What's Wrong With Seeking Death? - Chapter 5
This time, the voice came from a girl— the shriek was fleeting and there was no follow-up.
Xu Turan seized the opportunity to pour herself another handful of Skittles. The Class Monitor next to her rushed over nervously, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s the event card that Xiaomi just drew!” Someone answered immediately with an uncertain tone, “She, uh, she seems to be frightened by the pattern on it.”
“What?” The Class Monitor hurriedly walked to Xiaomi and saw that the girl in question was horrified. In front of her was nothing but an open card.
There was only a picture of a half-open cabinet on that card.
“That’s it? Is it scary?” Gu Chenfeng said beside him.
“No, it’s not…” Xiaomi was still in shock, “When I opened it just now… there was a woman inside.”
“…what?”
“When I just took it out, there was a woman in that cabinet!” Xiaomi raised her voice, “She had her hands on the cabinet door, her fingers were grey and she was looking around… Who knew that in the blink of an eye, she was gone!”
When she said this, her voice was still trembling slightly and she didn’t look like she was lying. However, the others stared at the card for a long time, merely seeing a cabinet.
The students around the table looked at each other. Except for the Cass Monitor, no one took it too seriously, “It must be a mistake, haven’t we been using that small flashlight all this time? It must have dazzled our eyes.”
“Yes, yes, it should be.”
“Speaking of which, what’s on that card?”
WIth a sentence, everyone’s attention returned to the event card in Xiaomi’s hand.
The Sports Committee next to her picked up the card and turned on the flashlight, reading it word for word,”Event: You accidentally discovered the cabinet with the female ghost sealed in it. Soon, she will leave the cabinet, and in the next three minutes, wander around the B&B(1)…and take one of you away…”
(T/N: B&B is a short form for ‘breakfast and bed’. Also refers to small hotels or homestays)
The Sports Committee read the latter part and his tone became obviously weirded out, “After she appears from the cabinet, you will have five minutes to prepare. Lucky kid? Unlucky kid? Neither. The female ghost prefers the kid with the lowest grades.”
As soon as those words were said, a wave of silence fell upon them.
After a few seconds, the Sports Committee said with an embarrassed smile, “I-it seems that this is the first time that this sort of event has been drawn? We’re probably just playing hide-and-seek…”
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the sound of a ‘thump’ out of thin air. Consequently, the room suddenly fell into complete darkness and another scream echoed again!
In the darkness, only the flashlight in the Sports Committee’s hand was still shining. Everyone instinctively leaned towards him, and in the next moment, there was another ‘snap’— the lights in the room were automatically turned on and the entire room was bright again.
Yet, no one was happy about it.
The reason for that was because it was still dark outside the window, but only God knew why. It was only 3 o’ clock in the afternoon, so how could it get this dark?
Another reason for their dampened spirits was because of the cabinet.
In the corner of the originally empty room, a huge cabinet suddenly appeared.
It was dark in colour and seemed to be made of iron, its surface evidently covered with rust marks. There were thick chains wrapped around it on the outside. A lot of talisman papers were pasted on the chains in disorder, held together with a big lock that hung in the middle.
No one knew how this thing simply appeared out of nowhere. The Sports Committee who was the nearest to it cautiously approached, but was pulled back by the Class Monitor. He swallowed a lump of spit, “What is this?”
“…” No one answered his question. However, almost everyone had the same answer in their minds…
It was the cabinet that sealed the ‘female ghost’.