It was already evening when they returned to school.
Moreover, after yesterday's delay, it happened to be the weekend today. Logically speaking, there should be many students around the school.
However, I haven't seen anyone in the entire time I've been standing here.
It was a good spring, but it was desolate.
I hesitated for a moment before walking towards the school gate.
"Wait a minute." The guard stared at me warily for a few seconds and asked,"What do you do? Are you a student of our school?"
I replied blankly," I am.”
As I spoke, I muttered to myself. When did the school start checking the number of students? Could it be because I skipped the mid-term exam yesterday?
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a headache.
On the other side, after the security uncle checked my campus card, he was still mumbling my student information," Su He, geological survey major, sophomore year..."
After he finished reading, he suddenly came back to his senses and asked me,"Are you a geological survey major?"
"Yes, I am."
"I know that our major had a mid-term exam yesterday. Anyway, it's not the end of the term.”I waved my hand nonchalantly, thinking that the security guard was paying special attention to my professionalism because of this.
" No…" His lips lightly touched and he denied.
"Not what?" I asked subconsciously.
"Nothing!" His tone suddenly became fierce. He threw the school card to me as if there was something dirty on it."Since you have nothing to do, stay in school and prepare for revision. Don't go out."”
"Oh."
I responded, not taking the guard uncle's strange behavior to heart.
After returning to the dormitory, I lay down on the bed as usual. Then, I tilted my head to look at the few people in the dormitory. Unexpectedly, they were neither playing with their phones nor joking. It really didn't fit the image of a student in the geological survey major.
"Hello," I shouted.
They turned their heads at the same time.
She was wearing a white dress and her hair was disheveled. She stared at me with a pair of dead fish eyes.
" Ah!" I was shocked. I grabbed the blanket in my hand and shouted that there was a ghost in the dormitory.
"Hahaha, I was lying to you, Su He. Why are you so funny? You actually believe in ghosts." Fu Siya laughed so hard that her stomach hurt. She hammered the bed and rolled around.
After experiencing a nightmarish incident and being teased by them like this, it was difficult not to be angry.
I slammed my hand on the bed." Bang!" My hand hurt from the shock." There must be a limit to a joke!”
They didn't expect me to really get angry. Those who hammered on the bed stopped pounding on the bed, and those who rolled around laughing stopped laughing. They looked at each other and looked at me."Su He, are you okay? I've never seen you lose your temper when I'm joking with you.”
"Can it be the same as usual now?" I raised my voice and dragged it out.
They looked at each other and their expressions changed.
Seeing this reaction, I couldn't realize what had happened in school anymore. I had lived for eighteen years in vain. I threw away the blanket in my hand and asked carefully,"Speaking of which, it's strange. Our school doesn't check the dorms and access control. I just came in during the day and was actually checked by the security guard for half a day.”
"You all know that I skipped the mid-term exam yesterday afternoon. Did the school set a new rule or something? Don't hide it from me."
"Um, Su He, it's not that we want to hide it from you, but... we don't dare to say it either.”
I didn't buy it and deliberately sneered."Weren't you very energetic when you scared me just now? Why are you afraid now?”
In the end, Tang Tang came in from outside to understand what had happened and then pulled me out of the dormitory.
"Tang Tang, what happened?"
"They apologized for scaring you just now. Don't take it to heart. As for them saying that they didn't dare to say this…it was indeed the school's request.”
Tang Tang was my best friend in high school. We applied to the same university in our third year of high school so that we wouldn't be separated.
Seeing that she was pleading for mercy on behalf of the few people in the dormitory, I didn't pursue the matter of scaring me. Instead, I asked,"What fishing wheel?"
"Yesterday, you skipped the mid-term exam and happened to be in time for the school to investigate. The school leader was very angry and asked for a thorough investigation of the number of students in the school, as well as those who skipped classes. In the end…guess what?”
I gulped. I really didn't expect to run into such a thing. However, compared to being punished for skipping class, I was more curious about what Tang Tang was talking about.
"What's wrong?"
"Good fellow! Other than you, there are a few other students in our school who have lost contact with each other a week ago. They don't return to their dormitories and can't be contacted by their families.”
" Shouldn't we call the police?" That was my first reaction.
"Are you stupid?" Tang Tang knocked me hard on the head." It's already March now, and the enrollment season is coming up in June. Will the school make a big deal out of this?”
"What if no one is willing to apply to our school?”
"Then, those missing students, are we just going to ignore them?”I found it unbelievable.
After all, she had gone missing during school hours. Logically speaking, the school should have a certain degree of responsibility. At the very least, they should have called the police to find her.
Just for the sake of reputation…
I found it a little hard to accept.
" I don't know. Don't get involved. You suddenly skipped the mid-term exam yesterday. When I heard about it from other exam halls, I called you dozens of times, but none of them got through. I almost thought you were…" Her face turned pale.
I felt guilty and apologized to her." I'm sorry, Tang Tang. I left in a hurry yesterday and didn't have time to tell you. I won't do it again."”
"That would be best." "If you hadn't come back now and the school hadn't sealed this matter, I would have called the police to get you back!" she said hatefully.”
" Alright, alright. It's not that big of a deal. I just went back to my hometown-"
Before I could finish, Tang Tang interrupted me." Do you know that this matter has been spread privately in our school? Before those girls went missing, they received a call from their family asking them to hurry home.”
"That's why they left in a hurry. They didn't ask for leave from the teacher, nor did they have any records.”
"What about your family?"
Since they knew that those girls had gone home, why didn't they just contact their families?
"Silly."
Tang Tang pulled me into the dormitory and whispered," I've registered with the school. I can contact all the other students, except for those few classmates…"
"Their parents can't be found either?"
Tang Tang shook her head.
I gasped and was glad that I came back early. Thinking of this, I quickly patted Tang Tang's hand." Why don't I go and tell the counselor first? Don't put her on the list of missing people in the end."”
Tang Tang pulled me back." I've already told the counselor when you came back. Don't go. Have a good rest."”
"Look at your pale face. Were you scared by them? I thought you weren't afraid of ghosts." Tang Tang joked.
Ghosts…
Speaking of this word, I remembered receiving a call from Third Aunt. When I returned to my hometown, it was like a funeral hall that was deliberately prepared for me.
Was everything real?
Or…was it just a dream?
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