Chapter 17: Reality or Omen

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The strength felt from those hands was extremely terrifying.

The touch was ice-cold.

But also slimy.

Huaiyou's parents' grayish-green skin and eyes that couldn't close at all, their expressions at this moment were already manic, furious, and twisted.

Two pairs of hands grabbed Huaiyou; the force was so great that Huaiyou felt he was about to suffocate.

At the critical moment—

Huaiyou couldn't care about so much anymore.

Both hands resisted forcefully, and then he struggled out of those slimy hands by sheer force.

Huaiyou roared without any reason.

His eyes seemed to be turning red with anger.

Huaiyou staggered back a few steps; he wanted to escape from here.

He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but this feeling only filled his mind; he only felt a sense of chaos, that something had been forgotten, but he couldn't recall it for the time being.

He felt that everything around him was full of falsehood.

But just as he took a step, he felt something bite into his thigh.

He lowered his head to look.

It turned out to be a frog, only this frog was much larger than an ordinary frog.

Huaiyou kicked fiercely, directly kicking this frog against the white wall not far away, emitting a crackling sound; liquid splattered everywhere, and it seemed that while dying, this frog emitted a terrifying whimper.

Like a human's wail.

At this time—

Huaiyou's "parents"—

Also stood up at this moment.

To be precise, after just a slight rise, the two of them directly sprawled onto the table.

Their gills were bulging.

Expanding.

"Gugu gu!"

They emitted a sound.

This scene almost made Huaiyou lose his last shred of sanity.

He looked down.

He didn't know when the floor had been covered with one jumping frog after another, only judging from their posture, these frogs probably wouldn't live long either.

Because it was very obvious that they had all lost most of their vitality.

Huaiyou didn't even know where these things appeared from; they clearly weren't there just a moment ago!

The next second—

"Parents," following the overturning of the table, the two of them directly pounced over.

Their faces carried ferocious smiles, combined with anger and terror.

But in the next instant—

Strange words were coming out of their mouths.

"In the room, they are all in the room... they are all in the room downstairs, it's almost too late, it's almost too late."

It seemed that for a moment, they had sobered up, but they were quickly covered by the ferocity on their faces again.

That grayish-green face and the white skin on the lower part were completely exposed in front of Huaiyou, carrying a fishy smell and mucus.

The two of them expanded rapidly in front of Huaiyou, but they would soon become twisted.

In this terrifying scene—

Huaiyou heard a voice with a crying tone; it should be a girl crying at this moment, constantly calling his name.

This sound came from an infinitely distant distance.

And when he heard this sound, Huaiyou's consciousness became chaotic.

Things suddenly mixed with his brain's memory like violence.

Subconsciously, Huaiyou discovered that the vision in front of him was twisted.

Everything was chaotic and disorderly, and the world began to become twisted and colorful.

The "parents" in front of him—

That ferocious appearance was very close, yet it seemed infinitely distant.

But the last sentence, Huaiyou remembered.

"In the room, they are all in the room... they are all in the room downstairs, it's almost too late, it's almost too late."

Slowly, the front began to turn pitch black.

Drowsy.

In this thick darkness, there was a macro-pulsation of extreme fear; this was a terrifying tremor, but Huaiyou suddenly discovered—

This was not something terrifying.

It turned out to be the heartbeat he felt from his own hand placed on his chest.

Soon—

Everything returned to complete calm.

……

Reality.

Huaiyou was drenched in sweat, but he sat up instantly.

Just a moment ago, he had let out a terrifying cry, and Zhou Yanqing was so scared that she didn't dare to let go.

Just now, she was holding Huaiyou in her arms.

Because when he fell from the exit above the ceiling, he had already fallen into a coma instantly.

But fortunately, he woke up quickly, but in this process, his appearance was like he was having a nightmare, as if he had seen something very terrifying.

Fortunately, he sobered up quickly.

Huaiyou's eyes were wide open, his whole state was extremely wrong, as if he had lost consciousness; it took a full ten seconds before he completely sobered up.

He just glanced at his feet.

There were no wounds there.

He felt a stinging pain in his back again, and when he reached out to touch it, his hand was full of blood.

But fortunately, this stinging sensation probably wouldn't last long.

Huaiyou kept his mouth shut because he felt that the wound on his back had already healed to some extent...

At this moment, he suddenly realized that his life had become somewhat different to a certain extent.

Everything in that illusion just now—

At this moment, it still seemed like a real event that happened in the previous second.

But Huaiyou looked around and truly confirmed that everything just now was an illusion, all fake.

At this time, Huaiyou slowly stood up.

Zhou Yanqing walked over with concern: "Are you okay?"

Huaiyou shook his head, his eyes hurting a little: "I'm fine, didn't those two people come down?"

His tone still carried a bit of unease.

The two people referred to here naturally refer to that woman and her son, that is, the child.

By this time, if Huaiyou's guess was correct, that woman should be Kayako, who was enveloped and erupted by resentment, and that child was her son, Saeki Toshio.

Zhou Yanqing said: "You had already lost consciousness when you fell; fortunately, there was the cushioning of the stairs, so I caught you quite easily. Those two things turned and left when you came down... they seemed to be scared away by the thing in your hand... but I really feel that next time they might not necessarily run away..."

Zhou Yanqing probably still felt scared, so at this moment, she didn't dare to stay too far from Huaiyou.

She was scared quite badly, only daring to try to wake him up over and over again, shaking the other person constantly.

That sense of despair almost swallowed her.

Huaiyou looked down.

It turned out that even now, his right hand was still unconsciously clutching that head mask.

The touch of the white head mask hadn't changed from beginning to end, but it seemed that because of some of Huaiyou's blood, it looked a bit ferocious and terrifying.

Huaiyou naturally also clearly knew that this thing had saved him twice so far.

As for the words Zhou Yanqing said later—

Huaiyou understood quickly.

Because although this mask headgear looked like it hadn't changed on the surface—

But actually, later when Huaiyou took out his phone and clicked on the software, there was indeed a sentence on it that made Huaiyou feel a bit uneasy.

【Mask headgear prop used frequently, entering prop cooldown period (6 hours until the next opportunity)】

(Note: Due to special reasons, the prop is upgraded during the prop cooldown period, current upgrade level 2%)

Warm reminder: Special props all have usage times~】

Upgrade?

Does this thing even have upgrades?

He didn't seem to have done anything, how did it suddenly upgrade?

If he had to say, could it be his blood?

This thing upgrades just by dripping blood?

Cooldown period?

Does it mean that before the next time, this thing is basically in a state of looking good but useless?

But he hadn't even found those few girls for this mission...

It looked like it was only 12:30 now.

There was still a long time until dawn, and at this moment, Huaiyou suddenly seemed to strangely discover—

The cooldown period of this mask seemed to be exactly the time when it was almost dawn here?

Isn't this just forcing himself onto a dead end to a certain extent?!

He didn't have anything else on him.

The only thing that could be considered usable seemed to be just this one head mask; now that even this thing was gone, did he really have to rely on pure hand-to-hand combat?

He didn't believe that woman and her son would let the two of them go.

After all, after a series of events just now, it had already been declared that they had long been eyeing the two of them.

Huaiyou's gaze swept across the surrounding environment again, discovering that outside was still that kind of darkness that made one feel fear.

He couldn't see through the outside at all.

But it was also at this moment that a sentence suddenly popped out of his mind as if it were a spring.

"In the room, they are all in the room... they are all in the room downstairs, it's almost too late, it's almost too late."

In the room?

Huaiyou looked at the dormitory on the floor next to him.

This was the dormitory closest to them.

Sure enough.

There was a slight sound coming from inside.

Zhou Yanqing also noticed it.

However, the expression on her face was more of fear.

…… ===== CHAPTER 18 =====