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Chapter 7 I am truly a brave, fearless, witty, and handsome author

"what--"

A scream echoed throughout the entire dormitory building.

Even Chu Changge and Fatty from next door came running when they heard the noise.

"What's wrong?" The fat man looked at Xun Li, who was curled up in a ball on the bed. "Weren't you quite smug during the day?"

Chu Changge asked Gu Mian with her eyes.

Gu Mian explained, "It's nothing, I just saw a face."

As he spoke, he pointed to the window, which was now empty, with nothing else there.

Gu Mian lowered her voice: "You'd better be careful, they..."

They've always been there.

The door, which wasn't fully closed, swayed slightly, and Gu Mian saw a figure outside through the crack.

"In short, proceed with caution," Gu Mian advised.

The two nodded slightly.

Xun Li couldn't fall asleep. Although it was in a dungeon, the experience was very realistic, and he was still sleepy. But not sleeping wouldn't kill him.

He curled up in a ball, looking around like a goose.

Sometimes she would ask Gu Mian to check under the bed, and sometimes she would ask Gu Mian to draw the curtains tighter.

Since Gu Mian had nothing better to do, she agreed to all of them.

But Xun Li's mood wasn't so good in the latter half of the night.

Seeing the person getting up to leave, he quickly asked, "Are you going out?"

Gu Mian turned to look at him and said, "Yes."

This is terrible! Who would dare to stay alone in this school full of vengeful spirits in the middle of the night?

Xun Li quickly dissuaded him, "What are you going out for? It's too dangerous outside. It's safer for you to stay with me."

"No," Gu Mian replied immediately. "What you said before makes sense. I think I need to go out and practice my courage."

He didn't give Xun Li a chance to speak again, and simply opened the door and walked out.

Xun Li was left alone on the bed, stunned.

Gu Mian had arranged to act with Chu Changge and Fatty in the middle of the night.

But when he went next door to knock on the two people's door, there was no response at all.

Gu Mian frowned slightly and pushed open the door.

The lights were still on, but the room was already empty.

"strangeness……"

Gu Mian glanced again at the narrow, dimly lit corridor. The light from the overhead chandelier was very dim, and the distance was obscure and could not be seen to the end.

The two female players' doors were tightly closed, with light seeping out from inside, but Gu Mian had no intention of inviting them.

With no cell phone signal and the friend system not enabled, it was impossible to know where the two had gone.

Could something have happened?

As Gu Mian pondered this, she walked towards dormitory number 102, which bore Kosaka's name. There was no need to rush; as long as she remained here, she was sure she would eventually meet him.

He had originally intended to force the lock open, but found that the dormitory door had already opened by itself, and even had a crack.

It was pitch black inside.

Gu Mian reached out and pushed open the door.

The light switch was right next to the door. He pressed it a few times, but found that the overhead light didn't work. It seemed that the room's electrical circuit was broken.

Having no other choice, Gu Mian turned on her phone's flashlight.

This is a single room, and it's very simple inside. So simple that you can tell what's special just by looking at it.

Gu Mian immediately noticed a notebook on the bed.

"Journal?"

He reached out and picked up the thick notebook lying across the bed. It was about the size of a political science textbook, half the thickness of a brick, and very heavy.

However, there was a bookmark inside, and Gu Mian easily turned to the more useful page.

The bookmark tucked inside this notebook is a photograph of one of the pages of a book. There's a talisman drawn on the page, similar to the talismans in TV dramas—basically, it's all scribbles.

The photo also contains a few lines of text, which seem to record the contents of this talisman.

"The more resentment a ghost harbors at the time of death, the stronger the ghost will become after death. Placing this spell on the corpse can suppress the ghost's power and prevent it from leaving the body within a certain distance."

"Remember! This talisman will..."

There should have been another half page, but I don't know who tore it out.

Gu Mian took out the photos and flipped through them again. The notebook was almost empty, with only one sentence written on the first page.

"The silkworm spins silk until its death, the candle burns until it turns to ash."

There are no other words on it besides this sentence.

"Strange," Gu Mian touched her chin. Why would Kosaka have a picture of such a talisman?

To use this spell on someone, you must have their corpse, and the corpse of the person who was burned to death should have been taken away and cremated.

After all, the police were involved, and it was impossible for them to leave behind the body of any one of them.

Therefore, in this school, Li Quanmei is probably the only one who can be imprisoned by this talisman.

She was killed and then afflicted with a curse, her soul imprisoned forever in this school.

Did Kosaka place a talisman on Li Quanmei's corpse after her death? Was it to avenge Li Quanmei burning him to death?
As Gu Mian pondered this, she glanced again at the single line of text on the notebook: "The silkworm spins silk until death, the candle burns until it is ash."

Things didn't seem to be as simple as he thought.

Gu Mian didn't plan to stay here for long. He tore off the piece of paper with the writing on it and stuffed it, along with the photo, into his white coat.

Before leaving, he took one last look at the dormitory.

Apart from the boy in uniform reflected in the mirror, the pale face peeking out from under the bed, and the bluish-purple hands clinging tightly to the balcony door frame, there was nothing else unusual.

Before leaving, Gu Mian took the opportunity to kick the face under the bed.

The corridor remained dark and empty.

The windows at both ends were slightly ajar, letting in a gust of cold air.

There was still no one in Chu Changge and Fatty's room; not a single hair was left behind.

"Let's go check the fourth floor," Gu Mian muttered to herself, looking down into the narrow corridor.

The entire class of students who died lived on the fourth floor, which is also the top floor. Perhaps we can find some clues in their dormitory.

As he pondered this, he walked to the stairs and stepped onto them.

Everyone has seen stairs; you have to turn a corner after going up halfway down a flight of stairs.

Just as Gu Mian was halfway up the road and preparing to turn, a pair of feet suddenly appeared in his peripheral vision.

It was a pair of feet wearing sneakers, stepping on the somewhat dirty and messy stairs. It was in front of Gu Mian, quickly climbing to the second floor and then disappearing.

The feet of an adult were wearing worn-out women's sneakers, while the other two female players were not wearing sneakers at all.

"Is it Kosaka?"

Seeing this, Gu Mian gave up the idea of going to the fourth floor and stopped directly on the second floor.

The corridor on the second floor was just as deep and narrow. The people who had run up earlier had disappeared. Gu Mian looked towards the nearest dormitory by the moonlight.

There were no locks on the doors.

Xun Li, still in his dormitory on the first floor, was shivering under the covers.

The lights were on, but he didn't dare show a single hair, his whole body completely covered by the blankets.

Just then, he heard a heavy thud as the door was pushed open through the blanket.

Xun Li was somewhat excited and immediately threw back the covers: "Gu Mian, you finally..."

But just as he lifted the blanket halfway, the strange footsteps made him swallow the rest of the sentence.

"Boom"

The stiff footsteps were heading straight towards him.

The sound stopped at the head of the bed, directly above his head, where Xun Li's blanket had been pulled open with a large gap.

With just a slight tilt of the head, one can see something staring at them from the side.

He started trembling, his scalp tingled, and he lay on the bed, too afraid to move, let alone press the gap back up.

Just as Xun Li was trembling and stiff, he suddenly felt the hair on the back of his neck twitch slightly, as if someone was staring at him from under the covers.

Immediately afterwards, a faint rubbing sound came from right behind my head.

Last night, a girl next door got stuck in the bathroom, and of course, the brave and fearless author eventually broke the lock and rescued her (*^▽^*)
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