After the door was opened, the contestants filed out one by one.
Perhaps due to the small number of art students, the fifth floor had almost become a small world for them. There were painting studios and rest rooms, and the artistic atmosphere was extremely strong.
Everyone first entered a sculpture room. After seeing the furnishings inside, their faces all looked a bit grim, for the atmosphere in this classroom was truly eerie.
The lights were very dim, and the thick curtains covered the windows tightly, as if completely isolating this classroom from the outside world.
Feng Chengyuan felt uncomfortable the moment he stepped into the room. This discomfort grew stronger after seeing the clay sculptures all over the place.
The whole room seemed to be shrouded in a layer of black mist. The mist was piled up layer upon layer, as if overflowing from countless statues.
The sculptures in the room were vivid, from the hair strands to the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, and even the texture of the skin was almost indistinguishable from that of a human.
These sculptures were neatly arranged in the room, each with a different posture and expression.
Their pair after pair of lifeless eyes stared straight in the direction of the crowd, with a smile on their faces, as if they were about to speak the next moment.
The expressions of all the contestants were a bit off, especially Xue Yier.
She had disliked things that had a human form but no human spirit since childhood.
It was an inborn and uncontrollable fear.
If this weren't a competition, she really would have turned around and left immediately, never setting foot here again.
Standing by the window on the fifth floor, everyone could clearly see a tall tower not far from the periphery of the school. If viewed from a bird's - eye perspective, one would find that Wanju High School and the tower were exactly on a straight line, and the main gate of Wanju High School was directly facing the tower. There was only a straight avenue connecting the two huge building complexes.
Yu Nian stared at the tower for a long time and said calmly, "So that's it. No wonder that evil spirit's power is so great."
Zhong Yaya asked in confusion, "Niannian, what did you find?"
Yu Nian looked in the direction of the tower and explained, "This tower is a kind of spiritual - suppressing building similar to shrines and Buddha statues. In Buddhist legends, the souls of the dead all go west. If there's nothing to stop them, they'll keep going. Wanju High School was just built on the exact west side of the tower, blocking the way of the deceased spirits. And the evil qi blocked by the tower was also sucked into the school. This kind of spiritual - suppressing building is usually built around mass graves. The land itself has a heavy aura of resentment. There should have been some supernatural events when Wanju High School was first built. The principal invited experts to give advice and built the feng shui in the school very perfectly to neutralize the mistakes in the site selection. Since then, Wanju High School has formed a closed loop. It wasn't until Qiu Xuan played the spirit - summoning game that it was like actively opening the door for the ghosts. That evil spirit absorbed people's greed and became more and more powerful, which led to the current situation of Wanju High School."
Seeing that everyone looked confused, Yu Nian simply threw a talisman paper into the air.
The talisman paper slowly floated to the middle of the air and, like a mirror, presented the overall floor plan of Wanju High School to everyone.
From the map, one could see that a straight road led directly from the tower scenic area to the east gate of Wanju High School, perpendicular to a north - south road outside the east gate of the school. The two roads formed a very obvious "T" shape.
Xue Yier's expression immediately changed. "This is... the T - shaped evil?! "
This kind of structure was called the "T - shaped evil" in feng shui. It was a very inauspicious feng shui pattern that could bring about wind disasters, fires, financial losses, and disputes.
Feng Chengyuan bent down slightly and listened as Yu Nian gave him a special explanation. "The air current should have flowed along the road, but it was blocked by Wanju High School, resulting in no smooth air current entering the campus. Over time, the stagnant air became 'dead qi' and 'evil qi'. And since Wanju High School directly faces the tower, it can't get the protection of the pagoda. Instead, it seems to be offending it. All the unclean things rushed out by the tower have gathered in Wanju High School."
Yu Nian seemed to think of something and asked Xue Yier, "What's the name of that missing girl?"
"The art student? Her name is Luo Ning. Her family seems to be quite wealthy. Even without taking the art college entrance exam, they have the ability to send her abroad for further study."
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Due to the large number of rooms, Yu Nian distributed a protective talisman to each contestant, and then they started to search separately.
Fu Sui took out a small and delicate compass from his pocket. There were the Eight Trigrams diagram and numerous complex incantations engraved on the back of the compass. He glanced at Feng Chengyuan subtly and asked Yu Nian, "I'll be more accurate with this compass. Do you want to go with me?"
As soon as he said this, the bullet - screen immediately became lively.
[Is the great master Fu Sui going to team up with the great master Yu Nian? I'm so looking forward to it!]
[What did I just hear?!! Fu Sui actually invited Yu Nian actively?]
[Why do I feel that CEO Feng's expression is a bit off...]
...
"No, thanks."
Yu Nian took Feng Chengyuan's hand and walked towards the room at the end of the corridor.
Fu Sui didn't mind. But the compass in his hand started spinning wildly the moment Yu Nian left, pointing straight at the room that Yu Nian and Feng Chengyuan were about to enter.
Fu Sui's expression became a bit subtle for a moment. He took a deep look at Yu Nian and then turned to walk into the rest room.
The style of the rest room was similar to that of the other rooms. There were still various dark - style paintings and many vivid clay sculptures.
It was just that there was something extra on the wall.
There were several exquisitely framed photos. In the photos were group photos of three girls. Although Fu Sui could see the facial features of the people in the photos clearly, he always felt dizzy.
"Is the frame dirty?"
He tentatively wiped the dust off the frame. But the moment he took his hand away, he saw a huge face sticking to the photo.
Maybe it was just Fu Sui's illusion, but one of the girls in the photo seemed to be closer to him. Her originally a bit blurry facial features suddenly became clear.
Fu Sui frowned and was about to reach out to touch it when he suddenly heard a girl's shrill scream outside the door. The scream was extremely harsh, filled with heavy despair, followed by the sound of something heavy falling into the water.
He stopped in his tracks, withdrew his hand, and walked outside.
The moment he left the room, he inexplicably turned his head. Just one glance made the hair on his body stand on end.
The girl in the photo was lying on the edge of the frame with her head tilted. Her face was ferocious, and she had already crawled out half of her body.
Fu Sui cursed and immediately threw out a talisman paper. Unexpectedly, a pair of bluish - purple hands suddenly penetrated the talisman paper and tore it to pieces.
The female ghost stood in front of him with a ferocious face, and the blood was flowing down from her rotten face.
Fu Sui took a step back. Suddenly, a fair hand appeared beside him and firmly grasped the female ghost's arm.
Yu Nian glanced at Fu Sui. "You go first."
The moment the human and the ghost made contact, Yu Nian felt that the scene in front of her suddenly changed. It seemed that she had entered someone else's body.
The space around her was very narrow, probably a cabinet or something. She was curled up in a strange posture. Yu Nian was briefly stunned for a moment. She looked down and saw that she was wearing the school uniform of Wanju High School. Yu Nian had excellent eyesight. She had a pair of hands that looked like they had never done heavy work, but there were two thick calluses on her right index finger and middle finger, as if formed from holding a pen for a long time.