Chapter 130
Chapter 130
Wei Sen knew that meeting the Sovereign was probably a decent option, but she wasn’t stupid enough to believe a word the Faceless Woman said.
And so, in Room 310, the two people on the bed continued to “sleep peacefully.”
“Ah!” The Faceless Woman clenched her fists so hard her knuckles cracked.
Why were these two acting like corpses?!
No matter what she said, they didn’t react at all!
“Fine. Very fine…” The Faceless Woman gnashed her teeth, leaning in once more to look at Wei Sen and Lin Ze. “Just wait until the Aurora appears. Then… I’ll kill you… all of you!”
The Faceless Woman turned around. A moment later came the sound of the door closing.
Wei Sen was just about to open her eyes when a sudden chill snapped through her.
Wait… Wait a little longer…
That cold, sinister feeling still lingered in the room, as if a pair of eyes in the darkness had never left them.
At the same time, the Faceless Woman stood behind the door, wearing an extremely eerie smile as she stared fixedly at the two people on the bed.
Get up already…
They thought she had already left the room. They would definitely sit up…
And then they would open their eyes and see her!
But gradually, the smile on the Faceless Woman’s face began to falter.
Were these two actually asleep?!
Impossible! They were clearly pretending!
They… They had guessed that she had only pretended to close the door and was actually still in the room!
The Faceless Woman’s expression grew even uglier. She was so angry she wanted to stomp her feet, but unfortunately, she had none!
She couldn’t keep wasting time on these two…
At this rate, she would never complete the mission the Sovereign had given her.
Downstairs, there was still one room with its light on!
With that thought, the Faceless Woman slammed the door and left.
This time, Wei Sen could clearly feel the unsettling presence in the room vanish. Although the air was still cold, it was completely different from the chill when the Faceless Woman had been there.
Meanwhile, downstairs in Room 210.
Chen Lin stared at Xu You, dumbfounded.
Xu You had just, in the most effortlessly flashy way possible, looked like some kind of Western cowboy. The moment the Skeleton Monster leaped down from Room 310, she had thrown out a rope, easily lassoed it, and dragged it inside with one hand…
The knife wound across the Skeleton Monster’s chest was obvious, and its strength had weakened considerably, but it still struggled desperately, trying to escape.
“Help me tie him up.”
As Xu You spoke, she hammered several punches into the Skeleton Monster’s skull. The force was so great it was like she was knocking on a giant wooden fish, the sound crisp and ringing.
After taking several punches, the Skeleton Monster immediately behaved. It hugged its head with both hands, obedient as a puppy.
Chen Lin stared, stunned all over again.
It seemed Xu You hadn’t been wrong when she kept saying they should just tie things up directly… Sometimes, violence really could solve a few problems!
The two of them quickly bound the Skeleton Monster hand and foot.
“Look at the gap under the door!” Chen Lin suddenly noticed that the salt and Wolf Bone Powder by the crack of the door were being blown aside bit by bit!
Xu You swiftly took out her compass. “It’s Ghost Wind!”
“What do we do? Get in bed and turn off the light?” Chen Lin looked hesitantly at the freshly tied-up Skeleton Monster. “If the Faceless Woman comes in and sees him, she’ll most likely let him go. Then the whole plan fails.”
Xu You looked troubled. “The thing outside is pretty strong. I’m afraid I’m no match for her.”
“Oh, right!” Chen Lin’s eyes widened, and she hurriedly pulled a Jade Bracelet from her pocket. “Use my Anomalous Artifact!”
Xu You nodded solemnly. This was the best option right now.
Outside the door, the sound of a key sliding into the lock had already begun. Chen Lin quickly put on the Jade Bracelet, and in an instant, the room was enveloped in green fluorescent light.
Outside, the Faceless Woman had already unlocked the door, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t open it.
Xu You looked around at the fluorescent glow. “This room has turned into a Safe House now.”
“But the Anomalous Artifact can only last two hours,” Chen Lin said worriedly.
“Then we’ll have to move fast.”
As Xu You spoke, she sent Wei Sen a message and updated her on the current situation.
Outside the door, the Faceless Woman was crazily scratching at the door panel with her nails. Tonight could truly be called the Waterloo of her life since becoming an Eerie Human!
Right now, Room 210 was being blocked by some powerful Anomalous Artifact, leaving her unable to enter. Her only option was to go back to Room 310 and keep grinding those two down!
She wanted to kill! She wanted fresh face skin! She wanted to complete the KPI assigned by the Sovereign!
The Faceless Woman scrambled back up to the third floor and opened the door to Room 310 again, only to find it completely empty…
Where… where were they?
The Faceless Woman stood there, utterly thrown.
Meanwhile, Room 210 was especially lively.
After receiving Xu You’s message, Wei Sen and Lin Ze had used bedsheets as ropes and quickly climbed down from the balcony to Room 210.
The four of them surrounded the Skeleton Monster in the middle. At that moment, the Skeleton Monster looked so small, weak, and helpless.
“I thought you were going to choose a long, candlelit chat with the Faceless Woman,” Lin Ze said, looking at Wei Sen.
Wei Sen’s expression remained calm. If she had fallen for such an obvious trap, she probably wouldn’t have the ability to survive until the day she saw God again.
“I didn’t expect you to keep holding back, either.”
She didn’t kill the Faceless Woman because she didn’t have enough Merit Points to offset the penalty. But why Lin Ze hadn’t killed the Faceless Woman was something she genuinely couldn’t figure out.
He had so many Merit Points that he had no need to achieve a “Perfect Clearance,” and he didn’t have to worry about having all of them deducted. Yet even when the Faceless Woman had been right in his face, he still hadn’t made the slightest move.
Xu You and Chen Lin were silent as mice. Why did these two feel a little… subtle?
“Ahem. Let’s move on to the next step of the plan first. After all, Lin’s Anomalous Artifact can only last two hours,” Xu You said, cutting them off.
Wei Sen nodded and looked at the Skeleton Monster. “Next step of the plan: wait.”
Everyone sat down. The four of them had nothing to say to one another.
With Lin Ze sitting there, both Xu You and Chen Lin kept sneaking glances at him.
Wei Sen, meanwhile, looked around at the green barrier in the room.
It wasn’t that Room 210 had become a Safe House. Rather, wherever Chen Lin was would become a safe space, and the safe zone would move as Chen Lin moved!
That was because the green light came from Chen Lin’s bracelet, and it happened to cover an area roughly the size of a guest room.
“How about we talk about something?” Xu You said with a raised brow. “Let’s guess how the Aurora appeared in the first place.”
Chen Lin spoke carefully. “I think the Aurora was caused by the Contamination Source. Once the Contamination Source is eliminated, the Aurora will disappear too.”
Xu You crossed her arms. “Mm, I agree. All of Aurora Village feels like the Inner World. It has ever since Li Shuhan and Gao Lei came back from the dead. Maybe the village in the Outer World never had an Aurora at all.”
“Then… the ‘Divine Gift’ mentioned in the Perfect Clearance condition-could it mean eliminating the Contamination Source?” Chen Lin asked, looking at the others in confusion.
Xu You also looked puzzled. She turned to Lin Ze. “Legend Lin, what do you think?”
Lin Ze lifted his eyes toward Wei Sen. “What do you think?”
Wei Sen narrowed her eyes slightly. This man was seriously scheming. He had actually tossed the question over to her!
Clearly, he should have guessed the secret behind the Aurora and the answer to the Divine Gift as well.
But he didn’t want to say it.
But what made him think that just because he didn’t want to say it, she definitely would?
If their guesses were correct, then there was only one slot for Perfect Clearance in this Instance!
Naturally, she wouldn’t give that chance to anyone-not even the Daoist and the others.
“I think what you said makes sense,” Wei Sen said, looking at Xu You in agreement.
Lin Ze wasn’t surprised by Wei Sen’s answer.
He knew it. When it came to key information related to Perfect Clearance, she would definitely hold something back.
A good person? Kind? Those were merely this woman’s outer masks.
At that moment, faint footsteps came from the quiet hallway, growing clearer and clearer.
The steps were hurried, heading straight for Room 210.
Everyone instantly went on alert.
Wei Sen slowly walked behind the door, her eyes darkening. “She’s here.”