"Creak—"
The door opened.
What a strong sll of blood!
The two of them stood at the doorway, nerves taut, peering into the bathroom.
The entire bathroom had been dyed red. In such a dim environnt, it shouldn’t have been possible to see so clearly, but the blood-red color in front of them dyed everything around it, emitting an eerie crimson glow.
After taking a quick look, Bai Yanren tentatively stepped forward.
Under Bai Yanliang’s gaze, this small step into the bathroom was taken with great difficulty by Bai Yanren, his right foot even suspended in mid-air!
What was happening?
Bai Yanliang tried to reach his hand into the bathroom.
But even before he could get it inside the door, he encountered resistance!
Is this... a repulsive force?
It felt so familiar.
It was just like the resistance they would encounter in Fog Gathering when they were about to be sent back to the real world.
If this bathroom were a swimming pool, they would be like two inner tubes trying to forcefully squeeze into the water.
"It’s the door," Bai Yanren said.
Hearing his indifferent voice, Bai Yanliang was montarily taken aback and found it sowhat strange.
However, this was actually a good thing.
The bathroom emitted a horrifying aura not because of a ghost but because the door was inside.
Although squeezing in was very difficult, they were still gradually making their way forward.
After a great effort, the two finally managed to "squeeze into" the bathroom.
"Buzz—"
Suddenly, there was a tremor in the eardrums, accompanied by a sensation of vertigo. The mont Bai Yanliang’s whole body entered the bathroom, he imdiately felt a pressure envelop him from top to bottom, inside and out.
He could clearly feel that this was another world.
Once inside, although the feeling of being repelled still existed, it was greatly diminished, at least not affecting their ability to move normally.
The first-floor bathroom wasn’t small. They had just entered the main door, with another door on the left leading to the n’s room and the right door leading to the won’s room.
This was a public area, and what caught their attention was an old mirror above the sink.
At that mont, water was slowly flowing out of a faucet beneath the mirror.
And creeping slower and slower.
It seed that the sudden sound of running water wasn’t from soone flushing the toilet, but this faucet suddenly being turned to its maximum.
In other words, there was sothing else inside here.
This was to be expected; otherwise, Bai Yanren wouldn’t have ntioned pretending to be a ghost.
"Splash, splash, splash..."
The water from the faucet was almost stopping, and perhaps due to the blood-red tint, the liquid flowing out looked indistinguishable from fresh blood.
Bai Yanren didn’t focus on the faucet, although he was certain the door was inside this bathroom.
But in the n’s room or the won’s room?
Or... in a stall?
Additional searching was needed.
Although there was a door, it didn’t guarantee absolute safety.
So-called doors only provided an effect similar to a "prison," yet "door" rules benefited ghosts, while "prison" rules benefited humans.
Therefore, the best strategy inside the door was to pretend to be a ghost.
"Drip—"
The faucet almost stopped.
One drop after another of bright red liquid dripped into the sink.
Both of them sensed the eerie atmosphere and simultaneously focused their gaze on the sink.
"Drip—"
"Drip—"
"Drip—"
Everything stopped.
However, at that mont!
A woman’s face, completely decayed, suddenly appeared in the mirror. Her chest was sunken, her abdon completely torn open, and she was bending over, reaching for the faucet to turn it back on!
"Splash—"
Water gushed out again.
The blood-red liquid sprayed from the faucet.
And the woman in the mirror eerily vanished.
Bai Yanliang imdiately checked around, including behind him.
Nothing.
In reality, her figure wasn’t there.
However, when he turned to look back at the mirror, he suddenly t a pair of pupils covered in black!
She was in the mirror, watching him!
Bai Yanliang’s arms broke out in goosebumps.
He could clearly feel that the thing in the mirror was looking at either Zhang Yun or him!
It saw his soul through Zhang Yun’s body!
For the first ti, he truly felt sothing was horribly wrong, a suffocating sensation surged through him.
Even worse, he was unable to speak or move his body!
Bai Yanren seed not to have seen the ghost. He rely glanced at the faucet before turning his back to the mirror, continuing to look at the n’s and won’s room doors.
At this mont, on the old mirror’s surface, that terrifying woman’s figure was trying to get closer, stretching out her withered, decayed hands, reaching to touch the mirror’s surface.
Then, her hands truly passed through the mirror, extending into the real world!
Mirrors.
They are inherently a terrifying image, causing so to stare at their mirror reflection, leading to an unsettling thought: Who is that?
Once this thought forms, their face becos increasingly strange, creating intense fear, making them afraid to look in the mirror.
Just then, Bai Yanren’s cold voice broke through.
"Close your eyes."
Without any hesitation, Bai Yanliang obeyed and closed his eyes imdiately.
Swoosh—
The ghost woman who was about to erge from the mirror vanished.
"Alright."
Hearing his brother’s voice again, Bai Yanliang opened his eyes.
Upon opening his eyes, he t Bai Yanren’s cold yet interrogative gaze.
"Do you still have emotions?"
Bai Yanliang’s heart skipped a beat; was this the reason he was targeted by the ghost?
In the past, Bai Yanliang could confidently assure his brother, no.
But now... that surge of sadness had appeared and was hiding sowhere deep, completely beyond Bai Yanliang’s reach.
"Recently," Bai Yanliang gave no further explanation.
Bai Yanren’s gaze grew colder: "You’re playing with your life."
Then, he reached into his pocket and carefully extracted a pill from an iron box, handing it to him.
"Take it."
"An emotion-controlling pill?" Bai Yanliang asked.
"Yes."
"How many are there?" Bai Yanliang had never heard of such a pill.
"Developed by Dr. Zhou, very rare, with severe side effects, so don’t take too many," Bai Yanren warned.
"Understood." Bai Yanliang looked at the ordinary pill, then put it in his mouth.
He beca quite intrigued by Dr. Zhou; this person... seed extraordinary.
As soon as the pill entered his mouth, Bai Yanliang imdiately sensed sothing different.
Unlike other dicines, the pill transford into a cool, mysterious sensation the instant it touched saliva, climbing through his nasal cavity and heading straight for his brain.
However, it encountered resistance.
Just as it was about to reach Bai Yanliang’s brain, it was stopped.
Bai Yanliang felt distinctly that a ghostly coolness vanished at his forehead, failing to ascend to his brain.
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