Chapter 167: House Of Evil Ghosts
Lu Jinzhao cared a lot about where they had gone, but right now she had no method to immediately track down these three people. No, the whereabouts of these three ghosts.
“Now I must first find an apartment that is absolutely advantageous to me.”
【Prohibit killing】 is absolutely unacceptable, and in Lu Jinzhao’s eyes, it’s even not as good as 【Prohibit running in the corridor】.
To switch apartments, she must return to her own room.
“This time, try not closing the door.”
Make the factors for switching more precise.
Thinking this way, Lu Jinzhao left Qiu Tian’s room and headed to her own room.
At this moment, she suddenly missed Qin Wan. If Qin Wan were still here, using Qin Wan’s ability to attach good luck to this moment would allow her to switch to the apartment most advantageous to the passenger, right?
It seems the train summoned her time card at a very subtle time, right when she hadn’t had time to make Qin Wan’s materials into a shadow puppet.
Returning to the room, inside the room was no different from when she left, and Lu Jinzhao encountered no obstacles.
“This isn’t good.”
The apartment’s rules restrict the ghosts, so the ghosts should need to restrict her from changing the rules.
But did the ghosts do that?
No.
They might have said some words, but in terms of actual actions, there were no forceful demands.
Is it that they can’t do it?
If they can’t do it, that doesn’t seem to fit Class A difficulty.
“That means they are willing to bear this price and choose not to stop me.”
For the ghosts, this is both bad and good.
“Sure enough, the train isn’t that kindhearted.”
A rule that’s entirely beneficial to humans? How is that possible?
But even realizing this, Lu Jinzhao still had to do it.
She was alone, with no teammates to help each other; she must create conditions as advantageous to herself as possible.
“Then find a relatively good rule in as few attempts as possible.”
It seemed that was the only way.
As for being cautious and not switching apartments again for now?
Lu Jinzhao had considered it, but still didn’t decide to do so.
This time she didn’t close the door, but entered the room and then left; when she looked back, the white cloth inside the room had no change, and the rules on the first floor were the same.
Afterward, Lu Jinzhao tested a few more times with different details, finally confirming that to make the apartment change, she must enter 302, close the door, and then open the door to leave.
Lu Jinzhao switched apartments twice more, and during that time, she still didn’t see the blackboard she had seen before, until the rules on the blackboard updated to 【Prohibit staying outside the room after dark】.
At least, this rule could ensure her safety at night.
But she also had to return to 302 at night, after all, she was a tenant here; she couldn’t not return to the room at night and sleep in the corridor.
To be safe, Lu Jinzhao didn’t plan to do anything that went against her identity.
Throughout the entire day today, Lu Jinzhao hadn’t seen her several teammates again; they seemed to have disappeared.
Until time passed bit by bit, approaching the arrival of night, Lu Jinzhao standing outside the door suddenly heard a little noise.
That came from inside Qiu Tian’s room?
Her disappeared teammates, how did they suddenly return to the room?
The door was opened, and Qiu Tian poked her head out from the just-opened door crack, spotting Lu Jinzhao at first glance, and then her manic expression instantly turned to joy.
“Ah, found you. So you’re here.”
Then, the previously silent rooms 301 and 303 suddenly made noise; the doors were twisted open from inside, as if the remaining two teammates had also heard Qiu Tian’s voice and wanted to come out from inside the rooms.
Lu Jinzhao immediately felt something was wrong; she quickly turned back to 302 and decisively closed the door.
With a bang, the door blocked Qiu Tian’s joyful expression, blocked the line of sight of the other two teammates who had just opened the door and hadn’t come out yet, and also blocked the malice like needle pricks that Lu Jinzhao felt.
Unlike the previous day, the instant Qiu Tian saw her and said that sentence, the alarm in Lu Jinzhao’s brain immediately sounded.
No, even earlier, the moment she noticed movement from Qiu Tian’s door, it had already been warning.
It was just that after Qiu Tian saw her and confirmed her location, this alarm became sharper.
Even with the door closed, through the not-very-good soundproofing, Lu Jinzhao could still hear the conversation of the three teammates outside.
“Found her.”
“How many times has she switched?”
“First confirm the rules.”
This was already out in the open.
The ghosts knew she had discovered their identities, so they no longer hid it.
Though their original concealment wasn’t seamless anyway.
And from these few lines of dialogue, Lu Jinzhao extracted useful information.
These teammates clearly didn’t know the new rules; they needed to reconfirm, they were very afraid of violating rules, and they didn’t know how many times she had switched spaces; they still used the phrasing “found her.”
From this, the conclusion could be drawn: at least after she recognized they were ghosts, when she switched spaces, they wouldn’t immediately follow; they needed to refind where she was.
And the method of searching was probably the same as her method of switching spaces: return to the room, then open the door.
On this point, she held the initiative, but if it were only this, she would almost be in an invincible position; as long as she kept switching spaces, she could make it hard for the teammates to find her.
Therefore, switching spaces must hide some huge, fatal trap.
She heard the footsteps of the “teammates” returning from the first floor, heard their conversation and reaction after learning the rules of this apartment.
They were very disappointed but didn’t seem anxious.
She heard Auntie Duan’s voice say: “She can’t possibly not come out.”
This could mean she must leave the room to return to the train, or it could refer to staying in the room forever also encountering danger.
She must consider all possibilities, and the worst was that staying in the room would bring danger.
So where could the danger come from?
Lu Jinzhao’s gaze fell on the three corpses.
Last night, these three corpses had no reaction, but tonight was different; she had already exposed that her teammates were all ghosts—would change descend?
It was completely dark.
The “teammates” returned to their rooms, and the corridor outside quieted down.
Lu Jinzhao tried opening the door to enter the corridor; for the first ten minutes outside, her body hadn’t produced any discomfort, but as time passed bit by bit, she suddenly felt a suffocating, cold, twisted aura.
The air seemed to be thinning, the temperature dropping, the dim corridor ahead twisting, as if turning into a twisted mouth trying to devour her.
Her brain became dull, her body too, as if invisible pressure squeezed her body; Lu Jinzhao heard the creaking from her bones, realizing she must return to the room.
When she reentered 302, the strange phenomenon from earlier suddenly disappeared.
“The time limit is half an hour?”
