Chapter 42. clue

The sound was like the friction of someone rubbing their fingers against water-stained glass or tiles. So I noticed that the walls of the bathhouse were covered with white tiles, and when the light of my mobile phone shone through, I saw that on the tiles on the wall on Hu Zongren's right hand, there were traces of five fingers scratching the foggy tiles, and the sound came from here. There were people taking a bath in the bathhouse before, and the tiles must have been damp, and I was just about to open my mouth to tell Hu Zongren to hurry back, when the harsh sound suddenly became louder, and then circled the bathhouse. It was as if someone had run around the wall very quickly, and the bathhouse had a loud echo in the night, so the sound was very ugly and very frightening, and as soon as the sound stopped, there was a bang, and all the sprinklers in the whole bathhouse that were not broken spewed water.

The water not only caught us off guard, but also wet Hu Zongren's new mobile phone. Because it wasn't mine, I was still a little gloating. But the most important thing is that the large handful of incense in Hu Zongren's hand was also wet.

I knew something was wrong, and the thing was angry. So I said loudly to Hu Zongren, Hu Zongren! Come on! So the two of us scrambled towards the exit. I couldn't care how loud the lock on the iron door would make, so I started to climb, but it was still Hu Zongren who climbed first, and just climbed up, the iron door shook for a while, and Hu Zongren fell down heavily because of this.

At this time, the only street lamp outside the iron gate suddenly began to brighten a little abnormally. It looked as if the current had suddenly increased, and then flickered a few times. If I'm not mistaken, it flashed about four or five times, and every time black and white alternated, I could see a woman with a round face and short hair with bangs standing outside the door, her face looked gray and white, and her eyes were not big, but on the eyelids under her eyes, I didn't know if it was blood or some black mass, and her face was expressionless. By the time she had barely gotten there, I could see that the woman was standing almost against the door, her body outside the iron door, but her head had stretched out her neck as if through a wall to the inside of the door, where we stood, less than a foot from my face.

That posture is just like what Mr. Huang described at the beginning: the body is straight, but the neck is flat and elongated. At the last moment of this picture, my eyes went dark, and with a snap, the light on the top went off.

Hu Zongren shouted at me, get out of the way! Because the environment was so dark, I couldn't see anything around me except for the lights in the dormitory and the dark shadows of the iron railings erected in front of me. Hearing Hu Zongren shout, I habitually gave way to the left-hand side. Then I saw a dark figure run from where we had been standing, and then kicked hard at the iron door, making a loud clang. Hu Zongren kicked a lot of kicks in a row, but it was always the iron gate, and this guy obviously didn't learn physics well, he kicked towards the middle of the iron gate, of course he couldn't kick it open. At this point, we are getting used to the darkness and can roughly see the outlines of the objects around us.

I said to Hu Zongren, you go back, we hit the door. So we ran together, and then, in a position similar to playing rugby, slammed directly into the middle of the two iron doors, where the chains were locked. There was a clang, the lock was broken, and the chain fell to the ground. The two of us also fell out of force when the iron door was opened, and we fell hard and ate.

Ignoring the pain, we began to pull our legs and run towards the bright spot. From a distance, I saw Mr. Huang standing under the street lamp at the bottom of the dormitory building, probably because we were running too panicked, and when Mr. Huang saw us running towards him, he actually began to turn around and run towards the side door or back door of the school not far from the dormitory building. I ran faster than Hu Zongren, so I saw that I had reached a bright place, so I called out to Mr. Huang, saying Mr. Huang, don't run, what are you running! Mr. Huang stopped, as a middle-aged man over half a hundred years old, his escape effort is still worthy of praise. After Hu Zongren caught up with us, the three of us gathered together under the street lamp by the flower stand panting, the footsteps just now were louder, but fortunately it was very late, so no one noticed us, our position at the moment was close to the back door of the school, there was a small security guard sitting there, but the little security guard saw that it was Mr. Huang, so he didn't ask anything.

I asked Hu Zongren in a low voice, did you see anything when the lights went off just now? He said he saw it, and was going to ask me if I saw it. I said, it looks like we're seeing the same picture. Teacher Huang asked what we saw, Hu Zongren and I didn't pay attention to him, but Hu Zongren took a break, let's go out of school first, find a place to sit and smoke a cigarette, we will definitely not be able to do anything else tonight, I have something to ask you, and after asking, let's go home and rest first.

The shops around the school gate are almost closed, only a little way from the school gate, there is an open-air barbecue stand, many people shirtless and rolled up their trouser legs, where they sit and drink beer and eat barbecue. We also sat down and ordered some random food, then ordered some beer, and drank and ate food while crushing ourselves.

Hu Zongren roughly told Mr. Huang about the situation he encountered in the girls' bathhouse. We have also encountered many times when the ghost has the courage to do something to us, and even wants to harm us, but this time, it is obvious that if it wants to hurt me and Hu Zongren, it is almost a simple thing. But she just scared us, and she kind of teased us. I think back to the way Hu Zongren and I fled in the bathhouse, and I really felt strange and ashamed. After hearing this, Mr. Huang drank and shook his head in annoyance, feeling like he was saying, why did I have such a bad feeling. Hu Zongren said to Teacher Huang, Teacher Huang, when you took us to the girl to get the key today, you said that the bathhouse had also passed ghost stories before, and there was a teacher in the school who was so frightened that he didn't dare to take a bath, can you still remember what the ghost story was about at that time?

Teacher Huang recalled and said, remember, that incident happened in the first half of last year, that is, in the girls' bathhouse, at first the earliest time should be a prank of the classmates, saying that the faucet of the girls' bathhouse must not be used near the corner of the one, it is said that once a female classmate turned on the sprinkler, all that flowed out was red water like blood, when the female classmate looked up at the sprinkler, he saw a woman squatting on the top of the sprinkler like a pigeon, looking down and smiling at this female classmate, So the female classmate was so frightened that she fled in a hurry. But this matter was only spread at the earliest, and there is no way to verify which student came from. Because it spread a bit strongly, the school sent a plumber to check the water pipe, and found that it was not blood water, but rusty water from the rusty pipe, but it was not as exaggerated as the students said, and it was not enough to say that the color of blood red was not enough. So the school also posted a notice at the door of the bathhouse, saying that the pipes were rusting, and asked the students not to spread the rumors. At that time, the notice was posted where the water was turned on, and everyone could not come to the shower, but they had to come and turn on the water, so most people saw it. After the school replaced the water pipes, this matter gradually faded under the school's refutation of rumors, and at the same time, those bold students went in to take a bath, and slowly everyone forgot about it.

Teacher Huang said, but not long after that, a female classmate was taking a shower, and suddenly screamed like crazy, saying don't touch me, don't touch me, and then she was about to run out of the city without clothes, but she was slipped by the water on the ground, and when she fell down, her head hit the stool in the middle of the clothes, and she fainted. Teacher Huang said that many of her classmates who were taking a bath in the bathhouse together saw this incident at that time, and later her classmates dressed her and sent her to the infirmary. This female classmate has been pulling her classmates and teachers since she woke up, she washed her hair when she took a shower, and after closing her eyes, she could feel the feeling of cold fingernails sliding between her collarbone and neck in the case of a hot shower, and at first she thought it was a bug crawling on her body, so she quickly opened her eyes to look, but saw a pair of white blue hands, which were claw-like on her collarbone, and then turned her head to see a round face, looking at her with a very strange expression. So she started screaming, and then she fell.

This incident was spread by several classmates who were in the infirmary at the time, and in this way, it was once spread in the school. Listening to Mr. Huang say this, it seems to be very similar to the woman we saw outside the bathhouse, both with round faces. So I asked Ms. Huang what the hell she was, was it the sprinkler diagonally diagonally from the entrance? Teacher Huang said that it seemed to be. I asked again, in addition to the round face, did the ghost that the female classmate saw also have Qi bangs and her sister's head? Mr. Huang said that he didn't know about this, because he was like many people, but he just heard about it and didn't take it seriously.

Hu Zongren asked Mr. Huang, can you still contact the female student at that time? Teacher Huang said that he transferred to another school not long after that incident, and he was a graduate of the previous class, and he was the same grade student as our current senior high school group of children. Teacher Huang also said that this female classmate is usually not a very well-behaved student, and her social communication is more complicated, and she often plays with some children who are not good outside the school. She often plays the head of the eldest sister at school, and often bullies other classmates, so most of her classmates don't like her very much. I heard that it was the day she fell in the bathhouse, and when she entered the bathhouse, she bullied a female classmate in the class, the one we went to get the key just now, the life committee member of our class.

As soon as Mr. Huang said this, Hu Zongren and I stopped the wine bottle that we were about to put to our lips, and then we both looked at Mr. Huang together. Mr. Huang probably said this, and the way we looked at him was a little strange, so he seemed to think of something.

Hu Zongren put down the wine bottle and said to Teacher Huang, it seems that we have to ask the chubby girl tomorrow.