Chapter 11 Chapter 8 Ladder

The sound of the piano has always represented calmness in my mind, but that sharp playing really completely broke the good impression I have always had in my heart.After all, I can be regarded as a person who can play the piano a little bit. Although the level of playing is not too high, it can barely fall into my ears! But that kind of sound, I don't know which high-pitched tone is used to mix it out, it's like someone hitting hard on the keys with his fist, it's deafening. After running for a long time, I came to the door of the music room. The door was closed tightly. I kicked it open vigorously. Amidst the loud noise, the door hit the wall with a "da da".Inside, there was no one there.

I frowned, took a few steps forward, and took in the situation of the entire music room. This is a room of about 50 square meters, with about 60 chairs placed like a classroom, and an extremely old grand piano placed on the podium. The lid of the piano was open, but it was full of dust.I walked over a few steps and stared at the keys carefully.I am afraid that when the school building was closed more than ten years ago, the piano was in this state. Judging from the dust on it, it should have been untouched for many years. Where did the voice I heard just now come from?That was indeed the sound of a piano, there was no doubt about it, but this was the only place with a piano on the entire second floor!

After thinking about it for a while, I took out the pliers from my backpack and abruptly opened the back cover of the piano.After only one glance, the whole person was stunned. The dust accumulated on the strings has been flicked off, which should be evidence of recent vibrations.No, don't even think about the recent, it was just now. I stretched out my hand to touch the strings, and I could actually feel a slight trembling.Obviously, the sound just now was definitely not an auditory hallucination. It was indeed someone who played the sharp and piercing piece accurately through some method without touching the keys or opening the back cover.

But, what method did he use?And how did he get in, and how did he escape after drawing his attention?Without the slightest clue, I checked the front and rear doors of the music room. Except for the trace that the front door was knocked open by me, none of them had been opened for more than ten years. There was no sign of having been in or out of the windows.The dust in the room is very thick, except for my footprints, there are no traces of other people walking by, and it doesn't look like there is a secret passage. How queer!Suddenly remembering the sound of the stairs collapsing that only I could hear not long ago, I couldn't help shivering.Could it be that this old place really has some kind of unknown mysterious power?

It suddenly occurred to him that he seemed to have forgotten something, and after recalling it carefully, he suddenly realized that he had left Zeng Yaru alone.It's just such a loud voice, as long as it is a human, no matter how low their IQ is, they will subconsciously run towards this direction when they hear it. Why haven't you seen her yet? Puzzled, I hurried back to the bathroom door, called a few times tentatively, but no one answered, so I gritted my teeth and walked into the girls' bathroom. All the compartments inside have been opened by someone, it should be Zeng Yaru's handwriting, but now there is no one there.Where did she go?With her courage, it shouldn't be possible for her to investigate any clues alone.So, it means that she left before she had time to call me because of some special reason.

What on earth is this woman going to do!Angrily, I punched the opposite mirror. Under the weak light, my reflection in the mirror was like a reflection in water, with ripples appearing layer after layer. No matter what, we must find her as soon as possible.This ghostly place is probably not as harmless as imagined.So I shone the flashlight on the ground, trying to find some clues.Following the faint footprints, I began to climb the stairs and walked to the third floor... Zeng Yaru walked into the girls' toilet. It was very dark because there was no external light.She widened the aperture of the flashlight a bit so she could see a wider area.This place is a little cleaner than the bathroom on the first floor, and there is no peculiar smell. After all, it has been abandoned for more than ten years.

Being alone always feels scary, even though she knew that there was someone next door less than a meter away from her in a straight line, she took a deep breath, and slowly opened all the compartments in order from right to left. In the school building designed more than 70 years ago, toilets were not used in the bathrooms at that time, but squatting toilets were used to adapt to Chinese habits.The original snow-white tiles on the toilet had turned gray-brown, and some sinks were even filled with dust, which looked disgusting. Although she knew that there would be no peculiar smell, she subconsciously pinched her nose to suppress the nausea in her heart.The inspection was finally completed, but no suspicious traces were found.

Zeng Yaru was about to leave, and when she turned around, she glanced at the big front mirror.Suddenly, she found that there was a palm print on the mirror. Blood red palm prints, even fingerprints are clearly visible.She braved up, and curiously stepped forward to take a closer look.The palm print is very old, the owner should be a girl, after all the size of the palm is about the same as my own. Zeng Yaru looked at her right hand, and she didn't know why, so she put her palm on the palm print.Unexpectedly, exactly the same! She only felt her heart beating violently, almost jumping out of her chest, and her breathing became short of breath.She nervously withdrew her hand and shone the light of the flashlight directly on the mirror.

After a long time, she shook her head slowly, as if denying herself. "Impossible, it must be a coincidence. There are so many people with the same size as a girl's palm!" Zeng Yaru took another deep breath, and carefully printed her palm on the right side of the palm print as if sure. The hand slowly left the mirror, and the palm print was clearly copied on the dust.She suddenly discovered that both the fingerprints and the lines on the palm were exactly the same as that dim bloody handprint. How is this possible! Zeng Yaru was so frightened that she could hardly breathe, she rushed out the door as if fleeing, and yelled Ye Buyu's name in fear, but there was no answer from anyone in the men's bathroom opposite.

There is a dead silence all around, not even the buzzing of mosquitoes can be heard.Quiet, very quiet, so quiet that you can even hear your own tinnitus.She was about to collapse in this silence! "Smelly night without talking! Dead night without talking! How dare you get rid of him, and run away alone. When I find you, let's see how I can take revenge!" She muttered to herself, hoping to relieve even a little bit of her pain. Fear, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Then she heard heavy footsteps that sounded like someone was climbing the stairs.During this period, some kind of confused male voice was also mixed in.

"Night silence, damn it, is it you?" She was so frightened that she almost cried.Holding the flashlight tightly in her hand, Zeng Yaru gritted her teeth and walked towards the voice. It was getting closer, getting closer, and the voice became clearer and clearer. "Nine, ten, eleven, twelve..." It was indeed the voice of a young man. There was no doubt about it, but it was very strange.And he seemed to be counting something. Zeng Yaru approached cautiously, and then saw a boy who had just walked up to the second floor. The boy was wearing a blue school uniform. Although it was brand new, his expression was rather weird.He had a half-smile face, and when he counted to "twelve", he jumped vigorously, and then his face was full of disappointment. Seeing someone, Zeng Yaru felt a little calmer.Although I don't know why a man suddenly appeared in this place where there are usually no people, but it is better than being alone. "That classmate, are you alone?" She thought for a while before deciding to strike up a conversation. The boy didn't seem to have seen this beautiful woman at all, so he started to walk towards the third floor.He counted carefully and unhurriedly in his mouth. Could he be counting the stairs?What a super weird guy! Zeng Yaru couldn't bear it anymore, and said a little louder: "This classmate, can you please take me out? This place is so scary!" The boy still didn't respond. He frowned and spit out a number every time he climbed a step.It's like there's a puzzle that can't be solved. Zeng Yaru was a little angry, it was fine for that guy to ignore her big beauty, but when the big beauty asked him for help, she could bear to treat her transparently, she was a wolf-hearted guy, not a man! "Four, five, six." Listening to the wolf-hearted boy counting, a depressive cold feeling began to fill the air at some point.She couldn't help shivering. "Hey, did you hear what I said?" She was about to pull the boy's clothes angrily, but just when her fingers were about to touch him, all her actions stopped abruptly. By the way, I felt a weird sense of incongruity just now, and it turns out that feeling came from the boy's clothes.Zeng Yaru only felt that the blood in her whole body froze in fear. His clothes are indeed brand new, but the style of the school uniform is very old, it seems to be more than ten years ago, the old taupe Chinese tunic suit has long been eliminated in this school. Suddenly, deep in my memory, I began to recall the story of this old school building.Thirteen years ago, this place was eliminated because a boy in the third year of high school disappeared from the school building at night.It is said that the boy has a very strange habit, he loves to count the stairs... Zeng Yaru stood there in a daze, unable to move a step, her eyes numbly chasing the boy's voice, her ears listening to his hollow voice.Her whole body was stiff, and her body was shaking violently because of fear, and she might collapse almost at any time. "Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen..." The weird boy managed to climb up to the third floor, turned around and grinned. His eyes didn't look directly through her body, but fell on her face. He noticed himself? Why, he was laughing at himself? Zeng Yaru finally couldn't bear it any longer, she yelled out in the heart-piercing fear, and passed out. Zeng Yaru's footprints suddenly disappeared near the middle of the third floor, and I stood on the stairs and looked around suspiciously.That guy, can't fly?After hesitating for a while, he started to walk up to the third floor. By the way, he searched the entire room on the third floor, but he couldn't find her at all, nor did he find any suspicious clues. Then I heard a scream of fear. The familiar voice made me startled, and I ran towards the source of the sound.In less than thirty seconds, they arrived at the stairs, and saw Zeng Yaru collapsed on the stairs, which happened to be the place where the footprints disappeared. Worried, I lifted her head up, tested her breath with my fingers, she was breathless, and seemed to be alive, I pinched her acupuncture points fiercely, and she slowly opened her big eyes. She stared in my direction with a blurred vision, and then screamed in fear immediately. I held her hand tightly and shouted: "It's me, I am silent at night, wake me up!" It took a while for Zeng Yaru to calm down a little, and curled up in my arms desperately. "Silence at night, it's so scary, I saw a ghost!" She was so frightened that her lips were trembling, and her voice was trembling with palpitations. "It's okay, what the hell is going on in the world?" I patted her on the back lightly, as if coaxing a child. "I really saw it!" There were tears on Zeng Yaru's long eyelashes. After a long time, she raised her head to look at my face, then hit my head hard with her fist, and her tone suddenly became stronger, "You bastard, Say, where did you die just now? How dare you leave me alone?" This woman has really strong recovery ability!I said with a little grievance: "It's because you left alone, and I went in to find you." "Have you ever been in the women's bathroom?" She was a little surprised, and her face showed a look of fear, "Have you looked in the mirror?" "Of course, it's as dirty as the men's room." I don't know what she's afraid of. "I didn't mean that. Did you see the bloody handprint on the mirror?" Her body trembled again. I shook my head in doubt: "There is nothing on it except dust." "Impossible." Zeng Yaru screamed in fear, "I clearly saw it just now." "Then go see it again." It was rare for me to argue with her, and I went down to the girls' restroom on the second floor.Although the mirror surface was dirty and fuzzy, there was indeed no trace of the bloody handprints she mentioned. Zeng Yaru's whole body seemed to be petrified, and she leaned softly on my shoulder. "Believe it or not, I really saw it." After a long time, she said weakly. I smiled wryly: "I know, there's no need for you to joke about this. Anyway, I also find this place weird, so it's better to leave early." "But neither the necklace nor the sister's clues were found..." "I've searched the whole old school building, and there's nothing suspicious," I interrupted her. Suddenly finding despair in her eyes, she couldn't help but soften her heart, and changed the subject: "By the way, did you find anything when you disappeared just now?" "I saw a ghost, I'm afraid it's an old ghost more than ten years ago." Zeng Yaru narrated what she saw and heard once. Suddenly, something seemed to catch in his brain.I looked in the mirror and tugged at her hair restlessly. "What are you doing!" She pushed my hand away. "Don't move, I have a clue!" I said and strode out the door. "What on earth did you think of?" She firmly grabbed the corner of my clothes. I smiled triumphantly: "If the necklace is really placed here, I'm afraid I know the location." "Really!" Zeng Yaru suddenly became excited. "Do you know that there may be a place in the whole old school building that we haven't searched?" I said leisurely. Zeng Yaru recalled in distress: "It seems that there is no one. We searched for the first and second floors together, and you searched for the third floor by yourself, and the roof of this school building cannot be climbed." "No, there is the last room that we ignored. When you were talking about the missing high school senior who likes to count the stairs just now, I suddenly thought of it." "Don't play charades for me, tell me quickly." She took my arm vigorously without politeness. "If you think about it carefully, someone has indeed been in and out of this school building recently, but why did he only clean the corridors and stairs?" "I don't know." She shook her head honestly. "It's very simple, maybe it's to eliminate the traces of my own actions. Generally, the wooden stairs designed more than 70 years ago have to seal the gap at the bottom of the floor, and there, it becomes a dead end for thinking. When we searched just now , they all subconsciously regarded this place as a modern building. In modern reinforced concrete houses, the stairs at the bottom of the building will be empty, which is clear at a glance, so we ignore it.” When I came to the first floor, I threw out a pile of old cleaning tools in the gap of the stairs, and the worn-out tables and chairs that had begun to rot. Sure enough, a very inconspicuous small door was exposed. Suddenly, a triumphant smile filled my face.I used a tool to pry open the not-so-secure door, and a rotten musty smell brushed my face, making me want to vomit. When the light of two flashlights shone in, a small space immediately appeared brightly. Suddenly, the air seemed to freeze, and our bodies also froze. We stared inwardly, Zeng Yaru finally couldn't help it, let out a piercing scream, and passed out again...