Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 277 Sadako Yamamura's Touch and the Horror Dungeon of Summoning Souls

Jiang Jin was inwardly groaning. He had repeatedly tried to use the soul imprint permissions left to him by Ye Xiu to seek help, but found that communication was like throwing a stone into the sea, and he could not establish a connection at all.

Clearly, Lin Zhen had come prepared, using some powerful spatial sealing technique to not only isolate himself from external communication but also block the monitoring of the meme monitoring tower and the telepathic communication of the LV5 soul imprint. This is why he dared to so recklessly kill the Blood Lord.

Blood Lord's expression was equally grim; his attempt to use the Return to Town rune had also yielded no results.

Despair, like an icy tide, completely engulfed the two of them!

A severely injured LV3 Soul Refiner whose cultivation level is still declining, plus an LV2 Ghost Hunter, face a fully healthy LV4 Swift Walker. The difference in strength is overwhelming.

Although Lin Zhen is not considered top-tier among LV4s in Muxu City, and is even inferior to Blood Lord in his prime, he is more than capable of dealing with them now.

Sure enough, the two women couldn't escape more than two hundred meters before Lin Zhen, who moved with lightning speed, easily intercepted their path. Lin Zhen wore a mocking smile, like a cat catching a mouse, while Madeleine and Kateeva approached from a distance, both wearing Reincarnator watches on their wrists!
It turns out they weren't ordinary prostitutes at all, but rather deeply hidden subordinates of a reincarnator, meticulously arranged by Lin Zhen!
Looking at the disheveled Blood Lord, Madeleine sneered, "Lord Blood Lord, I never thought that you, who once dominated Muxu, would die like a stray dog ​​in a place like this today."

Kateyeva also showed excitement: "Mr. Lin, we should get a share of the spoils!"

Blood Lord's face was ashen, but the ferocity in his eyes did not dissipate; he was still frantically thinking of a solution.

Jiang Jin knew he couldn't hesitate any longer. He roared at the Blood Lord, "Give me ten seconds! Just ten seconds!"

Blood Lord glanced at Jiang Jin. Although he didn't know what tricks Jiang Jin had up his sleeve, he immediately chose to believe him, remembering Jiang Jin's incredible record.

Blood Lord roared and, disregarding his injuries and SAN depletion, activated [Vengeful Fire Forge] again, forging another eerie soul chain. At the same time, he used the poisoning trick he had prepared earlier, dissolving a low-level ghost slave he carried with him and coating the bone knife with liquid vengeful poison!
Then he brandished his dual weapons and activated [Soul Weapon Resonance]. Although the second Soul Chain was only 70% powerful, the two weapons, emitting eerie light and poisonous gas, attacked Lin Zhen frantically, trying to entangle him!

"A desperate struggle!" Lin Zhen scoffed. The speed of the Divine Walker allowed him to easily dodge most of the attacks, and the light of purification flickered, constantly wearing down the Blood Lord's offensive.

Meanwhile, Madeleine and Kateyeva were waiting for their chance to make their move.

In those precious few seconds, Jiang Jin took out Feng Ya's skull key from the Reincarnator's Watch!
Although he had fallen out with the Temple team, he still respected Feng Ya, which was why he hadn't opened the skull key. But now, he had no choice but to try his luck with it!

After all, none of his other trump cards can truly threaten a Level 4 Reincarnator!
He inserted the key into the void, and a skull treasure chest, constructed of pale bones and exuding an aura of hunting and rules, slowly appeared!

The surface of the treasure chest is engraved with patterns of hunting rifles, traps, and animal eyes, full of the beauty of wilderness and slaughter.

Jiang Jin reached into the treasure chest, silently praying that he would be blessed with good luck and pull out some overpowered item that any hunter could use!

Then, Jiang Jin quickly drew three items:

The first item is called the Shadow Cloak. When worn, it allows you to briefly blend into the shadows, greatly enhancing stealth capabilities and providing excellent concealment against non-physical detection for 30 seconds.

The second item is called the Hourglass of Time. Once flipped, it reduces the flow of time in a small area by 50% for 30 seconds, but its effect is weakened on high-level targets.

The third item… left Jiang Jin utterly astonished: it was called the Touch of Sadako Yamamura! It was a bizarre bundle of dried, eerie black hair! It was icy cold to the touch, radiating a chilling resentment and a sense of spatial distortion that caused one's sanity to plummet. It was a one-time consumable. After sacrificing 15% of one's sanity, it could forcibly break through most spatial barriers, achieving a short-to-medium distance random or thought-guided spatial teleportation (the effect's intensity depended on the current stability of the material layer of space). The hair bundle dissipated after use. However, the cost was extremely high: the user must actively enter the [Midnight Bell] horror instance within the next month, or they would be dragged directly into the annihilation layer at the bottom of the ancient well by Sadako Yamamura's curse, never to be reborn.

Upon seeing the description of the third item, especially its terrifying cost, Jiang Jin felt a chill run down his spine!
Sadako Yamamura! That evil spirit of the rule system whose curse nature has been verified by some reincarnators to be sufficient to reach the annihilation layer!
For someone at LV2, entering a dungeon related to him is almost certainly a death sentence! Even LV3 reincarnators generally operate in the gap between the Lost Layer and the Annihilation Layer, and only those who have reached at least LV4 dare to say that they can barely survive on the edge of the Annihilation Layer!

However, seeing Lin Zhen relentlessly pressing forward despite Blood Lord's desperate attempts to stop him, his killing intent palpable, Jiang Jin had no choice! Using it would mean certain death! Using it, however, offered a glimmer of hope!
"Deathstroke!" Jiang Jin simultaneously ordered his enhanced Ash Hound to buy him time!

The death knell roared and opened its ghostly domain. The gray mist tried to hold Lin Zhen back for a moment, but it had little effect against the LV4 Swift Walker's purification power. It was only delayed for a second or two before being dispelled.

Now! Jiang Jin quickly sacrificed his SAN value, and the reincarnation system injected it into that chilling strand of hair—the touch of Sadako Yamamura!
"Om-!"

The hair instantly erupted with intense black resentment and spatial fluctuations!
A cold, viscous force, seemingly emanating from an endless deep well, forcefully tore open the spatial seal set up by Lin Zhen!

A distorted teleportation portal, resembling the static on a television screen, appeared before Jiang Jin!

"Blood Lord!" Jiang Jin shouted!
Almost at the same time the hair bundle dissipated, Blood Lord also sensed the opening of the spatial passage. He withstood a heavy blow from Lin Zhen, spat out blood, and flew back, grabbing Jiang Jin's arm!

The two of them crashed into the unstable teleportation portal!
"What?! Spatial restrictions have been broken?!"

Lin Zhen was both shocked and furious. He wanted to stop it, but it was too late. He could only watch helplessly as the cave entrance closed and disappeared! His carefully laid trap was broken by a Level 2 hunter in such a bizarre way!

……

After the dizzying sensation of spatial teleportation, Jiang Jin and Blood Lord crashed heavily onto the cold, hard ground. The air was filled with the smell of rust, the stench of rotting cotton candy, and an indescribable chill.

They looked up and were met with a desolate scene shrouded in an eerie night – this was the restricted area of ​​the night amusement park!

The huge, rusty Ferris wheel looked like it was about to collapse, the roller coaster tracks were twisted and broken, the carousel was just an empty frame, and all kinds of amusement facilities were dilapidated.

The entire park was deathly silent.

At the same time, a prompt from the reincarnation system appeared on the retina of Jiang Jin's left eye:
"Reincarnator Jiang Jin, you have entered the Night Amusement Park's European and American Horror Containment Zone. Please abide by all the following rules:"
First, the ticket must be torn up before the carousel starts.
Second, shooting booths must be used with the non-dominant hand, and prizes from shooting booths cannot be taken out of the park.
Third, you must catch the balloon the clown gives you with your left hand. If you accidentally catch it with your right hand, you must immediately tie it to your left ankle.

Fourth, screaming with your eyes closed is prohibited on roller coaster tracks.

Fifth, to start the carousel, you need to close your eyes and touch the horse's ear.

Sixth, when riding a Ferris wheel, if you see any inverted crosses or the number 666, you must immediately say "Amen".

Seventh, you must completely ignore witnessing a chainsaw killer dismembering a body.
Note: Directly viewing the projection of the evil god will immediately reduce your SAN value to zero.

Every word exudes an eerie power that cannot be defied.

Immediately afterwards, a new task prompt appeared on the retina of the left eye:

"Reincarnator Jiang Jin, please immediately search for Annabelle dolls within a radius of 200 meters and ride the Ferris wheel."

"Annabelle doll? The one from The Conjuring cinematic universe?" Jiang Jin immediately recalled the treasure map of the Conjuring world he had obtained from Xia Yu! This couldn't be a coincidence, could it?

Blood Lord nodded: "That should be it. It's a pity I didn't have time to watch Annabelle's horror movies before the Edo Incident."

With no time to think, the two suppressed their pain and cautiously began searching the ruined paradise.

The park is very large, with shadows and abandoned facilities everywhere, as if countless eyes are hiding there.

Suddenly, a brightly colored, bizarrely made-up figure hopped out from around the corner ahead—a clown in a tattered clown costume with a perpetual smile painted on his face!
His appearance is strikingly similar to Pennywise from the horror film "It"!
The clown held a handful of helium balloons, chuckled strangely, and handed two red balloons to Jiang Jin and Blood Lord.

Jiang Jin immediately remembered rule number three! He and Blood Lord promptly reached out their left hands to take the balloons. The clown's smile seemed to freeze for a moment, then he skipped away and disappeared into the shadows.

The two continued their search and finally found an antique doll at the bottom of a dilapidated flower bed covered with withered vines and grime.

She wore a white lace dress, but the dress was filthy, her golden hair was dry, and she had a strange, ambiguous expression on her face. There were two unnatural blushes on her cheeks, and her glass eyes stared blankly ahead—it was the infamous Annabelle doll!
Just as Jiang Jin carefully picked up the doll, the huge Ferris wheel in the distance, which had been stationary, suddenly emitted a creaking, teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound, and then... slowly began to turn!
Under the cover of night, the rusted carriages resembled hanging coffins, moving slowly but steadily.

With no other choice, Jiang Jin and Blood Lord could only head towards the bottom of the Ferris wheel. They noticed that other reincarnators were also appearing from different directions in the park, heading towards the Ferris wheel, and... they were all holding identical Annabelle dolls!

This bizarre scene set off alarm bells in both of their minds.

They boarded an empty carriage.

The Ferris wheel continued to turn, slowly lifting them upwards. The abandoned amusement park below gradually shrank, and their view opened up, but the feeling of being watched grew stronger.

"Are we going to enter the [Summoning] universe horror instance next?" Jiang Jin remained wary of the Annabelle doll in his hand, and directly placed the boning knife against the doll's neck.

Blood Lord said with a grim expression, "I hope it's the plot of the first part of The Conjuring. If it's the Demon Nun from the second part, I don't have the confidence to handle her in my current state. Compared to that, the mere Annabelle doll is nothing, just a low-level evil spirit in the Lost Layer."

Jiang Jin's expression was also rather grim; he had absolutely no experience with Western horror dungeons...

As the Ferris wheel was about to reach its highest point, the lights inside the gondolas began to flash wildly, flickering on and off!

Suddenly, everything was plunged into complete darkness!

When it lights up again—

Jiang Jin and Blood Lord were horrified to discover that there was another figure in the sedan chair that originally contained only the two of them!
It was a tall, thin figure dressed in a black nun's robe. Her face was ashen white, her features distorted, and her terrifying eyes stared intently at them. Her lips were stretched into an unbelievable arc, revealing a ferocious smile—it was none other than the terrifying being from the [Conjuring] universe, the demonic nun Valak!
The nun stretched out her two withered hands with long, sharp nails and, with a speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye, simultaneously grabbed Jiang Jin and the Blood Lord by the neck!
The cold, the suffocation, and the fear that came from the depths of their souls instantly seized them!
The next moment, a strong sense of spatial distortion returned, and the Ferris wheel, the amusement park... all the scenes rushed away and blurred before their eyes...

They were forcibly dragged into a new horror instance!
(End of this chapter)