Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 917 The Gaze in the Videotape

The landlady's body collapsed limply.

Wu Xian took the black videotape off her neck.

Then he looked up at the sky, raised his middle finger, and spat.

The two ovens in room number seven pose no danger whatsoever; they were simply there to test the mentality of the family members.

Regardless of the choices made by the couples, they are all driven by self-interest. In this trolley problem-like situation, killing one of the lovers will incur the resentment of the other, forcing them to kill the person they saved in order to protect themselves.

The reason this loving couple has survived this long might be because they were part of the game's design, meant to annoy their loved ones...

If it were a normal person, after experiencing all this, they might feel moral condemnation towards themselves.

But Wu Xian felt no psychological burden whatsoever.

He has always believed that the responsibility for these so-called tests of humanity, which are designed in a pre-planned way, lies entirely with the designers of the tests.

Then Wu Xian put the videotape into the machine, and the old CRT TV began to play a video.

The video feed is a nine-grid surveillance view.

The nine blurry images correspond to nine scenes in the museum exhibition hall, many of which Wu Xian found very familiar.

There's a corridor on the first floor, a safe house in the brothel, a small square on the second floor, the 'Xuanling Historical Theater' locked up on the third floor, a fast food restaurant in room number nine, and a clock with a red sun rising over the sea behind the magistrate's office...

At first, the image appeared to be still.

Only the hands of the clock are moving.

Wu Xian watched as the second hand slowly completed a full circle, finally reaching 4:30 AM.

crunch...

The doors to the Xuanling Historical Theater on the third floor slowly opened, but there was nothing behind them. A hazy mist rose from nowhere, making the theater shrouded in smoke.

call!
The next frame shows a densely packed group of figures standing in the fog!
Behind these small figures, there was an even larger shadow, which looked very fat and wore an official hat with wings on both sides!
Because of the fog, Wu Xian could only see these things.

This scene lasted for ten seconds, then another frame flickered, and all the densely packed figures in the fog disappeared, leaving only the enormous shadow that had moved forward a distance.

In other parts of the nine-grid surveillance footage, strange figures appeared. These figures were all dressed in ancient clothes, with their backs to the camera, hunched over, looking at the ground without moving.

The light shone on them, but none of them cast a shadow!

These figures appeared in every corner of the museum, even in the small square on the second floor and the safe house of the brothel.

The scene then fast-forwards, quickly transitioning from night to day. The museum is open for business as usual, with countless tourists visiting, and the eight shops on the first floor are also operating normally.

Those eerie figures stood there the whole time, but no one could see them despite the comings and goings of people.

Then, at a certain point in time, the screen flashed again!
call!
The entire museum seemed to have instantly transformed into a hellish scene.

Tourists in the county government hall on the first floor were hoisted to the ceiling, while imprisoned women on the second floor screamed in terror in the small square. In the fast food restaurant in room number nine on the first floor corridor, tourists were brutally tortured and murdered, turning them into 'human art pieces' of different styles!
Then, the camera stopped at the most gruesome part, with the figures still facing away from the camera, as if they hadn't done anything.

The red sun clock in the middle of the screen slowly turns.

One second, two seconds, three seconds... the screen froze for a full ten seconds, and then...

In each frame, the eerie figures simultaneously turned their heads, looking towards the camera and staring at the person watching the footage! Click!

The television screen is off.

Wu Xian let out a soft breath, the last image lingering in his mind.

Every face looking at the camera was pale, blood was flowing from their eyes, ears, nose and mouth, their gazes were empty and eerie, and a chill seemed to emanate from the screen...

Wu Xian rubbed the goosebumps off his arm.

"This videotape should be the last scene captured by the museum's cameras. In the control room of the transfer space, the security guards noticed something was wrong and saw the footage when they checked the surveillance video."

"The scene abruptly ends, which means that by the time the video reached that point, the security guard had already been killed by these evil spirits..."

"It seems that everything started in the Xuanling Historical Theatre on the third floor."

"At 4:30 a.m., the theater doors opened, like the gates of hell, and countless evil spirits were released, turning the museum into this horrific sight."

"After the door was opened, some of the ghosts returned to the historical theater, while others remained in the museum."

Wu Xian stroked his chin, deep in thought. While he pondered, the oven containing the boss's food was still running.

"Hiss, the safe room in the brothel will be forcibly deactivated at 4:30 AM..."

"In other words, at this time, museums will become extremely unsafe. The videotape is not just showing footage of the past, but may also be a prophecy of the future."

"That means that at 4:30 a.m. tonight, those evil spirits will also come out in full force."

Wu Xian suddenly stood up. If that were the case, he wouldn't be able to explore at his leisure.

Once it's past 4:30 AM, it probably won't be so easy for him to enter the water dungeon and reset the time.

Click.

Just then, Wu Xian suddenly heard a soft sound.

The oven containing the boss stopped running, the door opened automatically, and a little steam came out. A charred figure crawled out.

The figure's limbs shrank due to the intense heat, and the fat and moisture in its body were baked out. However, its head swelled up to more than twice its normal size, like popcorn, while its facial features remained squeezed together, making it look top-heavy and extremely strange, like...

Just like that big-headed evil spirit!

The wounds on the charred, large-headed evil spirit's body were slowly healing. It stared at the landlady's corpse for a moment, then turned to look at Wu Xian, its shrunk face revealing an expression full of resentment and hatred.

Whoosh!
Wu Xian dodged past, and with a swift motion, he brought down the Burning Dream Dagger.

But Wu Xian only had time to cut off one foot. The big-headed evil spirit used its hands and feet, its body twisting like a rag, and quickly squeezed into the gap in the bread display case. There was a hole in the wall behind the gap, and another big-headed evil spirit reached out to it, welcoming it into another room...

"Now, there are two big-headed evil spirits here."

"I wonder if these extra big-headed evil spirits will still exist when time resets next time."

Wu Xian glanced at the oven one last time, then quickly ran out of room number seven, crossed the right corridor, and headed towards the left corridor.

He needs to quickly eliminate the stitching captain on the left side of the first floor, get the key to the water dungeon from him, and then reset time again!
(End of this chapter)