Chapter 1 (1/2)

Chapter One: Bloodshed

It was said that if soht, they will die a blood-covered death, their face filled with terror She didn’t believe it and went there alone And guess what happened? Before her death, she used all her reth and said two sentences, ”Death is inevitable! There is no escape!” Strange things kept on happening, people were dying, did it all start with the girl that co Lu, Shen Fang, shi+ Ting, Ah Qiang and Uncle Li will take you on a journey of no return Suspense and horror, supernatural eleic, truth and reality vs fake and false, love and fraternal bonds, huhosts, evil and justice, love and hate Tinadannis shows you a world of intertwined mystery and splendour

Legends are a co for the university cah coeneration of talented individuals leave, it alone re Resentment, like love, can also be endless Therefore, exists the never ending night only to the school campus

Moonlight poured quietly over this university campus with over 100 years of history, silence spread rapidly like the darkness, instantly filling the entire sky Lights in the teaching buildings competed with the stars in the sky, an assort laures scattered around the flower beds like dotted decorations Busy pedestrians were in such a hurry that they only have ti friends and acquaintances, let alone those ere reading as they walked University campuses have always been said to be a place of scholarly atency and seriousness was added

”damn it!” He Jian Fei stood in the hallways and wanted to take out his cell phone to look at the time However, not only did he not find his cell phone, he realized that he forgot his super ilish textbook back in the dorht the physical education theory textbook that he’s LONG been done with Holding back his anger as he looked at his roo beside hihter ”You kept on nagging and hurryingthat if we are late there won’t be any et a doctorate in physical education theory” Zhang Chuan Xun tried not to laugh at He Jian Fei’s ht it, I don’t have a lot of notes, but you can glance it over when I’reat, is there really a need for you to read it?” He said as he took the book out fro to flaunt it in front of He Jian Fei, only to realize after taking a look at the three large familiar words printed on the cover--”Physical Education Theory” da book as well!

Feeling angry and a little e over to He Jian Fei, as laughing hard against a colulish test is tomorrow, I still have a bazillion vocabularies I haven’tpeople retake his class, I’ve got to get back to the dorm to fetchand said, ”The ca self-study time and we are at least a few hours away from the dorm, once you make that round trip back, you won’t haveChuan Xun heard and replied, ”No need to worry about that, Xiao Tian ith , we explored and found a s directly to the main campus road of our dorm It takes less than 20 o ahead, bringas well, I think I left it on my table”

He Jian Fei walked into the classroo his advanced mathematics As he read, he couldn’t help but to have so Chuan Xun was an extremely introverted person, he usually like to stay in and surf the internet or play ga so soo, Qin Xiao Tian lost to Zhang Chuan Xun by only a few votes, losing his honoured title of Outstanding Student and still harboured resent to walk around the caht about it, the more suspicious he was Two hours have passed, even if he took the main campus road, he should have been back by now, but there was still no sign of Zhang Chuan Xun Unable to keep on reading, He Jian Fei packed up his bag and hurried back to the dorm

The audio-visual education building was located in the Northeast corner of the old ca Shui perspective, of the Five Elements, it lacked Metal There were no ponds or lakes on either side of the building, only ancient forests surrounding it on all four sides, a sign of either extreood fortune or extreme misfortune Since the construction of the new multi is now rarely in use Most of the tie place for obsolete electronic equiplect and disrepair, the ce the reenin the tall grass at the foot of the wall The audio-visual education building was si, the reason that students even know about its existence was fro about its own achieve it to the multimedia classrooms

Unsure of whether it’s due to the dihts in the area, He Jian Fei circled the audio-visual education building several times, yet was still unable to find the Cri hoas close to curfew tiive up his search and stepped onto the campus shuttle Due to delays at the audio-visual education building, by the tiot back to the dorets back at around 10:30 PM, all of the lights on the fourth-floor dor Chuan Xun’s not inside? He Jian Fei’s stomach twisted into a knot, he sprinted up to the fourth-floor and hastened to find his keys to open the door and turn on the lights But all he saas the two English textbooks lying on each of their desks, and no books see Chuan Xun’s shelf except for the few in his bag

Could sos through, He Jian Fei tossed the two backpacks onto his bed, grabbed his keys and rushed out When he got to the top of the stairs, he saw his class over with a bunch of studya little surprised, ”It’s al in such a hurry at this hour?” He Jian Fei hurried to tell hi Da Kai heard and laughed, ”The nuht study rooms, I’ve even heard that they have a room to borrow textbooks, you are sure to pass by there while walking to the audio-visual education building My guess is that he probably got tired of walking and headed over to one of the all night study roorownwill happen to hilish test, co hi overly sensitive and decided to let things go ”My room’s empty, it’s quieter, why don’t you come over instead”

Soon, it was 1 AM, He Jian Fei put down his English textbook and yawned, getting ready to go to bed When he was putting up theby the bedside, thinking whether there’s a need to hang up the Spirit Evoking Bell[1]tonight He Jian Fei has a secret identity, he belongs to theunder Mount Wutai’s School since he o, following the leading authority of Buddhisest and most talented of the lay disciples[2] Since Mount Wutai has subduedhost realotten into the habit of hanging a Spirit Evoking Bell at night to give warning But since he entered university, he hasn’t been hanging it up that often On one hand, it’s due to the university being a holy place of learning, both ghosts and Gods looked up to it with respect, on the other hand, it’s because of his own laziness, he only sys it up once or twice asense of unease and ill o up So in the end, He Jian Fei has decided to hand up one of Mount Wutai’s fiveBell

”Ding ding ding” late into theof bells pulled He Jian Fei away from his dreams and back into reality He turned and opened his bleary eyes and saw the curtains by thefloating up high into the ceilings, then reot to close the s before bed Perhaps a stor winds ”Stop!” He Jian Fei sent out a yellow paper talis Bell as he s when there are ghosts, it rings when there’s wind, what kind of renowned ical instrument is it supposed to be?!” As he cursed, he suddenly spotted through theby the balcony He Jian Fei paused in surprise and asked in a low voice, ”Chuan Xun, are you back froure didn’t answer hiht it was strange and asked, ”What’s wrong with you? I’ure still only kept on walking closer and closer to hisof the Spirit Evoking Bell, He Jian Fei suddenly felt a sense of alarm, threw aside the blankets and instantly sat up, ”What kind of ghostly spirit are you, what are you doing here instead of being in The Underworld going through reincarnation? Leave now, otherwise don’t bla ruthless” As soon as he finished speaking, the black figure stopped in its steps but didn’t see in froure suddenly raising its hands slowly, then started to walk over once again, heading straight for He Jian Fei, fast approaching his bedside

Was it provoking him? He Jian Fei was furious and picked up a yellow paper talisman, flipped open the mosquito net in an instant and saw that the rooure was nohere to be seen He Jian Fei stood by the bedside and looked around suspiciously, then, a sound came from outside the door ”Sniffle … sniffle sniffle …” A low, barely discernible sob can be heard, after hearing the fan of relief and asked, ”Chuan Xun, why didn’t you speak back there? You al happen?” Then he walked over to the door and twisted the door handle, only to see the door standing there, unbudged He turned on the lights to take a look, and saw that the door ice secured with the safety latch, he personally locked the door earlier that night

The door wasn’t unlocked, and the black figure appeared first inside the roo with the sound of the Spirit Evoking Bell, He Jian Fei broke out in a cold sweat He paused for a moment, but still took out the key and unlocked the door, then carefully opened the door and said in a low voice, ”Chuan Xun, you …” Halfway through his question, he couldn’t help but to be stunned by what he saw The hallas silent, the doors to the other dorhtly shut, there was no one in sight Their dorm was quite a distance from the staircase, even if Chuan Xun wanted to run away, he wouldn’t have had tile sound He heard it very clearly, the voice back there was indeed Chuan Xun’s, could it be that … Just as he was getting a headache thinking about everything, a loud ”BANG” came from inside the roo Chuan Xun’s English textbook fell on the floor He looked outside the door once again, there was still nothing out there Perhaps it’s sohost andered in by accident, so he had to re-lock the door, close theand pick up the English textbook, then head back to bed

At 5 AM in theca voice, ridding He Jian Fei completely of any amount of sleepiness he had in hio and see what’s outside the door, instead he ran to theand shouted, ”Who the hell’sall the noise out there? Do you knohat ti Da Kai stood outside the door looking utterly terrified, his entire body tre terrible’s happened! Chuan Xun’s dead!” This came as a shock to He Jian Fei, and hisDa Kai incoherently kept on talking, ”I heard he died on the main campus road, his face was filled with terror, his eyes popped out of their sockets and he was covered in blood, but they couldn’t find a single wound on hiathered and a bunch of people carabbed ahold of Huang Da Kai’s shi+rt collar and asked hoarsely, ”When did it happen?” Huang Da Kai was stunned by the expression on He Jian Fei’s face, he paused slightly before answering, ”The , but the body was found by a security guard at around 4 AM when he was…” He Jian Fei opened his mouth and took a deep breath of the cool clean air on the outside in order to calht, the strange crying outside the door, and the English textbook that suddenly fell off the desk So that really was Zhang Chuan Xun’s ghost! Zhang Chuan Xun was already dead then! He Jian Fei suddenly remembered that his e of Helplessness[4] there was a Pond of Vindication[5] All of the passing spirits that have once been wronged or suffered injustice must wash themselves in the pond to rid themselves of all the hatred pent-up in their hearts Only after doing so, could they pass The Bridge of Helplessness and head for reincarnation, otherwise they will turn into haunting spectres, forever re in the world to receive punishhosts lack the ability to speak for themselves, thus, it was said that when they pass by the Pond of Vindication, they have to lift their hands up to their shoulder level as a sign that they ronged or suffered injustice, letting the agents of The Underworld know So the bizarre actions Zhang Chuan Xunto tellit to the agents of The Underworld? Why go through the efforts and come to tell me? When he suddenly re Chuan Xun was one of the few people that knows about hiical arts circle Could it be that his killer wasn’t human, but …

”Did soain? Ha ha ha … you can’t run, a few must die every year, huh, you can’t escape it, can’t escape it, did you go yet? If you still feel resenture staggered up the stairs He Jian Fei was alarmed and asked, ”That upperclass Da Kai whispered quietly, ”Don’t irlfriend died last year in the same way, he didn’t take her death well, cahts, then ended up all crazy and neurotic like this” As he was talking, He Jian Fei opened the door and ran up the stairs, leaving hi Da Kai stood there stupefied, He Jian Fei didn’t bother to explain to hi wasn’t as simple as it seemed, it’s not just about the death of one person

He Jian Fei caught up to the upperclassed his body and hobbled along sluggishly He Jian Fei stopped abruptly about three meters away fro from what you’ve said, you seem to know the reason behind Chuan Xun’s death, I’d like to trouble you for an answer”