1TWITF[C Chapter 99

Chapter 99

That distorted figure stood outside the door, staring intently at the busy group inside.

“Everyone be careful! We’ll leave as soon as we’re done!” Having been on so many missions, how could they not know this was a sign of an impending supernatural event?

“Hurry, move faster!”

Faster…

A little faster!

A chilling wind blew in, and a stack of files piled high with thick dust unexpectedly crashed to the ground, making a loud noise that startled everyone.

Shen Zhu, also flipping through a stack of files, tensed up.

In the flickering light, the photo on the file she was holding suddenly changed to Yan Haoyue’s face, and the face smiled at her.

“Clatter.”

The file in Shen Zhu’s hand fell to the ground, once again drawing everyone’s attention.

“Sister Shen Zhu, what’s wrong?”

The lights flickered even more violently, leaving no doubt that they would go out in the next second.

“Quick! Let’s go! We can come back later.”

Now, no one dared to linger any longer, desperately running towards the door. Shen Zhu, squeezed in the crowd, also ran out.

Her head was throbbing faintly, but she couldn’t pinpoint where the pain was coming from.

The person running in front of Shen Zhu successfully stepped out of the door. He grabbed the person blocking the door: “Quick! Let’s run!”

He had just issued a warning, so why was he standing motionless now?

As he loosened his grip on the person’s hand, an arm was pulled off. Before he could react, the person shattered into a pile of limbs in front of Shen Zhu, scattered all over the ground, as if all the joints had been severed.

Thick, hot, and bloody plasma splashed everywhere. Shen Zhu didn’t bother to wipe it off and rushed straight out the door.

All the lights in the corridor were broken and couldn’t be turned on. Even though it was only dusk, the night was so dark that it was difficult to see the faces of companions nearby. The only thing she could perceive were a few vague shadows running around and the chaotic sounds of footsteps.

She had scouted the place during the day, and it was just a simple corridor and a few turns, but now it felt like a maze, impossible to reach the end no matter how she walked. The panic in Shen Zhu’s heart grew stronger, and she tried to force herself to calm down, but her heart beat faster and faster, almost jumping out of her throat.

Something… is following her!

There was no mistake, it must be Yan Haoyue. She had promised to come find her, so was she coming to find her?

Shen Zhu continued to follow the people in front of her, running outwards. She didn’t notice that the figure in front was just a shadow.

She followed the shadows, running into the depths of the space.

As for whether this space was really the police station, who knew?

Why?

Why haven’t they gotten out after running for so long?

Where is the door? Wait, who are these people in front? Are they really the companions she came with?

No matter how she looked at them, they didn’t seem like people she knew.

What to do? Which direction is she running in?

Logically speaking, she had run for so long that she should have been able to go back and forth between the police station and her residence, but now she was still trapped here…

What to do? What should she do?

Numerous task-takers had emphasized, and she herself had told the newcomers: Ghosts have no emotions and no logic, and it is impossible for humans to negotiate with ghosts or communicate with them.

Because the task is not just for them to do, but for the ghosts to complete as well.

Unfortunately, Shen Zhu was too panicked, and the pain in her head made her forget this iron rule, begging bitterly in the dark space.

She didn’t want to die, she wanted to live…

“Please! Let me go, please let me go for the sake of our past friendship.”

As if a switch had been flipped, the cold wind, the soft murmurs, and the dark shadows that she had sensed in the darkness were all gone. There was only one old light bulb emitting a dim yellow light.

Shen Zhu could hardly believe her eyes. She stopped and realized that she was still standing in the middle of the corridor, but everyone else had run away. The corridor, as well as the rooms on both sides, were empty.

“Thank you, thank you Haoyue. After I go back, I will definitely burn incense and paper money for you. I will take care of your family.” Shen Zhu didn’t want to stay any longer and ran quickly towards the door.

It wasn’t until she rushed out the door and bathed in the moonlight that she truly felt relieved.

She actually survived?

Yan Haoyue let her go?

*

His voice was very soft, but it made the other task-takers shudder and move a few steps away from him in tacit agreement.

Until he became a task-taker.

This was information released by a few teammates who had survived him. Most people were afraid of such a personality, but some also believed that he could be used for their own purposes.

As now, when interrogation was needed, sending him was the most appropriate.

Lin Chu sat in the center of the living room, her hands and feet tied up. She shook her head crying, tears flying: “I really don’t know, I’m not a traitor… What would I gain? I’ll die if I don’t complete the mission…”

She had a cute face, and her terrified crying made her look like a carefree child.

“I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, I won’t… I’ll definitely not look at those NPCs again… I really just thought he was good-looking…” Lin Chu cried out again, her face full of tears.

“Shh, don’t be noisy.” Fang Tu had a knife in his hand, and the tip of the knife gently stroked Lin Chu’s cheek. The icy cold air made her shiver and dare not move, stiffening her neck and looking at him in fear.

Lin Chu tried to shrink her neck back, enduring her fear: “I didn’t… I beg you, I really didn’t…”

Yu Huaiyao couldn’t help but stand up: “I also don’t think it’s her, she has no reason to hinder our mission.”

Two task-takers understood and went up to pull him away.

Yu Huaiyao refused to leave, stubbornly standing in place. He had been repairing cultural relics for many years and often went to construction sites, so he was quite strong. The two couldn’t drag him away for a while.

“Chu Chu? That sounds really nice, what’s your relationship?” Fang Tu retracted his gaze and lightly sniffed Lin Chu’s hair in a frivolous manner.

Lin Chu continued to sob and cry. She was also wondering why Yu Huaiyao was helping her. Everyone else was one thing, but Yu Huaiyao had personally witnessed her hurting An Ru, so what was his purpose?

Yu Huaiyao said: “I have nothing to do with her, I just can’t stand you bullying people like this.”

He didn’t even look at Lin Chu: “Lin Chu, do you accept this condition?”

A fierce light flashed in Fang Tu’s eyes. His gaze lingered on Lin Chu, and after a long while, he reluctantly put away his scalpel. Before leaving, he didn’t forget to give Lin Chu a sinister smile, scaring her to scream again and tremble.

Yu Huaiyao went over to untie her ropes. Lin Chu wiped away her tears and quietly thanked Jiang Yu and Yu Huaiyao.

On the surface, she was still pitiful and fragile, and anyone who saw her would only think she was an ordinary little girl.

Jiang Yu quietly watched Yu Huaiyao and her walk away together, and suddenly stopped Yu Huaiyao.

Yu Huaiyao stopped and turned around.

“What is your profession?”

“Archaeology, I do some work repairing cultural relics.”

Jiang Yu nodded, indicating that he understood, and waved them away.

Jiang Yu said: “That Lin Chu is not that simple.”

“In this mission, there are a total of twenty-two newcomers, including veterans, senior executives of listed companies, provincial athletes, etc… Just now, Yu Huaiyao is also an archaeological scholar. The quality of each newcomer is not comparable to those of the past. It’s as if they were specially selected.”

Xi Menyuan defaulted to his statement, and Ling Tong said: “Now, let’s see what she will do.”

Lin Chu and Yu Huaiyao walked side by side in the courtyard, and Yu Huaiyao comforted her in a low voice.

If the two of them didn’t have ulterior motives, this scene would indeed look very beautiful.

He put his hand in his pocket and brought out the wiretap that Jiang Yu had given him earlier, to make the machine operate more sensitively.

Lin Chu shook her head: “I really don’t know him. Besides, that man said he’s called Jiang Bai, I’m just… Sigh, it’s embarrassing to say, I’m just infatuated, so what?”

Jiang Yu sat in the room, and the voices of a man and a woman came from the headphones.

Lin Chu’s performance was impeccable, but… Jiang Yu still found it difficult to let go of his guard against her.

The alarm in Jiang Yu’s heart went off the first time he saw her. Intuition told him that she was definitely not an ordinary person.

Yu Huaiyao returned to the room and took off the wiretap in his hand, placing it on the table.

Just now, when he followed Jiang Yu’s instructions to ask Lin Chu questions, he signaled to her with his eyes not to answer. With Lin Chu’s intelligence, she would quickly guess his meaning.

Hopefully, he didn’t reveal anything just now.

Lin Chu also returned to the room, closing the door with a sob.

There were no flaws.

Lin Chu glanced at the clothes she had placed by the bed and turned to go to bed.

She knew that when she was being escorted back just now, someone had placed a wiretap on her, but now… she could only pretend not to know.

She had to do this out of urgency. She knew that her actions had aroused suspicion, but there was no other way. In order to prevent Lu Yanli from being exposed in a short period of time, she could only do this.

And the reason why Yu Huaiyao would listen to her was also because she claimed that she had poisoned Yu Huaiyao in the real world.

It sounded unbelievable, but given her previous example of using the scent of her perfume to make An Ru faint, Yu Huaiyao dared not disobey.

Lu Yanli’s secret… if the task was to kill him, then he must have known something.

How can she avoid those people and contact Lu Yanli?

*

The task-takers who went out to find clues have all returned except for those who died. Shen Zhu was the last one. Her face was still a little pale. She didn’t disturb anyone when she came back, casually greeted them and went into the room.

It wasn’t until she was lying on the bed that Shen Zhu felt like she had regained her life.

She still couldn’t believe that Yan Haoyue had actually let her go. She was already dead and had become a vengeful ghost, but she hadn’t killed anyone.

Why?

She didn’t realize that she didn’t even look in the mirror while washing up.

Because, as long as she looked up, she would find that a piece of her skull was shaved off at the top of her head in the mirror, and dense white bugs were crawling on it, sucking her brain marrow.

Strange… her head is getting more and more painful.

Shen Zhu had a headache and couldn’t sleep.

Not only did she have a headache, but she was also feeling cold.

It’s so cold…

Shen Zhu wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, her body trembling.

Why is it so cold? Although it’s winter now, the quilt she’s covering is clearly a thick cotton quilt…

Wait! A thick cotton quilt?

Shen Zhu was shocked to feel a thin white cloth covering her body. She could also feel that she had suddenly arrived in a narrow space.

Where is this? She was clearly lying in bed sleeping!

Where is this?

Shen Zhu was originally lying on her left side. She wanted to start from the other side, but she suddenly stopped after turning over with difficulty.

In front of her… in front of her was Yan Haoyue’s pale face, her eyes widened, unfocused, and staring at her.

She and Yan Haoyue were lying together! She was actually lying together with Yan Haoyue!!

She knew where she was lying.

“Ahhhhhh—”

A woman’s scream came from the third basement level morgue.

*

Lu Yanli hadn’t closed his eyes to rest for a long time.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to sleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes, a sense of crisis would make him subconsciously open his eyes and want to run away. Even though he had quietly sneaked into the residential building near where the task-takers were staying, and according to past patterns, the ghosts would attack the task-takers first, he still couldn’t fall asleep.

He sat in the room, tentatively closing his eyes.

The vision that should have been nothingness and darkness was filled with a blood-red color. He immediately opened his eyes again and looked out the window.

It doesn’t let him see the reflection, and he can see it when he closes his eyes…

Because it’s hiding in his eyes, so if he sees the reflection, it will also see him through the reflection.

Closing his eyes for a long time will also allow it to sense his location.

Lu Yanli looked out the window, quietly thinking about when that thing entered his eyes. After recalling, he determined a date.

But what exactly is that? If it’s a ghost, whose ghost is it?

His ears twitched slightly, and a slight explosion came from afar.

It seemed that explosions were still happening in other parts of the town.

“Damn it! Who the hell is it? Setting off bombs all day long.” Police officer Xiao Li was furious. “If I catch him, I’ll shoot him dead.”

“Stop talking, quickly rescue the wounded!”

No one survived.

Even though they didn’t care about life and death in their twisted minds, such a means of taking hundreds of lives at once still made them feel terrified.

Who exactly is it?

A figure walked out of a tall building. He looked at the noisy scene a few streets away and slowly walked into the shadows.

In his hand, he was still playing with a pistol that hadn’t been used. On his back, he carried a long axe.

It was clearly Lu Yanli’s appearance.

Sure enough! It’s coming again!

He ran away.