The Mysterious Eerie, Escape and Die

"Why are you here? Where's your squad?"

Ji Yan asked, looking at the flashlight in the other person's hand.

"Our squad also got a clue. We heard that the thief hums a nursery rhyme when they move, so we split up to search."

"If you find the thief, report it in the chat group."

Players could unlock the player chat window panel if they survived for more than four days.

Ji Yan hadn't paid much attention to it, but this reminder made him realize he had just activated the panel.

As soon as the panel opened, he saw that the chat group was buzzing.

In just a moment, it was 99+!

Players participating in the main quest were all sharing various pieces of information they'd gotten about the thief.

Some said the thief had no hair.

Some said the thief was a deformed Oddity.

Some said the thief could make baby cries.

Each had their own version, and they were all very confident!

The players got this information from their respective eerie family members.

For example, Ji Yan also learned from 801 that the thief was covered in human faces and made a shrill bell sound when walking.

But which one was actually true?

Why were the identity characteristics of the thief different for each resident the thief broke into?

Could there be more than one thief?

Ji Yan rubbed his chin, lost in thought.

Liu Yitong was also confused by the different information held by the players in the chat window: "I'm getting more and more confused."

Ji Yan closed the chat window. Looking at too much of it made his thoughts chaotic.

Miss Xu had told him to follow those people, so he could only wander around these few floors for now to see what was happening.

However, at this moment, the Screaming Doll on his shoulder suddenly moved. It turned its head and stared in one direction.

Liu Yitong was surprised: "How is your doll moving? Is it a reward from Mother or Grandmother?"

Ji Yan followed its gaze towards the corner of the corridor and said, "It's guiding us somewhere."

Following the doll's guidance, Ji Yan turned the corner and entered a fire escape. Soon, he ran into the blond man's five-person squad again.

Those people had dragged out an eerie family of three who were residents of the apartment from somewhere.

The parents' heads were smashed in, leaving only an eerie girl curled up in the corner, her eyes vacant.

Facing the blond man's squad desecrating her parents' bodies, she seemed either too scared or too numb and vacant, showing no expression as she awaited her fate.

The blond man wiped the black handgun in his hand. After continuously shooting several resident Oddities, the eerie energy wrapped around the black handgun became even more intense and dark.

Killing Oddities to nourish the gun!

The eerie gun in the blond man's hand could clearly improve its quality by killing Oddities.

It was the same setting as Long Yuan's blood-nourished blade.

He pressed the muzzle of the gun against the eerie girl's head and bumped it twice. The blond man coldly provoked her, "I killed your parents. You should be angry, you should hate us."

"Not just be unresponsive like a dead fish!"

The more intense the hatred of the Oddities killed by the eerie gun, the more significant the absorption would be.

Seeing the eerie girl, who was as stiff as wood, the blond man frowned, very dissatisfied, and tried to provoke her.

The eerie girl looked at her parents' shattered heads and twitching bodies.

Without sadness or hatred, she simply asked in confusion: "My dad, my mom, and I just wanted to live. We didn't eat people, we didn't harm anyone. Why did you kill us?"

"Little sister, there's no reason needed to kill pathetic resident bugs like you."

The blond man said expressionlessly and was about to pull the trigger.

Liu Yitong suddenly spoke up: "Huang Ran, that family of three doesn't have any of the thief's characteristics either. What's the point of killing them?"

The blond man, Huang Ran, looked up and sneered, "For fun, is that okay?"

A player follower beside him chimed in mockingly: "What kind of saint in a chaotic world? Even in an Eerie World, you can see someone who sympathizes with Oddities?"

"This is a dungeon, not some Notre Dame Cathedral!"

The few of them found it amusing.

Liu Yitong's expression turned awkward, and he glanced at Ji Yan beside him.

Ji Yan's attention, however, was entirely on the Screaming Doll on his shoulder. The doll had been twisting its head 360 degrees.

Immediately after, it stared into the depths of a nearby corridor, opened its mouth, and let out a scream.

This scream startled everyone present.

"What the hell is howling?"

"Scared the crap out of me!"

Several players grumbled.

Ji Yan didn't speak. He heard a sound in his ear.

A piercing, ethereal bell…

He held his breath slightly.

A thought of that mysterious thief suddenly flashed in his mind!

Huang Ran frowned. He also heard the bell sound, growing clearer and closer…

Ding-a-ling, ta-ta—

Ding-a-ling, ta-ta—

Soon, in Ji Yan's line of sight, a tall, dark figure slowly appeared at the end of the corridor, its head brushing the ceiling.

Calling it a shadow was an understatement. Upon closer inspection, the eerie creature was covered in countless black bugs crawling all over its body, a truly horrifying sight.

"What is that thing?"

The players present were stunned.

They had never seen such a bizarre and grotesque eerie creature before.

The eerie creature stuck close to the corridor wall, as if searching for something. It raised a hand, carefully caressing the wall.

The black bugs on its palm swarmed over the wall, burrowing into every tiny crevice…

"That's an eerie, right… could it be the thief we're looking for?"

A female player whispered, her tone inexplicably uneasy.

"Can't see its hair, can't confirm."

"Should we attack?"

Several players discussed, but no one dared to step forward. They just watched.

They weren't fools. The more peculiar and unknown an eerie creature was, the higher the danger. No one was willing to take the gamble.

"What are you afraid of? With Brother Ran here, if this really is that thief, we'll be heroes!"

"Don't forget, that thief is wanted by everyone in the apartment complex. How dare it be arrogant after angering so many residents?"

There were always some who were bold and brainless. A tall player grabbed a brick and threw it.

The brick hit the mysterious eerie creature but passed through it as if it had no substance.

The black bug eerie didn't react, continuing to caress the wall.

Seeing this, as several players were about to become bolder and probe further, the mysterious eerie creature's back suddenly writhed.

An old man's face emerged from its back, staring at Ji Yan and the others. It uttered a single sentence: "Eliminate… the bugs."

As the distorted, hoarse voice fell, the old man's face opened its mouth and emitted a high-frequency sonic wave.

Everyone's eardrums buzzed, and their heads felt dizzy.

In their vision, the human face became increasingly terrifying. Its hollow eyes stared directly at them, and fear spread through their hearts like a flood.

The tall player at the forefront, his pupils contracted, his sixth sense screaming at him: this eerie creature was extremely dangerous!

He turned and ran.

But before he could take a few steps, his head swelled with large and small tumors, like a water balloon, and exploded without warning.

Blood splattered everywhere.

The headless corpse fell to the floor.

Everyone was stunned.

How did he die?

They didn't see the eerie creature make a move!

"Fuck!"

Someone cursed and turned to run.

The same fate awaited him. His head exploded as if a small bomb had detonated inside, spraying blood onto the face of the female player beside him.

That female player clutched her face and screamed, on the verge of collapse as she tried to run.

"Don't move!"

"Idiot woman, can't you see? If you turn and run, you'll die immediately. That eerie creature only kills those who flee!"

The blond man couldn't stand the stupidity of these fools and yelled.