Chapter 77

Cole and Liz were dragged into the paintings one after another, just like a switch was turned on for some kind of carnival. All kinds of weird things in the museum began to go crazy, and tourists were constantly caught in the paintings. Some tourists were swallowed by the monsters above their heads, and some fell into the cracks in the floor that suddenly cracked and disappeared without a trace.

Nearly half of the tourists who were brought into another mirrored world of the museum disappeared.

Regarding the news of the mysterious coming, the Internet is discussing it a lot, and fewer and fewer people are skeptical. More people are discussing how to survive the disaster in a month.

However, there are still a small number of people who firmly believe that this is just a prank by hackers or an invasion by aliens.

The fourth floor of the art museum is also the top floor of the art museum.

Kelly and Chad were hiding in the women's toilet stall on this floor.

There are no paintings, no sculptures, and most importantly, no human-faced spiders.

It was not easy to get rid of that thing. The human-faced spider was very fast and kept chasing Kelly and Chad, forcing them to run all the way until they met other tourists halfway. The human-faced spider then changed its target and caught up with the other tourists.

With just one bite, a strange tourist was bitten on the neck and rolled on the ground in pain.

The others fled in all directions, and Kelly and Chad didn't bother to save that person, even though they were the ones who attracted the ferocious human-faced spider.

No one knows whether the man who was bitten is alive or dead, not even the audience, because after the spider bit the man, the man who rolled on the ground in pain was dragged away by the monster in the painting. The human-faced spider desperately wanted to snatch its prey back from the other monster, but it was a pity that it only left a series of long and thin wounds on the man's thighs after desperately dragging with its legs. The human-faced spider had little strength and could not snatch the monster in the painting, so it could only helplessly admit defeat. The eyes of the beautiful face on the back of the spider rolled around. After losing a portion of food, it had to look for other prey, such as the two people it had targeted at the beginning.

The human-faced spider climbed up the wall, moving its long legs quickly, searching for the scent left by its escaping prey.

In the bathroom cubicle on the fourth floor, Kelly and Chad squatted there without daring to breathe.

Suddenly Kelly covered her arm in pain, and Chad immediately looked at her: "What's wrong with you?"

Kelly shook her head and covered the marks on her wrists with her sleeves.

It was a very small wound, just a red mark, and it didn't bleed much. This was the wound left by the man-faced spider. When Chad dragged Kelly away, the man-faced spider pounced on him more than once during the chase, and this was one of the times he was scratched by the man-faced spider's leg.

Kelly didn't care about such a small wound at first, but now it began to hurt more and more, as if a blunt knife was constantly cutting her flesh. Moreover, Kelly felt as if she was hallucinating.

"Chad, do we have anything above our heads?"

"What?" Chad looked up at the ceiling. The white ceiling was very clean. "No, I didn't see anything."

"Really? Is that so?" Kelly lowered her head again.

So the guy with a head growing upside down that she saw pulling at the toilet stall door didn't actually exist.

"Hehe~"

Kelly pressed her temples, and now she was not only having visual hallucinations, but also auditory hallucinations.

"One, two, three." The 'man' with an upside-down head stretched out his finger and pointed at them. "Only three, one more."

After reading it, the monster slowly loosened its hands and disappeared at the top of the compartment door.

...three?

Kelly felt confused. She turned to look at Chad and then looked around.

How could there be three people? The toilet cubicle is so small that it can only fit two people at most.

But Kelly began to feel suspicious because of the monster's words. Her heartbeat started to quicken as she tried to think about how a third person could be in this small compartment.

Maybe, it's not a human, but something like a human-faced spider?

Kelly looked around carefully, checking every nook and cranny, but she still found nothing.

No, don't take it seriously, it's all an illusion.

The human-faced spider must be poisonous and it damaged her brain nerves.

If she could get away alive, she would definitely go to the hospital for a thorough check-up. However, it is difficult to explain why she needs a check-up. In the United States, people who go to the hospital and claim that they have hallucinations must first have a urine test to eliminate the possibility of being high.

You know, she never touches that kind of thing.

I hope this thing won't have any sequelae.

Kelly glanced at her wrists and pulled her cuffs down again. Then her eyes dropped to the ground.

A white line was twisting on the ground, like some kind of creature.

One end of the line extended into the next compartment, and the other end was connected to Chad's ankle.

As if it felt my gaze, the white line stopped moving and lay quietly on the floor, like an ordinary line.

Kelly rubbed her eyes, wondering if she was dazzled or hallucinating. To confirm this, Kelly reached out and pinched the thread.

It feels very soft, even a little bouncy. It doesn't feel like linen, but more like... skin.

Kelly's fingers were trembling slightly, and she turned to look at Chad.

Chad turned his head and looked toward the bathroom door, as if listening for any movement outside. Kelly could see the side of Chad's head, but now she saw something moving slightly at the back of his head.

Kelly leaned forward a little and saw the back of Charlie's head. There were white threads hidden in the golden hair at the back of Chad's head, swaying casually like seaweed in the sea. After realizing that Kelly had noticed them, the threads immediately became limp, motionless like dead objects, and some of them that were exposed were still quietly hiding in the hair.

"......Ah." Kelly uttered a short cry with difficulty.

Chad immediately turned around and gestured to her, "Be quiet."

"Chad." Kelly was not quiet. Seeing that he was even more emotional than when he ran away, she asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?"

Chad frowned slightly: "What?"

"Is there something wrong with your head?" Kelly raised her fingers to point at the back of her head, but she was not in good condition and was weak, so she dropped her fingers halfway.

Oops, the scenery in front of her eyes started to double and she felt a little nauseous and wanted to vomit.

"Kelly?" Chad called his sister's name. "You look terrible. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Kelly nodded and looked at Chad. "How are you?"

"I'm fine." Chad looked confused, then he stroked his chin and said, "I'm fine, just a little thirsty."

After saying that, Chad swallowed his saliva. He was really thirsty.

No, I'm very thirsty.

I want to drink water.

Not true.

Chad looked at Kelly's exposed skin. Instead of drinking water, he kind of... wanted to drink blood.

As soon as this thought came to Chad, he felt something was wrong with him. He patted his forehead with his palm and said, "Something seems to be wrong with me, Kelly, we..."

"Let's go our separate ways," Kelly said suddenly.

Chad was stunned. This was exactly what he wanted to say. But Kelly said it first, which surprised him.

"Yeah, I think so." Chad swallowed again. "It's faster to find the exit separately."

In fact, he felt that he was becoming more and more strange and did not want to hurt his sister Kelly.

Kelly also nodded: "Yes, separate and go quickly."

In fact, she was about to pass out. She felt that she couldn't continue to escape and didn't want to be a drag.

But before that...

Kelly: "Chad, your hair is messy."

"Huh? My hair?" Chad subconsciously wanted to touch the back of his head.

But Kelly got there first. She reached out and grabbed Chad's hair, then pulled it down hard. As her body began to grow weaker, Kelly used up all her strength to pull those strange things out. She wanted to press her whole body on her brother and use her own weight to pull those things out.

However, those things seemed to be stuck to Chad's scalp and could not be torn off. Instead, Chad felt a stinging pain in his scalp.

"Kelly, it hurts, what are you doing!!"

"I'm picking lice off you! Don't move!"

"I don't have lice!" Chad suddenly realized something and said, "Is there something on the back of my head? Is there something there?"

"It's okay, Chad, you'll be fine!" Kelly repeated.

"No, wait, leave me be. Kelly, I told you to leave me be!!"

"You are my only brother, how can I ignore you——"

When a brother and sister were arguing, suddenly, a voice came from the next room: "Four."

Kelly stopped and a look of horror gradually appeared in her eyes.

Chad didn't hear it. He noticed that Kelly's body stiffened and her face changed drastically. He asked quickly, "What's wrong?"

Kelly didn't answer, and she didn't need to answer.

There was a sound in the quiet toilet.

Tick, tick, tick.

The sound gradually approached the cubicle where the two were hiding, and finally stopped when it landed outside the toilet cubicle door.

But what really frightened the two was not this, but that when they looked through the gap under the toilet cubicle door from the outside, they saw nothing. No human feet, no monster feet, nothing.

But the sound did stop in front of the door of their toilet cubicle.

Suddenly, the two realized something and looked up at the ceiling at the same time. They saw a human-shaped creature with a pitch-black body and long limbs lying on the ceiling. The creature was staring at them with its fish-like eyes.

So that's it. The thudding sound was actually the sound of it crawling over from the ceiling.