Chapter 26: Ten Ways To Summon Ghosts (5)
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Hu Yue immediately supported Zhu Yao.
Zhu Yao tightly grasped Hu Yue's hand to steady herself, she said shakily, "Thank you... thank you..."
"Don't mention it. We're all trapped in this death game, so we should help each other. He pushed all the blame onto you—that was really rude. You understand this game. Do you have any ideas on how to survive?"
Zhu Yao shook her head in despair. "The internet only says that when the ghost is first summoned, if everyone blows at it together, it can be driven away. But if we fail to do that, what should we do? The internet doesn't say."
Hu Yue sighed again. After comforting Zhu Yao for a while, she let go of her hand.
By now, Zhu Yao's legs weren't so weak anymore. She could barely support her weight.
Hu Yue then walked over to the others. They were all discussing something, their voices getting louder and louder, as if they were about to argue.
She suddenly felt a wave of irritation and shouted, "Enough!"
The effect was immediate. Everyone fell silent and looked at her.
Hu Yue forced down her anger and said loudly, "What we need to do now isn't argue, but work together and find a way out of this situation."
He Fei said angrily, "What way? If that *** hadn’t taken it upon herself to lock the ghost outside, would we be in this mess?"
After being scolded, Liang Qi refused to back down. She sneered and said, "None of you stopped me. Didn't you all have the same idea? And now you're blaming me? Just look at yourselves—aren’t you all disgusting?
As soon as the others heard this, their expressions turned as ugly as they could get.
Only He Fei had cursed at her, yet when she cursed back, she dragged everyone into it. That would’ve been fine, but the words she said hit right where it hurt the others most.
In an instant, Liang Qi became the target of everyone’s anger.
Leaving aside the argument inside Room 201, after Shu Yushuang ran downstairs, she found that the ghost behind her had not followed.
Fang Xiqiong looked up at her and asked, "Why did you come out again?"
"I got locked out."
Fang Xiqiong thought for a moment, then said to Shu Yushuang, "Are you playing the Ghost At The Door game today?"
"It is Ghost At The Door, but game…"
Shu Yushuang shook her head with a bitter smile. She really could not agree with calling such a dangerous task a game. Even though that was how it was described in the dungeon details.
Fang Xiqiong frowned deeply. She asked again, "None of you have ever played this game before? This game was supposed to be the safest of the ten—of course, excluding the type where ghosts like Susu don't kill. As long as one person had played before, they would know you should never leave just you and the ghost locked outside."
"Why?"
"Because..."
What Fang Xiqiong said next was more or less the same as what Zhu Yao had said. After listening, Shu Yushuang also felt that the situation was tricky.
"Is there any other way to fix it?"
"Hide. Make sure the ghost does not catch you within three days."
"Do you know what method we'll be using to deal with the ghost next?"
"No. Every batch of Executors experiences a different version of the game."
"Alright, thank you."
Shu Yushuang hesitated for a moment but still decided to stay hidden downstairs.
There was only one staircase here, so if she went back up and the ghost happened to come down at the same time, she would have no way out.
There were not many places to hide downstairs. In the corner were two separate rooms—one was a bathroom, and the other a storage room.
Shu Yushuang hid inside the storage room.
She did not lock the door. First, because she knew it would not stop the ghost anyway. Second, because locking it would only slow her down if she needed to escape.
After being struck once by Shu Yushuang, the ghost seemed to feel some fear toward her. It did not chase her downstairs but started wandering around the hallway instead.
Only when the argument in Room 201 grew louder and louder did the ghost slowly float to that room’s door.
Listening to the voices inside, a strange smile crept onto its face.
“Thud!”
The sound was not loud enough. The people still arguing inside the room did not hear it at all and kept shouting at each other.
The ghost was very patient. It continued banging on the door.
Since earlier, Hu Yue had already felt that something was wrong.
Amid the noise, she faintly heard another kind of sound. She tried to get everyone to quiet down, but the agitated people ignored her completely.
“Thud! Thud! Thud!”
Each knock was louder than the last, and finally, the Executors stopped arguing.
Hu Yue felt like the ghost was pounding directly on her chest, making her heart ache.
"It’s here..."
No one knew who said those two words, but the last bit of sound in the room disappeared completely.
“Thud!”
This time, everyone turned to look at the door in unison.
“Creak…”
The door was gently pushed open, and the others finally saw what the ghost looked like.
The left half of her face was perfectly intact, but the right half looked like it had been sliced clean off by some sharp weapon, revealing white bone with only traces of blood and flesh left.
Her left hand was fine, but her right hand was nothing but a bare white skeleton.
Among everyone in the room, only Liang Qi had seen the female ghost’s true face before.
When the female ghost burst through the door, Liang Qi had already quietly moved to the back of the crowd.
The others panicked and rushed toward the door, but how could the ghost let them get away so easily?
The ghost smiled. That smile was full of cold, eerie energy, making the Executors’ scalps go numb.
Of course, a few among them remained calm—like Hu Yue, Liang Qi, and Qi Sisi.
Hiding behind the crowd, Liang Qi carefully observed the ghost. She was trying to find the ghost’s weakness.
The ghost did not rush to kill. Instead, she slowly moved closer to the Executors.
Now, Liang Qi finally realized the common trait of these ghosts—they liked to inflict the deepest kind of fear to their prey.
They would not kill the Executors right away. They would slowly approach them.
Only when the Executors were scared to the extreme would the ghost kill them.
The other Executors were now in a panic. The more courageous ones tried to rush past the female ghost and escape from the room, while the less courageous ones now had weak legs and could not even walk.
Hu Yue walked to Liang Qi calmly and asked, "You must have a way, right?"
Liang Qi showed a sweet smile, but she said: "No."
Hu Yue carefully observed Liang Qi's expression, but found that there was still no fear on her face - Hu Yue came to look for her just now because of Liang Qi's fearless expression.
She said there was nothing she could do, but who would believe her?
But Liang Qi was unwilling to say it, and Hu Yue had no way to force her to say it.
Just then, a shout came from the door: "Run, she won't stop us."
Hu Yue looked towards the place where the sound came from and saw that the person standing outside the door and shouting was Li Hefei. He is the one who has the courage to rush to the front.
No one stopped him before because everyone wanted to see what would happen if he did this.
To put it bluntly, everyone else needs a guinea pig, and it is a good thing for others to have one person who is willing to be the leader.
But now that they saw Li Hefei leave the room safely, the others all let out a sigh of relief and got ready to follow in his footsteps.
However, the first person who ran out met with an accident. When he ran up to the ghost, the ghost raised her hand and pressed it against the left side of his face.
He let out a shrill and miserable scream at once. The others had their backs to him and did not know what had happened, but someone sharp-eyed saw the bloody flesh in the ghost's hand.
The man collapsed heavily to the ground from the intense pain, and now everyone finally understood what had happened to him.
Half of his face had already been torn off by the ghost. He was now lying on the ground, covering his face and wailing.
The others were so shocked by the bloody scene that they immediately fell silent and froze in place.
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No one knew why Li Hefei wasn't stopped, but in any case, no one dared to go near the ghost now.
There was only one exit in the room, which was that door. But now that the ghost was blocking the doorway, it was completely impossible to squeeze past her and run out.
After observing the crowd, Hu Yue finally confirmed that the one who had half his face torn off was Ke Yan.
In this ghost-summoning game, Ke Yan had drawn lot number 1.
A terrifying thought suddenly rose in Hu Yue’s mind. Could it be that the ghost was killing people according to the order of the drawn lots?
If that was true, then the next one to die would be her.
A layer of cold sweat instantly formed on Hu Yue’s forehead. What should she do now? She could not run anymore.
Just as Hu Yue was anxiously thinking, the situation suddenly changed.
The ghost actually crouched down. She picked up that fleshless hand and ended Ke Yan’s life.
After that, the ghost lay motionless on top of Ke Yan. No one knew what she was doing. A long time passed, but the ghost still did not get up.
Everyone else was trembling with fear, and Hu Yue stared at the door behind the ghost, unsure if she would be caught if she tried to run out now.
At that moment, she felt someone dash past her. She turned her head and saw that it was Liang Qi.
Liang Qi quickly rushed past the ghost and successfully ran out of the room.
When the others saw that Liang Qi was unharmed, they followed suit one after another. In no time, the rest of the people had all left Room 201.
By now, Liang Qi was almost back at her own room, and Hu Yue hurriedly called out, “Wait, Liang Qi, let’s work together from now on!”
But Liang Qi didn’t even look back.
Hu Yue watched as Liang Qi walked into the room at the end of the hallway on the left.
She narrowed her eyes and bit down hard.
Hu Yue had cleared three dungeons already. She had seen Executors who acted this disrespectfully before. Most of them either died early, or they really had skills.
Of course, Hu Yue wanted skilled Executors in the same dungeon with her, but only if they listened to her.
If they did not, she did not mind turning them into the first kind.
Hu Yue’s tightly knit brows slowly relaxed. She looked toward Liang Qi’s room and gave a gloomy smile.
But—though disobedient ones needed to be handled—she had to take care of her own trouble first.
If the ghost really killed in the order of the drawn lots, then she would be next.
Liang Qi locked the door behind her, then collapsed onto the floor as if all strength had left her. She no longer looked as calm as she had just now.
Until now, she still finds her girlfriend's death ridiculous.
The last ghost that appeared here had not been dangerous at all. If Deng Yue had not brought death upon herself, how would she have died?
But Liang Qi refused to admit this. She shifted all her hatred onto Shu Yushuang.
She stubbornly believed that if it had not been for Shu Yushuang, Deng Yue would not have died.
So when she saw the ghost appear behind Shu Yushuang, she was overjoyed.
She had shut the door without hesitation.
It was not just that she did not know the way to beat the game at the time—even if she had known, she still would have done the same.
Now that Deng Yue was dead, Liang Qi would get revenge for her even at the cost of her own life.
Shu Yushuang did not know exactly why Liang Qi targeted her, but she could more or less guess.
She did not care how others treated her, but that did not mean she would let them walk all over her.
Besides, the victim in that incident should have been her. What right did Liang Qi have to take out all her anger on her?
Shu Yushuang knew that if she did not get rid of this big trouble, she probably would not clear this dungeon easily.
