A chill suddenly ran down my spine, yet I couldn't feel anyone behind me. "Don't talk nonsense. You say I brought someone? Why don't you say I'm carrying someone?"

I took a step forward, and half the people in the classroom stood up. One girl was so scared she was about to cry, and Xiao Wei's face was deathly pale. "Li Po, there really is someone behind you. That person is lying on your back."

I reached back and patted my back. "There's nobody there."

"Ah—" A girl screamed on the spot. "That person is crouching behind you!"

As my hand moved towards my waist, I glanced at Zhao Yuezhu out of the corner of my eye. She was shaking her head vigorously, as if telling me that no one came in with me!

Are the ghosts acting out a play for me?

What's the purpose of their performance? To scare me? Or to recreate the scene from Bai Xin's story?

If they wanted to scare me, there was no point in doing this. Ghosts don't need to go to such lengths to scare people; they can scare people by hiding anywhere. Why create such a scene?

They're recreating Bai Xin's story!

I once heard my master say that there are people in the art world called Storytellers of Ghosts. They never participate in the struggles of the martial world. Their reason for being in the martial world is to tell people ghost stories.

No one knows why the Storytellers of Ghosts keep telling people stories. The only thing that is certain is that the stories told by the Storytellers of Ghosts actually happened.

I've met a Storyteller of Ghosts!

As my mind raced, Ye Yang upstairs suddenly grabbed the windowsill. "This is bad, Li Po has met a Storyteller of Ghosts! Someone is using Li Po to lure ghosts!"

"We can't let him finish the story. When the story ends, the ghosts in the story will come out!"

Ye Yang also knew about the Storytellers of Ghosts, but what he knew was completely different from what I knew.

The Storytellers of Ghosts that Ye Yang knew were actually guides for the vengeful spirits. The ghosts they told people about all existed in reality, but those ghosts were all imprisoned in the netherworld.

Each time a Storyteller of Ghosts finishes telling a story, they would tell the listener: Whatever you do, don't do this…

If the listener couldn't resist the curiosity and tried the things in the story, the ghost in the story would stand alive right in front of that person.

No one knows what will happen after the ghost appears.

The only thing they know is that one person will be missing from this world.

Feng Ruoxing couldn't care less about concealing my identity. He channeled his internal energy and roared, "Li Po, strike!"

Feng Ruoxing's roar was blocked by the sealed space of the secret room. The rolling sound waves were like muffled thunder echoing back and forth in the secret room, making the two of them dizzy.

Ye Yang finally regained his composure. "We've been tricked. The two of us are also characters in the story. In this story, there must be two people observing in the dark. Break the door…"

When Ye Yang said break the door, he didn't just mean breaking out of the door, but breaking the entire story, so that I wouldn't continue to follow the original path.

Ye Yang drew his sword, then stopped. "Don't move!"

Ye Yang hadn't read Bai Xin's story, and he didn't know what would happen after the haunting in the classroom.

If he broke the door with his sword, it would also be within the story, wouldn't that be letting me continue to follow the story?

Ye Yang forcibly suppressed the urge to break out of the door and looked at the classroom again.

Apart from the girl who had fainted from fright, everyone in the classroom was looking at me with a grim smile. At this moment, no one said that there was someone behind me anymore.

They were just watching my back without moving, like a group of students playing a prank, watching the target walk into a trap, but no one reminded him that someone was making fun of him.

Xiao Wei said in a cold voice, "Li Po, you don't believe there's someone behind you, do you?"

"Back then, someone was like you and didn't believe there was someone behind him. Later, we gave him a coin and asked him to throw it backwards. If the coin didn't land, it meant there was someone behind him; if it landed, it meant we were tricking him."

"Now, let's continue playing this game!"

As Xiao Wei spoke, everyone in the classroom stretched out their right hands neatly, each holding a coin.

The only difference was the heads or tails of the coins.

Xiao Wei said coldly, "You can choose to take the coin with heads or tails."

I looked at Zhao Yuezhu and said, "Should I try?"

At that time, the voice said to believe what living people said. Now, the only living person I can be sure of is Zhao Yuezhu.

Zhao Yuezhu gritted her teeth and said, "Give it a try!"

I randomly grabbed a coin and threw it behind me, but there was no sound behind me.

Xiao Wei sneered. "See, I told you! There's someone behind you."

"The current situation is the same as back then. After you carried someone in, one person went missing from our class. This is the secret we're guarding."

"If we don't bring that person back to the class, our class will always be missing one person. The missing person will come looking for all of us."

Xiao Wei's voice suddenly sank. "I forgot to tell you, my name is not Xiao Wei, my name is Qin Xin."

When my eyes met hers, the lights in the secret room suddenly went out.