Yu Xiaoqin stared at the thing in her hands as if no one else were there. She didn't even blink. It was deeply unsettling.
We entered the room and called her name several times, but she never looked at us.
The skinny man closed the door.
There was only one small window in the room, and it was shut. The air clung to our skin, and not a sound could be heard.
"Yu Xiaoqin, do you know about the Greenleaf Paranormal Agency?" I asked.
There were no chairs in the room. The three of us stood beside the bed, practically surrounding Yu Xiaoqin.
Surrounded like this by three strange adult men, she didn't seem frightened or uneasy. When she heard my question, her body trembled, and she slowly raised her head.
Yu Xiaoqin hadn't looked me in the eye before. Now, with those eyes fixed on me, I felt a chill crawl up my back.
There was nothing in those eyes. They were empty and lifeless, like the eyes of a blind person. Their color also seemed a little off.
Yu Xiaoqin raised her head.
With nothing blocking my view, I saw what she was holding.
It was an old-fashioned photograph of a couple. Both the texture of the paper and the wedding outfits worn by the two people in the picture gave it a sense of time gone by.
It must have been a wedding photo of Yu Xiaoqin and her husband.
My surprise subsided. "I know people at the Greenleaf Paranormal Agency. I know about the phone booth."
Yu Xiaoqin was still watching me.
"Did you get a call from your husband?"
A faint smile appeared on Yu Xiaoqin's face. She looked like an ordinary, happy woman.
I felt sorry for her, but I still asked, "Are you