Chapter 32 - In the Wall (1/2)
That lantern dress instantly disappeared.
Su Min didn’t see what ran past earlier but, for it to be chased by the lantern dress, it surely wasn’t anything good. Perhaps it was that skinless thing from yesterday.
Su Min didn’t bother thinking about anything else and quickly called out: “Chen Xingzhou stop searching. I just saw the lantern dress.”
Chen Xingzhou was shocked: “Is the lantern dress here for us?”
Su Min said: “No, the lantern dress is chasing something. Let’s leave this room first. It’s dangerous here.”
Chen Xingzhou: “Okay.”
Su Min opened the door and knocked on the door to the next room, waking Zhao Mingya and Chen Yixin.
The two of them weren’t sleeping the entire time.
Su Min had guessed during the day that Uncle He must have something planned tonight and may take advantage of them while they’re asleep so they were on alert.
Jiang Yunhuo woke up with confusion: “What happened?”
Su Min: “Let’s leave this place first and then we’ll talk.”
This wasn’t their first time going out at night and they had become used to it. After leaving the room they checked their surroundings. No one was around.
It was very quiet on the island at night and there were only the sounds of insects and the wind.
Su Min was a little curious about why Uncle He still hasn’t done anything to them, but he then guessed that he was probably waiting until they were deeply asleep.
Afterall, university students nowadays would only go to sleep in the early hours of the morning.
Su Min still remembered the direction the lantern dress was going, and he went straight over.
After walking halfway through, Chen Xingzhou finally realised why he felt familiar: “This direction seems to be going down the mountain.”
“It is going down. It’s the road leading to the sea.”
“Is it going to the beach?”
They discussed with each other quietly. Because the moon was out, they weren’t worried about not being able to see the road ahead.
After walking for about ten minutes, the trees became thinner and they suddenly heard a strange cry.
It sounded like something was caught in the throat.
Zhao Mingya covered her mouth and pointed down: “There!”
She pointed about a dozen metres away from them. It wasn’t a place that they were unfamiliar with, it was near the pit with the toads.
The lantern dress was standing there. You couldn’t see what was inside and could only see the fluttering dress.
Next to the pit was a fallen man. Like Chen Yixin back then, he had tripped over the pit.
The lantern dress circled around him.
The size of the dress was similar to those worn by the ladies in medieval Europe. It billowed out like a hot air balloon.
But the surface of it was very smooth. Under the moonlight, it even looked a little faded.
What on earth is that lantern dress……..Su Min had a guess in his heart but he wasn’t certain.
Because he had never seen it before.
That man was very panicked. He wanted to climb forward. The lantern dress also didn’t do anything to him and only fluttered next to him.
But when the man’s leg left the pit, a hand suddenly appeared from inside grabbing onto his foot.
The hand was covered in green algae. It looked like an arm that had reached out from its grave.
Even Su Min was a little startled.
He wasn’t wrong. There was indeed was a body inside and it had turned into a ghost so it can now attack others.
The man started to struggle desperately.
Chen Xingzhou gulped. He whispered: “At this rate, he will be dragged down……..”
If he’s dragged into the pit, he’ll definitely be a goner.
Su Min watched for a while and then shook his head: “I don’t think it’s like this. He would probably die differently.”
Chen Xingzhou felt that his guess would be correct.
The two didn’t argue and just waited quietly.
No matter how strange it looked, Su Min didn’t come forward. A few seconds later, something finally changed.
Jiang Yunhuo widened his eyes. He couldn’t even form a complete sentence: “He…………”
The scene occurring before them was just too shocking.
The hand from inside the pit dragged the man who ate the toad in, but he only pulled him half inside.
The lantern dress waiting on the side then covered him. The man struggled for while and soon stopped moving.
From Su Min’s end, a large round body suddenly appeared from the ground, revealing a vague human figure.
As expected, this lantern dress is half transparent.
Su Min said in a low voice: “Sure enough, it’s human skin.”
The others who heard his words trembled. They couldn’t help but recall the fact that they had thought that it was a girl when they first saw it.
Before them, the lantern dress began to shrink, and it took the appearance of a normal person.
The five secretly watching didn’t dare make a sound. They watched the man covered in the lantern skirt stand up.
“He” left the pit. The hand inside the pit was also gone. “He” left the pit and started to go up. “He” seemingly wanted to go up the mountain.
Su Min immediately said: “Hurry and leave this place.”
With one glance you could tell that the lantern dress isn’t good-natured, and they didm’t know what it’ll do if it discovered them.
They all hid in the trees nearby.
The man covered by the lantern dress walked very slowly. It took a few minutes for “him” to gradually adapt and then “he” started to walk like a normal person.
“He” then came over to their side.
Su Min held his breath as he watched the lantern man pass by in front of him. Just before “he” disappeared, the man suddenly looked back.
“He” already knew that they were there.
After that “person” disappeared, Su Min noticed that his back was drenched with cold sweat.
Chen Xingzhou and the others were oblivious. He asked nervously: “Where should we go now?”
Zhao Mingya asked with confusion: “Is that lantern dress human skin?”
Otherwise she couldn’t understand why it would cover another person.