Ding!
A cell phone vibrated.
Chen Yu pulled it out of his pocket.
Coincidentally, school beauty Han Ningning also shuddered, sensing something, and with trembling hands, she pulled out her phone.
Lines of bloody text appeared on the phone!
[You will all become pork on the chopping block...]
[I will chop off your toes and fingers, one by one, pull out your intestines alive, and tie them around your necks...]
[Hehehe... So many, so many, I can chop them to my heart's content...]
Han Ningning was terrified at the news. Her already pale face turned even paler, and she could barely hold the phone.
Chen Yu pulled out his phone and saw the same message as Han Ningning's.
He frowned.
What was he planning this time?
He had the Time Puppetry, so he wasn't so scared.
Boom!
A muffled sound echoed.
All the students who had been discussing the matter were startled and stopped talking.
Boom!
Crack!
A muffled sound, followed by a crisp sound.
It was the unmistakable sound of meat being cut, coupled with the crackling of bones.
Boom, boom, boom!
Another sound echoed.
Everyone, upon hearing it, paled in shock!
The sound of chopping meat had arrived!
"Oh my god, that's the sound of chopping meat! My family does the chopping! What should we do? Cover our ears and run!!"
"No way, is this really happening?"
"Maybe Liu Dichen is collaborating with the men in black to scare us..."
Some of the students who believed in the situation turned pale.
Those who didn't, though a little frightened, didn't immediately flee.
Han Ningning, however, panicked, her body trembling as she stammered, "Hurry, hurry... Cover your ears and run, or we'll all die..."
"Run? Run for what?"
Just then, a classmate with slicked-back hair stood up. Although a student, his hair was always immaculately styled, and he wore designer clothes. His
name was Li Kun, and he had been pursuing Han Ningning for a long time, but she had rejected him time and again.
But this couldn't dampen his love for Han Ningning. Now that he had the chance to shine, he certainly wouldn't let it go.
He walked up to Han Ningning, offering a gentle, gentle smile, and soothing her, "Don't worry, it's nothing strange. It's probably just one of your classmates playing a prank."
Han Ningning's nervousness didn't ease at all, but instead intensified her fear.
She instinctively glanced at Chen Yu, who sat at the back.
For some reason, she felt Chen Yu had become quite mysterious today.
Perhaps...
he was just like her...
Chen Yu had naturally heard the sound of chopping meat.
[The sound of chopping meat echoed again and again. Player, do you hear it?]
[He may be using this beautiful sound to guide you. Curiosity piqued your interest, and you'll want to go and see.]
[But I advise you to cover your ears and run away now. Be a coward. That way you can survive.]
[He, he only has you in mind.] He
?
Another strange one!
Chen Yu put his phone away.
He hadn't expected to encounter something strange twice in one day.
Chen Yu knew exactly how terrifying strange things could be.
Perhaps the reason for that news half an hour later was that all the players had run afoul of the strange. No
wonder the news showed the students in the classroom being chopped into pieces.
...
Chen Yu glanced at the students around him and
stood up. To become even more powerful, he had to devour the strangeness!
The sound of chopping meat continued.
[Hehehe, minced meat, minced meat...]
Chen Yu walked out of the classroom and headed towards the source of the sound.
Han Ningning, observing Chen Yu's actions, suddenly changed her expression.
"Chen Yu, what are you doing? Have you forgotten what the man in black just said?!"
Han Ningning hurriedly stood up and tried to dissuade Chen Yu.
Chen Yu looked at her, then paused for a moment, but said nothing, continuing his relentless march towards the source of the sound.
What was he going to do?
Was he courting death?
The classroom corridor was pitch black, as if countless terrifying creatures lurked in the darkness, waiting for their prey to enter their fanged maws.
In the classroom, none of the students dared even to poke their heads out for a moment.
Only Chen Yu, fearless, removed his sunglasses and strode into the darkness that threatened to tear him apart at any moment.
The bright classroom light streamed through the windows, spilling onto the last shred of pure space in the corridor.
It silently articulated the dread of the abyssal chasm between daylight and darkness.
[The Time Eye is in use. You attempt to use its power to combat the unknown.]
[You're truly incompetent. You've mastered the Time Eye and can use it without cost.]
[But... here, you'll experience the terror of sinking into the abyss of darkness.]
[Can you feel it? The moment you step into the darkness, He has already set His sights on you.]
Entering the dark corridor, Chen Yu received a warning.
"What?
Found me? "
Chen Yu frantically glanced around.
But there was a wall to his left, a guardrail to his right, and nothing ahead.
The next moment,
he felt a piercing pain in his arm.
He looked down in horror at the aching arm.
Snap.
There was nothing left on the arm!
Blood gushed out from the broken arm like a spring
.
A crisp sound echoed, and his other hand fell to the ground. Only the crisp sound reminded Chen Yu, stimulating his nearly blank mind.
Crack!
Several more crisp sounds echoed.
Chen Yu's consciousness gradually faded. Before he could scream, he was physically chopped apart.
Chen Yu's head rolled to the ground, his eyes filled with fear!
"Ahem..."
He tried to speak, but no words came out.
Just as he was about to die
, the scarlet scale in his right eye rebounded.
Tick-tock!
The power of the Time Phantom Eye suddenly erupted!
Time rewound!
His head rolled in the opposite direction.
The shattered limbs began to stand up again, and the wounds began to heal.
Blood, as if playing backwards, formed a torrent, pouring into Chen Yu's wounds, reenergizing his body.
His blank mind regained consciousness.
"Ugh!"
Chen Yu, regaining consciousness, inhaled a sharp breath of cold air!
The pain just now was still vivid, the feeling of death etched deep into his soul!
"I, I'm alive?!"
He looked down at his body.
Aside from his clothes being ripped to pieces,
he felt nothing strange!
It was as good as new!
[Wow!]
[You've been attacked by the Weird. The Weird used its power to rip you apart, chopped off every joint, slit your throat, and dragged out your intestines.]
[You're dead.]
[But the Time Weird Eye helped you. It reversed time and restored your body to its original state.]
The sudden reminder surprised Chen Yu!
"So, if you hear the sound and don't cover your ears and run, the moment you step into the darkness, you'll be attacked by the Weird?!"
Chen Yu finally understood.
But he didn't see the Weird attack.
Why?
[The Weird is everywhere, perhaps right next to you, perhaps you need to find it.]
[You should follow the source of the sound and continue your search, satisfying your pathetic curiosity.]
The reminder appeared again.
Chen Yu pursed his lips, mustered his courage, and walked forward again.
The other classrooms were pitch black, the students long gone.
The sounds continued to echo.
The building was completely empty, and these terrifying sounds bounced off the walls, then bounced back and struck another wall.
The entire building was filled with noise!
He could hear the general direction of the sound, but he couldn't tell which classroom it was coming from.
He had just taken a few steps, checking two classrooms.
Crack!
Chen Yu felt a chill run down his spine.
Someone, silently and unnoticed, had sliced Chen Yu in half!
But the next moment,
the scale rebounded.
He had returned to his original form.
[Ding!]
[You have successfully died twice at the hands of the same entity.]
[But fortunately, you are closer to the entity. Each death brings you new rewards.]
[However, you must pay attention to your energy. Retracing your entire body's time is a significant expense.]
Chen Yu, feeling his head growing increasingly foggy, walked to the next classroom and peered into the window.
Although he didn't have to sacrifice his life or body, each time he reversed the flow of time against this terrifying anomaly, he still expended considerable energy.
"No! Where is it?"
If it weren't for the Time Eye, he would have already died twice.
He hadn't expected this anomaly to ignore distance and attack from thin air, making it impossible to defend against it!
After being torn apart once more, Chen Yu finally stopped bothering him.
"Found it! It's in here!"
Before he ran out of energy, he finally found the classroom where the sound came from!
He flung the door open.
What was inside was nothing like classroom tables and chairs.
Several large iron hooks with two ears hung from an iron bar. Severed limbs and arms dangled from the hooks below, each clearly marked with a price.
Boom!
Behind the display board, a figure wielded a butcher knife, chopping meat.
The twisted flesh squeezed its features together. Upon closer inspection, it revealed not a human face, but a yellow fleshy chrysanthemum.
Chen Yu examined the meat it was chopping.
A black shirt, blue casual pants.
Plus that handsome face that is exactly the same as his own.
That...
isn't me?
Chen Yu was stunned!
Chen Yu hadn't recovered yet.
Unexpectedly, the butcher turned his face and smiled strangely at Chen Yu.
Although he didn't have a mouth.
But the sharp sounds like a blade scratching glass reached Chen Yu's ears.
"Hehehe, chop the meat, chop the meat, why can't you chop it into pieces, chop it into pieces..."
The next moment.
Chen Yu's body suddenly split apart!
This time, it was not torn into eight pieces.
But it was directly crushed into minced meat!
The eyeball with the scale rolled a circle in the minced meat.
Tick.
Time rebounded.
The minced meat was reorganized.
A living Chen Yu appeared again!
"Fuck! Here we go again. Every time I have to recover, it gives me a headache for a long time. You could at least chop off a piece less. Do you have to be so ruthless? Chop me into meat paste? The mental energy consumed has tripled!"
Chen Yu's vision began to darken. This time, he used three times his mental energy to recover.
He knew that if he tried again, he probably wouldn't have enough mental strength to rewind time!
"Give up!"
Chen Yu rushed towards the butcher, grabbed his hand, and shouted, "Watch me eat you!"
He then bit down on the butcher.
In an instant, he tore a piece of meat from the butcher's hand.
[Swallowing the weird!]
[Swallowing...]
[Swallowing failed!]
[Target invalid, target invalid!]
Red warnings appeared before Chen Yu's eyes.
"How could this happen?! It's malfunctioning?!"
Chen Yu was horrified. He had only used it once. And it
's already broken?!
"You incomprehensible rat, you dared to touch me? I'll chop you into pieces ten thousand times over!"
The butcher, seeing a rat had bitten off a piece of his flesh, was furious. He raised his shining butcher knife and was about to attack Chen Yu.
Butcher knife?!
Chen Yu looked at the butcher knife!
Strange, it was this butcher knife!
Chen Yu was once again transformed into a piece of meat.
However, his powerful mental strength sustained him through his final attempt to reassemble his body!
After reassembling, he leaped to his feet and grabbed the butcher's knife!
Without hesitation, he opened his mouth and bit down on the knife.
Crack!
The hard, cold-gleaming knife left several resounding bite marks!
Chen Yu was shocked!
He hadn't expected his devouring ability to be so powerful, capable of even destroying a butcher's knife!
Furthermore, as the metal fragments of the butcher's knife fell into Chen Yu's mouth, he felt nothing unusual. It was like chewing crispy potato chips!
It was cold and tinged with a strong smell of blood.
[Swallowing the Weirdness.]
[Swallowed!]
[Successfully swallowed: Level 3+ Weirdness, Ghost Butcher's Knife, Potential: Nine and a Half Stars.]
The moment the prompt appeared,
an identical butcher's knife appeared in Chen Yu's hand.
As he held the knife, a series of terrifying scenes unfolded before his eyes.
The aura of the butcher's knife surged into Chen Yu's body
.
A colossal horror, covered in stitches, clutching a butcher knife, lunged at death.
"Is it a curse, or fate?"
The immense terror trembled, the knife held high, venting its grief and discontent.
The next moment,
its body crumbled, inch by inch, and countless turbid fluids gushed from its shattered remains.
From the boundless, vast galaxy, a ray of light descended, illuminating the massive form.
When the light faded, the form dissipated.
Amidst the vast expanse of heaven and earth, only the butcher knife remained, standing tall on the loess.
The humming sound of a hand snapped Qin Ye back from his hallucination .
[Host Gains Strange Ability: Slaughter of Ghosts.]
[Level: Level 4]
[Potential Quality: Nine and a Half Stars]
"Slaughter of Ghosts, what kind of strange skill is this?"
Qin Ye's face was filled with astonishment.
Nine and a half stars of potential, only half a star lower than the Time Phantom Eye. I wonder if the effects will be as extraordinary as the Time Phantom Eye.
Congratulations, you've successfully acquired the strange ability of slaughter. Using the butcher knife to chop meat, the sound is transmitted, allowing you to slaughter any humans who hear it.
Thanks to the special ability of the Time Phantom Eye, everything you gaze upon is affected.
The Ghost Butcher Knife has been devoured by you. You can now use its strange abilities without even drawing it out. This means that Chen Yu can now activate the Ghost Den even without holding the butcher knife!
With the knife, the Ghost Den becomes even more ferocious, doubling its power!
Strange knowledge flooded into Chen Yu's mind.
He felt a sharp pain in his head, and then the butcher knife transformed into a streak of black light and penetrated his body.
A truly fascinating game.
The Ghost Butcher Knife has become part of your being.
You can use its strange abilities and summon it at any time.
The origins of the Ghost Butcher Knife are a mystery.
Perhaps you can explore the story of the Ghost Butcher Knife. What was behind the Ghost Slayer Knife's story? He
had just witnessed its appearance. That enormous, terrifying creature was still vivid in his mind. Since it was a nine-and-a-half-star creature, its abilities must be powerful, right? The next moment, Chen Yu's mind struck him, and he unleashed the Ghost Slayer Knife's strange powers! In an instant , the scene before him shifted to black and white. The world became the film of an old camera, the sky a bottomless black. Drip... drip... ding... ka... The faucet in the bathroom wept alone, its dripping sound echoing in Chen Yu's ears. It was like dripping water, so loud that he could even feel the splashing water. In the classroom , the sounds of several students whispering to each other and the noise of benches being moved were also clear to Chen Yu's ears. He could hear the door opening, the rustling of leaves in the wind, and the sound of footsteps. At that moment, several bats flew across the sky, their speed slowed down thousands of times. Chen Yu stared at the bats for a long time, and only the slightest movement of their wings occurred. He turned his head and looked towards the teaching building. He could see through the entire building instantly, wherever he wanted to. He could clearly see a man and a woman engaging in obscene acts in a dark classroom upstairs. He could see a student in the restroom, their faces flushed red from constipation. He could even see through all illusions! After launching the Demonic Slaughter , he could smell whatever he wanted. But everything was in black and white, everything was so slow. Chen Yu took a step. Just a light step. He was instantly at the end of the corridor. He raised his hand gently, in less than a thousandth of a second, and it was up, so fast that Chen Yu couldn't even see it. Was this the Demonic Slaughter? Everything was slowed down thousands of times! He saw it all! "I finally understand why this strange thing was able to inexplicably kill me..." Chen Yu was stunned. Only after using this strange ability did he realize its power. Within this ability, Chen Yu's movements sped up by nearly tens of millions of times. Meanwhile, the movements of others slowed down by tens of millions of times. One increase, one decrease—that's a speed difference of hundreds of millions of times? With a speed difference of hundreds of millions of times, wouldn't it be easy for the strange thing to kill him? Now that he was using the Slaughtering Ghost Den, wouldn't it be easy for him to kill others as well?! He had initially thought the butcher knife's strange ability was likely telekinesis. Now he understood it wasn't telekinesis at all, but incredible speed! "Then how did the Ghost Slaughter Knife cut me into pieces?!" Chen Yu was puzzled again. Before him lay a bloody chopping board, scarred and battered. He peered through the wall, peering at a table in the classroom. In the blink of an eye, the table vanished, reappearing on top of the chopping board. Just staring at it, and it appeared on the cutting board in front of him? A thought struck Chen Yu, and he instantly summoned the Ghost Slayer Knife. With the Ghost Slayer Knife out, his ability to slaughter ghosts became even stronger. Chen Yu's awareness of his surroundings became even more acute! He gently swung the Ghost Slayer Knife. Without even touching the bench, a slash of blade energy erupted from thin air, landing on the chair. Crack! The chair was severed in two, the cross-section perfectly smooth and even! However, blood flowed from Chen Yu's hand after the strike. Because the Ghost Slayer Knife had no handle, the entire blade was a blade. Every strike would inflict damage. "This is the first time I've seen a knife without a handle." Chen Yu put the knife away and tried to use it without it, to see if he could damage the chair. He stared intently at the bench. Crack! As expected, the bench he had targeted instantly shattered into pieces! He then tried to work on the steel on the bench. Crack! The steel on the bench was also severed! "Oh my god... So powerful? It's worthy of being a nine-and-a-half-star butcher knife!" Chen Yu was shocked. When he used the knife, he didn't use much strength at all, but he was able to cut through the bench. How powerful would it be if he used all his strength? Chen Yu put away the ghost, and everything returned to normal. He took a look at the butcher's body, and devoured it without hesitation. The sound of tearing meat and the crunching of chewing bones were endless. After being digested by Chen Yu, the butcher's body turned into a trace of energy, which first traveled around Chen Yu's body, and finally merged into his eyes.
[Level 4 Time-Based Weird Eyes (40%)]
"Chen Yu!"
A sudden voice appeared behind Chen Yu, startling him. Turning back, he saw Han Ningning.
Chen Yu's mouth was now covered in blood,
with bits of meat still lingering in the corners.
Seeing Chen Yu's appearance, Han Ningning's pretty face froze in shock. She exclaimed, "What are you doing?"
Chen Yu quickly wiped his mouth with a tissue, smiling, "No, nothing. I just bit my lip and it's bleeding a little."
Fortunately, he had already finished eating the corpse, so Han Ningning almost discovered him.
Han Ningning glanced at the large pool of blood on the ground.
This... could it come out by biting your lip?
Chen Yu coughed dryly, "I just took out a can of red ink, fell, and broke it, and then I hit my lip."
"Is that so..."
Han Ningning was completely unconvinced and stopped asking. She looked around and said to Chen Yu, "Chen Yu, why did the sound suddenly disappear?"
Chen Yu didn't know how to explain it. He couldn't just say that he defeated the Ghost Slayer with the Time Phantom Eye.
He lied, "Uh... I don't know, maybe he left?"
"Left?"
Han Ningning's face was still filled with fear, a hint of doubt.
"Ningning! Are you okay?"
Li Kun hurriedly chased after them. As Han Ningning's number one lapdog, seeing Han Ningning so frightened, he naturally wanted to show her his feelings.
Unfortunately, Han Ningning ignored him and directly asked Chen Yu, "Did you receive any information too?"
"Information?"
Chen Yu's face changed slightly, but he quickly recovered and said calmly, "What information? No."
He wasn't deliberately trying to hide anything.
However, with the [Weird Era] entering its closed beta phase, no one can predict... whether the being before them is human or a being.
Even ghost riders can be swayed by the presence of the spirit, leading most to madness and extremes.
The safest path is to conceal oneself, to remain hidden and observe everything from the shadows.
"But... why are you heading this way? Isn't that dangerous?"
Han Ningning's tone was a touch worried.
She was actually concerned because she had received a message and wanted to inquire.
But to Li Kun, the tone was completely different. Han Ningning was clearly worried about Chen Yu!
He glared at Chen Yu with a furious expression!
Chen Yu was just an ordinary student, while he was a truly wealthy and handsome man. Why would Han Ningning worry about Chen Yu?!
How was he any less capable than Chen Yu?
Chen Yu replied, "I just heard a noise and got curious, so I came to check. I happened to need the restroom."
Seeing no answers, Han Ningning left, puzzled.
Chen Yu, on the other hand, pretended to rush into the men's restroom.
After leaving, Han Ningning's phone suddenly vibrated.
With trembling hands, she picked it up and looked.
Several lines of bloody words appeared on the phone.
[You are a lucky person.]
[You were targeted by a strange being, yet you were lucky enough to escape death.]
[The strange being that targeted you was eliminated by something even more terrifying than it.]
Han Ningning's face was filled with confusion.
The strange being was eliminated?
As if sensing Han Ningning's confusion, another message appeared on Han Ningning's phone.
[Don't be confused. You survived because you were lucky.]
[If it weren't for that bug-level being who took the Ghost Slayer Knife, you would be a corpse by now.]
Han Ningning's pretty face was filled with astonishment when she saw these words.
Who took the Ghost Slayer Knife?
"Could it be Chen Yu?"
she asked, puzzled.
[Who would dare to investigate a bug-level being like that?]
[Perhaps you don't deserve to know, nor are you worthy of asking this question.]
[Even I'm not qualified to understand.]
And at this moment.
A sudden gust of eerie wind flashed behind her.
Then, the scalp beneath her hair at the back of her head began to twist.
A creepy smile appeared on her scalp, and bursts of shrill laughter, like blades scraping glass, emerged from the creepy smiley face.
This creature was the first one Han Ningning had encountered.
Ever since those messages appeared on her phone, it had been haunting her.
However, for some reason, this creature didn't kill Han Ningning. Instead, it remained within her body.
Han Ningning couldn't control it, nor could it completely control her. Only occasionally would the creepy smiley face manipulate her and control her body.
"Ningning, there seems to be something at the back of your head."
Li Kun, standing behind Han Ningning, noticed the shifting movements at the back of her head. Curious, he moved closer and took a closer look.
Because of the distance and lack of light, he could only barely see the abnormality at the back of Han Ningning's head by the moonlight.
Now take a closer look.
The hair on the back of Han Ningning's head was blown up by a gust of cold wind.
The next moment!
A pale and weird smiling face, squinting its eyes, stared at Li Kun, and on this creepy face, there was a chilling smile.
For some reason, when Li Kun saw this weird smiling face.
Although his face was very frightened and pale, the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily, and he actually began to smile slowly along with the weird smiling face!
Seeing this, Han Ningning hurriedly turned her head away and said anxiously: "Don't look!"
This weird has been pestering Han Ningning for some time.
She knew that if this weird wanted to kill people, it would make others laugh.
When they laugh to a certain extent, the person will die!
After the weird smiling face turned away, Li Kun recovered. The corners of his mouth that were originally raised were pulled down in an instant, and he said with horror: "You, what is that on the back of your head? A human face!"
"I..."
Han Ningning didn't know how to explain herself, her fists clenched, unable to utter a single word.
"Hehehehehe..."
A hoarse, mournful cry erupted from the back of Han Ningning's head.
"Ah! A ghost!"
Hearing the sound, Li Kun trembled with fear, practically pissing himself. He didn't even bother trying to pick up girls; he ran away.
[The creature entangled with you scared away a fly.]
[Why don't you thank Him? Give Him your body?]
[He will grant you immense power.]
A prompt reappeared, and Han Ningning's hand trembled violently as she gripped her phone, before hastily putting it away.
Meanwhile, in a dark corner not far down the corridor
, a shadow loomed.
Seeing this, his eyes flashed with surprise, and he was shocked!
Just now, he had clearly sensed that the creature was within Han Ningning!
Moreover, this creature's strength was at least five stars!
Creatures above five stars were extremely rare for their investigation bureau!
Furthermore, this creature possessed immense potential and potential.
Thinking of this, he could no longer contain himself and emerged from the darkness.
Han Ningning was about to head to the classroom when the man in black blocked her path again. Startled, she caught sight of him and exclaimed, "Uncle Luo!"
It was none other than Luo Mu, the man who had been in the class before.
Luo Mu had searched the school unsuccessfully and was about to return.
But as he was leaving, he received a notification on his phone.
Curious, he returned, hoping to find the creature, and by chance, he stumbled upon this scene.
"You must have received a strange message on your phone, right?"
Luo Mu's eyes gleamed beneath his black robe.
"I... I..."
Han Ningning's face paled, nearly tears welling up. "Uncle, don't arrest me. I... I've done nothing wrong."
"Who said I was arresting you?"
Luo Mu said, his tone softening.
"You weren't arresting me?"
Han Ningning paused.
In her opinion, the mysterious Luo Mu's sudden arrival at school, asking students if they had any unusual phone calls, must have been malicious.
After all, those possessed by the strange must be special beings. They
were bound to be captured.
"You and I are from the same family,"
Luo Mu smiled faintly, then activated his strange ability.
The next moment!
Ta!
Ta!
A trail of dark, abyssal footprints appeared on Luo Mu 's body.
Like someone walking, the footprints gradually spread across his entire body!
Before the stunned Han Ningning could speak, Luo Mu explained, "These are the strangeness I control, called Strange Footprints."
Han Ningning had thought she was an exception, but she didn't expect Luo Mu to be one of them!
As if she had found a lifeline, she anxiously cried, "Uncle Luo, help me! The strangeness within me wants to kill me!"
"I know,"
Luo Mu nodded. "Until you successfully control the strangeness, it will kill you. Your fear means you haven't yet mastered it."
With that, a thought struck him.
The dark footprints spread from Luo Mu to the ground.
Tap, tap, tap!
One by one, the dark footprints appeared on the corridor in a very neat pattern.
"Although I can't help you control the weirdness, I can help you suppress it temporarily."
Luo Mu pointed to the footprints on the ground and said, "You step on those footprints and follow them step by step."
Han Ningning nodded hurriedly. It was already this time. She had to believe Luo Mu whether she believed him or not.
Then, she followed Luo Mu's instructions and stepped directly onto the weird footprints.
As soon as she stepped on them,
a strange feeling spread throughout her body.
The scenes before her seemed to have changed.
In front of her, it seemed as if an old lady with a hunched back appeared, with her back to her, leading her step by step, to find a way to survive in the dark and despairing abyss.What the hell is this?"
Chen Yu stared in bewilderment. People were walking, but shadows moved completely differently. You do your thing, I do mine?
But then,
those strange shadows suddenly began to stretch endlessly!
They spread outwards towards the Linjiang Center Hotel, then most of them gathered together. Then, like creeping vines, they scaled the walls and climbed directly to the hotel's rooftop. Then, drones in the sky rushed over.
Meanwhile, Chen Yu was watching a video. Those shadows, like 3D projections, broke free from their physical restraints and extended directly from the screen!
Their target was directly towards him!
"I told you so."
"How could you be so suicidal? You had to read the quest?"
"Well, now it's all right, He's got his eyes on you."
Notifications kept chiming in on his phone.
But Chen Yu had no time to pay attention.
The shadows had already mysteriously stretched out from the screen, creating a shadowy version of Sadako!
Chen Yu hurriedly unleashed the Slaughter of Ghosts!
Once the Slaughter of Ghosts was activated, everything around him suddenly slowed down!
Even the roar of the car's engine speeding past outside was stretched and extended, forming a chaotic metallic hybrid.
"Not bad!"
Chen Yu's lips curled up as he watched the shadow rushing towards him suddenly slow to a snail's pace.
This shadow must be the Eerie.
He had already devoured the Ghost Slayer and the Time Eye.
If he swallowed this shadow too, he would have three Eeries!
He licked his lips and then bit the shadow.
A terrifying, pitch-black face appeared on the shadow!
However, due to the multiplied speed, the bite prevented him from even forming a distorted expression.
After biting off a piece of the shadow, Chen Yu began to chew it.
It felt like eating plasticine.
Chen Yu guessed he was the first person in the world to eat a shadow.
In no time, Chen Yu devoured the shadow completely.
"How is it? I've devoured the shadow. What is the Eerie ability?"
Chen Yu asked with a smile.
"You've devoured the ghost shadow."
Unfortunately, this is the Ghost's infected clone; you can't access its strange abilities.
After devouring the Ghost and digesting it, you successfully increased your Time Phantom's upgrade experience by 60%.
A prompt appeared, startling Chen Yu slightly. This
is just the infected clone, not the original?
Fortunately, this devouring wasn't in vain.
The Time Phantom is Chen Yu's lifeline. Only after it's upgraded can Chen Yu boldly pursue other tasks.
You've been targeted by Him, and even attacked the Ghost.
He hates you and wants revenge at all costs. You were forced to accept the Linjiang Center Hotel incident mission.
Why mess with that guy when you can't mess with anyone else?
Wait, you easily severed His infected clone?! And even ate it? You
devoured it and mastered two high-level strange powers. You're like a demon. Maybe
it's not "He" who's targeting you, but "You" who's targeting "He"?
Oh my goodness, Mr. Devil, can I have a moment of silence for "He"?
The notification on his phone alternated between mockery and shock.
Chen Yu began to wonder if this guy had a mental problem.
...
Ding!
Homepage notification: The Linjiang Center Hotel mission has been accepted!
Every time someone accepted a mission, a pinned post would appear at the top of the homepage.
However, low-risk missions
are quickly pushed down by other posts. But the Linjiang Center Hotel mission is a high-risk one.
After he appeared on the homepage, the post's views skyrocketed!
Oh my god, who dares to accept such a mission?
Exactly. Didn't the person who accepted it know that three ghost riders had already died at the Linjiang Center Hotel?
Thirty-five people died in one day, and three ghost riders mysteriously disappeared. And yet someone still dared to accept the mission? It's truly outrageous!
Who is this person? I'm so curious. I really want to see his true face.
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...
In the Weird Investigation Bureau.
"Director, over thirty people have died in the Linjiang Central Hotel, and three capable ghost riders have lost contact after entering the hotel. This hotel is no ordinary place,"
a man cloaked in a black robe said in a serious tone.
It was Luo Mu.
Across from him sat a middle-aged man with a sharp face. His expression was also gloomy. "You mean..."
"These days, with the Weird Game rampant, only a handful of people are capable of controlling it. I think this mission should be canceled. It's too dangerous. It's a big risk to prevent some ghost riders from taking the risk and entering. If they lose contact, it would be a loss for China,"
Luo Mu said after some thought.
Three ghost riders had already died in the Linjiang Central Hotel.
And every ghost rider who died was a fewer. Finding one ghost rider was difficult, let alone three at once?
If this mission wasn't closed, even more ghost riders might die.
The director's face was serious. He nodded and agreed with Luo Mu's statement. He said, "Yes, then let's cancel this mission first. When we find a more powerful ghost rider, we can discuss this matter and contact the captain of the Investigation Bureau to have him arrange this matter."
"Yes."
Luo Mu nodded and was about to go out to make arrangements.
But at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door. Then a man in the Investigation Bureau uniform suddenly rushed in. He looked stunned and shocked. He said breathlessly, "Bureau, Director... something terrible has happened..."
"Look at the sky. Is it falling? You are so panicking. How can you be so unruly? This is the Investigation Bureau!"
The director shouted in displeasure.
Luo Mu hurriedly handed the man a glass of water, then asked, "What's going on?"
The man took a sip of water, regaining his composure. Then, anxiously, he said, "Director, someone's taken the Linjiang Center Hotel assignment!"
"What!?"
Upon hearing this, Luo Mu and the director instantly lost their composure, slamming the table and standing up.
Seeing the director's reaction, the investigation bureau member couldn't help but scoff inwardly.
"Didn't you just say I was panicking? Why are you panicking too?
" The director exclaimed in shock, "Quick, check who took the assignment."
"We've found it,"
the investigation bureau employee handed the director a document, saying, "This is the person's information."
The director took it, and Luo Mu craned his neck to read it.
On the paper was the information of the person who had taken the assignment.
[No user information.]
[Name: Nightfall.] "Nightfall? Who's that? Have you heard of him?"
The director asked, looking at Luo Mu in surprise.
Luo Mu pondered for a long time, but couldn't recall Ye Mu. He hurriedly shook his head and said, "I've never heard of him. Could he be a new ghost rider?"
"Never heard of him? Then he must be unknown. Quickly contact the Weird Times Forum and have them organize Ye Mu to go to the Linjiang Central Hotel!"
the director said anxiously.
He valued talent and naturally didn't want to see a ghost rider die.
"Okay!"
Luo Mu nodded, then immediately gave the order.
...
[Buzz!]
[Hello, Ye Mu, I heard you accepted the Linjiang Central Hotel mission?]
A chat box popped up on Chen Yu's phone.
Chen Yu checked the ID and saw it was a verified official account. He texted, "Yes, what's the problem?"
[You'd better give up this mission. Three ghost riders before you have attempted it, but after entering the Linjiang Central Hotel, they completely lost contact.] [
Perhaps they are already dead. If the Weirdness possesses them and revives them, the Weirdness will become even more powerful, and the Linjiang Central Hotel will be even more dangerous! Chen Yu
smiled. They certainly couldn't have guessed that he was going to the Linjiang Central Hotel not to complete a mission, but to devour the Ghost.
After all, the Ghost was a special kind of strangeness. After acquiring its strange abilities, he would become significantly more powerful.
Chen Yu said, "Don't worry, I'll be fine."
[Uh... perhaps you haven't grasped the horror of the Linjiang Central Hotel. That's where thirty-five people died in a single day, all in horrific fashion...]
Chen Yu knew the other party was being kind and continued, "I appreciate your kindness, but I've made up my mind. I must go."
[Uh, well, since you've made up your mind, I have nothing else to say but to share what I know.]
[The strangeness in the Linjiang Central Hotel is called the Ghost. Once you enter the hotel, pay no attention to anything else but the shadow. It attacks through shadows. Chen Yu
said: "Thank you, I will pay attention."
Well, I hope you can successfully complete this task, but to be on the safe side, I will ask someone to go with you. That person is very powerful and can increase the possibility of completing the task.
"Who?"
Xu Yu from the Bizarre Society.
The Bizarre Society is a folk ghost-controlling organization that is not under official jurisdiction and is composed of many elite local ghost-controllers.
And Xu Yu is a strong man in the Bizarre Society.
It takes a lot of money to invite Xu Yu.
Moreover, Xu Yu is arrogant, with a high-handed look, and a crazy personality.
"Can we not invite someone?"
Chen Yu asked hurriedly.
He has heard of this kind of person. He is a complete arrogant demon. Why invite him?
No, he must be invited to go with us, otherwise we will close the task of Linjiang Center Hotel now.
"Uh... okay then," Chen Yu
said helplessly. He hadn't expected the other party to push his luck. After a few words, the other party invited him to the Weird Investigation Bureau. He had to go, otherwise the Linjiang Central Hotel would have to close.
Chen Yu had no choice but to go.
The map showed
that the Linjiang Weird Investigation Bureau was over 40 kilometers away.
He looked at the taxi fare.
A hundred and eighty?!
Too expensive!
"Oh my god, where am I going to get so much money?"
Chen Yu smiled bitterly. Just then, his phone suddenly vibrated again.
He opened it and saw a message from his godsister Jiang Xinyue.
She was asking if he had enough for his living expenses and whether he needed her to send some money.
This godsister had grown up with Chen Yu.
She was very domineering with others, but she was very caring towards Chen Yu, like a gentle sister.
Jiang Xinyue sent almost all of Chen Yu's living expenses.
Although Chen Yu was poor, he still refused. After all, his sister's monthly living expenses were already a big deal.
"Okay, then. If you run out of money, you have to tell me. I love you, mua!"
Chen Yu gave a wry smile.
This sister had no idea about the nuances of sexual intimacy.
After collecting all his living expenses and hailing a taxi, Chen Yu fell asleep in the long drive.
He had a dream.
Perhaps it was because of the brief conversation he had with Jiang Xinyue before bed, but he had a strange dream of her.
However, a shadowy figure was following Jiang Xinyue .
This shadow was so strange that Chen Yu, in his dream, somehow bit it.
In the end, he succeeded in devouring it.
It also indicated that the figure had been devoured, adding experience to his Time Phantom Eye, directly raising it from level four to level five.
[Congratulations, your Time Phantom Eye has reached level five.]
[Strange Ability Improvement: You can control the fast-forward and reverse speed of the Time Phantom Eye.]
[Added a new strange ability: Time Restart!]
[Time Restart Strange Ability Description: You can save your game at a specific point in time. When you use Time Rewind, you can choose to rewind to that saved point.]
[Rewind Limit: 3 seconds!]
This means Chen Yu can save his game three seconds ago.
Three seconds later, he can rewind again, returning to the previous three seconds!
The previous Time Puppet allowed resurrection by reversing time, but it only resurrected him at the same point. If he encountered a particular danger or was mentally exhausted, he might not be able to resurrect.
If he saved his game beforehand and then rewinded, he could completely avoid the danger within those few seconds!
Three seconds.
For a person, it's not too much.
But it's not too little either.
Chen Yu believed that since the Time Puppet could be upgraded, the number of seconds for the saved game to rewind could be increased.
And just then...
The car jolted.
Chen Yu woke from his dream.
"Was that just a dream? Why did it feel so real?"
Chen Yu was stunned. He looked around, not expecting to fall asleep in the car. He
encountered something... suspiciously spooky in his dream?
"But this... is just a last-minute snack?"
"It tastes pretty good. Let's have it as afternoon tea dessert."
But at this moment...
[Buzz!]
The phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
He picked it up and saw a series of scarlet characters emitting a spooky aura appear on Chen Yu's phone.
[An unknown spook just set its sights on you.]
[However, it didn't mean to hurt you. Instead, it had a kind heart.]
[There are actually spooks with kind hearts in this world? It's amazing!]
[Also, isn't it a bit too much to use spooks as afternoon tea dessert, my old baby?]
A mysterious invasion?
And a benevolent one at that?
What's going on? Wasn't he asleep just now?
Chen Yu wondered.
His sister's chat box flickered again.
He clicked it open and saw a red envelope.
Chen Yu sighed helplessly, then accepted it and replied, "Sister, I'll pay you back later."
As long as he completed this mission, he would have no shortage of money.
"Hey, we're here,"
the driver in the driver's seat warned Chen Yu after the car had been driving for a few minutes, glancing at him in the rearview mirror.
Chen Yu glanced out the window, then paid and got out.
"Hey, what are you doing here?"
The driver frowned at Chen Yu. If this trip wasn't half a long distance and he wasn't making a lot of money, he wouldn't have dared to take this trip.
After all, there were so many rumors about this place lately.
"Stay in a hotel,"
Chen Yu said with a smile.
"Stay in a hotel? Why do you have to come here? It's spooky here. I heard thirty-five people died recently! This hotel is haunted!"
the driver kindly warned.
"It's okay, I'm not afraid,"
Chen Yu said with a smile. "I'm an atheist."
Then, he said goodbye to the driver.
"What a weirdo! He's obviously from Linjiang from his accent, but how come he doesn't even know about the Linjiang Central Hotel? And he wears sunglasses at night. Isn't he afraid of falling when he walks?"
The driver muttered depressedly after leaving.
...
Linjiang Central Hotel.
A few large characters were hung on the roof of the hotel. The light on the characters looked slightly yellow, and in the shimmering light, there were some dead mosquitoes attracted by the years.
The hotel was surrounded by silence. Every dark corner seemed to be staring at people with invisible eyes.
Fear lurked everywhere.
At the hotel entrance, a man was standing.
He was handsome, wearing a baseball cap, and his name was written on the nameplate on his chest: Zhou Chu.
At this moment, he was fiddling with his phone.
But while fiddling, the phone suddenly jammed.
Then, a scarlet background took over his phone!
The next moment!
[Buzz!]
There are two extremely terrifying monsters approaching you.
They can easily take your life.
Fortunately, these two monsters are not hostile to you, so you are safe for the time being. But don't provoke them, otherwise you may not even have ashes left. Remember. Lines of text appeared, and Zhou Chu trembled all over! Two extremely terrifying monsters are
approaching
him
?
Where
are they?
He hurriedly looked around, but only saw one person walking towards him, nothing else! Could
this person be a monster?
Didn't they say there were two?
He was so scared that he trembled all over, and cold sweat poured down his back!
As Chen Yu got closer and closer, Zhou Chu's body trembled more violently.
Zhou Chu was also a ghost master. At this time, the monster in his body was sending messages of extreme fear to Zhou Chu's brain!
He subconsciously lowered his head, not even having the courage to look at Chen Yu!
When Chen Yu approached, he was slightly taken aback when he saw Zhou Chu, trembling all over and lying on the ground, not daring to raise his head.
What was wrong with this guy?
Had he seen a ghost?
He said, "Hello, may I ask who you are..."
"I, I, I..."
Zhou Chu's voice trembled, and he faltered, "I'm here to meet Mr. Night..."
Night?
Chen Yu finally came to his senses.
It seemed that this guy was from the Investigation Bureau, sent by the Bureau to greet him.
He wanted to help Zhou Chu up, but as he approached him, Zhou Chu trembled all over, kicked his feet, and took a few steps back. He waved his hands and cried out in shock, "No, don't kill me..." "
Why would I kill you?"
Chen Yu realized that the strange aura within him might be too strong, so he suppressed it.
"I am Night."
Zhou Chu felt the strange aura around him dissipate, and he returned to normal. When he looked up, he saw a man wearing sunglasses and a hooded sweater, his face unclear.
Chen Yu didn't want to be recognized, so
he covered his face with a hat. His sunglasses concealed the time-stirring pupil in his right eye.
"Are you Ye Mu?"
Zhou Chu was stunned. He glanced around anxiously, asking, "Where are those two weird things?"
"Weird? What weird?"
Chen Yu feigned ignorance. "Are you mistaken? There wasn't anything there just now."
"Uh..."
Zhou Chu realized he had lost his composure. This was the Riverside Hotel, a terrifying place. He must have been too frightened, leading to his own nervous breakdown.
He stood up, pointed to a chair nearby, and said, "Mr. Ye Mu, why don't you rest here for a while?"
"Rest? Can't I just go in?"
"There's someone else coming."
"Someone else? Who?"
Chen Yu asked, puzzled.
At this point, Zhou Chu's face suddenly lit up with respect and admiration. He said, "That person is Xu Yu from the Guangguaili Society, Brother Xu."
Zhou Chu's expression was as if Xu Yu were not someone else, but his father.
Is this necessary?
Chen Yu frowned. He didn't have that much time to waste with them. He said directly, "No, I want to go in first."
"Wait, Mr. Ye, I think you should wait for Xu Yu. Xu Yu is a master of the Guangguaili Society and a powerful ghost master. If he follows you, he can ensure your safety."
"He protects me, or I protect him. I don't want to be a drag." Chen
Yu said lightly, and was about to go in.
Zhou Chu was stunned when he said this.
Xu Yu was actually a drag?
How could you say that.
However, his mission this time was to entertain Chen Yu well, so he dared not say anything and hurriedly said: "Mr. Ye, this is an order from our Investigation Bureau."
Chen Yu glanced at the hotel, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "The Investigation Bureau is the Investigation Bureau, I am me, I want to go in, can your Investigation Bureau stop me?"
"Uh..."
Seeing that he insisted on going in, Zhou Chu stopped persuading him, handed a piece of information to Chen Yu and said: "Mr. Ye, this is the hotel information, I hope it will be helpful to you."
"Thank you."
Chen Yu accepted the information, and then entered the hotel alone.
Watching Chen Yu's back, Zhou Chu sighed, feeling a bit overwhelmed. "The three previous ghost riders were all killed in there. If another one goes in, I'm afraid this hotel will become a serious threat to Linjiang City."
"We have to contact Captain Luo immediately."
Chen Yu, on the other hand, walked over to the file in his hand.
It displayed three portraits, with names and descriptions below.
Two men and one woman: an old man, a middle-aged man, and a little girl.
The old man's name was Chen Feng, the man's name was Zhou Zheng, and the girl's name was Tong Jian.
These three were the ghost riders who disappeared after entering the hotel.
The abilities they controlled were also recorded.
They controlled the [Ghost Patting Shoulder], [Ghost Stairs], and [Ghost Doll], respectively.
The origins of these three abilities were also very clear.
Chen Feng acquired the [Ghost Patting Shoulder] ability when he was released from the hospital and was diagnosed with numbness in a part of his body!
As luck would have it, it happened to be his shoulder.
Once contracted, this condition completely desensitizes the shoulder.
The ghostly shoulder-patting creature had fortuitously ensnared Chen Feng and began slapping him frantically on the shoulder.
If Chen Feng turned around, he would have died.
But what the ghostly shoulder-patting creature never anticipated was that his shoulder was numb, completely insensitive.
Thus, Chen Feng mastered the ghostly shoulder-patting creature.
Zhou Zheng was targeted by the ghostly steps because he enjoyed running on the stairs for exercise. After the ghostly steps targeted him, he was astonished to discover that after running from the first floor to the sixth floor, he would return to the first floor again, repeating endlessly!
Most people would have been terrified!
But Zhou Zheng was a devoted sports fanatic, and going downstairs was clearly not as easy as going up!
He frantically climbed the stairs, filled with joy.
The ghostly creature was stunned. How could such a pervert exist in the world?
The origins of Tong Jian's ghostly doll are even more unique.
As a child, Tong Jian, an orphan, rummaged through garbage for food. Once, he found a doll in the trash and fell in love with it, keeping it with him at all times.
As she grew older, the doll became increasingly eerie...
Only when the strange game began did the doll reveal its true nature.
"These people's strange origins are truly unique... It doesn't seem like they conquered through strength, but rather luck..."
Chen Yu was speechless, then hurried into the hotel.
The moment he stepped through the glass door,
he felt the temperature inside was completely different from the outside.
It was like an ice cellar!
The hotel was brightly lit.
Normally, light would bring a sense of security.
However, the strangeness here was a ghost!
He killed people by casting shadows in the light!
Therefore, the bright lights here were not only not safe, but more dangerous.
In some dark corners, Chen Yu could clearly see shadows distorting faintly.
The scene was like a stick stirring black paint a few times.
On the ground, there were footprints.
These footprints caught Chen Yu's attention.
He noticed that the footprints didn't seem to have been walked, but rather jumped.
The left and right feet were clearly touching each other.
Like the footprints left by a zombie.
Chen Yu looked around.
Since the Linjiang Center Hotel incident, the front desk staff had resigned. The entire hotel, perhaps apart from Chen Yu, was deserted.
The first floor was deserted.
Chen Yu tried to step into the shadows of a corner.
There was no danger, no sign of the strange.
"Are you asleep, Mr. Strange? Come out and see me?"
Chen Yu asked.
[Buzz!]
[I really don't know if you're truly stupid or just pretending.]
[You actually want the strange to kill you.]
[Can't find the strange, right?]
[Then I'll give you a hint. The strange has been following you since you first entered the hotel.]
[Why don't you try to turn around and meet him?]
[He really wants to be your friend—the kind that wants to kill you.]
The strange was following him!
Seeing the notification on his phone, Chen Yu broke out in a cold sweat, a chill running down his spine.
And just then...
Tap tap.
Two muffled sounds were heard on Chen Yu's shoulders.
Chen Yu felt as if someone had tapped him twice! A strange pat on the shoulder!
Could it be that the ghost rider is still alive?
No!
If the ghost rider is alive and appears on the first floor, how could the investigation bureau say that he is missing?!
There is only one possibility, that is, the ghost rider who was patted on the shoulder by the strange is dead!
And he is now controlled by the strange.
Since the prompt asked him to turn around, Chen Yu could not turn back.
Follow me, then follow me!
Chen Yu turned forward and walked into a hotel room. With a thought, the scarlet time scale hidden under the sunglasses flicked slightly, and then a flash of red light passed by.
[You used the strange save ability of the Time Phantom Eye.]
[Save Successfully!]
After saving, Chen Yu finally felt relieved and walked out of the hotel room.
One...
two...
three...
after counting silently to three seconds, he suddenly turned around!
The moment he turned around, Chen Yu immediately unleashed the Demonic Massacre!
Instantly, the colorful world around him turned black and white!
Chen Yu could see the sweat dripping from his face as he turned back, falling at a snail's pace.
Everything around him was frozen in that instant!
Everything around him slowed down ten thousand times.
In other words, the second Chen Yu spent after unleashing the Demonic Massacre was equivalent to one ten-millionth of a second in real time!
Through this ability, Chen Yu saw that there was indeed a white-haired old man following behind him!
The old man was as thin as a withered straw, his face devoid of any color, even covered in corpse spots. His eyes were hollow and lifeless. This was not a living person at all! Instead
, he was dead! It seemed that this was Chen Feng.
But Chen Feng was already dead, possessed by the strangeness.
This creature wanted to kill Chen Yu. If Chen Yu had turned back, he would have been dead.
Chen Yu showed no mercy to the creature that wanted to kill him. He unleashed his Ghost Slayer Knife, slashing with a cold light as it slew.
After Chen Feng's head was dislodged, an inky liquid gushed out from the scarlet wound, and his body collapsed to the ground.
This was Chen Yu's first time killing a creature, and he wasn't sure if it counted as a success.
To ensure safety, he approached and dismembered it.
After Chen Feng was dismembered, his left hand quickly turned black. Then the flesh began to shrink, and blood vessels and meridians appeared above the skin. The dry hand looked like bacon left in the sun for decades.
"This hand looks like a creature!"
The phone vibrated, and the blood-red notification arrived as expected.
[You are so cruel.]
[It just wanted to be friends with you, and you ate it.]
[How delicious?]
"It seems the taste of the creature is linked to its potential level. Perhaps the time creature and that afternoon dessert are more delicious."Chen Yu casually wiped his mouth.
It was stained with blood.
Weird, bloody, like a murderer.
[Swallowing Weird.]
[Successfully swallowed Weird Shoulder Pat!]
[Weird Shoulder Pat: Level 1.]
[Gained Weird Shoulder Pat's strange ability: Those who are tapped on the shoulder will fall into blindness and chaos, possibly causing permanent blindness or being trapped in chaos.]
[Potential: Two stars.]
"Two stars?!"
Chen Yu was stunned by the prompt.
His own Time Weird Eye was ten stars, and his Ghost Slayer Blade was nine and a half stars. This Weird Shoulder Pat was only two stars—too weak, wasn't it?
After being swallowed by Chen Yu, the Weird Shoulder Pat transformed into a stream of energy, instantly filling Chen Yu's limbs.
Because the Weird Shoulder Pat's star level was too low, it couldn't enter the Time Weird Eye, but instead entered the Ghost Slayer Blade.
[Weird Shoulder Pat digested.]
[Energy enters the Ghost Slayer Blade, Ghost Slayer Blade Level 4 (30%)]
...
An eerie aura wafted from upstairs.
Chen Yu followed the aura.
The strange aura intensified, confirming that another revived spirit was within the staircase on the second floor!
"The aura is already quite pronounced. I wonder if it's a strange staircase or a strange doll."
Chen Yu slowly advanced along the corridor, keeping a vigilant eye on his surroundings.
This corridor looked like an ordinary one.
The walls were painted a pristine white.
There were paintings hanging above,
but they looked distorted, like a starry sky painted by an artist.
Strangely, as Chen Yu walked, he felt the area around him shrink, slowly narrowing to about a meter wide, barely wide enough for one person to pass.
A chandelier hung from the ceiling overhead, its light radiating brightly. A gust of wind blew from nowhere, swaying it back and forth, causing the entire corridor to flicker.
In the dark corners where the light wasn't shining, Chen Yu felt as if someone was standing there, staring at him with wide eyes.
But when the light shone back, the feeling disappeared.
The narrow corridor meant that if anything went wrong, he couldn't turn around and run, forcing him to face the enemy head-on.
The pitch-black depths meant that even if something terrifying appeared ahead, he couldn't escape, or even see it clearly.
Coupled with the eerie aura that fluctuated between strong and weak,
the two combined to create a claustrophobic, eerie, and oppressive feeling.
He'd expected something monstrous to suddenly appear and startle him,
but after walking all the way, he found nothing at all. The calm before the storm?
Chen Yu pondered, continuing forward.
But after a few steps, he realized the problem, and his expression changed slightly!
His footsteps were silent when he walked!
He stamped his feet hurriedly, but still no sound was heard.
It wasn't that he was deaf, but the sound had disappeared!
What was going on?
He looked down and
realized that he had been walking on tiptoe without realizing it!
And he hadn't noticed at all, as if he was stepping on someone else's feet.
Not only that, he also found that he was getting higher and higher!
It was like a ballet dancer, dancing.
[Buzz!]
[Congratulations, you've been spotted by something strange.]
[Do you feel something strange beneath your feet?]
[Do you feel your feet rising higher and higher?]
[Then you're not far from death.]
[As long as you completely leave the ground, you will see Him.]
If your feet leave the ground, you will see Him?
And at this moment,
he was just one toe away from the ground! He held his breath, concentrating, and calmly unleashed the Demonic Den Slaughter.
In an instant, everything around him slowed down.
He used the Demonic Den's six senses to quickly scan his surroundings.
But he found nothing.
Could it be behind him?
He turned around, but there was nothing behind him!
What was going on?
At this moment, he looked down.
With the Demonic Den's six senses activated,
a terrifying scene appeared before Chen Yu's eyes.
He walked through the corridor and stepped onto the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs, a ghostly figure stood upside down!
The ghost's feet pressed against Chen Yu's feet, like a reflection in a mirror!
At the bottom of the stairs, a middle-aged man was in sight!
Since slaying the ghostly den required a certain amount of mental energy, and now that he had discovered the location of the strange creature, he shut it down.
The middle-aged man, standing upside down at the bottom of the stairs, seemed to sense Chen Yu's presence.
He lowered his head, met Chen Yu's gaze, and a strange smile curved at the corner of his mouth.
"Hahahaha, I finally found you!"
It was a slight smile, but Chen Yu simply grinned!
A hungry grumble accompanied it.
It's time for dinner again!
I wonder what level this strange creature is?
Will it even feed me?
[Your mind is truly bizarre. Are you frightened out of
your wits?] [The strange creature targeting you has already revived, even stronger than before, and you're still able to smile.]
[Shouldn't you have chosen to flee immediately?]
The notification on his phone was a touch ironic and shocking.
Chen Yu took a few more steps.
The strange creature at the bottom of the stairs repeated Chen Yu's actions.
However, Chen Yu's feet had already left the ground, and the other person's feet had already emerged from the stairs! After
a few more
steps, the other person's calves were already exposed at the bottom of the stairs!
And Chen Yu was pushed higher.
It seemed like that.
Just a few more steps and the creature would emerge from under the stairs.
No wonder the message said that when you leave the ground, you're not far from death. So that's what it meant.
The creature seemed impatient. It stopped repeating Chen Yu's movements and bent down, slowly emerging from the stairs at an extremely strange angle, approaching Chen Yu.
"Come on! I've been waiting for you!"
Chen Yu's smile grew wider. Far from being frightened, he seemed excited, even licking his tongue.
"You're crazy!"
"No, to describe you as crazy is an insult to the word crazy!"
"This is a creature. It's going to kill you! And you're still laughing!"
The notification on his phone reappeared.
But Chen Yu's mind was only on the word 'eat'; how could he care less about his phone?
When the strange stairs fully emerged, Chen Yu immediately began to slaughter the ghosts.
The moment they launched their attacks, the strange stairs seemed to realize something was amiss and turned to flee.
Unfortunately, the Demonic Den of Slaughter had already been activated, slowing his movements infinitely, making it impossible for him to escape.
Chen Yu's eyes flickered slightly.
Swish!
A cold light silently streaked across the middle-aged man on the strange steps.
Swish, swish, swish!
Several rays of light flashed across the middle-aged man's body.
He was still about to turn and flee, a look of panic on his face.
"Demon Den, retract!"
Chen Yu retracted the Demonic Den.
The middle-aged man standing before him instantly shattered like a building block!
Without a word, Chen Yu pounced on him and began to devour him.
[Buzz!]
[He has killed countless people, a terrifying and strange being.]
[Yet you easily killed him and devoured his body at the same time.]
[Perhaps I'm mistaken, it's not him who is feared.]
[It's you.]
His phone vibrated continuously.
Chen Yu took out his phone while eating, checking it.
[Ding!]
You have successfully devoured the weird, and it has become a part of you.
However, possessing the Time Weird Eye, you are extremely powerful, and it despises such low-level weirds.
Therefore, this weird can only occupy a small part of your body, and it doesn't even have a say.
School bullying and social bullying are nothing compared to that. Physical bullying is what brings despair.
Perhaps it never imagined it would end up like this.
How pathetic.
From now on, you must be nicer to it. I hope you will remember it as you walk up each staircase.
Be nicer to it?
After being devoured, does the weird have its own consciousness?
He began to search for information about the weird.
[Weird Steps]
Level 2 Weird.
Potential: One and a half stars.
"One and a half stars? Even lower than the last one!"
Chen Yu sighed helplessly. He hadn't expected the weird he had finally acquired to have its potential steadily declining.
What was that weird's ability?
As soon as Chen Yu lifted his foot, a light feeling spread beneath his feet!
[Strange Steps' Strange Ability: An inverted ghost appears beneath your feet, supporting you and allowing you to levitate.]
As he walked, Chen Yu's feet began to lift off the ground, but only about twenty or thirty centimeters, no more.
"Interesting! Perhaps this ability will have unexpected uses,"
Chen Yu nodded.
After devouring the Strange Steps, Chen Yu rapidly digested it.
Energy flowed frantically through Chen Yu's limbs and bones, finally converging into a single point and entering the Ghost Slayer Blade.
[Level 4 Ghost Slayer Blade (90%).]
...
In a hotel room.
Pitch-black.
From a pitch-black wardrobe, a movement could be heard.
Inside, sat a young girl in a blood-red dress.
The young girl was adorable, looking only eleven or twelve years old, but her pale face was expressionless as she sat there in the closet.
And on her back, she carried a baby!
This doll was extremely strange. Its nutmeg-sized eyes blinked, sometimes with a hint of anxiety in them, and sometimes with a hint of fear on its face. Its expression was very rich. The stitches on its mouth had been undone, and it opened and closed, speaking human words.
"Sister, can we still escape? Are we all going to die here? What does it feel like to die?"
"Sister, please say something, sister, I'm so scared."
"Sister, I want to go home. I want to lie in bed, I want to sleep under the covers, I want to take a bath and smell good..." "
Sister, the bad guys outside are approaching us. Is he going to open the closet door?"
"Sister, I'm so scared. Can you hug me..."
"Sister..."
"Sister, are you going to die?"
"That's great. If you die, I can live freely, hehe~" "
Sister, I can't bear to leave you. When I die, can I take your head with me as a souvenir?"
The strange doll kept talking, talking non-stop. Its voice was like that of a preschool girl, and it kept getting louder and louder.
Like a lunatic with a disturbed mind, he was at one moment affectionate and well-behaved, like the girl's dearest, innocent sister, and then suddenly mad and cruel, wishing she were dead right now.
But the red-dressed girl ignored him, her hands clasped around her knees, staring blankly at the dark closet.
Inside the room, a small shadow slowly approached the dark closet.
A closer look revealed that
the silhouette of this small figure was identical to the lolita girl's!
It was clearly the lolita girl's shadow!
Tong Jian, the girl, had just entered the Linjiang Center Hotel when she was spotted by something strange.
If the spooky doll hadn't saved her life, she would have probably walked away with the spooky steps and the spooky shoulder pat.
Although she had escaped with her life,
her shadow had been infected by the strangeness.
Now, her shadow was about to kill her, but every time it heard the spooky doll's voice coming from the closet, it would stop or slow down!
As the spooky doll's voice in the closet grew louder and more frequent, the shadow outside the closet slowed down even more.
This was the spooky doll's strange ability.
Being talkative was its way of fighting the rules!
But at this moment, the infected ghost outside was very strong, and it was impossible for it to be driven away. It could only use vocal curses to slow down its movements.
The red-dressed loli's fair and petite face remained expressionless.
She knew she was going to die.
The spooky doll would definitely not hold out for much longer, and the 'self' outside was about to arrive.
But at this moment, there was some agitated noise outside the room.
The eerie doll chattered incessantly, lowering its voice to a whisper, worriedly admonishing the girl:
"Sister, there seems to be someone outside, let's not make a sound!"
"We can definitely survive together!"
"Shh—"
The words suddenly changed!
Her voice suddenly rose, becoming sharp and frantic, a laugh that tore at her vocal cords!
The eerie doll's voice was as piercing as a knife cutting through glass.
"Hehehehe, sister, please don't make a sound, I'll do it~ Is there anyone there? Come and kill my sister~"
"I want her head so badly~! It's so cute."
The girl in the red dress still lowered her head, curled up expressionlessly, leaning helplessly against the darkness of the closet.
Making sure she didn't show her shadow.
...
[Buzz!]
[You're courting death! You knew there was something strange going on, yet you insisted on going this way!]
[The strangeness is within the room!]
[It has sensed your presence.]
"It's in here!"
Chen Yu followed the scent all the way here, then saw a notification on his phone.
A thought struck him.
The time scale in his right eye instantly snapped back three times, freezing at three
seconds. A flash of red flashed across his eyes, fleeting.
[You've used the save function. You can rewind within three seconds.]
After saving, Chen Yu kicked the door open.
What he saw was a small, lolita-like figure approaching a pitch-black wardrobe!
Though the dark figure lacked facial features, Chen Yu could clearly see it suddenly turn its head and stare at him intently with eyes that didn't exist.
A cold aura emanated from the figure, blending with the air in the room.
The surrounding darkness in the room began to gather, then surged towards the small figure.
The area without darkness became a pale white, like a painting on paper with traces forcibly erased.
The shadow's form twisted, like a dark, ghostly snake, dancing with its body.
Although no one made a sound, the fear at that moment was more audible than silence.
The next moment!
The shadow suddenly let out a sharp scream, then stretched out its dark hands and pounced towards Chen Yu.
No, it should have pounced towards the shadow under Chen Yu's feet!
I had received a tip from the Investigation Bureau before.If the shadow from the Linjiang Center Hotel and his own shadow touched, it would be doom!
Chen Yu's own shadow beneath his feet, as if on command, formed a pyramid and began to charge towards the loli ghost.
"Oh no!"
Chen Yu dodged and leaped, pulling his shadow away, and leaped to the side of the bed. But then! "Hehehe, I got you, I got you..." A series of hoarse, mournful cries echoed from beneath Chen Yu's feet. Chen Yu looked down and saw a ghostly shadow suddenly extend from under the bed, connecting directly with Chen Yu's shadow.
How could it be here too? The moment the shadow connected, Chen Yu felt his eyes blurry and a splitting headache. He felt as if he were falling into an endless, dark abyss, beneath which countless shadows stretched out their hands towards him! The feeling of falling freely was extremely uncomfortable for Chen Yu. He fell into the clutches of countless shadows. They tore him apart, gnawing at every inch of his body. Chen Yu's body was powerless, and he could only watch helplessly as he was devoured bite by bite, unable to fight back. His consciousness began to fade! The ghostly figure controlled Chen Yu's shadow, causing him to fall into a brief hallucination. Although it was short, a battle between masters often takes only the blink of an eye. His head was mercilessly severed by the ghostly figure. The moment Chen Yu's head hit the ground , a muffled sound was heard, as if it had received some kind of message. The needle in Chen Yu's right pupil jumped back to the fourth grid, skipping the grids in between. Ding! The power of time reversal, which defied the rules, suddenly erupted! Chen Yu's recently lost consciousness began to frantically return! Everything around him was rapidly replaying in reverse! "Huh!" Chen Yu gasped, beads of sweat dripping wildly. He was once again outside the door three seconds later! "You have successfully used the rewind function to rewind to three seconds ago." "Please cherish your life and avoid risks." A message came from his phone. Chen Yu finally snapped out of his hazy state! He'd never imagined he'd actually died! "Luckily, I'd saved the game, and it went back three seconds..." Chen Yu's face was filled with fear. He'd chosen to save the game when he entered the room. If he hadn't saved the game, Chen Yu would have had to use Time Rewind to revive on the spot. But his shadow was already linked to the other person. This meant that after resurrecting on the spot, Chen Yu would die again, then revive again, then die again, until his mental energy was completely depleted and unable to resurrect! [You're terrifying! I clearly saw you've been beheaded.] [Yet you've surprisingly returned to the doorway, unharmed.] [Wait...] [This is the upgraded ability of the Time Phantom Eye. After devouring the Time Phantom Eye, you gained its abilities and even upgraded them?] [This might be the pinnacle of freeloading.] [The Time Phantom's death was truly unjust.] The simple crimson text was filled with shock. " That almost happened!" Chen Yu took a deep breath, then mustered his courage and pushed the door open! The moment he pushed the door open, the Slaughter Ghost Den unleashed! A ghostly figure appeared before him. Due to the activation of the Butcher's Blade Ghost Den, the ghost's attack had slowed considerably! Chen Yu dodged the ghost's attack by sideways. A shadow also rushed towards him from beneath his feet, but its speed had been greatly reduced. Furthermore, within the Butcher's Blade Ghost Den, Chen Yu had a 360-degree field of view, like a 360-degree camera suspended from the ceiling. Chen Yu didn't save his game because of the three-second limit. Once the limit expired, the save would be useless. Furthermore, saving and resuming a game required a significant expenditure of mental energy. While using the Butcher's Blade Ghost Den offered many advantages, it also carried significant risks. If a ghost connected to his own shadow, even with the Butcher's Blade Ghost Den deployed, he would still die. With a thought, Chen Yu's butcher knife appeared in his hand. The instant the butcher's knife was summoned, the Butcher's Blade Ghost Den intensified. At an incredible angle, the cold light slashed directly at the ghost and the loli ghost under the bed! Crack! Two crisp sounds. The two ghosts were instantly split into four. From the cracks, a black aura continuously emanated! When the black aura dissipated, the ghost lay motionless on the ground! [Incredible! You killed two ghost clones simultaneously.] [No one in the record has ever achieved such a feat.] [If you are controlled by the ghost clones, you will step into the abyss of death.] [Unfortunately, the Slaughter Ghost is too powerful, and so is the Time Phantom.] [The two ghosts were able to work together to kill you, but they couldn't kill your Time Phantom and your Phantom Butcher Knife.] [This time, they can only blame themselves for their bad luck.] "Ghost clones?!" Chen Yu couldn't help but hold his head and sigh. "Why are they clones again? Is the original so hard to catch?" If the clones are so powerful, then the original must be even stronger. It seems that Chen Yu needs to be more careful. [Buzz!] ] [Do you want to catch a ghost?] [Maybe you're too arrogant. Ghosts aren't that easy to catch.] [It might be everywhere, or it might disappear.] [You'd better give up.] A new round of notifications appeared on the phone. "Crack!"
At that moment, the sound of a wooden door opening was heard. Chen Yu frowned and quickly took a step back.
Could there be something more strange in this room?!
He looked towards the source of the sound.
A pair of delicate white hands pushed open a pitch-black wardrobe door.
A little girl in a red dress walked out, staring at Chen Yu expressionlessly, not saying a word.
Although the little girl in the red dress was extremely beautiful and lovely, with big eyes, long eyelashes, and fair skin, like a vivid porcelain doll,
—but!
Seeing her lifeless eyes and expression, Chen Yu felt a little uncomfortable.
She looked like a little girl who had lost her soul, a walking corpse.
He couldn't imagine what she had been through.
Although Tong Jian was silent
, the doll she carried on her back was a chatterbox.
The two formed a sharp contrast.
It seemed that the ghost doll had realized that Tong Jian had survived the life-or-death crisis brought by the ghost. It
also wisely restrained its crazy side.
Its voice was sweet and lovely.
"Wow, such a handsome and mysterious brother!"
"Thank you, brother, for saving me and my sister!"
"We thought we were doomed, but you actually saved us!"
"My sister doesn't talk much, so I'll thank you first on her behalf, hehe~"
The spooky doll thanked Chen Yu frantically.
Chen Yu was stunned. Unexpectedly, the lolita girl didn't say anything, but the doll behind her did.
He stared at the spooky doll and asked, "Are you spooky?"
"I don't know what spooky is!"
"Then how can you speak?"
"Because I can speak anyway. Why are you asking such a strange question, brother?"
The spooky doll's voice was tinged with laughter.
Chen Yu leaned in closer to observe her for himself and discovered that this little lolita was the third ghost rider listed in the information, named Tong Jian.
And this doll was something Tong Jian had found in a trash can as a child. Unexpectedly, it was a spooky doll.
[You're lucky to see a special spooky doll here.]
[It's called the spooky doll, a level 4 spooky doll with a potential of 6.5 stars.]
Wow, a spooky doll with a potential of 5.5 stars? That
looks pretty impressive!
It was far more powerful than the previous eerie shoulder pats and eerie steps.
Chen Yu hadn't expected one of the three ghost riders to survive, so he smiled and said, "This is dangerous. It's not a place for you. Get out."
But Tong Jian said nothing.
Chen Yu was about to leave when he saw Tong Jian standing still. He was surprised, "You're not leaving?"
"Sister told me she doesn't want to leave. She wants to follow you!"
the eerie doll said. "Did
she just talk to you?"
Chen Yu looked stunned. Was he deaf?
"No, but sister and I are telepathic. I know what she meant."
A smile crossed the eerie doll's face.
"Why follow me? It's dangerous. Two ghost riders are already dead here,"
Chen Yu said. The
eerie doll said, "Sister said she wants to follow you."
"Okay, okay, follow me, but don't get in my way."
Chen Yu waved his hand, unconcerned.
He walked over to the two shadows, opened his mouth, and began to devour them.
The shadow tasted like tasteless plasticine, but Chen Yu devoured it with gusto.
Tong Jian, who was following him, observed this scene with a blank expression on his face and a silent response, though a surge of emotion surged within him!
"Brother, you're actually eating a shadow!"
"Can a shadow be eaten? What happens if you eat it?"
the Ghostly Doll asked Chen Yu in shock.
"Delicious! Do you want a bite?"
Chen Yu ripped off one of the shadow's legs and handed it to the Ghostly Doll.
The Ghostly Doll shook its head repeatedly.
[You devoured two shadow clones!]
[You digested the clones, transforming them into energy that now flows through your body.]
Chen Yu felt a surge of energy flowing through his body, finally converging into the Ghostly Butcher Knife.
[Energy enters the Ghostly Butcher Knife, Ghostly Butcher Knife (100%)]
[Level 4 Ghostly Butcher Knife upgraded to Level 5.]
[Strange Ability Upgraded: Level 2 Demon Slayer!
With your upgraded Ghost Slaughter ability, you can see more clearly, hear more distinctly, and even discern causal clues! Devouring
a ghost, he unexpectedly upgraded his Ghost Slaughter Knife.
Chen Yu hurriedly unleashed his second-level Ghost Slaughter ability.
The next moment, everything around him suddenly slowed down, and the entire world became the color of a black and white film.
Chen Yu hoped to rely on the Ghost Slaughter Knife's Ghost Slaughter ability to locate the ghost.
He was surprised to find a corpse hidden under the bed in this room. This corpse was a normal person's, but his shadow had been infected, killed by the shadow, and taken under the bed.
On the corpse, there was a faint, shimmering thread that was difficult to discern unless one looked closely!
One end of the thread connected to the corpse.
The other end led directly to the door, seemingly connected to something else.
"Could the other end of this thread be a ghost?"
Chen Yu speculated, perhaps the ghost was controlling the human shadow through these threads.
Thinking of this, Chen Yu stopped running around like a headless fly. Instead, he put away his demonic possessions and began to follow the hazy line.
Thanks to his time-based eyes, he was able to see the line clearly.
"Brother, where are you going? Wait for us!"
the ghost doll shouted hurriedly when it saw Chen Yu suddenly leave.
Tong Jian, on the other hand, took small steps to catch up with Chen Yu.
Following the line all the way down, Chen Yu finally arrived at the basement.
The basement door was tightly closed.
A strong and eerie aura emanated from inside.
It seemed that the weirdness was inside!
Chen Yu immediately unsheathed his butcher knife and slashed the thread in one stroke!
Snap!
The thread split in two.
As if alive, like a severed earthworm, it twisted its body madly, venting its pain.
Chen Yu deployed his Ghostly Den, using his Time Puppetry and its penetrating power to penetrate the wall. He saw a corpse lying inside. A thought struck him!
Snap!
A flash of cold light flashed across the basement.
Everything he saw could be inflicted with his gaze!
[Buzz!]
[You actually found His true form!]
[And you even harmed Him!]
[But your attack seems too weak, only causing minimal damage.]
The phone displayed a shocking message.
Chen Yu was also stunned, having never imagined his butchering Ghostly Den could truly inflict damage from a distance.
However, due to the wall between them, it clearly hadn't caused any significant damage to the creature.
With the thread severed, the hidden figure was revealed.
Tong Jian then realized that Chen Yu had been following a line, not walking aimlessly.
"When did this line appear? Why didn't I see it before?"
"Brother, were you just following this line? Your eyes are amazing, you can even see this!"
the spooky doll kept saying.
Chen Yu ignored it and walked directly to the basement door, unleashing the strange ability of the Time Puppet.
[Time Puppet's strange ability to save is in progress.]
[Save successful, time limit: three seconds.]
After the save was completed, Chen Yu immediately pushed open the basement door.
An eerie aura washed over him.
Chen Yu looked closely.
Inside the basement, a headless male corpse was walking aimlessly, his hands extended, constantly groping in the air.
The headless shadow beneath his feet was different from the shadow the corpse should have cast.
This shadow seemed to be wearing a robe!
And at that moment,
Chen Yu's Spooky Butcher Knife began to tremble wildly.
Seeing the agitated Spooky Butcher Knife, Chen Yu was stunned.
The Strange Butcher Knife continuously released a longing, demanding emotion toward Chen Yu.
That emotion was quite unique, like the longing to regain one's soul after having been siphoned away.
[Buzz!]
Your Strange Butcher Knife conveyed this longing emotion to you, for it saw what it needed.
[The headless ghost is the puzzle piece of the Strange Butcher Knife.]
"Puzzle piece?"
Chen Yu couldn't help but show the Strange Butcher Knife. The Strange Butcher Knife wasn't missing any limbs.
Why did it suddenly need a puzzle piece?
[Oh, right~ I forgot to introduce it, my dear old baby.]
There are countless strange puzzle pieces, each corresponding to a different kind of strangeness.
[Finding the corresponding strange puzzle piece is like finding a needle in a haystack, so you must cherish every strange puzzle piece you see.]