Chapter 1404: Fantasy Antique Shop Work Log 38

Bang! The Main Gate of the swimming hall was pushed open again.

Cao Wu and the three others fled in panic, tumbling into a heap, dazedly staring at the scene before them, they ran toward Ying Wu Shu's side.

"Save me! Big boss, save me! Wu Xiaoxiao has gone mad! She's going to kill us!" Han Yu gasped, unable to catch his breath, he could taste the metallic tang of blood in his mouth as he spoke.

Wu Xiaoxiao emerged from the black door with a wooden expression, one hand clutching a fist, the other holding aloft a dagger; her expression only showed a moment of panic when she saw Ling Hong.

Then she locked eyes with Ziying.

At that moment, Ziying had already been entangled by Ling Hong; her feet slowly lifted off the ground, her face turning black from suffocation, her eyeballs almost popping out.

"No…" Wu Xiaoxiao shook her head and stepped back, her face drained of color, "also… nothing…"

Why does Ziying also have to be killed! She hasn't already sacrificed a person!

Taking advantage of her Dazed moment, Ying Wu Shu knocked the dagger from Wu Xiaoxiao's hand, and in his peripheral vision he caught sight of something tightly clenched in her other hand.

Ying Wu Shu exclaimed in surprise: "Did you pull off the yellow talisman stuck in the lounge?"

Pulling it off is useless anyway.

"Let go of me!"

Wu Xiaoxiao shook off Ying Wu Shu's hand, bit her lip and whispered, "We have to make her shut up forever."

When she was alive she was all meek and obedient; could it be that becoming a ghost would change her nature?

Not knowing where the courage came from, Wu Xiaoxiao grabbed the crumpled talisman and rushed toward Ling Hong.

Afraid of the vengeful spirit, yet deep down Ziying still thought Ling Hong was as pathetic as before.

The three crows, afraid to see all the chaos in the swimming hall, squeezed together with their eyes shut tight.

The principal's entire attention was on the Hoopoe swaying in midair.

Liu Dong watched as Ling Hong killed, one by one, the people who had previously harmed him; he felt hopeless, the yin energy seeping into his reason, his mind filled with the pain Liu Bei felt before his death.

Ying Wu Shu glanced back, and Liu Dong also committed suicide.

Ying Wu Shu did not intervene, merely watching silently, his tranquil eyes calm and waveless.

Since the mortal case was mishandled, only the netherworld spirit could avenge itself.

Nobody noticed the disappearance of Jin Chen, including the vengeful spirit Ling Hong who had slaughtered Ziying and Wu Xiaoxiao.

Suddenly a figure flickered into view; Jin Chen appeared at the far end of the swimming pool, very close to the Hoopoe.

He softly intoned a water‑avoidance spell, his long legs stepping into the pool, his expression unchanged as he stepped over two corpses whose flesh had rotted away.

All the pool water curved around him as he walked until he was directly beneath the rope binding the Hoopoe.

Jin Chen pondered for two seconds, then made a calming gesture toward the trembling Hoopoe looking down at him.

The Hoopoe nodded frantically, terrified to the extreme, also biting his lip to stay silent.

Jin Chen raised his hand and severed the hemp rope in midair; the Hoopoe plummeted vertically, as if jumping from a building, losing control of his body.

"Ah!"

The Hoopoe had thought Jin Chen would catch him, but seeing that he didn't even raise a hand, already closed his eyes braced for impact, he couldn't help but cry out.

But upon landing, an invisible force steadied his back, leaving him unharmed.

Jin Chen hoisted the Hoopoe's arm and walked back to the shore; the pool water gathered again, suffused with blood.

The Hoopoe went limp with fright, sprawled on the ground unable to recover for a while, his voice weak with sobbing: "Thank… thank you."

She obviously recognized Jin Chen.

Jin Chen: "Just doing business for money."

Talking about thanks or not is just cliché.

Hoopoe: "…"

The just‑arisen feeling of emotion and subtle sentiment—Pop!

It was instantly crushed.

Jin Chen turned his back to look at the battlefield across the pool, clicked his tongue, and said, "Really slow."

Hurrying to finish the killing, clean up, and go home.

Across the way, screams erupted again; Ziying and Wu Xiaoxiao were seized by Ling Hong, who pressed their heads into the murky pool, and in despair they heard Ling Hong's accusation, each word dripping with blood.

"Does it hurt! Do you also feel hurt…… This is just a game between roommates, isn't that what you said?!"

"It hurts…… I hurt…… You can't hear it, you have no heart!"

Ling Hong grabbed Wu Xiaoxiao's hair, his terrifying face confronting hers, his shrill, grating voice ringing with fury: "You, you stole my recommended graduate spot! You took the sole scholarship sustaining my life! You shoved me into the water and beat me!"

"Cough cough cough cough!!" Wu Xiaoxiao choked on bloody water, his eyes, nose, and mouth filled with foul stench, he no longer dared to open his eyes to look at her.

Ling Hong then seized Ziying's head, blood and tears streaming, heartbroken to the extreme: "You! Pretending to be a good roommate…… I thought you were my best friend at this school…"

"It's also you! You exposed all my privacy! You filmed every video of me being bullied…… and even broke my bones… it hurts…"

Ziying screamed, "I was wrong! Let me go…… ah!"

She was pressed back down again, her chest cavity filled with bloody water, unable to breathe.

Ling Hong seemed to want to vomit out all her grievances at once, and also forced the two to lift their heads and look at the corpses opposite.

"They! They despised my poverty…… they bribed the dorm supervisor to keep me out of the dormitory, and even framed me for seducing a teacher! They stuffed condoms into the blankets…… they deserve to die most!"

"No…… you all deserve to die…"

Ling Hong's voice suddenly weakened: "No one helped me…… you all deserve to die."

The swimming hall fell terrifyingly silent, only Ling Hong repeating the last line over and over.

The principal tightly grasped the rescued Hoopoe, his expression grim to the extreme; he knew the vice‑principal had concealed many things, for the school's reputation he turned a blind eye…… never expecting it had already become this horrifying.

The Hoopoe wept softly, his voice trembling: "Uncle… she didn't hurt me… she… she is a good person."

In the end, Ziying and Wu Xiaoxiao were choked to death alive, their faces swollen, eyes painfully open.

Ling Hong glanced at them once, then threw them into the pool.

After that, it was deathly silence again.