"He didn't follow."

Finally breathing a sigh of relief, Gao Ruxue didn't even change her shoes and turned on all the lights in the room.

The light dispelled the darkness and eased her tension.

"The security door outside is not closed, but it's too dangerous to open the inner door and go out now. It would be terrible if the man is hiding in a blind spot that the peephole can't see."

After drawing the curtains, Gao Ruxue picked up the fruit knife on the coffee table. As a student of forensic medicine, she was very familiar with the vital points of the human body.

Holding the knife, I finally felt less panicked.

Sitting in the living room, Gao Ruxue took out her cell phone and called Chen Ge again. This was the twenty-fifth time she called Chen Ge, and the call continued on the other end of the phone.

"Still not working? It's already ten o'clock." Gao Ruxue looked at the messages on her phone. She tried various methods to contact Chen Ge, but got no response.

"Has something happened to him? Every time I call, the line is busy. No matter who he calls, it's impossible for him to talk for such a long time, unless..." Gao Ruxue seemed to have thought of something: "Unless he is talking to a ghost on the phone."

Gao Ruxue clearly remembered that her cell phone had a problem. When her two roommates came to the dormitory last night, something followed them in. At that time, she used her cell phone to send messages to others, but everyone's messages to her were all "wait for later". Only Chen Ge's cell phone had a normal system recovery.

"The figure lying behind me last night seemed unable to change the things related to Chen Ge. It seemed that it could not avenge me on behalf of Chen Ge." An idea suddenly flashed through Gao Ruxue's mind, and her finger slipped from between her fingers and fell directly to the ground.

"Ghosts cannot change things related to Chen Ge. They cannot imitate Chen Ge to reply to me. So when I call Chen Ge, the call is always busy and I can never get through."

"That is to say, during the time when Fa was calling Chen Ge, it was possible that the ghost was controlling my phone."

"If that's true, then when I called my dad on my phone, the person who answered the phone might not have been my father."

"It's a ghost pretending to be my father. Tell me." Gao Ruxue broke out in a cold sweat. She deliberately avoided her roommates and hid at home because she was worried about any accidents.

But in the phone call just now, she told her "father" in person that she planned to stay at home tonight.

If her guess was true, then the ghost now knew that she was not in the dormitory, but in her own home.

Gao Ruxue stared at the phone on the ground, not daring to move. She suddenly felt very cold.

Just as she was thinking, the screen of the mobile phone on the ground suddenly lit up, and someone called her at this time.

The phone vibrated on the cold floor. The sound made people feel uneasy. Gao Ruxue hesitated for a moment and picked up the phone.

The person who called her was Dr. Gao!

Gao Ruxue hesitated between answering and hanging up, but finally chose to answer the call.

"What happened? Why did you take so long to answer the phone?" The familiar and warm voice brought Gao Ruxue a long-lost sense of security.

"My phone was on silent, so I didn't see it."

Gao Ruxue gave the excuse she had prepared long ago. She wanted to test the person on the other end of the phone. Just as she was about to ask something that only Dr. Gao and she knew, Dr. Gao on the phone spoke first: "Just get home safely. It's a bit chaotic at night lately. You should stay at home. I have something else to do here, so I'll probably be there a little later."

"Okay, I understand."

After the call was hung up, the person on the other end of the phone seemed to have guessed what she wanted to do and didn't give her a chance to ask.

“It felt like something was watching me.”

Gao Ruxue felt an urge in her heart, and she really wanted to use the fruit knife in her hand to cut the screen of her mobile phone.

After taking a few deep breaths, reason prevailed.

"The phone might be controlled by a ghost, and there might be a murderer hiding outside the door. What should I do now?"

This is the 13th floor. It is impossible to leave through the window. Gao Ruxue is not sure whether the murderer has left or not by going through the main door.

Even if the other person leaves, the corridor may not be safe.

"If you use your cell phone to call the police, the person who answers the phone might still be a ghost, and the person who comes in the middle of the night might not be a police officer."

"I can shout for help, but the occupancy rate of Qixia Lake Community is very low. Never mind. I can only try this method now." Gao Ruxue walked to the window, opened a corner of the curtains, and looked out the window.

It was only ten o'clock in the evening, but the neighborhood was already pitch dark, and all the lights in the residential buildings were off.

"How is that possible?"

In the dark neighborhood, only the street lights reflected on Qixia Lake, bringing a little light.

"Am I hallucinating?" Gao Ruxue became even more frightened. She originally wanted to shout for help, but something was obviously wrong in the community. The surroundings were dead silent and filled with a weird atmosphere.

Looking at the neighborhood outside the window, Gao Ruxue's strange feeling in the taxi resurfaced. She felt that nowhere was safe and that danger seemed to be hidden in every corner.

Gao Ruxue retracted her gaze and looked at the neighbors next to her. As far as she could remember, there seemed to be no one living on either side of her house.

The windows of the house on the left are sealed and the interior has not been renovated yet.

The house on the right has some dead flowers and plants on the windowsill, and it is obvious that they have not been taken care of for a long time.

Gao Ruxue was a little disappointed. As she moved her gaze, she looked towards the upper right, at the family on the fourteenth floor.

At the edge of the window, there seemed to be a human face with eyes gouged out, looking at her.

“Bang!”

Gao Ruxue stepped back suddenly and hit the cabinet with her back.

"A body? Did the murder really happen in this neighborhood? And right above and to the right of my room?"

She grabbed the knife, used the tip of the knife to lift the curtain and looked towards the house on the upper right again. The face was gone, and there was only a row of hanging clothes there.

"Did I see it wrong?"

After hesitating for a moment, Gao Ruxue still called the police on her mobile phone.

There was nothing wrong with the police's reply, everything seemed normal, but it just felt a little wrong.

Gao Ruxue grabbed her hair. This feeling was very similar to when she faced her roommate. The person in front of her looked exactly the same as usual, but she just felt that it was not her.

"Everything around me seemed the same as usual, including my father's voice, the police call, the taxi driver, etc., but why did I feel something was wrong? What went wrong?"

Gao Ruxue grabbed the phone and dialed Chen Ge's number for the 26th time. After the busy tone sounded twice, the system's electronically synthesized voice came.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is busy. Please call again after you die."