The Qixi Horror Residents' Group Chat

"Anyone who posts pictures of their Qixi gifts, I'll kill them one by one."

A person with a skull avatar suddenly posted that message in the neighborhood residents' group chat. At first, nobody took it seriously. Then the skull avatar posted another picture in the group. It showed a resident from downstairs in my building. She lay stiff on the ground, seemingly lifeless, with the jewelry she'd once shown off arranged beside her. Then I saw the skull avatar tag me.

"You're next."

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Late at night, as I looked at the message on my phone, a cold sweat broke out on me for no reason. I had been about to go to sleep and had already turned off the lights. In the darkness, that...