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"Professor..."
Lu Yibei glanced sideways at Professor Ma, her thin lips slightly parted, hesitating for a long time, unsure how to speak.
She always felt that a urban legend couldn't help ordinary people for no reason; the Professor must have some subtle and unspeakable connection with that Headless Senior.
Although Lu Yibei had no expression on her face, Professor Ma still detected her desire to ask a question, yet feeling too embarrassed to speak, from her clear, seemingly mischievous eyes.
That look was exactly the same as when, in class, one wants to talk to a classmate but is afraid of being discovered by the Teacher, desperately pretending to listen attentively, while their mind has already started wandering.
I've been a Teacher for decades, and I can't see through your little thoughts? Professor Ma thought, his face stern, and said in a deep voice, "Speak if you have something to say? Don't beat around the bush."
"Alright, Professor, you asked me to ask this." Lu Yibei said helplessly, "I just wanted to ask, is there something between you and that Headless Senior..."
Before Lu Yibei finished speaking, her head received a sharp rap.
"Ouch! Hiss—!" Professor Ma cried out in surprise, shaking his hand which was throbbing with pain, and stared at Lu Yibei resentfully, saying, "What are you thinking about all day? I don't know her at all, let alone have an affair?"
Lu Yibei, "..." I didn't say anything about an affair!
Alright, although I thought that, I didn't say it out loud, did I?
Lu Yibei thought, then changed the subject, bringing it back on track, "Right, Professor, I wasn't finished speaking just now!"
Not finished yet? Professor Ma opened his mouth, just about to stop Lu Yibei from continuing, but she spoke first.
"Meeting that unfortunate Senior (female) was just the beginning; the experiences that followed were even more thrilling and exciting! Especially after entering the experimental building and running into Lu Xu." freёwebnovel.com
Hearing Lu Xu's name, Professor Ma was startled for a moment and decided to listen patiently.
Then...
He grabbed two blood pressure pills and a quick-acting heart relief pill and put them in his mouth.
"Speak!"
Lu Yibei stared blankly at Professor Ma, finally realizing something, and said weakly, "Professor Ma, if you can't handle it, maybe we should just stop?"
"Speak! If you don't speak, I'll deduct points!" Professor Ma roared in a livid tone.
How can a man admit he can't handle it?!
What's more, ever since Lu Xu went missing, Professor Ma had been worried about him.
See everyone? He's the one who told me to speak! It's not Bei Bei's fault! Lu Yibei shrugged and continued speaking.
...
Upon discovering that the Headless Senior was actually "going her way", Lu Yibei stared blankly at the figure ahead, which was both terrifying and somewhat comical, and frowned.
Should I wait for her to go first? Or take a short detour?
I'm rushing to save someone; I don't have time to get entangled with a urban legend here.
Just as Lu Yibei was thinking, she noticed that the Headless Senior stopped not far ahead, turned around, waved towards her, and then ran back towards her.
"!!!" Lu Yibei's heart skipped a beat, her eyes widened, and she instinctively took two steps back.
Watching the Headless Senior get closer and closer, Lu Yibei's eyes widened. Even though it was the same urban legend, the fear it brought by returning and running towards her was even greater.
On the ground not far away, there was a rustling sound, which sounded like a small creature crawling on the ground.
Following the sound, the abandoned head started to turn, its pale face towards Lu Yibei, its cloudy eyeballs staring at her, and then...
It blinked its eyes.
On that twisted and terrifying face, this kind of expression, both playful and ferocious, felt somewhat incongruous.
What the heck? What's going on? What should I do?
Does this mean if I don't go with her, she'll cling to me?
Lu Yibei was stunned for a few seconds. The footsteps ahead stopped abruptly. Looking up, the Headless Senior had stopped several meters away from her and raised a finger to point at the head on the ground.
Lu Yibei stared at the head on the ground expressionlessly, reached out her hand, pulled it back, reached out again, and then quickly pulled it back as if she had been electrocuted.
Even if you told me to pick this thing up, I wouldn't dare! Lu Yibei thought bitterly.
As if sensing Lu Yibei's fear, the Headless Senior's body stiffened for a moment, and the head that had fallen to the ground sighed.
"Sigh—!"
That resentful and helpless voice seemed to be quietly complaining, "Seeing you so calm, I thought you weren't afraid of me!"
Immediately after, the head on the ground started rolling by itself, with its messy black long hair, looking like a small beast crawling quickly on the ground.
The head rolled to the feet of the body and stopped. The Headless Senior bent down and picked up the head, patted off the dust, placed it steadily on her neck with both hands, then picked up the umbrella and covered her upper body.
With her upper body covered by the umbrella again, the Headless Senior instantly lost her terrifying and ferocious appearance from before. Judging solely by the figure revealed beneath the umbrella, with a slender waist and long legs, she was even somewhat alluring.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei thought to herself, no wonder there were rumors of clueless people going up to chat her up, only to be scared half to death and almost lose their ability to perform.
As she was thinking, a stomping sound suddenly came from ahead, as if urging her to move forward. Following the sound, the Headless Senior, with her back to her, waved her hand, then walked towards the Faculty of Arts Experimental Building on her own.
Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes slightly, watching the graceful figure with the umbrella walk away, and did not rush to follow.
Although it seemed for now that the Headless Senior had no intention of harming her, she was after all a urban legend. Who knew if there was any trickery or malice in her actions?
It's better to be cautious, otherwise, if I get tricked, I'll foolishly help them count their money!
Lu Yibei thought, recalling briefly the approximate distance the Headless Senior had run out to just now. Seeing that she had almost reached that distance and was about to stop, she then jogged to follow, maintaining that distance. The scene was a bit eerie for a moment.
Fortunately, the Four Gate Main Street was secluded, making it basically impossible for pedestrians to appear.
Otherwise, if someone saw a seemingly normal girl holding a kitchen knife, sprinting after a headless girl on the empty street under the night sky, who knows what they would think.
...
Starting from the middle section of Four Gate Main Street, the distance to the Faculty of Arts Experimental Building was not far. Lu Yibei followed behind the sprinting Headless Senior, and in less than a minute, appeared near the experimental building.
Upon reaching the vicinity of the experimental building, she seemed to have no intention of stopping, and silently entered through the main entrance. The dimly lit stairwell quickly swallowed her figure.
At that time, the Uncle security guard of the experimental building hadn't rested yet. The light in the guard room was still on, and bursts of Sichuan opera music occasionally came from inside.
However, there had previously been an incident in the experimental building where He Ruo was attacked and killed by a urban legend.
No matter how brave the Uncle security guard was, daring to keep watch alone here, he still tightly pulled the curtains of the two windows in the guard room, leaving no gap.
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Seeing the scene before her, Lu Yibei frowned slightly and imagined the scene where the Uncle security guard suddenly, as if possessed, pulled open the curtains and saw a headless girl floating past the window.
But then she shook her head again.
When she was near the bulletin board earlier, she didn't see the Headless Senior immediately, indicating that she had a way to conceal her figure.
However, Lu Yibei had no way to become invisible, but fortunately, her current body was relatively short.
This allowed her to crouch down, stay close to the wall below the window, and walk past lightly, completely undetected.
...
Entering the experimental building, Lu Yibei followed the Headless Senior all the way up to the second floor.
Just as her foot stepped onto the last stair leading to the second floor, her eyes felt slightly warm, and a strange sensation surged from all directions.
The corridor was empty, and the whitewashed walls and /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ ceiling gave off a strange sense of oppression.
Due to insufficient light, the energy-saving lights in the corridor were on, extending all the way to the other end of the corridor.
The entire corridor was eerily quiet. Lu Yibei could even hear her own breathing, which spread out under the glaring lights, echoing repeatedly until it became somewhat eerie before slowly fading away.
The Headless Senior had disappeared without a trace at some point.
Lu Yibei stood alone in the corridor, stunned for a few seconds, and began to feel troubled.
She didn't know where to look for Professor Ma first.
Although she had previously inferred that Professor Ma had encountered danger because he was studying the bamboo slips and lingered in the experimental building.
But even if Professor Ma stayed in the experimental building to study the bamboo slips, there was more than one place he could be.
The research room, office, and archive reading room were all possibilities, and these three places were on different floors and in different locations. Checking them one by one would take a lot of time.
Where should I go first?
Lu Yibei frowned slightly, weighing the probability of Professor Ma being in these three places and planning the best route. Just then, the disappeared Headless Senior appeared again.
She hurriedly ran down the stairs leading to the third floor.
Seeing Lu Yibei, as if afraid of scaring her, she stopped on the landing, timidly stepped back two steps, letting most of her figure disappear into the shadows, then waved towards Lu Yibei, as if signaling her to follow quickly.
"Are you trying to tell me that the Professor is upstairs?" Lu Yibei frowned and asked in a low voice.
As her voice fell, Lu Yibei saw the outline of the Headless Senior in the darkness. She held her neck and nodded.
Seeing this, she glanced towards Professor Ma's office at the end of the second-floor corridor.
The archive reading room is on the third floor, and the research room is on the fourth floor. Where could the Professor be? Should I trust a urban legend? Sigh, almost half an hour has passed. I hope the Professor is alright.
After pondering for a few seconds, Lu Yibei gritted her teeth, mustered up twelve parts courage, and followed.
In her opinion, the research room on the fourth floor was originally the most likely place for Professor Ma to be. Even without the Headless Senior's guidance, it was the first place she wanted to check.
Instead of being suspicious here, it's better to trust the Headless Senior once and save a little time.
Huh? I seem to have become a little bolder recently? Is it an illusion? Or have I been scared too much and become somewhat numb? Lu Yibei thought.
Just as she was lost in thought, the Headless Senior ahead had stopped at some point without her realizing it. She accidentally bumped into the Headless Senior, and the head, which had no flesh or blood connection, wobbled twice and, as if struck by a soul-piercing blow, fell into her arms.
The fuzzy touch of long hair came from her palms, mixed with viscous, cold blood. Lu Yibei immediately twitched as if electrocuted, and then stood rooted to the spot, her whole body stiff.
She instinctively wanted to throw the fuzzy, round thing in her arms away, but then felt it was inappropriate. For a moment, she could only hold the head with both hands, keeping it as far away from herself as possible, like holding a grenade about to explode, not daring to breathe.
Her gaze cautiously looked towards the Headless Senior's pale and twisted face.
Then...
She saw those cloudy eyes roll at her.
Immediately after, a pair of pale, slender hands reached out from the darkness, took the head from her hands, and steadily placed it back on her neck.
Lu Yibei, "..." Was I just despised by a female ghost? freewёbnoνel.com
Lu Yibei thought, and looked up towards the Headless Senior.
She saw her raise a finger and point upstairs, then she turned sideways, making way for the stairs leading up, but she herself didn't go any further. Her gaze occasionally drifted upwards, then quickly retracted, as if she was afraid of something.
Was there something upstairs that made her afraid?
Lu Yibei thought, just about to open her mouth to ask, but saw the Headless Senior step back a few steps, her figure disappearing into the shadow of the stairwell corner, gradually fading away, and vanished in the time it takes for two or three breaths.
Oh my, did she just leave like that? From now on, I'm on my own? Lu Yibei frowned, took several deep breaths, and then mustered her courage to go upstairs.
Before reaching the top of the stairs, when there were still a few steps left before entering the fourth-floor corridor, she cautiously stopped, took out two First Light Spring Wind Curses from her pocket, and threw one to the left and one to the right towards the unseen corner at the top of the stairs.
I understand things like corner kills. Lu Yibei thought, if I rush up rashly and there's something strange ambushing in the corner, wouldn't that be giving myself away for free?
"Thud—!"
The wooden First Light Spring Wind Curse landed on the ground with a crisp sound, immediately followed by a dazzling green light that enveloped Lu Yibei's vision, and a strange, mournful scream echoed in her ears.
The sound was like that of a very hoarse male, his cries mixed with insect-like hisses, which reminded Lu Yibei of the strange villagers she had seen in the illusion triggered by the bamboo slips.
Lu Yibei, "..." What was I saying? I just knew these ghosts were full of bad intentions!
Thinking this, she silently took out two more First Light Spring Wind Curses and threw them up, one to the left and one to the right.
The talismans landed with a soft sound, but there was no green light or scream.
After confirming that there was no ambush at the corner of the stairs, Lu Yibei finished the last few steps and went up to the fourth floor, where she saw a terrifying scene.
In the corridor, the whitewashed walls and ceiling were covered with bloody handprints and footprints, as if something covered in blood had crawled through using both hands and feet.
Mixed among those hand and foot marks were messy, twisted characters. Upon closer inspection, they were exactly the special characters that had appeared on the bamboo slips.
...
"Wait a minute!" Hearing this, Professor Ma couldn't help but interrupt, looking uneasily towards the corridor and asking in a low voice, "You mean the corridor right now..."
Professor Ma imagined the scene Lu Yibei described, feeling faintly worried that when he went out later, his blood pressure pills and quick-acting heart relief pills might not be very effective.
"Exactly!" Lu Yibei pouted, "I was terrified then! I almost didn't dare to come in and save you."
"And then?"
Lu Yibei thought for a moment, then said expressionlessly, "Then, I saw Lu Xu in the corridor. I didn't see him directly; he was hiding in the corner and I discovered him..."
