Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1 No Chapter Heading!

Chapter 1 Don’t Look Back!

First rule: Don’t look back

Xia Shou had a tense face and a notebook was spread out on the table, with sloppy handwriting on the yellowed paper.

Xia Shou's butt was embedded in the chair like nails, his spine and cervical vertebrae were as solid as a welded iron rod. He could feel the cold touch of ten slender fingers on his neck, like a pair of women's hands pinching him from behind.

The last second, he was still sitting in the college entrance examination room. In the blink of an eye, the test paper in his hand turned into this strange notebook, and there was a pair of hands around his neck.

Xia Shou took a deep breath and adjusted his emotions. The hands on his neck slowly relaxed with his breathing, and then slowly closed again, like a living, cold scarf that perfectly matched the rhythm of his breathing.

There is no doubt that this is a supernatural event, just like the time travel often seen in novels, and after the time travel, his situation seems to be quite bad.

He traveled through time and space with his body and soul. He did not have the memories of the natives of this world, nor did he have any special abilities or golden fingers.

Even the notebook in my hand doesn’t seem to be a good thing, because the second sentence on it is: […If you can see this line, it proves that you have passed the first difficulty. ]

At first glance, it seemed to be congratulating him, but if you read it carefully, you could discern another meaning: if he had not seen this line of words at the first moment and had instinctively turned back at the first moment of crossing, he would have been dead and would not have been able to pass even the first level.

Maybe he is not the first person to be pulled into this strange world, and if he dies accidentally this time, there may be another poor unlucky person who will travel through time and take his place.

Now, he has no other choice.

The only thing to do is to keep reading.

[The one strangling your neck now is the resentful spirit "Alice". You can treat her as a special servant, provided that you abide by the rule I just mentioned and don't turn your head.

I put a mirror on the table. You can use the mirror to observe your back and left and right, but you must not turn your head more than 60 degrees.

"Grudge...Grudge spirit?"

The terrifying face of the ghost nun in "The Conjuring 2" automatically appeared in Xia Shou's mind, and he couldn't help but shudder.

Xia Shou's eyes fell on the mirror on the table and he picked it up carefully.

The first thing reflected in the mirror was a pair of pale, slender hands, loosely wrapped around his neck.

He slowly adjusted the angle of the light reflection and looked up. The other person was wearing a black and white maid outfit.

Then, there is the pale neck, the rounded jawline, the pink lips, the delicate and straight nose bridge...

The next second, a pair of bloody and empty eye sockets suddenly came into view!
Xia Shou immediately pressed the mirror, his brows furrowed, his eyes dull, and his expression as ugly as if he had eaten a dead fish.

He sat in the chair, pondered for a long time, and silently turned to the next page of his notes.

[Alice is the spirit I contracted specifically for you. You can ask her to make coffee, fold quilts, and cook for you. She will fulfill your requests diligently and conscientiously within the scope of a maid's duties, and this is what she expects.

But I also hope that you can treat her as a silent friend. Although she is like an unconscious ghost now, if there is a proper opportunity, she will gradually awaken more self-awareness, and then she will be able to help you more. 】

[Alice can deprive others of their vision and let you see. She can help you a lot in battle, but be careful about the frequency and intensity of her use.

This notebook that contains my personality is called [Death Notes]. To make up for the sins I committed against you, I leave it to you, but you must read it according to your ability. Turning the pages frequently will cost you a huge price.

If you see that the handwriting is blurred, do not continue reading until the handwriting becomes clear again.

Now you can leave the study and take a tour of the apartment, but remember!
Don’t open any closed door in this room by yourself! ! ! 】

"Take this as a guide to the other world?"

Xia Shou made a judgment about this notebook in his mind.

Although the person who pulled him here was not a good person, he still had some conscience by leaving this notebook.

He took a deep breath, stood up from his chair, turned stiffly, and looked around.

The decoration of this study is very retro, imitating the interior layout of the Victorian era. The bookshelves and floors are clean and dust-free, and it doesn't look like no one lives there.

Walking out of the study is the corridor leading to the living room.

But the walls and ceiling of this corridor, as well as the ground beneath his feet, were filled with strangely shaped doors.

There are medieval prison doors, ancient Egyptian stone doors, bronze relief doors...

Some doors were wrapped in red lines and covered with cinnabar and yellow talismans; some were full of technology, as if they came from the cyber age; some were even made up of wriggling flesh and blood, with bloody eyeballs half-open and half-closed in the tendons.

Seeing these doors, Xia Shou fell silent.

Not to mention that it was written in the notes that the door should not be opened, even if it was not written in the notes, he would not open it.

The only people who would be tempted to touch these doors are the protagonists in horror movies.

Xia Shou raised his foot and walked forward. The moment he took a step with his right foot, the coldness on one side of his neck suddenly disappeared.

One of the hands that had been pinching his neck loosened.

"?" Xia Shou raised his head in confusion and saw that one of Alice's hands had left his neck and grasped the handle of the broken wooden door above his head!
Xia Shou's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at Alice in shock as she tried to open the door, his face full of disbelief.

"Damn, will the resentful spirit open the door on its own initiative?!"

He never thought that Alice, who came with him at the beginning of the game, might also backstab him!

Xia Shou wanted to step back and keep some distance to stop Alice from opening the door, but it was too late!
"Click!"

Xia Shou's pupils dilated.

The wooden door opens.

A strange red humanoid creature fell in front of him with a "bang" from inside the door!
The strange red human body looked like a candle that had melted, cooled and solidified. It was filled with white broken bones and black messy hair, and exuded an extremely evil aura.

Xia Shou held his breath, stood there, staring motionlessly at the red wax figure in front of him.

This thing gave him a very bad feeling. Was it dead? Or alive?

Suddenly, the wax figure in front of him suddenly ignited a pale blue flame.

Immediately afterwards, an indescribable strange scream appeared in the air!

The spatial lines in Xia Shou's eyes began to tremble!
A feeling of being detached from reality comes over me!

The corridor, the door, the corner at the end... the outlines of everything around began to become scattered, disintegrating one by one like a disassembled sketch!

The screams in my ears became more and more shrill, gradually becoming unbearable and almost driving me crazy!
Then, all these changes reached an indescribable critical point. In an instant, the space fell into silence... The spirit seemed to sink into a bottomless ocean.

Dark, cold, suffocating...

Xia Shou opened his eyes.

The extremely dim dark green light swayed in the flowing water waves.

There is a ruler on the side, 1200 meters.

The ruler starts to move up.

1240 meters...

1268 meters...

No, he is sinking!
The numbers on the ruler are increasing, and the sinking speed is getting faster and faster!

Powerful water pressure poured in from all directions, and in the excruciating pain of flesh and bones being shattered, the body was shattered like porcelain. In the sea water in front of him, a few clouds of drifting blood mist surged out, condensing into blurred words in front of him - [Bleeding... Stop...]

Before Xia Shou could see the blood words in the water clearly.

The next second, he began to float up, and the numbers on the scale started to rise.

In his blurred consciousness, the last thing he saw was the number 1300 meters.

1300 meters below, there is a red line of unknown meaning...

The suffocation and severe pain dissipated like the ebbing tide, and light came in. In front of him was still the corridor full of doors, but under his feet was a sticky unknown black liquid.

The black liquid covered the entire aisle like a swamp. At this moment, the red wax figure was sinking rapidly into the swamp.

[Degree of Devouring: 57%…]

A line of blood-red words appeared in front of Xia Shou's eyes.

"what's the situation?"

Xia Shou stood there, his back wet with cold sweat.

The severe pain in the illusion was extremely real, but what remained in the body at this moment was only indescribable fear.

[67%...89%...]

As the wax figure continued to sink, the number continued to increase.

Finally, the wax figure sank completely into the black swamp and disappeared.

[Devouring rate: 100%]

The black mud under his feet squirmed and shrank like a living thing, rolling towards Xia Shou's feet, and finally turned into his shadow.

The red words in front of my eyes trembled and turned into a paragraph of text.