arrange the rest of the time. As long as you want, you can go to the classroom at any time to listen to the class, or you can choose your favorite teacher. Perhaps because of this, the students' motivation to learn is so high, perhaps because of this, there is so much time for students to spread some strange rumors, or perhaps because of this, there are still students bathing in the school's public bathhouse in the middle of the night.

"Hey, did you hear that? Something happened to the bathhouse! "Zhu Ke, a boy in the same bedroom as Wang Liming, is a super gossip boy. Sometimes Wang Liming even thinks that Zhu Ke is more like a girl, maybe the reason why he is a boy is because he went to listen to gossip before he was reincarnated, and after a while, he became a boy after the wrong mortal birth. Thinking of this, Wang Liming couldn't help but feel funny. At this moment, Zhu Ke was mysteriously talking about the "news" he heard today.

"What's the matter?" The dormitory students didn't stop him, and everyone thought that some of the "news" he brought back from time to time was quite interesting, and it was a good thing to pass the time when he was bored.

"You know Chen Chen from the next class, right?" Zhu Ke saw that everyone was interested in this, so he came to the heart. But before he said it, he always habitually asked everyone if they knew the protagonist in the "story".

"Chen Chen, what's wrong with him?" The other roommates just wanted to answer, but they were preempted by Wang Liming, who had always been silent.

Chen Chen is Wang Liming's junior high school classmate and friend, and now he is also one of the famous figures in the school, and his academic performance can almost always rank in the top three among more than 520 people in 13 classes in the whole grade, which is beyond the reach of many people.

"You know him?" Zhu Ke saw that Wang Liming, a person who usually doesn't like gossip and news, was also interested in this matter, and couldn't help but chat, "That's the case, last night...... No, it should be early this morning, to be exact. At one o'clock, Chen Chen and his roommate went to the bathhouse to take a bath after playing cards. It's okay if you don't go, but when you go, something goes wrong, guess what? ”

Zhu Ke looked at the roommates who were stretching their necks and waiting for answers, and continued with satisfaction. "He actually died in the bathhouse!"

"What!? He's dead!? How could it be dead? Wang Liming couldn't believe his ears, he was having dinner with Chen Chen in the cafeteria yesterday, how could he die, "You liar!" ”

"It's, how is it possible, who did you listen to?" A roommate also said.

"It's true! What I saw, I saw a lot of people around the bathhouse this morning, so I went over," Zhu Ke said slightly unhappily, "You see, if the school doesn't say it this afternoon, the students will spread it." ”

"With you, I will definitely pass ......," the roommate said mockingly.

"Okay, you stinky boy, watch the fight!" Zhu Ke laughed and pretended to move.

"Wouldn't it be better to see if Chen Chen had gone to listen to Director Huang's biology class in the afternoon? He has never missed a biology class from Director Huang! Wang Liming obviously didn't believe it, but in order not to cause a battle in the dormitory, he could only say this.

One afternoon, Wang Liming couldn't sleep well, he felt as if something had happened, but he didn't want to believe it, and smiled self-deprecatingly: it must have been after listening to Zhu Ke's nonsense.

In the afternoon, before Wang Liming woke up, he was pulled up by his roommate, saying that Director Huang's biology class had started to verify what Zhu Ke said. As soon as Wang Liming heard the interest, he turned over and jumped up, and excitedly followed a few roommates to find out.

When we got to the classroom, everyone stopped, and now that we had been talking for half a class, there should be no more people coming to class. Everyone carefully searched the faces at every table in the classroom.

The classroom was very quiet, because everyone was listening to the lecture they wanted to hear, the electric fan was squeaking, and Director Huang was writing a whole board of notes on the blackboard on the podium, and he was talking energetically. Since there were so many people in the classroom, everyone didn't really see it, so they stood at the window for a long time until they ......

"People usually talk about DNA, but no one knows about RNA? Chen Chen, you can answer a question...... "Because Chen Chen's grades are very good, and every time he comes to Director Huang's biology class, almost every time he goes to class, Director Huang will call Chen Chen's name once or twice and ask him to get up and answer the question."

When Wang Liming heard this name, his body trembled slightly, and he stared at the entire classroom intently. He was waiting for the familiar figure who called him a brother, gave him special pre-exam tutoring, and played and swam with him, for a second, two seconds......

A few seconds seem to have passed......

No one stood up.

Director Huang, who was standing on the podium, looked stunned, as if he remembered something, and he couldn't see the look on his face clearly when he lowered his face, but his figure seemed to be a little heavy.

"Then Tang Tang, you can answer." Director Huang sighed slightly, looked at the name registration booklet, and pointed to a girl whose name was interesting.

"It's true......" The roommates were also stunned. On the way back to the dormitory, he sighed all the way and felt sorry for Chen Chen's death.

"Impossible!" Wang Liming couldn't accept all this, and he rushed to Chen Chen's dormitory. Chen Chen must have been sick to not go to Director Huang's class, he didn't die, he must not!

Wang Liming ran all the way to Chen Chen's dormitory. Chen Chen lived on the third floor, and the stairs were dangling in front of Wang Liming's eyes, Wang Liming remembered what happened with Chen Chen before, and felt a little trance, but it was real. The staircase, which is less than 20 meters long, makes Wang Liming feel unreal, as if he is in a different world.

"Chen Chen, open the door! Chen Chen, it's me, Wang Liming! Wang Liming ran to Chen Chen's dormitory and patted the door panel and shouted. Later, Wang Liming's roommates who came with him came up to comfort Wang Liming, they had never seen Wang Liming so excited.

There was a "squeak" and the door opened. But what came out was not the person Wang Liming wanted to see, but the sad face of Chen Chen's roommate.

"Are you looking for Chen Chen?" The boy's voice was low, and he let Wang Liming and Wang Liming's roommate into the hallway, "He sleeps in that bunk......"

Wang Liming looked at the boy's hand, where is there still bedding on that bed? All that was left was an empty bed and a pair of cold iron frames.

"What's the matter, I said Chen Chen is dead!" Wang Liming returned to the dormitory and lay down on his bed without saying anything, his head was empty, and he didn't even know what he was thinking.

"Do you know what he looked like when he died?" Zhu Ke was talking to the other roommates about the gossip he had seen and heard, "His face is purple and he has a lot of scratches on his neck, do you think it's weird?" ”

"Purple? Was that drowned? I've heard that people who have drowned are purple-faced. Now all the roommates believe it, and no one refutes Zhu Ke anymore.

"How is that possible! The school bathhouse is a shower, how can such water drown people! You think everyone is just as stupid as you are! Another roommate quipped.

"Wrong!" Zhu Ke proudly stood on the table, looked down at the roommates on the bed at the table and said, "Chen Chen was indeed drowned!" ”

"How is it possible, don't talk nonsense!" The roommate picked up the pillow and smashed it at Zhu Ke, right in the chest.

"Ouch," Zhu Ke pretended to cry out in pain, jumped off the table crookedly, and fell on the bed, "Comrades, I was shot!" ”

This action drew a burst of laughter from the roommate.

"Chen Chen, he is indeed drowned!" In the middle of the sound, Zhu Ke stood up and said, "You don't believe me, I always believe Director Huang, right?" At that time, when he heard that Chen Chen was dead, he was the first to run. The police came later and carried Chen Chen's body away for testing, and then when the classmates were disbanded, I heard Director Huang say to himself, 'How could he be drowned?' How could it be ...... 'You say, can't you prove that Chen Chen drowned?' Director Huang is a student biology! ”

"That's weird." The voice next to his ears gradually faded, and a mystery kept surrounding Wang Liming's heart for a long time.

Late at night, Wang Liming still couldn't sleep, and the other roommates were still playing cards and chatting, which made him uneasy.

"I'll go out for a walk...... Wang Liming took a piece of clothing and said to the group of card-playing roommates.

"Go, go. Ay! Old K, haha, good luck! The roommate replied absentmindedly, and then continued to play his cards.

Wang Liming went downstairs alone, walked aimlessly, and unconsciously came to the playground. The playground is very empty, with a football field in the middle, a 400-meter circular track next to the court, and a basketball court next to the playground, where he and Chen Chen often go. Memories made him go there.

A whining cry rang out in his ears. The sound sounded like it was coming from the auditorium on the basketball court. Wang Liming looked up at the audience, and a dark shadow was sobbing slightly in the audience. Wang Liming couldn't help but feel nervous, who would be there so late? He had taken a closer look at the man's figure, and thought it seemed as if he had seen it somewhere. He walked over.

"Are you ......?" When he arrived in front of the man, Wang Liming breathed a sigh of relief. It was a girl, with a ponytail, who was crying with her head down.

Obviously frightened by Wang Liming, her body trembled slightly, and wiped her eyes with her hand. There was no moon on this day, but the tears on the girl's face were still seen by Wang Liming. The girl looked at Wang Liming in a daze and said, "You are Wang Liming, right?" ”

The girl's voice twitched a little, probably because she was crying a lot just now, and she hadn't reversed her anger yet. Wang Liming looked at the girl and didn't answer anything. Although this girl is familiar, Wang Liming is very sure that he does not know this girl.

"You used to be an alumnus of the same school as Chen Chen, and you often come here to play basketball, right?" The girl took a deep breath and looked at Wang Liming.

"Yes, how do you know?" Wang Liming felt strange and finally couldn't help but answer.

"I often watch you play. You came to see Chen Chen today when Director Huang was in class, right? The girl's voice was full of grief.

"Yes," Wang Liming was also pulled into painful memories, and his words couldn't help but be a little more, "Chen Chen is my best friend, we used to play ball together, study together, and even take a bath together!" We have nothing to say, he is a very good person, willing to teach others everything, not arrogant or even unreasonable like other students who study well, and are not willing to share his knowledge and happiness with others. And Chen Chen is different, he ......"

"I love you, Chen Chen!" The girl suddenly shouted into the empty playground.

"......" Wang Liming couldn't help but be stunned.

"I love Chen Chen, forever! But I couldn't say it, so I kept waiting for ......," the girl cried, "Love is not allowed at school, and it is not allowed at home." And Chen Chen is such a good person, how can I tell him and make him annoyed? I have been waiting, waiting to be able to go to college, to be able to go to the same university as Chen Chen, and then be there, to tell him that I love him. But why! Why can't I wait any longer? I ......"

The girl choked up and couldn't continue, Wang Liming looked at the girl, and suddenly felt that compared to the girl in front of her, her pain was nothing at all. He can't compare, nothing compares.

than friendship. Are love and friendship on the same level, love is always much deeper than friendship, right?

than painful. Girls are not as strong as boys, or should I say indifferent?

Even more than tears, Wang Liming can't compare to that girl.

"Swaddling clothes, pink baby, whose girl is happy to be born? Bai Ayazi, crying, where is the mother and daughter dying......" When Wang Liming and the girl were suffering for Chen Chen's death, a burst of children's laughter floated from nowhere. The sound was crisp, with a little childishness floating in the wind, so that people couldn't hear where the sound came from, and only felt that it was coming from all directions and the sound of the wind. The voice was too crisp, and it seemed that a chill hit the bones through the skin, making Wang Liming have goosebumps.

"Half past two," Wang Liming looked down at his luminous watch, wondering in his heart, "Who else would let a child come out and sing such a strange nursery rhyme at such a late hour?" ”

"Yes......" The girl was obviously a little scared, and she couldn't help leaning towards Wang Liming.

"It's so late, go back! Which dorm are you from? Wang Liming said.

"Building 18, 307," the girl said, "My name is Tang Tang......"

When Wang Liming was immersed in the pain of Chen Chen's death, a strange nursery rhyme came out. Wang Liming didn't care about this nursery rhyme at the beginning, but ......

"Did you hear that? Yesterday there was another death in the bathroom! "It seems that this world really has Zhu Ke, and there are no more secrets. At noon that day, Zhu Ke talked about today's "news" in the dormitory again.

"No, what's wrong with this time?"

"It's true, I heard from my classmates this morning. He went to see ......"

The roommates chattered about it.

"The scariest thing is that yesterday someone heard the sound of children singing nursery rhymes by the bathroom."

"What, little kids, nursery rhymes?" Wang Liming, who had been silent, suddenly jumped up.

"Yes, yes! What's wrong? Zhu Ke was taken aback by Wang Liming, and his speech was a little unfavorable.

"What nursery rhyme?" Wang Liming said.

"I don't know, I don't think I'm talking about a girl, mother." Zhu Ke turned his face and said to his roommates with pity, "Don't you think...... Will this nursery rhyme have something to do with the dead man in the bathroom? ”

"Cut! How can it be so evil? The roommates laughed and pushed Zhu Ke. Zhu Ke also smiled, and then said to Wang Liming, "Do you believe it?" ”

"I—How do I know!" Wang Liming remembered that he had heard a child singing nursery rhymes in the middle of the night last night, and he couldn't help but feel a chill. But he immediately stopped the strange thought. It's the 21st century, who still believes this?

Accidents always come suddenly when people don't believe it will come. For several days and nights, Wang Liming would wake up on time at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night almost every night, and sometimes he would hear the ethereal and crisp child singing over and over again - "Swaddling flowers, pink dolls, whose girl is happy to be born?" Bai Ayazi, the sound of mourning, where the mother died with the daughter ......". Although he didn't want to believe it, he couldn't help but believe it. As long as he could hear this voice, the next day he would hear the news from Zhu Ke's mouth that a person had died strangely in the bathroom, and the cause of death of those students was - "drowning"!

The school held a general meeting to tell about the strange things that had happened at the school recently. Of course, the school will never say that this is a strange thing. But all the students sensed that something was wrong. The school prohibits students from entering the bathhouse after 11 a.m.

The students were immersed in an atmosphere of fear, and the school was filled with gloom.

"This is retribution!"

"It won't be that, Lao Liu. You're thinking too much. ”

"Then why are all the boys who died and the girls all right?"

"This ......"

Doubts accompanied Wang Liming. On this day, he suddenly heard this conversation at the doorman, and when he thought about it carefully, it was all boys who died. This piqued his curiosity.

Lao Liu is the school's janitor, in his 60s, and is the second janitor of this school.

"Uncle Liu, may I ask what you are talking about?" Wang Liming asked quite politely.

"It's that nursery rhyme, it's archetypal. Young man, do you believe that this world has a soul? The doorman Lao Liu turned his head to look at Wang Liming, nodded and asked with a smile.

"Well, I believe it." In fact, Wang Liming didn't believe that there were any ghosts in this world at all, but he deliberately said this in order to set the words of the doorman Lao Liu. He really wanted to know, how could a school shower bathroom drown a living person?

"Hehe, knowledgeable!" The doorman Liu did not find out about Wang Liming's tricks. He looked quite happy, looked at Wang Liming approvingly, nodded and continued, "I heard it from the previous doorman. ”

Old man Liu began to recount the events of that day......

"Congratulations, congratulations, Xiaomei is a beautiful young lady!" On a sunny day, a girl was born to a farmer's family.

"What ......" on the man's face is not excited, but angry. He rushed into the house, picked up the exhausted woman and shouted, "Yuan Xiaomei, Yuan Xiaomei, you are really a bad head, and you give me a daughter every time!" ”

There was a crisp "pop", and the woman slammed on the door in response. She lost her strength after giving birth, her face was pale, and she received such a heavy slap that the corners of her mouth had more bright color, which was blood. She leaned feebly against the door and said nothing.

"Wow, wow......" The newborn baby girl was awakened by a furious sound.

A flash of horror flashed in her eyes, and she didn't know where the strength came from, she supported herself and slowly stood up.

"Fuck! I'll make you cry! The man grabbed the weeping baby girl, and the baby girl cried even harder. But the man was not moved in the slightest, and he rushed to the toilet, and without looking at it, he put the baby girl in.

She hurriedly crawled over and tried to take the baby girl out, but the man kicked her away. She got up again and crawled towards the toilet bowl full of urine.

The crying grew quieter, and the man left the house in a rage. Yuan Xiaomei looked at the baby girl in the toilet blankly.

"It's already four baby girls," sighed the doorman, Lao Liu, "and the next morning, when her man came back from drinking flower wine, he saw her hanging herself in a red dress like fire." Her man was really not a thing, he didn't say anything, and angrily removed her body and didn't even give her a shroud. Later, it was Xiaomei's sister who did a funeral for her......"

"How so!" Wang Liming said indignantly.

"What's this? There are still ...... such things in the countryside now," the doorman Lao Liu continued with wet eyes, "This time she must have come back to take revenge, and she hates all men." She must be back! I heard that the place where she hanged herself is the area where the bathhouse is now. ”

"Uncle Liu, I still have some things, so I'll go back first." Wang Liming patted the old man on the shoulder and left. When he went out, he saw Tang Tang standing at the window all the time, presumably she had heard what had just happened.

At half past one in the morning, a dark shadow sneaked out of the dormitory to the boys' bathhouse and sneaked in......

Because the school explicitly forbade students from entering the bathhouse after 11 o'clock, the bathhouse lights were turned off at this time. And because of the terrible things that happened here, if the students missed the bathing time, they would rather not wash than go near this ghost place. Even in normal times, students who come to take a bath come in groups of three or five.

The bathhouse was pitch black, and the moonlight slipped in through the exhaust fan without a sound. The wind blew the exhaust fan, and the fan blades rotated slowly, as if they were cutting off the necks, bodies, hands and feet of those bare......

The white light of the moon in the darkness shone on the tiles that had been carved with small patterns, like the faces of dead men. At this moment, the black shadow felt a chill down his spine, and regretted that he had come here. But there was a strong pillar in his heart, and he took a deep breath and settled down.

The lights can't be turned on, and if they do, someone will find out about the school, after all, there are still some students who don't sleep, but everyone doesn't dare to come here.

The further you go inside, the dimmer the light becomes......

Finally, the voice belonging to this bathhouse sounded in the ears of the dark shadow - "Tick...... Tick ......". There must be which shower head is broken, dripping,

This dark shadow had come here to bathe, no, rather, he had come to venture out to find the rumored soul.

The shadow casually entered a bathroom, and he turned on the shower head without even taking off his clothes. It was nice that the water was hot.

The sound of water in the bathhouse was "whooshing", and the dark shadow once thought that it was a happy thing to listen to the sound of the water in the shower, but at this moment, in such an empty darkness, the sound of water seemed so abrupt and cold. The sound is like a thousand invisible threads entangled, bound, and then tightened......

"Huh?" The shadow felt as if something was slowly rising around his neck.

It's water! The dark shadow's pupils narrowed, fear took over his heart, and he wanted to shout, ringing in his ears.

"Swaddling clothes, pink baby, whose girl is happy to be born? Bai Ayazi, the cry, where the mother died with the daughter...... is that voice, a child's nursery rhyme.

This time he could hear it clearly, it was a girl's voice, and the girl's voice was sweet, singing nursery rhymes and beating the beat. This frightened him so much that he forgot to call for help. In fact, he screamed, but only with his mouth open, unable to make a sound.

He felt the water from the shower head all concentrated near his neck and no longer flowed under him. The water level gradually rises, first the chin, the lower lip, then the upper lip, the nose, the bridge of the nose......

He smelled an unpleasant stench in the water......

"Men aren't good things!" As the water covered his lower eyelids, a voice sounded in his ear, "What's wrong with the girl, what's wrong with the girl......"

The water level kept rising, and it didn't go above his head. He felt suffocated, and he began to ram his head against the wall next to him, but to no avail, the water was like an elastic ball, which could not be broken, but bounced him aside.

There was less and less oxygen in his body, and he sat down weakly, clutching his neck hard, hoping to get a little air, but it was in vain.

"I'm not a machine, I have feelings!" The voice rang out again.

At this moment, the dark shadow is in despair. He fell to the ground weakly, and he regretted it......

But he didn't regret coming here, he just regretted why he didn't believe that there were ghosts in this world!

With a "pop", the bathhouse was brightly lit.

"You're Yuan Xiaomei, right?" A female voice arrives. This startled the dark shadow, this voice he recognized.

He saw the woman floating in front of him clearly: wearing a red dress, her face was pale, and her body seemed to be hidden in the air, and the woman was Yuan Xiaomei.

"Girls?" Yuan Xiaomei turned around and looked at the girl in front of her in surprise, Tang Tang.

"I know your business! But he's innocent, you see! He's not your man! He is Wang Liming! Tang Tang pointed to the boy lying on the ground, soaking wet, with a huge water balloon on his head and said, "Isn't it enough that you have killed so many people, you only know your happiness, don't you want to think about the happiness of others?" ”

"I'm not a baby-making machine!!" Yuan Xiaomei was stunned for a moment, and then shouted.

Wang Liming seems to have entered a coma.

"Among the boys you killed, there is a ...... named Chen Chen"

"So what! Men deserve to die! ”

"But he's a good man! Do you know why Wang Liming came here today, and did he come specifically to send him to death? How can anyone be so stupid?! ”

“……”

"He heard from the doorman Uncle Liu about you, and he came here to find the cause of Chen Chen's death!" Tang Tang burst into tears, she saw that the female ghost Yuan Xiaomei didn't say anything, so she continued, "Then do you know why I came here? ”

Yuan Xiaomei shook her head.

"I'm here to see what means you're using to murder the hope I've been looking forward to, but now I'll never have a chance to come true......," Tang Tang choked and roared mercilessly.

Yuan Xiaomei was stunned for a while......

Afterwards, Wang Liming was sent to the hospital for rescue, but he could never tell what he had experienced, and he became a vegetative person.

And Tang Tang was also imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital for telling the school the truth.

A long time later, Wang Liming's roommate Zhu Ke became a reporter, and by chance, he was very surprised to see Wang Liming's diary. The diary reads--I finally know that the brother who my parents are talking about is the child named Chen Chen in the school now, but he loves his parents very much, and I still don't disturb their happiness......