Chapter 36 Escape? Impossible to Escape! Part 2
On the night Zhao Ke infiltrated the girls’ dormitory 401, it was already deep into the night, and Liangyue was still quietly solving competition problems alone.
In the midst of silence, a sudden screech from next door broke through, causing chaos and interrupting her thoughts.
Liangyue frowned and pulled out her headphones from the drawer, preparing to block out the noise with music. Just then, she heard a chilling laughter from the neighboring room, seemingly emitted by a male.
A boy? How could there be a boy in the girls’ dormitory?
Liangyue was taken aback, her curiosity surging intensely, completely distracting her from her studies.
She listened quietly to the commotion next door, and over the next ten minutes, she experienced an unexpected terror.
Malicious laughter flooded in from the adjacent room, mixed with a sinister aura that almost penetrated the walls. The lights in the dorm flickered uncontrollably under some eerie force.
The girls in dorm 401 started cursing angrily, and from their conversation, Liangyue heard Zhao Ke’s name.
She knew that boy, the one rumored to be possessed by ghosts and monsters; those who offended him would encounter misfortune inexplicably.
“Shut up! Lin Yiqi doesn’t like me; it’s all your fault! It’s you who always talked bad about me in front of her! I will make you pay for it!”
The boy, presumed to be Zhao Ke, roared, and soon the girls screamed in terror.
“What is that thing!?”
“No, don’t! I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
“Ghost… Zhao Ke, you… help! Someone help us!”
Then the screams gradually turned into pleas, and eventually, the pleas faded away, leaving only pained moans.
Liangyue listened quietly, trembling, her mind weaving a hellish scene, a one-sided ab*se and insult with no way to resist.
She was scared because she knew a terrifying devil was standing just a wall away.
This has nothing to do with me; I just have to pretend I know nothing. She comforted herself, and just then, a sudden knocking at the door echoed.
“Knock knock knock—knock knock knock—!”
“Open up! Is anyone in there?” Accompanied by frantic and urgent knocks, someone outside was yelling desperately, “Please let me in! He, he isn’t human; he’s a devil who wants to k*ll me! Please!”
“Knock knock knock—knock knock knock—!”
The knocking continued, and Liangyue held her breath, daring not to make a sound. It wasn’t until she heard the sound of a door opening next door that the girl outside, panting, ran away, the knocking abruptly stopped.
As the girl vanished, Liangyue surprisingly felt a surge of revengeful satisfaction and glee rise within her.
Yes, that girl had once been part of those who isolated her.
A chilly breeze blew in from the window, lifting the curtains and swaying them, as if whispering sinister words in the wind.
Suddenly, Liangyue felt something terrifying emerge from the neighboring dormitory. Though she couldn’t see it, she sensed it.
That thing was like a chaotic and twisted amalgamation, emanating a disturbing aura that was nothing like a human.
It was now standing outside the door, quietly staring at the door of room 402. Its malevolent gaze seemed to penetrate through the door, falling upon her, like a barbed brush gliding back and forth against her.
She waited in terror for a moment, and that unsettling feeling gradually receded like a tide.
After a long while, Liangyue slowly exhaled a breath of relief; she knew that the inhuman presence had left.
…
Liangyue thought that as long as she pretended not to hear or see anything, as if she hadn’t been in the dorm that night, everything would end here.
Until…
The next night, at the same time, the knocking sounded again.
“Knock knock knock—knock knock knock—!”
Under the darkness, the knocking continued, a cold aura enveloping the dormitory, as if a ghost outside stood waiting to make her experience the pain it once felt.
Liangyue agonized in fear and guilt, not knowing how long it had been, before finally letting out a terrified scream.
“What do you want from me! I didn’t k*ll you!”
No one outside responded, and the knocking persisted, tormenting Liangyue’s nerves until dawn.
…
Later.
Liangyue thought that joining Lin Yiqi’s plan could quell the girl’s resentment.
However, at the moment she raised the butcher’s kn*fe, she recalled the inhuman presence lingering outside her dorm that night, feeling fear swell in her heart, and chose to escape.
From then on, she continued to flee: moving out of the dorm, transferring schools, and even trying to get her parents to move.
During this process, she heard about the strange occurrences at Shihhekou Middle School, that Zhao Ke had gone missing, that the school was locked down, that…
Yet the knocking remained, no matter where she fled, it would always return soon after, echoing in the dead of night.
No one could hear it; the only one who could was her…
She silently thought of a way to solve this problem that had plagued her for years, joining many small groups related to urban legends.
Until one day, in a group chat, she saw an ID called Pharaoh mentioning Shihhekou Middle School.
She hesitated for a long time but still sent a friend request to Pharaoh.
…
【Pharaoh has accepted your friend request】
21:30 Pharaoh: “?”
21:32 Liangyue: “I advise you not to go; that school is very dangerous.”
21:33 Pharaoh: “Do you know something?”
21:34 Liangyue: “I know a bit, but it’s all hearsay.”
21:35 Pharaoh: “I know some things too, and I’ve been troubled by them. This time, we’re going to find a way to resolve it. Do you want to come with us?”
04:16 Liangyue: “Okay, I’ll go with you.”
…
Once again encountering the name Shihhekou Middle School, Liangyue chose to face her past, no longer fleeing.
She thought this was the last way to break through her predicament, but…
At the final moment of her life.
She stood on the edge of the rooftop of the teaching building, seeing the girl who once lived next to her.
The girl was wearing a wet school uniform, her hair a mess, her face pale like dead pork.
She had no wounds; her complexion was not ghastly, but her bloodshot eyes were wide open, as if they could pop out at any moment.
“Useless; he won’t let us go. From the moment we stepped into this campus, we were already targeted by him… we… we… haha…”
We can never escape.
Liangyue thought, watching helplessly as Yun Meng transformed into that girl, walking step by step towards her, reaching out and pushing herself down.
Her body kept falling, the sensation of weightlessness causing her to feel faint, yet a relieved smile appeared on her face.
