Chapter 241
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Chapter 241: The Murder Rule of Room 1
Chu Jiang nodded slightly after listening. It was indeed related to the cards. If used properly, they could really save lives.
However, given the current situation of the shopkeeper…
Unless this headless monk card can be taken back to the real world by the shopkeeper, even if she can "live" and leave this castle, as long as the card is retrieved, she will immediately turn into a dead person.
Because in essence, the shopkeeper is already dead. It is the supernatural power on the card that is maintaining her consciousness.
The resurrection of the shopkeeper both horrified and made everyone realize the incredible power of the card they held. Can it really bring someone back to life even after death?
"Do our cards have similar effects?" the bald guy asked, voicing the doubts of others.
Chu Jiang shook his head. "Each person should have different supernatural powers they can borrow. If you pay attention and sense carefully, you can roughly determine what abilities you can possess."
Taking advantage of the temporary safety, everyone closed their eyes and sensed once again.
But most people looked disappointed, especially the bald man. He could guarantee that if he had his head cut off, he would definitely die because the power this card could give him had nothing to do with resurrection.
"Let’s get back to the point, Miss Li, how did you die earlier and what did you do?"
The headless corpse of the shopkeeper carefully picked up her own head and tried to put it back on, but no matter what she did, it wouldn’t stay in place. This made her feel hopeless.
"What should I do? Will everyone see me as a monster? Will I be captured?"
Seeing that the shopkeeper didn’t respond to Chu Jiang’s words, the thin man spoke up, "Don’t panic, worst-case scenario, you could become a Ghost Master like us. As long as you don’t die, you still have a future."
"As for the head, as long as you can escape this haunted place alive, you can go to the hospital for a sewing procedure and then wear sunglasses when you go out. You’ll still look like a living person."
"And if you were to join Research Institute No. 21, it’s not impossible for you to completely return to being a normal person."
"After all, you should know that when it comes to ghosts, there’s no logic to speak of. Anything is possible. It’s just a matter of shifting focus. Compared to being brought back to life, it’s child’s play, isn’t it?"
It has to be said that the thin man’s "comfort" gradually calmed the shopkeeper down. She didn’t know what that research institute was, but she could tell it was a scientific organization from the way it sounded.
The shop assistant took a deep breath and then started to answer the captain’s question.
It’s worth mentioning that, from the shop assistant’s perspective, she still had a head. But this head was quite unreal, like the existence of a ghost.
The sound she made also came from the ghost-like head.
"Before, the captain was walking very slowly, and I was extremely nervous, so I had a lot of cold sweat on my forehead."
"When halfway through and nothing happened, I relaxed a little in my mind, wiped my sweat, fanned myself, and then I died…"
"By the way, I fanned myself with this thing. It was a completely subconscious action at the time, and I forgot to be afraid. I just had this card in my hand, so I did it naturally." The shop assistant raised the card that was stuck to her hand and couldn’t be removed.
Chu Jiang looked at the student and the policewoman again. They also described their perspectives, which were similar to the shop assistant’s account.
"Relaxing, wiping sweat, fanning with a card, have any of you done something similar before?"
The student and the firefighter raised their hands respectively, indicating that they had moments of relaxation in their hearts, but they didn’t wipe their sweat or fan themselves.
Chu Jiang thought for a moment, "So during the rest of the journey, everyone should not do these two things behind us, no matter how hot you are."
Everyone nodded vigorously.
Just then, the policewoman came up with her own guess, luckily the shop assistant wasn’t completely dead, otherwise we would really have to communicate through gestures.
"She said it might not be related to sweating, maybe it’s related to the wind. Or maybe not exactly the wind, rather, it should be air flow? Anyway, it’s something similar to air flow."
Listening to the shop assistant’s translation, Chu Jiang pondered, "It’s possible that the movement of air creates wind. We didn’t trigger this killing pattern before because we were moving little by little, without generating a large amount of air flow."
"But if we walk fast, or run, or scatter in panic, we will create wind and attract deadly attacks."
After finishing his words, Chu Jiang looked at everyone, especially the students, and said, "If anything happens later, don’t run, okay?"
The students nodded repeatedly, just now when one of them couldn’t help but call out, it had already violated the prohibition that Chu Jiang mentioned earlier.
The thin man was also a Ghost Master. After listening to the policewoman and Chu Jiang’s reasoning, he had a doubt, "When we were in Room 0, the room in front, we saw another bald guy running out of Room 1."
"He rushed so quickly, should he have already brought out the wind? Why was he not beheaded, but instead escaped to room zero, and then was caught by a terrifying hand and brought back?"
Chu Jiang shook his head, "Firstly, that thing could completely be an illusion, it is pointless to analyze an illusion."
"Secondly, even if it is a living being, he may not necessarily have run out from room one. At that time, we only saw him running out from within the darkness, didn’t we?"
The thin man nodded, and then he asked about another matter, "Can Captain Chu please continue leading us forward with the Ghost Domain? As long as the ghosts outside cannot invade, then we will be safe."
The four ordinary people didn’t quite understand what the Ghost Domain meant, but they roughly understood that it referred to the city ruins they were currently in.
That is like being separated from the outside by a whole other world, right? It should be even safer.
Therefore, upon hearing the thin man’s words, they also looked at Chu Jiang with hopeful eyes.
Chu Jiang simply answered, "In this room, I will take you forward with the Ghost Domain, until we reach the door ahead. But I won’t take you into room number 2 with the Ghost Domain."
"Because I don’t know the murder rules for the next room, what if using supernatural powers means certain death? That would be like seeking my own demise."
"If it is confirmed that the murder pattern in Room 2 has nothing to do with the Ghost Domain, I will continue to bring you in like I am doing now, and lead you all the way to the next door."
Although Chu Jiang has the Ghost Diary, the first negative effect of the Ghost Diary is that he cannot be in a near-death state, otherwise the Ghost Diary will devour him before others can harm him.
Although when in a near-death state, the devouring of the Ghost Diary is actually a way of protecting Chu Jiang.
But what if Chu Jiang dies instantly without going through the near-death process?
Then the Ghost Diary would simply devour his dead body, and it would do so very quickly, rather than slowly, which would be like killing someone and leaving no trace of the body…