Chapter 178: House Of Evil Ghosts
When a large amount of blood flowed out from her body, Lu Jinzhao immediately felt cold.
Then came the weakness and powerlessness that seemed to seep out from the bone marrow, because of the lack of blood, her body was also rapidly deprived of oxygen, her heart no longer beat, her brain felt waves of dizziness, and Lu Jinzhao felt her consciousness beginning to become blurry.
But all this was within her expectations, and even because of the bodily mutation brought by fusing the Ghost Bone, her performance after massive blood loss far exceeded the appearance that ordinary people should have.
All kinds of organ failure and lesions that should have been caused by excessive blood loss did not appear on her body; some were because her organs had long been crushed by the extra hand in her abdomen, and others were because her body had already approached non-human.
The bell hanging on her hand also ensured that she would not immediately die due to the loss of oxygen and blood that humans rely on for survival. Although the discomfort was extremely intense, and even her consciousness had become somewhat blurry, she actually maintained this state that was no different from a “dry corpse.”
Lu Jinzhao knew that her current appearance must be very terrifying, to the extent that it would need to be censored even in a horror movie commentary, but right now, this was just the beginning.
The bell and the wooden box that had absorbed blood would both play a role in protecting her to a certain extent, and her current existence, which was no different from a corpse, also made the ghost in the room that had originally been chasing her hesitate.
But this state would only last ten minutes, because the bell would only take effect for ten minutes.
And even with two supernatural items in effect, Lu Jinzhao could still feel the blood water slowly integrating into her dry body.
If this continued, the wooden box and the bell would eventually lose their effect, but Lu Jinzhao was not anxious at all.
On the contrary, what she was waiting for was the arrival of that moment.
Time passed bit by bit, and Lu Jinzhao could feel her body continuously, slowly undergoing some kind of change.
That was the blood water invading her body; the ghost represented by the blood water behind it was trying to slowly control this new “corpse” of hers, but there were two supernatural items in the corpse’s body, as well as the consciousness of a living person, causing this invasion to not go smoothly.
But as the blood water increased, when the places in Lu Jinzhao’s body that should have been filled with human blood were replaced by this Ghost Blood, she began to be unable to control her body, unable to sense the existence of her limbs, as if her body had been dissolved by the blood water, and the only thing left was her brain.
But Lu Jinzhao knew it was not like that; her body was still there, just invaded by the blood water, and temporarily “not belonging” to her control.
Logically speaking, at this time she should have been completely devoured by the ghost behind the blood water, but at this moment, she still retained the consciousness belonging to Lu Jinzhao.
This retained consciousness came from the protection of the wooden box and the bell, and perhaps also the merit of the Ghost Bone transforming her constitution; she was not too clear, after all, making this decision was a gamble.
But even so, the situation was still very unfavorable for Lu Jinzhao; she could not move, retaining only a faint consciousness. If this continued, even surviving tonight, what then?
She had even lost the ability to control her body and return to the train.
But what she had prepared was not just this.
Soon, as time passed bit by bit, the blood water’s invasion of her became more severe. When she felt that a large area of red had invaded her consciousness, the bell’s limit finally arrived.
When she first got the bell, the newspaper on the train had warned her.
【Never tie it to your body for more than ten minutes.】
She was very curious about what would happen if she violated this rule.
However, she had never had the chance to experiment, but now, the opportunity had come.
This was also part of her “gamble.”
When time crossed a certain critical point, at that moment, the bell on Lu Jinzhao’s wrist, which had originally been like a dead object, suddenly rang.
However, the sound was somewhat weak, not as clear as what Lu Jinzhao had heard at the funeral home.
Then, accompanied by this bell sound, the woven rope began to break and disintegrate; they no longer encircled Lu Jinzhao’s wrist, but instead drilled into her body along her wrist like living silver needles one by one.
At this moment, if Lu Jinzhao were “alive,” her feeling would be extremely painful.
She would feel hundreds of silver needles piercing into her body, flowing along her blood vessels, into her lungs and viscera, her heart, her brain.
But now, because her body was excessively out of control, she had completely lost the sense of pain.
Moreover, what flowed in her blood vessels was no longer her blood, but something she thought could be called “Ghost Blood.”
She should not have felt the mutation of the bell, but after the ropes turned into needles and pierced into her body, Lu Jinzhao subtly regained some perception of her body.
When she felt the existence of her “body” again, Lu Jinzhao knew that the bell’s mutation had begun.
She had actually guessed what the consequences would be if the wearing time exceeded the limit.
It would be nothing more than the bell starting to “revive,” turning into a ghost, no longer just a supernatural item, completely losing control.
The bell itself was not a particularly powerful supernatural item, but if the bell revived into a ghost, then it would be different.
Ghosts cannot be “killed”; even among ghosts, at most one can suppress or repel the other, not “kill.”
At the funeral home, those “corpses” had bells on their ankles, controlled by the bells, and now, these corpses had Ghost Blood flowing in their bodies, controlled by this blood.
When Lu Jinzhao noticed this, she felt that these two “ghosts” were very similar.
Now, the Ghost Blood had flowed into her body, wanting to control this “corpse” of hers, while she had used the bell beyond the limit, the supernatural item lost control, and the ghost began to revive inside her body, vying for control of her body.
And she had also fused a section of Ghost Bone, which was a death-level supernatural item; even without more abilities, it was enough to suppress these two ghosts to some extent in terms of intensity.
As for the wooden box, its greatest role was actually to drain her blood to facilitate the Ghost Blood entering her body.
The others could hardly play much role, at most assisting the bell against the Ghost Blood, making the chaotic supernatural power in her body even more disordered.
And the shadow puppet on her ankle was her “fuse,” a substitute death, to avoid her really playing herself to death, giving her the only chance to gamble.
Finally, something Lu Jinzhao did not want to admit: that one-third of her soul replaced by the parchment.
The parchment, said to be a supernatural item, but in the end it was also a ghost, and a powerful one that was also death-level.
This was perhaps the key reason she could still retain a trace of self-consciousness.
But in any case, when Lu Jinzhao felt that her body seemed very chaotic—one moment she could feel the existence of her hand, the next only her foot—she knew that she had perhaps won the bet.
Relying on the ghosts’ lack of wisdom and instinctive invasion of thinking, making them check and balance each other inside her body, creating a brief state of becoming “one of their own.”
