"He didn't follow me."
Finally, Gao Ru Xue sighed in relief. Without even changing out of her shoes, she turned on all the lights in the room.
The light chased away the darkness and eased her nervousness.
"The front door isn't closed, but it's too dangerous to open the front door now. What if the person is hiding in the corner that the peephole can't see?"
Closing the curtain, Gao Ru Xue picked up the fruit knife from the coffee table. As a medical student, she was familiar with the various vital points of a human body.
With the knife in hand, her heart finally calmed down.
Sitting in the living room, Gao Ru Xue took out her phone to call Chen Ge. This was the twenty-fifth time she had called Chen Ge, and the call was still busy.
"Still not working? It's already 10 pm. " Gao Ru Xue looked at the messages on her phone. She tried many ways to contact Chen Ge, but there was no reply.
"Did something happen to him? Every time I call him, the line is busy. No matter who he calls, he wouldn't be on the phone for so long, unless … "Gao Ru Xue seemed to have thought of something." Unless he's talking to a ghost. "
Gao Ru Xue remembered clearly that there had been a problem with her phone before. Last night, when her two roommates returned to the bedroom, something had followed them. At the time, she had used her phone to send messages, and everyone had replied with a 'look back'. Only Chen Ge's phone had the system's normal reply.
"The shadow behind me last night doesn't appear to be able to change anything related to Chen Ge. It doesn't appear to be able to replace Chen Ge to reply to me." A thought crossed Gao Ru Xue's mind, and the phone slipped from her fingers to the ground.
"The ghost can't change anything related to Chen Ge, so it can't imitate Chen Ge to reply to me. Therefore, when I call Chen Ge, the line is busy, and I can't get through.
In other words, during the period when I was unable to contact Chen Ge, it was probably the ghost who was controlling my phone.
"If that's the case, when I used my own phone to call my father, the person who answered the phone might not be my father.
"It's a ghost pretending to be my father and replying to me." Gao Ru Xue broke out in a cold sweat. She had deliberately avoided her roommates and sneaked back home because she was worried that something might happen.
But in the phone call just now, she had personally told her "father" that she was going to stay at home tonight.
If her guess was right, then the ghost already knew that she was not in the dormitory, but in her own home.
Staring at the phone on the ground, Gao Ru Xue didn't dare to move. She suddenly felt cold.
Just as she was thinking, the phone screen on the ground suddenly lit up. Someone was calling her at this time.
The phone vibrated on the cold floor, and the sound was unsettling. Gao Ru Xue hesitated for a moment before picking up the phone.
It was Dr. Gao who had called her!
Gao Ru Xue's fingers hovered between answering and hanging up the call. In the end, she chose to answer.
"What happened? Why did you take so long to pick up? "The familiar and warm voice gave Gao Ru Xue a sense of security that she hadn't felt in a long time.
"My phone is on silent, so I didn't see it."
Gao Ru Xue gave the excuse that she had prepared earlier. She wanted to test the person on the other side of the phone. Just as she was about to ask something that only she and Dr. Gao knew, Dr. Gao spoke first. "It's good that you've reached home safely. Recently, it's been quite chaotic at night. Stay at home. I still have something to do, so I'll probably be home later."
"Okay, I understand."
The call ended. The person on the other side of the phone seemed to have guessed what she was going to do and did not give her the chance to ask any questions.
"It feels like something is watching me."
Gao Ru Xue had the urge to use the fruit knife in her hand to cut the screen of the phone.
She took a few deep breaths, and in the end, rationality won out.
"The phone might be controlled by a ghost, and there might be a murderer hiding outside the door. What should I do now?"
She was on the 13th floor, so it was impossible to leave through the window. Gao Ru Xue was not sure if the murderer had left or not.
Even if he had, the staircase might not be safe.
"If I use the phone to call the police, it might be a ghost who answers, and it might not be the police who come in the middle of the night."
"I can call for help, but the occupancy rate at Xi Xia Hu is very low. Whatever, I'll have to try this method." Gao Ru Xue walked to the window, pulled back the curtain, and looked out.
It was only 10 pm, but the residential area was already dark. All the lights in the buildings had been switched off.
"How is this possible?"
In the dark residential area, only the streetlights reflected off Xi Xia Hu, providing some light.
"Am I hallucinating?" Gao Ru Xue was even more afraid. She wanted to scream for help, but something was obviously wrong with the residential area. Her surroundings were dead, and there was a strange atmosphere.
Looking out the window, the strange feeling that Gao Ru Xue had in the taxi returned. She felt like she was not safe, and every corner seemed to be hiding danger.
Gao Ru Xue pulled back her gaze to look at the neighbors next to her. In her memory, there was no one living on either side of her house.
The window of the house on the left was sealed shut, and the interior had not been renovated.
The window of the house on the right had some dead flowers. It was obvious that they had not been taken care of for a long time.
Gao Ru Xue was disappointed. As she moved her gaze, she glanced up to the right, at the house on the fourteenth floor.
At the edge of the window, there seemed to be a human face whose eyes had been gouged out looking at her.
"Bang!"
Gao Ru Xue staggered back, and her back knocked into the cupboard.
"Dead body? Did the murder really happen in this neighborhood? And it's right above my room? "
She grabbed the knife and used the tip to pry open the curtain to look at the house on the top right. The human face had disappeared, and there was only a row of clothes hanging there.
"Am I seeing things?"
After a moment's hesitation, Gao Ru Xue still used her phone to call the police.
The police's reply was flawless. Everything was normal, but something was not right.
Gao Ru Xue pulled on her hair. This feeling was similar to when she was facing her roommate. The person before her was the same as usual, but it felt like it was not her.
"Everything around me is normal, including my father's voice, the phone, the taxi driver, and so on, but why do I feel like something is wrong? What's wrong? "
Gao Ru Xue grabbed the phone and called Chen Ge for the twenty-sixth time. After the dial tone rang twice, the system's synthesized voice came through.
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