Chapter 12: Revival
Outside Luoxi City No. 7 Middle School, it was 6 o'clock in the afternoon. The whole school had been completely locked down. The police even blocked several nearby streets, and all the civilians were temporarily moved away.
From outside the school, the middle school looked perfectly normal. In the evening sun, the glass of the teaching building reflected the sunlight.
However, there was something strange. The whole school was empty, with no sound or any signs of people inside.
When Luoxi City Police discovered the incident, it was already half past five in the afternoon.
The main thing was that some parents came to school early to pick up their children, but they found that something was very wrong with the whole school.
Furthermore, the parents couldn't even contact their own children with their phones.
Some people directly called the police, but there were also reckless parents who chose to break into the school, and then something terrible happened.
All the parents who approached the entrance gate disappeared, as if something ghostly had happened.
This made the situation even more uncontrollable. A large number of police forces rushed there upon hearing the news. By the time the lockdown was complete, it was already six o'clock, and no one had walked out of the school during that time.
At the school's front entrance, next to several police cars, a middle-aged police officer frowned deeply.
He looked at the two people in casual clothes beside him, "Mr. Li, Mr. Xu, is there really no way?"
Mr. Li is a messy uncle with a beard. He wore a colorful shirt and walked in slippers, looking untidy.
On the other hand, Mr. Xu was dressed in a suit, looking like a successful person in society.
When the uncle heard this question, he just yawned and said, "Don't think about it. We tried to test it, but this ghost has already formed its own territory."
"You may not know what this means, but to put it simply, if the reinforcements don't arrive in time today, or if this ghost is not satisfied with staying in the school and starts expanding outside, then everyone in Luoxi City will have to evacuate."
"Even the two of us have to pray that this kind of thing doesn't happen, otherwise we will be the first to die. After all, we are just getting paid."
This made the middle-aged police officer's face look even worse. Why is it like this?
Probably starting from half a year ago, or even earlier, this world had started to change, completely overturning the police officer's imagination.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have a hard time believing that the world had started to have ghosts.
Moreover, these ghosts were very terrifying, much scarier than the ghosts in ghost stories and folk legends.
Although until now, the truth was still hidden beneath the calm surface of the water. But sooner or later, people all over the world would know that this world had completely changed...
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Chu Jiang had a dream.
In the dream, there was endless darkness. He kept walking and walking, but he couldn't reach the end.
Just when he was feeling lost, he heard a faint song coming from the distant unknown.
The melody was like a sacred chant.
So Chu Jiang had a direction, but as he walked a little further, he suddenly saw a ghost!
It looked like a pale, ghostly figure. It emitted a creepy aura, and its right palm was dripping with fresh blood, making a "drip, drip" sound.
When Chu Jiang saw the ghost, the ghost also saw him. Its eyes showed no emotions of the living, only death.
In the next moment, the Blood Ghost swiftly floated over.
Chu Jiang was startled and immediately woke up from his sleep.
But as soon as he woke up, Chu Jiang felt a sharp pain in his chest, and his mind was not quite right.
Vaguely, Chu Jiang felt like he had lost something, but what could it be?
Chu Jiang struggled to get up from the ground. It was dark all around him. Where was he? What had happened?
Not far away, a broken phone screen emitted a faint light. With the help of this light, Chu Jiang noticed a completely black diary in front of him.
This made his pupils shrink intensely. He remembered everything that happened before his death.
"I'm not... dead, am I?" Chu Jiang raised his hands in disbelief.
Then he noticed something else terrifying. His right palm was dripping blood, just like the ghost in his dream.
Chu Jiang's heart was pounding, he immediately used his hand to wipe the floor hard, but the blood seemed endless and couldn't be wiped clean no matter how hard he tried.
After trying without success, Chu Jiang gradually calmed down and looked at his chest.
His clothes had a large hole, but the wound on his body had already healed, leaving only a scary scar as proof of how severely he had been injured.
As for other aspects, his body temperature seemed a bit low, but Chu Jiang's heart was still beating and he had a pulse, so he should still be considered alive.
Finally, there was his bleeding right hand... Chu Jiang closed his eyes and tried for a while before managing to stop the bleeding in his right hand.
If he couldn't stop it, he was afraid he would quickly die again due to excessive bleeding.
Next, Chu Jiang didn't touch the diary right away. He had several big questions in his mind: How did he die and come back to life? What about the Blood Handprint on the black diary? And the ghost from his dream...
Although he didn't know what happened after he lost consciousness, at this moment Chu Jiang had some vague guesses.
But now was not the time to think about that, he ran over to pick up his broken phone.
When he looked at the time, he was surprised to see that it was almost half past six!
Even though Chu Jiang felt like he had just lost consciousness a short while ago, he didn't realize that several hours had already passed. He wondered if his classmates were still alive...
Should he go and find them, or should he try to escape from the school?
If Chu Jiang's guess in his heart was true, then maybe he had the ability to escape from the school now.
Of course, there was no need to think twice about dealing with that Slender Man.
The Blood Handprint on Chu Jiang's right hand now should possess the same power as the Blood Handprint on the cover of the diary.
It had the ability to restrain other ghosts and had a terrifying instant death effect on living people.
However, when facing Slender Man, these abilities put him at a great disadvantage.
The most obvious point was that Chu Jiang couldn't even touch the other at the speed Slender Man moved before. How he died before was how he would die if he encountered Slender Man now.
Not to mention the other side hadn't even manipulated time yet.
Therefore, looking at the broken screen in his hand, Chu Jiang quickly made a decision. He went to find Li Yan and the others, at least to take a look behind the boys' dormitory, considering it as a final attempt.
If they couldn't find another team or give up, they should withdraw from there.
After finding Li Yan and the others, they would try to escape from this haunted school.
