Chapter 141: Studying at Huai Mountain (10)
"So, they still appear here from time to time?" Liu Sheng asked, walking along the corridor to its end.
The classrooms next to Class 3, Grade 2, were filled with endless darkness, and it was unknown what was hidden inside.
Sometimes, Liu Sheng thought she caught a glimpse of pale children's faces pressed tightly against the windows, flattened like paper, with distorted features.
But as soon as her gaze shifted, they were gone.
"Yes, I heard from Senior Sister Nangong that they haven't been completely cleaned, but their malice has been eliminated, leaving only basic rules," Lin Shuying said.
"Aren't you all afraid?"
This was Liu Sheng's first close encounter with purified weird objects, so she truly couldn't understand.
"No, I'm not afraid. My father also has a purified weird object. When he uses it, the former vengeful spirits occasionally pop out, but they won't harm people's lives. In reality, they are just pitiful beings."
At the end of the corridor, Lin Shuying spoke as she took out a spirit bead lamp to illuminate the dark stairwell.
"They are also pitiful, having been trapped along with the entire school," Lu Shen said, a look of sorrow on his dark face.
The stairwell still echoed with various eerie laughter, and inexplicable sounds of running thundered past them, but the two walked on, completely unafraid.
Liu Sheng was still a little unaccustomed.
She looked up and saw a thin child hanging upside down from the ceiling, grinning with a missing front tooth at Liu Sheng, then shrinking back and disappearing.
It seemed friendly enough, but it almost made Liu Sheng's foot twist, nearly causing her to fall down the stairs.
Just as she steadied herself by holding the handrail, she felt something wet and cold under her hand.
Looking down, two pale blue hands were hanging on the railing, and she had just placed her hand over theirs.
Following the hands downwards, there was a tiny figure hidden between the handrail bars, holding onto the railing with raised hands, its body contorted into an unnatural ball, looking pitifully at Liu Sheng with large eyes from the gap.
Liu Sheng silently withdrew her hand and wiped it on her clothes.
【Don't scream. Look how calm they are. If we scream, we lose.】
"Junior Sister, if you want to scream, just scream. When we first came, we were also terrified and ran around screaming every day," Lu Shen seemed to see through Liu Sheng's facade and said in a muffled voice.
"It's fine," Liu Sheng said calmly, quietly quickening her pace by a few steps.
【"Mommy," if there's danger, remember to warn me!】
Little Tentacle conveyed a few "En-ens," expressing aggrievedly that because it felt there was no danger, it hadn't thought to warn her just now.
【Ahem, anyway, if there are weird objects, just say so.】
Little Tentacle hummed a few times but explained to Liu Sheng that it didn't dare to show its head rashly because this place had a master constantly monitoring it.
【So Senior Sister Nangong has been watching from somewhere, and what Senior Sister Qu said about rushing to the convenience store to clear out goods while the teacher isn't around is just naive talk?】
【I can understand that. She must have a way to monitor her own Weird Domain.】
【So, are we still going to the convenience store?】
【Of course we are! The law doesn't punish the masses, understand?!】
By the time Liu Sheng followed Lin Shuying and Lu Shen down to the ground floor of the teaching building, Liu Sheng's heart rate had accelerated thirteen times during the short three-story journey.
【Great, heart and blood circulation accelerated.】
【Blood vessels are all cleared.】
The weird objects Liu Sheng had encountered in previous Weird Domains were not these mischievous child weird objects. Most of the weird objects she had encountered had more mature and steady personalities, so the frequency of scares was not as high, and there weren't as many tricks.
Moreover, the goal of the little weird objects here was very pure: just to scare people.
The ground floor was still a pitch-black darkness. At this moment, Zhong Youzhi and Qu Chunyan were sitting by the flowerbed downstairs, waiting for them, their figures seemingly hunched over as if crushed.
Lin Shuying's spirit bead lamp shone over, revealing the two of them in a sorry state. Besides being soaked, they also had many dirty little handprints. Zhong Youzhi's luxurious hair crown was askew, and his gold and silver embroidered robe had a large ball print on it.
"Why do you bother?" Lin Shuying sighed.
Getting into a fuss with these little weird objects was simply endless.
"Hmph, no, it's not gentlemanly to not avenge a grudge," Zhong Youzhi said angrily.
Qu Chunyan nodded in agreement: "You know, those little weird objects are so annoying."
As soon as she finished speaking, a burst of silvery laughter erupted from the darkness beside her, the laughter fading from near to far, seemingly running away playfully.
Liu Sheng couldn't bear to watch anymore and silently cast a Cleanliness Technique on the two of them.
"Your Spell is quite effective; you can use it without a Cleanliness Talisman," Zhong Youzhi remarked, raising his robe sleeves and looking around, very satisfied.
Unexpectedly, a huge, perfectly round ball shot out from the darkness, landing with a "thud" heavily on his buttocks, bringing with it black water.
Well, another ball print.
Zhong Youzhi's veins bulged with anger, and his knuckles cracked as he clenched his hands.
"Forget it, forget it, let's go," Lu Shen couldn't stand it anymore and pulled Zhong Youzhi, "Their rules are just like that. Who told you to provoke them first?"
"Yes, let's hurry to the convenience store. Otherwise, it'll be close to dinner time. If we eat too many snacks then, we won't be able to eat dinner. That's how Teacher Nangong found out we were secretly buying snacks last time," Lin Shuying picked the thing they cared about most to persuade them.
Liu Sheng had long noticed that although Senior Sister Lin spoke softly, she was often the most effective at hitting the mark.
Sure enough, with that said, Qu Chunyan immediately swept away her dejected air, pulling Zhong Youzhi from Lu Shen's hand and dragging him towards the convenience store.
"Hurry, hurry, or we'll be too late," she said anxiously.
【Still not reminding them, even if it's not because they ate too many snacks and can't eat dinner, Senior Sister Nangong will still find out.】
Liu Sheng silently followed the others' pace.
She was also very curious about what the "convenience store" everyone was so keen on was like.
Perhaps the school wanted to make money, as the so-called convenience store was located not far from the teaching building, just a few steps away.
It glowed with a dim yellow light, very noticeable in this dark Weird Domain.
It was a small bungalow built under a large banyan tree, with several yellowed, aged, and cracked plastic tables and chairs outside the door, and a large freezer under the eaves.
"Junior Sister, be careful with the things sold in the freezer," Lin Shuying warned before they even got close enough to see.
Liu Sheng nodded to show she understood. She approached and peered in curiously. It seemed to be just popsicles and such, but wait... there seemed to be something furry frozen beneath.
The convenience store's main door was wide open, welcoming the Xuezis.
Since they were welcome, they naturally streamed in.
In the small room, a bare light bulb hung from the ceiling, which was the only light source, illuminating everything inside with a dim, old-fashioned feel.
The walls were covered with various posters, from school event promotions to movie star posters, everything imaginable, but they were all faded and whitened, making it impossible to tell their age.
Rows of shelves held various snacks and drinks, a dazzling array, all of which Liu Sheng had never heard of.
Beyond the shelves, at the very back, was a door with a string of beads, and inside the door was pitch black.
"You've finally arrived..."
As the crisp sound of the beads being pushed aside echoed, a deep voice rang out from within.
There was also the sound of flesh dragging and rubbing on the ground, a sound that was too heavy and clumsy.
It was as if a colossal creature was trying to squeeze out of the door.
Daily life of studying, childhood memories, warm and beautiful.
