As soon as Wen Yan spoke, a moment of silence fell over the air.
Old Master Si couldn't help but strike Si Moyan with his cane again.
"You little brat, I thought you were the most virtuous man in our Si family, never sparing another glance at any woman besides your own wife. You've disappointed this old man too much!"
Si Jingyi nodded repeatedly. "The persona of the ultimate pure-love warrior has collapsed."
Si Moyan's handsome face darkened to the extreme. He glared at Si Jingyi. "Shut up!"
Si Moyan looked at Wen Yan with dark, deep eyes. "Mrs. Si, actually I..."
Wen Yan pressed a finger from her free hand lightly against his thin lips, a smile rising on her face. "You don't need to be nervous. I know you didn't do it on purpose."
Wen Yan looked at Old Master Si and Si Jingyi. "There is something wrong with Shu Ti's eyes. Anyone stared at by her like that would lose themselves."
[The Iceberg Si only zoned out for a few seconds; his self-control and self-protection abilities are already very strong.]
[If it were Grandpa and Si Jingyi, they probably would have been completely mesmerized by now.]
Old Master Si, "..."
Si Jingyi, "..."
The tense contours of Si Moyan's face softened slightly.
Fortunately, his wife understood him.
Si Moyan said in a deep voice, "There is something wrong with Shu Ti's eyes. When she looked at me with such deep affection, I felt her eyes were like dark, dangerous whirlpools trying to suck people in."
Old Master Si and Si Jingyi couldn't help but get goosebumps.
Old Master Si thought of something and lowered his voice, "I chatted with the cafeteria staff and found out that in this school, no one walks around after ten o'clock at night."
"Also, they said there is an abandoned teaching building on the west side of the school, and a basement beneath it. That place is a forbidden zone; no one in the school dares to go there."
Si Jingyi nodded. "I've heard that too. Plus, the security guards in this school all wear evil-warding amulets around their necks."
Wen Yan also mentioned the incident with the male student in the infirmary.
They exchanged glances, and the most timid of the group, Old Master Si and Si Jingyi, couldn't help but break out in goosebumps again.
"I plan to check out the forbidden zone tonight," Wen Yan said.
Si Moyan tightened his grip on Wen Yan's hand. "I'll go with you."
Old Master Si and Si Jingyi gritted their teeth. "We'll go together too."
"Where are you guys going?" Qu Weiyang walked over.
Seeing Qu Weiyang wearing the girls' uniform of Isha Academy, Wen Yan and the Si family were slightly taken aback.
Qu Weiyang looked a bit awkward. "The security here is strict, so I could only sneak in by dressing up as a female student."
Qu Weiyang sat down next to Wen Yan and looked at them with a puzzled expression. "What forbidden zone were you just talking about?"
Wen Yan didn't hide anything from Qu Weiyang; she told her about some of the things they had investigated recently.
Qu Weiyang pressed her lips tightly together. "I'll go with you tonight."
Qu Weiyang was a policewoman. An extra person meant extra strength, so Wen Yan did not refuse.
Around ten o'clock at night.
The moon hid behind dark clouds, and the night was pitch black and gloomy.
Isha Academy was dead silent, and the lights on all floors had been turned off.
Wen Yan, Qu Weiyang, and the Si family headed toward the forbidden zone on the west side of the campus.
Wen Yan handed everyone a Spirit Sight Amulet.
A Spirit Sight Amulet was a talisman that opened one's Yin-Yang eyes to see spirits.
Old Master Si and Si Jingyi walked behind Wen Yan. Si Jingyi kept swallowing hard, his heart pounding incessantly.
Old Master Si glared at Si Jingyi in frustration over his cowardice. "Your heartbeat is louder than my breathing."
Si Jingyi's legs trembled. "You can't blame me. Although Chu Man was that kind of evil spirit before, this one has clearly turned into a malicious ghost. She could kill someone!"
"Then don't go."
Si Jingyi immediately puffed out his chest. "No way, I will protect my sister-in-law even if I die!"
Qu Weiyang, who was walking side by side with Wen Yan, looked back at Si Jingyi and couldn't help but laugh out loud. "This second brother of yours is quite funny."
"He's just a goofball and a coward. Forgive the joke, Officer Qu," Old Master Si ruthlessly threw Si Jingyi under the bus.
Because of fear, all the pores on Si Jingyi's body were open. He was in no mood to retort against Old Master Si, his peach-blossom eyes warily scanning the surroundings.
After walking for twenty minutes, the group arrived at the west zone.
There was indeed a teaching building in the west zone. Its walls were mottled and its windows broken; it had likely been abandoned for several years.
Qu Weiyang frowned. "This teaching building is where Jiang Qing jumped."
Qu Weiyang walked up the steps and stood at the bottom of the stairs. "This is where Jiang Qing tumbled down and suffered a miscarriage."
Si Jingyi tightly hugged Old Master Si's arm.
This policewoman is really brave!
Wen Yan looked toward the teaching building.
From the moment she entered this place, she had felt a strong, eerie presence.
"If I'm not mistaken, the ghosts of Jiang Qing and those students who jumped off the building are all here."
As soon as Wen Yan said this, Si Jingyi almost turned and fled.
Cold sweat constantly broke out in his palms.
Old Master Si glanced at Si Jingyi. "Don't scare yourself to death before we've even seen anything."
Si Jingyi, "..." He began to chant the Great Compassion Mantra in his mind.
Wen Yan took the lead, following the eerie presence down toward the basement.
Si Moyan stayed by her side the entire time.
In the basement stairwell, the white walls had turned yellow and black, and a damp, musty smell permeated the air.
The lightbulbs in the hallway had broken long ago; the only light came from the flashlights held by Wen Yan and Qu Weiyang.
In the quiet space, there were only the sounds of the group walking downstairs and Si Jingyi's heavy breathing.
Wen Yan took out some talisman papers. As she walked down, she instructed the others to stick them on the walls.
In less than a minute, the group reached the basement.
Ordinary basements were usually pitch black and gloomy.
But this place was clearly different. The basement seemed to have been partitioned into a classroom.
Above the classroom door hung a sign that read Class Ten.
The lights inside the classroom were on, and the faint sound of people reading aloud could be heard.
Si Jingyi's legs had gone completely soft.
How could they hear the sound of reading in a place like this?
It must be—
He didn't dare think any further.
Wen Yan, Si Moyan, and Qu Weiyang walked to the classroom door and peeked inside through the crack.
At this sight, everyone gasped.
Especially Qu Weiyang, who had previously been in charge of the suicide cases at Isha Academy.
Weren't the ones sitting at the very front of the classroom the three students who had jumped off the building this month?
Behind those three were all the other dead students who had jumped previously.
They sat perfectly straight, reading earnestly.
Old Master Si and Si Jingyi also took a peek inside.
At this sight, the hairs on the backs of the grandfather and grandson stood up.
However, just as everyone's nerves were stretched taut, the clacking sound of high heels striking the ground echoed from down the hallway.
At the same time, the bright lights in the classroom began to flicker.
Wen Yan took the lead, looking toward the direction of the high heels' sound.
