Chapter 7: The Stairway to Hades
I looked at the schoolgirl who ran away from us in surprise, turned back and looked at the others, I couldn't understand why such a simple question fell on the girl's ears so tabooly, and I didn't seem to realize that I said anything wrong after thinking about it for a long time.
"Is there something wrong with this building?!" Han Yu said thoughtfully.
"What's wrong with a building?" Yun Duruo replied puzzled.
Only then did I realize that the female student avoided us like a plague, not because I asked to make her like this, but because this building made her panic so much, thinking of this, I looked up again at the building in front of me, which was actually not tall, maybe Han Yu was right, I don't know if there is a problem with this building numbered nineteen, but something must have happened that scared the students here.
In order to test my suspicions, we interviewed several students in the dormitory next to dormitory 403, they were all classmates of the four deceased, and they all had the same evaluation of the four deceased, and these four deceased were all good students with excellent academic character, and we did not hear the slightest negative word about them.
But in the course of the visit, whenever we mentioned Building 19, all the students immediately showed a horrified expression, and then avoided our questions, no matter how we asked.
His words flickered, his expression flustered. The prince sat next to him and said lightly. "What they are deliberately hiding seems to be inconclusive to the students."
I also have the same idea as the prince, this case has been full of suspicions from beginning to end, and it also contradicts us at a loss, the investigation scene is obviously a suicide, but the prince and Han Yu firmly believe that the resentment is too heavy and difficult to settle, it is absolutely impossible for a person who is misanthropic to be, they think that the dead person who hanged himself on the ceiling fan in the 403 dormitory died in vain.
The results of my autopsy determined that the time of death was 2 a.m., but the four deceased reappeared at 4 a.m., and I rubbed my forehead and pulled out a cigarette and put it in the corner of my mouth.
"Since you can't ask from the students, ask the teacher."
Li Hejun is twenty-eight years old this year, looks quite gentle, wears a pair of black-framed glasses and is polite, sitting in front of us looks a little haggard, the four deceased are in addition to Qiao Kewei, who jumped off the building, are all his students, and there are so many murders in a row, how much pressure he has as a counselor can be imagined.
It should be that he hasn't slept for several days, Li Hejun's crazy long beard made him look a lot older, and after coming in, he sat listlessly and slumped in the chair, and his eyes fell on the cigarette case I put on the table.
I handed one over, Li Hejun hesitated for a moment or reached out to take it, I glanced at his fingers when he took the cigarette, clean and white nails are very neat, he is definitely not a smoker.
Li Hejun gave me the feeling of being absent-minded, as if he was thinking about a lot of things, and he looked worried, so that he didn't realize that he took the cigarette and put it in his mouth backwards, I lit the fire and sent it to him to remind him, Li Hejun came to his senses, sighed heavily and looked at the flickering fire in front of him, and hesitated for a moment before lighting the cigarette.
He was really not a smoker, the first puff was too hard, he was choked into his lungs and coughed violently, and the expression on his face was very difficult.
"I've quit smoking for years, hey...... How did so many students suddenly die. Li Hejun shook his head heavily.
I can understand his mood at the moment, he is not smoking, but wants to make all these distractions disappear like the smoke in his fingers that has turned to ashes.
"Qiao Kewei left a number on the rooftop before jumping off the building." Nangong Yi waited for Li Hejun to calm down and asked seriously. "Through our understanding, this number is related to Building 19 of Hat Tak Medical College, do you know what this number represents, or what special meaning does this number have?"
"......" Li Hejun was stunned for a moment, I saw his fingers holding the cigarette shake slightly, and the cigarette ash fell down, and he quickly shook his head and replied. What can a building mean. ”
I frowned, Li Hejun was obviously flickering, I didn't expect that he was deliberately avoiding this question like the other students we visited, and the more this happened, the more interested I was in this building numbered nineteen.
"You think about it and then answer, it's not a trivial matter that five people have died, you are a counselor, if you don't cooperate with us to investigate the case." Yun Duruo must have also seen Li Hejun's concealment, and looked at him seriously and said in an accentuated tone. "Once the case is solved because of your prevarication, you will be held responsible."
Li Hejun didn't reply after listening, I saw him squirming his Adam's apple and swallowing saliva, then took a deep puff of cigarette, and after a long silence, he finally sighed heavily, rubbed his forehead with the hand holding the cigarette, and said to us for a long time.
"It's not that I'm hiding it, in fact, there's really nothing special about this building, some things will slowly become true when there are more people, just spread the truth, it's not that I don't want to say it, it's that you don't believe these things."
"What the hell is going on?" Han Yu glanced at him and asked seriously. "It doesn't matter if we believe it or not, we just want to know what happened."
Li Hejun's face was covered with rising smoke, and he frowned and hesitated for a moment before saying weakly.
"Maybe there are more time and opportunities to come into contact with the dead in medical schools, so every medical school has more or less some rumors, and these fabricated rumors are passed down in the hearts of students over time, one session at a time, and slowly become true...... Here, too, there is a very bizarre rumor......"
We looked at each other, of course we knew what Li Hejun was referring to when he said the rumors, I had been in medical school, of course, I also knew that many good people like to sort out and add illusory coincidences or hearsay, and then tell them, such stories are popular in medical school, and after going viral, they gradually can't distinguish between truth and falsehood, in fact, for unpredictable things, most people are willing to believe in mysterious existence.
We didn't interrupt Li Hejun's words, and looked at him without saying a word, waiting for him to say something about me.
"Building 19 was built a long time ago, before I came to work here, and it is said that during the construction, the foundation was dug up and many corpses were excavated, which later turned out to be a mass grave that was buried during the war." Li Hejun took a puff of cigarette and said with a solemn expression. "After the building was built, people from all over the years saw it in the building...... See ......"
Li Hejun became hesitant when he said this, and he looked a little nervous.
"See what?" Nangong Yi asked curiously.
"......" Li Hejun paused for a long time, looked up at us and said with a panicked expression. Past! ”
"Past life?!" The prince, who had always been indifferent, asked in surprise.
Li Hejun nodded, took a puff of the cigarette in his hand, and continued with difficulty.
"It is rumored that Building 19 is a passage to the underworld, and those who have died in the underworld will sometimes appear in the school at night through Building 19, and sometimes go to this building late at night, and if the passage to the underworld is opened, they may also see their past lives."
"These are just rumors, not to mention that there are a lot of rumors like this in places like medical schools." I thought about it and asked suspiciously. "But why are the students of Hopewell Medical College so taboo about this rumor?"
"You're talking about rumors, if not?" Li Hejun looked at me seriously.
"Isn't it?!" I didn't understand what he was saying for a while. "Are you trying to tell us that this is true?!"
"I ...... I don't know. Li Hejun shook his head in disappointment. Of course I don't believe that, but ...... But in this school, it's a bit strange about this, and as far as I know, all previous students have seen the appearance of a supernatural in this building. ”
"It turns out that this is the reason why Building 19 is so taboo for students." Yun Duruo muttered to himself in a sudden realization.
"Nope! You misunderstand the meaning of the number nineteen. Li Hejun glanced at Yun Duruo and replied.
"Wrong?!" I asked curiously. "What does nineteen mean?"
"The number of that building is nineteen, but I don't think it is the same as the nineteen that Qiao Kewei left on the rooftop, it is just a coincidence." Li Hejun replied seriously.
"What else does the number nineteen mean?" Han Yu asked eagerly.
"It is rumored that this building is a passage to the underworld because it is built on a mass grave, but this passage does not open at all times, and there are only eighteen steps on each floor of this building." Li Hejun took a deep breath and said to us. "But...... At the lowest level of this building, the one leading to the basement, if the nineteenth floor of the stairs appears, the passage to the underworld is opened! ”
The nineteenth staircase to Hades!
After we listened to each other's shocked eyes, what Li Hejun told us about this incident made us all a little overwhelmed.
"What happens if this passage appears?" The prince asked thoughtfully. |
"It is rumored that this is not a good thing to happen, but once the nineteenth staircase appears, the person who meets it can make a wish." Li Hejun replied with an anxious expression. "This wish will definitely be fulfilled, but ......"
Li Hejun paused at this point, he is a counselor in medical school, and it is not difficult to find from talking to him that he does not believe in these things, so let him tell this, Li Hejun is somewhat reluctant to accept and believe, but I don't know what makes his eyes a little confused, it seems that he is not completely disbelieving in his subconscious, and even as he said before, maybe he does not regard these things as just rumors.
"But what?" Yun Duruo asked urgently.
"But ......" Li Hejun was so focused that the cigarette burned his fingers, he threw away the cigarette butt in his hand in a convulsion, rubbed his fingers nervously, and said in a low voice. It is rumored that this is a deal with the ghosts of the underworld, and after fulfilling a wish of the wisher, he must lose something in exchange, and it is possible to lose anything, even ......"
Li Hejun didn't say any more, we all understood what he wanted to express in his unfinished words, the four deceased and Qiao Kewei Judging from the video, the place they were going to was the nineteenth building that Li Hejun told us, and the purpose of their visit was obviously to wait for the appearance of the nineteenth floor.
We don't know what the wishes of the five dead people were, but the price they paid in exchange was their lives!
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