Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

After Du Wei left,

the four of them relaxed quite a bit. After all, a man with a blank expression uttering depressing remarks every now and then was truly annoying to them.

"Should we wait for a while before moving on, so we don't run into that Asian guy again?"

"Also, I know you're pretty scared of places like the Horror House, but your idea to invite that man earlier really seems quite bad now."

Lisa said this with a curl of her lip, but for some reason, she felt like the temperature had dropped a bit after the man had left, sending chills through her.

Maybe it was just her imagination...

"That works, I was thinking more people would mean more safety, but since it's like this, then it'll just be the four of us."

Bob nodded. He had actually been pursuing Lisa, so naturally, he would go along with her.

After thinking for a bit, Bob suddenly suggested, "Oh, by the way, do you guys want to try out this ghost house segment? It seems pretty thrilling."

"Let's not, we're not interested in these low-end scary programs."

The other two simultaneously shook their heads. They were a couple who had just started dating and had experienced horror houses before, so they declined Bob's suggestion.

Seeing this, Bob could only give an awkward smile and say, "Then let's walk a bit slower. I remember after the segment with the Undead Mummy and the Horror Wax Museum, it should get even more exciting. I've heard it's the classic segment of the Horror House."

"Agreed."

"Me too."

And as they discussed their next steps, what Du Wei saw with his Spirit Vision, the ghost with White-faced Makeup, suddenly slipped her deathly pale and overly white hands through the tatami bed, floating up slowly in a strange manner.

Her eerie smile widened, tearing to the roots of her ears, her head lowered, allowing her black hair to fall in front of her face, which only added to her ferocity.

Then...

She leaned against the back of Lisa, who was hugging her arms across her chest.

It looked... like the 'back-to-back' game they played as children...

The group continued to walk forward.

But gradually, Lisa felt her body getting heavier and her pace involuntarily slowed, soon she was left behind by Bob and the others by some distance.

She felt very uncomfortable, as if she was being dragged by something. She could even feel the temperature dropping lower and lower, accompanied by the faintly discernible eerie music of the Horror House. Her expression became somewhat distorted.

First, her legs started to hurt, then her neck felt itchy.

The worst was her back; there was a clammy, cold, and damp feeling, like being in misty weather, running outside causing her clothes to soak, giving her goosebumps.

The problem was, she hadn't sweated at all. She felt uncomfortable all over.

"What's wrong with you? You look really uncomfortable..."

At this point, Bob noticed her condition, turned his head to ask her, and called out to the other couple, "Wait up, she's falling behind."

"Hey, Lisa, are you feeling okay?"

Lisa shook her head and insisted, "I'm fine. My feet just hurt a bit, maybe from when one of the staff grabbed me too hard in the ghost house."

With that, she bent over, hitched up her jeans, and there, on both ankles, were dim, bruise-like handprints, ominously darkening as if they were some sort of tattoo or Mark.

Seeing this, Lisa swore, "Damn it, once we get out, I'm definitely going to complain about these staff members."

Bob also saw the bruise on Lisa's ankle and said worriedly, "It looks pretty serious; how about we leave now, go to the drugstore, and get some medicine to take care of that."

However, the male of the couple said, "It doesn't look that serious to me. If we leave now, wouldn't the ticket be wasted?"

He wasn't very acquainted with Lisa, only joining because his girlfriend and Lisa were best friends.

His intention was simple: the Horror House... a scare could give him a chance to make a move, especially as they had recently started going out and hadn't gotten that far yet...

But his girlfriend, not pleased, said, "Lisa is hurt, I think we should listen to Bob."

At this, Lisa gritted her teeth, not wanting her best friend to argue with her boyfriend because of her, so she said, "No need, I don't think it's a big deal. Let's just wait until we get out."

"Are you sure?"

Bob spread his hands out to her, his eyes inquiring.

"Of course!"

Lisa thought about it, and aside from a bit of pain, there wasn't really anything serious; it wouldn't affect her mobility.

Since the lead thought it was no big deal, Bob could only nod and say, "Then let's continue on. Just a few more steps and we'll reach the Undead Mummy section, where you can take a break sitting on one of the Pharaoh's coffins."

"I'd rather not, I'm kind of sick of those things right now."

Lisa rolled her eyes and continued walking with the others.

...

Meanwhile, Du Wei had already arrived at the Undead Mummy section.

But he encountered something strange; under the Spirit Vision state, he didn't detect anything unusual, yet instinctively, he felt there was something off about this section.

There was a strange scent in the air that seemed very familiar to him.

Looking at the layout of the entire Undead Mummy section, Du Wei's brows were tightly furrowed.

The design of the entire section was very crude.

It could even be described as slapdash, with just a simple, large Egyptian-style wall relief:

Some eerie legends and beings from fantasy like creatures with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a snake, or some animals with half a human face and half a wolf face.

Then, there were just haphazardly placed ten Egyptian Pharaoh's coffins—actually painted on the surface.

Each coffin was in a semi-open state, and inside you could vaguely see mummies wrapped in brown, old shrouds, similar to the ones seen in movies and TV shows.

If it weren't for the deliberately created dim lighting and the occasional chilling wind sound, Du Wei might even feel that this didn't seem like part of a Horror House.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

Carrying a bag, Du Wei knocked on the coffin closest to him, peering inside.

With a click, as if triggered by some signal, a Mummy sat up straight from within the coffin, arms outstretched, emitting a terrifying roar from its throat.

"Not a staff member?"

Du Wei looked at the Mummy calmly and pushed it back down, glancing at a certain flickering area in the middle of the coffin, and he shook his head secretly.

"Infrared sensor."

"It looks like just an ordinary scare section, and even under Spirit Vision, I didn't find anything wrong, but why do I feel that something is amiss?"

With furrowed brows, Du Wei walked toward the next coffin.

He knocked...

Just like before, a Mummy sat up and roared.

"Continue..."

Without stopping, Du Wei felt he was catching onto a clue, something about the staff members he had thought about while in that Ghost House.

This point could affect his next actions.

Three coffins...

Four coffins...

Soon, Du Wei arrived at the last coffin. As usual, he knocked...

But the Mummy did not sit up. It lay motionless within the coffin, dead silent...

With his head down, Du Wei looked coldly at the Mummy, his pupils more obscure under the dim light...

Drawing the silver cross dagger he had received from hunter Andrew Dowqui, he directly sliced open the shroud wrapped around the Mummy's face with the sharp edge.

The next second...

Du Wei saw an eye, extremely wide and bloodshot.

It was the body of a staff member...n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"I think I probably know what's going on in the Horror House now. All the sections have likely been taken over by Ghosts or Evil Spirits, and some of the frightening props have also been replaced with real corpses."

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