In a corner of the city, in a dilapidated alley, the lights are dim, the buildings are asleep, and there is no one around.
"Help!" A sudden, piercing scream shattered the silence of the night.
At the end of the alley, a young man was struggling, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace.
"Tap...tap...tap..." The unhurried footsteps came clearly, making the young man even more nervous.
"No...don't come any closer...don't come any closer...help!" the young man screamed again.
His appearance was strange; he stood there alone, his hands, feet, and body twisting and turning as if he had stumbled into a net made of springs.
When he tries to move a certain part of his body, the rest of his body will twist in the opposite direction. If he tries to step forward, his buttocks will involuntarily stick out. If he tries to stretch his arm to the left, his chest will move to the right.
He wasn't dancing. Wang Yao was just a newbie who had recently transmigrated to this world. Not only did he not get a system to defy fate, but he was also restricted in his movements by this strange method. It's clear that transmigration isn't always a pleasant experience.
The footsteps grew louder, and the person he desperately wanted to avoid was slowly approaching.
"Hehehe... Not bad, is this invisible binding feeling?" A hoarse and sinister laugh rang out. "Go ahead and scream, scream all you want, it won't do any good even if you scream your lungs out. You're a real oddball, kid, you actually ran here. Do you even know where you are?"
Wang Yao had no idea where he was. He had only been here for a few days and knew nothing about the city except for the area a few hundred meters in front of his house.
He only knew that he was in a dead end. He had fled here and was originally planning to climb over the wall, but unexpectedly a woman's figure appeared on the wall in front of him, which startled him. Then he ended up like this.
"This is a notorious ghost town in the city. All the residents have moved away. Dafu Real Estate is about to start construction. The price is 6,000 to 12,000 yuan per square meter. There are elevator apartments, townhouses, and detached villas. My goodness, the price is so cheap. If I didn't have something to do, I would really like to buy a place here and live here."
Before Wang Yao could ask, the eerie, aged voice spoke on its own.
"A ghost... a haunted building...?" Wang Yao's voice suddenly dropped as he recalled the woman's figure he had just bumped into. The six thousand or twelve thousand was not the point at all; it was a haunted building!
Although he hadn't been in the time traveler for long, he had heard of the infamous haunted house, a haunted house where many people had died mysteriously!
"What are you afraid of? You dare to run here, are you afraid of ghosts?" The eerie, aged voice finally came to Wang Yao's side. It was an old man with a face full of wrinkles, wearing a black silk Tang suit. He seemed to emerge from the darkness and slowly appeared before Wang Yao's eyes.
"I...I didn't mean to run here...why don't you let me go, I...I'll run away one more time...?" Wang Yao looked at the old man, his eyes filled with despair.
“You’re destined for the Dao, kid. Even if I let you go a hundred times, you’ll still come crawling in here.” The old man smiled slowly.
All you do is talk nonsense! Am I blind? Why do I always end up back here after running this a hundred times? Don't even mention a hundred times, if I had to run this one more time, I'd definitely go home rather than come to this godforsaken place. You say you're destined for Taoism? Why don't you say I'm destined for ghosts?
Despite cursing him inwardly, Wang Yao dared not show off. This old guy was quite capable, and he couldn't beat him. Being stubborn would only lead to trouble.
The old man casually pointed to a dark building next to him.
"403. Zhao Benshui is a quiet and reserved man, yet he married a quick-witted woman named Lin Yazhi. Zhao Benshui only cared about Lin Yazhi's beauty, but he didn't expect that Lin Yazhi was someone who couldn't stand being alone. Lin Yazhi, on the other hand, didn't know that Zhao Benshui was also a ruthless and taciturn person."
"Lin Yazhi cheated on Zhao Benshui. Zhao Benshui killed his wife. The man was sentenced to death and his soul went to the underworld. But Lin Yazhi stayed. She didn't hate Zhao Benshui. She only hated Xu Xiaoyou, who had sworn to her that he would take her away with him."
"502, Xu Xiaoyou is a handsome schoolteacher, full of ideas about men and women, but after a drunken one-night stand, he was forced to marry his colleague Liu Fen. He was unwilling to accept this, so he not only had an affair with Lin Yazhi, but also ruined several students..."
"He was afraid of Zhao Benshui's revenge, so he hid and fled, but he died at the hands of the vengeful ghost Lin Yazhi. It can be considered karma..."
"But his wife, Liu Fen, suspected that Xu Xiaoyou was having an affair with Ge Huijuan from unit 205, because Ge Huijuan was a widow and often joked around with Xu Xiaoyou. Liu Fen actually poisoned Ge Huijuan, thinking that Ge Huijuan was a pitiful person..."
"She married a man who wouldn't live long, and became a widow early. She saw that Xu Xiaoyou was good-looking and chatted with him a few times, never imagining it would lead her to her death. Ge Huijuan's son, who was in junior high school, died because Ge Huijuan ate a bowl of wontons in room 103 before she died..."
"They thought there was something wrong with that bowl of wontons, but that woman who sells wontons has a loose tongue, and her husband spoils her. The child got angry, and with one knife, two lives were lost..."
"There's also 308, Cao Zhengqiang. His wife is getting a divorce from him and has been living with her parents for over three months. Liu Fen drugged Ge Huijuan at her house and went back home. She bumped into him on the stairs. As they passed each other, Liu Fen panicked and didn't realize she was pressing herself against him a little too closely..."
"Cao Zhengqiang then assumed that Liu Fen was interested in him, so he went to her house that night with malicious intent. Liu Fen refused to comply, and as a result, another life was lost..."
Wang Yao saw the old man pointing at the buildings around him, and as he recounted the deaths of one person on the left and another on the right, the buildings became even more eerie and terrifying, with gusts of cold wind blowing. He was already so frightened that the hairs on his body stood on end.
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