Want to Be Friends with Me? Ate Another Anomaly!

Want to Be Friends with Me? Ate Another Anomaly!

Anomaly invasion?

And it was friendly?

What was going on? Hadn't he just been asleep?

Chen Yu was puzzled.

Then his god-sister's chat window moved again.

He opened it, only to find that she had sent him a red packet.

Chen Yu sighed helplessly, accepted it, and replied, "Sis, I'll pay you back later."

As long as he completed this mission, he would not be short of money.

"Buddy, we're here."

After driving for several minutes, the driver in the front seat glanced at Chen Yu through the rearview mirror and reminded him.

Chen Yu looked outside, paid the fare, and got out.

"Buddy, what are you doing here?"

The driver frowned at Chen Yu. If this trip had not counted as a half-long-distance ride and earned him more money, he would never have dared to come here.

After all, there had been plenty of rumors about this place lately.

"Staying at a hotel."

Chen Yu smiled.

"Staying at a hotel? Why did you have to come here? This place is seriously cursed. I heard thirty-five people have died recently! This hotel is haunted!"

The driver gave him a kind warning.

"It's fine. I'm not afraid."

Chen Yu smiled. "I'm an atheist."

Then he bade the driver farewell.

"What a strange guy. That accent is obviously from Linjiang City, so how does he not know about Linjiang Central Hotel? And he's wearing sunglasses at night. Isn't he afraid of falling over?"

After driving away, the driver muttered gloomily to himself.

Linjiang Central Hotel.

Several large characters hung atop the hotel building. The lights around the letters glowed faintly yellow, with mosquito corpses drawn in by the aged, mottled light trapped within them.

The area around the hotel was silent. Every dark corner seemed to contain a pair of invisible eyes watching people.

Fear lurked everywhere.

Someone stood at the entrance to the hotel.

He was handsome, wearing a baseball cap, and the nameplate on his chest read: Zhou Chu.

At the moment, he was fiddling with his phone.

But as he fiddled with it, the phone suddenly froze.

Then a scarlet background filled the entire screen!

The next instant!

[Buzz!]

[Two extremely terrifying anomalies are approaching you.]

[They can take your life with ease.]

[Fortunately, these two anomalies bear you no hostility. You are safe for now.]

[However, do not provoke them, or not even ashes may remain of you.]

[Remember this.]

Line after line of text appeared, making Zhou Chu tremble all over!

Two extremely terrifying anomalies were approaching him?

Where were they?

He hurriedly looked around, but only saw one person walking toward him. There was nothing else!

Could that person be an anomaly?

But hadn't it said there were two?

He panicked, his entire body shaking as cold sweat soaked his back!

As Chen Yu drew closer, Zhou Chu shook more violently.

Zhou Chu was also a Ghost Controller. At that moment, the anomaly inside him was sending wave after wave of soul-deep terror into his mind!

He instinctively lowered his head, not even daring to glance at Chen Yu!

When Chen Yu walked over and saw Zhou Chu trembling all over, crouched on the ground without even daring to raise his head, he was slightly taken aback.

What was wrong with this guy?

Had he seen a ghost?

He said, "Hello, are you...?"

"I-I-I-I..."

Zhou Chu's voice trembled as he stammered, "I'm here to receive a Mr. Nightfall..."

Nightfall?

Only then did Chen Yu come to his senses.

It seemed this guy was from the Investigation Bureau and had been sent to receive him.

He wanted to help Zhou Chu up, but the moment he approached, Zhou Chu shuddered, kicked his feet against the ground, retreated several steps, and waved his hands in alarm. "Don't, don't kill me..."

"Why would I kill you?"

Only then did Chen Yu realize that the anomaly aura within him was probably too strong, so he suppressed it.

"I'm Nightfall."

Once Zhou Chu felt the anomaly aura around him vanish, he finally returned to normal. When he raised his head, he saw a man in sunglasses and a hooded sweatshirt, his face obscured from view.

Chen Yu did not want others to recognize him, so he used the hood to hide his face.

The sunglasses were to conceal the Time Ghost Eye in his right eye.

"You're Nightfall?"

Zhou Chu froze, then hurriedly looked around and asked anxiously, "Where did those two anomalies go just now?"

"Anomalies? What anomalies?"

Chen Yu pretended not to know. "Did you get it wrong? There was nothing here just now."

"Uh..."

Only then did Zhou Chu realize he had lost his composure. This was Linjiang Hotel, a terrifying place. He had probably been too frightened and become paranoid.

He stood up and pointed at a chair nearby. "Then, Mr. Nightfall, please rest here for now."

"Rest? Can't I just go inside?"

"There's one more person coming."

"Someone else? Who?"

Chen Yu asked in confusion.

At that, Zhou Chu immediately put on a reverent, admiring expression and said, "That person is Xu Ao from the Bizarre Society. Brother Xu."

Zhou Chu looked as though Xu Ao was not someone else, but his own father.

Was that really necessary?

Chen Yu frowned. He did not have that much time to waste with them, so he said directly, "I'm not waiting. I'm going in first."

"Wait, Mr. Nightfall. I think you should wait for Xu Ao. Xu Ao is an expert from the Bizarre Society and a powerful Ghost Controller. With him following you, your safety can be guaranteed."

"Is he protecting me, or am I protecting him? I don't want dead weight."

Chen Yu spoke blandly and started walking inside.

Zhou Chu froze at those words.

Xu Ao was dead weight?

How could he even say that?

But his mission was to receive Chen Yu properly, so though angered, he did not dare voice it. He hurriedly said, "Mr. Nightfall, those are orders from the Investigation Bureau."

Chen Yu glanced into the hotel, a faint smile curling his lips. "The Investigation Bureau is the Investigation Bureau, and I am me. If I want to go in, can your Investigation Bureau stop me?"

"Uh..."

Seeing that he insisted on going in, Zhou Chu stopped trying to persuade him. He handed Chen Yu a set of documents and said, "Mr. Nightfall, these are the hotel's files. I hope they help you."

"Thanks."

Chen Yu accepted the documents and entered the hotel alone.

Watching Chen Yu's back, Zhou Chu sighed, his head aching. "The previous three Ghost Controllers all died in there. If another one dies, this hotel might truly become a major hidden danger to Linjiang City."

"I need to contact Captain Luo immediately."

Meanwhile, Chen Yu walked while reading the documents in his hand.

There were three photographs in the documents, with names and descriptions beneath them.

Two men and one woman: an old man, a middle-aged man, and a little girl.

The old man was named Chen Feng, the man was Zhou Zheng, and the girl was Tong Jian.

These three were the Ghost Controllers who had gone missing after entering the hotel.

The anomalies they controlled were also recorded.

They respectively controlled Ghost Shoulder Pat, Ghost Steps, and Ghost Doll.

The origins of these three anomalies were also clearly documented.

When Chen Feng acquired the Ghost Pat Shoulder anomaly, he had just left the hospital after being diagnosed with partial numbness in his body!

And by sheer coincidence, it was his shoulder.

Once someone got that illness, their shoulder would completely lose sensation.

Then, by another coincidence, Ghost Pat Shoulder attached itself to Chen Feng and madly patted his shoulder.

As long as Chen Feng turned around, he would die.

But Ghost Pat Shoulder never could have imagined that Chen Feng's shoulder was already numb, and he could not feel anything at all.

That was how Ghost Pat Shoulder was controlled by Chen Feng.

Ghost Stairs targeted Zhou Zheng because Zhou Zheng had loved running up and down stairs for exercise. After Ghost Stairs targeted him, Zhou Zheng was shocked to discover that after running from the first floor to the sixth floor, he would return to the first floor again in an endless loop!

Most people would probably have been scared to death on the spot!

But Zhou Zheng was a complete exercise fanatic who loved working out. Going downstairs was clearly not as good as going upstairs!

He climbed the stairs like mad, delighted beyond measure.

Even the anomaly had been dumbfounded. How could there be such a freak in the world?

Tong Jian's Ghost Doll had an even more unusual origin.

Tong Jian had been an orphan since childhood, digging through trash for food. But once, she found a doll in a garbage heap and loved it dearly, so she kept it by her side at all times.

As she grew up, the doll became increasingly strange...

Only when the Anomaly Game descended did Ghost Doll reveal its true form.

"The origins of these people's anomalies are really unusual... They didn't conquer them through strength, but through luck..."

Chen Yu was speechless. Then he quickened his pace and entered the hotel.

The instant he stepped through the glass doors.

He felt that the temperature inside was completely different from outside.

Inside, it was like an ice cellar!

The hotel interior was brightly lit.

Usually, light gave people a small sense of security.

But the anomaly here was Ghost Shadow!

It killed people through the shadows cast by light!

Therefore, the brighter the lights here were, the less safe it was. Instead, it was even more dangerous.

In some dark corners, Chen Yu could clearly see shadowy figures faintly twisting.

The sight was like black paint being stirred several times with a stick.

Some footprints remained on the ground.

Those footprints drew Chen Yu's attention.

He discovered that they did not look as though they had been made by walking, but by hopping.

The left and right footprints were clearly pressed together.

They were like footprints left behind by a zombie.

Chen Yu looked around.

Ever since the Linjiang Central Hotel incident, the hotel receptionists had resigned. Perhaps aside from Chen Yu, there were no more "living people" in the entire hotel.

The first floor was empty.

Chen Yu tried walking into the shadow in a corner.

There was no danger, nor any sign of an anomaly appearing.

"Are you asleep, Mr. Anomaly? Come out and meet me?"

Chen Yu spoke.

[Buzz!]

[I truly don't know whether you're genuinely stupid or only pretending.]

[You actually want an anomaly to kill you.]

[Can't find the anomaly?]

[Then let me give you a hint. From the first step you took into the hotel, the anomaly had already been following behind you.]

[Why don't you try turning around and meeting him?]

[It really wants to be your friend—the kind that takes your life.]

The anomaly was right behind him!

Seeing the prompt on his phone, Chen Yu broke out in a cold sweat, a chill creeping down his back.

Just then—

Tap, tap.

Two dull impacts landed on Chen Yu's shoulders.

Chen Yu felt as though someone had patted his shoulders twice! Ghost Pat Shoulder!

Could that Ghost Controller still be alive?

No!

If the Ghost Controller were alive and had appeared on the first floor, how could the Investigation Bureau have announced that he was missing?!

There was only one possibility: the Ghost Controller who wielded Ghost Pat Shoulder was already dead!

And he was now being controlled by an anomaly.

Since the prompt told him to turn around, Chen Yu absolutely could not turn around.

Want to follow me? Then come along!

Chen Yu turned and entered a hotel room. With a thought, the scarlet dial beneath his sunglasses—the Time Ghost Eye—gave a slight twitch before flashing red.

[You used the Time Ghost Eye's anomalous save ability.]

[Save successful!]

After saving, Chen Yu finally relaxed. He then took several steps out of the hotel room.

One...

Two...

Three...

After silently counting to three, he suddenly spun around!

The instant he turned, Chen Yu immediately unleashed the Slaughter Ghost Domain!

In an instant, the colorful world around him turned into the black-and-white hues of a photographic negative!

Chen Yu could see the droplets of sweat flung out as he turned, falling at a tortoise's pace.

Everything around him had also frozen in that second!

Everything nearby had been slowed down by tens of millions of times.

In other words, after deploying the Slaughter Ghost Domain, one second for Chen Yu equaled one ten-millionth of a second in reality!

Using this ability, Chen Yu saw that an elderly man with snow-white hair really was following behind him!

The old man was gaunt as a corpse, his face utterly bloodless and even covered in livor mortis. His eyes were hollow and vacant. He was clearly not alive—he was a dead man!

So this was Chen Feng.

Except Chen Feng was already dead, controlled by an anomaly.

This anomaly wanted to kill Chen Yu. If Chen Yu had turned around just now, he would probably already be dead.

Chen Yu showed no mercy to anomalies that wanted to kill him. He directly brought out the Ghost Butcher Knife, its cold gleam flashing as he cleaved it apart.

After Chen Feng's head was severed, ink-black liquid sprayed from the scarlet wound, and his entire body collapsed to the ground.

It was Chen Yu's first time killing an anomaly, and he did not know whether that counted as successfully killing it.

To make absolutely sure, he stepped forward and hacked the body into eight pieces.

After Chen Feng was dismembered, his left hand rapidly turned black. The flesh shriveled, veins and tendons emerging beneath the skin. The dry hand looked like cured meat that had been left under the sun for decades.

"This hand must be the anomaly!"

The phone vibrated, and the blood-red prompts arrived right on cue.

[You really are cruel.]

[It only wanted to be friends with you, yet you ate it.]

[Did it taste good?]

"Looks like an anomaly's taste is tied to its potential rank. The Time Ghoul and that dessert from this afternoon tasted better."