Chapter 68 Losing Consciousness

As Ning Meng continued to eavesdrop, she gradually forgot to eat her meal.

The incident seemed to have happened gruesomely.

The two girls were still discussing this incident in high spirits, their appetite seemingly not having been the least bit affected.

Ning Meng trembled with fear, listening to their conversation. She tilted her head to look over to them.

If it weren’t for seeing their expressions, she would have thought these two people were being too calm.

One of them said, “….I don’t think suicide is the cause. There’s no reason to carry out suicide in the swimming pool and cause such a ruckus right? The whole pool may have turned blood red but can a person also be dyed red?”

“They can. But in any case, it’s better to return to the dorm a bit earlier lest it becomes dangerous. With how weak we are, if we get into trouble, we won’t be able to get out of it..”

“Do you think the culprit’s a pervert?”

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The girl turned her phone on and rotated the screen. Ning Meng twisted her head and was able to see a flash of the screen, unable to control the urge to retch.

The scene was much more frightening than how the people had described it.

The picture was very close, showing captured scenes of the pool’s scarlet red color. The pool wall at the side also showed the same color as if the whole space was dyed with red.

And the person who died was at the corner, her dress dyed in the same shade, her hair was floating on the surface of the water, bobbing up and down.

Her whole person looked like she was going to quickly shrivel up.

This clearly wasn’t the picture of someone committing suicide. Ning Meng’s heart thumped quickly and she told herself not to meddle in other people’s affairs.

She didn’t have any abilities and she wasn’t related to Shi Qi at all. She also couldn’t just go up to him and confess that she was Ning Ning and his grandma before that…

She feared that if that were to happen, she would be beaten to death by Shi Qi.

The voices at the side continued to float into her ear.

From the two people’s exchange, Ning Meng had gotten to know a gist of the matter that occurred in the swimming pool.

The incident happened at around 9pm last night.

The school’s swimming pool closed at 10pm and apart from being used for classes, they would charge a fee but it wasn’t anything too expensive, that was why there would often be boys going over to swim and train their bodies. Yesterday was no exception.

The present weather was slightly hot during the day so four boys from the men’s dormitory went to the swimming pool, preparing to have a relaxing time.

At that time, the old man guarding the swimming pool was at the entrance. He usually didn’t put his eyes and ears to good use. In the past, he was a wanderer but the school hired him and gave him a job.

When they went in, they realized that the swimming pool was eerily too quiet.

The few boys weren’t afraid of the dark nor did they think it odd. They changed their clothes noisily and went to the pool side.

The swimming pool hall was divided into three parts, the public swimming pool, the pool that was not allowed for usual use in case anything went wrong as well as a spare pool.

They went to the pool that was usually used during class which was at the left side of the hall.

Just after pushing the door, a weird scent rushed into the tip of their noses and the few boys thought it smelled horrible.

Moreover, the light on this side was still turned off.

Usually, the swimming pool would only have their lights turned off when the facility was closed. They even thought that the manager must’ve forgotten to turn the lights on and so the four people pinched their noses and went inside.

One person first went to the poolside

The others turned the lights on. Just as they were about to say something, they saw another person standing at the poolside and the pool water in front of them was blood red.

At the front was a person lying in the water.

At that moment, the group of boys were taken aback but soon, when they recovered their senses, they realized that the scent was a mixture of the scent of blood and the surrounding smell, which was why it smelled strange.

The other person was just lying in the water, black hair sprawled out on the surface. Looking from above, the person didn’t make any reaction.

The few boys have watched horror films before but everything before their very eyes made them refuse to believe it because it was simply like a scene straight out of a horror movie.

They naturally felt scared, running back to the changing room before dialling and reporting this incident to the police, not daring to go out and staying crouched in that place.

Who would know if there was a ghost on the other side?

The police came fast, quickly sealing the swimming pool shut. They then interrogated them and made them identify some things before letting them go.

As for the old man who was responsible for keeping guard, he was naturally brought away as well.

Before they left, a few people secretly took pictures of the crime scene.

…..

There were already a number of people who had learnt of this matter today and the identity of the girl who died was naturally also announced.

“It was a girl from the Literature Department, called Gu Miaomiao. She’s a freshman and according to her roommate, Gu Miaomiao got her heart broken yesterday. She wanted to go to the pool to dispel her gloom so her roommate didn’t think it odd that she hadn’t returned after late until the police came to find her.”

“She’s only in her first year? How pitiful, sigh.”

“Did you know? I heard that the surveillance monitor in the swimming pool also didn’t catch anything last night, as if a part of the video had completely disappeared “ Her deskmate said mysteriously.

The incident didn’t happen to them so it was natural for them to not feel any sense of danger.

Such state of affairs always tempted people to go investigate it, it was like a hook, bringing out people’s curiosity.

The girl in the front was scared by her, “There wouldn’t really be a ghost, right?”

“How could that be? It was definitely man-made. How can a ghost do something like wiping the surveillance videos, moreover, since she only went there to dispel her gloom, why would she commit suicide? There are way too many suspicious points to raise about this matter.”

“That’s true. Hope they catch the culprit quickly.”

In the end, Ning Meng changed seats. She felt that if she were to continue listening, she wouldn’t be able to study at all the whole day.

She knew that this matter wasn’t as simple as it looked.

…..

And the truth was not far from her conjectures.

A lot of people in school were very concerned about this matter. If it weren’t for the school director suppressing the news in time, it probably would’ve become a hot topic.

In the last few days, the forum was abuzz with this incident.

In the end, the police’s side wasn’t able to give a result. Gu Miaomiao usually treated people kindly and didn’t have any enmities with anyone. As for the boyfriend she broke up with, at that time, he was with his roommate so there was ample evidence that he was not there at the scene.

The surveillance camera in the swimming pool was also of no use and the old guard there didn’t have good eyes or ears so they naturally couldn’t get any information out of him.

The matter gradually calmed down.

Ning Meng passed every day ordinarily and every time Gu Nanqian came over to find her, she would pretend to be a little white flower, disgusting her.

As time passed, Gu Nanqian no longer looked for her.

“Today, we’re going for an extracurricular behind the mountain.” The foreign teacher said behind the podium.

Ning Meng returned to her senses. The class she was attending right now was a colloquial speech class.

This foreign teacher of theirs liked arranging random assignments, including the trip to the back of the mountains this time around.

There usually weren’t many people on the school mountains, only some couples would pass by the mountain roadsides and there were also a couple of dormitory buildings at the foot of the mountain.

Such a trip was always better than sitting in the classroom so the students of the class were quite happy.

Even though there were janitors tidying up the school lawn, it still hadn’t reached this place and no one else had also gone to tidy it up so the grass had grown very tall, nearly reaching half a person’s height.

The students of the classroom had a lukewarm relationship with her so Ning Meng walked at the very end of the group. Even though Gu Nanqian wanted to look for her, in the end, she held back the urge.

She was afraid that Meng Ning was going to use the same expression as before.

Ning Meng curled her lips and hiked up the mountain.

The foregin teacher was currently at the forefront, speaking in english and asking them to walk quicker. Otherwise, once class was dismissed, by the time they reached the canteen, it would be too late to eat anything.

Just as he finished his words, a girl fell into an underbrush and howled in grief, “Aiyo, it hurts…”

Even though the back of the mountain wasn’t steep, there was still a slope so one could roll down after falling.

Ning Meng furrowed her brows, afraid that something may happen, but in the end, she reached out a hand to help her up.

The two of them happened to fall behind the group and the girl at the front didn’t reach her as fast as she could from her side.

However, she didn’t think that she would be so weak, getting pulled in and staggering.

Meng Ning brushed away the grass at the side and with just a light tug, the grass was plucked off, exposing something inside which faintly appeared like clothes.

“What is this?” The girl also saw this and stood properly, preparing to reach a hand out and pull it, grasses with some mud were plucked out from the root.

The girl was rendered stupefied, not daring to believe it, “I only casually pulled it a bit, why was it so easy to take out?”

The student and the teacher in the front had already walked back towards them, noisily surrounding the area and coincidentally stepping on the grass around the area.

“Ah!” Someone suddenly yelped and leapt strongly from the side but in the end, they carelessly fell on another side.

But nobody went to help her up because their gazes were instantly gathered at the place from before.

And their eyes were fixed on a human head exposed from the ground.

The girls surrounding it were struck dumb.

Only the foreign teacher who had long experienced many things was first to react. He went up to take a closer look at the head and realized that the head didn’t show any signs of life. Speaking in Chinese, he said, “Call the police, call the police!”

The first other few to react quickly dialled 110.

Ning Meng’s gaze fell on the top of that head, feeling a little panicked on the inside. She asked the system, “What happened?”

The system responded, “She was buried alive.”

Hearing these few words, her whole body shivered. She naturally knew the poor girl was buried but she didn’t think she was buried alive.

The grass in the surrounding soil looked much fresher and the people could tell with one glance that the soil had been turned over. The head was embedded on top while her chin and neck were buried in the soil.

Her face couldn’t be seen clearly as it was being blocked by her hair covered with a lot of soil, but one could vaguely tell it was a young girl.

“I want to go home…”

“Was she killed?”

“It’s so scary, it’s so scary. Why is someone buried here…is there a sick murdering pervert in this school….”

The words ‘sick murdering pervert’ reminded everyone of the swimming pool incident that happened half a month ago.

Seeing such a terrifying scene…the girls all collectively retreated in fear before soon running off, not even heeding the words their foreign teacher yelled at them from a distance.

Ning Meng bit her lip and stood at the side, not daring to look at the head.

The police sirens rang from afar and grew closer, making the fear in people’s heart ease up slightly.

Regardless of whatever happened, the police’s presence would always make people feel safe.

Ning Meng and the rest of the students from class were taken away. After being questioned one by one, an hour had passed before they were allowed to leave.

“Meng Ning, how were you so calm earlier?“ Gu Nanqian’s voice suddenly sounded from behind.

Ning Meng turned her head to look at her, “Which of your eyes saw that?”

Gu Nanqian really wanted to say she saw it with both eyes but was scared off by her aggressive tone. After all, she had always spoken to her in a soft and weak tone.

“Were you scared? Your tone doesn’t seem a bit right..” Gu Nanqian looked at her, “Don’t be scared, you can tell me anything.”

Ning Meng didn’t want to bother with her and turned around, walking off.

Gu Nanqian followed her, “Meng Ning, you….”

Before she could even finish her words, her view turned dark and she lost consciousness.

Ning Meng heard some noises and turned around to look, merely seeing a section of someone’s clothes before she felt pain on her body and lost consciousness.