Chapter 12: Summon Ghosts
Is it that the Box has a problem?!
Impossible!
The Transaction has already been completed!
Lin Shuyue only felt her whole Body cool through, and for a moment she couldn’t distinguish whether this was really being haunted by a Fierce Ghost or psychological effect produced by Lu Jinzhao’s words.
“You didn’t deceive me?”
Her Expression stiff, she showed a helpless wry smile.
The Train was about to arrive, and her trump card had already been used once; she was the one who least wanted any more accidents to happen at this moment.
But.
Lu Jinzhao shook her head, even directly retreating two steps: “I have no reason to deceive you.”
“Or do you think it’s better if I concealed this from you?”
That’s impossible.
Whether for Lin Shuyue or Lu Jinzhao, neither of them wanted to wait for the Train’s arrival carrying a ghost while Unaware.
So, Lu Jinzhao chose to directly tell the other about this.
But the next moment, through Lin Shuyue’s back she saw that the ghost on her back seemed to have moved.
The ghost was discovered by the person beneath it, so it no longer hid.
The distance was too close; its Attack didn’t even need Time, just an Instant, and Lin Shuyue felt a bone-chilling Chill assaulting her. She instinctively wanted to grab the Box, to give more Flesh and Blood to the Box to save her Life, but… she couldn’t.
She was completely unable to Move anymore!
She tried to struggle, but the Chill on her Body grew heavier and heavier; her back felt like a thousand-jin burden pressing down on her. She couldn’t see her own Complexion instantly becoming Pale, only feeling her Body as if nailed fixed in the air, completely unable to Move.
Ordinary People being attacked by ghosts are just this powerless.
Using all her strength, she could barely turn her Eyeballs to look at Lu Jinzhao.
—Help me!
She didn’t want to accept her fate yet.
Even though, at this moment, she had already realized that she had made a big mistake in this See a ghost Mission, but it was already too late to remedy.
Would that Newcomer dare to come save her?
She could see the ghost, so she must have certainly seen the ghost attacking her, right?
Lu Jinzhao had indeed seen it, seen it very clearly; the ghost lying on Lin Shuyue’s back was tightly embracing her, as if hugging a cute teddy bear, and human Bones and Flesh and Blood were as fragile as cotton in front of it. With just a gentle force, Lin Shuyue’s arm abruptly caved in, the Bone instantly shattering.
If nothing unexpected happened, within ten seconds, Lin Shuyue would be kneaded by the ghost into a blurry mass of Flesh and Blood like a fragile piece of paper.
In the perspective of those unable to see ghosts, it would probably look like Lin Shuyue being “air” pinched into a lump of minced meat.
Lu Jinzhao didn’t look up, unable to see Lin Shuyue’s pleading Eyes, but she also knew this wasn’t the time to sit and wait for death.
Although she could completely take the chance to turn and Escape, but… Lu Jinzhao made another choice.
The Instant she saw Lin Shuyue’s arm cave in, she had already realized the Ghost’s attack had begun.
At the same time confirming that the ghost really had no Wisdom; Jiang Yingzhi hadn’t lied.
It could clearly continue lurking, but after being discovered by Lin Shuyue, it immediately began the Attack.
They seemed to have a set of unbreakable Attack Process, for example, humans must first “violate the Rules,” and if the person targeted by the ghost discovers the ghost, the ghost will immediately begin the Attack.
Probably the “Rules” that Jiang Yingzhi mentioned.
Confirming this, Lu Jinzhao decisively ran quickly toward Lin Shuyue’s position, then took out a knife and the Box, forcefully cut open Lin Shuyue’s palm, and opened the Box to stuff it into her immobilized hand.
After doing this, Lu Jinzhao only then discovered her own Body had become exceptionally Coldness; if she stayed a bit longer, she would probably also lose control of her Body like Lin Shuyue.
Clearly she hadn’t been touched by the ghost, yet she was still affected; was it because of this Eye?
After doing this, Lu Jinzhao quickly retreated, leaving Lin Shuyue—no, leaving that ghost by about two meters—then that Chilling bone-piercing feeling as if freezing her Disappeared.
“The influence range is only two meters?”
Not far, but she still didn’t know the ghost’s “speed.”
However, if she guessed correctly, in this Inside the platform, people who hadn’t performed the Cup Spirit Ritual didn’t need to worry about this ghost pursuing and killing her.
Cup Spirit is the Ritual of “violating the Rules”; through the Ritual to form some connection with the ghost, allowing the ghost to Attack the person performing the Ritual. People who haven’t performed the Ritual, even if passing by this ghost at this moment, won’t be attacked by the ghost, let alone sense the Chilling aura emanating from this ghost.
Just like the divide between Life and Death.
Provided that person isn’t Lu Jinzhao.
Because now she had replaced with the Cornea of a dead person; this Eye blurred Life and Death, allowing her to See a ghost, so the Instant the See a ghost Eye made Eye contact with the ghost, she would be exposed in the ghost’s Eyes, without needing the Ritual at all.
Her Situation was too Dangerous, far more Dangerous than Passengers whose Mission was just to perform a Ritual.
Lu Jinzhao’s Brain kept Thinking; she was unwilling to directly Escape also because she realized just how Dangerous her own Situation was—blindly Escaping couldn’t save herself at all.
And in these few seconds of her Thinking, Lin Shuyue’s Body had already undergone a huge Change.
The opened Box was like a Greed y mouth tightly biting Lin Shuyue’s palm; countless Blood surged from the Wound toward this bottomlessly Greed y mouth. Lin Shuyue’s Body suddenly weakened sharply, but the feeling of being restrained Disappeared.
But that was it!
The ghost on her Body hadn’t left yet, and was even still trying to kill her!
The Box and the ghost briefly stalemated for about two seconds; Lin Shuyue’s Pupils suddenly contracted sharply. She seemed to sense something, but her throat only managed to produce the syllable “no,” and the next second, Lin Shuyue’s entire person deflated rapidly like a punctured balloon.
The entire Process lasted less than three seconds; the Box used Lin Shuyue’s entire Body’s Flesh and Blood as the Price to completely drive away that ghost for her.
—Plop.
It was the sound of the Box falling from the air to the Ground.
It was also the sound of the Corpse, left with only skin wrapping the skeleton, falling to the Ground.
Her Corpse was already completely unbearable to look at; Lu Jinzhao had never even seen such a horrifying scene in a Terror film.
She forcibly suppressed the Fear in her heart and lowered her head to scan the Ground left and right.
It was gone.
The ghost that Lin Shuyue had summoned was indeed gone.
Whether because of Lin Shuyue’s Death or because of that ghost Box, in any case, at this moment, in this Inside the platform, there was one less ghost that could threaten Lu Jinzhao’s Life.
The first time truly witnessing the Process of a person’s Death, and so Terror-stricken, even Lu Jinzhao who had been mentally preparing herself since boarding the Train was still scared with limbs icy cold for a good while, not daring to move randomly.
She stood in place pausing for a moment, feeling her Coldness Body gradually warming up, then abruptly closed and opened her Eyes, forcing herself to perk up her Spirit.
“Calm down, stay calm!”
Lin Shuyue was dead, but the Mission wasn’t over; she couldn’t lose her Reason just because she was scared.
Her wildly pounding heart didn’t calm down because of this simple self-regulation, but Lu Jinzhao’s Body had already started moving.
She walked forward a few steps, averted her Eyes not looking at Lin Shuyue’s Corpse, and instead picked up the Box that had fallen nearby.
