Chapter 60 : Chapter 60
Chapter 60: Am I Seeing Things?
Lu Liangting could not think of any other method he could use.
It was not that he willingly gave up. The truth was that he simply had no options left. He was trapped here with no exit at all. Worse still, the ghost outside the door was no ordinary Fierce Ghost. If he dared to open the door, he would certainly die.
Ghosts were not humans. If it had been a human, he might still have attempted a counterattack.
But the thing outside only needed to use a simple Ghost Wall, and he would end up like a headless fly, running blindly around the second floor of the Cafeteria.
Even so, he had not fallen into despair. Even in a desperate situation, he maintained basic calm.
Since he could not escape, then he would let the two ghosts who had helped him so many times escape instead.
That was the only thing he could do for them.
“Do not struggle. Do not resist. You two are different from me. Your lives were already miserable before you died, and even after death your wishes remain unfulfilled. It is also my fault for lacking strength. Every time I needed you to save me, yet I could not fulfill my promise.”
“Once again, I am very sorry.”
Lu Liangting felt the steel pen in his hand tremble slightly. Even the envelope he rarely used—usually kept as his final trump card—began to emit a chilling aura.
Both ghosts wanted to come out, but he forcibly suppressed them.
Coming out now would only mean death. The ghost outside was too vicious. Even more terrifying was that it had the habit of eating ghosts. The few ghosts who had come earlier had already been dismembered and devoured by it.
“If you manage to escape, find another host. I can recommend a place called Sunshine Apartments. On the fourth floor lives a girl named Zhao Mingyue. She is a good person. She will help you.”
“Oh, right. There is also a female ghost living in Sunshine Apartments. I do not know her name. I only know that she wears a white dress and has a red butterfly hairpin in her hair. She is about fifteen or sixteen and very beautiful. If you meet her, you can ask her for help as well.”
“And one more thing—the fifth floor there must absolutely never be entered!”
At this point, the wooden door behind him could no longer hold.
In truth, Lu Liangting knew the ghost outside was doing this deliberately. It could clearly pass through the wall and enter, yet it chose to keep smashing the door instead.
That was understandable. Many ghosts could increase their strength by devouring the fear of living humans.
Continuously pounding the door and building psychological pressure was far more effective than simply walking through the wall.
But this also revealed something else.
The ghost outside possessed considerable intelligence.
For this kind of intimidation tactic to work, the ghost had to think of it first. Yet most ghosts behaved like single-celled organisms. They only repeated killing and dying, acting instinctively according to the obsessions they had held in life.
Ding!
A crisp sound rang out—the sound of the talisman shattering.
Lu Liangting’s heart tightened.
He stepped back decisively and placed his hand on the door handle.
With a simple downward push, the ghost outside would be able to enter.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Liangting chose to accept the fate brought about by his own recklessness.
He had known this place was dangerous, yet he had still rushed here to find Shen Shuyun.
This was the price of impulse.
“Remember everything I just said!”
Lu Liangting gave his final instruction in his heart. His other hand gripped the handle of the cattle-slaughtering knife sticking out of his backpack’s zipper.
This blade had been stained with much blood. Against ghosts, it was even more effective than something like a peachwood sword.
He would use it to buy as much time as possible.
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“That is him.”
Shen Shuyun stared fixedly at the burly old man in red standing outside the kitchen door on the second floor. Her mouth felt slightly dry.
She licked her lips.
“Doctor, did you not want me to complete my mission? Kill him. No—leave him half alive. Then I can complete the mission. Afterward, I will tell you the true identity of another participant.”
The old director was extremely powerful now. Shen Shuyun could barely deal with ordinary Fierce Ghosts, let alone a red-robed Fierce Ghost like him.
If she had not changed identities, she could easily crush him.
Unfortunately, that was no longer possible.
The good news was that standing beside her was a monster of terrifying strength.
She had guessed Bai Yu’s identity and even spoke it aloud.
This was not a death wish—it was meant to force Bai Yu to reveal her true strength and stop hiding.
As for whether the Doctor would kill her afterward—who cared?
Countless strands of blood gathered in Bai Yu’s palm, eventually forming a crimson blade.
The blade angled toward the ground. On her left arm, blood threads condensed into two thick chains that coiled around it.
She stepped forward.
Her figure flickered and vanished strangely, reappearing ten meters away in the next instant, already closing in on the old director who was smashing the door with a ferocious grin.
Her left hand slammed against the wall. The cone-shaped tip of one chain pierced into the wall, and the two thick chains moved like sea serpents diving into water.
Half a meter ahead, they burst out again, sweeping forward in a semicircle before plunging back into the wall. In less than half a second, they had already reached the old director.
Only then did the old director notice Shen Shuyun and Bai Yu.
His expression changed drastically.
A chain with a sharp spike was whipping toward his feet from the wall beside him.
His first instinct was to jump upward to avoid having his legs entangled.
But the moment he leapt—Bai Yu’s figure blurred.
In a flash, she appeared directly in front of him.
CLANG!
The long blade in her hand swept upward diagonally, slicing through the air with a terrifying wail.
The old director saw only a flash of blade light beneath him before he lost all sensation in his legs.
He had just jumped into the air and had no chance to dodge. He could only twist his body desperately.
Yet the deadly blade was impossible to evade. It moved so fast that his eyes could not even capture it. Several lines of blood flashed, and suddenly his arms lost all feeling as well.
SPLASH!
A deep wound appeared across his throat, so deep that bone could be seen. His chest felt utterly hollow.
When he looked down, he could even see through the gash in his chest to the space behind him.
His eyelids twitched violently.
He could not believe a single blade could cause such damage.
Even more terrifying was that all of this happened within the brief moment he was in the air.
By the time he began to fall, the blade was already waiting for him below.
The once tall and burly figure now looked like a toy building block violently torn apart.
To be honest, the old director was completely stunned.
He had made only one mistake—He had simply jumped.
From the moment he jumped to the moment he landed, how much time could possibly have passed?
When the chain first swept toward him, he could have stepped backward or jumped upward.
Just a single thought apart.
At that moment—The wooden door beside them creaked open.
A blade that was about to strike suddenly stopped mid-air.
The two pairs of eyes met.
Lu Liangting stared blankly at Bai Yu.
Bai Yu turned her head and looked at him as well.
“I…”
Lu Liangting swallowed.
Out of the corner of his eye, he could clearly see the old director still hanging on the blade.