The door was locked.

The only item that could possibly match Su Bai's is the "Key to Nightmare of Fear" found in the little girl's room.

But before he could take out the key, the door opened by itself.

"Come in quickly, child!"

An elderly woman with a wrinkled face and a kind expression appeared behind the door.

Passing her, my gaze fell upon the room. The furnishings were unremarkable, with nothing unusual about them.

But the more this was the case, the more vigilant Su Bai became.

How could a seemingly harmless old lady suddenly appear in such a dreadful place?

His thoughts raced.

However, he definitely couldn't enter the maze ahead—he already had a guess in his mind that the maze corridor was probably the real 'hopscotch' game. If it weren't for the powerful force of the raging torrent that could even destroy buildings, he probably wouldn't have realized this until his death.

Entering room 59 was arguably the only option he could have at that moment.

Thinking about this...

Su Bai entered the house without further hesitation.

The old lady closed the door, and the sound of high heels almost simultaneously rang out outside. As the footsteps followed the blood shadow clone deeper into the maze, the corridor quickly fell into a deathly silence.

"Child, don't be nervous, they won't find you here."

She turned and smiled.

Su Bai remained silent, cautiously keeping a distance from her, and discreetly surveying the layout of the room.

The structure of this room is not much different from that of number 60, from which he just escaped.

The living room was decorated in a rich and luxurious style, but it looked a bit old, as if covered with a layer of dust, or perhaps because the lighting was dim. — Su Bai noticed the strangest thing: outside the little girl's room, the illusion he saw was sunny and bright, but the world outside the window of this building presented a silent and decaying place, like a dead zone.

Ash filled the air, making the whole world look like it had been burned by a great fire. Ashes drifted in the sky, like a blizzard that never dissipated. The heavy atmosphere of death seeped through the window frames, giving rise to a deep sense of despair from the bottom of one's heart.

Just a door away.

It was as if two completely different worlds were separated.

Sizzle...

Crackling sounds...

Suddenly, the chandelier on the ceiling began to flicker intermittently, as if there was a malfunction.

The dimly lit room felt especially eerie.

In the interplay of light and shadow, the old woman's kind face turned into a grotesque and eerie expression. Su Bai's heart tightened immediately as she slowly walked towards him, her aged voice drawing out in a strange and chilling tone.

"Child...don't be nervous...no one can find you here..."

"It was a trap?"

Su Bai's face remained calm, but a bright spark flashed in his dark eyes.

Boom!!

Earth erupted with fire.

A pillar of flame bursting with blazing white fire rose up instantly, engulfing the old woman's figure and burning her to ashes in the blink of an eye.

Is he dead?

Su Bai remained vigilant.

There was no kill notification.

He couldn't tell whether the person he killed was the old woman in her true form or just an illusion.

But the next moment.

He then had no time to consider this issue anymore.

The old lady's death seemed to trigger some kind of trap. The chandelier on the ceiling began to flicker faster, and the surrounding walls and furniture seemed to have experienced the passage of a long time in a very short period of time, starting to age and mold rapidly, emitting a strong smell of decay.

Whoosh!

Large chunks of ceiling and wall plaster had fallen off, revealing piles of corpses crammed together. What caught Su Bai's attention even more was that these corpses were all boys and girls who looked to be only seven or eight years old.

They seemed to have just died; their bodies were still well-preserved, and with the distortion caused by the twisting of the wall, one could even feel the fresh elasticity of their flesh...

A quick glance.

Su Bai noticed another rather unusual feature.

"These guys... don't seem like normal humans," he muttered to himself, the situation leaving him little time to think.

Time is passing.

That terrifying force had begun to gradually affect him.

Bang!

Su Bai rushed to the door and kicked it open, but the scene in front of him left him dumbfounded.

The corridor outside the door was no longer the sixth-floor corridor of some illusion.

It was pitch black!

Pitch black

Secluded and deep.

The dark environment seems to evoke the most primal fear buried deep in people's hearts.

Su Bai stopped in his tracks, when suddenly he heard the sound of a door opening behind him.

Looking back.

He then saw a charred corpse, still sparking, push open the door of a bedroom inside the house and walk out.

"Heh...heh heh...child...!"

It opened its mouth, spewing out a thick plume of smoke and emitting a chilling, hoarse sound.

Without a doubt.

The old lady, whom he had just killed with a fiery torrent, had miraculously come back to life.

Visibly, her burned body was rapidly healing under the influence of some unknown force, and the flames burning on her body were extinguished time and time again. However, perhaps because the destructive power of the raging torrents was too strong, the process of her body's recovery was extremely difficult.

"What exactly is this thing? An illusion? Or..."

Su Bai's mind raced.

One step forward meant the abyss; his biological instinct to fear the dark, coupled with the unknown factors beyond his control, made him unwilling to move forward.

But if you stay in the room...

He was about to face a bizarre creature that seemed impossible to kill...

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