"They weren't at the scene. It was already late, and the other girls had gone to the showers to rinse off, planning to change their clothes in a bit and say goodbye to the coach when he returned."

"Because this girl was more diligent, she stayed behind in the pool to train alone."

"But until the other girls finished showering and came out of the locker room, the girl who stayed behind to train still hadn't come to find them."

"So they went to the pool together to look for the girl, and as soon as they got close, they saw the girl's body floating on the surface of the water."

"The girls had never seen anything like this before, and they were dumbfounded. Not long after, the coach rushed back."

After a moment of contemplation, Jiang Cheng frowned and asked, "Cramping and drowning wouldn't be quiet. Did those girls really not hear anything at all?"

Yuan Xiaoyi shook her head. "They said they didn't. Everyone's statements are the same. Some of them mentioned that the women's locker room is around a corner from the pool, and there's also a corridor, plus the girls aren't very old, and they were joking around while showering, chattering away..."

"The impact of this incident was particularly bad, after all, the swimming pool had only just been built."

"The school also felt particularly wronged. It was originally just a matter of convenience, who would have thought that such a thing would happen in the end."

"Later, I heard that the school put in a lot of effort to suppress the matter, not to shirk responsibility or anything, but it's just that this kind of thing... this kind of thing is kind of, you know."

"What happened afterward?" Jiang Cheng was more interested in what happened next.

Hearing this, Yuan Xiaoyi hesitated for a moment, her face also becoming strange. "Although someone died, the competition had to continue. The remaining girls all participated in the competition."

"But what no one expected was that during the competition, one of the girls... had an accident." Yuan Xiaoyi pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "She also drowned."

"It happened suddenly. It wasn't their group's turn to go on yet. There were about 7 or 8 contestants, and they were adjusting to the water temperature in the pool, getting ready."

"But no one expected that her body would twitch, and she suddenly sank below the water."

"The person closest to her recalled that she didn't dive into the water voluntarily, because her entry into the water was wrong, it was more like... like someone had been lurking underwater all along, and then suddenly grabbed her foot and pulled her down."

"She was pulled underwater!"

"Although it happened suddenly, the people around her were all good swimmers, and as soon as they saw that something was wrong, they immediately swam over to try to save her."

"But strangely, no matter how they pulled, they couldn't move the girl. Even with 3 or 4 people pulling together, it didn't work. The girl herself was also struggling desperately."

"Not only that, but they were instead being dragged deeper by a strong force!"

"In the end, they had no choice but to let go."

"According to one of the girls' later recollections, the scene was very strange. That girl kept sinking downwards, and she noticed that the bottom of the pool was black, not dark, but black, pitch black, like it was bottomless!"

"In short, it definitely wasn't the feeling of a normal swimming pool, and the depth they dived to when saving people had already made them feel strained."

"But at the time, the deepest part of where they were was no more than 3 meters, how could that be possible?"

"What happened to this girl in the end?" Although he had already guessed that it was probably hopeless, Jiang Cheng still wanted to confirm.

"She died." Yuan Xiaoyi said, "The body floated up on its own, just after she stopped struggling, slowly, little by little, it floated up."

"Face down, motionless."

Jiang Cheng imagined it in his mind, and roughly knew what the scene was like.

"Later, because of this incident, the competition was also suspended." Yuan Xiaoyi explained, "Because those who came to the competition were all students from nearby schools, and there were also accompanying parents, so the impact was particularly bad. Many people went to see a psychologist."

"Later, after the body was pulled up, when they turned her over, the male teacher who turned her over and saw the face of the drowned girl sat down on the ground with a thud, almost falling into the pool behind him."

"The girl's eyes were wide open, her eyeballs bulging out, like... like a frog, her eyes were about to tear apart." Yuan Xiaoyi swallowed carefully, as if simply describing the incident would make her feel scared.

"She was startled," Jiang Cheng said.

"Yes, Senior, you're right!" Yuan Xiaoyi nodded affirmatively, gasping for breath and saying, "That's what some people at the scene said at the time."

"But that's not all. In the end, they found a strange mark on the drowned girl's left ankle." Speaking of this, Yuan Xiaoyi's voice couldn't help but lower a few notches, "It was a handprint, black and blue, with all 5 fingers clearly visible, as if imprinted into the skin."

Jiang Cheng took a breath, his eyes narrowed slightly. It seemed that it was this ghostly hand that suddenly reached out and dragged the girl underwater, drowning her alive.

"Is it the high school girl who drowned before?" Jiang Cheng looked at Yuan Xiaoyi and asked.

Yuan Xiaoyi revealed a strange expression, "Senior, don't worry, let me finish."

"This is just the beginning. Then, in less than a week, another girl, who... who was one of those who used to train together at the swimming pool, also had an accident."

"Her family is very well-off, and they have a very large and imposing fish tank in their living room. One night, her parents went out to socialize and drank a lot of alcohol, only returning in the middle of the night."

"But after coming back, they looked around, and couldn't find their daughter anywhere. Just when they were about to call the police, the girl's mother, who was slightly less drunk, glanced at the fish tank, and almost died of fright."

"There was a face, plastered against the fish tank glass!"

"It was that girl, she had sunk into the fish tank!"

"Those... those fish they kept at home were still biting the girl's body non-stop, the face, hands, and feet, they were all biting, like they were crazy!"

"Later, after the police came and pulled the body out, her entire face was ruined, and one of her eyeballs was missing."

"There were no signs of intrusion at home, and there was also surveillance in the living room. According to the surveillance footage, the girl only appeared in the surveillance footage at 11:53 PM, and... and her movements were very strange, she was hanging her head, walking all the way over, like she was sleepwalking, her posture was very stiff, and she wasn't bending her knees."

"She walked straight to the fish tank, first stood there for a while, then slowly stepped onto a wooden chair near the fish tank, and a few seconds later, plunged headfirst into it." Yuan Xiaoyi paused, looked at Jiang Cheng and said, "12 o'clock sharp."

As if knowing what Jiang Cheng was going to ask, Yuan Xiaoyi said, "After this incident, everyone realized that something was wrong here, and... after hearing that these two girls had died, the remaining girls all took leave of absence from school."