Chapter 1 A Discussion

After some discussion, no substantial progress was made. Huai Yi suggested that they needed to see the site in person.

That is, the abandoned playground.

It’s daytime now, so according to Yuan Xiaoyi, there shouldn't be any danger.

But as they walked towards the abandoned playground, a man walked up to them and stopped them.

The man was about 25 years old, wearing black-rimmed glasses and a dark blue work suit. He looked rather young.

The man's eyes swept across their faces, and finally he frowned and tentatively asked, "Which of you is Jiang Cheng?"

"What do you want him for?" Jiang Cheng looked at him with a strange expression, as if he wasn't himself.

"Oh, it's like this. I'm Professor Wu's student. The professor asked me to find a freshman named Jiang Cheng. His cell phone can't be reached. Do you know him?" the man in the work suit said, his temperament also gentle and refined.

Only then did Jiang Cheng notice that the man had a card clipped below his chest, similar to the one Professor Wu had given him.

"Senior." Jiang Cheng immediately put on a smiling face and greeted him, shaking the man's hand in the air, "I'm Jiang Cheng. What does the professor want me for?"

"You are?" The man subconsciously adjusted his glasses, obviously surprised.

"That's right, it's me." As he spoke, Jiang Cheng took out the certificate given to him by the professor, which had his photo and name on it.

"I'm not too sure about the details, but you just need to follow me." After the man in the work suit finished speaking, he turned to look at the others: "You all come along too."

Gao Yan looked very reluctant, "We have to go too?"

"That's what Professor Wu said. He said that you're new here and your foundations are weak. He just happened to have a class with another group today, so he thought he'd let you listen in." The man's expression changed slightly, "You... don't want to go?"

For some reason, after meeting the eyes of the man in the work suit, Gao Yan, who had been very imposing, suddenly wilted.

In the end, Shen Mengyun smoothed things over and said, "Thank you for Professor Wu's kindness. We were just about to go to his class."

After all the commotion, by the time they came out of the teaching building with a group of students, it was already afternoon.

Gao Yan, Wen Liangshan, and the others were so tired that they couldn't even straighten their backs. They had been told they were going to listen to a lecture, but they didn't expect that as soon as the class was over, several teachers called them to the laboratory to move equipment.

It was the kind of call where they were blocked at the door, with no way to avoid it.

Now they understood, wasn't this the same as yesterday?

The task was arranged this way, just to not give them time to familiarize themselves with the location.

But compared to Gao Yan and the others, Jiang Cheng, Fatty, and Huai Yi were clearly much more comfortable.

Huai Yi and Fatty had only moved equipment for a while before Jiang Cheng called them away in Professor Wu's name. Then the three of them went to Professor Wu's office to enjoy the air conditioning.

Professor Wu instructed them on a few things and then left. By the time Gao Yan and the others came looking for them, they were not happy to see Jiang Cheng and the others gathered together playing cards.

Fatty, because he had lost a lot, had his face covered with white paper strips.

Professor Wu heard that Jiang Cheng had lost his cell phone, so he took out an old cell phone from his office and gave it to him to use first. He told him to return it to him after he got a new cell phone.

Jiang Cheng took Professor Wu's hand, his eyes were red, and said that he was also a child with a hard life. Since he was a child, only his parents had been so good to him, and then it was you, Professor.

After a simple meal, everyone returned to the dormitory to rest, preparing for the evening's action.

At about 11 o'clock at night, the entire Jiangtan University quieted down, and several figures sneaked along the path towards the abandoned playground.

Needless to say, it was Jiang Cheng and the others.

Not far from the playground, they saw two flashlight beams, as if two people were holding flashlights and shining them around.

"It's the security guards Yuan Xiaoyi mentioned." Jiang Cheng knew in his heart that if they were discovered, it would probably cause trouble.

Perhaps it was too cold at night, but more likely it was because the security guards also knew about what had happened at the abandoned playground, so the patrol was just for show.

They didn't dare to get close either. They just shined their flashlights briefly and then walked in another direction. They could vaguely hear the voices of two men talking.

When the security guards had walked far away, the group began to stand with their backs to the small door in the northwest corner, according to Yuan Xiaoyi's instructions.

They quietly waited for 12 o'clock to arrive.

As soon as the time came, everyone closed their eyes at the same time, and then slowly walked backwards.

They didn't know how far they had walked, but in any case, the air began to become gloomy and humid, and a very cold wind blew in the night, enough to freeze people.

The similar feeling instantly made them realize that it had been like this in the medical building.

Immediately afterwards, raindrops fell on their heads and bodies. The rain seemed to fall suddenly, and the originally silent world was suddenly filled with the sound of rustling rain.

They were already inside...

Everyone slowly opened their eyes.

The rain wasn't heavy, but it was continuous. The entire playground was shrouded in a misty environment with poor visibility.

Ten meters away, they could only vaguely see the outlines.

In Professor Wu's office, Jiang Cheng and the others hadn't been idle all the time. They had found some old photos in the computer's photo album.

They were taken at the sports meet, and the background was the former abandoned playground.

In addition to some of the information they had obtained from Yuan Xiaoyi before, Jiang Cheng had simply pieced together the approximate locations of various places in the abandoned playground.

The entire playground, together with the nearby supporting buildings and facilities, could be roughly divided into these places.

The playground itself, the equipment room they were about to go to, a relatively large toilet in the northwest corner, a small woods in the south, several gray unfinished buildings next to the woods, as well as a reviewing stand, and a strange building that looked like a clock tower in the far east.

Everyone first went to the equipment room.

Moving forward in the rain, it didn't take long for everyone to get soaked. Their wet clothes stuck to their bodies, and the wind blew, making them shiver.

Shen Mengyun's long hair stuck to her face. She quickly took out a hair tie from her pocket and tied her hair up, her movements neat and tidy.

"We're here."

Behind the rain curtain was a two-story building, occupying a large area, but it was obvious that no one had been there for a long time.

Everyone walked around and found a dark red iron door.

The iron door was covered with rust. If you touched the handle with your hand, you would get dark red rust water, which looked like blood if you didn't look carefully.

A chain lock was wrapped around the doorknob, but there was no lock. With a gentle push, the door opened, and the space inside was much larger and more spacious than they had imagined.

All around were some old pieces of equipment, covered in dust.

In the more distant corners, there were also some plastic sheets covering them, seemingly for dust protection. Judging from the edges exposed from under the sheets, they should be some larger pieces of equipment.

"Why are there plastic sheets on the walls? Is it to prevent leaks?" Wen Liangshan curiously approached. He didn't dare to touch things randomly in this kind of place, so he found a corner of the cloth that was sticking up and looked.

But the next second, his face changed drastically.

He saw a gray face.