Chapter 90 Ghostly Beckoning
With a flick of his finger, a calming talisman was drawn in the air, and then with another flick of his finger, he sent the talisman into Lin Zihan's body.
"Chen Cheng, what are you doing...?"
"Shh, don't speak!"
Zhang Qian quickly stopped Yu Wei.
Seeing Yu Wei's puzzled expression, Chen Cheng said, "Wake her up."
"We can't wake him up. The doctor and I have tried, but it's no use."
"So slow!"
Zhang Qian glared at Yu Wei, walked straight to the bedside, and gently called Lin Zihan's name while holding her shoulder.
"Zihan, wake up, Zihan, I've come to see you."
Just as Yu Wei was about to step forward to speak, he was surprised to find that Lin Zihan's eyelids began to twitch back and forth, and her head was shaking slightly. Then she slowly opened her eyes and exclaimed, "A ghost!"
I just woke up and I'm still quite weak, so my voice isn't very loud.
"It's alright, Zihan, it's alright. Look, we're all here with you!"
Zhang Qian quickly took her hand and comforted her.
"Sissi..."
Lin Zihan composed herself, took a good look at the people in front of her, and then burst into tears.
Chen Cheng didn't immediately ask her what had happened. Instead, he gestured for Zhang Qian to talk to her and try not to upset her. Then, he called Yu Wei to go outside the hospital to smoke.
"Chen Cheng, what just happened? You just gestured a couple of times and Zihan woke up. What is this...?"
"Hehe, it's hard to explain these things to you scientifically. When Sisi first met me, she was also surprised like this. Now she knows that the other side of this world is not something you can see with your naked eyes."
"You mean... ghosts?"
After Yu Wei finished speaking, he felt a chill run down his spine.
Chen Cheng recounted his explanation to Zhang Qian that night to Yu Wei. After listening, Yu Wei stood there dumbfounded. Then, remembering what Chen Cheng had said, "Qianqian would never be interested in these ordinary people," he fell silent.
In the morning, Yu Wei helped Lin Zihan with her discharge procedures. After having breakfast outside, the group arrived at Yu Wei and Lin Zihan's home.
This is a three-bedroom apartment, decorated in a very ordinary way. According to Yu Wei, it will be redecorated when the two of them get married.
At this point, Lin Zihan's emotions had stabilized. The group sat on the sofa, and Chen Cheng asked about the reason. Upon hearing this, Lin Zihan shuddered and then began to recount her experience.
Last night was the evening self-study session for the ninth graders. School usually ends around nine o'clock. Lin Zihan was the teacher on duty that night. Their classroom faces an abandoned dormitory building on one side. She once said that she felt uneasy every night when she saw that dark building.
Just recently, a girl from Class 3-5 suddenly walked out of the classroom during evening self-study. The teacher was not there at the time, and the students thought she had gone to the toilet, so they did not pay attention. However, the girl never returned to the classroom.
The next morning, as the students began their morning exercises, a student surnamed Liu happened to see something swaying back and forth on the fourth floor of the abandoned dormitory building. It looked like a red dress. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was a person. Startled, he stammered and pointed, shouting, "It's, it's a person, it's a person!"
The students and teachers present were stunned. Two of the bolder male teachers approached and immediately called the police. When the police arrived, the principal and several other bold male teachers went up to the fourth floor and took the girl down, but she had already been dead for some time.
Later, after police and forensic examination and on-site investigation, it was determined that the death was not a homicide but a suicide. The time of death was approximately seven hours ago, which is around midnight. Who would come to the abandoned dormitory building at the school at midnight to hang themselves?
This incident became a mystery at the school, a hot topic, and a matter that the school leaders and the district authorities were determined to control in order to cover up the truth. Very few reports were published online, and almost all of them were censored. The school even fabricated a tragedy about an early but unrequited love!
Just last night, the night Lin Zihan had her accident, she was in the classroom as usual, supervising the students to make sure they weren't daydreaming. She already had a fear of the abandoned dormitory building on one side, but that's how people are—the more you fear something, the more you want to know about it. Lin Zihan had secretly glanced at the abandoned dormitory building more than a dozen times that night. Before the accident, she didn't know how many times she had looked at it, but this time she saw a girl in a red dress waving at her from the dark corridor on the fourth floor across the way. For a moment, she froze on the spot, her mind went blank, and all she could hear in her mind was a series of shouts: "Come on, here's what you want, as long as you come, everything you want is here!"
After a moment of dazedness, Lin Zihan's body moved uncontrollably towards the outside. Yes, as she described it, it was like a dream; she knew in her heart she shouldn't go, but she couldn't speak, and her body wouldn't obey her. She walked out of the classroom, down the stairs, and like a walking corpse, headed towards the abandoned dormitory building. The girl in red on the fourth floor of the abandoned dormitory building was still waving to her. Encouraging words echoed in Lin Zihan's mind: "Come on, come on, this is a carefree world. As long as you come, you can forget all your troubles, hahaha, I'm waiting for you, come on, come on..."
Lin Zihan's body felt as if it had lost all control. Her mind screamed, "Let me wake up! I'm terrified of this nightmare!" Yet, her body continued to move forward, one step, two steps. The dark, unlit building seemed like a demon waiting for her, its mouth already gaping open. She could almost see the stark white bones and countless wandering, wronged souls within. Just as she was about to step into the school's restricted area, a flame suddenly erupted from her jeans pocket. Strangely, the flame felt no heat and blocked Lin Zihan's path. She felt a wave of dizziness, followed by clarity. She knew that turning and running was the only way to survive. But before she could take two steps, everything went black, and she knew nothing more. When she woke up, she was in the hospital, and the person she saw was Zhang Qian…
Besides Chen Cheng, even Zhang Qian, who prided herself on having seen the "world," felt a chill run down her spine. Not to mention Yu Wei, who kept pushing up his gold-rimmed glasses, the cold sweat on his face betraying him.
"Brother Cheng, what do you think?"
"Zihan has been targeted. If it weren't for the talisman you gave her, she would have ended up like that student who hanged himself!"
Chen Cheng said seriously.
Zhang Qian, Yu Wei, and Lin Zihan were all shocked at the same time.
"Chen Cheng, what should we do now? Zihan is your friend too!"
Yu Wei shouted.
"Brother Cheng..."
"Sissi, am I really going to die?"
Lin Zihan asked, her voice trembling with tears.
"Brother Cheng..."
Zhang Qian shouted again.
"This is called a ghost beckoning, or a ghost hooking the soul. Others can't see it, but Zihan can, which means it has already targeted her and established a unified radio wave. That's how the girl who hanged herself died!"
"What should I do? What should I do?"
Yu Wei's beliefs collapsed in an instant. He had heard stories from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, but it was still hard to accept that a supernatural event was happening around him.
Lin Zihan's face turned ashen, and she was at a loss for what to do.
Chen Cheng waved his hand to interrupt Zhang Qian, who was about to speak again: "Don't worry, as a member of the Taoist sect, I will definitely help if I encounter this. Besides, Zihan is Qianqian's best friend. I will risk my life to fight for her!"
Zhang Qian was shocked to hear this. Chen Cheng's words meant that this ghost was extremely powerful; even Chen Cheng had to say he'd take a gamble, and if they couldn't win...