"The situation is turning grim," one said.
"Hasn't it always been like this?" came the reply.
...
Eagles soar through the sky, fish dart in the shallow waters,...
Of course, Li Qianxia had no idea what Li Changzhou looked like in the dormitory.
While queuing to order milk tea at a milk tea shop, four female college students rested their chins on each other's shoulders, looking boneless, with strands of hair even falling onto each other's faces.
Li Qianxia showed them travel photos she took while she was in refuge—she didn't have time to go to school, and her excuse for taking leave was to go on a trip.
"The four beauties are ready!"
"The beauty is here! The beauty is here!" Li Qianxia reacted faster than any other woman in the entire Carrefour Plaza, and was the first to answer.
Just as she turned off the screen and was about to walk forward, something was reflected in the completely black phone screen.
A person was lying on the ceiling above her head, staring at her without moving or blinking.
Looking at the phone screen, the person's face seems to be pressed against the phone glass, as if it's about to jump out of the phone.
Li Qianxia looked up abruptly. The walls were white, and the recessed white lights were on even during the day. Apart from the black edges of the recessed lights, the ceiling was completely free of any other colors.
Hearing Xu Xiao, Song Yuan, and Su Qin's united condemnation of her shamelessness, Li Qianxia hesitated for a moment.
After receiving the milk tea, she passed the corner leading to the restroom and said, "I'm going to wash my hands."
The four of them chattered away as they went into the toilet together.
Inside the cubicle, Li Qianxia took out the little radish and whispered in her ear, "Is there any danger?"
Outside the stall, Xu Xiao and Song Yuan, who had finished using the restroom first, were still chatting with her and Su Qin inside the stall.
The little radish stared wide-eyed and nodded vigorously.
Li Qianxia wanted to call Li Changzhou over on the spot, but... she pretended not to have noticed anything, went to the bathroom, pulled up her jeans, buttoned them up, and laughed with her roommate as they washed their hands and fixed their hair in front of the mirror.
This is the women's restroom. The situation isn't dangerous enough for my brother to go in.
Li Qianxia wasn't worried about herself. She couldn't compare to her older brother, but not every player could withstand a single move from her; she was a master.
I'm just a little worried about my three roommates.
Also, could this thing be a ghost? She's not so afraid of gods, but she's terrified of ghosts!
"Qianxia, are you done yet?" The three roommates had already reached the toilet door; the women's toilet was in short supply.
"Oh, all done!" Li Qianxia came to her senses, took her hand off the automatic hand-sensing faucet, and was about to put her hand on the dryer.
Out of the corner of her eye, she glimpsed a pile of rotting corpses on the ceiling in the mirror, their heads staring at her.
She felt a chill run through her body. When she looked up again, her eyes had turned red, and the intense heat seemed ready to shoot out at any moment.
No, there's nothing there, just the exhaust fan making a buzzing sound.
Before her hands could dry, she quickly walked out. Su Qin handed her the milk tea, and she took two sips. The physical coldness of the iced milk tea dispelled the coldness in her heart.
She suppressed her innate fear of ghosts and tried hard to recall the scene she had seen before... That head, that face, seemed closer than the first time she saw it on the phone?
Li Qianxia looked at the ceiling, but there was nothing there.
She took out her phone and inadvertently pointed the screen upwards. She saw herself looking at the phone, and above her, on the ceiling, a rotting corpse with an extra arm besides its head, making a gesture as if reaching towards her skull.
Li Qianxia was so startled that she immediately turned her phone screen down.
She looked up again, holding her breath, but still saw nothing.
What to do? How can we deal with this strange ability?
Why are they looking for her? Is she a grudge against her brother? Is she a member of the Evangelical Fellowship? Or is it for the crown of God?
No, I have to leave. I can't solve this myself, and I can't drag others down with me!
"I'm sorry, I..."
She had barely opened her mouth when gasps of surprise came from the shop next to her.
"Huh, what's going on?" There was a TCL TV store nearby, and all the screens in the store, regardless of what movie they were playing or whether the TVs were on or off, were now displaying the same image—
On the ceiling, an assembled corpse reaches towards the bottom of the television screen, where a head with a ponytail hairstyle is visible.
Li Qianxia felt a chill run down her spine. Without thinking twice, she grabbed the railing and jumped down from the first-floor passageway to the second basement level, where a children's playground was located.
She landed on the trampoline and tossed the playing children high into the air.
Li Qianxia got up, caught a little girl who was about to fly out, and put her on the trampoline. Ignoring the horrified looks around her, she took long strides and ran towards the door leading to the garage on the second basement floor at the fastest speed a normal person could go.
Avoiding the flow of people coming from the direction of the garage, she lifted the insulated curtain, rushed into the garage, and hid in a deserted corner full of cars.
With arms outstretched and fingers spread, a crack appeared in the void, summoning Li Changzhou, while glancing at the window of the nearest car.
No, she didn't follow. On the glass, she was the only one looking at the car's reflection.
She exhaled, her violently beating heart calming down slightly, and a hand clasped above her head.