0p0 Chapter 286 New Life
Chapter 286 New Life
Chapter 286 New Life (7)
As expected, the building next door was completely empty, with no one in sight.
Lu Jinzhao led his men to the fourth floor and opened the door to the adjacent room 401. The room was laid out normally, and there were even signs that someone had lived there. However, the platform was deserted at the moment.
"I gonna go see."
Lu Jinzhao pointed to the window and walked to it.
The windows were bright, and it was clear that the owner of the house was very clean. Lu Jinzhao stood at the window and tried to look at room 401.
The distance between the two buildings was closer than she had imagined; so close that if someone was standing by the window on the other side, she could even see the expression on their face.
However, she saw nothing.
Room 401 was pitch black, with only the faint outlines of some furniture visible; otherwise, there was nothing else.
Lu Jinzhao was not disappointed. Since she couldn't see anything for the time being, she walked around the building to make sure she was familiar with the layout. Time passed by, and soon the two hours allotted for the mission were up. She went to the window of the room again and looked at room 401.
This time she saw it.
It's not a blurry room.
Instead, it was two corpses hanging in the room.
The body was facing the window, its face was bluish-purple, and its expression was peaceful. It didn't look like it had been hanged; it looked more like it was asleep.
Lu Jinzhao recognized the two faces; they were the new recruits who hadn't come to do the mission.
She still remembered their expressions when they were alive, expressions mixed with fear and unease, but now, after they died, they seemed calm.
The ropes cut into their necks, leaving deep marks and bruises. Because they were tied so tightly, the parts of their heads were abnormally locked into small balls, making their heads look like balloons hanging upside down. Their faces were swollen and congested, turning into bloated, bluish-purple heads.
Beneath the excessively swollen head were a shriveled body and limbs, hanging empty in mid-air as if a gust of wind would cause them to sway.
Lu Jinzhao's gaze shifted slightly downwards, and he saw that their toes were about twenty centimeters off the ground, with nothing under their feet. The corpses hung motionless in mid-air, as calmly as a piece of clothing.
She tried again to peer into room 401 through the gap between the two corpses. This time, there was a little more light in the room, and she could no longer see nothing at all.
There was also a television in room 401, which was on at the moment. However, the television was on the side, and she couldn't see what was being played at all. She could only see a little white light shining through the television screen, slightly illuminating the room and allowing her to see the woman sitting not far away, watching the television without moving.
Besides that, there's nothing else to see.
She was well aware that not completing tasks would result in punishment at the platform, but she was surprised that they actually died inside room 401.
What happened in that house?
Just as Lu Jinzhao was thinking this, a shrill scream suddenly came from the building opposite.
"--Help!"
Screams and cries for help filled the air. Lu Jinzhao and Lin Lin exchanged a glance and quickly ran downstairs toward the source of the cries.
Upon hearing this, Jiang hesitated for only half a second before immediately following the two downstairs.
As soon as the three of them got downstairs, they saw a newcomer stumbling out of the building across the street. She looked panicked and terrified, and kept shouting incoherently.
"Help! There's a ghost! There's a ghost!"
When she saw the three people, it was as if she had seen a lifeline.
"Run! There's a ghost in that building!!"
Lu Jinzhao looked behind the newlyweds, but she didn't sense any ghostly presence. "Calm down first. There are no ghosts here. Did you see a ghost? What did it look like? How did you see it?" Jiang Ting was also a little scared by her almost frantic appearance, but she still mustered up the courage to grab her shoulders and try to calm her down.
"No! No!" Jiang Ting's words had no effect. Her long string of words couldn't enter her fear-controlled brain at this moment. She just kept shaking her head: "Let go! The ghost is coming!"
She was terrified, and the certainty that the ghost was about to arrive made Lu Jinzhao cautious as well.
The shadow puppet [Xiang Liang] crawled out of her sleeve, and a card appeared on its blank face: Sixth Sense.
It gives Lu Jinzhao a strong sixth sense, almost like a premonition, at this moment. Whether it's sensing a crisis or understanding a pattern, this card is very useful, and Lu Jinzhao doesn't intend to hold onto it forever.
On the platform of death, passengers have no chance to seize the initiative and may only be waiting for death, so she chose to use it now.
The moment the Sixth Sense took effect, Lu Jinzhao's first feeling was panic.
Something was approaching, and she felt herself losing control. The intense sense of crisis, so strong it stung her skin, made her uncontrollably panic.
A ghost that isn't a physical entity is approaching. She doesn't sense anything closing in on her in the building. The danger lies within herself.
Lu Jinzhao's pupils trembled slightly, the hairs on her arms stood on end, and a strong chill spread from the bottom of her heart. She felt an incomparably powerful malice.
It came from the platform, from the ghost, and also from her body.
Suddenly, her right hand knuckles began to ache faintly. Most of the normal human senses and physiological reactions that had disappeared due to the changes in her body returned at this moment. Her heart was racing, and her fingers were trembling slightly from the pain.
"Help!"
The newlyweds suddenly cried out, "Ouch! A ghost is here! A ghost is here!"
"No, no!" She suddenly knelt down, her face contorted in pain, and vomited a large amount of clear liquid. Then, liquid began to gush from her nose, eyes, and even her ears, unstoppable.
Lu Jinzhao and the others took a slight step back, and Jiang Ting was so frightened by the scene that her lips turned white: "What's wrong with her?"
No one answered her.
As Lu Jinchao watched this scene, her sixth sense told her that the clear liquid vomited by the newlyweds was very likely amniotic fluid.
Large amounts of fluid were continuously expelled from her body, and the person kneeling on the ground visibly became thinner, as if all the flesh, organs, and even bones in her body had turned into a puddle of amniotic fluid that she had vomited out.
She could no longer support her body and collapsed completely, no longer making a sound. Yet, fluid continued to overflow from her seven orifices, her body becoming thin and frail, as thin as an object, a balloon constantly draining water.
Until all the water inside the balloon was drained, leaving only the "skin" layer, which was the container for storing water.
She is dead.
This scene reminded Lu Jinzhao of the two corpses hanging in room 401, their bodies as withered as the newlyweds who had just died.
But Lu Jinzhao doesn't have time to care about her right now.
Her strong sixth sense finally made her realize something, something extremely minor, something that would have at most made her feel a little uncomfortable before.
Her limbs became a little more coordinated.
After trading her soul with the sheepskin, she always needed to exert more force to control her limbs. As her body became closer to that of a dead person, controlling her body was more like typing on a familiar keyboard or operating a familiar tool. She didn't need to think, but it did require an extra step.
But now, this process has been smoothed out, leaving only a very small amount of disruption, so small that it has no impact whatsoever, at most causing her a slight sense of unease occasionally.
With the help of her strong sixth sense, she finally realized what had happened.
Why is this happening?
(End of this chapter)