Chapter 22 Endless Stairs(1/2)
That's enough darkness to soak into your bones.
In the darkness, there is no light or anything. There is only a mottled stone staircase leading to the unknown.
The world is covered with moss, and you can smell some moldy smell when you are close. What is even more frightening is the scarlet blood light emanating from around the stone steps. It smells of bloodthirsty and is full of ominousness.
"Walk!"
Gritting his teeth, Shen Lin said, they had no choice. Under the suppression of the Ghost Realm, they could only try and make mistakes step by step.
"I don't! I don't!"
Before he could even take a step, someone screamed and backed away. He seemed to have thought of something in a hurry, and jumped down towards the glass of the balcony.
"boom!"
The glass shattered, and the man seemed to have glimpsed the light. He was lying on the balcony, laughing wildly.
Outside the balcony, it seems to be the normal world they have been waiting for.
There is a door on one side and bottomless darkness on the other. How to choose? Any fool knows how to choose.
Their footsteps moved, scrambling to move.
Including Li Yihui, everyone was about to move, but when they were about to take steps, they were blocked by a hand.
"do not move."
Shen Lin said indifferently, "Someone wants to die, but he won't stop him, but Li Yihui is Li Meng's father, and he is not kind to him, so he can't watch him seek death."
"Come here! What are you hesitating about? I really believe that little kid!"
The first person was shouting, but when he saw that Dai Heming and others did not move, he couldn't help but look at them with contempt.
"a bunch of idiots."
He said so.
The next second, he jumped towards the bottom of the balcony. With this jump, he could escape from all this horror.
Sudden!
The whole world seemed to have its light source turned off, falling directly from light into darkness, a darkness that made it impossible to see even one's fingers.
In the darkness, Shen Lin's eyes emitted a strange light, and he saw everything that ordinary people could not see.
Those were a pair of hands, a pair of withered old hands like the roots of an old tree, as if they would turn into ashes due to decay in the next moment.
He reached out from the darkness and caught the falling guy in mid-air.
"Crack!"
At the clear and crisp voice, the man's eyes widened, as if they were about to bulge out in the next moment, and his whole neck no longer had the support of bones, and it hung helplessly aside.
Then the darkness seemed to ripple, and the hand and the person it held disappeared into the darkness and disappeared.
"Huh~"
An inexplicable wind blew by, and the people around them closed their eyes uncontrollably. When they opened them again, the broken balcony returned to its original state, and the lights of the villa turned on again, as if nothing had happened.
Li Yihui's eyes widened. He glanced at the people around him in disbelief. Half of them were missing. He patted his chest in fear. If Shen Lin hadn't stopped him, he would have been in trouble now.
Is it the ability of the ghost realm? Shen Lin pondered.
Different ghosts have different abilities.
According to the original work, the main function of Xiao Yang's ghost eyes is to cause hallucinations in people and even ghosts, and he has won many surprising victories with this trick.
The ghost realm of the Ghost Mother mainly aggravates the invisible characteristics and spatial confusion. Shen Lin has not yet tried whether this is useful for ghosts.
Shen Lin had suffered a lot from being peeked and attacked in the thick fog, and he knew very well how powerful this ghost realm was.
He glanced at the ghost candle in his hand and saw that it was burning much slower than expected. They could last in this situation for a long time.
"Let's go, keep an eye on the surrounding area, we are safe for the time being."
Shen Lin spoke out, they had no choice, they could only move forward.
The sudden accident made these people dare not disobey Shen Lin. They increasingly understood that if they wanted to survive here, they could only rely on this young man.
They have no choice.
The mottled stairs shrouded in darkness were not as wide as expected. The two of them could barely walk while standing together. Shen Lin tentatively stepped around, only to find that they were empty.
The stone steps seemed to be hanging in the air. They tentatively threw down all the extra things, but they didn't even hear a sound.
They didn't know how long they had walked, and the road seemed to have no end.
"Let's rest for a while."
Shen Lin said, he was not tired, but he had to worry about the physical strength of this group of people.
The ghost candle has burned 1/3, and everything around him is as usual. Shen Lin is thinking about something. He has the idea of extinguishing the ghost candle. Ghost candles are non-renewable resources and are extremely difficult to make. Wang Xiaoming cannot get a few of them every month. Can't waste it like this.
They rested for a while and continued walking.
Shen Lin never gave up observing his surroundings, including up, down, left, and right, but all he could see was darkness. He didn't notice anything, and his ghostly eyes were also blinded by this darkness.
"Lin Zi, the situation is not quite right." Li Meng said. He had always been silent since entering the darkness and rarely spoke.
"What did you find?" Shen Lin asked.
Li Meng scratched his head. He didn't know how to answer this question for a while.
"No, I just don't feel right. I've been walking on this broken road for so long, with nowhere to go and no shops. I always feel like there's something wrong."
Shen Lin deeply agreed, letting Li Meng feel relieved for the time being.
After another unknown length of journey, when the ghost candle was halfway through burning, Shen Lin's expression finally began to look ferocious.
He reluctantly confirmed one thing, this road has no end.
This is a staircase suspended in the void, like a road to heaven.
How high is the sky and how long is it? No mortal can ever walk it all.
This ghost was killing their time and thinking of ways to consume the ghost candle.
We can't wait any longer. If we continue like this for ten thousand years, there will be no solution.
Shen Lin planned to extinguish the ghost candle and lure the ghost out.
Seeking life from death!
After thinking for a long time, he shot at everyone around him.
"I can honestly say that our current situation is very bad. The ghost's abilities are changeable and the situation is ever-changing. I haven't been able to lock in its rules so far, so I can only rely on trial and error."
"With this candle around, he doesn't dare to get close."
"I will choose to extinguish this candle and lure him to appear, otherwise we may be trapped and die here."
Everything seemed to be cut off in the endless darkness, but everyone felt like they were being blown by a cold wind, followed by panic and confusion.
Dai Henian tried to speak.
"Mr. Shen, we, we can wait a little longer. There will be rescue, for sure!"
They are all people of high status. After being missing for so long, outsiders should have noticed that something is wrong. Dai Henian firmly believes that rescue will come.
"First, this is a notice, not a discussion with you."
"Second, you still haven't figured out everything here. If that ghost can make everything in the surveillance camera go as usual, then you can make that villa look like normal in the eyes of others. There will be no rescue. You'd better wipe out those of yours. Be careful."
Dai Henian broke out in a cold sweat, he once again grasped the key point.
What Shen Lin said was not wrong at all. If the ghost could affect everything under surveillance, why couldn't he affect that villa.
Perhaps no one discovered the disappearance of these people at all.
Many people in this queue waiting for rescue felt a sense of despair.
Shen Lin gave Li Meng a wink, and Li Meng understood and pulled his father closer to Shen Lin.
The next moment, the ghost candle was extinguished, and when the green flame disappeared, only the endless darkness and the mottled stone steps emitting scarlet light remained in the entire space.
"call!"
The wind was blowing! Everyone felt it.
It was obviously a cold wind that could chill the heart, but it made everyone sweat on their backs.
They felt threatened by death.
In the darkness, Shen Lin used all his strength to activate the ghost phase, peeping at all this with a pair of dimly gleaming eyes.
One second, two seconds, half a minute, two minutes.
As if it was a tug-of-war between time and waiting, the whole space was eerily silent.
coming!
It was an indescribable feeling. Shen Lin immediately spotted the pair of withered old hands. They poked out from the darkness, like a seasoned predator in the jungle, and lightly grabbed the arm of someone in the team. The neck disappeared.
The stone steps were suspended in the air and the team was so crowded that Shen Lin didn't even have time to make a move.
To be continued...