Chapter 0578 – Did you find me?

　　Wen Wen’s cries came out from the single room, the girl’s teacher listened outside for a while, she was ready to wait for the girl’s cries to diminish before going in, but Wen Wen’s cries got louder and louder.

　　”This child is definitely out of her mind, she was the one who broke the cup, what’s wrong with her in the middle of the day?” The female teacher had to take care of the other children, so she decided to leave Wen to calm down in there alone, and left through the door of the room herself to return to her accommodation.

　　When all the children were dressed and ready to start their afternoon classes, the female teacher came back outside the single room.

　　Half an hour had passed and Raven had finally stopped crying.

　　”It seems good to air her out, you can’t spoil them too much in general.” Thinking she had found a good way to discipline Wen Wen, the female teacher pushed open the door of the single room.

　　There was a damp air in the not-so-large single room, and it always felt eerie.

　　There was a puddle of water stains on the floor, and the little girl stood alone in the corner with her head hung low.

　　Her slender arms were hanging down weakly, her pale skin was particularly conspicuous, and her hair was resting on her face, covering her eyes.

　　She made no sound, as if she were a piece of decoration in this house.

　　”No more crying?” The schoolteacher noticed the girl’s abnormality, she inexplicably shivered, and after entering this tiny room, breathing became surprisingly difficult, as if this room was filled with water, and staying there for a long time would drown a person.

　　Outside the room came the sound of wind chimes, and the children’s singing, this was their normal schoolwork, but standing in the single room and then hearing those voices, it felt completely different, as if what was being sung wasn’t a child with a defective intellect or a disease in their body, but a pained soul moaning.

　　”Come here.” The female teacher didn’t dare to go further into the room, he reached out towards the girl, hoping that the child would come out from inside the room on her own.

　　But it was as if Shizuku couldn’t hear her at all, maintaining her eerie posture, arms slightly bent, body leaning forward, the only lips not covered by hair pulled to either side.

　　”Can’t you hear me? I told you to come here!” The governess looked at the child, and an inexplicable emotion surfaced in her mind that seemed to be fear.

　　I’m actually afraid of a child?

　　It was broad daylight and sunny outside.

　　The female teacher was ruthless and walked into the house’s, grabbing the curtains and trying to pull them open.

　　But just as she was about to pull the curtains open, her wrist was cold, as if she was grabbed by something.

　　”Ah!”

　　Shrieking in shock, the female teacher looked back, her own wrist was grabbed by Wen Wen, this little girl changed from her previous dementedness, her eyes became much stranger, like a deep pool with no visible bottom, and there was a corpse floating inside like that.

　　What’s going on?

　　The hand of the female teacher that was gripping the curtains slowly lost its strength at this point, there was no way for her to pull the curtains open again.

　　”Let’s go to class.” Six words came out of Matron’s mouth clearly, no stuttering or trembling, every word was very clear, which was completely different from her previous behavior.

　　”Good, good.” The female teacher stopped talking nonsense and ran out of the single room.

　　It was only when she came to the corridor that the oppressive feeling slowly diminished.

　　The female teacher didn’t dare to turn around to look at Wen Wen, she felt as if her wrist had been bitten by something, it was cold and numb, and was gradually losing consciousness.

　　Entering the classroom, Raven took the initiative to let go of her hand without her having to say anything and walked herself to the last row of the classroom.

　　”Today is really weird.” Even after being released by Raven, the schoolteacher’s wrist still felt a chill.

　　She told her students to pull all the curtains in the classroom and then started the lesson. She tried not to look at where Raven was, slowly putting this incident that happened at noon behind her.

　　……

　　At three thirty in the afternoon, Chen Ge’s haunted house encountered a small problem, that General Manager Bai who was called by Director Luo wanted to experience Chen Ge’s haunted house for himself.

　　Chen Ge, who was not sure about the other party’s details, was prepared to give Mr. Bai an imperial VIP service, which meant that he would only let Mr. Bai go in alone, and then arrange for a few ghosts to act as tourists and accompany him.

　　Actors are ghosts, tourists are also ghosts, and wherever they look, they are all real ghosts, so I believe that they will definitely leave a precious memory for Mr. Bai, and they will also be able to take this opportunity to extract some useful information.

　　Originally, it had been planned, but Mr. Bai changed his mind temporarily, letting the secretary who came with him to make the attempt.

　　A mere secretary was not worth targeting Chen Ge, and he intentionally let the water out of the water and lowered the difficulty of the three-star scene, allowing that secretary to almost pass the third sick building scene.

　　The other party might think that Chen Ge’s haunted house was nothing more than that, but if they were careless and came over next time, Chen Ge would be ready to personally take on the scene, and in the meantime, let out all of those mentally ill people’s souls, so that they could see what it meant to be the Society of Strange Talkers.

　　The negotiation between Mr. Bai and Luo Dong went smoothly, but after sending Mr. Bai away, Director Luo didn’t have any smile on his face, things were going too well, making Luo Dong a bit unsettled.

　　These things, Chen Ge is not too knowledgeable, he is not able to casually intervene, in the spirit of trust in director Luo, he did not go to ask anything.

　　The haunted house was closed at night, and after cleaning up, Chen Ge went in alone in the middle of the underground scene, tonight he was going to finish the Twin Water Ghost task.

　　Taking out the comic book and including all the ghosts and monsters in it, Chen Ge stuffed the skull crushing hammer into his backpack again.

　　”After the water ghost quest is completed, the variety of staff in the house of horrors will be able to be greatly enriched, and the first underwater horror scene will also be unlocked, I just don’t know what form it will take.”

　　Filled with anticipation, Chen Ge left the New World Paradise, and as he took a taxi and prepared to head to the reservoir, his cell phone suddenly rang, and it was Wen Wen’s aunt calling.

　　”Hello.”

　　”Did Wen Wen go to your place? Boss Chen, have you seen Wen Wen?” Wen Wen’s aunt’s anxious voice came from the other side of the phone.

　　”Wen Wen? How could she be at my place? Take your time.” Chen Ge had a bad premonition.

　　”Wen Wen lost it! When I went to the Rehabilitation Academy to pick her up at night and bring her home, I realized that she wasn’t in the school! The school teachers didn’t know where she was either, the surveillance showed that she did wait for me in front of the school after school, but after a short while, she disappeared from the surveillance, and now no one knows where she is.” Wen’s aunt was anxious, “That child loved your paradise, she even made a point of telling me how comfortable she felt in your haunted house, she had been moping around before, and finally smiled when she came back from your paradise, so I suspect that there is a chance that that child might still be running to your paradise.”

　　”I don’t think so, you guys live in the eastern suburbs and we’re in the western suburbs, it’s a long way away.”

　　”I’m just giving you a heads up, if you see the kid, remember to call me back, thanks!”

　　”Okay, no problem, but I think there’s a high probability that Wen Wen is still at her school, can you give me the location of that school of hers?”

　　After Wen Wen’s aunt reported the location, Chen Ge hung up the phone.

　　He hurriedly ran to the caretaker grandpa and gave the other person a brief explanation of the situation, asking him to keep an eye out for that little girl.

　　After explaining the situation, Chen Ge rushed directly to the school the girl attended, in his opinion, the girl shouldn’t have traveled too far, and she didn’t have any money on her, so she should still be near the school at this time.

　　”This child’s sister is a water ghost, could her sudden disappearance be related to her sister? Is it because I went to the reservoir yesterday and attracted the attention of the water ghosts?”

　　Time was still early, Chen Ge directly took a taxi to the rehabilitation school.

　　……

　　”What a troublesome guy, don’t have so many ideas if you’re intellectually deficient!” The female teacher known as Xiaozhu walked along the long corridor, next to her was the male teacher who was in charge of the outdoor program.

　　”Don’t say that, if outsiders hear it, it won’t reflect well on our school.” The male teacher was quite understanding, and even though his face wasn’t exactly happy either, he at least didn’t voice those grievances.

　　”Cheng, if nothing had happened to this kid, we would be shopping and going to a movie right now.” The female teacher did not hide her emotions in front of the male teacher.

　　”Keep your voice down, Principal Wen doesn’t like school teachers falling in love, it’s better for us to be a little more careful here.” He walked ahead, “Find the girl first.”

　　”It’s just as well that it’s lost, I’ve been annoyed for a long time.” The woman spoke in exasperation.

　　When the two of them turned the corner into another corridor, this long corridor did not turn on the lights, the male teacher was about to go to turn on the lights, his arm was suddenly wrapped in softness, he was surprised to turn around, and realized that his arm was being held by the female teacher.

　　”Why are you ignoring me?”

　　The woman made an expression that she thought was cute, the man saw no one else around and secretly pecked the woman on the cheek, “Let’s get busy with business first, if that child is really lost, it will also have a big negative impact on our school. By the way, some students said that the child’s inexplicably cried out at noon today, do you know the exact reason?”

　　”It is estimated that he is sick, I’ll tell you, that child has been abnormal, often holding a water bottle during class, talking to the water inside, sometimes, he will ask the water cup to call his sister.” The woman seemed to get interested, “She doesn’t get along with the other students at all, I once made her sit with a kid in the class who had a milder condition, and the girl ended up scratching that other kid’s face right off simply because the other kid wanted to look at her water cup.”

　　”She’s that aggressive? The test results the doctor gave when she came in didn’t say any of that.”

　　”Then who knows? Anyway, I’ve completely given up on her, as long as we can make money, you know the situation here, there is an indicator that sixty percent of the children have improved, and the remaining forty percent of the children’s condition has not worsened, that’s already enough.” The woman hugged the man called Shing, speaking in a completely different voice than in front of her classmates.

　　The man did not refuse, allowing Xiaozhu to hold his arm, his body also deliberately moved a little closer towards the other party, “No matter what, it is still necessary to find that child, otherwise the supervisory department will come over and find out that you had locked her up in a small room today and let her cry, the principal is afraid that he will make a punishment for you.”

　　Voice doting, the man leaned in with Kotake as the two entered the long hallway.

　　As the man was about to go to turn on the light, Xiaozhu, who was holding the man’s arm, suddenly saw a low shadow reflected on the wall at the end of the long corridor.

　　”There!”

　　Her shriek of surprise was followed by the man turning on the lights of the long corridor and the low shadow on the wall disappearing.

　　”What do you see?”

　　”A figure in front of it, like the kid!”

　　”She’s still at school and hasn’t left?” The man ran towards the end of the corridor, holding Kotake’s hand, and when they arrived they realized that there was no shadow on the wall, only a water stain.

　　”Who would spill water here? Was it that girl?”

　　”It shouldn’t have been anyone else but her.”

　　”But what did that child want?” Kotake was a bit puzzled, “But then again, that child seems to particularly enjoy playing with water.”

　　”Shizuku woke up from her nap and broke the cup and started crying, so something probably happened while she was napping.” Ah Cheng was calmer, “The one in charge of lunchtime inspections today is Ms. Wang, she seems to be searching outside the school with the principal right now, I’ll give her a call and ask.”

　　The man said and dialed the phone, Xiaozhu looked on but was a bit upset, “How do you have her phone number? When did you leave it?”

　　”Teacher Wang, at noon, did you find Wen Wen in an abnormal condition?”

　　”No, I saw a hair in her water cup and ended up pouring the water for her.”

　　”Is that all?”

　　”Yes.”

　　”And what did you pour the water out of the water glass on? Did it spill on the girl’s bed?”

　　”What do you mean? What does this have to do with me?” Teacher Wang returned in a good-natured manner, “The water was poured into the washroom, nothing else, I’ll hang up.”

　　”The washroom? Let’s go, let’s go there and take a look.” Not wanting to discuss the matter of why he had Mr. Wang’s phone number with Xiaozhu, the man sidetracked the topic and led Xiaozhu to the washroom deep in the corridor.

　　His hand grasped on the door handle, Ah Cheng instantly withdrew his hand again, “Why is this door handle full of water? Someone has been in and out?”

　　He looked at the door panel and found that it was also soaked with water at the top of the door panel’s seams, as if it was moldy, and it also emitted a faint fishy smell.

　　”The kid is hiding in the washroom?” With doubt, the man pushed the door open.

　　The sound of rushing water came out from inside the house, the faucet was not turned off tightly, and a line was written on the mirror of the sink with water – I’m right here.

　　Drops of water slid down the surface of the mirror, and the words had obviously been written not long ago.

　　”Did Shizuku write this?” Shing looked to Xiaozhu, who usually had the most contact with Wen.

　　”Definitely not! That child doesn’t even know any words, how could she possibly write?” Xiaozhu looked at the five words on the mirror, a little scared.

　　”That means there’s someone else mixed in our school, and he’s probably the one who abducted Shizuku.” The man clasped his hands to his chest and fell into deep thought.

　　For her part, Kotake became increasingly uneasy, the light in the hallway flickering slightly as she looked at the faucet and suddenly realized a problem.

　　The stopper on the sink had not been plugged by anyone, but the water flow could not be drained down smoothly, looking at the rising water surface, Xiaozhu had that choking feeling again, as if she was in the middle of a pool, watching the water surface spread a little over her heart.

　　Faintly in her ears came the girl’s singing and self-talk, her body was trembling, out of the corner of her eye she saw something floating out of the pool’s drain, a wisp.

　　She walked over to the sink and slowly put her hand into it, realizing as she touched the thing and was about to pull it out that it was a strand of a woman’s hair.

　　As if she had grabbed something really disgusting, Xiaozhu struggled desperately, she wanted to call out to the male teacher next to her, but when she turned her head, she saw that in the mirror at this very moment was standing a girl whose whole body was soaked and white.

　　She was wearing a bloodstained tunic, her hair was sticking out from the bottom of the pool, and her mouth was opening and closing as if to say, “Did you find me?”