Chapter 85: Wang Family Funeral Home
Being burned alive in the darkness, this method of death was obviously not wonderful. Lu Jinzhao did not want to experience it.
Leaving the crematorium, that burning sensation was fading, and they only had one patrol location left.
Two candles had been used up, and the remaining amount seemed sufficient, but Lu Jinzhao was not optimistic in her heart.
Supernatural phenomena could interfere to cause a power outage, making the mobile phone battery drain at an unscientific speed. Could there really be no method against this small candle?
Unless this candle itself was a supernatural item.
This was just Lu Jinzhao’s guess. She actually wanted to try keeping some candles to bring back to the train, but she was unsure if they would have the leeway.
The candle burning now was almost equivalent to their continuing life. She did not dare to cause problems due to greed.
At this moment, the candle in her hand had burned out completely. The one using the candle was Meng Ning beside her.
The night was already very deep. Meng Ning’s footsteps were not fast. Lu Jinzhao could guess her current thoughts. Even though she knew it was best to finish quickly now, her survival instinct made her resist approaching the morgue.
She kept turning her head to look at Lu Jinzhao, wanting to gain a bit of sense of security from her companion, but because of the loss of hearing, this sense of security became extremely scarce.
The silent road seemed to lead to hell. In the darkness, even trees turned into shadowy claws. Under the weak firelight, these shadows seemed like the claws of ghosts, constantly closing in on them.
Meng Ning’s nerves were taut. She really wanted Lu Jinzhao to help her, but she did not know what to ask Lu Jinzhao to help with. She only felt that at this moment, she was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, just waiting for the candle to go out.
Just as Meng Ning was thinking this, the firelight of the candle in her hand suddenly swayed.
Clearly there was no wind around, yet the candle flame seemed to have been blown by a gust.
Meng Ning’s complexion immediately became tense. Her body showed an unnatural stiffness due to excessive tension. She raised her hand to shield the flame, trying to make it calm down, but such an action had no effect at all.
The flame swayed continuously as if exposed to a gale, looking like it would go out at any moment. Meng Ning’s complexion appeared even more pale in the darkness. She did not understand what was happening. Could a ghost be approaching?
The swaying firelight also accelerated the candle’s burning progress. Fortunately, the flame’s uneasy swaying only lasted about five seconds, then gradually steadied.
No accidents occurred. Meng Ning breathed a sigh of relief.
No ghost appeared, and the candle did not go out. Although she did not know why, it was not a bad thing, right?
Perhaps it was just poor candle quality, and it happened to flicker like it was going out when burning to that point.
She randomly comforted herself in her heart.
She turned to look at Lu Jinzhao, wanting to see if she had witnessed that scene, but found Lu Jinzhao staring ahead with an especially serious expression.
Meng Ning’s heart sank with a thud, having a bad premonition. She also looked up ahead.
Even though they were not walking fast, they had already reached the outside of the morgue. Looking up now, they could clearly see the position of the elevator on the first floor.
At this moment, in the funeral home that should have been in a power outage, the elevator indicator light was still on.
Perhaps it was the backup power.
Meng Ning thought this, but the next second, she saw the elevator indicator light up.
Indicating the elevator had reached the designated floor and was about to open.
The elevator door opened.
In the pitch darkness, Meng Ning and Lu Jinzhao clearly saw the light shining from inside after the elevator door opened.
But just one second later, that light suddenly started flickering, as if affected by something, and then completely went out.
Just like the other places in the funeral home, the elevator also fell into complete darkness.
Then, the elevator door slowly closed, but it did not stay on the first floor.
Instead, it slowly went down.
As if something in the darkness had entered the elevator, then pressed the button to go to the morgue.
“Th-there’s a ghost!” Meng Ning could not help but speak out. She even forgot that at this time, no one could hear her words.
She finally understood why the candle had swayed so violently just now—because a ghost had passed by them!
But that ghost did not stop to attack them; instead, it got into the elevator.
Now, it had already taken the elevator ahead to the morgue.
Maybe… it was at the end of the stairs, waiting for them.
“We… we still shouldn’t go, right?” After tremblingly saying this, she realized again that Lu Jinzhao could not hear sounds at this moment.
She took out her mobile phone. Her fingers trembled abnormally while typing, causing the words to be typed a bit slowly.
【There’s a ghost!! We can’t go!】
Lu Jinzhao saw this message. She stood in place silently for a long time, so long that Meng Ning’s mobile phone automatically locked, and then she made a decision.
Meng Ning saw Lu Jinzhao shake her head at her, then reply:
【From now on, we each make our own decisions.】
Meng Ning’s eyes instantly filled with disbelief. She did not understand why Lu Jinzhao, knowing there was a ghost below, still wanted to go.
Although it was just to take a look, who knew where that ghost was now?!
Maybe it was in the stairs, waiting for them to walk into the trap!
Going down now, what difference was there from seeking death?
She was absolutely not going!
She also did not want Lu Jinzhao to go.
Lu Jinzhao still had two candles in hand. Hers had already burned halfway. Just in case, it was best for the two to stay together.
Going separately was absolutely a bad idea!
But even if she wrote these on the mobile phone, Lu Jinzhao’s decision did not change in the slightest.
Meng Ning could only watch with a pale face and eyes full of incomprehension as Lu Jinzhao walked toward the morgue.
She would die.
Meng Ning thought this in her heart.
Not completing the mission might cause hindrance when boarding the train, but going to complete the mission now, with a ghost definitely there, which to choose was not a difficult judgment, right?
She did not understand.
And Lu Jinzhao’s thoughts were also very simple.
She was not without hesitation over what Meng Ning said and thought, but she similarly did not understand why the ghost would so directly “appear” in front of them and let them see that it was waiting below.
She did not plan to think the ghost’s intentions too complex. Inside the platform, the ghost’s every starting point was to “kill”.
The ghost’s actions were also to kill.
And the ghost inside a 【Prop】-level platform could not possess much wisdom. Even if it took some action to kill, the purpose of that action would be quite simple and could not be profound.
Just like the parchment’s malice toward her, extremely obvious and on the surface.
Lu Jinzhao’s gaze fell on the burning candle in Meng Ning’s hand.
Right, because of the candle, this ghost could not do anything to them now.
So, it thought that appearing in front of them now and clearly indicating it was below would better kill them.
Look at Meng Ning, completely scared out of her wits, not daring to approach the morgue even half a step.
Therefore, Lu Jinzhao’s thoughts also became simple. She believed the ghost’s current action was to prevent them from completing the patrol mission!
And this further proved her prior guess was probably correct.
Not completing the patrol mission would definitely bring some kind of “consequences”!
These consequences were enough to cause their death before boarding the train.
