Chapter 5 The Old Man’s Face
“The me you see, the me you see, what color is it…”
Liu Haoyu’s unique ringtone sounded.
Deng Xiaolin felt a slight unease in her heart as time ticked by.
Although it was only a dozen seconds, she felt as if time was stretching, and she was even a little scared.
Afraid that her call might disturb Liu Haoyu’s sleep.
After all, from Deng Xiaolin’s understanding of Liu Haoyu, this man mostly slept during the day and worked at night.
So after waiting for so long, Deng Xiaolin was actually a little hesitant to hang up.
But the courage she had finally mustered didn’t want to be wasted, so she could only continue to wait patiently.
“The user you are calling is busy, please try again later…”
It was only when the cold and ruthless female voice sounded from the phone that Deng Xiaolin disappointedly put down her mobile phone.
“It seems he’s sleeping.”
Deng Xiaolin kept comforting herself, after all, Liu Haoyu was indeed sleeping at this time.
Calling him now would only disturb him.
Let’s talk about it next time.
Deng Xiaolin slowly placed her mobile phone by the pillow and buried her face in the pillow.
“I really want to go to Jiangquan City!!”
She originally planned to go to Jiangquan City to find Liu Haoyu immediately after becoming a ghost exorcist.
But Old Deng was not at ease with his granddaughter going out alone, so he asked her to gain experience in Jiangliu City first.
After all, Jiangliu City now was definitely more peaceful than Jiangquan City.
“Sigh… I should sleep.”
As noon approached, people naturally felt sleepy to some extent, and Deng Xiaolin was no exception.
She slowly closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.
When she woke up again, it was already ten o’clock in the evening.
It seemed like this was the first time she had slept for so long.
And her grandfather hadn’t called her up for dinner, which made the young girl a little strange.
She walked out of the guest room.
The corridor outside was pitch black, and the lights were not even on.
This made Deng Xiaolin a little strange.
She walked to Old Deng’s bedroom door, knocked, and said.
“Grandpa, are you asleep?”
However, there was no response from the bedroom.
Could it be that Grandpa went out?
Deng Xiaolin’s confusion deepened, and she even felt a vague unease in her heart.
She drew out the peach wood sword she carried with her, vigilantly looking around.
At the same time, she felt her way towards the guest room.
In the dark house, it was silent.
Deng Xiaolin opened the door to the guest room and looked inside.
There was nothing unusual inside; her backpack containing ghost exorcism tools was quietly placed in the center of the room.
Entering the room, Deng Xiaolin carefully closed the door.
She planned to use her mobile phone to call Liu Haoyu again.
The guest room was large and very spacious.
Everything was the same as when Deng Xiaolin had come out.
But the less strange it felt, the more panicked Deng Xiaolin became.
The dark environment made her feel like she was blindfolded, walking next to a cliff.
She could fall at any moment, but she couldn’t distinguish where the cliff was and where it was safe.
Deng Xiaolin turned on the light in the guest room.
The bright light instantly illuminated the living room, dispelling all the darkness.
It was as if all of this was just Deng Xiaolin’s illusion, and everything was perfectly safe.
Even Deng Xiaolin began to doubt herself.
Was she really getting a bit neurotic from catching ghosts recently?
She sat back on the bed, pulling the blanket over herself.
But even so, that strange panic still lingered around her.
An empty room, a deathly silent night.
The candle on the bedside table was not lit.
There were no ghosts in the room.
Under the quilt, the young girl placed her finger on the fingerprint lock and pressed it lightly.
The screen lit up.
However, on the palm-sized screen, an old man’s face suddenly appeared.
The old man on the screen grinned, his eyes wide like ping-pong balls.
Looking at the old man’s face, Deng Xiaolin almost instinctively threw her phone away.
“Crash! Crash…”
The mobile phone bounced on the floorboards, rolled a couple of times, and then stopped.
Deng Xiaolin clutched her pounding heart, her eyes filled with terror.
What’s going on?
What exactly is going on?!
The ghost candle didn’t react at all!
Deng Xiaolin’s gaze was fixed on the mobile phone on the ground.
In the silent room, her heartbeat was so distinct.
Because of the fall, the mobile phone screen had completely gone black, but it was not broken.
The old man’s face had also vanished without a trace.
Deng Xiaolin got out of bed and picked up the mobile phone again.
She prepared herself mentally, took a deep breath, and pressed the fingerprint unlock again.
This time, the phone’s standby screen was normal, displaying a commemorative photo of her and Liu Haoyu when they were children.
That year, Liu Haoyu chose to leave Jiangliu City and went to Beiming City to study alone.
At that time, he was also just a newly promoted ghost exorcist.
But the boy in the photo had a maturity on his face that far surpassed that of an ordinary person.
His cold eyes seemed to have lost all hope in life.
This expression made Deng Xiaolin feel a little heartbroken.
She wiped the dust from the screen, and at that moment, she saw…
On the screen, the girl’s face was completely covered by the old man’s face she had seen earlier.
The old man’s mouth was split, and his bloodshot pupils stared intently at the person outside the screen.
Deng Xiaolin’s body trembled violently, but this time, she didn’t throw the phone away. Instead, she suppressed the fear in her heart and called Liu Haoyu.
“The me you see…”
It was still that familiar ringtone, and the call was successfully connected.
But the voice on the phone was low and hoarse, like that of an old man.
“Little girl, look behind you.”
Deng Xiaolin immediately turned around and pointed her peach wood sword behind her.
No, to be precise, she was scanning every corner of the room to ensure that no monsters would rush out.
Everything was so quiet and normal.
If there were ghosts in the room, the candle on her bedside table should have lit up by now.
But the candle still showed no reaction.
There was a mirror in the room, and as the young girl scanned the room, she saw herself in the mirror.
This mirror was originally a silver mirror bought by Liu Haoyu to find ghosts, but for some reason, it inexplicably broke, so Deng Xiaolin had taped a lot of tape on it to repair it.
The silver mirror was perfectly repaired with transparent tape, and if one didn’t look carefully, it might not even be noticeable that transparent tape was applied.
However, through the broken silver mirror, Deng Xiaolin could clearly see a pale, wrinkled face reflected in the mirror.
This face was precisely the old man’s face she had seen on the mobile phone screen.
And now… it was right behind her.
