Chapter 109: Inheritance
The three quickly arrived outside Ji Xiangchen’s room. The door was properly closed, and from outside, nothing unusual could be seen.
However, Huo Ye’s already solemn expression became even uglier upon seeing the closed door.
He stepped forward and knocked on the door.
No one answered.
Without needing to knock a second time, Huo Ye directly kicked open the not-so-sturdy old house door.
It was also Lu Jinzhao’s first time feeling so intuitively just how fragile this door really was.
Fortunately, that thing last night hadn’t forced its way in.
As soon as the door was kicked open, Lu Jinzhao immediately followed closely behind Huo Ye into Ji Xiangchen’s room.
The room’s layout was almost no different from hers and Fu Xuesheng’s room.
And Ji Xiangchen was not in the room at this moment.
Besides that, his workbench was also very clean. At least, the shadow puppet was not here.
“There are two possibilities now.” Huo Ye scanned the room and said in a serious tone: “First, Ji Xiangchen took the thing and went out.”
“Second.”
“Ji Xiangchen tried to complete the mission last night and then died.”
Huo Ye was no idiot. He even possessed a fate. Naturally, he could infer from the abnormal reaction when touching the human skin that Ji Xiangchen might be in danger.
Having stripped the human skin for a long time, he was the passenger who had contacted this skin the most and most extensively.
He would also be the one swallowed by the human skin the fastest.
Unfortunately, on the first night, they still didn’t know the weirdness of the human skin, and no one had checked Ji Xiangchen’s fingerprint at that time.
But Lu Jinzhao guessed that perhaps at that time, his fingerprint had already been worn away.
So later he became more and more silent. He himself knew that his situation was quite bad, right?
When anxious in one’s heart, the decisions made would also become anxious.
“We’re done for.” Fu Xuesheng made a pessimistic evaluation.
Huo Ye was more rigorous: “We can’t be sure yet. It’s just a possibility. Let’s check other places.”
At this moment, no one wanted to split up, so the three tacitly went together to the next passenger’s residence.
Until they found Zhong Sui and searched around the old house again, they still couldn’t see Ji Xiangchen’s figure.
Disappearing at a time like this almost meant that this person had met with an accident.
Then the shadow they saw outside the door last night… could it really have been Ji Xiangchen?
This was really bad. With Ji Xiangchen missing, many things became ambiguous. Even though everyone was almost certain of the facts, they had to reserve a sliver of other possibilities.
If dead, at least leave the corpse behind.
Lu Jinzhao sighed inwardly, but she also knew that inside this platform, seeing a person alive or a corpse dead might be somewhat difficult.
Ji Xiangchen’s disappearance was like a heavy boulder pressing on the hearts of the remaining four. They didn’t know what he had encountered before disappearing, didn’t know if he was really completely dead, or what the death process was like.
Inside the platform, the death process was a very important clue, and so was the corpse.
“Everyone must have experienced that incident last night, right?” Huo Ye looked at the others and, seeing the three nod, continued: “Last night it just stood outside the door without further action, but it won’t always be like that. Do any of you have any ideas?”
Lu Jinzhao blinked her eyes and didn’t speak first.
“Perhaps because we didn’t complete the shadow puppet’s making?” Zhong Sui voiced what everyone had more or less guessed in their hearts.
“Possibly.” Huo Ye didn’t say anything discouraging and simply agreed: “Any other ideas?”
The few looked at each other, and no one was willing to speak up again.
Lu Jinzhao found this scene somewhat amusing yet helpless.
She didn’t believe she was the only one who thought of the first night’s mission requirements, or the only one who realized that perhaps they could try using other dead person’s skin and bone to substitute for “Master.”
But who would dare say it out loud?
Were there any other corpses here?
At this moment, as they gathered together to search for Ji Xiangchen, who could guarantee that no one came with the thought of “seeing if he was dead and if there was a corpse”?
As for what to do if a corpse was found… it went without saying.
But without a corpse, the problem was even more serious.
Lu Jinzhao strongly suspected whether this was also part of the mission’s malice.
After all, without extra usable corpses as materials, did they have to make a corpse themselves?
Perhaps low level platform passengers would do that, but in B-grade, everyone needed to carefully weigh it.
No one was a soft persimmon easy to pinch. Say the wrong thing, and you might get pricked, delaying your own survival instead.
However, Lu Jinzhao was self-aware that among them, the softest persimmon was probably her.
So, she couldn’t keep delaying and stay here waiting for an opportunity.
Just as not only she realized the loophole of using “dead person” as materials, not only she realized that food was the time limit.
As the time limit approached, if no method to break the situation appeared, someone would eventually take desperate risks.
Fortunately, her skin was almost done air-drying.
Once the skin was ready, she would immediately start making it.
It was just a pity that she really had no way to get dead person’s bone. Half her own human skin and half Master’s bone—who knew what would happen.
But the current situation really didn’t allow her to make more perfect preparations.
Seeing that everyone had nothing to say, Huo Ye could only helplessly suggest disbanding. Lu Jinzhao stayed outside for a while and saw that the others didn’t seem to plan to return to their rooms just yet. She knew they probably still wanted to search for traces of Ji Xiangchen and Master.
Lu Jinzhao returned to her room, checked the human skin still air-drying, confirmed the progress—it would be fully air-dried by tomorrow morning—so she could only choose to wait.
“Normal air-drying time is still too long.” She sighed.
Her current situation could be said to be troubled both internally and externally, so she had to be anxious.
The entire day, the old house was very quiet until nightfall once again.
Lu Jinzhao’s heart also lifted as the sun disappeared.
She felt that the strange shadow puppet from last night wouldn’t appear only once.
She just didn’t know if tonight it would still be as “rules-abiding” as last night.
Soon, a strange sound rang out, answering Lu Jinzhao’s doubt.
Was that the sound of knocking on the door?
No… rather than knocking on the door, it was more like the sound of smashing the door!
It was breaking in.
Judging by the direction, it was Huo Ye’s room!
“What did Huo Ye do?” This was Lu Jinzhao’s first reaction in her mind.
As the only one with a fate, Huo Ye was the one among them most able to take risks. Could it be that he had also tried to complete the mission?
Lu Jinzhao’s gaze flickered several times at the door. She heard the smashing sound gradually intensify, followed by some breaking sound, and then the noise seemed to become even more chaotic.
What happened?
Should she… go out and take a look?
