Chapter 39: Fatso is Dead

  "If this is an illusion, where did the smell of blood come from?" Fatso said.

  What he said was right, it wasn't just fatty who smelled it, everyone present did.

  There was no blood on the ground, nor were there any bodies of people who had been hit, but a nauseating smell of blood hung in the air.

  Although there is no one on the highway now, but thinking of the tragic scene seen when the elevator door opened just now, several people are walking along the edge of the highway unconsciously. What's strange is that the streetlights can only illuminate the highway, and it's completely dark to see what's on the side of the road.

  Several people walked forward for a distance of about 500 meters, but the road in front of them was no different from before, and they couldn't see the end.

  "Why don't we try going back?" suggested the fatty, if this road doesn't end in sight, won't they be exhausted to death?

  Tian Qi shook his head. He didn't need to turn around to know that the scene behind him was definitely the same as in front of him, and the elevator that brought them up had long since disappeared.

  Chubby confirmed it and indeed it was so.

  "Why don't we use the flashlight to illuminate the roadside instead? It's not a good idea to keep walking like this." said Yingying, she had mentioned this idea before, but was rejected by Tianqi, who feared that shining the light would attract something, and Ou Sheng also had the same intuition.

  But that's how things are now, Tian Qi looked at Qiu Shen, Qiu Shen hesitated for a moment, but still nodded.

  Several people stopped in their tracks. Yan brought out a flashlight, but when the light shone on the edge, what appeared was not a landscape, but a person standing there!

  That was a robust man staring at this line of people.

  "Dead man!" Yingying quickly turned off the flashlight.

  It was that person who got hit by the car, when the elevator door opened they witnessed with their own eyes the moment he got hit by the truck, and the flying limbs and the mangled flesh!

  But he now has no injuries on his body except for a paler complexion.

  "What the hell is he, a human or a ghost? And now we've run into this damned thing again!" Fatso cursed.

  Tian Qi's mind was secretly calculating, one floor, one ghost. Based on his own judgment, the first floor was a hanged ghost, which was relatively easy to determine. The second floor should be a drowned ghost, from the elevator door opening to encountering water, and then there was that huge belly forming an eerie space. This judgment was not wrong.

  The third floor's person was knocked dead, it must be a ghost who got knocked to death.

  Tian Qi had seen ghosts who died from being hit before, but this one was different. Normally, when they became ghosts, their bodies wouldn't remain intact and would instead reflect the state they were in at the moment of death. But what's going on here? This ghost had clearly been splattered with blood and flesh flying everywhere, yet it could now recover to its original state.

  Is it exceptional ability or has someone secretly manipulated things? Tian Qi thought of Fourth Master, and with his methods, achieving this wouldn't be difficult at all.

  "We'll just keep going and see," Tian Qi said, he didn't have a better method either.

  However, if that ghost who was knocked to death were to appear before them again, he wouldn't mind giving him a good beating, sending his soul flying.

  A few people walked forward for about two more miles, still without any discovery, not even the streetlights changed, as if they had been in the same place all along.

  "Finally see people!" Just as Tian Qi was hesitating, someone suddenly shouted from the front and ran towards them.

  "Halt, take one more step forward and don't blame me for being impolite!" Fatso shouted, of course, if Tianqi and Chou Shen weren't there, he would have been scared off and run away long ago.

  The person in front of me is the one who was knocked dead!

  "I'm not a bad person, really!" Hearing the shout of Fatty, the newcomer stopped at a distance of about five meters from them. It can be seen that he seems to be very excited and finally saw someone.

  "He is human." Tian Qi walked forward because he saw this person's shadow. Ghosts wouldn't have a shadow appear.

  Chou Shen furrowed his brow, feeling that something was not quite right. However, he also knew that ghosts definitely didn't have shadows, so the sudden appearance of someone in front of him must be a person, but how could they appear out of thin air?

  With the newcomer's explanation, Tian Qi and the others also understood what had happened. He was passing by here and didn't know how he ended up coming in, then found that there wasn't a single person around.

  Things are getting weirder and weirder, this person looks exactly the same as the one they saw being hit to death, and just now he was still on the side of the road taking pictures, how did he suddenly become a big living person?

  "Do you have a twin brother?" Tian Qi asked.

  "What? How did you know?" He was surprised.

  "We just saw your brother, but he seems to be dead," said the fat man.

  "He actually said it's true!"

  "Who said it was true?"

  "He said his name is Fourth Master," the man said.

  Things turned out to be like this, could it be that Fourth Master set up this scheme not only to deal with them but also to bring others along for the ride?

  Only this interpretation makes sense, fortunately, this person came directly and did not go through the first and second layers.

  When Tian Qi was considering this issue, Qiu Shen took over Yingying's flashlight and walked to the side of the road.

  "Is there anything found?" Tian Qi saw Ou Shen's action.

  "No, but his deceased twin brother is missing! Wait!" Qiu Shen's words were cut off mid-sentence.

  "Come over here, all of you, quickly, except for Fatty!" Qiu Shen said with a very serious expression.

  Chou Shen never joked around, Tian Qi didn't know what happened but still pulled Ying Ying to Chou Shen's side at the fastest speed, and that person reacted quickly as well.

  Soon, only the fat man was left standing opposite, he was still in a daze and didn't know what to do.

  "What's wrong? Don't be so startled!" The fatso also wanted to come over.

  "Get back, who are you! Where's the fatty?" Tian Qi now knew why Chou Shen had brought them here, because this fatty in front of him didn't have a shadow!

  He is not human!

  "What are you talking about, have you gone stupid? How... Oh my god, am I already dead?" The fat man in front of him didn't believe Tian Qi's words, but when he turned his head to look at the ground, he gave himself a fright, because he also hadn't noticed that he had no shadow. He looked again at the people opposite and they all had shadows.

  Fatso was momentarily stunned, wailing loudly as he couldn't accept the reality before his eyes.

  Tian Qi saw the reaction of Pao Zi, and his heart felt a chill. The Pao Zi in front of him seemed to be the real deal, but he had no shadow, which meant he was no longer alive. He couldn't accept that he had died without any explanation, and Tian Qi's mind was a jumbled mess, unable to think calmly.

  "Little fatty, calm down first, we all believe you are the real person. Think carefully about what's been going on with you from the moment you entered until now that doesn't feel right," said Yingying, who didn't have much contact with Fatty and was able to quickly regain her composure.

  After hearing Yan's comfort, the fat boy gradually stopped shouting and sat on the ground. Because he couldn't help but turn his head to look when standing up, and whenever he saw that his shadow was gone, he felt scared.

  "We've all been together the whole time, I'm just a bit tired. When we were on the first floor, that hanged ghost scared me twice, but you guys rescued me in time, and I didn't get hurt anywhere else!" Fatso looked puzzled, he really had no idea, and even after feeling his entire body, he couldn't find any fatal wounds.

  Was it when the fat guy on the first floor was hanged by the ghost that he died? Tian Qi guessed.

  "Heavens, no matter what, I'm really dead now, without a doubt, not even a shadow is left, maybe I'll disappear soon. Remember to burn more paper money for me, and some golden boys and beautiful women, come visit me during holidays, we were brothers after all, don't let me be too lonely."

  "Something's not right!" Tian Qi ignored Pangzi's muttering, forcing himself to calm down and think about the whole situation. A living person had died for no reason, there must be a problem here.

  "Chubby, come here." Qiu Shen said suddenly.

  "What's wrong! I'm in a bad mood now!" Just now, Chou Shen was the first to discover that he had no shadow. The fat man was somewhat angry, although this couldn't be blamed on him.

  Chou Shen furrowed his brow, but still took out the black stick that Tian Qi had him carry with him all along, to be returned once they left this place.

  "What are you going to do?" Fatso saw Chou Shen walking over, and Tian Qi and the others also came over.

  "Is there anything else you want to say?" Qiu Shen said.

  "No way, Qiu Sheng, if you hit him with this stick, Pang Ge will be done for!" Qiu Sheng had told Yingying about the origin of the black stick, so she guessed his intention.

  However, Tian Qi gave a hint with his eyes to Yingying, pulling her hand and telling her not to speak. He believed that Chou Shen wouldn't really beat Baozi until he was out of breath, so there must be a reason for doing this, it's just not convenient to say now.

  Next, accompanied by Fatso's shrill scream, everything returned to calmness.