Chapter 177: House Of Evil Ghosts
[Run, Chao Chao]
[If you run fast, perhaps you can delay death by a few minutes?]
The parchment’s words were filled with undisguised malice; it was ready to watch from afar and take Lu Jinzhao’s corpse.
If Lu Jinzhao insisted on not trading with it, then just die.
Anyway, it already had one-third of the soul; after Lu Jinzhao died, it could take over this body.
It would just be a bit troublesome without getting the entire soul later.
Although it was somewhat regrettable, Lu Jinzhao dying was fine.
Lu Jinzhao could more or less guess the parchment’s current thoughts, but she had no time to deal with the parchment right now; several corpses had already begun emerging one after another from the sea of blood on the ground. They appeared to have no consciousness, yet the moment they crawled out from the ground, they looked toward Lu Jinzhao, and then walked toward her.
Lu Jinzhao had no confidence she could survive head-on against so many corpses, and based on the scenes she had seen before, with the blood water melting into the corpses, she guessed that the key was not the corpses themselves, but this endless blood water.
Helplessly, she could only open the 302 room door she had just closed again and rush into another 302.
Originally, she had thrown the three corpses from her original 302 into this room, but when she opened it again, there were only three corpses inside the room.
This meant that when she opened 302 again, the space had randomly switched again.
The three corpses were soaked in the blood water. When Lu Jinzhao closed the door to block the ghosts chasing from behind, she had to face these three corpses that stood up.
No matter which 302 she randomly switched to, there would always be at least three corpses inside the room waiting for her, and if she stayed too long, corpses would continuously crawl out from the sea of blood.
“What if I keep switching rooms endlessly?”
She tried to press the door handle and open the door again immediately before the three corpses reached her and before any other corpses crawled out from the sea of blood, but the next second, the scene after opening the door made Lu Jinzhao’s pupils shrink sharply.
Right in front of her stood a corpse!
It was the one hidden in the sofa, with its body stabbed full of arms that did not belong to it.
It was right behind the door, waiting for the instant someone opened it.
Almost in the instant it raised its hand, Lu Jinzhao slammed the door shut!
With a bang, the corpse that had given her a face-to-face kill upon opening the door disappeared, but behind her, a hand pressed against her.
The corpses in this room had already reached her back.
The next second, the pocket watch was opened, the hand behind her suddenly let go, and Lu Jinzhao pulled open the room door again, escaping into another 302.
This 302 also wouldn’t let her evade for long, but if she continued opening doors, she wasn’t sure if there would be another face-to-face kill.
She realized there was no meaning.
In this state, 302 was just for escape, with no meaning.
She couldn’t run away or escape.
What should she do?
The rain of blood was still falling continuously, large drops of rainwater landing on Lu Jinzhao’s body, dyeing her red and sliding off her, with only a small portion of the blood water melting into her body.
But the portion that melted in was not anything good.
When the blood water entering her body accumulated to a certain amount, Lu Jinzhao felt obvious discomfort.
It was as if a hand was stirring her internal organs inside her body, pulling her intestines, and from time to time, she would feel heart palpitations, as if her heart was gripped by a hand.
When she used the pocket watch earlier, this feeling had eased a bit, but as she continued to get drenched in the rain, the pain came back cyclically.
When she had to switch rooms again and luckily didn’t encounter a face-to-face kill, before she could sigh about surviving another half minute, the next second, Lu Jinzhao felt a tearing pain in her abdomen.
She looked down and saw a bluish-purple, shriveled hand belonging to a corpse that had pierced through her abdomen, extending out from inside her body.
Even stained with blood and shattered internal organs, Lu Jinzhao recognized it.
The appearance of this hand was identical to one of the hands stabbed into the sofa corpse.
“Not only those corpses, but the blood water is also a source of danger…”
“No, rather, the blood water is the root source, isn’t it?”
Lu Jinzhao reached out to try pulling out this hand that did not belong to her, but discovered that this hand seemed connected to her internal organs; when she tried to pull it out, her internal organs were dragged out along with it. One could imagine that if she forcibly pulled this thing out now, the resulting scene would absolutely not be pretty.
Lu Jinzhao temporarily had no hobby for self-harm, so she could only give up.
“Every room has corpses, opening the door doesn’t guarantee no face-to-face kill, and even the unavoidable blood water is a source of danger. Looks like I’m doomed.”
After switching to another room, in the brief peace before the corpses pounced, Lu Jinzhao sighed.
Constantly rewinding her body state with the pocket watch was also useless; her lifespan was definitely not enough to last her through tonight.
“Those corpses, were they originally ghosts, or did they become ghosts because the blood water entered their bodies?”
Lu Jinzhao suddenly spoke, as if asking the air, but the parchment knew she was asking it.
[Why are you asking this?]
“I think I can’t survive.” Lu Jinzhao said frankly.
[Very self-aware, huh? So, are you going to trade with me now?]
“No.” Lu Jinzhao still refused.
“I plan to go die.” She said.
The parchment was greatly puzzled.
[Why?]
[You’d rather die than trade with me?]
[Why?]
[Why?]
Lu Jinzhao no longer answered it.
She hadn’t lied to the parchment, but she also hadn’t revealed her entire plan.
Rather than saying she was going to die, it was better to say she had realized that facing her current situation, she could no longer do more; she couldn’t find a method to continue surviving, and the blood water, corpses, and changes happening to her body had given her some inspiration.
Since she could no longer find any other method, then let’s gamble.
When death seemed unavoidable, what she needed to do was to place herself on death’s door to survive.
Lu Jinzhao’s right hand clenched slightly; she looked at her intact index finger. The change brought by this ghost bone might be the key to breaking the situation.
“Suck dry all the blood on my body.” As her words fell, she casually tossed the parchment from her pocket.
Then, she put the bell on her wrist, the shadow puppet tightly against her leg. Looking at the corpse about to reach her, she no longer chose to open the 302 room door to continue fleeing, but instead controlled her body to fall backward, letting herself fall into a sea of blood.
The blood water that had already reached her calves instantly submerged her.
The blood in her body was also massively devoured by the wooden box that hadn’t functioned for a long time the instant the parchment flew out. In just a few seconds, the blood on Lu Jinzhao’s body was nearly depleted, and she stopped breathing and her heartbeat.
Lu Jinzhao, soaked in the blood water, was now no different from a corpse.
