Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 925 It’s hard to tell the truth from the false
Qi Liang relaxed.

Now that he knows the trick, there shouldn't be much of a problem for him to survive.

After all, Su Changren doesn't eat corpses. Even if Qi Liang really can't hold on any longer, he still has the 'Corpse Transformation Technique' talisman, which allows him to seamlessly switch himself into a corpse.

Qi Liang followed behind the person in front of him, crawling forward little by little.

Every few meters he climbed, the overhead light would go out, and Qi Liang would quickly pretend to be dead. Then he would hear terrifying chewing sounds coming from nearby again.

Crunch, sizzle, slurp, chewing...

After repeating this several times, and with several changes of people around Qi Liang, he finally saw the gate leading out of the garden.

A sense of joy welled up in Qi Liang's heart; he could finally escape from this damned illusion.

Perhaps to avoid being contaminated by the mud in the garden, the threshold of this door is very high, but it is not a big problem to climb over it.

Su Changren seemed to realize that someone was trying to escape from the garden, so he began to increase the frequency of his attacks. In the later stages, every time Qi Liang climbed out a meter or two, someone would be captured and eaten.

The terror brought by this high frequency and high voltage left Qi Liang exhausted and anxious, only knowing to mechanically crawl forward.

After experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime horror, Qi Liang had climbed to the doorway, where a young man dressed as a scholar stood before him.

Taking advantage of the moment the lights came on, the scholar sped up, climbed over the high threshold, and finally escaped the terrifying garden.

After landing, the scholar stood up and excitedly waved to Qi Liang:

"Hurry up and climb over this threshold, and you'll be saved. We'll escape this terrifying mansion together."

A young maid behind Qi Liang urged him anxiously, "Old man, can you be a little quicker? Don't block my way."

Qi Liang hurriedly quickened his pace, placing his hand on the threshold. He was surprised to find that the area around the door seemed even more damp than the center of the garden, and his clothes were soaked through by the puddles on the ground.

"My son, Xianqing..."

Su Changren's shouts echoed behind Qi Liang, indicating that the old monster was about to launch its next attack.

The scholar and the maid were also urging them on.

But at this crucial moment, Qi Liang stopped.

"Something's wrong..."

Qi Liang felt uneasy, but he didn't know where this unease came from.

"There's no time, let's just turn the page first..."

Just as Qi Liang was about to climb over the threshold, he suddenly covered his head and lay on the ground.

"I can't rush things. I need to stay calm and think things through before making a decision."

"When people are in a hurry to do something, they are most likely to overlook some details and make a hasty decision."

"Just like when I'm in a hurry to leave work, I'm most efficient at signing documents."

"Whether it's the scholar and the maid, or Su Changren, they are all creating a tense situation, urging me to make a decision without thinking."

"Think carefully, start from the beginning..."

Qi Liang is a person with good basic psychological qualities, and he is able to calm down and think things through at critical moments.

But this was the first time he had encountered a similar incident, and he didn't even like watching police and gangster movies, so even though he realized there was a problem, he couldn't figure out where it came from.

As Qi Liang racked his brains, the lamps on the tree branches above his head went out again. Su Changren walked over with an extremely imposing gait, sniffing Qi Liang and then the maid...

Soon, the person behind the maid couldn't withstand the pressure and made a slight movement, which led to Su Changren grabbing her and making her his dinner.

Crunch, hiss, slurp, chewing... Qi Liang never dared to listen closely to the sounds before, but this time, after calming down, he immediately recognized the problem.

"The sound, the problem is with the sound!"

“The sounds Su Changren made every time he ate a living person were exactly the same!”

"No one can make the same chewing sound every time they eat, so the chewing sounds I hear are fake. If the chewing sounds are fake, then everything I'm seeing right now could be fake too!"

"This is an illusion!"

Qi Liang loves music, so he is quite sensitive to sound. He noticed the discord early on, but it wasn't until he calmed down that he found the root of the problem.

"Hey!"

While Qi Liang was pondering, the people behind him were already growing impatient.

The maid glared at her and urged in a low voice, "You old geezer, are you coming or not? The longer you delay, the more people will die. If you want to die, go die by yourself. Don't drag us down with you."

Upon hearing this, Qi Liang rolled to the side, clearing half a path for passage.

"You guys go first, I'll leave later."

But the maid remained motionless for a long time after Qi Liang made way for her.

At this moment, Qi Liang discovered another flaw: from the beginning until now, neither the people crawling in front nor the people crawling behind had touched Qi Liang's body!
Under normal circumstances, when faced with such danger, people would rush to cross the threshold even if they were packed together. Why would they be so polite as if they were waiting for a traffic light?
It can be seen that...

Not only were the sounds during the attack fake, but the people accompanying Qi Liang as he crawled were also fake!

What about this so-called Master Su?
Thinking of this, Qi Liang couldn't help but smile.

If Su Changren chose his targets by sight, the environment wouldn't have been so dark during the attack, and he wouldn't have sniffed around.

If Su Changren selects targets based on his sense of smell, then whether he moves or not during the attack will not affect the outcome.

Therefore, the people are fake, the ghosts are fake, and the rules governing the ghost attacks are also fake.

So, this door used for escape...

Thinking of this, Qi Liang stood up despite the scholar and maid's attempts to stop him.

The world changed color at this stop. There was no back garden around, only countless withered and dead flowers, trees, and scattered paper money.

There was no door leading to the back garden in front of Qi Liang.

There is only one well!
The high threshold is actually just the protruding edge of the well.

If he actually climbed out of that door as the scholar and maid urged, he would fall into the well.

So, what's in the well?

Qi Liang took two steps forward, then felt a wave of fear and quickly retreated a short distance.

As the saying goes, one should not enter a temple alone, nor should two people look into a well. Knowing that there is danger in the well, he would not risk his life out of curiosity.

Some time passed.

A disheveled ghost appeared out of thin air, pushed the air hard, and then vanished without a trace.

After the ghostly figure disappeared, the illusion finally ended.

The scenery inside the Su residence vanished like an ink painting. Qi Liang realized that his position in the Su residence had changed, and in front of him sat a tired-looking tour guide named Luo Caixia.

It seems she has successfully survived the illusion.

(End of this chapter)