The voice sounded somewhat unfamiliar, but only because it was slightly distorted, as if it were coming through something.
After those two sounds, the voice stopped.
I didn't hide what had happened from Wu Ling and Liu Miao. I told them directly.
Neither of them had heard it.
Once the voice stopped, the sounds around us came through again. Rustling and shuffling continued without pause. Even though they were hiding inside the houses and didn't dare come out, the people inside hadn't given up moving around entirely. They kept avoiding the hauntings in their homes, but the eerie activity didn't stop.
"Hey."
The voice came again, this time from right behind my head. It was so close that it seemed to brush against my scalp, as if someone were standing right behind me.
It was clearly a child's voice. No child could be that tall; it had to be floating in midair.
An ordinary person would probably have been frightened by then. I was used to supernatural phenomena like this. I only tilted my head to listen, trying to pinpoint the owner of the voice.
I felt a gaze fall on me.
At first, I thought it was one of the ghosts hiding nearby, but when I looked up, I saw a figure in the wall surrounding a house not far away. A girl's head rested on the wall, looking at me from a distance.
It was Lina!
I immediately called Wu Ling and Liu Miao over.
They couldn't see Lina, but I could still see that head.
I rushed toward it, taking the lead, but I didn't dare run too fast.
We still couldn't tell whether the earlier explosion had been a coincidence or one of Lina's traps.
The three of us stayed close together as we charged toward