See the Law of Deception

Chapter 174 The House of Evil Spirits (18)

Tan Meng approached the restroom step by step, and when she discovered that Lu Jinzhao had not actually run away, but was standing there in a daze, an extremely human-like excitement appeared on her face.

The moment she stepped into the restroom and left the "corridor" area, her body underwent a bizarre distortion.

In Lu Jinzhao's eyes, she was like a leaky vent.

Her limbs and body began to stretch until her head touched the ceiling, and then she began to move closer to Lu Jinzhao.

In Lu Jinzhao's eyes, it was as if a completely unfurled cloth was sweeping over him, and this cloth had human limbs and facial features, but now it was extremely distorted because of the stretching.

If this were a sufficiently open space, there would still be room to hide, but inside a room, there is almost no place to hide.

As Tan Meng moved toward her, her steps became unsteady, as if she couldn't control her enormous "paper-thin" body. The only saving grace was that although her body had lengthened, her legs hadn't widened; in fact, they were abnormally long and thin. If she could avoid those two hands and not be caught, perhaps she could slip away from her feet.
Tan Meng's movements became extremely fast as her body twisted. Lu Jinzhao didn't have time to think too much and could only instinctively run towards the gap.

A hand and body as thin as paper swept through the air and reached out towards Lu Jinzhao. In that instant, although there was no sound, like the tentacles of a ghost approaching, Lu Jinzhao also felt a cold chill brush against the top of his head as he bent down to dodge.

His body felt an involuntary panic as if it had encountered some natural enemy, but under Lu Jinzhao's strong mental fortitude, he neither trembled nor lost his ability to move.

Her fingers drooped unnaturally, and her legs, poised to pounce, seized the opportunity to thrust her body into the gap that Tan Meng's body hadn't covered. If all went well, she could run out of the toilet in just three seconds.

But Lu Jinzhao didn't think things would go smoothly, and in fact, they did.

The instant she ran past Tan Meng, Tan Meng's legs, which should have been supporting her body, floated into the air and then quickly wrapped around Lu Jinzhao's calves like a rope!
The moment Tan Meng touched him, Lu Jinzhao felt as if a wrinkled, wet, and sticky piece of human skin had been pressed against his calf. Then, a sharp pain, as if corroded by sulfuric acid, emerged from his calf.

In that instant, she even lost control of her body.

In just a moment, "Tan Meng's" body had wrapped around Lu Jinzhao's body like bandages along the part that was in contact with her calves. In just a few breaths, from her calves upwards, she had pressed her entire "body" against Lu Jinzhao's body, like bandages made of human skin, binding Lu Jinzhao firmly inside her body. But at first glance, it would only make people feel extremely horrified.

A twisted "person" was compressed into a thin sheet and then wrapped around another person, encasing her in the shape of a mummy.

It was deformed and terrifying.

But right now, the one who feels this terror most deeply is clearly Lu Jinzhao, who is enveloped by her.

Everything was pitch black. Her eyes were covered by some part of Tan Meng's body, and her mouth and nose were completely submerged, making it impossible for her to breathe.

Her body tightened, her flesh was being squeezed, and her skin was being eroded. Burning pain kept coming. Lu Jinzhao realized that she was losing blood and the pressure on her body was increasing. If she didn't resist, she would probably burst out with red juice like a cherry being squeezed by someone in a few seconds.

Lu Jinzhao took out a pocket watch from her pocket and opened the shadow puppet she controlled. In fact, although she could get out of the current situation by using the shadow puppet directly, Lu Jinzhao chose to use the pocket watch first, just in case.

The moment the pocket watch was opened, Lu Jinzhao clearly sensed something rapidly draining from his body.

It's like vitality, or energy and spirit, but more accurately, it should be her life force and lifespan.

The ghost tightly binding her began to loosen at that moment, and Lu Jinzhao seized the opportunity to peel off the human skin bandages wrapped around her, escaping from the suffocating restraints. Without pausing for a moment, she immediately ran out of the restroom the instant she turned off her pocket watch. Only after returning to the corridor and running a short distance did Lu Jinzhao finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"So this is how it's attacked?"

The speed was too fast. The next instant after she touched him, his body, which was like a bandage, had already wrapped him up, leaving him no chance to run away.

Either you absolutely must not be touched, or if you are touched, you must use your destiny or an item to escape.

But what still haunts Lu Jinzhao the most is that when she was pressed against him, her reaction was a beat too slow, as if her brain had been struck by an invisible hammer.

Then, after being wrapped up, the "skin" that was stuck to her skin was constantly squeezing her body and eroding her skin, as if it wanted to dissolve all her skin and replace it with a new one.

When she opened the pocket watch, it began to repair her body, naturally creating a conflict with the ghost, which is why the bandages wrapped around her loosened.

However, Lu Jinzhao dared not use the pocket watch for too long, and even though her body had not yet recovered, she chose to close the pocket watch.

Even now, Lu Jinzhao can still see the unhealed, pitted scars on her arms, as if she had been caught in an irregular sulfuric acid rain, which corroded her skin and left these wounds of varying sizes.

It was a terrible sight, and not only on his arms, but also on his legs, torso, and even his neck and face, there were remnants of wounds from which blood was slowly flowing.

It's not fatal, so Lu Jinzhao doesn't plan to get involved.

Da. Da.
Footsteps came from behind.

Lu Jinzhao turned around and saw Tan Meng, who had returned to her original appearance, walking out of the toilet.

She still had a smile on her face, but when she looked at Lu Jinzhao, she seemed unable to contain her excitement and murderous intent, and her neck involuntarily stretched and twisted.

Lu Jinzhao noticed that there were also bloodstains on Tan Meng's body, and part of the ghost's skin was different in color from its original skin.

That was clearly skin that had been devoured from her body.

Did the demon take human skin from a human and stick it on his own body?

Lu Jinzhao felt a chill in his heart, and sincerely felt that this was not a good thing.

She endured the pain all over her body and walked quickly towards the stairwell.

After testing the waters once, Lu Jinzhao was completely certain that she could not contend with these ghosts for long. Once she got close, there was nothing she could do to fight back, and she could only hide at a distance.

She still has too few shadow puppets at her disposal.

(End of this chapter)