This actor is full of tricks.

"What do we do?"

Lin Jue looked at the winding tunnel that seemed to stretch into an unknown depth. The passage was so dark that it looked like it truly led to hell, and once you stepped in, there was no turning back.

However, Lin Jue really had no way back now. The stairs he had come down from had disappeared, replaced by solid bricks and stones.

Now he only has one choice left: to move forward.

Touching the cursed black lines on his arm, Lin Jue's mood calmed down slightly. He started walking along the passageway deeper into the tunnel.

The air was thin and mixed with a strange smell, like earthy, like the smell of a corpse, or like a mixture of both.

The further you go, the softer the ground becomes, and with each step, crimson blood seeps out, making the passage seem as if it were built on a sea of ​​blood.

"I feel like I've been walking for about ten minutes, but I still can't see the end of the road!"

"How long is this passage? Where exactly is the ninth floor located? It feels like a completely separate space."

Lin Jue frowned as he observed his surroundings. As he went deeper, the passage was not as pitch black as he had expected. The light here was constant, faint but enough to see things up close. He couldn't tell what was emitting the light.

"Lin Jue".

"Lin Jue".

Just then, Lin Jue heard a voice calling him. It wasn't He Wen and the others' voices in reality, but rather it came from ahead. It sounded like someone was hiding in the darkness of the passage calling him in a high-pitched voice, sharp and piercing, even worse than scratching a blackboard with a fingernail.

A figure seemed to flash by in the darkness ahead.

The cursed black line did not react.

What the hell is this, pretending to be a ghost?

Lin Jue narrowed his eyes and moved forward step by step, the shouts in his ears growing more and more urgent.

"Lin Jue, Lin Jue, Lin Jue!!!"

The sound eventually turned into a roar, and when Lin Jue arrived in the direction from which the sound came, his expression suddenly changed.

The bricks and stones on both sides had disappeared, replaced by pieces of flesh and blood, and within this flesh and blood, figures were struggling.

And those figures were all his likenesses, each one looking exactly like him.

Those people were struggling and twisting within the organization, but upon seeing Lin Jue, all of them stopped what they were doing and looked at him.

Immediately afterwards, the figures who looked exactly like him revealed expressions of madness and rage on their faces.

"Lin Jue! Lin Jue!"

Why did you abandon us! Why did you give up on us!

The figures roared, and hands reached out from the flesh and blood to grab at Lin Jue.

These beings were likely detached personality clones, but they lacked the power of extreme evil. They were embedded in the wall like clumps of rotten flesh, transforming into vengeful spirits seeking death.

"Now that you're back, why don't you stay and keep us company?"

“That’s right, we’re too lonely here. Come and join us.” Those hands were tearing at Lin Jue’s body with tremendous force. Lin Jue felt huge tearing forces all around him, and his skin felt like it was about to be torn apart. These guys didn’t want to keep him here at all; they wanted to tear him to pieces.

Without any hesitation, Lin Jue directly used the cursed black line on his arm, but to his surprise, the cursed black line did not react at all.

what's the situation! ?

This situation was completely beyond Lin Jue's expectations. The cursed black line was his trump card for survival, but it failed him at the crucial moment.

No, isn't Wangzai too unreliable? But Wangzai's personality doesn't seem like that of an unreliable ghost, and the cursed black line is the power left behind by an extremely evil villain. What kind of power can stop the activation of the cursed black line?
Lin Jue struggled against the hands that were grabbing him, while shouting in his heart, "God of the Underworld! Come out!"

Although Hades hasn't uttered a sound since entering the script world, he must have hidden himself. Surely the consciousness of Hades wouldn't be blocked by a script. At the beginning, we could still hear the plot prompts, which means Hades came in with us.

no respond.

"Don't play dead. If I die here, the script world will definitely collapse completely, and that won't do you any good either."

"You're so eager for me to participate in this script, you must want something in return. Do you really want to see all your previous efforts go to waste?"

There was still no response. Lin Jue paused in his internal scream. Had he guessed wrong? Had the consciousness of the God of the Underworld not come to this world with him? Or had the consciousness of the God of the Underworld disappeared from the moment the plot prompt disappeared?
The arms grew longer and longer, like venomous snakes tightly coiling around Lin Jue. Lin Jue's vision gradually darkened, and his consciousness began to dissipate.

This was the first time he had experienced death so closely since his time travel.

"Lin Jue!"

"Why are you dazed?"

Just then, Zhao Yin's voice rang out behind him, and Lin Jue's consciousness suddenly cleared, with a faint light squeezing into his vision.

He found himself still standing on the stairs.

Was that just a hallucination?

Why would someone suddenly hallucinate while walking backwards down the stairs normally? In a hospital, hallucinations certainly don't happen out of nowhere; there must be a reason.

Was it some kind of warning? A threat that he would die if he went down to the ninth floor?
"Dr. Zhao, did you notice anything unusual just now?" he asked.

“Abnormal?” Zhao Yin was taken aback. “If there is anything abnormal, it is you. You were walking along just fine, but suddenly you stopped and stood still.”

Lin Jue frowned slightly: "How long have I been standing here?"

"Less than ten seconds," Zhao Yin replied, then asked, "What's wrong? Did you suddenly remember something?"

"It's nothing." Lin Jue shook his head. It seemed that what he had just experienced was indeed a threat. However, Lin Jue was not afraid of threats at all. He would definitely continue to check out the ninth floor, but he had to choose a safer method.

"Dr. Zhao, don't move yet, I'll go to the back."

To prevent Zhao Yin from suddenly disappearing like before, Lin Jue decided to walk behind him so that he could keep an eye on Zhao Yin at any time, and if Zhao Yin really disappeared, he could give up halfway.

Although Zhao Yin was puzzled, he stopped as Lin Jue told him to. Lin Jue groped his way back two steps and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Zhao Yin's back.

"Let's continue." (End of Chapter)