Campus Ghost

When the midnight wind blew past the rusted window lattice of the Rongcheng Xingyao University Library, an unnatural silence fell. The untouched pages of the book turned rustlingly in the darkness, as if they were caressed by invisible fingers. The air in this century-old university is quietly becoming stagnant and cold. When Qin Feng and Lin Yue stepped into this strange campus, it was like stepping into a carefully woven trap. What they are pursuing is not a phantom: the fleeting pale silhouette in the stairwell, the suppressed sobs deep in the dormitory corridor, the chillingly precise sound of turning books in the old book area... Every fragment points to some indescribable pattern, as if daily life is being re-measured by invisible scales. The strange symbols captured by Shen Xingyu's camera were like cold marks, appearing in places they shouldn't be. The investigation is on thin ice. Every discovery - the unusually neat edges of the gray-white cloth, the traces of wax as black as asphalt on the wall, the flash of distorted warm shadows in the thermal imaging camera - is not an answer, but a deeper mystery. Reason works in vain in front of the fragments that cannot be put together, leaving only the chill that penetrates into the bone marrow. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.