Chapter 14: Ghost Wall

Pfft!

A muffled thud.

It was like a sack filled with water and rotting flesh, falling from the sky and smashing heavily onto the hard cement ground.

Red and white splattered everywhere.

Security guard Lao Wang, whose cigarette fell to the ground with a "pop", froze in a daze, staring blankly at the heap below that no longer resembled a human shape, its flesh a blurry mess.

A few seconds later, a piercing scream that sliced the night sky rang throughout the old housing complex.

"Dead—it's a dead person—!"

Inside the wall.

Cold, darkness, an eternal deathly silence.

Wang Kai "watched" the chaos below, the police siren growing louder, and the glaring red‑blue lights made the wall he stood on flicker intermittently.

He "watched" the man called Feng Gou Qiang being lifted onto a stretcher and covered with a white sheet.

There was no expression on his face.

Or rather, a vengeful spirit whose seven orifices were sealed by cement, its features fused with the wall, shouldn't have any expression at all.

Yet in his heart burned a raging fire of hatred.

He remembered.

He remembered everything.

He remembered how that day the developer's bulldozer ruthlessly rolled over his tiny home.

He remembered his wife's desperate cries as she clutched their daughter tightly.

He remembered the dust swirling, bricks collapsing, and how the wreckage mercilessly buried the two most important people in his life, alive.

He protested, sued, and tried every possible means to seek justice for his wife and daughter.

What he got in return was a gag order.

He was dragged by a few hulking men to the roof of this unfinished, crumbling building still under construction.

Leading them was the very Feng Gou Qiang, his face covered in flabby flesh, a massive gold chain hanging around his neck.

"Next life, get a good womb; don't be so blind as to oppose us!"

Feng Gou Qiang sneered and kicked him off the roof.

A sense of weightlessness, the wind howling past his ears.

Then came excruciating pain as his body was torn apart.

He thought it was over.

But he was wrong.

To hide the corpse, they didn't even bury him; instead, while pouring the wall, they poured his shattered remains into it.

Binding him forever, fused with the cold cement, preventing any rebirth.

How vile!

How cruel!

He believes that this endless resentment turned him into a ground‑bound spirit of the building.

A weird called "Ghost Wall".

【"Ghost Wall" Murder Rule】

【Stage One – Trapped in Brick and Iron: As long as the target is inside the building, it takes effect—confines them in an endlessly looping stairwell/elevator, essentially an inescapable sub‑space. Whether the target moves up or down, they cannot escape, only having their mind eroded by endless repetition, breeding fear.】

【Stage Two – Mourning of the Fallen: When the target's san value drops below 30, they are hypnotized and projected back to reality, appearing at the building's roof edge and leaping off. To outsiders, they seem to materialize out of thin air and then jump to their death.】

Feng Gou Qiang was only the first.

That project manager who ordered the forced demolition, that developer boss who ordered the gag order...

None of them can escape.

He will drag them, one by one, into his "Wall", letting them taste what it feels like to be bricked into a wall and die from a fall!

The precinct police car arrived quickly.

Two young officers arrived, having stayed up all night, yawning incessantly.

They surveyed the scene and questioned the surrounding residents.

"The deceased is named Zhang Qiang, nicknamed Feng Gou Qiang, a loan shark with many enemies."

"But there are no combat wounds on him, and no second set of footprints on the rooftop terrace."

"Alright, preliminarily classify it as suicide, wrap up. Later let the family claim the body."

A supernatural murder case capable of stirring a massive wave was thus filed away as an ordinary suicide, hastily closed and temporarily shelved.

No one will notice what terrifying monster lurks within this housing complex.

In Chu Che's apartment.

On the Weird Editor screen before him, a line of pale‑blue text silently appeared.

【Earned 'Karma': 300】

Seeing the number, Chu Che adjusted his glasses, a satisfied smile curling his lips.

To create "Ghost Wall", he spent a full five hundred "Karma", depleting his previous earnings.

But it was worth it.

"Ghost Wall" has an extremely high resentment quality; the weird it creates has murder efficiency and rule enforcement far surpassing the Cavity Person.

As long as the target's san value remains sufficiently high, the Cavity Person's Murder Rule cannot enter Stage Two, unable to kill the target.

But "Ghost Wall" is different; regardless of the target's san value, it can forcibly drag the target into an inescapable alternate space.

Unless the building is blown up, the alternate space that relies on the structure cannot be destroyed.

In such an otherworldly space, ordinary humans have only two outcomes — die because their san value is too low, triggering the second stage of the Murder Rule, or die of starvation or thirst.

These three hundred "karma" are just a beginning.

As the revenge of the "ghost hitting the wall" continues, this will again become a steady source of profit that continuously provides him with "karma".

Just then.

Buzz.

The phone vibrated once.

It was a WeChat message from Qin Zhixia.

【Don't forget the concert the night after tomorrow.】

Following it was a "smile" emoticon.

Chu Che looked at that emoticon and could imagine how this iceberg beauty policewoman was racking her brains right now, trying to make herself seem more "approachable".

Really interesting.

He replied calmly.

【My honor.】

Putting down the phone, Chu Che's gaze turned back to the editor screen.

On the screen, two images were being displayed in split-screen.

One was the old residential area in the west city, which had already returned to peace.

And the other was Li Zhenhu's luxurious manor, situated on the mountainside with tight security.

Chu Che's fingertips lightly tapped the desk, his eyes flashing with a hunter's light.

"The appetizers have been served; now...... it's about time for the main course to appear."

At the same time.

Inside Li Zhenhu's luxurious villa.

The mess from the party hadn't been completely cleaned up, and several maids were busy cleaning in the living room.

One of the middle-aged maids was wiping an expensive antique vase with a cloth.

Suddenly, her hand's movement stopped.

She cocked her ear, furrowed her brow, and listened carefully to something.

The air was so quiet that only the buzzing of the vacuum cleaner could be heard.

But she always felt that beneath that buzzing was mixed another kind of extremely regular, dull sound.

Thud.

Thud.

Thud.

She raised her head doubtfully and asked the other maid who was tidying the sofa beside her.

"Eh, Sister Wang."

"You...... have you heard any sound?"

"What's the commotion?"

The middle-aged maid's brows furrowed even tighter, and she described it somewhat uncertainly.

"It's...... a heartbeat?"