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After entering the corridor, the BGM lingering in their ears began to gradually turn eerie.

Su Yang thought to himself, 'Looks like a ghost is about to appear. This BGM can actually serve as a warning.'

Thinking this, he spoke to Ren Lingxi, "Lingxi, close your eyes. A ghost should appear any moment now."

"Ah, really?"

"Pay attention to the change in the BGM. Just think of it like a horror movie and you'll understand."

"Oh, oh, okay."

As the BGM grew increasingly horrifying and suspenseful, a black shadow flashed by the moment a red light lit up ahead in the corridor.

"Darn it, if you're coming out, just come out. Stop with the jump scares," Su Yang shouted directly ahead.

After his shout, there was no movement from the front. Su Yang grabbed Ren Lingxi's hand and quickly walked forward.

No ghost appeared even after they exited the corridor.

The two quickly searched through other rooms. A few minutes later, after crossing the front courtyard and arriving at the main hall at the back, they saw a very wide hall with an old clock hanging on the wall. The time displayed was 10:50 PM.

'Only 10:50? Still early.'

'Wait! That NPC mentioned before that every night at 11 PM, these six families would hear many strange sounds. Damn, even if nothing happens, just hearing those sounds is creepy enough. Gotta hurry.'

After searching elsewhere for another minute, they finally saw a very dated-looking toilet at the corner on the left side of the hall.

Su Yang looked at Ren Lingxi and whispered, "Lingxi, wait for me at the door. I'll go in and paste it."

Ren Lingxi nodded. There was no way she dared to enter the toilet.

Mainly influenced by horror movie scenes since childhood, she had developed a subconscious thought: seeing a toilet made her feel there must be something unclean inside.

Su Yang, however, couldn't care less about that. Right now, he just wanted to paste the talisman quickly and leave this eerie Zhao family residence.

Ren Lingxi followed Su Yang to a very narrow little corridor in front of the toilet and stopped.

"I'll wait right here."

"Okay, don't wander off."

"Mhmm."

Su Yang turned and quickly walked into the narrow corridor, taking two or three steps before reaching the toilet door on the right.

He pulled open the toilet door and went in.

This old-style toilet was quite different from modern home bathrooms. It was rather large inside, with a wall dividing the space.

At the entrance, Su Yang only saw a squat toilet; there was no mirror on the wall.

He quickly walked around to the other side of the wall. In the section of space behind it, there was a sink-like washbasin built into the wall.

Sure enough, on the basin was a not-very-large mirror.

Seeing the mirror, Su Yang took out the pouch again, opened it, and pulled out a talisman paper.

He took two steps forward and was just about to paste the talisman when suddenly a red light flashed in the toilet.

In the mirror, a female ghost appeared—disheveled hair, wearing a red dress, eyes showing only the whites, with bloody tears streaming down—standing right behind Su Yang.

"Whoa!!" Su Yang was startled by the sudden appearance of the female ghost. He hurriedly turned to look behind him.

But when he turned, there was no one there.

'Darn it, pulling this trick again!'

Thinking this, he turned his head back to look at the mirror. This time, the female ghost's figure was gone from the mirror.

Su Yang stepped forward, reached out to touch the mirror, and muttered, "Is this thing a damn screen or what?"

"Doesn't look like it though?"

"Forget it, can't be bothered to figure it out."

As he said this, he picked up the talisman paper and slapped it onto the mirror with a pa.

However, the talisman paper immediately fluttered down as soon as it was pasted.

'Crap, need some water.' Su Yang thought and looked at the 'washbasin' in front of him, but there was no faucet on it.

He turned around, turned on his flashlight to look around, but didn't see anything that could hold water either.

"Screw it, a bit of saliva will do!"

He said, applied a bit of his own saliva to the back of the talisman paper, and then pasted it onto the mirror again.

This time, the talisman paper didn't fall off.

Su Yang smiled slightly, nodding in satisfaction.

Just as he was about to leave the toilet.

Boom!

Another explosion-like sound came from all around, accompanied by a tremor.

Su Yang braced himself against the wall. Two seconds later, the shaking stopped.

"Ahhh!"

Just as he was about to go out, Ren Lingxi's scream sounded from outside the toilet.

Without a second thought, Su Yang quickly ran out.

Rushing out of the toilet to the corridor entrance, he saw Ren Lingxi squatting on the ground beside the corridor, holding her head.

"Lingxi, what's wrong?"

"Brother Su Yang!! That scared me to death! A female ghost suddenly appeared in front of me just now, nearly scared my soul out of my body!"

"Where is it?"

"It's..." Ren Lingxi had just uttered one word when she suddenly pointed behind Su Yang towards the toilet corridor: "Ahhh, it's behind!"

"What the?" Su Yang quickly turned to look. He saw the same female ghost that had scared him in the mirror now 'floating' towards them rapidly in a strange posture.

"Holy crap, run!"

Su Yang grabbed Ren Lingxi and ran.

However, the female ghost behind them wasn't slow either, keeping up with them.

The two were chased by the female ghost all the way into a room that looked like a storage room.

But the door to this room couldn't be locked from the inside, and the female ghost was about to approach.

Su Yang had no time to think. He saw a low, small passage inside the room and said loudly, "Lingxi, this way!"

As he said this, he pulled along the utterly terrified Ren Lingxi and quickly reached the small passage opening in the wall.

Just as they were about to crawl in, the female ghost had already charged in.

She rushed to behind Ren Lingxi at an extremely fast speed and grabbed her foot.

The moment her foot was grabbed, Ren Lingxi went limp and fell to the ground, then screamed and tried to crawl into the passage.

However, with her foot held, she couldn't crawl in immediately.

Seeing this, Su Yang bent down, wrapped his arms around the female ghost, and tried to pull her away. But because the space was dimly lit,

the position where his hands grabbed seemed a bit off. The feeling was somewhat familiar.

'Huh?'

Su Yang froze for a moment. The female ghost lying on the ground immediately let out a strange, low moan.

"Uh... sorry." Su Yang instantly realized and gave an awkward smile, moving his hands down a bit to wrap around the female ghost's waist. He then lifted and pushed her away.

Freed, Ren Lingxi quickly crawled into the passage, and Su Yang hurriedly followed.

At this moment, the female ghost stood to the side, motionless. If the lights were on, one could see her flushed face.

After entering the passage, the female ghost didn't follow them in, probably also afraid Su Yang might suddenly grab her again.

The passage was extremely narrow, but a faint light could be seen ahead. The two squeezed through, crawling forward.

When they reached the lit area, they looked up. There was an exit above, likely leading to another room.

Since Ren Lingxi was in front, she stood up first, preparing to go out.

But the moment she stood up, a deathly pale face leaned right in front of her eyes.

"Ah!!" Ren Lingxi screamed, her vision went black, her body went limp, and she fainted, collapsing to the ground.

"Lingxi?!" Su Yang quickly crawled forward and called out by Ren Lingxi's ear.

But Ren Lingxi had already been scared unconscious.

Su Yang reached out and patted Ren Lingxi's shoulder, calling her name several more times before Ren Lingxi slowly opened her eyes.

"Wah!" The moment she opened her eyes and saw Su Yang, she threw her arms around him and burst into tears.

Su Yang patted Ren Lingxi's back, comforting her, "It's alright, it's alright. What did you see just now?"

"A ghastly pale face. It scared me to death."

"It's okay, it was all fake. Here, can you still walk?"

"Give me a moment to recover. My arms and legs have gone weak from fright, damn it."

As they were talking, a clear, crisp sound of a bell rang out.

Dong... dong... dong...

"It's 11 o'clock."

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