Chapter 877: The Sound of Footsteps

Location one.

The Small Park.

The battle here was already over.

Only Yang Qi remained.

He stared at his two blood-soaked arms, silent.

As for that Deep Blue Suit Jason, he had long since vanished to who knows where.

Location two was the third floor of the library.

Lin Yu and his group of five had fled all the way back here from the first floor.

Everything was so familiar, except this time there was one more Green-haired Guy and one less Pimply Guy.

They had the only two girls crawl back into the air vent.

And the three guys hid among the rows of bookshelves near the vent, just like last time.

Even though this trick had already been used once, they weren't sure it could work a second time.

But at the moment, they had no other options.

The lights on the third floor of the library had long been turned off by Lin Yu and the others when they came up.

So the third floor was pitch black.

Even Lin Yu's group of three, who were relatively close together, could only vaguely see each other.

They waited here.

Lin Yu, a man with no religious beliefs, was actually starting to pray to the heavens and various mythological figures in his heart.

Praying they could make it through this ordeal safely, praying the police would come rescue them soon.

When people feel helpless in the face of reality, they often plead with the heavens and all kinds of gods and Buddhas.

You can see this kind of scene in hospitals.

Some patients or their family members kneel somewhere, praying endlessly.

Lin Yu didn't dare make a sound. He was leaning against a bookshelf, legs crossed.

His body was curled up, tucked in tight, which gave him a sense of security. If he stretched his arms and legs out and let them sprawl freely.

That would only make him feel uneasy inside.

He didn't dare pray out loud, only silently in his heart.

As he was praying, praying.

He suddenly heard a string of footsteps.

The footsteps echoed with exceptional clarity in the silent, pitch-black third floor of the library.

He could tell the footsteps were at some distance from them.

But then something bizarre happened.

The footsteps suddenly disappeared.

Lin Yu was puzzled. He had clearly felt the footsteps getting closer and closer to them.

So why did they suddenly vanish?

Could it be that the person was standing still in one place, not moving?

Just like that, over a minute passed.

The footsteps that had seemed to stop appeared again.

This time, Lin Yu, whose eyes were somewhat sharp in the darkness, had a flicker of terror flash through his gaze.

Because according to his reasoning, if the footsteps had suddenly disappeared, it meant the person wasn't moving.

So when the footsteps sounded again, they should have been about the same distance from them as when they had stopped before.

But this time, when the footsteps resumed, they were clearly much closer than before, definitely not from the spot where they had stopped!

Lin Yu looked at the Silver-Haired Guy and the Green-haired Guy.

Even though he couldn't see clearly, all three of them in the darkness seemed to sense each other's panic.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer to them.

Then they disappeared again, and after a short while, they appeared once more.

This repeated several times in a row.

Lin Yu even wondered if his extreme tension was causing him to hallucinate sounds?

Or was he having visual hallucinations?

Or maybe, was it haunted?

"Maybe the person is doing it on purpose."

"Walking a stretch in shoes, then taking them off and walking, then putting them back on and walking another stretch."

Thinking this, Lin Yu looked left and right from his current position, which was between two rows of bookshelves.

The bookshelf he was leaning against was also in the middle.

So he just needed to look left and right to see if any figure was approaching.

It had already been two minutes since the last sound of footsteps.

When there were footsteps, Lin Yu was nervous. When there were no footsteps, Lin Yu was even more nervous.

Finally, the footsteps appeared again.

And this time, the location where they appeared.

Made Lin Yu's whole body break out in goosebumps.

This time, the footsteps were less than a meter or two away from him.

But they didn't come from his left or right.

They came from above.

From above his head, the click-click-click of footsteps.

And the footsteps weren't moving forward, they sounded like someone marching in place.

But, where was there any path above him?

Lin Yu couldn't take it anymore.

The footsteps felt like they were stomping directly on his heart.

He pulled out his phone and skillfully turned on the flashlight.

The motion took less than three seconds.

Then, he pointed the flashlight on the back of his phone upward.

And immediately, he saw a scene that made him scream out loud.

There, at the very top of the row of bookshelves in front of him, on that rectangular platform at the top of the shelves.

The bookshelf was a full 2.5 meters tall.

And directly above him, a person was actually crouching there, both feet constantly tapping up and down.

Making that click-click-click sound.

This person had long straight black hair and was wearing a conspicuous female school uniform. But their face was a man's face, and around his mouth, there was a lot of bright red blood.

His gaze was utterly terrifying.

The black pupils seemed to fill most of the whites of his eyes, and he stared straight down at Lin Yu with an unblinking gaze.

Lin Yu was so frightened he screamed, and even the phone in his hand slipped from his grip.

It clattered directly onto the Tiled Floor.

On the other side, the Silver-Haired Guy, who also seemed like he had been holding it in for a long time, was set off by Lin Yu's scream. He couldn't hold it in anymore and rushed over to Lin Yu in a panic.

He asked, "What happened?"

Lin Yu's voice was trembling: "Up there, the very top..."

The Silver-Haired Guy instinctively swallowed a gulp of saliva.

He picked up Lin Yu's phone from the floor and pointed the flashlight on its back upward.

He didn't move the phone up quickly, just like when the Pink Long-Haired Girl had slowly come over to look at the Purple-Haired Guy's dead body. None of them dared to move too fast, afraid of seeing something that would scare them senseless, something their fragile little hearts couldn't handle.

To his surprise, as the light traveled further and further up, until it reached the very top.

There was nothing there.

Empty.

He let out a sigh of relief.

Then, he swept the light to the left and right of the top, and there was nothing there either.

Could it be... He quickly pulled the phone down and shone it around himself and Lin Yu.

No... no one, and nothing there...

"Lin Yu, are you hallucinating?"

The Silver-Haired Guy's lips were cracked, his voice heavy.

Lin Yu, while the Silver-Haired Guy was shining his phone upward.

Had also mustered up the courage to look a few times.

But just like the Silver-Haired Guy, he indeed didn't see the person from before anymore.

"Could it really have been a hallucination..."

"Yeah, yeah, maybe it really was a hallucination. This bookshelf is 2.5 meters tall. If it was a person, how could they have climbed up there without making a sound?"

Just as Lin Yu was comforting himself with these thoughts, the lights on the third floor of the library all turned on at once. The sudden brightness stabbed into Lin Yu and the others' eyes, and they all squeezed them shut in an instant.

As they closed their eyes.

Several loud male voices rang out on the third floor: "Hey! Is anyone there?! Is anyone on the third floor?!"

"We're the police! If anyone's here, come to the stairwell!"

"It's safe now!!!!"