Chapter 16: Sharing the Same Pillow (1/2)

“Boom boom boom.”

“Boom boom boom.”

No one answered the banging sound of the door, and as a result, the person on the other side continued to knock loudly.

Meanwhile, inside the room, Bai Yan could hear Liu Kui’s loud snoring and Li Hao’s meaningless sleep talking. It could be said that apart from him, no one else could stand up and open the door to let the outside in.

Who was knocking on the door?

In the dead of the night and this unfamiliar environment, Bai Yan couldn’t help but remember An Qing’s retelling of the story earlier. The one with the horror story about the door-knocking ghost.

“Boom, boom, boom.”

The banging on the door persisted.

After a while, he slightly opened his tightly shut eyes again, quietly observing his surroundings with his fingers covering his eyes…

Bai Yan’s eyesight was not very good, plus he couldn’t risk opening his eyes too widely, so he could only barely see through the small seams of his fingers.

However, just a small glance through his fingers was already terrifying enough.

Through the ambient moonlight flowing into the room, he vaguely saw a figure of a ‘person,’ not knowing when this entity had quietly entered the room and stood at his bedside.

Because of his limited field of vision, Bai Yan could not tell if the “man” was looking down and watching his eyes through his fingers.

For how long was it standing near his bed?

Did it come in when the door knocking stopped?

All kinds of horrific assumptions suddenly poured into his mind, making Bai Yan’s heart skip a beat and almost forgetting to maintain his steady breathing.

He tried his best to stabilize his breath frequency, but the door-knocking ghost was no longer satisfied with just standing there and watching him. Its body came to a halt for a short period and began to shake violently.

Bai Yan looked ahead without blinking, but in the end, his view was still limited. He had to rely on his vivid imagination to guess what was happening before him. But before he could think about it too much, he found a ball-shaped object emerging from his sight, gradually becoming bigger and bigger…

Bai Yan immediately realized what it was and closed his eyes at once.

And almost at the same time, he felt a solid object touching the space in between his fingers, and a brush-like sensation that gently opened and closed. A soft bead rolled on top of his fingers.

He knew that this was the door-knocking ghost’s eye.

The door-knocking ghost took off its head and had its eyes… tightly pressed against Bai Yan’s fingers as if trying to see if his eyes were open.

Despite his eyes being covered by his fingers and his long eyelashes, if he still had his eyes open at that time, even if it were just a slit, he would certainly not escape the sight of the ghost.

In a split second, Bai Yan suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

At the very moment, he didn’t need to open his eyes to visualize a complete picture of what was happening in his mind.

The door-knocking ghost used its hand to carry its head. It continued to stare at his eyes motionlessly through the narrow slits of his fingers and listened to his breath with its head up close. Its hand was moving along his chest, seeming to find a change in his heartbeat. As long as it could find something amiss, it would touch anything without the slightest hesitation.

“Thump, thump, thump…”

His heart was beating fast.