Chapter 87 Haunted
Hearing this, Liu Haoyu and Qin Liu’s hearts tightened.
Qin Liu also felt her scalp tingle.
“The one knocking on her door… could it be a ghost?”
“That possibility is very high.”
Liu Haoyu analyzed calmly and said to the person on the other end of the phone.
“Did you call the police?”
“No…”
“Then hurry up and call the police. Remember to stay in the room and don’t go anywhere! Don’t open the door no matter who knocks! Even if your parents come back, I’ll get there as soon as possible…”
But before Liu Haoyu could finish speaking, he lost contact with the other end of the phone.
Looking at the five words “The other party has hung up” displayed on the screen, Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but frown.
“It seems we have a busy night ahead of us.”
Qin Liu recalled the strange parts and asked.
“Speaking of which, in this situation, shouldn’t a normal person call the police first?”
Indeed, as Qin Liu said, in normal circumstances, no matter who it is, encountering someone knocking on their door in the middle of the night, the first thing they would do is call the police for safety.
Liu Haoyu couldn’t figure out the other person’s thought process.
People cannot truly understand each other.
It could be desperation, or it could be a trap.
But even so, he still had to go and see what was happening.
This kind of distress call, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
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On the other side, Bai Anting wanted to say a few more words, but she found that all she could hear was the “beep, beep, beep” sound in her ears.
The call was hung up for some reason.
At this moment, the young girl’s hair stood on end, her hands and feet were cold, and she was a little at a loss.
Because both her parents worked the night shift, they had already left home at 7 o’clock.
Now she was alone in the house.
The knocking sound from outside continued intermittently.
“Knock, knock, knock…”
These continuous knocking sounds seemed to beat against her heart.
The air blown by the air conditioner was no longer refreshing, but rather extremely cold.
Bai Anting felt goosebumps rise on her skin.
After about ten minutes of intermittent knocking, a familiar and muffled voice came from outside.
It was the murderer’s voice muffled by the mask.
“Open the door, it’s me.”
“…”
Bai Anting was initially surprised and quickly went to open the door. But when her hand was on the door handle.
She suddenly realized something terrifying.
She didn’t seem to have told the murderer where her house was, did she?
10 minutes… isn’t that a bit too fast?
In the deathly silent room, Bai Anting’s hand froze.
Her heart began to beat uncontrollably faster. She stared fixedly in the direction of the door, not daring to move her gaze even a little.
The young girl slowly retreated backward until her back was against the wall. With nowhere else to go, she collapsed onto the floor as if her body had lost all strength.
The rapid and uneasy breathing sounded like echoes in the quiet room, causing Bai Anting to panic even more.
She didn’t dare to make a sound, and even to stand up, she had to support herself by the wall, carefully trying not to make the slightest noise.
“Open the door, I’m right outside.”
Outside the door, the murderer’s voice continued to urge.
But this time, Bai Anting was no longer as excited and happy as before. Instead, she cautiously approached the door. Even though she confirmed multiple times that it was locked, her hanging heart did not relax.
There was a peephole on the door.
Should she look outside through the peephole?
Bai Anting held her breath and, very slowly, stood on tiptoe and pressed her eye to the peephole.
Through the peephole, Bai Anting saw an empty corridor.
The dim corridor lights cast a somewhat yellowish glow on the hallway.
However, outside the main door, no one could be seen.
The knocking also stopped.
Could it be that she was just hearing things?
Bai Anting watched for a while longer until the corridor’s voice-activated lights turned off and the outside world plunged into darkness again, only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.
“It must have been an illusion…”
“Knock, knock, knock… Knock, knock, knock…”
Before Bai Anting could catch her breath, more urgent knocking came.
At this moment, Bai Anting’s expression completely froze.
There was no one outside… then what was knocking?
The door was right behind her, and the vibrations from the knocking were felt from time to time. Bai Anting could clearly feel her legs trembling uncontrollably.
The young girl placed her hand on her chest and prayed silently.
“Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, AK47 Jesus on high…”
Even Bai Anting didn’t know what she was praying for. After all, she was already extremely desperate and fearful.
For a girl like her, being able to maintain this last bit of rationality was already quite good.
“Hurry up and open the door, there’s a ghost in your house!”
The murderer’s voice outside was a bit impatient, but Bai Anting no longer dared to confirm what was outside.
She quickly ran back into the bedroom and buried herself under the covers.
But even so, the knocking outside continued, even becoming more and more urgent, as if trying to break down the door.
Even more bizarrely, despite the knocking outside for so long, no one in the entire building came out to check the situation. Even the neighbors who usually played mahjong were silent at this moment.
Didn’t they usually make a lot of noise?
Where had everyone gone?
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the knocking outside stopped.
The room fell into an eerie silence, but for some reason, Bai Anting felt that this eerie silence carried a sense of bustling activity, as if people were coming and going…
It was as if a group of relatives had entered the room and were looking at her lying on the bed.
This inexplicable sense of being watched made Bai Anting unable to catch her breath.
Should she peek outside?
Bai Anting gathered her courage, lifted a corner of the blanket, and peeked out.
The bright white light illuminated the room completely.
Inside the room… no one was there.
Bai Anting’s taut nerves relaxed slightly for the moment.
She lifted the blanket and was about to get out of bed to block the bedroom door with a cabinet.
But at that moment, she suddenly saw something clinging to the window!
It was a human-like black shadow. Its scorched handprint was on the window, leaving behind a black, bloody mark.
Even more terrifyingly, more and more black shadows clung to the window.
And more and more black, bloody handprints appeared.
Seeing this, Bai Anting’s body completely froze. She stood there, staring at the window without moving.
In a daze, she finally saw clearly what was clinging to the window.
They were the students who had been burned to death at Longshan Vocational High School!
One by one, faces burned beyond recognition clung to the window, their eerie smiles staring at Bai Anting and relentlessly beating against the glass.
And from outside the door, there were also violent banging sounds, as if something terrifying was about to break in.
