Y City, city hospital.

The night was cool as water, the hospital silent and permeated with a chill.

It was already approaching eleven at night, and Tang Jing had been awake for over an hour.

In the hospital room.

Just after Chen Hao, Ye Yuqiao, Lin Xiaofan, and Xie Xiaofeng had finished visiting Tang Jing and were about to leave, Tang Chao's phone suddenly rang.

After answering the call, Tang Chao abruptly exclaimed in a loud voice, "What!"

Immediately after, a deep sorrow appeared on Tang Chao's resolute face, and tears shimmered in his eyes.

Seeing this, everyone else in the room couldn't help but feel surprised. They wondered what could have happened to make the usually calm and composed Tang Chao become so agitated.

After Tang Chao hung up the phone, Tang Jing, who had just woken up, asked, "Brother, what happened?"

Tang Chao hastily turned his back to the others. Seeing his hand move, Chen Hao couldn't help but think he was wiping his tears.

After a long moment, Tang Chao finally turned around to face everyone, his voice hoarse as he said, "It was a call from my roommate. Just now, a murder occurred in the dorm next to ours, a guy from our class killed his three roommates and then jumped from the building to his death!"

"Ah!" Everyone was shocked.

"What happened?" Xie Xiaofeng asked in astonishment, "Could it be another haunting?"

Tang Chao shook his head, sighed sorrowfully, and said with a bitter face, "Xiao Bei had always had a bad relationship with those three roommates, often quarreling over trifles and being ostracized. Besides, he was introverted and liked to keep things to himself. I guess there was another argument, and he couldn't hold back anymore, so he just..."

As he spoke, Tang Chao choked up, images of the playful times with his four dorm mates from the next room flooding his mind.

"Is that really the case?" Chen Hao questioned, furrowing his eyebrows. He felt that the matter was significant and possibly related to the red-dressed ghost he had encountered in the mirror.

Five minutes later.

Chen Hao, Ye Yuqiao, Xie Xiaofeng, and Lin Xiaofan reached the entrance of the hospital.

After exchanging glances, Chen Hao said to Xie Xiaofeng, "Xie Xiaofeng, you need to take Lin Xiaofan home."

"Not necessary!" Lin Xiaofan said with a stern face. After a pause, she turned her head to look at Chen Hao and said, "I only want you to take me home, everyone else is not needed!"

Hearing Lin Xiaofan's words, both Chen Hao and Xie Xiaofeng's faces immediately showed embarrassment, while Ye Yuqiao, who stood behind Chen Hao, remained expressionless.

After a brief silence, perhaps realizing her indiscretion, Lin Xiaofan forced a smile and said, "I'm just kidding! Xie Xiaofeng, would you be willing to take me home?"

"Heh heh!" Xie Xiaofeng gave a bitter smile, "Willing, willing!"

After waving goodbye, Xie Xiaofeng and Lin Xiaofan left side by side.

Once Xie Xiaofeng and Lin Xiaofan had gotten into a taxi, Ye Yuqiao, who was standing behind Chen Hao, suddenly pinched Chen Hao's arm with her left hand and said coldly, "It's apparent, she still likes you!"

"Ouch, that hurts!" Chen Hao complained. Then, looking at Ye Yuqiao, he said goofily, "My queen, but now, it's you that I like!"

Ye Yuqiao let go of Chen Hao's arm, instead hooking her arm through his, resting her head on his shoulder and said softly, "Let's walk home."

"Sure!" Chen Hao responded cheerfully.

A few steps later, Ye Yuqiao asked, "Are you thinking about Tang Chao's roommate's murder case?"

"Yeah!" Chen Hao nodded and said, "I always feel there's something odd about this incident, like it's related to that red-dressed ghost in the mirror."

"Didn't you absorb that ghost into Nether Acupoint?" Ye Yuqiao's voice was gentle as she said, "Are you just too tired, so you're a bit nervous. Or perhaps, you are still dwelling on the kiss with your ex-girlfriend just now?"

"Ah!" Chen Hao exclaimed. He stopped walking, turned Ye Yuqiao gently to face himself, and said, "In that case, let's quickly replace that kiss with your current girlfriend with one from now!"

"Don't!" Ye Yuqiao hurriedly said, yet her hand was a step too late to stop Chen Hao's lips from pressing onto hers.

The next day.

The murder case in the male dormitory of the comprehensive university the previous night had shocked the entire Y City, even the whole East Country.

However, trouble came in waves.

Around nine in the morning, another murder occurred within the university. A guy living in room 501 of the third male dormitory building stabbed a roommate to death with a knife. Like the dormitory murder the night before, the student killed himself immediately after killing his roommate. Moreover, before dying, he left the bloody words "Give me back my mother" on the wall.

Two consecutive murder cases occurred, leaving the comprehensive university authorities somewhat caught off guard. While they were hesitating over whether to suspend classes and adjust, yet another murder took place.

At 10:30 in the morning, as several male students living in the 505 dorm of the number six male dormitory building were busy discussing the shocking on-campus murder cases on the school's online forum, they never imagined that a similar misfortune was about to befall them.

The guy named Awen, who had just been excitedly discussing the murder cases with his roommates, returned from a trip to the restroom with a knife suddenly in his hand.

Three minutes later, harrowing screams spread throughout the entire sixth dormitory building. When the crowd rushed to the building, the scene inside was covered in blood. The murderer, Awen, had already committed suicide by slitting his wrists, and on the wall where his body leaned, four blood-red characters were written— "Return my mother!"

Five minutes later, hearing of the incident, Tang Chao once again made a call to Chen Hao.

Half an hour later, Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao arrived at the comprehensive university. Due to the several murder cases that occurred one after another within the university, the school gates were already crowded with reporters who had come to cover the story, as well as parents worried about the safety of their children.

With great difficulty, Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao managed to blend into the comprehensive university with Tang Chao's help.

After Tang Chao briefly described the commonalities in these murder cases, Chen Hao exclaimed in surprise, "Return my mother?"

After speaking, Chen Hao looked over at Ye Yuqiao.

Ye Yuqiao's eyebrows furrowed, she pondered thoughtfully and said, "This doesn't seem like an ordinary murder case, I guess they're all entangled by ghosts. Tang Chao, you first take us to find the Yin Soul of your classmate who killed himself after the murder last night. We need to ask him why he suddenly killed his roommates yesterday evening."

"No need!" Tang Chao said somberly, shaking his head, "Early this morning I came to school to look for his Yin Soul, but I searched the entire building and didn't see any trace of him."

"Could there be such a thing?" Ye Yuqiao was somewhat surprised. After thinking it over, she turned to Chen Hao and asked, "Could it really be as you feared, that this matter is also related to the red-clothed female ghost in the mirror?"

As she spoke, Ye Yuqiao's pupils suddenly dilated, and she sighed, "Could there be other Yin Souls in that mirror?"

A look of confusion grew on Chen Hao's face; he felt as though he had forgotten something vitally important.

"Tang Chao, then take us to the dorm where the murder occurred just now, will you?" Ye Yuqiao said urgently to Tang Chao.

"Alright!"

Ten minutes later, Tang Chao led Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao to the campus road between the male dormitory buildings. Due to the consecutive murder cases, the school had urgently notified all non-local students to gather in the gymnasium, and had arranged for all school police to watch over the order there.

The dormitory buildings where the murders occurred were already cordoned off with yellow police tape for isolation.

"Ah! Help!" Just then, a scream suddenly came from the second dormitory building to their right.

Startled, the three of them immediately turned to look to the right, only to see on the balcony of the third room from the left in the second dormitory building, one male student was stabbing another with a knife.

"Ugh!" The stabbed student let out an agonizing scream, and then his body slowly disappeared below the balcony's railing, while the knife in the murderer's hand was already smeared with bright red blood.

"Ah!" The male students on the campus road who witnessed this scene couldn't help but scream.

Through his Yin Yang Eyes, Chen Hao unexpectedly discovered that there were no ghosts attached to that male student.

Suddenly, the male student on the third floor turned his gaze towards Chen Hao, revealing a sinister grin, while his bloodshot eyes were filled with hatred.

Afterward, the male student leaped from the third floor, landing directly on the campus road in front of Chen Hao, Ye Yuqiao, and Tang Chao.

With a "thud," as he landed head first, bright red blood spilled out from his burst skull, staining the grey campus road. Some of it even splashed on Chen Hao, Ye Yuqiao, and Tang Chao.

"Ah!" Instantly, the surrounding male students screamed and scattered in all directions, not daring to look directly at the bloody scene.

"Yuqiao, are you alright?" Chen Hao asked urgently, grasping the hand of Ye Yuqiao beside him.

After blinking her eyes, Ye Yuqiao shook her head slightly and then looked at Chen Hao and asked, "Are you okay?"

Chen Hao grimaced bitterly, muttering softly, "To be honest, it's terrifying. A life just vanished right in front of me, and I feel like he came for me on purpose, to die in front of me."

Feeling the cold sweat in Chen Hao's palm, Ye Yuqiao lifted her hand and gently pinched Chen Hao's cheek, whispering soothingly, "It's okay, life and death are unpredictable. Don't think too much about it, and don't put too much pressure on yourself."

"Ah!" At that moment, the nearby Tang Chao suddenly let out a cry of alarm, then tremblingly pointed at the male student in the pool of blood in front of them and said, "Look, he's still moving, still moving!"

Chen Hao and Ye Yuqiao, who were looking at each other, quickly turned their gaze forward, only to see the male student with his brain smashed open actually had the strength to crawl towards them.

Eventually, the male student stopped at Chen Hao's feet and, with a hand covered in blood, wrote the words "Return my mother" under Chen Hao's feet.

After writing, the male student died.

Chen Hao took a step back in fright, his head ringing, his teeth chattering, "He definitely came for me!"

(My apologies, due to urgent matters, there are only two updates today, I will certainly make it up tomorrow!)

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