"Zhenlu, do you know? If a person dies suddenly at midnight, she will become a ghost." This is what my good friend Sen Sen said to me with a strange look on her face when I was washing up that night. I have the habit of washing clothes alone in the bathroom late at night. My scalp went numb when I heard it. Lin Zi, my roommate next to me, laughed and scolded: "Sen Sen, don't scare Zhenlu!"
However, the next day, Sen Sen went crazy and was sent to the hospital. I remember clearly that at 12:30 that night, I had just finished washing clothes and was hanging them at the end of the corridor. Sen Sen came out of the dormitory in a daze, mumbling that he wanted to go to the bathroom. Soon, I heard a terrifying scream from the bathroom, "Ah…" I rushed over without thinking, and saw Sen Sen fainted on the ground, and Lin Zi, who had rushed over after hearing the noise, was beside him, and the faucet was still running.
As a result, rumors about the "ghost at midnight" spread throughout the building. Girls were afraid to go to the washroom after midnight, and some even said they had encountered strange things. The school security department thought it was a thief and checked several times, but there was no clue.
A week later, poor Sen Sen was still in the hospital, talking nonsense. She kept screaming, "Dead people, blood, blood, blood!" It was horrifying. I didn't know what she saw, and I didn't want to guess.
At 12:30 that night, I woke up from my dream and felt a stomachache , so I had to go to the bathroom. Although I had heard a lot of rumors, I didn't think too much about it at the time. I put on my slippers and walked out in a daze. Our bathroom is inside the washroom, and I felt much more sober after coming out of the washroom. At this time, the whole corridor was empty, with only the dim street lights on. A gust of cold wind blew, the leaves rustled, and all kinds of strange black shadows danced on the white wall, weird and gloomy. I felt a chill in my heart. Maybe it was because of the temperature, I couldn't help but shiver. At this time, the wind stopped. From the other end of the corridor, there was a sound of shoes stepping on the floor: "Da Da, Da Da." A chill rushed up from behind me.
The sound was getting closer. I saw a petite girl walking over, wearing a red sweater. She seemed to be frightened when she saw me and let out a soft cry. I turned around to leave, and she hurriedly called me: "Wait for me, I'm so scared." Before she finished speaking, she had already rushed into the bathroom. I had no choice but to wait for her in the bathroom. Looking at the sink by the wall, I couldn't help but think of Sen Sen's words: "Dead people, blood." Strange! When I arrived that night, I didn't see any blood at all. I looked up and thought, and was shocked: a piece of the ceiling had been removed a few days ago, and now it looked like a big black hole like a monster's mouth. "Sister, look at this hole, is there something unclean in it? Are you afraid?" The girl had already come out. "Afraid." I said, and couldn't help but take another look. "In fact, people often scare people to death." The girl said. I couldn't help but feel moved when I heard it. She continued, "The girl who got sick a few days ago was probably scared herself." I couldn't help but get a little angry when I heard that, and was about to refute her when a faint whimpering sound came from outside, "Woo, woo, woo." We were all startled. The girl immediately hid behind me and said tremblingly, "Classmate." I was a little scared to begin with, but when I saw this kind of tough-mouthed and timid person, I couldn't help but get angry, and I plucked up the courage to shout, "Who's screaming there?" The voice suddenly stopped, and we looked at each other. After a while, there was still silence, and we ran away at the same time.
The next day, I ran to see Sen Sen, still in shock. She could already tell some fragments of the story. "That night, I came out of the bathroom. There was no one in the washroom, except for a girl in a plaid short-sleeved shirt washing clothes. I went up to her and asked, 'Classmate, aren't you cold?' She turned around. I saw that what she was washing were actually all human internal organs! Intestines! Ah–" She returned to her hysterical state and was forcibly injected with sedatives by the doctor.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel suspicious and felt that something was wrong: If the "evil spirit" that Sen Sen saw was the same thing as what I saw, why didn't I see that horrifying scene? Moreover, she left at my command. Did I have something that she was afraid of? What was that thing?
Tonight at half past twelve.
Tonight, Ye Hua and I were doing the laundry together. After washing the clothes, Ye Hua went to the clothes drying area to hang them, and I was left alone in the bathroom again. "Hi!" She poked her head in, and it was the girl from that night, still wearing the red sweater. "See you again, you are so brave, and you are alone again." I said I have to do some serious work later, and you should not make trouble. She stuck out her tongue and said, "Then I will hide and watch secretly." After that, she opened the window and jumped out, and made a face at me when she closed the window. I motioned her to squat down, and she nodded and did as I was told.
"Ah…" I screamed in terror. The dormitories lit up one by one.
It was Ye Hua who rushed in, followed by other roommates a little later. Seeing me standing there with a pale face, Lin Zi said, "Are you crazy? Why are you yelling for no reason? You made me get up from bed while I was sleeping soundly."
"Now that Sen Sen is in the hospital, of course you can rest assured." I said coldly.
Lin Zi's face turned pale: "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Yes? Well, let me ask you, where did you come from just now?"
"The dormitory."
"Where is Ye Hua?" I asked.
"I came from the clothes drying yard." Ye Hua said.
"That's strange." I said, "You said you came from the dormitory that night, right? Ye Hua and I came from the clothes drying yard. The distance from the clothes drying yard to here seems to be shorter than the distance from the dormitory to here, right? I don't understand why you ran so fast that night?"
Lin Zi's lips trembled: "Based on this alone, how can you judge that it was me who did it?"
"You didn't sleep at all that night. You followed Sen Sen to the bathroom and staged this horrifying scene while she was washing her hands. You deliberately wore a short-sleeved shirt in the middle of winter to make her suspicious. After she fainted, you put on your clothes, stepped on the sink and put the pile of disgusting props in the hole in the ceiling – this kind of thing can only be done by you who is 1.71 meters tall."
Everyone looked at her suspiciously, and her face became uglier. "You deliberately spread rumors and took advantage of the fact that the students were afraid to come to the bathroom at night to retrieve these things. Unfortunately, I was with someone else on the night you wanted to come, and you played tricks again. I checked today, and the drama troupe said that a batch of props was lost not long ago, and the person responsible for these props was you!" I said loudly. At this time, someone had already climbed up the ladder and took down a bag of bloody and disgusting things.
Linzi couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears, "Who told her to steal my boyfriend? This vixen." She gritted her teeth and yelled at me, "Zhenlu! Who would believe your one-sided statement? Don't even think about slandering me."
"Don't forget, there was another person that night."
"Who, who else?" she said.
I smiled coldly and said to the window: "Hey, come out!" After a long while, there was no response. Everyone stared at me blankly.
My mind went blank, and I could no longer remember the girl's face. I only thought of one thing: this is actually the fifth floor…