Trembling At A High Altitude

When he rushed into that room, he saw Classmate Yang Yiju fleeing from the bathroom, mumbling something as she ran, and pointing at the mirror on the bathroom wall at the same time.

Some other people in the other rooms also ran over with Li Teng.

Because of Yang Yiju's scream, Classmate Liu Shina, who had been showering in the same room, hurriedly dried off her body and ran out of the bathroom wrapped in only a bath towel.

"What's wrong?" Li Teng asked Yang Yiju.

"The mirror, when I was looking in the mirror just now, that ghost was right behind me!" Yang Yiju's body was shaking non-stop.

Li Teng walked into the bathroom and scrutinized the mirror carefully.

Besides him, he saw nothing out of the ordinary.

"Really, she was standing right behind me. I saw it in the mirror! She had no face, no, a face full of dark spots, with her hair all disheveled, it was too terrifying!" Yang Yiju insisted to Li Teng.

"There's nothing to be afraid of, if she really wanted to hurt you, you wouldn't think of leaving the bathroom alive. How about this..." Li Teng walked over, opened a cupboard, took out a bedsheet, and tucked it into the upper edge of the wall-mounted mirror, covering the entire mirror surface.

"There, it's fine now, keep doing what you were doing. If the other rooms are also worried about the same problem, just cover up the mirrors. Hurry up and shower, and once you're all together, there's nothing to be afraid of anymore," said Li Teng to the few actresses who had gathered in the room.

"Senior, I'm sorry, I didn't do it on purpose, but I really saw her, so scary," Yang Yiju apologized to Li Teng.

"It's okay, it's normal for you guys to panic at something like this on your first acting job, you'll get used to it after a few more shoots," Li Teng said with a smile.

"Is every scene this scary?" Several new actresses felt uncertain about their future.

"No, horror movies are just a small category among many. There is a variety of film types in the Film and Television City, it's just that your first scene happened to be this kind," Li Teng explained to everyone and then walked back to his room.

Just as he was about to enter, he encountered Elsa, who had put on her pajamas and was hurriedly coming out of the door, and bumped straight into Li Teng's arms.

"What happened?" Li Teng steadied Elsa.

"Was there a terrible incident just now?" Elsa's face was filled with fear.

"A girl got dizzy and mistook a shoe for a mouse, nothing serious," Li Teng made up a kind lie.

"That scared me to death! I thought something had gone wrong!" Elsa patted her chest.

"Are you done showering?"

"Not yet, I was halfway through when I got scared and ran out quickly after wiping off."

"You continue showering, I'll be watching outside, and there's nothing to worry about," Li Teng consoled Elsa a bit more.

"Alright," Elsa said dejectedly as she walked back to the bathroom.

...

After the actresses had finished washing up, they pushed the beds from the rooms to a large hall outside the second floor, piecing them together to form one super-sized bed.

Being such a pure person, Li Teng naturally couldn't squeeze in with them, so he pushed his bed to the side, keeping a half-meter distance from their super-sized bed.

"Now I will arrange the duty schedule for the night."

"The first group, Classmate Yang and Classmate Liu, from now until one o'clock at night."

"The second group, Classmate Huang and Classmate Fan, will be on watch from one o'clock in the morning until four."

"From four until dawn, Teacher Wang and I will take over."

Elsa announced the night watch plan and did not schedule Li Teng and Liu Yin.

Li Teng was the leader, and Liu Yin was the family member of a leader; naturally, they were granted preferential treatment.

No one objected to this arrangement, so those who were on duty did so, and those who needed sleep got some rest to be fully energized to face what might be an even more challenging situation tomorrow.

"If there's anything unusual, wake me up immediately," Li Teng added to his fellow students before laying down.

After all the female actors had changed into their pajamas, the visual and mental disturbance caused by Li Teng finally decreased somewhat, allowing him to finally think clearly and get a good night's rest.

Although the swimsuits of the female actors were of varied colors, their sleepwear was uniformly colored, and there was almost no difference in appearance.

...

Yang Yiju and Liu Shina were in charge of the first watch.

Some actresses were not accustomed to sleeping with the lights on, while others felt safer with the lights on.

After discussions, they decided to turn on a few small lights, enough to prevent total darkness but not too bright, so that everything in the room would be visible.

The house's transparent glass walls were actually double-layered with soundproofing, so after everyone lay down, the entire big house became very quiet, to the point where even the sound of the nearby sea waves could not be heard.

Being on night watch is hard, especially when there are no smartphones to look at.

After midnight, Yang Yiju and Liu Shina were yawning incessantly, and they only managed to stay awake by whispering and pinching each other's thighs.

From time to time, Yang Yiju would remember everything she had seen in the mirror.

She believed it was not an illusion; she had indeed seen from the mirror that the fifth girl was standing right behind her, even reaching out a hand to touch her shoulder. She was truly frightened at that moment, her body unable to move, but luckily she screamed out loud, which brought Li Teng and others over.

"What are you thinking about?" Liu Shina asked Yang Yiju softly.

"Nothing," Yang Yiju shook her head. She looked at a few actresses lying on the big bed in front of her and felt that something was not quite right, but she couldn't figure out what it was at the moment; her mind was quite foggy.

"I drank too much water; I need to go to the restroom," Liu Shina said to Yang Yiju after a while, preparing to get up.

"Don't go! Wait until it's time for the next shift to wake up, then I'll go with you," Yang Yiju said, reaching out to hold Liu Shina back.

"Wait for the next shift… that's still an hour away! But I really can't hold it any longer… I really can't…" Liu Shina's face showed a pained expression. Earlier, when Elsa had arranged the night watch, she only instructed that the people on duty must not leave their posts, but she hadn't given instructions on what to do if they needed to use the restroom.

And now it didn't seem right to wake Elsa or Li Teng for such a minor issue.

"We can't both leave our post, and you'll definitely have trouble if you go to the restroom alone," Yang Yiju continued to hold Liu Shina back.

"I really… really… can't take it anymore," Liu Shina was also scared to go to the restroom alone, but holding in such bodily needs was unbearable!

Before she mentioned it to Yang Yiju, she had already been enduring it for half an hour, and she was now at her limit.

"Use this." Yang Yiju stood up, walked to the desk, grabbed a drinking glass, and handed it to Liu Shina.

"This…" Liu Shina's eyes widened in shock.