CH 24

Zhao Yuxin's mood became extremely unstable due to the transformation in the environment, her originally delicate face distorting in her efforts to suppress her rising terror.

This, what should we do! Is the amulet still working?"

Liu Zhuang was also a little flustered. After all, they were still heading towards the old infirmary, and had only just reached the entrance of the building.

Sudden changes, and the fear of death. All of it tested a person’s willpower.

"Don't panic! The amulet is still there! It should be okay ..... you! Walk in front!" Liu Zhuang’s expression was somber, as he groaned and fiercely shouted at Zhou Yu, who was standing in the middle of the line.

Zhao Yuxin frowned, "Why, are you trying to get revenge? This isn’t the time, let's leave first. The Lord God will pick us up in three days. By then, wouldn’t you have had plenty of fun with this native? "Zhao Yuxin glanced at his handsome, heart-tickling face, revealing an unspeakable smile.

Zhou Yu stared blankly at this group of people who didn't treat others as intelligent human beings.

What do they mean by “native”? Is it ...

Zhou Yu remembered the arrogant attitudes of these two groups he had encountered, the recurring "plot" word, and a guess emerged in his mind.

In his previous life, he had read many novels and was no stranger to the concept of crossing over.

The actions of these people were completely identical, with the contempt for “original plot characters” and arrogant, self-inflating egos.

Moreover, they also mentioned an unusual noun, -the Lord God.

In his previous life, he was an otaku. He naturally knew a lot about things on the Internet, and he was well aware that something called “Infinite Flow” was incredibly popular.

Infinite flow. The idea was that, under the control of a certain system or the main god, someone could enter different worlds to perform tasks. These worlds included but were not limited to film, television, and literary works.

Zhou Yu looked at this dark and **** corridor, and guessed that it might be a horror world. (S: gloomy, maybe?)

So what role do I play here?

"He's a plot character, he can just serve as a meat shield. He’ll die sooner or later according to the original storyline anyway." Liu Zhuang's eyes contained dark shadows, and Zhou Yu suddenly felt like vomiting.

Great, good to know, I’m a cannon fodder, a being that can’t last for even three episodes of a TV series, and can’t survive in a place like this for more than an hour. (S: More sarcasm from the great, self-deprecating MC)

Thinking of the implications, Zhou Yu bowed his head somewhat spiritlessly.

No matter who you were, you wouldn’t be able to stay in a good mood once you knew that you would die soon, especially when you had just found out that your death was just a couple of lines written by a scriptwriter in another world.

Zhao Yuxin smiled, "Okay, Liu-ge, you know best. Han Xi, drag him to the front!"

Zhou Yu stared with eyes like a dead fish and was pushed forward by Zhou Hanxi. Due to the usage of excessive force, he was stunned and almost fell face-down into a pile of minced meat.

"Cough cough!"

His chest felt a little stuffy, and it should have been the injury he had suffered when he was pushed to the ground earlier.

Breathing the musty air in this long, dark hallway, he felt a tingling in his lungs and wanted to start hacking.

"Make anymore noise and your tongue is mine!" Liu Zhuang walked behind Zhou Yu, frowning.

Zhou Yu had to restrain his urge to cough and felt extremely miserable.

After resurrecting miraculously, is this my end? Oh, I'm really useless. I can’t do anything. The child I wanted to protect is dead, and I even have to depend on her ghost to rescue me. Even so, it seems trying to escape death’s clutches is futile.

A mocking smile on his lips, Zhou Yu strode unhesitatingly into the corridor ahead.

He’s already died once, what was he afraid of! He even started wishing that a ghost would come over, just so he could drag someone else down with him! Especially that perverted man, him dying here meant that he could no longer hurt anyone else. In that way, his death would at least have a little value.

The hallway was stained with blood, and every step they took resulted in encountering an unidentifiable body part.

The lights in the hallway were as dim as ever. In the dark corners where the lights couldn’t reach, creeping shadows made people wary.

Zhou Yu walked forward silently, Liu Zhuang behind him a hole in his back, and once he noticed Zhou Yu slowing down, he would shove him fiercely, vicious curses emerging from time to time.

Zhou Yu believed that if Liu Zhuang had a whip in his hand at this moment, he would definitely resemble a human-trafficker.

Under the eaves, he had to lower his head. Zhou Yu moved his hands, which were in handcuffs, and his eyelids drooped. He was ready to grab someone and throw them in front of himself.

"Squeak--" A rat-like cry came from deep in the corridor.

Zhao Yuxin and others began to observe their surroundings, holding weapons such as kitchen knives and iron rods in their hands and waiting for something to attack them.

Zhou Yu was pulled back and forced to stay in place, so he stood in front of them, watching a large group of monsters approach.

It was a group of bat-like beasts, but their faces were those belonging to old men, mouths full of teeth.

Looking at those gleaming incisors, everyone knew that if they got bitten by one of these things, they would be torn limb from limb.

"Squeak-!!!" The bat monsters sensed the smell of fresh meat in front of them and rushed up immediately.

Zhou Yu's pupils dilated, and he closed his eyes when the swarm was about to hit him. He was ready to knock Liu Zhuang down with him when he was bitten.

But the expected pain did not come, Zhou Yu's eyelashes trembled, and cautiously opened his eyes.

The monsters had only surrounded them for a bit before scrambling past.

Zhao Yuxin and the others were wearing amulets and didn’t’ have to worry about being besieged.

"Ha, these amulets really work!" Zhao Yuxin watched the group of bat monsters fly away and cracked an excited smile. "In this case, let's find out which building we’re in, just go downstairs, what do we have to be afraid of? "

Liu Zhuang clenched the amulet in his pocket, looked at Zhou Yu with a puzzled gaze, and said, "Why wasn’t he attacked?"

As soon as the words came out, everyone's eyes gathered on Zhou Yu, who looked back blankly and felt regretful that he had not succeeded just now. Those monsters were too incapable.

"Maybe it's the effectiveness of the amulet. In the movie, this amulet could shelter up to four or five people. It is normal that because we have so many, the native could take advantage." Zhao Yuxin replied indifferently.

What they didn’t know was that the amulet in their hands was not the one shown in the movie, and their powers were far weaker than the originals in terms of coverage or duration.

"Let's move, we can talk about these things later!" Seeing Liu Zhuang was still a little skeptical, Zhao Yuxin frowned and became impatient.

After staying in this ghost realm for a long time, Zhao Yuxin's temper became more and more difficult to conceal. When she spoke, her words were sharp. Due to the contrast between now and the illusion of tenderness she had cast earlier, Zhao Yuxin seemed to turn into a different person completely.

Zhao Yuxin stopped paying attention to Liu Zhuang and continued down the hallway. Zhou Hanxi followed her unconsciously, and a gloomy Liu Zhuang was dragging Zhou Yu one step behind.

Gradually, they started to get anxious, this area was incredibly unfamiliar, disturbing their sense of direction.

They finally discovered that they had been transported into a maze, with no exits in sight.

Each corridor seemed exactly the same. They walked around, feeling like they were spinning in a circle

With no way to tell how much time had passed, everyone's emotions grew heavier and heavier, the musty taste in the air worsening.

In the end, when Zhao Yuxin and Liu Zhuang couldn't help but quarrel, they heard footsteps in the corridor next to them.

They heard the noise but didn't take it seriously. After all, they had encountered many ghosts in this maze. They easily evaded all of them, lowering their vigilance to the minimum.

"Oh, I didn't expect that you guys would still be alive."

A low, tired voice sounded, startling Zhao Yuxin and others, who then stopped arguing to stare at the person who had come from around the corner.

Zheng Qian, the captain of the reincarnation team.

"It’s you?" Zhao Yuxin asked in surprise, wariness flitting through her eyes.

She glanced behind him and found that the rest of the reincarnators had disappeared. It was only the captain who was in front of them, and the tension in her eyes faded.

These samsaras (S: world wanderers) were experienced and well-equipped, a far cry from the rookies who had just entered the system space to perform tasks. They started looking for a place to hide in part to avoid them, because they took away important prop amulets, and if the other group found that they had hidden the amulets, they would be in trouble.

Zheng Qian held a weird gun in his hands, sincerely saying: "Our meeting is fate, so let's go together, I know where to go!"

Zhao Yuxin and Liu Zhuang glanced at each other, hesitated, and finally, Liu Zhuang calmly inquired, "How do we know that you really know where the route out is? Aren't you stuck here too?"

Zheng Qian's spirit was a bit exhausted. After all, he experienced being besieged and intercepted by many ghosts. The situation could be described as dangerous and his spirit had been in a state of high tension.

But he still smiled and responded, "You can choose not to believe me, but I will never make a joke of my own life. I have a prop to guide me. Looking at the way you’re heading, I'm afraid you're walking farther and farther from the exit. I called out to you because there is safety in numbers. As you can see, I travel alone now. That itself must tell you how treacherous it is here! "

This was indeed the truth. Zhao Yuxin and Liu Zhuang looked at the exhausted Zheng Qian's face and the blood on his body.

They didn’t know the way out. If they continued to turn in circles like this, they would starve from starvations rather than ghost attacks. The reincarnation team’s captain must know more than them, at least the way out. If they refused his offer, they didn’t know if they could get out of here.

"Well, you’re welcome to join us, sir." Zhao Yuxin smiled and welcomed the reincarnators’ captain. Obviously, she’d had enough of this endless corridor. Zheng Qian said it well. There was indeed strength in numbers. Just look at how many people in the horror films have died.

Bewildered by the ghost realm, they had not considered the brutality of the reincarnators who lived to the last. Or they might have, but were confident that their group had the advantage. Anyway, right now, they only wanted to leave this maze. They would deal with the captain later.

Zheng Qian looked at their unscathed appearance, a gleam of light in his eyes, and smiled: "I wish us a happy cooperation!"

Icy wind blew through the corridor, causing the chandelier on the ceiling to shake slightly.

Feng Xing formed into a dark figure hidden in the shadows. When he saw his beloved senior being pitifully handcuffed and squeezed to the front as a shield, his eyes became a bloody red instantaneously.

No one is allowed to hurt him! Damn you all!

"Eeeuagh---!!!!"

The noise of a monster sounded in the darkness

In the road ahead, a shadowy, panic-raising figure stood waiting.