Chapter 66 : Chapter 66
Chapter 66: Lu Liangting, You ****** ******
Bai Yu did not know who Chen Yun was.
What she did know was that the woman she had just grabbed had been about to inject a strand of ghostly resentment into Zhao Mingyue’s body.
For a living person, that thing was pure poison.
Whoever would do such a thing deserved to die.
“Mingyue.”
“I’m here.” When Zhao Mingyue heard Bai Yu call her name, she answered softly.
In truth, she had not been controlled for long.
Chen Yun’s attack would not have hit her anyway.
Even if Bai Yu had not appeared, she still had the ability to counterattack.
Of course, Bai Yu arriving to save her was still a good thing—just in case.
“Turn around.”
“Huh?”
Zhao Mingyue blinked in confusion, but she obediently turned her back.
Slash!
Drops of blood splattered.
Chen Yun’s pupils shrank violently.
She had not even seen the attack.
She only felt something cut across her throat.
Before she even realized the warm liquid flowing from her neck was blood, a piercing pain erupted from her throat.
Her breathing sounded like a broken bellows.
It felt as though air was leaking out of her entire body, yet she could not draw a single breath back in.
Her life force drained rapidly.
Her body collapsed weakly to the ground.
Chen Yun rolled her eyes upward.
She saw the ghost pick up her talisman with bare hands.
Even though her fingers were being burned and melting, she calmly examined it.
Her expression did not change in the slightest.
Chen Yun felt her entire body grow cold.
She did not know whether it was fear… or blood loss.
She knew very well what kind of pain a talisman like that caused to ghosts.
Even touching it was unimaginable.
Even bringing the talisman within one meter of a ghost would cause unbearable pain.
And if a ghost stared directly at the eye symbol drawn on it, their mind would collapse.
Yet this ghost remained expressionless.
Only after the talisman’s power completely dissipated and turned into ashes in the air did she lower it.
The ghost stared at her own half-corroded palm, as if pondering something.
Then countless blood threads surged from the wound, weaving together and restoring her hand completely.
Chen Yun felt her mind becoming sluggish.
Suddenly, the ghost turned her gaze toward her.
Chen Yun’s pupils shrank.
It was already too late to close her eyes.
Slash!
A spike formed from blood threads burst out of her chest.
It pierced straight through her heart.
The strike was perfectly precise—an instant kill.
One strike to the throat.
One strike to the heart.
Two fatal wounds.
Bai Yu no longer paid any attention to Chen Yun.
She clenched the hand that had been corroded earlier.
It did not feel like a major problem.
Only the blood threads within her body had been consumed somewhat.
“This thing is not simple. It feels like the power of something being transmitted through the talisman paper and symbols as a medium to harm ghosts.”
“Talisman paper…”
“So this is the Chen Yun Lu Liangting mentioned?”
Bai Yu had not expected to find Chen Yun so easily.
And to kill her just as easily.
Compared to Chen Yun, Bai Yu was more interested in how that talisman had been created.
Had Chen Yun drawn it herself?
If that was the case, she seemed rather weak.
Unless the entity providing that power was willingly lending its strength to her.
Zhao Mingyue hesitated for a moment.
Following Bai Yu’s suggestion, she ignored Chen Yun’s body and walked over to remove the red dancing shoes from the female corpse’s feet.
After Bai Yu placed some blood threads inside the shoes as protection, Zhao Mingyue put them on.
Perhaps because the ghost had already been eliminated beforehand, nothing unusual happened after she wore them.
The task was considered complete.
It even granted her a small increase in speed.
“So… are we just leaving like this?”
At the stairway, Zhao Mingyue glanced back at Chen Yun.
“Yes. Let’s go.”
“I mean… shouldn’t we finish her off or something?”
“No need.”
“Ahem.”
Zhao Mingyue herself felt her words sounded strange.
She coughed awkwardly and changed the subject.
“There are several ghosts coming up from outside.”
“It’s fine. Someone can handle them.”
Shen Shuyun had also been brought along.
Bai Yu mainly wanted to observe the changes in her and deal with those ghost parents along the way.
Zhao Mingyue still had other tasks to complete.
As they walked, she told Bai Yu about everything she had experienced in the Youth Center.
She had been afraid—very afraid.
But when she thought about her future, she found the courage to keep going.
“This time I really have to thank Miss Rabbit. She gave me courage.”
She took out the rabbit doll from her pocket and kissed it.
Then Zhao Mingyue smiled and asked,
“What about you? Did you gain anything over there?”
“A little. What exactly it is… we’ll only know after we leave.”
The gain, of course, referred to Shen Shuyun’s recovered memories.
That counted as completing the task.
As for the reward, Bai Yu did not know yet.
Whether there was a reward or not did not matter much.
What mattered was the event itself.
If every game participant had a place like this tied to their memories…
That would become very interesting.
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“Who’s there?!”
On the third floor of the Youth Center, Lu Liangting had just arrived when he saw something lying on the ground.
He shone his flashlight toward it.
Only then did he realize it was a body.
And when he saw the face—
His expression changed completely.
“Chen Yun!”
Seeing Chen Yun’s slashed throat and pierced heart, a chill ran down Lu Liangting’s spine.
Perhaps Chen Yun was simply lucky.
Despite such horrifying injuries, she was somehow still alive.
When Lu Liangting realized this, he immediately took out the medical kit he carried with him and began emergency treatment.
To him, this was Chen Yun’s good fortune.
And in a sense, it truly was.
Chen Yun’s heart was different from that of ordinary people.
Her heart was located on the right side of her chest.
As for the wound on her throat, it was currently sealed by a mass of black, foul-smelling blood.
That clump of rotten blood was maintaining Chen Yun’s final thread of life and blocking the fatal wound in her throat.
And the coincidence lay precisely there.
While performing emergency treatment, Lu Liangting noticed the clot.
Instinctively, he assumed the foul-smelling blood had been left behind by the murderer.
Frowning, he casually cleaned it away.
At that moment, the final breath Chen Yun had been clinging to disappeared completely.
She had already lost consciousness from blood loss.
Otherwise, if she had known that Lu Liangting—while trying to save her—had removed the life-saving curse protecting her wound because he mistook it for foreign matter…
She probably would have coughed up blood from sheer rage.
And Lu Liangting—the “killer” responsible for this—stood there silently, clenching his fists tightly.
Twice.
This had already happened twice.
The first time had been at Sunshine Apartments, when Xia Han was killed.
And this time…His friend Chen Yun had died at the mission site.
The remaining warmth of her body faded before the ambulance could arrive.
She died in his arms.
The only clue she left behind was the black, foul-smelling blood clot.
That substance definitely did not come from Chen Yun.
She had only just been attacked.
How could her blood already be rotten?
“A worm?”
When he broke open the blood clot, Lu Liangting discovered a black worm wriggling inside.
He did not mind the worm being covered in foul blood.
Instead, he carefully wrapped it in cloth and kept it close to his body.
Because in his eyes…It was the only clue that could lead him to the murderer.