Emotions in position.
Ren Huixi glanced at her own shadow and aimed her phone’s camera, pressing the record button.
"Ah! It’s over, we’ve broken up, I don’t ever want to fall in love again, I’m going to live strong on my own..."
Ren Huixi recited the lines she had been brewing for a long time, her tone full of sadness and loneliness, with a hint of relief and unconstraint.
"Breaking up is fitting~ no one needs to say goodbye~ where’s the dignity~ if you want to leave, don’t be sorry~"
Her voice turned into a song, echoing through the streets, drawing curious glances from several passersby nearby.
She enjoyed this feeling greatly, her dream being to become a singer in the spotlight, showing off her beauty and talent in front of the camera.
With the song over, Ren Huixi had arrived at the parking lot where she had parked her electric scooter.
Just as she was about to turn off the recording on her phone, her gaze involuntarily shifted to a spot behind her, filled with a mix of curiosity and fear.
The light from her phone and the camera also pointed in that direction.
There was a wall, the enclosing wall of this open-air parking lot, painted with monotonous white paint.
Plain and unremarkable.
However, at this moment, Ren Huixi’s eyes were fixed on the wall as if there was something special about it.
"Huh? Is it gone today? Could what I saw before really have been an illusion...?"
She stared at the wall for a good while but saw no response, eventually murmuring to herself in disappointment.
Just as her words ended, a shadow suddenly flitted across the wall, incredibly Swift, moving from the right to left in just a second or two.
Ren Huixi immediately looked around herself, but saw nothing out of the ordinary.
The next second, several more shadows crossed over the wall, only this time they moved much slower, eventually coming to a halt at the edge.
Ren Huixi let out a cry, startled by the scene in front of her.
On the wall, three eerie shadows were cast, each reaching about two meters in height, their forms slender and limbs disproportionately elongated.
At that moment, the three shadows were sitting huddled together, their backs bent, heads lowered, and arms constantly waving in front of them, creating a very odd sensation.
They were like gorillas in a zoo picking food from the ground, only their movements were much more alarming than those of gorillas.
Ren Huixi felt her scalp tingle, and her hand holding the phone began to tremble incessantly.
These shadows had been spotted by her unintentionally when she was leaving work two days ago, but they had vanished in a flash both times before, and their forms weren’t very clear, like today when they stopped, this was the first time she had seen them .
Ren Huixi swallowed hard and then suddenly turned to look behind herself.
There, the lights were bright, and a few cars were scattered around, parked haphazardly; beyond that, there was nothing else.
"There’s nothing there!"
Ren Huixi breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, then turned her gaze back to the wall from before.
The shadowy figures were still there!
The girl looked down at her own shadow at her feet, then raised her head to look at the eerie shadows on the wall not far away, feeling as if her legs were leaden, unable to move.
And her phone in her hand also recorded this hair-raising scene.
On the wall, three figures sat together as if they hadn’t seen her, their arms moving continuously, as if they were enjoying some lavish feast.
"These must be reflections from somewhere else, right? Maybe someone in a house behind me is watching TV, and it projected onto this wall..."
Ren Huixi comforted herself in her heart. She turned her head to stealthily glance in the direction of the distant high-rise buildings, hidden in the night.
On the wall, it seemed as though the shadowy figures had finished their ’meal’ and stood up, running off to the left and suddenly disappearing.
Ren Huixi felt her heart might leap out of her chest. Seeing those sinister figures finally vanish, her legs regained their ability to move, and she quickly hopped onto her bike to leave the place.
That night, a strange video appeared on the Quick Sound app.
The video started off normally with a girl walking down a street, speaking of a breakup, then singing a sad song.
The girl had a decent singing voice. A few male viewers who came across the video were initially interested upon seeing her shadow and hearing her voice.
But as soon as the girl finished singing and revealed her plain face, they all lost their desire to continue watching and were ready to switch to the next video.
Then, at that moment, the camera in the video was pointed at a white wall, and a creepy shadow flashed across it, causing all the viewers to jump and halt their action to scroll to the next page.
What followed was the scene Ren Huixi recorded of the three shadowy figures ’feeding,’ interspersed with several shots of her turning the camera to observe the scene behind her, alerting the viewers that the thing on that wall probably wasn’t a projection from behind.
In the comments section, messages were immediately posted.
"At first, I thought this was just an ordinary singing video, but I didn’t expect the uploader to give me a surprise. It turned out to be a horror video! For this creativity alone, I’m a fan!"
"Actually, the girl sings quite well. It’s just a pity she had to reveal her face in the end, ruining it. I just checked her other videos; they almost all have this problem, no wonder she hasn’t gone viral."
"I think she sings really well; it’s just there are too many people who judge by appearance now, hard to become popular! Anyway, I followed her because she is at least better than many vapid anchors!"
"Eh? Am I the only one who noticed the shadows on the wall? Don’t you think they don’t look fake at all? I watched the video carefully, and there are no signs of editing. There’s nothing behind the host either. I think there’s something genuinely wrong with these shadows."
"Guys, the Spiritual Energy Recovery has begun! This is the proof! Look at the shadow of the host towards the end of the video, it’s right under her own feet, the shadows on the wall shouldn’t even exist! I’ve seen Scarecrow’s videos! These must be the same as before, an unknown sinister monster!"
Ren Huixi had been scared out of her wits when passing through the parking lot. Exhausted in spirit, she managed to upload a video before falling into a deep sleep.
However, what she herself hadn’t expected was that her wish to become famous was strangely fulfilled. In just one night’s time, the video had already surpassed ten thousand likes.