Chapter 171: House Of Evil Ghosts
When Lu Jinzhao passed by 302, she didn’t go in, but she opened the door.
This was a backup plan in case the thing she planned to do didn’t work.
She stopped before reaching the end of the corridor, then turned to observe the three teammates chasing her from behind.
The rules state 【Prohibit running in the corridor】, but the ghost’s way of moving isn’t just “running,” yet her three teammates were now honestly approaching her by walking.
They even moved very slowly.
But they weren’t in a hurry.
In their eyes, the current situation was already like a turtle in a jar.
The three “people” walking in the dim corridor were like a ruler moving along a scale; when the ruler reached the target, that would be the moment of death.
Lu Jinzhao took several deep breaths; she was still waiting, waiting for the three teammates to get close enough—at least, to lure them all over into the restroom with the largest space, instead of guarding the door to 302.
These three ghosts wearing human skin actually didn’t know why Lu Jinzhao didn’t enter 302 to switch spaces, instead walking into their own death trap; they didn’t “think” at all, just followed her scent and kept approaching.
When the distance between them and Lu Jinzhao was close enough, with only less than five meters between human and ghost, “Qiu Tian” was already itching to raise her hand, trying to grab the only prey in front of her through the air.
Seeing the non-human teammates approaching step by step, the mental pressure on Lu Jinzhao at this moment was undoubtedly enormous.
Whether it was the narrow corridor, the dim environment, the dirt on the wall surface, or the faint stench in the air, all kept pressuring her, not to mention these three teammates with weird expressions.
But Lu Jinzhao wasn’t anxious; even without the bell on her wrist, her heartbeat was steady and slow.
When all three teammates were lured to stand in front of her but still kept some distance, Lu Jinzhao decisively turned and ran into the restroom.
The space inside the restroom was slightly more open than the corridor, better for maneuvering, and.
Lu Jinzhao ran into the messy restroom and immediately spotted her target.
Window!
Unlike the one inside the room pasted over with newspaper, the window in the restroom was larger and made of glass; though it hadn’t been cleaned for a long time, making it impossible to see outside clearly, it still let in some light, showing faint shadows of the outside world.
Before the ghost entered the restroom, Lu Jinzhao decisively ran to the window and smashed the glass with a punch.
The shattered glass cut her finger, but it didn’t make her bleed much.
Lu Jinzhao didn’t care about this minor injury; her current physique was very strange—martial arts practice made her physical qualities stronger than ordinary people with better recovery, while the ghost bone reduced some “activity” in her flesh.
Yet these two didn’t conflict.
This resulted in wounds on Lu Jinzhao’s body being less fatal than on ordinary people, harder to bleed heavily from, and healing faster.
It seemed that aside from slightly lower body temperature, slower heartbeat, and weaker breathing, it brought her no negative effects.
Now, she had broken the glass; while the three teammates were still walking into the restroom, she decisively cleared the remaining glass with her elbow, then grabbed the window frame with both hands, leaped out, and sent her body outside the window!
“Waiting Information says I can’t step out the apartment main entrance; I won’t use the door, using the window should be fine, right?”
Besides, she wasn’t trying to leave the apartment, just taking a shortcut.
However, Lu Jinzhao wasn’t sure if this would work, so while her body climbed out the window, her hands didn’t let go.
Then, she felt the exact same weird sensation as last night when leaving the room, only this time it came more fiercely; in less than two minutes, she might completely lose consciousness.
It works.
Confirming this, Lu Jinzhao hesitated no more; she pressed her toes between the bricks, fingers gripping crevices in the wall surface, relying on her powerful physique to quickly descend on the vertical surface.
On the first day, she had followed several “teammates” to scout the entire apartment; the restroom’s position was fixed, and so was the window’s!
Soon, she reached above the second floor restroom window by feel; Lu Jinzhao’s fingers loosened first, her body dropping quickly, then she seized the fleeting chance, her ten fingers tightly gripping above the window frame, her ten finger bones easily bearing the weight of her entire body, including the gravity from the natural drop!
“Little Lu!”
She heard someone calling her from above.
Lu Jinzhao looked up slightly and saw a scene that made her hair stand on end.
Her three teammates all stuck their heads out from the third floor restroom window, facing downward to look at her, mouths opening and closing as they called her name, but the parts of them above the neck that left the apartment were like deflated balloons, shriveled up, leaving only wrinkled human skin flapping in the air.
Those three disgusting and weird human skins seemed unaware of their current state and still tried to reach out to grab Lu Jinzhao, but that outstretched hand immediately looked like its flesh and blood had been drained after leaving the window—perhaps there was no flesh and blood inside to begin with—then, losing support, it slapped against the window.
That hand unwillingly tried to stretch downward but could only weakly stick to the wall surface, wriggling like a maggot.
Only those three shriveled balloon heads floated in the air, twisting together as a gust of wind blew them.
Lu Jinzhao felt a chill just glancing at it; she didn’t dare look more, controlled her knees to bend forward, then propelled her body forward with a bang, shattering the glass in front of her, returning inside the apartment before her consciousness gave out.
“What the hell was that…”
Even though she couldn’t see it anymore, the terror those three heads brought her hadn’t dissipated; it was almost physiological fear—just one look made chills rise from the bottom of her heart, even making Lu Jinzhao’s unusual body break out in goosebumps.
It had been a while since she had such a strong physiological reaction purely from seeing something terrifying.
“Those three things are definitely not simple.”
However, they seemed restricted by something and hadn’t unleashed the power that even one glance at made it hard for Lu Jinzhao to bear.
“Maybe because I exposed early on that they weren’t human?”
If she hadn’t exposed it, would she have faced the full terror of these three teammates at the end?
She couldn’t be sure, but Lu Jinzhao finally understood why the parchment thought she would definitely die.
One person facing three such ghosts—even with her decent survival methods—still felt stretched thin.
Moreover, unlike the weird feeling from last night when trying to enter the corridor that disappeared after returning to the room, the “pressure” from climbing to the apartment exterior wall didn’t dissipate after she returned to the apartment.
This pressure was somewhat mental; after just this short trip, Lu Jinzhao felt her brain heavy, realizing she couldn’t stay outside the apartment for long, even if not truly leaving.
She couldn’t rely on this method to last an entire day.
