What...?
What was going on now?!
A powerful urge kept surging within her to look around and see where she was, but the sound of wind beside her ear doused that impulse like a bucket of cold water.
Because she abruptly realized that this chilly wind sounded different from ordinary wind. It seemed more like some kind of breathing.
Then she suddenly realized that something cold had climbed onto her shoulder at some point, exhaling icy breaths beside her ear and constantly blowing cold air against the back of her neck.
Her pupils slowly began to dilate, and she realized she was losing focus. She refocused her gaze, then slowly moved her eyes toward her shoulder without changing the direction her face was pointing...
She shuddered all over in that instant. She saw a hand as pale as ice resting on her shoulder, faint wisps of something deathly white rising from it. She could not tell whether it was cold vapor or fog.
And her first impression was that a stone was weighing on her shoulder.
What was this thing...?!
It looked like some kind of... sculpture?!
"Your Student ID fell out."
Amid the whispers blowing cold air beside her ear, a voice that struck straight at her soul suddenly emerged.
Hearing that voice, Li Huiyuan found much of her fear and panic suddenly suppressed.
Student ID?
My... Student ID?
A powerful desire and impulse to turn around arose within her, but she still had one last instinct to resist. That shred of instinct told her-Don't turn around, Li Huiyuan! Whatever you do, don't turn around, Li!
"Take a look... is this the Student ID you dropped? The name seems to be... Li... Hui..."
The voice seemed to be reading the name on her Student ID. There was a strange,