In the evening, Song Jun took a shower in the water room as usual, then returned to the room and watched a movie on the computer for a while before going to sleep.
The little black cat did not show up tonight, and the bag of cat food was placed quietly by the window as if the little black cat could find it for himself even if Song Jun was not around.
The weather during the summer break was exceptionally hot. Even at night, his whole body felt like he was in a steamer, and the temperature had not dropped at all. Although the mosquito net was hung, Song Jun did not put it down. He endured the pain of being bitten by mosquitoes and had to use the small fan placed next to the bed to blow air on himself for some comfort.
The campus was very quiet at night. Most dormitory areas had access restrictions, and even outside the dormitory areas, by eleven at night, the school gates were closed. Almost no people would walk around the school, and no cars would drive by.
Song Jun felt sleepy and fell asleep quickly as he lay on the bed.
However, this peaceful sleep was suddenly interrupted in the middle of the night. Song Jun himself didn’t know why. He didn’t even dream, but he suddenly opened his eyes, and his brain instantly became extremely awake.
Song Jun looked at the white mosquito net above his head and was stunned for a while.
After waking up, he found that even though the fan was blowing, there was still a layer of sweat on my body, and the hair on my forehead was soaked with sweat.
Once he woke up, he felt like he couldn’t go back to sleep. Song Jun turned over and kicked the cool quilt further on the bed, not wanting it to stick to him. He closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down, but he didn’t know what was going on. He always felt a little uneasy in his heart.
The next second, he heard a very soft rattle from under the bed.
The sound lasted only for a little while, then disappeared. Song Jun thought it was his illusion. He lay on his side on the bed and didn’t move. He wanted to listen more carefully, but then it became quiet, and he never heard the sound again.
Song Jun’s nerves were tense for a while, and then he became a little sleepy. In a daze, he heard the sound again, which was still coming from under the bed.
Song Jun suddenly became nervous.
This time, he was sure he heard a sound, but he couldn’t tell what it was. There was a suitcase under his bed, and the sound just now sounded like the sound of luggage being dragged or the sound of clothes rubbing against each other.
Song Jun swallowed subconsciously. He was thinking that maybe there was a mouse under the bed. His window was always open, and it was on the second floor, just like the little black cat. Maybe some other small animal had come in.
But he still felt an inexplicable fear. Song Jun stood up and reached for the switch on the wall not far from the bed.
However, just as he stood up, the sound under the bed suddenly increased in intensity. It was obviously the sound of clothes rubbing against each other. Next, he saw a hand reaching out from under the bed, its fingers clasped to the edge of the bed, and the nails of that hand were dyed a bright red colour.
At the same time, Song Jun also turned on the ceiling light in the room, and the light instantly enveloped the entire room. The hand clasped beside the bed disappeared, and the sounds under the bed were no longer heard.
However, Song Jun’s entire body broke out in a cold sweat, and he felt that even his heartbeat had stopped at that instant.
He got up from the bed, not having the courage to look under the bed, so he opened the room and rushed to the opposite door, knocking hard.
After about half a minute, Xia Hongshen’s door opened.
Song Jun looked like he was about to cry.
Xia Hongshen didn’t even ask ‘why’. He stepped aside and said, “Come in.”
Song Jun was completely devastated. When he entered Xia Hongshen’s room, it was as if he had returned to the world from hell, and his body began to slowly warm up.
He felt Xia Hongshen touch his head, like petting a small animal, and then pulled him to sit down next to the desk.
Song Jun was still a little dazed. When he came to his senses, he found that Xia Hongshen was using a hot towel to wipe off the cold sweat on his face.
He couldn’t care less about being embarrassed. He grabbed Xia Hongshen’s hand and said, “There is something under my bed.”
Xia Hongshen looked down at him and narrowed her eyes slightly.
Song Jun said, “Really, I know there is a female ghost with red nails and red high heels. She just appeared…”
Xia Hongshen said to him calmly, “Calm down.”
Song Jun shook his head, “I’m so scared.”
Xia Hongshen walked to the door and took a look, then came back and closed the door. He said to Song Jun, “Do you want a drink of water?”
Song Jun looked at Xia Hongshen, and his sanity gradually returned. He raised his hand to rake his sweaty hair and said, “I’m sorry.”
Xia Hongshen stood nearby, waiting for him to calm down.
Song Jun’s breathing was still slightly rapid, but his voice had calmed down. He said, “I saw it clearly this time. I’m sure it’s not an illusion. Senior Sister Cheng is also weird. I think she seems to be possessed by a female ghost.”
After saying these words, Song Jun didn’t get a response from Xia Hongshen. He felt a little embarrassed and wondered if the other party found he looked ridiculous.
However, Xia Hongshen’s expression was very calm. He even put a hand gently on Song Jun’s head and said, “Just rest here for a while.”
“Huh?” Song Jun was stunned for a moment, then realised what he was doing, stood up, and said, “I’m sorry to disturb your rest so late.”
“It doesn’t matter,” Xia Hongshen said.
Song Jun then remembered that this seemed to be the first time he had entered Xia Hongshen’s room. There seemed to be no structural difference between this small single room and his. Xia Hongshen didn’t have much stuff, and his stuff was neatly packed.
There was only one single bed in the room. Song Jun realised that he was disturbing Xia Hongshen’s sleep, but he did not dare to go back to his room to sleep alone at this time.
However, Xia Hongshen’s suggestion for him to stay was actually an invitation for him to lie down and sleep on his bed.
Song Jun quickly refused, “Then why are you sleeping? I, I’d better sit for a while.”
“It’s okay,” Xia Hongshen sat down next to the desk, reached out, and turned on the computer, “I’m still looking for some information.”
Song Jun stood in the middle of the room for a while, feeling a little silly and unsure of what to do, and finally, he lay down on Xia Hongshen’s single bed.
There was no fan in Xia Hongshen’s room, but Song Jun didn’t feel very hot.
There was only a faint light from the laptop screen in the room, and the sound of Xia Hongshen clicking the mouse came from time to time. However, this sound made Song Jun feel at ease. Tiredness soon came over him, and he fell asleep without realising it.
He didn’t know how long it took, but suddenly, there was a knock on the door from outside.
Xia Hongshen glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen. It was already three-thirty in the morning. Only three of them lived in this two-story old dormitory building, but there was a door lock at the entrance on the first floor. Besides the three of them, there was also a key in the graduate office of the college.
At this time, he was with Song Jun, and Bu Hui had already gone to bed, so why would someone knock on the door outside?
Xia Hongshen looked back at Song Jun. Song Jun was already asleep, but because of the sudden noise, he seemed a little uneasy and turned over slightly.
After a brief pause, the knocking on the door rang again.
Xia Hongshen put down his pen, stood up, walked to the door, reached out and opened the door.
The door was opened a crack, and all Xia Hongshen could see was long hair hanging down. It was a person’s head, which was leaning against the crack in the door and trying to squeeze in. The long hair slipped in along the crack in the door.
Xia Hongshen suddenly stretched out his hand, spread his fingers to grasp the head of the person who wanted to squeeze in, and then tightened it hard.
The face covered by long hair showed a painful expression, and then the facial features were distorted and disappeared from Xia Hongshen’s fingers.
Xia Hongshen retracted his hand, closed the door gently, turned to look at Song Jun, and saw that he had not awakened and was sleeping peacefully, so he returned to the table and continued to read documents on the computer.
Song Jun slept extremely deeply, and when he woke up, it was almost noon.
Xia Hongshen was no longer in the room. The bright light streamed in through the window, creating a tranquil and serene atmosphere. Song Jun stretched and then felt a little dazed. He felt that what happened last night was like a dream. In the bright daylight, he suddenly felt in a trance, not knowing whether what happened last night was real or not.
Back in his room, Song Jun mustered up the courage to squat down and take a look under the bed. There was nothing except two boxes neatly placed.
He raised his hand and wiped his face, clearing up his messy mood.
He grabbed the cell phone beside the bed, and Song Jun found two missed calls, both of which were from Zhou Yingchun. It turned out that Zhou Yingchun went to the lab to look for him in the morning, but she didn’t see him, so she called and told him to go to the lab in the afternoon.
Song Jun left his cell phone in the room, so he didn’t hear the ringtone in the morning. Now, he called Zhou Yingchun back and apologised repeatedly.
After hanging up the phone, Song Jun felt hungry and went to the school cafeteria to eat.
On the way, Song Jun met Cheng Ruijing and Bu Hui. Today, Cheng Ruijing no longer wore a white skirt and red high heels. When she saw Song Jun from a distance, she smiled and waved to say hello to him, as if she was back to normal.
Song Jun was somewhat afraid of her, so after saying hello, he separated from the two people and went to the cafeteria alone.
In the afternoon, Song Jun rushed to the lab. As soon as he walked into the Forensic Medicine building, he noticed it was particularly lively. In the corridor, he saw that the anatomy room on the first floor was open, and there was light shining through. He knew that there was probably a case being sent over to conduct an autopsy.
Song Jun did not study medicine as an undergraduate, and he had never seen a real autopsy before, so he couldn’t help but feel scared and curious at the same time.
After standing there and hesitating for a moment, Song Jun decided to walk over and take a look from a distance. He walked along the corridor to the door of the autopsy room and found that it was extremely lively, and the atmosphere was not scary at all.
It turned out that the people guarding the autopsy room were the police, relatives of the deceased, and several undergraduate students who were interns.
Song Jun didn’t walk in. He just saw Xia Hongshen standing next to the dissecting table from a distance, holding a cold dissecting knife and operating on the body.
Xia Hongshen wore glasses and used a dissecting knife to cut open the human body in front of him with an expressionless expression.
Song Jun didn’t dare to look any further. He turned around and heard two girls standing not far in front whispering. They were probably saying that Senior Brother Xia was really handsome. He was indeed the most handsome in the whole medical school.
Song Jun then glanced at Xia Hongshen again, turned, and left.
When they arrived at the lab, Zhou Yingchun seemed a bit displeased with Song Jun, feeling that he was neglecting the experiments. Zhou Yingchun went on to talk about how if he didn’t conduct experiments diligently and publish papers, he would not be able to graduate in the future.
Song Jun was very embarrassed by what she said, and Zhou Yingchun gave Song Jun more pressure, asking him to get some of the experimental data in his hands within this week.
In this way, within this week, Song Jun might have to spend time in the lab from morning to night every day.
After spending an afternoon in the lab, Song Jun went to the cafeteria to finish his meal listlessly. He was not good at dealing with people like Zhou Yingchun. He felt that the pressure placed on him was too much, but he didn’t know how to refuse.
After getting his food, he found a quiet place in a corner to sit down and eat.
After a while, someone suddenly sat down opposite him with a plate.
Song Jun was startled, and when he raised his head, he saw that the person coming was the boy he had seen outside the Faculty of Pharmacy building last night. If he remembered correctly, this boy’s name was Feng Junyuan.
Song Jun stopped eating and looked at the other person with a bit of confusion. He felt that this person probably had something to say to him.
Feng Junyuan was also looking at him.
After the two people faced each other in silence for a while, Feng Junyuan suddenly said, “You have been marked.”
Song Jun was baffled.
Feng Junyuan just said that. He then he picked up his food plate and sat down in a different place.
Song Jun looked at him in surprise and did not return to his senses for a long time.
After a while, he began to wonder, Mark? What mark? Somehow, Song Jun suddenly remembered the scratches he saw on his face last night. He was surprised at the time, but then his attention was diverted. When he went back to wash up that night, he didn’t seem to see any marks on his face in the mirror.
He couldn’t help but reach out and touch his face but still didn’t feel anything.
At this time, Feng Junyuan had changed his position and sat down to concentrate on eating.
Song Jun didn’t ask, but he was somewhat concerned about what Feng Junyuan said just now.
After the meal, Song Jun went back to the lab to finish his experiment. By now, the data would probably be out.
When he walked downstairs to Forensic Medicine, it was quiet inside. The afternoon autopsy had ended, and the door to the dissecting room on the first floor was also closed.
He didn’t know if Xia Hongshen was still upstairs or had gone back to the dormitory.
Song Jun walked to the elevator room and waited for the elevator. It was too quiet, and he felt a little uneasy.
The lab was on the sixth floor. Perhaps because it was the middle of summer vacation, there were not many people in the lab these two days. It got dark late in the summer, but the lab was still very bright. Due to the lack of transparency in the corridors and elevator areas, lights had to be on throughout the day.
Perhaps affected by last night’s experience, Song Jun always felt a little frightened from time to time even though it was still daylight. He was the only one in this small lab, and there was a lounge in front. As for whether there was anyone in it, he didn’t know.
Song Jun sat in front of the computer and looked at the time. The results would be out in about fifteen minutes. He was somewhat nervous, fearing that he would not get satisfactory results and would have to work again tonight.
After waiting quietly for a while, Song Jun stood up and planned to go to the bathroom.
The bathrooms were on every floor, just past the lounge in front. When he passed by, he knocked on the door of the lounge and found that there was no one inside.
After urinating in the bathroom and washing his hands, Song Jun suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside.
It was the clicking sound of high heels on the ground, coming in this direction from the other end of the corridor, and seemed to have stopped at the door of the bathroom.
Song Jun felt his scalp went numb.
The bathroom door suddenly opened, but there was nothing outside as if the door had just been blown open by the wind.
After washing his hands, Song Jun hurriedly came out of the bathroom. He heard footsteps in the corridor again, this time on the other side of the zigzag corridor as if the footsteps were following him in a circle.
His thoughts were a little messy, and he couldn’t think of anything. He subconsciously wanted to leave this floor immediately and walked to the door leading to the elevator. As soon as he opened the door, he found that there was no light at all inside the elevator, and to reach the staircase, he had to pass through the darkened elevator area. The lights that had been on all along had extinguished at some point.
Song Jun took two steps back because the moment he opened the door, he saw a long-haired woman wearing a white skirt standing facing the elevator door as if she was waiting for the elevator.
The door was closed, and the footsteps in the corridor were getting closer and closer, and was about to appear in front of Song Jun through the corner in front of him.
Song Jun turned around and ran back into the lab, reaching out and locking the lab door.
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