Chapter 117: Inheritance
Lu Jinzhao bent down to pick up the wooden box from the ground, then without hesitating for a second, immediately turned around and sprinted madly toward the main entrance of the old house!
She knew clearly in her heart that the ghost’s speed was definitely faster than hers; if it weren’t for the bell and the wooden box, that ghost could appear right in front of her in an instant.
But because she had picked up the wooden box from the ground, cutting off the continuous supply of blood, the resistance against the ghost suddenly weakened sharply. In just a moment, Lu Jinzhao felt the terrifying aura behind her closing in on her by a huge margin!
It was already close at hand.
Lu Jinzhao didn’t dare delay, quickly slashing her palm with the knife. Accompanied by the wooden box’s greedy devouring, Lu Jinzhao felt the hand that was about to grab her from behind seem to pause for a moment.
This pause gave her the chance to escape.
“One minute, as long as one minute, I can reach the train door.”
The premise was that no accidents could occur.
The blood in her body was draining away rapidly. Even so, that extremely chilling aura behind her followed her like a shadow, and the shadow puppet she was holding in her hand struggled nonstop, trying to escape Lu Jinzhao’s control.
In fact, this thing had already begun gnawing at her fingers.
Perhaps because she hadn’t used her master’s shadow puppet, this shadow puppet didn’t directly bite off half of her finger like the one in Fu Xuesheng’s hand; instead, it was more like a carnivorous animal with bad teeth, continuously tearing apart one of her fingers.
But because of the bell, Lu Jinzhao’s body was already not much different from a corpse; she couldn’t even really feel “pain,” so she didn’t care about the shadow puppet’s actions at the moment.
As she sprinted through the corridor, she saw Huo Ye’s door open.
He must have heard the sound of the train arriving at the station too. When he opened the door, he first saw Lu Jinzhao sprinting toward the door, then noticed the shadow puppet in her hand that seemed to have come alive.
He looked behind Lu Jinzhao and sure enough, saw that ghost that was urging death.
“How is that possible?”
How could it be her who completed the mission?
His fate told him that this mission was extremely difficult; even if he went to complete it tonight, it would be a dead end. For someone to complete the mission was already beyond his expectations, let alone that the one who completed it was a newcomer who had just advanced to the advanced instance?
But she completed the mission and didn’t die?
“Could it be that this instance doesn’t have only one survival slot?”
Doubt flickered in Huo Ye’s eyes, but in the next instant, he saw Lu Jinzhao, who had been running in the courtyard, suddenly closing in on him, almost jumping onto the corridor in a hurdling pose, then charging forward fiercely. She was just about to reach his door!
In an instant, Huo Ye’s complexion changed drastically.
He knew what Lu Jinzhao was going to do.
Redirecting disaster eastward—this newcomer actually wanted to use him as a scapegoat?!
Damn it, wasn’t she afraid of offending him?
Huo Ye had no time to think and turned to run, but in the next instant, he felt something flying toward him!
It was Lu Jinzhao throwing the shadow puppet in her hand, aimed straight at Huo Ye’s back.
“You like eating people? Then I’ll give you something better—living people’s flesh is surely better than that of a half-dead person like me, right?”
The shadow puppet with the bone stick landed swiftly on Huo Ye’s body. In the next second, the shadow puppet that should have fallen to the ground actually grabbed hold of Huo Ye’s back.
The instant it was grabbed by the shadow puppet, Huo Ye felt his brain sink heavily, and his limbs experienced a pain of being pierced by invisible iron wire in that instant.
Even more fatally, his footsteps staggered.
In the few seconds of delay, Lu Jinzhao had already reached right in front of him.
Huo Ye’s expression had already become ferocious. He wasn’t without a way to resolve the scene before him; it just required paying a certain price, and he originally didn’t need to pay that price!
This newcomer
He saw Lu Jinzhao’s expression as she passed him. He thought her face would show some emotion, like the schadenfreude of successfully framing someone, or the unease of offending him, or at worst, the terror of being chased by the ghost. But he never expected that this newcomer’s face showed no expression at all right now.
Huo Ye immediately realized that she felt absolutely no emotion about throwing the ghost onto him and using him as a scapegoat!
Was this guy even human?!
Huo Ye had no time to think too much and immediately followed Lu Jinzhao’s pace, running toward the door.
At this moment, not only was there Lu Jinzhao’s shadow puppet on his back, but his own unfinished shadow puppet had also become extremely manic, constantly attacking him.
He had no choice but to use the supernatural item on his body to avoid dying at the hands of these two shadow puppet ghosts.
Fortunately, “Master”‘s attack wasn’t on him, but continuously locked onto Lu Jinzhao’s body.
While enduring the shadow puppet’s gnawing and constantly resisting supernatural intrusion, Huo Ye felt like the flesh and blood on his back was about to be completely devoured by Lu Jinzhao’s shadow puppet, but he still revealed a somewhat twisted smile.
“Haha, the mission isn’t that easy to complete, huh? You want to screw me over without even seeing if you can survive yourself!”
Indeed, Lu Jinzhao wasn’t feeling well at this moment either.
It was just because her blood had already run dry.
In just over ten seconds, the wooden box had drained all the blood from her body.
But thanks to the “bell,” she could still “live” even after losing blood to this extent.
She suddenly felt that this side effect might not really be a side effect.
Without the train’s existence, she would definitely become a corpse due to the side effect, but with the train, the bell’s side effect had instead turned into a boost.
However, she could also feel the changes happening to her body.
Not to mention the corpse spots on her body—even her brain was gradually losing function.
She could feel that she was slowly becoming unable to think.
Because of lack of oxygen, because of lack of blood, her brain was dying.
Her hearing became blurry, and even her line of sight seemed like severe nearsightedness.
In another half minute, she might not even be able to maintain thinking.
That would be too dangerous.
She wasn’t sure if, when her brain died too, she would stop moving.
And the wooden box was also gradually losing effect because her blood had run out.
If Lu Jinzhao lost consciousness, perhaps this wooden box would completely devour her, just like the scene she had seen before.
Therefore, she had to maintain clear consciousness.
The bell had to be removed before reaching its limit, but relying only on the wooden box, what else did she have to offer?
[Want to make a transaction with me?]
A line of blood script floated in front of Lu Jinzhao.
Lu Jinzhao reached into her pocket and sure enough, felt the parchment she had thrown far away.
Without hesitation, she quickly reached out again to pick up the thing and threw it outward.
Unlucky thing, don’t hinder her escape!
