Chapter 13: Tug-of-War Between Life and Death
[Supplementary rules for the guest-house are as follows]
[1. Do not trust the front desk.
- The guest-house is always trustworthy.
- If you experience hallucinations after eating food, please contact the guest-house for medical assistance immediately.
- Please do not leave the guest-house. If you leave for special reasons, please contact the guest-house immediately upon your return. We will have a specialist examine your body because the outside is very dangerous.
- The guest-house is equipped with board games. Guests can consider playing board games to pass the time. Time will pass quickly.]
Bai Cha quickly scanned through them. She turned her head, and the figures behind her had become increasingly clear.
They were figures with pale, numb faces and a chillingly Yin aura all over their bodies.
Bai Cha made a decision in her heart in an instant.
She directly lifted her skirt and scooped up the offerings and water on the table, along with the new supplementary rules sheet, taking them all away in one go.
She didn’t care if she was exposing herself; nothing was more important than the food and water on the table.
As for whether she would offend the Buddha statue because of this, in Bai Cha’s view, everyone who came in was originally a targeted sacrifice.
So there was no difference.
Bai Cha mobilized all the strength in her body and ran outside.
These figures hadn’t completely coalesced into human form yet, and Bai Cha could pass through their bodies. But passing through them gave her a strange feeling.
Her heart would clench suddenly, like sitting in the last row of a roller coaster rapidly plunging downwards from a height. The dual stimulation of weightlessness and suffocation slowed her steps considerably.
Bai Cha gritted her teeth and rushed to the door in one breath.
But this burst of strength almost exhausted all the energy in her body. Bai Cha’s legs went weak, and she staggered outwards.
There were steps below. Her foot twisted, and she fell directly down.
The fruits and mineral water tucked into her skirt dug painfully into her.
Bai Cha lay on her side on the ground, unable to get up for a long time.
She knew her body very well.
Xiao Xiao had always told her to exercise, but of course she had tried. Not only was it useless, but it also consumed her already limited energy, leading to a further deterioration of her health.
Her body could only maintain a delicate balance, hanging on by a thread to stay alive and able to do things, just very weakly.
However, those figures wouldn’t stop just because she had fallen.
More and more figures were approaching from the street.
Bai Cha bit her lip and looked at the front desk staff standing there, coldly watching her.
Bai Cha activated her skill.
Lie Flower lv.0.
“Save me, take me back, I know how to get rid of the shackles that imprison you!”
She said weakly and quickly.
[Skill use successful. Lie: I know how to get rid of the shackles that imprison you. Target: imprisoned devotee. Lie has taken effect. Remaining skill uses: 1.]
The look in the front desk staff’s eyes changed instantly.
A terrifying smile curled up the corners of his mouth as he stared intently at Bai Cha.
Minute by minute passed, and the surrounding people had almost completely frozen in time and had all gathered around.
Every part of Bai Cha’s body ached, including her heart.
Her forehead had long been soaked with cold sweat, and even because of this sweating, her temperature had dropped a lot.
She also never flinched from staring back at the front desk staff.
The lie only lasted for three minutes, but she believed that the front desk staff wouldn’t just stare at her for the entire three minutes.
Sure enough, after a long thirty seconds, the front desk staff walked over.
He stood beside Bai Cha, looked down at her, and said word by word, “If you are lying, you will pay the price.”
After speaking, Bai Cha saw him pull a Buddha amulet from his collar.
When the Buddha amulet appeared, the surrounding figures instantly scattered and quickly disappeared.
And the plaster-like texture on the front desk staff’s face became pronounced again.
“Follow me,” the front desk staff’s tone became strange again.
“Can’t move.” It wasn’t Bai Cha being dramatic, she really couldn’t move. If she could, she would have at least sat up first.
The front desk staff stared at her, and she returned his gaze with a look of resignation.
“Then you…” The front desk staff was about to say “then you can die,” but Bai Cha interrupted him.
“Don’t you want to break the rules? I didn’t lie to you. Take me back, and if I haven’t done it in three days, you can kill me. Anyway, I won’t live long like this. I have no reason to lie to you.”
Bai Cha never blushed or skipped a beat when she lied.
She could even speak with an air of eighty percent certainty about something that was only twenty percent a guess.
Of course, she was also gambling.
Gambling with her life wasn’t a good idea, but when the current situation forced her to gamble, this was her only chip.
The muscles in the front desk staff’s face twitched, as if he wanted to make some expression. But due to the excessive plasterization, he remained expressionless in the end.
He bent down and lifted Bai Cha up, looking like he was about to carry her on his shoulder.
“Don’t drop my food and water,” Bai Cha reminded him.
The coldness emanating from the front desk staff intensified, making Bai Cha’s body, which was in contact with him, ache even more.
The front desk staff changed his hold from carrying to tucking her under his arm.
Bai Cha frowned slightly in pain but didn’t say anything more, just tightly clutching her skirt, trying hard not to let the fruits and food inside roll out.
Soon, they arrived at the guest-house.
