On the Yin Moon and Yin Day, at the hour of the Rat.
The day with the heaviest Yin energy in the entire year.
The air felt thick, as if mixed with a viscous agent, making everyone extremely uncomfortable. Along the long dormitory corridor, a chilling wind blew, despite the hot season.
Lin Zhitong and the other five arrived at the haunted floor. Looking down the long corridor, they already felt a creeping fear.
Li Tao, wanting to show off, specifically volunteered to lead the way.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered to himself, "Damn it, it's so cold, why am I still sweating?"
In reality, the temperature was still high, a full thirty degrees Celsius. Their feeling of cold was due to the Yin energy.
Among the six, only Lin Zhitong was not sweating. Lu Caiwei, standing close to Lin Zhitong and protected by her, fared slightly better than the others.
Zhou Hui also remarked, "This haunted place is really weird. Looks like we came to the right spot tonight!"
Fang Huilan, who was bolder, urged them on, "Let's hurry into the dormitory, before the night patrol guards catch us."
As the six walked forward, it was strange. The moon in the sky was clearly large and bright, and there were also lights in the corridor, yet their visibility was very low. Within five meters, they could see nothing further.
Finally reaching the outside of the haunted dormitory, Li Tao, mustering his courage, peered inside.
The dormitory was empty, with nothing but a few rusty iron bed frames and desks. On the balcony of the dormitory, however, hung a wind chime, but it remained still, eerily silent.
"The dormitory door isn't locked. Seems the ghost rumors are fake. Otherwise, the school would have locked it up long ago," Zhou Hui joked.
Fang Huilan, who lived in this dormitory building, found it peculiar. She had checked the dormitory door during the day, and it was definitely locked. They had even brought lock-picking tools specifically for this, but now they were not needed at all.
Li Tao kicked open the door, and the six entered one after another. Lu Caiwei, walking at the very back, casually closed the door. The long corridor once again fell into dead silence.
"Pfft, what red-clothed vengeful spirit, what ghost infant sucking toes, it's all a lie. There's nothing here!"
Li Tao picked up a worn newspaper from the ground, wiped down a rusty bed frame, and sat on it dismissively, saying, "Not exciting at all!"
Liu Yi said fearfully, "There's nothing fun here. Why don't we just go back?"
"We've already come this far, why would we leave empty-handed!" Zhou Hui smiled, pulling out his phone and dragging Liu Yi along. "Let's take a group photo here as a souvenir!"
Daring to take selfies in a haunted girls' dormitory would give them bragging rights later, Zhou Hui thought to himself, and he insisted on taking a photo with Liu Yi.
As the flash went off, Zhou Hui opened his phone's album to check the effect of the selfie, only to find that Liu Yi's face in the photos was always blurry, her appearance unclear in several shots.
"Strange, did my hand shake when I was taking pictures?" Zhou Hui wondered.
Li Tao chuckled, "You say you have plenty of Yang energy, but I think you're just deficient in kidney essence!"
"Get lost!"
While the others were fooling around, Lin Zhitong had already walked around the dormitory, even checking the balcony and the bathroom.
What she found strange was that she couldn't find any trace of a ghost.
Ordinary ghosts had low intelligence and unstable states, only able to wander aimlessly in the place of their death.
As for a red-clothed vengeful spirit of this caliber, they would fully attach themselves to a Yin-heavy item for concealment.
Yet, after searching, Lin Zhitong couldn't find the ghost's hiding place.
Could it be that the red-clothed vengeful spirit and the ghost infant had already left this dormitory?
As Lin Zhitong was contemplating, Fang Huilan suddenly took out paper and a pen and said mysteriously to everyone, "Why don't we play Ouija board together?"
Lin Zhitong sighed inwardly: these guys were truly fearless of death. Especially Fang Huilan. It was a pity she wasn't a screenwriter for horror movies, because there was no one in the world more prone to courting disaster than her.
Liu Yi and Lu Caiwei were relatively sensible. They hesitated for a moment and said,
"Wouldn't that be a bit bad? What if something really happens..."
"We're the Metaphysical Research Society, not the Superstition Research Society. This is the age of science. Do you still believe in ghosts?" Fang Huilan scoffed.
Zhou Hui and Li Tao, being the males, couldn't show any sign of backing down at this moment. They immediately agreed with Fang Huilan and had already sat in a circle, ready to start the game.
"Come on, what's there to be afraid of? If a ghost really appears, with us two big guys here, we can protect you!" Li Tao said confidently.
Lu Caiwei looked at Lin Zhitong. She thought that if Lin Zhitong refused, she would also leave without a second word.
But to her surprise, Lin Zhitong agreed and even took the lead in joining.
With no other choice, Lu Caiwei and Liu Yi could only join as well.
The group sat in a circle. Lin Zhitong was flanked by Lu Caiwei and Fang Huimin, with Liu Yi directly in front of her. Zhou Hui and Li Tao sat next to Liu Yi.
"Everyone, get ready. Place your hands on this pen. Once the game starts, no matter what you see or hear, do not let go of your hands. Otherwise, the Ouija spirit we invite won't leave!" Zhou Hui said with an eerie laugh, intentionally trying to scare Liu Yi. This angered Liu Yi, who couldn't help but punch his chest with her small fist.
Everyone took a deep breath and placed their hands on the pen. At the same time, everyone fell silent. The dormitory was filled only with the sounds of breathing and heartbeats.
After a period of silence, Liu Yi surprisingly spoke first, "Ouija spirit, Ouija spirit, I am your confidant in this life. If you wish to continue our fate, please draw a circle on the paper."
Everyone looked at Liu Yi in surprise. They hadn't expected the timidest among them to know the incantation to summon a Ouija spirit.
Liu Yi said with a blush, "I just watched a Ouija spirit horror movie a few days ago, so I know this..."
"I knew it! You actually understand this! Hahaha... Huh?!"
Before Zhou Hui could finish his sentence, he suddenly felt a force from his hand. He was then shocked to find that the pen held by the six of them had started to move on its own, drawing a wobbly circle on the paper!
At the same time, the wind chime hanging on the balcony began to ring with a ding-dong sound. Strangely, no one felt any wind.
A terrifying atmosphere began to spread among the six. Lu Caiwei couldn't help but lean closer to Lin Zhitong.
"Hahahahahahaha!"
Just then, Li Tao suddenly burst into laughter, "I drew the circle! Look how scared you all are!"
"Damn it, Li Tao, you've gone too far!" Zhou Hui said angrily. "It's fine for me, but what if you scare the club president to death?"
Li Tao coughed a few times, "Alright, alright, I won't scare you anymore. Let's play seriously. I have a feeling that even though I was just scaring you, the Ouija spirit has definitely arrived!"
In fact, while Li Tao was secretly exerting force, he also felt another force on the pen working with him to draw the circle. He deduced that someone else, just like him, had been playing a prank. This person was most likely Zhou Hui.
Scaring the girls would make them lean into his arms. Li Tao knew Zhou Hui's little tricks well and even planned to scare everyone again later.
It would be best to scare Lin Zhitong. Perhaps they could spark something between them because of it?
Everyone adjusted their moods. Lu Caiwei spoke first, asking a few innocuous questions. With Lu Caiwei leading the way, everyone else also started to inquire.
The questions were mostly like, "Will I find a boyfriend this year?", "Will I graduate successfully?", "Will I become very rich in the future?"
The Ouija spirit was also accommodating, drawing circles and crosses non-stop. Everyone was having a great time, even forgetting where they were.
Just then, Liu Yi, who had been silent all this time, unexpectedly said, "Let me ask a question."
Zhou Hui felt something was off and interjected, "Yiyi, if you're scared, you don't have to play this game."
But Liu Yi had already blurted out, "Ouija spirit, Ouija spirit, please tell me, how did you die?"
Upon hearing this, everyone involuntarily trembled.
Asking the Ouija spirit about its cause of death was a major taboo when playing the game. It could provoke the Ouija spirit's wrath and lead to endless retaliation!
Li Tao's face turned pale, and he said somewhat angrily, "Liu Yi, starting with such a shocking question, are you deliberately messing with us?"
Fang Huilan's expression was also not very good, "Didn't you say you were the most timid? We took such good care of you, and it turns out you were just playing the innocent!"
Liu Yi lowered her head and said nothing. Zhou Hui suddenly recoiled his hand from the pen as if he had been electrocuted, and asked in surprise, "Yiyi, why are your hands so cold?"
In an instant, everyone snapped back to reality.
They were in a haunted dormitory!
Liu Yi's reactions a few moments ago were too abnormal!
Everyone involuntarily let go of the pen. Only Lin Zhitong still held the pen, her brow furrowed as she stared intently at Liu Yi.
Liu Yi was seen with her head down, not responding to everyone. Her shoulders trembled slightly, and faint laughter echoed in the dormitory...
Zhou Hui swallowed hard, placing a hand on Liu Yi's shoulder. "Yiyi, are you feeling unwell? Shall I escort you back?"
"I am indeed not feeling well..."
Liu Yi lowered her head, her voice very faint and sharp, as if it wasn't her own voice at all. "There's a dagger stuck in my stomach... Zhou Hui, can you help me pull it out?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Hui was instantly chilled to the bone.
Fang Huilan's face also turned pale. She forced a smile and said, "Liu Yi, don't scare us. This is not the time for jokes!"
Li Tao couldn't help but kick Zhou Hui, "What are you still standing there for? Can't you teach your girlfriend properly? Scaring people like this now is too terrifying!"
Being accused by everyone, Zhou Hui felt his face heat up with shame and anger. He couldn't control himself and slapped Liu Yi on the head:
"You damn woman, you're embarrassing me! Hurry up and lift your head!"
After being slapped by Zhou Hui, Liu Yi didn't cry or protest. Instead, the laughter echoing in the dormitory became increasingly distinct...
"Hahahaha... Hee hee hee hee... Hee hee hee!"
Liu Yi slowly raised her head. Her face was as pale as a sheet of paper, with a sickly smile and her eyes wide open:
"Don't you want to know how I died? Hee hee hee... When I died, I was hanging above your heads, and there was a dagger stuck in my stomach. The dagger pierced through my stomach and was nailed into my son's forehead... Don't you think that's a coincidence?"
"Is it not... a... coinci... dence?!"
At that moment, everyone screamed in terror!
And Lin Zhitong instantly regained her composure.
The reason she hadn't found the vengeful spirit's hiding place in the dormitory was because—from the moment they entered the dormitory, the red-clothed vengeful spirit had already possessed Liu Yi!
And they had actually been playing Ouija board with this red-clothed vengeful spirit for a long time...!!