I Am A Serious Title

As Huang Yu said this, he finally couldn't help but roar, "In short, no one is getting me back to that apartment tonight!"

Hearing this, the few of them fell silent in unison, as if they were also unwilling to return to their respective residences.

Yuwen Hao, his face pale, spoke, "If the ghost was guarding the door, how did you get out today?"

Huang Yu shook his head with a dazed expression, "I don't know. When it was already morning, I looked out through the peephole and saw nothing outside. I didn't dare to go out until two people came down from upstairs. Only then did I dare to go out and go downstairs with them... That ghost should only be active at night..."

Night was indeed the time when the terrifying atmosphere was at its peak. If Gu Mian were a ghost, he would definitely choose this time to scare people.

People always felt that daytime was slightly safer than nighttime.

But even now, in the relatively safe daytime, everyone present shivered.

Yuwen Hao rubbed the goosebumps on his arm and looked at Gu Mian, who hadn't recounted his experience last night, "Doctor Gu, what did you go through last night?"

"All four of us encountered extremely terrifying things, so Gu Mian must not be an exception"--that's what Yuwen Hao thought.

Seeing everyone looking at him expectantly, Gu Mian cleared his throat and began, "Last night, I..."

All four of them stretched their necks slightly, waiting for him to speak, seemingly eager to know how terrifying things Gu Mian had experienced.

However--

"Last night, I watched Ring twice, ate two bags of popcorn, took a call from Yuwen Hao, and then slept until eight in the morning..."

The stretched necks of the others stiffened slightly.

Yuwen Hao's eyes widened, "That's it?"

It was simply outrageous! Did this doctor not feel anything abnormal last night?

"No," Gu Mian shook his head, "something unpleasant happened last night--"

All four of them stared intently at Gu Mian, waiting for him to recount the unpleasant incident.

"It was dark at night, I'm not sure what time it was, but just as the first dead face appeared in the movie, I heard someone knocking on my door."

"I peeked through the peephole, there was no one there, so I sat back on the sofa. But after a while, the knocking started again."

"I peeked through the peephole again, still no one outside, but just as I turned to leave, the door rang again..."

Gu Mian's tone was very casual, not at all like he was recounting something terrifying. The other four listened to his nonchalant tone with somewhat strange expressions.

"Then I immediately turned around and opened the door..."

Hearing this, Yuwen Hao finally couldn't help but interject, "You opened the door?"

In this situation, would any normal person be foolish enough to open the door to check?

Gu Mian looked at him and replied very seriously, "Yes, I opened the door."

Yuwen Hao looked at him with a strange expression, "And then?"

"Then there was still nothing outside. After that, my door was quiet for a while, but not for long, the knocking started again..."

The few of them stared at Gu Mian without blinking, seemingly eager to know what happened next.

Under the gaze of four pairs of eyes, Gu Mian slowly spoke, "I figured no matter how many times I looked, I wouldn't see anything outside, so I..."

Yuwen Hao spoke with some urgency, "So what did you do?"

"So I moved a stool, stuck my head out of the ventilation window above the door, and cursed the thing knocking below with all my might. After that, my door never made a sound again."

As soon as he said this, all four were stunned.

Lin Yue'er's face looked a little embarrassed, "Doctor Gu, are you telling us a joke?"

Gu Mian shook his head solemnly, "No."

Qing Huan hesitated and asked, "Then... Doctor Gu, did you see what was knocking?"

Gu Mian shook his head again. If he had seen what was knocking, it wouldn't have been just a matter of cursing.

Yuwen Hao chuckled awkwardly, "Doctor Gu probably encountered some mischievous children last night. Perhaps the ghost following you wasn't active last night."

As if wanting to change the subject, he continued, "Then let's make a plan for today. Our goal is to survive for ten days, so we need to find clues to a way out before the ghosts can reach us."

"As I said before, the clues to a way out are not clear. I think it should be related to the origin of the curse. Now, we should follow the clues and figure out the curse on us."

Qing Huan asked, "How do we figure it out?"

Yuwen Hao said, "After last night's events, I deduced that there should be five ghosts following the five of us respectively, and the characteristics of the five ghosts are basically clear."

"The one following me has been watching me from the shadows; we can call it the peeping ghost for now."

"The one following Lin Yue'er is under the bed, so we can call it the Under-the-bed Ghost."

"The one following Qing Huan, it's always behind you, right? So let's call it the back ghost."

"The one following Huang Yu... let's call it the Phone Ghost."

"As for the one following Doctor Gu... I'm not too sure yet, we'll discuss it later..."

"Since we've figured out the characteristics of the ghosts corresponding to each of us, we can start with the houses we live in. You all feel something is wrong with your houses, right? We can first investigate if anyone has died in our houses."

"If there was a deceased person, we can further investigate their characteristics. For example... did the deceased die under the bed? Did the deceased particularly like making phone calls when they were alive?"

"If we can figure out the identities of the five ghosts following us, I think we can also deduce the source of the curse through their identities."

You can ask the landlord or other tenants if you want to investigate the house, that part isn't difficult.

But now there's a big problem in front of them.

"Time is very tight right now. If the five of us stick together, it'll be a huge waste of time," Yuwen Hao looked at the others. "So it's best if we split up to investigate."

Splitting up has always been a major taboo in horror movies.

This approach greatly accelerates the speed of death, yet everyone still rushes forward to drink this catalyst of death.

"The best way to group up now is in pairs, but there are five of us..."