Published at 12th of August 2023 6:24 pm

Chapter 54.2 Legs (2)

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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.

She also didn’t expect that the player’s ghost stories would have such a large impact on the game’s environment, even involving the surrounding bystanders in the ghost story.

If it were possible, she also didn’t want to trouble this many people. Other players could easily betray NPCs without feeling guilty, but she knew that they weren’t merely NPCs, they also lived real lives.

But, Ye Shangyu was only sad and quickly regulated her sentiments. She knew herself well, and the fact was she wasn’t a good person. She dragged Chai Xiaohe to the bathroom with her, in fear of not having anyone else to be her scapegoat when the time came.

Hearing that Chai Xiaohe’s back had a ghost’s hands on it, Ye Shangyu calmly moved to the side to avoid getting mixed up with them.

But then, her expression abruptly changed, because she could also feel something herself. At the top of her head, she sensed a pair of hands trying to wash her hair!

The ghost story had appeared!

In the shadows, Ye Shangyu couldn’t see clearly, which made her sense of touch more sensitive.

The pair of hands that stayed on her head was not so much washing her hair but more of trying to scrape the skin off of her scalp.

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——

“Help! Someone died!!!”

“There are ghosts! There are ghosts in the bathroom! There’s a ghost nipping my leg! I don’t want to die!”

“The girl beside me suddenly died! Save me! I don’t want to stay here anymore!”

The screaming girls mobbed the door like a swarm of bees, completely blocking it off.

Unfortunately, amid their hard work, the door still seemed like it was tightly welded shut, and no one could escape.

Scared of upsetting the ghost on her head, Ye Shangyu was still standing by the shower, letting the hands wash her head with more and more force.

She knew that the door would never open unless she found a way out, which was why she didn’t join in on the fun and avoided the ghosts sticking around the girls’ bodies.

“As expected, turning on a phone isn’t the way out. The dead girl just now must have been the girl with the phone!”

Ye Shangyu knew that the contents of the archive weren’t the real way out. She very well knew that anything that had passed through the ghost’s hands would all be lies.

Discarding what little trust she had in the archives, Ye Shangyu was the same as before, intending on relying on herself to survive.

Tick-tock… Tick-tock…

The money inside the card was used up, so the flowing water over her head was merely dripping, the droplets landing on her neck.

Feeling that there was no water, the ghostly hands on Ye Shangyu’s head stopped pretending and started violently pulling on her head.

Ye Shangyu couldn’t help but cry out from the pain, but she quickly bit her lip shut, doing her best to not make a peep to avoid letting the malicious ghost become even more ruthless.

“Way out… what’s the way out?”

“This is just normal difficulty. Surely there’s a way out…”

Ye Shangyu thought long and hard. She used her hands to feel the wall. The wall was spotlessly clean, wherein there wasn’t a single piece of debris.

It was completely opposite to the situation on her feet. The murky water had accumulated a lot and already reached her shanks.

Ye Shangyu used her legs to navigate around the water and felt numerous strands of wet hair drifting along the water, the amount was overly excessive.

“The water is rising too quickly.”

Ye Shangyu remained in her place and stood still, listening attentively.

The screams of the girls blocking the doorway were extremely ear-piercing, interfering with her sense of hearing. However, Ye Shangyu still listened closely. From a distance, multiple showerheads started spraying water on the ground, causing the water level to rise.

Ye Shangyu believed that she seemed to understand.

As a result, she threaded over the water and began walking to the drain.

As she got closer, the water level was rising more and more quickly. Barely ten or so seconds had passed, and the fishy sewage water had risen to her hips.

The rapidly rising water levels had aroused the other girls’ attention. They sensed that the water was about to reach their chests. The door-banging sounds all the more increased, and at the same time, the screams and wails became stronger.

Ignoring the incessant screams in the background, Ye Shangyu moved towards the drain with great difficulty.

The strands of hair floating in the water wrapped around her legs as if they wanted to bind her in place.

At this time, the putrid water had already reached Ye Shangyu’s chest, and she knew that she couldn’t let this drag out any longer.

If this continues, even if she didn’t wait for the ghost to take off her head, they would all drown from the water.

Ye Shangyu took a large gulp of air and held her breath, closing her eyes and diving down.

Amid the water, Ye Shangyu felt around the filter she saw before. Soon, she found the drain from the left of the filter.

She could feel a cold rigid leg blocking the hole.

It was precisely this miserable leg that was firmly blocking up the drain.

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