Chapter 129
Chapter 129
Wei Sen and Lin Ze exchanged a glance, understanding each other without a word.
With a Wolf in front and a tiger behind them, they could only split up and each handle one!
On the balcony, the wind stirred the curtains. Wei Sen raised the Spirit Pearl, ready to strike.
At the guest room door, Lin Ze tightened his grip on the Ghost Axe and took another step closer.
“Come out… None of you are getting away today…”
The Faceless Woman’s voice drifted in from outside the door, accompanied by the piercing scrape of sharp nails dragging across the floor.
At the same time, where the balcony connected to the guest room, the Skeleton Monster’s hand reached in first. Then its body turned sideways like a spider as it swiftly crawled through the gap in the balcony’s glass door.
It had never expected that the moment it came in, it would find itself face-to-face with Wei Sen, who was hiding behind the curtain.
“Now!” Lin Ze warned.
Quick-eyed and quick-handed, Wei Sen hurled the Spirit Pearl at the Skeleton Monster.
In an instant, the Spirit Pearl transformed into a massive transparent sphere, imprisoning the Skeleton Monster inside.
The Skeleton Monster frantically darted around within the sphere’s walls, but it couldn’t find a way out.
“Aaaah!” The Skeleton Monster slammed into the barrier, roaring furiously at Wei Sen.
The shrill, ear-piercing sound made Wei Sen’s brows knit tightly. Even the snow piled on the treetops was shaken loose by the sound waves.
The Skeleton Monster kept roaring. The penetrating force of the sound waves grew stronger and stronger, and visible cracks began spreading across the surface of the Spirit Pearl, as if it might shatter at any moment.
Things at the door were not looking good either.
Lin Ze felt waves of cold seeping up from beneath his feet. He bent down and looked through the gap under the door. A face with no skin was pressed close outside.
Its face remained in a gnawed state, scraps of flesh hanging from its cheeks, white bone faintly visible beneath.
It was blowing a sinister wind through the gap. Every time its wet, exposed blood vessels strained with force, fresh drops of blood seeped out.
By now, the salt and Wolf Bone Powder behind the door had already been blown open in a narrow slit. It was trying to use this method to enter the room!
Lin Ze weighed the Ghost Axe in his hand. Because its effective period was almost up, the Ghost Axe’s power was no longer as formidable as it had been at first. But in his hands, it could still unleash enough force to kill the Eerie Entity outside the door.
But unless there was truly no other choice, he would not easily kill an Eerie Human.
Because Eerie Humans were still human…
Though those words had been spoken by an Eerie Human, to him, they held extraordinary meaning.
Wei Sen also noticed the abnormality at the door. The salt and Wolf Bone Powder had been scattered. The Faceless Woman would be able to open the door and come in at any second!
They had to make a decision immediately!
Wei Sen and Lin Ze locked eyes. The instant their gazes met, both understood what they should do next. After giving each other a solemn nod, they moved at once.
Lin Ze rushed toward the balcony and shoved the Ghost Axe into Wei Sen’s hands. “Lie down!”
Wei Sen smoothly took the axe, climbed into bed, and quickly sent Xu You a message.
[Wei Sen: It’s coming down!]
In the blink of an eye, Lin Ze drew a curved blade that was red from hilt to tip. Holding the grip in a reverse hold, he slashed once in the Skeleton Monster’s direction.
The Spirit Pearl shattered instantly. The Skeleton Monster was also wounded by the blade aura, a deep cut appearing across its chest, and flames rapidly ignited along the wound.
“Aaaah!” The Skeleton Monster screamed and leaped off the balcony.
The task of capturing the Skeleton Monster could only be left to Xu You and Chen Lin in room 210!
At the same time, the sound of a key turning came from the lock. The salt and Wolf Bone Powder beneath the door were now no different from decoration.
“Quick!” Wei Sen reached out and placed a hand on the switch beside the bed.
Lin Ze ran toward his own bed. The instant the door was pushed open, he and Wei Sen pressed their switches at the same time.
The lights went out instantly.
The room sank into darkness. In the silent room, their breathing became especially clear.
Light from the corridor spilled in, illuminating the blood-soaked half body floating at the doorway with terrifying clarity.
Wei Sen felt a heartbeat quicken.
This feeling… was fear.
Her perception of emotion had always been shallower than an ordinary person’s, yet now she could truly feel threads of fear winding through her, like a razor-sharp blade hanging straight above her heart.
“Kekekeke… I… am… in…”
On the bed, Wei Sen and Lin Ze closed their eyes, pretending to be asleep. The bone-piercing wind from the balcony formed a cross-draft with the front door, and under the mingling of night and dim yellow light, the Faceless Woman’s figure looked even more uncanny.
Wei Sen had the Ghost Axe hidden beneath her blanket. If the Faceless Woman began the hunt, she could only risk everything in one desperate fight.
“Stop pretending to be asleep. Kekekeke…”
There were no footsteps, but Wei Sen could clearly hear the Faceless Woman’s voice drawing closer to her.
“What a beautiful face. Give it to me…”
Wei Sen felt a blast of cold air hit her. The Faceless Woman’s voice was right above her head, and icy liquid dripped onto her cheek!
Under the blanket, she silently tightened her grip around the Ghost Axe.
The power of the Ghost Axe had indeed weakened considerably. It could no longer pose an absolute deterrent to the Faceless Woman!
But the Faceless Woman did not act immediately, because for now, they were obeying the rules. The Faceless Woman could not hunt them directly.
Wei Sen did not dare let down her guard. There might still be some Hidden Rule in the Instance that they did not know about. If the Faceless Woman wanted to hunt them before the Aurora appeared, then it would definitely try every possible way to tempt them into breaking the rules!
So the safest approach was this: whatever state they had been in when the Faceless Woman entered the room on the first night, they had to maintain that same state now. They could not make any unnecessary movements, lest they trigger a Hidden Rule!
“Wei Sen… Wei Sen…”
Wei Sen felt a gust of sinister wind blow from her ear down to her neck, and goose bumps instantly rose all over her body.
The Faceless Woman’s voice had moved from above her head to beside her ear, but she remained utterly still.
“Can you… give me your face?”
Wei Sen’s breathing remained steady and normal, but the hand gripping the Ghost Axe had gone white at the knuckles.
If she had enough Merit Points, she would have already chopped the female ghost in front of her into countless pieces, just to teach it how rude it was to blow sinister wind into someone’s ear!
Seeing that the person on the bed still showed no reaction whatsoever, the Faceless Woman drifted to Wei Sen’s bedside again, its tone brimming with temptation.
“I know you’re not asleep. Why don’t you get up… and we can talk…”
Wei Sen still gave no reaction, but she became even more certain of one thing… there had to be another Hidden Rule in the guest room!
Perhaps it was… absolutely never open your eyes and meet the manager’s gaze in the middle of the night!
That was why the Faceless Woman kept trying to tempt her to get up!
By the window, the Faceless Woman’s expression grew increasingly hideous, its gaze fixed tightly on Wei Sen. “Do you want to know the truth of this world? I can tell you.”
Wei Sen’s fingers trembled slightly.
If an Eerie Human could speak of everything it knew, then she would undoubtedly gain a deeper understanding of this world. But…
No matter what the Faceless Woman said tonight, she absolutely would not open her eyes!
“I have a feeling…” The Faceless Woman’s voice drifted near and far beside Wei Sen’s bed. “You belong to this world. You should stay here…”
The person on the bed still did not react.
“I can… take you to meet the Sovereign.”
“God said He could grant any wish of yours, didn’t He?”
“And as long as you choose to stay, the Sovereign can grant any wish of yours as well.”
“Are you… truly not tempted?”
“As long as you open your eyes, your wish can come true.”
“Wei Sen, are you really going to let this chance pass you by?”
On the bed, Wei Sen’s eyelid twitched slightly.
Meeting the Sovereign might indeed be a good choice…