The strange cartoon song continued, its sound echoing through the hall.
The children's footsteps moved from the second floor to the third. Their steps made the third-floor flooring and the ceiling above the hall go thump, thump, thump. The sound was like a rapid drumbeat, and every now and then, children's laughter drifted down from upstairs.
The sound gradually faded. They had probably run to an even higher floor.
The cartoon playing on the hall's screen also stopped abruptly, and the screen went black again.
Cheng Lin glanced at me. Judging by his look, he probably suspected I was the reason something had gone wrong with the ghosts here.
Cheng Lin didn't say anything. He lifted his foot and kept walking.
I took one last look at the ceiling, then followed Cheng Lin out.
When we reached the hospital entrance, I sensed yin energy again.
This time, it was a long way off, but very active.
I turned around and saw nothing. Following the yin energy, I looked up and saw a ring of shadows atop the hospital building, which was more than ten stories high. Judging by their size, they were a group of children. They were probably the little ghosts who had appeared inside just now.
They stood at the edge of the roof, watching me, their gaze almost tangible.
Cheng Lin asked, "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything." I felt completely innocent.
As for my constitution, it was nowhere near as special as Fatty's. Being an ability user meant I inevitably encountered a lot of paranormal incidents. And with Greenleaf getting involved, I might have run into them more often than my "peers." But that didn't mean I attracted ghosts.
I couldn't figure out why those ghosts had set their sights on me.
I'd never