Chapter 115: Inheritance
It’s Master.
The instant she confirmed this, Lu Jinzhao saw Fu Xuesheng’s hand move.
The shadow puppet in her hand, which was just one step away from being assembled, was quickly pieced together by her, but strangely, the ghost did not stop her?
At least, from Lu Jinzhao’s perspective, the ghost made no extra moves.
But not stopping her was the worst situation.
Even with the interference of the music, Fu Xuesheng quickly completed the final assembly step.
The instant the shadow puppet was completed, she was just about to raise her hand to “display” the shadow puppet in her hand in front of Master, but in the next second, horror appeared on her face.
Zhong Sui, who had been in front of her, suddenly fell straight down without any omen the instant the shadow puppet was completed!
And the shadow puppet in her hand turned into a “hot potato” in the next second.
The shadow puppet, originally just a dead object, “came alive” the instant Zhong Sui fell. It should have been controlled by the bone stick, but for some reason it escaped the restraint. The “mouth” painted on with pigment actually opened wide, and before Fu Xuesheng could react, it bit off one of her fingers holding the main rod!
Fu Xuesheng’s right index finger broke in the middle, blood spurting out instantly. In horror, she decisively let go of her hand, and then the shadow puppet fell to the ground and ran with its legs toward the fallen Zhong Sui.
Fu Xuesheng didn’t dare stay in place. The bite on her finger from the shadow puppet wasn’t just a simple flesh wound; it made her feel like she had been marked with some kind of mark.
Clearly, she had already used a supernatural item to reduce her sense of presence, making it hard for the ghost to target her, but now she had an extremely ominous premonition.
Fu Xuesheng quickly retreated, only wanting to get back to the room.
She realized it wouldn’t work; simply trying to use supernatural items to ensure her safety and complete the mission was utterly impossible!
That photo of Zhong Sui wasn’t an ordinary supernatural item; it was a life-saving tool brought out from inside the Class A Platform and bought by her secondhand. Even though it wasn’t the item’s original body and could only be considered a part of it, it should have been absolutely enough to save her life once in the Class B Platform, yet earlier it couldn’t even hold out for a second!
“This isn’t right?!”
While quickly retreating toward the room, Fu Xuesheng gritted her teeth and rapidly thought about what exactly was going on.
This ghost’s difficulty completely exceeded their expectations, not even giving them much time to react.
Now, even though she knew Zhong Sui still carried another supernatural item, she didn’t dare to take it.
She didn’t even dare to approach Zhong Sui’s corpse!
“Could it be that making a shadow puppet from Master’s corpse will definitely lead to death?” Veins bulged on Fu Xuesheng’s forehead; she felt it was terribly bad.
During her retreat, she saw the shadow puppet that bit off her finger walking on its own feet to Zhong Sui’s corpse, then like a snake, it lifted Zhong Sui’s clothes and landed on her back.
Immediately after, Zhong Sui’s fingers suddenly twitched.
Her already dead body, as if controlled by an invisible control rod, stood straight up from the ground in a completely unscientific manner.
The expression on her face still retained the terror from the second before death, but moments later, it changed to the same smile as “Master.”
And she was staring straight in the direction Fu Xuesheng was fleeing, her limbs twisting unnaturally, as if getting used to this “new body.”
Lu Jinzhao, hiding behind the pillar, silently watched this scene and belatedly realized that the shadow puppet in Fu Xuesheng’s hand was Zhong Sui’s.
The agreement between the two was actually for Zhong Sui to focus on resisting the ghost’s attack while Fu Xuesheng helped her complete the shadow puppet assembly?
However, Zhong Sui must have paid something else in this, though she didn’t know what.
But Zhong Sui died immediately after the shadow puppet was assembled.
The photo in her hand almost instantly withered and lost its effect, and in the next instant, Zhong Sui, deprived of the supernatural item, died on the spot.
Without any power to struggle.
Even the bystander Lu Jinzhao felt a chill in her heart.
At this moment, she was absolutely certain that if she had still used Master’s skin and bones, she would inevitably have only one path: death.
“Damn parchment”
In this already difficult B-grade instance, now made even worse, for someone without a fate to survive here, being slow once or making one wrong step left only death!
A moment of hesitation appeared in Lu Jinzhao’s mind: “Do I really have to go?”
To face such a terrifying ghost head-on?
But in the next second, she immediately dispelled her hesitation.
“If I don’t go now, will it get weaker later?”
“Moreover, one death here means one more ghost. Now, Zhong Sui’s shadow puppet is obviously going to chase Fu Xuesheng. If Fu Xuesheng can’t hold out and dies, that would be bad; there might be one more ghost here.”
“Now is my only chance.”
Although Lu Jinzhao hesitated due to the ghost’s terror, her mind was clear, and she immediately made a judgment.
The moment Zhong Sui’s shadow puppet left here to chase Fu Xuesheng, she would immediately try to go to Master to complete the mission.
Whether she lived or died depended on this one gamble!
Lu Jinzhao took a deep breath. Due to her focused attention and the mindset of preparing to risk her life, she felt her body become stronger.
Zhong Sui, standing in front of Master, after getting used to this stiff body, followed the drumbeat accompaniment and walked step by step toward Fu Xuesheng’s direction.
Lu Jinzhao wasn’t in a hurry to rush out; she took out the bell.
The bell that could make her seem like a dead person—even after putting on the bell, when Master’s human skin was stuck to her skin, the human skin showed no reaction, proving the bell was useful.
However, it was only effective before completing the shadow puppet. She hadn’t forgotten that the already completed shadow puppet had burrowed into Zhong Sui’s corpse, and how terrifying the ghost’s attack was; a single bell probably couldn’t fully withstand the ghost’s attack.
But even if the bell might lose effect the instant she completed the assembly, she still had to wear it.
Master didn’t stop Fu Xuesheng from assembling the shadow puppet because the ghost knew Zhong Sui would die the instant it was assembled.
What about herself then?
Would she, who didn’t use Master’s skin to make the shadow puppet, encounter an attack at the final assembly moment?
This had to be prepared for in advance; the bell was more for ensuring she could complete the shadow puppet assembly.
Lu Jinzhao repeatedly reviewed in her mind every single thing she needed to do next, every detail, and what to do if unexpected situations arose.
The music grew more intense, and the play seemed to enter its climax. “Master” stopped dancing with the music after Zhong Sui and Fu Xuesheng appeared; it was waiting.
Waiting for its good disciples to come deliver themselves to death.
The drumbeat sounded a few more times, and the instant Zhong Sui’s figure completely disappeared, Lu Jinzhao moved.
