A Guest in a Ghost House Chapter 83 The Previous Lover 7

I guessed that I would find Wu Ting in the dressing room, but then I thought about what would happen if that were true. She'd eerily slide out to the pool area now that most people were gone and kill one of the children quickly. The others would see his body and panic, and then Wu Ting would kill them off one by one. They would never see her until the moment right before their death for maximum fear.

I worked myself into a panic imagining everything that could go wrong until I looked back toward the pool and saw that Lulu and Xiao Lingdang had returned. I guess they just went to check out the rest of the gym earlier, I thought. Seeing me look over, they waved. I waved back, signaling that I was fine, and then I lay back in the chair to relax a bit.

However, as I lay there, I realized that the pool had gone eerily quiet. I shot up to see what was happening, my whole body tense.

The children were still in the pool except for one who was lying on the edge. This is what I was afraid of! I screamed in my head before realizing he was just talking on the phone. Oh. Based on my experience, the other children were likely quietly discussing how to play a prank on the one who was on the phone.

Just as the children slowly swam over to the child on the phone, the lights in the locker room turned on. I looked over and saw that the lifeguard had changed clothes. He looked at those of us who were left and cried, "What are you still doing here? Were you all planning to spend the night? Go home!"

Didn't he look at the swimming pool when he went off-duty? I thought judgingly. The kids paid him no mind and continued to sneak up on their friend on the phone.

I ignored the lifeguard as well. After all, Lulu and Xiao Lingdang were here, and there was the matter of Wu Ting. I had more pressing concerns than a lifeguard who couldn't even pay attention to a pool.

He shouted a few more times, growing visibly angrier, but then his cell phone rang and he hurried to answer it. Just at that moment, several of the children pulled the child on the edge into the water, and his cellphone flew into the air before dropping into the pool.

Well, they should have at least waited until he was done with his phone call, I thought pityingly.

I looked over to the spot where the phone had disappeared. Some of the lights had gone off, so it was hard to see, but I thought I could make out the phone at the bottom. Then I realized the water around the phone was darker than the rest, and it wasn't because the lights were out.

I looked carefully, and then suddenly felt like ice had been poured down my back. My limbs went weak, a shiver ran up my body, and I found I couldn't even cry out.

There was a body under the water. I finally loudly called out, "Come on, someone's drowning!" and pointed in that direction.

The lifeguard was still on the phone and didn't turn when I had yelled. Useless. I looked at the children, but they were still gleefully dragging their friend around. I turned to Lulu and Xiao Lingdang.

Lulu was looking at me, and when I looked in their direction, she smiled and waved to me violently. That's….weird. Xiao Lingdang appeared alarmed by Lulu's reaction, then she stood up and hesitantly waved to me too.

Or is that alarm? I thought. Something was strange. Their mouths opened and closed, but neither of them made a sound. I got up from my chair to move toward them when my ankle was suddenly grabbed by a cold hand.

I stifled a scream, then turned my head. The boy who had been pushed under the water by his friends was leaning halfway out of the pool, clutching my ankle. His face had a blue tint, and he was coughing up water.

"Uncle, help me."

His friends were still trying to pull him into the water, saying tauntingly, "Come play with us. It's just a cellphone. We'll buy you a new one."

Someone here is a ghost, I thought. Everyone was acting far too strange.

"Haven't you left yet?!" The lifeguard had finished his phone call and was finally paying attention to us. I hoped he would arrive quickly. He certainly wasn't a ghost, and I hoped I could compare the others to him to determine who was the ghost.

The lifeguard had arrived and stood a few feet from me. He pointed to the boys in the pool and shouted, "You bastards, don't you know the swimming pool is closed?"

The children laughed and scattered, and the boy who was clinging to me took his opportunity to climb out of the water. The lifeguard ignored us and continued to roar at the kids in the pool.

But how many does he see? Can he see the boy with me? I glanced at the gasping child and asked, "Are you all right?"

The boy gasped a few more times then said, "I'm fine. It's fine." I reached out to help him up and sat him in a chair nearby. His hands were frozen.

Thinking that the lifeguard would keep the other kids and the drowned one apart, I began to move toward Lulu and Xiao Lingdang. The floor was slippery, so I was unable to move quickly. Behind me, the lifeguard continued to yell at the teenagers. In a way, the sound was comforting. It made me less afraid of whatever was going on.

Chapter end