I'm an antique shop owner, so it's reasonable for me to know some magic

Chapter 345 The Strange Stone Box that Accepts Sacrifice

A sense of horror spread to Katie's heart.

She looked down and saw that the Jade Fire Finger in her hand had been untied at some point.

The Lingguan Seal can protect one's body, but the protective effect is not always effective. It mainly depends on the user's cultivation level.

In the past year, under the guidance of the Crowbar God, she did feel a faint sense of Qi.

But since she didn't know the true method of breathing practice, Katie could only deal with ordinary vengeful spirits.

Obviously, the situation in the apartment was beyond her ability and it was even questionable whether she could protect herself.

But Katie wasn't desperate yet.

The extremely dangerous situation actually calmed his mind a little.

After careful observation, Katie confirmed that the figure lying on the ground in front of her was not an evil spirit...

It is neither an evil spirit nor a real person, but more like a ghost phenomenon.

Under the influence of special energy and magnetic field, what happened in the past is repeated in the original place.

Unlike mirages, all the people who appear in the ghost phenomenon are dead.

The reason why Katie didn't dare to conclude that it was a ghost was because of the crying sound.

Everything that happened before her eyes was too real, as if she was right at the scene of the tragedy.

Katie stood where she was, and the next second, the door not far away suddenly opened, a hand reached out, grabbed the legs of the woman on the ground, and pulled her directly in!
"Please don't do this! I don't want to die yet!!"

The screams were mixed with intermittent pleas for mercy, but the woman's words were only met with cold and fierce scolding.

"Shut up! Shut your damn mouth or I'll cut your trachea open!"

The voice sounded like that of an elderly person, so cold and cruel that it was frightening.

Since then, the girl has not made any sound, only miserable whimpers can be heard from time to time.

Katie suddenly felt a sharp pain in her brain, and the dizziness made her stomach churn.

But at this moment, she no longer cared about the strange changes in her body and immediately opened the door.

There are too many problems with this apartment, we have to leave quickly!

She reached out her hand to shake the sleeping Amber, but she didn't notice that a shadow was approaching her from behind without anyone noticing.

wrong!

Katie immediately drew her knife and was about to turn around, but she was still a step too slow.

A dull, heavy blow landed on the back of her head, and Katie fainted without any suspense.

……

"Katie!"

The call in her ear woke Katie up suddenly.

She felt a cold and rough touch on her cheek and realized that she was lying on the ground. She subconsciously wanted to get up, but found that her hands and feet were tied and she could not move.

The piercing pain at the back of her head made Katie regain some consciousness, and she immediately remembered what happened before she fell into a coma.

The hair was stuck, probably because the blood had coagulated.

What time is it now?!
Katie struggled to get up and saw Amber who had called her before.

This little refugee girl from the Middle East was tied up tightly just like herself.

After confirming that Katie had woken up, Amber immediately told her about his experience.

The noise of Katie being knocked down woke her up. When she looked up, she saw the landlord holding a baseball bat and staring at her fiercely.

Realizing that something was wrong, she immediately tried to resist and escape, but was caught by another more muscular bald man.

"They don't seem interested in our bodies, they..."

When he said this, Amber shuddered in fear.

"They want our lives."

Just before Katie woke up, Anbei begged the landlord to let them go, but the landlord told them a story with a cold face.

In the 1960s, an archaeological team discovered a box in Mexico.

After the box was excavated, all members of the archaeological team died one after another, and finally the whereabouts of the box became unknown.

But in fact, there was still one person left in the archaeological team.

Although he was seriously ill, he dragged his sick body, changed his name, brought the box to Britain, bought this building, and began to recruit female tenants.

"That box has a special power that can exchange lives for lives."

"In order to prolong their lives, the archaeologist and his wife continue to lure women into the box and offer them to the entity in the box."

"This allowed him to live for 20 years while suffering from cancer, until the landlord and his brother killed him."

Repeated killings distorted the archaeologist's mind and erased his humanity.

Its goal also changed from curing one's own diseases at the beginning to achieving immortality.

To achieve this goal, the archaeologist was so crazy that he even offered his wife, who had always taken care of him and helped him kill people, to the box.

This was unbearable for the landlord's brothers, who were his sons, and they teamed up to kill the archaeologist.

But after offering their dying father to the box, the two became addicted to the feeling of gaining power.

Thus, the killing was passed down.

After listening to Amber's story, Katie finally understood what the ghost phenomenon she saw today was all about.

It was clearly a reenactment of the archaeologist's wife murdering an innocent female tenant.

After being swallowed by the box, the soul of the dead cannot leave here and can only become a wandering ghost.

These people who died unjustly and have strong resentment should be extremely aggressive.

The reason why they are so peaceful is that there is a most terrifying existence here who suppresses them and uses them as food reserves.

To be able to achieve this, he must be an evil god at the very least.

"Where are they now?"

Katie knew that if they were really sent to the box, their last hope of escape would be cut off.

"They just took the other two tenants away..."

Hearing this, Katie immediately took action.

There should be more than enough time to escape, so you must quickly break free from the ropes.

Katie tried to move her wrists, took out a blade from the interlayer of her cuffs, and cut the rope on her wrists.

After the hands are freed, the arms are immediately untied, followed by the legs.

"Katie! You!"

Anbei witnessed the whole scene and could hardly believe his eyes.

"Are you some kind of secret agent?"

"We'll talk about that later... I'm going to untie you now."

Katie immediately came to Amber and told her about her temporary plan while cutting the rope.

"Once you are free, contact the outside world for help as soon as possible. You can call the police or ask your uncle for help."

"I'm here to see if the other two can be saved."

Katie felt guilty watching other people being killed.

If she can rescue, she will rescue. If not, she will leave in time.

Just as Katie was making arrangements at a very fast speed, a heavy sound of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor not far away. Katie did not stop, but immediately accelerated her movements.

The other party should be the bald strong man that Anbei mentioned. He came here to transfer them to the location of the box.

It seems that the two innocent people should have been...

Katie immediately changed her mind.

"I'll stop him later, you take this opportunity to escape!"

An Bei didn't say much but just nodded.

She also knew that now was not the time to be nagging.

Katie looked around, took the desk lamp, held it in her hand, took off her shoes, walked quietly to the door, and waited for the other party to come in.

However, the heavy footsteps suddenly stopped at the door.

The other party did not seem to intend to open the door immediately, but seemed to sense the changes in the room and became alert.

Suddenly, the door was slammed open!

The huge bald man actually swung his baseball bat directly towards the corner where Katie was hiding!

Caught off guard, Katie could only dodge.

She has not received any professional combat training, and even if she has taken care of her body according to health-preserving methods, she is only a little stronger and more agile than the average woman.

The moment she saw the other person's size, Katie decided that she could never be his opponent.

"run!"

She turned her head and shouted at Amber, who was stunned by this sudden scene, and at the same time, she quickly stepped forward and hit the other person in the face with the desk lamp in her hand!

The man with the pain on his face groaned in pain and closed his eyes. Taking advantage of this gap, Ambe immediately went around the corner and out of the door.

She ran like crazy, but when she was going down the stairs, she missed a step and rolled down the stairs.

My head seems to be broken, and my ankle was just broken...

The severe pain did not erase Anbei's will to survive. She struggled to get up and walked towards the door, but suddenly stopped the next second.

The tall landlord stood in front of the apartment door, holding a long knife in his hand, and it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time.

At the same time, the fighting sounds upstairs also stopped.

The bald strong man carried the unconscious Katie and looked down at Amber with a grin.

The latter only felt that there was silence around him, and he could not even hear his heartbeat.

She let the other person lift her hair and take her to the secret room where the candle was burning.

When passing by a room, Ambe saw two headless bodies hanging.

That was the tenant who was chatting and laughing with her last night.

Will she meet the same fate?
Coming here from a war-torn country, I went through so many hardships.

A wonderful life was right in front of him, but he ended up dying here.

Amber was placed numbly in front of the altar and lay flat. In front of her was a stone box that opened automatically.

Huge hands stretched out from it and slowly stroked her cheek.

And in front of Anbei, everything was replaced by a hospital ward.

She lay beside her mother, accepting the touch of the woman on the hospital bed.

"Stay here, Amber, and stay with me forever..."

The gentle words caused something strange in Anbei's heart.

forever……

She stood up and looked at her mother's gentle smile, but she no longer felt the same nostalgia as before.

"Mother, you have been...sick for three years..."

During these three years, she gave up her studies, gave up her future, and ran around to raise money for medical expenses.

It is precisely because they have no skills that even after coming to Britain, they can only do the lowest level sorting work.

Looking back, she couldn't remember any details other than working part-time day after day.

Is she going to have to live like that forever?
She is not reconciled.

I still have a good life and a bright future.

She wants better food, prettier clothes, and to be as charming as Katie, a city girl!

She hated everything in the past!
Dust-filled streets, poor families, and ragged clothes!

An Bei wanted to burn it all!
But this woman in front of me, not only did she take away three years of my life, but she also wanted to keep me by her side for the rest of my life...

Enduring such a dark life for a lifetime...

Forever... forever!!!
Those originally extremely tender and beautiful words now sounded like a vicious curse in Anbei's ears.

Her eyes began to change, gradually changing from numbness to resentment.

Ignoring the other person's horrified expression, An Bei suddenly picked up a pillow and covered his mother's face with it!
Even though the person below struggled hard, she refused to let go.

Ten seconds... twenty seconds... thirty seconds...

I don’t know how long it was, until the people below stopped moving, Anbei let go of his hand.

Looking at the corpse, An Bei suddenly felt that this scene looked familiar...

It was like she had suffocated her best friend to death in the woods along the border in order to grab the last piece of food...

Why forget?
Amber didn't know either.

But now, she felt as if she had been sublimated.

In the real world, Amber suddenly opened his eyes.

For some reason, the box did not consume her life. She stood up from the altar and used the candlelight on the side to burn the ropes that bound her.

After walking out of the secret room, I saw the long knife that the landlord had been holding thrown casually on the ground.

An Bei picked it up, dragged his broken right foot, and followed the direction where the conversation came from.

The landlord and the bald man both focused their full attention on Katie and didn't notice anything happening behind them.

An Bei swung his sword suddenly, hitting the landlord's thigh, and then hit the latter's neck!

The landlord couldn't believe it and died on the spot before he could figure out what was going on.

But the bald strong man immediately rushed out, grabbed his arm holding the knife, and broke Anbei's wrist with such force!
Under the severe pain, the latter had no choice but to let go.

The sturdy man was about to pick up the long knife, but suddenly he stumbled and fell to the ground!
Anbei turned his head and found that it was Katie.

The latter had already awakened and was just waiting for the right opportunity. Now seeing Anbei suddenly counterattack, he naturally wanted to help!
But her current physical condition only allowed her to push the other person away, and she couldn't take any further action.

Taking this opportunity, Anbei limped to pick up the long knife, and in anger, he slashed at the burly man!

Soon, the latter was dying and unable to move.

Amber turned his head and looked at the exhausted Katie, then thought of the dead tenant, and hatred surged in his heart.

She didn't know where she got the strength from, but she dragged the strong man's body to the secret room.

He watched the box swallow his head before turning around and leaving.

After taking only two steps, Anbei suddenly stopped.

I lowered my eyes and saw that the twisted ankle had been restored to its original state without knowing when...

(End of this chapter)