Chapter 174: House Of Evil Ghosts
Tan Meng approached the restroom step by step. When she discovered that Lu Jinzhao had not actually escaped but was standing stunned in place, an extremely human-like excitement appeared on her face.
The instant she stepped into the restroom and left the “corridor” range, her body immediately underwent a weird distortion.
In Lu Jinzhao’s eyes, she was like… deflating.
Her hands, feet, and body began to stretch continuously until her head touched the ceiling, and then she began to approach Lu Jinzhao.
In Lu Jinzhao’s eyes, it was as if a fully unfurled cloth was spreading over the sky and earth toward her, and this cloth had human limbs and facial features, but now, due to the stretching, they had become extremely distorted.
If this were a sufficiently open place, there might still be room to dodge, but inside the room, there was almost nowhere to avoid.
As Tan Meng moved toward her, her footsteps became ethereal, as if the massive “paper sheet” body was hard to control. The only fortunate thing was that although her body had stretched, her legs had not widened, even becoming somewhat overly deformed and slender. As long as she dodged those two hands, that massive body, if not grabbed, could perhaps slip out from the feet?
Tan Meng’s movements became extremely fast with the distortion of her body. Lu Jinzhao had no time to think too much and could only instinctively run toward the crevice.
Paper-like hands and body cut through the air toward Lu Jinzhao. In that instant, although there was no sound, like ghostly tentacles approaching, Lu Jinzhao felt a burst of cold chill brush over her head the moment she bent down to dodge.
Her body instinctively felt panic as if encountering some natural enemy, but under Lu Jinzhao’s powerful mental fortitude, it did not tremble or lose mobility.
Her fingers hung unnaturally downward, her legs poised and ready burst into action at the opportunity, sending her body to the crevice not covered by Tan Meng’s body. If all went smoothly, she only needed three seconds to run out of the restroom.
But Lu Jinzhao did not think it would go smoothly, and the reality was indeed so.
The instant she ran past Tan Meng’s side, Tan Meng’s legs, which should have supported her body, actually floated directly into the air, then quickly wrapped around Lu Jinzhao’s calf like a rope!
The instant she was touched by Tan Meng, Lu Jinzhao felt as if her calf had been stuck with a wrinkled, damp, somewhat sticky human skin, followed by intense pain like being corroded by sulfuric acid emerging from her calf.
In that instant, she even lost control of her body.
In just a moment, “Tan Meng’s” body had already wrapped upward from the part touching her calf like a bandage. In merely several breaths’ time, from the calf upward, she had pasted her entire “body” onto Lu Jinzhao, like a bandage made of human skin, firmly binding Lu Jinzhao into her own body. But at a glance, it would only make one feel utter horror.
A distorted “person” compressed into a thin sheet, then wrapped around another person’s body, enveloping her in the appearance of a mummy.
Deformed and terrifying.
But now, the one who felt this terror most deeply was obviously Lu Jinzhao, who was wrapped by her.
Darkness filled her vision; her eyes were covered by some part of Tan Meng’s body, and her mouth and nose were completely submerged, causing her to be unable to breathe.
Her body tightened, flesh and blood constantly squeezed, her skin also suffering some erosion, burning-like pain continuously assaulting her. Lu Jinzhao realized she was continuously losing blood, the pressure on her body dramatically increasing. If she did not resist, in probably not a few seconds, she would burst like a cherry pinched by hand, spurting red juice.
Lu Jinzhao’s shadow puppet took out the pocket watch from her pocket and opened it. Actually, although using the shadow puppet directly could also escape the current situation, just in case, Lu Jinzhao chose to use the pocket watch first.
The moment the pocket watch opened, Lu Jinzhao clearly sensed something rapidly draining from her body.
Like vitality, or rather essence, but more accurately, it should be her life force and lifespan.
And the ghost tightly wrapping her also became “loose” at this moment. Lu Jinzhao seized the opportunity to peel off the human skin bandage wrapped around her, escaping from the suffocating binding, then without daring to pause, the instant she closed the pocket watch, she immediately ran out of the restroom door.
Only after returning to the corridor and running a bit further did Lu Jinzhao breathe a sigh of relief.
“So… that’s the attack method?”
The speed was too fast. The next instant after being touched by her, that bandage-like body had already wrapped her up, with no chance to run at all.
Either absolutely avoid being touched; once touched, she must use her fate or props to break free.
But what left Lu Jinzhao most shaken was, in the instant it stuck to her, her reaction was actually half a beat slow, as if her brain had been fiercely struck by an invisible heavy hammer.
Then, after being wrapped, those “skins” stuck to her skin were eroding her skin while constantly squeezing her body, as if trying to dissolve all her skin and replace it with a new one.
When she opened the pocket watch and it began repairing her body, it naturally clashed with the ghost, so the bandage wrapping her loosened.
But Lu Jinzhao did not dare to use the pocket watch too long; even though her body was not yet recovered, she chose to close it.
Now, Lu Jinzhao could still see the pitted, unrepaired wounds remaining on her arm, as if she had been drenched in irregular sulfuric acid rain, corroding her skin and leaving these large and small wounds.
Ugly, and not just on the arm—on her legs, torso, even neck and face there were wound remnants, blood slowly flowing from these wounds.
Not fatal, so Lu Jinzhao did not plan to care.
Tap… tap.
Footsteps came from behind.
Lu Jinzhao turned her head and saw Tan Meng, restored to her original appearance, walk out of the restroom.
Her face still bore a smile. When looking at Lu Jinzhao, as if unable to restrain excitement and killing intent, her neck involuntarily elongated and twisted.
Lu Jinzhao noticed that Tan Meng’s body also had bloodstains remaining; part of this ghost’s skin showed a color difference from the original skin tone.
That was obviously the skin swallowed from her body.
Did the ghost paste the human skin obtained from a person’s body onto itself?
A slight chill arose in Lu Jinzhao’s heart; she sincerely felt this was not a good thing.
Enduring the pain all over her body, she quickly walked toward the stairs.
After probing once, Lu Jinzhao was completely certain she could not tangle with these several ghosts for long. Once close, there was fundamentally no place for her to resist; she could only stay far away.
The shadow puppets she could use were still too few.
