Mysterious Revival

Miao Xiaoshan and her group quickly found the electrical box and restored power.

Immediately.

The apartment complex lit up instantly, and everything seemed to return to normal. There was no sign of any paranormal event.

“Alright, everything’s fine now,” Miao Xiaoshan said. “The candle in my hand seems to be normal again.”

She took a closer look at the Ghost Candle.

The flame had stopped flickering and returned to its usual state.

However, Miao Xiaoshan was still a bit hesitant because earlier the Ghost Candle indeed emitted some abnormal signals, although not very obvious, it did react.

“Maybe I’m overthinking it,” Miao Xiaoshan was reluctant to keep consuming the Ghost Candle with this doubt in mind and finally blew out the candle.

Next to her, Liu Zi said, “We can’t just let this go. Let’s go find those people and settle the score.”

Without any supernatural occurrence she felt emboldened and wanted an explanation.

After all, they were startled for no reason and almost had to call Yang Jian, and Miao Xiaoshan even lit that eerie candle. If you think about it, it’s quite a loss.

Soon.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

Liu Zi angrily hammered on the dormitory door: “Come out! Everyone inside come out, which idiot came up with the idea to play horror games and scare people? Get out here right now.”

“Bang! Bang!”

She knocked on other doors: “You guys stop hiding, come out, acting like turtles now, weren’t you brave earlier?”

Soon.

The doors of various apartments opened, and several guys came out, many girls also hid inside the boys’ apartments, and some clothes were even disheveled.

“Liu Zi, what are you doing? Playing games is our business, what’s it got to do with you?”

“Yeah, do you have any right to interfere? You ruined the atmosphere! That’s why the lights suddenly came back on.”

“Just because you broke up with your boyfriend doesn’t mean we can’t find someone.”

Quite a few boys started complaining and even began to push back.

They intentionally excluded Liu Zi’s apartment from their game because no one was interested in these three girls.

“You people are brain-damaged. The school incident last time hasn’t even settled, and you’re stirring up trouble again. If you attract those paranormal experts, who’s going to take responsibility? I’d say I have nothing to say if anyone has the guts to stand up,”

Liu Zi wasn’t scared at all and retorted right back at those boys.

Many immediately felt uneasy.

They were just fooling around. They couldn’t handle the consequences of summoning those paranormal experts.

“Liu Zi, don’t make it sound so serious. The so-called séance game doesn’t even exist. We were just using this as a gimmick,”

A boy walked out from an apartment and said, “Don’t try to scare us, none of this can possibly attract those people. Nothing has happened here anyway; it’s late so just go back and rest. Stop making noise, lots of people are trying to sleep.”

“Wan Hao, I bet I’ve disturbed your sleep. Who did you trick into your apartment this time? You didn’t join this study group with good intentions; I think what happened today was your doing along with that treacherous club president,” Liu Zi said disdainfully.

She knew Wan Hao, was a senior a year ahead, also part of the second generation, but she herself was local, paying no heed to these outsiders.

“Why are you being so nasty? I told you it’s just a game. If you have nothing better to do, leave and quit making noise like a lunatic, no wonder your boyfriend dumped you,”

“Rubbish, my ex-boyfriend was a coward and got scared away.” Liu Zi was so infuriated she nearly exploded.

“And anyway, we deserve an apology because you guys almost made us contact those people with your foolishness. Are you not ashamed to act this shamelessly?” Liu Zi demanded.

Wan Hao impatiently replied, “We didn’t do anything wrong, why should we apologize? You should apologize to us instead. You’re the one not sleeping in the middle of the night, making a ruckus, completely lacking decency.”

“Starting trouble? What are you talking about?” Liu Zi angrily countered.

Seeing they were about to break into an argument, Miao Xiaoshan quickly pulled her back: “Liu Zi, let’s just drop it. Figuring out what happened is enough; continuing to quarrel won’t mean anything. Nothing has really happened.”

Though she knew these people were in the wrong.

But arguing wouldn’t solve anything; there’s nothing they could do about it.

“We can’t just let them off. At the very least, they need to apologize,” Liu Zi was unwilling to let them off.

Miao Xiaoshan tugged at her: “Let it go, next time if something like this happens, we’ll just ignore it. That way we won’t be fooled.”

“No way, I can’t swallow this,” Liu Zi said, insisting on getting Wan Hao and the others to apologize.

Wan Hao didn’t want to argue with Liu Zi. He felt arguing with a girl was pointless and decided to ignore her, heading back to his room to rest.

The others also didn’t want to fight with Liu Zi in the middle of the night.

“Hey, don’t walk away, you guys can’t sneak off. I’m telling you, this isn’t over!” Liu Zi stomped her foot in frustration.

“Stop causing trouble, people need sleep.”

“I just successfully confessed; I don’t have time to mess around with you here.”

“There’s no séance game nonsense; there’s no ghost here. You’re just making a fuss over nothing, what does it have to do with us?”

“Exactly…”

The male students each made a complaint and paid no attention to her.

Sun Yujia shook her head and said, “Listen to Miao Xiaoshan, let it go. Wanting them to apologize is impossible, and even if they did it would be useless, the misunderstanding is already there.”

“If I knew it would turn out like this, I shouldn’t have joined this study group. Could’ve spent some money on private lessons or gone to another school for classes,” Liu Zi felt her mood was terrible today, and couldn’t swallow the anger.

But there was nowhere to vent, leaving her feeling stifled.

“We can leave now, I checked earlier, there shouldn’t be any special situation happening,” Miao Xiaoshan said.

Just as everyone was about to disperse.

Suddenly.

A strange phenomenon occurred.

The hallway lights began flickering eerily and then abruptly went out after flashing a few times.

“What happened, who turned the lights off again?”

“Not me, I’ve been standing here, I didn’t turn off anything.”

“Me neither, did the power actually go out?”

“Definitely not a blackout, I saw lights on in other floors, only ours went dark it seems.”

Discussions erupted quickly.

“Hey, we just passed through there, there’s definitely no one, so it shouldn’t be anyone turning the lights off,” Sun Yujia whispered cautiously, “Could there really be something weird going on?”

That slight unease Miao Xiaoshan felt earlier started growing.

But just based on this situation, it still wasn’t enough to confirm anything.

However.

The lights on this floor flickered off for a moment but then came back on, returning to normal.

“Someone must be up to no good.” As soon as the lights came on, someone speculated.

“Bang!”

But then.

A loud crash, and the door of an apartment suddenly opened. Then a female classmate ran out in terror, screaming, her clothes stained with blood, not even properly dressed as she desperately rushed outside.

Due to being overly agitated, the girl couldn’t keep her balance and fell straight to the ground.

“Dead, dead.”

The girl said fearfully.

Only then did everyone see that her hands were covered with blood, and a strong smell of blood wafted out from the apartment.

Seeing this, everyone froze.

Then, they looked incredulously at the open apartment, a terrible guess forming in each of their minds.

No, could someone really have had an accident?

Everyone was stunned.

But this thought had barely surfaced.

“Flickering!”

The lights in the hallway flickered again, as if there was bad contact. After a few flashes, they suddenly went out, just like before, leaving the hallway in darkness.

“This can’t be someone playing pranks, deliberately turning off the power.”

Some people’s minds immediately reacted.

Because if someone really wanted to scare people by turning off the power, all the lights should have gone out suddenly, not after flickering a few times.

Is there really a haunting?

A terrifying thought emerged.

And with its emergence, it seemed everyone else got the same idea.

“Ah!”

A scream, no one knew who made it, but it completely ignited everyone’s fear.

Even though everything around was dark, everyone in the apartment hurriedly rushed out, eager to leave at once, unwilling to stay for even a moment.

“Something seems really off, we need to leave quickly.” Miao Xiaoshan reacted first, hastily pulling Liu Zi and Sun Yujia to leave.

Though she moved quickly, their speed of leaving was clearly insufficient.

While going downstairs, someone behind accidentally bumped into her, almost making her fall, and although she barely managed to stand, Miao Xiaoshan couldn’t help but cry out in pain, spraining her ankle.

“Are you okay? Damn! Who bumped into us? Now they know fear, where did their arrogance go?” Liu Zi first asked with concern, then cursed.

But there was no one to deal with her now, everyone was desperate to leave immediately.

“Don’t crowd the stairway, let’s give them way first.”

Miao Xiaoshan felt the crowd rushing behind her, fearing to walk in front, worried about the risk of a stampede, prudently avoiding the congestion.

But very soon.

“Flickering~!”

The lights came back on suddenly, the surrounding light restored to normal, just like the first time.

However, the students running at the front abruptly halted.

Because lying in the stairwell ahead of them was a person, posed awkwardly as though fallen from the stairs, body leaning against the wall, neck bent at a ninety-degree angle, head on the ground bleeding, eyes wide open as if unwilling to die.

“Looks like Yang Zifeng… wasn’t he in the room? How could he appear here?”

Someone held back terror, speaking in a trembling voice.

That person was frightened because, in his impression, Yang Zifeng should be in his room or dating some girl, definitely not here.

Yet, an abnormal event happened.

Most crucially, the person was dead.

The body was like a wall blocking their way, those in the front hesitated to cross over and run downstairs.

But lingering here wouldn’t help.

A male student mustered up courage, carefully trying to skirt the corpse to escape.

But when he stepped down the last stair, reaching the stairwell.

Yang Zifeng, with the twisted neck and head on the ground, suddenly twitched, a groaning sound came from the mouth, blood oozed, lifeless eyes rotated slightly.

The scene scared everyone into screaming, daring not to bypass, immediately turning back and running.

“Why are they running back again?” Sun Yujia leaned towards Miao Xiaoshan, stunned by the scene.

“Perhaps something really happened.” Miao Xiaoshan said.

The scene seemed familiar to her.

Back in high school when encountering the Door Knocking Ghost event, the class had fled like mad.

“Flickering!”

At the same time, the lights that had just lit up flickered again, about four or five times, then all the lights suddenly went out.

It was the third blackout.

It seemed every blackout led to someone’s accidental death.

If this was truly a paranormal occurrence, then the ghost had started killing.

Among those like headless flies running randomly, Miao Xiaoshan remained calm, neither running nor screaming, just stood by the wall waiting for them to flee, not following them, nor yelling indiscriminately.

Soon.

Everyone turned back running.

The hallway became empty again, leaving only the three of them.

“Earlier, when they ran, someone seemed to say there was a dead person downstairs, dead in the stairwell, so no one dared to pass.”

Liu Zi became tense at this moment; “The person seemed to fall to death, died on the floor below us, how could such a thing suddenly happen without warning?”

Miao Xiaoshan remained silent, merely lighting the Ghost Candle once more with some resignation.

The eerie green candlelight flickered.

But at that moment, the flame suddenly seemed to stoke the fire, swelling abruptly, followed by hurried footsteps vanishing into the dim staircase, the steps accompanying those students fleeing, soon disappeared.

Then the candlelight reverted to normal.

“No doubt, there’s really a ghost here, just now the ghost seemed to pass by us.”

Miao Xiaoshan froze in place, reaching a serious and cautious conclusion.

Her words made Liu Zi and Sun Yujia’s hearts jump instantly, a cold sensation enveloped their bodies.

The previous joke now seemed to become a reality.

It was not a misunderstanding, something was truly amiss here.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by novlove.com