Welcome to the Nightmare Live - Ch 10.1

Decai Middle School

Wen Jianyan felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet.

“What’s wrong?”

Seeing that he hadn’t moved for a long time, Su Cheng asked nervously.

Wen Jianyan calmed down, and tried to answer in a voice that didn’t fluctuate: “…Nothing.”

In any case, he still had to enter.

He took a deep breath and pressed the door handle down with force, only to hear a crisp “click”, the door lock was opened and slid inward along the force.

It was pitch black inside the room.

Thick shadows flowed irregularly, shrouding everything in unknown darkness.

The lights in the corridor poured in along the cracks of the gradually opening door, barely dispelling the darkness and illuminating a corner of the room.

In a place very close to the door, a dark shadow was standing fixedly.

Wen Jianyan was shocked.

He jerked back a few steps, away from the doorway.

Su Cheng let out a shivering scream from his throat, and then he also stepped back violently. He stumbled backward, almost tripping himself.

The door panel which had lost control made a “creaky” sound and slowly opened inward.

With the lights in the corridor, more figures can be seen standing in the room.

Tall or short, far or near, motionless, silently standing in the dark as if they had long since merged with the darkness, looking at it suddenly could make one’s scalp tingle.

Su Cheng heard the clattering of his teeth, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, his body tensed, and he was ready to escape immediately.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the person beside him who suddenly started moving.

Su Cheng’s heart raised to his throat:

“Don’t—”

The young man didn’t look back as if he didn’t hear it, but instead took a step and walked straight forward.

His footsteps were very light, and one can’t hear the slightest sound when he stepped on the ground. His slender body was taut and slightly bowed, like some kind of feline ready to attack.

He walked forward cautiously, getting closer to the room step by step.

Not far away, in the blurred boundary between light and shadow, those figures stood silently in the depths of the room. Their silhouettes overlapped in the darkness, and their faces looked as if peering out, watching them silently, waiting patiently for the prey to fall into the trap.

Su Cheng’s brain seemed to be about to explode. He subconsciously held his breath, watching the scene in front of him with trepidation.

Soon, Wen Jianyan walked to the door.

He didn’t step into the room hastily but pressed the side of his arm against the wall to ensure that most of his body remained outside the room, and then reached out a hand into the darkness and groped on the wall inside the room——

Su Cheng heard himself take a deep breath.

“Snap”.

——A soft noise sounded.

The lights came on, dispelling the thick darkness, and instantly illuminating the entire room.

In the light, everything is clearly visible.

There are no desks and chairs in the huge classroom, several easels are placed disorderly, and plaster statues of different postures were standing in different corners of the classroom, quiet and motionless.

“……”

Su Cheng was stunned.

So… those shadows were actually plaster statues?

The terrifying shadows approaching on the first three floors and the excessive emptiness of the fourth floor. Under these circumstances, he did not think in a harmless direction at all.

The sudden shock of facts made him a little dazed as if he could not let out a breath struck in his chest.

Wen Jianyan let out a slow breath.

His palms were wet and sticky.

Just now, at the moment when his body turned around and was about to flee, his brain was habitually thinking rationally and soberly.

If this room were to open the door to death, then the so-called “hidden object unlocking task” would not be possible to complete. In addition, it can be seen from some details in Xu Yuan’s diary that she is an art student studying fine arts.

Wen Jianyan had a vague guess about the shadows in the room, so he made a decisive move.

Su Cheng calmed down.

He stepped forward, raised his hand, and patted Wen Jianyan, half in amazement and half in emotion:

“…Awesome!”

In such a strange atmosphere just now, he could still observe calmly and make accurate judgments, as expected of a trained professional.

Wen Jianyan almost stumbled by the pat, and his expression almost didn’t hold back.

“……”

Although he guessed that there should be no major danger in the room, this doesn’t mean he wasn’t afraid!

My legs are still a little weak.

Fortunately, he was leaning against the wall, so he didn’t reveal his true situation.

Wen Jianyan frowned and said inscrutable, “Go in and have a look.”

Su Cheng nodded.

Because the lights were turned on, every corner of the room was visible, and the previous fears finally vanished.

He took the lead and walked inward.

Su Cheng, who was walking forward, didn’t see that behind him, the young man who had a serious face just now was holding the wall. He turned his weight on his left and right feet, secretly moved his numb legs, and then stepped forward to follow.

“Brother XiaoWen, what is the number of the locker you’re looking for?”

Su Cheng stood in front of the rows of lockers at the end of the room and raised his voice to ask.

“368.”

Wen Jianyan replied.

Su Cheng quickly glanced around the lockers in front of him, and his eyes lit up. He pointed to the corner of the room: “Here!”

At this moment, Wen Jianyan had completely returned to his previous expressionless and cold appearance.

He walked forward in the direction of Su Cheng’s fingers, stood in front of the cabinet, and took out the key from his pocket.

The rusty key slid into the keyhole, only a soft click was heard, and the locker door popped open.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath slowly and opened the locker door.

A strange bloody smell rushed towards his face, causing him to turn his face slightly and subconsciously hold his breath.

Wen Jianyan adapted to the smell and stared into the cabinet.

The surface of the inside of the cabinet was painted with rough black and red lines, which looked gloomy and eerie under the illumination of the light behind it.

In the cabinet, an animal skeleton was arranged into a circle, like some kind of weird altar, and in the centre of the circle lay a pile of soft treaded fur. The brown-yellow fur was covered with brown blood scabs, and the bloody smell escaped from here.

It was peeled cat skin.

Wen Jianyan’s scalp felt numb.

[My dear, this is Xu Yuan’s cabinet?! The things in it are too evil.]

[Impossible, it is probably the cabinet of the person who occupies Xu Yuan’s identity. Look at the cat skin, it should be peeled off by that person.]

[Wait, I remember that Xu Yuan did say in that diary that she heard the dripping sound coming from the side of the bed? Could it be that the person who pretended to be her, was carrying a skinned cat in her hand, and all she heard was the sound of blood dripping down?]

[…My hair is starting to stand up.]

[Speaking of which, I just spent my points to exchange for a plot tip. This storyline occurred at the earliest time in the whole school, and it is related to S-level hidden objects. It can probably involve the core of the entire instance.]

[Fuck! Then won’t he be the first person to unlock 100% of this instance!]

[Ah, ah, anchor nb!]

At this moment, Wen Jianyan’s eyes were drawn to a corner deep in the cabinet.

It was a crumpled little black-skinned book, very thin, and the edges of the pages were curled up, revealing the tan-stained interior.

Wen Jianyan reached in, took out the book, and started flipping through it quickly.

Su Cheng stood aside, covering his nose with one hand to block the odour.

Intense curiosity drove him to step forward and probe into the cabinet.

However, before he could see anything, something seemed to move slightly in the background.

“?!”

Su Cheng jumped up like a frightened bird, turned his head, and looked behind him.

The room was very quiet.

Bright lights streamed overhead, illuminating the dried paint on the ground, the easels covered in white cloth, and the motionless plaster statues.

There is no shadow, no place to hide, and everything is revealed.

All he could hear was the sound of the page-turning from Wen Jianyan’s side.

However, inexplicably, Su Cheng felt his nerves gradually tense up, and cold sweat oozed from his palms. His sense of crisis was no worse than when he was in the corridor just now.

No, even stronger.

He forced himself to scan the empty classroom in front of him with his eyes.

Wait…

Those plaster statues, was this the pose just now?

Those plaster statues were facing different directions. He doesn’t know when it started…

Now those identical faces were facing this way.

The ice-cold light fell from the top of the head and fell on the outline of the facial features of the plaster statue, casting a deep shadow on it. The pale faces and the eye sockets without pupils silently looked in this direction.

Although they remained motionless, Su Cheng no longer dared to treat them as harmless decorations.

He swallowed hard and opened his mouth: “I, I said…”

Su Cheng was taken aback by his hoarse, and terrible voice.

Wen Jianyan lowered his head and carefully read the small book in his hand.

The more he looked, the tighter his brows became. He turned pages with one hand, while the other hand carefully moved the animal skeletons in the cabinet, so focused that he didn’t hear Su Cheng’s call at all.

Su Cheng said in a somewhat out-of-tune voice, “Should we leave?”

Wen Jianyan paused and pulled away from the state of concentration.

At this moment, a clear sound suddenly sounded behind his ear——“Drip.”

He was slightly startled and subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction from which the sound came.

He saw a large amount of blood oozing out from under the cat’s skin at some point, and the red and stinky blood slowly diffused out of the bone area and dripped down the edge of the cabinet——

“Drip Drip”.

It appears that the altar was successfully destroyed.

Although everything was going smoothly according to his ideas, Wen Jianyan couldn’t help feeling a little shudder when he saw the blood dripping on the ground.

Whether what he did is right or wrong can only be judged later.

At this moment, Su Cheng’s changed voice came again: “That——”

Wen Jianyan turned to look.

In the next second, he almost forgot to breathe, and there was a tingling sensation in his back.

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