Qin Ye rested his saber on his shoulder and glanced coldly at the corridor outside that was covered in dark shadows.

Thud… thud… The sound reverberated through the empty dormitory building as it rhythmically drew closer and closer towards him. One minute later, a pale hand landed on the door with a soft smack.

“Sss… sss sss…” There was a series of short and truncated goosebumps-inducing sounds, almost as though someone were licking the gray matter of a person’s brain with his scarlet tongue.

And then, there was an abrupt silence. Qin Ye tightened his grip on his saber.

In the very next second, amidst the dead silence, a huge head peeked out from the corner of the wall outside.

It was a meter-large head of a humanoid paper effigy! The paintwork on the effigy was quite poorly done, and its facial features were hardly straight or proportionate for that matter. The miserable, twisted face appeared all the more creepy under the eerie glare of the setting sun.

The humanoid paper effigy wore a tall white hat over its head. Its eyes were bloodshot, and its neck extended from the corridor as though it were a snake. Dishevelled human hair hung loosely underneath its tall white hat. At the same time, its nose continued to twitch and sniffle as though it were a vicious, rabid dog. And then, finally, it turned its pair of bloodshot eyes towards the bathroom.

The final rays of sunlight for the day cast a dappled shadow...