1TWITF[C Chapter 20

Chapter 20

What is that? He Lou silently mouthed.

Lu Yanli was silent, shaking his head.

Judging by the sound, it seemed like a zombie, but he couldn’t be sure yet.

He had deliberately sent the information about Li Fangzhi and the curse to that Junior Sister Li. If she and that Master Lin were in cahoots, they should have received the message and come over immediately. But if she and Master Lin were at odds, then… logically speaking, Junior Sister Li should have delayed a little longer.

At this hour, there was only the sound of the zombie jumping, but he couldn’t hear them talking. Could it be… something happened to her?

“What?” He Lou was a bit confused.

In the darkness tinged with scarlet, he stared intently at He Lou’s eyes. Those eyes easily reminded He Lou of a wolf staring fixedly at its prey.

But he could be sure that Lu Yanli’s prey wasn’t him at this moment.

Who could it be?

As soon as he finished speaking, the jumping sound from the roof changed.

A familiar bronze bell sound rang out, but this bell sound was different from what they had heard before – ear-piercing, sharp, hurried, making the jumping sound rushed as well.

Objects fell, the bronze bell rang, roars, teeth-aching metallic collision sounds… the two of them lay still and unmoving.

405 was impossible to enter, so they returned to the space under the bed where He Lou had previously hidden and found Feng Chuchu’s head. There, they dug a hole, reaching the sealed 404 below. Then, from the floor of 404, they dug another hole, reaching the interlayer that had once been piled with countless corpses.

The commotion gradually subsided.

The young man carried his sword, searching everywhere.

He placed Lan Zhiyu’s image all over the room. Almost every part of the room was covered with her beautiful face, smiling at him. He stared at the smiling face, trying to calm his breathing, reaching out to stroke his own face, concealing the ferocious appearance of the blue-faced fangs beneath his handsome features, and forced a smile again.

“Lu Yanli! He Lou?”

“Are you still alive?”

Lu Yanli and He Lou lay in the interlayer, even slowing their breathing to be long and shallow. Facing Master Lin’s anxious searching, they didn’t dare breathe loudly, afraid of being discovered.

He Lou was still a bit puzzled, but Lu Yanli knew that Junior Sister Li had believed the message he had secretly sent her earlier.

Master Lin should have believed it too, after all, Li Fangzhi’s corpse downstairs wasn’t fake.

He didn’t hear the woman’s voice, so that Junior Sister Li wasn’t here? So who was he fighting with just now? Anyway, he didn’t believe that the other party really wanted to eliminate Lan Zhiyu.

“Come out quickly!!”

Where could they have gone?

How could he possibly endure that?

But now, everyone in the city was gone, and even the flying Jiangshi used for transportation had been destroyed by him. It would be difficult to leave the city within the time limit.

Fifty minutes left.

“Come out!!” He slashed at other rooms with his sword, panting slightly, his chest rising and falling sharply.

He had a premonition that those two must still be in this apartment.

To find them… he had to find them!

They must be hiding there! The floor that he had arranged with the help of the puppet, the one that could prevent anyone from discovering it… he didn’t know how they got in? He had actually been kept in the dark.

A large hole was stabbed in the floor, and the young man’s face appeared in the hole.

“Found you.” He slowly cracked a smile.

…

The beautiful faces of the women all over the walls and room gradually put on smiles in the sound of the bronze bell. Their dark eyes focused bit by bit on the man in the array.

Also gathering were thousands of blood threads condensed from his own blood, connected to the eyes of every beautiful painting.

That was He Lou.

His brain, which was usually calm and analytical, was in a daze, unable to think about anything. All he felt was the chilling sensation of his body’s blood gradually cooling, causing his limbs to stiffen bit by bit.

Unsurprisingly, the young man caught them back, but the one trapped in the center of the formation was him. Lu Yanli was placed aside, looking at everything that was happening before him with a face full of fear.

In contrast, the shadow behind He Lou slowly grew long hair. His figure gradually became graceful, and the lines of his face gradually softened.

The young man’s face showed joy.

He Lou was drowsy and could hardly think about anything. He tried his best to open his eyes and saw that Li Fangwan, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly let out a painful scream. She raised her hand and strangled her own neck, the force so great that her tongue stuck out after a while. But she uncontrollably closed her teeth tightly, biting her own tongue.

Soon, a bloody half of her tongue fell down. Li Fangwan collapsed to the ground, her expression terrified, not understanding what had happened until her death.

During the task execution, residents were not allowed to leave the apartment. Lan Zhiyu could leave, but Li Fangwan violated the rules.

Fortunately, he had discovered this problem in time and could still remedy it.

He stared at He Lou, who was gradually undergoing strange changes in the arena, his expression Crazyand joyful.

Fifteen minutes left.

His nails slowly lengthened, his chest gradually swelled, and his skin became increasingly fair…

“Ahhh—”

So, he was the one not controlled by the curse?!

The young man’s mind exploded into blankness. His eyes were about to split open as he leaped lightly from the high building and chased after him.

It was not until today that Lu Yanli decided to use this point to gamble.

He won the bet.

He Lou in the center of the formation gradually returned to normal. Whether it was because of the cold or something else, his face, as pale as paper, gradually took on the color of a living person. He slowly opened his eyes.

Sitting opposite him was Lu Yanli, who was tied up.

He mouthed a sentence, and He Lou understood it by reading his lips.

“Five minutes left.”

Just hold on for a while…

“Two minutes left.”

In a fit of rage, he snapped the thread.

How could he accept it? He had waited for decades, finally waiting for this day, how could he possibly accept it?

“One minute left.”

Despite this, he still calmly counted the seconds in his heart.

Twenty seconds—

He Lou was thrown to the ground.

Ten seconds—

A sword pierced his waist. He Lou only felt his body lighten. When he looked down, he saw that his body had been cut in half at the waist and split apart.

Blood flowed like a river.

The next second, He Lou disappeared.

The whole world seemed to have changed. The city, which had been silent, suddenly gained sound. All the wounds on Lu Yanli’s body quickly healed, as if he had never been injured. Even the damaged and potholed apartment room under their feet was instantly restored to cleanliness. The talismans, blood threads, posters… all disappeared.

Night was deep. Lu Yanli stood blankly in the empty apartment room for a moment, opened the door, and walked towards the elevator.

Two kinds of memories were swirling in his mind. One told him that he was just an ordinary resident who had come to the building to help a friend looking for a place to live to see how the empty rooms were. The other memory told him that everything was fake.

The elevator door opened, and a pair of twin sisters stood inside, their smiles identical. They quietly smiled at Lu Yanli, seemingly inviting him to enter.

Lu Yanli ignored them and took a step back.

The twin sisters waited for a while. They jumped out of the elevator on their own. Their bodies were connected by long hair, and the parts where their hands were tightly clasped were Adhesionand couldn’t be separated. In this posture, they jumped, jumped, and entered 405.