1TWITF[C Chapter 34

Chapter 34

Before leaving the house, Lu Yanli could still smell a sickeningly sweet fragrance.

He walked down the stairs, stepped out of the residential building, and looked back. The black cat was standing on the balcony, looking down at him with its green eyes.

The emotion in its eyes was complex, unlike the eyes an animal should have.

Cats have nine lives…

Lu Yanli paused, then turned and left.

“Xiao Mi, don’t go to the balcony.” A pair of old hands hugged the black cat from behind. The black cat meowed and quietly lay in the old woman’s arms, enjoying the petting.

“My heart… why does it keep beating so fast… Tell me, where did Qingqing go? Why isn’t she home so late?” The old woman murmured to herself, stroking its smooth fur.

Only she was allowed to enter this room. Once, when Qingqing was a child, she entered it out of ignorance and was severely beaten by her. Since then, she had learned to be good and would never step into this room again.

She treated Qingqing as her own, and it pained her to see her shed tears. But she had already embarked on this path, and she absolutely couldn’t let the child repeat her mistakes!

Some forbidden zones are not for humans to touch…

This… this is…

She immediately struck another match, and unexpectedly, this time the flame also went out strangely after flickering for a moment.

No, it can’t be… Sweat dripped from the old woman’s forehead. She immediately lit three matches together. This time, she finally managed to light the incense. She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly inserted the three incense sticks into the incense burner on the shrine.

However, in the next instant, the three incense sticks broke in half at the same time!

The bizarre and extremely distorted statue on the shrine instantly turned extremely red, its mouth seemed to reveal a cold and sinister smile. Before the old woman could be shocked, the door of the room slammed shut with a bang.

“No…”

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On the Yinming Road, Nie Yunzhen said to the two girls.

The cat in Wen Qing’s hand was already hanging on the tree, swaying gently in the wind. Everyone stood away from the tree.

After all, in many legends, creatures like black cats and crows are accompanied by ominous omens. There are even rumors that cats have nine lives, and black cats attract evil, etc. Of course, in the eyes of the people who have been doing tasks for a long time, whether it’s a black cat or a white cat, as long as it dies abnormally, it may bring them bad luck, so they might as well avoid the ominous.

“Really?” Seeing Nie Yunzhen handing over the phone, Wen Qing didn’t dare to take it. Shi Yan took it and placed it in her hand before she carefully opened the call interface.

“Of course it’s true, but I advise you, don’t say anything you shouldn’t say.” Shi Yan said softly.

Only Chu Xiu found her words a little strange.

The tone of her sentence was not entirely pleading, but also had a hint of warning, as if telling them that if they didn’t send her back, it would definitely cause some terrible consequences.

Why would she say that?

The others didn’t care. Wen Qing took the phone and handed it to Yun Qian first, asking her to tell her family. Under the gazes of the others, she had to turn on the speakerphone to reassure them.

Yun Qian’s parents didn’t care much about her. When they heard that she was going to a classmate’s house for a birthday party, they didn’t pay much attention.

But when it came to Wen Qing, there was a change – no one answered.

Wen Qing’s face turned pale in an instant. Before the others could speak, she dialed the number again and again. Her hands were shaking violently, and her eyes were full of fear. But no matter how she dialed the number, the voice on the other end was “The user you dialed is temporarily unavailable, please call later…”

How could this be…

Wen Qing’s face was as white as paper. She suddenly murmured: “No, I have to go back… I have to go back now!”

“Let me go! I want to go back!”

With a click, the bullet was loaded.

Chu Xiu raised his hand, the muzzle against her forehead.

Wen Qing froze instantly, two lines of tears rolled down. Ignoring the two’s pulling, she knelt down with a force: “Please, I want to go back… I must go back…”

The gun in his hand was always aimed at her forehead, without the slightest bit of compassion.

“Hello…”

An old woman’s voice sounded, hoarse and cold.

Wen Qing immediately felt as if she had heard heavenly music. Ignoring the gun pointed at her head, she rushed over to answer the phone: “Grandma! It’s me, it’s Qingqing.”

“Qing… Qing…”

The old woman on the other end said word by word.

“…Qian…Qian…”

“…Okay…”

Word by word, dragging out the sound, cold, hoarse, like the sound of sandpaper grinding, it was very uncomfortable to listen to, but Wen Qing was unaware and relieved.

It’s good that Grandma is okay.

The phone was hung up, and Wen Qing stood up and returned the phone.

The surrounding environment was even colder, and the black kitten corpse hanging from the tree swayed gently.

“There are still three hours before midnight, let’s go back to the car and wait.” Shi Yan suggested.

So the six of them returned to the car together. Fortunately, the car they drove out today was an SUV, which was relatively large, and there was no problem seating six people.

Wen Qing and Yun Qian were arranged in the back seat, and the two held their hands tightly.

Only Chu Xiu, sitting in the passenger seat, seemed to be doing nothing, but only he himself knew that he was using the rearview mirror to observe everyone.

They were all normal, with no abnormalities.

As time passed, it became darker and darker outside the window, with only two beams of headlights illuminating the entire road. Unconsciously, even the temperature dropped. Unable to do anything else, Nie Yunzhen turned on the air conditioner in the car, and mist gradually appeared on the windows, then he turned on the wipers, watching the two black wipers draw a semi-circular arc.

Yun Qian felt bored, sat in the back seat and breathed on the glass again, then stretched out her finger to write a word.

After writing, she breathed again, and heard Shi Yan call her, so she quickly raised her hand to wipe the mist away and turned her head: “Huh? What’s wrong?”

So she didn’t see the pale face that flashed past the window.

Finally, midnight arrived.

And what none of them noticed was that the black cat’s corpse that was still hanging on the tree swayed twice in the wind, and suddenly the rope broke and fell to the ground!

As if someone had cut the rope.

“Now, let’s decide who will go first. Remember, none of the steps in the game can be wrong. If there is a mistake, it may lead to terrible consequences that no one can bear.” In the car, Nie Yunzhen said.

With his words, the temperature in the car dropped further, and a terrifying feeling that could not be described in words permeated everyone’s hearts.

Unexpectedly, it was the most timid Yun Qian who weakly said: “I’ll go first, Qingqing and I will go first, and then you quickly let us leave.”

“Okay.” A voice replied.

Seeing that Chu Xiu had no objection, Nie Yunzhen nodded and agreed. Wen Qing insisted on accompanying Yun Qian, unwilling to wait in the car, but got out of the car and stood next to the car window. They watched Yun Qian shiver and walk forward step by step.

The air was even colder, her legs were shaking. She didn’t know why she was the first to agree.

Whatever, it’s a knife either way, might as well get it over with sooner rather than later.

It will be okay… it will be okay…

Yun Qian murmured these words, stepping on her shadow and slowly walking forward.

When she was seven or eight meters away from the intersection, Yun Qian forcefully endured the fear in her heart according to the rules they had just told her and silently recited her name.

“Yun Qian.” She stepped forward, stepping on her shadow.

“Yun Qian.” Another step.

“Yun Qian.” Another step.

One, two, three… twelve, thirteen.

Those people were threatening her with Qingqing.

She had to complete the steps.

Yun Qian didn’t dare to make a sound. She stood stiffly in place and slowly lowered her head.

And when she saw the ground clearly, her whole body felt like it had been immersed in an ice cellar, and her hands and feet instantly turned cold.

Her… the shadow under her feet had become two!

Whose shadow was the other one?!

Whose!

Her breathing became rapid, but she still remembered those people’s instructions.

Never, never make a sound, listen to what the other party will say.

“Find me… find my…”

Find what?

She didn’t dare to move.

If she could turn around, or if she could see something, she would find that there was a pale body, tightly pressed against her back.

“Find… find my…”

However, she still didn’t hear clearly. Yun Qian didn’t dare to ask. After those two sentences were said, the cold feeling behind her suddenly disappeared, and the shadow on the ground returned to one. Yun Qian finally couldn’t help it, she covered her mouth tightly and ran back, she remembered firmly that she couldn’t make a sound, otherwise, that thing would bring her unbearable consequences.

“How did it go?” Wen Qing hugged her tightly, feeling her trembling in her arms, shaking her head repeatedly, but daring not to say anything.

“Let’s get in the car first.” Shi Yan, who was sitting in the middle, opened the car door, and Wen Qing helped Yun Qian in carefully.

They didn’t notice that the color of the shadow under Yun Qian’s feet had deepened a bit.

“Yun Qian, what did you see just now?” Shi Yan asked.

Wen Qing didn’t ask the result, and Shi Yan couldn’t ask it either. Yun Qian could only shake her head desperately with tears in her eyes. She opened her mouth to try to say something, but couldn’t make a sound.

She was actually unable to speak due to intense fear and psychological suggestion!

“Hey, you…” Before Ye Shengke could finish speaking, Yun Qian simply fainted.

Nie Yunzhen lowered the car window, and the cold air rushed in, making his tense brain clearer: “Brother Chu, what do we do now, are we still going down?”

“Of course we are.” Before Chu Xiu could speak, Shi Yan had already opened her mouth firmly. She turned her gaze to Wen Qing and said, “It’s your turn.”

Wen Qing pursed her lips and nodded: “Don’t touch her.”

“As long as you complete it seriously, we won’t do anything.”

Wen Qing shook the hand of the unconscious Yun Qian again, and took out the amulet she had just lent her from her palm, walking forward step by step.

The temperature outside the car was even lower, practically no different from winter. Wen Qing wrapped her school uniform tightly and slowly walked to the place where Yun Qian had just walked.

“Wen Qing, Wen Qing, Wen Qing…”

She stepped on her shadow, saying a sentence with each step. When she reached the thirteenth step, Wen Qing vaguely heard a meow.