1TWITF[C Chapter 111

Chapter 111

The number of people suddenly increased, but Jiang Yu didn’t panic. Instead, he was delighted. This new batch of people clearly relieved some of his pressure, and many wax figures turned to surround them instead.

He even reminded them aloud, “Just like Jiang Bai and the others, grab a candle from the middle and light it. That’s the way to survive. However, there aren’t many candles left.”

Pairs of eyes looked towards Lu Yanli and the others.

At this moment, Lu Yanli happened to take two candles from a wax figure. The wax figure emitted a sharp wail, and starting from its face, it melted little by little, quickly turning into a large amount of scalding wax that imprisoned their feet.

They could clearly feel the speed at which the scalding, soft, and viscous liquid under their feet was rising. However, this wax didn’t solidify, only slowly flowing, preventing them from getting a firm footing. The air temperature was getting higher and higher, stuffy and unventilated, as if it had solidified into wax, hot and sticky, threatening to suffocate them to death.

If this continued, even if they weren’t killed by the wax figures, they would be trapped here and become new wax figures.

Jiang Yu struggled hard. Perhaps it was an illusion, but he noticed that the power imprisoning his feet had relaxed a little, and he successfully took another step.

Apart from Jiang Bai, Lin Chu, Jin Fugui, and Qiu Zhi had all obtained several candles without any wax figures blocking them.

Body, head, face… everywhere was covered in wax. Slippery, scalding, stinging, an indescribable feeling of nausea. Lu Yanli even had the illusion that this wasn’t wax at all, but corpse oil. Those wax figures hidden in the darkness were like ancient, rotten corpses that had been buried for who knew how many years.

Outside the door, it suddenly darkened.

In the pitch blackness, candlelight flickered in the wax museum.

The faint light made it impossible to see anything clearly, but everyone could sense that the wax figures… their movements were getting faster!

“Go!” Lin Chu silently mouthed to Lu Yanli and the others. After they had collected about a dozen more candles, Lin Chu was anxious to go in another direction.

“Why?” Qiu Zhi asked her in a low voice.

A terrifying ghost statue with a ferocious face suddenly turned its head, its copper-bell eyes glaring at Qiu Zhi, who immediately shut his mouth.

Lin Chu shook her head, indicating that she couldn’t explain, but she was very anxious in her heart.

Outside the door, it was dark.

So far, things were developing according to the plot she had created.

What had she said back then?

“The first time it gets dark, everyone can’t see clearly, they can only see vague gray shadows walking around. Everyone hides, afraid to make a sound, as if… something is waiting in the darkness.”

It’s coming!

The faint candlelight flickered, and everyone carefully protected the flame, not letting it go out. Pairs of eyes vigilantly looked around.

All human voices disappeared at this moment, only the scalding temperature touching the skin remained.

Those holding candles were somewhat better off. Those without candles in their hands couldn’t see anything, only little points of light in the darkness. They could see some gray shadows drifting, dragging long tails behind them, looking like ghosts from legends.

Di Ying and a companion carefully walked forward.

The other person seemed very scared, stiffly grabbing her arm. The two of them slowly moved forward one after the other. The direction they were heading was where the light was.

A whooshing sound came—

Di Ying dodged, avoiding a human head thrown from above. She squinted her eyes, carefully identifying the direction.

“Ah—”

Di Ying waved her hand to show her apology.

She was truly frightened. Since doing missions, she had never felt fear so acutely.

Di Ying tried to dodge, slowly calming her violently beating heart.

That’s not right, she shouldn’t be so scared. She had seen dead people before, even people dying beside her. Why was she so afraid just now?

Wait! Who was the person who died?

Di Ying tried hard to think of the person’s name and appearance, but she couldn’t remember at all. Clearly, in her memory, that person had been holding her arm just now. The two of them seemed to have a good relationship, but now, she couldn’t remember any information about them.

That person… could they be a ghost? Or, after dying, would they erase the memories of related people?

Her body was still scalding, and large drops of sweat slid down, but Di Ying couldn’t help but shiver.

“Don’t talk,” Lin Chu silently mouthed to the other few people.

They had already retreated from the central position. The interior of the wax museum was extremely large, and many cabinets were placed there. Now, they were hiding in a row of solid wood cabinets, the doors half-open, trying to avoid the increasing number of strange wax figures.

Strange… who exactly is it?

His corpse is now right behind her, should she turn around and take a look?

Turn around and take a look, see who it is.

Di Ying stayed in place, standing still. Then, little by little, she turned her head.

Wasn’t it herself?

“Save me! Help! Save me—” Di Ying kept waving her arms, begging for help.

“Save me! Please!” The rope hanging her was getting longer and longer, swaying without wind, slowly shifting position.

However, no matter how Di Ying shouted, none of those people wanted to save her.

Di Ying didn’t know that it wasn’t that those people weren’t helping her, but behind her, there was a pitch-black corpse tightly hugging her.

This was the reason why she couldn’t exert any strength to save herself, but she couldn’t see it or feel it, only vaguely feeling that something was tightly imprisoning her.

Then, the rope carried her to a place above a board full of nails.

The rope broke.

“Aaaaaaah—”

Blood splattered, and scarlet plasma slowly melted into the slowly flowing red wax. At first glance, there was no difference.

The screams didn’t affect Lu Yanli. He looked outside the display window, only feeling that he seemed to have seen something very important.

“When someone dies, it will get dark again,” Lin Chu said in a low voice.

Before she finished speaking, a face suddenly appeared outside the cabinet door! It blocked most of the gap, its eyes were cold and eerie. Jin Fugui was startled and was about to shout, but Qiu Zhi covered his mouth. The eyes on that face rolled around, finally staring fixedly at Lin Chu.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds…

The face looked for who knows how long, but no matter how it looked, Lin Chu didn’t make a sound. Finally, the face disappeared.

The display window darkened again.

Lu Yanli quietly opened the cabinet door a little, looking outside.

Everyone had a limited number of candles. Now, other task-takers had also obtained candles and were carefully walking over here, not letting the ghosts discover them.

What are they doing here?

Lu Yanli didn’t think they had good intentions.

In the darkness, candles were the best targets. Even if they hid, they couldn’t hide anywhere. Therefore, Lu Yanli planned to let them come to him.

He clenched the dagger in his pocket, his eyes fixed on the few approaching points of light outside the cabinet.

Lin Chu was thinking about something else.

“Everyone is placed in separate cabinets. Everyone was originally going to push the doors open to go out, but at this time, everyone heard the room door being heavily opened, a burst of… very, very terrifying footsteps came.”

“That person didn’t have a candle. I remember very clearly that the candle in my hand was about to burn out, so I had to take out one of the last two candles in my pocket again, ready to light it at any time.”

It’s getting light.

The world spun before his eyes. Lu Yanli opened his eyes again, discovering that he seemed to be trapped in a closet.

Footsteps came.

He pushed open the door a little, carefully looking outside.

It was pitch black, and he could only see some blurry outlines. There were still many wax figures placed there, and the air smelled of burning and thick dust.

Rows of cabinets that looked like standing coffins were placed in the room. The reason why Lu Yanli could see clearly was because his position seemed to be at the apex of a certain direction, the cabinet door on the inner side, allowing him to see most of the wooden cabinets.

He saw a few closets that were also opened a little, with a little light coming out.

Before he could finish observing, heavy footsteps had already arrived outside the room door.

Then, with a loud crash, the room door was violently smashed open, slammed against the wall, and he could hear the sound of wall ash falling.

The dangerous alarm in his mind instantly rang, and Lu Yanli immediately closed the cabinet door, quietly waiting.

The flame trembled and swayed, about to go out.

Just as it was about to go out, Lu Yanli finally felt it…

Behind him, there was a corpse that was extremely cold.

That corpse didn’t move, standing quietly in the cabinet, only endless coldness.

Lu Yanli turned his head.

The corpse’s appearance couldn’t be seen clearly, only a pair of unusually large, turbid eyes, as if the corners of the eyes had been cut open, staring fixedly at Lu Yanli.

Accurately speaking, staring at the candle in his hand.

Now, the candle was about to burn to the end.

They had collected a lot of candles, a large portion of which were in Lu Yanli and Lin Chu’s hands.

Lu Yanli took out a slender red candle from his pocket, about to light it, when his shoulder suddenly drooped.

That ghost… that ghost’s head was resting on his shoulder.

Lu Yanli could feel the other party’s rubbery, elongated neck, cold and slippery skin, and a strong, sweet, and rotten smell that could make people faint.

He paused, watching the fire slowly dim.

The sound outside was getting closer and closer.

He could already hear the other party’s staggering, heavy footsteps. Honestly, it didn’t sound like a normal person… not even like human footsteps, like some large animal looking for food from house to house.

Lu Yanli’s heart inevitably beat violently.

He heard the sound of the other party vigorously pulling open the cabinet door. It sounded like it was in the same row as him.

The first cabinet, empty.

Unheard-of beast roars and howls, the sound of wooden planks being violently slammed and torn apart suddenly slammed on the ground, it walked towards the next cabinet.

The footsteps… were getting closer!

Lin Chu also clenched her heart.

Just now, in the instant she quickly glanced through the open cabinet door, she judged that she was at least in the central position of the fourth row. Her luck was good, and it matched the position in the story she had made up.

She didn’t care about the others, only Lu Yanli… The other party’s uniqueness was self-evident. Every time she saw malice directed at him, it deepened her belief that he was definitely not simple.

Where is he?

He absolutely, absolutely cannot die here!

Lu Yanli heard the thing outside slam two more doors.

It was getting closer and closer to him!!

What to do?

The position in the first row made it impossible for him to escape. He was afraid that as soon as he opened the door, he would be face to face with that thing. And he didn’t know if the hidden effect of the candles would be useful against that thing.

Lu Yanli couldn’t put all his hope on the candles.

The fourth cabinet…

The others also heard the sound. They didn’t know what the thing outside was, but it didn’t prevent them from subconsciously hiding in the cabinets, holding their breaths, not letting that thing discover them.

If they were discovered by that thing…

Another loud noise, that thing didn’t seem to have found anyone and had completely gone mad, the sound of the wooden cabinets cracking was more violent than any sound just now.

Lu Yanli still had a metal knife in the bag next to his body.

He carefully held the candle, not letting the flame go out, slowly turning a direction.

In the pitch-black, narrow cabinet, he saw the face of the ghost again.

The ghost’s eyes were confused by the firelight, staring straight at the candle, gradually letting it move behind him. Its body didn’t move, its head turned around with its long neck.

The fifth cabinet!

Lu Yanli lightly scratched the inner wall of the wooden cabinet with his knife, making a slightly harsh sound.

Outside the door, the violent sound paused, and the ghost in front of him also had a moment of recovery, its eyes seemed to be looking at him again.

Lu Yanli immediately stopped moving, not continuing.

The sixth cabinet!

But how could he be sure if there was anyone in the cabinet in front?

But the problem was—which cabinet was Lu Yanli in? Was there anyone in the cabinet in front of him?

The sound of cutting wood just now was too faint, she couldn’t hear it clearly. Otherwise, she would immediately be able to judge the other party’s location, unlike now when she could only worry anxiously.

Lu Yanli retracted his knife, reaching into his pocket.

These things are extremely sensitive to sound, perhaps he could use this point!

Xi Menyuan leaned against the cabinet door, his heart pounding.

He could hear that the monster… it was getting closer!

It was very, very close to him!

The other party started walking from the first row, and through the short observation just now, he confirmed that he was not in the first row, then, it was very likely that he was in the second or third row.

He couldn’t muster the thought of resisting at all, he could only pray that in the cabinet in front of him, there would be the prey that the monster wanted—yes, he subconsciously thought that he and the others were its prey!

Getting closer and closer…

Suddenly, the sound of his mobile phone vibrating came from his pocket.

There was no ringtone, but the sound of the mobile phone vibrating was also not low.

Who is it? Who is calling him at this time?!

There was no ringtone, that thing shouldn’t have heard it, right?

It shouldn’t have, right?

Xi Menyuan simply couldn’t imagine it, but no matter how he prayed to all the gods and Buddhas in his heart, the heavy footsteps still came over.

One step, two steps, three steps…

The monster abandoned the cabinets in the front row and rushed straight towards him! The force was so great that the ground seemed to be shaking.

Xi Menyuan heard it!

It was right at his door! It was coming for him!

Everything happened too quickly. Before he could think of any self-saving methods, the cabinet door in front of him was violently yanked open—

Xi Menyuan’s screams came.

Lu Yanli took a deep breath. He had bet correctly.

His mobile phone had long been lost in the escape, so he borrowed Lin Chu’s mobile phone and wrote down the few mobile phone numbers saved on the card.

The reason why he chose Xi Menyuan instead of Jiang Yu was because of Tan Xu.

If something happened to Xi Menyuan, Tan Xu would definitely take action.

About ten meters diagonally behind him, a man rushed out of the wooden door, and the cabinet door made a loud noise.

The monster was attracted and walked towards Tan Xu. It seemed to be dragging a corpse, and something was rubbing and dragging on the ground.

Now is the time—

Lu Yanli quickly pulled open the door and fled to the left.