1TWITF[C Chapter 94

Chapter 94

“Not really?”

“Tell us? Maybe I can remember too.”

The old man’s brow remained deeply furrowed. “Strange… where have I heard this name before…”

Seeing his strange expression, the others also felt uneasy.

“Yeah, forget it if you can’t recall.”

The old man seemed not to hear them, his brow furrowing even deeper, his whole face twisting slightly.

“Where have I heard it… where? I, I definitely heard it…” His thin, dry hand pounded his head forcefully. “I must have heard it! Where? Where did I hear this name?”

“What are you doing? Let go, let go!”

“Where have I heard it? Where have I heard it?” After being forcibly pulled away, the old man squatted down, dejected, hugging his head, muttering to himself.

“Who is he…”

“He’s gone mad.” The others moved further away to avoid being pestered.

Images flashed through his mind, gradually becoming clearer from the blur.

The old man’s eyes slowly widened, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

He remembered…

That person, that person named Lu Yanli, he had been to the town before. At that time, everyone welcomed him, but no one expected that this person…

This person would bring a catastrophe to their town!

So, he was already dead…

“He remembered? Remembered what?” Another person walked over, and seeing him standing there, reached out and patted his shoulder.

That person stood there dumbfounded, face covered in blood, before finally screaming.

*

“It’s too strange. So many people died in town today. Could it be because of our arrival?”

As the day ended, dozens of people returned to their residence.

Shen Zhu was a little late. As soon as she pushed open the door, she heard their discussion inside.

Seeing their team return, everyone first looked behind her, but they didn’t see the person who was currently very important to them.

Ling Tong’s face darkened. “Excuse me, Miss Shen Zhu, where did Yi Zhenzhen go?”

Yan Haoyue, who was behind Shen Zhu, stepped forward, her pale face looking somewhat pitiful. “She’s dead.”

“Dead?!”

Like a stone thrown into calm water, everyone’s eyes turned towards them. Some excited people slammed the table and asked, “Why did she die?”

Shen Zhu looked over with cold eyes. “This is a mission. Why is it impossible to die? No one is absolutely safe.”

Yan Haoyue gently repeated what happened. Thinking back now, something was indeed wrong. When Yi Zhenzhen died, everyone wasn’t around her, and they didn’t even witness it directly.

No, that’s not right, there was one person…

Shen Zhu had told her privately that she suspected Lin Chu, but she had no proof.

Yan Haoyue’s eyes darted around. She didn’t mention this suspicion, planning to go to the police station tomorrow to claim the body. When she caught Lin Chu red-handed, Lin Chu wouldn’t have anything to say.

Hearing the cause of Yi Zhenzhen’s death, everyone felt a chill of fear.

This small town was too strange.

However… Shen Zhu looked around the hall. “Is everyone here?”

The number of people was less. Besides Yi Zhenzhen, five others were missing.

Ximen Yuan took the initiative to speak. “One from my team is missing. He fell and hit his head on a seesaw and died on the spot.”

Jiang Yu: “Two from my team. One was hit by a flower pot falling from a height, and the other was hit by a fallen billboard. The billboard was electrified, and they died on the spot.”

Di Ying said, “Two from my team. One didn’t see the well under his feet when crossing a puddle of water and fell in. We couldn’t get him back. The other was hit in the eye by a paper airplane thrown by a child while crossing the road and didn’t dodge a truck.”

After a while, Ximen Yuan asked, “Is there any information?”

They looked at each other and shook their heads.

Tan Xu said, “Perhaps it’s precisely because there was an incident related to the missing that they’re so afraid of the word ‘missing.'”

Indeed, the residents’ attitude didn’t seem normal at all.

“They’re the same way when facing death, like…” One person hesitated for a moment and then said their opinion, “Like eating and drinking, they’re not afraid at all.”

What… what kind of place is this?

“Spirit Medium Town…” Ximen Yuan whispered the name.

Are there really spirit mediums in this town?

“I think we need to change our approach.” The usually quiet Jiang Yu spoke.

“This mission has no time limit, which means that as long as we don’t kill Lu Yanli or find the missing person, we’ll be trapped in this world.”

“And currently, no ghosts or curses have appeared. Everything is killing through coincidence, although these coincidences don’t seem like coincidences.”

“From another perspective, as long as we can avoid these coincidences, then it doesn’t matter if the mission can’t be completed in a short time.”

Jiang Yu said, “There’s no time limit, and so many people have been sent. Does that mean that this mission can’t be completed in the short term at all?”

Everyone had speculated about this idea, but few had actually said it. Staying in a mission world for too long wasn’t a good thing.

At least, it was only the first day, and six people had already died.

Shen Zhu said, “Then, in the short term, our mission is to protect ourselves first, be as careful as possible, and avoid all possible dangers brought about by coincidences.”

“Coincidences aren’t that easy to avoid. I suggest everyone describe the incident in detail and see if they violated some kind of death law,” Di Ying said.

Previous missions were like this. They triggered some kind of death mechanism that caused death. Everything had clues to follow; otherwise, it would be difficult for them to survive.

Even though they had already heard the accounts, they still planned to fully review the incidents.

Jiang Yu remained silent, just sitting and listening.

“It’s useless.”

“Have you not noticed?”

Without waiting for others to answer, Jiang Yu continued to speak, “Everything, whether it’s the laws we’ve worked out or the paths to survival, are gradually becoming ineffective.”

Lin Chu pretended to be as shocked as everyone else, but she wasn’t too surprised.

It seemed that there were still others who had noticed.

In just half a month, the number of missions had increased again, and the number of user registrations had increased by nearly a thousand, but the number of active users had decreased significantly. And in the most recent missions, it was almost impossible to find a pattern to break.

In other words, there were more and more dead ends.

Lin Chu smiled bitterly. Who knew if this would be a dead end?

Jiang Yu’s conclusion made everyone feel cold all over.

“Then aren’t we…” One of them muttered.

Weren’t they without a way out?

*

A bus drove through the mountains and forests, with only two people on board.

The driver and one passenger. The passenger sitting near the door opened the window, looked at the scenery outside, and chatted with the driver.

“That town, honestly, it’s best not to stay there long if you’re not from there.”

The driver shook his head. “I can’t say. I’d be in trouble if I did.”

Seeing Lu Yanli get out of the car and stand by the door, the driver pressed the button, and the doors closed.

Lu Yanli turned around and walked towards the tunnel.

The driver drove back, feeling a bit off.

“Strange… where have I heard the name Lu Yanli?” The driver couldn’t understand, he couldn’t remember.

No, he must have seen this person before! Where exactly?

Why did he feel so familiar, but couldn’t remember?

Where had he seen him?

A blurry silhouette of the other person lifting an ax and chopping flashed vaguely in his mind. The driver couldn’t help but scratch his head.

In his mind, that figure was getting closer and closer, clearer and clearer.

He could see that the other person was chopping something, again and again, blood splattering. The other person was just calm, as if doing something ordinary.

Gradually, the illusion in his mind became clearer and clearer.

The driver slowly widened his eyes.

And his head was placed to the side, still with his eyes open, not being able to rest in peace after death.

In the mirror, he had wide eyes and a pale face, exactly the same as his head in the illusion!

Lu Yanli hadn’t gone far. Standing in front of the dark tunnel entrance, he heard a loud noise behind him.

Looking back, the bus had crashed through the green belt on the roadside in the distance and crashed into a tree.

Before he could get over there, the car exploded with a bang, a wave of fire rising several meters high, instantly igniting the surrounding trees, and the heat was overwhelming.

Now there was no way back.

Lu Yanli took one last look at the exploded bus and turned to walk into the tunnel.

The tunnel was long, very long, cold, damp, and the ground was soft and wet. After entering and walking not far, he could feel that the noise that could still be heard outside had completely disappeared. Looking up, he couldn’t even see the light at the other end.

It was dead silent, there was nothing, and everything was dark.

Lu Yanli walked forward almost against the inner wall, not daring to take a wrong step.

He could smell the moss growing on the wall not far away because of the humidity, and he could hear the rustling of extremely tiny, unknown insects crawling on the wall.

And there was the sound of his light footsteps.

How long was this tunnel? Why couldn’t he reach the end?

How long had he been walking?

Lu Yanli knew that he could just take out his phone and take a look, but his intuition told him not to do that.

In this tunnel, it was best to just be blind and deaf.

He walked for a long, long time, so long that he almost got lost in the darkness, so long that when a little light suddenly appeared in front of him, he thought it was an illusion.

Lu Yanli quickened his pace and walked towards the exit.

When Lu Yanli came out, he saw this scene.

The other person’s image was too disheveled. The explosions had caused his clothes to be torn a little, and he had some injuries on his face.

Lu Yanli had seen many mission takers, and it wasn’t difficult for him to distinguish them from the local residents. He could even roughly see how many missions they had done. They didn’t seem like experienced ones. He knew that his current image would easily be suspected, so he smiled gently: “I’m here for tourism. May I ask who you are?”

As soon as they heard this name, the two mission takers’ sleepiness instantly disappeared.

Lu Yanli! Wasn’t that their mission target?

A person that the mission had sent so many people to hunt down must be extraordinary. It was better not to act rashly.

Coincidentally, there was an ax in the room.

He couldn’t wait to kill the other person and then return to his world. He had had enough!

Wang Shunde advised him: “Don’t rush, wait a little longer. We’ll wait until we fall asleep.”

It was a pity that they didn’t have any medicine; otherwise, it would have been even better if they had put some in the things the other person ate and drank.

“Let’s go.”

On the other side, the door was ajar.

The wooden house was old and in disrepair, and the doors of the two rooms couldn’t be locked tightly. If the wind was strong, it would blow into the room, causing the wooden doors to bang.

He pushed open the door, and by the moonlight, he could see an outline in the bed.

Sleeping under the covers?

Wang Shunde made his steps even lighter, coming to the bed almost silently.

He raised the ax high and chopped down hard!

The bed was cut in half, but the scene of blood splattering that he imagined didn’t appear. All he had cut off was the quilt on the bed.

“How is that possible? Where’s the person?!” Wang Shunde pulled open the quilt that was hanging on the ground.

There was only a quilt. The other person’s figure had disappeared.

“How could that be? Isn’t he asleep?” Wang Shunde muttered to himself, incredulous.

The shorter man also looked around, trying to find the other person.

The man was standing at the door, smiling friendly at them. Even though the other person had no weapons, the two of them still smelled a strong sense of danger from him.

“You…” Wang Shunde was about to make excuses, but Lu Yanli casually closed the door, smiling, and approached step by step.

The door closed, and only a few rays of moonlight shone in through the window. Lu Yanli stepped forward, dodging when the other person was about to pounce, and a dagger appeared in his hand. He used a speed that ordinary people couldn’t dodge to place the knife across the neck of the person behind him, and then a chop to knock the other person unconscious, and then looked at the other person.

“You, don’t come over!”