Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 56 My name is Yang Jian
Li Hua and Cheng Mi hurriedly ran towards the library stairs. Cheng Mi clutched the Keigo Higashino novel she had just borrowed, intending to read it carefully that evening.

"Hurry up, the next class is Zhao Kaiming's gloomy-faced political class, being late will be a disaster!" Cheng Mi urged in a low voice.

Li Hua nodded, but his gaze involuntarily swept over the corner of the library—it seemed darker than usual, and the shadows between the bookshelves were incredibly thick.

They had just reached the lending desk when they suddenly saw Liu Yan there as well.

Liu Yan raised her head.

With a soft "click".

A gray nematode fell from the ceiling, crashed to the ground, and instantly turned into a puddle of ashes.

Then, a second, a third... more and more gray nematodes fell from the air, as if crushed by some invisible force.

"You two," Liu Yan said in a low voice, "leave the library immediately."

"Teacher Liu, what happened?" Cheng Mi asked.

"Come on! Do you want to be late for class and get punished by standing in the corner?"

Dozens of gray worms suddenly sprang from Liu Yan's sleeve, forming a barrier in the shadow between them and the bookshelf. Li Hua and Cheng Mi didn't dare to delay and turned to run.

Not long after they ran out of the library stairwell, the stairwell door slammed shut automatically!
"When I read the staff and student handbooks, I thought the library was a safe haven..."

Inside the library, Liu Yan's Gu worms died one after another, and then their corpses began to annihilate and disappear.

Cold sweat beaded on her forehead. Her fingertips formed a hand seal as she whispered an incantation: "Gu Devouring - Thousand Threads Binding!"

In an instant, the Gu worms within her body surged forth wildly. Not only gray threadworms, but also spirit-eating bees and mind-peeping leeches intertwined into a web, spreading outwards. The books on the bookshelf moved without wind, their pages rustling as if stirred by some force.

“Found you…” Liu Yan narrowed her eyes, the Gu worm locking onto a certain entity in the shadows.

Suddenly, the library window cracked open, and a large amount of dark blue haze rushed in like a tide, instantly engulfing half the space.

Liu Yan's Gu worms struggled in the gloom, turning into ashes one by one.

"Damn it!" she gritted her teeth and quickly backed away.

Her heart was breaking!
Gray nematodes are fine, they can reproduce indefinitely.

But she obtained the eggs and larvae of the carnivorous wasp and the mind-peeping leech "in that place," at great risk, before they were cleaned up by the cleaners!
The malevolent pollution level of these Gu worms is still growing, and their reproduction rate is limited! They were previously hidden deep within the mysterious layer!

How long did it take her to breed to this number!

And this gloom?

Just then, the door to the library stairwell was kicked open!

Jiang Jin rushed in, rifle in hand, aiming at the area where the gloom was thickest, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Gunshots rang out like thunder, and the intense phosphorescent light tore through the gloom, followed by a piercing scream that echoed throughout the library.

"Reincarnator Jiang Jin, your hunting rifle's mournful cry has already inflicted [Tear] damage on ▇▇."

There is a 34.5% chance that this attack will synthesize a Resentment Shard.

Resentment fragments are being synthesized...

Synthesis successful!

The shards of resentment have been stored in your Reincarnator Watch!

Jiang Jin's shotgun was slightly hot. He quickly rushed to Liu Yan's side: "Are you alright?"

"The person is fine, but the insect is!"

The next second, her pupils suddenly contracted—

The gloom continued to spread, and the bookshelves seemed to be pulled apart by some force, causing the space in front of them to gradually become disoriented. Liu Yan's watch sounded an alarm!

"Oh no!" She grabbed Jiang Jin's arm abruptly. "I'm going to be trapped in the Lost Layer! What's your SAN value right now?"

Jiang Jin looked down and saw that his SAN value was still 71%, but when he looked up again...

Liu Yan has disappeared!
……

The library, shrouded in gloom, was deserted except for Liu Yan.

Liu Yan looked out the window. The playground, where physical education classes were being held, was deserted, with only an endless, dark blue haze. She checked the SAN value on her watch.

59%.

They just happened to fall into the Lost Layer.

Liu Yan took a deep breath, pulled a gray worm from her sleeve, and whispered, "Spit it out."

The gray nematode spat out a bloody chunk of flesh.

After the piece of flesh landed, it quickly expanded and twisted, eventually transforming into a naked woman—with cascading black hair, snow-white skin, and a beauty mark at the corner of her left eye.

“Tomie…” Liu Yan said coldly.

Tomie stretched lazily, a bewitching smile playing on her lips: "Oh dear, what a crude way to summon you... Miss Liu."

Liu Yan pulled a coat off the back of a chair and threw it to her: "Put this on, don't try anything funny."

Tomie slowly put on her clothes, her smile undiminished: "What, are you afraid I'll have a chance to seduce your little boyfriend later? Hundreds or even thousands of men have cut into my body, and he's considered one of the gentler ones."

Liu Yan said coldly, "I wouldn't mind letting him cut up your skin later too."

Tomie shrugged and stopped provoking.

Liu Yan stared into her eyes: "I know who you, Kawakami Tomie, are, so don't have any wicked thoughts—even if you split into thousands, each of your clones will still have gray thread worms inside. As long as I give the order, the worms will instantly devour you, leaving you absolutely no time to regenerate."

Tomie's smile froze for a moment, but she quickly recovered: "How ruthless... Alright, what do you want me to do?"

"Let's scout ahead." Liu Yan pointed to the stairs. "Let's go to the fourth floor first."

The stairwells inside the Lost Floor were still locked; only the stairs leading to the fourth floor were accessible.

The fourth-floor library was even more dilapidated than the lower floors, with collapsed bookshelves and books scattered all over the floor. The gloom was even thicker here, almost obscuring the view.

Suddenly, Tomie stopped, her voice unusually trembling slightly: "Ahead... ahead..."

Liu Yan turned her head and followed her gaze—

A boy who looked to be under twenty was nailed to the wall by a rusty coffin nail, the nail tip piercing through the back of his hand, and on the back of his hand... there was a scarlet eye!

The boy's head was bowed, his breath weak, but upon hearing footsteps, he slowly raised his face—

“Who…who is it?”

Liu Yan was stunned. She quickly walked up and asked, "Are you... Ghost Eye Yang Jian?"

The boy nodded with difficulty: "Yes, I am... Yang Jian. Are you a ghost tamer?"

Liu Yan gasped.

It's actually Yang Jian, the male protagonist of the original novel?!
She hurried forward and tried to pull out the coffin nails, but the nails did not budge, as if they were integrated with the space.

Tomie took a few steps back, her face pale: "I...I can't touch that...Don't make me touch that!"

Liu Yan gritted her teeth and looked at Fu Jiang: "Help me! You're just a clone, you can just keep splitting after you die! Otherwise, you can try feeling the Gu worms tearing at your flesh!"

Tomie reluctantly stepped forward, gripped the coffin nails with both hands, tensed her arms, and exerted a sudden burst of strength—

"boom!!!"

The entire library shook violently, and the gloom surged wildly, but the coffin nails remained unmoved.

Yang Jian weakly opened his eyes, his voice hoarse: "It's no use... I had already retrieved this from Hongfa Temple... I've already found Zhou Zheng. As long as I shoot the coffin nails into his body, everything will change..."

Liu Yan's heart sank.

The coffin nail pierced through Yang Jian's ghost eye, and also pierced through the shadow behind him, rendering his second headless ghost shadow unusable!
Furthermore, what Yang Jian just said is highly consistent with the original plot!
Aside from the fact that he was nailed here.

Dachang City, shrouded in heavy smog, has become a ghost town!

The Seventh Middle School, which has been completely abandoned and harbors the source of the curse!
If, in the Lost Layer, Seventh Middle School and even Dachang City had become like this...

What about the "Dachang City No. 7 Middle School" in the mysterious layer and the materialistic layer whose existence is unknown?

(End of this chapter)