I drove to Workers and Peasants Sixth Village while Fatty called Xue Jingyue from the passenger seat.
The phone was on speaker, so all five of us could hear Xue Jingyue.
"...Oh, that restroom at the Affiliated High School of Technology University. I know it. I told you about it." Xue Jingyue picked up the thread after hearing only the start of Fatty's explanation. "I saw... I had a classmate in college who graduated from the Affiliated High School of Technology University. I saw some signs... on her..."
"Qi and the others are here. Tell us the whole story again," Fatty said. He'd already recalled it, but still asked her to repeat it.
"Okay. It was a classmate from college. One day, she wore purple to class. I saw... shadows on her. The shadow cast by the classroom fan fell over her and covered her head. I had a sort of premonition..." Xue Jingyue paused. "That afternoon, she went to the Affiliated High School of Technology University to visit a teacher, and arranged to meet some of her other middle-school classmates there. They met at our university, then went with a few of us to the food street for lunch. I warned her..."
Xue Jingyue sighed and continued, "I didn't know what would happen next. I just asked around about her school and reminded her to be careful on the way. Her classmates started talking about the Affiliated High School of Technology University. That purple restroom was famous at their school. There were lots of ghost stories, and cases of students and teachers dying, too. But no one had seen anything with their own eyes. They all thought it was just a school legend..."
Xue Jingyue fell silent again for a long time, as if she found it hard to