1TWITF[C Chapter 138

Chapter 138

The spiritual medium town is inviting an unprecedented disaster.

Just when everyone thought that all the outsiders had been driven away and they were safe, they were stunned to discover that a woman was walking out from the distance… a woman taller than a house.

The woman had long hair, strands of which were plastered to her face, obscuring her features. She looked like a chaotic, blurred mass of flesh with limbs, wrapped in an equally blurred skirt as she walked towards the center of the town. As she walked, she dropped fragments of an indeterminate flesh-colored substance from her body.

She didn’t seem to notice the humans. These things that were barely as tall as her shins didn’t seem worthy of her attention.

She continued to walk forward, the seemingly sticky skirt billowing with her movements, revealing several fleshy legs. She trampled across streets and alleys, causing houses to collapse and the ground to shake. The survivors didn’t dare make a sound, desperately trying to escape, hoping to get away from her.

They did escape far away, but they weren’t out of danger.

She continued to walk forward, the surface of her skin bulging, revealing struggling human shapes. Gradually, the human shapes became clearer, and with constant struggling, the surface of her skin became thinner and thinner. Finally, with one last struggle, the epidermis burst open – a person without facial features fell out.

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In the darkness, Lin Chu heard screams.

The tunnel entrance was far from the town center. If she could hear screams here… Lin Chu’s heart sank, and she sped up and rushed out.

It was clearly daytime just now, but now the scene before her was dim. Crimson clouds were scattered, and the grayish sky was like it was covered by dozens of layers of smog, so the sun couldn’t penetrate through.

Lin Chu knew at a glance that she hadn’t returned to the spiritual medium town as she had hoped. Or rather, it wasn’t the spiritual medium town of the same time and space.

She saw the small wooden house not far outside the tunnel. The wooden house was much older than before. Lin Chu hesitated for a while, but still walked over.

Which time and space is this again? How many years into the future has she come?

Lin Chu stood at the door, and after confirming that there was no danger, she gently pushed the door open.

“Ten years have passed.” A voice suddenly sounded behind her.

“I realized something was wrong, so I went back.”

The person who came was Lu Yanli. He calmly glanced at the furnishings in the house, and without caring that Lin Chu’s gun was pointed at him, he turned and walked outside: “Come with me, no one lives here.”

“You said, ten years have passed here?” Lin Chu put away her gun and followed him outside. “How was the Cultural Festival spent?”

“I don’t know, I didn’t participate.”

“In that case, why do you know it’s been ten years?”

With that, the two walked one after the other towards the center of the town. Lin Chu always felt that something was wrong with the Lu Yanli in front of her, but she couldn’t say exactly what was wrong, so she could only cautiously follow behind him, carefully looking around along the way.

The entire town seemed to be shrouded in a gray substance. There were no living things other than them. Grass and trees had disappeared, and even the slight sounds of mosquitoes and insects that could be heard in the past were gone. Lin Chu even felt that the air was gray.

“What…what happened in these ten years?” Lin Chu quickly recovered from her shock and asked.

Lu Yanli said, “I want to know too.”

“If nothing else goes wrong, yes.” Lin Chu never expected that she would run out of the tunnel by herself and fall into a state of being out of control again.

“What happened to her later?” The research institute had not recorded data after she lost control, so Lin Chu didn’t know what the consequences would be.

“I don’t know, in short, ninety-five percent of the town’s population died. The remaining survivors buried them one by one and then passed away as well.” Lu Yanli spoke calmly about this, as if he was saying that the weather was nice today. His answer also solved another question for Lin Chu. She had originally planned to ask who buried these people, but now it seemed that perhaps it was the survivors?

“How long have you been waiting in this world?” Lin Chu asked the last question.

Lu Yanli paused: “Three years.”

The two came to the center of the town.

The furnishings here were also covered with a layer of gray gauze, hazy and unclear. Lin Chu walked and looked, but found no other information.

“How do we go back? We can’t stay trapped here forever.” Lin Chu began to probe. She was a little suspicious of the Lu Yanli in front of her.

“I’m also looking for a way back.”

“Can’t we go through the tunnel again?”

“What? How is that possible?” Lin Chu couldn’t believe it, “Why is it blocked?”

She had imagined that the other party might have tried unsuccessfully, but she never expected this reason.

Lin Chu fell silent, looking dejected.

But in her heart, her vigilance towards the man in front of her had risen to the highest point.

With Lu Yanli’s intelligence, it was impossible for him to be trapped here and unable to leave for three years.

So, Lu Yanli, what role are you playing in this?

Lu Yanli continued to move forward.

“Let’s find a place, it’ll be dark soon.” He came to a shop and pushed the door open with force, “New weird things will appear at night.”

Lin Chu followed suit, prying open the lock next door and jumping in.

Lin Chu’s guess was right, the Lu Yanli in front of her was indeed not right.

Even Lin Chu’s return to the future spiritual medium town was the result of his wish to the idol.

He needed to do an experiment.

The Lu Yanli who entered the tunnel together had already arrived in a new time and space with two other investigators.

“Where…is this?”

Zhuang Ci subconsciously turned her head to look at the other two, frowning: “Why isn’t Lin Chu here?”

Lu Yanli was also puzzled.

Logically speaking, if these two were here, Lin Chu should also be among them. She didn’t violate the rules by making noise or turning on lights, so why didn’t she come out?

With Lin Chu not present, Zhuang Ci took on the duty of leader again. Even if there were only two people now, one of whom didn’t belong to the investigators, she still consciously wanted to bring them back.

Zhuang Ci’s words gave Lu Yanli inspiration.

All along, he had been using the idol to make wishes for rebirth.

Then… could he wish to go to another time and space?

“Time tunnels are uncontrollable. If we want to go back, perhaps the only way now is to use the idol to make a wish. However… in general, the results of wishes are completed in some strange way. We haven’t yet figured out how to eliminate the additional strange state.” Zhuang Ci continued to analyze.

She was mainly saying it to Lu Yanli. Lin Chu had privately told them repeatedly to be careful of this person. They could cooperate, but also be wary of the other party’s betrayal. Once the other party had the idea of betraying them, he would be an enemy even more terrifying than ghosts.

Zhuang Ci always remembered this, so she tried hard to convey her goodwill to the other party, and the other team member did the same. Before they could finish their analysis, the numbers on the elevator screen suddenly began to decrease.

The three immediately retreated a long distance with tacit understanding, waiting quietly.

The numbers decreased little by little, finally descending to the first floor. The elevator doors opened, and two people Zhuang Ci recognized walked out, a man and a woman, tall and thin, talking and laughing as they walked out.

“Chu Xian, Chu Xiu?” Zhuang Ci held back from speaking, but the other team member couldn’t help but open his mouth subconsciously.

The three watched them leave, all with incredulous expressions.

The two investigators agreed.

Entering the elevator and pressing the fifteenth floor, as the elevator rose little by little, Zhuang Ci couldn’t help but recall the terrifying experiences she had before entering the spiritual medium town, and felt a little confused for a moment.

What if this Chu Xian isn’t human either?

On the other side, Chu Xian and Chu Xiu planned to go out for supper. Along the way, Chu Xian complained about his recent troubles.

Chu Xian hit him: “Go away, we’re just talking about horror material. He sent me a picture album, which is also said to be a horror story, I haven’t opened it yet.”

At this moment, Lu Yanli and the others arrived on the fifteenth floor.

They easily identified Chu Xian’s residence and opened the door after a simple attempt.

The house was dim, without any lights on. In the room on the left, there was a picture album spread out on the desk.

Lu Yanli was extremely familiar with that picture album.