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I put my hand on the latch and was about to open the door, when the curtains on the balcony were already drawn back and a gust of wind blew in, clearing my head a little.

Right, that voice outside just now sounded so familiar.

What did he say? "I, open the door!" I couldn't tell who he was, but there was still the second half, "Third Brother!"

There were four people in the dorm, and according to their age, I'm Old Third.

The one who calls me third brother is only the youngest fourth brother, a month younger than me.

Fourth Bro!

That's right, that's right, number four!

The familiar voice outside the door was Number Four!

The knocking on the door had stopped, and no one spoke. I faced the door, feeling as though my head was about to explode.

Wasn't it Fourth Brother who told me about the water dispenser incident at home?

Then who is the person knocking on the door and calling for my third brother?

Extreme fear gripped me, and at that moment the light of Four's flashlight went out behind me.

Fourth Bro was lying on the bed behind him, and the one knocking on the door was also Fourth Bro.

It was obvious that one of them was a fake, or perhaps it could be said that these two 'Fourth Bro' were both fake.

I whipped around and shined my flashlight on Four's bed, which was empty. The guy I'd been talking to in the dorm room was gone.

My scalp was tingling, and goosebumps were popping up all over me. I could hear my teeth chattering, hear my heart beating, hear the wind blowing through the window, but I couldn't hear Four.

Number four, where did you go?

Four on the bed is gone. I stand in the doorway, thinking, "Who cares what the devil is outside? Let's open the door and take a look at the situation. The reality in front of me is beyond what I can bear."

He placed his hand on the door lock, thinking, if the guy that was previously lying on the bed wasn't number four, then could that guy outside be number four?

If the guy outside wasn't Fourth Bro, then where the hell was Fourth Bro?

Open the door, maybe open the door, and everything will be revealed. Or open the door, and the ghosts outside will kill me.

I pulled the latch and opened the door.

Outside, there was no one.

Under the light from the flashlight, the corridor was empty. There was no one there. Number four, who just knocked on the door and called out to me, Third Brother, was also gone.

I stood in the doorway, looking down the empty hallway, then turned to look at the dormitory bed. No one was there.

Ol 'Four isn't here. Eldest Brother and Second Brother are out all night, and I'm the only one in the dorm.

Perhaps there was a ghost lurking in a corner that I couldn't see, watching me from inside.

The raspy "What happened next" during the meeting, and the guy outside who used Fourth Bro's tone and voice to call me to open the door, Fourth Bro who disappeared from the top bunk …

Fear, deep fear, everything that had happened tonight was beyond my comprehension.

The only explanation was that there was a ghost.

The wind from the windowsill blew again, leaving only the sound of the wind in the silent night, as well as my violent heartbeat …

I was all wet and trembling and wanted to take out a cigarette and light it up, but I realized that I wasn't even wearing any clothes. Besides, there was no smoke in my clothes, and the cigarette I had was from that guy in the top bunk, who I don't know if was Fourth Bro.

I couldn't move, all my muscles were tense, and my skeletal muscles were involuntarily trembling. I tried to think of a whole series of things that I couldn't think of except for ghosts.

The fear kept coming, and then it finally changed, crushing me …

"Ah …"

With a gut-wrenching cry, my entire body went limp as I leaned against the door like a fool.

This cry broke the silence of the night, and I heard voices coming from the dormitory next door.

"Holy shit, who's shouting so late at night?"

"Go out and take a look, don't let anything happen …"

"It seems to be the one next door, Shu Jing …"

This is the voice of the students from the next dorm. My shout just now woke them up.

Very soon, the doors of the next dorm room opened. Faintly dressed and drowsy classmates came out into the corridor. They saw me sitting on the floor with a terrified expression on my face. They surrounded me and asked me what had happened.

They poured tea, offered cigarettes, and helped me to my bed.

I was only slightly relieved when I saw so many people around. They were all strong young men, so the Yang Fire should be strong enough, right?

After smoking two cigarettes in a row, I gradually regained my ability to think and speak. Under the consolation of a group of male classmates, I slowly recounted what happened before, from the story of the water dispenser told by Fourth Bro to the words "then" by someone else. I then went outside to knock on the door.

The students' reactions varied. Some of them thought I had eaten my fill and was playing a prank. Some of them were afraid to look around, worried that there were other 'things' hidden in the house. Others thought I had a nightmare …

They couldn't understand what I was feeling, and it was hard for me to convince them that what had happened before was not a dream.

He summoned up his courage and called his fourth brother. His phone was off. There was still half a box of cigarettes on his bed, but his clothes and cell phone were gone.

I'm not sure if the person who told me the story about the cigarette in bed was number four...

He called his boss again, but both of them had actually turned off their phones.

Something's not right. His second brother is going to play all night, so why is there a reason for him to turn off his phone?

Just as I was considering calling the counselor and telling him about Ol 'Four's sudden disappearance, Tao Zi leaned over and whispered, "Shu Jing, are you going to call the counselor?"

"That's right, Fourth Bro's situation is too complicated. Even if I told you guys, you wouldn't understand. I need to get a counselor to report to him and see if I can get the school to help look for Fourth Bro …"

Tao Zi shook his head. "Shu Jing, I think you should see a doctor."

I don't understand why Tao Zi, who usually has a good relationship with me, would talk like this. Does he not believe me and thinks I'm delusional?

"Tao Zi, you don't believe me? Do you think I'm crazy? " My tone was unkind. The previous experience had brought about a very bad effect to me.

Tao Zi: "When I got back to the dorm tonight, I saw your three bros going for an all-nighter together. I asked them why they didn't bring you. They said you were taking care of the house in the dorm. "Do you understand what I mean? The number four you mentioned, Yang Wenchao, is not in the dorm at all. He went out all night with Li Fengyun and Xie Cong."

When I said those words, I felt like I had been struck by lightning …

He said Ol 'Four was not in the dormitory at all.

After Tao Zi finished talking, two of his classmates immediately echoed him, saying that they had seen their eldest brother, second brother, fourth sister and they had gone out together for the whole night.

I lit my cigarette again and fell into deep thought. What had happened before was real, definitely not a dream, my family had no history of mental illness, and my body had always been healthy.

In other words, I really did chat with Fourth Bro for half the night, and I really did hear someone knocking on the door that might be Fourth Bro. As for why Tao Zi and the others said that Fourth Bro had been out all night, I couldn't figure out why I had to meet two of them.

Other than ghosts, was there any other explanation?

These students in front of him were not just pure atheists, but Tao Zi's words made everyone feel like, I'm sick, or maybe I'm crazy.

I could understand the way they were looking at me, and I didn't trust them.

If I were a bystander, I would also think that a classmate in the next dorm was sick when he said something so outrageous.

Tao Zi then said, "Shu Jing, don't tell the counselor. You know our school will not return overnight. If you give them a call, Yang Wenzhao and the others will be in trouble."

He was right, but only I knew what had happened to me.

After Yang Wenchao went for an all-nighter, I met another fourth senior in the dorm. He chatted with me for half the night and told me a horrifying story about a water dispenser. Before the story was finished, a third person's unfamiliar and hoarse "then what?" was heard from the dorm. Just as I mustered up my courage to look for a third person, a third fourth senior came knocking on the door.

Three of them, another person in the dorm, the story of the water dispenser …

I was confused and scared, afraid to be alone and afraid to repeat my experiences because I was afraid that my classmates would reject me and leave me alone in this unusual dormitory.

In the end, Tao Zi nodded. "Forget it, Shu Jing. There's no one in your dorm. Go to our dorm and sleep. Glasses-man, get a room. You can sleep on his bed."

I looked at him gratefully. Although he didn't believe me, he didn't leave me alone in this weird dorm room.

After the students left, I went to their dorm room with Taozi. I lay on my bed with my glasses, my mind full of the puzzling things that had happened before.

I would rather believe I was crazy than believe there was a ghost.

If they were crazy, they might even have a cure. If there really was a ghost, what would they do then? That thing seems to have found me...

Before the sun rose, the sound of people shouting could be heard from the corridor …

"Hurry up, everyone is up. Something has happened in the library!" This loud voice belonged to a cadre of our student union. Normally, he liked to speak in an official voice, but at this moment, his voice was filled with fear.

Something had happened to the library. What had happened?

I put on my T-shirt and wondered if the library was haunted, too. Is there a ghost in our school? Was there really a ghost? I heard that schools are usually built on unmarked graves...

When he came out of his dorm, many of his classmates had already been woken up by the cadres of the student union. All of them had unsatisfied expressions on their faces as they asked what had happened.

This group of classmates were not able to sleep well last night because of my disturbance. Early in the morning, they were woken up by the class cadres. It seemed that they were quite angry.

The cadres stopped everyone's complaints and went straight to the point. "The library is already dead. Let's go and have a look. I heard they're from our academy, so they might be from our department."

Dead?

Even before the horror of last night had subsided, the cadres said the library was dead, and my little heart couldn't take it anymore.

The students were also shocked. They didn't even bother to wash their faces. Under the lead of the class cadres, they descended from the dormitory and walked towards the library.

Although our school is not very good, but the library is still very good. It's almost time for the mid-term exam, the library will not close for the night, it will open 24 hours for the students to read and review in the library, but in reality, there are very few people who are really reading at night, and most students will be back at night.

Arriving at the bottom of the library, he saw that a cordon of security had been set up around the perimeter of the library. A few uniformed police officers were maintaining order, while a few leaders of the academy were chatting with the police.

There were quite a number of students in the crowd. It seemed that the people inside were really dead. However, they didn't know who would be the ones to die.

What happened next caused me to completely collapse …

A little over ten minutes later, our counselor arrived. After exchanging a few words with the class leaders, the counselor walked over to the police officers, and then two of them came over to us. The students started to ask what had happened, but the police didn't respond to any of their students' questions and just walked over to me.

"Shu Jing, right? The dorm owner of Building 6?" One of the policemen said, expressionless.

"That's right, it's me. I'm the dorm master …" I said, feeling nervous.

After the two policemen looked at each other, one on the left and one on the right, they grabbed my arm. The old man in front asked, "Please cooperate with us in our work. There are a few words that I would like to ask you."

They carried me into the library and into the office outside.

There were six or seven other cops in the office, and one of them, who looked like a leader, looked at me with a frown and asked what was going on.

"Boss, this person is the head of the deceased's dorm. My brothers and sisters are currently learning the situation from the students. It seems like this matter is not that simple." The policeman holding me spoke up.

Wait, what did he say?

I was very nervous, but I was still awake.

I'm the head of the dead man's dorm.

There were a total of four people living in dorm 206, eldest brother Li Fengyun, second brother Xie Cong, fourth brother Yang Wenchao and third brother me.

Obviously, the police meant that the deceased was one of the eldest, second, and fourth brothers.

Not long after, two more policemen came in, along with Taozi and the class leaders and our counselors.

A policeman came up to their boss and whispered a few words. The chief waved his hand and directed the two officers who had me in their arms to take me to another office.

I could clearly sense their hostility. They didn't see me as the head of a victim's dorm, but as a suspect.

It was a terrible feeling.

His mind was in a mess.

Last night's strange experience, the dead roommate in the library, the attitude of the police towards me... All of this made me feel a deep sense of dread.

But to be honest, I feel like I'm the victim.

"Officer, what's going on?" I ventured to ask the policeman beside me.

The two policemen ignored me, only looking at me in disgust, making me feel even more nervous.

After waiting anxiously for over ten minutes, the office door was opened. That dignified boss came in, and he was the only one there.

"Shu Jing, right? I've seen your records and learned some information about you. Your family background is average, and you're quite talented. I didn't think you'd do something like this." The Boss said.