I created a foundation

The ending sound of "oh", which was full of malice and mockery, has not completely dissipated.

"Boom."

A clear, dull sound, not sounding like a hand but more like a knocking sound by some hard object, suddenly rang out from outside their closed bedroom door.

It's not the downstairs entrance door.

It's the door to their bedroom!

It... has come into the house!

Eriri felt as if all the blood in her body had been completely frozen at that moment. She subconsciously covered her own mouth and Itamaki Kiyo's, not daring to make even the slightest sound.

"Boom...boom..."

The knocks on the door were slow and rhythmic. Each knock seemed to announce that their death was approaching step by step.

It's not in a hurry, it's enjoying itself.

Enjoying the two hearts inside the door, beating wildly with fear. Enjoying their delicious souls, which were on the verge of collapse.

Ying Lili's mind went blank. All the information and methods she had found on the Internet before seemed so ridiculous and powerless at this moment.

Salt, cross, Buddhist scriptures... Can these things block the "thing" outside the door that is knocking on the door?

The knocking sound continued for more than ten times, and then suddenly stopped.

Outside the door, there was once again that maddening, absolute silence.

have they gone?

Or...waiting for something?

The two girls huddled together, their bodies trembling violently with fear, their teeth chattering. They stared with wide eyes at the thin wooden door that looked like it could be opened with a push, as if they wanted to see through it.

Time seemed to have passed for a long time, yet it also seemed to have only passed in a moment.

Just when their nerves, stretched to the extreme, were about to break completely because of this endless waiting.

The phone screen on the table lit up for the last time.

The call interface was automatically connected at some point.

That cold and resentful voice belonging to the little girl rang out for the last time.

This time, it's not through the phone's speaker.

Instead, it seemed to come from all directions: from the ceiling, from the floor, from under the bed, from behind them. Three-dimensionally and clearly, like the most intimate whisper, it echoed in each of their ears simultaneously.

"I lied to you."

"My name is Mary, and now..."

"…right behind you."

Chapter 0037: I lied to you, I'm in your room!

Outside the door, the knocking sound that was like a death warrant finally stopped.

The corridor, and indeed the whole villa, fell back into that maddening, grave-like silence.

Itamaki Kiyo, curled up in the corner of the bed, her body still shaking violently. She looked at Eriri beside her with a hopeful look as if she was about to cry.

"Xiao...Xiao Yingli...Is it...Is it gone?"

Eriri didn't answer.

Because her sixth sense, which had been slightly enhanced by her talent of "Spirit and Body as One" and had become much sharper than that of an ordinary person, was frantically sending her an alarm.

The danger has not disappeared.

Not only did it not disappear, but... it became thicker, colder, and closer.

Just as this thought came to her mind, the screen of the mobile phone that they had thrown on the table and had long been regarded as an ominous object lit up dimly for the last time.

The call was connected at some point.

The cold and resentful voice belonging to the little girl rang out for the last time.

But this time, the source of the sound is no longer the speaker of the mobile phone.

It seemed to come from all directions, from the ceiling, from the floor, from under the bed, from behind them. Three-dimensionally, clearly, like the whispers between the closest lovers, it rang in each of their ears simultaneously, with the ultimate malice of playing with prey.

"I lied to you."

"My name is Mary, and now..."

"…right behind you."

boom--!

This final declaration, like a ruthless hammer, completely smashed the last remaining fragile line of defense called "luck" in the hearts of the two girls.

They didn't even have the courage to look back.

At this moment, the filament of the desk lamp in the room, which was emitting warm light, flickered suddenly with a "hiss" sound, and then went out completely.

The entire room was instantly swallowed by endless darkness.

The only source of light was the cold and dim moonlight shining through the thick curtains outside the window.

In the moonlight, in the center of the room, on the originally empty floor, a mass of darkness, as if it had life, began to squirm and gather madly.

It slowly "grew" out from the ground, and finally condensed into a blurry figure of a girl wearing a red dress, soaking wet, as if she had just crawled out of a well, and whose face could not be seen clearly.

It just stood there, with its head tilted, "looking" at the two "desserts" on the bed that were almost solidified and exuded a delicious smell of fear with a gesture full of curiosity and malice.

"I found... you......"

It let out an inhuman scream filled with joy, and the blurry figure suddenly flashed, like an arrow shot from a bow, and pounced towards the closest person, Itamaki Kiyo, who was already frightened silly!

Finished!

dying!

Seeing her friend about to be swallowed by the terrifying black shadow, Eriri's brain went completely blank because of the fear and sensory stimulation that exceeded her limit.

All thoughts, all rationality, all plans were completely cleared at this moment.

What remains is only the most primitive and purest...survival instinct of living things.

And the extremely strong obsession that had just been established to protect his friends.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--!"

She let out the sharpest, most piercing, most desperate, heart-wrenching scream she had ever heard in her life!

Her body, completely before her brain, reacted.

She didn't even look at the terrifying black shadow rushing towards her, but just closed her eyes tightly, and like a child who was forced into a corner and was fighting with someone, she waved her two slender white arms, which belonged to a painter, indiscriminately, recklessly, and desperately in the direction of the black shadow!

There is no method, no technique, and no reason.

There was only the most primitive fear and the purest desire to get this horrible thing in front of him away from his friends!

Her arms were waving wildly in the air, making sharp sounds like a blade cutting through the air, which was totally unacceptable to a sickly girl!

Chapter 0038: Sorry, I think I tore it

At that moment, Eriri felt like she was dead.

Or perhaps, in order to protect herself from being destroyed by the extreme fear that was enough to completely overwhelm her personality, her brain voluntarily gave up thinking and handed over control of her body to the most primitive and purest beast instinct.

She could see nothing and hear nothing.

The whole world seemed to be isolated in a chaos filled with screams and white noise.

The only thing she could do was to close her eyes and wave her arms with all her strength, even overdrawing all her future life strength.

Hit it!

Open it away from my friend!

Let it go!

Make it disappear!

This single, extremely pure thought occupied her entire being at the moment.

What she didn't know was that in the real vision of the "inside" that her closed eyes could not observe, a very unequal battle that could be described as a "massacre" was being carried out fiercely in her hands in an extremely absurd yet extremely efficient way.

Her slender, white arms, which belonged to a talented painter and were supposed to be used to create beauty, at this moment, turned into the world's most terrifying killing machine, capable of tearing apart the soul.

The talent of [Limiter Removal] that was dormant in her body and came from Lin Qing, which had only one percent of its effect, was completely stimulated for the first time under the impetus of her desperate and most primitive desire to survive.

Each time she swung her sword, her speed was so fast that it exceeded the limit of human dynamic vision, leaving behind a series of white, blurry afterimages in the dim room!

And the more crucial talent of [Spirit and Body as One], which also came from Lin Qing, gave her mortal body the power to interfere with the divine power of the spirit!

The spirit of "Miss Mary" composed of pure curses and resentment that pounced on Itamaki Kiyo made a "sizzling" sound like boiling oil poured on ice the moment it touched Eriri's seemingly harmless arm!

Its body seemed to no longer be a disembodied spirit, but a fragile piece of cheese exposed to countless cutting machines.

Eriri's random swings, like those of children fighting, had no rules at all, but at this moment, turned into the most efficient and cruel form of Ling Chi.

"Shh-!"

The afterimage left by her arm easily cut off Miss Mary's right arm made of black air as it pounced on Itamaki Kiyo, just like cutting through paper!