At the University of Brightchester, a black car was driving slowly on the avenue in the middle of the campus.

Qin Zhibo sat in the passenger seat, lowered the window, and looked around silently.

Although the University of Brightchester is also one of the top universities with a good reputation, when you visit it in person, it still feels different from what you imagined.

This is completely different from the young, energetic and intelligent atmosphere of traditional universities.

Deserted and weird are the keywords here.

Except for a few teaching buildings in the center of the campus that are illuminated by bright lights, the surrounding area is filled with sparse and old office buildings.

These office buildings look old and lack repairs, and are mostly made of red bricks and gray walls.

It is the only main road on campus that can be used by external vehicles, with street lights emitting a yellowish light installed on both sides.

Just looking a little deeper into both sides of the street gives people an eerie feeling of silence.

It's obviously not completely dark yet, so it's hard to see anyone on this campus.

Qin Zhibo narrowed his eyes and observed for a while, then turned to the driver next to him and asked.

"Has this place always been like this? It looks like it's abandoned..."

Obviously, a world-class university should not give people such a feeling.

The professional driver named "John Cage" answered while looking at the "dismal yellow road" stretching directly in front of the car.

"This is my first time here, so I don't know much about it..."

"But I heard when I was in London that the students who graduated from the University of Brightchester were somewhat...weird."

The driver's tone was not very relaxed and chatty, but slightly nervous.

"Is it weird?" Qin Zhibo asked him, "In what way is it weird?"

The driver held the steering wheel with both hands and kept looking at the straight street in front of him, groaning in his throat.

"Um……"

"I should say he's a weirdo."

"I heard from a friend that he once shared a house in London with two students from the University of Brightchester."

"That house is in Bromley, London. Although it's a bit far from Inner London, the rent is very cheap."

"Less than 100 meters from the house, there is a cemetery."

"My friend once saw his two roommates walking to the cemetery in the middle of the night wearing strange clothes, seemingly performing some kind of ceremony."

"At the beginning, the ceremony was just the two of them, but gradually, more and more people participated in the ceremony, and finally it turned into a huge team of dozens of people."

"Sometimes, they will wear black robes, step on other people's graves, and dance with their teeth and claws."

"Sometimes, they will hold white candles in their hands and collectively sing hymns that no one has ever heard..."

"One day, my friend couldn't stand the behavior of these people, so he chose to knock on those two people's rooms during the day and ask them what they were doing..."

"What do you think they said?"

The driver stopped talking and turned to look at Qin Zhibo.

"How do you say it?" Qin Zhibo asked.

The driver had a horrified expression on his face, "They actually said they were conducting an experiment..."

"The content of the experiment is to recall the dead from the cemetery."

"After hearing this, my friend thought this was ridiculous. He wanted to call the police, but due to the large number of people on the other side, and they were all students, the most the police could do was give him a simple punishment."

"But once I offend them, life will definitely be difficult in the future. In the end, I will have to take the initiative to move away."

"well……"

The driver sighed and continued to concentrate on driving.

Qin Zhibo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked slightly startled. He was also a little shocked by this story.

If this story is true, then the research topics of this university are too hard-core.

This kind of university is very suitable for Koizumi Hongzi...

At this moment, the driver suddenly stepped on the brakes.

It turned out that a person came out of the dark alley next to the main road without any warning.

The man looked slightly younger and looked like he was a student here. He had a loose canvas bag on his shoulder and a stack of heavy books in his other hand.

You obviously have a bag, but you still hold the book in your hand?

The driver lowered his window and asked in an authentic London accent: "How can I get to the Institute of Astronomy?"

This is the destination agreed between Qin Zhibo and the chauffeur, and it is a round trip.

The student stopped, slowly turned his head, thought for two seconds and then said coldly.

"Keep driving forward. When you drive about 1 kilometer, you will see a low slope, and the research institute is there."

"Thanks."

The driver thanked him and quickly raised the window, fearing that something unclean outside the car would fly into the car.

Before Qin Zhibo closed the car window completely, he saw something twisting and creating irregular bulges in the canvas bag tightly held under the student's arm.

It seems like an animal...

But Qin Zhibo had no way of knowing what kind of animals were inside, because the driver had already stepped on the accelerator, started the car and accelerated away.

…

Soon, the car reached the low slope that the student mentioned.

The short slope is located next to a river. According to the mark on the navigator, this place is called the Severn River.

There is a white observatory on a low slope, connected to a blue-gray six-sided fortress-shaped building.

"arrive……"

The driver checked the sign at the bottom of the low slope and it indeed said [Institute of Astronomy, University of Brightchester].

Qin Zhibo also glanced at the sign, and then looked at the fortress building.

Since there was no light, most of the building was shrouded in darkness, with only one window on the second floor illuminated.

Luckily, it looks like there are people inside.

"I'll go inside and take a look. You wait here and I'll come back."

Qin Zhibo explained to the driver, opened the door and got out of the car.

He looked at the only lighted window, and he didn't expect to meet someone from the research institute who would know about the "Great Halley's Comet".

But at least you can get the contact number of the relevant researcher, and then you can just call and consult.

As for why the other party wanted to tell a stranger about the research progress on the "Great Halley's Comet", Qin Zhibo had already thought of an excuse...

Qin Zhibo followed the stone steps and walked up the short slope.

There are many chilling graffiti painted on the gray walls outside the building.

The more obvious ones are skulls, graveyards, faceless men, zombie dogs and other patterns.

But in a corner on the left side of the wall, there are some patterns with a completely different style.

Driven by curiosity, Qin Zhibo moved a few more steps and walked to the pattern.

It was a graffiti of blue sea and sky.

The graffiti has been painted for a long time, causing many of the color patches on it to fall off and fade, making it look very mottled.

But at one time, this pattern was pretty good, at least better than the completely creepy graffiti next to it.

And on the line where the sea and the sky intersect on the light blue sea, a big pale face is rising slowly.

At first, Qin Zhibo thought it was the moon.

But if you look closely, you can see that there is a huge eye on it, as well as facial features made of huge pits and mountains.

"It's so abstract..."

Qin Zhibo shook his head slightly, not knowing how to evaluate this graffiti work.

He turned back to the main entrance of the institute and pressed the doorbell next to it.

Di——

The electric bell above the head made a muffled sound, calling the people inside.

But after waiting for more than ten seconds, Qin Zhibo did not hear any sound coming from behind the dark glass.

So, Qin Zhibo pressed the doorbell again.

Di——

Di——
To be continued...