# 1531
Chapter 1531: Assistance from 【Night Watch】
"What's wrong?"
Cao Yuan caught up from behind. Seeing Lu Menglei's strange expression, he asked proactively.
"This is the Fifth Teaching Building... Haven't you heard the legend of this place?"
"Legend?"
Lu Menglei recounted the story of Room 609 in the Fifth Teaching Building. The more she spoke, the paler her face became. She glanced around her surroundings, feeling a chill run through her entire body.
Sometimes, the person telling a ghost story gets more immersed in it than the listeners. In fact, she had already started feeling a chill in the surrounding air.
Cao Yuan glanced at the building with suspicion. "It's just a horror story. No need to take it seriously. Let me accompany you on this trip."
"Should we really go...?" Lu Menglei hesitated. "But this rumor is very believable... Almost everyone at Shangjing University knows about it. This teaching building is off-limits at night."
"Off-limits? Let me see what kind of restriction it is."
Cao Yuan chuckled and strode toward the dim entrance of the teaching building. His silhouette under the streetlamp was as imposing as a giant.
Seeing this, Lu Menglei gritted her teeth and closely followed behind Cao Yuan.
Although this teaching building only had six floors, it covered a large area. Cao Yuan walked into the spacious first-floor lobby, looked up, and saw layers of corridors stacking upward. In the pitch-black environment, it resembled a layered abyss suspended in the air.
"Where's the light switch?" Cao Yuan asked.
"I remember... It should be in that corner."
Lu Menglei stayed close behind Cao Yuan. Looking at the dark and silent interior of the teaching building, the scenes she had just imagined re-emerged in her mind. Her palms grew damp with nervousness. She pointed in some direction and spoke in a lowered voice, as if afraid of waking something in the darkness.
Cao Yuan followed the direction she pointed, walked to a certain wall in the lobby, and fumbled with his fingertips for a while before finally finding the position of the button.
Snap—!
The button was pressed, but the lights didn't turn on. The entire teaching building remained in darkness.
"Hm?" Cao Yuan raised an eyebrow in surprise. "The lights are broken?"
"That shouldn't be... When I passed by here after seven tonight, all the lights were on." In the darkness, Lu Menglei's face turned several shades paler. "Should we... just leave?"
"Don't worry. With me here, nothing will happen." Cao Yuan spoke calmly. Although his voice wasn't loud, it carried an inexplicable force that slightly eased Lu Menglei's racing heart.
Cao Yuan reached into his pocket and took out his phone, turning on the flashlight. The white light illuminated a small area around the two of them.
"You should turn on your phone flashlight too."
"I... my phone is in my bag, and the cat took it."
Cao Yuan sighed. "This one will be enough... Did you see which floor the cat went to?"
"The sixth floor." Lu Menglei paused. "That's... the legendary floor."
"Is there a direct elevator?"
"Yes."
Under Lu Menglei's guidance, Cao Yuan found the location of the direct elevator, but like the lights, this elevator seemed to be powered off with no response at all.
"It should be a power outage in this area... Stay close and follow exactly where I go."
Cao Yuan held the flashlight and spoke solemnly.
The horror legend, the inexplicable power outage, the endless darkness... These things continuously devoured Lu Menglei's courage. Although she had a strong personality, she was still a girl with an innate fear of such things. Seeing Cao Yuan walk ahead, she instinctively reached out and linked her arm through his.
Sensing a warm and soft touch on his arm, Cao Yuan's body trembled almost imperceptibly. Then, pretending nothing had happened, he continued forward. In the darkness, the corners of his mouth gradually curved upward...
...
"He's secretly smiling."
In a patch of darkness in the lobby, the forms of Lin Qiye and two others slowly materialized. He glanced at the direction where the two figures were heading and spoke幽幽地.
"As expected, the unknown and fear are catalysts for romance." An Qingyu smiled. "Seven Nights, you already knew about the legend of this teaching building?"
"Heard about it from a friend when I first arrived. Didn't expect it would come in handy now."
"Do you think Cao Yuan knows we're helping him?"
"He should realize it to some extent. The movement of Jiang Er possessing the black cat to snatch the bag was just too convenient..."
"I've cut off all the power. What should we do next?" Jiang Er's ghostly figure spoke from the wall, her voice coming through the Bluetooth earpiece.
"Where did you put the bag?"
"The second desk from the right in the last row of Room 609."
"Very good." Lin Qiye seemed to recall something. "By the way, when you went to that classroom, did you notice anything strange?"
Jiang Er thought carefully: "No, it's just an ordinary classroom."
Lin Qiye nodded.
"Actually, the most effective method right now would be for Jiang Er to scare Lu Menglei a bit... But I'm afraid if we do it that directly, Cao Yuan won't be able to react in time, and there's also a possibility Lu Menglei might faint on the spot." Lin Qiye thought as he spoke.
"True, there's no need to make it that intense." An Qingyu nodded.
At Jiang Er's current appearance, she was exactly like a white-robed female ghost. If she really appeared before Lu Menglei, the slightly creepy atmosphere that still had a hint of romantic tension would probably turn into a full-blown Ring-style horror scene.
"Too bad if Room 609 actually had something supernatural." Jiang Er sighed. "Just going there to get the bag and leaving feels anticlimactic..."
"Lu Menglei is just an ordinary human girl. The current situation is almost at her limit." Lin Qiye watched the two figures climbing the stairs and spoke slowly. "We've done everything we can. Now, it's up to Cao Yuan."
...
In the pale light of the phone, the dim staircase steps passed under their feet one after another, and the muffled footsteps echoed in the silent teaching building.
Lu Menglei tightly held onto Cao Yuan's arm, not daring to look around much, afraid something unexpected might suddenly jump out.
"What... what floor are we on?"
"Fifth floor." Cao Yuan shone the flashlight on the corridor sign and answered.
"But... but I feel like we've climbed at least five or six flights of stairs?" Lu Menglei's face grew even paler. "Cao Yuan学弟... We're not... experiencing a ghost wall, are we?!"
When she said the last three words "ghost wall," Lu Menglei's voice trembled slightly. She held onto Cao Yuan's body even tighter, because she clearly remembered taking many, many steps.
Cao Yuan paused for a moment, then spoke again:
"Oh, sorry, I mistook the 5 for a 3. We're on the fifth floor."
"???"
Lu Menglei was so angry her teeth ground together. She pinched a piece of flesh on Cao Yuan's arm, twisting it a hundred and eighty degrees, and spoke angrily, "It's already this situation, and you're still joking with me!"
Cao Yuan seemed completely unable to feel the pain. He laughed lightly twice, and the curve at the corner of his mouth rose even higher...