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Chapter 75 Wang's Funeral Home (15)

sound?

Lu Jinzhao was a little puzzled. She listened carefully but didn't hear any strange sounds.

Mixed in with the darkness were just some normal noises that occur at night.

"What was that sound?" Lu Jinzhao immediately asked.

She had a gut feeling that this might be one of the clues.

Xiao Ping had already stood up from the ground. He looked back with a wary and flustered expression, towards the direction of the memorial hall.

"I heard it."

His tone was tense, bordering on nervous: "The sound of bells."

"It's here! It's chasing me!"

As he spoke, his legs, which had been sore, suddenly started moving again, and he quickly ran in another direction.

They were even faster than when they ran out of the service hall.

Furthermore, he did not flee in the direction of the morgue.

Lu Jinzhao did not stay in the same place. If Xiao Ping was not hallucinating, then staying in the same place would be a dangerous move.

However, she did not choose to chase after Xiao Ping, but continued walking towards the morgue.

The ghostly activity was getting worse tonight, and she couldn't delay the mission any longer. Finishing the mission as soon as possible and returning to the duty room might be the better option.

Several thoughts kept swirling in Lu Jinzhao's mind, but they didn't delay her journey to the morgue.

Lu Jinzhao still had plenty of energy and arrived at the entrance to the morgue in no time.

In the darkness, the place seemed even more eerie and terrifying. Even for her, coming to such a place alone was somewhat unsettling.

A faint light emanated from the entrance, and she could see the elevator, which seemed normal and was stopped on the first floor, as well as the stairwell, which was open but completely dark.

Choosing between the elevator and the dark stairwell is not a difficult decision.

At this moment, Lu Jinzhao was hoping that Yangpi would suddenly appear and say something, anything at all, something that would make her feel that she wasn't alone on her journey to a place where she was likely to encounter ghosts.

Lu Jinzhao took a deep breath and gave herself five seconds to mentally prepare herself again. She was already very clear that going through multiple platform missions would not make people mentally immune to "ghosts".

Even the calmest and most experienced person will panic when faced with terror.

Unless one possesses the ability to fight against terror, or at least the ability to escape death on their own.

Otherwise, even she would probably have died on the platform sooner or later.

She needs to get to a higher-level platform as soon as possible to acquire destiny abilities.

Lu Jinzhao's dark eyes gleamed in the darkness. She made up her mind and walked towards the stairwell.

The stairwell leading to the morgue is dark. There are light bulbs, but they are not working. They are said to be broken, but for some reason, they have never been repaired.

Once she made up her mind to enter the stairwell, Lu Jinzhao didn't hesitate for a moment, and she went down the stairs exceptionally fast, trying to complete this patrol mission before anything unusual happened.

Despite the series of unusual events that occurred tonight, she had not been attacked, so she still had plenty of energy. Soon, she had descended all the stairs and was just a few steps away from seeing the morgue through the stairwell door.

Last night, Chen Hai collapsed just a few steps away.

Thinking of this, Lu Jinzhao suddenly had an ominous premonition.

The next second, she heard a familiar ding sound.

It was the sound of the elevator doors opening. Her expression changed drastically, because she hadn't heard any elevator operation at all!

This was not consistent with what Meng Ning had said, but the elevator had already arrived at the second basement level without anyone noticing.

Lu Jinchao was certain that she went downstairs much faster than the elevator!
There was no time to think about it. Even after hearing the "ding," Lu Jinzhao gritted her teeth and ran towards the door.

Her hands were already in her pockets, where she kept the supernatural items she had obtained from her first platform mission, but she had never used them on herself.

The side effects made her want to avoid the thing at all costs, but right now, the intense pressure from the sound of the elevator arriving forced her to consider the possibility of using the box.

The elevator door opened.

As the slow voice rang out, Lu Jinzhao's gaze fell on the door of the morgue, but the next second, her pupils dilated.

The door to the morgue opened.

A scene different from Meng Ning's account unfolded before her eyes, forcing her to wonder if Meng Ning was hiding something, or if the supernatural phenomena were intensifying.

But now that the patrol mission is complete, it's time to escape!

As Lu Jinzhao turned and ran up the stairs, he thought of Chen Hai's death posture; he must have died at this moment.

What happened to him at that time?
--jingle

A bell rang out behind her, sounding rather dull and eerie, rather than crisp.

The elevator doors are now fully open.

Something came out from inside and made that sound.

Lu Jinzhao felt a chill run down her spine for a moment. The instant she heard the bell, she immediately realized that the dead man who had stood up from the freezer was now not far behind her.

She remembered the young man's instructions: to make sure to put bells on the corpse's ankles.

He remembered Xiao Ping, who had just escaped, saying that he heard the sound of bells.

Meng Ning, who survived last night, did not hear such a sound!

"...It's a bell?"

Lu Jinzhao's voice was somewhat strained. She and Xiao Ping had questioned Meng Ning about her experience with great care. If he wasn't lying, then she hadn't heard that voice during her experience last night, and she had survived.

Yes.

The dead all have bells tied to their ankles, and these bells will walk out of the freezers on their own. If the ghosts here are all the corpses in those freezers, then when you see a ghost, you should hear the sound of bells!
Meng Ning survived because she ran fast, but not entirely because she ran fast.

More accurately, perhaps she reacted quickly and ran fast enough that she didn't hear the sound of the bells on the ghost's ankles when it stepped out of the elevator?

Lu Jinzhao couldn't immediately confirm whether her guess was right or wrong. Although she had reacted quickly enough and had even run to the top flight of stairs, almost reaching the stairwell exit, she clearly heard a dull, not-so-urgent bell sound coming from the darkness behind her.

Every two seconds, a "ding-a-ling" sound would come from behind her.

No matter how fast she ran, she couldn't get rid of him.

A chilling aura emanated from behind her, and the ringing of the bells indicated that even though she had left the stairwell and come outside, the vengeful ghost had no intention of letting her go.

Lu Jinzhao had to listen very carefully to the sound of the bells behind her while running, in order to judge how far away the ghost was from her.

But ghosts are not creatures of reason.

The next moment, the sound of the bell, which she had initially estimated was at least ten meters away, suddenly rang in her ears, as if a ghost had already pressed against her back.

　Yesterday, for some reason, the power went out. Power outages are rare, so my phone wasn't always fully charged. The power didn't come back on until late at night.
　　(End of this chapter)