In the early stages of the manga, ghostly entities could only pull humans into uncanny events on a small scale. As the manga progressed into the mid-to-late stages, the ghosts' power grew, and their reach gradually expanded to cover entire residential complexes, cities, and even remote countries... However, rule-based uncanny events were not unsolvable dilemmas. Ordinary people could survive and exit the uncanny world if they could identify the correct rules.
It was now the red light period, and all was silent. Su Ling and the others held their breath. They knew the female ghost was currently walking by the window, searching for them from above. Jiang Ji, walking by at this moment, seemed particularly irritating. Enduring the scrutinizing gazes from across the road, Jiang Ji looked towards Li Hua Apartment in the distance. The apartment building, shrouded in twilight, resembled a colossal entity poised to devour them.
Li Hua Apartment had four units. Each building had 40 floors, with 18 units per floor, totaling 2880 units. Due to its low rent, the tenants were diverse, leading to frequent public order issues. Many outsiders used it as a temporary stop. People from all directions gradually filled the place. Excluding the vacant units, the remaining 2632 households lived in cramped spaces of four to five square meters, enduring the same routine day after day. It was not just late at night now; even in broad daylight with high visibility, even if the female ghost was standing at the window, it would be difficult for them to spot her among so many windows.
As time ticked by, the crimson light receded like a tide. Su Ling collapsed to the ground, gasping for fresh air. The flat-headed man, utterly lacking in composure, continued to curse, "Damn it, how can you possibly find her just by looking!" The short-haired girl's face showed despair, tears streaming down her cheeks as she looked pleadingly at the others, "I want to leave. I really don't want to die..."
The bespectacled man was the calmest among them. After a moment of thought, he said, "Li Hua Apartment is not on the investigation bureau's list, so its level is unknown. However, all rule-based uncanny events only kill when their rules are violated... The 'Uncanny Survival Guide' compiles some precautions applicable to most rule-based uncanny events. We just need to remember one thing: we must follow the rules, but we also cannot blindly trust them. Red light, silence; green light, avoid eye contact; yellow light, do not look back. Three consecutive rules relate to traffic lights. Furthermore, the rules mention cats and vehicles, which might be clues to the female ghost's location."
The flat-headed man impatiently waved his hand, "Enough, enough. All this useless talk. Who doesn't know this?"
What an idiot! The bespectacled man's expression darkened. He pushed his glasses up his nose, subtly concealing the contempt in his eyes. These people still had value; he didn't plan on falling out with them yet... In these perilous rule-based uncanny events, he needed scapegoats to test those rules. But speaking of scapegoats—the bespectacled man subconsciously glanced into the distance, towards the black-haired girl leaning against a utility pole, idly kicking a small stone. She stared fixedly at the night sky, completely unconcerned with their commotion. The bespectacled man frowned slightly. What was her deal? Has she already found some clue? Regardless, he had to find out! The bespectacled man made up his mind, unaware that Jiang Ji was currently staring speechlessly at a panel filled entirely with red numerical values.
[Name: Jiang Ji]
[Identity: Prophet]
[Physique: 19 (Do not go out in windy weather)]
[Strength: 19 (Cannot twist open any bottle caps)]
[Speed: 12/19 (Injured) (Sloth rejoices)]
[Intelligence: 140 (King of brain teasers)]
[Appearance: 97 (A beauty that could cause disasters, but unfortunately, she has a mouth)]
[Luck Value: -99 (System: ?) ]
[Leadership: 100 (Pyramid scheme leader √)]
[Mental Power: F ~ SSS Grade (↗↘↗↘)]
[Talent Abilities: "Foresight," "Recall Past," "Danger Sense," other abilities to be discovered...]
[Overall Evaluation: "The Savior Gets Blown Away by the Wind Again Today," "Our Fragile Savior Who Can't Take Care of Herself," "Such a Savior, Our World Seems Doomed," "The Highly Intelligent Savior Gets Hit by Bird Droppings and Dies on the Spot."]
"..."
Lin Xiao, you're really good at insulting people now! If this level of beauty were in a sweet romance novel, she'd undoubtedly be the soft, delicate beauty the domineering CEO couldn't resist. But in this jungle society with broken order and soaring global crime rates, she'd either become a plaything for the upper class or a cold line of text in the news. Thinking of the original host's fate, Jiang Ji's palms began to itch. But upon seeing her physique of 19 points... Jiang Ji immediately deflated. She had used ten-tenths of her strength in that slap earlier, which would normally make a small asteroid tremble. Yet, now, gently caressing Su Ling's face, she hadn't even drawn blood... It was quite damaging to her pride. As for her mental power fluctuating between SSS and F grades, it was all because she was in a hurry. While the technical department was still wrestling with the world's will, Jiang Ji, squatting nearby, had already silently torn through the fabric of space-time and stepped into the comic world. The entire technical department was stunned. Her passport hadn't even been processed, and she was already abroad. That was too reckless.
Although her landing was successful, she hadn't obtained a pass. Jiang Ji's power was severely weakened by the world's will. Her 3S ocean of mental power had been forcibly reduced to a mere mental power... a spoon. The abilities generated by the system had also encountered epic castration—
[Danger Sense] is a passive skill, similar to having earthquake alerts enabled on a phone, allowing one to detect danger in advance to prepare for it. However, with Jiang Ji's current F-grade mental power, it would be lucky if she could sense danger twice out of ten times. [Foresight] and [Recall Past] are active skills, but the more content she wanted to see, the more mental power it required, multiplying exponentially. Similarly, the scope of the past and future she could glimpse would not exceed 30 seconds.
...She was wrong, she was truly wrong. Is it still too late to go back? What can you do in thirty seconds? Make a wish at the library?
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"Wuwuwu!" "Wuwuwuwuwuwu~"
Night fell, and a mist gradually gathered around them. In the thin mist, the crying of a baby suddenly sounded. The sound seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere, intermittent, piercing, and mournful, as if originating from Li Hua Apartment across the way, or perhaps from all directions. Jiang Ji's consciousness drifted away with the crying sound. The expression on her face gradually became vacant and serene. She slowly raised her hands and placed them on her chin... No, she jolted.
Slap!
This slap landed on her own face. The bleeding which had stopped, started again, and the pain thoroughly roused Jiang Ji from the crying. This wasn't a baby at all; it was the sound of stray cats in heat!
Rule number two stated: [There are no stray cats at the crossroads. If you hear a cat's meow, smear blood on your eyelids as soon as possible!]
Jiang Ji's hair stood on end, and cold sweat soaked her back. She took a deep breath and yelled, "Retreat!" Though her strength was small, her voice was loud. At the same time, she quickly wiped the bloodstain on her face with the back of her hand and smeared it onto her eyelids in a flash!
The others were jolted awake by her shout. Seeing the situation, large beads of sweat trickled down their foreheads. They immediately bit their fingers. Su Ling and the flat-headed man, not having blood on their person, exchanged a look and lunged towards the corpse on the ground, a fierce glint in their eyes.
"Brother/Brother, don't blame me. I want to live too!"
They smeared blood on their eyelids. Whether their own or someone else's, everyone's nerves were on edge, ready for anything.
Until the sound of the stray cats gradually faded and the chilling mist was dispersed by the waning moon, the immediate crisis was averted. Seeing this, Jiang Ji felt a strange sensation. Something was wrong. She felt as if something was amiss. Before she could ponder further, the scenery around her shattered—On the dark, silent street, Su Ling and the flat-headed man sat back-to-back on the ground, their empty necks spurting blood in rhythmic pulses. Three heads were piled into a small tower, their vacant eyes staring directly at her, their mouths slowly curving into sinister smiles.
"...Ah?" Su Ling and the flat-headed man were dead?
Just then, behind Su Ling and the flat-headed man, Su Zhigang's head, which had been casually placed back on the ground, suddenly rolled its dull, lifeless eyes. A sinister smile stretched across its face. The headless corpse swayed unsteadily as it stood up... Two piercing screams tore through the sky! Jiang Ji reacted immediately, realizing the crucial part of the rules that had been omitted. Those who smeared dead people's blood on their eyelids... would be found by the ghosts! The three bloody heads revealed uniformly curved, sinister smiles, fixed in their most grotesque arcs. Six people, instantly reduced to three! The short-haired girl's face was blank with shock.
"No, why did this happen..."
The bespectacled man gritted his teeth. "The rules were indeed riddled with traps!" Just waiting for them to fall into them!
This was the first time Jiang Ji had witnessed a prophecy unfolding before her eyes. She had no intention of helping Su Ling and the flat-headed man, but if these people died by the hands of ghostly entities, they would become new uncanny threats, causing her trouble. Landmines buried within the rules could explode at any moment. She could no longer passively wait. She had to race ahead of time and glimpse the future! Jiang Ji reached up and fiddled with the wisps of hair at her forehead, partially obscuring her eyes. In her ink-black pupils, a smaller pupil was reflected. The scene before her began to cloud over with mist... When the fog cleared, she saw an ancient, heavy clock tower before her. The slow-moving minute hand on its dial was gently nudged backward. Dark clouds obscured the pale moonlight, deepening the night. The heads in the distance were cast in heavy shadow. The head on the far right drooped its eyelids, its face pale gray, with a long scar on its side. Where her tear mole was located, it was exactly the same as hers. She died? Why? Jiang Ji furrowed her brow, repeatedly recalling the uncanny rules. She suddenly thought of something, turned her head sharply, fixed her gaze on the red-green light hidden in the darkness, and activated her ability again—
The moment the green light illuminated, Jiang Ji saw... eyes completely devoid of whites! She stumbled back several steps, her heart pounding wildly. It turned out they had overlooked the initial mission prompt all along. Li Hua Apartment did indeed hide a [headless female corpse]. The female corpse was still in Li Hua Apartment, but her head was hidden within the traffic light! If they kept staring at the traffic light, they would die.
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