Throughout the long night, bone-rattling sounds that made one's scalp tingle echoed endlessly. Stiffness and stupor spread through Room 201 like a virus.
Lan Yu stood guard at the Restroom door, staring darkly at the three skeletons that had once again donned human skin. Veins bulged across his face in the shadows, his eyes bloodshot.
His expression was savage, as though he were enduring immense pain. In the darkness, his features twisted like those of a vicious ghost.
But even more twisted was the pale, torn face pressed against the edge of his own.
The Female Ghost clung to his side like a parasite gnawing at the bone, never leaving him for a moment. Her cold, terrifying aura faintly threatened to overwhelm even the three skeletons.
In Lan Yu's right hand, he gripped a mechanical watch that had stopped turning. Its markings pointed to three "12s," or perhaps three "0s."
Three "0s" were three imaginary numbers, three numbers that did not exist, forming a time that did not exist.
If the Light Source here had lit up, one could have seen that the three hands were nominally aligned in a straight line, yet in reality they kept trembling repeatedly.
It was as if they should have continued rotating clockwise, but some force had forcibly fixed them at the three "0" marks, while they struggled with all their might to resist.
Yet as they struggled, a mysterious and unfathomable Supernatural Power silently descended upon Room 201.
More precisely, the three "0s" indicated by the hands affected only the three Human Skin Skeletons in the Living Room.
This Sin Object seemed capable of slowing time. By freezing the hands in place, it greatly reduced the passage of time.
The most direct manifestation was that although the three Human Skin Skeletons had turned