Tang Ning returned to the house accompanied by Zhang Yun. Lin Yun was still waiting for him inside. Tang Ning saw that Zhang Yun and Lin Yun were both there. He finally calmed down a bit and showed Lin Yun the strange thing he encountered while taking a bath.
"You said there was another foot behind the curtain, and you also felt like someone was looking at you from the small window?" Lin Yun asked seriously.
Tangning nodded repeatedly.
Zhang Yun was not happy when he heard Tangning's words, but his thoughts were different from the players. The young man held his breath for a long time before clenching his fists and saying, "I will definitely find the peeping person!"
Noticing Tangning's gaze, Zhang Yun, who had finally regained some momentum, suddenly lost his voice. He said with guilt, "I'm sorry, if I don't have a way to leave..."
The young people in the village don't seem to believe in ghosts. When they encounter such things, their first reaction is to peek. Is it because Zhang Yun's physique can overcome ghosts, so the ghosts hide when they see him coming
"It's not your problem." Tang Ning simply comforted Zhang Yun, and then the three of them went to the bathroom. When they arrived at this room, most of the footprints on the ground had disappeared. Lin Yun estimated the size of his feet, and then he looked around. Finally, he went behind the curtain, which was where Tang Ning started to stand.
"Tang Ning, stand next to the footprints. Don't step on them. Then take small steps out. Stop when I tell you to." Lin Yun said through the curtain.
Tang Ning followed Lin Yun's instructions and headed for the door. When he was almost there, Lin Yun shouted to stop. He lifted the curtain to look at Tang Ning, then raised his head and looked at the top of Tang Ning's head. This time, he looked at him for a long time.
Tang Ning was stunned. He slowly raised his head and looked at the ceiling. His pupils shrank and he saw a wet mark on the ceiling!
That looks like the size of an adult! The limbs, torso and head are all printed, but how can a normal adult lie on the wall like a gecko? !
What is this?!
When he was taking a shower, he kept looking at the pair of feet through the curtain. When the pair of feet disappeared from his field of vision, Tang Ning thought that thing was gone.
Tang Ning's scalp went numb when he thought about how he had just been looking for footprints at the door, while the real owner of the footprints was lying on the ceiling staring at him quietly.
Zhang Yun stared with eyes wide open, looking at this scene that was beyond his cognition.
Lin Yun squatted down. He did not touch the footprints, fearing that it would trigger some bad ghost-killing rules. Lin Yun just leaned over to smell it. "It smells like river water."
Tang Ning was squatting nearby. He lowered his head carefully and tried to sniff several times, but he could not smell anything. At most, he could only smell the scent of the shower gel he used.
Lin Yun stood up, turned on the flashlight, walked around the room, and looked at the small window from the outside. Under the pale light, another wet shape was exposed to everyone's vision, but this thing looked to be the size of a young child.
I shone the flashlight downwards and didn't see any traces of a ladder or adult footprints in the soil. The window was very high, almost two meters from the ground. How could a real child climb up there without any external help
The answer is already obvious.
"What you felt when you were taking a shower was not an illusion. There really is something lying here watching you." Lin Yun said softly.
Tang Ning was speechless. He couldn't imagine that he had just taken a shower surrounded by two monsters. No wonder he felt uncomfortable all over.
But why are there two monsters, big and small
Tang Ning remembered that when he was unconscious, the thing disguised as Lin Yun looked like an adult, but was actually the corpses of two young children stacked on top of each other.
Lin Yun's phone suddenly showed a new message. Lin Yun opened it and said in a deep voice: "Luo Chuxue was drowned."
Luo Chuxue, the unlucky female player who found the red envelope.
Although it was not stated explicitly, everyone assumed that the other party was likely the most vulnerable group of players. That was why Tang Ning was deceived by the ghost.
"Did he fall into the river and drown?" Tang Ning thought of how he almost drowned just now.
“No.” Lin Yun’s face was ugly: “I was drowned while washing my face.”
"Wash your face? Drown?" Tang Ning couldn't believe it.
"Let's go to Luo Chuxue." Lin Yun.
Luo Chuxue lived in another house. Zhang Yun hesitated and said that he was not comfortable going in. Finally, Tangning and Lin Yun came to Luo Chuxue's house. Soon, Tangning saw what Lin Yun meant by "washing face and drowning" -
Luo Chuxue put the washbasin on the ground, knelt in front of it, buried her whole head in the basin, her long hair spread out, and her hands were in a struggling posture.
There was water all around the basin, and most of the water had been spilled. Looking at Luo Chuxue's posture, it was easy to imagine the scene of her violent struggle before death, which was no different from that of most drowning people before they died.
But what drowned Luo Chuxue was the basin of water from which she could easily escape by raising her head.
A male player tutted: "Women are troublesome. They have to wash their faces when entering a dungeon."
Tang Ning, who always washes up every time she enters a dungeon: ""
There was shower gel and a towel next to the washbasin. Luo Chuxue might have just wanted to wipe it simply and wash her face as a side job.
A player pushed aside the hair on Luo Chuxue's neck and said, "Look."
I saw a purple-blue little foot on Luo Chuxue's neck—
Something is stepping on Luo Chuxue, making it impossible for her to raise her head!
Tang Ning felt a dull pain in his neck. He suddenly remembered that when he was washing his face last time, he felt something was strange, as if the person on the surface of the water was not himself.
Maybe he was just imagining things
If he encountered a similar supernatural event as Luo Chuxue, why was he able to survive
A player mentioned Luo Chuxue's head, revealing her swollen face from being soaked in water, "She's been dead for a while."
Things like washing up are usually done before going to bed. Luo Chuxue was killed a few hours ago.
"Yes, did Tang Ning encounter a ghost attack tonight?" Chang Hanliang suddenly asked.
Some players noticed Tang Ning's movement as he returned. Although Tang Ning's face turned pale, compared to the already dead Luo Chuxue, he was still safe and sound.
By now, everyone who is well-informed in the entire card game knows about a player named Tang Ning, who has a pretty face and is said to be equally strong, as well as a bad personality that likes to play the pig and eat the tiger.
Although everyone knew that Tang Ning's power came from the monster in the ghost school, and that monster usually could not enter the dungeon, the fact that Tang Ning survived this time showed that this player was not a simple person.
"Yes, we now suspect that water may be a medium. If you touch high water, you are more likely to be attacked by ghosts." Lin Yun answered on behalf of Tang Ning.
Many players were looking at Tang Ning. Tang Ning's hair was half dry. She had changed into clean clothes, and her exposed skin was white and pink. Her collarbone and ankles were still a little wet. At first glance, it reminded people of the wetness after drowning, but upon closer inspection, something seemed a little wrong.
"Are you going to take another hot bath?" Jiang Mianmian asked.
Tangning nodded.
"Have you ever been attacked by ghosts while taking a shower?" Jiang Mianmian continued to ask.
Tang Ning shook his head, then nodded.
"It wasn't a complete encounter, and the monster didn't attack." Lin Yun explained.
"Why not do it?" Jiang Mianmian asked.
Tang Ning shook his head. He didn't know what was going on.
The surrounding players looked at Tang Ning with something strange in their eyes. He had encountered ghosts twice in the same night and yet he was still able to survive. Tang Ning was stronger than they expected.
Tang Ning felt a little intimidated by all these looks. He felt like a husky among a pack of wolves. However, those players who could eat him till there was nothing left were looking at him as if he were the leader of a pack of wolves.
"It's getting late. Tang Ning and I will go back." Seeing Tang Ning feeling uncomfortable, Lin Yun took the initiative to leave. Tang Ning followed him, feeling relieved.
After returning to the room, Tangning typed on Lin Yun's phone, "They all seem to think I'm a big shot."
Lin Yun smiled, "Your card this time is really powerful. At first I thought it was only effective against ghosts, but I didn't expect that when you sang, my mind went blank. If you had a weapon in your hand and stabbed me while I was in a daze, I guess I would be dead. Isn't it the same for those players who encounter this situation?"
Tang Ning felt much better after hearing this and he gave Lin Yun a thumbs up.
"You are using my phone. I will see if there is a phone repair shop here tomorrow." Lin Yun.
Tangning couldn't help but type, "Can I use Luo Chuxue's phone?"
Lin Yun looked at Tangning deeply, "You are so foolish and bold. Have you forgotten how Luo Chuxue died? It was just a red envelope. How can you be sure that the phone is not a different kind of red envelope? You take the phone, and that thing takes your life."
After hearing Lin Yun's words, Tang Ning finally realized how foolish her thoughts were.
But if he and Lin Yun only had cell phones, wouldn’t there be no way to contact each other immediately if something really happened
"Okay, it's almost twelve o'clock." Lin Yun stood up: "You should go to bed early."
Tangning nodded, and after waiting for Lin Yun, he turned off the lights and went to sleep.
The blanket was damp, and there was a damp feeling when covering his face. Tangning didn't like this smell very much. It reminded him of the feeling when he was drowning. Everything around him was damp, and he couldn't hold onto anything.
Tang Ning fell asleep due to the discomfort.
In his dream, he fell into the river again. The river was very deep, with no bottom in sight. He kept falling down. There was no oxygen, no light. It was a dark world abandoned by time.
Just when he was about to drown, a slender figure swam vaguely out of the darkness. How could there be such a nimble and graceful figure in the water? The slender hands covered with dark scales parted the water and hugged his waist like embracing the bright moon. There seemed to be a deep and magnetic sound flowing in the water, and then, the pale and soft lips kissed Tangning.
Water is everywhere.
Tang Ning opened his eyes dazedly, the morning light shining on his face. He turned sideways and saw a wet handprint on the pillow.