Chapter 135
Chapter 135
On Lin Xiaoxue’s end, she quickly remembered that her phone had a Compass function.
She opened it at once to check. The Compass was working perfectly.
“Thank goodness it still works!” she said, immediately sending a message to the Green Team group chat.
[Lin Xiaoxue: Have any of you run into the fog? If you have, you can use the built-in Compass on your phone!!!]
Before long, the others replied.
[Chen Lin: My Compass is malfunctioning. I can’t use it.
Lin Xiaoxue: How could that happen… Mine is fine…
Xu You: Huh? We could use the Compass? You should’ve said so earlier. I’m already almost at the door.
Lin Xiaoxue: w(ﾟДﾟ)w Sister You, you’re that fast?!
Xu You: Do you want me to come get you?
Chen Lin: No need. I’m almost there too.
Lin Xiaoxue: I don’t need you either. I’ll just follow the Compass!
Lin Xiaoxue: Sister Lan is probably fighting the Faceless Woman right now, so I won’t keep chatting. I need to speed up!]
Lin Xiaoxue glanced at the Anomalous Artifact in her hand. Chen Lin’s Compass had failed, while hers had not. It was probably because of the Anomalous Artifact’s power.
Because her Anomalous Artifact had temporarily given her a fake native identity, the thick fog could not affect her at all.
Chen Lin had used the Anomalous Bracelet too, but the bracelet’s function was to ward off Eerie Entities from approaching. It could not protect against Mental Pollution caused by an Eerie Entity.
Following the Compass, Lin Xiaoxue soon found the Red Door. Looking at the Red Door not far away, she discovered that the fog actually did not dare approach it. That door, as if dyed red with blood, stood silently on the snowy ground.
[Lin Xiaoxue: I found the Red Door!
Lin Xiaoxue: @Sister Lan, you have to clear this safely! I’ll double your pay this time!]
No one in the group replied.
With her heart full of unease, she still decided to leave through the Red Door first.
“Lin Xiaoxue!”
She had only taken two steps when a familiar voice came from within the fog.
It was…
“Xia Susu?!” Lin Xiaoxue looked toward the voice.
Xia Susu strode out of the fog. The face she had once been so proud of was now covered in bloody scratch marks, almost unrecognizable from its original appearance. Behind her followed the Fetal Ghost in its ball-of-flesh form.
“You’re actually…” Lin Xiaoxue stepped back in shock.
Xia Susu curled her lips into a ferocious smile. “Didn’t expect it, did you? Wondering why I’m not dead yet? Hahahaha!”
Lin Xiaoxue suddenly broke into a run toward the Red Door.
No matter why Xia Susu was still alive, there was only one Red Door right now. She had to escape!
Otherwise, either the Faceless Woman would catch up to her, or she would die at the hands of the Fetal Ghost!
“Fetal Ghost, catch her! I want her to stay in this world forever!”
At Xia Susu’s command, the Fetal Ghost sprang forward and instantly cut off Lin Xiaoxue’s path.
Lin Xiaoxue raised the Anomalous Artifact to block it, but the Fetal Ghost only obeyed Xia Susu. It did not care what Lin Xiaoxue’s identity was.
The next second, the ball of flesh knocked Lin Xiaoxue straight to the ground.
Warm, sticky, writhing-every strange sensation made Lin Xiaoxue’s scalp crawl.
She wanted to scream, but her face was tightly covered by the ball of flesh, and she could not make a sound.
Xia Susu walked past her, her smile growing even more unrestrained. “Lin Xiaoxue, oh, Lin Xiaoxue. I really never expected… that you’re actually some rich second-generation brat!”
In her eyes were jealousy, madness, and resentment.
“You rich people must feel so superior when you enter livestreams and send tips, right?
One gift worth a hundred or so yuan can make me dance for an hour. A few thousand yuan in gifts can even make me do anything…
Heh. That feeling must be amazing, right?!
But why? Why?! You rich second-generation brats! The only thing you did better than me was being born into the right family!
So what if I became an internet celebrity?
What gives you the right to look down on me?! What gives you the right!”
What was dignity worth? So what if she pushed the line?
Every cent she earned was hard-earned money! Clean money!
She was nobler than all of them!
Xia Susu stood before the Red Door, screaming hysterically at Lin Xiaoxue.
Lin Xiaoxue was being crushed by the Fetal Ghost so badly she could hardly breathe. Her hand clawed helplessly through the deep snow, but she couldn’t budge the Fetal Ghost an inch.
Xia Susu reached out and stroked the Red Door. The icy touch sent a shudder through her whole body.
Then she threw her head back and laughed, looking down at Lin Xiaoxue with the proud posture of a victor. “Do you know something? From the moment I first came to the Eerie World, I hated every last one of you!
“I hated that Taoist priest. Poor, tacky, and completely insane!
“And Huang Mao! Nothing but a pathetic, painfully average guy who thought he was special!
“Oh! I almost forgot the four-eyed idiot. He looked so stupid and slow, it was probably his ancestors blessing him from beyond the grave that he survived the first Instance!
“Of course, the one I hate most is Wei Sen! Always acting so clever, always pretending she’s above it all!
“If she hadn’t summoned that fierce ghost, how would my face, my face, have ended up like this?!
“She’d better pray I never run into her again, or I’ll kill her!
“No, wait. First, I’ll torture her properly. I’ll make her beg for death and be unable to die!”
Xia Susu placed her hand on the Red Door’s handle, raised an eyebrow at Lin Xiaoxue, and sneered. “And you. What are you acting so superior for? So what if you’re rich? Will you even live long enough to spend it?
“Heh… goodbye, my former… teammate.”
Xia Susu was certain of her victory. But in the instant before she opened the door, a powerful force suddenly yanked her back.
“Ah!” Xia Susu stumbled backward, staring in shock at the thing gripping her shoulder. It was a tentacle-like lump of flesh that had stretched out from the Fetal Ghost. “What are you doing?!”
Xia Susu angrily flung the tentacle off. It snapped back into the Fetal Ghost’s body like a rubber band.
The Fetal Ghost abruptly leaped in front of Xia Susu. Two bulging eyeballs squeezed out from within the ball of flesh. “Mommy… Mommy can’t leave…”
Xia Susu was stunned. She hurriedly said, “I order you to go tangle up that woman right now. Don’t follow me!”
The Fetal Ghost’s eyes rolled as it repeated, “Mommy can’t leave. Can’t leave…”
Fear crossed Xia Susu’s face. She turned to run.
In an instant, countless slimy, slender tentacles surged from the Fetal Ghost’s body and spread toward Xia Susu from behind, wrapping around her entire body like vines.
Xia Susu could see the Red Door right in front of her, close enough to touch, but the Fetal Ghost had bound her so tightly she couldn’t move at all!
“Fetal Ghost, you dare defy my orders?!”
“Mommy… can’t leave…”
Lin Xiaoxue seized the opening to stand, gulping down fresh air. Her head spun from lack of oxygen. She bit the tip of her tongue, using the sharp pain to force herself to stay clear-headed, then staggered toward the Red Door.
When Xia Susu saw Lin Xiaoxue approaching the Red Door, she screamed in panic. “Stop her! Fetal Ghost! Stop her! If you stop her, I’ll stay and keep you company!”
“Don’t believe her! She’ll definitely abandon you!” Lin Xiaoxue said through gritted teeth. “She even abandons her teammates, let alone you!”
More eyeballs surged out of the Fetal Ghost’s body. Every single eye rolled as if thinking, and the tentacles binding Xia Susu tightened even further.
“Yes. Mommy lies. Won’t let Mommy leave… Mommy will… stay forever and keep me company…”
Xia Susu howled, breaking down completely. “No, I would never lie to you! I won’t lie to you! Let me go, let me go! I don’t want to die! The ones who deserve to die aren’t me, it’s them! It’s them!”
Lin Xiaoxue rushed to the Red Door and yanked it open. When she looked back at Xia Susu, half of Xia Susu’s body had already merged with the Fetal Ghost. Her eyes were bulging with rage and terror, her mouth trying to say something, but not a single sound came out.
“Goodbye forever, Xia Susu.”
With that, Lin Xiaoxue stepped resolutely through the Red Door.