Chapter 361 - Phone (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

He doesn’t seem to have followed me.

Finally getting the chance to breathe, Gao Ru Xue turned on all the lights in the room without taking off her shoes. The light banished the darkness and relaxed her nervous tension.

The outer door is still open, but opening the inner door to close it is too dangerous. What if the person is hiding in a blind spot?

Closing the blinds, Gao Ru Xue picked up the fruit knife from the table. As a medical science student, she was familiar with the fatal spots on the human body. With the steel of the knife in her hand, she did not feel that nervous anymore. Sitting in the living room, Gao Ru Xue took out her phone to call Chen Ge. This was the twenty-fifth time that she had called Chen Ge’s phone, and the line was still engaged.

Still busy? It’s already ten pm. Gao Ru Xue looked at the messages on her phone. She tried many methods to contact Chen Ge, but there was no response.

Did something happen to him? The line is busy every time. No matter who he’s calling, it wouldn’t take that long to explain something, unless… Gao Ru Xue seemed to remember something. Unless he’s on the phone with a ghost.

Gao Ru Xue understood the problem with her phone. The previous night, when her two roommates returned, they brought a ‘friend’ with them. At the time, she had used her phone to send other people SOS messages, and everyone’s reply was ‘look behind you’. Only Chen Ge’s number was replying normally.

Last night, the shadow that lay behind me didn’t seem able to change anything related to Chen Ge. It couldn’t replace the messages from Chen Ge.

A thought crossed Gao Ru Xue’s mind, and the phone slipped through her fingers and fell to the ground.

The ghost cannot change anything related to Chen Ge. It cannot mimic Chen Ge to give me a reply, so when I call Chen Ge, the number is constantly busy and cannot be connected.

In other words, during this period where I cannot contact Chen Ge, the thing is probably controlling my phone. If that is the case, when I used the phone to call my father earlier, the person who answered probably wasn’t my actual father. It was the ghost pretending to be my father.

Cold sweat slid down Gao Ru Xue’s face. She had purposely avoided her roommates and snuck home because she was afraid of an accident, but on the phone, she had told her ‘father’ that she would be staying at home for the night.

If her speculation was correct, the ghost already knew she was not at the dormitory but at her own home. Her eyes fixated on the phone on the ground; Gao Ru Xue did not dare to move. Suddenly, her body felt chilled.

Just as she was thinking, the screen of the phone lit up. Someone called her at a time like this. The phone vibrated on the cold floor. The sound unsettled her. After some hesitation, Gao Ru Xue bent down to pick it up. The caller was Doctor Gao!

Her finger danced between accepting and denying the call. Eventually, Gao Ru Xue chose to accept it.

“What’s wrong? How come it took you so long to answer the call?” The familiar voice gave Gao Ru Xue a sense of security that she desperately needed at the time.

“My phone was on silent, so I didn’t see it.” Gao Ru Xue gave the reason that she had thought of earlier. She wanted to test out the person on the other end of the phone. When she wanted to ask something that would only be known between her and her father, the Doctor Gao on the phone said, “Don’t go out now that you’re home. It’s been rather chaotic lately. I still have something to do at the hospital, so I’ll be a bit late.”

“Okay, I understand.”