See the Law of Deception

Chapter 168 The House of Evil Spirits (12)

Lu Jinzhao had anticipated this; the rules on the blackboard were meant to restrict ghosts, and as a tenant, although she could leave the room at night, she couldn't stay away forever. Now she had confirmed this.

"Since ghosts can only stay indoors tonight, any strange occurrences will only happen inside the house."

With this in mind, Lu Jinzhao did not return to the bedroom, but stood at the door, staring intently at the three corpses that were not covered by the white sheet.

Time passed slowly, and the dim lights in the room would occasionally flicker slightly due to unstable voltage, but thankfully there was no complete power outage.

The three deformed corpses did not suddenly move as she had worst expected; they simply remained quietly in their original places, like grotesque statues.

The windows, covered with newspapers, blocked the view of the outside world, and the normally dangerous corridor was unusually quiet. Tonight seemed to be a peaceful night.

Lu Jinzhao leaned against the wall, her gaze sweeping around the room. A whole night of vigilance had indeed taken a toll on her energy and spirit, and she would occasionally realize that she seemed to have been spacing out for a while.

The mottled wall behind her still exuded a coolness. Through her thin clothes, she could feel the unevenness of the wall. Her low body temperature prevented the wall from getting warmer even after leaning against it for a long time. Instead, the uneven parts became a bit uncomfortable after a while.

Lu Jinzhao straightened up slightly and moved to a different position to avoid the uneven wall. After moving herself to a flat area, her gaze fell on the corpse again.

More than half the night passed, and nothing had changed.

She suddenly frowned, her body springing away from the wall like a spring, quickly taking a few steps forward to get away from the wall before turning back to look at the spot she had just been leaning against.

It was very smooth, with nothing on the walls except for some old marks.

But just now, for a moment, she felt as if a pebble had landed between her back and the wall.

In that instant, Lu Jinzhao reflexively moved away from the wall. Now, recalling the strange feeling of it landing on his back, he slowly realized that it wasn't a pebble, but rather five tiny bumps on the wall. To describe it, it was almost like...
A hand reached out from the wall, trying to grab her.

But because of the wall, only five fingers protrude.

An eerie feeling made Lu Jinzhao feel uneasy. She stared intently at the wall but found no trace.

Even so, she was certain that something had been pressed against her back.

Does the space inside the walls count as "indoors"?
What's trapped inside the walls of this apartment?
Lu Jinzhao's heart skipped a beat. At this moment, she could only stay in this small room, with nowhere to hide and nowhere to go.

The atmosphere was extremely oppressive. Perhaps because Lu Jinzhao was no longer leaning against the wall, the things bound inside the wall lost patience and could no longer wait. In the silent room, a bloody handprint suddenly appeared where Lu Jinzhao had previously leaned.

Then one, then another, and yet another.

They appeared one after another, seeping out from inside the wall as if the wall was bleeding. They did not spread throughout the room, but only appeared in the spot where Lu Jinzhao had just been. Gradually, the bloody handprints covered that spot, forming a blurry human shape.

When the area where Lu Jinzhao had been standing was completely filled with these handprints, thick blood began to slowly flow from the blood-red figure, gradually extending to the ground. Then, a handprint that had previously only appeared on the wall appeared on the ground.

At first, it was just the corner between the wall and the ground. Then, the handprint moved forward one step, then another, as if a ghost with only half a body was constantly using its hands to close the distance with her.

It was as if there really was an unseen ghost on the ground, approaching her.

Lu Jinzhao couldn't help but take a step back.

Even though there was nothing in front of her, she instinctively didn't want the bloody handprint to catch up with her.

How much room was there for her to stand in the cramped space? She took a step back, and the bloody handprint followed her forward. Even when she retreated to the bedroom and stood on the mattress, the mattress, just as Qiu Tian had said, began to ooze blood from the center.

Upon seeing this, Lu Jinzhao's gaze immediately fell on the window.

Even with her eyes covered by newspaper, she could vaguely sense that a thick mass of darkness was pressed against the window, and it was a blurry human figure.

It was perched outside the window, pressed tightly against the glass. If it had facial features, they would probably be distorted and twisted from being pressed so closely against the glass.

The strange events her "teammates" had mentioned began to unfold one by one in her room tonight.

Now how to do?
She couldn't stay on the mattress any longer. The bloodstains were spreading too quickly, and the center of the mattress seemed to have turned into a swamp of blood. Just one look made her feel that if she stood on it, she would be swallowed by blood. Perhaps, a hand would even reach out from the pool of blood and pull her body down.

Is it safe for people to stand on the ground?

also can not.

The handprints kept getting closer, filling every corner of the house. Before long, the house would have nowhere to go.

Suddenly, Lu Jinzhao stopped walking backward.

As the terrifying scene unfolded around her from all directions, she raised her hand. With a wave of her right index finger like a conductor conducting an orchestra, a shadow puppet fell from her body and then climbed up the wall of the room.

The next moment, the bloody handprint that had been chasing Lu Jinzhao suddenly appeared behind the shadow puppet.

This shadow puppet, made from the skin of Lu Jinzhao, completely inherited her aura. With the effect of her upgraded destiny, it can even deceive ghosts.

The floor alone isn't enough to drag it out until dawn, but if you add the walls and ceiling, that's enough to buy time.

The shadow puppet ignored the rules of physics, running endlessly across the walls and ceiling, its bloody handprints filling all the blank spaces like a dog being chased on a leash.

As dawn broke, Lu Jinzhao felt as if he were immersed in a room made of blood.

Even though there weren't many handprints on the ground, the bloodstains dripping from the walls and ceiling, which were already covered in blood, spread to the ground, creating a scene resembling hell.

Fortunately, thanks to the shadow puppets, she wasn't caught tonight; otherwise, she would probably have "died" at least once.

Worse still, even though it's now daylight, the shadows outside the window have disappeared, and the bloody handprints no longer reappear, the bloodstains in the room show no sign of fading.

This means that if the anomaly occurs again tonight, she will truly have nowhere to hide.

"The rules need to be changed."

But now that it's daylight, her teammates should be waiting for her in the hallway, right?

Lu Jinzhao looked towards the door, and just then, a knock sounded at the door.

——Knock knock

"Little deer, it's dawn."

(End of this chapter)