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Chapter 125

Chapter 125

Different worlds…

Lin Chu muttered this sentence to herself, hijacking Yu Gaoyi, who was completely unfamiliar with her in this world, and heading to the ancient tomb.

She still remembered the statue she saw in the underground tomb during her last mission.

She needed to investigate again and contain it.

Currently, there was no practical and feasible method of containment. The researchers’ investigation results only suggested constantly destroying its physical form, and the only way to destroy it was to use 003075.

Other members didn’t know, but Lin Chu, as the highest-level investigator, knew very well that 003075 was spherical in appearance, looked like an ancient night-shining pearl, and could serve as a guide to find anomalies.

But its real method of use was to shatter it and place the material inside on the substance that needed to be destroyed. It could infect all living things and assimilate them. And now, that thing seemed to be working hard to become a living thing, which might work.

She suddenly made a sharp turn, dodging a corpse that suddenly fell in front of her.

“Hold on tight!” Lin Chu said, then slammed the steering wheel again, turning the car around. The tires screeched, narrowly avoiding a rollover, and she drove backward.

In front of the dark road, a long line of people walked slowly, their faces indistinguishable. All that could be seen were their outstretched arms, hopping forward stiffly.

In the rearview mirror, those things hopped closer and closer…

“What exactly are those things?” Yu Gaoyi in this world had not yet experienced any missions. He still believed in science, and his experience with Lin Chu for less than half a day had clearly shocked his worldview.

“Ghosts,” Lin Chu said coldly.

Lin Chu wasn’t sure if Yu Gaoyi at this moment was her partner. She couldn’t determine which was the original, the Yu Gaoyi from the mission world or the current world, but as long as there was a sliver of possibility, she couldn’t easily let her comrade die.

Yu Gaoyi shrank into the passenger seat, afraid to say anything more.

The things in the mirror were getting closer and closer, so close that their faces could almost be seen, along with their long, bluish fingernail tips.

“See anything?” Lin Chu suddenly asked.

“Indeed, the attire they’re wearing feels like a team of soldiers. Judging by the dynasty, it’s a bit like…” Yu Gaoyi hesitantly uttered a word, “Er Dai Kingdom?”

“Er Dai Kingdom? What’s that?” Lin Chu had never heard of that country’s name.

Perhaps it was a history unique to this world?

“Some say that this kingdom disappeared because it disrespected the gods and was cursed. But there are also legends that indicate they went to another paradise where the gods reside, entering the gods’ eternal paradise.”

After listening to Yu Gaoyi, Lin Chu floored the accelerator, quickly leaving those things far behind.

“Why do you know so much about this?” Lin Chu asked.

“I’ve been researching this topic recently,” Yu Gaoyi sighed. “The ancient tomb was just excavated not too long ago, so I don’t know much either. What I’m curious about is, why do you know?”

He thought Lin Chu was holding him hostage because she knew he was in charge of this project.

At this point, Lin Chu fell silent, letting the car drive forward.

She had to recover those things before the eerie resurgence.

She had accidentally gotten 003075 on her before. Although she took off her coat in one world, a little bit still remained on her inner clothes. Lin Chu took those things off, put them in a small jar, and prepared to find a living organism to cultivate them later, which would be used for destruction.

Yu Gaoyi didn’t know what Lin Chu wanted to do. Assuming it wasn’t anything good, he also remained silent, not asking any more questions.

To his surprise, after Lin Chu drove the car to a safe area, she caught a stray dog along the way. Then… she took out a little bit of green fluorescent substance and smeared it on the stray dog through its fur.

Yu Gaoyi didn’t know what she was going to do at first. After waiting for a while, slender, green, glowing mushrooms sprouted from the stray dog’s body, gradually expanding the parasitic area. In the end, the surface of the stray dog’s body was covered with these things, and rotten flesh fell off bit by bit, soon revealing a green, glowing skeleton.

“What is this?” He was shocked.

If this kind of thing were used on humans… it was unimaginable.

Lin Chu didn’t answer. After getting fully equipped, she took out a prepared small glass bottle from the car, opened it, and used a knife to carefully scrape off the dog’s corpse, soon filling the entire bottle.

Yu Gaoyi dared not speak any more.

*

Another world.

Half-asleep, Zhuang Ci smelled a foul odor.

Zhuang Ci frowned even in her dream.

Half-asleep, Zhuang Ci struggled to pry open a slit in her eyelids. She wanted to get up and deal with it. But… she quickly widened her eyes!

When she squinted and looked just now, there was… a person standing at the door!

A chilling feeling with goosebumps in an instant, Zhuang Ci suddenly widened her eyes, but when she sat up and looked over, she found that it was just her coat.

Was it really just a coat?

Zhuang Ci got out of bed and slowly walked to the door.

The coat was still hanging there, gently blown by the wind, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.

But Zhuang Ci didn’t believe it.

She reached out, took the coat off the wall, turned around, opened the closet, and hung the coat inside.

Now she shouldn’t be mistaken again, right? Zhuang Ci went back to bed, satisfied.

The dark bedsheets and pillowcases showed no traces. Zhuang Ci wanted to fall asleep after lying down, but she tossed and turned and couldn’t sleep.

She had forgotten that she had clearly placed the phone under her pillow before going to sleep.

Zhuang Ci opened the neighbor’s first novel.

She was not satisfied with her appearance, and even the slightest wrinkle could make her furious. She was afraid of aging, afraid of losing fame, and also afraid of death. To this end, she went to many places to find the secret recipe for immortality.

If it could really be achieved, then… it didn’t matter if she wasn’t human.

But… she failed.

At the end of the story, the female celebrity suffered the consequences of her own actions and died from the backlash. After her death, all the people who had been crazily obsessed with her in her lifetime gradually forgot about her. Her influence was gone, except for a Taoist priest who stubbornly wanted her to be resurrected, and to this end, he did not hesitate to believe in evil cults.

Unconsciously, Zhuang Ci read with cold sweat pouring down.

And the story ended with a very subtle suggestion that people cannot be resurrected after death, or… they are no longer human after resurrection.

So… did the female celebrity finally succeed in resurrecting?

With this question in mind, Zhuang Ci opened the next novel.

The second one was about the story of a village. The villagers in this village were lazy and unwilling to work, and no woman was willing to marry into their village, so they all had the idea of abducting women from outside. Some women who were bought back honestly resigned themselves to fate, and some who didn’t resign themselves to fate were beaten to death and thrown into the river.

Over time, the river at the head of the village became blood red, looking very beautiful. The villagers used this to start a tourism industry, and business boomed for a while.

But… the ingrained ideas are not so easy to break. The village chief longed to marry a city girl, preferably a college student, for his son. To this end, he had devious thoughts and broke the rules.

His son died suddenly on the day of his wedding, and the village chief angrily killed the girl to be buried with his son and held a ghost marriage. He thought he was doing it without anyone knowing. But in the end, after the villagers threw the paper figures into the river to atone for their sins… they were surprised to find that it was themselves who were thrown into the river!

Those paper figures replaced them and continued to live. They continued the story of this village generation after generation.

The third story…

Zhuang Ci thought: These stories seem to be related to an evil god.

If Lu Yanli were here, he would definitely be shocked by the stories recorded by this female neighbor.

These… are all the missions he has experienced!

And in the first story, there were already traces of “God.”

The rope was wrapped around his waist, and the people above slowly lowered the rope.

Everyone else was safe and sound. When it was Lu Yanli’s turn, he slowly fell downwards, but he felt an icy cold touch.

Looking down, a hand grabbed his ankle.