# 1532
Chapter 1528: 609
Under Lu Menglei's anxious mood, the two quickly arrived at the sixth floor.
This teaching building had no skylights on the top floor. If the first and second floors still had some dim light coming through the glass doors, then the sixth floor was pitch black, with only a few ghostly green emergency exit signs emitting faint glimmers of light.
"Did you see which classroom that cat went into?" Cao Yuan's gaze swept across the nine classrooms on this floor.
"...I didn't see clearly, but it should be one of the north-facing classrooms." Lu Menglei answered uncertainly.
"North-facing?"
Cao Yuan looked toward the north side of this floor. The closest one to them was 601, followed by odd-numbered classrooms progressing forward—a total of five rooms.
"Let's check them one by one."
Cao Yuan led Lu Menglei to the door of Classroom 601 and glanced through the small glass window. Dim moonlight filtered in from outside, the dimly lit classroom was deathly silent, with no异样 whatsoever.
He gripped the door handle, gently twisted it open, and stepped inside.
"There doesn't seem to be anything on the floor. Maybe it's in the desk drawers? Should we split up to search?" Cao Yuan proposed.
"No, no splitting up!" Lu Menglei clung tighter to Cao Yuan's arm, insisting firmly, "I'll just search with you!"
Cao Yuan raised an eyebrow and naturally wouldn't refuse. He led her to search through the desks row by row from the front. After thoroughly searching the entire classroom, there was still no sign of the handbag.
"Guess it's not in this one. Let's go to the next."
Cao Yuan brought Lu Menglei, checking all the north-facing classrooms on the sixth floor—601, 603, 605, 607... By the time they stepped out of the second-to-last classroom, Lu Menglei's complexion had turned grim.
"It should be in 609."
"Do we... really have to go in?" Lu Menglei stared at the corner classroom in the darkness, recalling the horror stories once more, and asked quietly.
"Don't worry. With me here, even if we encounter ghosts and monsters, they'll only have one choice—to run." Cao Yuan chuckled confidently.
He pulled Lu Menglei to the door of Classroom 609. Out of habit, he peered through the small glass window, and then froze in place!
"What's wrong?" Lu Menglei stood behind Cao Yuan, unable to see what was beyond the window, and asked in confusion.
She leaned forward slightly, her gaze caught a glimpse of the interior, and her entire body shuddered violently!
This classroom, nestled in the furthest corner of the Fifth Teaching Building, had virtually no natural light from the windows. The only light source was the emergency escape sign at the back of the classroom. But now, in this pitch-black room, there were streaks of light emanating from the desks—some like flashlights, some like burning lamps...
As if this dark classroom was already filled with people.
Lu Menglei's body trembled slightly. She buried herself almost entirely into Cao Yuan's embrace. Staring at this eerie scene, she opened her mouth but couldn't form words.
"So it's real after all..." Cao Yuan recalled the story Lu Menglei had just told, his brow furrowing slightly.
Having come this far, what kind of situation hadn't he encountered? But a genuine ghost phenomenon like this was truly a first. The key point was that Cao Yuan couldn't detect any trace of "Mystery" energy—which meant those inside weren't creatures from rural legends, but genuine residual souls.
At that moment, on the other side of the corridor.
"Why aren't they moving?" Jiang Er saw the two people suddenly frozen at the classroom door and asked in confusion.
Lin Qiye was puzzled as well. He extended his spiritual sense into that classroom, but found it completely empty, nothing at all.
"Something's not right." An Qingyu pointed at Lu Menglei, who had already tucked herself into Cao Yuan's arms. "Her reaction is too intense... they must have seen something."
"Wait here. I'll go take a look."
After a moment of thought, Lin Qiye transformed into a shadow and slipped into the darkness, directly phasing toward Classroom 609.
Just as he drifted past the daylighting well between two corridors, he seemed to sense something and suddenly turned to look toward the first-floor lobby. "Someone's here at a time like this...?"
A figure carrying a convenience bag pushed open the teaching building's door. It was a young woman in her mid-twenties, dressed casually in sportswear. Hanging around her neck was a work badge indicating she was an administrator for the Comprehensive Building at Shangjing University.
After entering the teaching building, the woman walked straight toward the elevator. Upon discovering the elevator had lost power, she stood frozen for a moment before starting toward the stairs.
Right then, her peripheral vision caught the faint glow of Cao Yuan's phone flashlight from the doorway of Classroom 609 on the sixth floor, and she suddenly shouted:
"Who's there?!"
"Cao, Cao Yuan junior... we need to leave right now!" Lu Menglei finally came to her senses, grabbing Cao Yuan's hand and desperately trying to pull him back. "The legend is real! If we go in, we'll be haunted!"
Cao Yuan shook his head calmly. "Don't worry. With me here, no one can haunt you... I want to see exactly who's playing games with ghosts."
"Do you have your bamboo sword on you?"
"Yes, behind me... but, but a bamboo sword can't kill ghosts!"
"As long as you have it."
Cao Yuan reached back and gripped Lu Menglei's palm, which was slick with cold sweat. He pushed the door open directly. A crisp creak echoed through the sixth floor!
Upon hearing this sound, the shadowy figures in Classroom 609 holding flashlights suddenly turned their heads. Seeing the fierce and stern-faced Cao Yuan standing at the entrance with Lu Menglei, they simultaneously extinguished their lights and swiftly retreated toward the dark edges of the classroom. Several of them even darted directly toward Cao Yuan!
Lu Menglei let out a startled cry and tightly shut her eyes.
Seeing these creatures actually dare to rush at him, Cao Yuan snorted coldly. His hand moved swiftly toward the bamboo sword...
Right at that moment, a voice sounded beside his ear:
"Your Forbidden Ruins are making too much commotion. Let me handle this."
Hearing this voice, Cao Yuan's hand that was about to reach for the bamboo sword halted mid-air. A figure stepped out from the darkness, and in the next instant, a pair of eyes like golden molten furnaces suddenly ignited in the darkness!
Terrorizing spiritual pressure poured forth. As the 【Mortal Divine Realm】 expanded, a crisp cracking sound echoed from within the classroom, as if something were shattering.
The few shadows drifting toward Cao Yuan felt the炽热 aura emanating from Lin Qiye and hesitated momentarily before turning to flee through the window. But the speed of 【Mortal Divine Realm】 far exceeded theirs. In the blink of an eye, it was about to engulf them.
"Stop!!" A woman's voice rang out suddenly. The golden tide that had been sweeping out from Lin Qiye froze in mid-air.
During that brief pause, the dark soul shadows swiftly slipped out through one of the classroom windows and vanished into the night sky.
Lin Qiye frowned slightly at this and turned to look in the direction of the voice.