Chapter 69
The melody of Yincang's underground palace echoed in the thick white fog.
The gate leading to Chang'an City has been opened.
Under the Naihe Bridge, the small river flows gently.
Ox-headed and horse-faced, dragging heavy chains, they come solemnly.
Huā Qí Zhēn walked swiftly on the desolate street at night.
Suddenly, a voice stopped her.
"Jenny! Wait for me!"
It's Mao Mao! Hu Qi Zhen turned her head to see her boyfriend chasing after her from the movie theater, and the heart that had been hanging in her throat finally slowly returned to its original position. Everything she had just experienced was like being digested into residue at the bottom of her stomach, and she felt like vomiting out all her internal organs.
"Mao Mao!" He Qizhen choked back tears, emotionally waving at the figure in the distance. She really wanted to throw herself into her boyfriend's arms and cry...
Hua Qi Zhen's waving hand suddenly stopped in mid-air.
A strange sound seemed to be coming from beside my ear. Thud thud.
The fear that had just subsided surged back like a huge wave, instantly overwhelming Huaji. Her eyes widened and she stared fixedly at her boyfriend who was walking towards her with slow steps.
Her breath was lost, her heartbeat drowned out by the blood. Her entire skeleton, skin, and blood were trembling wildly in her chest cavity in agony. She started to slowly back away, shuddering. She couldn't face that mass of icy air rushing towards her, she deeply believed that it would tear her into pieces, her flesh would be gnawed.
Mao Mao doesn't seem to have noticed that a yellow figure is closely following behind him. Didn't he hear it? The sound of the little kid in the yellow raincoat slapping the rubber ball.
Yes, he won't be able to hear it. Because it's a ghost. If a ghost lets you see it, this means your time is almost up.
Hua Qi Zhen stared at the little boy following her boyfriend, his pale chin floating with a hint of sinister smile. She was finally terrified and desperate to the extreme, turned around and ran while crying out loud.
"Ghost... ghost!"
She ran wildly, passing by the unmanned bus stop sign. The street was empty except for her and the thumping sound that closely followed behind her ears. The once quiet city fell into desolation, a dark curtain shrouding all the warm human breaths.
The vastness of the world is frightening, she can escape to any corner of the globe, but every place is a dead end.
In front of her was a pedestrian crossing, and the desolate highway seemed to lead to the end of the world. There were no cars on the road, so Huajie didn't bother with the red light that had already come on and ran across to the other side of the street.
She ran halfway and fell to the ground. The fall made her see stars, and her nasal bone seemed to be broken. She groaned in pain on the ground. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her shoe. The wet hand grasped her calf and slowly crawled up.
It's him! The little boy in the yellow raincoat is the one who pulled her down!
Hua Qizhen saw the crawling, worm-like child slowly covering its own body, completely frightened to the point of being unable to breathe. She was thoroughly hopeless, a despair so strong it could destroy everything. She lay in the middle of the road, powerless to do anything but stare at the pale face hidden under the hood of the yellow raincoat, growing clearer as the distance between them narrowed.
The sinister smile emanating from the yellow raincoat shattered the last vestiges of courage within her. She realized that she was soaked to the bone, with water droplets dripping down from the raincoat, as if merging her with it. A tranquil river surface appeared in her mind's eye, where she floated, with icy river water continuously flowing into her mouth and nostrils, her body growing heavy, slowly sinking. Fearing drowning, she frantically flailed her arms, attempting to swim towards the shore, but a hand emerged from the depths of the water, grasping her foot, pulling her down with great force.
She finally sank slowly into a dark and icy world.
