Chapter 169: House Of Evil Ghosts
The knocking sound kept ringing out, and the iron door in front of her gradually made some overburdened sounds under the increasingly greater force.
Today’s rules had not yet changed, her teammates naturally knew there was no rule against entering others’ rooms, and this seemingly old iron door was still providing the last bit of protection.
But obviously, it couldn’t hold out for much longer.
And now, there was only one way to break the situation.
Open the door, proactively approach those three teammates, switch apartments, change rules, then quickly escape.
They had to go confirm the new rules on the blackboard, and also come catch her, while she had to start playing hide-and-seek with these three ghosts disguised as humans.
Having made the decision, Lu Jinzhao did not try to open the door right away.
She was waiting for this door to reach its limit, and also thinking, if she delayed a little longer in exposing her teammates, would it be more advantageous for her?
After all, ever since she entered Qiu Tian’s room and basically put “I know you’re not human” out in the open, her three teammates had stopped pretending.
This thought rolled around in her mind once before being rejected by Lu Jinzhao herself.
She felt that not exposing her teammates’ inhuman nature all along probably wouldn’t be a better choice.
They disguised themselves as humans, there must be some purpose, this was a Class A Platform, even B-grade [Substitute] was so dangerous, these were surely even more formidable than the substitute.
Lu Jinzhao was more inclined to think that both exposing and not exposing would be very dangerous, just in different ways.
Considering they had disguised as humans from the start, perhaps not exposing them until the end would lead to an even trickier deadlock.
And, as the platform level increased, the ghosts seemed to become more and more like “humans,” but their underlying nature was still “ghost,” and after spending some time together, subtle flaws could still be seen.
The teammates on the Class A Platform had initially made it hard for her to immediately distinguish human from ghost, she wondered what the ghosts on the death platform would be like?
Accompanying her thinking was the increasingly shaking iron door.
The knocker’s force was terrifyingly strong, and after the iron door shook violently and finally made a damaged sound from being overburdened, it cracked.
Lu Jinzhao knew she could no longer continue hiding in the room.
“Wait a moment!” she suddenly called out.
That irritable knocking sound actually paused.
Lu Jinzhao narrowed her eyes, realizing the three ghosts outside were indeed different from those encountered before; if it were ghosts from the low-level platform, they wouldn’t really stop.
Was it because their imitation and disguise as humans was too lifelike?
She didn’t think too much about it, just suppressed this doubt in her heart; now was not the time to consider such things.
The shadow puppet clung tightly to her ankle, and with just a signal from her, it could run out carrying her scent; Lu Jinzhao also put the bell on her wrist, on the Class A Platform, the bell’s effect was already very minor, Lu Jinzhao didn’t expect to use it to resist the ghost’s attack, its greatest use now was to transform her state into “corpse.”
Paired with the shadow puppet carrying her scent, it was enough to confuse the ghosts.
Lu Jinzhao believed that no matter how human-like the disguise, no matter how much thinking ability they had, ghosts were still ghosts, following a mindless, unreasonable underlying logic.
When the her in front of them lost “vitality,” and another “her” escaped, these ghosts would chase after.
The door was opened.
Sure enough, her three “teammates” were standing outside the door, the three of them blocking the exit completely, their bodies pressed tightly against each other, almost sticking to the door, and as soon as it opened, they craned their necks and peered inside.
If Lu Jinzhao hadn’t had the shadow puppet, wanting to walk out this door today would mean either death or losing a layer of skin.
But fortunately, she had already shed a layer of her own skin long ago, so she didn’t need to lose it today.
The chilling expressions on the three outside instantly changed to three hypocritical concerned expressions the moment the door opened, like a face change, but this kind of concern was even more discomforting than the previous chill.
However, before they could say their “concerned” words to Lu Jinzhao, they noticed the person standing in front of them was in an off state?
The moment she put on the bell, Lu Jinzhao was already infinitely close to a “dead person,” and she didn’t even need a process like before; her body, altered by the ghost bone entering it, under the bell’s enhancement, was almost no different from a corpse as soon as she put it on.
The good news was, she seemed to no longer develop corpse spots.
It was this “corpse” state that caused a brief confusion in the three teammates outside, and then, Lu Jinzhao controlled the shadow puppet to quickly run past their feet toward the outside!
Target, straight for the corridor.
The next instant, as Lu Jinzhao expected, the three “people’s” heads all turned toward the shadow puppet in unison, Lu Jinzhao even heard a few sounds like bones cracking, and then, the three hypocritical concerned faces became ferocious upon realizing the “prey” had actually escaped.
They ignored Lu Jinzhao standing right in front of them, instead chasing after the shadow puppet.
“Sure enough, brainless things.” Lu Jinzhao sighed while looking at their backs.
“Not much better than the parchment.” She deliberately said.
[?]
Even the parchment, which had deliberately avoided communicating with her, couldn’t hold back at this moment.
[What are you comparing me to?]
[What do you mean not much better?]
[Heh]
[No worries, soon you won’t be much better than them either!]
“Not pretending to be aloof anymore?”
[Don’t understand.]
[A dying person, not even speaking human anymore?]
Lu Jinzhao raised an eyebrow, no longer talking to the parchment, and watching her three “teammates” lured into the corridor by the shadow puppet, she decisively stepped out the door and then removed the bell to recall the shadow puppet.
The bell only had ten minutes of usage time, she had to be precise with it.
The shadow puppet had a physical form, returning required a process, and in the instant she stepped out, the apartment space had switched again, but since the shadow puppet was part of her, it switched with her to the new apartment inside.
But the three teammates chasing behind the shadow puppet disappeared at that moment.
With one space switch, they would probably catch up quickly, Lu Jinzhao had no choice but to enter a room again and open and close the door several more times.
And during this time, she confirmed that the room had not been “refreshed.”
Even in the new apartment, inside the room was still a fresh red, the door badly damaged, as if one more casual kick would make it fall down directly.
No matter which space’s “302,” it had already been invaded, tonight, something would probably come out from the walls, and inside the room was no longer safe.
But Lu Jinzhao currently had no leeway to consider what to do at night, she had to first survive this game of “hide-and-seek” during the day.
Switching spaces was just a matter of opening a few doors, she hoped to brush a “rule” favorable for daytime survival.
Today there was still, should be before 12 o’clock
