My Healing Games

Chapter 662 The Warmth of Home
A middle-aged woman's slightly surprised voice came from the phone, and Xiao You felt a chill run down her spine after hearing it.

"You just saw another person in the living room?!"

"Yeah! He took your dirty clothes into the bathroom! I thought he was your boyfriend!"

"The bathroom?" Xiao You realized then that the bathroom door had been closed by someone, something she never did.

The fear overwhelmed her in an instant. Without even explaining to her mother, Xiao You rushed to open the door, frantically twisting the doorknob. But then, something truly despairing happened.

Something seems to be stuck in the door lock; I can't press the handle down, and the door won't open at all!

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Strange noises came from the bathroom on the other side of the living room. Xiao You reached for the door with both hands and kept turning her head to look at the bathroom.

Water droplets slid down the opaque frosted glass. It seemed like someone was washing clothes in the bathroom, but the clothes seemed to get dirtier the more they were washed, and the frequency of the strange noise gradually increased.

"Help! Is anyone there?!"

Xiao You, who was having a mental breakdown, panicked and pounded on the door, screaming, but there was only silence outside and no one responded.

"Call the police right away! I'll call the police for you too!"

After Xiao You screamed, the strange noises in the bathroom suddenly stopped. A few seconds later, something seemed to approach from behind the frosted glass. It was dark and looked like a face pressed against the glass.

The bathroom doorknob slowly turned downwards. Xiao You couldn't open the living room door. If this continued, she would be facing the things inside the bathroom.

In a panic, she grabbed her phone and ran back to her bedroom.

Just as she was about to close the bedroom door, the bathroom door opened by itself.

Xiao You, who was in a hurry to close the door, didn't dare to look closely; she only caught a glimpse of a pair of legs.

After locking the bedroom door, Xiao You ran over and opened the bedroom window, but it was on the seventh floor, and jumping from there would be certain death.

"Don't jump! Call the police! Get the neighbors to help you!" Her mother's voice came through the phone, and Xiao You calmed down a little.

She didn't dare hang up on her mother's call, switched the video to the background, and prepared to call the police.

But something even more unexpected happened to Xiao You: she couldn't get through to the police!
Emergency numbers are special numbers that are not restricted by any telecommunications company's service. As long as there is a mobile base station nearby, they can receive and send signals to each other.

The fact that she couldn't get through to the police was just surprising to Xiao You. What truly terrified her was that while she couldn't make emergency calls, she could still video chat with her mother!

Cold sweat instantly poured down her face. Just then, a video call popped up in the background. Xiao You looked at her mother's face on the phone screen, her hands trembling.

It was only then that she noticed her mother's skin seemed unusually fair today.

"Baby, what's wrong? Don't be afraid! Mommy's coming right away!"

"No need!" Xiao You screamed, almost throwing her phone away.

"Mom is already in your neighborhood! Don't be afraid!"

"No! Don't come any closer!" Xiao You's voice became shrill, and her whole body was trembling.

"Honey! Mommy's already inside the building!"

"You! Who are you?!" The video feed became increasingly blurry, and the signal completely disappeared, but Xiao You could still see her mother's face on the phone screen. It was as if she could see her through the phone screen, her mother staring intently at her.

"I'm on the third floor! The fourth floor! The fifth floor..."

Xiao You's mental defenses had collapsed. She was so scared that she couldn't hold her phone properly. Just as the phone fell to the ground, her mother's last words came through the video: "I'm at your door!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Suddenly, there was a knocking sound at the living room door. Xiao You held her breath, completely at a loss for what to do.

At this most suffocating moment, the strange footsteps sounded again in the living room, as if someone was walking outside.

As darkness fell, the room felt like an icebox, with an absurdly low temperature.

A few seconds later, Xiao You clearly heard the sound of the living room door being opened, but that was the last sound she heard.

After the living room door opened, the outside was completely silent.

Covering her mouth and nose, Xiao You stood still for a long time before overcoming her fear and approaching the bedroom door.

What's going on outside?

Xiao You's fingers were trembling uncontrollably. Just as she was about to touch the bedroom door, her phone, which had fallen to the ground, suddenly started vibrating.

She received several messages in a row, some from the landlord, some from the tenant Mr. Jia, and a few from her father.

"The signal has been restored?"

Xiao You overcame her fear, grabbed her phone, dialed the police, and checked the messages her father had sent.

“Yui, I haven’t been able to get through to you on the phone. I know you still hate me, but I hope you can come to the city hospital.”

"Could you please reply to my message? You are my only daughter, after all. I promise you, I will never gamble again!"

"Around 4 p.m., your mother wanted to visit you, but she was in a car accident on the way. There's little chance she'll survive."

"Come home, Yui, you're all Dad has left."

Xiao You only just saw that information, and her mind is completely blank.

"mom?"

Seemingly remembering something, Xiao You gripped her phone tightly, opened the bedroom door, and rushed out.

The living room was covered in wet footprints, the bathroom faucet was running, the mirror was broken, and sharp shards were scattered all over the floor, as if someone had been fighting inside.

As she walked toward the living room door, which had been tightly closed, it was now slightly ajar. Xiao You tried pulling the doorknob, and this time she opened the door easily.

Before she could react, a force pushed her from behind, shoving her out of the room.

Looking back, Xiao You saw her mother hanging from the living room light by something, with a blood-stained cell phone around her neck and her hands tightly gripping the clothes of a strange man.

"Yui! Run!"

Hearing her mother's voice, Xiao You crawled backward, tumbled down the stairs, and took out her phone again to call the police.

Despite her injuries and driven by fear, Xiao You ran all the way to the first floor, only to find a yellow paper pasted on the iron gate of the stairwell, which was also locked.

Despair kept welling up in her heart. Xiao You tried many times but couldn't open the stairwell door. Her cries for help couldn't get help from her neighbors either. It seemed like no one could hear her shouts. Instead, the sound of footsteps came from upstairs.

"He's coming down!"

Fear gripped her heart. Xiao You looked around and found that the doors of several houses on the first floor were unlocked. She randomly picked one and sneaked inside.

There was no one in the room. Xiao You slowed her pace and quietly hid inside a wardrobe.

Biting her lip tightly, Xiao You put her phone on silent, afraid to make any sound.

Night had fallen, and Xiao You was so nervous that she dared not breathe too hard. She could only occasionally peek through the crack in the cabinet door to observe the situation outside.

A while later, Xiaoyou's phone, which she was holding in her palm, suddenly lit up. She looked down and saw that it was her mother making a video call to her.

A moment of surprise made her answer the phone, but after the video call connected, she didn't see her mother on the phone screen. Instead, she saw the rapidly swaying staircase steps and the door number on the second floor.

"No! This isn't Mom calling! This is the ghost's perspective! It's coming over!"

She quickly hung up, biting her lip so hard it bled.

But as soon as she hung up, her mother kept sending video calls, the pop-up window kept shaking, and the phone screen emitted a faint, eerie light.

Not daring to answer the call, Xiao You turned off her phone and placed it in a corner of the cabinet. Just then, she heard the sound of the door to the opposite room being pushed open.

"It's in?!"

Xiao You felt like her heart was about to stop, and she hugged herself tightly.

Time seemed to slow down in the darkness, and Xiao You didn't even dare to listen to the sounds outside.

Footsteps could be heard not far away, and the thing was moving back and forth.

About ten minutes later, footsteps appeared in the bedroom where Xiao You was hiding, and then stopped in front of the wardrobe.

Xiao You, her face contorted with fear, trembled as she peered through the crack in the cabinet door.

At the same time, two men's voices could be heard outside the stairwell.

"Han Fei, slow down!"

"The situation is critical; we absolutely cannot delay!"

"What do we do now? The hallway door is locked, and we can't get through to the female tenant on the phone. Should we wait downstairs?"

"It's okay, I have professional lock-picking skills."

"You can pick locks?"

"Bang!!"

(End of this chapter)