novelnext Chapter 7 strikes again.
Chapter 7 strikes again.
Lin Yue left the school directly.
I found a mobile phone store, swiped my card and bought a cheap smartphone, then put the SIM card I had taken out yesterday back in.
He stood on the street, looking at the bustling crowds on both sides.
Only then did I feel a little safer and press the power button.
With so many people here, I shouldn't be attacked by Wen Ning, right?
The boot screen appears.
Lin Yue waited nervously for a while.
The phone was quiet; the terrifying caller didn't keep coming in like he did last night.
My mood has eased a bit.
He quickly called his mother.
"Beep beep—"
The call was connected.
"Feed? Mom?"
"Son, why are you calling me so early?" A warm and reassuring voice came through the receiver.
"Mom, I have something I want to ask you," Lin Yue said seriously.
Sensing her son's unusual seriousness, Ms. Wei Lan couldn't help but become anxious. "What's wrong? Son, has something serious happened?"
Lin Yue certainly wouldn't say that she was targeted by a female ghost because she was too good at playing games.
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask if you know a girl named Wen Ning?"
If those female protagonists all came to life.
So, will Wen Ning, who is his childhood sweetheart, also bring this background into the real world?
Lin Yue asked this question because she wanted to understand it.
And the person most likely to know the answer, besides one's own biological mother, is no one else.
Ms. Wei Lan pondered for a moment, "Hmm... I don't really remember. What does this Wen Ning look like?"
"Long hair, often wears a white dress, has very fair skin, very distinctive eyes, almond-shaped eyes, big and beautiful, with a beauty mark under the corner of her eye, and is also very pretty. She should be around my age, and may have lived near my house before." These are all characteristics of Wen Ning in the game.
"It seems... there isn't such a person."
Hearing her mother say that, Lin Yue didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed, but she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Available in the next second.
Ms. Wei Lan seemed to suddenly remember something. "Oh right, there is such a person. I remember now."
Lin Yue's heart skipped a beat.
"Is there such a person?"
"Of course there is! Isn't it the little girl who lives across from our old house?"
Are you sure you're not mistaken?
"How could you be wrong? Didn't you say it yourself? Fair skin, always wearing a white dress, very cute, like a porcelain doll, and always following you around. All these characteristics match up, but I don't know if her name is Wen Ning. But that family's surname is definitely Wen."
Does this person exist?
How come I don't remember any of it?
Lin Yue felt as if a cloud of doubt had enveloped her, making it hard for her to breathe.
However, in his vague memory, it seemed that when he was a child, there was a little girl who was very close to him.
But he couldn't remember anything about the person's appearance or name.
I just remember there was such a person.
And that little girl is Wen Ning?
What exactly happened? Did I forget because I was too young, or has the game system already corrupted this world?
"What about the girl? How is she now?" Lin Yue asked, her mind filled with mixed emotions, as she came back to her senses.
"...It seems...she's dead, isn't she? I heard that not two years after we moved away, she fell to her death while shopping with her mother in an accident," Ms. Wei Lan said dejectedly.
She actually knew about this a long time ago.
I was just worried that my son was too young to handle it, so I didn't tell Lin Yue.
Now that Lin Yue has asked again, she is genuinely afraid that her son will be angry.
To everyone's surprise, Lin Yue seemed to have already guessed it, her tone neither sad nor happy.
"Is that shopping mall called Fulimen Shopping Mall?" Lin Yue opened the system screen.
It was clearly written on it.
"Mission: A Heart-Pounding First Date"
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"Requirement: Meet Wen Ning for at least ten minutes at the Fulimen Shopping Mall in this city around midnight."
"I really don't know."
Lin Yue nodded and turned off the light screen. "Thank you, Mom. I understand. I won't bother you any longer."
"Okay, son, I'll hang up now. I'm still cooking noodles on the stove."
The phone went dead.
Lin Yue put down her phone, her face darkening.
That so-called Fulimen Shopping Mall is definitely where the vengeful ghost Wen Ning is now.
There's definitely something wrong with this system.
It ignored the fact that Wen Ning was dead and forcibly assigned itself a strategy mission.
This caused all romantic relationships to turn into suicide missions.
Can this even be called a date?
Lin Yue was extremely troubled by this. After making the call, she immediately returned to her dormitory and began investigating the "Fulinmen Shopping Mall".
Before carrying out a mission, the more preparation and knowledge you have, the greater your chances of survival.
That's what he did.
Now that everyone else in the dorm has left, he's all alone, which makes him feel a little creepy.
Turn on your personal computer, enter the search information, and wait for the network buffer to finish.
A few keywords immediately appeared before my eyes.
A young girl tragically died after falling from a building; a building hazard caused by unscrupulous businesses.
The tragic death of a girl in this city: is the problem with the business or the parents?
The Tragedy of the Girl's Death: Reflections
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I moved when I was eight years old, and Wen Ning's accident happened two years later, when I was ten years old, which is ten years ago.
And things that happened ten years ago don't attract much attention anyway.
Even if there are a few reports, they are all subjective assumptions and educational reflections that offer no real substance.
Lin Yue frowned deeply as she looked at him.
There was no useful information at all.
The only thing we know is that shortly after Wen Ning's incident, the Fulimen shopping mall permanently closed down, and even the owner fled abroad.
He searched for a long time before finally finding a few scraps of information about the incident on a small local forum.
"Tsk tsk, this child looks to be only ten years old, poor thing."
The person who said that ten years ago even posted a photo of it on the floor.
However, due to some mysterious force, the photo was heavily pixelated to prevent censorship.
Lin Yue squinted and looked very carefully before she could barely make out that it was a child wearing a white dress lying in a pool of blood.
In the blurry patches of color, one could vaguely see limbs twisted and bent backwards from being thrown, with blood flowing out in large quantities, staining the white dress mottled and crimson, making the blurry corpse look like a crushed white flower.
Judging from the angle from which this photo was taken, the poster was very likely one of the witnesses at the time.
Those below were also sighing in amazement.
"Wow, that was really close! You must have been terrified!"
Then the next few comments were more than six months later, that is, six months after Wen Ning's incident.
"It's great news! This unscrupulous shopping mall has finally gone out of business. They even cut corners on a single railing. It's a shame the owner wasn't arrested."
The shopping mall went out of business?
"Tsk tsk, with a scandal like this, the mall definitely won't be able to stay in business."
"Nonsense, the mall's closure had nothing to do with the scandal. I lived near that mall. The owner spent a lot of money to suppress the news, and soon not many people cared about the accident."
"Hmm? What's the reason for that?"
"Haunted."
This post is now closed.
Just two words.
Yet it sparks endless imagination.
After verifying the information online and with her mother's confirmation, Lin Yue finally confirmed that the place was indeed Wen Ning's current home.
Lin Yue released the mouse, and before he knew it, his palms were already sweating.
Just then, another roommate, He Yifei, who had returned from looking for food outside, pushed open the door and walked in. He exclaimed in surprise, "Xiao Linzi, when did you get back?"
Lin Yue stood up and said, "Just now."
Then he went into the bathroom to wash his face and hands.
He Yifei raised an eyebrow and muttered, "Back so soon? Didn't this kid go with that girl?"
He heard from Brother Lang that there seemed to be a girl in a red dress following this guy the whole time.
Never mind, let's gossip about it later.
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Lin Yue went into the bathroom and turned on the tap.
"Splash splash splash—"
The flowing water stirred up a layer of white foam at the bottom of the basin.
Lin Yue picked up a handful of water and rubbed her face haphazardly.
But for some reason, the temperature in the bathroom suddenly dropped a few degrees and became a bit cold.
He suddenly heard a faint, eerie murmur in his ear.
Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss—
Lin Yue's hair stood on end instantly, and she quickly opened her eyes, reflexively looking up at the top of her head.
The ceiling was suddenly covered by black mist, and from the heavy darkness, a pair of pale, slender arms, as white as a corpse, reached out and grabbed him.
Depend on!
Without a second thought, he used his newly improved agility to quickly break open the toilet door.
"boom--"
The bathroom door suddenly popped open.
Lin Yue herself rushed out from inside.
The loud banging on the door startled He Yifei.
"Holy crap! Lin Yue! Are you crazy?!"
He almost reached that side; if he had slammed into the door with that much force, his face would have been flattened.
Before Lin Yue could answer, she quickly looked up at the bathroom ceiling.
But there was peace there, and the strange ghostly hand that appeared and disappeared suddenly seemed like an illusion.
Is it safe?
"Hey? Xiao Linzi, what's wrong with you? I've noticed you've been acting strange since last night." He Yifei asked with some concern, looking at his pale face.
"N-nothing, I just lost my balance and bumped into the door."
At this moment, Zhao Lang also pushed open the door and walked in.
Three of the four brothers from 602 have been gathered.
The oblivious Zhao Lang, oblivious to the atmosphere, asked with a grin, "By the way, Lin Yue, do you have a girlfriend?"
He Yifei also remembered the question he wanted to ask earlier, "Yeah, Lang-ge said that girl was wearing a red dress, and from the back, she was definitely a beauty. Huh? Shall we take her out for a stroll? As the only two people in the dorm with girlfriends, how about a four-person date?"
He Yifei is quite good-looking, but he's not very tall, so girls always dislike him.
Fortunately, he recently used his status as a senior to trick a freshman girl into dating, becoming the fastest person in his dorm to find a partner.
So lately I've been subtly showing off and having long phone conversations.
However, Lin Yue sensed something was off and asked with a strange expression, "A girl? When?"
"Huh? Just when you left? That girl was sticking really close to you, like she was going to stick to you. Don't tell me you don't know her." Zhao Lang laughed.
Upon hearing this, Lin Yue's expression, which had just recovered, darkened again.
If a girl really sticks close to me.
It's impossible that he didn't notice.
Moreover, I hadn't bought a new phone at that time.
This situation only shows that during Wen Ning's attack, the telephone was not a necessary item at all.
I can't stay in the dorm or at school anymore!
She's already here to hunt us down.
This female protagonist is far more ferocious than her name suggests.
"I don't have a girlfriend, you must be mistaken." After saying that, Lin Yue quickly packed her things and rushed out of the dormitory, saying, "Please ask my counselor for leave for me, and tell him that something has happened at home and I can't come to class for the next few days."
Just then, a series of hurried footsteps came from the doorway.
He Yifei and Zhao Lang were left in the dormitory looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Is it really that serious? Just because he said he had a girlfriend, he ran away?"
"Could that girl be particularly scary? Haha."