Chapter 54.2 Legs (2) (1/2)

Chai Xiaohe’s body immediately became stiff. She felt that the hands casually cruising her back had become ice-cold, moving from her tailbone to the top of her spine.

It could be that the water was too cold, but Chai Xiaohe felt that the hands’ chilliness couldn’t be compared. It was even colder than the water itself.

Hearing the sounds of crashing water by her side, Chai Xiaohe quickly let out a scared whimper, “Shangyu, don’t scare me! It’s too dark right now, I’ll truly be scared to death!”

“I’m not lying. I’m really not giving you a backrub. Is there someone else playing a joke on you?”

Having said that, Ye Shangyu was well aware of their current situation, knowing that Chai Xiaohe had bumped into a ghost.

However, even if she knew this, she also couldn’t straightforwardly blurt it out.

Sometimes, directly revealing a ghost’s identity would provoke them. If she pretended to be ignorant of the actual situation, they could still live amongst the ghosts.

Ye Shangyu was reminded of this and kept silent, not doing anything that could continue to upset Chai Xiaohe.

With the current strength they were using, it could still be considered as rubbing. But, Ye Shangyu knew that if she just stayed there like a sitting duck, these ghost hands would, later on, tear her scalp from her head. It would be done so violently that her head would be cleanly torn off from her neck.

“Shangyu! What should I do? I’ve already kicked my leg back twice now, but there’s basically no one behind me! You said… You said that behind me, is it possible…?”

Chai Xiaohe didn’t finish what she was saying when Ye Shangyu berated her, “How could that be? How could there possibly be ghosts in this world? It’s you who made a mistake!”

“But… But, I truly…”

Chai Xiaohe felt extremely wronged, yet Ye Shangyu continued reprimanding her, causing her to shut up from such an aggressive tone.

Chai Xiaohe didn’t think that Ye Shangyu, who looked like an elegant lady, would berate someone this fiercely.

If this happened some other time, she would surely feel angry, but the hands rubbing her back were starting to exert more strength in them, leading her to suspect that that’s goal wasn’t to rub her back. Rather, it wanted to tear the skin off her back and fish out her beating heart.

Seeing that Ye Shangyu was done talking after scolding her, Chai Xiaohe’s heart grew more frightened by the second. She also believed that there was also something wrong with her roommate, so she just bore the pain and slowly inched towards the exit, thinking of fleeing from this terrifying place.

However, when she reached the door, she jumped from fright and couldn’t help but cry out in fear, “Who?”

“The door’s locked! We can’t get out!”

The girl by the door wailed and continued to sob, while Chai Xiaohe moved forward and felt what was in front. She couldn’t feel the door. Instead, she touched an ice-cold hand.

Chai Xiaohe thought that this was the girl’s hand, but she quickly reacted. This hand right here as well as the pair of hands on her back must have been just a trick——

It had the same coldness, the same sharpness, and no one would use their hand to buckle tightly on her own neck!

The girl’s sobs gradually became quieter, which meant that the ghostly hands must have clutched onto her throat until she couldn’t cry anymore.

Ye Shangyu could also hear what Chai Xiaohe and the others were saying by the door. Although they could still open the door during a power outage, she knew that the app wouldn’t let her easily clear the task.

While the hands over her head were still rubbing with gusto, Ye Shangyu did her best to ignore the ghostly hands as she felt around the darkness, grabbing her phone that was placed on the basket.

She recalled that the president had also encountered a ghost inside the bathroom. He was naturally staying at a haunted lodge, and while he was taking a shower, the bathroom had suddenly lost power. The door was bolted shut, and the president was trapped inside the pitch-black bathroom.

At the end of the story, the president used his phone’s flashlight and opened the door to escape. According to these accounts in the archive, the ghosts inside the bathroom were afraid of the light, and only when there was light, the ghosts wouldn’t be able to kill a person.

The ghosts’ weakness was light!

Ye Shangyu squeezed her phone, but she didn’t open it rashly. She didn’t even press the power button.

She felt around the darkness, shouting inside, “Did anyone bring their phone! The door is locked, and we can’t get out!”

“What? The door’s locked?”

“Woo… Woo… What should we do now!”

“I brought my phone! I’ll open my phone now! Everybody, don’t worry!”

Ye Shangyu’s eyes flashed with glee. In truth, she actually brought two phones with her. The other was there in case someone needed to borrow it.

Now, since someone else brought their phone with them, she proceeded to place her extra phone in her basket.

Being separated by numerous walls, Ye Shangyu didn’t know what was happening inside. But, not a few seconds after, she heard multiple high-pitched screams inside. A female voice full of fear abruptly yelled——