Chapter 29

When a ghost appears in the house, even the most resilient person cannot continue to stay there.

But in order to get that red newspaper again, Yang Jian had to take the risk. This was an opportunity for him to overcome the revival of the ghost.

"Wait here for that thing, see if it will come back here." Yang Jian hesitated for a long time, and finally, with a determined bite of his lip, he decided to stay and wait for the ghost to return.

Knowing that there was a ghost, he still dared to wait for it to come back.

This required a lot of courage.

Yang Jian certainly showed a lot of courage; he was determined to stay, even if it meant death.

If he were to live in fear now, it would be a slow suicide.

Once the eye in his body grew to an uncontrollable level,

While he was waiting for the ghost at home,

In another high-end neighborhood in Dachang City,

This was Wang Shanshan's home.

Since the ghost incident at school the day before yesterday, she had not stepped out of her house for a single step. For the past two days, she had been hiding at home because she noticed something was gradually wrong with her house.

In the bathroom,

Water cascaded down, flowing over her pale, delicate skin.

But Wang Shanshan's eyes were filled with fear and a hint of madness. She held a toilet brush and frantically scrubbed a spot beside her neck in the mirror.

The young girl's tender skin turned red from the excessive scrubbing.

Normally, a person would not be able to endure such pain.

But Wang Shanshan seemed to feel nothing, and instead increased the intensity of her scrubbing, her eyes showing even more fear.

Soon, the skin beside her neck split open, oozing fresh, crimson blood.

The blood mixed with the warm water in the bathroom, staining the floor red.

However, no matter how much she scrubbed, no matter how much blood flowed,

On the blood-stained skin, two small, dark green handprints remained clearly visible, as if they had grown into the flesh, like a birthmark, impossible to wash off.

At this moment,

Wang Shanshan's mother, Wang Haiyan, sat on the sofa in the living room, looking at the time on her watch, her face showing worry.

"My daughter has been in the bathroom for over two hours, and she took a shower in the morning... I wonder if she's sick or if something is wrong with her body."

Wang Shanshan's father, Wang Bin, also looked worried. "Since she came back from school yesterday morning, she's been acting strange, barely eating, and staying in her room all day... She even keeps all the lights on during the day, afraid of the dark. She's been showering all day. If this continues, we should take her to see a doctor tomorrow."

"Dear, have you found out what happened at the school the night before last? I can't get through to the teacher's phone." Wang Haiyan said.

"I went to the school yesterday, and something definitely happened there. It's been sealed off, and all the students are on forced leave. When I went, I met many parents of other students."

Wang Bin smoked, frowning deeply, his expression serious.

"The parents of other students said their children didn't come home after evening study the night before last, and they can't be reached or found. A lot of students have gone missing."

Wang Haiyan was shocked. "How could this happen?"

"Something must have happened at the school, but we don't know what. I wanted to ask Shanshan, but she's in no condition to talk, and I don't want to pressure her."

Wang Bin extinguished the cigarette in his hand and said seriously, "Shanshan must have experienced something. She looks like she's been scared."

Wang Haiyan speculated, "Dear, do you think Shanshan was bullied by some bad people? I once saw a news story about a girl who was dragged into a toilet by a group of thugs and was traumatized. She kept feeling dirty and showering... and eventually committed suicide."

"It's absolutely impossible. This is a large-scale student disappearance. The school is covering it up. By the way, wasn't Shanshan brought home by a classmate yesterday morning?" Wang Bin said.

"Yes, I've met that classmate. His name is Yang Jian." Wang Haiyan said.

"He must know what happened to Shanshan. We should call her classmate and ask." Wang Bin said.

Wang Haiyan said, "I thought about it, but I don't have that classmate's phone number."

Just then,

"Ahh!"

A hysterical scream came from the bathroom.

Wang Bin and Wang Haiyan's faces changed immediately. They rushed to the bathroom door, but it was locked and wouldn't open.

"Daughter, open the door! What's happening? Mom is here." Wang Haiyan knocked on the bathroom door, asking urgently.

But the bathroom still echoed with Wang Shanshan's screams.

Wang Bin felt the situation was serious. He changed his expression and, without knocking, forcefully kicked open the bathroom door.

"Bang!"

The door was kicked open with a loud noise.

As a mother, Wang Haiyan rushed in first. She saw the bathroom floor covered in fresh blood, and her face turned pale. Then she saw her daughter, naked and curled up in the corner of the bathroom, her neck covered in blood, her head buried in fear, as if she had been terrified by something.

"Daughter, what's wrong?"

Wang Haiyan was almost in tears, and she covered her daughter with a towel.

"That thing is here, it's here, outside the window, it's here... It's looking for me." Wang Shanshan said in terror. "No, no, don't come, don't come."

"What thing? There's nothing outside the window. Shanshan, don't scare yourself." Wang Haiyan glanced at the bathroom window but saw nothing.

"No, it's outside the window, it's watching me."

Wang Shanshan grabbed her mother's arm in panic. "Yang Jian, I want Yang Jian, I want to go to Yang Jian's house, I don't want to stay here, Mom, I don't want to die, I don't want to die... Everyone is dead, they're all dead, Su Lei, Zhao Yan, Liu Jiayi... They're all dead."

"Wah... I don't want to die."

As she spoke, Wang Shanshan buried her head in Wang Haiyan's arms and burst into tears.

"Shanshan, it's okay, it's okay, you'll be fine, you'll be fine, Mom is here." Wang Haiyan also shed tears as she comforted her.

"That thing found me, it's outside the window, outside the window, I'm going to die, wah... " Wang Shanshan said.

Wang Haiyan looked at the window again. "There's really nothing outside the window. We live on the sixteenth floor, there's nothing out there. Don't you believe me?"

"Mom, it's really here, I want to go to Yang Jian's house, I don't want to die." Wang Shanshan still cried, her whole body trembling.

At this moment, Wang Bin, who was standing nearby, said, "First, take Shanshan back to her room and get her dressed. Then we'll go to the clinic downstairs to bandage her wounds. Tomorrow, I'll try to find Yang Jian and ask about the situation."

Wang Haiyan nodded and helped Wang Shanshan leave the bathroom.

After the mother and daughter left, Wang Bin turned off the hot water in the bathroom and washed away the blood on the floor.

As he was about to leave, he suddenly looked at the bathroom window.

The window was closed.

Wang Bin leaned out to see if there was anything outside.

They lived on the sixteenth floor, so there couldn't be anything outside.

Sure enough,

Wang Bin saw nothing.

But as he was about to close the window, he froze.

The window was covered in water droplets, and a clear handprint was imprinted on the droplets.

The handprint was small, not an adult's, but like that of a four- or five-year-old child.

And the handprint extended from outside the window all the way into the bathroom.

On the bathroom walls, even the ceiling, which Shanshan couldn't reach, were covered with handprints, clearly visible.

Wang Bin's heart trembled, feeling that something was very wrong.

That night, the Wang family didn't sleep at all.

Similarly, Zhang Wei didn't sleep either.

He had just returned home from the police station.

His father, Zhang XianGui, thought he had done something wrong and beat him, not allowing him to sleep in his room.

Zhang Wei stood on the balcony, frowning, thinking all night.

Who... framed him?