Chapter 67: The Shape of the Lake is a Human Head

After saying goodbye to Pei Chengjun and giving him a few precautions, I hurried back to my dormitory.

For the next few days, I was in no mood to think about anything else. The events that had taken place in that old restroom kept spinning in my mind.

That old restroom was probably the most fiercely haunted place I had encountered in quite some time. Actually, I was very curious, but feeling unconfident, I didn't dare to provoke that old restroom just yet.

Three days slipped by in a flash, and on the third day, Liu Sui returned.

After leaving the school, heaven knows what he had run into, but he had visibly lost a whole circle of weight. Moreover, he looked as if he hadn't slept in days, with dark, hollow circles under his eyes. Besides that, looking at Liu Sui, he seemed much older than he had a few days ago.

Feeling somewhat curious when I saw him walking unsteadily across the campus, I went over and supported him. Yet this guy was abnormally tense, and almost choked me to death on the spot.

Fortunately, he was physically very weak and failed to catch his breath in time. I seized the opportunity to wrap my arms around him and shouted his name loudly, which finally brought him back to his senses.

Liu Sui glared at me with his dark-rimmed eyes and let out a breath. Filled with deep worry, I asked, "Are you out of your mind, man?"

Liu Sui shook his head without a word. I continued questioning, "What about Jinyuan? What's going on with Jinyuan?"

Liu Sui sighed and said in an extremely weak voice, "Don't ask. Help me back first."

I stopped asking and supported Liu Sui step by step toward the abandoned teaching building of the school. When we reached Liu Sui's small cabin, he broke away from my grip, went inside by himself, and then closed the door firmly behind him.

I stared at it for a long while before finally leaving, feeling rather bored. Another two days passed. During those two days, I wandered over to the abandoned teaching building from time to time, only to find Liu Sui's door tightly shut the whole time. I had no idea whether he was dead or alive.

On the evening of the second day, after finishing dinner, I strolled over to Liu Sui's cabin once more. This time, the door to his room finally creaked open. Standing at the threshold was a cold-faced Liu Sui. The look of exhaustion on his face had faded quite a bit, and he had changed into clean clothes.

Liu Sui walked out of the room, remained completely silent, and began walking around the campus, bypassing me. I silently followed behind him.

As we walked, I took the initiative to ask Liu Sui, "What happened after you and Jinyuan left? Why were you in such a sorry state?"

Without turning his head, Liu Sui said, "Some things did happen, and Jinyuan's life was almost lost as well. However, it has all been resolved."

"How is Jinyuan doing?"

Liu Sui suddenly stopped walking. "Hard to say. It took us several days just to save his life. But he still has to endure immense suffering; it all depends on whether he can endure it and pull through."

I stopped speaking and silently followed behind Liu Sui. Although Liu Sui didn't spell it out, I understood it clearly in my heart. Jinyuan would inevitably still have to endure suffering, and it was very likely that he wouldn't survive this ordeal. Everything, absolutely everything, depended entirely on him.

As we walked, Liu Sui and I unconsciously arrived by the lake. Liu Sui stopped and sat down directly on the grass. I followed suit and sat down beside him.

The sky grew darker and darker, yet Liu Sui and I exchanged not a single word.

After a long, prolonged silence, I broke it first. "Actually, I have a few doubts."

"Hmm?" Liu Sui turned his head to look at me.

I said, "What I mean is, didn't you give Jinyuan eight tasks for him and me to complete? I remember Jinyuan telling me that very day that you told him the bloody rain in your dream was about to fall. Why did you say that?"

In fact, I had been pondering over what Jinyuan had said when he dragged me away from the hospital that day for several days now.

After asking this question, I stared straight at Liu Sui. At that moment, Liu Sui stood up and waved at me, "Come on, I'll take you to see something, and then you'll understand."

Filled with even greater confusion, I once again silently followed Liu Sui as we walked.

Before long, we returned to Liu Sui's dwelling. In the night gloom, Liu Sui slipped into his room, and when he came back out, he was holding a notebook in his hand.

Liu Sui tossed the notebook to me and waved his hand. "Come on, there are many things I should tell you. Once you read this, you'll understand."

I followed Liu Sui and soon walked beneath one of the campus streetlamps. I began to earnestly open the notebook, reading it word for word. Soon, I was breaking out in a cold sweat all over, goosebumps rising across my skin.

The contents recorded in this notebook were simply too shocking to me.

After a long while, I raised my head to look at Liu Sui. In my distraction, the notebook slipped from my hand and fell to the ground.

"Is everything written in here true?"

Liu Sui nodded without speaking. I continued to ask, "Does that mean our school is truly extraordinary?"

Liu Sui nodded again and let out a heavy sigh. I silently watched him from the side, bent down to pick up the notebook, and then began reading through it with even greater care.

Actually, what was recorded in this notebook wasn't anything momentous; it precisely detailed the eight tasks Liu Sui had assigned to me and Jinyuan.

The first task: searching for a corpse.

Back then, Jinyuan and I had relied on the reenactment of the death scene to find the corpse, and through that reenactment, we had witnessed the cause of the victim's death. At the time, we thought that person had been cruelly murdered by a large truck driver. But now, as I read the records in Jinyuan's notebook, I realized I was wrong.

That person had not been killed by the truck driver at all.

Then how on earth did he die?

The exact cause of death was not recorded in Liu Sui's notebook; he had only documented the process of the incident. The victim had driven from another city to our location to pick up his parents, and the journey all the way had been peaceful and uneventful.

However, just as that car passed the stretch of highway right outside our school, a bizarre scene suddenly unfolded. The car immediately began to swerve wildly across the road as if the driver were drunk, ultimately resulting in a tragic car accident.

The second task: raising a corpse.

The records here shocked me even more. The notebook stated that the Ghost Mother had been lingering around the boundaries of this school for many years, mysteriously scheming about something all this time. It turned out I had been wrong; she hadn't followed me here at all.

The third task concerned the old restroom.

According to Liu Sui's notebook records, the student inside the old restroom—namely Li Sang—was actually a student of our very own school.

Seeing this, I was utterly stunned and stopped reading further. Everything was intricately tied to our school.

And what shocked me even more was myself.

When I closed the notebook, Liu Sui led me toward the tallest teaching building on campus. Afterwards, we climbed all the way to the rooftop.

Finally, Liu Sui pointed toward the lake and told me to look for myself.

After I looked, the hairs all over my body stood on end. The shape of that lake was actually that of a human head.