Terror Infinity Volume 4 Chapter 1

Vol 4. The Grudge (2)

Chapter 1
Zheng and the other two waited until the area was crowded then came out from
under the trees. Since Yinkong’s clothes were stained with blood, Zheng gave her
his jacket put an arm over her shoulders just like a brother holding his little sister.
Jie and Yinkong looked at him in surprise. Zheng smiled calmly. “It looks more natural
this way. After we get inside the hotel, just chat about random stuff. Best if you can
keep a smile. We won’t attract attention this way… Hoho, is it alright to hold onto you
for a while, Yinkong?”
She turned her head away and replied coldly. “Doesn’t matter.”
Zheng and Jie realized her figure was so different when she took off her jacket. The
little girl’s chest was so big it instantly attracted the two men’s attention.
Although Yinkong didn’t care about their stares, her expression changed a bit when
Zheng put his jacket on her. So that was why she wasn’t annoyed when Zheng put
his arm around her.
“… Jie, Yinkong, I think our thoughts had gone into the wrong direction. Maybe it was
over confidence or maybe I lost myself after I came back from the real world, so much
that I forgot our original goal… to survive.”
“We all just want to survive.”
As the two of them looked confused, Zheng smiled bitterly. “Jie, do you still remember
what I said to you in the last movie? I said I will do my best to protect my comrades,
to trust and support them, then we will survive with the power of the team…
My thoughts went in the wrong direction. The problem is who can become my comrade?”
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“Like those normal people, they’re mentally weak and can drag us in danger, and
those that can betray us at critical moments are not qualified to become our comrades.
Yet I included all these newbies. This was a fatal mistake.”
“I will continue with my ideology. The power of comrades is very important. We
should trust and support each other. I won’t treat everyone as a number like Xuan
did! But I will change what I did wrong. Only people who gained the trust of everyone
in our team, have the talent, and pass a trial can become our comrade. As for those
normal people…”
Zheng fell into a silence when he reached these words. Jie and Yinkong looked at
him quietly.
“As for those normal people… I can offer them some help, like weapons and warnings,
but their lives won’t be a reason to put this team in danger. In necessity, I will abandon
normal people for the team. Xuan was right with this point. This is a cruel world,
everyone is just struggling to stay alive. We are the same…”
It didn’t take long for their bus to reach Sunlight Hotel. Thanks to it being the tourist
season, they easily mixed into the crowd and got into the stairs. They didn’t want to
take the elevator because of the smell of blood. It wasn’t until they climbed over a
dozen floors and opened the door to their room did they let out a sigh of relief.
Zero, Lan and Tengyi were having breakfast on a table. Aside from the bandage on
Tengyi’s head, they looked like they were in good shape. At least they didn’t panic
when the three opened the door.
Zero asked. “Doing well?”
Zheng replied with a smile. “Yeah, stayed in the darkness for a night. Fortunately we
haven’t been killed by the ghost…”
The atmosphere became relaxed. Zheng and the other two also sat down for breakfast.
After eating, Zheng had them sitting on the sofa then stood in from of them.
“I’m sorry.” Zheng bowed at them then said. “This was my fault. I forgot that the most
important thing as a leader… is to be responsible for the safety of my team, and not
for everyone like a savior. They want to live. We too want to live. Sorry… From now
on, I will only be responsible for our team. I can help newbies but I will not risk our
team to help them. At the same time, any newbies that want to join our team must
have the talent, be someone we can trust and over half our team have to agree…
Sorry! Let us do our best to survive!”
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The other five people looked at him in shock. Jie was the first one to jump up. “Zheng,
you don’t have to blame yourself. We were all too careless. We’re also responsible
for the loss of the scriptures…”
“No, I think he is right.” Yinkong adjusted the jacket and said calmly. “As a leader,
perhaps you don’t need to have overwhelming power, or an unparalleled intelligence.
What you need is to be able to identify and make use of everyone’s strengths. You
actually have the potential to bring together people around you. And anyone who
isn’t a team member… you have to view them as enemies before they become a team
member.”
Zheng smiled at her then her turned to Lan, who had been staring at him in a daze.
“Ok, that’s it for the self-blaming. Lan, aside from Xuan, you’re the best at deduction.
I want to ask why do you think God puts us through various horror movies.”
Lan blushed and forced herself to calm down. “Probably to have us experience horror?
Or to face death? No… If we include Xuan’s deduction, I think God wants us to
evolve, to break through the limitation of our body on the brink of death. Then evolve
and unlock the genetic constraint. If Xuan’s deductions are correct, I think this is the
only answer.”
Zheng nodded. “Right, I think so as well. God probably wouldn’t just want to put us
in the horror movies to die. There’s actually a method to solve or defeat the enemies
in each movie. In other words, God won’t put us in a hopeless situation.”
Jie finally got it. “You mean the scriptures were the hint God gave us? Fuck, those
two assholes…”
“No, I mean… uh, how should I put it. The scriptures may be one of the methods that
can fight the Ju On, but why should we be so scared of the Ju On?”
The other people were confused by what he said. Then Lan’s eyes lit up as she
thought of a possibility. Zheng continued with a smile. “Yes, why should we be afraid
of it? The main reason is that we can’t understand it. We had put ourselves in the
place of the movie characters! But we forgot that we aren’t actually people from this
world. We know that we are fighting against ghosts, even though we don’t know how
they attack but this is enough…”
“We don’t actually have to be scared of the Ju On. Just think of it as an Alien with
invisibility! Perhaps it will sneak up on us when we are not paying attention but it isn’t
something unbeatable, as long as we have the courage to fight it! It isn’t impossible
to kill the Ju On because we have the magical bullets!”
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Zheng’s words affected everyone. They had never encountered the Ju On face to
face since they came into the movie. The reason Zheng was so scared since the
beginning was because he put himself into the shoes of the movie characters. All
the victims died in the movies. In contrast if it was someone who hadn’t watched this
movie and he had a gun and magical bullets, he would probably have the courage
to fight the Ju On. Because he would only think of the ghosts as a monster, and not
an unbeatable and unavoidable curse!
Yes, just think of the Ju On as a monster, a monster that one can hit and kill!
“Now then, we have just to verify one thing. That is if the magical bullets can damage
the ghosts from the Ju On!”
After Zheng finished talking and was about to assign them tasks, the communication
device he was carrying started vibrating. He quickly turned it on and there came the
familiar voice.
“This is Xuan…”
Zheng replied immediately. “Is it Xuan? Where are you? What was that creepy noise
from last night? Hello?”
“… If you hear this message, that means I am dead. This message will be sent twelve
hours after I died. As my final message… being able to meet all of you… thank you.”
“Then let me verify my last conjecture…”
“Immune to physical damage? Illusion? Or perhaps… Arnold, attack!”
“As expected… no rewards. And it takes a large amount of magical bullets to eliminate
a ghost…”
Xuan’s voice was sent through the device and along with it, the sound of gunshots.
Zheng put the device on the coffee table.
“Arnold, be cautious of your back, the ghost is likely to attack the one that damaged
her.”
“… Physical contact causes you to lose control of the body?”
“Must attack every part of the body…”
Another round of gunshots and the sound of a large object falling onto the ground.
“Still no reward, does the number seven hint at…”
“The ghost becomes stronger after every wave… I’ve killed it three times so this is
the fourth wave?”
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“The fourth wave!”
“No! Still no reward, no notification. It will continue…”
After a period of silence, they heard a quarrel between a man and woman. Then the
woman screamed and shortly after followed by the sound of a knife slashing onto
meat.
“Illusion? Or…”
“The attacked part disappears then goes into my intestines. How did he do it? Not
physical and not a mental attack… A spirit type attack that’s unexplainable by science.”
“It can’t not exist. In other words, attacks are normally ineffective. Only the moment
he attacks you…”
“… Feels so bloated. I still prefer delicious looking food…”
“The fifth wave is… over!”
Then came the creepy kakaka sounds, as if the ghost making the sounds right into
the device.
“Invisible? Or is it… inside my body?”
“So this is the sixth wave? Attacking organs from inside…”
After a few more shots was the sound of another object falling onto the ground.
“Zheng, this is my last hint… Thank you…”
That was the end of the message.
“Xuan…”
Zheng sighed. He took a deep breath then said to Lan. “Lan, can you deduce what
happened during this message? I can remember every word, can you try to analyze
it?”
Lan gave him a strange look, then nodded lightly. “It began with Xuan encountering
the Ju On, probably quite far away from him. That was why he could still talk while
shooting. He used normal bullets in the first round, which was why he said ghosts
are immune to physical damage. Then he had Arnold attack it, this time with magical
bullets…”
“Then?” Zheng sat down and thought for a moment. “Did Arnold kill the ghost? No,
if he did then what attacked him afterward? The other ghost?”
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Lan also thought for a bit. “Maybe it was eliminated temporarily. Then it comes back
even stronger. That’s what he probably meant… He warned Arnold to be careful of
his back. Probably because the ghost had already reached Arnold. So he said don’t
get in contact with it. Then…”
“Then Xuan killed Arnold along with the ghost.” Zheng sighed.
Lan nodded. “Xuan didn’t say a word after that. There were only gunshots and
creepy noises. He was shooting nonstop during this period. I think he probably
encountered many ghosts, so many that he couldn’t get a chance to talk. This is the
fourth wave of attack.”
“Then the fifth wave, the quarrel between a man and woman. This scene is also in
the movie. It depicted the formation of the Ju On. The husband suspected his wife
was cheating on him. So he killed her and hid her body in the attic. I think Xuan saw
an illusion of this scene then got attacked by either Kayako or her husband.”
“He shot at it but found that the magical bullets were ineffective. So he waited for
the ghost to approach him. After he was attacked he found the part of him that got
attacked disappeared then went inside his intestines… Uh, such a disgusting method.
But since the ghost can attack us, we should also be able to attack it the moment it
attacks. That was probably how Xuan killed the ghost once more…”
Zheng mumbled. “Then the sixth wave was the ghost entering his internal organs?
Then… he’s…”
Lan touched her forehead. “Yes, Xuan is probably already…”
Zheng sighed deeply. He suddenly felt a little empty, just like a friend that was on
bad terms passed away. That calm and intelligent Xuan…
(Farewell, Xuan… I should be the one to thank you.)
Ten seconds later, Zheng’s mind came back to the present. “Let’s organize this information.
Xuan kept mentioning the number seven. He said God wouldn’t assign us
a number randomly. This seven is probably the number of times we have to defeat
the Ju On. I have some thoughts about this. Lan, do you get what I am thinking?”
Lan nodded and smiled. “It’s you that thought about what I was thinking… Ahem,
anyway, it seems like from Xuan’s message, the Ju On’s ghost comes back stronger
every time it gets defeated. Especially the sixth time. It’s almost unavoidable death…
So, that seven hints at the number of times it will come back. The seventh time…”
Zheng continued. “When the ghost appears for the seventh time, it will probably be
its main body. We just have to kill the last ghost then we can defeat the Ju On!”
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No matter what Xuan’s goal was, this message was as valuable as the scriptures. It
verified that the ghosts could be defeated and also gave them hope… The Ju On
wasn’t something they have to keep running away from. Sometimes horror wasn’t
scary, what was worse was when you didn’t even have the courage to resist. Perhaps
when you raise your weapon against it, it was just a slightly stronger monster. You
could also defeat it!
The rest of the afternoon was spent discussing how to defeat the Ju On. They could
guess that the first wave would start from afar then slowly approach you. At this point
you just had to attack it with magical bullets. These ghosts might be horrifying for a
normal person, but for them, as long as they could damage the ghosts, the rest was
easy.
The second and third waves probably appear from behind. They would have to attack
both the ghost and person.
“Bulletproof vest, we need five bulletproof vests. We also need six helmets to guard
against stray bullets. Zero, can you get them from the yakuza?” Zheng asked.
Yinkong suddenly said. “If it’s only bulletproof vests and helmets, I think I can get
them from the police network. But we will have to wait till tomorrow noon…”
Zero also said. “That’s about the same time I can get those.”
Zheng nodded. “Good, then I’ll leave it to you two. Please get them by tomorrow
noon. For the fourth wave, if we are going to get attacked by a lot of ghosts, I think
we need a large open area. Being in a room or a hallway would be disadvantageous
for us. I suggest that starting tonight, we will camp outside the park. It would be best
to pick one that’s over a hundred meters wide. Any opinions?”
Aside from Lan, everyone else nodded. Jie suddenly asked. “What about the fifth
wave? How should we deal with the ghost? We can only counterattack the moment
it starts attacking. And the part that gets attacked will go into your intestine…”
“So.” Zheng smiled. “So during the fifth wave, I will be the bait! I am very sensitive
to danger when I am in the unlocked mode. I will evade its attack and don’t forget I
have a weapon that counters ghosts, the Na ring. It’s a good opportunity to use the
Na ring to attack when the ghost closes in.”
“So let me be the bait for the fifth wave. That is the best plan for the whole team’s
safety!”
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Chapter 2
No time was wasted after their discussion. Everyone packed their stuff and checked
out. Then they went to the park.
The time was evening and the park was still rather crowded. The six of them found
some empty seats. Then Zero and Yinkong went to scout the place without a word,
while the other four people kept a lookout of the surroundings.
As the sky gradually darkened, people began to leave the park. By the time there
were only a few people left, Zero and Yinkong came back.
Zheng smiled and said. “Thanks for your work, have you checked the whole area?
Did you get attacked?”
Zero nodded. Yinkong replied. “Nothing happened to the charms. We’ve gotten
most of the area down. There are several retail buildings west from here suitable for
sniping. The other three sides are wide streets. If our gunshots attracted the police
after we eliminated the Ju On, we should run east. There’s a manhole to the sewers…
That’s all we have for now. It will take another day or two to get everything down.”
Zheng laughed. “No, that’s enough. We’re only afraid of the Ju On. Once we eliminated
it, we can surrender to the police. We will go back to God’s dimension after
seven days. So we don’t have to be afraid of the police.”
Zheng and the others sat together with their back to each other. A few groups of
patrols had walked pass them already. Of course there were no laws prohibiting
people to sit on the park at night. So the patrols didn’t do anything but they still
glanced at the six people occasionally.
“I placed two charms in between us. We will take turns guarding through the night,
two people at a time. If you see the charms start to burn, wake everyone up immediately.
If there are no objections, I will assign the groups.”
When the clock reached twelve, everyone started to feel a bit sleepy. They had lived
the past few days in constant fear after all. Aside from the night that they had the
scriptures, how could they had slept in peace?
“Then Zero and Yinkong in a group, Jie and Tengyi a group, Lan and me a group. Jie
and Tengyi will start with the first shift. I will take the second, and Zero will take the
third. Three hours each shift. Is it alright with everyone?”
Zheng was cautious when he assigned the groups. He put a veteran into each group.
Jie could handle Tengyi if something were to happen. Even though Zero was a bit
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weaker than Yinkong, he would wake everyone if Yinkong acted in any way strange.
Things like the scriptures being stolen shouldn’t happen again.
Three hours passed in the blink of an eye, especially when one was sleepy. Zheng
felt as though they woke him up right as he lay down. He slapped his face to wake
himself up. Though Lan didn’t have such willpower. She tried to open her eyes but
those eyelids felt so heavy. The sight looked so pitiful to Zheng.
“Lan, you can continue sleeping. I can take guard alone. It’s only paying attention
to see if the charms start to burn, one person is enough for this.” Zheng smiled and
said tenderly.
Lan shook her head with half open eyes. “No, talk to me. I will wake up when I start
talking.”
“Then we’ll have a chat…” Zheng thought for a bit but smiled bitterly. “But what should
I say? I’ll tell you a cold (lame) joke. A polar bear was bored so it starts pulling its fur.
By the time all its furs are gone…”
“No, no, don’t tell cold jokes. That’s all you ever say to me but they aren’t funny at
all…” Lan shook her head and sat beside Zheng. Then she slowly moved into his
arms.
Zheng froze, and without moving an inch he said. “Ok then… Then we will talk about
our current situation. Do you think I look like an idiot? I thought I am like a savior, but
in reality I can’t even guarantee the safety of my own life. Yet I was trying to save this
and save that person. I almost put my own team in danger for the newbies. No, I’ve
already put us in danger. If it wasn’t me, those scriptures…”
“If it wasn’t you, maybe we wouldn’t have went to look for the scriptures.” Even though
her eyes were still cloudy, she was starting to wake up. She leaned against his chest
and muttered.
“I don’t know how the others think but I feel safe when I am at your side… I’ve seen
so many similar things happened in the real world. People act indifferent when they
see someone gets robbed, but when they are the victims, they will complain about
everyone being apathetic… In this world, no one should have trusted anyone. People
would suspect and even attack each other. But the five of us sincerely followed you.
We all believe that if any of us are in danger, you will definitely do your best to save
us. That’s why this team exists.”
Zheng laughed bitterly then shook his head. “I’m not as great as you think. I just
want to combine everyone’s power to survive the horror movies… Compared to my
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idiotic kindness, Xuan’s methods are more effective. He can lead the majority back
alive but I may be leading you toward an abyss. Isn’t that it?”
Lan shook her head lightly. “I don’t know why but I felt pity toward Xuan. Every time
I see his emotionless face, it makes people feel like he’s very tired… Enough about
him, your kindness isn’t idiotic. It got a hold of our hearts. You just have to choose
the newbies more carefully next time. Please keep that kindness… If I or any other
team member is in danger, will you come save me?”
Zheng nodded seriously. “Yes, I will… I said I won’t leave behind any member that I
acknowledged. If it is his fault that he got in danger, I will put the team’s safety ahead,
but if he got in danger for the team, I will go save him even if I am the only one left!”
“Really? You’re…” Lan started crying on his chest. She muttered. “Why are you so
similar to him? You’re an idiot, baka. Why do you have to act like a Samaritan… why!?
No one will remember you. Even I will forget about your face, your height, your smell
after a few years… Even I will forget about you, you idiot. Why are you a nice person…”
Zheng couldn’t move a bit. He just sat there in silence. Lan’s tears had soaked his
chest. Not only that, her hands held onto him tightly.
Time passed, when her crying started to fade, Zheng said. “If you want to talk, I will
listen quietly…”
Lan shook her head. Even though she had stopped crying, she still didn’t let go of
Zheng, as if this was the only way she could feel any safety. It wasn’t until they heard
a cough from behind them did she let go of him. Then she lay down on a chair without
looking at Zheng.
Zero and Yinkong had woken up. As they stared at Zheng quietly, he blushed and
also found a chair to lie down. Yet Lan’s crying still filled his mind.
They basically stayed together the whole time the next day. They ate some meals in
a restaurant then cleaned themselves up in a nearby hotel. Then they went back to
this park. When the sun set, it was the same guarding through the night in groups.
By the time it was Zheng’s turn, Lan sat next to him without a word and held onto
him.
Time flew by… It was already the seventh day. They just had to last seven more
hours, then they could go back to God’s dimension. Even though it was pity that they
couldn’t kill the Ju On’s main body but at least they could go back alive.
The park was crowded during the evening. They were all exhausted after these few
days of guarding throughout the night. That was why they started to rest during the
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evening.
Zheng was sleeping peacefully when he got woke up. His mind was still a little fuzzy
then he heard Jie’s voice. “Zheng! Lan is gone!”
“What’s gone?” Zheng jumped up and yelled. “Lan’s gone? Wasn’t she sleeping
here? How can she disappear suddenly? Where is the charm? Is it burning?”
Zero and Yinkong also woke up from the yelling. Jie replied hastily. “Tengyi and I
didn’t even take a break. We were paying full attention to the surrounding. The two
charms are also intact. There were a lot of people before, did she go away with the
crowd?”
Zheng had noticed the sky had darkened. The time should be about eight or nine
pm. When he was about to ask more questions, the communication device vibrated.
“Lan? Where are you? Why didn’t you tell us when you leave? We are worried about
you… Lan?”
He heard Lan’s crying through the device. “I don’t know what happened. I just suddenly
woke up from a chill and found myself in that room in Sunlight Hotel. I don’t
know how I got here, I was sleeping on the chair… Zheng, the charm I am carrying is
burning. I am scared…”
Zheng shivered. The charm was burning… that meant…
“Zero, Yinkong, wait at the sniping spot on the roof. We will communicate through
the device. Don’t shoot until I say so. The ghost’s next wave will attack the one who
attacked it… Jie and Tengyi, you guys wait here. If the ghost follows me, please open
fire…”
Zheng turned off the device and said to them hurriedly. Then he ran outside the park.
Jie shouted at him. “Zheng! Where are you going?”
“To keep my promise! And… to save our team!”
A team existed because it had the ability to unite people with common interests.
Their current common interest was to survive with the help of each other. This was
one of the most powerful common interests, but it was his promise to never leave
anyone behind that got them together. Even without this promise… he would still go.
Otherwise this team would cease to exist and… he would live under Xuan’s shadow!
The way to Sunlight Hotel from the park wasn’t far. Though it would still take a few
minutes if he were to run there. Zheng’s thoughts became clearer as the situation
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got more urgent. He didn’t see any taxis on the road so he blocked in front of a car
passing by. As the car was going to hit him, he jumped straight into the driver’s seat.
The owner of the car was shocked that someone suddenly ran out from the side. He
immediately stepped on the brake but the car still moved ahead due to inertia. Then
the front window shattered and the owner fainted from the impact.
He only felt a little dizzy from the intense impact. After a few deep breaths, he refreshed
himself. He pushed the owner off the car and apologized. Then blocked the
door and flew to the hotel.
“Lan, what’s the situation? Don’t cry, tell me the current situation!” Zheng stepped on
the gas pedal and shouted to the communication device.
Lan slowly stopped crying and muttered. “I haven’t seen the ghost yet. The charm
is burning slow but if I approach the door it will burn out very fast. I only have four
charms left, I can’t get near the door anymore… Zheng, what is that sound, are you
driving?”
“Rest assured, I will be at the hotel within two minutes! Wait for me no matter what!”
“No! I don’t allow you to come here! Please don’t come, the Ju On will kill you…
Please, no one will remember you. If you died, people who love you will be sad…
Lori will be so sad.” Lan suddenly got emotional, her voice was almost shouting.
Zheng was quiet for a bit then said. “This is the promise I made to you… I also
promised Lori. I won’t die no matter what, I will survive… I will keep my promises,
so I will definitely live!”
With a squeak, the car slid on the road for over ten meters then stopped. Zheng
kicked open the door and sprinted toward the hotel. He was inside the hotel before
the receptionist could react.
Zheng ran up through the stairs. His speed was very fast already but he still heard
Lan’s cry through the device. “No more charms!” Followed by gunshots from upstairs.
(Speed! Speed!)
Zheng screamed silently in his mind. He desperately recalled the feeling he had
when he unlocked his genetic constraint. After some time, he felt something within
him had unlocked. This was the first time he tried to unlock it when there weren’t any
immediate danger… and he succeeded!
Yet it came with a price. Zheng spit out several gulps of blood. He felt worse than
dying, his muscles were convulsing and cramping, he felt as if a hand was stirring
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in his stomach, and his bones were crackling. If it wasn’t that his charms were still
intact, he would have thought the ghost had attacked him.
Along with the pain was a sensation of power even greater than the previous times
he had unlocked the constraint. The countless fighting instincts, the ability to sense
danger, and the techniques to use his strength made him feel so powerful.
If someone was to see Zheng’s movements right now, they would be scared. Because
he was running on all fours on the wall. His speed was so fast that kept him
on the wall without falling… just like a beast.
“Ah!”
Zheng screamed as he got to the floor Lan was in. At the same time, the charm in his
pocket started to burn. It was burning faster and faster as he moved closer to Lan.
Then he saw the suite with an opened door.
The situation inside enraged him. Lan was standing there shivering. A pale white
hand reached out from behind her and grabbed her neck. Then a woman’s head
appeared next to her shoulder.
Zheng sprinted over to Lan and placed a charm on her face. That pale woman fell
back while making the kakaka sounds as if she just got burned. Once she got away
from, Zheng took out his submachine gun and sprayed at her. This woman was
laughing hideously as the magical bullets dispersed her.
Lan fell on the ground once the ghost got away from her. Then her body started
trembling. The charm on her face was burning even faster. It only took a moment for
the whole charm to finish burning. But the paleness on her face gradually subsided
and blood started to come back.
“The second…” Lan tried to open her mouth. But she was so weak right now that her
voice was barely audible.
Fortunately Zheng was in the unlocked state and could hear her voice. He held onto
her while he took out his last charm and placed it on her face. He asked in a hurry.
“Second what?”
“The second… that’s the second wave…”
The second wave, then the third wave is also going to be from behind?
Zheng’s eyes became sharp. He put down Lan and ran to the nearest wall. He ran up
to the wall as that feeling of danger swept at him. Then a pale hand appeared from
behind his neck but before the hand could reach him, he turned himself around in
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midair and punched at it… using the hand that was wearing the Na ring. He channeled
his Qi to the ring and the punch went straight through the woman. The invisible field
surrounding the ring was like acid. The woman immediately disappeared once the
field touched her.
“This is the third wave. Then the fourth wave… getting attacked by a lot of ghosts?”
Zheng immediately ran over to Lan after he landed on the floor. Just as he brought
her into his arms, the kakaka sounds came from every direction, like several hundred
ghosts were making these creepy sounds nonstop. The feeling of danger reached
its extreme. It was a sense of terror like death was looming in.
The first pale farm reached in from the door. A pale woman with a twisted body was
crawling in on the wall. Then there was a second, and third…
Zheng started spraying with his gun. Even though the gun wasn’t too powerful, it
was fast and could carry a fair amount of bullets at a time. After killing off ten women,
a sense of danger came from behind. He turned around just to see more arms were
crawling up from the windows. He ran over to the window after shooting them off
then he suddenly calmed down when he looked out the window.
The roads outside the hotel were packed with these pale women. There were almost
a thousand from what he could see and who knew how many more beyond the roads.
There deaths were only a matter of time…
“Lan, do you believe me? Even if it looks like death…”
Lan had recovered a bit of energy. She nodded lightly and said. “Yes. Even if you
want me to die… I will still believe you.”ff
“Ok!”
Zheng wrapped Lan inside his bulletproof vest… Just like that time he carried Lori.
They were held together tightly.
“Hold onto me! Believe me… we will survive no matter what!”
Then Zheng screamed in pain. To Lan’s shock, his right arm started to enlarge in
visible speed. It looked three times as thick as a normal person’s arm. The puffed
muscle felt like a mutated organism.
“So this is the second stage of the unlocked mode… Hold on to me! Lan!”
Zheng held onto her with his left hand, and onto the progressive knife with his mutated
right hand. He shattered the window with a kick then jumped down the hotel.
It was the twelfth floor of the Sunlight Hotel…
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“Ah!”
Right as Zheng jumped out, he stabbed the knife into the wall. The two of them
started falling rapidly along with the split on the wall caused by the knife.
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The knife’s sharpness was unparalleled. It sliced the wall all the way as they fell.
When they got to the sixth floor, the knife finally stopped its vibration. But the inertia
still kept them going down. Zheng’s arm absorbed the force that was generated by
the sudden drop in speed.
Even his mutated arm was almost not enough to sustain this force. He felt pain from
his arm along with the sound of muscle and bones pulling apart. It was as if his whole
arm was pulled off. But being in the unlocked mode allowed him to suppress the pain
signals instantly.
“Ah!”
Zheng pulled out the knife, shook it and immediately stabbed it back in the wall. Then
he and Lan continued falling as the knife regained its vibration…
When they got to second floor, the vibration stopped again. Zheng pulled out the
knife and jumped down. His landing generated two cracks on the concrete ground.
Then he sprinted toward the car he used to get there.
Numerous ghosts closed in from all sides. Zheng sprayed at them with the gun as
he ran. His right arm had returned to normal but it was red and swelling, and a lot of
the blood vessels were broken.
“Lan! Can you drive? Can your arms and legs move?” Zheng shouted when he got
the chance.
Lan also shouted in reply. “Probably, but I don’t have any energy to step on the gas
pedal.”
“Good! I’ll leave the driving to you!”
Zheng got to the car and emptied his gun. He carried Lan inside then took off the
bulletproof vest at once. He stepped on the gas pedal and shouted. “Hurry! Take
control of the wheel!”
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Lan immediately held onto the wheel with both hands. The car started driving along
the road. She was sitting on Zheng’s laps like a little girl. Before she had the chance
to think of anything strange, Zheng started trembling violently. It was trembling from
extreme pain, the pain that came after unlocking the constraint.
A minute later, Zheng began calming down from the pain. He exhaled and said. “We
were lucky. We escaped before my unlocked state ends. Lan, how did you suddenly
get to Sunlight Hotel?”
Lan moved a bit from unease. “I don’t know. I was sleeping then suddenly a large
door appeared in my dream. I opened it then walked inside. When I woke up, I was
already in that room.” She began sobbing as she said this.
“… I’m sorry. I almost got you killed back there…”
Zheng smiled tenderly. As he was about to comfort her, his expression changed.
He turned around and saw a crowd of ghosts following behind the car. They were
crawling faster than the car was moving.
“What’s wrong? What’s there behind?” Lan felt Zheng turned his body then asked.
Zheng immediately took out a magazine from the ring and put it in his gun. “Focus
on driving. We just have to get back to the park. Jie and the others are waiting there.
We will have enough firepower to kill all these ghosts!”
The ghosts in the front were getting so close the car. At the same time the park also
came into view. Zheng said. “Don’t stop! Drive into the pedestrian street. They will
open fire when they see these ghosts. Then we will stop.”
It was almost 10pm, yet there were no one in the park, not even the patrols. Zheng
also just realized there were no other cars on the whole way they were driving. Did
everyone disappeared when the ghosts attacked?
As he was thinking, gunshots came from the other side of the park. When he carried
Lan out of the car, he saw Jie was standing there with a heavy machine gun.
Jie looked excited as he sprayed at the ghosts. Tengyi was also looking fanatical as
he was holding on the ammunition belt for the machine gun.
“Shit, this feels so good. We were getting scared by these ghosts the whole time and,
it’s so satisfying killing them!” Jie shouted as he looked at those ghosts.
The ghosts couldn’t get near them under this firepower. They also returned to their
normal crawling speed once Zheng got off the car. When the machine gun ran out
of ammunition, there were only a hundred ghosts left.
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Zheng and the others finished these hundred ghosts with ease. Then they let out a
sigh of relief. Even though they had a machine gun, the amount of ghosts still looked
horrifying. They didn’t have enough to give each ghost a piece if they didn’t have
the magical bullets.
“Wow you guys, where did you attract so many of them?” Jie let out a sigh of relief
and asked.
Zheng and Lan forced a smile but before they get to answer, the area in front of them
lit up. A series of shoji appeared and a man and woman were quarreling behind the
shoji.
“It’s the fifth wave. Everyone stop attacking, just don’t attack. Leave the first round to
me!” Zheng shouted to everyone. He even repeated it to Zero and Yinkong through
the communication device to make sure they heard it.
The shoji gradually opened up. Behind them were indeed a man and a woman having
a quarrel. The scene in front of them was exactly the same as the one Xuan saw.
Kayako’s body was dismembered, and that man started walking toward Zheng while
holding a knife… No! Even Kayako’s body was crawling toward Zheng in twisted
motions.
(Really no sense of danger, as if there was nothing around me… Come on, unlock the
constraint again. Hope my body can still take it!)
Zheng’s eyes became sharp. He experienced the sensations from unlocking the
second stage again. His muscles and bones convulsed violently, but this pain quickly
went away. The other people saw him spit out several gulps of blood then sprinted
toward the ghosts.
“Wind… wind spirit!” Lan’s expression changed. She took out a little glass sphere and
yelled.
Zheng suddenly felt his body became lighter as he was running. His speed increased
by about 30%. He had already reached the man by this time. That man raised his
knife and slashed at Zheng. He felt a sense of danger the moment that knife was
about to touch his chest and jumped sideways without any hesitation. Then he struck
the man’s head with his left hand while activating the ring’s energy field. The man’s
whole upper body was crushed instantly.
“Great!” Jie and the other people yelled excitedly after the man’s upper body was
crushed.
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Zheng also felt relieved. Even though he didn’t know why his speed suddenly increased,
but it allowed him to evade the man’s attack. The other ghost would be
much easier to deal with now that he killed one.
Yet before he had the chance to turn to Kayako, fog began to gather around the
man’s upper body. A few seconds later, it recovered without any damage. At the
same time, Kayako had crawled next to Zheng.
(What’s wrong? Why wasn’t the attack ineffective? What’s wrong with Xuan’s hint?)
Zheng immediately jumped backwards and dodged the two ghosts’ attacks. Now he
was presented with another problem, and that was the end of Xuan’s hints. He didn’t’
know what will happen in the sixth wave. He didn’t even know how to survive this
fifth wave.
Zheng tried to approach Kayako, and sensed the same danger when she was about
to touch him. He dodged to the side and sprayed at her with the submachine gun.
Just like before, she was dispersed but quickly recovered.
(What should I do? What should I do now? Attacks are only effective the moment
they attack, and it seems like I have to kill both of them at the same time, otherwise
they will recover… What should I do? What… will Xuan do in this situation? If it’s him…)
Jie and the other two people saw Zheng suddenly stopped. He gave them a feeling
of calmness or perhaps, apathy. He held out his right arm right in the center of the
two ghosts.
The two ghosts closed in on him. Zheng stepped forward the moment that knife
and Kayako were going to touch his arm. He focused Qi on his left arm and punched
through the man’s waist and into Kayako’s head. All of that happened in an instant. As
Zheng went through their bodies, both his right arm and the two ghosts disappeared.
“Uh… so bloated, I still prefer to eat… uh? Like to eat what?”
Zheng’s expression changed. He exited from his simulation of Xuan. Jie and the
others ran over to him with surprise. Especially Lan, she jumped into his chest.
Jie patted his shoulder and said. “Bravo, that made our hearts clenched. When did
you become so strong? You even sacrificed your whole right arm, you’re not scared
huh?”
Zheng smiled bitterly and turned to Lan. “Lan, what was that wind spirit? Why did I
feel like my speed increased a lot?”
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Lan got away from him coyly then smiled. “It’s the enhancement path I am taking. I am
going for enhancements in magic. But almost all enhancements from this category
require ranked rewards so I only exchanged an acceleration magic for now. Surely
you don’t expect a girl to run around with a gun right?”
Zheng suddenly sensed the same danger again. Though this sensation was not as
strong as it was previously. It almost felt a little too faint. He was confused by the
sensation. This didn’t seem like an attack from inside like Xuan had said. If it was,
the sense of danger should be much stronger than it currently was.
“Everyone be careful, something’s not right. Do any of you feel… Lan? Lan!”
Zheng was about to warn them to beware of their body then he suddenly saw Lan’s
face turned pale. Blood gushed out of her nose and mouth along with some fragmented
pieces of internal organs…
“Lan! Trust me! None of us will die!”
Zheng shouted as he pulled Lan toward him. Then he focused all his Qi on his left
hand and struck at her stomach…
The power of this punch could easily go through Lan’s body, but Zheng had extremely
fine control over his strength in the unlocked mode. His fist barely hit the skin of Lan’s
stomach. The real attack was the force field generated from the Na ring.
With a boom, they felt as if something had disappeared after the fist hit her. Lan
relaxed her forehead then fell backward. Zheng got a hold of her with his left hand.
Her eyes were still closed and her face was pale. Dark blood was gushing out of her
nose and mouth.
“Jie! Keep an eye on the surroundings please.”
Zheng shouted then he placed Lan on the ground and stripped her clothes. To the
other two men’s shock, he slashed open Lan’s stomach.
It immediately bursted out a lot of dark blood along with some fragmented pieces of
flesh and internal organs. Zheng took a careful look inside it and saw that a large
part of her intestines were cut off, and some other organs were also attacked. There
was massive bleeding going on.
Zheng couldn’t help the other organs but he took out the hemostasis spray and
stopped the bleeding on her intestines then wrapped her up around the waist with
bandage. It wasn’t until all this was done did her face reagined some color. But her
breathing was still very weak, as if it was going to stop at any moment.
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Zheng took a deep breath and stood up. Before he got to say anything, he saw the
whole place was surrounded by normal people. They saw the whole process when
Zheng slashed open Lan’s stomach and were standing there in terror and shock. Jie
and Tengyi were looking at these people in confusion.
“What happened? Why is there suddenly so many people?” Zheng asked Jie.
Jie answered in confusion. “I don’t know. Some normal people suddenly appeared
then there was more and more. There are so many now just like when it was at ten
normally… Did we eliminated the Ju On’s main body?”
Zheng placed Lan on the ground carefully. He was confused also. “It can’t be. I
haven’t received any rewards… wait, do you hear anything?”
“Hear what?”
Jie and Tengyi listened carefully, but aside from the noise from the crowd, there was
no other sound. As they were about to ask Zheng, they suddenly heard the kakaka
sound coming from the crowd. This sound was getting louder and louder then a huge
pale woman stood up from the center of the crowd.
“Ah!” Tengyi yelled from the scene. Zheng and Jie immediately fired at the woman.
It seemed like the crowd didn’t notice the woman. They started panicking when
Zheng and Jie pointed the guns at them, and anyone that touched the huge woman
fell to the ground unconscious. Yet the normal people couldn’t seemed to be able to
see her. As more and more people fell to the ground, the crowd was getting into a
chaos.
That huge woman was over ten meters tall. She started crawling toward Zheng’s
group swiftly. As she was getting closer and closer, suddenly a bullet shot through
her head from above with a loud bang. The bullet crushed her head and even several
normal people on the way then went into the ground. Those normal people died
instantly.
Zheng clenched his teeth. “Attack! Ignore the normal people. She’s still growing. It
seems like she can absorb the souls of the people she killed. Attack! It’s better if we
can also scare these people away!” Then he pulled the trigger on the submachine
gun.
Jie and Tengyi also started firing their guns. Yet, this huge ghost kept recovering the
damage by gathering up like fog. Only the first shot from the Gauss sniping rifle delt
huge damage to her. The magical bullets from the submachine guns barely had any
effect. She quickly recovered then started crawling at them again.
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Yet another loud bang. The sniper shot crushed her whole leg this time. She was
only seven meters away from the four of them.
“Tengyi! Carry Lan and run away! Run as far as you can and don’t attack her! Jie,
drive away all the normal people… or kill them! If the police come, do you best to
hold them off… It’s 11pm. Just one more hour, just one more hour and we can go back
to God’s dimension! Don’t die!”
Zheng quickly assigned everyone’s responsibilities then he sprinted toward the
ghost. He raised his left hand and struck the ghost’s other leg when her mobility
was still impaired. The Na ring was such an amazing counter to spiritual beings. His
punch dispersed the ghost’s leg immediately. It was so much more powerful than
magical bullets.
Then he sprayed the ghost’s body with the gun as he ran around her. The ghost tried
to catch him with her arms but those movements seemed so slow in Zheng’s eyes.
He just had to be careful and not get caught, the ghost couldn’t do anything to him.
Another loud bang, the sniper shot struck again and crushed the ghost’s head. Zheng
made use of the opportunity and dispersed the ghost’s left arm completely. She
seemed to be unable to attack anymore. They just had to hang in there a little longer,
there was even a possibility to eliminate the ghost.
(We can win! We can definitely win… uh?)
As Zheng was about to use another attack with the ring. A pale hand suddenly extended
out from his back, and at the same time the woman’s head extended out from
his shoulder. His whole body was already unable to move by the time he sensed the
danger. All his stamina and Qi was absorbed by that hand… His body was gradually
turning pale. His gun fell off his hand to the ground.
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Zheng’s strength was gradually disappearing. His eyelids felt heavier and heavier.
Hopelessness started to fill his heart.
Strength, Qi, and stamina were all disappearing, he event felt that his life energy was
disappearing. His consciousness was fading away for every second that passed. It
wasn’t until now that he got a clearer look of the woman. Her body was made out of
numerous faces in pain. The faces of those that were killed by her.
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Zheng’s vision was going out of focus. He felt as if his spirit was being pulled out of
his body by that pale hand. His sense of danger had reached an extreme, as if he
was going to die in the next second. Suddenly he felt he heard a boom. A stream of
hot energy gushed out from his head then repelled the pale hand. This energy had
corrosive properties and also lit the hand on fire. The ghost on Zheng’s back was
shortly burned into nothingness.
Yet that energy not only burned the ghost, it circulated into every part of Zheng’s
body. Zheng could feel the burning just like being scalded by boiling water. That
pain was as intense as when he unlocked his constraint. Even though he shut off the
pain signals in his body, he still shouted out in pain.
The blood energy! Unlike how he used the blood energy instinctively in the last
movie, this energy was now totally released from his head and filled his whole body.
Zheng’s eyes were bloody red. The world from his eyes was painted with blood. And
the ghost became a light green color weaved from numerous twisted human bodies.
That huge woman was actually created from numerous ghosts. Zheng could make
out several familiar faces, the red faced man from the beginning of this movie, and
even Bingyi was in there. In other words anyone that was killed by the Ju On became
part of it. It absorbed all their hatred. Looking through these ghosts, Zheng saw a
woman with a twisted face in the center of the body that looked just like a mini version
of the huge ghost. That was the main body of Kayako!
Zheng was still out of strength. He rolled away on the ground then took out the
communication device.
“Zero, can you see the chest of the ghost? Kayako’s main body is around that location…
Zero?” Zheng muttered in a faint voice.
“… Zero was attacked from his back. I only managed to save him but he’s out of
strength now… You have to wait ten minutes for him to recover enough strength to
snipe.” Yinkong’s voice came through the device.
Zheng fell into a silence. He and Zero did the most damage to the ghost so both
of them were attacked. As the ghost was gradually recovering, they were trapped
in a dire situation. He couldn’t find a way to kill it… Were this the end of their lives?
Getting wiped when there was only less than an hour left?
(No, I don’t want to die, I will live!)
“Yinkong, protect Zero. I’ll leave him to you. I will hold the ghost for ten minutes…
Then I’ll leave my life to you two!”
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Zheng struggled to get up from the ground. His stamina and Qi were almost empty
and the blood energy didn’t have the property to enhance his stamina like Qi. It only
increased his recovery rate. Zheng ran to the submachine gun on the ground. The
ghost had recovered her upper body by this time and her legs were about to be
completed.
Zheng’s speed was much slower than before. The ghost swiped at him with that
huge hand as he picked up the gun. He didn’t have any time to think and forced out
his blood energy while he rolled away. His upper body nearly dodged the pale hand
but it still grazed his shoulder.
Fortunately the blood energy easily corroded the area of the hand that touched him.
Then the energy spread to the rest of the hand and burned it away. Of course Zheng
also felt that the energy in his body gradually lessened.
Zheng too a deep breath then turned around and ran. But he laughed in bitterness
after only a few steps.
All the normal people had ran away from the park. Jie and Tengyi was guarding on
the edge. While there were sirens coming from far away, the cops hadn’t reached this
place yet. Yet the ghosts of Kayako began appearing on the edge of the park. Their
number was getting higher and higher until the whole park was filled with ghosts.
There were at least several hundred if not more. And the huge ghost behind him
was almost done recovering and about to start crawling. He was out of strength,
stamina, and Qi.
“Are we really… really going to die? No, I will live no matter what!”
Zheng shouted in desperation. He gathered his last bit of strength and ran toward a
large clock in the center of the park… It was about ten meters tall, right at the height
of the huge ghost’s chest.
Zheng was out of strength. If it wasn’t for the acceleration buff on him, he would be
running at a jogging pace. It was then that he realized how important that buff was.
This buff increased his speed by a constant rate instead of a percentage. It wasn’t
too obvious when he was running at normal speed, but now that he was weakened,
it showed its importance.
Zheng finally reached the clock tower before the ghosts got to him. He sliced open
the door and then ran inside the tower.
The huge ghost had completely recovered by now. She stood up from the ground
and began moving toward the tower slowly. Zheng was panting heavily and realized
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the air around him was getting cold. The world through his eyes was bloody red
due to the blood energy circulating inside his body. He could also make out several
green and white shadows on the top of the tower. His senses told him that the little
ghosts were waiting there.
Since he didn’t have the Qi to activate the ring’s force field anymore, he put the knife
back into the ring and took out his submachine gun. However, he didn’t have the
time to change the magazine on the gun at this time. He only had half a magazine of
bullets to help him reach the top… The blood energy was his last hope. He wouldn’t
want to waste it unless he was forced to.
“Ah!”
Zheng cried in desperation as he pulled the trigger against the ghosts crawling down
from the top…
On another building far away from the top, Zero was lying on the roof in exhaustion.
The Gauss sniping rifle was right in front of him, yet there was no one that could use
it. Yinkong was standing next to Zero waving her hands against the ghosts crawling
toward them.
She wasn’t skilled with firearms but being able to unlock her genetic constraint and
the trainings as an assassin enabled her to fight in close range as good as Zheng.
She took out the gunpowder from the bullets then wore the shells on her fingers.
This enabled her to kill the ghosts with her hands.
The two of them were being surrounded as numerous ghosts crawled in from all sides.
If it wasn’t for Yinkong’s attacks in the unlocked mode, they would had drowned in a
sea of ghosts.
“How’s it? How much have you recovered? Enough to take aim?” She asked urgently
without turning her head.
Zero struggled to sit up from the floor and muttered. “No, my vision is blurry. I am
falling asleep. I can’t snipe under this condition… Give me one or two more minutes…”
Yinkong paused for a moment but when she started moving her hands again, her
movements were not as smooth as before…
Jie and Tengyi weren’t that much better off than the other two parties. They were the
first ones to encounter the ghosts since they were at the edge of the park. Fortunately
Jie reacted in time and opened fire at them immediately. Then Tengyi also started
shooting in a spin with his pistol.
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“Are we going to die? Jie, are we going to die?” Tengyi spurred out the words in
panic as he shot.
Jie suddenly turned around and punched him, knocking him to the ground. He
shouted. “Fuck you! Aren’t we still alive? If you want to die then run into them!
Don’t talk next to me!” Then he turned to the ghosts again.
Tengyi was dazed for a moment and then also started shooting again. He said to Jie
who was on his back. “Jie, if I make it out alive, I will pay you back this punch. Fuck…
my teeth are falling out.”
Jie laughed then said. “If we can live… if we can all live, I don’t give a fuck for a
punch…”
“Zheng… our lives are all on your hands. Don’t fail!”
Zheng didn’t know how many more stairs were ahead of him, nor how many more
ghosts were at the top. He couldn’t turn back anymore. The stairs behind him were
also filled with ghosts. He could only continue going up until he broke away from
this nightmare… If he didn’t want to die, then he has to reach the top!
Zheng kept running up the stairs as he sprayed at the ghosts. His legs couldn’t handle
the running anymore, if it wasn’t the last bit of will power holding him up, he probably
wouldn’t be able to raise his feet. It had already been a long time since he went into
unlocked mode. This was the longest duration since he got this ability. Just like in
Alien, his genetics were on the edge of breaking down… He had no way to go back
now!
He finally reached the top before the gun ran out of ammunition. He kicked open
the metal door leading to the rooftop as he emptied the remaining bullets. The huge
ghost was looking right at him behind the door and her hand was reaching for him.
“Ah! Go to hell!”
Zheng activated all his blood energy and sprinted out onto the roof and into the
ghost’s chest… where Kayako’s main body was at…

In the chest of the huge ghost was a middle aged woman (not Kayako)with a twisted
face and body. She screeched as Zheng touched her then dispersed into thin air.
After the first ghost was gone, the others started crowding up on him. Though the
blood energy was powerful enough to kill them with just a touch, the amount of energy
was draining so fast. It was already at 60 percent after only a few seconds.
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Jie and the others saw that the ghosts emitted a green light when Zheng touched
them. This was the light they gave off when they were dispersed but the intensity
of this light was slowly dying off. Which signified the amount of blood energy still
remaining. At the same time, he had corroded a hole in the chest.
“… Zheng! Is it you in the ghost’s chest?”
Zheng was concentrating intensely then he suddenly heard Yinkong’s voice through
the device. He shouted in reply. “It’s me… If I die, then run as far as you can. The
time is almost up. Ok, don’t talk to me. I don’t have the attention to spare!”
“… Why did you jump in there? Did you… find out the Ju On’s weak point?” Yinkong
said calmly.
“I… shit, yes! I found its weak point! Kayako’s main body is probably in the center
of the chest! Don’t talk to me, I can’t get distracted!” Veins were surfacing on his
forehead as he shouted.
“Zheng… I am Zero. I don’t know if I can lock onto the target, but it’s worth a try. I only
have enough stamina to make one shot… It’s too bright around you, when the light
dims down more, give me a signal!”
Zheng fell into a silence. He didn’t know how to respond because the light meant
that he still had the energy to corrode the ghosts. Once this light disappeared, he
would be overwhelmed by the numerous ghosts.
“Zero… you only have one chance. When the light disappears, shoot through my left
shoulder. That’s where the main body is!”
“… Ok!”
Once it was decided, Zheng didn’t try to preserve his energy anymore. He moved
forward as best as he can and corroded all the ghosts on the way. Within a few
seconds he was approaching the Ju On’s main body.
“Chu… Chu Xuan!”
Suddenly, he stopped upon seeing one of the ghosts. Unlike the others, this ghost
didn’t have the twisted face and body. He just looked like a normal person. If it wasn’t
the pale green skin, he would had looked identical to the real person.
Zheng didn’t corrode Xuan immediately. He had a sense of respect for this man. And
strangely, Xuan didn’t jump at him like the other ghosts. Instead, he walked around
Zheng and blocked several ghosts behind him. He even felt as if Xuan nodded at
him as he went past Zheng…
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“Was that an illusion? Or… Xuan! I am going to avenge you!”
That was the last ghost in front of him. The only one left was a human sized Kayako.
Zheng channeled all the energy to his left hand and struck him. As the blood energy
invaded her body, she showed an expression of pain for the first time. She twisted
her body trying to evade his fist but Zheng ignored the ghosts coming at him from
the back and just continued channeling the energy into Kayako. She slowly became
smaller and smaller as the energy corroded her from inside…
When the first ghost reached Zheng in the back, he had already spent every last
bit of energy. The ghost started absorbing his life force but Kayako’s size had also
reduced to one fifth already. Just one last attack… to eliminate her!
“Zero! Now!”
With a loud bang, Zheng felt a force enter from his left shoulder and started moving
toward his hand. Then the bullet exited his palm and struck Kayako, eliminating her.
The huge force crushed his arm completely and also opened a large hole in the huge
ghost’s chest.
Zheng then heard a woman wailing faintly, and was shortly joined by the wails of
numerous men and women. The ghosts that created the huge woman gradually
disappeared and Zheng started falling from midair. A pair of strong arms caught him
before he reached the ground.
“… We made it… Zheng, we… uh? I also received a reward…”
Zheng felt that he heard the voice of his comrades. In this moment… he felt he was
standing on the same height as Xuan… Perhaps his comrades will sometimes become
a burden, or a relentless leader can save the majority of the group. But supporting
and depending on each other, entrusting his life to the hands of his comrades… was
the team that he hoped for!
By the time he woke up, he was inside a beam of light. His whole body was itching
and in pain. But he was also getting invigorated along with the pain.
He turned his head to look down. A little girl was staring at him. Her eyes were filled
with tears but under those tears was a smile.
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Chapter 5
After a wave of repairs, all six of them in the platform sighed with mixed emotions. The
last hour of fighting was a roller coaster ride between life and death. The type that
gave them a glimpse of hope while pushing them into hopelessness. The experience
was worse than it was in Alien. Fortunately they made it back to God’s dimension
alive.
Lan ran into Zheng’s arms on the first opportunity, disregarding everyone else there,
even Lori who was also running toward Zheng. She cried out loud inside his arms.
Jie immediately went over to them while laughing and hugged both of them, which
made Lori feel better.
“Haha, no matter what happened, we are at least alive…” Jie laughed out loud.
It wasn’t until now that Lan let go of Zheng slightly blushing. She stood to the side
and gave the spot to Lori.
Lori jumped into Zheng’s arms and kissed him as if it was a revenge and declaring
her property. Which made Zheng looked around in embarrassment.
“… How many points did you get? We all received different amount of points.” Zero
suddenly said.
Zheng immediately closed his eyes to get in contact with God. The amount of points
he had shocked him, a total of 4177. He killed a newbie in the movie and that deducted
1000 points, but completing a movie rewarded 1000 also, so that evened out.
Then he still received 4100 points and even two rank C rewards. That confused him
quite a bit.
Zero said calmly. “I received God’s notification while I was still in the movie. It told
me I eliminated a part of Ju On and was rewarded 2300 points, and a rank C reward.”
Jie also said. “I got 1800 points and two rank D rewards.”
“1500 points and two rank D rewards.”

After going over the rewards, only Tengyi received the least, one rank D reward, even
Lan got two rank D rewards. Furthermore, everyone received least a thousand extra
points. Even though this movie was dangerous, the rewards were also generous.
“But… wasn’t Zero the one that got the final blow? If it wasn’t that snipe, we would
had all be killed.” Zheng asked.
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Lan touched her forehead and said. “Perhaps God rewards people depending on
their contribution for side quests. Like even though we all attacked the Queen in
Alien, but you were the only one to receive a reward. This is probably because killing
the Queen is a main quest whereas the main quest in The Grudge is surviving.”
The others accepted this explanation. If it wasn’t Zheng’s attacks in the last wave,
they would had all be dead by now. So they were fine with Zheng and Zero receiving
a large reward.
Since there were two new people, Jie explained to them how to use the rooms here
and arranged a meet up the next day to discuss their enhancements. Then everyone
aside from Tengyi went to their room. He stayed behind to create his human.
Zheng and Lori walked back to their room without a word. She said with jealousy.
“Stop thinking, the big breast babe has gone back to her room and she’s not coming
back… You can go over, I think she will allow you into her room…”
Zheng dazed for a bit then forced a smile. “No, that’s not what I am thinking… I am
just thinking do people still have a conscious after they died? Do they hate those
that are alive?”
“There are probably good ghosts. My grandma used to say to me that what goes
around comes around… She also told me many stories about ghosts returning a favor.”
“Returning… a favor?” Zheng recalled Xuan’s ghost. If he didn’t block the ghosts
behind Zheng, he might not have been able to last until Zero’s attack. Was this…
returning a favor?
Then… have you really died? Even with that wisdom of yours… Is he really dead?
An intimate night without words. The two fell asleep after exhausting themselves.
The next morning they were talking about the days in The Grudge while in bed. Lori
kept asking about every details. When it got to a breathtaking part, she would held
her hands to her mouth and opened her eyes wide, and when it got to how Zheng
almost died, she would sob in a low voice.
“Only another ten days, once ten days is over, you will have to go back into a horror
movie… Pervert, you have to come back alive.”
Zheng sighed deeply. He didn’t know how to respond. He suddenly came up with
an idea. “Lori, do you want to go to the beach? Of the most famous beaches in the
world, want to go to one in Hawaii? We will take a ten day trip, how’s it?”
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She was confused for a while, then got excited and rolled around in Zheng’s arms.
She kept asking things like. “Really? Is that real?”
“Yes, not only us but everyone will come along. Ten days is only… 100 points. We can
go take a break there.”
Although Zheng had already decided, he was still rather unease at using the points
for luxury. To them, 100 points equals a desert eagle. Even though it didn’t need any
ranked rewards to return to the previous movie, but 100 points for ten extra days of
resting was still wasteful.
Everyone gathered in the platform 10am of the next day. Before they get a chance
to say anything, a gold colored stone tablet took all their attention. This stone tablet
was floating five meters above the ground and emitted a gold light.
Yinkong was the first to arrive. She was still holding onto that book of hers. “Look at
it… there are some interesting information.”
When they focused onto the stone tablet, information appeared in their heads just
like when they were focusing on God.
“… When a team have three, or used to have three humans that had unlocked their
genetic constraints, this message will appear and stay in this dimension.”
“… We have all predicted that once a genetic constraint is unlocked to its fifth stage,
the final stage of the constraint, the organism will evolve into a higher tier organism.
The human world will then advance or wreak havoc at the thought of that organism.
In order to prevent the encounter of two or more high tier organisms from multiple
teams, which will cause the extinctions of human, we created the following rules…”
“… When a team have three, or used to have three humans that had unlocked their
genetic constraints, that team will encounter other teams that belong to God’s world
from another continent. Killing a member from another team will be rewarded… 2000
points and a rank C reward. Killing a member that had unlocked the genetic constraint
will be rewarded 7000 points and a rank B reward. Eliminating the whole
team will reward every member a rank C reward.”
“… There does not exist cruelty, justice, or evil… Only one team can survive till the end.
If you don’t want to die then surpass your limits and evolve…”
This message was obviously incomplete. When Zheng recovered from the shock, he
looked around at everyone who was in a daze.
Zheng coughed to get their attention. “Lan, analyze the meaning of this message.”
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Lan touched her forehead and said. “Wait a minute, my head is still in a chaos…”
“This message is probably left by the creators of this world. And because it appears
directly in our head, it will use words and language that we understand. Like the
genetic constraint was a phrase that Xuan told us…”
“… Secondly, it mentioned an important info, and that is we are not the only ones
in God’s world. In fact, I was suspicious of this for a while. Don’t you notice that
everyone who came into this world is Chinese? Even the Russian mercenary from
before was in China before he came here. That means there are probably other God’s
dimensions (central hub) from other continents, and they also have similar teams.”
“The last point is the creators don’t want two separate teams to return to the real
world. It can lead to a war in between the two teams in the real world due to a difference
in beliefs, language, and moral values. Such situations are very destructive,
like… If Zero has ten times the strength, speed, a unlimited ammunition Gauss sniper
rifle, and some other sci fi equipment, he can rival a whole army. Not to mention the
blueprints of advanced technologies that Xuan exchanged…”
Zheng said. “You mean we are probably going to encounter a team from another
continent in the next movie? And it will either be we all get killed or we kill them all?”
Lan shook her head. “It’s not that bad. Since we will be in a movie, then we should
still have to follow God’s restrictions and finish the missions or wait until time is up.
The reason for such high rewards for killing a member of the other team is probably to
entice the teams to start a war… I think both teams will be concerned of the other team
attacking first and gain an advantage… We will not only have to face the monsters
of the movie but also members of the other team… They will want to kill us just like
those monsters!”
Everyone fell into a silence. Just surviving through the movies was already so difficult
and now that they learned about encountering other teams in the movies. It was
either kill or be killed, so the choice was obvious. Then wouldn’t the other team
think in the same way? Following this reasoning, the war starts the moment they
encounters the other team.
Zheng thought for a bit then laughed. “Oh right, it mentioned that we will only encounter
other teams after three people unlocked their genetic constraints. Yinkong
and I both unlocked ours, someone who died also unlocked theirs. Aside from this,
do you think it’s easy for people from other teams to unlock their constraints? Maybe
our team is one of the strongest team. Haha, so don’t worry too much. We will discuss
our enhancement paths first.”
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These words calmed the others but a shadow had already been cast onto their hearts.
Live on… only one team can return alive?
Zheng looked at the tablet and sighed silently.
Since the announcement had been made, they had no choice but to accept reality.
Then they began to discuss enhancements.
Due to the amount of points and valuable ranked rewards they earned this time, everyone
had the opportunity to exchange stat enhancements or a higher tier weapon.
Zero naturally chose to expand in his long distance sniping ability. Along with increasing
his stats, he also exchanged a rank C enhancement, Druid Hawk’s Eyes.
“What’s this enhancement?” The others asked curiously.
“Druid Hawk’s Eyes, rated 68/100. Suitable for long distance sniping and movies
with large battlefields. Effective against most enemies. No special effects. Enhances
vision for action and perception. Requires a rank C reward and 1000 points.”
Zheng and the others nodded. Instead of choosing an all rounded enhancement,
focusing on what one was best at was better for the team. Of course, choosing this
path wouldn’t increase an individual’s survivability much.
“I have considered carefully. A sniper usually won’t be in a dangerous position. And I
didn’t enhance my sniping ability but rather my vision. It will be useful even in regular
combat. No problem.” Zero explained calmly.
As to the other assassin, Yinkong, she exchanged her enhancements without a word
to the others. After she was done, a dagger in a leather sheath appeared on her
hand. She unsheathed the dagger. It was burning with a light blue flame.
“Hellfire Fang! Two rank D rewards and 2000 points. Effective against spiritual beings!
Can burn the souls of any organisms… A magical weapon.” Then she sheathed
the dagger without taking another look at the other people.
Zheng also connected with God. He closed his eyes and began searching for a
weapon suitable for him. He also chose magical weapons because fo the difficulties
against the ghosts. However, a blood energy spell scroll - Red Flame grabbed his attention
in the end. The description of this item was: Instruct the usage of Red Flame,
requires the blood energy of a Vampire Viscount. Can burn anything, especially effective
against organisms. Requires a rank C reward and 2000 points.
This was probably an enhancement belonging to the skill category. He took a look
at top tier enhancements before, and some of them were skills from Wuxia. Like a
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QingGong that required a rank A reward and a huge amount of points. In comparison
this spell was a low tier skill and it just happened to be usable by his current Vampire
rank.
Zheng did some calculations. He had 4177 points and two rank C rewards. So even if
he exchanged this skill, he would still have enough points for other items, like magical
bullets or a better weapon. And this skill was especially effective against spiritual
beings, which attracted his attention.
“Blood energy spell scroll - Red Flame!”
Once Zheng exchanged the scroll, the scroll disappeared in a smoke on first contact.
Instructions on how to use the spell appeared in his head. An enormous amount of
information streamed into his head so suddenly that he felt it was going to burst. It
took over a ten seconds to calm down. At the same time he began to organize this
information.
“Channel the blood energy out of the body then imagine it becomes a blood colored
flame. Control it with your mind…”
Zheng read it in his mind. The blood energy had moved from his head into every
part of his body during the last movie. So it was rather easy to manipulate it now.
The energy slowly surfaced on outside his body under his control then he imagined
it becoming a blood colored flame…
“Ah!”
As the others cried in surprise, Zheng opened his eyes immediately. His skin was
covered in a blood colored flame. Although it was not bright, the smell of blood was
intense.
Zheng became excited. He loosed his concentration and the fire faded away, and
finally absorbed into his body.
Lan was the first to recover from the surprise. He ran over to Zheng and carefully
looked at his body. After finding out that there were no injuries, he asked. “Zheng,
what happened? Are you… alright?”
Zheng couldn’t look at her straight in the eyes. He nodded then turned to the others.
“Haha, sorry to worry you guys. I was testing the skill I just exchanged. It seems quite
strong, but unfortunately there are no ways to test it here. We will have to wait until
the next movie and test it on the monsters.”
After everyone recovered from the surprise, Zero and Yinkong were standing on a
distance calmly and Jie and Tengyi ran over to him in excitement. They and Lan
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started asking questions about the skill, and it lessened his embarrassment when
facing Lan.
Zheng explained a bit. He emphasized the skill consumes a huge amount of energy.
He had spent almost a quarter of his energy just then. Just like Qi, it was a skill that
should only be used in crisis.
“Everyone done with enhancements?” Zheng suddenly asked.
Jie was surprised for a bit then laughed. “Not so fast. Ranked rewards are not easy
to come by. We have to think about it carefully. Why are you asking this?”
Zheng coughed and appeared a little embarrassed. “I think… ahem, why don’t we go
take a break in Hawaii? Ten days, ahem, not the one in the real world but the Hawaii
in the last movie. It won’t take any ranked rewards nor five times the points. It only
takes ten points for a day. What do you guys think? Just take a ten day break.”
“I refuse!”
“Sure…”
The two girls replied at the same time. Then they looked at each other. The two
contrasting answers made Zheng felt even more embarrassed.
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“Why refuse?”
“Why agree?”
The two girls asked each other loudly.
Yinkong replied calmly. “No other reason. I need to save my points for enhancements
or weapons. I am not stupid enough to use them on luxuries…”
Lan said. “What do you mean luxury? We’ve been living in constant stress these
days, then we come back to this never changing dimension. I am going to go crazy if
it continues like this. I think it’s worth to exchange ten days of peace with a hundred
points! Otherwise why do you think God gave us this option?”
Yinkong answered coldly. “I don’t know. Your willpower is too weak. Not to mention
there’s already ten days of rest in God’s dimension. Even without these ten days,
even when you have to keep fighting for over a month, fighting just to stay alive, that
pain after you unlocked your potential… You don’t know anything!”
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Lan’s face became red. She turned to Zheng and said angrily. “Hey, this is your
suggestion, why aren’t you saying anything?”
Zheng replied awkwardly. “I didn’t really think much. Just that whoever wants to go
can go, it’s ok to stay here if you don’t want to. For one, I activated the blood energy
in The Grudge and want some extra time to master it, and two, I need to relax a bit.
It helps me recover to my best condition. I don’t have any other intentions. It’s just a
hundred points and ten days. If everyone wants to go, we can go together.”
Lan immediately nodded. “I’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii, just that I never got
the chance. Since it’s only a hundred points, I still have enough after exchanging an
Endurance spell…”
Zheng couldn’t look straight at Lan. He turned around and asked the others. “What
about you guys? Spend a hundred points for a break. What do you guys think?”
Zero didn’t say anything and nodded. This surprised the others. Jie laughed and
said he will definitely go. Tengyi thought about it then refused. He was the weakest
one among them and he had the least amount of points. So he couldn’t really afford
to relax with the rest of them.
Yinkong suddenly said. “I can go along, but… Zheng, fight me again. I want to test
how much stronger you are when you unlocked your potential.”
Zheng didn’t know how to respond. Yinkong continued. “I know you call that unlocking
genetic constraint. Any little difference in power can cause death in this world.
Since we are going to encounter other teams, their teams should also have three, or
used to have three people that unlocked their constraint. I don’t want to lose… So
fight me. You should be at a very strong stage. If I don’t lose to you, then I probably
won’t lose to them!”
Zheng scractch his head then smiled bitterly. “Well, I did reach a higher unlocked
stage. But also because of that, it’s a little out of my control. That’s why I need some
time for training. Otherwise I am also a little concerned with taking a trip. Going back
to the real world last time was too abrupt… Anyway, I might not be able to control my
strength.”
Yinkong said calmly. “Doesn’t matter. The key to unlocking the constraint can only
be felt at the brink of death… If you are prepared, then here I come!”
Just as Zheng answered, Yinkong’s eyes lost focus and she charged toward him. This
was the expression of someone unlocked their constraint. Even though she had a
small figure, but when she charged at Zheng, he felt a pressure that was as strong
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as an Alien. Although she didn’t have any weapons on hand, those fingers of hers
were her best weapons.
Zheng became serious. He wanted to enter the unlocked mode at his own will and
not only when he was in danger. This pressure along with the fingers that were
reaching for his eyes were enough to force him to enter the unlocked mode.
“This is the first stage…”
Zheng’s eyes also lost focus. Even when they were both in the unlocked mode,
he had reached a deeper level than Yinkong. His speed, power and reaction were
much higher than hers. Though he was weaker in his techniques, all his actions were
instinctive in the unlocked mode, which helped him rival an assassin.
He blocked the fingers reaching for his eyes with his hand, then kicked at Yinkong.
The moment he kicked at her, she used his hand as a support and jumped onto his
leg. Then she turned around and struck at Zheng’s throat with her foot.
All this happened in an instant. Jie and Zero were the only ones that could make out
what happened. That foot was already so close to his throat.
Zheng was very sensitive to danger, his body bent backward immediately and
dodged the kick within two centimeters. The foot went just over his nose. Then he
kicked at Yinkong who was still standing on his leg with the other leg.
His kick missed her and Yinkong had already jumped from his leg and over head.
Then she kicked toward his head. If this hit landed, it might even take his life.
“Little girl… this is the second stage!”
Yinkong lost. The fight ended so sudden. Her kick was about to hit Zheng when
she felt something under her feet. Before she got the chance to react, Zheng had
already grabber her feet. Then a strike in the stomach knocked her out.
The other people saw everything clearly. The arm that Zheng raised to block her kick
suddenly enlarged to about twice its normal size. Not only did it easily blocked her
kick, but also grabbed her feet and pulled them downward. His other arm struck her
on the stomach. Then she immediately passed out.
Zheng seemed as though he was suffering immense pain. His body began trembling,
his arm gradually returned to its normal size, and he was soaked in sweat. He smiled
bitterly and handed Yinkong to Lan then said. “This is probably the second stage of
the unlocked mode. It enhances the body to a degree but it’s difficult to control. The
after effect is much worse…”
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Then his body trembled violently. He crouched down on the floor and almost a minute
later, there was a puddle of sweat on the floor. You could imagine how painful it was.
They sat in a circle and rest for a while. Jie’s woman brought them several platters of
fruits. Lori also followed behind her. It wasn’t until now that Yinkong woke up. She
immediately jumped out of Lan’s arms and when she got a clear view of the situation,
she sighed. “I lost…”
Zheng rubbed his arm and said with a bitter smile. “Your attacks were ruthless. If I
got hit, it wouldn’t just take away half my life. I might probably die…”
Yinkong replied calmly. “It’s shameful to show mercy in a battle. It’s better to incapacitate
the enemy before showing mercy and not during a battle… You could have
killed me with that strike, if you act like this in a real battle, then you will be the one
that dies!”
Zheng continued with the bitter smile. “I know, I know. Stop talking like I am a weakling.
I know when to show mercy and when to go all out.”
“Is that so? Then what if they are also people who are just struggling in this world like
us? And they are weak and feeble women?” Yinkong continued asking.
Zheng paused for a moment. “If they really threaten us… Then I will of course…”
Lan saw that Zheng was struggling to answer it. She immediately digressed from
the topic. “Hoho, weren’t we discussing about going to the beach in Hawaii? Since
Yinkong lost, we can all go now. Let’s go before we waste any more time. Everyone
is fine with 100 points for ten days right?”
Tengyi suddenly said. “Doesn’t God start a new movie every ten days? If you all go…
then am I the only one left when the next one starts?”
Lan smiled. “Relax, the time spent inside the movie worlds is only an instant in this
dimension. No matter how long we are there, we will be back in the blink of an eye
for the people here. So relax, we will be back very quick.”
Zheng heard their conversation. He was thinking of the items he should bring. Then
he asked Zero. “Zero, do you still have the debit card from last time? I am afraid
I don’t have enough money for the ten days. And right, everyone should bring a
weapon. I still have some magical bullets in my ring. We will each bring a submachine
gun. Zero should also disassemble your sniper rifle and bring it. Just in case
something happens, we will have some security… And let’s all think about what else
might happen.”
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They started to discuss and decided to also bring two charms for each person, and
also exchanged six communication devices from God. This device was even more
advanced than the one Xuan made. It can also display other people’s location. Each
device only cost 50 points, which was quite inexpensive for its practicality.
“I still can’t agree with ten days.”
After everyone was set to go, Yinkong suddenly said. “I understand the need to relax
but laziness is a scary trait. Once a person stayed in a comfortable environment, he
will develop dependency and loosen his guard. If we suddenly come back to the
movies from that environment, I don’t know how much we can still fight. So I can’t
accept ten days…Since the communcation device took 50 points, why don’t we just
go for five days. Five days is enough for a trip on the beach.”
Lan was about to say something to refute her but Zheng nodded first and said. “Yes,
you’re right… Five days plus the remaining nine days in this dimension should be
enough for me to get a hold of my abilities. And this trip was originally my decision
yet I got everyone to spend the points… Then lets make it five days.”
If it was only for relaxation, five days was actually enough. So the others didn’t say
anything about it. When they were about to exchange the time, Zero came out of
his room with an eleven year old boy. Just by appearance, this boy was prettier than
most women here. For a while, everyone gave Zero a weird look.
Zero said calmly. “This… is my little brother.” Then he led the boy over to God.
A copy of his family from the real world? They looked at Zero’s back which gave off
a sense of loneliness then followed him. They knew there was a story inside him. In
fact everyone that came here was disappointed in the real world and had their own
story. It was just that no one wanted to tell their story… They could only bury their
story deep inside and try their best to survive.
They held their hands and stood in a line. Then they walked up to God together and
exchanged time in the previous world. Location… beach in Hawaii.
Going through that half awake process again, when they woke up, they were already
standing on a beach. The sand was white, the sky was sunny, the sea was blue… This
was the world famous attraction, Hawii beach.
This was Zheng’s second time leaving God’s dimension. He was familiar with the
rules like coming back here in five days. But there was no rule about disclosing
information regarding God’s world. It seemed like since this was not the real world,
God didn’t care if they disclose the information.
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The other people also recovered from the half awake state. After processing through
the rules, Lori, Lan, and Nana cried in a low voice with excitement. The three women’s
eyes were sparkling, it seemed like they were very happy with the scenery. Although
Yinkong still looked calm, there was a hint of excitement also within her eyes.
The boy Zero brought along was very shy. He hid behind Zero and when Zheng and
the other people looked at him, he blushed then turned his head away. That shyness,
cuteness, and his pretty face were attractive for shotacons.
“Then… Hehe, lets go swim first. We can go to the hotel later, and if there are no
rooms, why don’t we just camp outside the beach? Hehe, I’ve always wanted to go
wild once. What do you guys think?” Lan stood on the edge of the sea and laughed.
Before they respond, she already began to take off her clothes. She was wearing a
black one piece with black leggings and she just took the one piece off. Even though
they could had guessed she was wearing a swim suit inside but the men still stared
at her. Then she folded her clothes and leggings and placed them on the side. She
jumped into the sea as she cheered.
Lan had an amazing figure but when Yinkong also took off her clothes, they could
only think of an succubus. That breasts of hers were even bigger than Lan’s, her little
waist was toned but not muscular, her skin looked soft and white.
It was as though all women had the same instinct. Even Lori and Nana were wearing
swimsuits on the inside. Though they weren’t as bold as Lan and Yinkong. They
walked over behind a tree before taking their clothes off. And the men’s eyes were
attracted once again.
Lori ran over to Zheng while smiling and pinched him on the waist. “Oh, big breasts,
looks like my pervert likes big breasts a lot… Hehe, I thought you intended to take a
break here but it turned out to be for the boobs. I heard all the blondes have either
D or E cups.” Then she and Nana ran into the sea.
Zheng’s mind suddenly became peaceful as he looked at this scenery. A clear sky
and sea, the tickle on his waist, and the big… ahem, breasts. Not sure if these meant
good or bad luck for him.
Zheng smiled then he accidentally saw Lan took a glance at him. Inside those eyes…
was a hint of feeling… Big breasts were… indeed bad luck.
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Chapter 7
The men’s eyes were fixed on the scenery of the four women playing in water. Even
Zero couldn’t keep his eyes off. Though the little boy kept his head down shyly then
after a while he pulled Zero’s arm.
Zero bent down and the boy whispered something by his ears. Zero hesitated but
as the boy shook his head in panic, he laughed then took the boy behind the trees.
A little later Zero came back with… a boy dressed in a female swimsuit. Ignoring the
strange look from Jie and Zheng, he led the boy to the sea and gave his hand to Lan.
“He’s… now a girl… but he’s also my little brother.”
“I was born in a family belonging to an Chinese mafia in America. When I was fifteen,
my father got killed, the mafia was annexed by another mafia. My mom became a
woman of that mafia’s boss, who was also a Chinese American…”
“I couldn’t forgive her! She betrayed me, betrayed my father! So I had to seek revenge!
I hid my identity for over ten years and trained the skills I currently have.
Then… I went back.”
“Sarcastically, that woman already died eight years ago but she gave birth to a boy
for that man. And that man… raised the boy as a girl to commemorate the woman.
He grew up with long hair and wore dresses, just like a pretty little girl. And the most
sarcastic thing was… I fell in love with him on first sight.”
“In science they call this genetic sexual attraction. Two people who are blood related
get attracted to each other instantly. There are many cases of it happening but I never
thought it would happen to me… I couldn’t forgive them. I couldn’t forgive myself…
So I decided to kill them then kill myself!”
“The process was smooth. Mafias are not assassins. They can bully civilians but
give me a sniper rifle and enough distance, I won’t be afraid of anyone… However
after I killed him and my little brother, I found a diary that belonged to that woman.
It wrote about my father, mother and that man I killed… My little brother was actually
my father’s child. She was already pregnant that year and she passed away from
depression after giving birth… But everything was already too late. Everything was
already over…”
“I pressed the button to activate a bomb on my computer and also the YES button.
Then I got transferred here…”
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Zheng and Jie sighed. They didn’t know what to say to Zero. Even though his circumstance
was weird but it made him give up on reality. And that feeling of his toward
this little brother…
“I will try my best to live on… for her. I wish to protect her, watch her grow up, then…
let nature take its course. Perhaps she isn’t the little brother of my memory but she’s
what I live for.” Zero said calmly.
Zheng patted his shoulder and said. “As long as you have a reason to live for. What
we fear most is when we can’t even find a reason to live… Just like the me before I
came here. If I didn’t get her back, perhaps I would have died in Alien.”
Jie also came up to comfort him. Zheng suddenly asked casually. “Right, Jie, you are
a veteran. I’ve never heard how you came here.”
Jie’s mind went blank for a bit then he laughed. “Just the common problems. Retired,
got into a company, had conflict with my superiors, then got fired, stayed in an
internet cafe then I came here… Haha, it’s not worth mentioning. It makes me rage
just thinking about it. My past is not as glorious as Zero’s, I was just an otaku.”
The three men chatted for a while then came Lan’s voice. “Hey, the three of you stop
standing there like an idiot. Come swim with us. The water feels so cool… Lori, stop
hanging on my chest. My bikini is falling off.”
They looked at each other then began taking off their pants without hesitation. They
were all wearing trunks. As soon as they took off their clothes, they jumped into the
sea.
Nana, Lori, and the little girl swam to their respective men. Lan hesitated then swam
over to Zheng. Though Yinkong swam away into the sea. Her black swimsuit contrasted
with her snow white skin. She looked like a mermaid swimming in the sea.
Zheng stared into the horizon. The black and white contrast of Yinkong combined
with the deep blue sea made for a unique scenery. Then something hit his chest. Lori
hanged onto his chest while laughing and Lan also came over to him. The two women
then having fun tickling each other. Though maybe it was intentional or maybe it was
not, Lan’s breasts brushed against his arm. He didn’t know whether to avoid it or not,
and suffered while enjoying it…
Time always flies by when you feel happy. The evening came and they couldn’t
help but leave the shore to look for a hotel. In the beginning, they were afraid that
without any visa, they couldn’t get a room. But Yinkong quickly solved the problem.
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She borrowed a computer from the staffs and an American company sent them the
visas and several million dollars. In the end, they got into a five star hotel.
“Zheng… come to the lobby at nine.” Lan said to him in a low voice as she walked
pass. Then she went to her room without turning her head.
Zheng’s mind went blank as he watched her went away. Then when Lori ran up to
him from behind, he smiled bitterly. His feelings were mixed…
Zheng came to the lobby at nine. He stood next to the wall silently. Lan came over
dressed in a casual dress a few minutes later. She looked refreshed. Then she
greeted Zheng and went out the door. Zheng had no choice but to follow behind.
“It’s so nice to be able to rest here for five days. To be honest, I am at my limit after
two movies. If I don’t get a chance to relax, I might go crazy in the next movie…”
Even though it was already night time, the outside was bright as daylight form the
lighting. As a holiday paradise, night life was just starting by at this hour. The street
was filled with people partying and local girls dancing hula. Everything was refreshing
for the two of them.
“Zheng, let’s go over there. A lot of people are gathered over there.” Lan grabbed
Zheng’s hand and laughed.
Zheng pulled back his hand without a trace and forced a smile. “I told Lori about
seeing you, so I can’t stay for too long. Lan if you have something to say just say it…
It’s better to make everything clear.”
Lan was dazed for a bit then he looked at Zheng deeply. After a while she smiled.
“Are you… mistaken something? Relax, even though I do like you a little, but it’s my
bottom line to not hurt another girl. So even if you are to betray Lori, I wouldn’t allow
it… There’s something else I want to talk with you about.”
“Is that so? I thought…” Zheng scratched his head with embarassment.
Lan laughed lightly, as though there was something else in her laughing. “I don’t
know why, but I am feeling a sense of stress from our team. Since… uh, since the
last time I enhanced my mental capacity, I’ve been feeling this. And after I learned
two spells, this feeling is getting stronger. Like something has been watching and
monitoring us.”
Zheng replied curiously. “It’s probably God that’s monitoring us? I felt the same thing
when I unlocked the first stage of the constraint, and it’s also getting stronger now…
but it shouldn’t be a big deal. God should be monitoring us all along.”
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Lan sighed. “I don’t know how to explain to you… but whatever I am going to say, I
don’t have any intention of creating conflict within the team… Don’t you think one of
us has been acting strange?”
That made Zheng felt even more curious. “One of us is acting strange? What are you
trying to say? Even though we are comrades, but if one of us is strange or have bad
intentions, then I won’t let him off easily…”
Lan opened her mouth but at the end she didn’t say anything. She sighed and said.
“I am not sure, it’s just a feeling. Perhaps it’s due to enhancing mental capacity…
Zheng, do you still remember the last day in The Grudge? Why did I suddenly get to
the hotel but the charm didn’t ignite? If it was the Ju On that did it, then the charm
should had burned… Didn’t you feel something was wrong?”
Zheng also cooled down. He thought for a bit and said. “To be honest, I also felt
strange at the time why it happened… Hoho, I thought about it for a long time and
couldn’t figure it out. So that means you figured out the truth?”
“I can’t say it’s the truth, just some suspicion. That’s why I can’t name that person.
Afterall we are a team… Zheng, if I die, then please be careful of the person who
reacts abnormally…”
Their short date ended there. When they got back to the hotel, the two were walking
with some distance in between. When Lan got off the elevator, she turned around
and gave Zheng a smile, a smile that gave him a sense of sadness…
“Lori… I’ve been in love with you deeply all along since childhood. I will keep my
promise and protect you until our hair turn silver… Lori, I won’t… Nothing happened
between me and Lan.”
Zheng cuddled Lori in bed and muttered these words.
“… Of course nothing will happen. Lan is the nicest sister. Hehe, I already knew she
likes you but she isn’t the type of person that will fight with me for you… Pervert, you
won’t leave me right?” Lori yawned then laughed.
“Of course…”
(Feelings aside, who did Lan mean… the person that acted abnormally, is it Xuan? Or
Zero? They are not original members of the team. If she was referring to a newbie,
then Yinkong is also suspicious. She acted cold toward everyone and now she’s
become a member of the team… Who was she referring to?)
Zheng fell asleep with Lori then suddenly a special sensation woke up him, as if
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something was going to happen. As time passed, this sensation was getting stronger
and stronger.
Zheng couldn’t bear it anymore and sat up from the bed. He carefully covered Lori
with the blanket then dressed up and walked out of the room. Without delay, he ran
out of the hotel and followed the direction this sensation was coming from.
It was about four or five in the morning. The area was quiet and empty. Zheng ran
toward the shore and the sensation was getting stronger but it was also fading away…
“Lan!”
When he reached the shore, he saw little black dot floating from afar. Without rhyme
or reason he called out Lan’s name. Then he swam toward that little dot. When
he finally reached it, it was indeed Lan who fell unconscious! She almost died from
drowning!
Zheng swam behind Lan and got a hold of her, then dragged her back to the shore.
Once they got on the shore, he tore open her shirt, took a deep breath, placed his
hands on her soft chest and started blowing through her mouth.
Shortly after, Lan began to cough then coughed out that sea water in her lungs. It
took quite a while for her to stop the coughing. Zheng immediately took off his jacket
and put it on her. Then he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“What happened? Why did you suddenly come here to sw… not swim, you’re still in
pajamas. What actually happened? Why were you drowning here?” Zheng sat on
the beach and asked.
Lan coughed a little more lightly then she said with a broken voice. “I don’t know
what happened. I was deep asleep then I suddenly stood up, as if my body has it’s
own consciousness. I walked straight out of the hotel and toward the shore. I was
so scared. I kept calling your name in my mind… Maybe it was telepathy from an
enhanced mental capacity. I felt your existence then I lost consciousness…”
Zheng smiled bitterly. He began to ponder the situation. After a while, he said. “I
can only think of two possibilities. One is the Ju On is still not over and the ghost got
control of you. But the possibility of this is low because the Ju On should be cleared
when we went back to God’s dimension. The second one is… one of us wants to kill
you because you sensed something is not right after enhancing your mental capacity.
And the method he used is…”
“Hypnosis!”
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Zheng and Lan said it at the same time. Then Zheng sighed. “If this was what happened,
then it can explain how you went to the hotel in The Grudge. Because the
one that made you go there isn’t the ghost but rather a human… Considering the time
that you enhanced your mental capacity, the person that acted abnormally… aside
from Xuan, I can only think of Jie.”
Lan also sighed. “Yes, he’s the one that I have in mind. Ever since I enhanced my
mental capacity, I feel stressed when I stand next to him, like he has a much higher
level of mental capacity. But if he does, then why didn’t he tell us? Do you still
remember when we first met? He gave us a feeling that he was very strong but
afterward, you overshadowed him. Why? I can only think of one answer.”
“He wishes to stay in the safest position… Instead of showing his power then taking
up the responsibilities, he would rather hide behind someone strong. He doesn’t
want to stand out and just get stronger on his own… Once someone learns of his
secret, he would kill the person that can threaten to reveal his lies. This is the only
possibility I can think of…”
Zheng fell in to a silence for a bit. “Do you have any proof?”
Lan smiled bitterly. “No, I don’t have any proof. This is all just my deduction… I didn’t
even leave my room after I parted with you and went back. Unless Jie hypnotized
me during the day, I don’t think he has the ability to hypnotize me from afar. That
would be absurd… Zheng, do I sound like I am trying to break this team apart?”
Zheng recalled when he first met Jie. The cigarettes, the mutual understandings, the
delicious meals, and his hearty laughs… Were all of these fake?
“I won’t doubt anyone easily without any proof. But I will announce that you were
attacked. Whether it is him or someone else, he won’t attack you again for some
time. And stay with me and Lori these few days… If it turns out to be him, I will kill him
with my own hands!”
When they met up in the afternoon, Zheng told them about the attack. Everyone
acted shocked. Of course he didn’t mention their deductions,and just said it might
be the Ju On. He was observing Jie during the conversation. Jie acted normally and
asked Lan about the details then comforted her.
(It’s not you right? Someone as genuine as you… Are you hiding your powers like she
said, then kill everyone that learns of your secret? Is… staying alive more important
than anything else?)
Due to the attack, they had no choice but to end the trip prematurely. Everyone
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stayed in the same room like last time and took turns to keep a watch at night. When
he was assigning the groups, Zheng paired himself with Jie and put Lan and Yinkong
together.
There was no attack in the following days. The Ju On never appeared and they went
back to God’s dimension in the fifth day. Even though Zheng felt relieved, it casted
a cloud over his heart.
Jie… is staying alive so important? Even if it means sacrificing your comrades?
Due to the disappointing trip, they didn’t have the mood to relax in the remaining
nine days. They just trained and trained. Zero taught them how to use guns, Yinkong
taught them close combat techniques, and Jie acted unimpressive. Aside from the
laughs, he acted just like a newbie, learning from Zero and Yinkong and even asked
Zheng for tips on unlocking.
Time passed by. Zheng suppressed his doubts and concentrated on training his
blood energy spell and mastering the second stage of the unlocked mode. After
nine days… the beams casted from God and its voice sounded in their minds again.
“Enter the beams within thirty seconds. Target locked. Beginning teleportation to
The Mummy…”
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