“All on guard!” He Qin shouted, and as soon as the sword in his hand was unsheathed, the system prompt immediately sounded in the players’ ears!
[Main Quest 2: Escape Carnival (unlimited times) has started.
During the day, this is a desolate town with no pedestrians on the streets; at night, this is a bizarre, crazy, and terrifying ghost town. The spokesperson of the devil creates a world that reverses black and white here. On the night of the ghosts’ carnival, will you be able to escape and see the sun rise the next day?]
…There is actually a rare mission introduction.
A dazzling white light flashed in front of them, accompanied by Happy Dawson’s deranged laughter. Before they could even express their astonishment, their visions blurred, and they all disappeared!
Happy Dawson, with microphone in hand, stood at the highest point under the night sky and laughed at the territory he ruled: “Ladies and gentlemen! Let’s have a good time—!”
In the silence of the night, countless ghostly shadows swayed in the darkness, spreading to the edge of the endless night.
Li Tianyu opened her eyes and woke up from the dizziness.
At this moment, she was in a dark, damp small room with an uncomfortable and rancid odor mixed with the smell of disinfectant entering her nose. She was surrounded by no one and had no teammates.
The room is undeniably cramped. There was a hospital bed with a no-eye teddy bear lying on top, a wardrobe, and a pole for an IV drip next to the bed. Those are the only remaining objects here. Li Tianyu circled inside and found that all the furniture was covered in a thick layer of dust, as if no one had lived here for a long time.
“…Sure enough.” She whispered and forced herself to calm down: “We are all separated.”
The communicator made a sound. Li Tianyu collected herself and quickly walked to the window, carefully lifting a gap in the smelly curtains and observing the situation here through the flickering street lights on the roadside.
Based on the distance from the ground to her, Li Tianyu judged that she was on the third floor somewhere, and after perceiving the smell of disinfectant and the layout of the room, she was tentatively willing to believe that she was in a clinic or a hospital.
She felt a chill of dread.
A place like a hospital is not good…
A low-pitched questioning voice came from next to her ear: “How is everyone doing?”
It was the man named He Qin.
“Not bad.”
“I’m fine.”
“Um… not so good.”
The teammates reported the situation one by one, but Li Tianyu hesitated: “Not too bad; I’m in the hospital.”
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After confirming each other’s situation, they began to report the area according to the coordinates, one by one. Li Tianyu pulled out the coordinate device, estimated it, and said, “Area B.”
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…Who is this?
After thinking hard for a long time, she heard the powerful woman named Du Zijun say in a deep voice, “Xie Yuanyuan, remember to say your name before you speak next time.”
…Ah, that’s right. He was a boy with a low sense of existence, like a monster… no, more like a ghost.
Although Li Tianyu has a domineering personality, she isn’t too stupid. She knows how terrifying this kind of constitution can be when used well, so she’s quite tolerant and chimed in: “It’s okay, it’s okay, I will try to remember….”
Her back went cold, and she suddenly couldn’t speak.
Behind the closed door—or perhaps from the corridor—there was a faint sound, as if some heavy object was dragging and scraping against the floor while emitting a whimper that seemed like crying or laughter.
Li Tianyu’s breathing got stuck, and the cold wind that drilled in through the cracks of the door and window instantly caused goosebumps all over her body. She held her breath. Her face was pale as she waited for the thing to get closer and closer to the room she was in. The sound of its dragging and faint cries became more and more discernible…
Li Tianyu still opened her mouth and stood stiffly in the room, not daring to move. In the extreme silence, she felt that the thing outside the door was not rubbing against the floor but her cold scalp.
She slowly and noiselessly lifted the root of her tongue and used it to close the windpipe in her throat, relying only on her nose to slowly breathe in and out, hoping to minimize her sense of existence. At this moment, she badly wishes she had a special constitution like Xie… Xie something. His sense of existence is so low that you will forget his name as soon as you hear it. If she can also have it…
“…..Li Tianyu?” After a long silence on the other end of the communicator, Bai Jingxing slowed his voice to its softest level and asked in a whisper.
But Li Tianyu had no time for her teammates; she waited, in deadly silence, for the thing outside her door to slowly move away. The distance grew shorter and shorter, and the speed of her heartbeat slowed with it. However, when her heart was almost in her throat, the sound outside the door suddenly disappeared.
Li Tianyu’s scalp exploded, and she almost screamed out loud.
—It stopped at her door!
Boom!
There was a faint collision, and Li Tianyu’s body also trembled with it.
She reached out and pressed down on the weapon on her waist, placing the items in her inventory at the top. At the same time, she smelled an extremely heavy and smoky smell of blood, which persistently and viscously spread through the gap, making her nauseated.
…..The thing was lying on her door and seemed to be peering in through the gap.
“……” Li Tianyu tried to make a sound, but under the excessive panic, her throat spasmed so much that she could only make intermittent gasps.
“From now on, the team members in the same area will rendezvous with each other. The whole team channel will close, and the small channels will be opened between the members of the same area to confirm each other’s locations.” The gentle but firm voice of Wen Zheliu seems to give everyone some kind of power in an invisible way: “Li Tianyu, move your finger, accept Xie Yuanyuan’s request, and then send him the coordinates. Let him come to you; don’t be afraid, okay?”
Li Tianyu nodded to the void with difficulty. No matter how rich her actual combat experience was, fear ruled over her at the moment.
With trembling fingers, she clicked on the communicator, turned off the main channel, grouped up with her teammate, and then sent the coordinates over. Xie Yuanyuan’s voice came from the other end: “Are you in the hospital? Okay, I’m coming over to you now, don’t be afraid! Even if there’s something…..”
He hesitated for a moment, as if thinking about the wording: “…whether he’s a person or a ghost, if he dares to provoke you, just f*ck him up!”
Of course, Li Tianyu didn’t know that these were Du Zijun’s famous quotes, but after hearing these words, she seemed to muster up a little courage. She drew her gun and approached the door slowly.
“My child… my child…” The crying outside the door became more and more choked up: “Where is my child…”
“It turned out to be the ghost of a pregnant woman…” She thought with a shudder in her heart, “That’s right, this is a hospital after all; there are only a few kinds of ghosts. I can’t blame them for being too cliché…”
Even so, she couldn’t console herself at all. This inhuman creature, who was only one door away from her, kept grinding and squeezing on the door, mumbling for its child. She suddenly had a flash of inspiration and turned to look at the teddy bear on the bed.
“So that’s it!” She suddenly realized, “Perhaps because of this doll, it thinks that there’s a child here…”
Li Tianyu stepped forward quickly, carefully picked up the teddy bear, took out a candy from the inventory, tore it open, and pressed it under her tongue.
“With this, how can I lure her away?” She turned her head and looked out the window. “Throwing it out is definitely not an option. It’s said that ghosts can’t go too far away from the place where they died. Although this is a foreign country, the principle should be about the same… Wait, oh my god, what’s left…”
She looked at the door—at this moment, with the help of the faint light, Li Tianyu could already see a darker bloodstain slowly seeping from the brown wooden door panel. The ghost’s morbid sobs, which were either crying or laughing, became increasingly clear; one could almost hear the blood churning in its throat. It seemed to compress itself into a puddle of liquid and then seep through this door, but Li Tianyu couldn’t just stand here and wait for death.
“…… Then all that’s left is for me to break out the door, play chase with the ghost, and find the necessary moment to throw the doll out to get its attention—if that’s feasible.”
Li Tianyu swallowed her saliva with difficulty and almost choked herself to death by the candy.
“But …… I can’t hold the team back any longer if I want to get through this alive ……” She thought sadly in her heart. Under the threat of extreme fear, she was finally able to wear down her spirit and think about some really useful questions.
“That’s it! There’s no other way!” She gritted her teeth. The two guns in her hands suddenly spewed out flames, blasting open the tightly closed door panel. In silence, accompanied by a loud splash of flesh and wood, Li Tianyu rushed out of the prison while clutching her head and running out with the teddy bear!
The ghost of the pregnant woman was blown head-on and let out an angry hiss of pain. Li Tianyu instinctively turned around and almost screamed out of fear.
The female ghost behind her was bathed in blood and wearing a blood-stained maternity dress. The long hair was glued into blackened crumbs by old blood stains, complemented by a pale and elongated face, black hole-like eyes, and bleeding lips. Its arms, legs, and feet were jagged and frighteningly white, but its belly was protruding high under the bloody clothes, indicating its identity as a pregnant woman.
Compared with the butcher last night, the inhuman creature in front of her should be a fierce ghost without any consciousness. It screamed like crazy, its limbs twitched and reversed at a strange angle, and its long hair wiped the corridor with sporadic bloodstains. It rushed towards Li Tianyu in a distorted posture, like a big spider with its joints bent back, and its speed was incredibly fast!
The ghost screamed, and Li Tianyu also screamed while darting desperately through the long, winding corridors and stairways of the hospital. As she ran, she realized that the path available for this female ghost wasn’t limited to the ground. It could even leave a blurry, bloody trail on the walls and ceilings. Now, it was chasing above Li Tianyu; the blood on its long hair and clothes was dripping, and it almost fell on top of Li Tianyu’s head.
There was no way ahead, so she slammed open the door of the stairwell, followed by the sound of the door slamming close behind her. Here, she could never outrun the ghost, so she had to stride up the steps and pin all her hope in the teddy bear in her hand.
“Get lost!!” She yelled in a broken voice, throwing the doll back against the wall and then watching the doll fly away due to inertia. Taking advantage of the moment when the female ghost was distracted by the doll, she ran up to the fourth floor at the fastest speed of her life and pulled open the door at the stairway.
The corridor on the fourth floor was extremely dark and quiet, with an eerie sense of tranquility, but Li Tianyu couldn’t care less. She just wanted to live until her teammates came to her aid without going crazy first!
At this moment, her mental value was only 61%, and at this rate, it would soon fall below half.
She was running for her life when she heard the approaching screams from downstairs behind her again. When she saw a door in front of her that was ajar, she ran in desperately. In the dimly lit, messy department, she caught sight of an empty cabinet that seemed to be used to hold documents, but the documents were scattered all over the place.
Li Tianyu ran over in a hurry. Midway through, something seemed to hit her shoulder, but she didn’t feel it. Hiding inside, her heart was beating violently like a drum, and she kept gulping the slightly foul-smelling air from the outside. Her throat was even more dry and tense, as if it would break at any time, but she would escape no matter what. She will escape this disaster!
The deadly dragging sound came again from the corridor, and now she understood that it was because the female ghost’s stomach was so big that it inevitably scraped against the ground even with the limbs holding it up.
Li Tianyu hurriedly covered her mouth, not even daring to let out a sound, and could only observe the outside through the tiny gap where the cabinet door couldn’t close.
“Its belly is so big. Is there a little kid inside… That’s what ordinary novels and movies say…” She gritted her teeth and curled up in the cabinet, trying to calm her fast and loud heartbeat as well as her uncontrollable shivers. “If I’m found by it… no, I must not let it find me; I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!!”
When the sound reappeared at the door of this room, Li Tianyu’s whole body was cold, and her lips showed an extreme, livid purple color.
She pressed her tongue against the candy in her mouth, debating whether to crush it now. She was so indecisive that her tongue was bleeding, but she was unaware of it and just opened her eyes wide and prayed silently to the darkness.
Don’t find me…don’t find me…
Fortunately, it didn’t seem to see Li Tianyu’s escape route. After a few circles in place, the sound of friction faded away and slowly disappeared within Li Tianyu’s hearing range.
……Is it over?
She was completely exhausted and slumped in the cabinet motionless, allowing the door of the cabinet that couldn’t be closed to sway and open slowly.
After a long time, she regained a little strength and crawled out of the cabinet with her head down, thinking about whether to spit out the candy again and put it back in the inventory. At this moment, she unconsciously raised her head and stopped suddenly.
She saw a pair of bloodstained high heels not far ahead.
Her brain seemed to be muddled.
How could the high heels be floating in mid-air?
Her face went blank, and in the extreme dead silence, she looked up uncontrollably and heard a crunching sound from her neck.
Under the flickering lights outside the window, a female ghost with a rope over its head was hanging from the ceiling. Its face was pale, its seven orifices were bleeding, its neck was deformed and stretched, and its completely pitch-black protruding eyes were staring straight at Li Tianyu. Then, the muscles on both sides of its cheeks slowly lifted upwards, revealing a twisted and sickly smile towards her.
I was wondering what hit her shoulder. It was the hanging ghost. 💀
Fuck that’s terrifying. You can do this!!!
DANGGGGGGGGGG