She quickly turned around, and the curtains billowed up, revealing a human silhouette, with a pair of dirty feet underneath.
Xu Shaowei held her breath slightly, took out a short wooden sword from her bag, and took two steps forward.
The "person" under the curtains suddenly vanished, the curtains deflated and swayed slightly, and the cabinet door suddenly opened—
"Are you looking for me? Come in quickly, I'm inside."
Xu Shaowei slowly walked to the wardrobe, and a pair of hands reached out to grab her, sharp nails seemingly trying to pierce her flesh and drag her into the abyss.
"Heh, you think you can scare me like this?" A murderous glint appeared in her eyes as she plunged the wooden sword into the ghostly hand.
"Aaaaaah, I'm going to kill you!" Ghost Hand cried out in pain and withdrew, its shrill voice indistinguishable between male and female.
A force pushed Xu Shaowei into the cabinet.
The cabinet door slammed shut, and Xu Shaowei found herself at a murder scene.
She hid in the closet, and through the crack, she saw a man wearing a ram's horn hood cutting open the heart of a woman's corpse on the floor.
Gao Xiaoyun lay on the bed, gleefully watching the number of followers surge after the video was posted, with the comment section filled with comments like "This is terrifying!"
However, some netizens said it was a camera malfunction and suggested that Gao Xiaoyun go to the gym again to film the video.
Gao Xiaoyun pursed her lips and received a call from her mother.
She immediately told her mother about the video.
She comes from a single-parent family and knows how hard her mother worked to raise her. She is also determined to become a top blogger and earn a lot of money to repay her mother.
"I know becoming a top blogger is your life goal, and you can't give up this opportunity easily. Since it's a camera malfunction, why not take advantage of this malfunction to shoot another video? A blurry one will definitely have a better effect."
Her mother's voice on the other end of the phone was as gentle as ever, and she truly spoke to Gao Xiaoyun's heart.
"Okay, Mom, you're right. I'll go now." Gao Xiaoyun stood up. "Oh, right, I need to call Su Cheng first. I feel much more at ease with her around."
"Oh, my silly girl, just go to the gym, turn off the lights, and pretend you've seen something dirty in the dark. Take a few seconds of pictures, and that'll be enough."
"If someone were filming this, netizens would definitely say you were in cahoots with someone to put on an act."
"That's true, Mom, you've been planning all along."
"Of course! I'm your mother, of course I want you to be happy. Okay, go on, come back and rest early after filming."
After hanging up the phone, Gao Xiaoyun changed her clothes and went to the gym excitedly.
The gym was dark and the equipment was out of power, but the door was wide open.
Gao Xiaoyun felt a little apprehensive, but remembering her mother's words, she took out her phone and walked to a treadmill.
The treadmills are all out of power, so there's no need to worry about something like what happened this afternoon.
Gao Xiaoyun looked around. In the dark space, only the flashing light of her phone shone as she stood on the treadmill.
"Family members, you insist it's a camera malfunction. To prove I really did capture something dirty this afternoon, I'll recreate the scene. Today, I was here... Ah!"
The treadmill, which should have been powered off, suddenly turned on and the running belt started rolling. Before Gao Xiaoyun could react, she fell backward.
It was as if a hand was operating it; the treadmill sped up with a "beep," and Gao Xiaoyun's tied-up hair suddenly came loose and got caught in the machine's narrow opening!
Accompanied by the sound of scalp tearing and bones cracking, the woman's desperate screams echoed through the empty gym...
The running treadmill was covered in a deep red stain.
The phone, which had fallen to the ground, was still recording, and a facial recognition box popped up on the screen.
The yellow recognition box zooms in, and with a "ding," video recording stops.
Downstairs, a fat man ran out of the room in a panic. He was covered in foam and only had a towel wrapped around his waist. "Help! Help! Is anyone there? There's a ghost in the bathroom!"
Suddenly he saw a familiar figure in the corner.
" Lin Qing! This hotel isn't clean, let's run, let's run!" The fat man ran quickly towards his friend.
Strangely, despite his panic, the other person remained facing the corner and didn't utter a word.
" Lin Qing! Are you listening to me?! Something crawled out of the toilet in my room..." Wang Yue pulled Lin Qing by the shoulder, and the other person's head fell off completely, with blood splattering on his face.
"Aaaaaah!" Wang Yue was so frightened that his legs went weak and he fell to the ground. His palms touched the sticky liquid on the ground, and a burning pain shot through him. His flesh was corroded, revealing his white finger bones.
Wang Yue was covered in sweat, clutching his hands, and his breathing became increasingly rapid.
The entire corridor had somehow turned into a mass of red, fleshy folds, oozing yellow, sticky fluid and emitting a strong, sour stench.
The entire corridor seemed to come alive, wriggling and oozing more mucus from its folds.
A drop of viscous liquid landed on his face, corroding a hole.
"What on earth is going on? The door, where is the door?!" Wang Yue's face contorted in pain, and in his panic, a backpack flashed into his mind.
He instinctively reached for the bath towel and found a pocket inside, from which he pulled out a bottle of white spray.
He quickly sprayed the medicine onto the wound, which lessened the pain somewhat. He then pulled out a cleaver and slashed at the flesh beneath his feet!
This action seemed to enrage the entire space; after a violent tremor, a torrent of acid rushed in from the front.
Wang Yue had no time to dodge and was submerged in the acidic water, decomposing into rotten flesh.
*
Su Cheng told Mu Ling to follow the female ghost, and then she opened the door and followed behind.
The White Moon City version of Sadako is just the starting point; Su Cheng follows it to find the place where ghosts hide during the day.
The corridor was quiet, save for the sound of Su Cheng's hurried footsteps.
Besides the five testers, the Man Moon Hotel also had a few scattered guests tonight. She had just been haunted, so the other rooms must have been too; the quieter it was, the more it suggested something was wrong.
"Quickly... come..."
The sensation transmitted through Mu Ling suddenly weakened.
Su Cheng frowned and quickly ran down the emergency exit following the direction of her senses.
The motion-sensor lights in the stairwell seemed to have been broken long ago; they didn't light up when I ran around, and a thin layer of dust had accumulated on the floor.
Mu Ling's senses stopped halfway down the stairs between the second and third floors.
Su Cheng walked to the white wall, knocked on it, and the sound was dull. She pushed hard, and a whole piece of the false wall slid inward, revealing a narrow, dark room behind it.
The black stones were arranged in a strange pattern on the ground, with a golden basin in the center containing a pair of sharp ram horns.
The dark red stains on the horns were dried blood, as if someone had poured blood on the horns long ago.
Mu Ling had just dealt with the female ghost who had fled there, and her fierce appearance subsided.
"I just asked, and it's not called Sadako. It started killing people because it liked watching horror movies in its past life."
Su Cheng paused for a moment. Actually, the question she just asked didn't necessarily need an answer.
She bent down and picked up the ram's horn; a chilling aura instantly stained her arm black, only to be repelled by the golden light.
The black aura lingered on his arm for a long time.
In some legends, goat horns are symbols of evil, and these two are now considered evil creatures nurtured with resentment and blood.
"It's these ram's horns and stones that conceal the ghostly aura. Even if you stay inside, I can't sense your ghostly presence from outside."
Mu Ling: "Moreover, the ghost staying with this ram's horn not only helps it conceal its presence but also aids in its cultivation."
"Here, take these." Su Cheng handed the two sheep horns to Mu Ling.
The ram's horn in her hands is at most a weapon, bringing limited benefits; it would be better to give it to Mu Ling.
Mu Ling's eyes brightened, and she generously accepted the gift. "Thank you. I will definitely make good use of it and cultivate myself into Ghost King as soon as possible."
Su Cheng then put all the stones on the ground into her Smart Bag.
This dark room is extremely well hidden. Fire exits are rarely used, and the white walls further conceal it, so even if someone walks by, they won't notice it.
It doesn't seem to have been created by a hotel ghost; it's more like it was man-made, but for some unknown reason it was abandoned.
What did the person who created this dark room intend to do here? Was watering the goat's horns with blood some kind of ritual?
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Chapter 132
Su Cheng had doubts and examined every corner of the small space more carefully, especially the walls and floor.
After some tapping and banging, she found loose spots on the floor in the corner.
The floorboards in the corner can be removed, revealing a dark passageway inside.
There are iron ladders on the side of the passage; where do they lead?
Su Cheng didn't hesitate for long and immediately went down the iron ladder.
The passageway was quiet, and the iron staircase was quite long. Su Cheng crawled for about seven or eight minutes, feeling that she had passed at least two floors and could still continue descending.
After descending a little further, Su Cheng finally saw the ground. She jumped down, her body enveloped in a misty red fog.
Su Cheng looked around and guessed that she had come to an underground space isolated from the outside world.
Several faint white figures flickered in and out of sight in the red mist not far away; they seemed to be saying something, but their voices were indistinct.
Is someone there? Or a ghost?
The red mist obscured her vision, making it difficult for Su Cheng to see clearly. She approached quietly and could vaguely hear what they were saying:
"With my body, I offer her soul, beseeching it to descend to earth Protection... With my body, I offer her soul, beseeching it to descend to earth Protection me..."
Su Cheng's expression was subtle. Was this a cult?
She took a few more steps closer and saw clearly the five people arranged in a circle, with a sleeping woman lying in the middle.
A lit cross was stuck in the woman's chest, and the face was Yan Yu's.
Su Cheng's face darkened, and she took out a knife.
The murmuring stopped, and the five white-robed figures turned their heads in unison, their blood-red eyes locking onto Su Cheng.
Su Cheng then recognized them; they were Gao Xiaoyun, Wang Yue, Lin Qing, Xu Shaowei, and a hotel guest.
Apart from Xu Shaowei, the others all had bluish-black faces and were already corpses controlled by evil spirits.
They were holding a rope, the other end of which was tied to Yan Yu's limbs and neck.