1TWITF[C Chapter 109

Chapter 109

In horror movies or novels, ghosts are usually omnipotent, able to read people’s minds and memories, tamper with their perceptions, and even distort time and space.

So, after Lu Yanli died, having two clones didn’t seem like a strange thing.

No, that’s not right either. Why… why did they suddenly barge into a store like this? When all the other stores on the street were closed, this store was still open, which was already unbelievable.

“We… should we go out?” Jin Fugui asked cautiously. The store was pitch black, and he couldn’t see anything. Logically, it shouldn’t be this dark during the day.

His question received no response. He tried to widen his eyes to see, but he couldn’t see anyone. Scared, Jin Fugui called out in a low voice, “Jiang Bai? Jiang Bai?”

An ice-cold hand rested on his shoulder, and before that, a cold male voice said, “Quiet.”

Jin Fugui recognized that it was Jiang Bai, and his panicked heart relaxed slightly.

“Wait… the door? Why is the door of this store closed?”

Rashly barging into a strange store was indeed unfeasible, as if walking into a locked dark room divided into black and white halves, not even knowing how to escape.

Unexpectedly, even he couldn’t see in this darkness. He could only vaguely see a few figures standing silently in the dark.

Instinctively, he didn’t approach those figures, but moved further away.

They had only stepped a few steps into the door, but now, Lu Yanli kept retreating, retreating at least seven or eight meters, but still hadn’t touched the boundary.

He thought: If it’s not an illusion, then they might have been taken to another place by the ghost.

Jin Fugui still wanted to say something when suddenly, he turned his head to look in a certain direction—even though he couldn’t see anything, he felt the immense, icy-cold aura surging from that direction.

What… happened outside?

Was the fierce ghost that Lu Yanli transformed into after death waiting outside the door?

Lin Chu nervously stuck to the wall, not daring to say much, almost holding her breath. Jiang Yu was not far from her, doing the same.

Everyone sensed the extremely strange coldness, as if the street just a wall away was actually a glacier.

Gradually, light began to appear.

The only bit of light shone in from the direction of the display window, illuminating the entire room.

But when they saw the interior of the room clearly, they couldn’t help but gasp.

This was actually a wax museum! A wax museum whose spaciousness on the inside was completely unimaginable from the outside.

No, not just the residents of the town… A sharp, needle-like pain shot through his mind. Lu Yanli endured it. After the dizziness in his mind passed, when he looked again, that familiar feeling disappeared again.

Strange, what familiar feeling? Did the appearances of these sculptures look familiar? Lu Yanli carefully examined those faces, certain that he hadn’t seen them before.

It was simply… a human hell.

This scene was extremely familiar.

Lu Yanli felt it was familiar, but Lin Chu felt a chill all over her body in an instant. She had never felt so deeply powerless and desperate as she did now.

She saw Lu Yanli, not far from her. He was walking towards the sculpture in the middle…

“Stop! Jiang Bai!” Lin Chu hurriedly pounced over, trying to pull Lu Yanli back.

Lu Yanli seemed not to hear, continuing to walk forward. Lin Chu couldn’t hold him back, and turned to yell at Qiu Zhi, Jiang Yu, and the others, “Come help!”

Jiang Yu had no intention of helping, only watching coldly, wanting to see what would happen if Jiang Bai touched those wax figures.

Qiu Zhi stepped forward to help. With the strength of him, Lin Chu, and the weight of Jin Fugui, they finally managed to hold Lu Yanli back.

“What’s wrong with Jiang Bai?” Qiu Zhi was very worried.

Lin Chu shook her head. “I don’t know.” She stared at the group of wax figures in the center, only feeling her hands and feet growing colder.

This scene… wasn’t it exactly what she had described to Chu Xiu?

In order to deceive Chu Xiu, she had temporarily fabricated a task about a wax museum, and had described the scene inside the wax museum. Who would have thought… it would actually come true?

No, not necessarily completely true. Many strange things were like this: nine parts real, one part false, and the most deadly danger was hidden in the falsehood.

“Jiang Bai! Wake up!” Lin Chu couldn’t tell Jiang Yu, nor could she tell Qiu Zhi or anyone else present. She could only choose Lu Yanli, and pin her hopes on him destroying the existence behind it.

“Jiang Bai? Jiang Bai?”

Lu Yanli’s eyes were still open, but they seemed to have lost focus, staring at a world that ordinary people couldn’t see.

It simply… didn’t seem human!

Sweat oozed from his forehead. He didn’t say what he had seen, and after looking around, quickly changed the subject: “Wax museum? Everyone look for a way out. We can always get out.”

Lu Yanli turned his head to look at him.

Perhaps because he had just seen something, even if Lu Yanli tried to conceal it with a gentle surface, this glance still made Jiang Yu subconsciously take a step back, feeling that there was something extremely terrifying hidden in those dark eyes. Soon, he was shocked by his own conditioned reflex, not quite understanding what he had just seen.

Lu Yanli was very familiar with the appearance of that statue. Almost at the same moment he saw it, the mark under his collarbone instantly turned cold.

The others didn’t know what Lu Yanli was thinking. With the faint light, they discovered that something seemed wrong in the wax museum.

Why did it seem like those wax figures were moving slowly? Was he seeing things?

Jin Fugui rubbed his eyes. Why did he feel that a statue was a little closer to him?

It wasn’t an illusion! They were really moving!

“Get out of the way!” Qiu Zhi pulled him.

A statue holding a knife suddenly fell to the ground without warning, and the knife flew straight at him! If Qiu Zhi hadn’t pulled him, the knife would have stabbed into Jin Fugui’s throat.

The wax figures in the museum had changed!

Jin Fugui had heard that some brides in ghost marriages would have their mouths sewn shut by the groom’s family needle by needle after entering the house, to prevent them from going to the underworld to sue.

Now, that bride was twirling the needle and thread, slowly approaching Jiang Bai.

Her limbs didn’t move, and her pupils were still unfocused, but Jin Fugui just felt that her eyes were staring intently at Jiang Bai.

“Jiang Bai, get out of the way!” Jin Fugui shouted in terror.

It wasn’t that Lu Yanli didn’t want to dodge, but it was difficult to avoid. A large amount of melted wax flowed under his feet, fixing his entire body in place, making it difficult to escape. He didn’t panic, and tried hard to reach an axe in the hands of a wax figure in front of him. He weighed it in his hand and quietly waited in place.

When the wax figure approached, he unhesitatingly slashed diagonally.

“Ahhh—”

The two halves of the wax statue slowly melted into the thick layer of wax that had already accumulated on the floor, viscous and greasy, slowly gradually condensing again.

The wax was soft, and the axe was difficult to apply force to. After it was chopped in, it stuck directly on it, making it difficult to pull out.

“Jiang Bai, take it!”

Lin Chu didn’t know when she had escaped. She was holding two lit candles in her hand, reached out, and handed Lu Yanli one.

Lu Yanli noticed that a wax figure slowly moved past Lin Chu’s side, but didn’t attack her, and immediately understood something, and took the candle.

How could the others not understand? The candle was the key!

“Lin Chu! Where did you find the candles?” Jiang Yu asked her loudly.

Qiu Zhi took it and casually asked, “How do you know?”

“Don’t worry so much about it. Let’s go to the middle now to get more candles,” Lu Yanli said softly.

They observed that the wax figures would subconsciously avoid the fire, were sensitive to sound, and that their speed of movement and recovery was getting faster and faster. Even with Jiang Yu’s skill, he was still almost injured several times.

So… they absolutely couldn’t make a sound!