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  "It was raining that night," the woman said. "The rain was heavy. I had an umbrel, but half of my body still got soaked."

  "But when I closed my umbrel and rushed to the entrance of Building C, I found that the door was locked with two thick iron s."

  Upon hearing this, Zhou Taifu's face ged slightly. He turned his head as if to say something to Yu Wen, but she didn't even g him.

  "I was very anxious at that time. Since I had just arrived here, I didn't have close friends yet, and I felt embarrassed to ask other teachers if I could stay over."

  "Maybe out of desperation, I went up and pushed the door, thinking that maybe the security guards had fotten to lock it."

  At this point, the woman's expression suddenly became strange.

  Yu Wen paused and looked at the woman with a ral face, calmly saying, "It seems the 'what if' really happened."

  After a while, the woman nodded. "Yes, both locks were open, as if someone deliberately left them there just for show."

  "But at the time, I was only focused orieving my keys and not troubling anyone else. I didn't think too much about it and hurriedly headed to my office."

  "Which floor was your offi?" Yu Wen asked, looking up.

  "The third floor," the woman added, "Room 304."

  Yu Wen wrote it down in her notebook, thinking it might be crucial information.

  "The entire building was eerily quiet, and all the s were pitch bck. Only a few emergency lights faintly illumihe far end of the hallway, which gave me chills."

  Zhou Taifu listened ily, immersing himself in the eerie rainy night as the woman reted the creepy details, making him feel increasingly nervous.

  "I had to turn on the fshlight on my phone and then rushed straight to the third floor, to my office door. After unlog it, I immediately turned around and locked it again. I wasn’t sure why—if I had to expin, I’d say it was just instinct."

  Zhang Yinyin, who had remained silent, suddenly spoke up. "Did you notiething?"

  "I... I don't know," the woman shook her head. "Even now, I still don’t know what was going on. I just felt something was wrong. The sound... the sound..."

  Yu Wen stopped writing, her expression finally ging as she stared at the woman.

  "The sound?" Zhou Taifu, sittiween Yu Wen and Zhang Yinyin, asked nervously, "What... what sound?"

  "Footsteps," the woman turo look at Zhou Taifu and answered. "When I was running, the sound of footsteps echoed through the empty hallway because it was so quiet. It was very clear, but..." Her expression ged drastically. "But the footsteps didn’t sound right!"

  "Those weren’t just my footsteps!" the woman excimed.

  "Do you mean someone was following you?" Yu Wen frowned.

  The woman shook her head. "I don't know. I didn't see anyone."

  "Then how do you know the footsteps weren’t right?" Zhang Yinyin interjected, her voice gentle and soothing, which, bined with her cute appearance, made her easily likable.

  "Maybe it was just your fear pying tricks on you," she suggested. "In su eerie situation, the atmosphere amplify your ay. The other footsteps you heard could have been just an echo."

  But the woman’s words made Zhang Yinyin’s smile freeze.

  "Impossible!" The woman raised her head abruptly, her eyes bloodshot. "I was wearing sneakers, but I distinctly heard the sound of high heels!"

  Zhou Taifu was stunned for a few seds before a chill ran down his spine.

  "But after I locked the office door, all the sounds disappeared. I stayed still behind the door, not daring to move for what felt like ten minutes. It was pletely silent outside. There was no sound at all."

  "I turned on every light in the office. It was brightly lit."

  "You ended up staying in the office ht?" Yu Wen asked.

  The woman slowly shook her head. "I thought about it, but I eventually gave up," she said, gng out the window, her eyebrows twitg slightly.

  "I couldn't. That buildioe. I didn’t want to stay there a sed longer."

  "Once I found the key, I thought long and hard but decided to leave. I po use my phone’s fshlight and make a run for it."

  "But just as I gathered my ce and was about to open the door, the office phone suddenly rang."

  "You 't imagine how scared I was. I almost passed out."

  "After much hesitation, I finally moved toward the phohankfully, I reized the was from the school's security office. They had seen the light on in Building a distand, not knowing what was going on, called to check."

  "I almost cried from relief. It was the first time I had felt so grateful for a phone call. After hearing what happehey promised to e a me, tellio stay in the offid not wander around."

  Hearing this, a fleeting unnatural expression crossed Yu Wen’s face, but it quickly disappeared, unnoticed by the woman.

  "What happened ?" Yu Wen asked.

  "Not long after, I heard hurried footsteps—about three or four people ing closer. Then, someone knocked on the door."

  "When I ope and saw them, I felt like I had been brought back to life. I couldn’t stop myself fr."

  "Leading them was a bald man, broad and muscur, who looked very tough. Behind him were two other men and a woman."

  "They were all wearing security uniforms. As soon as they arrived, they scolded me for not following the school's rules."

  "I didn’t care about anything else at that point. I just kept apologizing to them. After all, I had made them e out in that kind of weather because of my mistake."

  "I also begged them not to report me to the school. I had just started w there and didn’t want to leave a bad impression on the leadership."

  "They eventually stopped scoldihe bald man, who had been the harshest at first, kept gng at the dark hallway, as if he was on guard for something."

  "I remember he had been the most furious earlier," the woman recalled. "He kept repeating things like 'Do you have a death wish?' He looked terrifying."

  "Theold me to pack up, and they would ese out. But just as I was about to leave, I remembered that I had left my umbrel on my desk, so I turned back to get it."

  At this point, the woman suddenly stopped, her expression turning strange as she stared at the others. Her face grew increasingly pale.

  "I suddenly realized something," she said, her entire body beginning to tremble unnaturally, her pupils shrinking. The words seemed to be forced out of her throat, bit by bit.

  "They... they didn’t have umbrels or raincoats, and their clothes were pletely dry, as if they had never been in the rain."

  (End of the Chapter)

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