Chapter 10 The Fireground
Qi Mingfei and I glanced at each other and began to walk towards the end of the corridor.
The faint light flickered from time to time, and I guessed it was a candle, but we walked to the door and pushed it slightly, only to find that the room was locked from the inside.
Seeing nothing from the crack in the door, Qi Mingfei pondered for a moment, and suddenly began to knock on the door: "Who is inside?" Hurry up and open the door! ”
There was a panic inside, the light inside suddenly went out, and then we heard the voices of two young men, but they were too quiet to hear anything.
"Kick the door!" Qi Mingfei said.
The two of us took turns kicking the door, but after only three or four clicks, the little latch on the door was completely broken, and there were boards and saucers on the floor in the middle of the room, and a figure was disappearing from the window.
"Stop!" Qi Mingfei ran over, one boy had already climbed between the first and second floors, while the other was still struggling to climb down from the third floor.
"I'll chase it!" Qi Mingfei said to me, and ran out like a gust of wind.
These two boys are obviously far inferior to Lu Xiaoling.
I reached out to grab the one on top, and he screamed, and his hand slipped and almost fell.
"What do you guys do?" I asked out loud.
Judging from their performance, they don't look like people who can control the souls of others, but are they purely here to join in the fun?
Qi Mingfei had already appeared in the corner of the building at this time, one of the boys fled in a panic, while the one hanging in the air screamed in despair.
"Sun Yang! Come help me! Qi Mingfei waited below with open hands.
I left through the window, ready to run down the hallways and stairs.
But the moment I stepped out of the door, the flames and smoke suddenly engulfed me.
"Help!" Someone was screaming frantically, countless figures were running in the hallway, the smoke choking them coughing violently, some girls were crying, someone was knocked down by others, and then stepped on.
The heat scorched my hair, the smoke poured down my throat and smoked my eyes, and the flames seemed to have set my clothes on fire.
"Run!" Someone was shouting from me not far away.
"Jump from the window!" The others shouted.
It's all an illusion!
I said to myself, but my bare skin was already blistering from the fire!
I took out the talisman book, and it showed no sign of being ignited in such a fire, which finally strengthened my faith, and I began to recite the Tao Te Ching aloud, and suddenly the flames could no longer hurt me.
"Who are you?" I asked out loud. "What do you want to tell me?"
The wails and cries suddenly became smaller, and the sound of crackling tongues of fire engulfing the building became louder, and I suddenly felt as if something was beside me, and when I turned my head, I saw a charred man standing beside me, and the burnt flesh made my heart chill.
"What are you going to tell me?" I said to it again.
But it was only two steps back, and I immediately saw a female body collapsed on a burning couch in the midst of the fire, surrounded by burning books and newspapers.
"That's you?" I asked, and as I stepped into the room again, the flames suddenly went out, and the room was filled with books, newspapers, and exam papers, and a man and a woman were talking something.
The man looked to be forty or fifty years old, but the girl was very young, and her emotions were getting more and more agitated, when the man suddenly jumped up and pressed her mouth with his hand, and then pressed her to the couch.
The girl struggled desperately, but soon, she stopped moving.
The man didn't notice this until a few minutes later, and I watched as he panicked, wept bitterly, and finally locked the door and walked out. The next moment, he returned, he placed the girl's body in a sleeping position, then poured the liquid from a bottle in his hand on the girl, and walked out again.
The flames began to burn, but not from this room, but from the outside. But the liquid poured on her quickly burst into flames, and it turned into a raging fire.
"I see." I said to the charred body that had been standing not far from me. "But why did you take the souls of those two girls?"
The flames suddenly disappeared, and the room was still empty, with candles, boards and saucers on the floor in the middle, and tattered curtains fluttering wildly in the wind, like scenes from ghost movies.
"Sun Yang! Sun Yang! Qi Mingfei's voice appeared abruptly in this space, as if someone had suddenly turned on the stereo.
I ran to the window and saw him clutching a boy's clothes, only to be punched in the face and fall like a noodle pocket.
The two boys disappeared into the darkness in the distance, I ran downstairs, Qi Mingfei was lying on the ground covering his face, and the security guard ran over from a distance.
"Why are you only coming down now!" He shouted at me with some anger.
The security guard had already run in front of us, so I shut up.
"Professor Qi?" A security guard shone a flashlight on my face and shouted, "I know you!" Why are you ...... again?"
"It's not him, he's my friend." Qi Mingfei said. "Someone climbed down from above, and I tried to catch that person, but I got a punch in the face."
"It's okay." He said to the two security guards.
"Professor Qi, your eyes!" The security guard said in alarm.
Qi Mingfei tried to touch it with his hand, and then shook his head. "It's okay, I'll just cover it with ice."
"Professor Qi, have you seen people clearly?" The security guard asked.
"It's too dark to see clearly."
"Didn't you install surveillance?" I asked.
"It's pretended, but the thread hasn't been laid yet!" The security guard said with a sad face.
"It's okay, I'm fine." Qi Mingfei said. "I don't need to bother you."
The dignified professor was beaten in the eyes in the school, this kind of thing really has to be investigated, the security guards have no good fruit to eat, Qi Mingfei finally persuaded them to leave, I accompanied him back to the house, and the person in charge of the security department came again.
"I'm fine." Qi Mingfei said helplessly.
It was a little better after covering it with ice, but the bruising didn't go away in a day or two, and for a professor who had to go to the podium every day, it was a big problem.
The person in charge of the security department apologized to him repeatedly, and Qi Mingfei repeatedly promised not to make a big deal about it, so he left uneasy.
"You really don't see people clearly?" I asked.
He had been entangled with that person for a long time, and even if it was dark around, it was impossible not to see the other person's face at such a distance.
"I have the impression that it should be a student who has come to my class." Qi Mingfei said.
"Why didn't you tell the people in the Security Section?"
"I don't know why he came here, and if he was asked to check on him, his life might be ruined."
This answer surprised me a little.
Qi Mingfei covered his eyes with ice cubes and suddenly asked, "Why did it take you so long to come down?" ”
"I've got a ghost." I said to him.
"Encounter a ghost?" Qi Mingfei laughed habitually, which touched the wound on his face and made him smack his teeth.
"I know you won't believe it, but I think I already know the story behind that room." I said to him.
"The room?"
"There was something wrong with that fire." I said to Qi Mingfei.