Chapter 27: Ten Ways To Summon Ghosts (6)
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Shu Yushuang didn't know how long she had been hiding in the storage room, but there was no sound outside.
She gathered her courage and opened the storage room door a little crack. Then, she put her eye against the crack and looked outside.
Outside the door, Fang Xiqiong was still flipping through the newspaper in her hand.
That evil ghost didn't chase down.
Shu Yushuang gently pushed the door open. She tiptoed to the stairs and looked up.
From Shu Yushuang's angle now, she couldn't see clearly what was upstairs at all.
Upstairs was silent, so Shu Yushuang walked up with light steps.
Even if there was still a way to live, it must be upstairs, not downstairs.
When Shu Yushuang passed Room 201, the strong bloody smell coming out made her frown hard.
A female ghost in red clothes was lying on a dead body and eating with big bites. Right when Shu Yushuang passed Room 201, the ghost seemed to feel something and turned her head to look at Shu Yushuang.
Her mouth had red blood and meat hanging on it. The right half of her face was wrinkled, and fresh blood was dripping down. This half of her face would sometimes fall off a little, faintly showing the white bones underneath. Whenever that happened, the female ghost would just push it back like it was nothing.
But even without these clearly wrong things, that right half of the face still looked very strange.
Shu Yushuang's breath stopped for a second, then she quickly ran forward. But even when she ran back to her room, that female ghost didn’t chase her.
Shu Yushuang locked the door tight, then leaned against it to calm her breathing.
She hadn’t been inside Room 201 just now, so she didn’t know how the female ghost could enter a room, but there was nothing wrong with locking the door.
Just now, Shu Yushuang finally saw what that thing behind her looked like.
The right half of the face was all wrinkled up, but the left half was perfect with nothing wrong.
She couldn't even imagine how that kind of wound was made.
What kind of attack would make a face look like that?
Shu Yushuang frowned a little, then a scary guess came up in her heart.
That half of the face looked like it had been torn off and crumpled into a ball.
Shu Yushuang touched her own face without thinking.
Good thing she had made a quick decision and attacked the female ghost fast.
If not, the female ghost might have struck first and attacked her in the same way.
Shu Yushuang sat down on the ground tiredly.
Back when Qin Su was still here, she did not feel much. But now she finally realized that the evil ghosts in this dungeon really were hard to deal with.
Time passed second by second. About half an hour later, sounds suddenly came from the hallway again.
"No, no, it shouldn't be like this. I shouldn't have torn off the left half of the face. It doesn't fit, it doesn't fit. I still need someone else's face!"
The female ghost's gloomy muttering came from outside the door. Even though her voice wasn't loud, all the executors could clearly hear it.
Shu Yushuang finally understood what was wrong with that wrinkled half of the face. That clearly... wasn't the right face.
The female ghost in the hallway kept repeating that sentence. Her voice got closer and closer. At this moment, Shu Yushuang could almost hear that the ghost was right outside her door.
She gripped the stone knife tightly in her hand.
Earlier, Qin Su had told her not to use props easily. Besides being the first target of the evil ghosts, there was another more important reason—
If you use the same prop many times in the same dungeon, its effect will get weaker and weaker, until it completely stops working.
So unless it's a life or death moment, never use a prop.
Shu Yushuang only hesitated for a few seconds before deciding to keep using the stone knife.
As long as something shows up that threatens her life, then it's a life or death moment.
The evil ghost's voice outside the door came closer and closer, then suddenly faded away again.
Shu Yushuang pressed her ear against the crack of the door, carefully listening to the sounds outside. She didn’t dare relax even a little.
Suddenly, dull "thud" "thud" sounds came from somewhere not far from her.
After several dull thuds, someone’s door made a creaking sound—it had been opened.
Once the door opened, no matter how hard Shu Yushuang listened, she couldn’t hear any sound from inside.
But the silence only lasted a few seconds. Then, she heard someone running in the hallway.
Shu Yushuang bravely pressed her eye to the peephole. She saw someone quickly run past her door.
Shu Yushuang remembered—that should be the girl No. 2 from earlier.
And the room diagonally across from Shu Yushuang had its door wide open. She could see the evil ghost standing at the doorway without moving.
It looked like that girl also used some kind of prop on the evil ghost.
The ghost stood there for a long time.
When the prop’s effect wore off, she slowly turned around.
That strange half of a face was still barely hanging on the right side of her face.
She kept mumbling the same words from earlier while she chased in the direction where the girl No. 2 had run.
No, that’s not right. The evil ghost wasn’t going to chase that girl.
Shu Yushuang saw the female ghost getting closer and closer to her room, so she quickly backed away from the door.
But this time, she guessed wrong. The ghost didn’t come to knock on her door.
The door of the room next to hers got knocked on.
But unlike last time, this time a man’s creepy voice came from inside:
“Ghost lady, why are you coming to see me again? Do you want me to play with you?”
Shu Yushuang slightly widened her eyes.
She could not believe what she just heard.
At a time like this, how could someone still...
But what she didn’t know was that the person living next door was Li Hefei, the one who had run away first.
Li Hefei thought the reason he got away safely earlier was because he had some kind of special charm that made the ghost let him go.
Of course, Shu Yushuang didn’t know what happened during his escape either.
The next second, a sharp and tragic scream came from the next room.
Li Hefei died without ever knowing—
The reason he was fine earlier was just because it hadn’t been his turn yet.
After he ran out of Room 201, even though he heard the screaming from inside, he had already gotten far away by then. So he did not know who had died, and he had no idea the evil ghost was killing people according to the order of the draw.
This time, the ghost stayed inside that room for much longer. Shu Yushuang checked her phone. The ghost had already been in there for two hours.
She faintly hoped the ghost had found a face she was satisfied with and would stop killing.
However, things didn't go as she wished. A few minutes later, the ghost’s resentful voice once again echoed in the corridor.
“Still not right, not right. This face was not torn properly. It is incomplete.”
The ghost kept repeating these chilling words as she drifted to Shu Yushuang’s door.
Through the peephole, Shu Yushuang saw that the right half of the ghost’s face had changed again. This time, the half-face was incomplete, with a large patch of white bone showing underneath.
The ghost slightly raised her head. On the perfect half of her face, a completely black eye stared fixedly into the peephole.
Shu Yushuang took a step back.
The next one should be Number 4. It’s her turn again.
Although Shu Yushuang also did not know the ghost’s exact killing pattern, based on the girl who had run past her door earlier and the man who died after the girl escaped, she could roughly guess it.
After No. 2, another person had died. Then the ghost had stopped in front of her—No. 4’s—room. It was very clear that the ghost was killing in the order of the draw.
However, if someone escaped, the ghost would not keep chasing them. Instead, she would go look for the next person.
In this round of hunting, Hu Yue had escaped death.
But this time, the ghost only stood at Shu Yushuang’s door for a long time without making any move.
Shu Yushuang hid by the door. She had already taken the stone knife out of her pocket. As long as the ghost broke in, she would attack again.
Yet this time, the ghost did not try to break the door at all.
Shu Yushuang leaned toward the peephole again and saw that the ghost had somehow already left.
Was she not going to attack anymore? Then what just happened? Was it a warning?
Shu Yushuang waited by the door for a long time, but in the end, nothing happened.
She let out a long breath, opened the door, and walked out of the room.
The ghost would stay here for three days, and there were a total of nine executors. Maybe the ghost could only attack three people each day. Excluding Shu Yushuang, the special Number 4 who had summoned her, she could still attack three others. Whether she managed to kill them or not, after attacking three people, she would have to stop.
Otherwise, Shu Yushuang could not explain why the ghost had stopped at her door but did not attack.
Two more people died today. The damage was definitely severe.
But based on what the ghost had said in the corridor just now, Shu Yushuang had a vague guess in her heart about the path to survival.
Now that the ghost was no longer in the corridor, Shu Yushuang took the chance to run to Room 201.
Inside Room 201, a body that had already turned into a skeleton was lying there.
All the flesh on the corpse had disappeared. Shu Yushuang guessed that it had been gnawed off by the ghost.
Although this result did not surprise her, it still left her very disappointed.
Based on what the ghost had said just now, Shu Yushuang could tell that the ghost had torn off the left half of the first person’s face. And what the ghost needed was the right half. She had thought maybe she could bring the remaining half of that face to the ghost and perhaps survive.
But after seeing the corpse with her own eyes, Shu Yushuang completely gave up on that idea.
The ghost not only wanted faces, but also ate people.
Shu Yushuang then went to the room next to hers, only to find that the executor inside, though their face had been torn off, still had the rest of their body intact.
Had the ghost eaten her fill?
Although the other half of this person’s face was still there, it was not what the ghost needed. So Shu Yushuang had to think of another way.
She now had two plans in mind and decided to prepare for both.
But no matter which method she chose, she would need to go downstairs to seek Fang Xiqiong’s help. However, the ghost was no longer in the hallway—she had clearly gone downstairs too.
Shu Yushuang stood at the top of the stairs, staring into the pitch-black floor below, unsure of what to do.
It felt strange downstairs now. The lights had always been on, but now everything was dark. Could it be that Fang Xiqiong had been killed?
However, Shu Yushuang knew that the Regulator shouldn't be so easily killed by a vengeful ghost, right?
But she understood that she had no choice but to go down. If the ghost started her second round of slaughter, she didn't know if she would be lucky enough to survive again.
Shu Yushuang tightly gripped the stone knife in her hand. Before her was complete darkness, and she could only hold onto the handrail, moving slowly step by step.
But as soon as her foot touched the first floor, she realized she had been overly worried.
While it had been pitch-black on the stairs, once she reached the first floor, she saw a faint light ahead. Although the space was still quite dim, it was much better than before. And Fang Xiqiong was standing right beside her. The ghost was not here.
Fang Xiqiong frowned when she saw Shu Yushuang coming down, placing her finger over her lips. Then she gently shook her head, signaling her not to speak.
Noticing Shu Yushuang's anxious expression, Fang Xiqiong whispered softly, “Just ten minutes.”
Shu Yushuang finally calmed her restless heart. Following Fang Xiqiong's gaze, she looked at the silver screen, only to find that a movie was being played.
However, after watching for a few minutes, Shu Yushuang felt that it was less of a movie and more like a documentary of someone's life.
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She had no intention of prying into someone else's private life, so she shifted her gaze away.
Ten minutes later, the film on the screen finished playing. Fang Xiqiong walked over to the only guest in the screening room. The guest sat in the front row, and from Shu Yushuang's position, she could only see the back of his head. There seemed to be a large hole there, and it looked like everything inside had fallen out.
There was nothing in the hole.
