Chapter 245: Strange Arrival 12
“Chu Yian.”
“Chu Yian…”
Chu Yian heard someone calling her name. She stood up and walked to the door.
“Open the door.”
The person outside the door was telling her to open it. It sounded like Zhu Shen’s voice. The dormitory was pitch black. Chu Yian fumbled along the wall for the light switch. When she turned on the light, the ceiling lamp was a pear-shaped tungsten filament bulb from the sixties or seventies.
The bulb only lit up for a moment.
Then it went out again.
The room became dark once more, and she couldn’t see anything. But Zhu Shen at the door kept calling her to open it.
“What time is it tonight, Zhu Shen? Why aren’t you sleeping?”
Chu Yian complained. Just as she placed her hand on the doorknob, ready to open the door, she suddenly felt something was wrong. The room wasn’t completely dark; the energy-saving lamp above her head had turned into a pear-shaped tungsten filament bulb from the sixties or seventies. The orange-red light, due to insufficient voltage, was extremely dim, as if it had no power.
But… how did the light in her room change?
Chu Yian cautiously withdrew her hand. Just as she was about to move away from the door, her body suddenly stiffened and she couldn’t move.
With a creak.
Her door slowly opened with an old sound. Outside was no longer the living room, but a staircase leading downwards into an abyss. From the darkness below, strange shuffling footsteps could be heard.
A pair of paper shoes appeared on the stairs… “Ah!”
With a scream, Chu Yian suddenly sat up from her bed.
She looked towards the door, covered in cold sweat. The door was properly closed, and the room had been lit because she was afraid of the eerie. The bright, soft light illuminated the room, and everything around her was normal.
It was just a dream.
That scared her to death.
She clutched her chest and patted it twice, but her rapidly beating heart hadn’t calmed down yet when a gust of wind blew the curtains. In the pale light, she caught a glimpse of the paper clothes flashing past.
Chu Yian quickly averted her gaze, feigning calmness and hypnotizing herself that she hadn’t seen anything.
In reality, she secretly fumbled for the amulet she had just drawn yesterday. She clutched it tightly in her hand and couldn’t help but peek. One corner of the amulet had turned gray.
That thing outside really exists!
Has this eerie thing evolved to the point where it’s not afraid of a Bagua mirror?
“Zhu Shen, Zhu Shen!”
She called Zhu Shen twice but received no response from next door. It was quiet all around, so quiet that she could hear her own breathing.
Thinking that she was the only one in the room with that thing, Chu Yian’s hair stood on end.
Unable to wake Zhu Shen, she clutched the amulet tightly and, somewhat fearfully, picked up her phone. To prevent seeing another terrifying eerie face on her phone, she closed her eyes, opened her phone, and then found Lu Qingyuan’s contact information.
[Teacher Lu.]
[Teacher Lu, are you asleep?]
She hid her head and all her limbs under the covers, her hands trembling as she messaged Lu Qingyuan. But looking at the time, it was 1:40 AM.
Teacher Lu must be asleep by now.
Just as Chu Yian was feeling pessimistic, she received a reply from Lu Qingyuan.
[Not yet. What’s wrong, Little Chu?]
[That thing, it came for me again.]
Chu Yian didn’t understand why that paper-clothed eerie thing only targeted her. She only felt that she had already developed a psychological trauma from being scared by this eerie thing. [That thing is near me, I’m so scared!]
[Don’t be afraid, I’m coming for you.]
Teacher Lu is coming down to find her?
Chu Yian was first happy, but then immediately became worried. It was almost the time when Yin energy was strongest; it would probably be very dangerous for him to come down now.
As she hesitated, the other side sent her another message.
[I’m already in the elevator, but you have to open the door for me, Little Chu.]
She was also afraid to open the door.
When she was dreaming just now, the eerie thing was waiting at the door. [I dare not leave my room.]
She sent this message, and her phone rang. Chu Yian didn’t even dare to let the room make too much noise and quickly answered the phone, “Little Chu.”
Lu Qingyuan’s gentle reassurance came through the phone, “Don’t be afraid, I’m right at the door. I’ll take you upstairs.”
He comforted her softly.
This reminded Chu Yian of how the eerie would avoid them when she was with Lu Qingyuan. Under his repeated encouragement, she finally clutched the talisman in her hand, held the phone, and opened her room door.
The moment she saw Lu Qingyuan, she lunged at him, “Teacher Lu!”
Lu Qingyuan caught her.
His eyes held the smile of a hunter who had recaptured his prey, and his voice was as gentle as it had been on the phone, “It’s alright, it’s over.”
The extremely malevolent eerie used a small trick and, satisfied, took his prey back to his own territory.
Chu Yian nervously followed him closely, drank the hot milk he offered, and lay down on the bed to sleep. Lu Qingyuan’s tall and upright figure stood outside, as if completely shielding the person inside, providing a strong sense of security.
“Thank you.”
Chu Yian, whose emotions had calmed down, thanked him in a small voice.
“It’s nothing, sleep.”
He should also enjoy his recaptured prey.
Game Day 8, morning.
Zhu Shen woke up early in the morning, happily wearing a pink apron and making a loving breakfast to conquer the big shot’s stomach. But after he finished, he found that Big Chu had actually moved out overnight!
[Big Chu, why didn’t you tell me? (Image: Piggy feeling wronged)]
[You slept like a real pig yesterday, I couldn’t wake you. Besides, that eerie thing has set its sights on me. My leaving should be safer for you. The Bagua mirror is hanging on the door; as long as you don’t go out, nothing will happen.]
Zhu Shen, of course, knew that with the Bagua mirror on the door, nothing would happen.
[But what about you, Big Chu? Without the protection of the Bagua mirror, what if the eerie thing comes for you again?]
[Don’t worry about that. Teacher Lu has a very powerful fate; staying by his side is safer than carrying a Bagua mirror on your back.]
Can one do whatever one wants just because they have a good birth?
It doesn’t feel very reliable.
Zhu Tianguang still wanted to ask Big Chu if this acquaintance was reliable, but then he remembered the many rounds of games Big Chu and The one surnamed Lu had spent together, and he, someone who had only recently joined the team, really wasn’t qualified to comment.
What if a single word offended Big Chu’s old teammate?
After much deliberation, he decided to keep quiet. [Then you be careful. (Image: Piggy pouting)]
[I know, you shouldn’t go out casually either.]
As soon as Chu Yian finished sending the message to Zhu Shen, Lu Qingyuan handed her a freshly brewed cup of tea.
Chu Yian took the teacup and took a sip. It was still fragrant and sweet, but it was also a little different from what she had drunk before.
“This is a younger Baihao Yinzhen.”
Lu Qingyuan sat opposite her and pushed a plate of small pastries towards her, “It’s best enjoyed with egg yolk biscuits.”
Teacher Lu really knows how to enjoy this round of the game.
Chu Yian drank the tea she had never heard of and ate the freshly baked biscuits, feeling that the trauma from being scared last night had been healed a little. She couldn’t help but look at Lu Qingyuan’s upturned lips and smiling eyes, “Teacher Lu, you seem to be in a very good mood today.”
