I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

Chapter 83 A Great Terror Lies Outside the Door

The next two days.

Whether Lin Yan was looking up information in the archives or getting food in the cafeteria, he could always see Su Qinghan hiding in the shadows not far away whenever he looked up.

They would take a small notebook or tablet and record his every move with a blank expression.

The feeling of being treated like a guinea pig, coupled with the AI narration that occasionally pops up to give him some guidance, has made Lin Yan suspicious and paranoid these past few days.

Sometimes he even wondered if Su Qinghan and this weirdo were in cahoots.

Since Lin Yan became wary, the AI voice actor has become less lively, sometimes going for long periods without uttering a single word.

Although sometimes he would suddenly say things that interfered with his subconscious, Lin Yan was always on guard and nothing unexpected happened.

Perhaps even the bizarre is afraid of passive-aggressive behavior? If I remain on guard against it for a few more days, maybe it will leave on its own.

And so, Lin Yan spent another day in a back-and-forth struggle with the bizarre.

Late at night, Lin Yan dragged his tired body back to his apartment.

These past few days, he's spent most of his daytime hours in the bureau's archives, trying to find some clues related to the bizarre.

Every day I returned home disappointed, exhausted both physically and mentally.

Just as he was about to pour himself a glass of water and carefully study whether there was any pattern to the timing of the narration,

"Knock knock knock".

Someone is knocking on the door.

Almost at the same time, AI voiceovers also appeared.

But this time, its sound was strange, like... it was a bit choppy?

"Note, look closely, there's a door, there's a... standing outside the door..."

"If he opens the door, he will greet, greet, greet..."

"What are we welcoming?"

No matter what it says, Lin Yan intends to do the opposite.

But after "greeting" it for a long time, it still couldn't come up with a clear explanation.

Suddenly, with a hissing sound, everything went quiet.

It crashed?

Lin Yan stood there, his whole body tense.

In the past few days, he has also figured out a bizarre characteristic of this voice acting: it cannot lie.

Whether Lin Yan does as it says or not, what it says will definitely happen next.

So why can't this person outside speak?

Unless... the thing standing outside the door, this voiceover is bizarre and unfathomable.

Or perhaps they're afraid to say it?

The other party's existence is far superior to its own; once it tries to define the other party, it will be backfired by its own rules.

Either way, it indicates that the thing knocking on the door is no ordinary person.

"Knock knock knock".

The knocking sounded again, unhurried and with the same rhythm as the first time.

There's no way to avoid it; the other party has already come knocking on the door, so knocking is just a matter of politeness.

Lin Yan took a deep breath, trying to bolster his courage.

He moved quietly, as if treading on thin ice, until he reached the back of the security door.

He summoned the frog balloon with his left hand and held it in his hand, while gripping the gun in his right, even though he knew the gun was probably useless.

When they arrived at the door, Lin Yan didn't open it, but instead craned his neck to look through the peephole.

The motion-sensor lights in the hallway were dim, and with the peephole view, Lin Yan could only see that there was one person standing outside the door.

At least in appearance, she is a person, a thin girl.

She lowered her head slightly, wearing a white lab coat that was a size too big for her.

The lights were too dim, and Lin Yan couldn't see her features clearly.

But her hair and her posture made Lin Yan's heart race for no reason.

look familiar.

It looks very familiar!

That feeling is like when you were a kid and you peed in an adult's glass of wine and got a beating. Logically, it should be a very memorable experience, but the memory is shrouded in fear, and you just can't remember whether you peed in beer or liquor.

Just like Lin Yan, who can't remember who she is right now.

Where have I seen you before? In the bureau's archives? A survivor from some case? Or...?

Just as Lin Yan was recalling, hesitating whether to speak up and test the waters.

The motion-sensor light outside the door went out.

The hallway was plunged into darkness.

Lin Yan was startled and instinctively tried to back away.

But the next second, the sensor light turned on again, and the darkness dissipated.

The girl outside the door raised her head at some point.

She not only lifted her head up, but her face was almost pressed against the door.

She's looking through the peephole too!

The moment Lin Yan met her eyes, he felt as if someone had shot him.

Her eyes were devoid of emotion, warmth, and any light that a living person should possess.

In the very moment their eyes met, memories of the past came rushing back.

He remembered.

Although her eyes were intact, although the eerie runes on her skin were gone, and although her ears were not filled with mercury.

But the contours of this face!

Holy crap!!!

Lin Yan let out a startled cry and immediately retreated, losing her balance and falling to the ground.

He was still staring at the doorway in terror.

How could it be her?!

Wasn't she dead?!

The altar at the No. 704 air-raid shelter in the southern suburbs.

That human vessel used by cults to carry the so-called descent of gods!

The girl whose eyes were stitched up, covered in runes, and whose ears were filled with mercury!

That night, Lin Yan used Saya's authority to cut that line.

The human body, along with its bone wings and the black markings around it, was all split in two.

Although he fainted not long afterward, Lin Yan clearly remembered that the human body was shaved in two halves, one on each side, and fell to either side of the altar.

But now.

She not only became one.

Moreover, his eyes had healed and the runes had disappeared.

They even stood outside his door like a living person, staring at him.

How did she survive?

Or, is the thing standing outside the door really a living person?

Lin Yan stood up from the ground, a fierce glint in his eyes, ready to go all out.

Faced with an existence of this caliber, retreating or hoping for luck will only lead to a more humiliating death.

Even though his body had only just begun to recover some of its strength.

Even though he knew that if he invoked Saya's authority again at this time, his soul might suffer a backlash once more.

But the current situation leaves him no room for hesitation.

Lin Yan kept summoning frog balloons and piling them up at the entrance, hoping to gain even one more second of control.

At the same time, deep within his consciousness, he had already touched that scissor mark, and with just a thought, that feeling of controlling the world would return.

"Come on!" Lin Yan roared inwardly.

"No matter what kind of monster you are, if I can cut you to pieces once, I can cut you to pieces a second time!"

Feeling the slight warmth of Saya's mark on his chest, Lin Yan was able to suppress the fear in his heart.

He spoke in a cold, low voice through the thin door panel:

"Who are you?"

At the same time, it is constantly summoning frog balloons.

There was no response from outside the door, as if that thing had already left.

Just as Lin Yan thought she was about to burst through the door, he placed his hand on his chest, ready to use his authority to fight for his life.

"I……"

A soft, sweet little girl's voice came from outside the door.

"Excuse me, are you inside?"

Lin Yan was taken aback.