After the Skyfall

Chapter 818 A family of three

Although Li Yi's idea of ​​pretending to be dead was somewhat bizarre, it might not be without a chance of success. After all, when facing these ghostly things, he had to draw on his experience as a messenger and couldn't rely solely on his own strength.

The dead evolved beings have proven to him that mere strength is not enough in this house.

Thinking of this, he immediately did just that.

I chose a paper garment and put it on.

The paper garment was nothing special; it was just a normal item. Li Yi didn't sense any strange power on it, nor did anything unusual happen.

Li Yi returned to the living room sofa in his paper clothes and sat down quietly, waiting for time to pass.

The silent room was filled with motionless corpses, lying haphazardly on the floor, their empty eye sockets staring at the ceiling, seemingly expressing their resentment before death, and a trace of fear still showing on their stiff faces.

Unfortunately, Li Yi wasn't afraid of corpses or ghosts. He was a martial artist who had killed countless powerful enemies along the way. Corpses were just something to scare ordinary people.

However, these corpses were all unlucky souls from Earth. In the end, he kindly put them into the storage ring he had found, planning to bury them somewhere when he had the chance to leave.

Although he was buried in another world, at least he can be laid to rest.

After the body was disposed of, the eerie atmosphere in the room lessened. However, as dusk faded and night fell, the lights in the room seemed dimmer than usual, only illuminating roughly the area around the dining table, while the rest of the room remained dark.

Sitting on the sofa, Li Yi, dressed in paper clothes, was motionless like a dead man, not even breathing. Only his eyes glowed in the darkness, with occasional flashes of silver lightning in them.

He was like a lurking beast, completely out of place in this haunted house.

The time came to eight o'clock.

The building was completely silent, save for the ticking of the clock and the distant honking of cars outside the window.

When it was nine o'clock.

The building remained silent; everything seemed normal, and nothing had happened.

Li Yi remained seated on the sofa, motionless. For someone like him who cultivated, sitting still for a long time was not a difficult thing; he had enough time and enough patience.

However, when the time came to ten o'clock...

suddenly.

Li Yi turned his head slightly and listened towards the direction of the corridor.

There is movement.

It's footsteps.

A soft footstep sounded in the hallway, as if someone had entered the building. Wait, it wasn't just one footstep, it was two, no, three.

There were three footsteps in total.

One of the footsteps was rather light, sounding more like a child than an adult's.

"A family of three?" Li Yi immediately thought of the three bowls of rice he had eaten during the day, which corresponded to three people.

That is to say, there are three dead people living in this house.

He continued to pretend not to move.

Waiting for the arrival of those three footsteps.

soon.

The footsteps moved from the first floor to the second floor, then to the third floor, and finally slowed down upon reaching the third floor.

Li Yi's guess was correct. The three dead men lived here. He could accurately determine that they had stopped in the corridor, only a wall away from him.

His instinctive hostility made him clench his fists, and the concentration of his physical strength caused streaks of lightning to crackle around his body.

But after realizing the unusual nature of the place, he forcibly suppressed his murderous intent and dissipated the power within him.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of keys rattling came from the doorway.

The other person seemed to be looking for their keys to open the door.

However, Li Yi peeked through the small crack in the door and saw that the dimly lit stairwell was completely empty. The doorway was deserted; there was no sign of the family of three, nor any keys.

But it was at this moment.

The lock on the gate turned, and then the gate creaked open slowly.

But the unseen family of three did not come in, and everything fell into a brief silence.

"what happened?"

Li Yi frowned, somewhat puzzled by the situation, but he sensed something was amiss. Had he failed to play dead properly and been discovered?

however.

soon.

Suddenly, a loud argument erupted from the family of three who were not visible at the doorway.

The voice was very muffled and inaudible, as if there was a barrier. Even though the other person's voice was loud, it was impossible to understand what they were saying. And as the argument continued, the child at the door started crying again.

"Waaaaah!" It was the cry of a little girl, so shrill that it echoed throughout the entire building and could even be heard by people outside.

"I've been discovered."

At this moment, Li Yi was already in a panic. His method of pretending to be dead by wearing paper clothes had failed. The three dead people living here had discovered him and started arguing about it.

The argument grew louder and louder.

Li Yi's ears were ringing, as if all the noise was drilling into his brain, giving him a headache, making him annoyed and angry. "So noisy! Why is there such a awful family of three? I just sat on your sofa for a while! I even washed the dishes for you, why aren't you thanking me?"

And that little girl, all she does is cry. What are you crying for? Believe me or not, I'll punch you all to death.

Hard, hard.

His fist hardened again, and the power that had subsided before gathered once more.

He wanted to vent, he wanted to explode.

However, reason told Li Yi that he had to suppress this restlessness and he absolutely could not be controlled, otherwise he would most likely die in this building and be unable to leave like other evolved beings.

Patience, patience.

Li Yi even formed hand seals and performed the White Bone Contemplation.

But it was still no use.

The sounds of arguing, fighting, and crying echoed wildly in his ears, making him feel like he was about to explode.

"I have to find a way as soon as possible, otherwise I won't be able to get out of this building." Li Yi understood that the paper clothes were no longer useful, and had even caused an argument among the three dead men.

He immediately tore off the paper clothes he was wearing.
However, the moment the paper clothes were torn apart, the arguing and crying outside the door stopped abruptly.

All sounds vanished in an instant, replaced by a deathly silence.

"As I guessed, choosing paper clothing was a mistake. Not only did it not help me, it had the opposite effect."

Li Yi felt his mind lighten considerably, and his hardened fist slowly relaxed.

But the situation did not improve.

Without the disguise of paper clothes, Li Yi is now completely exposed in this haunted house, as a living person.

Followed by.

Footsteps sounded again at the door.

A series of footsteps rushed into the house, and instead of stopping in the living room, the person headed straight for the kitchen. Li Yi still couldn't see anything, and could only identify the person by the location of the footsteps.

soon.

The sound of metal clanging came from the kitchen.

The other person appeared to have taken a knife from the kitchen.

But Li Yi remembered that there were no knives in the kitchen.

Then the hurried footsteps left the kitchen and headed straight for Li Yi on the sofa.

"Is he going to cut me with a knife?" Li Yi realized.

Immediately afterwards, he heard the sound of a knife being swung echoing in the air.

A sharp pain shot through his shoulder, and he looked at it with some surprise.

No wounds.

But the pain was very real.

Li Yi even found that his life was slipping away, as if he had really been hit by the other party.

This reminds me of the deaths of those evolved beings before.

He kind of understood.

The evolved beings did not starve to death here, nor were they trapped here. Instead, they were hacked to death alive by the dead in the haunted house. Although there were no wounds on their bodies, the injuries were real.

Before Li Yi could think any further,

The sound of a cleaver whistling through the air rang out again.

Li Yi could easily evade attacks by sound, even if the attack was invisible.

He moved with lightning speed to the vicinity of the dining table.

However, a piercing pain still emanated from my chest.

"Can't avoid it?" Li Yi's expression changed slightly.

The hurried footsteps approached him again, and at that moment, a child's shrill laughter and a woman's stiff clapping came from outside the door.

Since the attack is 100% accurate, there is no point in dodging.

Li Yi gave up dodging and tried another item.

Paper umbrella.

If the paper clothes were meant to provoke the three dead men, then what was the purpose of the paper umbrella?

He immediately opened the paper umbrella.

Then the sound of the cleaver chopping disappeared, and the sharp laughter outside the door also vanished; everything seemed to return to calm.

However, Li Yi's body stiffened instinctively for a moment.

Because he felt that there was someone standing behind him.

(End of this chapter)