"Don't panic." Jiang Cheng paused and said, "Did you hear the knocking?"

"I did."

"You said it's behind you, how close?"

"Very close," Xu Yi said quickly, "and... and getting closer."

"If it touches you completely, it could be dangerous." Jiang Cheng said bluntly, "The immediate priority is to find its exact location."

After a moment of hesitation, Jiang Cheng said, "I have a way, but it might be dangerous. It's up to you to decide."

"Tell me!"

"Leave the bed, stand on the ground, then separate your legs, bend over, and look back between your legs." Jiang Cheng said, "It's a saying from my hometown that when someone is bewitched, this way you can see the ghost behind you."

His speech was very fast, likely aware of how tense Xu Yi was.

Although Jiang Cheng's suggestion was bizarre, there was no better way at this point. She could clearly feel the ghost getting closer and closer to her.

The chilling sensation almost paralyzed her.

And Jiang Cheng was right about one thing: if that ghost touched her completely, she was doomed.

Holding the phone in one hand, she took a deep breath and slowly bent over. In the next second, her heart seemed to be suddenly clutched, and her whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

She saw a pair of straight legs with a livid color on the ground half a meter behind her.

......

Staring at the phone, Jiang Cheng's face was gloomy, and he didn't say a word.

About a minute ago, a call came in, the number showing Xu Yi from 710 upstairs. Jiang Cheng waited for it to ring three times before answering.

He held his breath, not saying a word, even trying to avoid making any sound. The other end was just meaningless static.

After a moment, Jiang Cheng hung up the phone.

From beginning to end, he didn't open his mouth, not even a "hello."

He could be sure.

Something had happened to Xu Yi.

He just didn't know which ghost had found her, and whether she would survive.

The next morning, everyone gathered as agreed. Jiang Cheng noticed at a glance that Xu Yi was not there, and Chu Jiu, who was on the same floor as her, had red eyes.

"I went to knock on Sister Xu Yi's door this morning, but there was no sound inside," Chu Jiu said anxiously. "I thought she had found something and went downstairs to find you guys early."

But as it turned out, she hadn't.

After Jiang Cheng told everyone about the phone call last night, Liu Guo's face immediately darkened. "Let's go take a look."

The group bypassed the elevator and went upstairs via the fire escape, knocking on the door for a long time, but there was still no sound inside, as silent as death.

Although the door didn't look very sturdy, it wouldn't be easy to force it open.

"Should we go to the landlord and ask for a spare key?" Jiao Tailang suggested.

This was obviously not a good idea, because they were already suspicious of the landlord, but there was no better way now.

Everyone now knew that Xu Yi was probably dead.

But if they could see her body, they could more directly grasp some clues, such as which ghost killed her.

And in what way.

"What are you doing?" Hua Luo, who was standing at the back, suddenly said.

Everyone turned around and saw Hua Luo glaring at Wei Jin Ting with her beautiful eyes, one hand covering her long hair, as if she had been hurt.

"Hehe." Wei Jin Ting didn't care, and skillfully dismantled the metal wire from the hairpin in his hand, bending the metal wire into the shape he wanted.

He gestured for everyone to step back a little and give him some space.

Looking at him, Fatty couldn't help but be a little surprised and asked, "You can do this?"

"When I was down on my luck, I did some robbing the rich to help the poor." Wei Jin Ting introduced with a flourish.

Then, everyone watched as Wei Jin Ting inserted the metal wire into the keyhole, and then lifted it up.

With a "click."

The door opened.

Wei Jin Ting immediately retreated. Liu Guo and Jiao Tailang, who was carrying a broadsword, looked at each other and then walked in together.

Jiang Cheng pulled Fatty and followed behind everyone.

They first went straight to the bathroom, then the living room, and finally the bedroom.

As soon as they reached the bedroom door, Liu Guo stopped, then lowered his voice and said to the people behind him, "Found her."

Indeed, they had found her.

When Jiang Cheng squeezed past, he just saw a pair of shoes sticking out.

They were Xu Yi's shoes.

Xu Yi's whole body was under the bed, only a pair of shoes stretched out from under the bed. Liu Guo and Jiao Tailang were each grabbing one of Xu Yi's legs and pulling her out.

The speed was relatively slow, because no one wanted to be frightened by a sudden bloody scene.

Chu Jiu was completely flustered, and her eyes could no longer hold back her tears, as if they were about to burst out in the next second.

"Could it be the long-haired ghost again?" Hua Luo asked.

After all, in the previous introduction, Chu Jiu had mentioned that the long-haired ghost first crawled out from under the bed, and the long-haired ghost was also in Building 1.

Among the three ghosts that had already appeared, the long-haired ghost had the home-field advantage compared to the other two.

Wan Yuan Ning shook her head and said softly, "Not necessarily, that ghost just has a precedent of crawling out from under the bed, but it doesn't necessarily drag people under the bed after killing them."

She paused, "Those are two different things."

Before she finished speaking, Liu Guo just happened to pull Xu Yi's body out. She was face down, her hands still maintaining the posture of desperately crawling outwards, apparently dragged under the bed alive by the ghost.

The moment they turned Xu Yi over, everyone saw blood on her face, and some of her hair was stuck to her face with thick blood.

Jiao Tailang suddenly froze for a moment, then hesitated for a moment, and in everyone's puzzled eyes, he reached out to the side of Xu Yi's neck.

After a moment—

"Holy shit!" Jiao Tailang's face changed drastically, and he shouted, "She's not dead, she's still alive!"

After some tossing and turning, Xu Yi actually woke up, and then intermittently explained what happened last night to everyone.

Now, she also knew that she had been deceived by the ghost.

Jiang Cheng on the other end of the phone... was the ghost in disguise.

"Ms. Xu." Wu's voice sounded calm, but it gave people a strong sense of aggression, "Since you fell into the ghost's trap, then I want to know, how exactly... did you survive?"

Xu Yi nodded, recalling while showing a fearful expression, "Actually, I knew I was tricked the moment I bent down. The person on the phone told me to leave the bed, but how did he know I was on the bed? I didn't tell him?"

"So after I saw those legs, I roughly guessed that this ghost should not have the ability to directly attack people unless certain conditions are met."

"Bending over." Jiang Cheng interjected, "And seeing it."

Xu Yi nodded, "Yes, so I hardened my heart and simply fell down, then quickly crawled under the bed."

"I had observed before that the gap under the bed was very small, and it should not be able to accommodate an adult to bend over inside."