Chapter 54 : Chapter 54
Chapter 54: I Don’t Like Men
Bai Yu fell silent.
To be honest, she also felt that the one who had entered was that kid. Aside from him, probably only that group of lunatics would come here in the middle of the night. But if it really were those lunatics, they definitely would not expose themselves with the light of a flashlight.
Based on their usual style, they would hide somewhere in the school, waiting for Zhao Mingyue to deliver herself to them.
Then they would grin viciously and kill her in the most brutal way possible.
Speaking of Lu Liangting, Bai Yu’s impression of him was not particularly good.
It was not entirely because the guy had acted crazily toward her. It was also because Lu Liangting was far too much of a “protagonist.” His personality was exactly the type she disliked.
Soft-hearted.
His so-called kindness would instead harm the people around him.
He talked too much and liked making grand promises he had no certainty of fulfilling.
He seemed like a hypocritical petty man.
Then again, that was very “protagonist-like.”
People around Lu Liangting might unconsciously be influenced by his aura and begin to center everything around him.
In contrast, perhaps her own view of Lu Liangting was simply biased.
Just as Bai Yu was thinking about this, Zhao Mingyue covered her nose and spoke.
“Sister Yu, if that really is Lu Liangting, should you reveal yourself? He knows you, after all. And he seems to… care about you quite a lot.”
That was already a very tactful way of putting it.
Judging by the way Lu Liangting behaved, if Zhao Mingyue did not know Bai Yu was a ghost, she would have thought he had genuinely fallen for her.
Then again, if Bai Yu saved him again this time like some “beauty rescuing the hero,” who knew what might happen.
After all, who would not like a fifteen-year-old female ghost who was powerful, capable, and unbelievably cute?
The only risk was probably that when you were talking to other girls, she might secretly listen from your shadow.
And if she became jealous, she might strangle you to death one night so that you could stay with her “forever.”
Ahem.
Those were just jokes.
She definitely could not say that in front of Bai Yu.
Otherwise, before Lu Liangting could get strangled, she herself would probably be beaten to death first.
“Mingyue.”
Bai Yu suddenly appeared in front of Zhao Mingyue.
“I’m here.”
“Your focus right now should be on the task. Do not let your imagination run wild.”
Half-closing her eyes, Bai Yu stared at Zhao Mingyue. Without needing to think, she already knew what kind of nonsense was going on inside the girl’s head.
“I can tell you this. I do not like men. If Lu Liangting gets too close to me, I will twist his head off.”
Bai Yu’s gaze was fierce, her tone cold and ruthless.
The words she spoke sent chills down the spine.
At least, that was how ordinary people would react.
Zhao Mingyue, however, was different.
Sometimes her little brain functioned in ways completely unlike normal people.
For example, just now.
A normal person would focus on the latter half of Bai Yu’s sentence.
But Zhao Mingyue only heard the part where Bai Yu said, “I do not like men.”
Everything afterward was conveniently ignored.
“…If I say I was not thinking about anything, would you believe me?”
Walking out of Room 404, Zhao Mingyue stood by the railing and looked down.
She was currently on the fourth floor, so she could see most of the campus clearly.
Originally, she wanted to check the flashlight beam she had seen earlier, but after scanning the surroundings, she found nothing.
The campus remained eerily silent.
“Didn’t come? Or maybe someone outside the school shone a flashlight inside… I just hope that person isn’t hiding somewhere.”
Zhao Mingyue muttered to herself.
Her voice was not loud, but she was not deliberately lowering it either.
The task instructions said not to make noise.
Earlier, she had followed that rule carefully. Along the way, she had barely made any sound.
But just now, inside the dormitory, she had spoken at a normal volume.
Even so, no terrifying Fierce Ghost had appeared.
She was starting to wonder whether the “no noise” rule only applied to certain places—like the teaching building.
Just as Zhao Mingyue finished speaking and prepared to turn around and leave, she suddenly heard something.
Her step halted slightly.
The sound came from the first floor.
It was very clear.
Something was rushing upward from downstairs.
At the same time, a pungent stench surged upward as well.
The foul odor rapidly approached.
The footsteps grew louder and louder.
That meant whatever was below was approaching her position at a speed no ordinary person could achieve.
Zhao Mingyue’s pupils shrank.
Without thinking, she quickly darted back into Room 404 and shut the door behind her, pressing her back against it.
Before the door was closed, the silver moonlight from outside could still illuminate part of the room.
Not to mention the flashlight.
Now Zhao Mingyue turned off the flashlight and tightly covered her nose and mouth with both hands.
In the pitch-black dormitory room, she could not shake the feeling that something inside was watching her.
Even with the dormitory door closed, the stench could not be blocked.
It seeped in as if from the walls themselves.
The surroundings were completely silent.
Because of that, the footsteps of the thing on the fourth floor sounded especially clear.
The stench was so strong that it was impossible to determine the distance of the creature.
But that hardly mattered anymore.
Zhao Mingyue was certain that the thing was standing in the corridor of the fourth floor.
It slowed its steps.
It lowered its noise.
And it was approaching, one step at a time.
If she said she was not nervous, that would be a lie.
She had just assumed that making noise would not attract the Fierce Ghost.
And now the Fierce Ghost had already arrived downstairs.
In the corridor of the fourth floor, a humanoid figure slowly approached.
It was at least two and a half meters tall.
Its body was thin, almost like nothing but a skeleton.
Because it was so tall, it had to walk while hunched over, making its movements appear slightly limp.
It wore an old black school uniform.
There was no obvious damage to the clothing, yet for some reason it gave off a sense of extreme age and decay.
Compared to the figure’s body, the uniform clearly did not fit at all.
Stretching out a neck twice as long as a normal person’s, the creature arrived at the spot where Zhao Mingyue had just been standing and speaking.
If Zhao Mingyue could see the monster’s face at this moment, she would immediately recognize it.
This was the very same ghostly face she had seen in the memory earlier.
Back in that memory, when the unknown student lifted the blanket, he saw a disfigured face clinging to the upper bunk.
Then the scene disappeared.
Zhao Mingyue knew very clearly that the distance between her and that thing was less than two meters.
Between them stood only a wooden door.
On one side of the door.
Two completely different worlds.
Zhao Mingyue instinctively held her breath.
She feared that the monster might push the door open and enter.
What she truly could not understand was this—Earlier, when she was on the first floor, she had spoken and made quite a bit of noise.
She had even spoken inside Room 404.
Yet that monster had never appeared.
And now, when she had casually muttered a few words, it suddenly showed up.
Fortunately, she had been close to the dormitory.
Otherwise, she would not even have had a place to hide.
From the moment the creature’s footsteps appeared to the moment it reached the fourth floor, the entire process had taken less than ten seconds.
“I’ve found you, Number 652.”
The monster outside the door had not left.
Strands of blood sealed off the stairway entrance to the fourth floor.
Even Bai Yu had not expected this.
She had not gone looking for Number 652.
Yet this one had come out on its own.
“Number 652… so it was you…”