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Chapter 165 What are you doing? [Third update]

The fat man huddled inside the closet, not daring to make a sound.

The person outside yanked open the door and quickly went inside.

I heard him first try to lift the bed curtains, but he seemed to realize that the place was not safe and stopped halfway through.

Then came a few seconds of silence.

In those few seconds, the fat man had already guessed how the story would unfold.

Sure enough, the person who had paused in the room for a few seconds began to stride toward the wardrobe, and the fat man shrank back in fright.

If there were a doorknob in the closet, he would hold it tightly now, preventing anyone from even getting in.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

The person walked quickly to the wardrobe and, without the slightest hesitation, pulled open the wardrobe door.

Both the person inside and the person outside were startled.

The fat man was prepared and only huddled in the corner, making low noises. The person pulling the door outside was quite frightened and almost jumped up.

Seeing the strong reaction from the people outside, the fat man looked up and immediately spotted a military uniform.

Looking up further, I saw a somewhat familiar face.

Immediately afterwards, the fat man saw a strange smile spread across that face, as if he wasn't the one who had just been frightened.

The boy looked at the fat man huddled in the closet: "I recognize you!"

The fat man peeked out slightly, then pulled the person into the closet: "Fifteen minutes are up, don't leave the door open and chatter away."

The boy wasn't annoyed at being pulled into the closet; he simply closed the door cautiously and peered outside through the cracks.

Once the others came in, the fat man breathed a sigh of relief: "I recognize you too, you're the one who bought flowers on Valentine's Day because you're rich but stupid."

The boy blushed slightly upon hearing this: "Flowers bought for my girlfriend... how can you call that a fool who has too much money..."

Perhaps because the boy's clothes made him feel at ease, the fat man relaxed as well: "Do many people in your army also have tickets to events?"

This thing is quite rare. The fat man felt that the boy in front of him didn't seem to be a particularly strong person.

"No," the boy shook his head. "Many of us didn't have time to enter the high-difficulty dungeons. You know we have a lot of quests, and we don't have enough manpower... But it seems like the higher-ups have specially trained several teams to enter this event, though I don't know the specifics."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "My dad went through a lot of trouble to get this ticket, and then he gave it to me..."

"Why doesn't your dad come in by himself?" the fat man asked in a low voice.

"Because I'm going to the coast next, and they're short-staffed there, my dad was worried I wasn't good enough to come back, so he gave me this ticket..."

The fat man didn't really want to discuss national affairs with the boy.

In fact, the two of them had nothing to discuss. At this moment, he glanced at the time again, and there were still a dozen seconds left until fifteen minutes had passed.

The fat man lowered his voice and spoke very quickly: "Don't make a sound, time is almost up."

The boy then shut his mouth, and the shy expression on his face disappeared, replaced by a pale look.

The fat man watched as the time changed from 7:14 to 7:15.

But there was no sound from outside.

The fat man wasn't expecting to see a ghost, but he was also a little curious at the moment.

"Isn't it said that ghosts will be released from lanterns? Why is there no sound at all? This is not right..." the fat man thought to himself.

But now he can't go out and see if there are any ghosts outside.

The boy next to him was also a little confused. He kept staring at the gap in the cabinet, but there was nothing outside.

However, the ghost that the fat man had been longing for soon appeared.

The two first heard a sound coming from next to the cabinet, a sound that seemed to come from inside the cabinet, which frightened them so much that they shrank back.

Immediately afterwards, the fat man saw a pale face through the crack in the cabinet.

It was a ghost crawling on the ground, moving around the room like a lizard, its face deathly pale.

The fat man noticed the boy next to him shudder violently.

The female ghost crawled extremely fast, and in just a few seconds she had crawled from next to the cabinet to under the bed.

The fat man felt a chill run down his spine.

She saw the female ghost pause outside the bed for a moment, then suddenly bury her entire head under the bed through the curtains, leaving only her strangely shaped body visible below her neck.

The fat man's heart skipped a beat. Luckily, he hadn't crawled under the bed, or it would have been quite a shock to have his head suddenly stick in.

There was no one under the bed. They both knew that.

So the female ghost's head didn't stay under the bed for long.

The two saw the female ghost stick her head out, then twist her neck to look around, finally fixing her gaze on the wardrobe where they were hiding.

As the fat man's hair stood on end, the female ghost crawling on the ground rushed towards him, her body twisting and turning, looking especially terrifying in the middle of the night.

The boy looked up at the fat man with a somewhat frightened expression, as if he wanted to ask for help.

The fat man bit his lip; he had no choice!

Seeing this, the fat man couldn't help but think of Gu Mian. This was the perfect opportunity for the doctor to make his appearance!

Doctors used to only come out at such critical moments.

If the doctor can't come, Brother Chu will do!
But at this moment, Gu Mian and Chu Changge did not hear the fat man's call.

Chu Changge was hiding in a room, which was a dressing room. There were many costumes inside, and it should be the dressing room for extras.

A small room was divided into several spaces by a board, and a curtain hung at the door. Chu Changge was hiding in the innermost dressing room.

It was very dark here, but fortunately there was a small closed window about the height of a person overhead, letting in a little light from the lanterns outside.

He listened to the sounds outside.

There were occasional rustling sounds outside, like something walking or crawling on the wall.

There were occasional noises coming from the doorway of the changing room, but none of the noises seemed to be coming in; they would stop briefly and then leave.

But the good time didn't last long. Two minutes later, a noise stopped at the door.

Chu Changge did not hear it leave.

It seemed as if it had stopped at the door and then remained motionless, without making a sound.

But he soon realized that something was wrong.

The curtain in front of him moved slightly, as if it had been blown by the wind.

Chu Changge remembered that when she came in, she closed the door tightly, and the only small window in the room was also closed, so not a breath of wind should have been able to get in.

So now it is...

Someone opened the door!
Perhaps it's not human!
The door opened silently; if the curtain in front of him hadn't moved slightly, he really wouldn't have noticed.

Then came an eerie silence.

Chu Changge let out a deep breath.

It may be approaching this way, but it cunningly remains silent, intending to deliver a fatal blow by surprise.

There was a gap between the curtains, through which Chu Changge could see what was happening outside, and he leaned closer.

There were several simple changing rooms with curtains ahead, and since he was at the very back, he had a clear view of what was in front of him.

The first thing he saw was a pale, withered hand. That hand grabbed the curtain of the first changing room and then suddenly lifted it, revealing that the room was empty.

The thing outside let out a loud, cacophony of laughter, as if it had anticipated this all along.

Chu Changge frowned slightly.

"It knew that no one was in the previous locker room, and it knew that I was in the last locker room."

This ghost seems to have a particular fondness for toying with people's emotions.

Once it encounters someone, it will slowly torture them, so it is gradually lifting the curtains of the changing room in front, slowly approaching the location of Chu Changge.

Chu Changge heard the white figure grinning maliciously. With each empty dressing room it opened, its laughter grew louder, and it gradually approached.

Its actions of lifting the curtain are varied and numerous.

Some people lifted the curtain abruptly, some suddenly stuck their heads inside, and others ripped the entire curtain off.

Getting closer!
Its laughter grew increasingly eerie, and its grip tightened.

The ghost had already entered the locker room next to him!
Chu Changge saw the pale hand touch the curtain of the changing room next door, and then suddenly pull it off.

The laughter stopped abruptly there, ending rather abruptly.

Gu Mian poked her head out from the next changing room: "What are you doing?"

Ah. I still owe ninety chapters...

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