Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 359 Sadako Climbs Out of the Television
The seventh day, at noon.

Outside the window, the rain poured down and the wind howled, as if the heavens and earth were trembling with fear of the impending ultimate terror.

The decisive moment is approaching.

Inside the Hakone villa, the atmosphere in front of the Toshiba television on the second floor was extremely tense.

The remaining members of the Nirvana team—Jiang Jin, Yu Tianlun, Lian Xuan, Lian De, external aid Li Shang, Gao Gongwei, and Asakawa Reiko, who had just become a reincarnator—were all on high alert.

The casing of that Toshiba CRT television was covered with cinnabar talismans drawn by Yu Tianlun, and the screen was surrounded by a series of blockade lines made of black dog blood and five-emperor coins.

On the floor, centered around the television set, was a massive, complex array emitting a faint golden light. It contained both Yu Tianlun's witch doctor's sealing array and Jiang Jin's [Bloodstained Annihilation Array], which he had set up using his LV3 hunter trap skills.

Jiang Jin stood at the forefront, his eyes like those of a fierce eagle. He told the others to move back a bit, since he had the "Russian doll" technique—even if he died, he could be resurrected.

At this moment, he also felt a little regretful. Would it have been better to choose the [Ghost Blood Bottle] back then? The only weakness of this item is that the restored SAN value cannot be exchanged for Resentment Crystals, but it can continuously ensure that the SAN value starts to stabilize at the Materialist level. As long as you don't encounter an evil spirit that can kill you instantly, it is practically invincible.

However, considering that the most terrifying aspect of the annihilation layer evil spirits is their ability to distort the laws of time, Jiang Jin weighed his options carefully and ultimately chose the powerful tool that could substitute for death: the Russian nesting doll.

The most crucial advantage of this item is that it's a passively triggered item! Once you acquire it, it's bound to you, and if you're killed at any time, the nested doll can take your place!
At this moment, the power of the LV3 Forbidden Zone Hunter within Jiang Jin's body flowed slowly, and the miniature killing domain was poised to be unleashed at any time, turning the area around his body into his absolute hunting ground.

He gripped the Moon Shadow and Zhong Kui's Judge's Pen tightly in his hands! He planned to use both at the same time to inflict maximum damage on Sadako!
Yang Jian stood quietly to the side, his expression as indifferent as ever, but he gripped the coffin nail tightly, indicating that he was ready to strike with all his might.

Holding a peach wood sword, Yu Tianlun stood at the core of the formation, his eyes resolute. The power of the sorcerer surged within him, waiting for the right moment to detonate the entire sealing formation.

Li Shang formed strange and complex hand seals, chanting incantations. A cold and sinister curse power gathered around him, locking onto the television set. This was his trump card curse, designed to interfere with and weaken Sadako's core resentment.

The brothers Lian Xuan and Lian De guarded the two sides respectively, and the power of the medium and the ritual merged to form a spiritual barrier.

Takamiya Yui gripped the sword tightly, already in the samurai "slashing back" stance.

Even Lingzi gripped the rag tightly, while trying to mobilize her meager incantation power to prepare for the most basic auxiliary treatment or purification.

Time, passing by second by second, torments everyone's nerves.

When the clock hands pointed precisely to seven days ago, to the moment they finished watching the videotape...

Jingle Bell! ! !
The landline phone, covered in talismans, emitted a sharp, piercing, and deadly ringing sound!
Almost at the same time the bell rang, the television screen suddenly lit up automatically!

The telephone ringing stopped abruptly under the influence of the talisman!
On the screen, the deep, silent ancient well in the forest immediately appeared!

coming!

Everyone's heart was in their throat!

Then, under the intense gaze of everyone, a pale hand slowly emerged from the well and gripped the edge. And then… another hand appeared!

The most classic scene from an Asian horror movie appeared before their eyes!
Wet, tangled black hair rose from the well, followed by a white dress... The figure that terrified them, filled them with hatred, and brought them endless pain... Sadako Yamamura, with a slow but unwavering pace, crawled out of the well and began to crawl towards the television screen!
Her crawling movements were stiff and eerie, with all four limbs on the ground and her long hair hanging down to cover her face. The cold, viscous, and terrifying aura filled with overwhelming resentment pressed down on everyone's heart as if it were real, even through the screen and layers of protection!
A fierce glint flashed in Jiang Jin's eyes!

He knew perfectly well that, based on intelligence and analysis, Sadako's greatest weakness lay in the moment she crawled out of the television screen! Her movement trajectory would be completely fixed, leaving her nowhere to hide!
Finally, the moment Sadako crawled to the television screen and her head emerged from it...

"Do it!!!"

Yu Tianlun let out a deafening roar and plunged his peach wood sword into the core of the formation!

boom! ! !
"Lin! Bing! Dou! Zhe! Jie! Zhen! Lie! Zai! Qian!"

"Exterminate evil!!!"

Thinking of the tragic death of Xu Yinqiu, Yu Tianlun almost roared out those two words!

The complex array carved on the ground was activated instantly!
A blinding golden light, mixed with a blood-red killing intent, soared into the sky, transforming into countless rune chains that wrapped around Sadako, who had just poked half her body out!
The shaman's sealing power and the hunter's deadly trap erupted simultaneously!

Li Shang's black magic was like an invisible venomous snake, striking first despite being behind, accurately hitting the core of Sadako's resentment, causing her crawling movements to become noticeably sluggish and distorted!
At that moment, Jiang Jin's samurai sword, Tsukiin, plunged fiercely towards Sadako's neck! This thrust would leave her paralyzed for ten seconds! "Now! Yang Jian!"

As Jiang Jin roared, he thrust the Zhong Kui Judge sword in his hand straight into Sadako's forehead!
At the same time, he unleashed his full killing domain, enveloping the half of Sadako's body that had been protruding from within it. The power of the rules within the domain frantically suppressed and eroded her existence!

Yang Jian's eyes turned cold, and his five ghost eyes released a ghost domain, turning the room into a crimson red as they locked onto their target!

Without the slightest hesitation, he swung his arm out, and the coffin nail, which contained the concepts of absolute sealing and termination, was precisely driven into the depths of the hair where Sadako's head had crawled out of the television screen, directly burying itself into her skull!
The golden light of the judge's pen struck her forehead hard, bursting out with a halo that purified the evil energy; the coffin nail was firmly driven into her head, and countless fine, blood vessel-like black cracks spread rapidly from the nail to her entire body; the rune chains of the surrounding array tightly bound her, constricting her illusory yet solid body; Li Shang's black magic and Jiang Jin's killing domain continued to cause damage and suppression!
Multiple strikes, all taking effect simultaneously!
This display was enough to instantly shatter the resentment of the half-annihilation layer evil spirits, and even the annihilation layer evil spirits would inevitably suffer severe damage!

Sadako's crawling stopped completely, and her nailed body trembled and twisted violently on the television screen.

After the ten-second freeze ended, she tried to struggle, but the sealing power of the coffin nails was too domineering. After all, this was a ghost coffin from the [Terror Resurgence] dungeon!

Under the tense gaze of everyone, Sadako's severely injured and sealed body began to blur and become transparent, like an image with a poor signal. Finally... slowly and unwillingly, it shrank back into the television screen and disappeared.

On the screen, only the ancient well remained.

Did it work? !

A surge of elation at surviving a catastrophe and an unbelievable excitement was about to well up in everyone's hearts...

However, in the very next second!
On the television screen, in the ancient well, a pale hand reaches out and grips the well's edge; black hair rises, revealing white clothing...

The second Sadako, expressionless, crawls out of the well in the same slow and eerie manner, and begins to crawl towards the edge of the screen!
She...is more than one?!

Seeing the second Sadako crawl out of the television set, radiating the same terrifying aura, everyone's faces instantly turned ashen, and a chilling despair that penetrated to the bone gripped their throats!
Their all-out attack only took down one of Sadako's... clones?
As the second Sadako emerged from the well as if copied and pasted, carrying the same cold, deathly stillness and overwhelming resentment as before, everyone's hearts sank into an abyss.

Could it be that Sadako, like that repairman, is endless? If so, how can we fight her?

"What...what should we do?" Lian De's face turned deathly pale.

Lingzi, who had just become a reincarnator, was also terrified and turned pale.

"Destroy the television!" Jiang Jin decisively issued the new command. Since they couldn't stop her from climbing out, they would destroy the medium through which she entered reality!

"Let me do it!" Yang Jian stepped forward, and his five ghost eyes simultaneously erupted with a blinding scarlet light!

Five layers of ghost realm, fully activated!

An intense, crimson light surged toward the Toshiba television like a tidal wave!
However, something horrifying happened!

The seemingly ordinary CRT television remained completely still under the five layers of ghostly domain that Yang Jian possessed, capable of distorting reality and isolating space!

The crimson ghostly light seemed to encounter an invisible barrier, unable to penetrate the television set even slightly!
The television set seemed to have become an independent, indestructible singularity of rules, the absolute anchor point of Sadako's curse!

Yu Tianlun and Jiang Jin were incredulous. Yang Jian's Ghost Domain was powerful enough to forcefully cleave through spatial barriers, yet it couldn't do anything to an old television set.

Just as everyone was shocked and bewildered by the fact that the television could not be destroyed, an invisible and intangible force, yet extremely cold, like the extreme cold that freezes time and space, instantly enveloped the entire living room!

Click...

It was as if something was locked up.

The next second, everyone was horrified to discover that they were completely unable to move!
It's not that the body is bound, but rather a more fundamental feeling stemming from the forced interruption of the connection between consciousness and body!

They were perfectly conscious, able to see, hear, and feel everything around them clearly, and their lips could move, but their necks and limbs were unable to make even the slightest movement!

Even moving a finger... has become a luxury!

(End of this chapter)