"Hey, Abe! What are you doing in a daze? ”

"Let's go, the next two incredible ones to check in are in the health room, let's go over there and take pictures and leave."

At the bottom of the stairs, both Shimazaki and Hamanaka called out to their companions in a normal tone.

"Just ...... Didn't you hear? Abe's expression was unnatural.

"Hear what?"

"It's the sound of footsteps, it seems to be an extra sound."

"Ah, is there one? Did you hear it wrong? ”

The words of his companion calmed down Abe, who was originally a little panicked.

Did you hear it wrong?

Or is it an echo from inside an empty hallway?

Abe looked at the companions below, and Shimazaki and Hamanaka still looked as usual, but they were a little confused. As for Bandong, he still has no expression, that poker face, he usually feels bored when he looks at it, but now he feels inexplicably relieved when he sees that unchanged expression.

None of the companions felt anything unusual.

Abe was also a little in a trance at this time, and even a little doubtful that when he took the fifteenth step just now, he really heard two footsteps echoing.

Man is a social animal after all.

When an ordinary person's ideas and opinions are contrary to most people's, he may be more inclined to deny himself.

Convergence of ideas and groups will reduce the burden and make you feel safe.

So, the footsteps were already very subtle, and Abe thought that maybe it was really because he had been in the desolate abandoned school for too long, so he was suspicious.

Then, he subconsciously looked up.

Above is a staircase, rusted iron railings, old wooden handrails swirling, and all you can see is the cascading rectangles of guardrails stretching upward.

As for the places that cannot be seen by the eye, it seems to be covered in shadows.

"Could there be something lurking in the blind corner of the line of sight above, in the shadow of the dark and decaying steps?"

Abe suddenly thought like this, and then he was taken aback by his own thoughts.

He wasn't going to say the sudden thought.

Otherwise, with Shimasaki's character, he would probably propose to go upstairs and have a look together.

"Abe, let's go."

The companions below began to greet Abe again.

He didn't think much about it, and went down the stairs in three steps and two steps.

The last two incredible ones to check in are in the health room on the first floor, go there to take a photo, and it is estimated that it will take less than ten minutes to pack up and leave the old school building.

Let a sleeping dog lie.

Back at the bottom of the corridor, Abe catches up with Shimazaki and Hamanaka, and passes by Banto.

Bandong, who didn't belong to the news agency, didn't move immediately, just stood dumbfounded.

He also looked up, staring into the gap created by the handrail above the hallway.

"Hmm......"

After about ten seconds, Bando snorted lightly in an uncertain sense.

The afternoon sun shone through the corridor into the corridor, and through a large amount of fine dust flying, the light was slightly dim after layers of obstruction, and finally fell on the face of this middle school boy.

His stiff and rigid face reflected a glimmer of light similar to inorganic matter in the light.

"Bandong, let's go. We went to the health room, and after punching out there, President Shimazaki invited us to eat oden. ”

It wasn't until Hamanaka shouted like this below that Bando withdrew his gaze and followed the others away.

When the students walked away, in the empty and silent corridor, from the invisible place where the rusty iron fence and the old wooden handrail overlapped above, the sound of rustling sounded again, and it came down the stairs coldly—

Smack. Smack.

……

Four students walked in groups through the dilapidated campus.

Hamanaka flipped through his notebook as he told the story of the last two old schoolhouses to be explored in the health room.

"First of all, it's a moving mannequin in the health room."

This is also an urban weird story that circulates in various schools, and the story basically revolves around medical mannequins.

The model is the same size as a person, and it is demarcated by the midline of the body, and the left and right forms are different.

On one side, the skin of the human body is covered, and on the other side, there is no skin, the musculoskeletal bones are exposed, and various organ models can be seen on the abdomen.

Of course, the model itself is made of plastic, which is a teaching equipment to assist biology classes, and it may also be available in the health room.

There is nothing particularly worth talking about in the corresponding campus weird talk.

In other words, in the dead of night, the mannequins in the school will act like living creatures.

"And then there's 'The Woman in the Box.'"

Here at Beishan Middle School, the story about this strange story is like this-

It is rumored that the old school building in Kitayama was originally a nursing home for the mentally ill.

A long time ago, there was a mentally sound woman who was imprisoned here for some reason.

Because the woman often resisted and tried to escape, she was abused by the nurses at the time.

In the end, she was put in a closet-turned, private room where she could neither sit nor lie down, and was tortured to death.

Her body was not found until much later, when the care home was converted into a school.

When the woman was found, her body joints and neck were twisted, and it took a lot of effort to put her in the coffin.

Students at Kitayama Middle School believe that the woman's ghost still lingers within the walls of the place. It is said that if someone dares to open a locker in the health room at midnight, the woman will appear, stretch out her crooked neck and wrists, and ask for her life.

The four students talked and came to the door of the health room.

The wooden door was pushed open, and the room was littered with all kinds of miscellaneous garbage, filled with musty and rancid smells.

"It stinks in here."

Shimazaki covered his nose and casually took a few photos with his camera.

After looking around, he did not find a medical mannequin in the health room.

"Well, there's not even a model like that here."

No mannequin can be found, and another old school building is incredible, and it can be declared self-defeating.

However, the students did see a rusty tin locker in the corner.

It looks like it's been around for a while, and judging by the style, it may be a cabinet where the former school doctor came to hang clothes like white coats.

With the degree of decay in its appearance, it is still a question whether it can be opened.

"So this is the last one, right? About the woman in the cupboard. ”

"yes, the whole health room, it seems that there is only such a cabinet."

"I'll come, I'll drive."

The last incredible check-in exploration, it was the turn of the girl Hamanaka to volunteer.

She walked over to the tin cabinet by the wall and glanced at President Shimazaki.

The latter had already raised his camera and was ready to shoot.

"Okay, then ......" Hamanaka pulled the cabinet door.

She didn't have any mental burden, after all, nothing had happened in this afternoon's exploration.

Click-

The hinge of the cabinet door turns.

It's easier to open than you think.

Moreover, in the process of opening the door, Hamanaka felt a strange touch.

It was like the other side of the tin cabinet door, something swaying from the way she opened the door.

Before she had time to think about it, she opened the cabinet completely.

At this moment, Hamanaka's pupil instinct dilated a little.

She saw a dark shadow smashing at her.

Bang!

An unknown object slammed into Hamanaka, crushing her to the ground.

After the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, the entire infirmary fell into a deathly silence.

Abe and Shimazaki on the side were all stunned, and Shimazaki even forgot that he should press the shutter.

Their brains go blank.

The reaction of the party Hamanaka was half a beat slower than that of her companion, and she was suddenly knocked to the ground by something, so that she had no time to react.

She screamed in pain as she tried to push away the weight that was pressing on her.

But as soon as I raised my hand, I felt the fabric, and a cold and stiff touch, and with it, the smell of slightly rotting meat.

Hamanaka shifted his neck and looked towards his chest.

Inside the line of sight, there was long, black, messy, tangled hair. And under the black hair, a pair of wide, bloodshot, cloudy eyes.

It was a woman who smashed on her.

The corpse of a woman.

The woman in the cupboard?

Is there really a woman in the cupboard!?

"Ah——!h

Hamanaka screamed, pushing the woman away from him.

The weight tumbled to the ground and didn't move.

Only then did she see that the female corpse was untidy, and she seemed to be a young girl, wearing a uniform, and the school emblem of "Full Sea Middle School" was printed on the chest of the uniform.

Hamanaka's screams finally broke the dead silence in the infirmary, and Shimazaki and Abe screamed at the same time.

The students simply did not understand the current situation.

And at this moment, from the corridor outside the health room, there was the sound of footsteps-

Click, click.

Click, click!

The footsteps became more and more urgent, and it seemed that someone was running quickly.

Bang!

The door to the unconcealed infirmary was broken open, revealing a completely unfamiliar figure in the doorway.

It was a man that the students had never seen before.

He was tall and ordinary, but his ordinary face was twisting with anger at the moment, and his exaggerated facial expression made his facial skin wrinkle, like a scorched earth burned by anger.

"Damn! Damn it! ”

The man cursed in his mouth, wielding a cold-light wood knife in his hand.

"You little devils! Damn, damn it! Why should you come here? Why are you here? No one is going to come here! You are looking for death, you are looking for death! Kill you, kill! ”

The man with the knife pounced frantically.

Shimazaki and Abe among the students reacted at about the same time, Abe picked up a chair with a broken foot on the ground and threw it at the man, while President Shimazaki threw his Sony camera at the man.

"Run! From the window! ”

Syllable!

The decaying wooden windows were brittle and could be broken open at the slightest impact.

The two boys fell into the open space outside, ignoring the shards of glass on their bodies, and the instinct for survival made them run away.

Immediately after, it was Hamanaka who pulled Bandong out of the window.

Bandong didn't know if he was stupid or what, he was standing in the corner of the health room just now, still expressionless, if it wasn't for Hamanaka pulling him, he didn't seem to have time to run out.

"Kill you! Kill! ”

Behind the students who fled for their lives, the angry roar of a man like a beast sounded.

He chased after him.

……

"Abe! Abe! ”

"Run! Shimazaki, that ghost is chasing you! ”

"No, no, that's not a ghost, that's a person. And he's not behind us. ”

Shimazaki was panting, his cheek cut open by shards of glass, and he was bleeding profusely.

Abe in front finally slowed down: "Hamanaka...... And what about Bandong? ”

"Ran away. Phone, my phone is lost, what about yours? ”

Abe touched his pocket: "Yes, it's still there!" ”

"Call the police, hurry up and call the police!"

President Shimazaki doesn't understand at this moment-

There are no ghosts in the abandoned old school building of Kitayama Middle School, and there is a perverted murderer.

Several of them inadvertently broke into the scene where the body was hidden.

……

"Whew-whew-"

Hamanaka pulled Bando and ran hard together.

They and two other companions ran away and entered the school building in a panic.

And the man with the knife was still chasing after him.

Wheezing, footsteps, and frantic yells echoed through the empty hallways.

Hamanaka gradually became a little physically exhausted, and when she was chasing an adult and strong man, she was bound to be no match for her.

The tall knife-wielding figure behind him was getting closer and closer, and when the distance was only a few meters, the man pounced and slammed into the two students in front of him.

All three fell to the ground at the same time, and the man with the knife was the first to get up.

"Die! Die! ”

A cold-glowing hatchet approached.

"Don't come here...... Please, don't ......"

Hamanaka on the ground barely supported his body, and retreated with his hands and feet. The knife was shining right in front of her, and she could even see her frightened face on the reflective reflection of the blade.

It hurts so much.

Can't run away......

"You shouldn't have come here, blame yourselves!"

In the face of the girl's pleading, the man does not have the slightest mercy on his face, and he will kill Hamanaka as if he had killed the previous girl.

Just before the man was about to swing his knife, he saw the uniformed male student on the ground suddenly stand up.

The boy had fallen to the ground.

At this moment, he quickly stood up with an extremely weird, twisted joint, and twisted movement that violated the structure of the human body.

Accompanied by strange movements, a strange "crunch" sound came from his body.

Bandong stopped in front of Hamanaka and the assailant like this, his face still expressionless, like a lifeless dead thing.

"There's only one left."

As he spoke, he bent down to pick up the notebook that belonged to Hamanaka on the ground.

"Pretending to be a ghost? Gremlin? ”

The man glared at Bandong angrily, but for some reason, he suddenly felt unexplained fear in the face of this underage and seemingly ordinary student.

"There's only one left." Bandong ignored the man, talked to himself, and flipped through the notebook in his hand, "I and they are exploring the incredible here, just one is missing." If you don't show up, everything will be fine. ”

"Die!"

The man roared, suppressed his unprovoked sense of panic, and swung his knife violently.

No matter what this little imp is up to, people will die when they are killed.

Boom!

A bright wood knife slashed at Banto's neck.

"Ah——!h

Hamanaka behind him screamed in despair.

But then, what Hamanaka feared, and what the knife-wielding man wanted to see, didn't happen.

Obviously about to be stabbed, Bandong just shook stiffly twice, still standing upright, and there was not even blood flowing out of his neck.

The assailant finally sensed that something was wrong.

The boy felt very strange to the hand, and the blade felt like it was stuck in wood or plastic, rather than cutting into elastic flesh.

"That's just one missing."

As if the person who was slashed with a knife was not himself, Bando casually lifted the notebook and held it up in front of the assailant.

There was still no expression on his face, but it was stiffer than before, completely devoid of the vitality of a living creature, and his whole face was like a heavy mask.

The notebook in Banto's hand turned to the page about the strange talk about the health room, and stopped at the "moving mannequin".

He stiffly raised his right hand and pointed to the notes on the upper hama—

[According to folk sayings, humanoid objects can easily attract ghosts to attach to.] ]

(End of chapter)