Chapter 25: Who Opens the Door for Me?
“What are you spacing out for?” Liu Haoyu looked at the young girl in front of him and said, “Let’s go, the sooner we finish, the sooner we can get off work.”
“Ah… okay.”
Although Shirley Lai still felt that many things were not right in her heart, especially looking at the pale and bloodless face of this man, her heart shivered.
However, since the text message was sent by him, she assumed he could definitely deal with the ghost inside the house.
Thus, the young girl followed the man and left the internet cafe.
The place where Shirley Lai lived was relatively remote.
Even though it was only nine o’clock in the evening, there were basically no people on the street.
She followed the man, her spirit a little tense.
To alleviate this emotion, Shirley Lai said to the man.
“By the way, I seem to have heard your name somewhere…”
“My name is quite common, so it’s normal to have heard it.”
The man in front of her had his back to Shirley Lai, so the young girl couldn’t see his face.
It’s just… for some reason, she always felt that this man in front of her seemed very familiar with this area.
“Do you live in this area?”
Shirley Lai asked subconsciously.
“No.”
The man’s reply was still very cold and numb.
Shirley Lai suddenly stopped.
When she came to the internet cafe, she took the main road for safety.
Now, the way back was a small alley.
This alley was hidden very deep, and even the residents nearby might not know that there was such an alley.
If the other party did not live in this area, how did he know this road?
Shirley Lai suddenly stopped, her gaze fixed on the man’s back, the unease in her heart overflowing like a water tank filled with water.
Something is wrong…
This person is a little wrong.
The young girl’s mind recalled the text message she had received.
“Be careful, don’t trust anyone around you! Not even your loved ones!”
“Close the windows, turn on the lights, and don’t open the door no matter who is outside!”
Could “anyone” in the message also include the man in front of her?
Even stranger, if he was Deng Xiaolin’s friend, then where was Deng Xiaolin?
Given Deng Xiaolin’s personality, she would definitely try her best to come along.
“What’s wrong?”
The man did not turn around. He also stopped in place, still with his back to Shirley Lai.
Unknowingly, the two had walked quite far in this alley.
Only a little light could be seen far behind them.
The young girl suddenly became scared.
She took a step back.
“Why are you stepping back?”
The man’s lifeless voice sounded, and he kept urging her on.
“Hurry up.”
Facing the man’s urging, the young girl, who was already a little scared, retreated while staring intently at the man in front of her.
The man stiffly turned his head and looked at the young girl with his haggard and pale face.
“Or who will open the door for me?”
The words “open the door” struck Shirley Lai’s mental defenses like a mighty hammer hitting a bell.
She looked at the man in front of her in terror and swallowed hard.
The two looked at each other, but for some reason, Shirley Lai suddenly felt… that the pale white face of the other party really didn’t look like the skin color of a living person!
In just an instant, the man arrived in front of the young girl and grabbed her wrist.
“What are you standing there for?”
The distance between them was very close at this moment.
Looking at the other party’s face, the young girl finally remembered the man’s origin.
He was the Hao-ge that Deng Xiaolin always mentioned. And in Deng Xiaolin’s narrative, this Hao-ge, despite always talking about white stockings, was actually a person with very high emotional intelligence and gentleness.
And even if you take a step back, how could a normal good person grab a girl they had just met so roughly?!
“If you don’t go home, how can you deal with the ghost at home?”
The man had no expression on his face. The gloomy alley was out of sync with the outside world. The unspeakable fear made the girl’s heart colder and colder.
She tried to break free, but the man’s hand, which had no warmth, gripped her tightly like an iron clamp.
She wanted to ask for help, but when she opened her mouth, she couldn’t make any sound.
“Hurry home, otherwise who will open the door for me?”
At this moment, the man’s voice was like the roar of a fierce ghost, making her incredibly desperate.
Yes, if the other party was really some ghost exorcism master, he would definitely not let himself go home together, right?
He only needed to ask her for a key, so why would he need her to go back together?
Shirley Lai suddenly woke up, but it was too late.
The man in front of her looked at Shirley Lai coldly. Although he didn’t speak, the terrifying oppressive feeling made her unable to breathe.
It was as if someone had reached out and gripped her neck tightly, accompanied by a strong sense of suffocation, the girl felt her vision begin to blur…
Death was approaching, and her soul was continuously falling downwards.
“Bang!”
Just then, there was a heavy thud in the alley.
“Fierce ghost, retreat!”
While Shirley Lai was stunned, a cold gleam swung out from the darkness, cleaving the man’s head in two.
The pale hand that was grabbing Shirley Lai was also split in half.
With this hand severed, Shirley Lai lost her balance and fell to the ground.
She gasped for breath, sat up, and kept retreating, her terrified gaze fixed on the man in front of her whose head was cut in half but was still standing there.
“Take me home to open the door…”
Even though his head was only half remaining, his voice still echoed in the dim alley.
However, soon, the man in front of her began to age rapidly. In less than three seconds, he turned into a withered corpse.
And from the remaining half of his face, it could be seen that it was the old man from next door!
The young girl kept retreating until her body leaned against the wall, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.
Having escaped death, she wiped the sweat from her forehead and murmured thankfully.
“Saved, finally saved…”
However, before she could finish her soliloquy, a faint voice sounded from behind her.
“Are you okay?”
“Thank you…”
Shirley Lai turned her head, and then a terrifying figure wearing a gas mask and holding a fire axe rapidly intensified in her vision.
Even compared to the man just now, the masked murderer in her eyes had a greater oppressive feeling.
“Ghost… Ghost…”
“What’s wrong?”
The masked murderer leaned close to Shirley Lai, their faces very close, almost less than half a meter apart.
“Ghost!!!”
The young girl’s scream almost caused the man’s mask to fall apart.
