Highly recommend 'Extremely Terrifying'!

Novel Author: Tan Zhi Yi Xiao Jian 0
Synopsis: Do you believe in ghosts in this world? Perhaps you are completely convinced, or perhaps you do not believe, but what I want to say is that in this story, ghosts truly exist.\The eerie forest appearing in the mirror, the nonexistent class, the old building full of spirits, and the text message predicting death……\Many strange and terrifying events occur one after another. What is the truth hidden behind all of this, and who pushed open that forbidden door leading to hell?\Seemingly, an evil pair of eyes is watching over this land. Who is 'he'? What is his purpose?\From the moment Xiao Mo was awakened by that phone call, it signaled the beginning of this story…

Excerpt 1: Just after seven in the evening, Cheng Ziliang, having finished a day of work, dragged his exhausted body back to his rented apartment. His room was not very big, less than forty square meters, but it could be considered a one-bedroom apartment.\He worked as a senior programmer at a gaming company, facing extremely monotonous code every day, which left his fingers aching from constant typing. What he hated most was overtime, because four out of the seven days of the week he had to work late into the night.\One could say that work consumed most of his time, so much so that at twenty-seven, he didn't even have a girlfriend. He could only pass each day in a daze.\Today, he didn't follow his usual routine of taking a shower and immediately falling asleep; instead, he leaned on the sofa and played on his phone. Because tomorrow was the weekend, he could sleep in.\Playing on his phone, specifically chatting on WeChat, was a sort of spiritual solace for him as a single man. Like many men, his ultimate goal was just to sleep with promiscuous women.\On WeChat, there were many women who were sexually eager, sometimes even more proactive than men. In this increasingly liberated era, men only needed to book a hotel and perhaps take them out for a simple meal to have free rein in bed.\Cheng Ziliang always heard his colleagues talking about the women they had met last night, their figures, their moans… Each time he heard it, he felt a surge of envy because he had never successfully arranged such a meeting even once.He turned on the location feature and started searching for people nearby, then added all the women he found. What followed was simple: routine greetings, small talk, gradually pushing the interaction along.

"Damn! A bunch of b****es pretending to be ladies!"

They talked for over two hours, but in the end, they all blocked him, which made Cheng Ziliang furious. However, he didn't give up. It was a rare weekend, and he didn't want to spend it staring at the computer screen.

Since searching for people nearby didn't work, he decided to try the "Shake" feature. Compared to finding people nearby, this method had a higher chance of hooking up.

Maybe it was late tonight, but no matter how hard Cheng Ziliang shook, he didn't match with a single person. He stubbornly continued, managing to shake up two people, but both were gay men. Eventually, his arms grew sore from shaking, and he didn't find another woman.

Although Cheng Ziliang felt dissatisfied, it seemed today was hopeless, so he planned to end the day with sleep. Maybe anger was keeping him awake, as he tossed and turned for a long time without falling asleep. Helpless, he picked up his phone to find something to do.

Cheng Ziliang initially wanted to play a mini-game, but he accidentally opened the WeChat page. He was particularly drawn to the "Drift Bottle" feature under "Shake."

The messages in the drift bottles came from all over the world. Unless you were extremely lucky, you wouldn't meet a local opposite-sex person, so obviously, it wasn't a way to hook up.

However, Cheng Ziliang didn't care about that right now; he just wanted something to play with, until he got sleepy. So he decided to pick up the bottles, which was actually quite fun.

The first bottle contained a text that read:
"My husband is cheating on me. What should I do?"

Cheng Ziliang immediately replied:
"You cheat too, and have a 3P with two men."

After sending it, Cheng Ziliang laughed, clutching his belly. He continued picking up bottles. The second bottle seemed to be from a girl heartbroken over a breakup, which said:
"He left me. I feel like I'm going to die. What should I do?"

Cheng Ziliang replied to her: "Go to the supermarket and buy two cucumbers. I guarantee you'll forget him in three days."

After replying, he laughed for a long time.However, the subsequent attempts at retrieving bottles were not as lucky as before; all he caught were those annoying starfish. It wasn't until the tenth try that he finally caught another bottle. This time, it contained a voice message, and the speaker's voice was very sweet: "Is there a brother from K city? If so, please reply to me." Cheng Ziliang listened to it repeatedly, cursing the woman's flirtatiousness under his breath, but he still replied: "A top-notch big black guy from the Philippines, is that okay?"

The next few bottles were all voice messages. He replied to each one, but no one responded back. Seeing that there was only one chance left to retrieve a bottle, he planned to collect it and then go to sleep, whether he could fall asleep or not.

He lightly tapped on the net bag above, and the screen displayed a voice message that was quite short, only six seconds long. Cheng Ziliang, a bit curious, clicked to play the message.

"Wuu… wuu…"

The voice startled him immediately because it carried the sound of a woman crying, unlike any heartbreaking cry he had ever heard. Besides the crying, there was also a nearly inaudible whisper from the woman: "Who… will… accompany me…"

Cheng Ziliang had been tired, but hearing such crying in the middle of the night wiped away most of his sleepiness. As usual, he replied, teasingly: "Why are you crying, girl? How about I come keep you company?"

There was no address in her message, so Cheng Ziliang had no idea where she was from. He was just joking, not expecting her to reply. But to his surprise, she did reply soon after. This time, she wasn't crying; instead… she burst into an eerie laugh!

Amid the chilling laughter, he could vaguely hear her ask: "You really… will… come keep me company… I'm so happy!!!"

The laughter sent shivers down Cheng Ziliang's spine. He felt this woman must be crazy, or she was deliberately trying to scare him. He didn't want to respond anymore, but just as he was thinking this, the woman messaged him again, this time sending a picture along with another voice message, her voice still unclear: "Do you… think I… am pretty?""Cheng Ziliang nervously opened that picture. The picture showed a woman who appeared to be just in her early twenties. Her figure and face were undeniably captivating. He looked carefully and saw that there were no traces of Photoshop, and it was a bare-faced photo.\ Seeing the photo, Cheng Ziliang immediately abandoned his previous thoughts and quickly asked for confirmation: \"Is this you?\"\ At the end, he added another sentence: \"Where are you from?\"\ The woman quickly replied to him: \"Of course it's me. I'm in... Xu'an City.\"\ Upon hearing that the woman was also in Xu'an City, Cheng Ziliang's heart became restless. His mind was now filled with thoughts about how to sleep with this woman, imagining how envious his colleagues would be if they knew.\ \"Exactly where are you? I'm also in Xu'an City. I can come over to be with you right now.\"\ After sending this message, Cheng Ziliang swallowed nervously, waiting.\ \"You can come to find me, but I want to see you first.\"\ \"See me how? QQ video call?\"\ The woman did not reply anymore, but soon a video window popped up on his phone screen. Cheng Ziliang accepted without hesitation.\ Immediately, the phone screen went completely dark.\ Seeing his phone freeze at such a critical moment, Cheng Ziliang swore loudly and started hitting it. Then he suddenly heard a "hissing" sound coming from the phone. Thinking the phone had returned to normal, he looked at the screen again. But what he saw was... a blood-red eye!\ The eye completely occupied the phone screen, blinking continuously. Cheng Ziliang was terrified and collapsed to the side, feeling that the eye was constantly watching him!\ At the same time, a woman's unclear voice sounded again from the phone: \"I... see... you...!\"\ Cheng Ziliang's heart was pounding. It was only after a long time that the voice disappeared that he realized what had happened. He picked up the phone again and found it had returned to normal, with an unread voice message on it.\ Cheng Ziliang hesitated but still opened it, only to hear an extremely vicious roar: \"You're doomed!!!\"
Highlight Segment 2: Cheng Ziliang's recent state was not good. On the surface, he still seemed busy going out early and coming back late to make a living, just as usual. But in reality, his nerves were almost at the breaking point."Because in recent times, he constantly felt an inexplicable surge of fear in his heart. Along with it came a strong sense of danger; he felt like he was about to die.\He didn't know what was happening. In short, this feeling intensified as time went on, and he was almost tortured to madness. Since he didn't have time to go to the hospital, Cheng Ziliang could only search for his symptoms online. Opinions on the internet about these symptoms varied. Some thought he had schizophrenia and must go to the hospital for treatment; some thought he was just overworked and would be fine after a few days of rest; of course, some thought he was crazy, because no normal person would feel like they were about to die.\Clearly, seeking help online didn't have much effect, and Cheng Ziliang didn't want to delay any longer. He requested three days of sick leave from his company, intending to use a few days to have a proper check-up at the hospital.\Today was the first day of his sick leave.\In the early morning, while sleeping, Cheng Ziliang vaguely heard a muffled voice. The voice was unclear, as if saying to him: \“You... are... about... to... die...\”\The speaker seemed to be lying at the head of the bed, slightly stretching their head to whisper in his ear. The voice gave him a very familiar feeling, and he was sure he had heard it somewhere before.\Cheng Ziliang opened his eyes, then looked towards the head of the bed, and then scanned the entire room with his eyes. Everything seemed normal. He habitually reached for his phone, but the pillow beside him was empty; his phone had disappeared.\He searched both on and under the bed for a long time, but ultimately had no choice but to give up—his phone was really gone. He clearly remembered chatting with that woman on it last night; how could it disappear just during his sleep?\“This is really freaking weird!”\Cheng Ziliang muttered as he turned on his computer, wanting to ask his colleagues to call him on QQ. He thought the phone must have fallen into some gap.\While the computer was starting, he went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. As he brushed, he suddenly got a feeling of being watched, as if… someone was standing right behind him!\Cheng Ziliang hurriedly turned around, but there was still nothing there. When he turned his head back again, the feeling reappeared. He looked back again, yet there was still nothing there.\Cheng Ziliang trembled as he held the cup for brushing his teeth. He tried to turn around so that his body faced the small bathroom door. But the moment he did, he once again felt that something was watching him from behind!\He knew this was impossible; the bathroom wasn't even ten square meters, and it would be cramped with two people inside. If someone was there, he wouldn't have been unable to see them. But then, how could he explain this feeling of being watched?\Cheng Ziliang attributed everything to hallucinations, caused by his fragile nerves producing visual and auditory illusions. He forced himself to finish brushing his teeth, then turned on the faucet and lowered his head.\The cold water hitting his face gave his extremely panicked heart a slight relief. He applied facial cleanser to his face, but just as he was about to rinse it off, the water suddenly stopped.\“Is the water off?”\Cheng Ziliang fumbled and turned the faucet again, and the sound of running water immediately returned.\“You scared me for a moment, I thought the water stopped. Huh? It's not off? The faucet was just turned off? Then… who turned it off!!!”\The thought immediately made his legs weak with fear. He didn't even rinse off the facial cleanser on his face, hastily wiping it away with a towel. If the previous experience wasn't a hallucination, that would mean that at this moment, there was someone else—or something else—in the house besides him!\This idea sent chills down Cheng Ziliang's spine. Once again, he painstakingly searched the house, but this time he found nothing as well. The computer was already on, so he logged into QQ and messaged a colleague listed as 'Lao Wang':\“I don't know where I dropped my phone at home. Call me now and let me know if it goes through.”\Soon, he received a reply from Lao Wang. First, Lao Wang sent an angry emoji, then replied:\“Are you playing with me, kid? You get a girlfriend and immediately want to show off at me?”\Cheng Ziliang was puzzled and asked in confusion:\“What are you talking about? I'm asking whether you called me through, I really need it now!”\“Stop talking nonsense, kid. Go ahead, just keep pretending!”\“Lao Wang, I'm not joking with you. Hurry up and call me and let me know if it goes through! I'm really anxious!”"This time, Old Wang responded a bit slowly. It seemed he was pondering the truth of what he said, but he still replied, and the reply made a cold chill run down his back: 'Kid, were you not at home? How come you just got a girlfriend and are already partying outside! Your phone isn't lost, I just called and your girlfriend answered; she even sounds quite sweet. Let me know when you're free, and I'll arrange you guys.'

Cheng Ziliang was stunned. Old Wang said he wasn't at home, yet also claimed that his girlfriend answered the call. But he was clearly at home, and... he didn't even have a girlfriend!

His mind was in complete chaos. He nervously clicked the mouse and sent a video call request to Old Wang, telling him, 'Old Wang, if you don't accept this video, we're done! I really have an urgent matter to ask you, I'm definitely not joking!'

When the video connected, a somewhat blurry figure of Old Wang appeared. He was busy at the company, so his expression showed some impatience.

'What nonsense are you up to again, kid!'

Cheng Ziliang didn't bother making small talk with Old Wang and asked directly, 'Did you really call me? And it was received by someone claiming to be my girlfriend?'

'Yes! So?'

'The problem is, I don't have a girlfriend! You can see for yourself, I'm home. And don't ask me how that happened, just call me right in front of me!'

Cheng Ziliang stared at Old Wang on the video screen with an extremely displeased expression. He saw Old Wang take out his phone and dial a number. Soon, someone answered, and Old Wang's voice came through.

'Hello, are you Cheng Ziliang's girlfriend?'
'Yes, do you need something?'
'That kid is doing who-knows-what, never mind, don't worry. Are you two together?'
'Of course.'
'But... I haven't met you yet. You don't mind showing your face, right?'
'Of course, but... you have to come keep me company!!!'

It was an ordinary phone call, but to Cheng Ziliang, it sounded like the tolling of hell. Not only could he hear Old Wang's voice clearly, he could also hear the woman's voice perfectly, because it was coming from the bathroom!

Suddenly, his computer screen turned completely white, with white snowflake dots appearing on it!"The woman's words, 'You have to come stay with me,' were amplified infinitely in this house. She was not speaking to Old Wang, but to him.
At that moment, slow footsteps came from the bathroom. Cheng Ziliang froze in place, terrified, while an extremely vicious voice roared in his ears:
'I'm coming to keep you company!!!'
Ten minutes later, a young man with cold, dark eyes appeared in the apartment where Cheng Ziliang was. The young man was not particularly tall, only about 1.75 meters, and the most noticeable thing about him was that his left eye had no pupil.
This young man's name was Zhang Tianyi, the very Tianyi mentioned by Old Gao.
He arrived at the door of Cheng Ziliang's home and knocked heavily a few times, but it was very quiet inside; no sound came from within.
'Dead?'
Zhang Tianyi's brows twitched, and he knocked two more times, but still no one responded from inside. Growing impatient, he pushed the door, and to his surprise, it creaked open.
At the same time, his phone suddenly rang.

Exciting Scene 3: After being attacked by the ghost again, Li Shuai said he didn't want to share a room with Xiao Mo anymore. After all, this time the ghost's target was Xiao Mo, so it was understandable for Li Shuai to want to avoid collateral damage.
Xiao Mo did not say much; the other person wasn't obliged to save him in the first place. Being helped even once made him extremely grateful, and he wouldn't ask for more.
And so, Zhang Tianyi, Li Shuai, and the Decadent Mage all left, leaving the dead-silent room with only Xiao Mo. He glanced at the time and saw it was approaching 2 a.m.—it could be imagined that Zhang Tianyi and the others should be resting. If the ghost attacked him again later...
'If it comes again, I'll have to rely on myself!'
Xiao Mo placed a long chair by the window and sat down, looking out into the darkness through the reflective glass. For a moment, he felt many emotions.
The scene outside the window was like him now, engulfed in absolute darkness, with not a shred of light. He didn't know what the path was in the dark, didn't know what the world beneath the darkness looked like, and even less did he know what the future held for him.
'Sigh!'
With a long, confused sigh, Xiao Mo returned his thoughts to the event at hand.Regarding this incident, he has a bold guess, and the basis for this guess is the victims' missing phones. First, the phones are ordinary phones, not something the ghost gave them for free, so the victims' phones truly existed. Second, although phones can be lost, it is impossible for all of their phones to coincidentally disappear, and moreover, the example of Cui Shuyuan is enough to prove this.

This leaves two possibilities: one is that the ghost took the victims' phones, and the other is that the victims' phones disappeared on their own.

If the phones disappear on their own, then it proves that the phones are cursed objects. When the cursed person dies, the cursed object would also disappear. But in fact, this time, the ghost is not an evil spirit but a spectral ghost. This reduces the likelihood of this possibility.

The remaining option is that the victims' phones were taken by the ghost. But think about it, why would the ghost take the victims' phones? Isn't this meaningless? People are already dead; what use would a phone be?

However, considering that the ghost's killing requires the establishment of rules, this point might make sense.

The ghost can only kill the victim if it has the victim's phone! This explains why Cui Shuyuan's phone mysteriously disappeared before he was killed. These are exactly Xiao Mo's speculations about the ghost's killing rules.

But there is still one problem that cannot be explained: if the phone is the key to this incident, then why does the ghost send messages via WeChat to the victims? Doesn't this seem redundant? The ghost doesn't need to send WeChat messages at all; it could simply take the victim's phone before killing, which would make it easy to kill. But the ghost obviously didn't do this, so the matter goes back to the WeChat messages.

Looking back, the content of the WeChat messages is nothing more than cries, photos, and videos.

The cries seem more like a hint, indicating that the victim has already become part of the ghost's game.

Photos, on the other hand, appear to be the ghost's lure of the victims, intended to trick them into viewing videos sent by the ghost.

As for the videos, they serve as proof for the ghost to confirm its killing targets, which is why it says:
“Got you, so you are doomed!”

If seeing someone means that person is destined to die, this problem becomes contradictory again, because the ghost would have no need to take the victim's phone before killing.Xiao Mo felt that there must be a connection point between the two, and it was precisely this connection point that linked them together, so they would not conflict. \ In addition, the most important point was how to eliminate the ghost, which was also the key to unraveling this incident. \ “What exactly is it?” \ While thinking, Xiao Mo vaguely felt he was touching on something, hastily turning on his phone screen and then opening the WeChat page. The few WeChat messages sent by the ghost were still there, and the originally beautiful and charming photo had already started to change, becoming bloated and rotten! \ After seeing this, Xiao Mo immediately felt the surrounding air drop a few degrees. \ Instinctively, Xiao Mo wanted to back out, but his hand suddenly froze. \ “Wait, the woman in the photo?” \ Xiao Mo suddenly recalled the appearance of that ghost, wasn't it exactly like the photo! \ “This photo changes over time. When the ghost begins killing, it completely transforms. Could this be a sign? Or perhaps this is why the ghost takes the phone before killing! \ From the video, the ghost sees the victim's face, thereby confirming the target. Then it falls into waiting, waiting for the photo to fully change; only after it completely changes can it start killing!” \ Xiao Mo seemed to understand the reason for all this. If his deduction was correct, then this ghost actually… was that photo!!! \ The ghost exists within WeChat! \ When the photo in WeChat completely changes, the ghost will appear beside the victim and brutally kill them. Afterwards, it will take the victim's phone, because it still remains inside the phone in the form of a photo! \ The number of ghosts is not just one! \ “I found a way! I finally found a way! As long as I delete that photo, I can survive!” \ Although there were many ghosts, only the ghost in his phone had seen his face. So as long as he eliminated this ghost, the danger would be over! \ Xiao Mo did not dare to hesitate. Filled with excitement, he placed his finger on the photo. Just as he was about to press the delete key, through the reflective window in front of him, he was horrified to see… the door behind him slowly opening! \ Xiao Mo instantly froze; its killing had begun!In a moment of crisis, he pressed the delete key on the screen with his fingertip, yet the photo, being too large, didn't delete instantly.
"Damn it!" Xiao Mo cursed loudly, but the photo was still processing by percentage. Fearing that the ghost might snatch his phone directly, he clutched it tightly against his chest and curled up on the floor.
The rest was truly left to fate.
Terrified, Xiao Mo's whole body was convulsing, and a bone-chilling cold surged over him as if he could feel the pain of claws tearing at his body.
Scanning the room with his eyes, it was still brightly lit, and no one would have guessed that a bloodthirsty ghost was hiding right next to him!
Xiao Mo's heart had risen to his throat, and just as he was reaching the brink of collapse, that chill suddenly vanished.
"Hoo—! I survived!" Xiao Mo let out a long breath, sweat streaming down his pale cheeks, dripping to the floor. In that instant, he truly thought he was doomed.
"I survived!!!" Unable to contain his excitement anymore, Xiao Mo roared wildly, disregarding everything else.