Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 148 Sir, don’t go!
"Kick-kick-kick!!"

My feet stepped on the stairs, making a dull sound, which was different from the cautious footsteps before. This time the footsteps were very heavy, and I walked up one step at a time.

Arrived at the door of the third floor.

With a gentle push, "Buzz!" the door made a harsh friction sound.

With the help of the candlestick in his hand, the dim room began to gradually become brighter, a very small attic.

Through a broken window, you can see the branches outside swaying in the wind.

There is also a "囍" character pasted on the dressing table.

The faint light reflected from the candlesticks on the mirror made the gold and silver jewelry on the dressing table particularly dazzling.

The exquisite jewelry is inlaid with turquoise, red agate and other gems, and the hairpin has a touch of sky-blue kingfisher feathers, which makes people like it more and more the more they look at it.

He turned around and shone the candlelight to the other side. A bunk bed basically took up half of the room.

What is a bunk bed?

It has four pillars with beams, three sides with carvings, a roof, and windows beside the bed.

A very large bed. This kind of bed was very common in the past, but it is no longer seen now. The more advanced one is called a step-out bed, which has a small cover outside the bed that is connected to the bed, and looks like a small house.

In the past, most of the local rich families had this kind of bed. The master and the mistress would lie inside, and the maid would lie outside in a small cover waiting. When the master was tired, the maid would get up and help push the bed a few times.

Ahem, that’s too far off topic.

The bunk bed was surrounded by a layer of gauze curtains, so it was hard to see what was inside, but if you looked down you could see what was inside.

There was a pair of small mandarin duck shoes in front of the bed.

By candlelight, walk forward.

Just as I was about to reach out and take a look, a cool breeze blew in from the window.

"Om!!"

When she turned around, she saw a little girl with her head tilted at the door, pulling the door back. When she saw Xiao Ran looking at her, a bright sly smile appeared on her gray face, and she was about to slam the door shut.

"Snapped!"

With one foot against the door, the little girl standing outside was stunned for a moment. When she raised her head, she saw Xiao Ran's unfriendly eyes behind her, staring at her with a big knife in her hand.

The little girl opened her eyes wide and looked back.

The figure standing beside the bed took a few steps forward. Although she was wearing Xiao Ran's clothes, as she slowly moved the candlestick from her chest up, a woman's stiff face was revealed.

"what!!!"

Realizing that he had been tricked, the kid let out a scream, jumped up and tried to run downstairs.

"Can you run away?"

Xiao Ran was quick-witted and raised his hand. A green light flashed on the bronze mirror in his hand and shone on the little ghost. The little ghost's body seemed to be fixed in place.

E-level cursed item [Flowing Light Eight Treasures Mirror·Corpseler]

Privilege 1: Soul Fixation

After activation, it will emit a green light to the target, which can fix the target's soul in place.

Privilege 2: Grievances

When sewing up a corpse, point a mirror at it. The corpse's resentment will be sucked into the mirror, greatly reducing the probability of the corpse transforming into a ghost.

Seeing that the kid was unable to move, Xiao Ran raised the machete in his hand and was about to chop him.

But just as he raised the machete in his hand and was about to hit the kid with a knife.

"Boom!!"

A bell rang in the house.

As the bell rang, Xiao Ran felt a blackness in front of his eyes, and then his vision began to blur.

"Oh no, why at this time!"

Xiao Ran remembered that the mission mentioned that when the bell rang, he would be bound by certain rules.

His eyes were blurry and he couldn't see anything clearly. Xiao Ran could only slowly put down the knife.

At this moment, a pair of hands suddenly placed on Xiao Ran's shoulders from behind.

A cold hand was placed on Xiao Ran's shoulder, and a chill came over him.

Immediately afterwards, the room in Xiao Ran's sight gradually became brighter.

“Sir! Sir!!”

The light calling voice made Xiao Ran turn his head, and a girl in a familiar school uniform was standing in front of Xiao Ran.

Why do I say familiar? Xiao Ran has seen this outfit before, in the cellar of Niujiapo.

The girl has short hair and is full of energy.

When she smiles, a small dimple appears on her cheek.

"Sir, do you think I'm good-looking?"

She turned around in front of Xiao Ran, wearing a blue top and a black skirt. The light from the window shone in, as if a warm filter was cast on the air, making people look a little dazed.

"gentlemen!"

The girl rushed into Xiao Ran's arms, like a quiet kitten, and put her head on his chest: "Don't go, the war still needs you. You are a teacher who can't even lift a knife, why do you want to go to the war, don't go..."

The gentle call made Xiao Ran's mind dizzy. His vision seemed to be pulled up to a third-person perspective. He saw a thin middle-aged face with sparse hair and thick glasses.

At this moment, Xiao Ran had forgotten his original appearance and his name, as if he was just an ordinary teacher and the girl in front of him was his student.

In a trance, he unconsciously placed his hand on the girl's shoulder.

"gentlemen!"

The girl raised her head, her blushing face and her bright eyes staring at him.

She slowly closed her eyes, tapped her feet, and slightly opened the corners of her light pink lips, revealing her white teeth like pearls.

As the saying goes, a girl's shy face is better than heavy makeup. At that moment, Xiao Ran couldn't help but want to bend her head, but her peripheral vision inadvertently noticed the dressing mirror in front of her.

Looking through the mirror, he saw that his own hands were slowly strangling his throat.

In an instant, the originally beautiful, youthful and heartwarming atmosphere was forcibly torn apart. Xiao Ran's pupils tightened and the pain in his throat pulled him out of his sweet dream.

"Damn it!! Damn it!! You are all liars, liars!!"

When Xiao Ran woke up from the beautiful dream, he saw in the dim vision that Shangniao Lingzi's face had begun to distort. He stared at Xiao Ran with red eyes and even shouted sharp curses.

"Resurrection from the dead!!"

Xiao Ran's pupils narrowed. The corpse in front of him was obviously no longer under his control. It was more like a ghost possessed by a ghost.

The pair of cold hands clasped his throat tightly, and the strong feeling of suffocation made Xiao Ran's limbs cold and he couldn't muster any strength in his body.

With a "bang", the big knife in his hand fell to the ground.

Xiao Ran opened his eyes wide, opened his mouth with all his strength, and shouted as if he was squeezing out the last breath in his throat: "Let go!! "

As he spoke, a black mark appeared under Shangniao Lingzi's skin.

Then the originally resentful eyes turned into shock, and the hands that were tightly pinching Xiao Ran slowly loosened their fingers.

"Go back here!"

Before the female corpse could react, Xiao Ran kicked her into the room.

Then Xiao Ran reached out and slammed the door shut, leaned against it, and gasped heavily.

Fortunately, when Xiao Ran used the Yiju School's corpse-controlling technique, he had thought about the possibility that the corpse-controlling technique would fail one day, so he deliberately used the privilege of [Black Swan Brooch·Corpse Stitcher] to leave a mark on Shangniao Lingzi's body.

I thought it was a waste of time, but I didn't expect it to become my life-saving straw today.

Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief, but his temper also flared up.

I am the owner of this house. It's fine if you guys live here, but you actually want to kill me? ?

Xiao Ran became angrier and angrier. He grabbed the machete on the ground, turned around and kicked the door open: "Even if the king of heaven comes today, you have to pay me back the rent you owe me!!"

With a "bang", Xiao Ran kicked the door open.

But what surprised Xiao Ran was that when he kicked the door open again, he saw Shangniao Lingzi's body lying on the ground in the room, motionless.

In the empty room, apart from the curtains fluttering in the wind beside the broken window, the only sound in the room was Xiao Ran's heavy breathing.

He walked to the bunk bed with a knife in hand and used it to lift open the gauze curtain. On the empty bed lay a bright red wedding dress, and next to the dress was a blood-stained letter.

Xiao Ran picked up the letter.

He glanced at the scribbled words on it, then looked around: "Strange, did he run away?"

Just as Xiao Ran was wondering, he suddenly had a strong feeling in his heart. He couldn't tell what it was, but he instinctively raised his head and looked: "Huh?"

"So, you are here!"

I saw an inconspicuous coffin hanging above the attic.

The coffin was facing Xiao Ran, and the word "葬" (Dian) was written in white paint on one end...

　There is more to come in the evening. Well, 10,000 words is definitely enough. Can I do five more? I’ll try my best. Go for it!!!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)