"Tap-"
"Tap-"
"Tap-"
The ghost was coming!
Buried beneath the ball pit balls, Liu Jingqing felt her scalp prickle. Those footsteps had become her nightmare.
Should I get up right now and run... before it gets all the way here...
Or hold out to the end and pretend I'm not here at all...
What should I do... what on earth should I do?
If I run, there's no way I can put any distance between us quickly at my speed. Besides, I'm completely exhausted. I wouldn't get far.
I should keep hiding in the ball pit... it's so big, the ghost might not find me. What if it just takes a quick look and leaves?
Liu Jingqing finally made her decision.
Staying hidden here still offered a slim chance of survival. Running recklessly seemed more like certain death.
I can't run. I have to... have to stay calm.
She encouraged herself.
But the approaching footsteps grew clearer and clearer.
The ghost was already less than five meters from the ball pit...
Inside the fully lit Shopping Mall, a ghostly white, distorted figure stood quietly beside the ball pit, staring fixedly at the balls filling it.
Liu Jingqing was tense to the extreme!
She struggled to suppress her trembling and lay motionless in the pit.
Don't come down... don't come down... please, just take a look and leave...
The fear in Liu Jingqing's heart grew stronger. It would have been better if the ghost had done something, but after its footsteps stopped, there was no further sound at all. Instead, her imagination began to run wild.
Could it... be looking at me right now?
Are the balls not covering me completely?
Could part of my body be showing through a gap...
The more she thought, the more frightened she became, and