Chapter 254
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Chapter 254: Death Bird’s Discovery
At the moment when the shop assistant died, corresponding changes also occurred outside. In a cemetery in Germania, suddenly a grave cracked open and a headless monk wearing a black robe floated out from underground.
It looked strange and ethereal, singing a haunting melody as it walked step by step towards the church. Everyone who heard its song walked towards death in piety…
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Over on Chu Jiang’s side, inside Room 5, it was not a room but a desolate graveyard.
Around the graveyard, there were black, withered and twisted trees planted, with a gray and gloomy sky and a chilling breeze, making one feel cold all over when in this place.
"Caw~" From afar, there was also the ominous cawing of a crow.
The thin man and the firefighter entered first, and Chu Jiang came in holding a baby. The thin man was surprised when he saw this.
The firefighter, on the other hand, wasn’t surprised. He had been watching Chu Jiang and the female police officer, and seeing the female police officer transform into a baby to save him, he felt guilty in his heart.
"Is this… that island policewoman? She has become a child again?"
Faced with the thin man’s question, Chu Jiang simply nodded silently.
Now trouble has arisen, this power to reverse time seems to be permanent.
Or rather, even though that power has already dissipated, the consequences it caused are permanent. Now Michiko has truly become a baby.
What’s even more troublesome is that although Michiko has become smaller, the ghost inside her still remains. Ghosts don’t have the concept of becoming young again. And even on Michiko’s chest, there is a card that won’t fall off.
In this case, can this child really survive and grow up?
No, whether they can survive and leave this haunted place is uncertain. Let’s not think about growing up for now.
At this time, the baby fell into a deep sleep, very peaceful, not crying or fussing.
After the thin man understood the situation, he didn’t ask Chu Jiang to put down the baby.
Because he knew Chu Jiang wouldn’t agree, naturally he wouldn’t cause trouble for himself. And the more people alive, the better it is for him.
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"What do we do now?" The thin man looked ahead with a dark expression.
This spooky place, he had even lost his own body now, truly becoming a real ghost.
And if we include this Room 5, there are still three rooms they haven’t passed. It seems like everything here is arranged in a way that they won’t be able to leave alive.
Chu Jiang looked ahead on the path, feeling uncertain. After they reach the next room, he might be the only one left standing, and the thin man might not even make it to Room 6.
Although the thin man won’t die right now, he only inherited some of the ghost’s abilities, which doesn’t mean he’s invincible. He could still get trapped here and unable to leave, which would be like an indefinite prison, worse than death itself.
5. Although the thin man won’t die right now, he only inherited some of the ghost’s abilities, which doesn’t mean he’s invincible. He could still get trapped here and unable to leave, which would be like an indefinite prison, worse than death itself.
6. "What else can we do? Let’s just keep moving forward, there’s no way we can go back."
Going forward now means death, going back also means death, but at least moving forward still has a glimmer of hope. They can only choose to go forward.
Chu Jiang temporarily entrusted the baby to the firefighter and warned him to stay close, not to get separated.
Even though they couldn’t communicate verbally, this simple kind of understanding didn’t need words.
The firefighter nodded vigorously, promising in his heart to protect the baby at all costs. Even if everyone else were to die, he would be the one to die first.
In the oppressive atmosphere, the crowd set off again.
Soon enough, they discovered that this place was very dangerous.
Now, leading the way ahead was no longer Chu Jiang, but a skinny man.
This was Chu Jiang’s idea – he said that the skinny man had become a ghost, and even lost his body, so it was unlikely that he could be killed in one blow. Therefore, it was more beneficial for the skinny man to lead the way ahead, enabling the team to continue.
Surprisingly, the skinny man didn’t say much, simply pondered for a moment and agreed.
The fact that the other person agreed so readily not only didn’t improve Chu Jiang’s perception of the skinny man, it made him even more cautious.
The reason was simple, as mentioned before, although ghosts wouldn’t die, they could still be trapped.
Not to mention, Chu Jiang suspected that under certain conditions, the skinny man could still die, particularly if they encountered a supernatural entity capable of wiping out human consciousness.
After all, the skinny guy only took the ghost’s power, not the ghost itself. If the consciousness is erased, the ghost is still a ghost, just not Deng Xiaodao anymore.
Chu Jiang could think of this, as the skinny guy, being an experienced Ghost Master, should also have some understanding of this aspect.
Since that’s the case, why did he agree so easily then?
There is only one reason, the skinny guy needs to keep as many survivors in the team as possible, so he is willing to take some risks for this.
As for the purpose of keeping survivors, that’s interesting.
Regarding the abilities of the Scapegoat Ghost, Chu Jiang suspected that the skinny guy didn’t tell the truth earlier, at least he didn’t mention all of the Scapegoat Ghost’s abilities.
The significance of keeping survivors, likely lies here…
After walking a while at the front of the team, the skinny guy encountered an invisible spatial displacement, and his upper and lower body were cut in half by the displaced space.
This kind of displacement is similar to what he encountered when opening the door earlier, but the scale and the cutting area are larger, with fewer fragmented parts.
The thin man is now a ghost. He just needs to put his "body" back together. If it were Chu Jiang and the others, they would probably be torn apart when they hit him.
The firefighter held the baby and felt more and more despair. Room 5 was like this, does Room 6 still have a way out? Not to mention the final Room 7…
The thin man silently led the way, they just needed to go straight and try to avoid the graves they came across. Nobody wanted to fight the ghosts in this room.
With the thin man’s special ability, Chu Jiang and the others managed to find a winding safe path in the invisible spaces.
They followed this path and successfully arrived at this room, or rather, the end of this world.
This place isn’t long, it’s definitely shorter than the desert of time, more like a dark forest. Just when they were about to leave the forest, they reached the end.
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3. The thin man silently led the way, they just needed to go straight and try to avoid the graves they came across. Nobody wanted to fight the ghosts in this room.
4. With the thin man’s special ability, Chu Jiang and the others managed to find a winding safe path in the invisible spaces.
5. They followed this path and successfully arrived at this room, or rather, the end of this world.
6. This place isn’t long, it’s definitely shorter than the desert of time, more like a dark forest. Just when they were about to leave the forest, they reached the end.
7. When they were about twenty meters away from the sparse edge of the forest, Chu Jiang and the group stopped.
They looked ahead and saw a lonely door with six bloody marks on it.
Apart from that, on the black trees on either side of the door, there were also several crows perched…
Yes, at least they look like crows in general.
But compared to regular crows, these crows are more unreal in shape, and their eyes are blood red, giving off a sense of death and ominousness.
The "caw caw" sound earlier should have been made by these crows.
However, it’s unknown why they are now so quiet, just staring at Chu Jiang and the others with their blood-red, cold eyes without moving.
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