Chapter 166: House Of Evil Ghosts
Lu Jinzhao looked at the rules on the first floor and pondered slightly in her heart for a moment, then without hesitation started running in the corridor, quickly rushing into the stairwell and heading towards the third floor.
“Isn’t this fine?” Lu Jinzhao ran for a while and stopped, carefully feeling the changes in her body.
So why did her teammates still look so timid, as if afraid that walking too fast would turn into “running” and violate the rules?
Her teammates were very different from her.
Lu Jinzhao stopped at Qiu Tian’s door. Just in time, this time’s rules did not prohibit entering others’ rooms, so Lu Jinzhao first raised her hand and knocked on the door.
No one inside the door.
So Lu Jinzhao took a slight step back, then lifted her leg and fiercely kicked towards the closed iron door!
—Bang!
The huge collision sound accompanied the iron door being forcefully kicked open, slamming hard against the wall surface and then rebounding, as Lu Jinzhao forcibly broke open this door.
She stood in place silently for a while, not entering immediately.
After confirming her body had no changes and nothing abnormal happened around her, she then stepped forward probing into the room.
No one in the room.
Qiu Tian didn’t know where she had gone, and even Auntie Duan and Tan Meng were gone.
This room’s layout had no difference from hers, but it had a stark huge difference, only because there was no corpse inside this room.
No corpse, no furniture, and no so-called “bed”.
Since there was no bed, how could there be a mattress stained red with blood as Qiu Tian mentioned?
She was lying.
Vaguely, Lu Jinzhao seemed to hear a sneer coming from afar.
Something was mocking her at this moment.
As if saying “you finally discovered it”, or “you only discovered it now”.
Lu Jinzhao’s complexion did not change at all because of this discovery; even in her heart, there was only a feeling of “as expected”.
Those inconsistencies she noticed herself, the result pointed to by those scattered clues—she had already guessed before entering this room; it was just that this more straightforward clue now confirmed that guess.
She was not surprised by this, only feeling that the truth was indeed the worst one.
Her teammates were deceiving her, misleading her.
Why?
Naturally, they wanted her dead.
And inside the platform, who were strangers to her but wanted to kill her at first sight?
The answer was actually obvious.
The waiting information prompted her to find the truth of the haunting; clearly only needing to survive three days, why additionally prompt her to find the truth?
The truth was very important, important enough to affect whether she could leave alive.
So, were her teammates working hard to find the truth?
No.
They were only sticking to her diligently, hindering her, probing her, putting on a clumsy performance in front of her.
This was already the biggest flaw.
Secondly, Lu Jinzhao was also very concerned about the room layout allocation.
301, 302, 303, and Qiu Tian living across from her—her teammates’ rooms perfectly enclosed her in the central position.
The special thing about the rooms wasn’t Qiu Tian living across, but her living in the very middle.
Now it proved that indeed, there was no corpse in Qiu Tian’s room.
Many details inside the platform were clues, not to mention those three corpses that died so miserably; why would such an important thing be absent from others’ rooms and only present in hers?
Room numbers weren’t randomly drawn, but arranged by the train; it couldn’t be that the train gave her special treatment, right?
Then it could only be that they didn’t need this important clue.
And her teammates indeed had no intention of inspecting others’ rooms; they pretended to have interest, then tacitly stopped the topic at refusal.
Lu Jinzhao thought of last night again, the ghost knocking at the door outside; it said each teammate’s name one by one.
It said it was Qiu Tian, Auntie Duan, Tan Meng.
It was like crawling in the corridor, peeking inside through the door seam, even the knocking sound was positioned lower.
But what if it originally only had half a body, already severed at the waist?
The sounds she heard were it using its hands to crawl over the ground.
“And those rules on the blackboard.”
Although her teammates pretended not to know, didn’t they all choose to comply immediately after seeing the rules?
Even if the rules on the blackboard changed, they still cautiously complied with all known rules.
Thinking of this, Lu Jinzhao suddenly realized.
“So that’s how it is.”
“Because you cannot change the rules, nor judge immediately what the current rules are, you need to comply with all of them.”
Lu Jinzhao looked at the empty room and sighed: “The ones who need to comply with those rules aren’t humans, but ghosts, right?”
In the ghost’s apartment, besides the human tenants, weren’t the rest just ghosts?
Lu Jinzhao could confirm were definitely human only herself.
And the other teammates, by the time she got off the train, they were already existing inside the platform.
Whether they were humans or ghosts, she couldn’t confirm at all.
So, if the assumption holds, the special room could only be 302, and the one who could change space by entering and exiting rooms was only her.
The other teammates wouldn’t know when the space changed, so they had to comply with known rules at all times.
The rule prohibiting stepping out of the apartment main entrance was the train’s “protection” set to balance the difficulty.
Because for this mission, besides her, only three ghosts remained.
【Do you want to stay here?】
The parchment suddenly appeared.
【Stay inside this apartment where killing is prohibited.】
“No.” Lu Jinzhao turned and walked towards the door.
“Staying here has no effect.”
Prohibiting killing—facing her, wouldn’t the three ghosts have other means besides killing?
If she only thought of clinging to life here, when the third day arrived, would she still have a chance to leave the apartment?
She remembered the miserable state of those three corpses in the room!
Moreover, since the three teammates were ghosts, then what were the three corpses in the room?
Were they her teammates’ “prototypes”?
If so, why were they separate?
Was there still some other secret hidden here?
She thought of the ghost that could only knock at the door last night, and the little stories from the three ghost teammates’ mouths; all of this told her that the ghosts were suppressed, seeking a chance to break the suppression and catch her.
【Stay in this apartment, and at least you won’t die immediately.】
The parchment seemed to be reminding her.
But Lu Jinzhao didn’t think this guy was being kind.
“My three teammates, do you know where they went?”
Lu Jinzhao changed the topic.
【Yeah, where did they go?】
【How interesting】
Lu Jinzhao ignored it no further.
Merely confirming the three teammates were all ghosts wasn’t enough.
Now, where had they gone?
When she decided to break open Qiu Tian’s door, these three people “disappeared”.
Tonight, staying up all night to write slowly ouo
