Jia Huihui then shifted her tone, dropping her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. "Yujie, I don't know why, but I keep feeling like this place is gloomy—it’s just plain creepy. Sometimes, out of the corner of my eye, I feel like dark shadows are drifting past. It sends shivers down my spine."
Her words hit Ning Yujie like a heavy hammer against her heart. Ning Yujie had been terrified of ghosts and spirits since childhood, so she had no capacity to analyze what Jia Huihui or Feng Ru were saying. Her attention was captured entirely by the prospect of a haunting, and she blurted out, "Is that true? Are you sure you saw it correctly? Was it really a ghost?"
Seeing that Ning Yujie had been successfully diverted, Jia Huihui felt a surge of secret triumph. She feigned a look of intense caution and terror, trembling as she replied, "I... I can't be certain, but there is definitely something unclean in this place. I can feel it."
Chapter 20