Chapter 76: Wang Family Funeral Home
Too close.
If she didn’t do something, perhaps the next time the bell rang, she would be caught by the ghost.
Lu Jinzhao knew clearly in her heart that once an ordinary person was touched by a ghost, they would have no power to resist at all.
The platform was not a horror movie; there was no possibility of humans relying on stamina or any ordinary items to fight with a ghost. All that nonsense about dog blood, chicken blood, glutinous rice, and peach wood was pure fiction. Here, the only things that could confront a ghost were supernatural items and special fate.
But she currently had no special fate, and the only supernatural item she possessed was not much different from the ghost!
Lu Jinzhao gritted her teeth with even greater force. She didn’t want to compromise like this, but facing an unsolvable thing like a ghost, as an ordinary human, even if she schemed exhaustively, if the opponent suddenly closed in, she still had no method!
Things like this should only exist in film and television works!
The bell sound brought intense pressure. Rapid running caused her stamina to drop continuously. Lu Jinzhao could hear her heavy heartbeat and rapid panting, feel sweat soaking her clothes, and sense the chill like needles pricking the back of her head.
She had already exhausted all her efforts to escape, but when the bell rang again, it was still right behind her!
The distance hadn’t been pulled away! It was even closer!
It was as if the ghost was already sticking to her.
Her body suddenly broke out in goosebumps as if in a stress response. She didn’t dare look back, because she was certain that if she turned her head now, she would definitely see a ghost face right up against her own!
But if she didn’t look, would everything be fine?
Intense sense of crisis made her brain feel a near-buzzing illusion. The next moment, during the run, an ice-cold hand reached out from behind in a weird pose and precisely grabbed her ankle.
A terrifying power instantly pulled Lu Jinzhao to a stop. Due to inertia, her body uncontrollably fell forward. Even so, the hand gripping her ankle remained as unmoving as iron.
All of Lu Jinzhao’s strength plus inertia couldn’t shake it in the slightest!
In the instant of falling forward, Lu Jinzhao’s hand was still extended forward from running. Suddenly, she thought of Chen Hai’s death pose!
Damn it!
Clearly just grabbed for less than two seconds, the foot that was caught had already completely lost sensation!
Her body fell to the ground, but Lu Jinzhao couldn’t even feel the pain.
She knew it was adrenaline at work; her body had determined she was already at the edge of death!
She had to find a way to survive before the effect wore off.
The time left for her wasn’t much, probably no more than five seconds.
The coldness was spreading up from that foot, accompanied by a strange burning sensation. She could no longer control that leg at all.
If she didn’t make a decision quickly, she would probably become a corpse not much different from Chen Hai’s in a very short time.
But Lu Jinzhao never hesitated in moments like this.
Falling was an uncontrollable reaction. She had been running too fast and fell hard. Her body stiffened for a moment, and in the next instant when she could move, she had already reached her fingers into her pocket.
Inside, besides the wooden box, there was also the blade she had sewn in.
She knew that encountering a ghost was often extremely urgent. Cutting off a finger took time and strength; she might not have that much “opportunity.” So she chose to slash her palm and use blood for the exchange.
The instant the blade cut her palm, Lu Jinzhao felt a stinging pain. Clearly, the more serious fall injuries on her body felt nothing, but her palm hurt terribly.
The wooden box was opened by her. She originally thought that the next moment, her blood would flow out crazily.
But one second passed, and the wooden box showed no reaction?
Lu Jinzhao’s heart sank halfway. She didn’t understand what had gone wrong. Clearly, this box couldn’t wait to devour others completely when encountering them.
But the next second, she thought of a possibility.
She suddenly reached into the other pocket, grabbed the parchment, and threw it far away!
Although it wouldn’t be long before it returned to her, at least for now, the parchment was gone.
Sure enough, the next instant after she threw away the parchment, she immediately felt the speed of blood flowing from her palm accelerate.
A subtle connection appeared between her and the wooden box. This feeling reminded her of when she made a contract with the parchment and traded her soul.
However, compared to that time, the sensation of ghost intrusion from this transaction with the wooden box was really too weak.
The numb leg quickly recovered, and the ice-cold hand gripping her ankle loosened as if scalded.
By the time the blood flow stopped, Lu Jinzhao’s face had already turned pale from excessive blood loss.
But she also breathed a sigh of relief. At least, it hadn’t sucked away all her blood directly.
This also showed that the ghost that grabbed her wasn’t actually that strong.
But even so, as an ordinary human, she had no power to resist.
Enduring the dizziness, Lu Jinzhao looked back. There was nothing behind her anymore.
She staggered up from the ground. Her body swayed uncontrollably. All four limbs had abrasions from the fall, and they were particularly severe. She could see the red flesh in her knee; the blood had clotted and wasn’t flowing out anymore.
Lu Jinzhao guessed it was probably the wooden box’s doing.
Perhaps her brain had detected that she had now escaped the fatal crisis, the adrenaline effect was fading, and intense pain swept over her.
Lu Jinzhao could hardly walk normally but had to endure the pain and leave this place.
At least for now, she didn’t want to stay here.
Her injured limbs made her feel a sense of crisis. If another danger appeared next time, her body would have trouble moving immediately.
Being injured inside the platform was too unfavorable.
She walked along the road, always feeling like she had overlooked something.
[What did you do?]
A line of blood script appeared before her eyes.
She suddenly remembered; she had forgotten about the parchment she threw away.
Lu Jinzhao’s head had just hit the ground and was still emitting waves of dull pain.
She ignored the parchment.
But the parchment wouldn’t let it go.
[You actually made a transaction with that kind of thing?!]
[Why did you make a transaction with it!]
[Why didn’t you make a transaction with me?]
[You’re even willing to make a transaction with that kind of thing!]
Distorted blood script kept appearing before her eyes. Lu Jinzhao only felt extremely dizzy, and even looking at these words made her want to vomit.
She thought, she probably hadn’t concussed herself from the fall, had she?
Lu Jinzhao was still spacing out, but the parchment, which was usually treated this way by her, didn’t fade on its own after a while as usual. Instead, it continued relentlessly.
One blood script after another appeared before Lu Jinzhao.
[Trading with it is not as good as trading with me. Don’t you still have two-thirds of your soul?]
[Trade with me, and I can ensure you leave here safely.]
[You can give me that box too; I can temporarily not take your soul.]
[It can only help you dodge this one attack. There will be a next time, and the time after that.]
[It’s too weak.]
It kept inciting her, but Lu Jinzhao remained silent.
The parchment seemed to notice it was being ignored, and the persuasive blood script before her suddenly disappeared.
In its place were densely packed, repeatedly appearing two words.
[Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak][Speak]
The distorted blood script filled her entire field of vision. Lu Jinzhao, already dizzy, couldn’t hold back. She quickly ran to the side, held onto a tree trunk, and vomited.
The blood script immediately stopped twisting, and then in the next second, all turned into [Serves you right].
In a daze, Lu Jinzhao seemed to hear a malicious laugh.
