Chapter 28: Insects

Medical Room

Chau Chi Bao and Quynh Nhu looked at the empty medical room, feeling puzzled.

"Huh? Wasn't there supposed to be someone named Hoang Tuan in here?" Chau Chi Bao walked into the room, glancing at the broken wooden medicine cabinet on the floor. He turned around and opened the cabinet.

The medicine bottles inside the cabinet were stacked aside, and there were some messy marks on the dusty shelves.

Chau Chi Bao rubbed his chin and carefully observed the scene inside the cabinet. "When he was hiding here before, he must have..."

Quynh Nhu walked slowly to Chau Chi Bao's side and looked at the mess on the floor. She continued, "Clearly, the medicine cabinet has been tampered with, something must have happened after he hid in there."

"But didn't he die already?"

"Look behind..."

Chau Chi Bao pondered for a moment and entered the medical room, lifting the yellow curtain beside a small hospital bed. Behind the curtain, the bed was arranged strangely, with all four legs pointing upward.

He sat down and observed the remaining traces on the edge of the bed.

Not long after, a cluster of black marks caught his eye...

It looked as if they were burned by a lighter, and touching them with his finger revealed the stains on his hand.

"How could there be burn marks here? The principal's office and the dormitory should be the same, right?" Chau Chi Bao stared at the burn mark on his finger, pondering.

"I think you should take a look at the small bottles first; they seem peculiar."

Meanwhile, Quynh Nhu's voice came from the medicine cabinet.

As Chau Chi Bao approached the hospital bed to observe, she was still looking at the small bottles placed inside the cabinet. Most of the labels on the small black bottles were too blurry to read clearly, only a few faint characters were legible.

"What's wrong?"

Chau Chi Bao asked doubtfully, he had seen those bottles before but didn't find anything strange.

Quynh Nhu leaned over and held a small black bottle in her delicate right hand, pouring its contents onto the ground.

It was a viscous, strange liquid that was unimaginable...

Looking carefully, they could barely recognize the appearance of decomposed eyeballs.

Chau Chi Bao looked at the bizarre objects on the ground and couldn't understand what Quynh Nhu was trying to express.

"Do you think you should have opened these bottles before?" Quynh Nhu's voice reached Chau Chi Bao's ears.

After hearing this, Chau Chi Bao paused for a moment before replying, "The school was supposed to be normal before, but for some reason, the insects inside must have spread, turning the medical room into a haunted place..."

"So, when do you think this place was opened, more than ten years ago?"

Quynh Nhu asked.

"Looking at these old traces, it should be over ten years ago..."

Speaking of this, Chau Chi Bao felt that something was not right.

He took the black bottle from Quynh Nhu's hand and carefully observed the appearance of the bottle's mouth.

If this small bottle had been opened more than ten years ago, the mouth of the bottle should have been covered with dust or clear marks, and the mouth should not be as smooth as it is now.

Although one side of the bottle's mouth was stained with something unclear, the rubber stopper was clean and neat.

"Are you saying...?" Chau Chi Bao's expression became complicated, he looked at the rubber stopper at the back of the cabinet, unable to determine the answer, "Is it possible that this was opened before we arrived?"

"Yeah."

Quynh Như replied, then turned her head to look at more than twenty bottles lined up on the corner of the cabinet.

All the rubber stoppers on the bottles were missing.

From the mouths of the bottles, it could be seen that they were cleaner than elsewhere.

These bottles.

Clearly, they were recently opened...

...

Hoang Tuan held the his axe and decided to return to the medical room once again.

Knowing that Chau Chi Bao and his group were here to rescue him, he decided to go inside and examine them.

These two people, who claimed to be from an organization outside and entered the world halfway, might have more information than he did.

Since seeing Thanh Linh in the haunted world, Hoang Tuan felt that this world must have a close connection with Thanh Linh, though it might be dangerous, he couldn't suppress his desire to understand this mysterious world.

At present, two such individuals appeared.

Hoang Tuan thought he needed to meet them and ask them what he wanted to know.

Perhaps he could find out the reason behind Thanh Linh's disappearance.

"These two people seem to have some courage, but the medical room here is different from other places, and the solutions on the test papers are all wrong. If they are not careful, they will die, and I have to waste my words to bring them back to life."

On the way to the medical room, one must pass through a small corridor.

On both sides of the corridor were various working rooms, which were usually used as teacher's offices, conference rooms, or some multimedia classrooms and computer rooms.

The medical room was located in the middle of this corridor.

After Hoang Tuan came back here with a large backpack on his back, he carefully observed the situation around him, paying attention to any movement everywhere.

The strange little girl who appeared before, he didn't forget about her.

He needed to be vigilant at all times!

"The content of the diary in the principal's office clearly states that a student went missing, then came to ask for help from old man Khot, but after listening to him, they felt disdain and decided to release something."

As Hoang Tuan, who was walking in the corridor, kept thinking about the question of the school and now there was only about eight minutes left, he needed to quickly complete the last question.

Apart from the answers that he and Chau Chi Bao's group found, there was one last question...

[Question eight: What is the restricted area within the school premises?]

[A, principal's office; B, rooftop; C, medical room; D, the lake behind the flower garden.]

Due to the peculiar nature of this question, there was no hint about any option in Hoang Tuan's novel.

After experiencing the strange medical room.

Hoang Tuan knew that the choices in the question were all wrong...

At first glance, the question in front of him seemed completely different from the medical room.

It seemed like everything had to be chosen.

But if you thought about it carefully, you would see that this question was a bit different...

Coming from the information gap in the test paper, looking at it from a different perspective.

If the weird school issued the test paper on its own, could it be that the answers were banned because there was some secret hidden there?

If it was indeed a test paper issued by the school, why would there be a situation where there was a correct answer to escape from the haunted situation but at the same time have a question where all the answers were wrong to cause confusion?

Hoang Tuan felt a contradiction, so he didn't blindly fill out the answer sheet.

"All four answers in the question are in different places. I have been to the rooftop and the lake, and besides some weird things, there is nothing strange. The medical room and the principal's office are different. One has a diary, and the other has black insect containers... ..."

Hoang Tuan summarized all the information he had and the content on the novel's test paper, then quickly calculated.

"The school's history is certainly not that simple. The missing students may be related to the principal. If you think that the students encountered trouble before, there should not be any organs to feed insects inside the medical room..."

As Hoang Tuan, who was constantly connecting his thoughts in his head, arrived at the door of the medical room.

He pushed the door in front of him, finding no one inside, Chau Chi Bao and Quynh Nhu were not there either, and the appearance of the medical room when he left was no different from now.

The only difference was that the black bottles had been taken out by someone, and all the rubber stoppers on them were pulled out...

Hoang Tuan found it strange when he saw this scene, when they arrived, all the rubber stoppers were inserted into the bottles, and there was only one stopper that was opened.

He guessed that Chau Chi Bao and Quynh Nhu might have released the insects, but for some reason, they opened all the bottles.

"Want to observe?"

"Sure."

"Should we watch the insects crawl out and then stomp them to death? Do they enjoy the feeling of stomping on insects?"

"Personal preferences, huh?"

Hoang Tuan thought about the scene of stepping on the insects and hearing them explode one by one, and felt a bit of inexplicable comfort.

However, what he didn't notice when he stood in front of the medical room.

On his backpack.

There were more than 20 insects crawling up the fabric of the backpack.

One of them climbed up his neck, its sharp teeth ready to drill into his body...