1TWITF[C Chapter 113

Chapter 113

The situation that followed was even more dangerous.

Lin Chu only spaced out for a moment before immediately snapping back to her senses, shaking her head and walking back.

Her last conversation with Chu Xiu was…

“So, how did you escape?”

…

This hall was too big.

Just now, Lu Yanli thought he had touched its boundary, but now it seemed he hadn’t. Where this darkness came from, where it led to, he didn’t know. But he was sure it definitely wasn’t inside the Spiritual Medium Town.

The two walked forward side by side, separated by a meter, in order to readily escape if the other one attacked. They noticed something they hadn’t paid attention to before.

Beneath their feet, there were no shadows.

Lu Yanli stopped. The grey mist shadows swirled around him, ferociously lunging to bite him, but couldn’t bite anything. He stopped, and Lin Chu had no choice but to stop as well, looking over.

“What are the rules?” Lu Yanli asked, mouthing the words as concisely as possible.

Lin Chu shook her head: “I don’t know either. A long time ago, these things stopped having rules.”

Truly becoming devoid of logic, eerie and chaotic – wouldn’t you say that’s what a real ghost is? Unlike before, when they could find the rules through observation and escape the tasks. Those ghosts also had to obey rules, but why did they obey them? What made them obey?

This question couldn’t be thought about too deeply, it was easy to fall into despair.

Lu Yanli nodded and continued walking.

The long darkness easily eroded one’s will. They hadn’t seen light for a long time, only the monotonous, unclear front, and the drifting grey shadows.

He counted in his head.

Clearly, several hours had passed, but the candles in their hands hadn’t shortened at all. They were still trembling, weak flames, gently swaying with their footsteps.

Lu Yanli stopped again.

Lin Chu beside him stopped as well. The two exchanged a glance, their expressions grave.

This was very abnormal. If they couldn’t truly find a way out, they would probably be trapped here forever.

“Do you really not know any rules?” Lu Yanli suddenly asked.

The moment he made a sound, the surroundings suddenly changed. The surroundings, which were originally unclear, seemed to shrink all at once, and they could clearly see the surrounding walls.

Bang, bang, bang…

With each heavy impact, the wall bulged inward a little, forming strange shapes, like the claws of an unknown beast, or like grotesque faces carved into the wall.

But… light came from behind them.

Both of them inevitably turned their heads to look. At the end of the long, dark corridor behind them, a glass window appeared.

Light shone in from outside the window, and they could vaguely see the shadows of buildings outside.

Could that be the exit? Could there be a trap? Lin Chu thought. Before she could ask, she realized that the distance between them and the window had been shortened a lot in an instant.

Now, she was even more convinced that there was a trap there.

Lu Yanli probably thought so too, and the two retreated instead of advancing.

Their predictions were right. The surrounding walls and even the floor began to reveal hideous human faces. It was impossible to tell their gender or age, only simple and realistic facial features twisted together, glaring at them venomously.

Both of them were incredibly sensitive to details, and immediately realized that the further back they went, the tighter the walls squeezed. Now, they were truly trapped.

What kind of trap would there be? Lin Chu stared at the window in front of her warily.

What was behind them? Lu Yanli thought of his back.

Suddenly, they heard a woman’s cry from the endless darkness behind them.

That woman, before dying, had cried out for her mother.

Lin Chu hadn’t heard this voice before, but it didn’t stop her from being surprised. Lu Yanli, beside her, felt a chill run through his entire body in an instant.

That voice… he remembered it very clearly. It belonged to a task-taker named Shi Yan. They had played several eerie games together. In the end, Shi Yan died in a car accident at an intersection.

Why… would she appear here? Why could he hear her voice?

His mind was filled with piercing pain. He suddenly thought of the definition of the word “spiritual medium” – a spiritual medium, a person who communicates between life and death, connecting the yin and yang realms.

The echoes from far behind disappeared, but the two had no choice but to stop. There was danger behind them. It seemed they could only go through the window in front.

Hopefully… there wouldn’t be any traps, and they could leave smoothly, right?

Lin Chu silently chanted in her heart, constantly encouraging herself.

They moved towards that direction bit by bit.

Wax dripped from the candle in their hand, scalding and falling on the back of their hand. The candle was slowly getting shorter. This should have been something that made them anxious, but at this moment, it finally gave them a feeling of relief and excitement.

Slowly, they approached the window step by step.

The scenery outside the window seemed almost unrealistically beautiful to the two who had been trapped in darkness for so long. But they could vaguely make out that the scene outside the window was that of the Spiritual Medium Town, with the destroyed ruins still there.

Lin Chu couldn’t help but quicken her pace a little.

Just when they were only five or six meters away from the window, the room began to vibrate rhythmically.

It was as if something was walking towards them, each step causing the ground to vibrate. The two had to struggle to stabilize themselves among the protruding reliefs in the vibrations, trying not to fall to the ground.

A shadow shrouded the outside of the window, and then, they plunged into darkness.

It seemed as if something had suddenly covered the window. At the same time, the vibrations stopped.

“What is that?”

Lu Yanli reached out and pulled Lin Chu, who looked towards the window. It was pitch black, but not entirely pure black, the surface had some flowing light, and there was a darker circle in the middle. She asked uncertainly.

Lu Yanli also looked towards where the window should have been, which was now completely covered in black. His eyesight was very good, he could see in the dark. He could see every detail of that darkness clearly, and a vague unease arose in his heart.

He felt… a little familiar, but as soon as he had the thought of continuing to move forward, a sense of danger would emerge in his heart, telling him that he must not approach.

“Let’s go back.”

He turned back and retreated. The window, which had been blocked behind them, slowly let in a few strands of light, it turned out that the covering had retreated a little, revealing a bit of white at the edge.

Why did this look so much like…

More and more light shone in through the window, and they finally saw what that thing was…

It was a human eye!

That eye was a little further away, and they could clearly see the jet-black eyeball, the slightly bloodshot whites of the eye, and distinct eyelashes.

Just now, it was this eye that had been staring at them in front of the window, spying on their every move, while they were still unknowingly trying to get closer.

The eyeball moved slightly, focusing on them. Then, that eye smiled at them, as if it had discovered something interesting.

Run!!

A chill rose from the soles of their feet straight to the top of their heads in an instant, and an unprecedented sense of fear surged over them. The two turned and ran back without thinking, not daring to look back.

The eye outside the window gradually moved away. They heard sounds like people talking from the outside world, but they couldn’t make out what was being said. If the scene outside the window didn’t have normal proportions, the two would have thought they had entered the legendary land of giants.

She just asked casually, not thinking that Lu Yanli would know the answer.

Or were they just creatures raised by these things?

Lin Chu couldn’t think about this question too deeply. Once she investigated, she would feel a chill all over her body.

Just now, he also heard the voice of Shi Yan, who had already died? Perhaps it was the screams she made in the previous games. What was the connection between these things?

He didn’t know when, but the grey mist shadows disappeared, and the shrieks and strange cries were gone. There was only silence, only the sound of the two of them breathing rapidly and their heartbeats.

The candle went out. Outside the window, the sky was bright, so bright that they could barely see the scene outside, so bright that the two of them had to shield their eyes first before slowly opening them to look.

One side was light, the other was endless darkness.

Lu Yanli looked for a long time, then slowly walked towards the side with light. He stood at the intersection of light and shadow, turned back, and looked at the dark corridor that had no end in sight.

Life and death were illusions. This world was like a strange and eerie joke. He had long been unable to distinguish what was real and what was fake, but he still had to work hard to live for the vague meaning of being alive.

Which way was the path to life? Which way was the path to death?

Lin Chu was also thinking. She couldn’t tell either, and could only lean against the wall and slowly breathe. Her mind was rarely blank.

Outside the window was a blinding white light, and they couldn’t see anything.

But they had already stepped out without hesitation.

“Oh, you’re finally out. You’ve been delayed for so long.”

In the confusion, the voice of a middle-aged man sounded. Lu Yanli blinked repeatedly, and the blurred scene in front of him finally became clear.

It was as if a layer of isolation had been peeled away. His senses gradually became clear. His nose smelled smoke, and the smell of various paints and sun-baked ground. The skin, which had been in contact with the cold air, touched the sunlight. Lu Yanli stood there blankly, turning his head to look around.

Lin Chu stood beside him, also in a daze, seeming to have not come back to her senses. The place they were in seemed to be an amusement park, and behind them was a… haunted house?

Lu Yanli: “No, I’m fine.” He reached out and tugged Lin Chu. The latter turned her head, still not back in her senses, and obediently let him pull her away.

In his pocket, the candle was still there, and the jade pendant was still there.

But…

Lu Yanli looked around, trying to find familiar traces.

Nothing, there was none.

Lin Chu came back to her senses, and rubbed her head vigorously. She struggled to raise her eyes to look around, and then her eyes widened.

“This… what the hell is this place?” She stared blankly at everything in front of her, unable to understand.

“Probably another other-dimensional space,” Lin Chu said.

The two came to a place with few people and discussed in low voices. Lin Chu hadn’t experienced much, but Lu Yanli had been drawn into strange spaces several times. If he had found some rules in the earliest incident at the train station, there were almost no rules to be found in the later spaces.

This time… what were they going to do?

The music began to play in the amusement park’s broadcast, a simple, tinkling tune, relaxed and cheerful. The crowd burst into cheers and flocked to a certain direction.

“What are they going to see? Should we go over there?” Lin Chu asked.

“Let’s go take a look,” Lu Yanli stood up and walked forward.

The music on the radio suddenly stopped, and then started again from afar. At the intersection of the road at the corner of the giant carousel, there were girls in beautiful dresses leading the way in front. They held flowers and bells in their hands, jingling. They scattered beautiful and colorful flower petals and ribbons in the air, laughing and singing.

Behind them was a float, with two sculpted white horses pulling it in front. The wheels crushed the flower petals and ribbons. A man dressed as a butler had a beautiful white beard that almost covered his mouth. The white-bearded man raised his whip exaggeratedly and gently whipped it on the backs of the horses in front.

“The float is empty.” Lin Chu thought they were going to welcome someone, but there was no one in the float at all, and she wanted to leave.

Lu Yanli also planned to leave.

The two stood at the edge of the road, about to leave, when the white-bearded man on the float raised his whip and pointed at them. Then, the group of beautiful girls rushed towards them, holding flower baskets and ribbons.

“Come on, come on, ride the float.”

The girls’ expectant eyes focused on Lu Yanli and Lin Chu, and soft hands wanted to lead them towards the float. Other tourists looked at them with envy, as if this was a good thing.

Lin Chu waved her hands repeatedly: “No need, I’m not going, thank you.”

The girls continued to pull and drag her towards the float as if they hadn’t heard. Lu Yanli wasn’t doing any better either. He simply took action, directly throwing a girl to the ground, and turned to run away.

Seeing this, Lin Chu also drew her knife to cut off a ribbon that was wrapped around her hand, and pushed a girl to the ground with force. She followed and ran out amidst a burst of exclamations.

“Ah… that’s too much!”

“Why are they so annoying? If they don’t want to play, they don’t want to play.”

*

“According to monitoring, it has escaped to the third level of space. It is estimated that it will not be long before the third level will also be eroded.”

“Well, continue to observe.”