Chapter 33: Ten Ways To Summon Ghosts (12)

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Zhu Yao felt that she was like this from the start.

Even if she died, she would not let others live well.

Deng Yue saw that stopping her did not work, so she could only use force. But she did not know why.

They both were Executors who died in the dungeon, yet Zhu Yao’s power was much stronger than hers.

All this was seen by Shu Yushuang who was hiding in the room.

She now finally understood why Deng Yue would let go of the past and protect her instead.

Because Deng Yue needed someone to protect Liang Qi in the next few ghost-inviting games. And now only she could do that.

But from the current situation, Deng Yue was clearly at a disadvantage.

Shu Yushuang searched all around the room, trying to find a weapon that could attack the female ghost.

But the result was the same as before, she had already turned her own room upside down earlier, yet she still did not find any weapon.

Deng Yue could not hold on for long. The next one would be her.

Shu Yushuang went to the window, wanting to escape from there.

However, she went through something like what happened in the last dungeon again.

She could not escape through the window. Outside was nothingness, and she did not dare to go out.

Zhu Yao’s attack became fiercer. She only wanted to tear apart everything that blocked her.

Just when Deng Yue was beaten until she almost had no strength to fight back, Liang Qi rushed out from the room on the side.

“Qiqi!” Deng Yue shouted in shock and quickly shielded Liang Qi behind her. “Why did you wake up so fast?”

“If I didn’t wake up this fast, were you planning to sacrifice yourself to save me?”

Seeing Deng Yue stay silent, Liang Qi already knew the answer. She said angrily, “Move aside, I’ll deal with her.”

While struggling to resist Zhu Yao’s attack, Deng Yue almost pleaded, “Qiqi, I’m already dead, I can’t let you stay here with me too...”

“If I die too, then I can stay here with you.”

Liang Qi pushed Deng Yue aside without giving her a chance to stop her.

She said she had a way to deal with Zhu Yao, and she was not lying to Deng Yue.

In the last game, because the fierce ghost summoned by the Executor possessed Hu Yue, Hu Yue burned to death in place of the doll, and that doll was saved. Liang Qi hid that doll secretly when Shu Yushuang wasn’t paying attention.

It’s said that ghosts fear the thing that killed them, so now they could only try using this doll.

Liang Qi threw the doll at Zhu Yao, and then, under Zhu Yao’s shocked gaze, the doll grew bigger and bigger until it was taller than Zhu Yao by a head.

Zhu Yao, who had just been fierce, now looked terrified like she had seen something horrible. She turned and ran toward the other end of the hallway, and the doll closely followed behind her.

“Hoo, I guessed right.”

Watching Zhu Yao and the doll run away, Liang Qi let out a long breath, and Deng Yue’s palms were already full of sweat.

“Good thing it worked.”

She held her girlfriend’s hand in fear and nervously watched Zhu Yao and the doll’s backs.

The doll quickly caught up to Zhu Yao. The head that she had just managed to put back together was split in half by the doll again.

Facing the doll that had killed her, Zhu Yao almost had no will to fight back. She squatted on the ground, trembling.

The one person and one ghost behind saw this scene and knew the situation was already decided.

Worried that after killing Zhu Yao again the doll might turn back to trouble them, Deng Yue pulled Liang Qi into the room where Shu Yushuang was hiding.

At this moment Shu Yushuang had already seen everything that happened outside the door. When she saw Liang Qi and Deng Yue come in, although she didn’t stop them, she immediately moved to stand farther away from them.

Deng Yue and Liang Qi were also very aware and didn’t go near Shu Yushuang.

The room suddenly fell into a strange silence.

“Shu Yushuang, can you help me with something?”

Shu Yushuang didn’t speak, she only raised her chin, signaling Deng Yue to go on.

“In the next game, it’ll only be you and Qiqi left. I hope you can do your best to help her.”

Before Shu Yushuang could speak, she added, “Of course, I can promise you she won’t try to hurt you again.”

Hearing this, Shu Yushuang looked at Liang Qi. Liang Qi nodded unwillingly.

Shu Yushuang didn’t reply to Deng Yue right away but instead asked, “What about that ghost who was playing the game with us before?”

“It’s been taken care of.”

When saying this, Deng Yue felt a bit guilty. From the surface, that female ghost was indeed already dealt with, but the doll that dealt with the ghost… she also didn’t know if that doll would turn around and attack the Executors.

Clearly, Shu Yushuang also thought of this. She asked, “What about the doll?”

Deng Yue didn’t know how to answer. Liang Qi said, “Since I picked it up, it became my prop. As long as we don’t seek death, it shouldn’t hurt us.”

Liang Qi’s words seemed to have another meaning. Deng Yue coughed awkwardly.

“So that doll has already become your prop… hehehe, why didn’t you tell me?”

“You didn’t ask.”

Deng Yue knew Liang Qi still held resentment, so she gave an embarrassed laugh.

Shu Yushuang silently watched their interaction. At this moment she finally realized that the relationship between Liang Qi and Deng Yue was not ordinary.

But she didn’t care.

After knowing the doll was unlikely to harm her, she finally relaxed a little.

This game’s way to survive was purely a coincidence. If it weren’t because Zhu Yao had been killed by the doll in the last game, and Liang Qi just happened to pick up that doll, this game would probably not be so easy to clear.

Deng Yue and Liang Qi spent the last bit of time staying together.

Neither of them dared to mention what would happen three days later.

The mood was very sad, and Shu Yushuang also felt that she was a bit unnecessary.

Unable to stand this atmosphere, she decided to leave.

She left the room, giving that small space to that one person and one ghost.

At the end of the hallway, the doll lay there quietly, and that Executor who had “come back to life” was already gone.

Although Shu Yushuang couldn’t believe the game had just ended like this, the fact was right in front of her, leaving her no choice but to believe it.

Shu Yushuang stepped forward, ready to pick up that lifeless doll. However, before her hand could touch it, she saw a strange red light suddenly burst out from the doll’s eyes. The red light shone on her body, making her feel waves of dizziness, and she pulled her hand back without thinking.

At the same time, blood seeped from the places on the doll’s body that had been stitched with red thread.

Shu Yushuang clearly remembered that after the doll’s torso was hollowed out, it was filled with rice and fingernails. How could these two things possibly bleed?

The only reasonable explanation now was that the doll was once again possessed by a ghost. As for which ghost possessed it, that was already obvious.

In the few seconds while Shu Yushuang was stunned, the doll’s entire body had already been soaked red with blood, giving off a strong stench of blood. The blood seeping from its stitches had formed a large pool beneath it.

Seeing this, Shu Yushuang didn’t dare to stay frozen any longer. She took out the lighter that Fang Xiqiong had lent her earlier, lit a flame, and threw it onto the doll.

After that, Shu Yushuang didn’t dare to see what happened. She ran straight downstairs.

Behind her came strange and painful howls. The sound gradually faded as Shu Yushuang got farther away. During the whole process, she never looked back.

When she finally reached Fang Xiqiong’s side, Shu Yushuang saw that the doll hadn’t followed. She didn’t know whether that fire had completely burned the doll, but for now, it at least stopped it from moving.

Fang Xiqiong didn’t pay attention to Shu Yushuang. She had a guest, and Shu Yushuang sensibly stepped aside.

Today’s guest looked very normal, not like a lifeless wandering soul.

When Shu Yushuang came down, the guest seemed to be arguing with Fang Xiqiong.

“You actually gave away the thing I gave you?”

“Wasn’t it to save someone...”

Fang Xiqiong knew she was in the wrong, so she lowered her voice.

“Save someone? You have so many regular lighters here, but you had to give her that one?”

“I accidentally grabbed the wrong one...”

“Accidentally grabbed the wrong one? I think you did it on purpose!”

Shu Yushuang finally understood. The reason they were arguing seemed to be because of that Zippo lighter Fang Xiqiong had unintentionally lent her.

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At this moment, Fang Xiqiong finally noticed Shu Yushuang. She immediately let out a breath of relief. “You’re here? Can you return the lighter I lent you earlier?”

A rare embarrassed look appeared on Shu Yushuang’s face. “Sorry, I threw it away just now.”

Fang Xiqiong’s expression instantly turned ugly.

“Threw it away?”

“Yes. The doll from the last game tried to harm people again, so I burned it. I didn’t have time to take the lighter back.”

Hearing this, Fang Xiqiong turned her pleading gaze to the guest.

“We can’t go upstairs now. Can we wait until this dungeon ends, then I’ll go find it for you?”

Although the guest nodded in agreement, they didn’t plan to let Fang Xiqiong off so easily.

“Fine. But can you explain why my Zippo’s weight and shape are not the same as an ordinary lighter, yet you could still take the wrong one?”

“Because it was too rushed, so I didn’t find any other replacement.”

This time Fang Xiqiong answered firmly, but Shu Yushuang knew she wasn’t telling the truth.

However, the guest was fooled by Fang Xiqiong’s excellent acting and said with relief, “So that’s how it is. Then I’ll let you off this time.”

Only then did Fang Xiqiong show a smile.

“Don’t worry, as soon as this dungeon ends, I’ll go find it.”

“No rush.”

Seeing Fang Xiqiong solve the current problem, Shu Yushuang didn’t care what she and the guest talked about afterward.

After the guest left, Fang Xiqiong finally asked Shu Yushuang, “What’s going on now? How could the doll from the last game appear again?”

Shu Yushuang had no choice but to tell Fang Xiqiong everything that had happened since the start of this game.

In the end, she asked, “Is the method to destroy the doll from the last game still effective now?”

“Since it didn’t come after you once you set it on fire, it should be effective.”

“I understand.”

After saying this, Shu Yushuang didn’t know what else to say. After a long silence, she finally said to Fang Xiqiong, “Thank you for lending me the lighter. I’m really sorry. I’ll definitely go find it.”

Fang Xiqiong waved her hand. “Don’t worry about it. Leave it to me. You won’t be able to find it.”

Before Shu Yushuang could ask more, Fang Xiqiong urged her to go upstairs. “Go back to your room. This game has been cleared safely. Staying in the room will be safer. I hope I can still see you when the next game ends.”

Shu Yushuang forced a small smile.

She didn’t know if she had really cleared this game safely, and she didn’t know if she would die in the next one.

All she could do now was try her best.

Shu Yushuang carefully went back upstairs. The doll was already gone, and the floor where it had been left only a large patch of black-and-red filth.

The red was the blood that had flowed out of the doll’s body earlier, and the black was naturally the ashes from when the doll was burned.

In the middle of that filth, Shu Yushuang didn’t see the Zippo Fang Xiqiong had lent her, and unease suddenly rose in her heart.

How could it be gone? Liang Qi and Deng Yue should still be in the room, and there was no one else on the second floor. Where could the Zippo have gone?

Could it be that the fierce ghost that had been destroyed by the doll had revived again?

Shu Yushuang didn’t dare think more. She immediately hid back in the room.

This time she still chose the room where Liang Qi and Deng Yue were.

Even if she had to be a light bulb, it was better than dying alone in another room.