Listening to the footsteps approaching outside the restroom, Yang Jian covered Jiang Yan's mouth, switched off the flashlight, and gently shushed her, signaling her to stay quiet. Jiang Yan, much smarter than the students at school, quickly understood and, fearing that Yang Jian's hand wasn't covering her mouth tightly enough, she covered it again herself. Not only did she make no sound, but she even held her breath.
As the flashlight went out, the entire restroom was plunged into darkness, an eerie silence surrounding them. Yet, amidst the darkness, the footsteps of someone entering were strikingly clear.
Undoubtedly, a person walked into the restroom at a steady pace. They didn't turn on a flashlight, nor did they use their phone for light, and they didn't speak a word, just like an ordinary person going to the restroom, naturally.
Yang Jian could sense the presence of the person outside. Jiang Yan felt it too, her eyes wide with fear.
"Did the footsteps stop?" Yang Jian's expression slightly changed as he heard the footsteps outside disappear, as if the person who had entered had stopped.
Judging by the distance of the footsteps, he could roughly deduce that the person was standing next to the first stall in the restroom.
"What does he want to do? Not really going to the restroom, right? Should I go out and take a look..." Yang Jian began to weigh his options in his mind.
But upon second thought, he decided against it.
If he were to encounter a ghost, he would be forced to use the power of the fierce ghost to protect himself, which would be a waste of an opportunity.
Not worth it.
But just at that moment.
"Bang!"
A loud noise suddenly echoed in the restroom, as if a door was being violently kicked open.
"Mmmph!" Jiang Yan trembled all over, and if not for her desperately covering her mouth, she would have screamed in fright.
As the noise subsided, the person began to move again, the sound of footsteps once again echoing in the restroom.
After a few steps, it seemed the person stopped in front of the second stall.
"Bang!" Another loud crash came, as the second stall was violently broken open, with the faint sound of a broken tank and water spraying from the pipes.
The noise returned to calm.
But then the footsteps continued.
The person outside walked in front of the third stall...
"Mmm, mmm." Jiang Yan was so scared that she was trembling all over, her eyes tightly closed, her heart enveloped by fear.
She could feel that the one outside was definitely not a person, it was definitely that ghost.
There were only five stalls in the restroom, and soon that ghost would find her.
At that time, she would definitely be doomed.
"Is that thing targeting me?"
Yang Jian also felt that the person outside was getting closer, continuously opening each stall to look for people who might be hiding.
"Bang!" The door of the fourth stall was opened.
"Really, there's no way out. Since that thing is looking for me and no one else, I can only fight it."
Yang Jian took a deep breath and no longer covered Jiang Yan's mouth. He turned around and stared at the door of the stall.
As soon as the door opened and he saw the ghost, he would use the ghost realm without hesitation.
Jiang Yan felt Yang Jian stand up and, not knowing where the courage came from, quickly stood up as well, tightly hugging Yang Jian from behind, not letting go.
"You, you... take me with you to escape, I don't want to die, please, I can promise you any condition, as long as we leave here, I can be your girlfriend, accompany you to sleep..."
She was crying and pleading, afraid that Yang Jian would run away and leave her alone.
"Don't make a sound."
Yang Jian said in a low voice, suppressing his voice.
"Mmm!" Jiang Yan obediently bit her lips tightly, making no sound, but her body was trembling uncontrollably due to fear.
Yang Jian had to admire this woman at this moment. She was very perceptive and seemed to know that he had the ability to protect her, so she was holding on as if to the last straw of hope, willing to say anything, promise anything.
But he didn't have the mind to think about her now.
At this moment, his face was solemn, listening to any sound coming from outside.
"Here it comes!" Suddenly, he felt it.
The ghost was approaching.
Just outside the stall, separated by only a thin wooden door, the distance should be less than two meters.
It can be said to be very close.
A faint smell of decay drifted in, the same smell he smelled when he first came to the mall the day before yesterday.
Not so strong, if there is any.
"Bang!" Suddenly.
A loud noise rang out, and the thin wooden door of the stall seemed to be hit hard by a huge force, almost breaking immediately.
The impact almost knocked Yang Jian and Jiang Yan behind him back to back, and finally they stopped against the wall.
"Creak~!" At this moment, the wooden door slowly opened a crack.
Through the crack, it was still dark outside, and nothing could be seen.
Yang Jian could feel that the ghost was outside.
It's just that it's not clear due to the lack of light.
"Didn't come in immediately? It seems to have stopped."
Yang Jian almost subconsciously wanted to use the ghost eye, but he stopped.
Because... The ghost didn't come in to kill, which means that he and Jiang Yan are not the first choice of the ghost.
This is very important.
Yang Jian stared at the darkness in front of him, not making any rash moves.
As long as the ghost outside didn't take any further action, he wouldn't use the ghost eye.
In this way, people and ghosts seemed to be in a stalemate across a slightly open wooden door.
Yang Jian didn't make any noise or sound, and the ghost outside didn't make any movements.
Everything seemed to be frozen.
But out of caution, he still slowly reached out and closed the slightly open wooden door.
There was still no movement outside, which means that the ghost was not looking for himself, nor was it looking for Jiang Yan.
Just when Yang Jian thought that things would calm down like this.
Jiang Yan behind him seemed to be a bit uncomfortable being squeezed by Yang Jian and turned half a body.
But the next moment.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The door was hit again, almost about to be knocked open.
"No good, it's coming again." Yang Jian suddenly blocked the door.
Jiang Yan was not stupid at the moment, although she was scared, she also rushed up and blocked the thin wooden door in horror.
But the impact on the door became more and more fierce, and the power was getting stronger and stronger. Several times the door was almost knocked open, but Yang Jian forcibly closed it back.
At this moment, he couldn't help but use the ghost realm.
No, it's not right.
Why didn't the ghost just take action, but suddenly moved when Jiang Yan turned around?
"Don't lean against the door with your back, turn around." Yang Jian said loudly, grabbing Jiang Yan and turning her around.
As soon as Jiang Yan turned around, the movement outside the door immediately became smaller, and then quickly stopped.
Everything returned to calm.
"So it is..." At this moment, Yang Jian's eyes showed a bit of surprise.
He understood the conditions under which the ghost killed.
The calm lasted for a good while.
The ghost outside the door didn't make any movements, which made Yang Jian more and more convinced of his speculation and guess.
"Since Jiang Yan and I didn't meet the conditions for the ghost to kill, and the ghost didn't start indiscriminate killing, it means... The level of harm of this ghost is only C, restricted."
Just as he was thinking.
The ghost outside the door started to move again.
This time it was not coming towards Yang Jian, but gradually walking towards the outside of the restroom.
The sound of footsteps gradually faded away.
The ghost outside the stall gave up Yang Jian and Jiang Yan and began to choose other targets.
"Are you leaving? But the true face of this ghost must be understood."
Yang Jian's eyes moved slightly, and he quickly took out his mobile phone, opened the camera, stretched out of the stall, and took a photo in the direction where the footsteps were fading away.
"Click."
The flash lit up.
"What are you doing? What if you bring that thing again?"
Jiang Yan behind her was startled, and she pinched Yang Jian and spoke in a very low voice.
"Of course, it's taking a photo. I need to determine the identity of that ghost. You said Wei Xiaohong is a ghost, but I saw her yesterday, she was alive and well, not like a ghost. If she really is a ghost, then I should be able to take her picture, even if it's just a little bit of facial features."
Yang Jian said very calmly: "This is my business, you don't have to worry about it. The ghost didn't knock on the door to come in, which means that the two of us are not his target. If there is a real problem, I will be responsible and will not deliberately kill you."
However, when he looked at the photo he had just taken, he was shocked.
"Impossible, how could it be him?"
In the photo, he didn't capture the ghost's entire face, only less than half of the body, and the rest was just blocked by the corner of the restroom wall.
And that half of the body was wearing a security uniform exactly the same as his.