“What happened to Gao Yan? We’re his classmates,” Jiang Cheng asked, not giving the woman time to react.

Hearing Jiang Cheng say that, the woman hesitated for a moment, her gaze sweeping over the group, and asked, "Which of you is Jiang Cheng?"

Jiang Cheng's first reaction was that Gao Yan had pushed him out as a scapegoat under the questioning of the security guards, so he asked back without changing his expression, "Senior, what do you need him for?"

The woman looked young, probably didn't think too much, and said casually, "Professor Wu asked me to find him. Didn't he come?"

As soon as he heard it was Professor Wu, Jiang Cheng felt confident and immediately mustered an expression of meeting an old friend in a foreign land, "Senior, I'm the person you're looking for."

"You're Jiang Cheng?" The woman was a little surprised.

Jiang Cheng took out the ID card Professor Wu gave him and handed it to the woman. There was a photo of him on it. "Authentic."

"Don't just stand there like idiots, you..." The woman glanced at the people behind Jiang Cheng, changed her words, and said, "You... all of you, come with me."

They followed the woman to an office. It wasn't big, with only two desks and a large bookshelf against the wall, densely packed with blue folders.

The arrangement was similar to Jiang Cheng's studio. The blue folders on the bookshelf probably contained case files or similar materials.

"Were you involved in Gao Yan's matter?" The woman spoke quickly, adopting a tone of getting straight to the point.

"What matter?" Jiang Cheng's face was full of innocence.

Seeing this, the woman seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, waved her hand, and said, "Anyway, remember, if people from the school security department come to ask, you must deny knowing anything."

Jiang Cheng pursed his lips and said softly, "Senior, what are you talking about? It's making me feel scared..."

Fatty took a deep breath, knowing that Jiang Cheng's acting addiction was kicking in again.

"Just now, some staff members discovered that the door to the warehouse on the 4th floor of the activity center was open. Through the door, they saw someone lying inside, and then notified the school security department." The woman paused and continued, "He was unconscious when he was first sent here, and only woke up not long ago."

"Is that all? Maybe he accidentally fell," Jiang Cheng said, "Senior, you might not know, we just transferred here not long ago, and we're not familiar with the place."

But unexpectedly, as soon as Jiang Cheng finished speaking, the woman's eyes changed, and her breathing became rapid, "The location of the warehouse is very remote. How could a freshman find it so coincidentally? Also, the door was locked. How did he open it and just happen to faint inside?"

Jiang Cheng keenly noticed that the woman's emotional fluctuations stemmed more from fear than anger.

Her fear was related to that warehouse.

"He must have heard some rumors about that warehouse and was curious, thinking of going to investigate. Fortunately, he was discovered in time this time." The woman's face was ugly.

Judging from her performance, this was probably not the first time this had happened, and the consequences each time were not good.

"Senior," Jiang Cheng asked in a pitiful voice, "Is there anything strange about that warehouse...? You seem to really dislike mentioning it."

"Don't ask. Just stay away from there in the future," the woman shook her head, as if unwilling to say more.

Jiang Cheng raised his head and winked at Fatty and Huai Yi.

Fatty immediately understood, straightened his body, put on a disdainful look, and said loudly, "Everyone says that warehouse is weird. I think it's all rumors. Last time I passed by, I saw a note on the door saying 'Resting, please do not disturb.' Someone even lives inside."

"Who says it isn't?" Huai Yi chimed in, "I heard that it's the gym teacher's rest room. Those absurd stories are just jokes made up by people in the school. Let's pick a good day for us two brothers to do a live broadcast or something, and debunk the rumors."

"You... why don't you listen to advice?" The woman seemed to already be in a bad mood. Hearing the two of them say that, the anger in her heart surged up all at once, "I'm doing this entirely out of kindness. If it weren't for Professor Wu's sake, I wouldn't care about you. The whole school knows how evil that place is. Do you know how many things happened there recently?"

"Really? Would a gym teacher live in a haunted place?" Fatty raised his big face. "I don't believe it."

The woman was in a fit of anger and immediately retorted, "What do you know? Do you think those gym teachers are willing to? It's because the rumors were spreading like wildfire that the school's higher-ups organized male teachers from the physical education department to live there to dispel the rumors. At first, those teachers didn't take it seriously and were chatting and playing cards inside, but who would have thought later..."

Speaking of this, the woman stopped immediately, apparently realizing that she had said too much. Her chest rose and fell sharply, indicating that her anger had not subsided.

"Senior, you and Professor Wu must be very close. We are also Professor Wu's students," Jiang Cheng asked in a pleading tone, "Could you tell us what exactly is going on? It would also make these two guys give up on that idea." He pointed at Fatty and Huai Yi.

Seeming to recall Professor Wu's past help to her, coupled with Jiang Cheng's not-unpleasant face, the woman finally wavered, waved her hand at Jiang Cheng, and motioned everyone to sit down.

Jiang Cheng ran to the water dispenser and poured a cup of warm water for the woman. After the woman took it, she didn't drink it, but just held it with her hands, as if drawing heat from the water.

After a long while, she opened her mouth earnestly and said, "You must have heard some rumors about that place, but I can responsibly tell you that those rumors are not entirely groundless."

"There is indeed something strange about that warehouse." The woman raised her head, looked into Jiang Cheng's eyes, and said softly, "That place is very evil. Several students and teachers have had accidents there. People who know the situation avoid walking there."

"There was a student who got lost on the 4th floor of the activity center one night, and couldn't find his way out all night. He couldn't make a phone call either. As a result, he was found locked in the warehouse until dawn."

"There was also a teacher organizing an event who left late, around 11 p.m. The school security department actually received a call from the teacher, a male teacher, tall and big. You can't imagine it, he was crying like something, constantly saying that he had seen a ghost."

The woman took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, "The person was eventually found at the door of the warehouse. He couldn't even stand up and had to be carried out. His pants were wet, and he resigned the next day."

"Similar things have happened several times. At first, everyone, like you, thought it was a coincidence. In order to dispel the rumors, the school specially found several strong male teachers from the physical education department to live there, but... but who would have thought..."