Chapter 25: Midnight Adventure (2)

  The figure was very tall, draped in dark fabric. The light from Nie Yuan's flashlight shone up from below, making the person's face look deathly pale and terrifying! Ji Su opened her mouth wide, staring blankly, when suddenly she felt a sharp pain on her shoulder. Ji Su immediately came back to her senses, realizing that it was Huang Xiaoyu behind her who had been scared stiff, her hand subconsciously grasping Ji Su's shoulder tightly, very painful!

  The next moment, before Ji Suyan could react, Huang Xiaoyu burst out with a sharp cry, her momentum was overwhelming and full of energy! The few people were immediately frightened by the echoing scream in the empty underground room, and then stunned again! As soon as Huang Xiaoyu finished shouting, she turned around and ran!

  He Xiang reacted the fastest and chased after them. The few people left behind looked at each other in dismay, rubbing their ringing ears. Ji Su's voice was a bit sulky as she spoke to Nie Yuan without courtesy: "Whose stupid idea was this? Was it yours? Nie Yuan!"

  Nie Yuan awkwardly smiled: "No! I wasn't the one who just turned around, and I was also startled. So I took advantage of the situation to scare you guys a bit, but I didn't expect Xiao Yu to be so easily frightened! Hehe!" The few people glared at Nie Yuan fiercely, and Ji Huali had also been scared stiff earlier, now she was pouting and demanding that Nie Yuan apologize.

  Ji Su-yin and Tian Hai-qing walked up, circled around the thing twice. Tian Hai-qing reached out and pulled down a large piece of fabric from above, a strong smell of oil paint hit their noses, it was an oilcloth! For painting, various colors of paint could still be seen on it.

  It turned out that the oilcloth was covering a plaster statue over two meters high, used to cover up shame. The plaster was a Western man with prominent facial features, illuminated by a flashlight from below, forming a dark and unclear shadow. Plus the white color of the plaster, it's easy to mistake it for a ferocious ghost face. Tian Haicheng held the flashlight and shone it around, except for some miscellaneous items piled up on the ground and in the corners of the wall, there was nothing else.

  Ji Suoyun shone the flashlight beside her, and a dark yellow light suddenly flashed over a figure. Ji Suoyun was startled and quickly shone it back, only to find that it was a stack of sketch drawings. The one that had been illuminated was a portrait sketch of a boy, and at first glance, Ji Suoyun thought the person in the drawing looked handsome. How should she put it? He seemed to have a gentle look on his face.

  Walked over to pick it up and take a closer look, the boy's face was tilted at a 45-degree angle, with a faint smile on his lips and warmth in the corners of his eyes. Couldn't help but use his fingers to gently stroke it, this painting is unlike other sketches, the model's expression is not stiff like most others.

  This painting is like a wonderful moment captured by a camera, very vivid and delicate. Suddenly, Ji Su Yun couldn't help but imagine the person who painted this picture, what kind of mood and expression they had at that time.

  "Huh? This guy is actually pretty handsome!" Nian Yuan leaned over to take a look, whistling casually, "But still not as handsome as me! Hehe!" Ji Su Yin rolled her eyes speechlessly and retorted bluntly: "Yeah right!"

  Nie Yuan still wanted to argue with Ji Su, but was interrupted by Tian Haiqing who had finished walking around: "Alright! You two calm down a bit! There's nothing much to see here, let's hurry up and get out of here! Let's meet up with He Fen and Huo Hui, then each go back to wash up and sleep! Come on! Come on!"

  Several people nodded, no objection, walked towards the door one after another. Ji Huali was still complaining about Nie Yuan, Yan Fen'er was persuading her on the side, Nie Yuan was joking and teasing. After walking out of the door, Tian Haicheng squatted down to carefully lock the door, while the others waited beside him. Ji Suyin wandered around casually, and a shadow flashed by in an instant.

  Ji Su's voice was stunned, and she shouted: "Hey! Do you see if there is still a door over there?" The sound of Nie Yuan and Ji Huali's quarrel filled her ears, accompanied by the metallic collision sound made by Tian Haicheng fiddling with the lock.

  Ji Su didn't turn around, and slowly walked over. The distance wasn't far, just five steps away. This was a completely black door, probably made of iron too! Using the flashlight to shine up and down, no lock was found, but it seemed like it was tightly closed.

  She looked at it strangely, and Qisu was about to turn back, but unexpectedly the door wasn't closed tightly, and there was a gap. Strange! Did she just see it wrong? Since it's open, she wanted to take a look inside. She stretched out her hand and gently pushed it open, the door silently opened halfway. Qisu didn't plan on going in, raised her flashlight and shone it around, but before she could make out what was inside, someone gave her a hard push from behind. It was a really forceful push, Qisu fell from high up, making a loud "bang", the flashlight flew out of her hand, now rolling away with a "rattling" sound.

  Ji Su's eyes widened as she was suddenly stunned, groaning and slowly getting up, her right arm burning with a stinging pain, apparently scraped. Who just pushed her? Ji Su's head turned sharply to look back, the door had silently closed at the moment she fell in! "Boom!" Suddenly, Ji Su's heart contracted violently, clearly only separated by a door, but outside, Nie Yuan and others' voices, she couldn't hear at all, completely trapped in a vacuum state, no sound, no light! No! There is light!

  Ji Su's dull brain gradually returned to normal, and she quickly got up, rushed over to pick up the flashlight, and turned around swiftly! Ji Su stood still on the spot, panting, just...she saw it! In the instant she turned around, a shadow flashed across the corner of the wall. There was a pair of legs wearing a white skirt that fluttered lightly, with some torn edges, and boots with blue soles and floral patterns, which had a strong ethnic minority flavor.

  That's absolutely not a plaster model or plastic doll's leg! Absolutely not! Those are human legs! In the empty space, silent and still, Ji Su's panting sound was extremely clear. "Ah!" Ji Su suddenly gasped, opened her mouth wide, but held her breath.

  Because she felt something, gently touching her shoulder. The thing was lightly pressed against her, watching her panting, and slowly slid up from the side of her shoulder to press against the skin on the side of her neck. In an instant, Ji Su's body stiffened. A cold and piercing feeling spread from the point of contact, instantly spreading throughout her body, and then deep into her bones, so cold! So painful! A surge of deep and heavy emotions suddenly rose up in her heart, making Ji Su feel unbearably suffocated, her whole body trembling.

  Move! Move quickly! How hateful! She can't move at all! That icy thing, slowly covering her neck, seemed to want to strangle her. Suddenly, Ji Su's chest felt a warmth, and the ice thing rapidly retreated. Ji Su took in a big mouthful of air, her throat extremely itchy, she stifled a cough, dragging her suddenly movable body towards the door.

  She grabbed the door handle and pulled it with force, expecting it to be stuck, but to her surprise, it opened easily. Rushing out into the corridor, she started running frantically, and the only sound echoing through the silent hallway was "thud! thud!" of her urgent footsteps. What's going on? Nie Yuan and the others weren't waiting for her outside, and the journey that took seven or eight minutes earlier seemed to have no end as she ran for so long!

  This corridor will turn, but there is no fork in the road, it's absolutely impossible to go wrong! Ah! After running for so long, she hasn't turned a corner yet. Just as she thought this, a bend appeared ahead. Found it! Ji Suoyu rushed over with joy, but just after turning around and taking a few steps, her feet tightened and she couldn't move!

  That uncomfortable feeling again, it hurts so much! My vision is starting to blur, the stinging sensation spreads throughout my body, especially in my eyes and head! In the blurry line of sight, the flashlight that I've been holding onto can only illuminate a range of two meters in front of me, everything beyond that is pitch black, she still can't find the exit! "Ugh!"

  An icy hand gently pressed on her shoulder, something close to her ear made a hoarse voice that was about to shatter her nerves. Her body hurt more and more, Ji Su's voice was about to lose consciousness. Suddenly, her forehead was blocked by something, that warmth almost brought tears to her eyes!

  A warm breath approached her other ear, and someone whispered to her: "Ji SuYin! Pretend you don't see it! Don't think about it! Come back! Ji SuYin! Pretend you don't see it! It's all an illusion! An illusion!" She didn't see anything! It was all just an illusion!

  Ji Su's voice was like being hypnotized, her brain involuntarily obeying, and gradually, the hoarse voice disappeared, the darkness faded away, and a bright light came from the side wall, it was the door! She found the exit! As soon as she relaxed, Ji Su fell softly, and the next moment, she was wrapped in a warm embrace.