NOVEL NEXT Chapter 40
His mind raced, and Yu Qing’s eyes grew brighter and brighter. He seemed to have figured out everything in an instant, connecting all the clues, and asked almost excitedly, “Xu Han, is this your dream?”
“…” There was a long silence.
Yu Qing asked again, “Is this yours…!!”
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly felt his neck loosen, and the hand that was clasping his neck instantly disappeared, even the faint dark purple light on the wall dissipated.
Immediately afterward, the evil ghost vanished and everything returned to normal.
The next second, da!
The light sticks turned on again, and all the indoor furnishings returned to normal, as if… nothing had just happened.
Tick, tick…
The water drops on his sleeves fell to the ground. Yu Qing came back to his senses and became surer of his judgment – he needed to go out and reorganize the diaries found on the ninth floor!
But before that…
The young man slowly raised his hand, kissed the dark pattern on the back of his hand, teased it with his tongue, and murmured, “Thank you, Master, for saving my life.”
His tone was pious, but there was no trace of respect in his eyes. He looked indifferent, as if… he had already thought of the time to kill the other party.
The crisis had passed, and the live broadcast room, which was holding its breath, also started to receive comment.
[Fuck? Did you really let him go? Not dead?]
[…Didn’t you listen to the host? This is Xu Han’s dream, he must be right, that’s why it’s okay! If you are so powerful, why don’t you try to kill him yourself?]
[Hiss… I don’t know why, but I think the host is a bit scary. After watching the live broadcast for so long, I am worried about the safety of the BOSS for the first time.]
[Yes, yes, ah, ah, the host calls BOSS “husband”, a gentle knife is the deadliest.]
[Oh, I’m slapped in the face, this ambiguous scene. Oh! Oh!]
There were still five days until the end of the game, and the time to find the key was getting less and less. There were still some things that Yu Qing needed to confirm!
While the comment was rolling, he quietly left the door.
In the hall, under the angel statue, there were indeed a few animals gone. They were the same animals that were trying to kill him just now.
The dean had left. In the dark night, the strange angel statue shed tears of blood, the plaster was broken, and the body was covered in bruises.
It seemed that he was about to discover some big secret. The coldness of the dungeon environment became more and more obvious, as if something was staring at him and ready to tear him apart at any time.
Yu Qing stepped forward, his breathing slowed down, and he checked the door opened with the access card despite his intense panic.
Sure enough, the gate had two layers. The layer that the access card opened was only the wooden door on the inside. To open the iron door on the outside, he still needed a key!
The key… where was it?
Yu Qing turned around and checked the furnishings under the angel statue again. The twelve zodiac signs were arranged very carefully. They each had their own place, but… there was an empty spot in the direction opposite the door.
Who was this for?
Xu Han?
Yu Qing continued to think – if the dean placed the twelve zodiac signs for a mysterious sacrificial ceremony, then the twelve zodiac signs made of people were probably sacrifices.
In a sacrificial ceremony, if there are sacrifices, there must be…
a priest!
The monkey listened to Xu Han’s words, and the sacrifices listened to Xu Han’s words. Therefore, the only male priest in this sacrificial ceremony was… tick…
Suddenly, there was sticky cold liquid dripping on his face again. Yu Qing raised his hand and touched it. The red liquid was blood!
He subconsciously raised his head and looked in front of him. The scarred angel statue actually had a big gaping hole, and blood was seeping out and falling. After a while, bang!
A piece of plaster shattered and fell, and bloody rotten flesh was clearly visible in Yu Qing’s sight.
Was she that… skinless woman?
She was sealed in the angel statue!
And this time… the cold feeling was so clear, it was real!
Sizzling, sizzling——
The lights flickered, the malice in the environment became more and more obvious, and the feeling of being stared at by a dead thing became clearer and clearer.
Bang bang——
The stone statue cracked again, and the danger level of the dungeon had reached level five. Yu Qing did not dare to stay any longer and immediately sped up and ran back to the house.
Click, the door closed tightly.
He was weak in physical strength and struggled to catch his breath. He always felt that something was following him from the beginning. If he was faster, that thing would be faster, and if he was slower, the other thing would be slower.
To this day, that feeling had not gone away.
After calming down, the young man sat back on the bed and suddenly heard, boom!
Boom!
Knocks on the door sounded from outside, one more intense than the other.
The comment in the live broadcast room decreased again, and the audience held their breath and stared at the door more carefully than Yu Qing.
In order to prevent patients from looking around, the door of the sanatorium only had a small window at the top. Through the small window, several heads of thick black hair could be vaguely seen!
[Is it… a new ghost?]
[Oh my God, in just two days, this dungeon has reached level five. I’m scared.]
Boom! Boom, boom, boom!
The knocking on the door continued, but it didn’t open. After a while, there was a click——
Yu Qing’s pupils dilated.
He saw that the locked door lock started to turn on its own, as if someone was turning the key randomly from the outside.
His heart gradually lifted, and the skin of his right arm surged. The young man gritted his teeth and was about to summon the golden needle, when he realized, clatter——
“Haah, come on~, hiccups!”
The first thing he saw was Qian Lai with his hands on the female ghost’s shoulders.
Master Qian seemed to have drunk too much. He hooked a female ghost with one hand, and two female ghosts followed behind him, caring for him.
His cheeks were crimson, his eyes were drunk, and his skin turned as white as a ghost at a speed visible to the naked eye: “Sisters, I really… hiccup! I can’t drink anymore. I can’t take it. If I drink… hiccup, I really have to… go to hell.”
“…”
Yu Qing finally let go of his arm and just breathed out a sigh of relief when he saw the young man in front of him breaking free from the control of the female ghosts and jumping on him with a smile: “Qingqing, Qingqing, hahaha, don’t be afraid… I met four sisters in the solitary room. I played with them and drank wine from the underworld, burp! Don’t… don’t look at my pale face… It’s okay, it’s okay.”
Qian Lai smiled: “Our family has been practicing metaphysics for generations, and our relationship with ghosts… is great!”
“That’s what happens after drinking the wine of the underworld. It’ll gone in a while. Hehehehe…hehehe…”
The pungent smell of wine rushed straight into his nose, and Yu Qing frowned slightly.
After a while, tap, tap.
Suddenly, Qian Lai felt something tap his shoulder. He pushed it away unhappily and rubbed Yu Qing’s shoulder: “Don’t tap me. I drank… happily, so I’ll share it with you.”
Tap.
“Tapping again? Yu Qing, I told you that men have to drink…”
Tap.
Finally, Qian Lai turned around impatiently and saw the thing on his shoulder clearly: “Ahhhhhh!”
He yelled and rolled directly from Yu Qing to the ground.
Tentacle!
Dark tentacles!!!
By this time, the young man was mostly awake from the alcohol. He was leaning on the ground, feeling a little better and breathing heavily.
It wasn’t until the tentacles disappeared that he finally fell back to the ground without strength. Physiological tears mixed with the smell of alcohol rolled out of the corners of his eyes: “Your husband… is so terrible…”
Yu Qing looked at him and smiled: “So, the dean puts you in a solitary cell, and you drag the ghost along to drink with you?”
“Why not?”
While he was talking, Yu Qing had already walked to the door. He closed the door again, invited the four female ghosts to sit down together, and replied: “The dean will probably grind his teeth again when he sees you.”
“What?” Qian Lai didn’t understand. He climbed drunkenly to the bedside table, propped up one leg, and leaned against it casually.
But Yu Qing did not answer this question.
He just looked at Qian Lai seriously and said, “I know where the key is.”