Chapter 105: Inheritance
“Where is Fu Xuesheng?” Time was approaching 12 o’clock, Huo Ye checked the time, somewhat doubtful.
“Forget it, no need to wait for her, let’s go in first.”
The others had no objections.
They more or less guessed what Fu Xuesheng might have done.
Seeing that the time was about right, the few of them walked into this room.
The “Master”‘s flesh and blood had already rotted into an unrecognizable state, the stench permeating the entire inside the room, and the wooden table in the center of the room was even more horrific.
But the four who entered the room remained expressionless, as if they had just seen something extremely ordinary.
Lu Jinzhao felt somewhat emotional, sure enough, after staying inside the platform for a long time, one’s mental state would become very weird, making it hard to maintain a normal mindset.
On the filthy table, an envelope was placed.
The few had some guesses about today’s mission, and the only remaining step in making the shadow puppet was assembly, so today’s mission was most likely this.
Their guesses were more about what would happen after assembly was completed.
Although Lu Jinzhao was not familiar with the Class B Platform, this was after all a high-level platform, and it was still possible that the parchment had been tampered with to increase the difficulty, so she couldn’t ignore it.
Zhong Sui, as always, picked up the envelope first, opened it, took out the paper slip, and read the words on it aloud.
“Congratulations, my obedient disciples, you have already completed most of the trial’s stages, now, only the final stage remains: assemble the shadow puppet completely, bring it before me to display for me to see, whoever does it first will obtain the Master’s inheritance.”
After Zhong Sui finished reading, even Huo Ye, whose expression control was already quite good, couldn’t help but show a bit of solemnity.
“This is… the final stage?”
This was really somewhat beyond their expectations.
But everyone present was very clear that this final trial stage would probably… not be easy.
First of all, the letter placed before them was written by the “Master”.
But the “Master”‘s corpse had almost been chopped into minced meat by them, how did he write this letter?
Moreover, the Master required them to bring the completed shadow puppet before him after making it, so where exactly was “before him”?
In front of this pile of minced meat?
Even Lu Jinzhao, who had the least experience, felt it wouldn’t be that simple.
Not to mention, just during the process of making the shadow puppet, they had already realized this thing was not simple, and in their hearts, they all knew it was best not to actually make this thing.
But the necessary condition to complete the mission was to make the shadow puppet.
Once it was made, what they would encounter was unknown, and whether they would even have their lives to bring the completed shadow puppet before the Master was uncertain.
“This stage is the real trial, everyone, wish yourselves luck.”
Zhong Sui slowly said, and after speaking, she left the room first.
Fu Xuesheng had not appeared in the room from beginning to end, Lu Jinzhao was somewhat concerned about her current state, and after confirming that the content in the letter matched Zhong Sui’s recitation with no differences, she left here and went to Fu Xuesheng’s room.
If this were a Class C Instance, she would probably think this teammate was already dead, but Fu Xuesheng was a second-class passenger, and Lu Jinzhao did not believe she would just die like this.
Sure enough, when she arrived outside Fu Xuesheng’s room door, she saw the door opened, and inside, Fu Xuesheng who was still alive, but seemed not very healthy.
The reason for saying so was only because she now looked terribly disheveled.
A large amount of blood soaked her clothes, her neck and the exposed wrists had obvious wounds, those wounds were like being cut by fishing line strangling her neck and limbs, very deep, the one on her neck was okay, but the one on one side of her wrist had almost sliced open most of her flesh and blood.
She obviously heard the sound of Lu Jinzhao approaching, her eyelids lifted with some difficulty to look at Lu Jinzhao, Lu Jinzhao stood outside the door without entering, just asking: “Are you okay?”
Fu Xuesheng looked extremely disheveled, but as a passenger, she obviously had her own trump cards, even with heavy injuries to her body, she could still speak lightly: “Not bad, at least not dead.”
“Can you tell me what happened?” Lu Jinzhao was very direct, talking nonsense at such a time was obviously stupid.
Fu Xuesheng nodded upon hearing this: “You tell me today’s mission, your discoveries.”
She first stated her request, and seeing Lu Jinzhao agree, she then said:
“My plan today was to delay completing the mission to see what would happen, therefore, when 12 o’clock arrived, I still had the final stroke of coloring left unpainted.”
“However, before the time limit arrived, I had already sensed something wrong.”
“Did you feel that this shadow puppet… is not quite right?”
“My instinct didn’t want to complete it, and deciding to do so was also somewhat to probe it.”
“When I kept not applying the final stroke to complete the coloring, the closer time approached 12 o’clock, the more unease I felt in my heart, and when time reached 11 o’clock, I had already discovered that this shadow puppet was becoming increasingly not right.”
“I can’t explain exactly how it was not right, do you understand? It was a kind of feeling.”
At this point, Fu Xuesheng’s expression became somewhat dazed and conflicted, that strange feeling was like an illusion, but she could affirm it absolutely was not.
It was as if an originally ordinary thing, in her eyes, was becoming increasingly terrifying, but exactly where was the terror?
She couldn’t say.
She only felt that this thing was extremely weird.
Lu Jinzhao somewhat understood her feeling, after all, she also felt the shadow puppet was very weird when looking at it.
“When it was nearly 12 o’clock at 11, very suddenly, a gust of wind blew outside my door.”
“Then, my room door was suddenly opened.”
“But there was no one outside, nothing.”
Fu Xuesheng’s narration made Lu Jinzhao recall the anomaly she sensed outside the Master’s room door, at that time, the door had also gently swung once.
Now, she could confirm that something invisible had left from the Master’s room and come to Fu Xuesheng here.
“Then…”
“After time reached 12 o’clock, my shadow puppet suddenly moved.”
When Fu Xuesheng said this, her tone was still calm, but Lu Jinzhao looking at her pupils and expression knew her mood was absolutely not calm, only, as a second-class passenger, she was already able to well calm her emotions after encountering a terror event.
“Did it attack you?” Lu Jinzhao asked.
“Yes and no.” Fu Xuesheng’s words were somewhat hesitant.
“I feel that the thing that attacked me was not the shadow puppet itself, but it did indeed make use of the shadow puppet.”
She carefully recalled the scene at that time.
“The shadow puppet moved, its hand first lifted, like picking up something, then the other hand, drawing circles, holding that thing, circling something.”
“It looked at me, like it had its own thoughts, its head moved left and right.”
“Then, both hands suddenly pulled—”
“My neck and limbs were bound and cut by an invisible line.”
