rose in his heart

Chapter 16 Can I Give You a Call, Right Now

It was still pitch black in front of Xing Zhu's eyes, and there was no other sound around her, only her thunderous heartbeat and suppressed breathing could be heard.

She froze for a moment, and quickly realized that it should be a power outage.

Anyone who has lived in Jiangcheng for more than five years knows that although Jiangcheng is a third-tier city that is comfortable to live in, it is really annoying during the rainy season.Because it not only rains continuously, but also occasionally loses power and water because the rain floods a certain power station.

After realizing that this was a power outage, rather than any other horrible situation, Xing Zhu slowed down, but looking at the darkness in front of her, she still couldn't help thinking of that nightmare.

The black and cramped box, the environment surrounded by ice holes, people crying and collapsing... and her, covered in blood, screaming hysterically.

The trembling and fear of being on the scene made her almost out of breath.

Xing Zhu told himself that this was just a dream.

But she took a few deep breaths, but she still didn't forget, couldn't forget, and the image of that dream kept reappearing in her mind repeatedly.

Xing Zhu lifted the quilt violently, and got up from the bed without any hesitation. She was going to get her mobile phone, and now she couldn't let her thoughts stop here.

I put my phone on the sofa before going to bed, now I have to walk over and get it...

She picked up the flashlight on the bedside and cast a faint light on her way forward.

The house is not big, and the distance from the bedroom to the sofa is not too far, but right now it feels very long for no reason.

It wasn't until she got the phone that she felt relieved.

Turning around and returning to the bedroom, she moved cautiously.

But when he lifted the quilt and was about to go in, he screamed suddenly.

The flashlight fell to the ground in response, and it also illuminated the things in the quilt that scared her.

It's a poster, the Titanic poster she pasted on the bedside at will.

Perhaps it was because she accidentally touched it when she just got up, and it fell lightly onto her bed when she left.

In short, Xing Zhu didn't expect it, so he was also frightened.

In the current environment, and under the premise of having just woken up from a nightmare, seeing the pale faces of two foreigners in the bed, probably few people can control themselves not to scream.

She couldn't lie down in the end, so she opened the blackout curtains and sat down on the tatami mat by the French window.

The heart is still flustered.

She has some problems with heart rhythm disorder, because she stayed up late and drank too much before, and she probably committed it again tonight because she was scared by herself.

With the faint moonlight, there was a little light in the room.

Folding his legs and embracing his knees, Xing Zhu put his chin on his knees and looked down at the phone.

It's almost three o'clock.

She clicked on Douyin and watched it for a while, but happened to be unlucky enough to scroll to a horror movie, and she directly quit the app.

After finally forgetting the nightmare, the scene of the horror movie popped up again and again in my mind.

Xing Zhu's face was waxy white.

Out of the corner of the eye at this moment, he caught a glimpse of a pop-up window from WeChat, Xing Zhu paused, and clicked on WeChat.

In the friend application, a bright red dot appeared in front of her eyes.

Xingzhu lit it and saw that it was Chu Jin.

Because the person who added her has a profile picture of a snow deer, and the id is 1.

Yes, the simple Arabic numeral 1.

Only Chu Jin can pull like this.

Because of the panic now, Xing Zhu can't feel any other emotions in himself now, but he just accepted Chu Jin's friend application a little dullly.

She didn't have anything to talk to him at the moment, she just wanted to call quickly.As long as she calls, it should be able to solve her current palpitations.

When Xing Zhu was about to quit WeChat to find some funny movie to watch, Chu Jin sent a sentence in WeChat.

She opened it, only to find that what he sent was just a question mark.

Not really words.

1: ?
Xingzhu:?
1: Punishment candle?
Xing Zhu silently watched the rhetorical question from Chu Jin, and suddenly wanted to ask him: Are you blind?

Her WeChat id is Xing Zhu, who is she not Xing Zhu?

Xing Zhu pursed his lips and frowned, and replied: I am not, I am Chu Jin.

According to her usual personality, she doesn't like to tell such cold jokes.

It's really that Xingzhu now wants to get rid of this panic and fearful atmosphere and mood, so he tries to make himself happier.

But Chu Jin probably didn't get used to it, so he was silent for a long time before replying to her.

1: Oh
Xing Zhu saw Chu Jin's indifferent and undisciplined appearance in this single word.

She suddenly felt a little irritable.

And this irritability is almost getting stronger and stronger, even she herself doesn't understand why.

Is it because of Chu Jin's attitude?So her desire to conquer and temper erupted because of his indifference?

But he's a jerk, that's what he is.She should not divert the will of others because of her own emotions.

It is rare for Xing Zhu to lose control of his emotions like this tonight.

She closed her eyes and meditated for a moment before opening them again.

The moonlight fell on the screen of the mobile phone piecemeal. She looked at the words on the screen, and suddenly felt the thunderous heartbeat in her ears gradually quiet down.

why?
——Is it because irritability replaced the previous terror, so she only has irritability now, without panic and fear?
After realizing this, she was completely calm.

After a while, she looked at the phone again.

What was displayed on the screen was still the chat interface between her and Chu Jin. After Chu Jin replied an oh, she didn't reply again, so now the topic ended on Chu Jin's oh.

For a moment, Xing Zhu felt that Chu Jin's oh, it's not so dragging.

She replied.

Xingzhu: My house has a power outage.

After a while.

1: So?
Xing Zhu didn't follow Chu Jin's words, she just explained her own thoughts, what she wanted to say and what she wanted to do at the moment.

Xingzhu: So, can I give you a call?

Xing Zhu thought, Chu Jin probably wouldn't return her right away.

He may simply refuse.

Maybe delete her directly.

Or maybe, like at the beginning, I will directly reply:?

But what Xing Zhu didn't expect was that when she was thinking about the next step, Chu Jin directly made a voice call.

The ringtone of the WeChat voice suddenly rang in the quiet room, like the sound of firecrackers suddenly exploding in an empty box.

Xing Zhu was used to the darkness, and was shocked by the unexpected ringtone. He lost his grip on the phone and dropped it from his hand.

While the phone was falling, she accidentally touched the connect button.

Ever since, she clearly heard the man's breathing the moment the phone was connected.

There is another sentence, full of magnetism and hoarseness at 03:30 in the middle of the night——

"Hey?"

(End of this chapter)