Ch34 - Wuu, wuuuu

The door was only pushed open a crack, and a bloodshot eye was exposed through it, looking at Wu Rong as if looking at a piece of meat on a chopping board. The pupils of the eyes were so black that the whites of the eyes were almost covered with red blood. The eyes were indescribably weird and cold, which made people feel frightened.

“Come in.” 

Squeak, the door opened, revealing the interior of the dormitory. The dormitory of Liuyang Vocational High School was very old, with concrete floors and half-white and half-green walls. There were four bunk beds in a small space, and eight people lived in one dormitory. There was no air-conditioning, and a fan above their head was spinning fast and wobbly, as if it would fall down in the next moment. The high-speed rotating fan blades could easily cut off a person’s head.

Including Wu Rong, there were only seven people in the dormitory. Wu Rong scanned around and took note of their appearance.

“Róngróng, lend me your eye drops.”

The red-eyed girl who opened the door said, “My eyes are hurting more and more.” 

Wu Rong nodded, pointing to the empty bunk bed: “Where is she?”

“Hmph, where else can she go. Of course Chi Fangfang is still cleaning the toilet.”

The chestnut-haired girl on the upper bunk next to the window sneered, took a small mirror to put on makeup, and giggled to herself: “If I am honest with you, she should leave the dormitory if she is so poor, and save a lot of money—”

Wu Rong withdrew and closed the dormitory door. Although it is said that the dormitory is safer after dusk, dormitory No. 444 was the first dormitory to be completely wiped out after the blood-mud incident. It is estimated that it is a house full of female ghosts. Standing in the corridor, he released the little green snake, preparing to explore the terrain of this floor first.

There is no toilet in the dormitory of Liuyang Vocational High School, and each floor of the dormitory has a public toilet. After coming up from the east staircase, to the left side of the stairs was the public toilet, and to the right side was the No. 444 dormitory. Dormitory No. 444 was the last dormitory on the fourth floor, and to the right was a small public balcony. Wu Rong approached the balcony, turned on the light, and saw the scene outside.

There are many mountains in Liuyang, and there is half a mountain behind the dormitory of Liuyang Vocational High School. The window on the fourth floor is facing the halfway up the mountain. Among the luxuriant grass, you can faintly see a few graves, which are nameless and wild graves without tombstones. It is said that the bodies of the students who sneaked into the underground air-raid shelter and finally disappeared were found on this mountain.

Wu Rong could vaguely see that there seemed to be a corner of yellow paper on the nearest grave bag, which shone with golden light in the night, making it very pure and holy. It actually looks like an extremely rare and precious golden paper talisman! It’s a pity that Liuyang Vocational High School only actually existed in Tiankeng No. 444. Wu Rong can see the mountain, but he can’t leave the area of ​​Liuyang Vocational High School to go to the mountain.

This talisman seal is very likely to be a spiritual object left by a certain master before the ghost spiritual recovery, and it was used to suppress the gravesite. 

These so-called spiritual objects and ghost objects were special items that the testers can get in the Tiankeng. These items were unique and would never regenerate after being taken away. Spiritual objects referred to items left by Taoist priests or eminent monks a long time ago that could restrain ghosts and spirits. For example, bronzing Buddhist scriptures, relics of eminent monks, brocade cassocks, seven-star swords, talisman seals, red ropes soaked in incense ashes, etc.

Spiritual objects from the Tiankeng usually have a stronger restraining effect on ghosts in the Tiankeng. For example, the golden amulet on the gravesite can play the most lethal role on the zombies or ghosts in the gravesite, and it can also protect your life when used on yourself.

As the name suggests, ghosts’ items are items stored by ghosts, such as the balloons with human heads, bloody nails, red wedding dresses and so on. In times of danger, they can be used to summon ghosts and make them kill each other, gaining valuable escape time. There are also some ghosts that have specific effects and can change a person’s physique. The most famous one is Professor Tong Fuyuan of the Tianshi University in the capital. When he was studying abroad, he strayed into the newly opened White Church Tiankeng. Fortunately, he survived. Obtaining a drop of contaminated holy blood by mistake, and acquired a spirit medium constitution after taking it.

Both ghost and spirit items could be brought out of the tiankeng. Not only can they be used by capable people, ordinary people can also use them for self-defense. Yet their prices are very high, so much that there’s no market for its price. Ghost raisers should always be alert to the backlash of ghosts in their bodies. In order to better guard against a supernatural ghost’s recovery, these two items must be in their bodies. If you get a high-level ghost or spirit item by any chance, you will be able to live a life without worry if you sold one. 

This was faster than live broadcasting, but it was also much more dangerous.

Spiritual objects usually suppress evil spirits, and ghosts are also found in places with strong resentment and ghost energy, and a little carelessness would kill you.

Hiss.

The little green snake came back, climbed onto Wu Rong’s arm, and spit out the thing in its mouth into Wu Rong’s hand. 

This was a string of purple crystal bracelets, the amethysts were dotted with silver stars, delicate and beautiful.

The bracelet had a faint yin qi, but no ghost qi. Therefore, it must not be a ghost. It is not too early in the morning to enter the Tiankeng, and it is still safe even after dusk. The crystal chain is not expensive. It may be lost by some students. However, as the small Green Snake found it, it should be quite special. The bracelet was wrapped in toilet paper and hidden in the gap under the handrail of the stairs.

It’s as if someone hid it on purpose.

Wu Rong took a cigarette into his mouth and turned on his mobile phone. The trainees who came to the No. 444 tiankeng summed up many ghost incidents. Wu Rong wanted to see if there was any bloody case involving the theft of the bracelet. When turning on the phone, Wu Rong glanced at the live broadcast room. 

Then he was stunned by the swiping gifts and the number of over ten million viewers. Wu Rong couldn’t see the broadcast, but the bullet screen in the live broadcast room flew madly.

across the screen the moment he looked at its direction.

[Here we come, the anchor finally watched the live broadcast room! With tears in her eyes, can she find out the code sent by the local tyrant? ] 

[I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m dying, there’s no anchor who doesn’t know the password of the live broadcast room, no, no! ]

[It’s hard to say, the anchor may be a newcomer, I guess I really don’t know. I’m so anxious, my life is at stake, young lady, run away!]

[Damn it, who is so arrogant and smashed so many spaceships?! What kind of code? I’m new here. Can I have brothers and sisters who can explain it?]

[New here? You don’t even know the secret code of the live broadcast room so you must have not seen the live broadcast of Tiankeng before. Do you know the new sneak three?] 

[Ah, this is the first time I’ve watched it, what is the new sneak three?]

[Newcomers should be diving

at least for three months. See more, ask less, and you will understand] 

[Upstairs doesn’t need to be so angry. Newcomers come here and I will give you somepopular science. After the tiankeng is opened, the environment is closed, and the public security special police cannot forcibly intervene. In order to prevent the testers from having grudges, the audience in the live broadcast room reports doubts and other issues. The anchor who enters the tiankeng cannot see the barrage, but can only see the number of people in the live broadcast room and the number of gifts. The live broadcast is in a 360-degree circle, and the audience can see more than the anchor. Sometimes the audience can see that there is a ghost behind the host trying to attack the anchor, or that the anchor has entered a dangerous area without knowing it. If the audience is anxious and wants to remind them, they can use a secret signal.]

[15 ghost food, 19 light sticks, plus 15 ghost food to represent an SOS, which is also the most dangerous. It means to remind the host to run away!]

[Understood, thank you, big brother, but why do I think the above is a spaceship, these cost two thousand and five!]

[Stupid boy, of course it’s because the boss is rich and self-willed.] 

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

[Stupid boy, of course it’s because the anchor doesn’t watch the live broadcast room! Spamming the spaceship will vibrate the phone, who knew that the anchor hadn’t realised it for so long, I suspect she didn’t turn on the vibrate at all!]

[Dormitory No. 444, I’ve never seen an anchor with such bad luck! Just now Professor Tong called the police with a serious face, I’m afraid.]

[I’m so worried about Miss Jiejie wuuu]

[Danger·Anchor·Danger] 

[F*ck, the seven most dangerous ghosts in Liuyang Vocational High School are known to be in the 444 dormitory, how long can the anchor live?]

(F*ck, F*ck, I kind of know what status the anchor has obtained. She took off her glasses and stroked her hair up, I didn’t recognize it at first! Isn’t she the most unlucky Wú Róng!?) 

[! ! It turned out to be Wú Róng!]

[Small small whisper, I didn’t recognize it either. It’s not just that she took off her glasses and changed her hairstyle.]

[F*ck, Wú Róng, this unlucky girl, all eight people in one dormitory died miserably, and as a result, all the sisters turned into evil spirits, Wú Róng died in vain, even the soul and person were chewed to pieces, who is this anchor? This identity!]

[Stop licking, the little sister will be turned into a meat paste!

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After thinking for a while, Wu Rong got up: “Let’s go, let’s take a look at the most dangerous one.”

If the live broadcast wants to last for a long time, there must be a positive interaction between the anchor and the audience, or the anchor will gain fans based on their strength. The spectators dropped more than 100,000 gifts, probably because they saw the toilet next to them and wanted to go and have a look.

Since the last time he replaced Huang Mao in the live broadcast of Highway 9, Wu Rong had vaguely figured out that those who watched the Tiankeng live broadcast liked blood and excitement. Wu Rong understood the audience in the live broadcast room quite well. 

The audience in the live broadcast room: ? ? ? ?

Walking to the entrance of the corridor, watching the rain of gifts flying across the screen, Wu Rong took off the little paper figurine on his shoulder and rolled it into a ball, exposing only the cameras of the paper figurine’s eyes. Then he took the black rock tarantula out of the jar.

He didn’t plan to go in by himself, Wu Rong could smell the strong and fragrant fragrance coming from the toilet just as he stood at the stairs. The smell was fragrant and luscious, extremely attractive. Compared to the smell in the toilet, today’s pile of boxed meals smell like chaff, and the factory corpse pit also look quite bland. The only one who can beat it was with the big ghost.

If the big ghost was like a bowl of Buddha Jumping Over The Wall, then the rice in the toilet, no, the stuff in the toilet is like rice in gold soup and abalone sauce, without the mellow and richness. But it was enough to whet Wu Rong’s appetite. 

The ones in the sewer pipes of the women’s toilets were probably swallowing people’s blood and mud. Judging from this level, even if they were not as good as the big ghosts, they can be considered top-notch. If it weren’t for them staying in the sewer pipes and not being able to come out, he was sure that No. 444 tiankeng would have to be upgraded to at least two more dangerous levels.

Although he wanted to test the strength of the big ghost, its five senses were blocked and couldn’t communicate, so Wu Rong wouldn’t take any risks.

He gave the ball of paper to the black rock tarantula, and let it walk around the entrance of the toilet with it on the spider’s back, which was also an eye-opener for the audience. After the black rock tarantula came out, as long as the green spirit Gu swallowed them and spit them out, the ghost qi and resentment tainting it could be cleaned away. 

The time in the tiankeng passed quickly, which seemed to be different from the real-life flow speed. After he called back the black rock tarantula, which had dissipated its ghost and resentment energy cleaned away, it was already 11:30 in the evening, and Wu Rong closed the live broadcast room smoothly. There is likely to be a fight tonight, and he doesn’t want to expose the big ghost yet. The fourth floor was exceptionally quiet, and the dormitory doors seemed to lead to morgues. Except for his roommates in No. 444, Wu Rong had never seen anyone else.

Suddenly, the blood on his forehead became hot again, and the heat that had disappeared filled his limbs and bones again. As if he felt something, Wu Rong went to the public balcony and looked down through the railing.

In the deep darkness, a solemn golden red flame was particularly dazzling, just looking at it made Wu Rong feel scorching hot.

This was the Zhengyang fire, which can only be cultivated by Taoist priests with the purest and most upright thoughts, that can restrain all ghosts in the world. There are only a handful of people in the world who can practice Zhengyang fire, and some of them are as weak as a candle. However, the Zhengyang fire burning in the direction of the office building was as blazing as a phoenix, turning night into day! 

For a moment, Wu Rong seemed to see Fu Qing’s figure. He was standing in the majestic and clear golden red fire with a mahogany sword in his hand. Here, he was like a god in charge of killing and punishment descending to earth. Under the darkness of night, thousands of ghosts in the tiankeng rushed towards him, but they were all engulfed in flames and died tragically under the mahogany sword.

It was a massacre without suspense.

The magnificent golden red light shone into Wu Rong’s eyes, and the blood spot on his forehead was hot. A strange, shuddering coldness swept from the depths of his soul, and the golden flame took all his attention. It was like a lazily sleeping ferocious beast was awakened by the breath of a powerful enemy, and it was angry, roaring, dissatisfied and hostile to having its territory invaded, especially when it found out that its lifelong enemy had left a mark on itself.

It wanted to bite, fight, cruelly deprive him of the light, grab him and fall into the abyss together. 

With a soft sound zila, Wu Rong’s blood point disappeared. The scene of Fu Qing fighting in the golden-red flames also dissipated like a mirage, and at the last moment he seemed to sense something and walked towards the dormitory. Raising his hand and waving his sword, the ghost blocking the way was wiped out.

This extremely colorful picture disappeared before his eyes, but Wu Rong still couldn’t recover for a long time, his whole body was cold, his chest seemed to be pressed by something and he couldn’t breathe, and his heart beat like a drum.

Too strong, Fu Qing is really too strong.

Covering his face, Wu Rong let out a deep breath. His hands were trembling, both excited and fascinated, he closed his eyes, the light and shadow of the brilliant golden red flame still remained on his irises. For the first time, Wu Rong understood what it felt like to have a rapid heartbeat. There still seemed to be a blazing heat on his forehead, seeping into his skin and bones, making it unforgettable. 

After lighting a cigarette, Wu Rong leaned in the corridor, twirling the cigarette butt with his fingers, unconsciously distracted.

Falling into the abyss, it was almost like an obsession.

It was like meeting the number one swordsman in the world and your only worthy enemy, that kind of excitement, exhilaration, rapid heartbeat, anxiously watching him as his heart was filled with his existence alone.

But the problem is, he and Fu Qing are not enemies, but friends. 

Then this feeling…

‘Buzz’

Suddenly filled with coldness, as if a basin of cold water was pouring over his head, Wu Rong immediately came back to his senses. The corridor lights changed from warm yellow to pale white at some point, and the gloomy and cold light reflected on the ground, which was indescribably terrifying.

It’s midnight. 

Crash.

The sound of water came from the direction of the toilet, which was particularly abrupt in the silent environment. After the sound of water stopped, footsteps sounded, like they were soaked in water.

Step, step, step.

A thin figure staggered out of the women’s toilet and walked towards dormitory No. 444 with a wet rag. The rag was dripping, and there were traces of leftover water under her feet. After walking two steps, the girl stopped and looked up at Wu Rong. 

It was a familiar face, it was the girl who was waiting at the cafeteria to invite him to have dinner together.

The girl’s face was a little pale and tired, but she looked normal. Seeing the light of surprise in Wu Rong’s eyes, she hurriedly ran over happily, and said shyly, “Róngróng, were you waiting for me?”

She sneezed when she smelled the smoke, and the corners of her eyes turned red, hesitated, and finally whispered: “You, don’t smoke anymore, it’s bad for your health.”

“Yes.” 

Wu Rong stubbed out the cigarette, and the girl didn’t seem to expect that Wu Rong would listen to her. Surprised at first, she then couldn’t help pursing her lips and laughing, full of joy, looking easily satisfied, like a little rabbit. She wiped her hands on her body, grabbed Wu Rong and said happily, “Let’s go, we should go back to the dormitory to rest.”

It was reasonable to say that the girl’s hands should be very cold, whether because of her identity or because she had just washed the rags with cold water, but in fact Wu Rong’s hands were colder than hers. When the girl walked to the door of the dormitory, she gave Wu Rong a sigh of concern and said timidly, “We girls must pay attention to our bodies.”

Wu Rong: …

The girl smiled at him with her small face up. Laughed, then pushed open the dormitory door. 

“Chi Fangfang, Wú Róng, are you conjoined twins? Hurry up and come in. You two came back late and the dormitory manager found out about it and deducted our points.””

As soon as they entered the door, a young female voice complained from bed No. 1. Wu Rong originally thought that the 444 dormitory would become a veritable “underworld dormitory” after zero o’clock, but now everything seems to be normal. Even though it was completely dark in the dormitory now, Wu Rong lowered his eyes all the way to his bed, and kept his gaze away from other places.

Do not see injustice, do not listen to injustice.

At the same time, the task released by the Tiankeng consciousness also passed into his mind. 

[First day task: Participate in the ghost story meeting in the dormitory and scare most of the existences in the dormitory. ]

[Prize for success: a human head]

[Punishment for failure: death]

“Hurry up, hurry up, let’s get started!” 

The girl on bed 4 couldn’t hold back and couldn’t wait to urge: “I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time!”

“But telling ghost stories in the middle of the night is too scary.”

“It’s time to tell something exciting in the middle of the night!”

“But…” 

“The minority obeys the majority! Vote quickly, I agree!”

Several girls voted quickly, with three votes in favor and three votes against, only Wu Rong and Chi Fangfang remained.

“Hurry up, what do you two choose!”

“I will choose whatever Róngróng chooses.” 

Chi Fangfang’s voice came from the upper bunk, and Wú Róng was in her lower bunk.

“Wú Róng, what do you choose!”

The voice was aggressive, it was unknown if it was an illusion, but it was much sharper than before, and there was a hint of yin. In the darkness, many pairs of eyes stared at Wu Rong. Not only from the beds, but from all directions, the whole dormitory seemed to be full.

In the dark, Wu Rong pulled out the Miaodao, put it in front of him, and said calmly: “I agree.” 

“Then let’s start according to the bed number!”

The female voice on bed No. 1 seemed a little reluctant, hesitated for a while, and said slowly: “The story I want to tell is a legend in our school.”

“The school installed fans in every dormitory a long time ago. But have you noticed that all the fans in the girls’ dormitory are sealed with wire covers? 

Yes. I heard that it was because of someone’s death.”

“It was also summer, and it was also in bed No. 1. The weather was too hot, and the electric fan was turned on to the maximum. The girl in bed No. 1 had long hair. When she stood on the bed to comb her hair early, her hair was caught in the fan.”

“At that time, it happened so suddenly that no one could react. The girl held on to the bed in great pain to avoid being dragged down, but the old electric fan was unstable, and the high-speed rotating fan cut off her head. The girl’s hair was still entangled in the fan’s paddles, the blood was thrown to the surroundings at the moment of the fall, and the walls of the entire dormitory were splashed with blood spots, all scarlet.”

“You see, the walls in the girls’ dormitory are all newly painted now, but sometimes students who live in that dormitory can still see blood spots on the wall.” 

Creek— Creek—

The electric fan above the head rotated slowly, like an old man on a hospital bed moaning, overwhelmed. Wu Rong smelled a faint smell of blood coming from the wall behind him. In a trance, there seemed to be a bang, which was the sound of the electric fan twisting the bloody head to the ground.

“What kind of ghost story are you going to talk about?”

The girl in bed No. 2 laughed. She was very courageous, and she was the one who suggested telling ghost stories at the beginning: “What I’m telling is also a story that happened in our school. Coincidentally, it also happened on bed No. 2.” 

“Just to say, there was once a girl named Xiao Fang who slept in bed No. 2 in the dormitory. Xiao Fang studied very hard. Lying on the bed by herself, reviewing the knowledge points she had memorized during the day.”

“When she was memorizing, she always looked at the back of the upper bed board. The bed board wasn’t made of proper wood, and it would have various cracks after a long time. Xiao Fang always stared at the crack when she was carrying things, one day she suddenly found that the crack facing her head seemed to get bigger.”

“This was not an illusion. Every day, the cracks were getting bigger and longer, from just a small crack to a finger long crack that almost penetrated the bed plate.

“If there was someone on her upper bunk, Xiao Fang would definitely remind the upper bunk that the bed is dangerous. But her upper bunk roommate just went home to recuperate not long ago, and there was only an empty bed above her head. The crack was getting bigger and bigger, as it got longer and longer, Xiao Fang began to feel strange at night. Usually, she would have to memorize for a long time before she fell asleep when she came back at night, but now when it got dark and the lights were turned off, she would soon fall asleep. When she woke up, her nails were always black. And her spirit also turned bad. She slept all night, but she often dozed off in class and her grades plummeted. ” 

“But strangely, when Xiaofang asked her roommate, she said, ‘You sleep very late every day, and you keep scratching things, which makes us unable to sleep.’”

“Xiao Fang vowed to understand that. She didn’t sleep that day and hid a small flashlight. When the familiar drowsiness came after turning off the light, she struggled to turn on the flashlight a second before falling asleep.”

“Then Xiao Fang saw a pale grimace smiling at her from the crack of the bed above her head.”

“The next moment a grimace streamed down and covered Xiao Fang’s face. Immediately afterwards, her body was out of control, and she began to dig the crack on the top of her head frantically. The crack had been dug so big that it could fit a fist into it. There was a rustling and scratching sound all night. The next day, the roommates found that Xiao Fang’s head was stuck in the crack, but her body was under the crack. Her neck was squeezed into the crack, and her flesh was bloody.” 

“No one knew how on earth she got her head inside through such a small gap.”

Every time a ghost story was told, the yin qi in the dormitory became more and more serious. All kinds of weird and terrifying sounds came and went, and those who were not determined may be tortured madly. The ghost stories were getting more and more terrifying, but after everyone speaks, they will be laughed at by the others. No ghost story can scare them.

In other words, these stories can only scare people, not ghosts.

The task of the Tiankeng is not only to participate in the ghost story meeting, but also to scare the most people in the dormitory. Wu Rong was not given too much time to think. After bed No. 6 finished speaking, it was his turn to be the next one. 

“Wú Róng, it’s your turn.”

Wú Róng, it’s your turn.

It’s your turn.

Malicious ravings resounded around Wu Rong, and an eerie ghostly aura enveloped him. It seemed that there were thousands of undead and countless ghosts in this dormitory, all staring at him faintly. 

This tiankeng task really hides many pits.

Wu Rong stood up.

It is estimated that in addition to these seven roommates, there are also those invisible dead souls. The task mentions “most of them “,  Even if all the roommates were frightened, if the proportion of frightened dead souls are not enough, he will still not be able to complete the task and will die.

Wu Rong walked to the window and glanced out. He seemed to be silent for too long, which made some beings unhappy. A cold, yet without real temperature, body stuck to his back, and said quietly: 

“What are you looking at?”

“Tell a ghost story.”

Wu Rong stepped aside: “Look.”

The golden red flames were burning, The Taoist priest holding a mahogany sword walked towards the dormitory building step by step. His face was stern, his pupils were bright, he was not in a hurry, and he came all the way. The ghostly green ghost fire lingered around him, it was the last ray of light remaining in the human world of the ghost who was completely beaten to death. But now, large expanses of green will-o’-the-wisps illuminate the darkness like an aurora, and in the eyes of ghosts, they were more cruel and horrifying than mountains of corpses and seas of blood. 

Standing among the intertwined golden red flames and ghostly green ghost fires, Fu Qing’s murderous intent was enshrined in his body. He was like a sharp sword unsheathed with a terrifying aura, trying to wipe out all ghosts and demons in the world.

The back was quiet, and the whole dormitory was also quiet.

Wu Rong: “Are you afraid?”

The author has something to say:

Ghost: wuu wuu QAQ

I’ve added a page for Tiankengs in the Glossary and changed from major tiankeng to great tiankeng

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