41 041 (2nd update on June 25)
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Jiang Chuxu didn't even turn her head to look at the ghost face that suddenly appeared on the left. Her body instinctively slid half a step to the right, and the pale and twisted face with a fishy wind brushed past her ear and disappeared.
At the same time, she grabbed the wrist of the blue-black ghost hand on her right shoulder with her backhand.
This ghost face and ghost hand are not even from the same ghost.
As soon as I held the ghost's hand, it felt cold, sticky, and soft, like a bone covered with moss.
She suddenly tightened her fingers, twisted them outwards and then bent them downwards.
With a sharp, tooth-grinding sound and an extremely short and shrill scream, the ghost hand instantly disintegrated, turning into a fishy and pungent aura that dissipated in the cold air.
The hand seemed to be extending from the wall.
Almost at the same moment, the little black on his shoulder turned into a sharp black shadow and shot towards the ghost face on the left side like a cannonball.
There was no fancy pounce, just the simplest and most direct collision.
The hideous ghost face was like being hit head-on by a truck. With a dull "bang", the ghost flew backwards and hit the wall next to it hard.
The wall was like a water surface into which a stone was thrown, and ripples suddenly spread out.
The ghost face's facial features instantly twisted and deformed, and it uttered only a vague whine before slowly melting into the wall, leaving behind only a rapidly fading human-shaped stain.
Everything around suddenly became quiet, and the various sounds just now also paused briefly.
Maybe just a few seconds passed.
“Hehehe…”
The strange laughter of the children floated up again. This time, the sound seemed to come from all directions, colliding back and forth in the narrow stairwell, sometimes left, sometimes right, sometimes up, sometimes down, and it was impossible to locate the source.
Jiang Chuxu raised his head slightly, and the black outline that had been peeping at him just now seemed a little clearer.
As if the distance was closer, it grinned silently, and its smile was full of mockery.
Jiang Chuxu stood there. Except for those strange noises, everything around her seemed to have returned to calm. Although the sleepiness did not make her make the wrong decision, it still affected her thinking a little.
She looked up and saw that the stairs leading to the second floor were not as strange as before.
Although she knew that unexpected things would happen after she took the step, she did not hesitate.
Most of those ghosts don't appear directly, so if you want to break the deadlock you have to go up and take a look.
This time, the ghost wall is more troublesome and complicated than any previous ones. It is not just a visual misleading, it is more like the whole building has come alive, forming a huge maze composed of countless ghosts.
Jiang Chuxu took another step forward and stepped onto the upward stairs.
One step, two steps, three steps...
The feeling under my feet became increasingly strange.
It was no longer simply soft as before, but more like stepping on living tissue that was slightly pulsating.
Each step she took caused an uncomfortable slight dent and rebound, and the bloody stench in the air grew stronger as she climbed.
Four steps, five steps, six steps...
When he reached the sixth step, Jiang Chuxu clearly felt the outline of something hard under his feet.
Hard and curved, like some kind of skeleton wrapped under flesh.
Moreover, at the moment she fell, the hard object seemed to move very slightly, as if it was hurt by her stepping on it.
Jiang Chuxu stopped.
The flashlight beam hit the steps at her feet.
It was still the gray cement steps, the surface was a bit rough, and there were some unknown stains on it.
It seemed normal, no different from the steps she had stepped on when she first entered the stairwell.
Maybe it was all an illusion?
Is it right?
The pungent smell in the air seemed to fade a little, deathly silence enveloped the area again, and the black outlines in the sky became blurred.
It seems like it’s really just an illusion?
Jiang Chuxu did not relax at all. She knew this kind of place too well. Normality itself was the biggest trap.
She did not lift her foot immediately, but instead stepped harder, and the sole of her shoe rolled hard on the "normal" concrete steps.
The feeling under my feet seems to have changed.
The feeling became sticky, soft and flexible, with an extremely uncomfortable and weak elasticity.
It's not an illusion!
At the moment she stepped on it, an extremely subtle sound, like the sound of skin being torn, came from under her feet.
Then, the small piece of "cement" surface that was rolled over by her sole slowly formed a tiny, irregular bubble, just like a low-quality wall that got damp.
The color of the bubble quickly deepened, from grayish white to a dirty dark red, and a little bit of translucent liquid seeped out of the edge.
Under the flashlight, the dark red bubble looked like an eye slowly opening!
Jiang Chuxu moved his foot away suddenly.
The moment she left, the dark red bubble burst, and a pungent black and red pus and blood spurted out, splashing on the steps next to it, making a "sizzling" corrosion sound and leaving behind charred marks.
At the same time, the true appearance of the steps was revealed under the broken bubble!
It was a piece of bluish-gray skin, and there seemed to be something pulsating very faintly underneath.
This is just the beginning.
Like dominoes being pushed down, the numbing sound of skin being forcibly peeled off suddenly resounded throughout the stairwell.
The sound came from all directions, from under my feet, from above my head, and from the walls on both sides.
The disguise on the step under Jiang Chuxu's feet, as well as on the surfaces of all the steps above, below, left and right as far as her eyes could see, was fading away madly.
What was revealed was an extremely terrifying scene.
Each step turns into a "human" body!
The skin of these "people" was the bluish-gray color of a corpse, covered with corpse spots and dirt.
The eyes were cloudy and pale as if without pupils, and they were staring at the direction where Jiang Chuxu was.
Countless pairs of eyes were staring at it.
No matter which direction you look, you will see their eyes, and they will look into each other's eyes.
Their mouths were wide open at an extremely painful angle, forming an "O" shape of silent scream, revealing black and yellow broken teeth. Some of their tongues were swollen and black, hanging out.
Without exception, all their expressions were sneers.
“Woo…”
Faint whimpering sounds were heard, all coming from the wide-open mouths at the feet. The stench in the air instantly became a hundred times thicker, almost suffocating.
Jiang Chuxu just stood there, his expression unchanged.
"Tsk." She smacked her lips very lightly.
The little black man on the shoulder had already had his hair standing on end. He growled threateningly from his throat, and stared at the faces beneath his feet with his pupils fixed.
Xiao Hei suddenly jumped down from Jiang Chuxu's arrow. The moment his small body landed on the wriggling flesh and blood, a sharp cat cry broke out.
It was like two red-hot steel needles piercing into boiling oil at the same time.
The "people" underfoot made harsh sounds, and their facial features were distorted wildly in extreme pain.
The flesh and blood tissue that made up the steps were burned by this force and shrank violently, and the mucus also evaporated completely.
After reaching its peak, the screaming sound suddenly stopped as if the throat was strangled.
Jiang Chuxu could feel that everything around her had returned to normal, but it was only temporary and only allowed her to walk to the second floor.
Xiao Hei shook his tail, as if he was just clearing away a little dust, and easily jumped back onto Jiang Chuxu's shoulder.
Jiang Chuxu lifted her foot, and the sense of touch had returned to normal. She walked a few steps to the fire door on the second floor.
The second floor is a residential floor. A long and narrow corridor extends to the left and right. The light is extremely dim, with only a dusty window at the end letting in a little bleak gray light.
There are densely packed and tightly closed doors, most of which have peeling paint and blurred house numbers.
Just as Jiang Chuxu was about to step into the corridor, she looked back.
A blurry figure appeared on the corner platform leading to the third floor. It seemed to be the black silhouette that had been looking down just now.
Jiang Chuxu withdrew his gaze and walked into the second floor without hesitation.
The fire door slammed shut behind her. The power to the entire building had been cut off long ago, and the smell of rotting food could not be covered up at all.
She walked to the left, and the strange feeling became more and more obvious.
It seemed as if someone was staring at her, looking out through the peephole.
They didn't move, they just looked at each other.
"Woo woo woo."
The suppressed sobbing sound floated out from behind some door, intermittently.
"Boom boom boom."
The monotonous sound of chopping meat was heard, dull and seemingly never-ending.
The sound came from another direction, vague and intermittent.
There is also the "rustling" white noise that old TVs make when there is no signal. It is erratic and its specific source cannot be determined.
Jiang Chuxu held Xiao Hei in his arms and walked towards the depths of the corridor without looking around.
The footsteps echoed slightly in the empty corridor.
As she walked past an iron gate that looked particularly shabby and had faded Spring Festival couplets pasted on it.
A muffled sound suddenly exploded from inside the door, and the entire iron door shook.
The sound seemed to disappear all of a sudden.
But after a while, there was a harsh and teeth-grinding sound of scratching the door panel from inside, followed by the sound of banging on the door.
The sound was dense and hysterical, as if countless hands were scratching and slapping frantically behind the door.
They want to break out!
"Help me."
"You should have come and rescued us."
"I'm in so much pain."
The noises were so loud, they seemed genuinely painful, or perhaps they were just a lure to get people in.
But Jiang Chuxu's footsteps didn't even pause, he continued to walk forward at the same pace, not even glancing at the door that was shaking wildly.
Jiang Chuxu walked to the end of the corridor, where there was a dusty dressing mirror with a broken surface, leaning against the corner of the wall.
I guess it's ready to be thrown away.
Strangely, the figures that appeared in the mirror were not Jiang Chuxu and Xiao Hei.
There stood a long-haired woman in pajamas, seemingly with her back to the mirror.
She lowered her head, her long hair falling down to cover her face.
The ghost should be facing Jiang Chuxu.
But there was nothing in front of her except the mirror and the woman in the mirror.
The moment Jiang Chuxu stopped, the woman in the mirror moved.
Her body did not turn, but her lowered head slowly twisted 180 degrees behind her shoulders in a way that was extremely contrary to the human body structure!
The long hair slid away as she turned, revealing her "face".
It was a completely blank face without any facial features, a pale face as if it had been flattened by an iron.
Smooth and flat.
There was only the original pale color of the skin, no eyes, no nose, no mouth!
This face is exactly where the mirror is broken, so it looks like it not only has no facial features, but is also broken.
This faceless face was facing Jiang Chuxu outside the mirror.
At this time, the person in the mirror had changed his clothes again, and they were exactly the same as what Jiang Chuxu was wearing, a black sportswear.
Although there were no facial features, Jiang Chuxu had an inexplicable feeling that the woman in the mirror should be looking outside.
And her gaze seemed to pass through Jiang Chuxu and look towards a place not far away.
What's there?
A stronger feeling of sleepiness came over me.
The woman's figure in the mirror became even more distorted.
【Author’s words】
[Lop-eared rabbit head] It seems that I need to add more chapters. I should post it tomorrow. Please add more chapters [Please][Please]
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