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Chapter 83 Wang's Funeral Home (23)

There was no doubt that he had been targeted by a ghost.

Lu Jinzhao confirmed this.

And tonight is just the beginning.

Lu Jinzhao walked very fast; she could have gone even faster, but her injured body limited her speed.

Meng Ning followed closely behind, trying to conserve the light from her flashlight. But when they reached the door of the prayer room, Lu Jinzhao suddenly stopped and said to her, "Light the candles, or turn on your phone's light. I'm about to turn off my phone."

Meng Ning hesitated for a moment, many questions already rising in her throat, such as why she had to turn off the flashlight and light the candle, but she hesitated for a second and did not ask them. Instead, she obediently took out the candle and lit it.

She remembered that it was Lu Jinzhao who had opened the door to the service hall earlier, and it was also Lu Jinzhao who had used her mobile phone to provide light. Now that they had arrived at the memorial room, where it was agreed that she should open the door, it was naturally her turn to provide the lighting.

After the power outage, the only two lighting resources became especially precious.

Instead of using her phone's light, Meng Ning lit a candle.

The white candles were no different from those sold in the market; they smelled and looked exactly the same.

Once lit, the candle emitted a light that barely illuminated the two people and a small area around them.

The candlelight had a yellowish hue; it wasn't particularly bright, but it was sufficient.

Although she hadn't used candles much since growing up, Meng Ning still had childhood memories of them. She looked at the candles and found that they were burning at a normal speed.

This relieved her slightly; at this rate of burning, six sticks would definitely be enough for tonight.

Realizing that it was her turn to push the door open, Meng Ning's heart suddenly jumped, but it wasn't her first time patrolling, so although she was nervous and scared, she could overcome it for the time being.

She knew that the most important thing to do now was to complete the dangerous patrol mission as soon as possible, so even though her legs were a little weak, she walked quickly to the door of the memorial hall.

Just getting close to this place makes the temperature seem to drop.

When she placed her hand on the doorknob of the memorial room, she felt an even more chilling sensation.

It felt like winter, and the doorknob had been exposed to the snow for a long time.

Or perhaps, this is the morgue, and what she's holding isn't the doorknob of the memorial service, but the handle of a freezer.

Meng Ning shuddered, shook her head to shake off the terrifying fantasy, then held up a candle and opened the door to the memorial room.

At first, she didn't realize anything was wrong.

Her attention was almost entirely focused on the crack in the opened door.

Although her movements were cautious, they were by no means slow.

When the door opened, Meng Ning quickly scanned the memorial room by the dim candlelight, and then, her blood ran cold.

She saw two figures.

Standing in front of the back row of seats in the memorial hall, looking at the stage.

Just from the back view, just a quick glance, Meng Ning subconsciously recognized that one of the back views belonged to Chen Hai, who died on the first night!

The other figure, with long hair, was a woman!
She immediately thought of the dead body she had seen on her first day; it was also a woman.

There's still one person missing.
Was Lu Jinzhao's decision to cut off the bell really the right thing to do?!
These thoughts flashed through Meng Ning's mind quickly. The next second, she suddenly felt her hand burning hot, so hot that she immediately turned her head to look at the hand holding the candle.

Then, she saw a scene that horrified her.

The normally burning candle seemed to have been doused with gasoline, and was burning at an unscientific speed!
The burning wax dripped onto her hands, which burned her.

In just one second, the candle seemed to have burned for ten minutes!
Meng Ning turned around abruptly, closed the door to the memorial room without hesitation, and then strode outside!

Damn it, she shouldn't have had the naive idea that a candle could burn normally until dawn. This is a platform, how could it possibly burn normally? Meng Ning was extremely annoyed. She was still too slow to close the door and leave.

Her steps were swift, and the flames flickered in the wind created by her rapid movement, yet they never went out.

Meng Ning's forehead was covered in beads of sweat from nervousness. As she moved away from the memorial room, the candle in her hand gradually returned to normal burning speed, but the candle was almost reduced to just the base!

She dared not think about what would have happened if she had been any later, even a second later, and the candle had already gone out.
Why does a candle suddenly burn so fast?

She turned to look at Lu Jinzhao, wanting to communicate with her, but saw Lu Jinzhao's thoughtful expression.

Then, she saw Lu Jinzhao pick up his phone and open the notes app. Not long after, the phone was handed to her. Meng Ning looked down and saw a line of text.

As the candle burned rapidly, it seemed as if a figure was trying to approach us in the darkness.

That figure couldn't be Xiao Ping.

Meng Ning had this premonition.

Then, she thought of the morgue drawer that had been opened from the beginning and was barely noticeable. The body lying inside had already left the morgue when they entered the platform.

Where is it?

Was that it that was trying to get closer just now?

Meng Ning felt a chill run down her spine. The hand holding the candle was covered in wax, leaving only a short section of the candle that was burning hot, but she dared not throw it away.

The power outage, the malfunctioning flashlight, the phone's rapidly depleting battery, and the candle burning quickly—all these things told the two that the greatest danger tonight might come from the darkness.

Or perhaps, a ghost lurking in the darkness!
Perhaps, this ghost's method of killing is to kill when people are completely in darkness.

Lu Jinzhao's words were simple, but Meng Ning understood what she meant.

Clearly, the two had already tacitly agreed that tonight's ghosts were not just the ones they had encountered in the previous two days.

But the danger didn't disappear when they lost their hearing; it lurked in the shadows, waiting for its chance.

There was no power outage for the past two days, so they didn't know about this ghost or its method of killing.

It's also possible that because this is only a Class C platform, the most dangerous moment is only on the last night.

But if what Lu Jinzhao thinks is true, then this ghost's condition for killing is that when a person is completely in darkness, it can kill without restraint.
Tonight is going to be very dangerous!

How long does it take for the sun to rise?

Lu Jinzhao typed out another string of words.

She was willing to drain her phone battery just to get the answer to this question.

She fainted last night, so she has no idea!

But Meng Ning remembers it was simply because the time of sunrise was so special.

[5:00 AM sharp.]

It's as if it's some kind of predetermined rule: when it's five o'clock, light will rise inside the funeral home. Although it's very faint, just a sliver, it's enough to see.

Lu Jinzhao nodded, realizing something.

The platform will close at 5 a.m. this morning.

And it's only 12 o'clock now.

(End of this chapter)