Volume 1 Beginnings Chapter 1. Strange school building
"Lingling, when you come back from your run, help me bring a bucket of instant noodles by the way, woo woo woo my dissertation is going to be finished!"
"You're eating instant noodles again? This is the first time this month, my dear, wouldn't it be more fragrant for us to use that money to buy a meal and come back? ”
City C University Playground, 8 p.m.
Tang Ling listened to the complaints and wails of her roommate Luo Rui on the other end of the phone, chuckled, and continued to stretch against the railing next to the national flag stand to calm her breathing rate.
"It's really served our school, even if the holiday is delayed, the training teacher actually added a paper, ahhhhhh
There was a crackling of typing on the phone, and Rory's roar on the verge of collapse.
"Okay, don't complain, write it quickly, it's going to be handed in tomorrow, and if you don't write it quickly, you'll have to work overtime."
Tang Ling finished stretching, stretched her waist, adjusted the Bluetooth headset that was about to fall, grabbed the towel hanging on the railing on the side, put it on her neck casually, and strolled away from the playground, "I'll go to the cafeteria to help you get a meal and come back, don't just eat instant noodles one day." ”
"Woo woo woo baby, I love you! Needless to say, I continued to stumble with the paper, and hung up! ”
"Hey......"
There was a "dood" sound from the earphones, Tang Ling reluctantly took off the headphones and put them in her bag, "Hang faster than me." ”
Tang Ling, 21 years old, a native of City C, is an old senior sister who is about to enter her third year, and the university she currently attends in City C is a top-ranked school in China.
This school has one outstanding feature - it is very large.
The school covers an area that is almost equal to a smaller district and county in City C, and Tang Ling also has a characteristic - extreme road idiot, plus Tang Ling herself is a housegirl, adhering to the principle of never going out of the dormitory, so except for the roads leading from the dormitory to the teaching building and the canteen, the other areas of the school are completely blank for her.
And on the way back to the dormitory after buying food in the cafeteria, she looked down at her mobile phone for a while, and then looked up, and there was not even a student around.
The University of City C has another name for the "tropical rainforest", the school is large, and it is full of trees, and when night comes, only the white light from the street lamps on the long campus path barely illuminates a small area, and it lingers, extinguishes, and lights up again.
Except for the light-absorbing insects that were attracting by the lights, there was not a single creature in the vicinity. The truncated white light stretched into the depths of the trees that had been covered in the distance, and it was unknown where it went.
Is there still this kind of horror movie location in our school?
This was Tang Ling's first reaction after she got lost.
Let's go back the way you came.
This was Tang Ling's second reaction after she got lost.
How the hell did I get to this path?
This was Tang Ling's third reaction after she got lost, and walked back, but there was no way out.
"Next time I walk and play with my phone without looking at the road, I'm a dog!"
Tang Ling muttered, admiring her road idiot physique for the first time, "How biased do I have to walk to be able to turn to a place where this kind of bird doesn't on a road with a lot of people?" ”
Tang Ling took out her mobile phone from her pants bag and asked for help from the children in the dormitory, but as soon as she turned it on, there was no signal.
"No signal? The campus network that cost me 80 yuan is now giving me no signal! ”
Tang Ling was so angry that she poked her finger at the mobile phone screen several times to vent her anger.
Looking at the desolation of this place, there should be no student union passing through here for a while, and it is not a way to stay where it is, Tang Ling had no choice but to continue to walk down this road.
City C University Unknown Trail, 8:40 p.m.
Tang Ling had been walking in this place for more than ten minutes, but she still hadn't reached the avenue of the school, and it was still pitch black around her, and there was not a single building.
"If she doesn't go back, Rarity will starve to death." Tang Ling weighed the food that was already a little cold in her hand, and she didn't know whether she was sympathizing with Luo Rui or sympathizing with herself who was lost in school.
"If that guy Lori knew I was lost, she might laugh until the day she graduated."
Tang Ling imagined Luo Rui, who was dying and struggling in front of the desk in the bedroom, and the next second he turned into a lively tiger and laughed at himself for being lost, Tang Ling also had a big heart, thinking so, the originally somewhat uneasy heart relaxed, and even looked forward to what kind of expression Luo Rui would have when he went back later.
"Huh? Is there light? Tang Ling looked at the warm light that appeared faintly in the depths of the woods, thinking that she had finally walked on the road, and she was overjoyed and quickened her pace.
"It's ...... School building? ”
The dense woods gradually made it clear that the buildings were hidden, and a building stood there, only a faint warm light from a window on the second floor in the darkness.
The grass here is apparently untended by the school, and has grown haphazardly outside the fence, and there is a small flower bed in front of the main gate, and the pool inside has dried up.
This whole dilapidated look, will there still be anyone?
But I couldn't help it, and I didn't know when I would be able to go back if I continued to walk down the path, so I had to go and see.
The chain of the main gate hung on the doorknob on the side, one end drooped on the ground, Tang Ling pushed open the glass door, and the old building that had not been moved for a long time was suddenly stressed, and the connection points that rust bred rubbed against each other, making a hoarse sound.
After staying in a dark place for a long time, one's eyesight will gradually adapt, and the scene in the building will be slightly clearer through the bright light outside.
The inside of the building and the outside of the building look very different.
The hall on the first floor was clean, almost unusually clean, with decorative flower pots neatly arranged on either side of the staircase leading to the upper floor. Everything is in the place where it should be, the sofa is in the position of the sofa, the table and chair are in the position of the table and chair, the trash can is in the position of the trash can, and the objects placed in it are all extremely logical but incredibly placed in various positions.
At this time, the more normal the place, the more abnormal it is.
Tang Ling was even more skeptical about whether her behavior was reliable, how weird it looked.
The summer period in City C was a little hot, but Tang Ling deeply felt a chill down her spine for a while.
"Forget it, curiosity kills the cat, I'd better follow the path."
Tang Ling, who was already timid, retracted half of her foot into the house, and was about to turn around and leave, when suddenly, a piercing insect moan similar to a tiny flying insect came from inside the house, and then Tang Ling's eyes were dark, and a strong sense of dizziness struck, and she held on to the door frame on the side to stabilize the body that almost fell, and slowed down for a while.
When she came to her senses again, Tang Ling faintly heard some voices.
"Get in."
"You should be in."
"Hurry up."
Her mind was still a little chaotic, and Tang Ling somehow listened to the words of those voices and slowly walked towards the house.
Tang Ling's figure gradually disappeared into the darkness, the half-open door "Zla" closed automatically with a sound, as if it had never been opened, the street lamp outside the house exhausted its last life, and the last bit of light gasped out in the night.
Unknown teaching building of the University of City C, 9 o'clock sharp.