【Ruijin】Escape

Chapter 9【Escape 09】

The corridor is not too long, and it only takes less than ten seconds to sprint through it with all your strength.

The white shadow followed behind them, repeating the weak "Help us...", behind it, the corridor floor began to gradually collapse, Jin looked back and saw two plaster casts rushing out of the art classroom The statue fell straight down, making a long wail.

"Thank you!" Kim said shortly.

This is a double-edged sword. Although it makes them have no worries, it also fundamentally cuts off the possibility of them turning back.

"Get down!" Gray suddenly yelled, and at the same time pressed Jin's head violently, Jin lowered his body with this force, rolled on the ground, and saw a swollen white limb coming from the ground. Wiped over by himself.

Because of this attack, Gray and Jin were forced to separate, and each clinged to the left and right walls of the corridor. When they looked up, they saw a pale spider-like thing lying on the ceiling, and the hanging white limbs were rotten. There is no face on the meatball-like body, only a big mouth, revealing jagged fangs, rancid saliva drips down the corner of the mouth, and gathers on the floor into a small puddle.

Unable to figure out the details of the ghost for a while, neither of them dared to act rashly, and each observed the situation on guard, but they were destined not to have time to observe for too long, and the music lingering in their ears was a reminder.

Jin took a closer look and found that the ends of those limbs were clearly human hands—but they were not normal hands, more like a clumsy product made of plasticine by simply and roughly kneading several hands together. The deformed fingers were twisted Incomparably, the veins burst out.

The hand at the end waved, fingers opened and closed, swaying in front of them again and again, trying to catch them, but it was more like groping aimlessly than purposefully.

"It can't see us!" Jin immediately reacted—the ceiling is less than three meters, and the moonlight reflected in the corridor can't catch them, which can only show that this ghost has low eyesight, or is simply blind.

Jin's voice was very low, and he deliberately lowered his voice, but almost at the moment when he spoke, the ghost seemed to find the right direction, and a long limb grabbed him fiercely. Jin hurriedly leaned against the wall to avoid it, Having narrowly escaped, his left wrist slammed on the ground, and he hastily bit his lip tightly so as not to cry out in pain.

Broken is unlikely, sprained or dislocated is very possible.

"You go to the music classroom!" Gray raised his voice, shouted, and ran in the opposite direction - his range of activities was not large, and there was a broken corridor not far away. His voice attracted Spider-Man, and his figure The gigantic ghost stepped on the ceiling and chased towards Grey in an earth-shattering manner.

"To Alice" has already played the fast-tempo part in the middle of a song. Hearing the sound of death's timing in his ears, Jin gritted his teeth, turned his head and rushed in the opposite direction, and soon came to the door of the music classroom forward.

The door of the music classroom was open, and the closer you got, the clearer the sound of the piano could be heard. There was a rotten-smelling liquid stuck to the door frame and the floor near the door, much like the saliva dropped by the spider-man.Jin rushed in without any hesitation, and sure enough, he saw a grand piano being played—but to his surprise, he didn't see the figure of the player.

Regardless of thinking about the possible dangers—not to mention that the melody of "To Alice" floating in the air is becoming more and more treacherous—Jin San rushed to the piano in two steps, and when he saw it, he was almost stunned. one second.

Those who are playing the piano are a pair of hands, and a pair of hands with twisted fingers and bloody flesh. It looks like they have been smashed and crushed by some heavy object. These hands are trying hard to press the keys, but in the end they are unable to do what they want. The notes are gradually disordered.

But the song "To Alice" continued tenaciously, and the melody had already reached a place that Jin was very familiar with. In a few seconds, there might be that piercing "Bang—" and the song would end at the same time.

Without time to think about it, Jin stretched out his hand directly, wanting to randomly press on the keys to destroy the piece of music, but no matter how he pressed, the pressed keys could not make any sound, and the twisted hands were still not tight. Playing it slowly, until both hands suddenly raised at the same time——

Oops! ! !

In desperation, Jin wanted to grab those two hands, but the strength of those two hands was surprisingly strong, and they directly took Jin's two hands together, and smashed heavily on the keys.

"state--!!!"

"what--!!!"

The sound of the piano sounded together with Jin's cries of pain. He even wondered if his fingers were about to be smashed, and the pain in his left wrist intensified again.

But compared to the pain in his fingers, another fact made his heart sink even more.

He played "Fur Elise" in its entirety, and now he's heard it in its entirety twice, and Gray has listened to it at least once.

Without stopping, those hands started to play again, and the familiar melody slid out like flowing water, indicating that there were still 3 minutes of countdown left in their lives.

Jin found a stool from the music classroom, lifted it up and threw it on the grand piano, but the piano did not move at all. Instead, he stepped back a few steps from the shock, and his jaw was numb. He tried to smash the keys again, but the keys did not move. There was no sign of damage at all, the stool hit the keys, and those keys still did not make a sound, as if they were broken.

"……hateful!"

Time was running out, and Jin was not allowed to think about it, so he could only try any possible method—then the stool turned around and hit the hands playing the piano.

This time it worked, the hands trembled a little when they hit, but it only stopped the performance for a second, and a second later the hands continued playing as if nothing had happened.

It seems that multiple injuries can't stop it from playing the piano.

This is simply the most incomprehensible ghost I have ever encountered—the hands are indeed powerless to cause any damage, and have never attacked Jin actively, but the music it pops up is deadly, and it cannot be simply forced to stop playing by force, just Even this piano cannot be artificially destroyed.

The brisk beat of "Fur Elise" echoed through the classroom, but at the same time, King could hear a heavy thump in the hallway—Gerry was risking his life to buy him time.

Their time is running out.

Jin hit the hands with the stool a few more times, trying to delay even a second longer to think about the countermeasures. With each heavy blow, the hands would pause for a second, but they would immediately continue to play tenaciously.

——If you smash it, it will stop.

——If you smash it, it will stop, stop...

The melody started to mess up again, Jin threw away the stool in his hand, flipped off the piano cover, and crushed those hands mercilessly!

In an instant, a mournful howl sounded in the music classroom. The hands were pressed by the piano cover and buckled on the keys, pressing out a series of weird melodies. At the same time, it was struggling desperately to push the piano cover off. With all the strength to press it up, he even raised one leg and pressed his knee firmly against it. Dark red blood overflowed from under the piano cover, and the wailing sound gradually weakened.

Finally, the hands stopped struggling, and the wailing sound disappeared. Jin didn't dare to relax his vigilance. He thought for a while, endured the feeling of nausea, grabbed the severed wrists of the hands, pulled them out and threw them on the ground , and then completely closed the piano cover, turned over by himself, and sat down on the piano cover.

Two more bloody hands were lying on the floor of the music classroom, and the piano bench was covered with blood. After all, "Fur Alice" was not finished, and they were able to escape this danger.

Jin looked at those hands and felt very uncomfortable.

"...I'm sorry." He said softly, "I don't know how you got in, and I don't know why you became like this...but Gray and I want to go out, we can't die because of you."

Before he finished speaking, Jin jumped off the piano and picked up the stool that had been thrown aside just now, but just as he was about to rush out of the classroom door, he almost collided with Gray who was about to rush in.

"Gary, are you okay?"

"Are you okay?"

The two asked in unison. After asking, they froze for a moment, and then smiled at each other rarely. Jin's smile was relieved, and Gray's was so shallow that it was almost imperceptible.

Don't need to answer to know, they are all right.

That spider-man is actually a clone of the hands playing the piano—it’s a bit confusing to say so. Gray explained in another way that the spider-man was to protect those hands and continue playing the piano. Gray noticed it, so he speculated, The ghost playing the piano may not be strong in itself, so he chose to lure Spider-Man away and let Jin destroy "For Alice".

Jin nodded, thinking of those tenacious playing hands, he was speechless for a while.

Spider-man has the most hands, one after another... Could it be the instinctive desire of those hands with broken phalanges?

The key next to him was slightly hot, and Jin suddenly had a premonition—everything was really coming to an end.

Like hallways and stairs that have completely collapsed, no matter what they face next, they have no choice.

"Let's go?"

"Walk."

The two quickened their pace and ran up to the fifth floor. Looking at the quiet and dark corridor, they couldn't help but fell silent.This pause lasted less than a second, and then they split up and began to check all the keyholes they could see, just like the division of labor they had agreed on before.

"Gerry." Jin suddenly called out to Grey, "I seem to have forgotten to ask you something!"

"what?"

"Here...is this the only building like this? Have you looked outside?"

"No." Gray shook his head, "The entrance to the hall on the first floor disappeared immediately. I tried to open the window, but it didn't work. I couldn't get out at all."

"Could it be going to the rooftop?" Jin answered subconsciously, squinting his eyes to check every cabinet door, "Maybe as long as we can get out of this building..."

"........."

"Uh, what's wrong?"

Gray quietly stared at the white shadow that suddenly flashed again: "Maybe you are right."

The stairs to the roof were at a corner on the east side of the fifth floor, and the two of them went back, only to see a large lock on the iron door at the corner, the keyhole was in the shape of an upside-down five-pointed star.

"That's it!" Jin exclaimed in surprise, he took out the key and compared it, "It must be right!"

None of them had run here before, because the iron gate leading to the roof would be locked after school every day, and most of them came here to seek their own death.

When the key was about to be inserted into the lock, Jin's hand stopped.

Gray didn't say anything, just stood beside Jin and waited quietly.

"Gerry, you have to promise me one thing first."

"……what?"

Jin turned his head, and stared straight at Grey with a pair of blue eyes: "If you open it and go back, it's easy to say... If you open it, there is something more dangerous inside, you have to promise me, you can't just think about it. leaving alone."

"........."

"You don't really think I can't see it, Gray?" Jin frowned, and the next second, he changed into a somewhat helpless tone, "We grew up together... Let me tell you, if you Still thinking that if you give priority to protecting me, I will really get angry with you, I'm not kidding!"

"........."

"The situation was urgent before, and I didn't have time to argue with you, but don't think that I can be at ease, why should I let you sacrifice my life for it?!"

"……gold."

"Understood, I'm so close to being angry, so close." Jin spread his right index finger and thumb, shortened the distance, and made a gesture the size of a grain of rice, "Geri, you know, I don't get angry very often. Don't force me!"

Gray stared into Jin's eyes, and he saw his shadow in those eyes. He felt that he had a lot to say, but those words were not suitable to say now, or maybe he shouldn't say them, but he couldn't hide them of.

"Okay." Finally Gray nodded, "Then relative, you can't take risks."

After the agreement was reached, Jin slowly inserted the key into the lock, and after trying to turn it, the large lock hanging on the iron door bounced open with a click.

Neither of them spoke, but opened the iron door silently, and walked up the stairs leading to the roof step by step. After the iron door was opened, the black mist covering the stairs suddenly dissipated, and they were able to see clearly—— The door leading to the terrace was ajar.

After going through so much, no one felt that this was a sign that they could leave immediately. On the contrary, they all tensed up for a moment.

The one who opened the door to greet them, in addition to escaping from the sky, may also be the real instigator of this teaching building.

Gray has always been convinced that there must be a manipulator behind the weirdness of this teaching building. Since he realized that the dead will gradually turn into ghosts, this conviction has been deepened again.

"Be careful." Gray reminded softly.

"I know." Kim nodded.

Together they pushed the door open.

Open the door and you will see the roof. Unlike the torrential rain outside the window of the teaching building, there is no rain on the roof. The night sky after the rain is extremely dark, dotted with a few bright stars.

Jin Weiwei was stunned: "Gerui, here..."

"Don't talk." Gray interrupted Jin briefly, he heard what Jin wanted to say, but it was obviously not a good time to say this.

Standing on the rooftop was a figure similar in shape to them, with a blurry face, staring at them silently without knowing when it started.

"Who betrayed me..."

A faint, resentful voice came, hoarse and creepy.

"Who... who gave you the key..."

Surprisingly, the shadow looked very weak, and even the voice was panting heavily. Jin took a step forward cautiously, and the shadow stood there motionless.

"Obviously only one person is missing...just one person is missing...as long as you don't care who dies...I can survive!!!"

In an instant, the wind was blowing.

Gray reacted quickly and hugged the pillar near the door, and at the same time stretched out a hand to hold Jin's arm tightly - the gust of wind was too strong, if he let go, he might be blown down by the wind in the next second rooftop.

Falling from the roof of a six-story building is not good at all.

"Hold on to me!" Gray suddenly yelled, confirming that Jin was holding him tight, he let go of one hand, and roughly took off the schoolbag from Jin's shoulders. When he loosened his hand, the schoolbag was blown by the strong wind. Straight towards that shadow!

——Then, he went straight through the shadow and fell out of the rooftop.

"Gerry, you said you still need the textbooks when you go back!"

"Never mind that." Gray said hurriedly, "Did you see, it has no body!"

They have clearly returned to the real world, so why is there still a disembodied ghost on the rooftop of the real world?

When he first arrived on the rooftop, Jin Si glanced and saw a building that was lit up all night a little far away. There was an electronic time telling board on the top of the building, showing that the time was close to midnight that day.

It's exactly the same.

"Then you're already dead!" Jin yelled at the shadow along the strong wind, "If you're already dead, what else can you 'survive'!"

"........."

The wind stopped suddenly.

The moonlight fell on the roof, and the black shadow raised its head in astonishment, so both Gray and Jin could see it clearly - the black shadow was wearing their school uniform, but his face was completely changed, as if a layer of skin had been peeled off alive of.

"I...dead?" he murmured, and suddenly became manic again, "No!!! I'm not dead! I just...just one more person...one more soul...and I can out of here..."

Suddenly there was a commotion from inside the door.

Gray and Jin hurriedly avoided, turned to a wall and squatted down. The next second, the door of the roof was knocked open again, and Jin's eyes widened—he clearly saw the half-length woman!

Blurred white shadows, half-length women, crawling spider-men...

The ghosts rushed out, but they didn't care about them at all, and rushed straight at the shadow.

"You should have died—"

The half-length woman crawled quickly on the floor with only two arms, and immediately climbed onto the black shadow, choking him tightly by the neck: "You killed us...you locked us here...you fought for your life kill us..."

The ghosts swarmed up, and strong resentment filled the air, making people feel chills from the bottom of their hearts.

"Finally someone survived long enough to come out... long enough to open the door... let us find you!!!"

All the ghosts let out a shrill howl together, but in the howl, there was a hint of relief.

The black shadow struggling helplessly was dragged into the rooftop door by the ghosts. Just before the door was about to close, the half-length woman suddenly crawled towards Gray and Jin. Under the moonlight, she only had a half-body appearance, which was terrifying, but she did not No matter how empty the eyes were, there was a satisfied smile: "Thank you..."

"That, that is..." Jin asked subconsciously.

That's a very simple story.

Many years ago, a few students who visited the school at night to talk about strange things came to the school together. As a result, they encountered a ghost by mistake and were trapped in the empty teaching building. The students encouraged each other and agreed that they would work together to deal with it. Goblin, find a way out.

Until one of them was overwhelmed by fear, in order to save his life, he betrayed his companions to the ghosts. The reward was that when the ghosts here ate enough souls and fell into a deep sleep again, he could survive and return to the original world .

That is the shadow of the roof.

The companions died tragically one by one and were trapped in the teaching building. Day after day, they gradually became new ghosts.After that, every few years, new living people were captured by the shadow, and the dead became new ghosts. On the contrary, he retained a part of his consciousness as a human being.

The fundamental reason why they help the living is not to allow the living to escape, but to allow the living to open the door that they cannot touch, so as to catch the despicable betrayer and quell the years of hatred.

But in fact, the ghost who first lured Sombra had long since fallen asleep, and Sombra couldn't leave the teaching building because he was actually dead—but he thought he was still alive.

He thought he was still alive, so he continued to work for the tiger, hoping to get the hope that he could continue to live.

"Then what will happen to you?"

The half-length woman didn't answer, with a weird smile on her face: "We won't see each other again."

Saying that, she climbed into the door of the roof, and the door closed with a "bang".

It's like the world has been pressed the still button, and the next second the play button has been pressed.

Suddenly, a faint voice could be heard from nearby.

It was no longer a creepy sound, but an all-too-familiar sound—the sound of the bell tower not far away.

Twelve strokes struck, and the calendar turned a page.

A new day has come.

——tbc——