Day of Imprisonment

An Zhiyan was indeed very unlucky.

She was 'selected' without understanding the situation, replaced by a ghost, and then discovered that she had become a ghost paralyzed in bed.

As someone who could keep the Awakened Association going after Lin Yixuan's disappearance, An Zhiyan's abilities in all aspects were very strong.

She had extremely strong perception and hearing.

This ability should have come from this 'paralyzed ghost'. Because she couldn't move, she became more sensitive in perception and hearing. She could even hear a kind of barely perceptible footsteps.

This footstep had been wandering outside.

Carrying an extreme sense of danger.

An Zhiyan had analyzed it. The footstep she heard must be very special.

At this moment, An Zhiyan heard that footstep again, and she could be sure that the footstep was rapidly approaching.

So she tried her best to make 'woo woo' sounds, wanting to warn Luo Xi.

Luo Xi naturally noticed An Zhiyan's abnormality.

He used his hand to straighten her face, and the two looked at each other face to face.

An Zhiyan's eyes darted around, and her mouth made 'woo woo woo' sounds, her anxiety overflowing.

"Understood!"

Luo Xi looked around, moved the wheelchair to a corner next to the stairwell, and then grabbed a broken plastic sheet there and covered himself and An Zhiyan.

There was no way around it, the situation was what it was, and they couldn't crawl into wardrobes or cardboard boxes, so they could only hide like this.

Obviously, the 'hide-and-seek' theme had run through the entire process since entering the building.

Even if they turned into 'ghosts', they still had to hide.

Not long after hiding, An Zhiyan stopped making 'woo woo' sounds, but her fear did not weaken at all, but reached an even higher level.

At this moment, Luo Xi also heard a low footstep.

Under the plastic sheet, Luo Xi took a close look at An Zhiyan.

The latter immediately had a feeling of being seen through.

"Danger perception?" Luo Xi asked in her ear in a very low voice.

An Zhiyan nodded slightly.

Next, the two of them did not make any other movements, because the footsteps were already close at hand.

At this moment, An Zhiyan's fear reached its peak, while Luo Xi listened carefully. Fortunately, that thing did not find them, it just wandered around for a while and then left.

At the same time, the scalp-numbing sense of oppression also faded away.

After waiting for a while, Luo Xi lifted the plastic sheet.

"Humanoid, over two meters tall, maybe two meters one, weighing over two hundred pounds, slightly fat, and the shoe print is rare..." Luo Xi muttered to himself at this time, staring at the ground.

An Zhiyan also tried to look down, but the footprints on the ground were messy. If it were her, she would not be able to distinguish them at all.

How did Luo Xi see it?

She had heard of a special ability.

Memory clipping, which is to record a certain seen scene. This recording is a 'picture memory', including many details, and then compare it with the same scene at different times. However, 99.9% of people in the world cannot do this.

It requires extremely strong memory and observation.

In most cases, a 'camera' is used to compare and capture the differences.

Luo Xi didn't have these things, so he could only rely on his super memory.

At this time, Luo Xi glanced at An Zhiyan.

"I'll ask you a few questions. You only need to answer yes or no. Blink once for yes, blink twice for no, and blink three times for uncertain. Do you understand?"

After asking, An Zhiyan blinked once.

"Okay, my first question is, you can hear footsteps that normal people can't hear, right?"

Blinked once.

"The footsteps here that make you feel dangerous are from that thing just now, right?"

Blinked again.

"Besides that thing just now, can you hear the footsteps of other people?"

An Zhiyan thought for a while, first blinked three times, but soon, she blinked once again.

"Understood, you can hear them, but no one has been close to here before, so you weren't sure."

At this moment, An Zhiyan's eyes widened, guessing that this Luo Xi, could he be a mind reader?

He actually guessed it exactly right.

"It was wise to bring you out," Luo Xi said, controlling the wheelchair to the elevator and using a mop pole in her hand to press the down button.

Before this, he already knew that this was the tenth floor.

He didn't know which zone it was, and now Luo Xi needed to go down to the ninth floor, because the ninth floor had connecting passages to the four zones. This way, he could first determine the location, and then find Qian Pangzi and the others to switch identities after entering 'Night'.

Or, go directly to the first floor, which might be safer.

Because he already knew that there was a dangerous presence here, that is, the footsteps from before, were on the tenth floor, then, the further away from the other party, the safer it would be.

The time it took for the elevator to arrive was not long, but it was very dangerous, because one was disabled and the other was paralyzed, with almost no mobility. Once they encountered danger, it would be difficult to react in time.

But when God closes a door, he does leave a window open. An Zhiyan's hearing and perception were extraordinary. If there was real danger, she could use 'woo woo' to warn at the first moment.

Just as the elevator was about to come up, Luo Xi actually controlled the wheelchair to the corner and covered the two of them with the plastic sheet again.

"Woo woo woo woo!" An Zhiyan was a little anxious, not knowing what Luo Xi was up to.

Ding!

The elevator arrived.

The sound was crisp, and almost the next moment, rapid footsteps began to go from far to near, and the terrifying sense of oppression was like a sudden rainstorm, descending unexpectedly.

At this moment, An Zhiyan stopped making 'woo woo' sounds, and she also reacted.

The previously discovered severed limbs were near the elevator entrance, indicating that this unlucky ghost may have also been attacked while waiting for the elevator.

Therefore, the elevator sound might attract that 'footstep'.

Luo Xi just predicted this possibility.

The footsteps searched around, but the other party didn't seem to be good at playing hide-and-seek, and wouldn't lift the plastic sheet to look.

Otherwise, Luo Xi and the others would have been discovered long ago.

When the footsteps left, Luo Xi said: "The elevator can't be taken anymore, unless we kill it first."

"Woo woo woo?" An Zhiyan was shocked.

"Of course, it's to kill that footstep, otherwise we can't leave."

"Woo woo woo woo!" An Zhiyan's eyes were questioning.

"What do I rely on? Heh, you'll know in a while."

At this moment, An Zhiyan's inner monologue was, how did this guy hear the meaning to be expressed from her 'woo woo woo woo'? And, almost word for word?

Next, Luo Xi asked her to track the location of the footsteps, while they kept a safe distance and explored the tenth floor again.

Honestly, An Zhiyan didn't find anything special. Besides the lot of mist, this place was still no different from the original building, old and cluttered with debris everywhere. In this situation, even if there were any clues, it would be difficult to identify them in such a messy situation.

But Luo Xi just happened to find a clue.

"There is a shrine at the door of this household. The shrine is empty, the statue is gone, and the words 'Wan Ying' are written behind the shrine. Wan Ying is Zhong Kui's divine title. Do you know Zhong Kui? The God of All Responses in Taoism, whose duty is to catch ghosts and also eat ghosts, so the footsteps are likely to be this great god."

Hearing Luo Xi's words, An Zhiyan hoped this was nonsense, but it had to be said that the evidence Luo Xi found did point to this possibility.

Moreover, the other party eats ghosts, aren't they two 'ghosts' now?

It all matched up!

But if it was really as Luo Xi said, then their opponent was a 'god', at least, a 'god' in this scene. Was there still a way out?

Luo Xi was currently studying the shrine that looked like a hollow wooden box.

To be honest, this thing was mixed in with various sundries. If Luo Xi hadn't found it, she wouldn't have known that it was actually a shrine.

Luo Xi carefully checked and found that below the words 'Wan Ying', there was also a line of small characters, 'Holding the shrine brings peace'.

Then Luo Xi shook it.

Hearing something clanging inside, obviously there was something inside.

Then at the bottom, a wooden strip was pulled out, and the partition below the shrine immediately fell off, along with a palm-sized disc.

It was made of metal, similar to copper, with a trigram engraved in the center, the Dui trigram '☱'.

At this moment, An Zhiyan suddenly made 'woo woo woo' sounds endlessly, her expression terrified.

Luo Xi didn't panic, and reached out to point to the small characters behind the shrine: "Holding the shrine brings peace!"

An Zhiyan woo woo woo shook her head, meaning 'what if it doesn't bring peace'?

"The person who designed the scene must follow the rules. You have to know that this is just a game field. Everything we experience, no matter how real, is just a well-designed game. As long as it's a game, it must follow the rules."

As soon as she finished speaking, Luo Xi heard the footsteps. The other party was extremely fast, but this time, Luo Xi didn't hide, just watching a tall figure walking quickly from the distant mist.

As Luo Xi judged, the other party was over two meters tall, strong, with a leopard head and ring eyes, an iron face and tangled sideburns, wearing official clothes and black shoes.

It really matched the legendary image of Zhong Kui, but there were also differences. It could only be said that this existence in the scene was not a real 'god', but just a scene character.

This 'Zhong Kui' walked up close and didn't make a move, but looked at the shrine in Luo Xi's hand. Finally, his figure swayed and turned into a black light that drilled into the shrine.

Looking again, there was a statue in the shrine, exactly the same as the 'Zhong Kui' image just seen.

Everything happened too fast, An Zhiyan only felt that she had wandered around the gate of hell several times.

It was like a roller coaster, exciting but she didn't want to do it again.

Luo Xi was still holding the shrine, controlling the wheelchair to the elevator entrance. This time, they entered smoothly.