Chapter 10 Chapter 7 The Old School Building (Part 2)

In the dark surroundings, the old wooden floor stepped on it, making a harsh "creaking" sound. I stared wide-eyed at the nearby scenery. This old school building is still invisible from the outside, but it becomes brighter once you enter.The layout inside is slightly mixed with the overall style of European architecture. It seems that the designers at that time were not ordinary people. The door is facing the upward stairs and is in the middle.On the left and right are a row of classrooms divided into two sections.More than ten years ago, it was used as the teaching building of the high school until it was eliminated.So the allocation of floors is similar to the current system, from the lower grades to the upper grades, with the senior year on the top floor.

There are always a lot of Chinese people, and of course there are a lot of school-age children. In high school at that time more than ten years ago, although the source of students was not very wide, it was still impressive enough. You can understand it just by looking at the classroom. At that time, there were at least six classes in each grade, and each class had more than forty students. people. Compared with the current state where there is only one school in the senior high school, there are more than a dozen classes in a grade, and each class has 60 to 80 students, the number of people is too small.

But putting aside the number of people, just counting the classrooms in the old school building gives me a headache. There are a total of 18 classrooms in the three grades, plus various activity rooms, there are almost more than 25 rooms, and the clues we are looking for may lie in one or more of these 25 rooms. Twenty-five rooms may seem like a small number at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, you will understand that after all, what you are looking for is not something like a living person. Things like clues are not placed there at a glance, let alone screaming for your attention, but need to be investigated carefully.

It will take time to investigate, especially in this place without bright light, many details may be hidden in the dark, which will take even more time. Every classroom must be carefully searched. Can't finish it! Why did I ignore such an important issue in the past? I stood at the stairway, staring left and right, not moving forward. Zeng Yaru asked strangely: "Aye, why do you always stay here?" "Aren't we too naive to spend one night looking for such vague clues!" I frowned. Zeng Yaru covered my forehead with her hands, and said with a smile, "Aye, you often frown, you will become a little old man in a short time!"

"It seems that you are not in a bad mood. Where is the fear just now?" I snorted. "I want you to care, this girl is brave and ambitious, how could she have such vulgar emotions as fear." She pouted and began to look around, "Aye, that note really came from classmate Ouyang Jianhua. Was it taken out of the esophagus?" "That's right! Cousin has no reason to lie to me." I turned my head and asked, "Have you seen that necklace?" "Of course I've seen it." Zeng Yaru recalled: "The five-carat diamond and the engraved gold chain are really beautiful. The most peculiar thing is that diamond. The whole body glows with a faint blue light, as if there is a brand new It is like the world of the world, once you have seen it, its shadow will be reflected in your mind forever, and you will never forget it. I remember that the necklace was delivered to my sister by express. My sister has heard its legend, but She is just an ordinary girl who loves beauty, she struggled with it all night, and she still wore it around her neck the next morning."

"It seems that women really don't have the slightest resistance to diamonds. For such a dangerous thing, you only need to struggle for a night to wear it without fear of death. I really don't know how to describe it." I sighed. "Ah Ye, you are not a girl, so of course you don't know the psychology of a girl. As long as such a beautiful thing is a female creature, I am afraid there is no way to resist it! Besides, there are many dangerous jewels in this world, but they are still different. There will be a lack of masters." Zeng Yaru turned her head in disdain, "For example, the black diamond called the 'Eye of the Creator', it is said that everyone who owns it commits suicide by jumping off the building, but in order to own it, he would rather lose his family than There are still many people who will die. Do you think they are all crazy?"

The Eye of Brahma, the so-called "Eye of the Creator" black diamond, I have heard of this name. According to legend, it turned out to be the eyes of the Hindu god "Brahma" (Brahma, the god of creation) in Pondicherry, India. It was removed by a monk and left outside. It is said that since then, the person who holds this black diamond has been cursed. , Coincidentally, the three former owners ended up committing suicide by jumping off the building. The three people who can be traced back are: the eighteenth-century Russian princesses Nadia and Leonila, who are rumored to have committed suicide in 1947; and the New York jeweler Paris, who imported the diamond to the United States. Shortly after the black diamond was sold, he committed suicide by jumping off the building.

"The Eye of the Creator" is also known as "Black Orlof". Although the rumors are untestable, it has become a famous diamond in the jewelry industry because of its legendary nature. The "Eye of the Creator" originally weighed 195 carats when it was removed from the statue. In order to break the legendary curse power, it was divided into three pieces and was collected by private collectors until 1990. New York auctions are back. Owners of the three-piece black diamond are said to have escaped the curse. "In the mid-20th century, the media called it the 'Evil Death Gem,' but I never felt nervous about owning a 'Black Orloff,'" current owner Petty Mesa Sans said, adding: In the past year, he tried his best to find out the history and legends about this gem, "I am very confident that the curse has been broken."

But whether the curse is really broken, who knows? A portion of the diamond, which weighed 67.5 carats, was presented in London last year. Exhibition organizers said that the legend brought about by "Black Orlof" highlights the power of diamonds to capture people's imagination for thousands of years. At that time, there were indeed many wealthy women who asked for the purchase of this world-famous diamond through open or secret means, and even went bankrupt. At that time, I was amazed at women's desire to buy and their obsession with diamonds. Think about it, even if those rich women knew clearly that the diamond would kill them, they would calmly wear it around their necks, call the photographer to take enough pictures, and then wait to die.

And isn't the five-carat blue diamond necklace's attraction to women a replica of the "Eye of the Creator"? I still had a feeling of incomprehension. I shook my head boredly, and after thinking for a while, I asked, "Do you know what that blue diamond is made of?" "Of course I know. I learned all of this in chemistry class. I happen to be a good student, so I still remember a little bit." Zeng Yaru coughed, and imitated the voice of the little old man who taught chemistry, saying: "The so-called diamonds are The hardest and simplest gemstone in the world, it is a natural crystal with a cubic structure composed of carbon.

"Carbon element crystallizes into precious diamonds in high temperature, extremely high pressure and reducing environment, generally speaking, an oxygen-deficient environment. "Although theoretically, diamonds can be formed in various periods and stages of the earth's history, most of the diamonds currently mined in the mines were mainly formed in the two periods of 300 million years ago and 1.2 to 1.7 billion years. Diamonds It takes a long time to form, so ladies who love diamonds, what you are crazy about is just the dirty garbage that your body breathes out!" After she finished speaking, she seemed to have found a point of laughter, and laughed.For some reason, since she came into this old school building, her mental state has not been stable, and she was overjoyed and sad, which really confuses me.Although she usually can't see anything normal, but now, it is definitely not normal. I stared at her and said slowly: "Then do you know a company in the United States called Life Gem?" She shook her head suspiciously, not knowing what I wanted to tell her. "This is a company that is not very well-known. A few years ago, they developed a technology to synthesize diamonds. This technology can extract carbon from ashes and synthesize blue or yellow diamonds. I hope to use this method Come to remember the dead, and replace the gray and cold urn with the eternity of diamonds." Zeng Yaru's eyes widened in disbelief, her whole body was shaking with fright, and she said in a dry tone after a long time, "You don't mean to say that the diamond was extracted from someone's ashes, right?" "Unfortunately, you guessed it right!" I nodded, "I recognized that diamond from the first moment I saw it, but I never had time to tell anyone." "Then, whose ashes are?" She covered her mouth in surprise. "How could I know." I smiled wryly, "According to the company's price, the larger the ashes diamond, the more expensive it is. A five-carat blue diamond is worth at least eleven thousand two hundred and ninety-nine per carat." U.S. dollars, plus other expenses, a total of nearly 80,000 U.S. dollars is needed, which is far from what an ordinary family can afford, let alone an ordinary high school student? But if it is Zhang Kewei, a rich man, it will be different , only his pocket money can afford it." "You mean, the diamond on that necklace came from a relative of Zhang Kewei?" Zeng Yaru asked hesitantly. I shook my head: "Attention, I just said that it is pocket money. When a series of deaths occurred more than a year ago, I investigated Zhang Kewei's entire family. The members of his family are very simple, except for grandpa. Apart from his grandma and grandma, only his parents were left, and he was an only child, so no relatives around him died during that time.” "Where did the ashes come from?" Zeng Yaru was puzzled. "This is the problem." I thought for a while, "I didn't quite understand it at the time. But it can be judged that since he wanted to wear the ashes of that person around his neck even if the person died, at least he The relationship with that person should be very close." Zeng Yaru's eyes lit up: "Lover relationship?" "It's possible." I sighed a little, why do women always have a very sensitive response to these gossip questions?Thinking about it helplessly, I said again: "But here comes the problem again, who will his lover be? At that time, I didn't hear who he was dating." Zeng Yaru sighed: "I'm afraid we won't know in the future, after all, everyone else has already entered the coffin." Smiling noncommittally, I secretly decided something, and started to walk to the left of the first floor of the old school building.It's almost half past eleven, and it's time to start working.Even if the clues are hard to find, as long as they are serious, they should not be difficult to find. If there is a clue... The ground floor of the old school building has six classrooms, a toilet, an equipment room and a staff office.If the stairs in the middle of the classroom are used as a reference for the boundary, there are exactly three rooms on each side. The first room on the left has a 1│3 sign. I pushed open the old wooden door and walked in. The orange light of the flashlight shone on the ground, and it seemed to be trembling slightly. The desks and chairs are neatly arranged in the classroom, just like when they were still in use thirteen years ago, but the floor and the table are covered with dust. As if thinking of something, I took a few steps back, returned to the corridor, and then carefully looked at the ground, frowning more and more tightly. "Did you discover something?" Zeng Yaru was a little surprised by my expression. I nodded seriously, "I did find something unusual." "Really!" She jumped up immediately: "Tell people quickly." "Actually, it's nothing." I scratched the back of my head, "Did you pay attention to the ground when you entered the old school building?" "Of course, he's not that useless." She answered honestly. "Have you found any footprints on the ground?" I asked. "How is it possible! I can see it clearly. There are no footprints on the ground, and there is not much dust..." As she spoke, her whole body shook, and she glanced at me slowly, "It's strange, if there are really more than ten No one has come in for years, how could there be no dust?" "Smart." I praised, scraped the floor of the corridor with my hand, and then looked at the dust carefully, "These are all new dust, I'm afraid someone cleaned it recently. It's just that he didn't clean it thoroughly." Walking into the classroom again, I smiled and pointed to the floor of the room and said, "At least this irresponsible guy only cleaned the corridor at all, and the rooms inside were hardly touched." "But the gate of the old school building obviously looks like it hasn't been opened for many years." Zeng Yaru was a little distressed. I smiled slightly: "Not only the gate of the old school building, but also the chain lock on the wall. No one has touched it for more than ten years. However, this is not contradictory. I am afraid that the wall and the school building have other entrances and exits. Thinking about it carefully, we have saved a lot of trouble." "That's right." Zeng Yaru also laughed, "Following your discovery, as long as we find a dusty and clean room, maybe we can gain something." "Not only clean the room, but also pay more attention to the ground when entering. If there are footprints or traces of human movement, there should be some clues left on the dust." I scanned the classroom for a while, and retreated without finding anything suspicious, and said, "Go directly to the next room. This way, our search speed can be much faster!" Zeng Yaru walked behind holding my clothes tightly, the flashlight in his hand shaking very violently because of his trembling hands.I opened the rooms on the ground floor one by one, scanning the ground tirelessly to see if there were any special marks left on the ground. With the proper method, the speed is indeed much faster.But it took nearly half an hour to search the bottom layer, and it was almost midnight. After rubbing our sore eyes vigorously, we climbed up the stairs and prepared to go to the second floor. The old wooden steps made a dull sound under the trample, which made my heart hang.Although I don't often watch third-rate horror movies, I still watch them after all. What I hear and see makes my heart feel a little hairy, and I always feel that the hairs all over my body are half standing on end. What I am afraid of is definitely not something inhuman, but that this damn staircase that has been used for more than 70 years will collapse because it cannot bear the weight of two people at this inappropriate time. After walking for half a hour, I couldn't bear it anymore, and asked behind me: "I heard that middle school girls are popular to lose weight recently, is it true?" "Why ask this?" Zeng Yaru was puzzled. "Of course there is a reason!" I laughed a few times: "I don't know what is the average weight of a beautiful woman with a height of about 1.6 meters? Do you know?" "It's about forty kilograms." Although she was puzzled, she still answered absent-mindedly. "Then what if it's a beautiful woman like you?" I asked the ultimate goal. She was a little alert: "Why do you ask this?" "Of course there must be a reason..." Before I could finish my firm words, I heard a "da da" breaking sound from the bottom of the stairs, and all my hair fell back in fright, and the muscles in my whole body tensed up. For the first time, the horsepower was fully turned on, and he took Zeng Yaru's hand and ran towards the top. It seemed like a century later, when we were both panting and panting on the second floor, she said angrily, "What are you doing, you want to run?!" "Didn't you hear that the stairs are broken? If you don't run, you will die!" I was also angry, and pointed to the stairs. "No way! Why didn't I hear anything?" Zeng Yaru finally stood up straight and looked towards the stairs: "Hmph, you're kidding me, it's all right! Ah Ye, are you so scared that you're starting to have a nervous breakdown? " Seeing her staring at me with strange eyes, in order to prove my correct point of view, I also looked towards the stairs annoyed, but was immediately stunned. Indeed, the stairs are as complete as a college classmate with deep feelings. The steps are tight and firm, and there is no sign of breaking at all. "There was a cracking sound just now. You really didn't hear it?" I stood there for a long time and asked hesitantly. "Absolutely not, I swear!" she said with certainty, without the slightest hint of joking. Strange, was it really my hallucination just now?Impossible, I clearly heard a cracking sound, it was very loud, and it didn't sound as simple as just breaking a few pieces of wood, as if the whole ladder had collapsed. The sound of the wood falling to the ground was very three-dimensional and realistic, and that strong sense of oppression also impacted my body, forcing my brain to accept this false information that was extremely dangerous. But is that information really false?Or is it true that the staircase has really collapsed, and the unbroken vision is the real false state? In order to be sure, I carefully held the nearby handrail with my hand, stretched out one foot, and slowly touched the farthest step.Touched, the touch is very real. Could it be that the voice was really just an illusion produced by myself due to nervousness? "Aye, are you okay?" Zeng Yaru silently watched my series of weird movements, and asked with concern after a long time. "It's nothing." I shook my head vigorously, and decided to put the matter aside temporarily, "Let's start searching the second floor!" The layout of the second floor is basically the same as that of the ground floor.There are also six classrooms, an office, and a bathroom, but the props room is replaced by a music room. In exactly the same order as on the ground floor, we quickly checked the classrooms.Came to the bathroom. "As usual." Zeng Yaru and I took a deep breath at the same time, and walked to the left and right respectively. On the left is the men's toilet, which is the site I want to search. It's annoyed to say that this bathroom has been out of use for many years, there is no place to avoid suspicion, not to mention two people together, it is definitely several times safer than a person alone, but Zeng Yaru just refuses to compromise, she Always biting this sentence - it is unlucky for a boy to enter the women's toilet, not to mention that there are many things in it that are not convenient for boys to see. I really don't know what her so-called inconvenient thing is?He said that I, an honest and honest eighteen-year-old man, seemed to have never been in the women's bathroom, hehe, you really underestimated me! This place doesn't have the smell that a toilet should have. After all, it has been vacant for so many years, and even if it has, it has almost decomposed.I looked around and felt a little strange. By the way, I haven't seen any spider webs at all since I came in. At the beginning, I thought it was cleaned by the mysterious cleaner, but no matter where I went, even in the corners where no one would visit, those paradises that belonged to spiders, I didn’t see any webs. . What's more, the last time this place was cleaned was at least more than a month ago, and there was a lot of dust on the ground again, but there was still no sign of the tenacious and stubborn spider. Not only spiders, but even the two major characteristics of autumn, mosquitoes and flies, have completely disappeared after entering this old school building.Is this point necessarily related to the fact that there is no grass growing outside the school building?Could it be that this old school building really has some peculiar places that I haven't found yet? The light of the flashlight was slightly dimmed. After all, it had been more than an hour since I entered here.Fortunately, I brought enough batteries just in case. In the toilet, the washbasin more than 70 years ago was directly built with cement, presenting a linear ditch, with a faucet 30 centimeters above the sink. I twisted it casually, and the water hose made a harsh sound, but no drop of water came out.If it really wants to flow out, I would find it strange. After all, it has been abandoned for so long, and it is normal to cut off water and electricity. A large mirror was attached to the wall directly above the sink, which had long since become very dirty.I wiped off the dust on a small area above with my hands, but the scene in the mirror is still not very clear. Under the dim and trembling light, the self in the mirror seemed to be smiling weirdly.I gently stroked my face, and suddenly, something seemed to fall off my face in the mirror. I subconsciously looked down at the ground, but there was nothing!There was no sound of something hitting the ground at all.I shivered suddenly, shook my head, and prepared to go out. At this moment, a sharp sound came over abruptly, it was the sound of a piano.That sound was like the heart-piercing howl of human beings when they were in the most pain, and my eardrums were about to burst. Without hesitation, I rushed out of the bathroom and ran to the music room.There are only me and Zeng Yaru in the whole old school building, but I believe that she should not be so bored to play the piano, not to mention the sound is so scary. Then, the only possibility is that another person appeared!