And those figures... were mere inches away...
The wind rustled the curtains, letting in a broad swathe of moonlight.
Bathed in its glow, Mo Lin Yu finally saw clearly what stood before him.
They were somewhat transparent figures, both male and female, and all of them floated in mid-air, their feet some distance from the ground...
The moment he saw them clearly, Mo Lin Yu froze.
What was this? Were they human? He wasn't sure, and looked again...
Over there, those few spectral beings seemed to sense something. Their gazes all turned towards the wardrobe, and for a moment, the entire room was plunged into an eerie silence.
After a long pause, one of the specters tentatively asked, "Can he see us?"
The other specters: "......?"
Almost instinctively, the specters drifted together towards the left, and after drifting for a while, they all drifted towards the right. As they saw the little boy's gaze consistently following them, the specters were stunned. They all swallowed in unison, and in the next second, they screamed in unison, "Ahhh! This is terrible! He can actually see us?!"
After screaming in unison, the specters hurriedly floated about in a panic, trying to hide themselves.
But the room was only so large, and there was nowhere for them to hide. So, after trying to hide for a long time, they all burrowed into the wall.
Mo Lin Yu, who had witnessed the entire scene: "...?" Who was he? Where was he? What had he just seen?!
After a long period of stunned silence, Mo Lin Yu came back to his senses. He swallowed and climbed out of the wardrobe, then walked with feigned calmness towards the wall where the specters had just burrowed.
After hesitating for a while, he still raised his hand and knocked, "Anyone in there?"
"No." As soon as they said it, the specters regretted it and quickly continued, "You must have misheard. No one is speaking inside the wall!"
It's all over! If the officers of the underworld found out they were scaring people in the living world, they'd really be toast!
Ahhh! If only they hadn't come today!
Mo Lin Yu: "...?"
After a long silence, Mo Lin Yu finally asked, "Are you ghosts?"
Hearing this, the specters inside the wall instinctively replied, "What nonsense is a child talking? Don't be superstitious. There are no ghosts in this world!"
"......" Mo Lin Yu, "Then what are you?"
The specters: "......" How were they supposed to lie their way out of this?! Waiting online, urgent!
After a while, seeing that there was no sound from the wall, Mo Lin Yu frowned and said, "Can you come out of my wall?"
If they came out, he would see them, and what if they were dragged to be boiled in oil?! They wouldn't come out! They wouldn't come out even if beaten to death!
After waiting for a long time and still hearing no sound from the wall, Mo Lin Yu took out an old mobile phone and said, "This is considered trespassing. If you don't come out, I'll call the police and the prosecutor."
The specters, caught between a rock and a hard place: "...?"
What were they supposed to do? After hesitating for a long time, in order to stop the little boy from calling the police, the specters burrowed out of the wall. As soon as they emerged, they kept their distance from the little boy, and one by one, they asked guardedly, "Why can you see us?"
Mo Lin Yu, "Why can't I see you?"
The specters: "......" Why wasn't he, a living person, surprised or scared when he saw them? Why the calm expression? Didn't they, as specters, have any dignity?