Xu Ning was the oldest among the contestants. He always felt a sense of responsibility towards these young teammates, so he got up and walked under the bed voluntarily.
"It should be that the window wasn't closed properly," he said.
The moment Xu Ning pulled open the curtain, a swear word blurted out of his mouth.
There, outside the window, was a woman floating in mid - air, constantly banging her head against the window.
The woman was wearing a tattered blue dress. Two strands of pitch - black hair on her chest were as messy as seaweed, and water was dripping down in strands.
Her face was swollen. Instead of eyeballs in her eye sockets, there were just two empty black holes. The area around the woman's mouth was purplish - blue, as if it had been gnawed on by some unknown thing and had completely rotted away.
The woman seemed to notice Xu Ning looking at her. She hooked the corner of her mouth and slowly floated towards Xu Ning.
The live - stream chat instantly became tense.
[This is a horror movie, right! It's so disgusting. Ugh!]
[The window isn't closed tightly!! This woman is going to climb in!]
[It's so scary. What on earth is this thing?]
...
The woman's voice was hoarse. She kept screaming, and finally, the sound suddenly changed into the ear - piercing screech of long fingernails scratching on a blackboard.
Seeing that the woman was about to squeeze in through the window crack, the stinking smell filled the whole room.
Xu Ning wanted to take out the talisman paper from his bosom, but his body was as if tied with a thousand - jin weight and he couldn't move at all.
Just as the woman's rotten fingers were about to pierce through his chest, at this critical moment, a powerful force suddenly dragged Xu Ning to a safe place.
Yu Nian didn't hesitate at all. She grabbed the woman's hand and pulled her hard into the room.
The woman showed a look of surprise on her face, and then was thrown heavily to the ground without any ability to fight back.
Yu Nian flashed forward and slapped several talisman papers on the woman.
After a shrill scream, a few drops of unknown liquid splashed onto the window sill and instantly solidified into unnoticeable white fragments. The woman disappeared in an instant.
The live - stream chat let out a sigh of relief and then began to praise Yu Nian crazily.
[Sister is so cool!!]
[It was really thrilling. I feel inexplicably at ease with Yu Nian around!]
...
Xue Yier walked up to Xu Ning and waved her arm in front of him, but Xu Ning still stared blankly and didn't respond at all. It seemed as if he was in a nightmare.
Xue Yier frowned and asked, "What's wrong with him?"
Yu Nian looked up at Xu Ning for a moment, then suddenly raised her hand to signal everyone to be quiet. She slowed down her steps and walked behind Xu Ning, then quickly patted him on the shoulder.
A black thing immediately slid down from Xu Ning's neck and landed on Xue Yier's foot.
Xue Yier shouted "Oh my God" and jumped up. It took her a while to see what was on the ground - it was a clump of fallen long hair.
Everyone's faces looked a bit grim. "This illusion is so powerful? It can actually control the will of the contestants?"
Yu Nian reached out and picked up the white fragments on the window sill, observing them carefully.
"What is this? Wall plaster?"
Yu Nian tentatively pinched it, then looked at her fingertip and shook her head. "It's watercolor paint."
"Watercolor? How could there be such a thing on the ghost girl? Is she an art student?" Xue Yier's eyes suddenly widened halfway through her sentence.
She remembered that according to the information about Wanjv High School, one of the two missing girls was indeed an art student.
Could the ghost girl they just saw not be imagined by other students, but one of the missing girls?
...
When it was broad daylight, everyone followed Cao He to the classroom.
Since there were too many contestants, the school was afraid of causing panic among the students, so the contestants were assigned to different classes.
The moment Yu Nian and Feng Chengyuan walked into Class 2, Senior 3, the class exploded.
"Who are these two?"
"I don't know, but I heard they were invited by the school to exorcise demons and ghosts."
"Ah? Are the people in the exorcism world so young and good - looking now? I thought they were all old men."
When several girls saw Feng Chengyuan, their eyes lit up. They grabbed each other's arms and shook them back and forth.
"He's so handsome..."
"That girl is also so beautiful."
"They're such a good match. This is simply a paradise for appearance - obsessed people!"
For a moment, discussions and laughter filled the classroom.
Cao He coughed. "Be quiet! Senior 3 is a stage where every second counts. Are you not busy enough with your test papers if you're so restless?"
A student in the front row murmured, "Test papers are flying everywhere. There are too many to finish. With so many test papers to do, we'll probably dream about them at night..."
Cao He frowned. "That's exactly what the school intends. It's better to dream about test papers than about ghosts."
A student sighed faintly and continued, "I'd rather dream about ghosts."
Cao He: ...
Cao He coughed and said to Yu Nian and Feng Chengyuan, "You two can sit in the seats at the back."
Just as they sat down, a set of test papers was passed over from the front row.
For a moment, the only sound in the classroom was the rustling of the test papers being flipped.
Several classmates took the opportunity of passing the test papers to secretly look at them. The moment their eyes met Yu Nian and Feng Chengyuan's, they blushed and turned their heads away.
When the test papers reached Feng Chengyuan, the two students in front of them turned around and smiled as they talked to Yu Nian and Feng Chengyuan.
Their combination was quite novel. One was tall and the other was short, one was fat and the other was thin.
The tall student had a long and thin face. He was very animated when he talked. It was obvious that he was the most mischievous student in the class. His name was Sun Mingze.
The short student was Yuan Dongxu. He had a cute round face, and every move of his revealed a bit of cute clumsiness.
Yuan Dongxu stared at them for a moment and said mysteriously, "You two are actually here to catch ghosts, right?"
Feng Chengyuan raised his eyebrows slightly. "Why do you say so?"
Sun Mingze chuckled twice. "A group of people came to the school a few days ago. The school said they were here for an inspection, but how could there be such young leaders?"
"That's right. They only stayed in the school for a few days, but many of them were seriously injured. In the end, they left the school overnight."
Yu Nian was slightly stunned, and then immediately realized that the group of people they were talking about should be the contestants from the previous competition.
For the people in the illusion, time was almost stagnant. Ten years had passed in the outside world, but in their eyes, it was only a few days.
Feng Chengyuan nodded thoughtfully and asked them, "Have you ever played the spirit - summoning game?"
The two nodded without hesitation. "Of course we have."
"What wish did you make?"
"To get rich overnight. You know what? It really came true. There were several gold bars in my schoolbag that night. But I got beaten up by my dad when I got home later."
Yu Nian raised her eyebrows slightly. "Why did he beat you? Because you got something for nothing?"
"Because those gold bars were from my dad's safe."
Yu Nian: ... This evil spirit really abides by the law of conservation.
Yu Nian remembered what Teacher Liu said and asked again, "What do you dream about at night?"
Yuan Dongxu said proudly, "I have a very rich imagination. I always dream about grand scenes that only happen once in a century!"
Yu Nian was silent for a moment. There were only senior 3 students in the north area, about a thousand of them, which meant a thousand ghosts... A thousand ghosts walking at night was indeed a grand scene.