Chapter 3 2. Take you to the bell tower

"Hi everyone, haven't you rested yet?" The short-haired girl who entered the door first smiled and waved her hands, then put her hands on her hips in a cool pose.The other three girls immediately stepped forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with her.Except for the different hairstyles, the four girls are dressed in exactly the same way, all wearing beige long-sleeved sports suits and white sneakers; the most eye-catching thing is that each of them has a shiny metal object hanging around their necks—a nunchaku ? Niu Fang regained her composure, and after confirming that she was right, she poked Lin Ying beside her with her arm, and said in a timid voice, "Isn't it here to collect protection money?"

Lin Ying shook her head, she also couldn't figure out what this group of people wanted to do when they broke into the stranger's dormitory in the middle of the night. "Sorry to bother you at such a late hour." It was still the short-haired girl who spoke, her eyes swept across the faces of several girls present, and she took the nunchaku from her neck with her right hand, and said it casually and chicly. He drew an "8" in front of him, and then said generously, "We are members of the nunchaku club at school, I heard that you have just transferred from another school, so we came here to promote it, to put it bluntly, to attract people into the club. I wonder if there is any lady who is interested in nunchaku sports?"

Niu Fang squinted at the faces of several roommates she could see from her position (everyone was lying on their own bed), and found that except Qiu Suling who was still looking icy, the rest of them showed expressions of disbelief. "Girls...would like to play nunchucks...to hit people?" Lin Ying was the first to express her doubts, but her voice was a little timid, as if she was worried that the other party would hit her head with nunchakus in anger. like. "It's really surprising, isn't it?" The short-haired girl smiled slightly, and then explained—— "Nunchakus can indeed hit people, but only martial artists practice 'combat sticks'. Our club teaches 'performance sticks', which combine taekwondo and hip-hop movements to form a very fashionable fitness exercise. The most important thing is The most important thing is that you can tie your body, look at the figures of the people next to me, they are all pretty good, right?"

After what she said, the three "models" showed more or less shy expressions on their faces, and they may have thinner skins than the one who spoke.Maybe they were forced to come here, Ji Ruxuan looked at them and thought to herself, it's really pitiful. "You're right, the most important thing for a woman is her figure." Liu Xiaoxiao said carelessly, "But you guys are a step late—this afternoon, the person on my upper bunk has already dragged me to join the social dance club, I'm really sorry. "She said and stretched her finger towards the upper bunk. At the same time, Qiu Suling, who was sitting on the upper bunk, smiled at the short-haired girl, then turned around and continued to read her novel.It looks like she is studying hard, if she is not reading Guo Jingming's novels but textbooks.

"It's okay, then, you four, are you interested in joining our fitness team?" "Let's... think about it," the newcomer Zhang Jiaming replied hesitantly, and then turned his gaze to Niu Fang and the others. "Where are you guys? I'll take part if anyone is there." "Excuse me, are all girls in your club?" Niu Fang asked suddenly. "Of course not, there are many handsome guys. Yang Chuan, do you know? The number one talented person in South Polytechnic University is the leader and coach of our club." "Ah, I know him!" Niu Fang's eyes lit up immediately, "I didn't expect that, I heard he is very handsome, right? Then I participated, can I sign up now?"

"Nympho!" Qiu Suling cast a contemptuous glance at her.But Niu Fang smirked shamelessly: "Everyone has a love for beauty, right?" "That's right." The short-haired girl took out a notebook from her pocket, asked Niu Fang's name, and wrote it down in the notebook.Then Zhang Jiaming also signed up.The short-haired girl questioned the rest of the people again in provocative language, and Niu Fang begged Lin Ying to join, but Lin Ying approached Ji Ruxuan, and finally both of them signed up hesitantly.However, the reason why Ji Ruxuan participated was not for fitness - she is already confident enough in her current figure, and of course she will not be like Niu Fang to look at the handsome guy, but from the first sight when she sees him hanging on the neck of a girl with short hair When she took the nunchaku, an inexplicable excitement surged in her heart. To be more precise, she really wanted to go forward and grab that iron thing in her hand, and even waved it.What would that feel like?She thought, at least it won't feel very strange.

After registering the names of several people, the girl with short hair informed the activity time of the nunchaku club: every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 3:00 pm, in the South Gymnasium, of course, you can practice if you have time, the venue is fixed .After explaining this, she led several "models" away contentedly. Ji Ruxuan forced herself to calm down, found out the "Sprout" that she borrowed from the library at noon, and got under the covers to read it.My ears are full of discussions about the nunchaku club between Niu Fang, Lin Ying and others. To be precise, they are discussing the legendary handsome guy Yang Chuanyang. Niu Fang is talking while the rest are listening—at least Pretend to be listening.

Lights out at half past ten.At this time, Niu Fang had already closed her mouth and fell asleep. As usual, she would make "humming" raving noises from her nose from time to time. To put it bluntly, she looked like a pig.The rest of the people may not have fallen asleep, but they were all silent, and the bedroom fell into silence.Ji Ruxuan was lying on her upper bunk, but couldn't fall asleep for a long time. She kept thinking about that strange dream last night.That school building is exactly the same as in reality, even the slogan written on the wall is the same. Is this just a bizarre coincidence?

This question has been in Ji Ruxuan's mind for a whole day, but there are many things to do and think about during the day, so she can't feel anything. Now in the dead of night, this unsolvable question popped up and almost occupied her mind. Overwhelming all of Ji Ruxuan's thoughts, the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, but she still couldn't help thinking about it.Suddenly, the pair of beautiful big eyes that I saw last when I was about to wake up from the dream appeared in front of my eyes like a flash of light, and my body trembled slightly.At this moment, a soft call came from the lower bunk:

"Ji Ruxuan..." The person who called his name was Zhang Jiaming from the lower berth.After a brief astonishment, Ji Ruxuan agreed. "I knew you weren't asleep yet. Hehe, did I catch you?" Zhang Jiaming said with a snicker. "Uh... how do you know?" "Listen to your breathing. The breathing of a sleeping person will be very regular, and you can hear it clearly in a quiet environment, like this time. And I haven't heard your breathing, so I guess you must not be asleep. on." Hearing her words, Ji Ruxuan could only admire her. At the same time, she also thought that only people with careful minds would notice such small things. However, Ji Ruxuan suddenly thought nervously, why did she observe my breathing and pay attention to my breathing? Did you fall asleep?

Zhang Jiaming's voice sounded again: "Are you thinking about something?" "This...well, what about you, you didn't fall asleep because you listened to my breathing?" Ji Ruxuan deliberately joked. "Of course not. Maybe it's because I slept too much during class during the day. I'm not sleepy at all now. I wanted to read more, but I didn't expect a power outage. It's really depressing." "Yeah. But it's all the same. Don't we also turn off the lights at 10:30 in the East Campus?" "Oh, yes." Zhang Jiaming replied a little unnaturally, and immediately diverted the topic elsewhere, "Have you started reading the book you borrowed at noon, Zola's "Sprouting?" "After reading a few pages, I haven't found the feeling yet. But... I feel like I've read this book before." Ji Ruxuan said honestly.She really felt that the plot at the beginning of the book was very familiar, not only that, but she seemed to be able to vaguely guess the plot later. "Have you seen it, but forgot, I have also encountered this situation." "Probably not. If I have read a book by such a famous author, I will definitely remember it. I think... maybe I read a fragment or introduction of this book somewhere, and the impression is too deep." "Well, that's probably the case. By the way, you feel..." Zhang Jiaming suddenly closed his mouth when he said this.what happened?Just as Ji Ruxuan was about to ask, she suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the direction of the bathroom—it was a woman crying!Exactly the same cry as last night! Ji Ruxuan's heart tightened suddenly. "Ruxuan, did you hear that?" Zhang Jiaming's voice dropped suddenly. Ji Ruxuan gave a "hmm" and heard Zhang Jiaming say again: "It can't be someone from our dormitory. I was awake all the time, and I didn't hear anyone get out of bed." "Then, who could it be?" Ji Ruxuan asked bravely. Zhang Jiaming stopped talking.For a moment, the only sound left in the dormitory was the horrific crying, sobbing, flowing around with the silent air, irritating the eardrums of the two. "Xuanxuan..." A few seconds later, Zhang Jiaming spoke again, hesitantly said, "How about we go over and have a look together?" Ji Ruxuan opened her mouth wide.Indeed, she also really wanted to know who was crying in the bathroom, or whether the voice came from the bathroom, but when she thought about standing in the dark and empty bathroom, and what kind of horror she might see... At the scene, she suddenly felt a chill on her back, and the hairs all over her body stood on end. "Forget it, I'll go alone." "Ah, but..." "It's okay." Zhang Jiaming had already got out of bed, put on his slippers, raised his head and gave Ji Ruxuan a meaningful look, "If something happens to me after I go in, you can yell loudly, is that okay?" Ji Ruxuan nodded nervously. Zhang Jiaming walked towards the bathroom lightly. At this time, the door of the bathroom was closed.The cry was squeezed out from the crack of the door, and it sounded a little tranceless and unreal.Although she was not the one who went to find out the truth, Ji Ruxuan, who was sitting on the bed, still felt an unprecedented fear, not only the crying, but also the fear of the dark and the unknown. What kind of scene will it be behind the door? Just when Zhang Jiaming was about to walk up to him, the door of the bathroom suddenly opened slowly, without any external force, only a gust of cool wind blew out from behind the door, making the two people who were awake shiver at the same time.However, the burst of crying that seemed to be there disappeared without a trace the moment the door opened.Feeling the silent air around her, Ji Ruxuan even wondered if the crying just now was a hallucination. Zhang Jiaming, who had already stopped, turned around and looked at Ji Ruxuan with searching eyes, probably wanting to ask what to do now? "Come back soon." Ji Ruxuan looked at the dark part exposed after the bathroom door was opened, and said worriedly. Zhang Jiaming hesitated for a moment, nodded, and started to walk back. "There must be something unclean in the bathroom..." Before going to bed, she stood in front of Ji Ruxuan and said in a low voice. Ji Ruxuan took a deep breath. "You said, there are really ghosts in the world, right?" After lunch the next day, when she went for a walk in the back playground with Jiang Xiaolou, Ji Ruxuan told the story of the strange things she had encountered in the dormitory for two consecutive nights, and finally asked in a low voice. "Are you sure you heard it right? Is it really a woman's cry?" "It's definitely true, and I'm not the only one who heard it. It's really... too scary." Ji Ruxuan shook her head vigorously as she said as if she was about to shake off something. "The only possibility is that there is someone hiding in the bathroom, but—it doesn't make sense." Jiang Xiaolou lowered his head to think, and after a while, he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Ji Ruxuan, "Could someone be pretending to be a ghost? Tonight if If there is that sound again, you can go to the bathroom to see clearly on the spot, this is the easiest and feasible way!" "You should spare me," Ji Ruxuan waved her hands again and again, "I don't dare to do such a horrible thing. What if I go in and see... Hey, do you understand what I mean? That way I won't be scared to death on the spot Strange!" Jiang Xiaolou hummed a little amusedly: "Why are you so superstitious? Where is the ghost in this world, have you seen it?" "I haven't seen it, but it can't prove that it doesn't exist." "How can you say yes if you haven't seen it?" Jiang Xiaolou confronted. "Many ghost stories are spread in this way. When encountering such a thing, first think about how to investigate clearly, and don't rely on superstition." "You..." Ji Ruxuan stomped her feet angrily, and wanted to scold him a few words, but when she looked up and saw the small gray building standing in the weeds and woods, she thought about it, pointed at the building and said, "Okay, I admit it." I am superstitious. You are not superstitious, do you dare to go around that building alone at night?" Jiang Xiaolou looked up: "What's going on there?" "The Bell Tower of Death." Ji Ruxuan said proudly. "It has been abandoned for many years. I heard that it is often haunted. Don't you believe in ghosts? Do you dare to go in?" Jiang Xiaolou sneered, "Why don't you dare. Let alone go in, I dare to sleep in it for one night." "Qianqi, stop bragging, we'll talk about it when you go." "Why should I go? I'm so bored." Jiang Xiaolou said and walked forward. "Coward, why are you going!" "Tired from walking, go sit on the front lawn for a while, do you have any opinions?" Ji Ruxuan stuck out her tongue at his back, and followed him quickly. Except for a couple who are sitting or lying in the grass, talking about love and doing nothing good, there are not many people in the back playground in the afternoon. After all, South University of Technology has such a big campus, and the back playground is not the only one. place of leisure.The two walked to a place where there was no one around and the grass was relatively shallow. Jiang Xiaolou sat down and then lay down again. "Just lie down like this, you won't be afraid of being stabbed!" Ji Ruxuan let out a bluff, and carefully sat down beside him. "I used to lie in the field like this when I was a child, it's fine." Jiang Xiaolou turned his head on his arms to his girlfriend's side, staring at her face for a long time, with a look of hesitation. "Xuanxuan, there is something I think I should tell you." Ji Ruxuan was taken aback, "Huh?" "It's like this..." Jiang Xiaolou pursed his lips and began to speak slowly. "I remember it was last Sunday. I was at home at the time. I slept until midnight and suddenly received a strange call. It was a man calling. He said something to me and asked me to tell you—don't Come to South University of Technology. Then hang up." "Ah?" Ji Ruxuan widened her eyes and murmured, "What do you mean?" Jiang Xiaolou twisted his mouth: "I don't know, it's just such a nonsensical sentence." Why is there such a strange thing?Ji Ruxuan couldn't believe it, she pondered for a moment, and suddenly remembered something: "What's the phone number? Is it a mobile phone?" "This, it's even more strange, there is no number." Jiang Xiaolou sat up, looked at her, and added in a serious tone, "To be more clear, the display on my mobile phone was 'unknown number' Four words." "Unknown number..." Ji Ruxuan murmured and repeated, suddenly there was an electric current passing through her body - I forgot who said that at midnight, the call from hell to the world must have no number... "Are you thinking wildly again?" Jiang Xiaolou expressed her thoughts like a magician, shrugged and said, "Actually, if you want to prevent the other party from seeing your number, you can use the Internet phone. This is not the point, you don't need to worry about it." I thought about it. I was worried that you would think about this and that, so I never told you about it. " "Don't worry now?" Jiang Xiaolou shook his head. "Last night, he called me again. After thinking about it for a long time, I think it is necessary to tell you." After hearing this, Ji Ruxuan's mouth almost opened into an O shape. "... What did he tell you again?" "Tell me to keep an eye on you, otherwise you will be very dangerous. And say-there is a kid behind you." "Ah!" Ji Ruxuan subconsciously stretched out her hand to touch her back. "What do you mean!" she said tremblingly. "Don't do this," Jiang Xiaolou reached out to hold her sweaty hand, his voice still as calm as ever. "I guess it's a metaphor to remind you that someone is trying to hurt you. Maybe... just a prank." Is it really a prank?Ji Ruxuan thought to herself, this must be comforting, if Jiang Xiaolou really thought so, she would never confess this matter to herself.Sure enough, Jiang Xiaolou added another sentence: "But no matter what, you should be more careful recently." Ji Ruxuan nodded. "But I can't figure it out, why didn't that person just call me?" "I don't know." Jiang Xiaolou shrugged.The scene of answering the phone last night came to mind again. At that time, the man also said some words and revealed some more critical and complicated information, but these were absolutely not to be disclosed to his girlfriend.Otherwise, the consequences may be even more dire than he imagined. Jiang Xiaolou glanced at the gray old building in front of him again, and took a deep breath. Happy time always flies by very quickly, Ji Ruxuan broke free from her boyfriend's embrace, and when she returned to the dormitory, it was almost half past two, and the afternoon class was about to begin. After the door opened, the first thing she saw was Niu Fang who was sitting on her bed, struggling to put a high-heeled shoe on her foot. "Fangfang, are you going to wear these shoes to class?" Ji Ruxuan asked curiously. "What class!" Niu Fang was still trying to put on her shoes without raising her head. "Just now the squad leader came to inform that the computer room was out of power, and the afternoon class will not be held. We will go shopping in the city later, will you go?" It was only then that Ji Ruxuan remembered that she was going to take the "Office Automation" class in the afternoon, and the computer couldn't be used due to a power outage, so there was no such thing as automation. "Oh, how many people are going?" "All five of us are going." Niu Fang turned her gaze to Ji Ruxuan's empty lower bunk, "Xiao Zhang wanted to go too, but their class doesn't stop in the afternoon, so I had to go to class." Just as she was talking, Liu Xiaoxiao, who was wearing heavy makeup on her face, came out of the bathroom, raised her eyes and saw Ji Ruxuan, and asked her with a smile: "How is it, I don't look ugly with this kind of makeup, does it?" "Well, it can charm many men." "Haha, the first one is going to the Mini House!" Twenty minutes later, Ji Ruxuan and a group of five people got on the bus that departed from the station outside the gate of Science and Technology and headed for the city.The ticket is five yuan per person, and it is said that it takes one and a half hours to get there, so it is really not ordinary expensive.Fortunately, Liu Xiaoxiao, who was not short of money, paid for everyone's bus tickets - she has always been like this, anyway, it was her parents' money, so she didn't feel bad. As the rumors said, Xu Youshi was indeed engaged in heavy construction. The scenery outside the car window along the way was all row upon row of high-rise buildings, which was nothing to see. The girls chatted all the way.After arriving at the station, they asked for directions and walked around several commercial streets. Except for Ji Ruxuan, everyone bought a piece or two of clothes they wanted. When entering another shopping mall, Ji Ruxuan, who was walking behind the line, stopped again and looked around.Seeing it, Qiu Suling went over and patted her on the shoulder. "What kind of plane are you messing with?" "Oh, it's okay." Ji Ruxuan brushed her hair, turned around and was about to open the door of the mall when Qiu Suling stopped her. "Don't pretend to me. I've been paying attention to you for a long time. Every time you walk a distance, you have to look back. You seem to be very preoccupied. What's going on, I want to be honest." "Actually..." Looking up and seeing Qiu Suling's serious gaze, Ji Ruxuan could only shrug her shoulders and whispered, "I seem to be being followed..." "No way?" Qiu Suling's eyes widened, and he searched the surrounding crowd, and then asked in a nervously lowered voice, "Where is the person following you...?" Ji Ruxuan shook her head: "If I knew where I was, I wouldn't have to look back all the time. I just feel that someone is always staring at me from behind. It's fine when I enter a place like a shopping mall, but when I walk out on the road, this feeling Here it is again. Hey, it's really strange..." Qiu Suling pouted: "I can't believe that you can even feel this kind of thing. Is it the sixth sense?" Just as Ji Ruxuan was about to say that I couldn't figure it out, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she found a pair of suspicious eyes in the opposite crowd—or rather, suspicious gazes shot out from these eyes.In an instant, her heart beat wildly. "What are you two talking about outside, come in!" Niu Fang opened the door and shouted dissatisfied.Qiu Suling reached out and pulled Ji Ruxuan's arm, "Go in, don't think about it." A few people wandered around until the evening. After the mood faded, Liu Xiaoxiao suggested that everyone be invited to dinner, and then take a taxi back to school after eating.Because most people agreed with this proposal, Ji Ruxuan had no choice but to follow them to a mid-range seafood restaurant. Just like the previous experiences, a long-lost familiar feeling arose in Ji Ruxuan's heart as soon as she entered the restaurant—whether it was in the restaurant or not. The decorations, or the skinny old man sitting behind the counter in a daze, everything is both familiar and strange to her. However, when Ji Ruxuan tried to think deeply, her head was no exception. The ground hurt again, she quickly stretched out her hand to rub her temples, and followed a few people into the private room of the restaurant. It's uncomfortable to pretend to be smiling, but in order not to let everyone see that she has something on her mind, Ji Ruxuan had to pretend like this.Fortunately, after walking around in the afternoon, everyone was hungry at the moment. As soon as the food was brought to the table, they started gobbling one by one. The battle was resolved in less than 20 minutes. Then, the napkins that had been placed on the table were snatched away, and the one step behind Ji Ruxuan had no choice but to follow Liu Xiaoxiao, who paid the bill, to the front desk to get it. The skinny old man who noticed as soon as he entered the door was still sitting behind the counter, in a corner that would not affect the work of the counter, looking forward with a dull and empty expression. However, when Ji Ruxuan approached the counter, the old man suddenly widened his eyes slightly, raised his head and glanced at her, and murmured: "Girl, you haven't come for a while." "Huh?" Ji Ruxuan opened her mouth wide open. "You haven't come for a while, I still know you, I know you..." The old man nodded and muttered softly.Just when Ji Ruxuan was still in a daze, the middle-aged woman next to Liu Xiaoxiao who was trying to settle accounts - probably the proprietress, interrupted: "Girl, don't listen to his nonsense, he is old and a little demented." Ji Ruxuan said "Oh": "Why did you let him sit here? Wouldn't it delay your business?" "There's no other way." The proprietress smiled shyly, "The store is too busy to take care of him, and I want to hire a nanny but I don't think the service is good. Anyway, he is a little demented, and he is not noisy. , simply let him sit here and watch the people coming and going in the store, and he is not in a hurry anymore." "Yes, the elderly are afraid of loneliness." Ji Ruxuan said casually, took the napkin, and after Liu Xiaoxiao paid the bill, the two left the counter together. "Go slowly..." The old man suddenly said this again, Ji Ruxuan waved to him with a smile, and walked out of the shop. This matter is over, but on the way back to school, the more Ji Ruxuan thought about it, the more strange she felt: she was at the counter with Liu Xiaoxiao at that time, and there was another table of customers waiting to pay the bill, but that one had dementia. Why does the old man greet him alone?Thinking about what he said carefully, it was completely gossip to an acquaintance whom he often met, as if he often patronized the business of this store.However, Ji Ruxuan can be quite sure: this is the first time she visits this restaurant, and it is also the first time she sees this strange old man. So, did the old man admit the wrong person?After much deliberation, Ji Ruxuan felt that this was the most reasonable explanation.Although there was a feeling of déjà vu when I first entered the store, it is not the first time that this has happened to me recently, so I can ignore it for the time being. After a while, Ji Ruxuan remembered what Jiang Xiaolou told herself in the afternoon: that man asked her on the first phone call whether she should come to the current school—Southern Polytechnic University, and then he probably learned that he had come, so he went to the school. Remind yourself to be more careful.What exactly are you careful about?Could it be... Ji Ruxuan suddenly had a bold association: Could the mysterious man's so-called caution be related to his frequent "familiar illusion" about a certain place?If this is the case, then there must be some secret behind this incident that I don't know. If I want to figure it out, the only way right now is to find that mysterious man and ask him clearly.Unfortunately, Xiaolou's phone number was not recorded on his phone.Perhaps, he just didn't want to be found by himself, so he deliberately kept it mysterious like this. Thinking of this, Ji Ruxuan felt as if she had fallen into a black hole with no way out, surrounded by mysteries, and couldn't see clearly.But at the same time, she also understood that judging from her current situation, she could only take one step at a time. At the same time, she followed the reminder of the mysterious man: Proceed with caution. Proceed with caution.These four words are easy to say, but it is another matter to actually practice them—if fate destined you to encounter something bad, no matter how careful you are, you may still not be able to escape. Ji Ruxuan suddenly remembered a saying she heard from her parents: Hades will let you die on the third watch, but will not keep you until the fifth watch.This sentence may not be appropriate and unlucky to describe my current situation.Ji Ruxuan shook her head as if she wanted to shake it off, and turned her head to the side of the car window. Outside the window, it was pitch black. When the group returned to school, it was already half past eight, and they couldn't catch up with the evening self-study, so they went straight back to the dormitory. Zhang Jiaming was actually alone in the dormitory, wearing pajamas, sitting on the edge of the bed with a pillow in his arms, staring intently at the screen of the laptop on the opposite desk. "Zhang Jiaming, why didn't you go to class?" Zhang Jiaming took off his headset and smiled at Niu Fang who greeted her. "You are back, is it fun in the city?" "Uh, it's okay." Niu Fang scratched her head depressingly, threw the shopping bag in her hand on her bed, and walked towards Zhang Jiaming. "This is..."2012"?" Zhang Jiaming nodded. "I just downloaded the 'Preemptive Version' from the Internet. I didn't expect it to be quite clear. You guys come over and watch it together. It's also very good!" "No, I'm still looking forward to "Avatar". It is said that it is much better than "2012." After Qiu Suling finished speaking, she took off her coat and went to the bathroom to take a shower, while the rest of the people gathered around Zhang Jiaming. Interested in watching the movie.When the film played to the scene where the mainland of the United States was gradually submerged by the crazy tsunami, Lin Ying exclaimed in amazement: "The filming is so realistic, the 3D technology in the United States is extraordinary!" "Needless to say," Niu Fang continued, "Also, Americans have a rich imagination. Chinese directors will certainly not be able to come up with such good themes!" "It's not that the imagination is rich, but the policy is loose. If this kind of film was made by a domestic director, it would have been 'shot' long ago." Liu Xiaoxiao curled her lips in dissatisfaction. "Why?" Liu Xiaoxiao hummed, and said something meaningful: "Whether it's in a movie or a novel, the Chinese government will never fall." In the last scene of the movie, when the American writer named Jackson emerges from the water, everyone on the big boat cheered, including the girls who were watching the movie.After this exciting moment, the movie ends. With the same shock and different emotions, after washing up and lying on their respective beds, they were still talking about the movie just now, until it was time to turn off the lights. Zhang Jiaming asked everyone if they have seen a Hong Kong movie called "Past Life and Present Life". "This is the most impressive movie I've ever seen." Zhang Jiaming sat barefoot on the desk, looked into Ji Ruxuan's eyes, and began to speak eloquently. "The protagonist is a couple who love each other very much. But because the woman came from a humble background, the man's parents refused to agree with this marriage. In the end, they sent someone to kill the woman. The man was very sad when he found out, and committed suicide. The following plot It is a bit surreal: in order not to forget the woman, the man is unwilling to drink Mengpo soup and then reincarnated. Since then, he has wandered in the world, and finally found a woman who has been reincarnated and grown up after more than ten years. After many efforts, The woman finally remembered the events of her previous life, but at this time the man was still just a ghost, and the two couldn't even hold hands. The woman thought about her own happiness, and finally left him in pain, and married a Chinese who had been pursuing her all the time. A wealthy businessman..." Zhang Jiaming finished the narration, and everyone was silent for a while, as if they were thinking about something. In the end, Qiu Suling, the Arctic Bing, broke the silence and said in her usual indifferent tone: "Except for the ending being a bit unexpected, to be honest, this story Ordinary, nothing new." Zhang Jiaming didn't get angry because of this, but laughed embarrassingly, "The theme of the story is quite common, but I said it was too plain, and many details are still very exciting. Especially the ending, the two of them are not together .Hey, that woman is really cruel." "If I were her..." Niu Fang tilted her head and said while thinking, "I will definitely not let that man down, at worst, commit suicide again, and the two of us will be ghosts together. Isn't that romantic?" Zhang Jiaming smiled "puchi", looked sideways at Ji Ruxuan who was sitting on the upper bunk again, and asked in a relaxed tone: "If reincarnation really exists, Ruxuan, would you like to meet your lover from your previous life?" This question is too sudden.Ji Ruxuan froze on the spot, lost in thought.Suddenly, Lin Ying yelled in surprise: "Hey, come and see, hurry up!" Niu Fang, who has always been the most curious, ran to the window first, stretched out her head, and looked in the direction of her finger.Liu Xiaoxiao and others also surrounded him one after another.Since Ji Ruxuan was already sleeping on the upper bunk on the left side of the window, she didn't need to get out of bed, and when she lowered her head a little, she saw something that made Lin Ying, who never liked to make a fuss, scream out - a ball of fire.A group of moving fire moved and jumped around in the dark place with no light around it in the distance.Against the fire was the blurred black shadow of a building. It wasn't tall, but it was definitely a building.Ji Ruxuan made a visual inspection, and it was about four or five floors high. "That's...the side of the bell tower!" Zhang Jiaming yelled, with obvious tension and disbelief in his tone. "No way?" Lin Ying took a breath, "It should be the bell tower. But... Could it be that someone is lighting a fire over there? Who could it be so late?" "It can't be... a ghost fire?" Niu Fang's words shocked the hearts of everyone present, and Liu Xiaoxiao glared at her: "It's late at night, don't talk nonsense!" "Look, the fireball is gone again!" Ji Ruxuan heard the reputation, but there was no sign of the fireball. Under the dim moonlight, there was only a dark shadow of a deep building. Is that the legendary "Death Bell Tower"?An ominous premonition rose in Ji Ruxuan's heart for no reason, and she secretly felt that the fireball she saw just now from an unknown source and then mysteriously disappeared was probably aimed at their dormitory.This is of course baseless imagination.However, many things happen, don't they start from imagination? Although, this kind of imagination made Ji Ruxuan feel very uneasy. Not long after the lights were turned off, it began to rain lightly outside, and it fell on the glass with a soft "rustling" sound, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, reaching the ears like a piece of light music with a bright rhythm. However, it didn't take long before the sleep-inducing music turned into a loud bang, which woke Ji Ruxuan who had just fallen asleep, rubbed her eyes, and turned to the direction of the sound - the only window in the dormitory look away. She saw a handsome young girl with wet yellow curly hair standing outside the window, her thin and pale face almost pressed against the window glass. "Please open the window and let me in, I'm freezing to death..." She slammed on the window, looking at Ji Ruxuan, begging anxiously.The voice is lovely and pitiful. How could anyone stand outside? Ji Ruxuan pulled off the blanket covering her body, and was about to get out of bed to open the window, when suddenly a terrible thought flashed through her mind, Ji Ruxuan swayed twice, and collapsed on the bed. ... This is the seventh floor! There is no balcony outside the window, and there is nothing that can support a person's foothold—what did the girl rely on to get her foothold?Air?No one can stand on air.So there is only one answer: she is not human... Perhaps because Ji Ruxuan hadn't moved for a long time, the yellow-haired girl slammed on the window again, with an impatient and angry expression on her face. "Open the window and let me in! Hurry up!" Ji Ruxuan looked at the uninvited guest in horror, and subconsciously moved her body backwards until her back touched the cold wall. "Who... are you?" She finally mustered up the courage to ask, but her voice was so small that she could barely hear herself. The girl stopped beating the glass, and looked at Ji Ruxuan with fierce eyes. "I'll give you another chance," she said in a tone ten times colder than Qiu Suling's, "let me in, I won't harm you." Sure enough, it's not a good class.Ji Ruxuan sucked in a breath of cold air, and asked bravely, "Who the hell are you and where are you from?" "You really want to know?" A weird smile appeared on the corner of the girl's mouth. 纪如萱按捺住澎湃的心跳，点了点头。 “我从钟楼来，我想回我的寝室。”少女淡淡说道，“你到底让不让我进去？” 纪如萱吸了一口冷气，别过头不敢答话。她当然不敢打开窗户，否则不用想也知道后果有多可怕。 少女叹了口气，身形突然一矮，坠到了窗台下面。“你早晚会记起我的。”这是她消失前最后留下的话。美丽的亡灵离开了，窗外只剩下沥沥的雨声和漆黑的夜，一切如常，仿佛什么都没有发生过。 纪如萱缓缓睁开眼睛，不是惊醒，而是很自然地醒过来。 第一件事就是抬头看向窗外——月光莹然，树影婆娑，一切不该有的东西都没有。更重要的是，也没有下雨。这说明刚才发生的一切都是在做梦。可是，仅仅只是做梦这么简单吗？ 翌日中午，与邱素灵和刘晓晓一同在食堂吃饭之际，纪如萱道出了昨晚上做的那个怪梦的经过。她潜意识里是这样想的：假如这个怪梦真的有什么超现实的象征意义的话，那她有必要让室友们知道这件事，因为梦中那个少女想进入寝室，并非是冲自己一个人来的。因此只要是住在714寝室的，人人都有一份“责任”。 说白了，她这样做，只是想让室友们为她分担恐惧和猜疑，或者也能安慰安慰自己。 听完她的讲述，刘晓晓着实大吃一惊，定了定神，不确定地反问道：“我感觉……可能就只是普通的恶梦吧，你觉得呢？” “但愿是吧。不过我以前从未做过这么真实的梦，一切都跟真的一样。”纪如萱耸了耸肩，瞅了眼身边仍在泰然自若地吃着东西的邱素灵，“老邱，你怎么看呢？” “就是恶梦呗，想这么多干什么，又是神又是鬼的。还有，你好像最近一直都有点不正常，昨天逛街时还神神叨叨地说有人跟踪你。我看问题出在你自己身上。” 出在自己身上？邱素灵的一席话让纪如萱陷入了深思，仔细想想，所有怪事的确都是最近才发生的，准确说是自己来南理工大之后的这段时间。如此看来，好像是这所学校的问题，但其他人为什么都好好的呢？ 一阵突兀的歌声响起，打断了纪如萱的思考。不用想也知道是食堂的大喇叭，否则不会有如此震撼却全无立体感的声音，而且播的还是一首人人都听过、但也几乎人人都讨厌听的歌：《咱当兵的人》。 “真是难以忍受！”邱素灵忿忿地摇了摇头：“全是胡说八道。这年头还有几个人是为了保卫国家才去当兵的？全是为了分配工作。在我们老家，想当兵就要送红包，两万块钱，少一分钱都不行！” “还有这种事情？”刘晓晓睁大眼睛看着她，一副不可置信的表情。 “当然了，你们这些'富二代'哪里知道我们P民的疾苦！”邱素灵笑着调侃道。 “讨厌啊你！”刘晓晓伸手打了她一下，“再跟我说那三个字，我可真跟你急啊！” “本来就是嘛。朱门酒肉臭，路有冻死骨。” 刘晓晓“扑哧”一声笑出来，侧头看向纪如萱，“见过愤青没有，咱们老邱可是典型中的典型。” 纪如萱没有搭话，而是一脸狐疑地望着右手边另外几张餐桌前的客人。突然，她站起来朝其中一张只坐着两名女生的餐桌走去。 “你好，请问，你为什么一直偷看我？”面对如此直白的问话，那名短发女生的眼神变得慌乱起来，甚或还带着一丝恐惧。纪如萱看在眼里，确定自己没有找错人，于是又重复了一遍刚才的问题。 短发女生头低下去，肩膀微微颤抖起来。尔后，就在纪如萱打算问第三遍同样问题之际，该女生突然抬起头，用一种异常复杂的眼神直视向纪如萱的眼睛。良久，她终于低声说道：“对不起，我认错人了。” "Ok?" “就是想确认是不是，才偷偷看你，没有别的意思。”短发女生缓缓说道，语气中带着一种明显的压抑。 纪如萱一时不知道该说什么好了。想了想，问她：“能告诉我那个人的名字吗？” 短发女生摇了摇头：“她已经死了。”说完对同伴使了个眼色，两人一同站起来，像躲避瘟神似的快步离开了食堂。 只剩下表情呆滞的纪如萱，还站在原处望着她们的背影发呆。 下午放学，纪如萱被牛芳等人硬拉到校体育馆，去参加双节棍社团的训练。由于是头一回参加社团活动，身为社团教练的杨川——也就是那个传说中的南理工大第一帅哥，亲手为她们每个人发了根“泡绵棍”（新手使用的练习棍），然后安排她们站在练习场的一边，观看老手在场上练习。 随着节奏明快的伴奏音乐响起，场上所有人一齐舞动起手中的双节棍，双腿也不甘落后地前后蹬踏起来，动作颇有点街舞的味道，其中不乏一些需要身体素质支持的高难度动作，比如凌空翻腾等等。 张佳茗等人在一旁看得眼睛都直了，尤其是牛芳，不时发出没见过世面的那种十分夸张的赞叹声，不过全是针对在场上领舞的杨川——自打进体育馆后，她就像向日葵追赶太阳一样，目光从未离开过杨川那张俊秀的脸庞。 集训结束后，杨川吩咐其他人自由练习，自己面带微笑地来到几名女生跟前。“看完刚才的表演，几位美女有没有后悔加入我们社团呢？” “不会不会，你们表演得真是棒极了！”牛芳兴奋地拍着巴掌，“不过……像我这么笨的人，大概是学不会的吧？” “哪里，只要用心学，每个人都能学会。他们中很多人也只是学了两三个月而已，就已经可以上台演出了。” “上台演出？” 杨川笑着点头，目光却移到旁边的纪如萱脸上，然后右眼睛轻轻眨动了一下，又快速移开视线。“因为表演有特色，我们社团经常会接到商业性演出，大家轮流出场。所以你们在这里不仅可以健身，甚至还可以赚到外快，也算是勤工俭学吧。” “哇，有这么好！”牛芳夸张地叫起来，拽住杨川的衣袖轻轻摇晃，娇嗔道：“那人家现在就要学，杨川学长你现在就开始教吧。” “呵呵，这个是急不得的，要循序渐进。我今天先教你们几个简单的动作，帮助你们尽快掌握棍感，下堂课先从理论开始。”说完，杨川向后退了几步，正面对着几名女生，右手将双节棍夹在右边腋下。“这是双节棍最基本的起手式之一，叫'毒蛇吐信'，俗称夹棍式，很多简单的招式都要以此为基础才能使出，比如这样——”话未落音，双节棍的一端已然飞快弹起，在身前划了个圈后落在右肩膀上。 “这一招叫'小龙摆尾'，很简单的，你们可以试试。” 几名女生顿时面露难色，你看我我看你，没一个人知道应该怎么做。 杨川嘴角露出一抹得意的微笑，刚张嘴想要说什么，纪如萱突然抢先说道：“学长，是不是要这样做？”说着按照杨川刚才演示的那样，将双节棍夹在腋下，然后向前快速挥出，划了两个圈后又稳稳地回到腋下，变成起手的动作。 杨川诧异地睁大眼睛。“你……以前玩过棍子？” 纪如萱摇了摇头，脸上同样现出不可置信的表情，好像刚才那个耍双节棍的不是自己。 “'小龙摆尾'加'左右逢源'，比我刚才教的还多了一个动作。所以，你这个老手就别隐瞒了吧。”杨川微微笑着说道。 “我、我是真的不知道怎么回事……”纪如萱傻傻望着还夹在自己腋下的那根泡绵双节棍。“我一握住双节棍，就好像……好像身体不是我自己的了。我以前从来没有碰过双节棍，牛芳她们跟我同寝室一年了，她们都知道的。” 看着对方一脸真诚的样子，杨川相信这个美女没有撒谎，再说会耍双节棍又不是什么丢人的事，她没有必要撒谎隐瞒吧？可是，以他多年玩双节棍的经验来看，他同样坚信一个新手肯定不能如此流利地完成她刚才那套动作，那么就只剩下一个合理的解释：眼前这个美女是个玩双节棍的天才，因此才一学就会。可是事实真是这样吗？ 杨川想了想，对纪如萱说道：“你还会别的什么动作吗？” 纪如萱摇摇头。 “那好，我下面耍个简单的套路，你仔细看好了，然后跟着耍一遍。”说完不等纪如萱回答，便将手中双节棍挥舞起来，耍了大约有一分多钟时间，收棍后朝纪如萱努了努嘴，意思你开始吧。 纪如萱踌躇起来，手举着双节棍，小心翼翼地左右晃了两下，不知道如何开头。然而，她好像很快就找到了感觉，棍子越挥越快，动作也越来越流畅，直看得一旁的牛芳等人差点没把眼珠子瞪出来。直到三分钟过后，纪如萱才停下了手里动作，脸上的诧异之色更浓了。 牛芳用力在她肩膀上拍了一下：“真没看出来啊，萱萱，你竟然是玩双节棍的高手，亏你平时藏的那么深，以后我拜你为师了啊！” “我……”纪如萱皱了皱眉，求助似的望向杨川。 “我真是搞不懂了，”杨川无奈地耸了耸肩，“你耍的这套棍法，完全是'实战棍'的套路，跟我刚才示范的那套表演套路完全不对路子。你还说你以前没练过？” 我好像不是我了。 离开体育馆，在回寝室的路上，纪如萱不止一次地在心里发出这样的感慨。她实在想不通自己为什么会玩双节棍，而且用杨川的话说，她起码是一个练双节棍半年以上的老手。 对此，纪如萱先是感到十分无奈，就好像一个原本连写字都不会的人，突然之间变成写文章的高手一样。但纪如萱一点不为自己的双节棍技术感到高兴，相反地，是无尽的迷茫，甚至还带着一种深层的恐惧心理，毕竟这原本就是一件不可能发生的事情。 假如有人告诉她别人遇到了这种事，她一定会说那个人撒谎，但事情现在发生在自己身上，自己以前到底有没有练过双节棍，自己心里还能没有数吗？可现在的情况就是，自己越来越搞不懂自己了。 纪如萱接着又回想起最近——确切说是搬到这所校区之后接连遇到的那些怪事，越想越觉得不对劲，心里也越来越没底。肯定是什么地方出了问题！一番思考后她这样下了结论，但接着往深处去想问题究竟出在哪里时，又丝毫没有头绪了。 回到寝室时，纪如萱的情绪已经低落到了极点，连晚饭也没心情吃了。牛芳等人叫她不动，只好自行去了食堂。 张佳茗也没有去，于是寝室里就只剩下她们两个人了。张佳茗凌空坐在窗台下面的写字桌上，歪着头，饶有兴致地望着纪如萱靠在床头上发呆的样子。良久，当纪如萱再一次发出无奈的叹息时，张佳茗忍不住叫起了她的名字：“萱萱，你不是还在想下午在体育馆的事情吧？” “还能有什么事呢。”纪如萱低下头，语气颓废地答道。 “也难怪，”张佳茗抿了抿嘴角，“这种事讲给谁听都不会相信的。大家只会认为，是你在撒谎。但是……我相信你。” 纪如萱微微一惊，抬起头，与张佳茗的目光正好对上，发现从她那双美丽的大眼睛里流露出一样东西：真诚。她的眼神是真诚的。 纪如萱嘴巴张大，喃喃地吐出了“为什么”三个字。 张佳茗从桌上跳下来，一边很认真地说道：“没有为什么，就是觉得你没有必要撒谎，况且，世上本就有很多事情是没法解释的，多一件也不多。” “这种事就是想破脑子也不会有结果的，所以，你也没必要老是放在心上，该怎样怎样，没准哪一天答案就自动找上门来了呢？” 迟疑片刻，纪如萱朝着她点了点头，“你说的有道理。” 张佳茗不好意思地笑起来。“大道理谁不会说啊，要是事情摊我身上，我说不定比你还郁闷呢。不过话说回来，有人在你困惑时候提醒一两句话，总是好事。” “就是啊。” 说话间，张佳茗的手机响了，她拿起来看了眼屏幕，脸上顿时现出欣然的表情。纪如萱看在眼里，对打电话者的身份已然猜出了七八分。然而，电话接通之后，只说了一两句话，张佳茗的脸色就变了，匆匆走到了寝室外边，但没过多久便回来了，眉头紧皱，神情显得十分慌张。 “这可怎么办才好……”在屋里低头转了两圈后，张佳茗叹了口气，颓然坐倒在自己的下铺床上。 “怎么回事？”纪如萱忍不住问了一句。她当时哪里想得到，就是自己多的这句嘴，直接导致她自己、以及几名室友从此坠入了一场难以挣脱的噩梦之中，一连番的恐怖事件就此拉开序幕，正式上演。