Chapter 101: Transmigrated as a Fraudulent Male Streamer (25)
The new teaching building wasn’t far from the old one; if he ran quickly, he could easily make it back to his original location without being discovered by the others.
Once he reached the building, he hit a bit of a wall at first, but soon found what he was looking for.
—Perhaps for the students’ convenience in locating their teachers, a directory on one side of the building listed each teacher’s name and office location.
Cen Yu glanced over it and discovered that Yan Feiluan and Yu Sheng actually shared an office.
He sprinted up the stairs and rounded the hallway past several classrooms, quickly finding the office assigned to Yan Feiluan and Yu Sheng.
However, when he tried to turn the door handle, he found the office locked tight.
Silently offering an apology in his mind, Cen Yu reached for the claw hammer to break the door down… but before he could pull it out, he caught the sound of approaching footsteps.
“?” Who comes to a teaching building in the middle of the night?
The thought flickered through Cen Yu’s mind, forcing him to duck into the nearby restroom to hide.
Tap, tap, tap.
Footsteps echoed along the school corridor. In a teaching building that should have been completely deserted, footsteps had suddenly materialized?
Cen Yu frowned, utterly unable to fathom who would come to the teaching building at night.
He hid quietly behind the restroom door, waiting for the footsteps to fade away—
Tap, tap, tap.
The footsteps kept echoing down the hallway, drawing steadily closer. Realizing the person was heading straight in his direction, Cen Yu reached into his pocket and gripped the hammer… then the footsteps stopped.
Next came the sound of a key unlocking a door, followed by footsteps walking into the office right next to the restroom.
A summer break night… was it the security guard?
No, Cen Yu recalled the drowsy old man at the gate and promptly ruled out that suspicion.
Those footsteps were unhurried and measured. Moreover, judging by the lighting in the hallway, the person hadn’t used a flashlight or turned on any lights on their way over. If it were a patrolling security guard, that certainly wouldn’t be the case.
…A teacher returning to fetch something?
Cen Yu had just checked the directory downstairs and noted that even now, ten years later, Meiman Middle School didn’t have many teachers.
Besides, it was summer break. Even if something came up, coming back tomorrow morning would be the same. Why would anyone bother navigating the building in total darkness in the middle of the night without even a flashlight?
Cen Yu pondered for a moment, deciding to just take a wild gamble.
Stepping out of the restroom, he walked over to the office door.
He found no lights on inside the office either. Though the door now stood wide open, he couldn’t see a single shadow inside…
A flicker of hesitation crossed his mind, but he still stepped inside slowly.
“Mmph!”
The instant Cen Yu walked in, someone grabbed his arm and slapped a hand over his face!
Instinctively reaching into his pocket for the hammer to give the person a good whack, he heard a familiar voice echo right by his ear.
“It’s me.”
The voice was exceptionally familiar. Cen Yu knew who it was the moment he heard it—
Yu Sheng.
Why was Yu Sheng here?
Without lowering his guard, Cen Yu let out a few muffled grunts, signaling to ask what Yu Sheng was doing.
It was only then that Cen Yu realized Yu Sheng possessed a surprisingly sturdy build. Though appearing frail and scholarly at first glance, his muscles were actually firm and toned… Caught and held from behind so suddenly, Cen Yu actually struggled to break free.
“Keep your voice down, and I’ll let you go,” Yu Sheng whispered softly.
Cen Yu nodded immediately.
Only then did Yu Sheng release his hold on Cen Yu.
Once freed, Cen Yu instantly backed up a few paces… Staring at this man who had consistently maintained the image of a nice guy in the original text, he watched as Yu Sheng walked over slowly and shut the office door. Cen Yu realized in a flash that the man hadn’t closed the door earlier precisely because he was waiting for him.
“What did you come here for?” Cen Yu launched a preemptive strike.
Hearing this, Yu Sheng let out a low chuckle. “That question…”
“Shouldn’t I be asking you that?”
Leaning against one side of the desk, Yu Sheng looked at Cen Yu. “I should be the one asking you: instead of staying in the old teaching building, what are you doing here?”
“…” He has a point.
Cen Yu thought to himself, but seeing Yu Sheng’s relaxed posture and lack of any intention to raise his voice, he eased up slightly as well.
“You didn’t come back just to grab something, did you?”
Yu Sheng looked at Cen Yu before him.
The man’s hair was bleached a pale ash-gray, his upper body clad in an outdoor pullover jacket, and his lower body in flexible mid-length shorts… His gaze lingered on Cen Yu’s face for a moment, finally resting on the tear-moles beneath his eye.
How beautiful, he thought.
Yu Sheng stared quietly at Cen Yu, then spoke to him—
“Didn’t you come here because you sensed something was wrong too?”
In front of Cen Yu, he pulled open his desk drawer, retrieving a large group photo alongside a yellowed assignment notebook.
Cen Yu had a faint inkling of what Yu Sheng was about to show him.
So he stepped over, lowering his head to look at the large group photo—
There in the picture was himself, laughing broadly as he stood beside He Yongning and Jiang Tuan, making a peace sign at the camera.
He inspected it carefully for a long time, yet couldn’t find Yu Sheng anywhere in the frame. Instead, in the corner of the photo, he spotted a shyly smiling Pei Hengyun.
…Pei Hengyun?
Cen Yu hurriedly checked the timestamp printed in the bottom left corner of the photo.
2011.
The year before their high school graduation?
He searched every inch of the photo meticulously, yet failed to find Yu Sheng’s face from start to finish.
A sinister thought suddenly took root in Cen Yu’s mind. He immediately flipped open the yellowed assignment notebook, finding his own essay inside—
My Best Friend
My best friend is someone who loves to draw. His name is Pei Hengyun.
Cen Yu caught sight of the class written on the assignment book.
Grade 11, Class 1: Cen Yu.
Pei Hengyun halted dead in his tracks, turning his head toward the new teaching building.
“Cen Yu is in danger!” he barked at He Yongning immediately.
He Yongning looked at him with deep suspicion. Knowing the man wasn’t human, he didn’t believe a single word coming out of his mouth now.
Pei Hengyun cursed under his breath—
“Can’t you just pull out that damn Polaroid of yours and take a fucking look?!”
Having not expected the man to know about the Polaroid too, He Yongning half-skeptically pulled the Polaroid photo he had retrieved from his old house out of his pocket.
Yet when he looked at it again, he discovered…
Where was Yu Sheng on this Polaroid? There was only himself in the picture?!
He instinctively looked up at Pei Hengyun, only to see the man cursing at him relentlessly, “Are you stupid?!”
“You know I’m not Cen Yu, but did you forget that I died during our sophomore year of high school?!”
Holy fuck!
Cen Yu had considered countless possibilities, yet never in his wildest dreams did he expect the problem to lie with Yu Sheng!
It suddenly struck him—the story of “Little Yu” had been told to them by Yu Sheng in the first place…
And the starting point of this entire horror novel was none other than the class monitor organizing a reunion, inviting every single one of them back to their hometown to gather!
