My Iyashikei Game Chapter 198: Three Am

The warm water worked miracles on Huang Yin’s tensed nerves. He calmed down and recovered some of his stamina. He minimized the video window and pulled it to the side. Then he pulled up videos of comedy and cartoons instead. Watching the gags, listening to the canned laughter, he finally felt ready enough to continue with the video. He pressed play and the man in the video turned his phone around to look behind him. The fear on his face was palpable. Cold sweat beaded on his forehead. “They have entered my home?”

Picking up the glass ashtray from the table, the man swung around to take a good shot of his home. The person taking the video had been so quiet that it felt like the man was talking to himself. “Can a phone really capture their existence?” The man carefully checked all the rooms through the lens of his phone camera. He found nothing. Huang Yin examined every corner of the video, and he too found nothing.

“In that case, why would my neighbour say those things?” The man fidgeted, “Or was that not my neighbour? He’s been colluding with them? The ghosts haven’t really entered my home but he wanted me to open the door to let them in?!” The man slowly convinced himself, “Yes, my neighbour was trying to scare me. If I really open the door, the ghosts outside will jump in!” The man rubbed his arms nervously, “Thankfully, I didn’t listen to him…”

The phone which was filming suddenly buzzed. The man had to quit filming mode. He glanced at the caller id and his expression slowly softened. “Honey? Why are you calling me at this hour? Why aren’t you in bed?”

“There are so many bugs here in the countryside, I can’t even sleep.” The woman groaned resentfully. “When can our son and I return home? Are you sure you saw a ghost in our building?”

“Do you think I will lie about something as serious as that?!” The man suddenly raised his voice, but then quickly lowered it as if worried that he might be overheard. “Just stay there for a few more days. We just need to find someone to buy this house from us and then we can move.

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