"Fine! That's our March 7th for you!"
After a soft sigh, Lin Chen was momentarily at a loss for words.
The mere mention of ghosts terrified March 7th.
Yet she could treat such eerie singing as a lullaby.
At that moment, Lin Chen had to admit one thing.
He couldn't quite understand the miraculous way March 7th's mind worked.
"Hey, Lin Chen! That gh... ghost you mentioned..."
"What exactly did it look like?"
After hesitating for a moment, March 7th asked with an uneasy expression.
"Red..."
Leaning against the wall of the Space Station's corridor, he pulled a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.
Lin Chen answered with a perfectly calm expression.
He did rather want to describe it.
Just how eerie and terrifying that thing resembling a "woman in red" had been.
But considering March 7th's courage...
Lin Chen felt that if he said too much...
A certain brave young lady would probably make a run for it the very next second.
Leaving him here all alone.
Then what the hell would be the point?
Naturally, Lin Chen had a reason for bringing March 7th out to take the initiative.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
If he could capture an uncanny Anomaly with March 7th's help...
The Field Decomposition function should yield quite a few rewards.
At the very least, he would get some conquest points.
Accumulating more resources and bargaining chips was the key to surviving this uncanny crisis.
"Oh, got it..."
"Huh? There seems to be a girl in the corridor."
"I wonder if she's seen any ghosts..."
With that, March 7th strode toward the end of the corridor on her long, shapely legs.
"Hm? A girl?"
Still leaning against the wall and thinking through his plan, Lin Chen couldn't help frowning when he heard March 7th.
He turned his gaze toward the corner at the end of the corridor.
About fifty meters away stood a girl in a white dress, her back toward them.
Her long hair cascaded to her waist. She had a slender figure and wore pure white dance shoes.
But Lin Chen was certain of one thing.
That person hadn't been at the end of the corridor a second ago!
"Holy shit!"
"March 7th... don't go! That thing could be the ghost!"
His face twitched slightly, and a chill crept down his back as Lin Chen hurriedly called out a warning.
March 7th really was far too carefree.
An unknown girl in white had appeared at the end of a dim, deserted corridor at midnight.
Wasn't that eerie enough?
And March 7th actually wanted to go up and question her. Wasn't that just asking to get killed?
Based on everything he'd learned from horror movies, Lin Chen could already predict it.
When the girl in white turned around, her face would probably be quite a "sight"!
"Tch..."
"You clearly just said the ghost was red."
"Besides... ghosts don't look like this, okay?"
She simply shook her head, dismissing Lin Chen's warning.
March 7th quickened her pace and walked straight up behind the girl in the white dress.
She was doing this to prove something, too.
March 7th was no coward!
"Excuse me, miss..."
"Did you see anything strange pass through here just now?"
"Um... I think it was... red?"
She placed her slender, jade-like hand on the white-dressed girl's shoulder.
March 7th asked in the gentlest voice she could manage.
"Fuck... that idiot March 7th."
The half-smoked cigarette fell from his mouth to the floor, but Lin Chen couldn't spare it any attention.
Instinctively, he backed two steps along the corridor wall.
Lin Chen had already begun considering plan B.
Although March 7th was a superhuman and should be pretty strong...
What if things went wrong?
For now, he should hurry back to Cabin 0276 and take shelter.
Earlier, that woman in red had drifted past the window several times.
But she had never floated straight into the cabin.
Lin Chen wondered whether these uncanny creatures might have specific areas they could move within.
"Heehee... this color, right?"
"Is my dress... pretty?"
At the end of the corridor, the girl in the white dress slowly turned around.
Her voice was dark and ghostly.
The color of blood spread across the pure white fabric like roses blooming at midnight.
The long black hair that had concealed her face parted.
It revealed an utterly smooth, pale face without a single feature.
"Clack, clack, clack..."
March 7th froze on the spot, her face instantly draining of color.
Her teeth chattered uncontrollably, and her pink-and-blue eyes began to lose focus.
March 7th was truly terrified, unable to utter even a single word for a moment.
It was simply too horrifying!
March 7th could swear that ever since she had awakened from the Six-Phased Ice...
She had never seen anything so bizarre!
During the Astral Express's Trailblaze journey, they often encountered all kinds of monsters.
Or the minions of the Antimatter Legion.
But at least those things looked reasonably normal.
This thing before her, without even a single facial feature, was far too uncanny!
And March 7th somehow felt that it was smiling at her.
"Answer my question!"
The gloomy voice drifted out again, turning shrill and piercing.
With barely half a foot between them, March 7th felt a stabbing pain in her eardrums.
"P-pretty!"
The Composite Bow she had been clutching clattered to the floor.
Beads of sweat dripped from her forehead as March 7th inexplicably gave an answer she didn't mean.
"Very good... you are exceptional, too. The most beautiful individual I have ever seen."
"You are worthy of becoming my master..."
"Now... let us become one!"
There seemed to be a trace of excitement in the low, sinister female voice.
The faceless woman in the red dress reached toward March 7th's pale neck with a hand whose joints were twisted.
Her long black hair seemed alive as well.
Countless strands suddenly fanned out and swept toward March 7th's body.
"Ah! Stay away from me!"
A voice filled with sheer terror rang out, clearly audible to Lin Chen even from a distance.
It was March 7th's scream.
The next instant, a bitterly cold wind howled, surging currents of air sweeping through the entire corridor.
Savage spikes of ice, like a forest of thorns, froze every passage within a hundred-meter radius.
Under the somewhat dim lighting, Lin Chen could clearly see them.
Those massive ice spikes, like a forest of towering steles, shimmered with interwoven pink and blue light.
"Whoosh..."
With a sound of something slicing through the air...
A fast-moving object hurtled to his side at an unbelievable speed.
A somewhat familiar floral fragrance reached him.
Lin Chen distinctly felt it.
Something like a large, warm, soft, springy blob of jelly slammed hard against his arm.
He also felt a faint tickle against his neck.
"Sniff..."
"I'm done playing. I want to go back to the Astral Express..."
Recovering from the sudden turn of events, Lin Chen let out a long breath.
Thank goodness... it was March 7th who had thrown herself into his arms.
If that woman in red possessed such terrifying speed...
Forget running away-he wouldn't even have a chance to dodge!
"March 7th... really wasn't lying all along."
"She's much stronger than I imagined..."
"There were plenty of surprises, but this gamble paid off!"
Looking at the astonishing forest of ice crystals stretching as far as he could see, Lin Chen was thoroughly convinced.
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