1TWITF[C Chapter 142

Chapter 142

“It should be,” Chu Xian said. She never expected her “dream” to come true.

“I heard you in the elevator, what you said about the dream you had. Why… was that really a dream?” Lin Chu’s tone carried a hint of questioning.

She said, “Actually, I also find it strange. I feel like I’ve seen this scene before.”

But this girl wasn’t in her déjà vu, although she felt that this girl looked familiar. She hesitated for a moment, then grabbed Lin Chu’s hand. “Let’s run! We need to find a way to get out of here.”

Indeed, those things were still standing on the balcony, staring at them with a chilling gaze. The group quickly ran around the corner, finally escaping their gaze.

Lin Chu shook her head. “I can’t say.”

Chu Xian didn’t mind, only smiling gently. “Sorry, everyone has secrets. I shouldn’t pry.”

The road ahead gradually darkened, becoming long and secluded. The cold wind seeped into their skin, and the number of people and vehicles gradually decreased. By the time they realized it, there wasn’t a single person in sight, as if they had suddenly arrived in an empty city.

“Be careful, maybe… it’s happening again…” Chu Xian warned Lin Chu, then turned to take Chu Xiu’s hand. As soon as she held it, she immediately realized something and dragged Lin Chu to run.

The hand she had just held was icy cold, not like a living person’s at all!

Lin Chu ran even faster than her, desperately fleeing one after the other. Behind them, a dark object, of unknown origin, crawled along the ground in a humanoid shape, making faint rustling sounds.

And Chu Xiu’s figure had long disappeared!

Lin Chu once again felt the prickling sensation of being watched, but there were no buildings around them. As they ran, the road under their feet turned into a small path in the wilderness, overgrown with low thorny weeds, making it difficult to walk and even harder to hide.

So… what was watching her?

The rustling thing behind them gradually grew larger, still taking on a humanoid form. Looking closely, it turned out to be a dense swarm of black beetles, each the size of a fingernail, who could not say how many insects, flying and circling in the air, following the two girls ahead.

“Do you still have that thing on you?”

“Yes, but it’s useless against these things.” When sprayed, they scattered, unable to hit anything solid.

“Sis! Help me… save me…”

Chu Xian suddenly heard her brother’s cry for help. She looked back in disbelief.

Within the humanoid shadow, there seemed to be a struggling human figure.

“Run! It’s trying to confuse you!” Lin Chu pulled Chu Xian. “You absolutely can’t survive if you get entangled by those bugs.”

“But,” Chu Xian was pulled along, but couldn’t help looking back. “My brother…”

She suddenly stopped.

At the crossroads in front of them, a figure in red slowly walked out, indistinguishable in gender or age. The darkness couldn’t hide the blood-like red of his clothes, as if he had been soaked in blood.

Lin Chu clearly saw that as the red-clothed vengeful spirit slowly approached, bloody footprints appeared behind him, the bloodstains spreading out, quickly covering the road.

“What do we do now? Do you have any ideas?” Chu Xian was surprisingly calm. She carefully observed her surroundings, hoping to find a way out.

“Okay.” Lin Chu thought the same.

The feeling of being watched grew stronger and stronger…

That thing… the thing watching her, was getting closer and closer!

Lin Chu wrapped her head and face, tucked her hands into her sleeves and clenched her cuffs, taking a deep breath—

“Go!!”

A runaway car suddenly appeared at the end of the road. It looked like it had just been in an accident, the front of the car was flattened, and it was leaking oil as it drove forward. But it was still moving forward, charging straight into the swarm of insects. In an instant, the car exploded, and flames soared into the sky.

Lin Chu and Chu Xian covered their mouths and noses and rushed into the fire.

Compared to being devoured by the swarm of insects, suffering some burns was nothing.

However, the fire came too conveniently, almost as if something was helping them.

She knew what was watching her.

In the dark night sky, where the moon should have been shining, a black and white human eye suddenly appeared, staring at her unblinkingly.

That eye… that eye…

Lin Chu rolled a few times, lying on the ground gasping for breath.

Not because of exhaustion, but because of pain. The fine, dense, needle-like pain that surged from her mind swept over her, so painful that even she, who was usually so tolerant, could barely withstand it.

Why was it… so painful?

It seemed like something in her mind was about to break free from its cage. She clenched her fingers so hard that they almost drilled into her skull. Lin Chu’s face was contorted in pain, and she almost lost consciousness.

A small girl… a man wearing a ghost mask… mother… uncle…

In her half-dreaming, half-waking state, she saw a blurry face. The person was shaking her anxiously, then turned around and carried her on their back.

“Chu… Xian…”

Chu Xian was anxious and distraught. Ignoring the burns on her body, she picked up the girl and ran, hearing the girl’s faint voice on her back.

“Be… careful…”

The almost fragmented scenes in her mind finally became clear. Memories flooded back in an instant, and the image of the man in the ghost mask emerged in Lin Chu’s consciousness.

The man took off his mask, revealing a face… that she would never forget.

“Be… care…ful… Lu…”

A short knife slipped from Lin Chu’s sleeve.

“Yan…”

In the last moment of her memory, the man smiled with satisfaction. He reached out and stroked the little girl’s head. “Well done.”

“Li…”

The short knife pierced her own neck, hot blood splattering and covering Chu Xian.

“Lin Chu? Lin Chu?!”

“Wake up! Wake up!” Chu Xian didn’t know why, but her heart ached. She had only known this girl for a few hours, but it felt like she had lost a close friend of many years. She frantically tried to cover the wound on her neck, but touched a neck vein that no longer pulsed.

“Say something!” She collapsed on the girl’s body, sobbing uncontrollably.

Suddenly, the corpse twitched.

Chu Xian, in her grief, instantly came to her senses. She felt the cold corpse under her hand seemed to twitch again, realizing something, and turned to run.

Lu Yanli…

Who was he?

*

Another world.

Lu Yanli lay on his back on the ground, watching the building collapse.

The second before it collapsed, he said two sentences, the first to the idol, and the second to the princess.

If he died, the jade pendant would fall into the hands of “God”. With the princess in his hands, she still had a chance. Therefore, she would never let him die so easily.

As for that “God”, Lu Yanli could only choose to gamble.

He suddenly thought of his future self.

According to rumors, the Pisces Jade Pendant replicates – that is, brings about the future life form, will also die after the main body dies.

If he died, would his future self also die?

For some reason, his future self always gave him a sense of unease. The other party repeatedly stressed that he must participate in the cultural festival, but he never revealed the content of the cultural festival.

And why did he take away that album?

In the darkness of his closed eyes, a huge sense of oppression came towards him. The heavy object crashed to the ground, causing an almost earth-shattering tremor.

Miraculously, nothing fell on Lu Yanli, not even a small pebble.

The place where he was lying was exactly in the center of two open windows facing each other in a resident’s home. The glass shattered and exploded around him, cutting some openings on his body.

But he was still alive.

That huge eye finally completely broke through the cloud layer, staring at him, its eyes filled with undisguised malice.

Lu Yanli met that eye and began to have a headache again. He simply closed his eyes and started singing.