Chapter 179 - 180: The Back
"Don’t tell me she’s actually carrying a... ghost?"
The auntie looked terrified. Thinking of the bullet comments she’d just seen, she blurted it out.
[No way, no way. Does it really have to be this wild in the middle of the night?]
[I wouldn’t rule it out. The streamer’s never been wrong before. That girl is probably carrying someone on her back.]
[That’s terrifying. I can already picture something clinging to her back.]
Su Nian frowned and explained.
"There’s no one on her back. The problem lies with her back itself."
The auntie was baffled for a moment and dazedly repeated Su Nian’s words.
"The problem is just with her back?"
Seemingly bewildered by Su Nian, the auntie was completely lost. She coughed softly a couple of times and stared quizzically at the phone.
Just then, a sound suddenly came from outside the door.
The strange girl walked in again.
She was wearing pajamas, and her steps were unsteady as if she had no strength. Her face was pale, with dark, heavy circles under her eyes. She was so thin she was practically skin and bones.
The auntie’s expression stiffened. ’How is she back again?’
The girl didn’t seem to notice the auntie’s phone. She let out a huge yawn, looking incredibly sleepy. With a blank expression, she looked at the auntie and said, "There’s something in my bed. It’s digging into me and I can’t sleep!"
The auntie looked displeased, but she forced a smile anyway.
"Alright, I’ll go add another layer of padding, change the sheets, and take a look for you."
The girl nodded slightly, and the auntie went to the girl’s room, phone in hand.
In the spacious room, a large bed stood in the very center, immediately drawing one’s attention.
Even more striking was the thick padding on the bed. You could tell just by looking at it how soft the bed was, yet the girl claimed it was digging into her.
[Is she really not just giving the auntie a hard time on purpose?]
[I feel like the auntie is used to it by now.]
[The streamer just said there’s a problem with her back.]
The girl stood off to the side, her expression cold. She stared intently as the auntie checked the bed and changed the padding, but she remained completely silent.
"Haven’t you noticed that there’s something wrong with your own body?"
Su Nian’s voice came from the auntie’s phone, catching the girl’s attention.
She tilted her head slightly. The auntie froze, and just as she was about to explain, Su Nian’s voice came through again.
"Do you really think the bed is the problem?"
Su Nian’s tone was flat, yet it held a faint trace of mockery.
Because she was listening so intently, the girl answered without thinking.
"Of course it’s the bed’s problem! I only feel it digging into me when I’m lying on the bed!"
But the moment she said it, the girl grew annoyed.
A light blush spread across her face, and her expression became somewhat awkward.
"Dare to take a look at your back? There’ll be a surprise for you."
Su Nian didn’t rebut her, instead changing the subject to seeing the girl’s back.
[What the hell is on her back? I’m so curious!]
[I’m curious too. Don’t tell me it’s a ghost?]
The girl had calmed down by now, her expression returning to one of cold indifference. The auntie kept her head down, tidying the bed, while inwardly blaming Su Nian for exposing her presence so suddenly.
The room fell silent again, but then Su Nian spoke up.
"If you can’t sleep, you’ll be dead in five days. Three months ago, you ate something strange. You remember that, don’t you?"
Su Nian’s words struck the girl like an arrow to the heart. She found herself uneasily recalling the strange thing she had eaten that night.
The words of refusal on her lips died, and she hesitated.
She glanced at the auntie. The auntie took the hint and quietly explained about Su Nian’s livestream.
"You just need to show a little bit of your back. I’ll know the reason as soon as I see it."
Su Nian added.
After a while, the girl finally made a decision.
She gently pulled her shirt up a little.
Her back was covered in countless, densely packed, black, round bumps, each about the size of a pea...