Standard Test (Continued)

However, girls' dormitories are more scheming and backstabbing than boys' dormitories. A four-person dormitory can create ten different private chat groups for each member. Even the most skilled palace intrigue fighters in ancient times might not be as cunning as them.

Why am I saying all this? Because...

"We're not going to the girls' dormitory, are we?" Kosma belatedly said to Lin, who was pointing her finger and explaining "Modern Palace Intrigue 2: Girls' Dormitory".

Lin put down her fingers, puzzled, and asked, "Aren't we going to the abandoned old girls' dormitory?"

"You said it yourself, it's 'abandoned'..."

"Do we really want to go in?"

Kevin, trembling as he walked in the middle, stared at the old girls' dormitory not far away, where a chilling wind blew, the doors creaked and groaned, and a mournful female voice seemed to echo from the depths. He felt as if countless eyes were secretly watching his back, and unseen shadows were silently approaching...

"Since we're already here, of course we should go in." Wearing a mask, Chrono slapped Kevin on the back without any hesitation. "Let's go!"

"But..." Kevin looked distressed. He really didn't want to go into the dormitory, which seemed to be filled with some indescribable ghosts.

Lin said coldly, "Don't forget why this is."

"Isn't it just that you want to make money to buy pi- and pi-? Don't make it sound like you have some unavoidable reason!"

"You don't want to think about it anymore?"

"I..."

The reason why these four notorious guys were in the old girls' dormitory is actually quite simple.

"As long as you solve the truth behind the seven unbelievable events on campus, you can get a reward of 50,000 yuan." Lin calmly checked his backpack, which was full of tools, and put it back on his back. "Four of the events are related to the old girls' dormitory."

The so-called Seven Great Mysteries of the Campus are seven bizarre stories that have been circulating for a long time at the Chienyu Academy.

Every school has similar incidents to some extent, but those at the Chienyu Academy are the most bizarre and also the most realistic. They are: the Midnight Mirror, the Cries for Help in the Toilet, the Non-existent Eighth Floor, the Extra Person, the Eye in the Tree, the Human Head Radish, and the Raincoat Murderer.

"The Midnight Mirror, the toilet emergency call, the eighth floor, and the Extra Person are all from the old girls' dormitory, right? Hmm, it's midnight, it's about time when 'they' are most active." Lin checked the time on his watch.

Kevin recoiled in horror, his skin crawling. "Don't say things like that! How could that possibly exist!"

"Enough with the nonsense, Kosma, you and I are in one group, Chrono and Kevin are in another. We'll split up and look for the mysterious events, two people per group, that'll be more efficient."

"We have to separate again?!"

Without giving Kevin a chance, Chrono grabbed him by the shoulder and took the crying and wailing Kevin away.

"Seriously, I never thought Kevin would be afraid of ghosts..."

Lin frowned and looked to the side, then saw Kosma's pale face and trembling legs. He sighed and took the lead, walking towards the dormitory.

"In room 404 on the fourth floor, on bed number four, there is a mirror that a girl who jumped from the building used. She jumped at 1:11:11 a. m. The mirror is stained with her blood from when she died. When others saw her body, they found that her body showed a strange, joyful smile."

"It is said that she saw her future self in the mirror, an ugly and old self. She was afraid of that future coming, so she chose to take her own life and jumped off the glass, shattering it in the process."

"And that broken mirror, stained with her blood, will henceforth reflect different futures at different times."

When Kosma heard Linna's emotionless description, coupled with the desolate and dilapidated environment around them, which emitted a foul stench of unknown origin, and the deserted corridor, it was as if the girl who jumped off the building was quietly watching their backs not far away. He felt as if he had been immersed in ice water...

"Is that mirror still there?"

"It's highly credible. Some people on the forum even said they've seen that mirror, but it can't reflect the future." Lin paused, then said with a disdainful tone, "Couldn't those idiots have thought of looking in the mirror at 1 hour, 11 minutes, and 11 seconds?"

... I think they might not be stupid.

Fortunately, Lin's swift and efficient speed meant that he didn't stay in each area for long, Kosma's emotions stabilize somewhat. However, when Lin stopped, his heart jumped into his throat again.

On the fourth floor, in room 404, they were standing right at the door.

Kosma tried to calm himself down by taking a deep breath, but Lin burst in as if he needed to pee urgently, as if he would leak out if he waited even a second longer...

"Bed number four... has been found."

Lin picked up a broken mirror from a bed.

So fast?

Kosma's face was grim. He walked awkwardly behind Lin and looked warily at the mirror in Lin's hand. Lin, on the other hand, was examining the mirror closely, but unfortunately, apart from the completely dried blood and the broken mirror, he couldn't see anything wrong with it.

Lin glanced at his watch again. "There's still half an hour until 1:11:11. Let's go find the other one first..."

"Help me..."

A chilling aura instantly ran down Kosma's spine. His pupils contracted, and he took a large step back in terror, tripping over something and falling to the ground.

"Lin... you... you heard... ahhhhh!"

Just as Kosma was about to ask Lin for confirmation of the cries for help, he caught a glimpse of something that had tripped him.

Arm.

The arms were stiff, covered in the dark blue of the dead and livid with lividity.

In his dazed gaze, the fingers on that arm twitched slightly, then slowly shrank back under the bed.

At that moment, Kosma's deafening scream rang out.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

"Thousand, Chrono, did you hear that? That's the cry of the Kosma!"

Kevin stared in terror in the direction from which the scream had come, and Chrono also stopped and looked in that direction. Unbeknownst to them, the shadows cast by the eerie moonlight behind them had somehow multiplied as they paused...

The Campus Seven Wonders Arc: Flame-Chasers Boy's Daily Life (Part 2)

"Shut up."

Lin grabbed Kosma's mouth, which had been so loud it seemed to have collapsed from shouting. Whether it was his imagination or not, after Kosmo's outburst, the girls' dormitory seemed to come alive; some "things" began to slowly crawl from unseen corners towards them...

Kosma's expression and eyes were now completely consumed by fear. After Lin released his grip, he stammered and pointed in a direction, "Corpse... corpse... corpse!"

"A corpse?"

Lin looked in the direction he was pointing, but saw nothing. The place was empty, not even a piece of trash. He looked under the bed, but still found nothing.

"Huh?" Kosma was taken aback. He clearly remembered that what had tripped him was a corpse, and it had even moved and hidden under the bed, so why...?

"I really saw it!" Kosma's face was ashen, as if he'd been powdered. "The corpse was moving! First, it must be a ghost! We took her mirror, so..."

"Calm."

Lin covered his mouth again, and gave him a look, gesturing for him to look at the window behind the tattered curtains that were being blown by the wind.

"Hmm!"

In their sight, a blurry black shadow crawled across the window like a gecko. A strong, unbearable stench wafted from the crack. Half of its body stopped outside the window. After a while, finding no other movement, it used all four limbs to leave.

What is that?

Can a person climb up and down a wall like a gecko? And this stench was the worst stench Kosma had ever smelled; the combined shock of fear and the stench almost made him vomit.

After Kosma calmed down, Lin released his grip. Kosma, panting heavily and covered in cold sweat, leaned against the wall.

"What is that thing..." he asked with an overwhelming sense of fear after his voice returned to normal.

"I don't know, I should go." Lin picked up the mirror and backpack and walked indifferently to the door, only to be grabbed by the leg by Kosma, who couldn't walk any further.

"Wait a minute, Lin!"

"..."

Noticing from Lin's gaze that he had been too loud, Kosma quickly covered his mouth. He then glanced out the window in terror, fearing that the monster had heard his roar.

"Are you... are you still going out? What if there are others outside the door..."

"So you're going to stay here? I don't care."

One sentence silenced Kosma.

Is he going to stay here? If he doesn't go out, will the "things" outside not be able to come in? And there seems to be one of those "things" in this room as well.

So, should we go out, or stay here?

"Did you hear the cries for help just now?" Kosma lowered his voice, his eyes constantly scanning the surroundings for any possible location where that dark figure might appear. But this dilapidated girls' dormitory was drafty from all sides, and it felt like anything could happen...

"Yes, it should be this direction."

Lin nodded, checked the time, pointed in a direction, and strode forward.

"Hey! That, that's a 'Cries for Help in the Toilet,' isn't it?" The chilling cry for help came from a girl's voice, which sounded extremely hoarse.

The Cries for Help in the Toilet are an ancient supernatural tale that predates even the "Midnight Mirror."

A girl who suffered terribly, just like every school and every story has a tragic supporting character, her existence is just that. No one knows why she was bullied in the first place, but no one is interested in knowing. After all, her experience is just something to talk about over tea, far from being something they care about.

She wouldn't fight back, she wouldn't run away. Everyone could step on her shoes. When those shoes, covered in shoe prints, were cut up with scissors and thrown on her bed, she only dared to silently hug the shoes and sob quietly amidst the laughter of her bullying roommates.

Her forbearance was met with increasingly excessive beatings and insults. Her belongings were smashed, her cups were thrown on the ground and trampled on, and her underwear was ripped off and hung at the dormitory door...

That day was the day before summer vacation, which should have been a chance for her to catch her breath after being bullied for so long.

She was beaten by her roommates amidst screams, then stripped naked, thrown into the stinky toilet in the dormitory, and then locked inside with an iron lock they had bought.

The roommates left, chatting and laughing. They thought it was just another "joke." They reasoned that the idiot couldn't be so stupid as not to call for help out the window, and that there would always be someone in the school. So they ignored the repeated cries of "Help me!" and left.

Until they returned to school, smelled the stench coming from the toilets, and opened the lock to see that "thing"...

"In the end, those roommates died one after another in different places, and their deaths were all very bizarre. After that, it is said that anyone who hears the Cries for Help in the Toilet must leave immediately, otherwise the girl's ghost will find them." After Kosma finished telling the story of "the Cries for Help in the Toilet," he glanced at Lin, who remained motionless. "Lin... why aren't you scared at all?"

After witnessing the bizarre events firsthand, Kosma was terrified, while Lin remained calm.

"There are many plot holes in this 'strange tale.' To be honest, it's not that I don't pity the girl who died in the toilet. I'll assume she was an orphan with no relatives, but..." Lin paused and thought for a few seconds, "Since not many people actually care about the girl's experience, why is there such a detailed account of how she was bullied? Why didn't anyone save her? If the police obtained the information through questioning, why didn't her roommates, who committed intentional homicide, die in prison, but in various other places?"

"Uh..." Kosma was stunned. He took a few seconds to react. "What if the school is covering it up, and then they feel guilty and let it slip..."

"If you can't live with yourself, you won't commit such a heinous act as bullying. It's even less likely that the school would cover it up. If it were a suicide, there might be a chance, but being locked in a toilet and starved to death is something that can't be covered up."

Lin spoke rapidly as they drew closer to the dormitory from which the cries for help were coming, "One characteristic of 'strange tales' is that they are embellished and exaggerated during their spread, completely distorting the original truth. However, some of the original true story content is still preserved. For example, the fact that everyone in the dormitory died is probably true, and this is not easy to change."

"Then..." Kosma looked at Lin, who was expressionless, with a puzzled expression. He stood at the dormitory door, and the eerie and terrifying cry of "Save me" could still be heard from behind the door.

Lin checked the tools in his backpack, then picked up the bag and pushed open the door at the same speed as before, making his way to the toilet door.

Kosma stood hesitantly at the dormitory door. The dark corridor seemed to be crawling over at any moment, so he had no choice but to follow Lin.

Lin, without hesitation, opened the bathroom door, and what appeared before them was—

The Campus Seven Wonders Arc: Flame-Chasers Boy's Daily Life (Part 3)

A dark shadow moved with incredible speed, lunging at Lin's face the instant he opened the toilet door. Those rotting, foul-smelling hands would touch his face in a fraction of a second... no!

Before Kosma could react, Lin had already reached out expressionlessly, grabbed the humanoid figure by the throat, and slammed it against the wall without turning its head.

"Bang!"

"Gah!!"

The rotting humanoid creature, slammed against the wall, let out a shriek, filling the air with a stench. But just as it was about to pounce again, it saw something in its dark, empty eye sockets.

"Gah!"

It immediately screamed and scrambled back to the toilet, the toilet door closing in an instant!

"..."

Kosma's brain crashed.

What happened? What exactly happened in those few seconds?

"It escaped back?"

"Yeah, Kosma, lend a hand." Lin gestured to Kosma, and then, in the next second, with Kosmo's trembling eyes, Lin kicked the door!

"Bang!"

The terrifying force caused the toilet door to creak under the strain!

"Wait, wait a minute! Lin!"

"What are you afraid of?" Lin seemed to realize something after that kick. He turned around and rummaged through his backpack, saying to Kosma in a low voice as he searched, "Do you think 'ghosts' are scary?"

"Isn't it terrifying!" Kosma's heart raced at the thought of that fleeting glimpse. The corpses, monsters, and rotting flesh—just seeing them made it hard for him to breathe.

"If you're referring to appearance, that's often seen in movies, maybe even more disgusting." Lin quickly found it, he held something and slowly pulled it out, "Actually, what you're afraid of is the 'ghosts' created in horror movies. They have superpowers and are everywhere, in dreams, in walls, in blankets... Humans have no way to deal with them, while they can play with humans to death in all sorts of ways."

"But that's impossible."

When Kosma saw what Lin was holding, his pupils shrank even smaller than if he had seen a ghost. "Lin, you... you wouldn't be planning to..."