Chapter 6 - Midnight Mansion (4) (1/2)

“Ahhh——–”

Ren Xue’s high pitched scream rang through the entire mansion. Under the gaze of the others, she suddenly fell to the ground and was too scared to get up again. On all fours, she pathetically crawled forward.

As she crawled forward, the others finally saw the pair of footprints right behind where she had stood earlier. The left foot was missing half of it and blood was bleeding out. It was just as described by Cheng Zhi Chu.

“Ghost! Ghost—–!”

Ren Xue trembled on the ground and started to sob heart-wrenchingly. Wang Jianming quickly ran over and stood in front of her to protect her. At the same time his face was pale, and his teeth were chattering non-stop.

Cheng Zhi Chu and Lu Wenjing were also terrified. Lu Wenjing raised her blood-stained crowbar and waved it around desperately while screaming loudly: “Don’t come over! Don’t come over!”

The footprints remained in place as beads of blood fell from the air onto the ground forming a pool around it while exuding the rich stench of blood.

Everyone stared at it warily and didn’t dare to approach it. The footsteps then started moving. With a “splat”, it took a step forward.

When Cheng Zhi Chu saw that the footprints were pointed towards him, his entire body stiffened but he quickly reacted and ran away.

He didn’t know whether this ghost was the boss of this instance and he didn’t dare gamble on it. If he was wrong, he would definitely be killed off immediately by the ghost! Also, for it to appear so early, it probably isn’t the boss……then——-

“What are you standing around for? Run!!”

He yelled and returned Lu Wenjing and the others back to their senses. They all scattered and ran but Cheng Zhi Chu wanted to cry. Turns out, the ghost ended up coming for him. It continued to chase him around while spurting blood out everywhere leaving scattered stains on the floor. Despite the strange, awkward movements, you could tell that it was getting closer and closer.

Why is he so unlucky?!

Cheng Zhi Chu despairingly ran around the large marble table, then around the sofa. Huffing and puffing, he and the footprints circled around the living room a few times. Ren Xue and the others were dumbfounded by this and couldn’t help but slow down their steps. Gradually they all stopped and stood in place watching him run.

But who would have thought that the ghost seemed to be extremely biased towards Cheng Zhi Chu? It didn’t pay any attention to the others and persisted with chasing after him. Cheng Zhi Chu almost wanted to cry. He could no longer run anymore, and the system continuously reminded him of his physical strength that was about to be completely drained.

【Remaining physical strength: 3………..2………….]

If it reaches 0 then he would no longer be able to take another step! Why on earth is this ghost always chasing him? ——— Is it because of the key in his possession?

Cheng Zhi Chu’s mind quickly worked and just when he was considering whether he should throw the key over to someone else and let them all take turns running to tire the ghost out, he didn’t notice the broken floorboard. With a “crack” one of his foot sank in.

Fuck. Why did something like this happen?!

Cheng Zhi Chu was stunned. Just as he thought he was about to crash heavily onto the ground, a pair of strong arms suddenly reached over and held him firmly in its embrace. With his head pressed against the other person’s strong chest, he could faintly smell something nice.

———It was Bai Yi.

As soon as he looked up, Cheng Zhi Chu was faced with Bai Yi’s handsome face. The other person also happened to look down at the same time and revealed to him a gorgeous smile to seemingly appease him.

Cheng Zhi Chu was briefly stunned but, after hearing the sound of blood droplets falling to the ground slowly get louder and louder, he realised that the footsteps were less than an inch away from him!

He instantly got anxious. Bai Yi had come over to save him and he didn’t want to get Bai Yi involved. No longer caring about anything else, he pulled out the key with the intention to throw it and use it to attract the ghost’s attention, but Bai Yi grabbed his hand and said gently: “Don’t worry. It’s okay.”

After he said this, he looked up and glanced sternly in the direction of the footsteps. Those pitch-black eyes of his were both dark and deep, as if it was an abyss that could swallow up everything. From it, an extremely dangerous aura could be felt.

“Splat, splat………”

Like someone had suddenly stepped down onto the brakes, the footprints suddenly stopped, and blood sprayed out around it. The half-missing foot didn’t touch the ground and just hung in the air. Just beneath it is a pool of blood that just happened to form the shape of the sole of a foot.

The corners of Bai Yi’s lips rose, and he gave the ghost a smile. With faint shadows casted over his face, those eyes of his looked extremely cold.

“Bang———Smack!”

The next moment, Cheng Zhi Chu suddenly saw the footprints turn 180 degrees and speed off. If it wasn’t running in the direction of Wang Jianming and the others, he would have thought that it was running for its life.

“Ahhhh————”

Seeing the footprints rush towards them, Wang Jianming and Ren Xue screamed in fear and began running around the room the same way Cheng Zhi Chu had just moments ago.

Cheng Zhi Chu turned to look over at Bai Yi in surprise: “How did you stop it from chasing me?”

“………” Bai Yi fell silent for a few seconds and then said. “I used some holy water on myself, so it probably scared it off. I wasn’t sure that it would work but it looks like it did.”

“Since you have something that could be used to deal with the ghost, why didn’t you bring it out earlier?!!”

Wang Jianming yelled with a very pale face. He rolled across the ground to narrowly escape the footprints behind him and briefly felt the ghost’s fingers brush against him

“There are lots of things in the bag, so it took me a while to find.” Bai Yi slowly added, “Do you want me to take it out?”

“No shit! Did you just want to watch me die—–Ah!”

Wang Jianming suddenly felt something sharp scratch across his back. Three thin slashes appeared on his back causing him to fall to the ground screaming. Something invisible then grabbed him by his neck and a purple handprint appeared on his skin.

“Jianming!”

Ren Xue’s anger towards Wang Jianming instantly vanished and she cried out in horror. Lu Wenjing was also terrified. She trembled against the wall with a shockingly pale face.

“Bai Yi, do you still have any holy water left?” Cheng Zhi Chu was also very anxious. If they couldn’t get rid of this ghost, not only Wang Jianming, every one of them would die here!

“Yes.”

Bai Yi nodded and then proceeded to make an expression as if he was looking for something. Every one of they had their own system backpack and they backpacks had a certain number of compartments that they can use to store items in.

He didn’t know how many compartments Bai Yi had but after going through them for a long time to the point that Wang Jianming was about to show the whites of his eyes, he finally pulled out a bottle. He then proceeded to slowly walk over to Wang Jianming’s location.