I have a ghost diary

"Let's begin," Chu Jiang said, using his Ghost Domain to envelop everyone except the saleswoman. This thing was frequently breached by various vengeful spirits in this extremely dangerous area, but there was no harm in using it.

Otherwise, Chu Jiang could only rely on the power of imitation ghosts, ghost peeking out, or the power of Ju-on, which is not as good as the ghost realm in the theater.

The headless saleswoman said nothing more. She slowly floated towards the statue, while simultaneously chanting an ethereal yet eerie hymn, "Through me the way into the doleful city......? ~"

This is truly the "Divine Comedy," a poem said to have been inscribed on the gates of Hell:

Enter the city of endless suffering through me.

Through me, enter the abyss of eternal misery.

Through me, you enter the irredeemable masses.

Justice propels my sublime Creator

I am the embodiment of divine authority, divine will, and divine love.

There was no eternal creation before me.

I will live as long as heaven and earth.

Those who enter will have all hope severed...

Watching the saleswoman's retreating figure, Chu Jiang murmured, "The hymn to humanity is the hymn to courage."

These words also reached Li Yuhan's "ears," but she did not turn around. She continued singing the divine song as she faced the stone statue.

When the saleswoman got close enough, the shadow that had been hanging over the statue suddenly disappeared, revealing its true form.

It was indeed a statue, carved from white marble. It looked like a statue of a goddess, with a voluptuous body, a beautiful face, a naked upper body, and an elaborate dress covering her lower body.

It has a near-perfect body proportion, but at first glance, it doesn't inspire any sense of desecration; instead, it evokes a feeling of sacred beauty.

Chu Jiang even thought of the Venus de Milo with her missing arms, but unlike the Venus statue, this goddess statue did not have missing arms. Her right arm hung down, her hand touching her clothes; her left arm stretched out in front of her, with an hourglass placed on it.

"Be careful, the opponent's ability might be related to time." Chu Jiang reminded the saleswoman as he used Ghost Domain to approach room number 5 from the side.

Chu Jiang gets a headache just looking at that hourglass; the power of time is still too much for mortals to understand.

The saleswoman didn't respond. Perhaps it was because of the divine melody she was chanting, but as she floated towards the statue, it didn't provoke an attack.

Chu Jiang didn't dare to move too fast either, as their previous experiences had proven that the faster they rushed, the sooner they would die.

......

In the end, Chu Jiang and his group were incredibly lucky and arrived at the door of room number 5 without encountering any danger.

However, by this point, the saleswoman's voice was growing weaker and weaker, as if she had exhausted herself in the battle against the supernatural and would soon be unable to continue singing the divine song.

This made the skinny man anxious. He gestured to the firefighter, "You, go up and open the door."

"I'll do it," Chu Jiang said, stepping forward.

At this point, if there is any danger, the firefighters here are the weakest, and there is a 99% chance they will die.

Unexpectedly, firefighter Paul waved his hand, stopped Chu Jiang, and pulled out newspapers from his backpack again, starting to light them.

This puzzled Chu Jiang. "Don't you have enough newspapers to burn? You didn't prepare them yourself, did you?"

Moreover, Chu Jiang couldn't quite understand why burning newspapers could fight off supernatural forces and allow him to survive.

Thinking back to the card the firefighter drew, it depicted a blurry figure burning newspaper at a grave...

Chu Jiang suddenly thought of a Chinese proverb: "Burning newspapers at a grave—fooling the ghosts."

Could it be that the ghost on that card can be fooled by burning newspapers, thus avoiding the ghosts attacking the firefighters?

After Chu Jiang came to this somewhat unbelievable conclusion, he first lit the newspaper to protect himself before trying to open the door.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, the saleswoman's chanting stopped abruptly.

Chu Jiang looked back and saw that the statue suddenly began to move. The hourglass in its left hand began to flow, and its right hand rose, silently and gracefully pointing at the headless saleswoman.

With just that one point, the saleswoman's body began to age rapidly. Her exposed skin quickly became lifeless, wrinkled, and even developed age spots.

Her black robes weathered rapidly, as if in an instant they had suffered the ravages of countless years.

"Hurry!" the thin man urged, unable to remain calm at this critical moment.

Moreover, the skinny man could tell that the saleswoman had already begun to transform into a ghost; otherwise, she would have already vanished into thin air like that robe, instead of turning into an old woman in her seventies or eighties.

The firefighter gritted his teeth, holding a burning newspaper in his left hand, and rushed forward with his right hand to grab the doorknob.

But what really annoyed him was that he just couldn't turn the doorknob! Could it be that he needed a key? But all the previous ones opened with a simple turn.

Seeing that the firefighters were not in immediate danger, the skinny man rushed over to help open the door, and then with a "crash," he was instantly dismembered into countless pieces!

No, to be precise, it wasn't dismemberment, but rather the spatial dislocation of various parts of his body, creating an effect similar to dismembering a human body.

Chapter 253 Life or Death

To make matters worse, the goddess statue had already begun to turn around; its body remained still, but its entire base rotated.

The policewoman had already donned a red veil, and at the same time, a dim, indistinct light appeared around her, a light that seemed to emanate from the time of day and night transition.

Michiko has only one demon, but this demon is very special; it is called "Oma Toki".

The time of twilight, also known as the hour of twilight, occurs twice a day, at dusk and dawn.

According to the Onmyōdō (Yin-Yang) tradition of the island nation, this period is a specific moment of alternation between day and night, and between yin and yang. It is the best time for ghosts and demons to appear, and most misfortunes originate from this time.

During the time of the demon's eclipse, the sky is unpredictable and is also known as the birth of a hundred demons. Originally, it only referred to a period of time, but now it appears as a form of demon in the body of policewoman Michiko.

Chu Jiang then took out a black Five Dragons Jade Seal, a level-one sealed artifact obtained from headquarters. He hadn't even had a chance to test it on Duan Ming'en before the ghost taxi brought him to this godforsaken place.

Chu Jiang only had a vague idea of ​​the specific effects of the jade seal. He could only give it a try, which was better than going up and fighting the statue head-on.

Just as the statue raised its hand again, preparing to attack Chu Jiang and his group, the elderly saleswoman floated up from behind it and hugged the statue tightly.

At the same time, a clean gash appeared on the statue's neck, and its head instantly severed off! It fell off the statue and rolled to the side.

On the skinny man's side, he was not dead. From the pile of bloody body parts on the ground, a gloomy-faced ghost crawled up.

If it weren't for the skinny man having completely controlled the scapegoat, he would have been dead long ago.

Nevertheless, the skinny man's body was also destroyed, and he now exists in this world entirely as a ghost.

"Hold it back, give me some time to open the door." The thin man rushed forward again to try to open the door. The firefighter was terrified and powerless. He could only stand aside, pale-faced, holding the newspaper.

Although the statue was decapitated, its movements did not stop or slow down; it even ignored the existence of the ghost realm.

Its right hand pointed to Chu Jiang, while its left hand raised the hourglass and gently tapped the saleswoman's hand that was holding it.

In that instant, the saleswoman's arms and body aged and vanished; her skin, flesh, and bones, from old age to death, to withering, and then silently turned into a pile of fine powder that fell to the ground.

The saleswoman Li Yuhan died, but she was not a real ghost after all. Therefore, she died as a human, with only her head remaining in Chu Jiang's hands.

For her, this was the most dignified way to die...

At the same moment, a soul-stirring dragon roar resounded from the dragon-shaped jade seal on Chu Jiang's right hand. Five ghostly dragons emerged from within the jade seal, encircling their master and forming a unique supernatural protection.

When the power of time's passage descended, Chu Jiang was still affected, but the five ghost dragons resisted most of the supernatural power.

Moreover, as soon as Chu Jiang's body showed signs of aging, the power of Chu Zombie spontaneously emerged, forcibly returning his body to its state before he aged.

"Is it done yet!" Chu Jiang's face was rather grim, because after the statue pointed at him once, seeing that it couldn't kill him, it immediately raised its hand and pointed again.

If Chu Jiang doesn't find a way to get into Room 5 soon, he might die of old age. Even if he doesn't die, the Ghost Diary will be released, and the consequences of this aging will be severe.

The skinny man didn't have time to respond. He looked as if he had been cut into countless parts by the misaligned space, and his whole body looked like it was made of building blocks, jagged and full of disharmony.

But he is a ghost now, and this level of spatial displacement is nothing to a ghost.

The thin man was not only turning the doorknob with both hands, but two pale hands also extended from under his armpits to help him open the door.

With the skinny man's efforts, the doorknob was slowly turned. Given just five or six more seconds, the door would open quickly...

But do they have that time?

Chu Jiang was targeted twice. Even with the help of the Ghost Dragon Jade Seal and the power of Chu Zombie doing its best to resist the force of time, he was still aging rapidly and soon turned from a young man into a middle-aged man.

Worse still, after failing to kill Chu Jiang twice by pointing at him, the statue changed its target. This time, it didn't choose the thin man opening the door, nor the policewoman who was about to take over from Chu Jiang.

Instead, it pointed to the firefighters burning newspapers.

Because he relied too much on the supernatural power of the cards, the firefighter has now been severely corrupted by the ghost. If he is pointed at by the idol again, he will almost certainly die.

Just as Chu Jiang sent the five ghost dragons flying towards the firefighters, the policewoman had already enveloped the firefighters in the light of the Demon Hour.

At the same time, she herself appeared between the statue and the firefighters, so the effect of the passage of time ultimately fell on her.

The policewoman's eerie red veil quickly turned pale in the face of time, but it also weakened most of the opponent's power, which shows how terrifying the "Ghost Bride" is.

Immediately, the five ghost dragons that followed Chu Jiang helped the policewoman withstand the remaining force, and she actually withstood the attack unharmed.

But before Michiko could even breathe a sigh of relief, she saw that this time, the statue did not lower its hand, but instead pointed its finger directly at her without moving.

Even more terrifying, the sand in the hourglass on the statue's left hand suddenly increased in speed by several times!

This caused Redhead to collapse rapidly, and the power of time's passage quickly penetrated the five ghost dragons, directly descending upon the policewoman, who also began to age rapidly.

Upon seeing this, Chu Jiang clenched his fists.

Using Ghost Domain to teleport to the statue, Chu Jiang unleashed his right fist, blasting most of the statue's body to pieces!

But the effect was minimal. The statue returned to its original state in the next second, and the head that had fallen to the ground rolled back and was attached to its neck, as if time had reversed.

Policewoman Michiko could no longer hold on, and she uttered in a low voice, "Twilight of the Demons."

Then something incredible happened: she, who was already old and almost dead, immediately began to regain her youth, rapidly transforming from old age back into middle age...

What makes this demon special is that it is also a demon related to time.

At this moment, with the power of the alternation of day and night, yin and yang, Michiko forcibly reversed the flow of time.

But this is not a perfect solution. Michiko, who has returned to her youthful appearance, continues to grow younger, or rather, more like a child, under the influence of the statue's power.

The policewoman quickly turned into a teenage girl, the teenage girl turned into a toddler, and finally, Michiko turned into a baby!

If this continues, she will soon become the earliest form of life, an embryo, or even a fertilized egg...

At that moment, the skinny man shouted, "The door is open!"

Chu Jiang originally intended to target the hourglass directly, but upon hearing this, he immediately changed his strategy.