Chapter 91: Surprise Hygiene Inspection
Without giving the ghosts time to resist, the crowd drilled out of the cracked hole one after another and quickly entered the unknown dark space.
Several flashlights illuminated the surroundings at the same time, and it was indeed a long and narrow corridor. Only the walls, floors and ceilings were covered with unknown black liquid, which was sticky and cold when stepped on, making it very uncomfortable.
Zhang You collected a portion of it into a collection bottle, “This liquid could be what the Academic Affairs Office left behind.”
Could it be that it influenced the student ghosts so that they could not leave the sphere of the dormitory to which they belonged even if they discovered the passageway, ensuring the harboring and safety of the school's ghosts?
The crowd was on their guard, feeling their way cautiously through the corridor.
The boy ghost, however, was unconcerned, “A bunch of cowards, what are they afraid of, I've gone back and forth a hundred times, there's not even a single hair here!”
Zheng Wanqing held it hostage, not believing half of it, “Danger isn't something that doesn't exist if you say there isn't.”
“Tsk,” perhaps because of its experience, the boys' ghost's tone suddenly faltered, “You guys can walk anywhere you want, if you even touch a single hair, I'll cut my head off and kick it for you guys as a ball!”
Poof...
Several clusters of blackish hairs suddenly crashed down from in front of the crowd and fell to the ground.
Boy ghost: “......”
They all look up wordlessly, flashlights shining on the spot where the rustling sound started. It reflected a patch of air ventilation, with hair squeezing out of the narrow barred slit one by one as if it were tumbling through a stationary paper shredder.
First the hair, then the blood-foamed skin, and then the crushed and deformed flesh, hanging down in wiry strips—
It was a human being crushed hard through a vent!
The boy ghost froze for a few seconds and blurted out, “Xiao Qian?”
Even though the original shape of the body could no longer be seen at all between the falling strips of flesh and blood, it still recognized the identity of its companion from a ghostly perspective.
“Is this your new attack method?” Keke, who was leaning sickly against Jiang Lan, opened her eyes coldly in mockery, “Can you make one that isn't so disgusting?”
First the bug man then the noodle man. It wasn’t very aggressive, but it was spicy to the eyes.*
*Chinese internet slang to describe something that is visually shocking, overwhelming, or unpleasant to look at.
Who expected the boy ghost also looked confused, “No ah, this...”
It scratched its head and reached out to yank the hair in the air, “Hey bro, what are you doing?”
The moment the black hair was yanked, the shredded flesh exploded with a poof, and the blood mist splashed down from the vent, drenching the crowd all over!
The thick, fishy odor caused some of them to be unable to resist physiological dry-heaving, and they were quickly escorted to the back. Tang Xinjue and Jiang Lan took off their jackets and waved away the blood mist in the air, and there were only drops of blood left in the vents.
With two thuds, two eyeballs fell to the ground and rolled in front of their feet.
The boy ghost was dumbfounded by the change. It was about to pick up the eyeballs in a daze when he was pushed straight away by Tang Xinjue. An ice pick went through them, and the pair of eyeballs poofed and burst.
Silky black gas floated up from the shattered foam, bypassing Tang Xinjue and lunging towards the back—its target was the boy ghost!
By the time Tang Xinjue realized this, Jiang Lan had already extinguished the black gas with a prop. The boy ghost hadn't reacted yet, and said dazedly, “I, where's my bro?”
“Your bro is dead, for the second time.”
Tang Xinjue crouched down and picked up two objects from the pool of blood that had fallen out of the eyeballs: two red beetles.
The red beetles were already dead, and the residual eerie aura on them was still captured by her—“This is the handiwork of the ghosts.”
There were about seven or eight ghosts in total that came from the men's dormitory in a group with the boy ghost.
From the time four of them were caught by them in 919 and the rest ran away with their feet on the ground, less than half an hour had passed until now.
In that half hour, the escaping student ghosts had been killed by another wave of ghostly forces, and their bodies had been squeezed through the vents into mincemeat and bloody froth that was falling right in front of them.
Is it a demonstration... or an intimidation?
Guo Guo bravely walked up, and as soon as she saw the insect shells on Tang Xinjue's hands, her face changed: “Xinjue you you, why are you holding two eyeballs in your hands?”
“Eyeballs?” Tang Xinjue furrowed her brows in thought.
At this time Guo Guo rubbed her eyes again, her complexion relieved, “So it's bugs, I thought it was...”
Thought it was an eyeball.
“...Wait,” Guo Guo realized something as an afterthought, his voice bitter, ”...It wasn't just because I was bleary eyed, was it? ”
Since having the yin and yang eye supernatural ability, her eyesight was ridiculously good, and she had never had an eye blur misconceive thing happen.
Tang Xinjue gave an affirmative answer, “You use your yin and yang eyes again to see.”
Silent for two seconds to take a deep breath, Guo Guo opened her yin and yang eyes again and sucked in a mouthful of cold air, “I see the same two eyeballs, red... it's still moving! It sees me!”
Amidst the exclamations, Tang Xinjue didn't hesitate to crush the insect corpses and then use the toilet plunger to crush them into pieces until Guo Guo couldn't see anything.
The onlookers were somewhat stunned, “What is this thing?”
“A tool that can both kill ghosts and monsters and monitor them.”
Tang Xinjue yanked the still dazed boy ghost over, “Call all the kindred spirits you know, right now.”
The boy ghost struggled, “This request is too difficult, you let me think about it...”
Tang Xinjue, “If you can't do it in a minute, you'll end up exactly like these two bugs.”
She raised the ashes to the other party's face, her tone intensifying, “Immediately.”
The other party trembled and wiped its face, and without saying a word, it directly fell on the ground and began to call out.
The way they communicated with each other was a bit like a mouse hitting a hole in the ground, knocking around on the ground for an unknown period of time, the boy ghost got up with a pale face, “All, all gone.”
Except for the ones trapped in 919, the rest of the ones that had strayed outside were all gone.
Only then did it remember what Tang Xinjue had said, and said with fear and trepidation, “Could it be, could it really be the Academic Affairs Office?”
They had been hiding its voice and never showed up, letting the student ghosts almost all relax their vigilance, but then suddenly attacked when the students were dispersed... Even if it had already become a ghost, it couldn't help but feel a chill on its back.
Luckily, they have always drifted together in groups before and have never been separated, otherwise the one who was now ashes would be itself!
The girls also looked at each other.
If it was done by the Academic Affairs Office, it meant that the other party already knew about their actions.
They were being targeted.
Tang Xinjue was certain, “At the same time, it also shows that we're heading in the right direction. That means we create a sense of crisis for them, so they would obstruct us in a hundred ways.”
And what they had to do was to break through all the obstructions and attack the Yellow Dragon!*
*a Chinese idiom, means to destroy the enemy's lair. It refers to killing the enemy and fighting to the end until winning.
Encouraged, the crowd instantly regrouped and set off, while the lone boy ghost seemed to be scared out of his wits and took the initiative to show them the way, “More than twenty meters ahead, yes that's the direction. It looks like a dead end there, but in fact, when you tear open the wall skin on both sides, there are two doors inside.”
“The door on the left leads to the boys' dormitory, and I don't know what's inside the door on the right. It's probably the house where the old garbage picker used to live, it's full of second-hand appliances and garbage, so you guys don't need to look for it, there's no way the Academic Affairs Office would hide in a place like that. Anyway, when the time comes, you guys send me to the left...”
“Wait.” Tang Xinjue interrupted its vision and asked with cold eyes, “Why are we sending you into the boys' dormitory?”
The boy ghost mouthed, “...Because there, for me, it might be safer?”
Keke hit the nail on the head, “You want to run away from the battle and hide back home, and you want us to escort you for free.”
The boy ghost’s face immediately reddened, “Escape, escape from what, the matter of going back to my own dorm room can’t be called escape, you guys don't understand...”
Tang Xinjue and Jiang Lan, however, had already flanked it up with one on the left and one on the right, lifting it and turning it directly in a different direction, “Since, as you said, you can't find the Academic Affairs Office at the end of this aisle, let's go explore in the opposite direction.”
The ghost monster howled in a hurry, “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You guys can't do this, going to the Academic Affairs Office like this is a death sentence! The Academic Affairs Office isn't afraid of you guys at all, they're only afraid of the students they once killed joining together...”
Seeing that no one was listening to it, in desperation it didn't care to hide anything anymore, and shook out its trump card, “Send me back to the boys‘ dormitory, I know how to break the seals on those ghosts in the girls’ dormitory! As long as you release them all, you're guaranteed to pass straight through!”
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