If You Still Don't Die, It'll Be Hard to Convince Everyone

If You Still Don't Die, It'll Be Hard to Convince Everyone

If Linjiang Central Hotel's shadow touched his own shadow, he would be finished!

Chen Yu's shadow beneath his feet seemed to have received some kind of command. It formed into a pyramid shape and forcibly rushed toward the little girl Ghost Shadow.

"Damn it!"

Chen Yu flashed aside and leaped away from his shadow, landing beside the bed.

But at that moment!

"Hehehe, caught you, caught you..."

Hoarse, mournful cries rose from beneath Chen Yu's feet.

Chen Yu looked down and saw a Ghost Shadow beneath the bed suddenly spread out, directly connecting with his shadow.

There was one here too!

The instant the shadows connected.

Chen Yu felt his vision begin to blur and his head split with pain.

It was as if he had fallen into an endless abyss of darkness. Countless shadows beneath him were reaching out their hands toward him!

The sensation of free-falling made Chen Yu feel extremely sick.

He fell into the grasp of those countless shadows.

The shadows tore him apart and gnawed away every inch of his skin.

Chen Yu's body had no strength at all. He could only watch helplessly as he was bitten away mouthful by mouthful, utterly unable to resist.

His consciousness gradually dimmed!

The Ghost Shadow controlled Chen Yu's shadow, plunging him into an extremely brief illusion.

Though it did not last long, when experts clashed, victory was often decided in the blink of an eye.

His head was mercilessly severed by the Ghost Shadow.

The moment Chen Yu's head hit the ground.

A dull thud sounded, as though it had triggered some sort of signal.

The long needle in Chen Yu's right pupil immediately jumped back to the fourth mark, skipping all the marks in between.

Ding!

The power of time reversal, freed from the rules, suddenly erupted!

Chen Yu's consciousness, which he had just lost, came flooding back!

Everything around him rapidly replayed in reverse!

"Hah!"

Chen Yu sharply sucked in a breath of cold air as bean-sized drops of sweat poured down.

He had returned to outside the room's door three seconds later!

[You have successfully used the save rollback function and rolled back to three seconds earlier.]

[Please cherish your life and stay away from danger.]

A notification appeared on his phone.

Only then did Chen Yu recover from his dazed state!

He had actually died once!

"Good thing I saved beforehand and rolled back to three seconds earlier..."

Chen Yu's face was full of lingering fear.

Better safe than sorry, so he had chosen to save when entering the room.

If he had not saved.

Then Chen Yu could only have used Time Reversal to revive on the spot.

But his shadow had already connected with the other party's.

That meant.

After reviving on the spot, Chen Yu would die again, then revive again, then die again.

Until he completely exhausted his mental power and could no longer revive! [You're terrifying. I clearly saw your head separated from your body.]

[Yet you astonishingly returned to the doorway unharmed.]

[Wait...]

[This is Time Ghost Eye's upgraded ability. After devouring Time Ghoul, you obtained its ability and even upgraded it?]

[This might be the highest realm of getting something for free.]

[Time Ghoul died so unfairly.]

The simple scarlet text was filled with shock.

"That was close!"

Chen Yu took a deep breath, gathered his courage, and shoved the door open!

The instant the door opened, the Slaughter Ghost Domain activated!

A Ghost Shadow appeared before him. Because the Butcher Knife Ghost Domain was active, the Ghost Shadow's attack became incredibly slow!

Chen Yu tilted his body and dodged the Ghost Shadow's attack.

Another shadow rushed at him from below, but it too was extremely slow. Within the Butcher Knife Ghost Domain, Chen Yu's vision had complete three-hundred-and-sixty-degree coverage, like a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree camera hanging from the ceiling.

Chen Yu had not saved because saves had a three-second limitation. Once more than three seconds passed, the save would become useless.

Moreover, saving and rolling back consumed a tremendous amount of mental power.

Using the Butcher Knife Ghost Domain had many benefits, but it was also extremely dangerous.

If the Ghost Shadow connected with his shadow, he would still die even if he deployed the Ghost Domain.

With a thought from Chen Yu, a butcher knife appeared in his hand.

The instant the butcher knife was summoned, the Butcher Knife Ghost Domain intensified.

A cold gleam slashed at an unbelievable angle, directly cleaving toward the Ghost Shadow beneath the bed and the little girl Ghost Shadow!

Crack! Crack!

Two crisp sounds rang out.

The two Ghost Shadows were directly split into four pieces.

Black energy continuously seeped from the cuts!

Once the black energy dispersed, the Ghost Shadows lay motionless on the ground!

[Unbelievable. You took out two Ghost Shadow Clones at once.]

[In the records, no one has ever accomplished such a feat.]

[If you were controlled by a Ghost Shadow Clone, you would enter the abyss of death.]

[Unfortunately, the Slaughter Ghost Domain is too powerful, and so is the Time Ghost Eye.]

[The two Ghost Shadows could work together to kill you, but they could not kill your Time Ghost Eye and Ghost Butcher Knife.]

[This time, they can only admit their bad luck.]

"Ghost Shadow Clones?!"

Chen Yu could not help rubbing his forehead and sighing. "Why is it another clone? Is the real body really that hard to catch?"

The clones were already this powerful. The real body had to be even stronger.

It seemed Chen Yu needed to be more careful.

[Buzz!]

[Do you want to catch Ghost Shadow?]

[Perhaps you are too arrogant. Ghost Shadow is not so easy to catch.]

[It may be everywhere, or it may vanish without a trace.]

[You should give up.]

A new round of notifications appeared on his phone.

Creak!

At that moment, the sound of a wooden door opening rang out. Chen Yu frowned and hastily stepped back.

Could there be another anomaly in this room?!

He looked toward the source of the sound.

A pair of tender white hands pushed open a pitch-black wardrobe door.

A little girl in a red dress stepped out. Expressionless, she stared at Chen Yu without saying a word.

The little girl in the red dress was beautiful and adorable, with large eyes, long lashes, and snow-white skin, like a lifelike porcelain doll.

But!

Seeing her vacant gaze and expression, Chen Yu felt somewhat uncomfortable.

She seemed like a little girl who had lost her soul, a walking corpse.

He did not dare imagine what she had gone through.

Although Tong Jian did not say a word.

The doll she carried behind her back was quite the chatterbox.

The contrast between them was striking.

It seemed to have noticed that Tong Jian had survived the life-or-death crisis brought by Ghost Shadow.

The Ghost Doll tactfully restrained its crazier side.

Its voice was sweet and adorable.

"Wow, what a handsome and mysterious big brother!"

"Thank you, big brother, for saving me and my big sister!"

"We thought we were doomed, but I never expected big brother to save us!"

"My big sister doesn't really like talking, so I'll thank you for her first, hehe~"

The Ghost Doll enthusiastically thanked Chen Yu.

Chen Yu was dumbfounded. He had not expected the little girl to remain silent while the doll behind her spoke instead.

He stared at the Ghost Doll and asked, "Are you an anomaly?"

"I don't know what an anomaly is!"

"Then how can you talk?"

"Because I could always talk! Big brother, why are you asking such a strange question?"

The Ghost Doll's voice carried a trace of amusement.

Chen Yu moved closer and examined her. He discovered that this little girl was the third Ghost Controller listed in the files, Tong Jian.

As for her doll, Tong Jian had found it while rummaging through a trash can when she was young. He had not expected it to be an anomaly.

[You are quite lucky to encounter a special anomaly here.]

[It is called the Ghost Doll, a Level Four anomaly with six-and-a-half-star potential.]

Oh, an anomaly with five-and-a-half-star potential?

It seemed pretty impressive!

It was far stronger than Ghost Pat Shoulder and Ghost Stairs.

Chen Yu had not expected one of the three Ghost Controllers to survive, so he smiled and said, "It's dangerous here. This isn't a place for you two. Hurry up and leave."

But Tong Jian did not say a single word.

Chen Yu was already preparing to leave. Seeing Tong Jian still standing there unmoving, he asked in surprise, "You're not leaving?"

"Big sister told me she doesn't want to leave. She wants to follow you!"

The Ghost Doll spoke.

"She just spoke to you?"

Chen Yu looked stunned. Had he gone deaf?

"No, but big sister and I are spiritually connected. I know what big sister wants to say."

A smile appeared on the Ghost Doll's doll-like face.

"Why follow me? It's dangerous. Two Ghost Controllers have already died here."

Chen Yu said.

The Ghost Doll said, "Big sister says she wants to follow you."

"Fine, fine. Follow me if you want, but don't get in my way."

Chen Yu waved a hand, not particularly concerned.

He walked over to the two shadows, opened his mouth, and began devouring them.

The shadows tasted like flavorless modeling clay, but Chen Yu ate with relish.

Tong Jian, who was following beside him, showed no expression and said nothing when she saw this scene, but a storm rose within her heart!

"Big brother, you're eating shadows!"

"Can shadows be eaten? What will happen after you eat them?!"

The Ghost Doll stared at Chen Yu in shock and asked.

"They taste good. Want a bite?"

Chen Yu tore off one of the shadow's legs and handed it to the Ghost Doll.

The Ghost Doll repeatedly shook its head.

[You have devoured two Shadow Clones!]

[The clones have been digested by you and transformed into energy flowing through your body.]

Chen Yu felt a considerable amount of energy appear within him. It flowed through his body before finally pouring into the Ghost Butcher Knife.

[Energy has entered the Ghost Butcher Knife. Ghost Butcher Knife (100%)]

[Level Four Ghost Butcher Knife has advanced to Level Five Ghost Butcher Knife.]

[Anomaly Ability upgraded: Level Two Slaughter Ghost Domain!]

[With your enhanced Slaughter Ghost Domain, you could see more clearly, hear more distinctly, and even perceive causal threads!]

Devouring the Ghost Shadow had unexpectedly upgraded the Ghost Butcher Knife.

Chen Yu hurriedly unleashed the Level 2 Slaughter Ghost Domain.

The next moment, everything around him suddenly slowed down, and the entire world turned the color of a black-and-white film negative.

Chen Yu wanted to use the Ghost Butcher Knife's Slaughter Ghost Domain to locate the Ghost Shadow.

To his surprise, he discovered a corpse hidden beneath the bed in this room. It was an ordinary human corpse, except its shadow had been infected before it was killed by the shadow and dragged beneath the bed.

A faint, hazy thread lay upon the corpse, nearly impossible to see without close inspection!

One end of the thread was connected to the corpse.

The other end led directly outside the door, seemingly connected to something else.

"Could the other end of this thread be the Ghost Shadow?"

Chen Yu guessed that the Ghost Shadow might control people's shadows through these threads.

With that thought, Chen Yu was no longer charging around like a headless fly. Instead, he withdrew the Slaughter Ghost Domain and began following the hazy thread.

Thanks to the Time Ghost Eye, he was able to see the thread clearly.

"Big brother, where are you going? Wait for us~"

Seeing Chen Yu suddenly leave, the Ghost Doll hurriedly called out.

Tong Jian took quick little steps to follow Chen Yu.

Following the thread all the way down, Chen Yu eventually arrived at the basement.

The basement door was tightly shut.

An intense, heavy Anomaly aura seeped out from within.

It seemed the Anomaly was inside!

Chen Yu directly drew the Ghost Butcher Knife and slashed through the thread in one stroke!

Crack!

The thread split into two.

As though it were alive, it twisted frantically like a severed earthworm, venting its agony.

Chen Yu unleashed his Ghost Domain. Using the Time Ghost Eye together with the Ghost Domain's penetrating power, he looked through the wall and saw a corpse lying inside. With a thought—

Crack!

A cold flash streaked directly through the basement.

Wherever his gaze reached, he could wound!

[Buzz!]

[You actually managed to find Its true body!]

[And you even injured It!]

[However, your attack appears to be too weak and can only deal It minor damage.]

The phone notification sounded utterly astonished.

Chen Yu was equally stunned. He had not expected his Slaughter Ghost Domain to truly be able to injure something from afar.

However, because a wall separated them, it had clearly failed to inflict any serious damage on the Anomaly.

After the thread was severed, the hidden figure was exposed.

Only then did Tong Jian realize that Chen Yu had been following the thread all along, not wandering around aimlessly.

"When did this thread appear? Why didn't I see it earlier?"

"Big brother, did you follow this thread here just now? Your eyes are incredible—you could even see something like this!"

The Ghost Doll babbled on without pause.

Chen Yu ignored it and walked straight to the basement entrance, activating the Time Ghost Eye's Anomaly Ability.

[The Save Anomaly Ability of the Time Ghost Eye is in progress.]

[Save successful. Time limit: three seconds.]

The instant the save was complete, Chen Yu pushed open the basement door.

A chilling aura rushed straight at him.

Chen Yu fixed his gaze ahead.

Inside the basement, a headless male corpse wandered about aimlessly. It stretched out both hands, constantly feeling around in the empty air.

Yet the headless shadow beneath its feet was different from the shadow the corpse should have cast.

This shadow seemed to be wearing a long robe!

Just then—

The Ghost Butcher Knife on Chen Yu's body began trembling wildly.

Seeing the restless Ghost Butcher Knife, Chen Yu froze.

The Ghost Butcher Knife continuously conveyed an emotion of desperate yearning to Chen Yu.

That emotion was extremely peculiar, like the yearning to reclaim one's soul after one's three ethereal souls and seven corporeal souls had been ripped away.

[Buzz!]

[Your Ghost Butcher Knife has conveyed its yearning to you because It has seen what It needs.]

[The Headless Ghost Shadow is a piece of the Ghost Butcher Knife's puzzle.]

"A puzzle piece?"

Chen Yu could not help but raise the Ghost Butcher Knife. It was not missing any arms or legs.

Why did it suddenly need some kind of puzzle piece?

[Oh, right~ I forgot to explain, my dear Old Baby.]

[There are countless kinds of Anomaly puzzles, and each one corresponds to a particular Anomaly.]

[Finding a matching Anomaly puzzle is like searching for a needle in a haystack, so you must cherish every Anomaly puzzle you encounter.]

(End of chapter)