Chapter 597 - Like a Shadow (2/2)

“Leaning against the gap on the door, I adjusted my angle and slowly squatted down. I moved my gaze up and saw the pair of legs once more. Just as I was continued to look up further, a boy’s head suddenly appeared in my sight!

“His posture was very strange. His legs were straight, but the head was almost touching the ground. That was not possible for the normal human body.

“I slammed the door shut and tried to switch the light on in the living room. I knew where the switch was, and as my hand reached over, before I touched the light, my finger brushed up against something. It felt like human skin. It felt like I was touching another human hand inside my own home.

“Flipping the switch, the lights came on, and it gave me the sense of security that I needed. I started to call for my wife, but there was no answer.

“I was so afraid, so I proceeded to turn on all the lights in the room. Eventually, I found a note left behind by my wife next to the living room phone.

“She said that my father-in-law was seriously ill, and the hospital had told her to go to the hospital. She had left the food for me in the fridge, and if I wanted to eat, I would need to heat it up in the oven.

“I put the note away. My wife wasn’t home. I looked at my own hand. I was sure that I’d touched another person’s fingers earlier. So, that could only mean that there was another person other than myself in the room.

“I didn’t dare to sleep. I checked every nook and cranny that could be a hiding place, but I came up with nothing. I tried to call my wife, but there was no answer.

“I was so afraid. I turned the television on and blasted the volume up to the highest. Then I brewed myself several cups of strong coffee. I planned to stay in the living room throughout the night and then move away from that horrible place the next morning.

“I wasn’t paying any attention to the show on the television. I kept refilling the coffee to fight the drowsiness that was coming. Finally, dawn came. Unable to hold it in anymore, I went to use the bathroom.

“After peeing, I stood before the sink, wishing to use some cold water to wash my face. Opening the faucet, watching the water flow, I started to panic like someone was observing me. I suspected that the person who had been following me was hiding inside the bathroom. I glanced around the room out of the corner of my eye, but the bathroom was too small for anyone to hide in.

“Straightening up, I looked at the haggard reflection of myself in the mirror. I shook my head and decided to move right there and then, moving somewhere where there were more people.

“Putting down the towel, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong. Without a chance to think about it, the phone rang. My soul jumped out of my body. I hurried to answer it—my wife was calling.

“The sky was already bright, and my wife said that she had called me many times throughout the night. She had been very worried because no one answered.

“When she said that, I was sweating bullets. It was she who had refused to answer my numerous calls that night, not the other way around.

“I glanced subconsciously at the phone cable and was about to tell her what had happened when she suddenly asked me if there was someone in the room with me. She heard someone talking incessantly, and it sounded curiously like my father-in-law. Apparently, he was saying, ‘Look behind you, look behind you…’

“I quickly whipped my head around, but there was no one there. Looking into the bathroom, I could only see my reflection, standing with the phone in his hands, looking right at me.

“I told my wife to stay at the hospital to accompany my father-in-law. After hanging up, I sat back down, but the more I thought about it, the more unsettled I became.”