Demon King – Chapter 852 – The Rumors of the Abandoned School

Thinking that Eiru would not have taken the two girls too far, the dedicated plainclothes uncles decided to carefully search the Southern District for the time being.

The Southern District was only so big. As the search area gradually narrowed, one of the teams passed by the abandoned school that Eiru and the others had entered.

“Has anyone gone inside there to check?”

Such a large abandoned school was indeed a good place to hide someone. After making that judgment, one of the plainclothes officers asked the colleague beside him for confirmation, only to receive an affirmative reply.

“Two people already went in and searched once. It’s been confirmed they’re not inside.”

“Just two? That’s too few, isn’t it? It’s such a big place… call a few more people and go in together to search. With only two, it’s too easy to miss each other.”

Saying that, one of the officers took out his walkie talkie and quickly called over several colleagues. To avoid missing anything due to splitting paths, seven or eight of them planned to form pairs and search the abandoned school separately for the whereabouts of the three girls.

“Come to think of it, this place has pretty good lighting, huh? It’s been abandoned for so long, but it’s still bright and spacious…”

Walking down the corridor, one of the younger plainclothes officers could not help but sigh. Was someone maintaining it regularly? It was not nearly as rundown as he had imagined. At the very least, there were hardly any spider webs in sight.

“You were transferred to Huanghai not long ago, right? This building is pretty eerie.” The other officer, clearly more experienced, smiled faintly upon hearing his partner’s remark.

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“This place is always rumored to be haunted. Ghosts and all that… even drunks from the nearby bars who get wasted and look for somewhere to crash on the roadside won’t come here.”

“But kids around here love coming to test their courage. Still, they usually just wander outside the building. Hardly anyone really has the guts to go inside.”

A place this bright, rumored to be haunted? The young officer clearly did not buy it. With lighting this good, shouldn’t the yang energy be strong? No matter how he looked at it, it did not seem like some gloomy haunted spot.

As if reading his confusion, before the younger officer could even ask, his partner began telling him some of the stories and legends that had long circulated about this school.

“When Huanghai was first established as a city, this school was already here… back then it was a private school. Looking at it that way, this school is even older than me, haha.”

In that era, everything was still in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt. Management in all aspects was far from perfect. It was said that after operating for some time, the school gradually expanded. But an unexpected fire destroyed the originally flourishing scene.

“They say it happened during class time. Back then everything was a hassle, fire safety standards weren’t up to par. Quite a few students and teachers never made it out.”

With such a major incident, the school naturally collapsed. After being abandoned for a period, another public school later took over the land and renovated the place.

“They say, of course these are just rumors and need verification… after the new school started running, strange things often happened here.”

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Boarding students claimed that weird noises would appear at night. Teachers and students during the day would occasionally see shadows flash by. Whether in classrooms or offices, people often felt as if something was watching them when they were alone.

At first, these were just the usual ghost stories common in other schools, so not many people took the rumors seriously. It was not until a student went missing that people truly began to pay attention.

Some said the missing student had never been found to this day. Others claimed the student had simply run away from home. There were countless versions, and no one knew which was true. But there was one particular theory that spread widely among the students.

As if there were shadows overlapping, this school supposedly had a so-called yin and yang side. The missing student, according to that version, had entered the other side and gotten lost there, never to reappear.

“And after that, rumors of people disappearing at the school increased… not limited to students. There were teachers, even temporary staff like cleaners.”

Since no related police reports had ever been filed, the police could not give these rumors any formal conclusion. But later another rumor emerged, pointing out that all those who had disappeared shared a common trait.

The missing students had bullied classmates. The missing teachers had physically punished students. Some even claimed the missing individuals had stolen large amounts of school property or had engaged in criminal activities behind the scenes.

“Those poor kids who died in the fire… when people later sorted through matters related to that fire, someone found small booklets with their wishes written inside.”

They hoped there would no longer be bad people. A very naive, childlike wish, and the most common one written in those booklets.

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So another rumor arose, saying the school had listened to those children’s final wishes. It would drag evil people into the other side and trap them there forever.

Later, perhaps because the rumors became too numerous, or perhaps simply because the campus was relocated, the school was abandoned like this.

No one ever took it over again. Coupled with those rumors, the abandoned school was naturally shrouded in a layer of mystery.

“If the rumors were true, our jobs would be a lot easier, huh?”

“Easier how? If criminals really ran in here and got swallowed, no body found dead or alive, closing the case would be even harder.”

The two plainclothes officers joked as they searched for the three girls, but still found nothing. After regrouping with the other teams, they finally confirmed that Eiru and the others were not here.

“Hey, you think those three girls got swallowed by this building’s so-called yin yang side?”

“How is that possible? Do you think the three of them are some kind of evil people?”

Thinking about it, how could a building possibly judge good and evil anyway? No matter how they looked at it, the rumor did not seem very reliable.

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“So if the rumor were true, that girl wouldn’t be swallowed. And if she was swallowed, then the rumor wouldn’t be true. That’s a paradox.”

If an ordinary person had that girl’s abilities, who knows how inflated they might become. If she were truly some kind of villain, would she be living every day in constant worry like this?

With her personality of always being afraid of causing trouble for others, those plainclothes officers who knew her even a little were well aware of how kind hearted she was. No matter how they looked at it, there was no way she would be judged as some kind of evil person.

“Let’s go. Don’t waste time here. Hurry and check other places.”

“Three living people. The area’s only this big. Where could they possibly run off to?”

As they chatted, the plainclothes officers left the abandoned school.

Unaware that inside the building, three unlucky souls were still being forced to play a thrilling horror chase game.