Chapter 7 (1/2)

Translator: Red Sky

Editor: DogLeading

Chapter 7: Ghost Trap

Finis.h.i.+ng the cigarette, Liu Jianjun picked up the stewed dishes and continued climbing up the stairs. This time, he decided to count the number of his footsteps. Each layer of staircase had 11 steps, 3rd floor and half, 4th floor, 4th floor and half, 5th floor! That is to say, he needed to walk just forty four steps and he would reach his home.

”1, 2, 3 …..” Liu Jianjun climbed up the stairs while silently counting the number of footsteps. And when the number of his footsteps reached 44, he stopped.

He stamped his foot to light up the induction lamp on the staircase and raised his head to look at the house number. 301! He was still on the third floor! Even the cigarette b.u.t.t he had thrown was lying quietly in the corner of the stairs.

”Pick up the phone, quick, pick the phone!” Liu Jianjun realized the situation wasn't normal. He took out his phone and dialed my number while repeatedly mumbling to himself. He wouldn't have been afraid when facing criminals even if they were murderers. But what was this situation? Liu Jianjun started to feel afraid, this feeling was the first since he had donned on his uniform.

”f.u.c.k, pick up the phone!” The phone kept on giving the busy tone. He redialed the number and stamped his foot while urging the phone.

”Eee, eee!” When Liu Jianjun had pressed the redial b.u.t.ton for the second time, a child's prattling sounds could be heard coming from the lower floor. He stretched his head and looked under the staircase, but there was no one.

”Eee, eee!” When he pulled back his head, the child's prattling sounds came again; this time, from behind him.

”Who is it!” The induction lamp in the stairs died out right this moment. Liu Jianjun took out the pistol from his waist and stamped his foot. But the lights didn't lit up.

”Eee, eee, yaa!” Liu Jianjun who was amidst the darkness felt an ice-cold body attaching to him. Then, something dug through his nasal cavity into his body.

”Hungry!” A short moment after the stuff entered his body, Liu Jianjun felt an intense hunger bubbling up inside him. He tore open his clothes and started incessantly scratching his chest. He only had the thought of wanting to eat his own flesh; as if eating his own flesh would stop this intense feeling of hunger.

”Jing…..” Liu Jianjun tore his clothes then moved his hand towards where his heart was located. Unwittingly, while tearing his clothes, he tore the talisman he had put in his jacket. The hexagonal talisman suddenly let out a sound, then started burning by itself.

”Eeeyaa~” The surrounding temperature started to increase followed by the combustion of the talisman. A mournful cry emerged from Liu Jianjun's mouth, following which a stream of darkness drilled out from his five facial features flowing down the wall. That's right, it was flowing. Like some sort of black liquid, it flowed down the stairs until there was no trace of it.

”Puchi!” Once the darkness left, Liu Jianjun regained control over his body. The darkness couldn't claim his life, but it definitely injured him. After spurting a mouthful of blood, he leaned on the wall and slowly sat down on the floor. Right now, he felt like his whole body had been hollowed out.

After a long while, he recovered his senses. Noticing the almost completely burnt talisman in front of him, he forced his extremely weakened body to dial my number. This time, there was no busy tone.

”Come to my home, quick!” Liu Jianjun hurriedly spoke after the phone connected through.

”It really got him? Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, I don't give a d.a.m.n. But you really shouldn't have involved someone else” I heard Liu Jianjun's weak voice in the phone and felt something like a whiff of blood a.s.sailing the nostrils. I hung up the phone and went to the attic to fetch the several prepared talismans that had been enshrined before the portrait of the Three Pristine Ones.