freenovelworld Chapter 558 (2 chapters combined into 1) [Domain · 2 Gates] Unfinished Building
Chapter 558 (2 chapters combined into 1) [Domain · 2 Gates] Unfinished Building
He let the big yellow dog sniff the bag that carried Wu Hui's scent. The dog sniffed it for a few seconds and then walked in a certain direction.
The two followed closely behind.
Feng Yao lowered her head, staring only at the ground; this was a deliberate action she took after learning of the existence of the Ghost Eye.
"Didn't Big Yellow give any warning beforehand?"
Luo Weicheng's weary voice sounded beside her.
Feng Yao shook her head.
She knew what Luo Weicheng meant; he desperately needed an answer to figure out the real reason for Wu Hui's disappearance.
Even if Da Huang can sense ghosts, his ability is limited to the ghosts within Feng Yao's curse.
This was already confirmed when Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua ate paper ash in the shop.
Right now, Da Huang is just tracking the scent.
I walked through several streets.
The unease in their hearts began to deepen. Wu Hui couldn't have gone that far alone without a reason. Now it was almost certain that she had entered the next stage of the curse!
But at this moment.
Big Yellow stopped and whimpered at a building.
This is an abandoned, unfinished building, just a bare shell, with only empty frames for the doors and windows.
It was pitch black inside, without a single light.
Reaching into his pocket and gripping his strange object tightly, Luo Weicheng gestured for Feng Yao to follow him, and they silently entered the building.
All sounds are silent.
A pungent, dusty smell filled the air.
Luo Weicheng did not go directly into the depths, but turned on his flashlight, shone it on the ground, and squinted his eyes.
"No footprints..."
There was only a thick layer of ash.
"Did Dahuang make a mistake?" Feng Yao hesitated. She also realized something was wrong. If Wu Hui had really been here, she couldn't have left no trace.
She tried to get Dahuang to smell the bag again to make sure, but Dahuang just snorted and turned its head away.
"...It became impatient because it was very confident in its judgment?"
Luo Weicheng seemed to be thinking about something, then waved his hand: "Let's go up and take a look first."
Go up to the second floor from the stairwell.
This unfinished building isn't very big; it's more like a self-built house in a rural area of southern China. It's tall, with each floor probably only a little over 100 square meters. Since it wasn't completed, there's a large platform right after you go up the stairs.
At a glance.
Piles of cardboard boxes, steel bars, and a few load-bearing columns—that's all.
Wu Hui was still nowhere to be seen.
Feng Yao grew increasingly suspicious. She and Luo Weicheng had walked all the way here without seeing any footprints or hearing any sounds. Was Wu Hui really here?
"Luo Weicheng."
She pondered for a moment and said, "Wu Hui mentioned the source of your curse to me before."
"She believes that the incense burner was the core that influenced the surrounding area, creating a mirror world, which was geographically limited."
"But there's no smell of incense here."
Feng Yao reminded her, "Moreover, this curse is completely different from the one you had last time."
"...The only thing they have in common is that they're all after Wu Hui."
This is also a question that Luo Weicheng has been pondering.
This time it's not a mirror image, but reality. So where does the curse originate?
Why did the ghost only target Wu Hui and not him?
Luo Weicheng's heart sank slightly; the curse couldn't possibly be so merciful as to spare him...
Unless Wu Hui's current situation is part of the terrifying events he is about to experience.
In fact, this is indeed the case.
For Luo Weicheng, this was even more unsettling than facing a ghost, and even Feng Yao noticed it.
Without saying much, he sighed and gestured for Feng Yao to continue upstairs with him.
The second floor.
third floor.
Continue going up until you reach the top floor.
Staring at this empty space on the last floor, the two of them instantly held their breath.
The flashlight illuminated the dark, single-story building, where there wasn't a soul in sight. Only the night wind blew in through the window openings, gently stirring the dust on the ground.
really......
A complex expression flashed across Feng Yao's face. The fact that they hadn't seen any footprints at first already said a lot, but Luo Weicheng still insisted on coming up to take a look.
After all, all they can rely on now is Big Yellow's reconnaissance.
If even this route is useless, where can we find Wu Hui? She didn't even bring her phone.
Luo Weicheng helplessly patted the dog's head, muttering as if explaining, or perhaps comforting himself:
"Wu Hui may have indeed been here, but she has already left."
"Let's go, let's go look again."
Feng Yao nodded.
But just as she was about to follow Luo Weicheng downstairs, the big yellow dog beside her remained motionless and suddenly bared its teeth and growled!
“Woo—woo!”
Her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
No, that's not right. They just said not long ago that Big Yellow could only sense the curse of the Ghost Eyes...
So this is his own curse?
But how could my own curse have happened here?!
If this had happened yesterday, Feng Yao wouldn't have been so terrified, because her death date was very clear: the third day after she entered the house.
But now too many things have changed.
The death of Huang Yue, the villa, the blind man, Ren Yu...
All these unknowns made it impossible for Feng Yao to be sure whether the next attack would just make her feel death or whether she would actually be killed by the ghost!
Does that mean she's going to gouge her eyes out right now? What about Wu Hui?
"Wang! Wang!"
Big Yellow's barking grew increasingly fierce. Just then, Luo Weicheng shouted in a low voice, "Wu Hui, don't look! Close your eyes!"
By the way, Chen Ji said that this ghost became real because of what he saw!
Feng Yao immediately closed her eyes, tensing her entire body to completely block out her vision.
But soon...
A scene she had just witnessed suddenly flashed into her mind: a gray cement wall at the corner between the top floor and the floor below.
An empty window without glass is quietly embedded in the wall.
Outside the window was a pitch-black night sky, like a pair of eyes staring intently at Feng Yao.
Damn!
Forget it!
This ordinary scene, at this moment, sent chills down Feng Yao's spine.
It was at this time.
A thought suddenly popped into her tense mind:
Does closing your eyes really help?
Even if she doesn't open her eyes now, she has already seen many things... Assuming that seeing something means it exists, will these things really disappear because she closes her eyes?
For example, the ghost that killed Huang Yue, or that cement wall...
wall.....
Just then, a memory hidden deep in her mind, like a little worm that had been hiding in the darkness, suddenly crawled out.
The scene she had witnessed in the study of the Splendid Garden flashed uncontrollably through her mind.
Dismembered body parts were embedded in a white wall, with her own head in the very center, her eyeballs crushed and bulging out, groaning in extreme pain...
suddenly.
The image flashed through her mind for a moment, and then the wall with the body parts embedded in it turned into a gray cement wall!
Right now, in reality, there's that wall a few meters in front of her!
And these body parts were all clustered around the dark window, as if...
It felt like something might suddenly appear outside the window.
What is it?
That ghost that killed Huang Yue?
Or......
Feng Yao suddenly felt goosebumps rise uncontrollably from her body, as if she were being stared at by something.
She realized one thing.
I have personally witnessed the source of the curse.
eye.
The instant this thought arose, the window hole in the concrete wall in her mind seemed even darker...
It was like a giant eye, without a pupil, pitch black, silently watching her from outside the window.
A strong sense of dread suddenly welled up in Feng Yao's mind. Almost instinctively, she raised her hand, ready to gouge out her own eyeballs—
But at this moment.
She suddenly felt a chill that started from the top of her head and instantly spread throughout her body.
"Boom!"
A loud bang suddenly rang out behind Luo Weicheng.
He instinctively turned his head, his pupils suddenly contracting!
Just inches behind him, Feng Yao lay motionless on the concrete stairs.
But Da Huang, at this moment, stopped barking like a mute and circled around Feng Yao's body, whimpering anxiously.
wrong!
Wasn't the yellow dog's warning location right in front of them?
It was precisely because of this that Luo Weicheng stood in front of Feng Yao, but he never expected that danger was actually behind him!
Two people and a dog came to find Wu Hui, but not only did they not find their old teammate, Feng Yao also got into trouble.
Now only he and Big Yellow are left.
Luo Weicheng felt a chill in his heart, but it was precisely at this moment that he needed to remain calm.
He turned Feng Yao over and found that she was still alive and breathing, but had completely lost consciousness.
A few seconds later, he found the reason.
Parting her hair, Feng Yao's scalp turned a strange bluish-purple color, and it felt frighteningly cold to the touch.
However, the coverage area is not very large.
Just as Luo Weicheng was pondering this, he suddenly noticed that the skin in those bluish-purple areas was becoming wrinkled and creased, as if the skin was aging rapidly...
and many more.
Luo Weicheng's eyelid twitched.
This scene is all too familiar.
His gaze slowly shifted to his arms, where the flesh on one arm had shriveled and the skin was wrinkled and lumped together.
And the most eye-catching...
It's a bluish-purple handprint above.
It's exactly the same color as the scalp on Feng Yao.
The instant he realized the connection between the two, Luo Weicheng's heart pounded; it could only mean one thing:
The ghost from the beauty salon has appeared.
The mother and child.
It was those two; one grabbed his arm, and the other grabbed his calf.
They were the ones who took Wu Hui away!
Without a second thought, Luo Weicheng scooped Feng Yao up on his back and ran downstairs at top speed!
At the same time, he had already taken out his phone with his other hand.
There were several new text messages, but Luo Weicheng didn't even glance at them and directly dialed Liu Zi's number.
Because of the special nature of the Red Bowl Curse, Bai Shaohua and Liu Zi are not safe for other entrants to the domain; they are like bombs that could explode at any moment.
Therefore, Luo Weicheng deliberately excluded them from the previous job rotations.
But there's nothing we can do now.
He couldn't bring Feng Yao back to the shop because there were more important things waiting for him there.
"beep--"
"Hello?" Liu Zi's voice was hoarse.
"Come find me right now and take Feng Yao away, quick!" Luo Weicheng shouted in a low voice.
"Turn right after you go out, walk three blocks, that gray building—"
His voice suddenly paused for a moment.
"...unfinished building."
hang up the phone.
Luo Weicheng's throat moved slightly.
In the quiet building, only his rapid breathing could be heard.
But Luo Weicheng was certain he hadn't misheard... just now.
From the lowest floor, something let out a soft whimper.
Like a newborn baby.
In an instant, the terrifying image of the deformed child in the beauty salon resurfaced in Luo Weicheng's mind.
It's very dark downstairs.
But Luo Weicheng dared not shine the flashlight downwards anymore.
He didn't know what he was afraid of. Was it seeing that deformed child downstairs, head raised, staring at him, or something else...?
The sight of the deformed child next to Wu Hui's corpse terrified him.
Luo Weicheng's brain was working at lightning speed.
He cannot rashly contact the ghost now. Even if he can escape, Feng Yao has lost all mobility and has no chance to resist.
The biggest problem now is why, after searching layer by layer, they have never seen Wu Hui or the deformed child.
Where were they before?
Moreover, the deformed child's current location is also very strange. It attacked Feng Yao from behind, but a few minutes later, it suddenly appeared downstairs.
Just as he was pondering this, Luo Weicheng suddenly heard a soft cry coming from downstairs.
"Wow......."
It was indeed a deformed child, but what terrified Luo Weicheng even more was that the crying was slowly getting louder!
It's not just a simple volume change...
It was the baby that climbed on top!
The moment he realized this, Luo Weicheng tensed up and immediately retreated upstairs.
The ghost baby already knows they're here, so there's no point in hiding any longer.
It will definitely come looking for them, layer by layer.
The only option is to hide temporarily and find an opportunity to avoid being near the baby.
He gestured to Dahuang to go upstairs on its own, while he silently carried Feng Yao on his back and hid behind a cardboard box on the fourth floor.
Big Yellow is a very intelligent dog. Although it seems unaware of the movements of other ghosts, it still has an instinctive reaction to danger. At this moment, its paws slapped as it climbed to the top floor.
Hopefully, the ghost won't harm the animals... otherwise, Feng Yao's warnings will be gone.
Luo Weicheng nervously hid in the corner between the cardboard box and the wall.
This was the most secluded place he could find.
Wow... Wow...
The baby's cries grew louder and louder, and soon they rang out near Luo Weicheng.
He tried his best to hold his breath and concentrate. As long as the baby went up another level, he could run down with Feng Yao!
But in the next second.
The chilling crying abruptly stopped.
The entire unfinished building suddenly became very quiet.
I heard the sound of a dog scratching the floor coming from upstairs.
Luo Weicheng's heart skipped a beat. He was huddled behind the box, where he could hardly see what was happening outside, and the baby made no sound when it moved.
Everything outside is unknown right now.
Has it left?
Or is it still on this floor?
Cold sweat dripped from Luo Weicheng's forehead. He gritted his teeth, straightened his back, and carefully moved his body to look outside.
That one glance made him freeze in his tracks.
A tiny, sticky, deformed baby was lying a few meters outside the box.
He gazed in the direction of Luo Weicheng.
However, it wasn't looking up at Luo Weicheng.
It was the ceiling above Luo Weicheng's head.
“ma,ma”.
The baby spoke to the ceiling, and then, for some reason, repeated it:
"Mother."
Luo Weicheng's blood vessels froze instantly.
At that moment, he suddenly realized why the deformed child was downstairs, but Feng Yao was attacked upstairs.
And that's why there are no footprints on the ground.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the ceiling directly above him, his breath catching in his throat.
Wu Hui is above his head.
Facing him, her head was lowered, her eyes were closed, and her arms hung limply at her sides.
On her hunched back, another set of limbs grew that did not belong to her.
A woman's limbs.
As if back to back with Wu Hui, his bluish-purple arms stretched out naturally, clinging to the ceiling.