Chapter 141 The dormitory smells like a grave

Tianhai University, the fifth day after school started after summer vacation.

The night gradually covered the campus, and the soft moonlight sprinkled on the central stone road. The mercury-like light and the yellow and orange of the street lamps complemented each other, gently outlining the contours of the teaching building.

The library was still brightly lit; near the nearby playground, one could see groups of people taking a walk after dinner or sitting in the corner to rest, and occasionally one could hear the enthusiastic shouts of night runners.

Looking further away, the water of the artificial lake on campus is sparkling, reflecting the sparse stars in the sky. The scene is somewhat dreamy. By the river, there are several pairs of lovers snuggling together and whispering.

……

The shadows of the trees in front of the dormitory building swayed, making a pleasant rustling sound in the wind.

Song Yutang leaned against the window alone, taking in the bustling campus scene under the night sky, supporting her chin with her hand, wondering what she was thinking. After a while, she sighed softly and turned away.

She was in the bathroom, picking up a basin of laundry on the washstand and hurried down the corridor.

The brightly lit corridor of the girls’ dormitory is as narrow and long as a street, with densely arranged dormitory doors on both sides. There is a simple house number on each door, indicating the dormitory number and the name of the member.

Song Yutang returned to her dormitory, carefully jumped over the suitcases and slippers that her roommate had placed haphazardly on the floor, opened the glass door, went to the balcony, and hung up her clothes one by one on the rope.

Opposite the dormitory is the dormitory building of other colleges. Through the curtains, you can see bright yellow lights shining on the windows and swaying figures in the distance.

After hanging up the clothes, Song Yutang did not leave, but stood there, dazed for a while.

Behind her she could hear her roommates’ lively conversation and occasional laughter, but even through the glass, she could feel a slight sense of loneliness.

Song Yutang is a sophomore. She moved into the newest dormitory building last year, so the living conditions are pretty good. In a four-person room, besides her, there are three other roommates: Qin Shishi, Cao Ying, and Ning Yue.

Among them, Song Yutang and Ning Yue have the best relationship and are the most talkative in the dormitory; as for the remaining two, the relationship between them is relatively average.

In contrast to her beautiful appearance and lively personality that are popular among both men and women, Song Yutang herself is not particularly sociable.

To be precise, she is the type who is cheerful and relaxed when she is with her good friends, but it is a bit difficult for her to take the initiative to build good relationships with strangers or classmates who are not very close to her.

It is precisely because of this passive social personality that although she was able to keep in touch with her good friends since childhood, she was unable to make many close friends in college.

According to Song Yutang’s previous experience, if she and her two roommates failed to become friends in the first year, it would be very difficult afterwards;
Even more unfortunate is that her only good friend Ning Yue changed her major this year and moved her dormitory to another place, leaving her alone…

Although Song Yutang is not good at making friends actively, she is a girl after all, and she is sensitive. Naturally, she can detect the abnormalities in interpersonal relationships. Since Ning Yue left, there has been a clear distance in her daily interactions with Cao Ying and Qin Shishi.

Hearing noisy voices coming from the dormitory next door, Song Yutang sighed and turned to open the door.

As a result, as soon as her hand touched the door, sparks flew and a numb feeling spread from her fingertips to the top of her head. She felt pain and quickly retracted her fingers.

“…What the hell…”

Song Yutang pinched her own hands, feeling suspicious for a moment.

This is also one of the factors that made her depressed recently.

That’s “static electricity”. It’s still summer, but it’s easier to get electrocuted than when wearing a sweater in winter.

It would be fine if it was an occasional incident, but recently the static electricity on her body has occurred too frequently and has obviously begun to affect her daily life.

“What bad luck…”

The girl couldn’t help but mutter under her breath.

When did this situation begin?
After thinking about it, Song Yutang couldn’t help but recall the thrilling experience she had when she was hiking alone during the summer vacation a month ago.

It was an ordinary day. She set up camp on the top of the mountain and planned to go to the mountain to pick up some firewood, but she accidentally broke into a strange world where ghosts were rampant.

Resurrected ghosts, ape-like monsters, weird villagers holding shotguns… She almost died there, but fortunately she met a boy with great abilities.

That person was studying at Tianhai University like her and was in the same grade as her. But unlike her, although the other person looked young, he was an “expert” with mysterious powers. With his help, Song Yutang successfully escaped.

Afterwards, she wanted to find someone to thank, so after school started, she asked a senior student she knew who was well-informed on campus to look for him for a long time. Yesterday, she finally got the contact information.

But before actually contacting her, she hesitated again.

It wasn’t that she was afraid of being gossiped about, even though that senior had made fun of her. Song Yutang just… had a strange premonition.

To her, the boy she had only met once symbolized a door.

In the past twenty years of my life, I have never imagined or come into contact with this whole new world.

While she felt novelty and excitement, she couldn’t help but feel fear and nervousness about the unknown. It felt like there was a secret right in front of her, but she didn’t dare to reach out and touch it.

“Forget it, don’t think too much about it. They may not pay attention to you. Maybe after meeting and thanking you this time, you won’t meet again in the future…”

Song Yutang shook his head and gathered his overly divergent thoughts.

“What are you talking about?”

The girl smiled and tried to strike up a conversation with her roommates, but when she walked into the dormitory, her roommates who were sitting by the bed and chatting immediately stopped smiling.

Cao Ying and Qin Shishi looked at each other, but they didn’t hide it. Cao Ying, who had a baby-like haircut and a slightly plump figure, picked up the round plastic box in her hand and answered indifferently:

“Here, a facial mask. It’s very popular recently. I got it from my senior.”

“I heard that the effect is really great, better than those international brands that cost hundreds of dollars per piece, and the effect is immediate.” Qin Shishi said with a smile.

“let me see……”

Song Yutang checked the plastic box packaging.

“Why don’t I see the production date and logo? Could it be a product without any certification?”

Cao Ying snatched the box away.

“I heard it’s a secret herbal recipe that’s not sold on the market.”

After listening to this, Song Yutang couldn’t help but frown.

“Won’t this… be a problem? The quality is not guaranteed. What if something goes wrong…”

She looked at her roommate, whose face was visibly gloomy, hesitated for a moment, but still said what she wanted to say.

“Besides, if you want to maintain your skin, the most important thing is to stay up late less often to watch TV series and go to the snack street less often to buy midnight snacks. The food there is high in oil and salt…”

Song Yutang knew that her roommate Cao Ying cared a lot about the pimples on her face. Every morning, she could see her looking in the mirror and yelling at the newly appeared pimples.

But in Song Yutang’s opinion, the acne on her face, like her ever-increasing weight gain, was basically her own fault, and the things she just mentioned were all her bad living habits.

There is a street connecting the Tianhai University campus and the nearby residential area, which later gradually evolved into a commercial street. In addition to snacks, there are small hotels with hourly rooms. Some college students who can’t control their appetite go there to buy midnight snacks every day.

“You’re so annoying. I’m talking about skin care products. Why are you gossiping so much?”

“Forget it, forget it. It’s normal that people can’t understand. Miss Song is naturally beautiful.”

There was a hint of sarcasm in the roommate’s words, which made Song Yutang purse her lips.

She actually knew that Cao Ying and Qin Shishi disliked her. Apart from the initial dispute over a few trivial matters, the most fundamental reason was jealousy. Song Yutang had always “enjoyed” a life of standing out from the crowd since she was a child, and had always been the focus of attention of people around her. She was used to this kind of dark mentality.

There’s no way, she is very conspicuous among her peers: tall and slender, with healthy and sexy body lines. Although her skin is not as white as snow, it is as delicate and smooth as silk. She is the kind of sporty beauty that makes people think of summer as soon as they see her, and she is brimming with youthful vitality.

“When I first saw you in the dormitory, I thought you walked into the wrong door. I felt that you were more suitable for the dance department or the performing arts academy where there were a lot of beautiful girls.”

Even her good friend Ning Yue said so.

In fact, Song Yutang did learn dancing when she was a child, and she is also good at and likes sports. When she was in high school, she even won a place in the Senior Officials Run competition and was a second-level athlete. She also has hobbies such as mountain climbing and swimming.

As for why she didn’t go to a dance academy or sports school… Actually, the reason was very simple. Not only did she have outstanding athletic performance, she also had good academic performance. She was also a native of Tianhai City, and her family never considered other options. They simply developed her hobby.

Seeing his roommates’ weird looks, Song Yutang’s expression couldn’t help but darken.

She had good intentions, but she was not willing to deliberately please others for the sake of so-called interpersonal relationships. No longer paying attention to the two people, the girl turned around and prepared to go to bed.

but……

“What is the taste?”

she thinks.

Since just now, Song Yutang felt that there was a strange smell lingering in the dormitory room. It was very faint, but she couldn’t ignore it. It was damp and had a rotten smell, just like after a rain…

–grave.

This inexplicable thought entered the girl’s mind.

She turned her head around and finally looked back at the box of facial masks in Cao Ying’s hand.

The smell seemed to come from there.

“Didn’t you notice that my skin has improved?”

Cao Ying was still talking to Qin Shishi at this moment, and turned her face with a bit of pride.

“Really?” Qin Shishi asked in surprise.

Song Yutang narrowed her eyes. She also noticed that the acne on Cao Ying’s face had disappeared, and even the bumpy acne marks were much lighter than before.

The effect was indeed powerful, but for some reason, she only had a bad feeling in her heart.

“It’s more than just skin care and concealer. This product can really change your skin texture. Do you know who gave it to me? It was senior Li Huishan, who is in the senior year. You must have heard of her. She is a Weibo celebrity who specializes in sharing beauty tips. She has hundreds of thousands of followers online. I heard that she got it from the manufacturer through a secret channel. Most people don’t have this opportunity…”

Having said that, she deliberately glanced at Song Yutang, as if she was showing off her connections.

“Xiaoying, can you lend it to me for a while?”

“Sure. By the way, why don’t I just take you to see the senior? In fact, it’s not just us, there are also many people in the third and fourth years who use it…”

Song Yutang sighed and prepared to go to bed. At this moment——

A bright arc of electricity suddenly flashed on her fingers.

The girl watched the electric current rush along the bedpost to the ground, leap up like a living thing, and hit the box in Cao Ying’s hand.

“what?!”

Cao Ying screamed, and the round box flew out of her hand.

When she hurriedly picked it up, she found that the originally white contents had completely turned into a ball of charcoal, emitting a strange burnt smell.

“…”

The three girls looked at each other, and the atmosphere in the dormitory became even more awkward.

“Uh, sorry, I’ve been experiencing a lot of static electricity lately… I’ll compensate you.”

Song Yutang sighed. She felt very strange. Could the phenomenon just now really be called “static electricity”?

Cao Ying threw the box into the trash can expressionlessly, took Qin Shishi’s arm, and stood up and left.

“Let’s go and ask the senior for a new one now.”

……

That night, Song Yutang tossed and turned.

The smell of damp and decay became stronger and stronger.

The smell was like a veil at first, but now it has become like a quilt soaked in water, covering her body cold and heavy, making her feel suffocated.

It was like she was literally lying under a grave…

Before going to bed, Song Yutang asked her two roommates, and they both said they didn’t smell any strange smell.

Although the atmosphere between the three of them was very tense, she could still see that Cao Ying and Qin Shishi did not lie about this matter.

If they had really smelled it, they wouldn’t be sleeping so soundly now.

Listening to her roommate’s snoring, the girl tossed and turned in the quilt, her head dizzy and half asleep, as if she was having an immersive nightmare.

“what……!”

She was awakened by the sudden pain from the electric current and sat up in bed.

Before he could complain about the annoying static electricity, Song Yutang immediately noticed the strange atmosphere around him.

The rotting smell of a grave had filled the entire dormitory at some point, and it was so strong that no one could ignore it.

The snoring stopped and the room became eerily quiet, like a newly built tomb.

“…!”

The girl subconsciously covered her mouth and nose and quickly looked in the direction of her roommate.

Cao Ying on the bed opposite was pale and wrinkled, with her hands subconsciously grabbing her throat, as if she was in a dream where she couldn’t breathe.

The corridor outside the dormitory was pitch black, with only a faint light coming from the window illuminating the changing figures on the wall.

The scene that happened next was horrifying, and Song Yutang was so shocked that he couldn’t speak:
Her roommate was clearly still lying in bed, but she saw with her own eyes the figure on the wall slowly sitting up.

The shadow’s posture was extremely stiff, with his hands stretched straight forward, like a zombie resurrected from a coffin.

“It” seemed to sense the gaze coming from not far away and slowly turned its neck.

Song Yutang’s breathing stagnated. He felt a strange gaze from somewhere. His body became stiff and he couldn’t move.

Then, a cold and numb feeling crawled up from her back, like a large number of wriggling centipedes, crawling up the roots of the girl’s hair little by little…

(End of this chapter)