Daomu Biji: Restart Book 3: Chapter 63: Ghostly Prank

I looked back at the dog's head. The skinned shape of it truly was a horrible sight, but its symbolic aning had my hair standing on end even more.

I stared at the entrance to the hole for about four or five minutes, trying to figure out what was going on.

Ping Lian had to be dead. His head had been cut off, after all. When I had used my knife earlier, I directly cut into his cervical vertebra and then broke the joint off. This was because all transford corpses would stop moving after the head was removed.

Plus, he only had one head, which I had thrown into the coffin. I clearly rembered closing the coffin lid, so how did his head open the coffin and climb to the entrance of this hole?

This wasn't Ping Lians doingin fact, I was almost certain that it was done by sothing else that had the ability to move the coffin lid. And if that were true, then there was a "person" or "thing" here in this underground palace with .

But its behavior was very strange. By putting the dog's head behind like this, it didnt seem like it wanted to take my life but was playing a prank.

Truthfully, I was feeling really creeped out.

I suddenly recalled the series of events that happened to us on the grassland before. Now that I thought about it, it all seed to have the air of a prank. The satellite phone and even Jiang Siwangs sudden appearance all had a strong feeling of mischief to them.

There was also that night when we were running from the horses and I saw a man with a black face appear behind Fatty. Then there were the things in the stone lantern and the underground corpse herding area that also had black faces.

I suddenly thought of that black face that appeared in the pool. I didnt know why, but at this ti, I began to think of that thing. Why did it suddenly appear in the water? I figured that maybe it wanted to see from a close distance. At that ti, not only was I certain that it was interested in as I looked at its expression, but it also seed to say sothing to .

This kind of black thing seed to appear everywhere in this place, so if it was playing a prank, was it related to them?(1)

There was no basis for this, but my intuition kept pushing to think in that direction.

My back was soon covered in a cold sweat as I ca to a realization in my heart: these pranks would only get scarier and more malicious. There were many pranks in this world that were executed to hurt people while still staying within the moral code.

Using a skinned dog's head to play a prank showed that the implenter had no concept of cruelty at all and could do horrible things beyond your imagination. To it, I was actually more like an animal it was teasing.

At this ti, I suddenly thought of the herding corpses scene from the murals. If those corpses were herded, then did that make wild? Was this thing teasing ?

I heard that headhunters in the past used to tease their prey because they thought that the at would taste more delicious if they had scared their prey to a state of extre fear.

I quickly reined in these paranoid thoughts.

At this ti, I had two choices: I could either go back and find that thing in the underground palace or I could continue moving forward and et up with Poker-Face.

I thought about it for a second and decided to join up with Poker-Face.

I took one last look at the dog's head before pulling a gadget out of my belt. It was a whistle, which had a very thin wire that could be pulled out of it. I strung this wire up in the passage behind .

As long as sothing passed by, it would definitely touch this wire, which would imdiately pull the whistle and make a sound.

This wire was particularly inconspicuous, but extrely sensitive. And even if you barely blew into the whistle, it would imdiately make a sound.

I felt more at ease after setting it up, so I began moving forward again. But things developed completely beyond my expectations.

I had only crawled six or seven steps when I imdiately heard the sound of a whistle co from behind .

I really didn't expect it to be like this.

I imdiately jumped in fright and spun around with my flashlight in hand. The whistles wire had been broken and Ping Lians head was about two or three steps behind .

I had no idea how it had moved to this spot.

I imdiately broke out in a cold sweat as I realized that it had only taken a brief mont for Ping Lians head to move from the entrance to the position right by my feet.

From this distance, the head looked even more sinister and had a strong sll to it.

It had been placed very neatly in the passage, so I could tell at a glance that it wasnt thrown in. Sothing had clearly crawled in and put it right behind . That thing was obviously very fast and had to be close by, but there was nothing behind the dog's head.

After thinking about it, I looked at the dog's head using my peripheral vision, but I still didnt see anything.

I knew that sothing terrible would happen if I continued to crawl forward now. This prank was still progressing, so Ping Lians head would probably end up biting my ankle next. I took a deep breath and looked back in front of to see if I could clench my teeth and quickly crawl forward. Maybe I could find a spacious place where I could co up with a plan.

Unfortunately, the tunnel in front of was still very narrow.

At this ti, I looked back behind and suddenly saw a black, expressionless face appear behind Ping Lians head. It crawled over Ping Lians head as fast as lightning until it was face to face with .

This place was too narrow for to do anything, so that face was almost half a palms width away from in an instant.

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TN Notes:

(1) He used the characters which is they for inanimate objects. So I think hes talking about ghosts (just a wild guess on my part, though)

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