34 034 (2nd update on June 20)

◎Courage game + horror courtyard◎

There's definitely something wrong with that woman.

【She must be a ghost! 】

[I get goosebumps even through the screen]

"Host," Wu Cheng's voice drifted, "We feel like it's still following us! Gao Kai is dead, is it targeting us again?"

Jiang Chuxu leaned against the sofa, her eyes calmly sweeping across the three frightened faces huddled together on the screen. Xiao Hei on her lap also turned over lazily.

"You don't have a lot of Yin energy," Jiang Chuxu said, his tone flat. "That ghost, or those things, don't intend to kill you right now."

When the three heard this, their tense shoulders seemed to relax a little. The good news was that they wouldn't die now, but the bad news meant that they would die sooner or later.

"Tell me, when did you start to feel like you were being targeted?"

Li Min took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to recall: "It started from the night Kaizi got into trouble."

That night, it was very late when I came out of the police station after taking the statement.

The three of them were feeling heavy-hearted and frightened. Li Min was still driving. They did not dare to live alone, so they decided to go to Wang Yu's house, which was the closest. The street lights were dim and the traffic was sparse along the way.

"As I was driving, I felt something was wrong," Li Min said with a hint of fear. "I felt a chill on the back of my neck, like a cold wind. But the windows were closed."

He subconsciously glanced at the rearview mirror inside the car. In the mirror, Wu Cheng and Wang Yu were huddled together in the back seat, their faces pale.

But just outside the rear windshield, there seemed to be a blurry gray shadow clinging to the glass!

Li Min's heart suddenly shrank and almost jumped out of his throat.

He thought he was seeing things and blinked hard to look again.

The gray shadow was still there, its outline like a human figure. It was right outside the car window, as if it was looking down into the car.

"There's something outside the window!" Li Min's voice changed and he slammed on the brakes.

The harsh sound of tires rubbing against each other broke the silence, and the car suddenly stopped at the side of the road. The huge inertia caused the three people in the car to fall forward heavily.

"Ah!" Wu Cheng and Wang Yu screamed at the same time.

Li Min didn't care about the dizziness and immediately turned his head to look back.

Nothing.

The cold night wind rushed in through the gaps in the car window that had just been lowered a little, making people's hair stand on end.

Outside the window is an empty road and a green belt, with the street lights lit alone. Where are the gray shadows?

The feeling of being watched like a thorn in the back also disappeared as the car stopped.

Wang Yu's voice was a little shaky. "We stopped by the roadside and waited for more than ten minutes, but nothing happened. Li Min said it might be because he was too tired and dizzy. That's the only way we can comfort ourselves. Otherwise, we really wouldn't be able to get home."

The rest of the journey went smoothly, nothing unusual happened, and the gray shadow did not appear again.

For the next few days, the three of them stayed at Wang Yu's house, encouraging each other during the day and sleeping with the lights on at night. They also went to a temple.

They also went to Gao Kai's funeral together. The atmosphere at the funeral was depressing and heavy, but the feeling of being stared at did not appear again.

Wu Cheng's voice lowered, filled with deep fatigue: "We all thought it was over until we drove back from burning paper for Gao Kai two days ago."

The three of them had originally planned to go back to their respective homes, but they encountered a similar situation on the way, but this time it was a little different.

On their way home from the cemetery, the cell phone in Li Min's pocket suddenly rang sharply, and the sound was particularly harsh in the quiet car.

Wu Cheng and Wang Yu were both startled and jumped.

"Who is it so late at night?" Li Min muttered, freeing one hand to take out his cell phone.

The light from the screen illuminated his tired face, but the name displayed on it made him freeze suddenly.

It turned out to be Gao Kai’s mother calling.

"Hello? Auntie?" Li Min's voice was hoarse and a little tired from crying.

For some reason, he felt that this phone call was very strange, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

Gao Kai's mother's voice came from the other end of the phone, but the signal seemed to be not very good, and the voice was intermittent: "Xiao Li, where are you going? I have something... Can you go and help me check it out?"

The words in the middle were too vague and Li Min could hardly hear them clearly, but Gao Kai's mother's voice was mixed with suppressed crying, and it sounded sincere and heartfelt.

Li Min's heart softened. Thinking of the sorrow of the elderly sending off their loved ones, he subconsciously wanted to agree: "Auntie, don't worry, we..."

"Li Min, look ahead! Look ahead!" Wu Cheng's scream tore through Li Min's voice, and the voice was full of terror.

Li Min almost instinctively looked up at the range of the car lights in front of him.

Right in front of the car, less than five meters away from the windshield, a blurry gray shadow suddenly floated in the air!

This time Li Min saw clearly that the gray shadow was actually the woman who had stood next to the tombstone in the haunted building before.

Li Min's blood rushed to his head instantly, his adrenaline soared, and the instinct of survival overwhelmed all thoughts. He almost relied on muscle memory to slam the brakes to the bottom.

“Squeak—”

The smell of burnt rubber rubbing against the road instantly filled the air. The immense inertia pinned the three people tightly against the seat backs. The seat belts hurt their chests, and their internal organs felt as if they were about to shift.

The car twisted on the road with a harsh friction sound, and finally stopped in the middle of the road at a dangerous angle.

There was dead silence in the car, with only the breathing sounds of the three people. Fortunately, there were no other cars on the road, otherwise they didn't dare to imagine what had happened just now.

Cold sweat soaked Li Min's clothes. He looked up and saw nothing outside the windshield.

The gray shadow disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

"Disappeared?"

Li Min gasped for breath. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and subconsciously looked at the mobile phone still in his hand.

The screen remained on the call log interface, but the latest entry in the call log was a missed call they made to Gao Kai, which happened a few days ago.

No matter how I searched, there was no record of the call from the so-called "Gao Kai's mother"!

Everything was blank, as if the tearful phone call just now had never happened!

Li Min felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. He asked in a trembling voice, "Where are the call records?"

Wu Cheng and Wang Yu also came over to look at the phone screen. When they saw the blank call record, their faces changed.

It wasn't my aunt calling.

Who was that caller just now?

Is that gray shadow floating in front of the car really the ghost of the haunted building?

Are they being targeted too?

Li Min cheered up and parked the car on the side of the road. The three of them didn't dare to stay any longer, so they fled to the sidewalk, with the cold night wind blowing on their bodies.

"Master, this is why we came to you for connection. We don't know who it will attack. They have been acting together these past few days."

In fact, what they suspected most was that Li Min, who had been with Gao Kai before, was being targeted. After all, they were the only two who saw the graffiti on the wall.

[I feel like it won’t be a big deal]

[Yes, the person who was seeking death died immediately, which shows that the ghost is very powerful]

[You can still jump and dance, so nothing must be wrong. I probably just want to scare you.]

Although the comments said that everything should be fine, the three of them were still nervous. They looked at Jiang Chuxu expectantly.

Just like what was said in the comments, Jiang Chuxu didn't think anything would happen to them. At most, it was just the ghost scaring them.

"Don't panic, it's just a ghost that got disturbed by you. It's angry and came out to scare people. If it really wanted to kill you, it wouldn't have just used an illusion to scare you, but would have directly caused your car to crash and you to die."

Three people: ...

This sounds reasonable, but why does it feel even more frustrating?

So they were scared half to death and in each other's eyes it was just a prank?

"Then why does it have to pester us? And pretend to be Gao Kai's mother?" Wu Cheng asked in a crying voice. This was the most creepy thing for her.

She didn't dare to think about whether the calls she would receive in the future were real or from ghosts.

"Because you've been staying with Gao Kai, it thought you were in the same group. After it dealt with the most noisy ones, it scared you and warned you not to mess around in its territory again. As for impersonating you, it probably thought you were familiar with Gao Kai's mother and were easy to fool."

Jiang Chuxu shrugged as he spoke.

These three people didn't do anything, and the ghosts wouldn't attack for no reason, otherwise anyone who went to the haunted building to play the game of courage would probably be in trouble.

She paused, looked at the three people's pale faces, and added something to reassure them: "It's far away from you now, don't think too much, you are safe for now, as for the haunted building, I will take care of it."

"Then what should we do next?" Li Min took a few breaths, but his voice was still weak.

"It's time to go home, go home, it's time to sleep. Don't go out at night these few days, especially don't go to the suburbs. Find a place with strong yang energy and a lot of people to stay, and then go to the temple in a few days." Jiang Chuxu said it straightforwardly.

Just then, a message reminder popped up.

She glanced at it and saw that the sender was Xu Zhaojin.

[Xu Zhaojin]: I watched the live broadcast. That haunted building is also the mission I accepted yesterday. I can just go there.

Jiang Chuxu raised his eyebrows imperceptibly and tapped the screen twice with his fingertips.

[Jiang Chuxu]: Okay, thank you for your help.

Wu Cheng crossed his arms and asked again, "Host, will it come back to scare us again?"

"No, someone has already taken care of it."

[Connections, the host just said he was going to solve it, and someone went there in the blink of an eye]

[Again, don’t commit suicide]

[It’s better not to play these courage-testing games]

The three of them nodded repeatedly as they looked at the comments: "I definitely won't go. This time has been scary enough, and..."

When they thought of the deceased Gao Kai, they could only sigh helplessly.

After all, they are friends, and they would also wonder if Gao Kai would not have died if they had found professionals after returning from the haunted building that day.

But it's too late to say anything now.

The connection was disconnected. Jiang Chuxu glanced at the work group before saying, "Next."

The screen lit up, and this time it was a young girl in her twenties, whose online name was "Brick Moving Expert". She was wearing home clothes and looked unwell.

"Hello, host! My name is Zhou Xiao. I just moved into this second-hand house less than a month ago, and all the weird things happened to me!" Zhou Xiao said with an angry laugh.

"To be precise, something strange happened to my mother."

Zhou Xiao rubbed his arms hard, but the coldness on his skin wouldn't go away.

Ever since she moved in, her mother always stood by the living room window, staring blankly at the pitifully small yard.

Tears flowed silently, but every time she asked her mother why she was crying, she seemed to be completely unaware and just rubbed her eyes blankly. She said it might be because the wind was too strong.

Sometimes, her mother would say that she didn’t cry, suspecting that Zhou Xiao had seen it wrong.

Zhou Xiao also tried to take a photo, but the mother in the photo was not crying, she was even smiling.

But that smile looks weird no matter how you look at it.

"My silly little golden retriever used to love rolling around on the grass, so I bought him a house with a yard so he could move around."

But now the golden retriever refused to approach the yard and only dared to stay inside the door with its tail between its legs, as if it was frightened by something.

The tabby cat at home, which is usually fearless, also reacted strongly. One day, Zhou Xiao wanted to carry it to the yard to bask in the sun. As soon as he stepped onto the lawn a little bit, the originally docile cat in his arms suddenly stood up.

The next second, the claws came scratching down with the wind. Zhou Xiao felt a burning pain in his arm, and blood immediately oozed out of the three wounds.

The cat quickly broke free from the arms, ran into the house without looking back, and dived under the sofa, and no matter how I called out, I couldn't get out.

"I can only comfort myself that maybe they are not used to the new environment."

Until that night.

Zhou Xiao seemed to recall something that scared her, and her brows furrowed instantly.

Her bedroom had a floor-to-ceiling window that covered an entire wall, facing the dark courtyard.

For some reason that night, she woke up in a daze.

She turned to the window out of habit. There was no moonlight outside, only the street lights in the distance. With that little light, she could barely see the old locust tree in the middle of the yard.

Just as she subconsciously glanced out the window, she felt like she was thrown into an ice hole.

There seemed to be something hanging upside down on the old locust tree.

No, the outline looks like a person hanging upside down there.

She wasn't sure if it was her imagination.

But that person looks a lot like my mother.

【Author’s words】

[dog head holding a rose] This is a supplementary update [waving hands]