When I woke up, I was already in the hospital.
It was the morning after Seventh Master had rescued us.
After waking, I also discovered that there were four beds in the ward, occupied by me, An Ning, Meng Yifan, and Song Xiaotian.
Meng Yifan and Song Xiaotian had woken up before me. An Ning was still unconscious.
"You're awake."
Seventh Master sat there, reading a book he held in his hands.
Seeing that I was awake, he immediately walked over. "How do you feel?"
"Hungry..." I was so hungry that my head felt foggy and my whole body was weak.
Song Xiaotian tossed me a bread roll and came over too.
As I ate the bread, I asked, "What's the date today?"
"The thirteenth."
"The thirteenth?"
I was startled and found it hard to believe.
When An Ning and I had gone to Liu Jing's home, it had been the twelfth. If today was only the thirteenth, didn't that mean we had gone there yesterday?
But how was that possible?
We had been trapped inside for so long that we had nearly died. How could only a day have passed?
I pulled out my phone, only to discover that its battery was dead.
Seventh Master took out his own phone and held it out for me to see.
I looked. It really was the thirteenth!
"How could this happen?" I asked.
"That's how ghost walls work."
Seventh Master explained, "A ghost wall is an illusion cast by a Yin Soul. It uses magnetic fields to affect the human brain and make people hallucinate. Everything you see within that hallucination is unreal, including time."
"Once you fall under the illusion, it's the same as being hypnotized. A Yin Soul can't change time, but it can hypnotize you and distort your