The bathroom was quiet.
Other than the dazed, babbling Mike, everyone else slept peacefully.
Even when he had been in the cave, Li Dan's fear had never felt this vivid. Sometimes, the unknown was even more terrifying.
When Li Dan shook the others awake, they were all utterly confused.
Da Shan reacted the most strongly.
"Holy crab, hadn't I already gone home and eaten my mom's cooking?"
Jessie said incredulously, "If this is a dream, it's way too real. I've never had such a realistic dream before..."
Jennifer did not say what she had dreamed about, but her flushed face and the way she looked at Li Dan made it obvious.
"Li Dan, what should we do now?" Jessie remembered that the door had suddenly shut when they went out in the dream. What if it happened the same way this time?
Then were they dreaming, or had they truly woken up?
Li Dan would not be affected this time, so he wanted to see exactly what that thing was.
"It's simple. Open the door and walk out. I'll cover the rear."
Jennifer said softly, "It's not safe for you to stay behind alone. How about Da Shan covers the rear?"
Da Shan: "?"
Am I not human? Da Shan really wanted to curse.
Li Dan shook his head. "No need. Da Shan can carry Mike and leave with the others. I'm actually an exorcist from the church, so you don't need to worry."
This time, Li Dan walked at the back.
The moment everyone stepped out, the bathroom door slammed shut.
Everything was exactly the same. The only difference was that Jessie did not scream.
Jessie walked in front and tried the door, only to find that it had been locked from the outside. The windows also seemed sealed shut and could not be opened no matter what.
Li Dan looked around. "Looks like something doesn't want us to leave."
As if to confirm his words, the ceramic objects in the living room and kitchen suddenly fell to the floor one after another, shattering with piercing crashes.
Jennifer, Da Shan, and Jessie all hid behind Li Dan.
Li Dan had already lost patience with these little tricks. He turned around and kicked the front door clean off, and wind and rain instantly poured inside.
Da Shan's eyes widened. Oh my God, was this still human?
Jennifer and the others truly believed Li Dan was an exorcist from the church now. Was someone who could kick a door flying even human?
Li Dan spoke calmly.
"You go first. I'll stay and take a look."
Not wanting to cause Li Dan trouble, they ran out into the wind and rain.
But as they left, they looked back.
That one glance nearly scared them to death. At the stairway stood what seemed to be a pitch-black head, its pair of white pupils staring fixedly at them.
The eerie sight instantly made them run faster.
The instant they left.
The door Li Dan had kicked away flew back intact, closing over the doorway like a coffin lid sealing a coffin.
The supernatural activity inside began to intensify.
The second floor was the worst.
The sounds of furniture breaking mixed with chaotic static, like an old television in disrepair displaying snow.
At the stairway, a black head slowly poked out again. Its face could not be seen.
Anyone else would have been scared to tears.
Li Dan was not terribly afraid, but his Sanity Value was plummeting.
He did not know how to describe this thing. It did not look much like a demon; its entire body was black, with only the white of its eyes standing out sharply within its pitch-black sockets.
It stared at Li Dan as it slowly crawled along the ceiling toward him.
Li Dan suspected the black-haired girl had very likely been eaten by this thing. Suddenly, he felt Jennifer was quite lucky.
She had managed to survive until now with such a ghostly thing hiding in her home.
Or perhaps it had been a ghost drawn here by the The Conjuring game.
As it drew closer and closer, Li Dan stopped pretending. He completely transformed into Evil Spirit Wendigo and directly activated the second stage of Terrorization. His entire body began to swell, while bone spikes burst through his skin in a spray of crimson.
In the blink of an eye.
There was no trace of a human left in the small house.
In their place stood two terrifying monsters facing off.
If he could help it, Li Dan did not want to become Evil Spirit Wendigo. The main issue was that he had too few usable containment objects.
If he did not use Fusion, he could easily harm the innocent. By innocent, he meant Li Dan himself.
Although he still had a Deformed Person on hand, he did not think that thing could deal with the ghostly creature before him. It might struggle even to protect itself.
On the ceiling.
The Slender Ghost Shadow paused, seemingly not expecting a perfectly normal human to suddenly turn into an evil spirit.
It considered whether it should continue.
Li Dan, meanwhile, had fully transformed. The bone spikes at both elbows extended down his arms, becoming crimson bone blades embedded in them. After charging in place, he leaped into the air and slashed in a cross.
The Slender Ghost Shadow let out a strange cry. Rather than dodge, it lunged at Li Dan in midair.
The bone blades cut into the Slender Ghost Shadow's body. There was none of the hardness Li Dan had expected; instead, they slid through with unusual ease. Yet cutting it apart proved exceptionally difficult.
The Slender Ghost Shadow's claws struck the bone spikes covering Li Dan's body. Rows of bone spikes were like steel needles hitting an iron wall, and pain drove Li Dan's spikes to grow again.
After colliding in midair, the two crashed heavily onto the ground, crushing and splintering the living room floor.
The Slender Ghost Shadow opened its pitch-black mouth and let out a hollow, terrifying sound.
Li Dan was pinned beneath this ghostly thing. It was easy to imagine how great his psychological trauma was.
From another angle, the slender black monster was pouncing on the spiked monster, its shadow slowly enveloping it as though it were about to devour the spiked creature.
Rainy night.
Da Shan and the others who had escaped were still shaken. Even from far away, they could hear the commotion.
After calming down, Jennifer realized that Li Dan had not lied to her. Everything she had experienced today had overturned her worldview.
No wonder Li Dan had kept insisting on coming to her house...
Jennifer had thought he was after her body. She had not expected him to truly be trying to save her. Moved, she wanted to go back for Li Dan even if there was a ghost in the house.
Da Shan glanced at the crazed Mike and switched on the car radio.
Jessie was fiddling with her phone, trying to get a signal.
Perhaps because of the rain, there was still no signal at all.
If she had not been so scared, she would have gotten out and smashed this stupid phone by now!
"Static... static, static."
The old radio emitted crackling noises.
Impatiently, Da Shan slapped the radio. The static vanished, and it picked up a nearby public channel.
A steady male voice came from the radio, carrying a standard American accent.
"This is the Round Clam Town Police emergency communications channel. Repeating, this is the Round Clam Town Police emergency communications channel."
"Attention. A homicide occurred near the outskirts around midnight today. The victims were one male and two females. Residents, please ensure your doors and windows are locked, and safeguard your personal property. If you spot suspicious individuals or unusual circumstances in the area... repeating the above notice..."
The static gradually grew louder until only crackling remained.
The moment Jessie heard it, she realized it was Xiao Shuai and the others who had driven away.
The number of people, genders, time, and location all matched.
Da Shan was slow to react, but once he understood, his face filled with the relief of surviving a disaster. If they had gone with Xiao Shuai, there might have been several more dead by now.
For nothing else, Da Shan had never believed in God or Jesus before, but now he truly did.
Click.
Jennifer suddenly opened the car door and ran out into the rain.
Jessie rolled down the window and shouted after her.
"Hey, Jennifer, where are you going?"
"I'm going back to find Li Dan."
Jennifer's figure gradually disappeared into the rainy night.
Jessie did not dare go back for Li Dan. It was only natural that she was afraid.
Jennifer dared to because her affection was pathological, and that had to do with the environment she had grown up in.
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