Published at 12th of August 2023 6:30 pm

Chapter 96 End

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“No wonder we didn’t see the ghost on the road!”

It wasn’t a surprise that the human skin ghost wasn’t the least bit hurried!

Up ahead, the four deceased players were standing side by side, directly blocking up the alley’s exit.

The path in between the two farmhouses was extremely narrow, and the four deathly pale ghosts were nearing them step by step, cramming themselves together on the alley and not leaving a single crack for them to escape.

There was a dead end ahead of them. Bai Yan turned his head without much expectations, and just as expected, the mutilated-looking human skin ghost was standing right behind him, using its rotting eyes to watch him closely, its face exposing a sinister grin.

From both sides of the walls, pieces of human pelt bore out of the cracks and seams, growing into the wind.

Soon, one by one, old and young human heads popped out beside them. Regardless of whether it was a child’s or an elderly’s head, they all used their evil gazes to stare down on them.

The dense pack of human heads dissipated on the wall, looking exceedingly weird. But what made people experience even more horror was that these human heads were mounted on the wall with their mouths opening and closing, spiritedly expressing their own judgements.

“Hehehe, you’re both screwed!”

“Granny, you’ve already made me into stew, you should boil them instead! You should first draw out their blood and add it into the soup, it’ll surely taste richer!”

“Being stuck in the wall hurts, so you should come in here and accompany me now!”

The human heads opened their mouths and shrieked, while the bodies did their best to force themselves out of the wall.

Everyone was squeezing out a portion of their skin, swelling out fast and filling themselves with air, appearing as if the wall was giving birth as they crawled out.

From both sides of the walls, the human heads were gradually climbing out of the surface, the fastest one had already crawled out more than half way. This female ghost that had climbed out quickly extended her hand, desperately trying to take a hold on the two people’s throats, stepping on them with its greedy eyes, wanting to drag them into a pot of stew.

In the narrow alley, the human skin ghost and the four other ghosts were unhurriedly walking towards them. It was obvious that they considered the two as fishes on the chopping block, savoring the entire process of slaughtering them.

Seeing as how there were malicious ghosts coming from all sides, Bai Yan felt the wounds in his body hurt more.

Kenta’s hits were heavy, beating him until the bones all over his body were on the verge of breaking. Until now, he still made him suck in a cold breath.

However, Bai Yan was certain that the means used by the ghosts surrounding them were more painful than Kenta’s blows.

They deliberately set a trap and had caught the turtles in the jars, not simply killing these people to finish this.

At the very least, the trap they had set was similar to that old granny back then. Before wrapping the dumplings, the old granny first let the poisonous insects dig into your body, and when that basket of insects had surrounded your body, only then did the ghost get to the point and start sharpening its knives.

Recalling what he had once received in ‘Story Adventure,’ the corner of Bai Yan’s mouth twitched, sensing his bones to dully ache. In addition to the physical pain, there was a phantom pain added on by his heart that made him want to stop all of this.

However, he was also invigorated in an instant, leading him to promptly pause and begin to face the predicament in front of him.

Unlike the choices he made that time, which was half-courting death and half-luck, dying this time would result in a real end.

Being ganged up by ghosts was perhaps more exciting than being entertained by the knife-wielding granny, but at this very moment, he didn’t crave that type of pleasure.

Painstakingly experiencing eight levels, he only needed to clear four more levels after this one. So, how could he die just like this!

As a result, he immediately looked over to the thigh he held onto(1) and asked in an alert manner, “Ye Shangyu, do you have a way out?”

- When people rely on someone, the authors would express this by saying that they are holding onto the person’s thighs.

“How many minutes left?”

“Two more minutes left!” After two minutes, it’ll take another 30 minutes to put on the human skin.

“That’s enough. Stay close and don’t move!”

Ye Shangyu’s tone was as cold as ice, and upon hearing this cold voice, Bai Yan fully trusted this large thigh.

Since there were hungry wolves and tigers behind them and there were human heads also popping up beside them, the two people were back to back. Bai Yan couldn’t see the situation behind him, but he could feel Ye Shangyu’s shoulder trembling, clearly doing something.

In reality, Bai Yan’s guess was the same, that Ye Shangyu, this large thigh, had skills as expected.

When she handled Jina, she didn’t expend that much effort.

Even after seeing malicious ghosts cornering her from all sides, Ye Shangyu’s expression didn’t change, still assuming its indifferent countenance.

Ye Shangyu lowered her eyes, refusing to acknowledge the numerous ghosts coming near her. Her arms merely laid on her sides as her fingertips faced downward——

Instantly, as the scarlet blood gushed out of her red fingernails, landing on the ground with the speed of a bullet, it cut an extremely perfect circle on the ground.

The circle drawn in blood enclosed the two inside it as if it was a protective barrier, causing the female ghost that was climbing out of the wall to fume in rage and let it bitterly halt its arms outside the circle, unable to move forward anymore.

Sensing the barrier, all the ghosts crawling out of the wall were as if they were cut off by an electric fan, stopping just outside the circle one by one.

As for the ghost who hadn’t completely crawled out of the wall yet, they were just like strange statues, assuming a grotesquely-shaped stance on the wall, stuck to the wall and not making a single move.

However, the bloody circle could only stop these villagers, but it rendered ineffective to the human skin ghost on a killing spree.

The human skin ghost merely paused for an instant, continuing to walk forward.

Under its control, the four deceased players withered in an instant, morphing into dried up human pelts, suddenly slamming towards the two.

The four human pelts knocked against each other in midair, not landing on the remaining players, but the bloody circle gradually became lighter.

Noticing that the bloody circle grew lighter, the malicious ghosts on the wall began to stir, frantically climbing and twisting outside.

“How much longer?”

“A minute and a half!”

Hearing the sounds of footsteps from behind, Ye Shangyu’s ten fingers pointed to the ground.

Even more blood flowed out the seams of her fingers, dyeing half of Ye Shangyu’s palms red and dampening the ground in the bloody circle.

After a few breaths, the blood trickled down and colored the ground red.

While the yellowish ground increasingly turned scarlet red, one could see through the naked eye that Ye Shangyu’s complexion was quickly turning pale, and soon, there wasn’t an ounce of red in her face anymore, turning pale to ghostly white.

With a large amount of blood lost, Ye Shangyu’s eyes felt heavy, making her want to faint on the ground and just sleep, regardless of everything happening around her.

But feeling the warmth of Bai Yan’s body, she suddenly bit her lip, letting the pain and taste of blood compel her to keep her eyes open, coldness flashing through her eyes.

She still can’t faint right now!

If she lost consciousness now, Bai Yan, that b*stard, would absolutely throw her to the ground, letting her be torn to shreds by those vicious ghosts!

She was never reassured by this person’s character!

He has never possessed such a thing as character!

The human skin ghost had already walked until Bai Yan’s front, coming face to face with him. It was so close that Bai Yan could catch the putrid whiff of the human skin ghost’s body.

The mutilated face came close to the tip of his nose as the bloody circle was slowly turning light but was quickly filled again.

After 10 seconds, all the ghosts will suddenly disappear.

Ye Shangyu’s eyelids grew all the heavier while her head became befuddled, her consciousness turning fuzzy.

Sensing that Ye Shangyu was swaying behind him, Bai Yan immediately said, “There’s still 10 seconds! Don’t stop, don’t get cheated by the human skin ghost!”

Ye Shangyu’s eyes were half-drooping, and her ten fingers stuck closely together, squeezing out every last drop of blood from her veins. She mentally counted the seconds to keep herself awake.

“Ten, nine, eight…”

As the countdown reached one, she could vaguely see the human skin ghost staring with its rotten eyes, sticking close against her, splitting its mouth open so wide that it could swallow her whole, suddenly appearing in front of her.

However, this was the human skin ghost’s last attempt.

Because, when she counted down to zero, the human skin ghost silently and noiselessly disappeared in thin air.

Ye Shangyu knew that it had left the ghost village, returning inside the video, which quickly put an end to its tyrannical blood shed.

At this moment, even speaking was taxing for her. But, she still wiggled her lips with great difficulty, knowing full well that she needed to say something—— She didn’t show that she was still in a muddle-headed state since Bai Yan would surely run away without her! She needed to control him first before doing anything else!

So, with great effort, Ye Shangyu turned her body around and used her fingertip to press against the artery of his neck.

Sensing Bai Yan turn stiff, Ye Shangyu exhaustedly evoked a noise from her mouth, using her ice-cold lips to press against the side of his ear, saying, “If you run away and be a burden, you don’t have to worry. I will surely bring you down next time, and I won’t leave you all alone…”

“We’re teammates that have gone through a lot together, how could I drop and leave you like that?”

“Really, believe me!”

Bai Yan wanted to struggle free, however, Ye Shangyu’s hand turned tense, her fingertip slightly piercing the skin on his neck.

Bai Yan could sense Ye Shangyu’s weakness, but from his personal experience, the strength of her fingernail was quite strong, feeling that even after an hour and a half, she still wouldn’t faint from exhaustion. Right now, he could only give up on his plans of throwing Ye Shangyu to the ground, regretfully carrying her on his back.

As they were being besieged by the ghosts, Bai Yan already thought of an escape plan when they got out of the trap.

At Ye Shangyu’s side, there were still the four players that have turned into ghosts. The human skin ghost had disappeared, but since he and Ye Shangyu were the only ones left alive, the four other ghost players wouldn’t go away, so they absolutely couldn’t escape through there.

Only the road that the human skin ghost had initially blocked was their only way to get out of there.

He ran in the alley with Ye Shangyu on his back despite his body carrying more than one person’s weight. But after being thrown into the app, Bai Yan would also pay attention to his physique on normal days. Thus, he was able to barely leave the ghosts’ trap and set a distance between him and the ghosts coming after them.

After running for a good while, the villagers that were turned into ghosts scattered as though their interest in them had gone away.

Bai Yan looked behind him, and right now, only four ghosts were left that were following them.

The four deceased players that had transformed into ghosts were still closely following them, unwilling to let them go, but since the human skin ghost was gone, their speed had greatly decreased. Even with a person on his back, he was able to one up them by a bit.

After slipping away from the four ghosts behind him, Bai Yan was finally able to relax, causing him to have enough energy leftover to observe the village’s circumstances.

The malicious ghosts that gave up on pursuing them went into their farmhouses one by one. Some of them went into their cellars to drag people in, some were excavating people out of pits, while some were dragging people out into the wilderness…

In the end, those survivors, who slipped away, couldn’t escape from the bad luck that befell on them.

They were all gathered into the center of the field and were tied up in several wooden boards.

Once all the survivors were tied up well, in a blink of an eye, every living person withered away into human pelts, hanging down on the wooden boards and being blown by the wind. As they continuously drifted in the wind, the scene looked similar to several yellow flags lined up…

Soon, the human pelts on the wooden poles were thrown into the wind, encircling the ghosts on the field, and disappearing in a blink of an eye.

All of a sudden, the village became totally empty. Other than the four unresigned ghosts still roaming around, the remaining ghosts went out of the village exit, quickly leaving the village and disappearing without a trace.

“Where are they going this time?”

Seeing that the ghosts were unexpectedly not chasing after them anymore, Bai Yan felt a bit of gloom.

Yet, this gloom immediately dissipated.

He understood that without the human skin ghost’s control, these ghosts ought to have headed towards the city to find their family and give their loved ones a pleasant surprise.

Playing hide and seek with the four last ghosts in the village, Bai Yan waited until 4 AM before immediately pressing the return button, ending the game.

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