Chapter 1455: Chapter 897: Accident (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)_2
Unless they find out which Ghost they provoked, they cannot unravel the mystery of this mission, let alone escape the Ghost’s pursuit and survive.
This discovery gave Zhou Mingxiao confidence. Just as he held up the DV machine and continued searching for clues, the originally normal display screen seemed to be interfered with, with snowflakes starting to appear on the screen, the image becoming unstable, and shaking violently.
Even stranger, there were faint peculiar sounds emanating from the DV machine.
Zhou Mingxiao felt alarmed and brought his ear close to the machine, listening intently. It was a "rustling" sound, indistinct, resembling something quickly crawling on the ground.
This discovery sounded the alarm for Zhou Mingxiao. He immediately turned the lens to search around. He quickly found that when he pointed the lens towards the door, the sound from the machine became much clearer and... was getting closer.
"This isn’t good!" Zhou Mingxiao sensed danger. He swiftly moved to the half-open door, aimed the lens through the gap at the outside office hall and, as expected, the eerie "rustling" sound became even clearer.
At the same time, the DV machine’s image shakes even more violently, with mysterious snowflakes and stripes flashing across, seemingly unable to last much longer.
Zhou Mingxiao tried to adjust the DV machine, but the machine appeared out of control, with all keys failing to respond. At the moment the image went completely black, Zhou Mingxiao saw the most terrifying scene of the night.
Deep in the office hall outside the door, at the farthest reach of the lens’s view, a quadrupedal creature rapidly crawled between two desks and then disappeared.
Zhou Mingxiao: "!!!"
At this moment, his whole body stiffened; his mind went blank. When he regained consciousness, he hadn’t the time to make a detailed plan; at the sight of that creature, he realized it was extremely dangerous.
Whether it was the Source Ghost, he wasn’t sure, but it was definitely more troublesome than the Waist-breaking Ghost he had seen before.
Zhou Mingxiao reacted on pure instinct. He didn’t care if there was danger outside; he flung the door open and dashed out, then continued running along the path he came toward, not leaving the DV machine behind.
Curiously, as the DV machine’s screen went dark, the "rustling" sound disappeared, yet the pressure behind him in the darkness increased rather than diminished. He knew clearly there had to be something there; only, without the DV machine, he couldn’t see it.
Neither seeing nor hearing it was the most horrifying part, because he had no idea whether that thing was following him, where it was, or how far away it was.
Perhaps... just perhaps, that thing might have already caught up with him, might be right behind him, might be on the ceiling, or might have blocked his way ahead, on the path he had to go back.
But at this moment, Zhou Mingxiao could not afford to worry because he heard another sound.
"Scratch——"
"Scratch——"
It was the sound of shoes scraping the ground without leaving contact— it was the Waist-breaking Ghost, it had caught up!
Now Zhou Mingxiao didn’t even need to look back. He knew the Waist-breaking Ghost was right at his heels, that uncanny scraping sound clung to him like a maggot to the bone.
Indeed, the commotion here had attracted the Waist-breaking Ghost. This creature not only had vision but also hearing, or so Zhou Mingxiao thought.
At the critical moment, the aging Zhou Mingxiao burst forth with terrifying strength. He dashed fast, darting down the corridor.
Relying on his astonishing memory, he didn’t make a wrong turn, and ultimately, he outran the Waist-breaking Ghost behind him, burst through the 18th floor, crashed through the safety door, and ran into the emergency exit.
"Faster! Even faster!!" Zhou Mingxiao gritted his teeth, his feet like the wind.
He didn’t know if there were any Ghosts still chasing him, but the creature that flashed by on the screen for less than one second exerted immense pressure on him. That four-legged crawling twisted motion filled Zhou Mingxiao with fear.
Finally, he burst out of the narrow choking emergency exit, into the corridor, sprinting toward the glass door, "Chu Xi, it’s me! Open the door!!"
The situation was urgent; there was no time for words. Staying outside the door even for a moment, Zhou Mingxiao suspected he would be caught and killed.
Almost in an instant, a figure appeared behind the glass door, shadow cast upon it, but rather than open it, a hand pressed against the door, leaving a shadow.
With this reminder, Zhou Mingxiao instantly reacted, shouting as he ran, "Cross, draw a cross!!"
In the instant Zhou Mingxiao rushed to the door, the door suddenly opened, warm light streaming from behind it, Yang Xiao stood behind the door, already stepping aside.
Zhou Mingxiao didn’t slow down, barreling inside, and as soon as he was in, Yang Xiao quickly slammed the door shut, locked it, and pressed his back against it, turning to look at Zhou Mingxiao collapsed on the ground.
At this moment, Zhou Mingxiao was almost exhausted, lying on the ground, panting heavily like a dog, his face flushed red, veins bulging on his forehead and neck.
"Are you okay?" Yang Xiao kept observing the noise outside the door, but the quiet was overwhelming outside.
Zhou Mingxiao didn’t have the strength to stand. He simply lay there, rolled over, and arduously raised his left hand, giving Yang Xiao a thumbs up.
