Chapter 183: Run!
Chapter 183: Run!
Lü Yang just stepped on the arm of a corpse. The corpse was still wearing a raincoat…
Lü Yang resisted the urge to run away immediately. He pulled hard a few times and managed to peel the raincoat off the corpse. He wanted to put it on himself, but after removing the raincoat, he discovered the corpse was actually completely naked and still somewhat warm…
The corpse was soft, not stiff at all. It must have died recently, or… was it just unconscious?
The raincoat wasn’t actually worn by the corpse; it was just pinned under the body.
“Hey! Hey! Wake up!” Lü Yang shook the corpse vigorously. If the person could wake up, he would take him along to leave…
Suddenly, Lü Yang felt something was wrong…
Although the corpse was lying face down, Lü Yang initially thought it should be male. If he was a bad person, completely naked, and woke up facing the also completely naked Lin Yin, what might he do?
Damn! Should he save him or not?
Lü Yang shook the corpse again and called out a few more times. It seemed this person was really almost gone. Even if not dead, he was in a deep coma. With Lin Yin’s strength, there was no way to carry him away from here.
Alright, even if Lü Yang wanted to save him out of kindness, that was all he could do for now. He would wait until he got back to the Mountain Peak Hotel, then call for help to figure something out.
After hesitating for a moment, Lü Yang still covered the person’s body with the raincoat he had taken off, then stood up naked.
The raincoat was one thing, but what really frustrated Lü Yang was that he couldn’t find shoes on this corpse. His feet were badly injured now, with many cuts on the soles, soaked in water. He really wanted a pair of shoes to protect his soles so he could walk faster.
After walking forward only a few steps, Lü Yang stumbled over two corpses lying together. These two corpses were also completely naked, without even raincoats…
Beside these two corpses, Lü Yang stepped on a cylindrical object. Lü Yang reached out and felt around, fishing out a waterproof LED flashlight from the muddy water!
Lü Yang tested it; the flashlight had little power left, the light was very dim. But it could be charged by squeezing it by hand. Lü Yang took the flashlight in his hands, switching left and right hands to squeeze it for a while, and the flashlight’s light became a bit brighter, basically able to illuminate the surroundings within about one meter.
Lü Yang crouched beside the corpses and shone the flashlight on them. One corpse had short hair, the other long hair. Both were lying face down in the water, likely a male and a female.
The corpses were still somewhat warm and not stiff.
Lü Yang first flipped over the long-haired corpse and shone the flashlight on its front… There was hair below the belly, but he didn’t see anything. Parting the legs, he only saw a slit in the middle. The corpse’s chest had breasts and nipples, and the neck had no Adam’s apple… From these details, Lü Yang could confirm one hundred percent that this corpse was female.
Then Lü Yang shone the light on the corpse’s face, wanting to identify who would come here in the middle of the night and unfortunately die…
When he saw that face, Lü Yang almost sat down in the muddy water… He saw again a bald face, without eyes, nose, or mouth!
“Damn!”
Lü Yang cursed loudly, quickly pushed the corpse away, stood up, grabbed the Iron Shovel, and struggled to walk towards the Ancestral Hall not far away.
No need to consider saving people! They simply weren’t human!
This wasn’t real, this definitely wasn’t real. This was a dream, an illusion… Just like the bald face of Gong Xue he saw earlier in the room, it was an illusion…
Lü Yang kept comforting himself. A few minutes later, he finally walked into the Ancestral Hall.
The Ancestral Hall’s roof was built very solidly. Only the wall had a hole; the roof hadn’t collapsed at all. Despite such heavy rain, almost no place inside the Ancestral Hall was leaking.
Lü Yang leaned against the wall of the Ancestral Hall, breathing heavily. After experiencing the Mysterious Domain so many times, he found it increasingly hard to tell whether he was in reality or in a dream. Or had the Mysterious Domain invaded both reality and dreams, creating many intersecting spaces?
Otherwise, how could all this be explained?
Could it be that such strange things happened every night after falling asleep?
If that were the case, it would really be a fate worse than death.
The rain outside became a bit lighter, and the sound of rain lowered. After leaning against the wall panting for a long time, Lü Yang finally recovered a bit… but… he felt like he heard something… like… someone whispering nearby?
No, it was crying, right?
What exactly was that sound?
The flashlight could only illuminate about one meter away in the heavy rain outside, but inside the Ancestral Hall, it could shine much farther, at least lighting up places three meters away. Lü Yang used his hand to squeeze hard over a dozen more times, charging the flashlight a bit, making it brighter.
Had to say, Lin Yin’s strength was too small; even squeezing this flashlight was very strenuous.
Following the sound, Lü Yang, with his back against the wall, carefully searched along the way. But the entire Ancestral Hall was empty; there wasn’t a single person.
At a certain moment, Lü Yang suddenly realized the sound seemed to be coming from the wall behind him, and… it sounded like calling for help… Lü Yang instinctively turned around and shone the flashlight on the wall behind him.
This was where that Mural was. The Mural depicted over thirty faceless young people. The sound seemed to be coming from here…
When he looked at this Mural with his classmates during the day, Lü Yang didn’t feel anything. But now, in the middle of the night, with a Torrential Rain outside, alone in this Ancestral Hall, looking at these paintings of faceless people, Lü Yang couldn’t help but feel a creepy sensation.
Where was the call for help coming from?
The flashlight’s light was limited. Lü Yang looked at each face one by one, until he moved the flashlight’s light upward, shining on the few faces in the top row…
There… three faces were no longer blank. Instead, three human faces appeared! Fleshy human faces! And… they were three of the two boys and two girls who ran off and delayed everyone when the whole class was preparing to return to the hotel in the afternoon!
“Save me…”
The three faces on the wall all looked at Lü Yang. Clearly, they were the ones who had been calling for help just now.
Their eyes and mouths were clearly moving!
There were three faces here… and three faceless corpses outside…
Needless to say, the three corpses outside were theirs. But their faces had somehow ended up in the Mural on this wall!
Two boys and two girls—where was the other girl?
Lü Yang strongly resisted the urge to turn and run away. After stepping back two steps, he shone the flashlight on these three faces and questioned them: “What exactly did you do? How did you get trapped in this wall?”
“Save me…”
The three faces didn’t reply, just kept calling for help quietly. Lü Yang mustered his courage and moved closer. Only then did he realize the eyes of these three faces were all blank, not like they saw him at all. They just looked in his direction and called for help out of some instinct.
“Tell me! What exactly did you do!? Otherwise, how can I save you?” Lü Yang shouted at the three faces.
From the direction of the village entrance near the Ancestral Hall, came the sound of footsteps—very heavy footsteps, splashing through water. It felt like it should be a big person, and the footsteps were heading towards the Ancestral Hall.
“Answer me quickly!” Lü Yang urged the three faces.
“Run…” The faces didn’t answer Lü Yang’s question. Instead, they fearfully said the word ‘run’.
The heavy footsteps got closer and closer to the Ancestral Hall, seeming like they were about to enter the Ancestral Hall any moment.
“Run!” The three faces shouted together again, their voices full of fear.
Lü Yang didn’t dare stay any longer. He turned, grabbed the Iron Shovel, and ran towards the main door of the Ancestral Hall. As he rushed out of the Ancestral Hall, he bumped head-on into a big figure…
Lü Yang was knocked to the ground. Just then, a flash of lightning lit up, and thunder roared simultaneously. The lightning illuminated the person coming in. Lü Yang could clearly see the person wearing the clothes of one of the two boys—obviously taken from the naked corpse—but this person’s face was bald, with only a pair of ears, no eyes, nose, or mouth!
He had a very strange knife in his hand, like a sickle, but the wooden handle was very short… Could it be… specially for cutting faces?
When Lü Yang clearly saw the person’s appearance, the Faceless Person’s body stood stiffly in place. After the lightning and thunder passed, the Faceless Person immediately reached out with both hands to grab at Lü Yang. Lü Yang instinctively shone the flashlight at him… but… this kind of Faceless Person was different from the Dark Predator; they weren’t afraid of light at all!
Lü Yang had no time to think. He threw the flashlight at the person’s face, then raised the Iron Shovel with both hands and fiercely shoveled it towards the Faceless Person’s neck…
Perhaps the Faceless Person was completely unprepared; this shovel hit right on target. The sharp shovel head went straight for his throat!
But Lü Yang wasn’t happy at all because he felt like he hadn’t shoveled a human neck at all, but rather… like he hit a piece of iron or stone! It numbed both his hands.
Was his strength too small?
That couldn’t be, right!?
The Faceless Person reached out and grabbed the shovel part of Lü Yang’s Iron Shovel. Lü Yang tried to pull the shovel back, but couldn’t move it at all. The Faceless Person’s grip strength was clearly terrifyingly strong, making Lü Yang’s Iron Shovel feel like it was stuck in a rock crevice, impossible to pull back.
The Faceless Person’s other hand also reached over and placed on the shovel handle. Then, with a slight use of force from both hands, Lü Yang’s Iron Shovel was broken into two pieces like a toy!
Holy crap! Is this human!?
Lü Yang let out a loud shout, turned, and rushed towards another door of the Ancestral Hall. After running wildly barefoot for a while, he circled behind a small house nearby and hid holding his breath behind a broken wall.