Chapter 51 Second Primary School
“Yo! Brother, you’re finally here. I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”
The man, who had finished setting up the photography equipment, said to Liu Haoyu with a kind smile.
“My name is Li Xiangfei. I’d appreciate your protection tonight. It’s not that I’m afraid of ghosts, but it’s said that the local customs are not very good.”
“Tsk…” The woman next to Li Xiangfei seemed a bit impatient. “Alright, alright, let’s talk about pleasantries in the car.”
The woman got onto the bus first.
Li Xiangfei smiled sheepishly, remaining in place.
“Sorry, Liu Siyi has that kind of personality. She doesn’t mean any harm.”
Liu Haoyu didn’t bother to dwell on it, and the group also got into the van.
Liu Haoyu sat in the back and looked out the car window.
The streets were very quiet after 10 p.m., with no sound to speak of except for the occasional passing car.
Under the flickering streetlights, a few stray cats were rummaging through trash cans, letting out sharp and eerie cries.
As the van gradually moved away, gloomy, dark clouds began to cover the sky.
Gusts of night wind blew into the car through the open window, making everyone shiver uncontrollably.
No one spoke during the journey. Li Xiangfei was curious about what was inside Liu Haoyu’s large backpack.
“Brother, are you bringing a change of clothes?”
Liu Haoyu withdrew his gaze and looked at Li Xiangfei, who had a gentle and sunny big brother demeanor.
“These are just tools that might be used.”
“Might be used?”
Li Xiangfei glanced at Liu Haoyu’s backpack, feeling that something was amiss.
Liu Haoyu didn’t elaborate, he simply retorted with a faint tone.
“But I’m quite curious why you chose to stream in a place like this?”
“There’s no other way. Viewers are so picky these days. Without something interesting, it’s hard to get anyone to watch.”
Li Xiangfei said, scratching his head awkwardly.
In fact, when Liu Haoyu met the two of them, he realized something.
The person who posted the part-time job was not a large streaming company or an artist agency.
It was a small streamer, a man and a woman.
They were probably trying to use supernatural themes as a gimmick to gain fame.
The van drove out of Jiangliu City and headed towards the countryside.
About half an hour later, the van turned on its hazard lights and switched its high beams to low beams.
When the vehicle stopped, the van door slowly opened, and the five people of the group got out one by one.
After confirming that he had received the money, the van driver looked at the five people.
As if remembering something, the driver kindly reminded them.
“By the way, young men, what are you doing here so late? You’re not here for this elementary school, are you?”
Li Xiangfei replied.
“We are indeed here for Shishan’s Second Primary School.”
The driver’s eyelids twitched. He looked at the group of five and said earnestly.
“This place is not simple, it’s even a bit unsafe.”
“What do you mean?” Li Xiangfei, knowing the situation, pretended not to understand.
“The reason is simple: it’s haunted…”
The driver sighed and said.
“And if you hadn’t paid me enough, I wouldn’t have wanted to drive to such a remote place. I was afraid of running into the Masked Murderer.”
“The Masked Murderer? Is that a thing?”
Li Xiangfei understood the situation inside the school, but upon hearing the name “Masked Murderer,” he felt a chill down his spine.
“Of course!” The van driver nodded confidently. “In our circles, many people have encountered that Black Night Masked Murderer. One unlucky fellow even encountered him three times!”
“Fortunately, nothing happened, and he managed to gather some experience…”
“First, if you see a disheveled man with black hair, do not let him on the bus.”
“Second, if he has already gotten on the bus, never look back.”
“Third, if you sense a third person in the car, it’s best to remain calm and not shout.”
“Fourth, never look at his backpack, or it will bring misfortune.”
“Fifth, after he gets off the bus, never look at the money in your hand, or it might turn into ghost money.”
After the driver finished a string of things that sounded like urban legends, Li Xiangfei couldn’t help but laugh.
“If you were really going to encounter a murderer, you wouldn’t have so many elaborate rules. You’d be dead by now.”
Indeed.
Liu Haoyu yawned and gave Li Xiangfei a thumbs-up.
He looked at all the people outside, jumping to conclusions.
Then he looked at Li Xiangfei, realizing that this was what it meant to be a good brother with independent thinking.
However, while Li Xiangfei seemed optimistic, the two burly men did not.
Looking at Liu Haoyu’s haggard appearance, they increasingly saw him as the “Black Night Masked Murderer” the driver had described.
“Moreover, this school is very strange. There was a young man who wasn’t afraid of death and entered this elementary school late at night. Then she ran into a ghost wall and couldn’t get out of the school even after walking all night. It wasn’t until the next day when students went to school that people discovered someone had entered the school.”
“So take my advice, go home quickly at night. Don’t go to places like this. If something really happens, you won’t be able to call out to Heaven or Earth for help.”
“Is it really that weird?”
One of the burly men’s hearts skipped a beat.
The cool night wind blew on him, making him feel a little unnerved.
Li Xiangfei, however, smiled.
“In this era of ubiquitous surveillance cameras, if there were ghosts, wouldn’t they have been caught on camera long ago? In the end, it’s all superstition.”
“Besides, there are so many of us here. If a ghost really appeared, we could take it down with one punch each.”
“Sigh… Alright then.”
Seeing that he couldn’t persuade these hot-blooded youngsters, the driver could only sigh and then drive the van away from the place.
The place where the five of them got off was very remote. There were almost no buildings by the roadside, and if there were any, they were very dilapidated, low-rise houses.
Not far away was the aged Second Primary School.
“Why is it so cold tonight… *yi ling yi qi si qia jiu si zhang ba*”
The woman complained, exhaling a white mist.
The surroundings were shrouded in shadows. The desolate and deserted school exuded an indescribable eeriness and terror.
“Clang clang…”
Just then, a sound of metal colliding with metal echoed from behind the four of them.
The two burly men walking in the middle turned around and saw Liu Haoyu taking out a gas mask from his backpack.
“Wait, what is that?”
The burly man’s voice drew everyone’s attention to Liu Haoyu.
The man calmly said.
*ba shan liu jiu D ling (qi) q jiu ⒌⑻*
“A gas mask. Isn’t this a supernatural stream? It’s quite normal to wear a gas mask, isn’t it?”
