Chapter 162: Path
While one human and one ghost were conversing, the corpse that had long been in silence on the ground suddenly twitched.
A highly rotten remains gently patted the ground, and immediately after, that blood-red ugly head also lifted up, constantly shaking, as if searching for Zhang Qian’s position.
“Suppression time is almost up. If you don’t want to face it again, it’s best to leave the room now.”
The mannequin slightly tilted its head, its pitch black eyes looking at the remains ghost with a hint of regret.
To resurgence from the ghost ship’s suppression so quickly, this fused fierce ghost was much stronger than a single water ghost.
“Suppression time?”
Zhang Qian’s gaze shifted slightly, noticing this crucial point.
But seeing the fierce ghost that was about to crawl up from the ground, he didn’t ask more, packed up, and prepared to leave the room.
“Wait.” The mannequin suddenly said.
“Take that ghost eye with you. One room can only imprison one fierce ghost; exceeding this number will invalidate the room’s seal.”
“The fierce ghost originally in this room also needs to be taken away.”
“There’s such a thing? That makes sense.”
Zhang Qian was first stunned, then stepped forward and put the ghost eye into his pocket.
This ghost eye wasn’t safe either; staring into it would lead to some eerie attack.
However, weighing the two harms, the lesser one was preferable. Compared to releasing the remains ghost, this ghost eye suppressed by the ghost face was more suitable to carry.
With a bang, the door closed, and Zhang Qian had already carried the mannequin to the corridor.
At the same time, scratching sounds rose in the room, but without the mannequin’s boost, a single remains ghost seemed unable to shake the room on the ghost ship.
Thoughtfully glancing at the black liquid surging from under his feet, Zhang Qian asked the mannequin, “It shouldn’t drill out through this black water, right?”
As a kind of ghost domain, since those derived arms could drill out, there was no reason the main body remains ghost couldn’t.
“Don’t worry, rooms for imprisoning fierce ghosts are generally very reliable.” The mannequin guaranteed.
“Don’t think that fierce ghost could break into the room before; actually, forcing open from inside and forcing open from outside are completely different in difficulty.”
“That’s good…”
Zhang Qian nodded, but thought of that destroyed doorway.
Even opening it was very difficult; how much terror would it take to destroy it?
If possible, chopping off that dead person’s leg and taking it would definitely be profitable.
But rooms refresh randomly; even turning back now, it was estimated he couldn’t encounter it a second time.
“I think we need to help each other.”
Before Zhang Qian could open the map to study the route, the mannequin suddenly said something strange out of nowhere.
“Speak.”
“To leave, confrontation with fierce ghosts is inevitable. I can see your strength is unusual, but the fierce ghosts here are no pushovers either; with your strength, it’s hard to solve them easily.”
The mannequin analyzed first, then proposed, “If we encounter danger, my current strength won’t be of much use. How about you give me back that ghost eye, so I can help when we meet fierce ghosts.”
Facing Zhang Qian’s gaze, it put on what it thought was a friendly smile.
But in Zhang Qian’s view, this expression couldn’t be said to have goodwill; it could only be said to have little relation to humans.
“The rule that opening from inside is difficult should only apply to fierce ghosts. Not sure if you count as a fierce ghost or human now; what if I stuff you into an empty room—can you open the door and leave by yourself?”
Zhang Qian didn’t answer this question directly, just looked at both sides of the corridor and pointedly said, “Conveniently, I know there’s an empty room nearby. How about we go try it now?”
“No, better not.” The mannequin hurriedly said, “Suddenly feel this is pretty good as is.”
“Heh.”
No longer paying attention to the mannequin, but Zhang Qian didn’t throw the eyeball into the room either. If truly facing irresistible force, giving the eyeball to the mannequin would count as some help.
The noise behind didn’t show signs of stopping.
Zhang Qian didn’t pay too much attention, took out the ghost map, planning to study the room layout.
Under the dim light, the deep yellow map looked very antique.
Two rows of rooms with different colors arranged in parallel, the number roughly matching what the mannequin said, about one hundred to nearly two hundred rooms.
Verified that the color painted on the rooms should indicate the danger level inside, so just find rooms with lighter colors.
Unfortunately, although there were many lighter-colored rooms, they weren’t connected; none appeared among seven adjacent rooms.
Choose a relatively safe route here, or walk some distance before deciding?
Before Zhang Qian could make up his mind, the mannequin curiously leaned over.
Seeing Zhang Qian look so carefully, only to find it was just a map, it inevitably felt some disappointment.
“This is the map above the aisle? Not sure who left it; it’s surprisingly detailed.”
“Unfortunately, the arrangement order of these rooms changes; even if the map records it, it’s only the environment at that time, not much use.”
“Rather than wasting time on this, better search a few more rooms. Now we have two people; even if we encounter terrifying fierce ghosts, we can survive.”
No joke, it had rich experience in escape.
“Oh.”
Too lazy to explain, Zhang Qian held the map and started heading deeper into the corridor.
With full map vision in hand, insistently searching for targets among these over a hundred rooms was somewhat wasteful.
These rooms’ terror levels weren’t low; forcing through would be hard to guarantee success.
As distance progressed, the content on the map also began to shift slowly, rooms receding backward, more new rooms appearing from the top of the map.
The mannequin held in Zhang Qian’s hand naturally noticed this phenomenon; moreover, seeing those differently colored rooms, it quickly had a bold guess.
“This map wouldn’t show information inside the rooms too, right?”
Getting an affirmative reply, the mannequin immediately asked again: “What’s the principle of this thing?”
Even though the mannequin’s tone was still strange, Zhang Qian could hear its shock and doubt from the extremely fast speech speed.
“No idea, I picked it up.” Zhang Qian said casually.
“Picked it up? How is that possible!”
The mannequin seemed very interested in this thing, struggling to look closely.
Its two bent arms flailed nonstop, but without much force, not even as strong as a flopping kitten.
However, Zhang Qian still held the map in front of the mannequin; he was also curious what kind of existence the ghost map was and could listen if the mannequin had more information.
“Is this thing very rare?”
“More than rare…”
