It took Lin Sanjiu a lot of effort to hide the shock in her heart. When she looked at Douglas, her face was calm.
"No, I didn't hear anything," Lin Sanjiu replied. She even cooperated with Douglas by turning her head to look around. Douglas didn't seem to hear what Lin Sanjiu was thinking because Lin Sanjiu kept telling Mrs. Manas to shut up for the time being in her mind. However, Douglas didn't respond.
Douglas looked around suspiciously before he slowly withdrew his gaze.
Lin Sanjiu pretended to be nonchalant as she picked up a helmet-like product. She stared at the packaging, but she couldn't read what was written on it. She had no idea what was written on it. Lin Sanjiu picked up a helmet-like product and stared at the packaging.
How could Douglas hear Mrs. Manas?
Mrs. Manas was just a manifestation of the [School of Higher Consciousness], a condensed higher consciousness. Did this have anything to do with his ability?
Both of them had just met, so naturally, neither of them revealed their abilities.
Even if Lin Sanjiu wanted to ask Mrs. Manas what was going on, she couldn't bring herself to do so. Lin Sanjiu could only wait patiently for Douglas to finish packing all the discs. Then, both of them started their journey back to the hotel.
It was a gloomy afternoon. All the buildings were silent as they watched the two of them walk past them.
Other than the fact that the world was too quiet and uninhabited, there didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.
Both of them didn't talk much along the way. After a few sparse conversations, they could only hear the monotonous sound of their footsteps.
Even though Lin Sanjiu hadn't been in Kisaragi Station for a long time, she had been to many places. However, other than the group of teachers and students, she only met one posthuman, Douglas.
She wondered where the others had gone.
When they returned to the hotel, the sky was so dark that it seemed like night had fallen. In the darkness, all the buildings were just gloomy silhouettes. The world had turned into a lifeless, dark, and dead silence.
Lin Sanjiu looked up and saw that the light in her room was still on. She couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief. She felt a lot safer.
Lin Sanjiu tightened her down jacket. She could feel the cold wind blowing into her body. Her skin was so cold that it hurt.
The itinerary was a little awkward because they had nothing to say. When they reached the entrance of the hotel, it was finally over. Lin Sanjiu couldn't wait to rush back to her room to talk to Mrs. Manas. However, Douglas called out to her with a puzzled look on his face, "Didn't we agree to play together? I purposely picked a game with strong PVP, and I even got you a controller! "
This matter. "Oh." Even though she wanted to find an excuse to reject him, she couldn't bring herself to do so when she saw the expectant look on Douglas's face. "Okay. Give me a moment. I need to go back to my room. "
Douglas immediately responded excitedly. He said, "I'll wait for you in my room." He then turned around and went back to his room.
Lin Sanjiu felt that something was off, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
No matter what, she had to get Mrs. Manas to come out as soon as possible.
Her mind was currently occupied by this matter. As soon as Douglas left, she pushed open the door to her room. She turned on the light in the darkness and saw the Teru Teru doll slowly turn around from the ceiling.
"Mrs. Manas, come out quickly," she called out in her mind. "He is not around here."
There was no response for a long time.
Lin Sanjiu called out a few more times before she finally heard Mrs. Manas's trembling voice, "M-Miss Lin …"
If the two speakers could swallow saliva, Lin Sanjiu was almost certain that Mrs. Manas had to swallow twice before she mustered up the courage to speak.
"As a higher consciousness entity, you are afraid?" Lin Sanjiu's heart suddenly skipped a beat. She tried to speak in a relaxed tone.
After a moment of silence, Mrs. Manas slowly spoke.
"I am afraid … because you are afraid."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned.
"What happened?" She asked softly and started to walk towards the bed.
Mrs. Manas was a higher consciousness entity formed from her subconscious. It was highly possible that she had noticed something in the past that Lin Sanjiu had overlooked.
And the truth was just as she had guessed.
"Don't! Don't go any further!" Mrs. Manas suddenly screamed in her mind. Lin Sanjiu was startled. Just as she was about to ask, "What's wrong?", she shifted her gaze and froze on the spot.
Beside her bed. A pair of old cloth shoes was neatly placed on the pillow.
"Quick! Get out of this room now!" Mrs. Manas sounded anxious and panicked. She couldn't even form her words properly. "You idiot! Didn't you notice that the room was dark when you came in? "
Lin Sanjiu was shocked. She turned around and rushed to the door. She pulled the door open and ran into the corridor. The door of the room, which was not securely locked, creaked open behind her, revealing a dark doorway. The light had been switched off some time ago.
"No, this place is no longer safe." Lin Sanjiu took a few deep breaths. She could barely hear what Mrs. Manas was saying in her mind. She hurriedly ran to Douglas's room and was about to knock on his door.
As soon as she raised her hand, she understood what was strange about it.
Chen He walked into Room 205.
It was a dusty room that had not been used for a long time and whose door was locked.
Lin Sanjiu suddenly heard Mrs. Manas' shocked and angry voice, "Did you hear me? I told you to get out of the hotel now!"
Even though Lin Sanjiu's brain couldn't process what had happened, her body had already moved. She felt cold all over. She rushed down the stairs and ran out of the door.
Only then did she have time to catch her breath, "What's going on?"
When they were out of the hotel, Mrs. Manas' panicked voice sounded a little better. However, she was still angry and scared, "Are you stupid? You clearly sensed that something was wrong, but your surface consciousness couldn't react to it. It was only when I reached the subconscious layer that I realized something was wrong — "
As Lin Sanjiu spoke, she forced a few images to surface in her mind.
This was another function of her higher consciousness. However, Lin Sanjiu didn't have the mood to think about it now.
In the digital game store, she walked past two shelves slowly and happened to pass by a staff room. The door of the staff room was ajar, revealing a small gap. It was dark inside the gap. Instinctively, Lin Sanjiu felt uncomfortable, so she took two steps away.
In the gap, Douglas's skin was stiff and his face was distorted as he had been dead for a long time. His eyes were staring straight ahead.
What he had lost in the shop turned out to be his own corpse. (To be continued.)
PS:
"If everyone thinks that my update time is getting late, it's not a misconception … I have been doubting my life for the past two days … I put in so many hours every day just for a few hundred dollars. Is it worth it? If I had used this time to do something else, I might have become a CEO or married Daniel Wu …"
However, I still finished my first update for the day. It's mainly because I saw so many pink votes supporting me, it would be a lie if I wasn't touched … Thank you to Obedient Kitty's 2 pink votes, Sleeptalking Bug's pink votes, Fly Elegant's pink votes, TT99's pink votes, Life is like a Jade A +'s pink votes, Little Little Book's pink votes, Walking in the Moonlight's pink votes, LocySeven's pink votes, Xin Xin's pink votes, Fat Meow In-Law's pink votes, I Read I Read's pink votes (That's right, it's really pink votes)
There was nothing else but gratitude!
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