The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

"It's also possible that Mr. Matsushima is just not very good at this kind of ghost story, so he was frightened by what we said."

"Tsk, Xiao Tong, don't say such disappointing things every time."

"Then, what should we do now? Since Ms. Matsushima doesn't want to say more, why don't we come to the swimming pool to explore tonight! See for yourself whether there are any evil spirits in the swimming pool!" Youxiang couldn't bear it and asked Suggestions for doing things.

[Okay, I agree with both hands! 】

"Hey, now is the period of strict inspection of discipline, are you really not afraid of being caught by the nun and locked up in the confinement room?"

"Isn't that better?" Youxiang tilted her head, and said as a matter of course, "The confinement room is also on the list that I must visit and investigate this semester!"

"Don't talk about going to the confinement room as if you're going to visit a scenic spot, you're speaking from a disciplinary reservist!"

"No Road Race, Xiaotong, you are like an old mother. How can you be called a youth if you don't violate the school rules a few times in your school life? For example, the trio of Ha O Bo O, three walking school rules violating machines You can still win the Academy Cup~"

"........."

[Hoho, that's it, we'll go to the swimming pool after the dormitory supervisor's inspection at night!By the way, there is still some time, I still have a place I want to investigate. 】

"Huh? Where?"

The three of Xiaotong and the others slightly popped their heads from the corner of the stairs, with anxiety written all over their faces, Xiaotong mouthed to me in a low voice: "Hey, senior sister, what did you bring us here for?"

The area where we are now is the top floor of the main teaching building. This is the administrative area of ​​the school. The reason why Xiaotong and the others are so vigilant is that not far from the front of the corridor is the principal's office, which is now the Central Plains nun In the office, the few people who didn't have a good impression of her obviously didn't want to stay here any longer.

【Our destination is here. 】I pointed to a relatively remote room, and the nameplate on the door of the room was written with the words "School History Museum".

That is the room that records the history and honor of the school. It is usually closed and no one can enter or leave. It will only be opened to the public when people come to visit.

【I'll go to open the door first. When you see my instructions, rush over immediately. Be careful not to be discovered by others. Did you hear me? 】

"...It feels more and more that the confinement room is opening the door to us."

【Alright, the door is open, come quickly~】

The three figures lowered their bodies and rushed into the door. Xiaotong quickly closed the door and pulled the lock. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to look at the room.

This is a long and narrow room. The history of the school, school-running philosophy, outstanding alumni, etc. are displayed on the walls, and a row of continuous display cabinets below display all kinds of honorary trophies and medals won by the school. , certificates and the like.

I glanced at the wall and immediately found what I was looking for.

[Hey, come and see, here! 】

In the direction I pointed, the photos hung on the wall are the group photos of graduates over the years.

"Graduation photo... Senior sister, why did you bring us to see this?" Youxiang looked confused.

On the contrary, Jinghua suddenly thumped her palm and said, "I understand, because the number of students in our school is fixed at 333, senior sister, you want to determine by looking at the number of people on the graduation photo, which year did you graduate?" There are fewer people in the photo, right! If such a photo appears, it means that the students in that year may have had an accident! Sister, you are so smart!"

Ah, this... I want to introduce you to another campus ghost talk "Students who don't exist in their graduation photos".Is it even possible to infer whether a student death has occurred based on the number of graduation photos?

I wanted to say "you think too much", but when faced with the admiring eyes of the cute school girl, I suddenly felt that I couldn't lose the tall image of the school girl!

So I nodded with a clear conscience and said: [That's right!exactly!We only need to know the number of people in that year through the graduation photos, and then add up the students for three consecutive years to know which year has fewer students!Although this method is a bit stupid, it also works! 】

"Okay, then let's split up and start counting people!" Youxiang couldn't wait to count heads one by one in front of the photos.

I want to go through all the photos first to see which one has vacated a place for a "non-existent student" as rumored.

Xiyan's class...it should be the class four years ago, so I gave priority to seeing the graduation photos of that class.

The group photo of more than 100 people is a very long banner photo, but I easily found the vacant seat on this photo.

More than 100 girls smiled at the camera, but what attracted me was the empty place. Is this where Xiyan was standing?

The dim yellow sunset pouring down from the window of the school history building is the same as before, and I vaguely recall the last time I saw Xi Yan. She was wearing a formal suit, holding a cylindrical graduation certificate in her hand, and her face... ...I can't remember what the face looks like, it should be just after attending the ceremony and taking graduation photos, right?Her emotions at that time seemed to be a little bit wrong, as if... there was an inexplicable melancholy, did she have some kind of feeling that she would "go away" at that time?

Shaking my head, I put all the thoughts in my mind aside first, and I carefully looked at the graduation photos of the two classes before and after the graduation photos four years ago, and sure enough, I didn't find any strange vacancies anymore.However... When I continued to look back and saw last year's graduation photos, I suddenly found a rather unnatural vacancy again.

Wait...why still? !

What about other graduation photos?

I looked at all the photos carefully from the beginning to the end again, going back to the earliest group photos of ten years ago hanging on the wall, and found that only the graduation photos four years ago and one year ago had unnatural gaps .

Does this... have any meaning?

Before I could figure this out, I heard Jinghua shout in surprise: "Sister, I've finished counting! There is only one graduation photo missing people, and it's the one from seven years ago! Is this the reason? The dead who died by drowning?!"

【No. 】I shook my head regretfully,【I know this, it was a third-year student in the classical music department who died of illness on the eve of the Christmas concert, I made up a ghost story based on her deeds, did you forget? 】

"Ah...is it like this?" Jinghua was immediately a little frustrated.

It seems... is there really no other accidents?

It always feels like something is wrong.

But at this time, Jinghua seemed to be talking to herself again: "However, senior sister, there is one thing that may be a little strange. That is... the sum of the number of people for most consecutive three years is 333, but three years ago, The sum of the students from the three classes four years ago and five years ago was 332, but the sum of the numbers from two years ago, three years ago, and four years ago was correct..."

[Wait... I understand. ] I slapped myself on the head hard.

Suddenly, I felt that I was affected by the fool, and my brain became muddled. Just looking at the sum of the final number of people, I can't tell anything!Because, if a student dies due to some accident or cannot continue to go to school, the school can specially admit a transfer student like Hitomi!

In this case, the total number of students that year is still 333, but if the transferred students are not in the same class, there will be some subtle deviations in the next two years!

Looking at it this way, the year in question was three years ago.

Chapter 17

"The students from the class three years ago? Sister, do you know anything about the students from that class?"

[Sorry... not at all.Because they just graduated before I entered school, so I don’t know them at all~]

"Ah... so what should we do? Even if we know that something happened in that class, we can't seem to find the specific person. Can we find a way to get the student roster of that class?"

I spread my hands, [Student rosters from so long ago should have been electronically stored in the school’s encrypted computer files, it’s not easy to get them...]

Things were at a loss again. At this time, Xiao Tong, who had been browsing through a large row of display cabinets in this room, did not join our conversation at this time, and suddenly said, "Senior sister, come and take a look at this."

I heard the sound and drifted over, only to see what Xiao Tong raised his finger to point at, which were a series of medals and trophies won by our school's swimming department over the years.It seems that our school's swimming department is really good. There are so many trophies that there is almost no room for a cabinet.

【What happened?Could it be that there is a name that has not appeared in the graduation photo before? 】

"This...not really, it's just that I think it's a little strange here."

Xiao Tong pointed to the display cabinet and said, "Sister, have you noticed that, relatively speaking, the trophies and medals won by our school's swimming department four and five years ago seem to be a bit less compared to other years?"

【It means that the strength of the swimming department in those two years was not good? 】

"No, senior, look, our school won the best team award in the National Women's Youth Swimming Competition four years ago, but the individual awards are almost invisible? And there is no group photo of the swimming team from that year. Obviously in other years, if you win the best team award, there will be a group photo of all the members of the swimming club holding the trophy together. Based on what you said just now, the swimming teacher Mr. Matsushima may know something, that Could the student who did not appear in the graduation photo be the main swimmer in the swimming department for the past two years? She died because of something, but the school wanted to cover it up for some reason, so the information about her Are the trophies, photos, etc. put away?"

【! ! ! 】

[Maybe it is true!Hitomi, you are so smart, now we only need to go to the Internet to check the award-winning records of the year to verify this conjecture is right! 】

Because Xiaotong and the others' mobile phones were confiscated, they couldn't access the Internet, so I finally decided to use the school's computer room to search online.

And the result is easier than expected, the network has memory, just enter the girls' youth swimming competition of the corresponding year, and the award-winning information of that year will pop up on the Internet, and even the single grand slam of that year will pop up Personal photo of the winner.

The girl in the photo is wearing a one-piece swimsuit and a swimming cap, gently holding the trophy to her chest, showing a faint smile.

It seems that she looks really similar to Kanna Yue Xiaohua, and looking at her name, it is as expected——

【God without moon and morning fog】.

It's a name that doesn't exist on graduation photos that year.

It should be Xiaohua's older sister.Although they are similar in appearance, there are still obvious differences. Xiaohua looks a little tougher, while Chaogiri looks softer, more mature, and even has a faint melancholy temperament.

Even though she had won the grand prize, she seemed to be smiling, but it always made people feel that there was an unresolved worry in her brows.

When I used Kannazuki Asagiri's name as a keyword to search, I could only find reports about women's swimming competitions.What happened to her, whether she is still alive, I can't find any information on the Internet.

In the evening, when I returned to the dormitory, I fed back all the information about "Kannazuki Asagiri" to Hitomi.

"Senior sister, are you saying that there is no report about her incident on the Internet at all?"

[Yeah, I also tried to search with keywords such as "Kannazuki, drowning", "Holy Trinity, drowning", "Holy Trinity, swimming pool" and so on!But I can't find any useful information... There is always a feeling that the Kannazuki family and Trinity Academy have jointly suppressed the news of this incident. 】

"...Yes, that's weird. If a student drowned in an accident at school, Kannazuki's family didn't make a big deal out of it to seek justice?"

[Little Hitomi, you don’t quite understand the logic of these rich and powerful families, especially the families of Kannazuki who are in politics in the local area. They often don’t want their surnames to appear with negative news, so what we see now This status quo as if nothing happened may actually be the result of the coordination between the two parties. 】

"That makes people even more curious about what happened..."

【You say, if we ask Xiaohua again with the name "Kannazuki Asagiri", will she say something more? 】

"Let's wait for a while... Tomorrow is the weekend, wait until she returns to school on Sunday night before asking."

【That's okay, we can try to learn more about this "Kannazuki Asagiri" during the weekend, so that it will be more convincing to go to Xiaohua~】

On weekends, most students are preparing to go home.In the past, a small number of people would choose to live on campus on weekends, but since the school began to control mobile phones and other entertainment devices, these people can hardly bear the boringness of staying in school and joined the ranks of returning home.

Xiaotong was originally one of them. She had been a firm boarding party for the past semester, and today she was preparing to go home for the first time in a century, but... helplessly, she was detained by Youxiang.

Youxiang tried to persuade Xiaotong: "No, you have to stay. There are very few people staying in the school tonight! So the nuns will not conduct inspections, it is a good day to explore the swimming pool!"

"But... I haven't had a liver game for a week."

"Think about it, this incident is so well kept secret by the school, it is definitely not a glorious thing, as long as we investigate it clearly, and then use it to blackmail the school, we can keep our club! This is not a more important thing ?!"

"But... I haven't had liver games for a week!"

"...I can subsidize you for a 100 consecutive draw later."

"Okay, deal!" The speed of Xiaotong's rebellion was astonishing.

So, on Saturday night, Youxiang, me, and Xiaotong, who was betrayed by the speed of light, sneaked to the front of the swimming pool.

Originally, I was going to go through the wall, open the gate from the inside, and then let Xiaotong and Youxiang in, but we unexpectedly discovered that the gate of the swimming pool was not locked, but had been opened.

"??? Could it be that Matsushima-sensei hasn't left yet, so he's still staying inside..." Xiao Tong, who was a little uneasy, said in a very small voice.

"I wish it wasn't so..."

Although it was not turned on, the lights in the hall were not turned on. Only the moonlight poured in from the skylight. Compared with the daytime, the water surface of the swimming pool looked a little darker and muddy, as if there was no bottom, and the underwater situation could not be seen clearly.

Youxiang turned on the small flashlight she brought to shine on the water surface, but this light could not illuminate it at all, instead it made the water surface even darker.

However, at this moment, we suddenly heard the sound of water.

Chapter 18 The Underwater Face

In this extremely dark and quiet space, there was a sudden sound of "crashing" water flow, which was undoubtedly like a needle piercing our brains, and immediately made all our nerves tense.

The source of the sound sounded not far from us. It didn't come from the swimming pool in front, but from the locker room behind us.

"Is there... someone in the locker room?" Youxiang asked in a trembling voice, "Hey... sister, let me ask in advance, there shouldn't be any members of the swimming club still training at this time, right?"

[According to the school's regulations, it is definitely illegal to use the swimming pool on weekends. Even if the members of the swimming club do extra training to prepare for the competition, would they practice in the dark without turning on the lights in the gym? 】

I heard Youxiang gulp her saliva. Although her hand holding the flashlight seemed to be trembling slightly, she still walked into the dark dressing room, trying to find the source of the sound of water.

The shower room in the dressing room is a small cubicle separated by translucent floor-to-ceiling frosted glass. I followed Youxiang and watched her shine a flashlight in the direction where the sound of water came from.

The shower head in one cubicle was spraying water non-stop, and the light from the flashlight was reflected on the frosted glass of that cubicle. We seemed to be able to vaguely see through the frosted glass that there were A girl with long hair in the shower.

However, when we walked two more steps forward, walked around the frosted glass partition, and looked at the front of the compartment, we saw that there was no one in it, only water kept staying, splashing on the There was a loud noise on the ground.

"No... no one? Senior sister, did you see it just now? There was a figure on the frosted glass just now??" Youxiang asked me in panic.

【………】

"Tick."

The sound of ticking water suddenly came from behind us again, and Youxiang and I looked back suddenly. Under the light of the flashlight, I saw that the foot-disinfected shallow pool leading from the locker room to the swimming pool , a circle of ripples spread out, and it seemed that it could still be seen vaguely, a pair of pale translucent female feet had just stepped in and moved forward under the water.

【etc!Where's Hitomi? ! 】

The moment I turned around, I realized that Xiao Tong was not behind us. Didn't this guy follow? !

I hurriedly left You Xiangfei and went back to the swimming pool. The first thing that made people breathe a sigh of relief was that Xiaotong was still there, but what was strange was that she was standing on the diving platform at the edge of the pool. Her shoes were taken off and thrown aside.

The diving platform is the starting point of the swimming lane. In a formal swimming competition, the swimmers will stand on this slightly leaking platform, and when they hear the start sound, they will plunge forward into the water in the swimming lane ahead.

【Hey, Hitomi, what are you doing standing there? ! ] I yelled at her.

Xiaotong didn't pay attention to me, and didn't even look back, but moved forward gently, with her toes grabbing the edge of the platform.

I was extremely surprised and terrified to see that Xiaotong clasped his hands above his head and plunged into the water in a very beautiful posture of entering the water.

Generally speaking, people who don't know how to swim dive from the diving platform with their feet down or their buttocks down. They need to overcome a little fear and have some swimming experience, and these are definitely not sports idiots. What Xiaotong can grasp.

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