The School's Great Secret

"I heard a girl died at the old school," Wu Yong said.

"Was it a girl wearing a school uniform?" I asked hurriedly.

"I don't know. That's just what I heard," Wu Yong said.

My heart pounded, and excitement filled me. Without a doubt, the strange events in that abandoned school building were connected to the school uniform girl. If I could find out why she had died, perhaps I might discover something.

But I couldn't get any clues from Wu Yong.

So, during the break, I found the Homeroom Teacher and asked her about the school uniform girl.

Unexpectedly, the Homeroom Teacher looked extremely displeased. She waved her hand impatiently. "Where did you hear that? Nothing like that ever happened."

"But..." I had just begun to speak when the Homeroom Teacher stopped me.

"You should worry about your grades instead. Even if she did die, what does that have to do with you?" The Homeroom Teacher looked at me coldly.

Unwilling to give up, I asked several more teachers, but they all said they didn't know.

Yet I vaguely noticed their expressions. I couldn't shake the feeling that they were hiding something.

It seemed there was no point asking the teachers.

I decided to find someone else—Old Chen Tou.

He tended the school's boilers and had spent half his life at the school. He would definitely know about anything that had happened there. Besides, he and I had a good relationship.

When I found him, he was sitting in a chair and smoking.

I walked over and asked softly, "Old Chen Tou, I wanted to ask you something."

"What could you possibly want with me?" Old Chen Tou glanced at me, his expression calm.

"Why was the school behind ours abandoned when everything was fine?" I asked.

"How would I know? I'm just the guy who tends the boilers." Old Chen Tou glanced at me, his face still perfectly calm.

"But I heard it was abandoned because a girl died," I said, narrowing my eyes.

"I don't know. Don't come asking me." Old Chen Tou glared at me and waved his hand, trying to send me away.

I naturally knew what he wanted. A while later, I brought him some good liquor and food, along with a carton of quality cigarettes.

Old Chen Tou brought over a table, and we began eating and drinking.

After a few cups of liquor, Old Chen Tou finally opened up. "You seem like a decent kid, so listen to me. Don't pry into that abandoned school building. It's easy to get into trouble."

"What kind of trouble could there be?" I pretended not to care.

"I can't tell you. Anyway, that place is extremely sinister. Day or night, you must never go near it." Old Chen Tou spoke solemnly.

I picked up the liquor and poured him several more cups, then scoffed, "What could possibly happen? It's not like it can eat me."

"That's hard to say." Old Chen Tou shook his head, already showing signs of drunkenness. Squinting his eyes, he said, "Someone died there once. And they died horribly."

"I already knew that. It was a girl who died," I said deliberately.

"Heh heh, looks like you know quite a bit." Old Chen Tou pointed at me before asking mysteriously, "But do you know how that girl died?"

"She was either murdered or killed herself," I said, pretending to be casual.

"She killed herself, but it wasn't an ordinary suicide." Old Chen Tou looked at me and shook his head. With a sigh, he said, "I've seen plenty of people kill themselves in my life—hanging themselves, taking poison, jumping into rivers. But her suicide was something I had never seen before."

"What happened to her?" I leaned closer and asked.

Old Chen Tou drank a cup of liquor, wrinkled his old face, and looked frightened. "She actually slit her own throat on the sports field, right in front of the entire school. Blood sprayed all over the ground. I've never seen such a horrible tragedy in my life. It was truly terrifying."

My hand trembled, and the liquor glass fell to the ground and shattered. I shuddered before saying, "That's unbelievably brutal. Why did she do something like that?"

"How would I know? But I heard it was because someone got her pregnant. At the time, the entire school found out about it." Old Chen Tou muttered.

"What happened next? What happened to her afterward?" I hurriedly asked again.

"After that, the school moved, and we came here." Old Chen Tou spoke with bleary eyes.

"I'm afraid it wasn't that simple." After hesitating, I looked at him and carefully asked, "Did anything frightening happen after she killed herself?"

Old Chen Tou glanced at me and shook his head. "What could have happened? How would I not know?"

I wanted to press him further, but Old Chen Tou had already fallen asleep in a drunken stupor, leaving me helpless.

Although I had escaped the pursuit today, the next one was already close at hand.

I had to find a way to uncover some clues before the next time. Otherwise, I would once again have to face that school uniform girl, who was like a demon.

Until now, I didn't even know her name.

Chapter 4: The School's Great Secret

After returning home, I lay on my bed and stared blankly at my phone, my mind wandering aimlessly.

Something must have happened after the school uniform girl killed herself, resulting in the old school building being abandoned.

But the school had probably sealed away what happened. Finding out the truth wouldn't be easy.

When I returned to the classroom the next day, I lazily sprawled across my desk and listlessly looked around.

Horror Classroom, Section 4