Mysterious Revival

"I've had someone bring over your roommate; once they arrive, I'll leave."

Returning to the dormitory, Yang Jian found that the room had already been cleared out, with many items taken away, especially books and illustrations of that sort.

Although many items were gone, it didn't affect much.

"Do you really have to go? After all, it's already quite late." Miao Xiaoshan said.

"Yes."

Yang Jian didn't say much, just responded, somewhat silently, "As of today, many things are out of our control, you saw what happened earlier."

Miao Xiaoshan also fell silent.

In the silent dormitory, the atmosphere seemed heavy, utterly devoid of joy for a reunion or having escaped from death.

Breaking the silence was Yang Jian's cell phone.

At this moment, his satellite-positioned phone rang.

Yang Jian thought for a moment but decided to answer the call, wondering if it might be information about the ghost drawings.

"Yang Jian, it's me." Liu Xiaoyu's voice came through.

"I know, speak up, I've just finished with things here, and I am in a bad mood," Yang Jian immediately said.

Liu Xiaoyu replied, "Glad you're okay. It's like this: headquarters just issued a notice asking you to attend a meeting at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. You know the location. The content should be about the ghost drawing incidents that have occurred recently. The vice minister thinks it's necessary to discuss this matter."

"Can I skip it?" Yang Jian said. "I don't have as much time as you guys to spend all day in meetings."

"Well... you should make the trip. I feel this issue isn't that simple, otherwise they wouldn't be notifying everyone this time," Liu Xiaoyu hesitated before speaking up.

Yang Jian frowned. "Alright, I got it. Let's leave it at that."

"Okay." Liu Xiaoyu immediately cut off the communication on their end.

"Did they have something else for you?" Miao Xiaoshan, seeing Yang Jian put down his phone, couldn't help but ask.

Yang Jian said, "Nothing much, just the company calling me in for a meeting. You know how tough it is these days in the workforce; the salary isn't much, yet they demand so much from employees, whether it's working overtime, business trips, or meetings. They're never this proactive when it comes to benefits. So, you should study hard and not drop out like me, ending up with no prospects."

"In short, working is a dead-end path."

"You're exaggerating again, it's not that bad," Miao Xiaoshan looked at him oddly and said.

"But it's not far from it," Yang Jian said offhandedly.

After chatting for a while, two staff members soon arrived with the two female students, one of whom was Liu Zi who had run out earlier, and the other Sun Yujia, who had been accommodated by Yang Jian after jumping from the building.

As for Zhang Xia and Wang Yue inside the dorm, they had disappeared without a trace, presumably never to be seen in this world again.

"Mister Yang, the people have been brought here," a staff member said.

Yang Jian responded, "Alright, you may leave now."

The two staff members nodded and left, leaving behind Liu Zi and Sun Yujia.

Yang Jian glanced at them. Although the incident had passed, the girl named Sun Yujia was clearly distressed, fear apparent in her eyes as she trembled slightly; her gaze darted around as if she suspected ghosts might be lurking nearby.

This was a typical post-supernatural encounter syndrome.

Everyone has different levels of psychological endurance, and the degrees of shock they can bear vary. Yang Jian was already accustomed to it.

In contrast, Liu Zi was much calmer, having luckily escaped involvement in the recent ghost drawing incident by running out of the dormitory earlier, and she hadn't seen any ghosts either. However, her gaze still held a hint of fear.

She was afraid of Yang Jian.

"You don't need to be nervous. As of now, this dormitory building is the safest place in the school, and there won't be any ghosts appearing anymore. You can rest assured and stay here."

Yang Jian casually consoled them, then continued, "As for why you were brought here, that's entirely for Miao Xiaoshan's sake."

"She gets scared easily. Your role here is to stay and keep her company. Understood?"

"Of course, if you have a bit of sense, you should realize that staying by Miao Xiaoshan's side right now is the safest option, because if she gets in trouble, I'll show up. You'll benefit from that and survive as well, provided you're not as foolish as before, thinking I'm telling ghost stories. If someone else is in trouble, to put it bluntly, it doesn't concern me. If they die, they die."

After finishing, Yang Jian stopped paying attention, then stood up, glanced at Miao Xiaoshan, and said, "I'm leaving. Call me if something happens, but I hope you try not to call me because you're not always going to be this lucky. Sometimes I won't be able to make it in time. And keep the thing I gave you safe; it might save your life at a critical moment."

Having said that, he didn't wait for Miao Xiaoshan to speak and strode away.

"Wait, Yang Jian."

Miao Xiaoshan seemed to have something to say and quickly followed him out of the dormitory.

But the outside was already empty, only the corridor light was flickering faintly, and at some moment, the light seemed to turn into a bright red.

"He left in such a hurry?" Miao Xiaoshan felt slightly disappointed.

"Did he, leave?" Liu Zi also looked outside at the empty corridor with a hint of panic.

This kind of irrational, eerie disappearance, no matter how many times one saw it, was always terrifying.

Was this Yang Jian still human?

Miao Xiaoshan had already come to terms with Yang Jian's condition and said, "He's gone, just like before."

"Miao Xiaoshan, who exactly is your high school classmate?" Liu Zi felt an inexplicable fear towards Yang Jian but still couldn't help wanting to know more.

"I didn't lie to you guys, he really is my high school classmate," Miao Xiaoshan responded.

Liu Zi asked further, "Then how many high school classmates do you have? Surely, not all of them are like this, right?"

Miao Xiaoshan returned to her bed to tidy up the blankets, "There were only six of us in high school, now there are five, excluding Yang Jian. The others are just like us, normal people. As for Yang Jian... he's the most different and the most unfortunate. He never wanted to become like this, there was just no other way at the time."

"What? You only had five high school classmates? So besides Yang Jian who just left, doesn't that mean you only have four left? No way, what kind of high school did you go to? A class can't possibly have so few students," Liu Zi expressed her surprise.

Miao Xiaoshan paused, as she had never spoken about her past with her college classmates, keeping it buried in her heart. But today, it seemed there was no need to hide it anymore.

After a moment of silence, she said with a touch of sadness, "They're all dead, all of them. In one night, our school was left with just the few of us."

Dead? All dead?

Upon hearing this, Liu Zi felt goosebumps, an indescribable feeling creeping over her.

"Could it also be a haunting?" she ventured.

"Yeah," Miao Xiaoshan confirmed.

My God, it really is.

At this moment, Liu Zi felt as if the world had gone mad. She had never imagined that her quiet roommate had experienced such a terrifying event so early on.

If she had heard about this before today, she definitely wouldn't have believed it.

But after today, she believed it.

"Have you seen that thing too?" Sun Yujia asked with a hint of fear.

Miao Xiaoshan nodded, "I've seen it, but it shouldn't be the same as this time. It was an old man covered in liver spots who appeared out of nowhere at the classroom door. That day, our class was in the evening self-study session..."

"Don't say anymore," Liu Zi quickly covered her mouth, pleading, "I've had enough shocks for one day. I don't want to go insane."

Sun Yujia, however, turned pale.

Because the ghost she saw today was different from the one Miao Xiaoshan had seen.

She very clearly understood what this implied.

Ghosts are not just one.

Her experience isn't an exception, the world is filled with many such entities.

"Alright, I'll stop," Miao Xiaoshan freed her hand and said, "Yang Jian is right. You should be kept in the dark, better not knowing anything. Otherwise, scaring yourself everyday, you might just go insane sooner or later."

Though she was relatively quiet, her mental resilience was clearly much stronger than the others'.

During the Door Knocking Ghost incident, those students who were weak willed and too scared to move had already been eliminated from the game.

The seven who survived have all undergone a certain growth and transformation.