Chapter 152 A Surprise Attack

Lin Yun sent the letter she had just photographed to Song Xizheng, and also took pictures of the items, allowing Song Xizheng to choose some of them.

Lin Yun then said, "You pick one first and see what you want."

Lin Yun added, "If it’s really as you say, we’d better go to Linglan every day to find out the time of the parade. I’m really afraid that you might accidentally run into the parade float outside your shelter one day."

Song Xizheng: "Thanks, but I’m having a bit of bad luck."

Song Xizheng: "Why is my shelter on the float?! My sky has fallen."

After that, Song Xizheng stopped contacting her and went to read the letter.

Lin Yun also sent the same message to Song Zhenzhen, asking her to tell Xiong Qi and George that she didn’t have them as friends.

Song Zhenzhen said there was no problem.

However, items could only be exchanged in person, and the private transaction function on the personal panel could only be activated at transit stations.

Lin Yun packed all the items they had chosen separately into her backpack so it would be convenient to give them to them tomorrow.

Didi.

Lin Yun glanced at it again. It was a message from Song Zhenzhen.

Song Zhenzhen: "Xiong Qi said he’s planning to go to the puppet theater tomorrow. Want to come along?"

Lin Yun thought for a moment and replied to Song Zhenzhen that she would wait a moment, as she needed to ask Song Xizheng for his opinion.

Song Xizheng said it was no problem, and only then did she agree to their invitation.

After reading the rules on the paper, Lin Yun went back to the window to look at the situation outside.

Just like yesterday, there were NPCs wandering around.

It’s just that the timing was brought forward.

Song Xizheng didn’t send any more messages, and Lin Yun had nothing else to do, so she simply lay down to rest.

At midnight, there was another knock on the door.

However, the door that was knocked on was not Lin Yun’s door, but the door near hers.

Ten minutes later, there was a knock on her door.

The pattern of knocking this time was different from yesterday; it became two short knocks followed by two long knocks.

Yan Yue’s rule stated that the knocking sound at 10 PM every night would be different.

She tried to see through the peephole what was knocking on the door, but as soon as she put her eye to the peephole, she saw another eye staring intently in the direction of the peephole.

It was as if the other person had discovered her.

She was so scared that she didn’t dare to sleep all night.

After that, she never dared to look through the peephole again.

But to her surprise, the monster stayed outside her door for longer periods of time afterward.

She saw it through the peephole on the fourth day. In the following days, the monster would knock on the door at the appointed time and stay for half an hour each time before leaving.

This left Yan Yue confused. She didn’t know if the other person had noticed her or not. If they had, why did they leave after waiting for half an hour?

There were two short knocks followed by two long knocks, and a few minutes later, the monster opened the door to the mushroom house.

However, it didn’t rush to leave. Instead, it stayed inside for a while before slowly leaving the mushroom house to head to its next destination.

Lin Yun turned over again and fell asleep once more.

Keep knocking, anyway, nobody pays any attention to the monsters outside.

Beep beep beep!

Lin Yun sighed again, opened her personal panel, and prepared to see which little bastard was preventing her from sleeping.

Song Zhenzhen: "Ahhh, what do I do! It’s been over ten minutes! Almost twenty minutes, and that monster outside is still relentlessly knocking on my door!"

Song Zhenzhen: "Damn it, why won’t it leave? It came and started knocking on my door today, and it’s been knocking for ages and still won’t leave! It wasn’t like this last night!"

Lin Yun asked again, "Did you see its eyes through the peephole yesterday?"

Song Zhenzhen: "Yeah, how did you know? I don’t remember telling you yesterday."

Lin Yun said, "It’s okay, just wait a little longer, it’ll leave later. It seems we can’t look at it through the peephole, or it will realize there’s someone here."

Song Zhenzhen: "...Then am I doomed?"

Lin Yun replied, "It shouldn’t be a big problem. Just ignore it, right?"

Song Zhenzhen: "I’ve already behaved myself."

Song Zhenzhen: "If I had known that looking through the peephole would have been discovered, I would never have looked."

Upon seeing this message, Lin Yun scratched her head again, thinking, "It shouldn’t count as being discovered by a monster, right?"

The thought made Lin Yun a little more cautious about the rules she had received. Since the knocking pattern could change, she needed to remember every detail and pay attention to any difference from the previous night. Even a small change in the sound could mean that the situation outside had changed as well.

She also kept thinking about Song Zhenzhen’s experience. The fact that the monster had stayed outside for so long was unusual compared with the previous night. Lin Yun could not tell whether it had actually noticed someone behind the door, but she could not dismiss the possibility either.

Ignoring the monster seemed to be the safest choice. If it opened the door itself, then there was no reason to make the situation worse by attracting its attention.

The monsters must have sensed something, but they couldn’t be sure. To say they discovered something was probably impossible, since they would open the door to check on their own.

Having said that, wasn’t Song Xizheng, who had been watching from the window for two nights, in even more danger?

Lin Yun quietly switched to her private window and told him about it, so that the kid wouldn’t make eye contact with anyone and get shot on the bus.

Song Xizheng: "Thank you so much for the message, Sister Lin! I am deeply grateful!"

Song Xizheng: "These people have gone mad. The parade of floats isn’t even over yet, and they’ve already started dancing."

Song Xizheng: "To be honest, I wanted to sleep, but I was also afraid of missing something. It was a really sad day."

Lin Yun said, "That’s terrible... But it’s already past midnight, it should be over soon, right?"

Song Xizheng: "Oh, it’s over. It just ended, it was even a bit sudden, but it’s not a big deal, hahaha."

Lin Yun got up and looked out the window again, and this time she was able to see the monster that was knocking on doors everywhere.

The monster was indeed as Ghost Vine had described—very tall, but also thin.

It had a hunched back, long arms and legs, and one hand hanging down to one side had sharp claws.

Moreover, this monster was completely dark. Without moonlight or the lights in this amusement park, it could easily hide in the darkness and remain undetected.

It seemed to stand in front of the door for a moment, then reached out and opened it.

It stuck its head in to look around, and after confirming that there was nothing there, it went to the next door.

Still two short and two long.

Lin Yun watched for a while longer, but unexpectedly, the monster turned around and launched a counterattack.

It headed towards its shelter, and then there was a knock on her door.

Lin Yun again: "..."

This time, the knocking sound became one short knock followed by three long knocks.

The point about launching a surprise attack wasn’t mentioned in Yan Yue’s rules; it must have appeared later.

The monster outside lingered for quite a while this time, but after opening the door to check, it eventually left.

The incident of being ambushed was mentioned by Song Zhenzhen and the others during their conversation the next day.

The monster didn’t return a third time. Lin Yun waited a while longer, and when it didn’t make a sound, she simply went to sleep.

They agreed to meet at the puppet theater at 7:30, so she took a bouquet of roses and went with Song Xizheng to the visitor center to find Lily of the Valley.

She also brought a lily of the valley, yes, just one.

Lily of the Valley casually set the roses aside, holding only the lily of the valley flower with obvious affection.

"Your lily of the valley flowers are really nice. They smell wonderful in my room; the whole room smells wonderful."

"I’m glad you like it."

Lin Yun organized her thoughts and tentatively asked, "Sister Linglan, I heard that a new puppet theater opened yesterday?"