Red-Dressed Girl, Mad Ghost Doll

Red-Dressed Girl, Mad Ghost Doll

Chen Yu casually wiped his mouth.

His hand came away covered in blood.

He looked bizarre and bloodthirsty, like a murderer.

[Consuming anomaly.]

[Successfully consumed Ghost Pat Shoulder!]

[Ghost Pat Shoulder: Level 1.]

[Obtained Ghost Pat Shoulder Anomaly Ability: Anyone who turns around after having their shoulder patted will fall into blindness and chaos. This may cause permanent blindness or leave them trapped in chaos.]

[Potential: Two stars.]

"Two stars?!"

Chen Yu froze when he saw the notification.

His Time Ghost Eye had ten stars, and the Ghost Butcher Knife had nine and a half stars. This Ghost Pat Shoulder only had two stars. Wasn't that far too weak?

After Ghost Pat Shoulder was swallowed by Chen Yu, it transformed into a wisp of energy that instantly filled every part of his body.

Because Ghost Pat Shoulder's star rating was too low, it could not enter the Time Ghost Eye and instead entered the Ghost Butcher Knife.

[Ghost Pat Shoulder has been digested.]

[Energy has entered the Ghost Butcher Knife. Ghost Butcher Knife Level 4 (30%).]

An eerie presence drifted down from upstairs.

Chen Yu followed the aura as he searched.

The eerie presence grew stronger and stronger. He could now confirm that the other revived anomaly was within the stairs leading to the second floor!

"The aura is already obvious. I wonder whether it's the Ghost Stairs or the Ghost Doll."

Chen Yu moved slowly down the corridor, remaining vigilant of his surroundings.

The corridor looked like an ordinary hallway in a residential building.

The walls had been painted a snowy white.

There were even several paintings hanging on them.

However, all the paintings looked horribly distorted, like some artist's depiction of a starry sky.

Strangely, as Chen Yu walked, he felt the surroundings gradually narrowing. The corridor to his left and right slowly shrank to around a meter wide, only enough for one person to pass through.

A chandelier hung from the ceiling overhead. Its light was bright, but a breeze from nowhere made it sway from side to side, causing the entire corridor to flicker between light and darkness.

Whenever the light failed to reach a dark corner, Chen Yu always felt that someone was standing there, staring at him with wide-open eyes.

Yet whenever the light swung back, that feeling vanished.

The narrow corridor meant that if something happened, he would be unable to turn around and flee immediately. He could only face his enemy head-on.

The pitch-black depths ahead meant that even if something terrifying appeared before him, he would not be able to escape. He might not even be able to see it clearly.

Combined with the eerie aura waxing and waning.

The two created a claustrophobic, sinister, and oppressive atmosphere.

He had expected an anomaly to suddenly leap out and scare him.

Yet after walking for so long, he found nothing wrong at all. Was this the calm before the storm?

Chen Yu pondered this as he continued forward.

But after taking a few more steps, he finally realized what was wrong, and his expression changed slightly!

There were no footsteps when he walked!

He hurriedly stomped his feet, but still no sound came out.

It was not that he had gone deaf. The sound beneath his feet had simply vanished!

What was going on?

He looked down.

He discovered that, without realizing it, he had been walking on tiptoe!

Yet he had not noticed at all, as though he were walking while stepping on someone else's feet.

Not only that, he realized he was rising higher and higher onto his toes!

Like a ballet dancer performing ballet.

[Buzz!]

[Congratulations, you have already been targeted by an anomaly.]

[Do you find what is beneath your feet strange?]

[Do you feel as though your feet are being raised higher and higher?]

[Then you are not far from death.]

[Once you completely leave the ground, you will see It.]

Once his feet left the ground, he would see It?

And right now, only his toes were still touching the ground!

He held his breath, focused his mind, and calmly activated the Slaughter Ghost Domain.

In an instant, everything around him slowed down.

Using the Ghost Domain's six senses, he hurriedly examined his surroundings.

Yet he found nothing at all.

Could it be behind him?

He turned around, only to find nothing behind him!

What was going on?

At that moment, he looked down.

With the Ghost Domain's six senses activated.

A horrifying sight appeared before Chen Yu.

After he passed through the corridor and stepped onto the stairs, there was an upside-down Ghost Shadow beneath the stairs!

The Ghost Shadow's feet were pressed against Chen Yu's feet, like a reflection in a mirror!

Beneath the stairs was clearly a middle-aged man!

Since the Slaughter Ghost Domain also consumed a certain amount of mental energy, and he had now found the anomaly's location, he deactivated the Ghost Domain.

The upside-down middle-aged man beneath the stairs seemed to realize that Chen Yu had discovered him.

He lowered his head as well, meeting Chen Yu's gaze. Then an exceedingly strange curve formed at the corners of his lips.

"Hahahaha, I finally found you!"

The other man had merely curved his lips slightly, but Chen Yu directly broke into a wide grin!

Accompanied by a rumbling growl of hunger.

It was time to eat again!

What level was this anomaly?

Would it be enough to fill him up?

[Your train of thought is truly bizarre. Have you been scared stupid?]

[The anomaly targeting you is already in a revived state and is even stronger than before, yet you can still laugh.]

[Shouldn't you have chosen to run immediately?]

The notification on his phone carried a hint of sarcastic shock.

Chen Yu moved his feet and took several more steps.

The anomaly beneath the stairs repeated Chen Yu's movements.

However, Chen Yu's feet had already left the ground, while the other's feet had emerged through the stairs!

After a few more steps.

The anomaly's calves had emerged from beneath the stairs!

Meanwhile, Chen Yu was pushed even higher.

From the looks of it.

If he took a few more steps, the anomaly would be able to come out from beneath the stairs.

No wonder the notification said that once he left the ground, death would not be far away. So that was what it meant.

And that anomaly apparently could no longer wait. It stopped copying Chen Yu's movements, bent down of its own accord, and slowly stretched out from the stairs at an extremely bizarre angle, approaching Chen Yu.

"Come on! I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

The smile on Chen Yu's lips grew more obvious. Not only was he unafraid, he was excited. He even licked his lips.

[You're insane!]

[No, calling you insane would be an insult to the word insane!]

[This is an anomaly. It will take your life! How can you still laugh?!]

The notifications on his phone appeared again.

But Chen Yu only had one word in his mind now: Eat. How could he spare any attention for his phone?

The moment the Ghost Stairs fully emerged, Chen Yu immediately spread the Slaughter Ghost Domain.

The instant the Ghost Domain unfolded, the Ghost Stairs seemed to realize something was wrong and turned to flee.

Unfortunately, the Slaughter Ghost Domain had already been activated. Its movements were slowed infinitely, leaving it unable to escape even if it wanted to.

Chen Yu's gaze shifted slightly.

Swish!

A cold gleam silently swept across the middle-aged man of the Ghost Stairs.

Swish, swish, swish!

Several flashes of light swept across the middle-aged man's body.

The middle-aged man still maintained the posture of trying to turn and flee, panic written across his face.

"Ghost Domain, retract!"

After Chen Yu withdrew the Ghost Domain.

The middle-aged man standing before him shattered into pieces like building blocks, instantly collapsing into a pile!

Without another word, Chen Yu pounced on him and began consuming him.

[Buzz!]

[It has killed countless people and is an anomaly feared by all.]

[Yet you killed It with ease and even consumed Its flesh.]

[Perhaps I was mistaken. The truly feared one is not It.]

[But you.]

His phone kept vibrating.

As Chen Yu ate, he took out his phone and glanced at it.

[Ding!]

[You have successfully consumed the anomaly. It has become part of your body.]

[However, you possess the powerful Time Ghost Eye, and It deeply despises such a low-level anomaly.]

[Therefore, this anomaly can only occupy a tiny part of your body and does not even have any say in the matter.]

[What do school bullying and social bullying amount to? Bodily bullying is what truly drives people to despair.]

[Perhaps It never imagined It would end up like this.]

[How pitiful.]

[Be kinder to It in the future. Whenever you walk up a flight of stairs, I hope you will remember It.]

Be kinder to It?

Did anomalies retain their own consciousness after being consumed by him?

He began searching for information about this anomaly.

[Ghost Stairs]

[Level 2 anomaly.]

[Potential: One and a half stars.]

"One and a half stars? Even lower than the last one!"

Chen Yu sighed helplessly. He had not expected the anomaly he had worked so hard to obtain to have even lower potential.

So what was its Anomaly Ability?

The moment Chen Yu lifted his foot, he felt a light, nimble sensation beneath it!

[Ghost Stairs Anomaly Ability: There is an upside-down ghost beneath your feet. The ghost supports you, allowing you to walk while floating in the air.]

As he walked, Chen Yu's feet began leaving the ground. However, he could only rise around twenty to thirty centimeters and no higher.

"Interesting. Maybe this ability will have an unexpected use."

Chen Yu nodded.

After consuming the Ghost Stairs, Chen Yu rapidly digested it.

Energy raced wildly through every part of Chen Yu's body before finally converging at a single point and entering the Ghost Butcher Knife.

[Ghost Butcher Knife Level 4 (90%).]

Inside one of the hotel's rooms.

It was incredibly dark.

From within a pitch-black wardrobe, sounds occasionally emerged.

Inside sat a little girl wearing a blood-red dress.

The little girl looked cute and appeared to be only eleven or twelve years old. Yet her pale face was expressionless as she sat inside the wardrobe.

And on her back, she carried a doll!

This doll was utterly bizarre. Its bean-sized eyes blinked constantly, sometimes filled with anxiety, sometimes flashing with fear. Its expressions were incredibly varied. The stitches sealing its mouth had already been removed, and its mouth opened and closed as it spoke.

"Big sis, can we still escape? Are we all going to die here? What does dying feel like?"

"Big sis, say something. Big sis, your little sister is so scared."

"Big sis, I want to go home. I want to lie in bed, sleep under the blankets, take a nice fragrant bath..."

"Big sis, the bad guy outside is getting closer. Is it going to open the wardrobe door?"

"Big sis, I'm so scared. Can you hold me...?"

"Big sis..."

"Big sis, are you about to die?"

"Great! Once you die, I can come back to life without any restraint. Hehe~"

"Big sis, I'm kind of reluctant to let you go. When you die later, can I take your head as a souvenir?"

The Ghost Doll kept talking without pause. Its voice sounded like that of a preschool girl, growing louder and more rapid by the second.

It was like a madman with an unstable mind—one moment affectionate and obedient, like a girl's pure and beloved little sister; the next, crazed and cruel, wishing she could make the girl die right now.

Yet the little girl in red seemed not to hear a thing. Hugging her knees, she stared expressionlessly at the pitch-black wardrobe.

Inside the room, a small shadow was slowly approaching the dark wardrobe.

Looking closely—

The outline of that small shadow was exactly the same as the little girl's!

It was clearly the little girl's shadow!

The girl, Tong Jian, had been targeted by an anomaly the moment she entered Linjiang Central Hotel.

If the Ghost Doll had not saved her life, she likely would have gone away with the Ghost Stairs and Ghost Pat Shoulder.

Although she had escaped death once—

Her shadow had been infected by the anomaly.

Now, her shadow was trying to kill her. Yet whenever it heard the Ghost Doll's voice from inside the wardrobe, it would stop moving or slow down.

As the Ghost Doll's voice within the wardrobe grew louder and more frequent, the shadow outside moved even more slowly.

This was the Ghost Doll's Anomaly Ability.

Being a chatterbox was how it countered rules!

But the infected Ghost Shadow outside was too strong. It could not drive it away and could only use a vocal curse to slow its movements.

There was still no expression on the little girl in red's fair, delicate face.

She knew she was going to die.

The Ghost Doll definitely would not be able to hold out much longer. The "her" outside was about to arrive.

But at that moment, a faint commotion came from outside the room.

The bizarre doll continued chattering, but it lowered its voice and anxiously reminded the girl:

"Big sis, there seems to be someone outside. Let's not make a sound!"

"We'll definitely survive together!"

"Shh—"

Then its tone abruptly changed!

Its voice suddenly rose, turning shrill and frenzied, as though it were tearing at its vocal cords with wild laughter!

The Ghost Doll's voice was as piercing as a knife scraping across glass.

"Hehehehe, Big sis, don't make a sound. I'll make noise for you~ Is anyone there? Hurry up and kill my big sister~"

"I really want her head~! It's super cute."

The girl in the red dress still lowered her head, curling up expressionlessly and helplessly against the darkness beside the wardrobe.

Making sure she did not cast a shadow.

[Buzz!]

[You really know how to court death! You know there's an anomaly here, yet you insist on coming this way!]

[The anomaly is inside the room!]

[It has already noticed your presence.]

"It's in here!"

Chen Yu followed the trail of aura all the way here, then saw the prompt on his phone.

With a thought—

The time scale in his right eye immediately snapped back three ticks and froze at the three-second mark.

A flash of red glinted in his eye before vanishing.

[You have used the save function. You may rewind within three seconds.]

After saving, Chen Yu kicked the door open.

What met his eyes was a small little-girl shadow approaching a pitch-black wardrobe!

Though the black shadow had no facial features, Chen Yu could clearly see it suddenly turn its head and stare fixedly at him with nonexistent eyes.

An icy aura burst forth from within the shadow, blending with the air in the entire room until everything became murky.

The darkness around the room began to gather, then surged toward the small shadow.

The places stripped of darkness turned a ghastly white, like an oil painting on paper whose marks had been forcibly erased.

The shadow's body twisted like a pitch-black ghostly snake, writhing its body.

Although no one made a sound, the terror at that moment was louder than any noise.

The next instant!

The shadow suddenly let out a piercing shriek, then stretched out its black hands and lunged at Chen Yu.

No, it should have been lunging at Chen Yu's shadow!

He had received a warning from the Investigation Bureau before.

(End of Chapter)