Chapter 5

The terrifying scene in front of them, coupled with the eerie chewing sounds, struck fear deep into their hearts. Su Jin quietly told the other three to make their way out of the house and into the front yard. If there really was something else in here that they couldn’t see, it was too dangerous to remain in this small house.

But just as they turned to walk out of the house, the door suddenly slammed shut. A picture frame that was hanging on the back of the door shook violently from how hard the door had slammed shut. The frame creaked noisily as it swung from side to side, but along with this, the chewing noises at the table had abruptly come to a halt.

Yang Zichen and Zhang Jing were clearly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. They were both trembling all over, and their pupils had constricted in terror. They were convinced that If they remained in this place for one more second, they might lose their marbles. Su Jin gave Chu Yi a knowing glance. Chu Yi saw it, and they both started ramming at the door together.

But to their shock and horror, the door that had supposedly gone through several decades of weathering refused to give way even though two grown men were ramming their bodies into it so hard!

Woong!

A fork came flying from the dining table and landed itself in Chu Yi’s shoulder. Chu Yi winced, and his eyes were suddenly filled with a look of horror.

Everyone was too frightened to move, and only Chu Yi kept flailing about. He kept making strangled noises, as if someone was actually strangling him. Su Jin quickly snapped out of his initial shock and ran over to pull Chu Yi up from the floor, but Chu Yi was struggling so hard that Su Jin simply couldn’t get him to his feet.

He then noticed the fork in Chu Yi’s shoulder and felt that Chu Yi’s odd behavior probably had something to do with this fork, so he grabbed hold of the fork in the hope of getting it out of Chu Yi’s shoulder.

But the moment he touched the fork, his eyes widened. He could now see a man whose body was half rotting, using his hands to strangle Chu Yi’s neck.

Su Jin’s first instinct was to let go of the fork. And as he did that, the rotting man immediately disappeared from his vision. But at the same time, Chu Yi’s eyes were beginning to roll upwards, and his limbs weren’t moving as vigorously as before.

So even though it was terrifying, Su Jin knew that he had to save Chu Yi. He grabbed hold of the fork, and the rotting man appeared again, but this time, Su Jin ignored him and used all his strength to pull the fork out.

The fork finally came out, and the rotting man let go of Chu Yi, but suddenly pounced towards Su Jin instead. The man opened his mouth to roar soundlessly, as if he was going to tear Su Jin to pieces.

Su Jin quickly threw the fork in his hands away. The moment the fork left his hand, the rotting man also disappeared.

Cold sweat dripped down Su Jin’s forehead while Chu Yi was panting heavily. Su Jin said to the rest, “We’ve got to find a way to open this door! We can’t stay here any longer!”

Everyone else agreed with Su Jin’s opinion, but the old, rugged door of the house simply refused to budge. Suddenly, Su Jin heard the sound of metal clinking against each other coming from behind them. He turned and saw that all the cutlery on the dining table were starting to move slowly.

“Move aside!” yelled Su Jin loudly. He pulled his knife out and used it to hack at the door, which successfully chipped off some of the wood. When Zhang Jing and Chu Yi saw that, they immediately pulled their knives out and began hacking away at the door too.

The cutlery on the dining table behind them started moving more and more vigorously, as if they would fly at the four of them again like the fork earlier. When Chu Yi saw that they had made several cuts in the door, he raised his foot and kicked a hole right through the door.

He leaped out of the door while holding onto Zhang Jing and Yang Zichen. Su Jin was about to leap out as well when he felt a chilling presence right behind him.

Su Jin grabbed a piece of the broken door and flung it behind him without even looking back, and then leaped out of the house. He could hear the sound of the broken wood smashing and the sound of several metallic objects crashing.

After he made it out of the house, he noticed that all the cutleries had fallen to the floor just in front of the door, as if there were an invisible screen that prevented the cutlery from making it out of the house.

“Brother Su! Are you alright?” asked Chu Yi concernedly.

Su Jin nodded, then motioned to the rest to move away from the house before he narrowed his eyes to look back inside the house. He could see that the dining table was still moving, but the kerosene lamp in the house was quite dim, so he couldn’t see very clearly.

“What … what was that?” Zhang Jing looked terrified. Everything happened very quickly, but the entire situation that just happened was just way too horrifying for words to explain.

Su Jin and Chu Yi looked at each other. The two of them were the only ones who saw exactly what had happened earlier, and even they couldn’t believe if that was seriously a ghost or if they had just been seeing things.

“Brother Su, you saw that too, right?” asked Chu Yi quietly.

Su Jin nodded and said, “A man with rotting flesh, right? It’s got something to do with that fork. It seems like only those who touch the fork can see him.”

Chu Yi nodded, then thanked Su Jin, “Thanks for saving my life. If you hadn’t done that, I’d be dead by now.”

Su Jin patted Chu Yi on the shoulder. Even though that had happened in mere seconds, it had nearly cost Chu Yi his life. Su Jin now believed what Liu Yingying said earlier. It was true that there was something in this town that could potentially kill them at any minute.

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