??718: Chapter 718: Burning Wax Figures in the Cremation Furnace
718: Chapter 718: Burning Wax Figures in the Cremation Furnace
In an instant, Xu Huo’s body tensed up.
As “Mobile tal” and “Absolute Safety Distance” were activated simultaneously, he propelled himself toward a corner of the room.
The “Straight-Line Distance” feature allowed him to maximize his speed.
On his way, he swung his sword toward his previous position, and only after completing this series of actions did he use his gaze to capture the “thing” that had tapped his shoulder.
After his spiritual world evolved again, his spatial awareness had improved.
Usually, he could sense the presence of two or three spaces nearby.
For example, he was standing in the mortuary and could sense that there were no moving people in the farewell room behind him, Bai Wenxian was wandering in the room ahead, and the space that should have been outside the venue on his left and right had disappeared, replaced by a solid wall…
But in the sa room, he hadn’t even felt the presence of soone behind him.
If it wasn’t a problem with his perception, then the other party’s ability far exceeded his own!
The first suspects he considered were the fellow players.
If Xu Ruosi and the other two who arrived earlier had also reached this level, they should not be unseen.
The Wax Figure Gallery wasn’t so large—there had to be either living people or corpses, and it was unlikely that the room was soundproof enough to block the noise of combat.
If there was silence, the three of them were either obliterated or more likely hiding.
If they ca out to et up, that was fine, but if they were hiding, they probably had no good intentions.
“Snap!”
With a cracking sound, the upper body of a wax figure toppled to the ground and shattered, its hand still extended forward.
Xu Huo slowly straightened up, his brows gradually furrowing.
Bai Wenxian, who had found nothing earlier, returned and saw the wax figure on the ground, “It moved again?”
“Do we even know what the other party’s motive is?” Xu Huo said.
The clues provided and the sounds made could only scare people and were not capable of causing any actual harm.
“If it’s the doing of a prop, it might not have an imdiate effect.
Since we haven’t seen anyone else, and since they don’t seem intent on harming us, let’s ignore it for now,” Bai Wenxian urged him to leave.
When they had first arrived at the Wax Figure Gallery, they had carefully checked and found no clue dolls ntioned on the paper, and besides, whether the clues were true was doubtful.
Searching here was pointless.
“Let’s just break through the walls,” Xu Huo said as he raised his hand and delivered several blows with his sword, cutting down the entire wall.
He kicked the panel down, stepped into the spirit hall, walked to the opposite side in a few steps, and similarly cut down the opposite wall.
“Wait!” Bai Wenxian hurriedly stopped him, “You might just be doing the opposite of helping!”
As expected, no sooner had he spoken than the wax figures in the coffins sat up, clambering out with ungainly movents and reaching out to grab Xu Huo like zombies.
In his hand, the sword had already beco the “Eye of the Deceased.” With a sweep of the blade, the foremost wax figures were cut in half at the waist!
The bisected wax figures did not completely lose their ability to move.
Their upper halves struggled to embrace Xu Huo’s legs, clawing and climbing up.
Expressionless, Xu Huo crushed one of their heads with his foot, then took out a lighter.
With a “click,” the wax figures in front ignited.
The wax figures themselves could not feel pain; they crowded together and quickly spread the fire from one to another.
The room was brightly illuminated by the flas.
Bai Wenxian, seeing this scene, frowned and abandoned the cooperation, heading first into the room ahead.
He soon disappeared around the corner.
After Xu Huo had set the fire and waited until half of the wax figures had burned without seeing any new activity, he looked up at the ceiling, ready to make his move, when suddenly he heard a woman’s laughter from ahead.
He looked down and saw a piece of a red dress floating past from the direction of the mortuary.
The red dress was the signature outfit of the protagonist in Bai Wenxian’s story.
Without a mont’s hesitation, Xu Huo chased after it and found himself back in the farewell room behind him.
There was no change in the room, so he circled around to the resting hall, only to see two children’s figures dart into the Strange Tale Room from the entrances on the left and right.
Want to lure him back?
Xu Huo turned a circle at the doorway and then walked back.
The Strange Tale Room would descend more than ten ters underground; at such a depth, if the room didn’t co back up and the lift shaft was blocked, escape would be very difficult—it was safest to stay above.
Although this place was not the ground either.
When Xu Ruosi was the first one to go out, he noticed that the elevator’s lifting height was unequal.
Even though the ti it took to ascend was the sa, there was a slight variation in speed.
Put simply, when they descended from the ground, the ascent left them slightly lower, which ant they did not return to the Wax Figure Gallery on the surface, but right below it instead.
And this underground level of the Wax Figure Gallery was identical to the area they had passed through before; most likely, the entire venue had lifting capabilities.
If the Wax Figure Gallery always operated like this, then it would be too easy to make several persons disappear from this place.
However, he couldn’t feel the presence of any secret chambers or hidden passages nearby.
To make people disappear, there had to be sowhere to hide them…
After contemplating briefly, Xu Huo quickly returned to the front funeral ho.
The bed that had just been incinerated was once again moving towards the cremation furnace, and another Jie Ling was lying on the tal bed fra covered with wax oil.
His gaze swept over the body, and with a sword through the air, he severed the tracks beneath the bed.
With a toss and pull of the kite string, he yanked the person on the bed up!
Catching her, he gently tapped on the wax figure’s face; a thin layer of wax shell cracked and fell off, revealing the real human skin underneath.
“Wake up,” Xu Huo patted Jie Ling’s face.
The asphyxiated and unconscious Jie Ling gasped for air and woke up within seconds, and just then Bai Wenxian hurried back from the front.
Seeing the two, he paused and then said, “There’s a problem with the Wax Figure Gallery, we can’t get out from the front.”
“What do you an we can’t get out?” Jie Ling instantly beca alert.
Xu Huo let go of her and let her stand on her own while Bai Wenxian explained, “The main door of the Wax Figure Gallery has been sealed by a layer of tal.
I’ve used all my tools, but I can’t completely destroy this barrier.”
It would be normal if they couldn’t destroy it; even if they took the tal apart, there would either be stone or mud outside, making exit just as impossible.
Xu Huo was not in a hurry to get out right now.
He asked Jie Ling, “What happened to you?”
Fear crept into Jie Ling’s eyes, “The strange tale I told seems to have beco real.”
“The twins?”
“Right!
You saw them too?” Jie Ling said excitedly, “When I went out to get the clue, I got a shock.
There was a drawing of a pair of twins on the paper…”
“I saw it.” Xu Huo took out the letter.
“That’s it!” Jie Ling said, “When I got out, there were two wax figures outside, one of them was holding this envelope.
I guessed this might be a clue, but who knew that when I opened it, it was the strange tale I had told.
I planned to wait in the rest lounge for you guys, but suddenly a pair of hands pushed
into the Wax Figure Gallery from behind!”
“You said there were two wax figures outside when you ca out?
Did the other wax figure have anything with it?” Xu Huo asked.
Jie Ling, interrupted, collected her thoughts before answering, “It was just an ordinary wax figure, it didn’t hold anything…
The clue must have been taken by Xu Ruosi!”
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