Looking at the bloody, half-rotted face.
They screamed in terror.
Even with the curtains drawn, the fear could not be alleviated.
That was not a face a human should possess, dripping with blood, and even with the windows closed, through the cracks, the four of them clearly smelled the stench of decaying corpses.
Thump... thump-thump... thump-thump... thump...
Just then.
The knocking on the door sounded again.
"Ah!!!!"
They screamed, cowering together in utter terror, their courage shattered as they looked at the bathroom door.
The knocking started, but it no longer came from the dormitory door, but from the bathroom door of their dormitory.
Someone was in their bathroom, knocking from inside.
Considering they were all huddled together, and only the four of them were in the dormitory, and they had gone to the bathroom to wash up before bed, they were certain that no one else could be in the dormitory or bathroom besides the four of them. So, who was in the bathroom now?
Perhaps it was because they had seen the face of the person knocking outside the door.
Perhaps it was because they hadn't opened the door for a long time.
The bathroom door, not long after the knocking began.
The next second.
Thump!! Thump-thump!!! Thump-thump!!! Thump!!!!
The bathroom door was violently knocked, it was no longer knocking, it was a frenzied pounding, as if trying to break through.
"Ah!!!!!"
Qiu Xiaolin and the others were terrified, screaming incessantly.
They desperately wished for someone to save them, wished their screams could be heard by people in other dormitories to come to their rescue, but no matter how much they screamed, there was no movement outside the dormitory, as if other dormitories couldn't hear them at all.
The violent knocking came as quickly as it went, and suddenly stopped.
The bathroom returned to silence.
The dormitory door was also quiet.
It was as if everything that had caused them terror had not happened, if not for seeing that bloody face.
However.
Before they could feel relieved...
Creak.
Qiu Xiaolin and the others' pupils contracted, gripped by unprecedented fear.
The bathroom door opened.
Then a hand gripped the doorframe, and a head slowly emerged from inside the bathroom. It was that face!! The bloody face they had seen at the window. That 'person' had somehow entered from outside the dormitory.
Looking at that bloody face less than a few meters away, they were so scared they felt like they couldn't breathe, their throats felt like they were choked with a burning coal, the intense fear rendering them unable to even scream.
"Don't come closer! Don't come closer!!"
A roommate shouted with a terrified, tearful voice.
Seeing the ghost emerge from the bathroom and approach them.
In their panic.
Qiu Xiaolin seemed to recall something:
"Right, chewing gum, chewing gum!!"
Facing the ghost's approach, facing that face filled with chilling malevolence, a ghost that clearly harbored no good intentions.
Qiu Xiaolin muttered in panic.
And then, to the stunned silence of everyone, including the ghost...
She frantically rummaged in her pocket, pulled out a pack of Extra chewing gum, quickly tore open the packaging, took out a piece of gum and chewed it. At the same time, she handed a piece of Extra chewing gum to Zhang Ya and the other two.
"Quick, quick, eat the Extra chewing gum."
Qiu Xiaolin shouted.
[Ding! The knocking female ghost is stunned. What the hell are you doing?? Still in the mood to chew gum at a time like this??]
[Host gains System Points +10]
Instantly.
The knocking female ghost emerging from the bathroom paused, standing there, her bloody face filled with bewilderment.
What's going on?
Did I do something wrong?
What kind of move is this? Why are you eating gum when I come out? Are you... afraid of me?
At this moment.
The knocking female ghost's mind was short-circuiting, unable to process the current situation.
[Ding! The knocking female ghost is extremely bewildered. Even if you were scared to faint or wet yourself, I could accept it, but what kind of operation is being scared and eating Extra chewing gum?!]
[Host gains System Points +20]
Let alone the knocking female ghost, Zhang Ya and the others were also dumbfounded.
Instinctively, they looked at the Extra chewing gum Qiu Xiaolin had handed them.
They felt bewildered.
Xiaolin, what are you doing?
As Qiu Xiaolin urged them to eat the chewing gum,
They became even more bewildered.
Huh?? Eat chewing gum?? Xiaolin!! What time is it now? You're still in the mood to eat chewing gum?!
Looking at the Extra chewing gum in their hands.
Looking at Qiu Xiaolin actually taking out Extra chewing gum and chewing it.
They inexplicably recalled one of Extra chewing gum's advertisements – Chew Extra, freshen your breath, relieve stress.
Thinking of this.
They could barely refrain from cursing, "Damn it, so Xiaolin, are you eating gum to relieve your current fear and stress?"
At the same time.
The knocking female ghost watched Qiu Xiaolin chewing gum frantically like a hamster.
[Ding! The knocking female ghost wants to curse. Damn it, you're actually eating it?]
[Host gains System Points +10]
[Ding! The knocking ghost sees Qiu Xiaolin chewing furiously with her head down, extremely wanting to curse. Damn your mother, look at me, you little brat! I ask you, what are you doing! Are you so scared that you have bad breath and need to chew gum to freshen it?]
[Host gains System Points +15]
Just then.
Qiu Xiaolin looked up at the knocking female ghost, still chewing gum frantically like a hamster.
This scene.
Made the knocking female ghost pause.
[Ding! The knocking female ghost paused, and suddenly understood, as if realizing with a flash of insight, an Extra advertisement – Extra, brings fresh breath, making meetings closer.]
So.
Are you eating gum to make us closer and thus not harm you? Damn, I'm impressed!!
Just as the knocking female ghost thought this.
Qiu Xiaolin seemed to have finished chewing, and opened her mouth to blow a bubble of gum towards the knocking female ghost.
The bubble, inflated, popped with a "pop."
The next second.
A piercing scream echoed through the dormitory.
"Ah!!!!!!!!!—"
Zhang Ya and the others saw the knocking female ghost clutching her head, letting out a heart-wrenching scream, as if she had suffered some deafening attack. Blood flowed from her seven orifices, and she painfully covered her ears.
This scene.
Left Zhang Ya and the others dumbfounded. They instinctively looked at Qiu Xiaolin and uttered a second exclamation, "What the hell?"
There was no mistake.
When Xiaolin blew the gum bubble, the knocking female ghost seemed to have been severely injured, and blood actually flowed from her seven orifices.
In fact.
Qiu Xiaolin was staring, her mouth slightly open, her face blank. "My god?! Does it really work?!... Xiao Weizi didn't lie to me, Extra chewing gum can deal with ghosts!"
[Ding! The knocking female ghost is both shocked and bewildered. What's with that gum?! The sound it made made me bleed from my seven orifices?]
[Host gains System Points +15]
Subsequently.
Having learned that Extra chewing gum could drive away ghosts.
Qiu Xiaolin became excited. She quickly blew another bubble of gum, and under the shocked yet as expected gazes of Zhang Ya and the others, the gum bubble popped with a "pop," and the knocking female ghost let out another piercing scream.
This time, the knocking female ghost even spat blood.
...