I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 30 is about emotions and hope! (Please read it!)
“It’s raining so hard…”

Lin Xing'an, who was standing in front of the door, took a few steps back and muttered.

Seeing that he didn't turn around or show any intention of answering, the hallucinatory ghost behind him also showed a hint of disappointment on his face.

After hesitating at the door for a long time, Lin Xing'an ran out with his head covered.

"Hu! Hu! Hu!"

When the cold raindrops poured down on his body, Lin Xing'an felt as if he were in another world!

He was sweating profusely, his vision went dark, his heart was pounding, and his head was buzzing like an air raid alarm!
My body is going limp uncontrollably!
The goose bumps all over my body disappeared and reappeared!
Almost!
In the end, he almost agreed instinctively!
That was a close call...

Lin Xing'an was breathing heavily.

He could no longer tell whether it was rain or cold sweat on his body.

but……

Lin Xing'an's eyes were shining with excitement and excitement.

mood……

mood……

The switch that triggers hallucinations is not hearing, vision or smell!
It's emotion!

Yeah... I should have thought about this earlier...

He closed his eyes, his body trembling in the heavy rain, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

An An, do you know when humans and animals are most sweet? When their emotions are fluctuating...

We are very sensitive to the emotions of humans and animals...

His mood has been very stable...

He's an emotionally stable kid...

As long as you are alive, there is hope...

"It's emotion...it's hope!"

Lin Xing'an stopped and let the heavy rain pour down on him!

The first time they all entered into a hallucination was because they received a call from Teacher Orange, and everyone ignited hope at the same time.

The second time he and Qiao Qiao entered the hallucination when they went up the stairs was because they discovered that the switch to enter the hallucination seemed to be sound.

The third time Jojo entered into a hallucination, it was because she was almost certain that the hallucination was caused by the sound.

The fourth time Wang Xi entered into an illusion, it was his golden flame that illuminated the illusory ghost.

The fifth time he saw Xu Can, he hinted to himself in despair that he could start over and injected hope into himself!
Lin Xing'an raised his head and stretched his neck.

Cold raindrops formed lines and hit his face.

This illusion ghost uses human hope as a switch to create illusions for humans!
The switch of its power is hope!

Desperate people will not be drawn into hallucinations!

The absence of hope is the key to breaking its illusion!
"Beep beep!"

A series of whistles suddenly sounded.

Teacher Juzi's van stopped in front of Lin Xing'an.

"Kid! Get in the car! You did it!"

Zhang Yunxi in the driver's seat waved to Lin Xing'an!

"Let's leave quickly while the ghost zone disappears!"

Her little face was full of anxiety.

Lin Xing'an stood in the rain and looked at Zhang Yunxi for a moment before getting into the car.

"Oh!"

While closing the car door, Zhang Yunxi also locked it.

"You really still remember."

The excitement and concern on her face slowly disappeared.

The heavy rain outside turned blood red again.

Zhang Yunxi's face in the driver's seat became a little sticky.

She stopped the car and saw the rearview mirror covered with terrible scratches.

There was no reflection of Zhang Yunxi in the broken mirror.

Lin Xing'an turned around and saw Zhang Yunxi, whose body was completely hollowed out and covered with teeth marks and torn wounds.

In her relatively intact hand was a black statue the size of a palm.

The blood on it has already coagulated.

Lin Xing'an closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and his eyes turned slightly red.

"She brought it up herself. I didn't eat a single bite. The zombies ate it all."

"She thought that after I left, there would be no one guarding the warehouse. She's so naive and cute."

"Tsk tsk tsk, those beasts, they eat everything, it's a mess."

The deformed ghost, whose body had become slimy, turned around and picked up a piece of meat.

Then he casually pushed Zhang Yunxi's mutilated body and the camera in the back seat to the ground.

After swallowing the minced meat in its hand, its body, which seemed to have melted, slowly turned into Zhang Yunxi's appearance again.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

It looked at Lin Xing'an, a trace of pity appearing on its face.

"Lin Xing'an, Lin Xing'an, I almost let you go."

"Just now, I was about to lose my composure as Zhang Yunxi."

"I can't help it. Let me tell you, if I were to copy a dead person, it would only last twenty minutes."

But Lin Xing'an didn't seem as surprised or frightened as it had imagined. He just looked at it calmly.

"Tsk, it's so boring talking to you. You don't react at all."

"Forget it, forget it. I still have to take my beautiful colleague home."

It shook its head in disappointment.

"So which one do you want to be eaten by? Zhang Yunxi? Qiao Qiao? Wang Xi? Or your teacher Orange?"

"I have all the looks you like~"

It tilted its neck back and made a series of strange gurgling sounds from its throat.

Its abdomen began to move as if worms were crawling through its skin and flesh.

Fingers were strung together and emerged from its mouth.

"This one is Qiao Qiao's, this one is Wang Xi's, this one is Ju Zi's, and this one is Fang Dajun's."

"Even if they are dead, even if they have turned into food scraps, I can transform into their appearance at any time."

It wagged its tongue, letting the fingers slide between its teeth.

Lin Xing'an just looked at it without saying a word.

"...Why are you looking at me like that...Is there something on my face? Is my face...melting?"

The shapeshifter touched his face awkwardly.

"Your ability is cloning. You can copy a person's appearance, abilities, and memories."

"So you don't actually have any abilities yourself. The abilities you have are the abilities of the person you copied."

"But you can't copy me and eat me."

Lin Xing'an suddenly said.

"That's your weakness. You can't kill the people you've currently copied."

"In other words, the living person you clone cannot die during the process of being cloned."

"So you wanted to abandon us, so you asked your colleagues to deal with Wang Xi, but you couldn't kill him."

"So the options you gave me didn't include myself."

Lin Xing'an looked at the transformed ghost.

The transformed ghost also looked at Lin Xing'an.

There was an eerie silence in the car.

"How did you know?"

"Guess."

"Then guess what would happen to me if the living person I copied died during the copying process?"

"will die?"

"Wow, you guessed it right."

"Oh."

Lin Xing'an nodded.

He closed his eyes and sorted out his thoughts.

The shapeshifter stared at him for a moment, then rubbed his chin with his hand and turned his head to look out the window.

The heavy rain showed no sign of stopping and kept hitting the car.

2:15 AM.

The green electronic clock above the train station ticks away every second.

The car fell into silence again.

Lin Xing'an turned around and tried to take the statue from Zhang Yunxi's corpse in the back seat.

"Eh? NONONONONO, this thing is not for humans or animals to look at."

The transformed ghost grabbed Lin Xing'an's hand.

"This is top secret."

With its other hand, it snapped off the fingers of Zhang Yunxi's corpse, took out the statue inside, and swallowed it into its stomach.

But Lin Xing'an still saw some kind of patterns on the statue...

"This is related to the Taoyuan Village that you humans and animals are obsessed with."

"But Lin Xing'an... you haven't achieved that utopia dream that all humans and animals share, right?"

"What a pity. I'll be more careful in my next life. If I could do it again, I'd stay away from you."

It said sinisterly.

"If I could do it again, I would kill you."

Lin Xing'an looked at the transformed ghost beside him, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and his voice was full of determination and confidence.

At this moment, he looked like a winner.

Meeting his gaze, the shapeshifter was stunned for half a minute.

"Biu~"

Suddenly, without any warning, its body turned into a sticky jelly-like liquid.

Like a rainbow-colored thousand-layered bouncing ring, it bounced from the driver's seat to the passenger seat.

In less than half a second, he completely wrapped Lin Xing'an in his body.

Then it burped.

"Hiccup~"

　Thanks to book friends "Shenshui Sige" and "Chanmingqi" for their monthly tickets!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)