What kind of girl would travel to another world?

"You just got up now, what did you do last night?"

"If your grades are still so poor by the third semester, go back to your aunt's house in the countryside and help raise fish."

"If you don't come back tonight, you have to take care of your own dinner."

...This is what she often heard at home.

"Let me tell you, that poor student has no parents to take care of him at home."

"Yes! She is staying at her second aunt's house in the north city."

"What's wrong with you? Why are you late again? You were always late last semester. Go back to your seat."

...This is what she often heard at school.

During the break, three girls gathered at the stairs and talked.

One of the girls asked the most beautifully dressed girl, "Jiahui, what are you doing during your summer vacation?"

A girl named Jiahui replied, "Of course I'll go abroad. My parents insisted on taking me to visit relatives in Northern Europe. We'll do things like skiing, archery, and horseback riding. You have no idea how cold it is there at night."

The girl named Mingyi asked in confusion, "Huh? Skiing in the summer?"

Jiahui continued, "Yes. Mingyi, you'll know once you go there."

Mingyi smiled and said, "Maybe there's a chance, haha." She turned around and asked another girl, "Xinyang, did you go out to play during the summer vacation?"

A girl named Xinyang leaned on the railing and looked at the playground. "I didn't go out. I sent you messages, but you didn't reply. I wanted to invite you to KTV. My sister happened to be back from college during the summer vacation. I stole her ID and pretended to be an adult to go to many places. I was disappointed."

After hearing this, Jiahui looked as if she had missed something, with a slightly disappointed expression on her face. Then she asked, "Mingyi, where did you go during your summer vacation?"

Mingyi smiled foolishly: "I didn't go anywhere. Haha, haha."

Jiahui questioned, "It looks so suspicious. Weren't your parents very angry about your grades last semester? You didn't spend the entire summer taking tutoring classes, did you?"

After hearing this, Xinyang also turned to look at Mingyi. But at this moment, Jiahui looked towards the empty staircase. Just then, someone walked up the stairs, attracting the attention of all three of them.

Her name is Wei Qingping. Her parents disappeared before she could remember, and she has only seen their faces in photos. Before she went to school, she lived with her eldest aunt in the countryside, but since she started school, she has lived with her second aunt. Her second aunt's house is in the north city, and since she started living there, it has been just her and her second aunt. Although the north city is a bit far from the junior high school she is currently attending, her other relatives are all in the countryside, so living with her second aunt has become her only option. If nothing unexpected happens, after she finishes junior high school, she will leave the city and return to the countryside.

Today was the first day of school for her third year of junior high school. She was late for school this morning, as the bus was packed. She had to wait for the next bus, which caused her to be late. At noon, after finishing her lunch in the school cafeteria, she felt a stomachache. She spent the entire afternoon feeling depressed, thinking she had an upset stomach.

staircase.

At this moment, it was Wei Qingping who came up the stairs holding the railing. As soon as the three girls saw her, they surrounded her tacitly.

Jiahui was the first to step forward and said with a smile, "Xiaoping, stay after school this afternoon, okay?"

Wei Qingping didn't say anything. Due to the abdominal pain, her expression looked as if she was "very embarrassed".

Seeing Wei Qingping didn't answer, Jiahui said, "Hey! We're all here to play with you, and you're not even giving us face?"

Wei Qingping didn't dare to speak too loudly, fearing that the dull abdominal pain would worsen. She said in a weak voice: "I..."

Jiahui was a little impatient seeing her slow response, and the corner of her mouth made a slight "tsk" sound.

Seeing this, Mingyi hurriedly said to Wei Qingping, "Let's just say it this way!"

After saying that, the three girls turned around and walked back to the classroom together.

"Haha, she's the only one who always wears her school uniform so shabby."

"That's because she was originally a bumpkin."

"Ha ha ha ha"

...Some "laughter and joy" can be faintly heard in the noisy corridor.

"Where are we going to play after school?"

"Do you have extra classes tonight?"

"Let's go to that milk tea shop after school!"

...Whispers between several girls in the classroom.

In the blink of an eye, it was time to go home from school.

School gate.

Jiahui said, "It was sunny during recess, why is it cloudy now?"

Mingyi said: "It won't rain, will it?"

Jiahui picked up her phone and looked at it, saying, "It doesn't say it's going to rain today, and it even says it's sunny now."

Mingyi also looked at the phone and said, "That's so weird."

Jiahui asked Xinyang, "Didn't you say you had your sister's ID?"

Mingyi agreed: "Yes, we can go to fun places."

Xin Yang evaded the question, "How could I have any right now? My sister is going back to university after summer vacation."

Mingyi changed the subject and said, "I heard during the summer vacation that there's a haunted house in the South City mall. Do you want to go?"

Jia Hui wanted to refuse after hearing this and said, "No, how could you like that?"

Xin Yang was being naughty and said, "We don't have to play by ourselves, let Wei Qingping go in."

When Jiahui heard this, she laughed out loud with joy.

Mingyi also laughed and said, "Let's make it this way. I'll ask the clerk for the video later."

After hearing this, Jiahui couldn't stop laughing.

When their laughter stopped, Wei Qingping just arrived at the school gate.

Mingyi smiled and walked forward, pulling Wei Qingping and saying, "Let's go!"

Leduo Shopping Mall is located in Nancheng. Nancheng is low-lying, developed relatively recently, and has a relatively low population density. The mall is crowded with tourists only on weekends, with relatively few visitors on weekdays. The distance from Wei Qingping's Fourth Middle School to Nancheng is quite long, usually requiring a car. Furthermore, the entire road is sloped, and the return trip from Nancheng is a climb, making the need for a car even greater.

From the moment they left school, Wei Qingping was led by three girls to Ledo Mall. After getting off the taxi, they walked into the mall, chatting and laughing. Wei Qingping, however, followed them, her head bowed slightly due to a dull stomachache. After passing a fried chicken shop, they took the elevator to the fourth floor, where the newly opened haunted house was located.

On the fourth floor of the mall, at the entrance of the haunted house.

Jia Hui said to Wei Qingping, "You're not going to say you can't go in now, are you? I've already bought a ticket for you."

Mingyi also said, "Come in quickly. When you come out, we'll go eat together."

Seeing Wei Qingping hesitating at the door of the haunted house and not daring to go in, Xin Yang beside her was also looking into the haunted house.

Jiahui, growing impatient, sighed and said, "Oh, forget it, let's go in together." She took out her phone, scanned the QR code, paid, and showed it to the clerk. Then, the four of them entered the haunted house. The moment they entered, they felt an eerie atmosphere. The purple lights were dim, making it difficult to see clearly. The four of them huddled together. Further in, they saw four doors ahead, and all four of them stopped in their tracks.

Xin Yang said calmly, "What a coincidence. There are four of us coming in, and there are exactly four doors. So let's each go through one."

Jiahui looked at Xinyang and questioned, "Huh?"

Mingyi was so frightened that she stammered, "How...are there just four...doors? Otherwise..." She was so frightened that she couldn't even finish her words.

Xinyang and Jiahui looked at each other and Xinyang pulled the corner of Jiahui's clothes. Jiahui immediately understood what Xinyang meant.

Jiahui raised her voice slightly and said, "Mingyi, let's each go through a door and compete to see who gets out first."

Mingyi didn't say anything, but nodded timidly, but didn't dare to take the first step.

Wei Qingping said softly, "How about... we both go through the same door?"

Jiahui "tsk"ed and said a little angrily, "You're really annoying. I already said it's a competition, so each person enters each goal."

Xin Yang also pushed Wei Qingping and said, "Go ahead. I'll go through the door on the right." After saying that, he was about to push open the door on the far right.

Wei Qingping stopped talking and gently pushed open the door on the far left. After turning her head to look at the other three people, she walked in slowly and silently. It was pitch black after entering the door. A flashlight had fallen on the ground. She picked up the flashlight and shone it on the road ahead, then walked forward carefully...

They said they were going through different doors, but when Wei Qingping walked in alone, Xin Yang sneaked out through the employee passage with the other two girls and waited for Wei Qingping at the exit in advance.

Jiahui muttered to herself, "Won't it be too boring to wait like this? I don't know when she will come out."

Mingyi also asked to herself, "Why didn't I hear any screams?"

Xin Yang replied: "There must be soundproof ones."

Jiahui "tsk"ed and complained, "It's so boring."

After asking the clerk how to access the video, Mingyi told Jiahui that the clerk would edit it and send her a QR code link. To download the video, she had to scan the link and pay. About ten minutes later, Wei Qingping emerged from the exit. She was frightened and exhausted from the haunted house, but her expression remained unchanged. Without Wei Qingping's screaming appearance, the other three girls felt a bit bored.

Jiahui complained, "You took so long to come out, you lost." Then she walked towards the elevator first, and the other three followed.

The four of them later ate something at a fried chicken shop on the first floor and chatted for a while. Of course, it was the other three girls who were doing the talking, so Wei Qingping didn't know what to say. They didn't talk about the haunted house either, because the other three girls had sneaked out through the employee passage, and they didn't know what it was like inside.

By the time the four of them left the mall, it was already dark outside, and the streetlights had come on. Just beyond the parking lot outside the mall stood a residential complex awaiting demolition. Since the residents had all moved out, the houses were abandoned, and there was no light at all inside. Xinyang smiled to herself, as if she had come up with some sinister idea. Then she gently touched Jiahui's folded arms and gestured towards the abandoned complex with her eyes. Jiahui immediately understood.

Jiahui pretended to be casual and suggested, pointing to the neighborhood, "Let's go take a look inside."

Mingyi, who was still sipping her drink, choked when she heard this and spat out the drink, coughing non-stop.

Jiahui said in disgust: "What are you doing? It's so dirty!"

Ming Yi, who hadn't stopped coughing, shook her head and said with a slight cough, "Will there be homeless people and stray dogs? There shouldn't be ghosts..."

After hearing this, Jiahui's face showed hesitation.

Xin Yang pretended to be calm and said, "It's okay. I heard from the boys in my class that they often come here to play football on weekends. I've never seen anyone inside."

Seeing that no one spoke, Xin Yang quickly said, "Wait for me, I'm going back to the mall to buy a flashlight."

After Xinyang brought back the flashlight, the four girls carefully walked into the abandoned community together.

In the light of the street lamps outside the community, a lot of weeds can be vaguely seen on the walkways inside the community. It is obvious that the property management has not been tidying it for a long time. Although the walkways outside the community buildings can still be vaguely seen, the three-story and five-story buildings in the community are completely dark.

As soon as they entered the complex, Xin Yang suggested, "Do you want to find a building and go in and take a look?"

Jiahui was afraid that Xinyang would suggest going into the building deepest in the community, so she pointed directly at a three-story building closest to the entrance of the community and said, "Let's go to that building!" The four girls walked very close to each other and were guided by the light of the flashlight into the building.

As soon as they entered the building, Jiahui immediately said to Wei Qingping, "Qingping, you go ahead."

In the pitch-black building, Wei Qingping was also afraid and asked timidly: "Huh?"

Jiahui made an impatient "tsk" sound and said in a low and commanding tone, "What's that 'ah'? Hurry up and go ahead." She turned around and whispered to Xinyang, "Xinyang, give her the flashlight." Xinyang immediately stuffed the flashlight into Wei Qingping's hands.

The first floor of the building was a spacious, empty space. The glass doors and floor-to-ceiling windows upon entering, along with the torn cardboard and worn-down cardboard scattered across the floor, suggested that this place might have been a convenience store before it was abandoned. However, the lack of shelves suggested it had been emptied long ago. The four girls continued walking inside, their flashlights illuminating a metal door.

Mingyi, who was following at the back, trembled and said, "Is it a warehouse?"

Jiahui pushed Wei Qingping who was walking in front of her and whispered, "Go! Open the door and take a look." After that, she slowly leaned towards the wall without saying a word.

Wei Qingping thought to herself, "It won't be as scary as the haunted house just now..." So she didn't resist Jiahui's instructions. Then she cautiously walked forward, pushed open the door, and immediately stepped back. Suddenly, a dark figure appeared in the room and shouted at them, "Who!"

Before the four girls could react after hearing the shouts, a gunshot rang out, and the bullet pierced Wei Qingping's stomach! Seeing this sudden change, the other three girls outside immediately ran towards the building entrance, screaming in panic. But before they could reach the door, the entire building suddenly collapsed without any warning. Everything happened so quickly, and the four girls had no idea that the last moment of their lives would come so suddenly. Everyone was buried in the rubble, including the shadowy figure who fired the gun.