The sudden scene stunned everyone into silence.
The master was dead—just like that.
Weren't they supposed to be demon hunters?
Bang!
Huang Wei's body hit the floor with a heavy thud, snapping the crowd out of their shock.
A living man had just died before their eyes.
Terrified, the crowd erupted into piercing screams and rushed down the stairs madly.
"Ghost!"
"Murder!"
"Run!"
"Wait for me! Don't leave me!"
The youth who had supported Huang Wei now found his legs giving out, collapsing.
Watching everyone disappear down the stairs, he wailed in despair, "Wait... save me..."
Puchi!
Before he finished, a steel pipe plunged into his back, spraying blood.
The corpse chuckled grotesquely.
"All must die! All must die!"
It kicked the youth's body aside and raced downstairs at lightning speed, metal scraping the railing.
Because Lin Chen and Li Mo had stayed near the back, they reached lower floors first.
In a desperate burst of strength, Lin Chen sped down stairs that usually took many steps at a time.
In mere seconds, they reached the fourth floor.
Before catching their breath, harsh metal scraping echoed from above.
"Run!" Lin Chen shouted, increasing his pace, leaping down stairs.
"Wait for me... Ah!!"
Puchi!
"Help..."
Puchi!
The steel pipe pierced through flesh again and again in the dark stairwell.
The ghost-controlled corpses tore through the crowd mercilessly.
Li Mo, athletic and fast, surged ahead of Lin Chen.
Seeing the exit bathed in moonlight, Li Mo called back, "Old Lin, hurry! We're almost out!"
The screams faded, replaced by the metallic screeching.
"Everyone behind us dead?" Lin Chen gasped, pushing himself harder.
Fortunately, the stairwell exit was near. They rushed into the lobby and dashed toward the front door.
To their horror, the tempered glass door was locked tight.
"Heh heh, all must die... die die die die!!!"
A chilling voice came from the stairwell.
Turning, Lin Chen saw the ghost manipulating the corpse enter the lobby, the bloodied steel pipe gleaming red under the moonlight.
Li Mo kicked the glass door repeatedly, but it didn't budge.
The corpse grinned sinisterly, closing in on them.
Li Mo's nerves gave out; he collapsed unconscious.
"Life-threatening situation detected. Activate Emergency Evacuation?"
"Activating Emergency Evacuation will deduct 10 million Fear Points."
Trapped with no way out, Lin Chen's mind was bombarded by the system prompt.
Ten million?
No matter—the Fear Points could be earned back; life was more important.
As Lin Chen prepared to activate the Emergency Evacuation, a childish voice suddenly rang out...
"Finally, caught you!"
The voice startled both Lin Chen and the ghost.
Turning toward the sound, they saw a little girl with twin ponytails appear abruptly in the lobby.
Lin Chen was dumbfounded. "What the hell is going on?"
The ghost screamed in terror as if seeing something unbearably frightening.
Dropping the corpse, the ghost tried to flee back to the stairs.
The little girl's expression was unreadable, but she showed a trace of disdain.
Raising a snow-white palm and pointing at the ghost, the little girl solemnly intoned:
"Order in the underworld, passage to the afterlife... proceed!"
Her childish yet serious voice was eerily strange.
Suddenly, a black vortex appeared in her palm.
The vortex rapidly expanded to taller than a person, with black flames flickering along its edge.
Lin Chen strained to look through the vortex and glimpsed a winding path lined with vibrant red spider lilies...
As the vortex formed, the ghost's movements faltered.
She seemed trapped by some force and was pulled slowly toward the vortex.
Lin Chen felt his eyelids grow heavy, his soul seeming to drift from his body toward the vortex.
"No!"
Realizing the danger, he bit his tongue hard, the intense pain snapping him back to awareness.
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