The dormitory was pitch black.
The lights-out signal has already been blown.
When did she fall asleep? She didn't remember. She only remembered thinking about the origami crane and how Wang Xiaoya looked when she died, until her head was throbbing with pain.
"Sizzle... sizzle..."
That sound came again!
It is very light, very fine, intermittent, yet it carries an undeniable, persistent sense of rhythm.
From...
It came from under the bed!
Bai Wei's scalp suddenly felt like it was going to explode!
Her blood seemed to freeze instantly; her hands and feet turned ice-cold, and even her breathing stopped for a moment.
What was that sound?
mouse?
Impossible! Their dorm is so clean, where would the rats come from?
What...was that...scratching against her bed frame...under her bed? A terrifying image uncontrollably formed in her mind.
"Sizzle... sizzle..."
The sound continued, unhurried and slow, with an eerie rhythm.
Bai Wei bit her lip hard, her mouth filled with a metallic, bloody taste, which barely kept her from screaming.
She could clearly hear her heart pounding wildly in her chest, as if it were about to jump out of her throat.
She wanted to shout, to wake up her roommate sleeping in the bed next to hers.
But her throat felt like it was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, and she couldn't utter a single syllable. She didn't even dare to move an inch, afraid that if she made the slightest sound, the "thing" under the bed would know she was awake, and then... what would happen next? She didn't dare to think about it!
Time seemed to stretch on endlessly at that moment.
Every second felt like a slow, agonizing torture.
The dormitory was eerily quiet, with only the steady breathing of the other female soldiers, her own pounding heartbeat, and... the life-threatening buzzing sound from under the bed.
Just as Bai Wei felt she was about to be driven mad by this boundless fear and her mind was about to break, the sound suddenly stopped.
It came to an abrupt end.
The surroundings returned to a deathly silence.
They've left?
That "thing" is gone?
Bai Wei tilted her ear, held her breath, and listened carefully.
One second.
Ten seconds.
One minute.
The buzzing sound never came again.
Bai Wei's tense nerves finally relaxed a little. Like a fish out of water, she gasped for breath and realized that she was already soaked in cold sweat. The army green bedding clung to her body, cold and damp, making her feel indescribably uncomfortable.
Is it a hallucination?
Is it because I was too tired from training during the day and thought too much at night, causing auditory hallucinations?
That must be it! That must be it! There are no ghosts in this world! It's all just us scaring ourselves!
Bai Wei frantically tried to encourage herself, attempting to convince herself with materialistic theories.
However, just as her gaze unconsciously swept across the gap between her and the next bed, her pupils instantly contracted to the size of pinpoints!
In the pale moonlight, she saw clearly—
One hand.
"ah--!"
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