novelsite Chapter 66 High School Senior
Chapter 66 High School Senior
When Xu Niannian heard her friend's words, she had only one thought in her mind.
—Ghost stories have become reality.
According to her friend at the time, Xu Niannian's face turned deathly pale in an instant.
She asked instinctively, "Why...are you pale? Should you take a day off?"
Xu Niannian's face turned even paler, and she said weakly, "No, I can't take leave. I have a quiz tonight."
It would have been better if she hadn't said it; once she did, Xu Niannian felt even more pathetic.
Encountering a ghost isn't a big deal. After all, they're all students. Xu Niannian calmly analyzed the situation. Could it be that this ghost would ignore the school leaders and the group that led the school violence and gamble on her, a good student who studies hard and doesn't even dare to ask for leave for a small test?
We are all born of the same root, why are you so eager to harm each other?!
Xu Niannian thought to herself with great pain, and after a series of thoughts, she finally convinced herself.
But this simple idea changed within a few days.
The atmosphere at school was getting increasingly strange. Even someone as carefree as Xu Niannian could sense from the rumors that something was amiss.
"This is the fourth school leader to die."
"The first three directors were strangled to death in their own homes. There was no one else in their homes, but they just died like that."
"And that so-and-so from the second year of high school, he just relied on his dad's connections to act tough at school all day long, and he jumped off a building a couple of days ago."
Xu Niannian sat in her seat, listening to her classmates casually gossiping.
Ji Shanqing's news has gradually faded away. After all, there are new topics of conversation now, and no one is dwelling on things from the past that have already been forgotten.
Xu Niannian should have been one of those who listened to and spread gossip, but she suddenly recalled the look in the taxi driver's eyes.
It is sad, indeed, after all, it is a loss of life.
But it certainly wasn't much, since he didn't have much contact with Ji Shanqing. It was just a feeling of regret that he had the power to stop the girl he passed by on the road who was about to embark on a path of suicide, but he didn't have the chance.
Xu Niannian suddenly froze.
It wasn't until this point that she realized a problem.
The driver clearly said that Ji Shanqing was the girl who committed suicide by drinking pesticide, but in Xu Niannian's memory, she died by jumping off a building.
Even though the classroom was well-heated, she sat by the window and was so hot that she even opened a small crack in the window.
But thinking about this, Xu Niannian felt a cold sweat break out on her brow.
She blinked blankly, looked out the window, and once again saw the familiar scene of falling.
The girl smiled and even blew Xu Niannian a kiss during the brief fall, as if it were just an ordinary encounter, rather than one person falling from the rooftop while the other watched from a classroom on the fifth floor.
At first, Xu Niannian found the scene suffocating, but now, after several days of being tormented by it, she has successfully grown to the point where she can turn a blind eye to it.
Xu Niannian calmly drew the curtains, but found that the more she tried to recall the scene, the more blurred her memory became.
How exactly did Ji Shanqing die?
She thought blankly. She remembered that there was indeed a girl in the school who died from drinking pesticide, but that girl was not Ji Shanqing.
But the driver was clearly referring to Ji Shanqing.
She couldn't concentrate on her lessons and spent the whole afternoon racking her brains over this one point.
It wasn't until the long break after dinner, when her friends asked her if she wanted to come and check out the school, that she impulsively agreed.
They hid inside the school for two hours, making sure all the security guards had left and that they hadn't been discovered.
The group began their investigation at the school at one in the morning—they didn't even know what they wanted to find out.
Xu Niannian did not walk with the group of people, but instead went to the bottom of the building.
This should be the place where Ji Shanqing fell from the building.
Xu Niannian could smell the blood from a distance, and the smell became stronger as she got closer.
The ground, the walls, and even the flower beds were covered with severed limbs and dried blood.
Would there be this much blood if someone jumped off a building?
Xu Niannian thought to herself, somewhat bewildered.
Then she felt as if she had kicked something.
The little girl looked down and, despite having prepared herself mentally, Xu Niannian still took a step back when she actually saw it, her eyes widening instinctively.
Seeing something through glass is different from seeing it in person.
Normally, Xu Niannian could only see her in the air, and although she was falling, at least her limbs were still intact.
And now, the head right at Xu Niannian's feet is no longer intact.
The skull shattered due to gravity, and the brain matter and blood splattered all over the ground.
An eyeball popped out and rolled right up to Xu Niannian's feet.
Together with the other eyeball still in its socket, they stared at Xu Niannian.
In a daze, Xu Niannian seemed to see Ji Shanqing falling and smiling at her, her two gem-like eyes filled with a slightly malicious smile.
She didn't even dare to look where Ji Shanqing's limbs were scattered before her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
When the group woke her up, her friends thought she had simply fallen asleep from exhaustion.
"Why did you come with us when you're so tired?"
"It's okay, I can catch up on sleep during tomorrow's morning reading session."
"I think we really have nothing better to do than sneak out on campus at night instead of sleeping."
The group walked into the classroom while complaining.
—It's almost 4 a.m., and in just one more hour it will be time for school. Since that's the case, why not just catch up on some sleep in the classroom instead of running out and coming back?
Maybe all that time will be wasted on the road.
Xu Niannian didn't tell them what she had seen; it would be too embarrassing to admit that she had been scared to the point of fainting.
Although it would be quite embarrassing to just collapse there because I was so tired.
Xu Niannian remained silent, but when her companions were exhausted, she quietly asked for leave and ran away on her own.
*
"This is my third day on leave." On the other end of the phone, Xu Niannian finally finished recounting what she had been through during this period.
She held back her tears and sobs, and asked softly, "What should I do? Xingxing, I'm so scared."
"I don't know now whether what I remember is true or false."
Jiang Xing rested her chin on her hand, her tone gentle yet firm: "I will handle it."
"This is a good time for you to get some more sleep; it won't interfere with your future."
As soon as she said that, Xu Niannian fell silent and asked nervously, "Really?"
Jiang Xingni: ...
Ha, a high school student.